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RE: electro harmonix 2880 w/footpedal **thoughts**
Title: Re: electro harmonix 2880 w/footpedal **thoughts**
Anybody know how I can get my hands on the Sellon
upgrade? I've gotten no response from the webpage.
For me, the jury is still out on the 2880. I've only
used it on a couple of gigs so I am still getting used to
it. Maybe the fact that I'm not already in love with it is
telling...
The whole tape-speed-sounding-wierdness- when-slaved thing
is a bummer, too.
m
I have owned and/or used nearly every looper on the planet at one point or
another. If I listen to what results I have produced, I would say that to me the
music is interesting in inverse proportion to the bells and whistles on the
looper.
At the top of my list is the Lexicon Jam Man. Even before I installed Bob
Sellon's superior OS, this looper has a magical liquidity to the tone that
others lack. When used with a MIDI foot controller, it's interface is quick and
intuative.
The Repeater has lots of useless bells and whistles, the pitch and tempo
control creates the most worthless artifact, and permanently corrupts the data
if the tempo is altered before an overdub is recorded. The repeater is also
beseiged by digital clocking noises. Perfect example of "Looks good on
paper".
The EH 16 second delay has some ineresting features, such as knobs for all
the functions. The time stretching is quite granular. The sound quality can be
improved considerably. I modified mine.
The Echoplex pro has incredible software, but uses an antiquated conversion
topology which uses pre-emphasis/ de-emphasis and this makes the unit
highly subject to aliasing (ever try a fuzzbox direct into it?). It also uses
companding which alters the tone in a unique way. It's an instrument,
right?
The Line 6 pedal is quite simple but you cannot defeat the direct signal
path, which because it is digital, produces latency. It's only useful as a
stompbox in line.
The Boss RC50 has far too many menues and pedestrian features. How do you
start a new loop without the damn drum machine blasting your audience??
The 2880 falls somewhere in between all those loopers, it promises features
found only on the repeater, but suffers from originality, so it is often harshly
compared to the Repeater. It lacks any of the editing capability of the multi
segment loopers, such as A/B loops. It certainly sounds better than the
repeater. It's more like a crazy 4 track recorderd with a 2 track mixdown deck
than a phrase looper, though it can be used this way.
CZ
I've been really interested in the 2880
recently and am thinking about picking it up.
Right now I'm using the
akai headrush to loop my sounds.
Most of my songs are around the 5 minute
range, and I create my loops using the headrush,
but basically when I want
to create a new loop with a different beat or melody, I have fade out the
existing loop into silence
and then start recording a new loop.
I'd
like the ability to transition into a new melody without any silence.
So on
the 2880, I'd create maybe a 4 layer loop on track 1..then when I'm bored of
that melody, create a new loop on loop 2
and then fade track 1 down to make
the full transition to loop 2 and so forth.
For those of you that are
using the 2880,
what are your biggest complaints?
Thanks in
advance,
Dan
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