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Some quick reviews…BOSS SLICER…
i've only been experimenting w/ it for a couple days…
it's a keeper. i think i'll have to read the manual. but as rick w. says,
there's lots to do w/ it w/ mixing the direct vs effect amt.
the thing about it is, you feed it different stuff, it does different things.
honestly, it sounds cool when distorted guitar is fed to it-see the guitar world
vid review-they play w/ that a lot.
but i like it. honestly i liked the slicer effect in my roland ef303, but that
unit is SO BIG (built like a tank though), the slicer pedal i think gives a
nice variation of it...ok…follow-up: I was messing around w/ it w/ my direct
setup (playing when the li’l monsters
are asleep) and I had a short modulated delay, the slicer on & one of my
heavy distortions amp models going, then on my whacky new guitar that has
on-off switches for the pu’s-so I can sort of do the buckethead/tom morello
staccato effects w/ it—it sounded so cool, messed w/ that a bit. Most fun. I will
say that I think it’s not an effect that you can leave on all the time, but w/
the mix options, you can turn it down and it can give subtle things to your
playing…I will go w/ rick on this though, it’ll take me forever to find all it
can do, I should probably read the manual…
ok, as for the DIGITECH TIMEBENDER…
well, remember us all chiming in on why a co. would just copy a pedal & put
it out (hello digitech jamman pedal-aren't you close to the boss rc20?)...well,
this thing isn't copying anything....at least i don't think (well maybe
eventide delays that i've read about?)
the problem is, i think it's more of a pitchshifter than a delay per se. i mean
there's tons of options of how you want the repeats. up/down shifting, etc etc.
it does sound cool. but i guess after i've messed w/ it a bit, i wonder-can it
be applied to anything? and i'm not honestly sure if it can. here's the thing-i
don't think it's a great delay. it's ok. it just sort of creates washes of
sound behind your playing for the most part. and it can be cool for us experimentalists,
but i sort of wonder if the same effect can be gotten out of cheaper gear or a
better delay. yes it has a looper (again-let’s throw the looper in there for sound on sound but
you can't do anything to it!) but i don't honestly think it does %100
feedback-which bummed me out (since I favor delay based looping)…and then as I was
reading the manual/info, I noticed that they advertise this thing having the ability
to “BEND TIME”, when honestly I think it does more of “BENDING PITCH”. But for
me, I think the effect I’ve been least impressed w/ is pitchbending, sure I thought
it was cool back in’01 w/ my old digitech rp100, but after a while….after I played
w/ it I thought, well if you want to be the musical equivalent of MONET’s
IMPRESSIONISM, maybe it’s for you, but I sort of tired of what it could do
after awhile. Like I said, it just seemed weak in the actual DELAY area for me.
Although I should say that I did think the envelope setting was decent-I guess
it’s like the slicer in that regards, and the settings that were most fun were
the few that used random intervals (well they list the random intervals in the
manual-so is it really random? Not sure, but it sounds random), and when I was
playing w/ that for a bit I honestly thought it sounded like ANDRE LA FOSSE’s
edp glitch –stuff…it was kind of cool for a bit, but I didn’t think I want to
go that route since Andre LF does it way better than i. I did think the dynamic
settings of tape and analog delays were decent, and when you would play w/ the
time they would slide up and down nice, but the problem is that the repeats
were so faint, never could get it to sound 100%, like I said it was just washes
of stuff…I’m sure down the road I’ll hear someone who just does amazing things
with it and think, hmmmm, man I was dumb or whatever…but overall, I haven’t
been impressed with it. maybe I had too high of expectations, and maybe w/ the
term “timebender” I had too high of hopes for it. but for me, I pulled it out
of my setup last night and put my digitech DL8 back in, & was much happier
(hence the fun I had w/ the modulated delay & slicer and my on/off switch!)
Happy looping…
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