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Re: mpx100 as looper





Scott Hansen wrote:

> well-i checked out the infinite repeat function on
> my mpx100.
> and yes, i got it to work.
> if you put the adjust dial all the way to the right-clockwise (it
> goes to about 5 o'clock position or so) it does a very
> nice repeat. i also used the tap tempo button, hit once,
> counted "one", "two" and hit it again and found it worked
> quite nice. i tried to time the loop length, and i was getting
> around 2 seconds, it may be 2.5 sec, but it was hard to get
> accurate time. but at least 2 sec. i was able to do a drone-y
> bass note, then moved the adjust knob from 5 o'clock position
> to about 3 o'clock to see what it would do, and it held the drone
> and i was playing little "quasi-country-ish licks" that would play
> along w/ it and those would fade, but the drone would continue.
> and man, it is clean and pristine sounding (way different than
> my digitech dsp256xl's 1.5 sec delay-the 256xl-is more grainy,
> but useful at times).
>
> to sum up, i think the mpx100 is a great 2nd/alt looper, not sure if
> you'd want it to be your main looper, since the time is so short,
> but is useful. if the jamman is as clean and crisp sounding as mpx100,
> i can see why people like those. wish lexicon could up the infinite
> repeat time to like 10 sec, then they'd have a great li'l box, but then
> i'm sure it would cost way more. oh well.....
> guess the lesson here is: get to know your equipment more.....
> s---
> --

Thanks for the input everyone.  I'm probably going to go with the MPX-110.

John
www.johnmazzarella.com