RE: Gear talk...upcoming cheap multi-loop option

[Jamie Lack <jlack@auran.com>]

I had this sort of an idea a while ago (just quietly) 
I was going to use 5 zoom 4 sec pedals, with a home made switcher.
In the end I figured that it was clearly not worth it.
The 5 zoom pedals would have been Aus $300 ea, so that is $1500 Aus.
The switcher would have been another hundred or so.

Compare that setup to a fully tanked echoplex (198 sec of loop time) ,
with a fully integrated foot controller.

Even in Australia, at $2800 the echoplex is still a much better deal.

I can import the Echoplex (plus foot controller) myself for Aus $1700
(US $715)through bananas at large, so that makes the "cheap" option less
attractive.

All of these little toys soon add up.
I would really encourage anyone thinking about these cheap loop devices
to just save your dosh and buy an echoplex.

I am sure the added functionality of the echoplex alone would be worth
many cheapy boxes.

Jamie Lack
jlack@auran.com

> >I've been hankering to get my hands on that not-shipping-yet 
> >DOD 8-sec. stomp
> >box (fx98), like many of you, I suspect....
> >As I sit here waiting my gaze falls upon the Boss LS-2 Line 
> >Selector that I
> >use to switch between various guitar paths.  (A very flexible little
> >gadjet...) Anyway, it occured to me that with two 98's and a 
> >LS-2, you'd have
> >two 8-sec loops you could switch between or mix for about 
> >$300 (assuming the
> >DOD is actually only $99 as the catalogs suggest it will 
> >be). Seems like there
> >must be some clever way to wrestle a stereo looper out of 
> >two of 'em, as well.
> >Any thoughts on precision triggering two stompers?
> >dpc
> >