RE: Foot or face? Where do you like it?

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: Foot or face? Where do you like it?

>>Also, Electro-Harmonix, are you listening?  Why do you make pedals that need pedals?<<

it's dumb & annoying, isn't it?

years ago, when we bought our first jamman, it was obvious right from the start that the thing was never going to be rack-mounted; too many things on the front panel that needed to be immediately in front of the user, but the user's a guitarist & he'd sooner quit playing than face a rack full of equipment instead of standing squarely in his spotlight. guitarists....

so we went on tv a little while after that, with the jamman sitting on the floor. at first it looked quite cool that there was this mystery box sitting propped up amongst the other pedals, but we quickly realised that his brian-may-like harmonies would be even cooler if he didn't have to crouch like a backstop to set them up.

I took the jamman apart & made some little holes in the bottom of it's case, then attached it to a $30 camera tripod. job done.

what EHX should have done with the 2880 is make the pedal-remote more-or-less mandatory, & bundle them together with some sort of vertical pole arrangement so that the switches live on the floor & the brains at waist-height. I'm thinking along the lines of the old EMS synthi hi-fli thing.

(no it doesn't multiply, exactly.... but you can bounce tracks like on an old-style portastudio.... it also doesn't let you mute/unmute individual tracks from a footswitch, which is the biggest problem I have with it. that & the single big loop thing. I mean, what were they thinking??)

in fact, were it not for the business of switching them on & off whilst playing, pretty much all of the effects pedals would benefit from being at this sort of height.  hmmm....

d.

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