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David_Mitchell: >> I know the >> biggest impediment to me buying a Jamman, Echoplex or Boomerang is $$$ >- I >> just can't justify the cost for a single-purpose effect that I wouldn't >be >> using a lot of the time. For now, I'll stick to my crappy old Boss PS-2 >> pedal with its 2 seconds of delay. I don't think we'll really be undercutting the boomerang by any degree, whatever we do. >> If you consider all the techo knowledge and experience that's on this >> mailing list, we'd have to be able to spec out a design (assuming >everyone >> suddenly got a few months with nothing else to do!). As an aside: with >> memory coming down in price so fast recently, I can't see why you'd >need to >> feel limited by sample resolution or sample time any more - just build >in >> provision for the box to take standard SIMMs up to (say) 64Mb. Absolutely. The one complaint everyone has is that there's no stereo capacity, so a 60sec mono/30sec stereo option would be feasible. Trevor Bajus: >IMHO (at least in my price range) effects boxes are like cameras- the more >>stuff that is built in, the lower the quality of those features. I'm >sure >that >the Eventide XYZDPDQ2000 has pitchshifting that is as swell as their >looping, >but I don't really have a $100K for it. I have two >multieffectors >(the >irreplacable quadraverb, no doubt dear to us all, and an LXP-15+) >but >they only >have a few effects on them each that I like. > We're never goint to make a better harmoniser than Eventide. We're never going to make a better reverb than Lexicon. But Lexicon were really smart when they designed the Vortex - rather than saying "let's build a competitor to the 9050/q+/Tubefex/etc" they produced something that 50% of the people on this list would kill rather than lose. Metaphorically. "Ah, but it flopped." No MIDI. A case of not listening to the market. However, we have the advantage that we _are_ the market. We should all be looking to Matthias' example here - only 100 LoopDelays were sold, but he started something wonderful in the process. >I have been a DIY guy since the first day I bought my guitar and my bridge >>bickup mysteriously conked out, buy I don't know if I have the savoire >faire >to >build my own looper (at least not yet). As limited as my skills are, >I >still >think that in relation to must musicians I am fairly knowledgable. > I >think a >kit would be far too complicated and would alienate most of your >market. Agreed. Besides, since any processor we make is a niche product - we're never going to outsell Digitech, so why just make another RP10? - I think the people that niche would fit would probably be willing to go the extra and pay for a built version. I think a kit is a no-goer, or certainly there could be an option but it shouldn't be marketed as one. Michael Dr Michael Pycraft Hughes Bioelectronic Research Centre, Rankine Bldg, Tel: (+44) 141 330 5979 University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K. "Everything in moderation, including moderation" (Zen Proverb)