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>At 07:04 AM 5/26/2004, you wrote: > Does anyone use a vg8 with the Repeater? I'd be interested in any > comments on this > experience: how you've got your rig set up, how > you use them together live, etc. Thanks! I have a VG-88, and I just run the stereo outputs straight into the Repeater line inputs. From there, the Repeater's stereo output goes to a Roland stereo volume pedal (line level "keyboard" type pedal), and then to a pair of powered Mackie SRM450 PA speakers. That's it. I need the stereo VOL pedal because the Repeater doesn't have a master output volume, and it's the last thing in line before the powered speakers. I use the pedal to mute the speakers, or make small adjustments in overall level. This is dirt-simple and easy to set up, but then my looping is extremely basic, compared to what a lot of folks on this list are doing. :) The one thing I might change, and this is related to "Spaceranger's" comments about not running directly through the Repeater... would be to add a 1u rackmount stereo line mixer to the setup. Maybe something like the Ashley LX308B. When you run the main signal directly into the Repeater it adds a 9ms. delay, even on the "live" sound. I've managed to adapt to that, but it would be nice to split the Repeater off as a side-chain effect. Unfortunately the VG-88 doesn't have an FX loop (I REALLY hope the next version, if there ever is one, includes a configurable external FX loop). What I would do with a line mixer is split the stereo output from the VG-88 into four signals, run one stereo pair straight into the mixer, and the other pair into the Repeater, and then into the mixer. The LX308B has a headphone output, and also a master volume that would let me get rid of the stereo volume pedal. I've just been too lazy to get this system together. I've also considered a full-blown digital mixer, where I could put the Repeater on an AUX send and have Midi pedal control over lots of parameters. But that's probably overkill for what I do. ------------------------------------ Mike Barrs mbarrs@nightviewer.com