| ok, so last nite i'm thinking of all the gear i've researched in the last few days in trying to find this "ellusive variaspeed delay"-and the videos i've watched on youtube....ug..... so i sit down in my guitar area w/ all my gear, and start playing w/ the Digitech DL8, which i've had since xmas. and wow, was i blown away w/ the sounds you could get. crap, i think every mode basically does some type of varispeed option (is it the greatest/does it sound as good as when i was using my tascam 4 track w/ 20 sec tape loop-no, but it was EASIER!). the tape is decent, the lo-fi is decent, the one that sort of blew me away was the modulated delay-which i never used on my old boss dd7 or b/4 that on my old digidelay-so i'm playing w/ it, and lo & behold the sound is sort of tape-ish i think trying to emulate the roland space echo. now how do i know this? well, BECAUSE I WATCHED A MILLION VIDEOS OF PEOPLE PLAYING THEIR RE-20 SPACE ECHOS (ok, not a million, but a lot). ok, is it exact-no. does it sound exactly like an original space echo w/ tape in it-NO. but the sounds are vaguely similar to what people were doing on the Boss RE20, more simplified, less knobs....but, i was sort of amazed. i was sort of amazed at what my gear can do, i think i just had it sitting and wasn't using it to it's potential...i will say that i still love the 8 sec delay mode in the dl8-it's probably my main looper for now, need to get my behringer tweakalizer back in too-love it's simple sample mode.... happy looping.... s--- www.myspace.com/scotthansen ps-i will have to say that i think i'm probably the dumbest looper out there-when people are talking about MULTI-CHANNEL LOOPERS or HAVING 3 INDIVIDUAL LOOPS GOING AT ONCE, i think , sh*t, crap, i can barely keep one going and knowing which end is up...oh well.....9 yrs of doing this, and i still don't know crap-ola.... pps-WAY OT-got the jeff beck live at ronni scott's-some great stuff on there-great watching, great listening...just an OT plug there.... |