Matt,
Thanks for the welcome. I'll have to check out your mp3s . . . I'm on dial
up at the moment, so it will take me a little while.
I got the Jam Mans to do stereo by using a y splitter cable that allowed me
to use two of the stereo cords that you use for the little plastic Lexicon
footswitches, but merged through the one stereo line.
So, basically, I ran one stereo cord to the footswitch control of each Jam
Man on the one end, then ran the other ends to the stereo splitter cable.
The splitter I got accepts stereo inputs and then has a male cord on the other
end that was also stereo. The "y" part of the connection then plugs into just
one Lexicon footswitch, and you can just use that one footswitch to run both
loopers at the same time.
In essence, this gives you "non-midi" syncing of the two loopers from one
pedal. It works like brother-sync on the EDP, although "y" syncing will
occassionaly lead to some "drifting" effects between the two Jam Mans. "Y"
syncing does the trick, although it’s not quite as percise as brother sync
(hence the occasional drifting).
I only ever used the "y" syncing with the start/stop control for
recording/overdubbing, but if you have two Jam Mans, two stereo cords, and
two of the Lexicon pedals, I'll bet you could get two additional stereo cords,
two of the stereo to stereo "y" splitters, and then be able to have both
Jam Man foot switch options word in "y sync together at the same time on both
machines. Like I said, I never tried it, but if it worked for the start/stop
pedal connections, it should work for the other connections too.
I don't remember where I ended up buying the "y" splitter that I got (that
was back in 1995)--I would have either bought it at Radio Shack or Guitar
Center; I also think that possibly Musician's Friend might sell them.
Hope my answer made sense. 
Thanks,
David
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:33
PM
Subject: Re: GNX-3/Repeater
Questions
Welcome to the list David.
If you do a search on the
Repeater and seamless loops on the archives, you'll probably come up with
volumes on this topic. I'll give you the Reader's Digest version.
Yes,
the Repeater does exactly what you're asking of it. No delay. Just like a
JamMan, which was my first MIDI syncable looper. However, there is a tiny
volume bump at the loop start point. How tiny? I never, ever hear it. Is it
there? Sure is. If I play a single sine wave with no attack or volume change
into the Repeater, I can hear it. Others here trying to do drones have
complained about it. I've posted two tracks on http://www.mp3.com/0crossing
The first one is JamMan looping, the second is all Repeater.
How did
you get two JamMans to do stereo?
Mark Sottilaro
On Wednesday,
July 30, 2003, at 08:38 AM, David Durian wrote:
Hello. I am a new poster to the list, although I have
actually been reading various parts of the entire Looper's Delight site for
the last 4 years. I've been looping since 1994, when I got my first Lexicon
Jam Man. For most of the 90s, I used to Jam Mans for stereo looping,
although I switched to using Echoplex Digital Pro Pluses for stereo looping
about a year ago.
Anyhow, I was writing to ask a couple of
questions I was having trouble getting answered just by looking through the
site and by searching the mailing list archive.
a) I'm thinking
about getting a repeater to supplement my EDPs, and I was wondering--does
the Repeater do seamless looping if you play an eight bar measure and then,
at the end of the eighth bar, you press the record button to start the loop?
In other words, does the audio play straight through without any "skipping
sounds" or "gaps" in the audio?
By seamless here, I mean simply
the sound--I understand that the Repeater will not start the loop and go
immediately into overdub mode (like the EDP), making it more like the old
Jam Man in this way, which is how some use the term "seamless." My concern
is that the looper make no skipping sound if I want to do a "direct loop"
this way. This is how I mean to use "seamless" in this
context.
I currently own a GNX-3 that was supposed to work as a
full-function looper, but it has this problem where it doesn't do the kind
of seamless loop to which I refer above unless you set up an empty "dummy
track" ahead of time, and then, after the "blank track" is recorded, you can
do a "live" seamless loop. Which isn't really live the way I describe it
(live to me means the Jam Man or EDP, and possibly the Repeater(?)) . .
.
Someone on the Digitech site suggested the "dummy
track" solution I just mentioned, and he made it sound like people had to do
the same thing on the Repeater to get it to work right with this type of
seamless loop . . .this is why I needed to ask.
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b) Anyone else out there using the GNX-3 for
looping? I haven't seen much about it on this Web site (no reviews, for
example), and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on
it?
The lack of seamless looping on it as a default setting is
somewhat annoying, although I can work around it. Or maybe I'm just missing
something in set up and you can actually get it to do
it?
Thanks,
David
Durian
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