Re: DOD Dimension 12 review

["COLLINSCLAN" <collinsclan@sprintmail.com>]

I do believe that looping products in general need to be thought out more
clearly. I believe that who put's out the next one of these babys should
send a few to the very intense loopers in these pages and get their 
feedback
so hey can learn...and therefore will sell a better product and will sell
more of that better product...taking into consideration that the pricing
would suit the product.
Jeff Collins
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Zwicky <chuck.zwicky@wavefront.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Monday, April 27, 1998 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: DOD Dimension 12 review


>I think that the older DOD delays have better features than this one for
>looping. For example, being able to tune the captured loop. I rely on the
>Jam-Man tempo LED quite a bit in solo performance. Synching to MIDI is not
>possible in the DOD, and no tempo LED compounds the problems in a 12 
>second
>loop.
>
>Just my opinion.
>
>I think that this list could be a great resource for any company 
>developing
>a looper or delay. It's too bad that DOD will probably drop the product 
>due
>to "lack of interest in looping", when it really only needs more
development.
>
>
>
>At 01:00 AM 4/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Chuck Zwicky:
>>> This device has a LONG way to go before it could be very useful to
anyone
>>>here.
>>
>>This _sounds_ like an exaggeration.  It sounds like the
>>DOD Dimension 12's _delay_ mode is quite similar to
>>the Jamman's _delay_ mode, which is pretty much the
>>only way I use the Jamman because of the limited resolution
>>of the feedback setting in its other modes and its poor
>>design for sustained overdubbing (in loop modes, when you
>>lay down the initial the first layer, you're booted out--
>>it doesn't automatically switch to overdubbing; and if you're
>>overdubbing and switch loops, it drops out of overdubbing).
>>
>>The ability to set the delay time directly (which I know
>>the Jamman can't do directly, and I've never heard any
>>evidence that the Echoplex can do) seems like a useful
>>bonus.
>>
>>This is not to say that everyone on this list can live
>>without the "missing" features.  And certainly you might
>>be paying for a lot of sampling features you would never
>>use.
>>
>>Sean
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