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Re: Vortex Alert and formal delurk



john - what city is the guitar center in?
At 05:09 AM 11/30/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Just in case someone still wants one, the Guitar Center "December Deal
>Days" catalog announces a "Last Chance On Lexicon Price Breakthrough!"
>on the Vortex at $149.99.  Presumably, they have enough left to warrant
>the catalog space.  They also advertise the DOD DFX94 4-second
>sampler/delay stompbox for $120-- can anyone give a real-world review
>of this unit?  Is it worth the money?
>
>I've been reading the newsletter and visiting the Web site since Kim
>made the announcement in the Digital Guitar Digest.  I'm delurking
>now because I feel a flood of questions and comments building up,
>and think it only fair to give you an idea who they're coming from.
>
>I'm possibly the oldest reader of this list (still 51, for a few weeks),
>and likely one of the newest loop addicts (I got my Vortex three weeks
>ago today).  I played music for a living for 15 years, beginning as
>a steel guitarist and ending up as a one-person band, driving a pair of
>synthesizers with a MIDI guitar and a MIDI pedal keyboard while singing
>or playing harmonica.  I "retired" several years ago, after I realized I
>dreaded going to work; I'm now beginning to recapture the joy of making
>music for its own sake, and for mine.
>
>Rather than burdening the list with details of my gear, I invite anyone
>interested to my Troubador Tech Web site (URL in sig), which is devoted
>to tools and techniques of possible interest to the solo simultaneous
>multiinstrumentalist.  It includes the modest beginning of a page on 
>delays and looping, where you can find out how to get four delays of
>up to 12 seconds each from a Casio VZ-series synthesizer.  
>
>I'm deeply grateful to everyone who contributes to this project, for
>the information and the inspiration.  May all your loops yield happy
>surprises!
>
>John                              Email:  johnpollock@delphi.com
>Troubador Tech on the Web--http://people.delphi.com/johnpollock/
>
>
Jay Taylor
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