Re: First of possibly many stupid questions

[Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>]

Thanks to all!  Actually, I think the JamMan was out in the eighties.  The reason I procrastinated is because the guitar itself is a lifetime learning thing, and add studio chops, keyboards, MIDI, actual work, family and all the rest, it was a matter of parsing out my commitments.  Plus I've only recently started to do much live performance again.

It sounds like the Looperlative is the machine for me... assuming there is a foot switch setup that will work with it... and that the price isn't astronomical... and that it isn't too buggy. 

I'll be watching for reviews of it over the next few weeks.  

Cool group!  It would be sweet if all the emails were collated into one email... but other than that I'm loving it.

Peace
richard sales
glassWing farm and studio
vancouver island, b.c.
800.545.6846
250.752.4816
www.glassWing.com
www.richardsales.com
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On 27-Mar-06, at 8:45 PM, mark sottilaro wrote:

> Wow, that's some procrastination.  Didn't the JamMan
> hit in the early 90s?  The good news is that there's
> more choice than ever for a looper.
>
> I've found that in a line level situation both the EDP
> and Repeater have excellent tone, though if you have
> the wrong gain stage it's easy to hear Repeater noise.
> I've never experienced it.  Both are fine, but very
> different machines.  I never really dug the EDP, yet
> it's many people's favorite.
>
> However, the Looperlative is about to ship and I'm
> sure in the next week or so this week will be flooded
> with observations.  It brags really high quality sound
> and a feature set that's pretty unique. (8 stereo
> loops at one time, syncronized or not! and MIDI sync)
>
> so you may want to keep procrastinating for a little
> while longer and Give some more thought to what you
> want to do with your looper.  I've heard that even the
> RC-20 and 50 sound great, they're just more limited
> and without MIDI sync.
>
>
>
> --- Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote:
>
> > I've never done looping but have done a large ton of
> > music for a very 
> > long time.  It's how I make my living.
> >
> > I've been considering getting into looping live
> > guitar (Michael HEdges 
> > style) since the Jam Man first came out and have
> > procrastinated .  But 
> > the time is upon me!  So... I want to get a good one
> > with very high 
> > quality audio... and have considered the Gibson
> > Echoplex or, if they 
> > ever get it back out, the Electrix Repeater.  There
> > are a bunch of 
> > earlier Gibson Eplexes on ebay, but they are the
> > earlier versions.  So, 
> > question is, are the new ones any better than the
> > old?  Sonically?  
> > Reliability wise?  Memory?
> >
> > ALso I've heard the footswitches for the Gibson are
> > light duty.  Is 
> > true?
> >
> > I'm going to use it for very high end acoustic
> > guitars with K&K 
> > Powermix Trinity pickups (deadly beautiful) and a
> > resonator with a 
> > Schatten in it (also killer).  So the sound quality
> > is critical.  I've 
> > heard the Repeater's sound is not as good as the
> > Gibson.  I'll probably 
> > also use it in my studio.
> >
> > I'm not real interested in MIDI implementation or
> > tweaking sounds (I 
> > don't think).  I have stuff that will do that in my
> > studio already.
> >
> > Am I looking in the right place?  Are these answers
> > more easily found 
> > elsewhere?  I've scoured the loopers delight web
> > site and while the 
> > answers are almost there, I still need more data.
> >
> > thanks for your patience
> >
> > richard sales
> > glassWing farm and studio
> > vancouver island, b.c.
> > 800.545.6846
> > 250.752.4816
> > www.glassWing.com
> > www.richardsales.com
> > www.hayleysales.com
> > www.blueberryfieldsfarm.com
>
>
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