Re: sync-ing non-midi loopers???/Quiet switches for Headrush!

[David Myers <dmgraph@pulsewidth.com>]

Just yesterday I also replaced the switches on my Headrush, with Radio
Shack "soft feel" push on-push off switches (part no. 275-1565).  These
aren't tough ones either, but no more "ka CHUNK!", which was a problem in
my tabletop layout.  Unfortunately they are SPST and cannot do the trick
originally asked for by Jack....

David Myers

>jack,
>    Good Idea!  They should stay perfectly in sync.  And the switches 
>inside
>the Headrush are DPDT (push/push) so you even have extra lugs on each 
>switch
>to do it.  Aaaaand one wall wart is plenty, just make up a pig-tailed 
>Y-plug
>for one of them.  I use this all the time.  For instance, I have had two 
>Korg
>X5DR's running off one wall wart for two years now and both my Headrushes 
>are
>on another, etc.  Works fine.
>    I use my Headrushes differently than you suggest however.  One's 'mix
>out' goes to the other's 'input'.  That ultimately gives me a 23 second 
>loop
>with many, many, many layers, if I so choose.
>    Btw: I have found much quieter switches for the Headrush too, if you 
>do a
>lot of vocal or acoustic instrument looping in a very quiet room where the
>click of the switches is picked up by your mic(s).  Alcoswitch Part#
>MPG-106D.  SPDT.  They are not the 'combat strength' switches the 
>originals
>are however.  I remounted the original switches on mine with rubber 
>washers
>and that helped soften the click sufficiently for me.
>
>good luck,
>    'hawkeye'