Re: EDP problem

["mr.monk" <monk@fuse.net>]

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> any ideas?
>

yeah, get used to it.  pretty much every professional person i know who 
has tried to use one has given up on using it live. they simply won't 
hold up physically that is,  won't hold up to touring. as long as you 
personally handle it yourself and put it gently into the back seat of 
your austin-healy bug-eye sprite , you may not have any problems. but 
put it into an expensive shock rack and let the union guys load and 
unload your gear for a month or two, or (god forbid) put your rack into 
the hands of the airline industry for a few interenational flights and 
your troubles begin.

    understand that i have had the same gear in the same rack for six(?) 
years and the echoplex is the only piece of gear to break. period. and 
even after sending it to Shane at gibson (who i'm sure struggles 
valiantly with the machines.) it still will not work consistently. i 
know a couple of other pros who have simply given up on having them 
fixed. it's a huge hassle.

    i think that the EDP is the coolest best live looping device ever 
made (hell, i was an endorser). but i can only surmise that corners 
were cut in the beta testing (i.e. it was only sent to folks who didn't 
tour much) and manufacturing.

i know it's not the kind of answer you are looking for.  umm  maybe 
it's a bad pot...

love you steve.  i think i'm coming to england this summer...interested 
in playing together?


monkman