Re: SoftStep vs 1010 vs Gordius little Giant vs Mecha Godzilla

[William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>]

I came very close to pulling the trigger on a Softstep on Friday,  
which was the last day of a special NAMM offer they were having for  
people who entered their giveaway contest at NAMM.  I think I was  
partly inspired by the comments posted complaining of click noise on  
my last youtube post, and because I'm wanting to do more loop  
recording at home with open mics. so far using an old roland gfc 50  
pedal as a slighly quieter bank of preset switches is helping, but the  
lack of click noise and the incredibly deep architecture of the soft  
step really is pretty astounding.  At first I was put off by a few  
things like one measly expression pedal port, untill I realized you  
can assign its switches to behave like a continuous controller pedal.   
But having said that, the Gordius is amazing, really well built and  
very powerfull. I wish there was a way to minimize the noise that was  
easy and cost effective. because the Gordius can trigger with the  
lightest of touch, I wish there was some kind of simple rubber cap  
that could be glued to the switches that kept them from traveling far  
enough to create an audible click. Then there was Andy B's idea of  
insultaing the chassis with foam inside, haven't tried that one yet.
Bill