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At 11:45 AM 3/29/97, David Myers wrote: >Kim: > >I've been waiting for a response to my post of a few days ago, but all >I've >heard from you is something about onion soup, so I'll try the direct I never said a darn thing about onion soup! I was talking about accordians. :-) I didn't get your original post, sorry. In general though, the deal is this: I stopped working for Gibson about 10 months ago, and don't pretend to speak for them or their divisions. (like Oberheim) The help I give on echoplex questions is totally voluntary, and not out of any obligation. I'm proud of the thing and the work I did on it, and I just want to see people enjoy it and use it well. My real life is very demanding, and I actually have very little time for these sorts of questions. And I do get a lot of them. I'm more than happy to help, and I try my best to give people good answers, but sometimes it takes me a while to get to it. So please try to be patient. I don't mean to jump on you, and normally don't feel it's necessary to make silly statements like this. It's just that I've received email recently with a lot more "angry customer attitude" than seemed necessary. Sort of like the author thought I was a Gibson representative or something. If Gibson/oberheim/whoever has wronged you somehow, please direct your anger at them and not me! They have customer service people available for you to abuse. Mostly, those folks will be able to take care of your problems and as far as I know are reasonably good at that. I will be more than happy to help you if I can, but my motivation will be remarkably lower in the face of overtly misdirected hostility...... Thanks for listening to me vent. Now, your question: >approach. In brief, the noise gate is ruining everything I've tried to do >lately. Hit a big distortion chord and let it die out gradually-within a >few seconds the gate starts chopping it up. Most of my sounds are being >pumped like this, and I'm hoping there is a way to get around the gate. >Please?! I don't care so much about improved "undo" performance-with this >gate, I'll have to look elsewhere for my main looper. > >Thanks-David This was discussed to death a few months ago and I currently don't have the time or energy to do it again, so for the full version you ought to check the archives. A synopsis: - There is a noisegate on the echoplex that makes the Undo function much more usable. - A few people find it annoying, and probably don't realize how equally annoyed they would be if it wasn't there. - There is currently no way to adjust it or turn it off. - One imperfect work-around is to increase the input levels a bit to make sure you are further above the gate threshold. - Another suggestion is to use a compressor. - The designers of the echoplex are very sorry if you are affected by this problem. - Said designers (Matthias, Eric, and myself), at the expense of personal lives and relationships, will be developing and releasing echoplex software upgrades this year. The second of those will offer an adjustable gate threshold. We do not yet have a release date for that. Please avoid asking questions about upgrades for now, because spending our very limited free time on your question means less limited-free-time for working on the software! Appropriate announcements will be made at the appropriate time. - We do hope you can be patient and wait for us to finish this work, and hope that the wide variety of other echoplex features and applications can bring you some solace and pleasure in the mean time. hope this helps, kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com