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RE: Pedal for Parameters Button (was RE: EDP Feedback Pedal)




Thanks a lot, Kim

Should not have relied solely on the EDP manual...

Bernhard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint@loopers-delight.com]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 20. August 2003 21:27
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Pedal for Parameters Button (was RE: EDP Feedback Pedal)
>
>
> At 02:24 AM 8/20/2003, Bernhard Wagner wrote:
> >Pedal for Parameters Button:
> >The section in the EDP manual states
> >If you are electro-mechanically adept and wish to build a
> >footpedal incorporating this button, you can obtain instructions
> in how to
> >do so by contacting Gibson technical support at the number in
> the front of
> >this manual."
>
> >If you happen to find something: Could you post the results on this 
>list?
>
> Hi-
> That info is available at the Looper's Delight web site, in the EDP
> footpedal tutorial:
> http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/echoplex/echopedals.html
>
> There was a resistor value assigned for doing the Parameter
> button from the
> footpedal, so you could try to make one as the instructions suggest.
> However, the sad thing is it doesn't work reliably. One person did make a
> parameter pedal in a different way, by wiring up a switch in
> parallel with
> the actual button on the front panel. So that is a possibility.
>
> On the other hand, if you use MIDI there is a midi command for the
> parameter button and that works just fine. That's much easier.
>
> Also if you have LoopIV in your echoplex, you can use the Presets
> function
> to easily change parameter sets without needing to go into the parameter
> editing. It's much faster. This can be done from the regular
> footpedal, or
> again much more easily with midi by simply using program change commands.
> Then you probably wouldn't need the parameter footpedal at all.
>
> kim
>
>
>
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