RE: DD 20 vs RC 20

["Andy Morris" <apmorris59@hotmail.com>]

can the dd-20 overdub?


>From: Andre Cholmondeley <projectobject@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: DD 20 vs RC 20
>Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:16:55 -0500
>
>Subject: Re: boss rc 20 vs DD 20
>
> >>by the way what is the minimum loop length?
>
>Well I can speak for the DD 20 - It's pretty short - as short as you can 
>hit
>the switch twice -- I estimate at least 1/4 sec or less...
>
>But this is where they LAMED OUT... What's missing from the RC20 is a 
>basic
>delay - even that little bit of time/vol adjustable delay in the Line 6 
>DL4
>really makes such a huge difference.., had Boss put that into the RC20 it
>would rule. But - they want you to buy the DD20 - which is more akin to 
>the
>DL4 - tones of delay types, one looper. Unlike the DL4 - you can go
>IMMEDIATELY to the looper from a delay preset.
>
>So - in the looping area ALONE - the DD20 lets you do:
>
>-amazingly short glitches
>-any loop time up to 23sec
>-overdub to the loop continually
>-play over the loop with any delay time up to 23 sec
>(basically a 2nd loop if your feedback is set correctly)
>
>BUT OF COURSE -The lame thing BOSS did was to prevent you from saving the
>loop - once you hit STOP, the loop is gone!! (of course - creative use of 
>a
>volume pedal or a/b switch can juts pull the loop in/out - but dammit...!
>it's just a bummer that a company that makes so many great devices - has
>this endemic habit of doing that in their gear.
>
>-andre'
>

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