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The Repeater noise thing is always something that's baffled me. I find it to be one of the quietest devices I own. I've never used the front instrument input, only the line level input in the back. I've accidently kept loops open at 100% with nothing going into it and not noticed. I see this complaint all the time though. It leads me to believe that units went out that were defective, or that the source of noise is somewhere else in the user's system. I don't care what looper you have, but if you have it at 100% feedback and your feeding noise into it you're going to get noise buildup just as you'd get buildup of any sound you put in. You really have to be careful with all loopers in this respect. I do conceed that the Lexicon JamMan was more friendly to a wide range of input levels. Really designed with the guitarist in mind. It's easy to see the Repeater as not. Hell, it's got a phono preamp in it... you don't have that switched on do you? Please tell me no... If you look at them purely spec wise (which you can never totally trust) it's plain to see that the Repeater has a little bit better dynamic range than the JamMan. It also has a higher sample rate. I think in my review of it when it first came out I noted that the sound was superb and it was like putting on glasses for the first time after having needed them slightly for years. I didn't think the JamMan sounded bad, quite good actually, but the Repeater and the EDP just sound a bit quieter and better. At least in my setup and it's by no means the best system in the world. I'm just running it out of the effects send of a Soundcraft board and into Mackie HR824s. Also, the JamMan click/pop is well documented. I don't know if later Bob Sallon mods fixed this, but if there was any midi jitter and you were doing quiet ambient washes you'd hear it for sure. We talked about it on this list a lot. For a while I never heard it because I was doing things synced to drums a lot, but when I started doing more peaceful sounding drones you'd hear it quiet easily. Did the JamMan ever really become "Stereo" I though that they added multiple tracks but it never actually had the ability do record a stereo loop. Am I wrong on that one? I did install an upgrade at one point but I'm pretty sure I didn't get stereo loops out of that box. --- goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote: > >>As an owner of both, I have to say I've found it > to be the exact > opposite.... Damn that annoying click when it's MIDI > synced though.<< > > we shall be forever citing this thread as an example > of YMMV..... not > knowing the setups that the aforementioned devices > are living in, I can only > add that our jam-mans have never made any noise, > hiss hum or click, that > we've noticed here, & they're always midi-clocked. > the repeaters, on the > other hand, seem to be prone to cumulative noise > almost like a pair of > revoxes.... unless you are really careful with the > gain structure. > the line inputs on the back are the suckiest, > noise-wise. the jack on the > front is relatively quiet, as is the insert-return > input. > has anyone tried using it with a record deck > directly into it's RIAA preamp? > > d. > > > *************************************************************************** > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the > ordinary user > of the e-mail address to which it was addressed, and > may also > be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this > e-mail you may > not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it or > any part of it > in any form whatsoever.If you have received this > e-mail in error, > please e-mail the sender by replying to this > message. > > It is your responsibility to carry out appropriate > virus and other > checks to ensure that this message and any > attachments do not > affect your systems / data. Any views or opinions > expressed in this > e-mail are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily > represent those of MTV Networks Europe unless > specifically stated, > nor does this message form any part of any contract > unless so stated. > > MTV reserves the right to monitor e-mail > communications from > external/internal sources for the purposes of > ensuring correct > and appropriate use of MTV communication equipment. > > MTV Networks Europe > *************************************************************************** > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com