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Hi Ted... I too have had 2 DL4's die on me after pounding them with glissing high-regen delay-time sweeps... just about my favorite thing to do with delays besides looping. Anyway, I'm now intrigued by the DD-20 thread and maybe will purchase one just for kicks. I've always found Boss pedals to sound good and be very reliable. No more Line 6 for me after 2 failures. I used to always have a packed 10sp rack and midi and after a number of years caved in and went small. I spent the last 4-5 years using just a pedalboard and amp and really felt liberated. I also found that *most* of my looping tricks can still be steathily accomplished with a couple simple loopers, although there's nothing quite like insert and replace on the edp. I've now re-introduced my Boss GT-5 back into my setup, and dumped my pedal board. I now have the GT-5, a wah, fuzz or two and experssion pedal for the GT-5, and my Lovetone flanger as well as the edp in the fx loop. The GT-5 is also an interesting 2 sec looper given it's extreme control over cc parameters, all attachable to the exped. After years of using it, I'm really happy with my direct-inject tone as well. Finally, I can take either mono out to an amp, or stereo out to a pa and get great sound in either instance. Small and versatile. Cheers, -Miko "Running scared from all the usual distractions!" Now playing 'Rough' at CDBaby.com www.cdbaby.com/biffoz ----- Original Message ----- From: <ArsOcarina@aol.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:48 AM Subject: Re: Boss DD-20/RC-20 > Hi all, > > I mentioned in a post sometime a few weeks ago the > fact that my Line 6 DL4 had died and I'd gone ahead > and gotten myself a Boss DD-20 to replace it. So far, > I've found the manual fairy cryptic. Maybe my copy is > a misprint or something, because after the initial first > few pages of disclaimers (and basic stuff about inserting > batteries and plugging things into it) it seems to jump > right to the middle of operating it and I get a bit lost. > So, the manual for me has not been all that helpful. > > Oh well . . . > > Yesterday I bought an RC-20. I haven't checked out > the manual on that yet but I'll be using the two pedals > this weekend on my first gig out in a while without > my usual half ton of gear. My setup will just be guitar, > amp and a few pedals for the first time in many, many > many years. It's like going out naked. No guitarsynth, > no MIDI, no EDPs, no Vortexes, no Moogerfooger, AirSynth, > SP-303 . . . no nutin' (comparatively speaking). > > And, since it's just the one amp, I'll be performing in > mono for the first time in ages too. Stan Card would > be proud. However, since it's an art gallery gig I can't > be that loud (heheh). Sorry Stan! > > Anywho . . . > > I hope this thread continues 'cause I too have found > very little help on the web about the DD-20 -- especially > in regards to operating it in something other than the > basic "sound on sound" (SOS) mode. This thing about > multiple loops that Eric wrote about the other day > has me intrigued. I wanna delve deeper and make > the most of this little box in my new "HO-scale" setup. > > The DL4 was a lot of fun . . . with some weird and wacky > capabilities . . . but it had reliability issues (for me) and > the sound quality was less than stellar (even in "bypass" > mode). One really great thing about these Boss pedals > is the squeaky-clean audio. What goes in seems to come > out exactly the same -- and there seems to be a lot of > "headroom" too. It doesn't clip or crap-out on a strong > pre-amped signal. I like 'em a lot . . . so far. But, I need > to learn more. More info would be very helpful. > > Anybody who wants to pipe in with some "tips 'n' tricks > for the DD-20 (or the RC-20, for that matter) will definitely > have MY gratitude. > > Best, > > tEd ® kiLLiAn > > http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html > http://www.CDbaby.com/cd/tedkillian > http://www.guitar9.com/fluxaeterna.html > http://www.garageband.com/artist/ArsOcarina > http://www.netmusic.com/web/album.aspx?a_id=CBNM_17314 > http://www.indiejazz.com/ProductDetailsView.aspx?ProductID=193 > >