Re: (affordable) stereo (live) looping?

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Really?  I haven't had a lot of experience with the EDP, but when I did 
have it I thought the sound was good, when I made sure I had the proper 
gain structure in place.  The EDP has a limiter at the input stage so 
if you feed in a loud signal you'll get some squashed harmonics which 
might mean the lack of tone you complain about.  I had that issue too.  
More vexing was the defect that caused it to reboot at random times, 
but that's another story.

I've got to counter you on the JamMan thing though.  Not stereo, never 
was.  Try putting a stereo chorus or auto panner patch through it and 
you'll easily see it doesn't accurately reproduce those sounds at all.  
It does, however, pass them.  So what you play will have the stereo 
effect the first time, but when it hits the loop it's summed and all 
stereo information is lost.  It is the main reason I gave mine up for 
the Repeater, which I think is/was a better value than the EDP for this 
main reason.  That's my opinion.  The EDP does have great dicing and 
slicing functions that I'd love to have access to as well.  $1600 for a 
pair to get a stereo looper is way over priced IMO.  I really would 
advise Gibson to either make a stereo version of the EDP or give a 
really good "buy one, get the second at half price" special.

Mark Sottilaro

On Sunday, July 13, 2003, at 06:33 PM, Tritone3@aol.com wrote:

> I previously was running the TC Electronic G-Force dual outputs into 
> the dual inputs of a Jamman. And from the dual outputs of the Jamman 
> to my power amp. All stereo sounding effects were accurately 
> reproduced (stereo chorus, ping-pong delays, etc.) without any 
> problems. Currently I'm using a pair of EDP's. I'm not sure what the 
> rest of the looping world thinks of the EDP's, but as a guitar player 
> I think they are over priced and kill the bottom end frequencies and 
> rob way to much signal.
>