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One thing I liked about it was the ability to truncate or lengthen the loop on the fly. Say you have a 28 sec delay going, you can chop it down to however fast you want to tap to get a short rhythmic thing going, then tap in and out after so many repeats to re-lengthen so as to layer a longer overdub. Also useful in tap syncing to the previous running memory slot. The only downside was that you do have to do some manual manipulation of the feedback control - it's not pedal assignable - to fade/ freeze the loop. The other thing that's nice is that it's battery powered. On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Dustbunnies wrote: > On 1/2/11 6:06 PM, "Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: >> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Dustbunnies wrote: >>> >>> Yep, like the DD-20, this one is a sleeper. There are some very >>> cool >>> things that you can get it to do, with a little advanced thought. >> >> Would you be into resinging those praises, Duke. >> I've never used a dedicated digital delay stomp box pedal but >> I'm suddenly really hankering to learn how to do that. >> I've heard people talk about the coolness of the DD-20 but never >> really >> known what hip alternative things it can do. > > Sure, although it's been a while since I've had easy access to mine > (sitting > in a storage locker back in the US with most of my gear -- don't > ask. :P ). > I'm sure that some of the others who play with theirs on a regular > basis can > pop in to help too. > > First, the basic modes. The 'Sound On Sound' preset is crap. I've > rarely > been able to get a useable loop out of it, FWIW. But all the other > modes > are at least moderately interesting. There's 'Tape', 'Analog', > 'Standard', > 'Pan (Ping Pong)', 'Dual', 'Smooth', 'Modulate', 'Reverse', 'Warp', > and > 'Twist'. Some, like Twist (which emulates runaway feedback), are > merely > special effects. Most can be used in a variety of situations and > sound > good. Stir and season to taste. > > Best thing about it is that you can save five basic presets -- you > can save > your choice of basic settings (like delay time) and modes into any > of these > -- as well as a 'manual' mode that merely reads the knobs. These > presets > cycle from first to last, so no random access, but the last preset > selected > will continue playing after you select the next preset (sort of like > 'tails' > mode in Line6-speak). So, for instance, you could set up a quarter- > note > based loop with 100% feedback at one tempo on preset one, then have a > triplet-based mode at a different tempo on preset two. Whatever > you've > played into preset one will continue as you work and manipulate > preset two. > When you switch to preset three, the data in preset one's buffer will > disappear, but whatever is still playing from preset two will > continue, and > so on and so forth. > > Now, the settings for each preset don't have to be related, so it's > really > darn easy to set up loops which have different (or no) temporal > relationships to each other. Makes it really good for setting up > ambient > loops that beat against each other. > > Next, you can use 'Pan', or Ping-Pong, mode and the 'null plug' > trick to > double the DD-20's available time from 23 seconds to 46 seconds, if > you're > willing to work in mono. Just remember to push an unterminated plug > into > output A. The audio will first sound through that output (which goes > noplace) then through output B after an additional 23 seconds, thus > doubling > the total available delay time. (BTW, credit for that one goes to > Coyote, > who first posted about it here.) > > Additionally, the DD-20's have remarkably tiny build tolerances, > meaning > that any two units are extremely similar to each other. So similar > that, > even though there's no means to actually sync two DD-20's, you can > loop the > same note on two units using identical settings and they won't go > out of > sync, at least not for hours. Their clocks are amazingly stable, so > it's > possible to use two units in tandem without worrying about true > synchronization -- thus allowing the possibility of four (or even > more) > synchronized/unsynchronized loops. > > And you can get some bizarre distortions out of the DD-20 by > changing the > tempo/delay time of a running loop, then changing it back. > Experiment and > have some fun with that one. > > Also, there's a jack in the back for another control pedal. This > pedal can > be set to accomplish a few different functions. IIRC, I was able to > have a > bit of fun by setting it to "Effect On/Off", then using an FS-5U > (unlatching) pedal. Since turning it on & off really only determines > whether sound is being fed into the data buffer, you can use the > FS-5U to > feed audio in only when depressed. Thus, you can play a legato > line, but > have a stuttered pattern of echoes looped from it. > > That's a few I remember. Perhaps Rainer or Ted or Sjaak (amongst > others) > have more to add on the subject. > >> and sorry for asking so much from you. Your posts have just >> really lit >> a fire under >> me today on this first day of 2011. >> >> Great way to start. Thanks for your creativity. > > No problem. Thanks for the complement. Glad I could make a little > impact > at the very least. :) > > --m. > > >