Re: Buy one EDP, get the 2nd for half price!

[Travis <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

Getting a dual-EDP with calibrated threshhold gates on the stereo input 
sounds like a non-trivial problem, without driving up the cost.  
"Really close" wouldn't cut it after a few loop cycles anyway.  I think 
they'd have to be driven off of the same gate, so there'd be a good 
chance that at least one side would have it's starting audio clipped, 
especially if you were trying to start with something soft.

Problem with putting the EDP on the floor is that it works best after 
all your tone shaping, so if you consider your amp part of this, you 
have to run cables to the amp, into the floor-mounted EDP and back to 
the power amp.  Also, most looping musicians find that floor space is 
at a premium, and the combined footswitch/brain box would take up a 
bunch of room, and there's a lot of people who want to use a MIDI 
controller and don't want to have to pay for a footswitch they'll never 
use and don't want to sacrifice floor space for it either.

TravisH

On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 07:15 AM, 
Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com wrote:

> Now, whether you fix the issues or not, one savings in doing a 
> dedicated
> dual EDP is that it potentially only needs one set of controls and one 
> set
> of MIDI plugs. So, the net hardware cost is marginally lower. But 
> that's not
> where the expense probably lies so it's at best marginal and you have 
> to
> weigh that against the engineering costs to design the thing in the 
> first
> place.
>
> Quite frankly, if I were Gibson and inclined to play games with sheet 
> metal
> design, I'd build a floor unit that combined the footswitch with the 
> EDP
> guts. That would just work and would be fairly directly marketable to 
> the
> crowd that doesn't want to deal with rack equipment. I contemplate
> converting one of my units on occasion except that I know nothing about
> sheet metal.