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Funny example: I setup my Behringer to control my EDPs, and was all jacked because I could do half speed, etc....in fact, Travis, I was playing at Smokey Mountain Pizza the week after you. I started to plug in my MIDI cable into the Behringer and it jammed....#$&!@*!$! Spent 20 minutes trying to figure it out, sweating bullets, and luckily had my EDP controller with me. However, I had to spend another 5 minutes bringing up an email on my laptop with the settings to program my EDP back to work with the EDP controller....sweating even more bullets, like a Gatling gun, in fact. At this point, the thought swimmed across my mind for a nano-second...if I only had my old Boss RC-20 or Boomerang right now. I said this as my laptop rebooted and played the Microsoft Windows intro sound at a freakin' 120 db through my PA...scared the shit out of me and the audience...almost made me sick, in fact, because that sound just makes me think of work. :) Then the EDPs were acting up big time...when I hit the record button to end/start a loop, it would make a huge leap in volume, again, scaring the shit out of me and the audience....odd bug with the EDPs, actually. I fixed it after powering down and up the EDPs one more time. Okay, I'm 20 minutes into the gig, and I am so discombobulated that I lose all my creative inspiration and end up playing boring jazz progressions for the remainder of the set, noodling over those as I curse under my breath.....JUST to get me to my set break. Ahhhhh....gulped down a few free pints of dark beer, sat down, and all is a peace with the world. Let the real improv begin!!! I'll teach you gear....loop this shit. Cripes, I love EDPs and looping. Kris -----Original Message----- From: Travis Hartnett [mailto:travishartnett@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:54 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: Echoplex Footpedal not responding Nothing's "perfect" on stage. I've done hundreds of shows with the EDP foot controller and it's been quite acceptable. I have MIDI controllers that also get unreliable when they get dirt in the contacts, and I've had them drop memory right before a show. I even have to retune my guitar every few songs, but I'm still using it. I've had more EDP failures due to thermal issues on warm stages (and no more than a dozen of those over many years) than I've had non-recoverable footcontroller issues. If the Behringer works for you, great, but this FUD regarding the EDP foot controller is unwarranted. TravisH On 8/31/02, Adrian Bartholomew <adrian@bartholomusic.com> wrote: > 1---u need PERFECTION onstage. period. reliability is key. who wants > to be embarrased or have to compromise creativity? anything less.... > is a "bad" design, whatever the reason. 2---if u dont have floorspace > for the edp pedal, u wont have it for the 1010 either. neither will > fit into any conventional pedalbox. design and adapt to what u need > for ur act. > > ___ > Adrian Bartholomew > Leawood KS > On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Travis Hartnett wrote: