Re: not enough DL4 patches

[Todd Pafford <galen@erols.com>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, rich wrote:
> 
> example.  say you have the multi-head on a pretty fast delay time, 
> and you turn the feedback way up, so it's starting to self-oscillate. 
> then you slowly turn the speed down, really slow, so you get this 
> deconstructing downpitch thing.  now you've got this noisy low rumble 
> happening and you want to turn it off or fade it out.  Go ahead, use 
> the expression pedal, but that sound is now going to speed up as it 
> fades out, back to where the knobs were when you started.  you would 
> pretty much have to get on your knees and adjust the mix manually, 
> which is what i do mostly when we're doing alot of live knob 
> twiddling.
> 

This reminds me of a mod a friend of mine made to one of his old Boss
DD-5s (he had two in series).  To get that pitch dive/whistle effect that
comes from a healthy tweak of the speed knob WITHOUT having to get down on
his knees and pray to the digital god, he had a solder geek he knows pull
out the pot and wire it into a gutted Wah pedal.  This pedal was then
wired directly into the DD-5.  Imagine ripping the knob out and having the
wires magically stretch out through the hole where the knob used to be and
all the way over to a wah pedal; one covered with white shag carpeting no
less.  VERY cool, and pretty much necessary given the DD-5s didn't have a
tap-tempo input if memory serves.

Anyway, couldn't you pull the Mix knob out of the DL4 and do the same?  I
bet it would bypass all the preset mumbo jumbo that comes from wagging the
expression pedal.

An idea anyway. :)
Happy looping.

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Todd Pafford   galen@erols.com