On the DL-4 I wish that it had more delay time in
the regular models at leasts as much as the looper,
in lieu of that I wish it had variable feedback on
the looper, I love your 1/4 time switch idea. More sound mangling
5- except for some tricks talked about on this list
you can't go back and forth between ( i wish all of the presets)
two or more presets, modifying them as you
go.
6- I wish that you could stop, start the playback
of a loop with the push of a button (no stutters on this one)
That said the two of them together are a blast.
Good topic Rick!
I"m being approached continually by newbies and
asked
about my recommendations about what to buy when
getting
started with live looping.
I have my own personal favorites in different
price ranges (and I'm mostly
talking about hardware here, though do alert people to how
many options are
available through cool new software
solutions).
One thing I thought might be valuable as a
resource is to find out
what people DON'T like about their favorite
loopers and what,
in a perfect world, the loop manufacturers would add
to an
existing looping pedal (or software
solution).
It's nice to know what the drawbacks are in a
pedal when you are trying
figure out if you want to buy it or not.
I'll start off by listing one of my favorites
stomp box loopers:
The Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeller/Looping pedal
(street price $250):
WHAT I DON'T LIKE ABOUT THE LINE 6 DL-4:
I love this pedal but wish to hell that it was a
true stereo pedal rather than
a sum to mono pedal that purports to be
stereo.
Additionally, I wish it had midi
synchronization.
I know that all units that do midi
synchronization cost a lot more, so
it makes me wonder. Does adding midi sync capability
truly
add that much to a floor model live looping
device?
And one last wish: I think it would be cool if it
had a 1/4 time switch
as well as a 1/4 time switch for the loops (which
would allow one to
do things that are 4 times as fast or 4 times as
slow depending on
how one started recording (in 1/4 time bandwidth
or full time bandwidth)
I know that this would add so many artifacts that
the loop would sound
really weird and non-naturalistic: That's why I wish it had such a
feature
which seems not too difficult to program.
Now the Line 6 people have, in the past, been
completley uninterested in
adding features for the sake of the looping
community. The live
looping
community is just a small fraction of the people
who buy this
pedal (mostly for it's digital modellings of all
the cool delay units of yesteryear).
Still,
this is what I"d add.
What do you all think about your favorite pedals
limitations?
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