not very reliable live

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Rick,

Is there a possibility that there's something wrong with your Repeater? 
  Could your hook up be squirrely?  I stopped using the Repeater in the 
effect loop of my mixer because I couldn't grok it live.  Too complex.  
At my first gig with the Repeater I thought I was getting weird volume 
fluxuations from it, but it turned out that I had a battery connection 
issue in my EMG pickups.  Other times I could have sworn the Repeater 
was occaisionally malfunctioning, but after a little while it 
mysteriously stopped.  The only explanation I can come up with is it 
was user error.  The last dozen or so times I've gigged with the 
Repeater it's been flawless.  Home too.  Never crashes.  I've totally 
goofed up and hit the wrong button, or gotten "stop" messages from Jon 
Wagner and wondered why my Repeater was malfunctioning.  All in all I 
could trace any error to me or external forces.

Next time we get together we should look at your Repeater setup and see 
what's up.  I bet a dollar it's got to be something simple.

Mark Sottilaro

On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 06:46  PM, Rick Walker/Loop.pooL wrote:

> planned for a set of vocalizations and some spoken word but her set was
> unfortunately marred by some technical difficulties (due to the 
> extremely
> limited time for sound checks that festival shows) and due to the fact 
> that
> I lent her my Electrix Repeater which glitched in the middle of her
> performance (god, I love and hate my Repeater........it does incredible
> things and so far, is not very reliable live).