Re: Echoplex Footpedal not responding

[Adrian Bartholomew <adrian@bartholomusic.com>]

consider urself fortunate.
like the other person complaining about his edp fc, (and ive said nothing of my personal experience so far), i also have unacceptable reliability with mine.
maybe "perfection" is a word that has no meaning so i will requote.
the probability of the edp controller becoming unreliable over time is too high for serious stage performance.
ANY electronic unit is suseptable to problems due to relativly extreme thermal, humid and electro-magnetic environments.
nothing in my extensive rack has ever gone bad and i used to live in trinidad (caribbean) where it is 90 deg and 80-99% humidity YEAR ROUND.
u can backup ur edp fc all u want but at the end of the day i want other potential users to know that u are LUCKY.
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Adrian Bartholomew
Leawood KS
On Aug 31, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Travis Hartnett wrote:

> Nothing's "perfect" on stage.  I've done hundreds of shows with the
> EDP foot controller and it's been quite acceptable.  I have MIDI
> controllers that also get unreliable when they get dirt in the
> contacts, and I've had them drop memory right before a show.  I even
> have to retune my guitar every few songs, but I'm still using it.
>
> I've had more EDP failures due to thermal issues on warm stages (and
> no more than a dozen of those over many years) than I've had
> non-recoverable footcontroller issues.  If the Behringer works for
> you, great, but this FUD regarding the EDP foot controller is
> unwarranted.
>
>
> TravisH
>
> On 8/31/02, Adrian Bartholomew <adrian@bartholomusic.com> wrote:
> > 1---u need PERFECTION onstage. period. reliability is key. who wants to
> > be embarrased or have to compromise creativity? anything less.... is a
> > "bad" design, whatever the reason.
> > 2---if u dont have floorspace for the edp pedal, u wont have it for the
> > 1010 either. neither will fit into any conventional pedalbox. design
> > and adapt to what u need for ur act.
> >
> > ___
> > Adrian Bartholomew
> > Leawood KS
> > On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Travis Hartnett wrote: