Re: ...what to go for then?

[Joshua Carroll <josh@infinivert.com>]

Title:

Indeed.  The beauty about dating Mobius is that if there's something you wish you could change about her, you can just ask her dad, and a lot of the time he will beat her into submission...

--Josh

>The thing about your first looper is that it will be
like your first girlfriend/boyfriend.  You shan't
forget them, but they will often tell you many things
about what you don't want as well as a few that you
can't get enough of.


Wow...  

mark sottilaro wrote:

One thing I've found over the years is that  you'll
learn more about people when you read non professional
reviews than you learn about the gear... in many
cases.  Don't worry, someone somewhere will hate
everything and they tend to be vocal.

>From what I can hear about the RC-50 is that if you're
not syncing it to a drum machine it seems like a
pretty good box.  Not my bag, but I bet good music can
be made with it.  Am I wrong on this one?  I've kind
of stopped following the threads after "it doesn't
sync well."

The talk about the JamMan faded so fast I have no idea
what it does... nor do I care.  The Lexicon JamMan is
still THE JamMan for me.  Get one, they're great....
unless you're one of the people who hate it.

Bad reviews on the EDP?  Again, not my bag but it
executes what it does really well.  Maybe it is my
bag, as I now seem to be very happy with a software
emulation of it running from a laptop.  I'm sure it's
not the same but it does what I ask it to do.

I love the Repeater... but it honestly hasn't seen a
signal for a month... will it hit my closet? (ebay)
Perhaps...  My heros seem to have foresaken their
hardware gear for laptop versions.  Still nothing
touches what this sucker does in software or other
hardware.  Does it have warts?  Sure, but show me some
gear that doesn't.

Looperlative?  For sure get a laptop.  It's cool, but
for the cash you'll be better off with a decent laptop
and Mobius.  If you're totally anti laptop then this
is as good a choice as any.

2880?  Haven't hear anything bad about that... except
you only get a loop at a time but surely with all
those tracks...

The thing about your first looper is that it will be
like your first girlfriend/boyfriend.  You shan't
forget them, but they will often tell you many things
about what you don't want as well as a few that you
can't get enough of.

Mark

--- "tunga.muzik" <tunga.muzik@terra.com.br> wrote:

  

Hi there,

I´m also new to this community, been playing guitar
for 15 years now and have been invited by some DJs
to perform live with them. Obviously I need a
looper, and I was just about to go and get a RC-50 ,
but that was before I read reviews on
harmony-central, musiciansfriend.com, loopers
delight, etc.....I was excited about going stereo,
having 3 phrase tracks, such long recording
time......bla, bla, bla...........but as I would
have it mainly for live performances, just put it
aside for this moment.

RC-20XL is mono, seems to degrade sound quality as
more phrases are added onto previous recorded ones,
has the 2 seconds pressed pedal waiting time to
change recording/dubbing functions......sounds not
pro enough.

Also read a lot about some little issues on Digitech
JamMan, Boomerang, Electro Harmonix 2880,
etc.......even the Gibson Echoplex Digital ProPlus
got bad reviews.

Sincerely....I got lost in the middle of everything,
so it got cloudy for me to define what should I buy
at this moment, what will give me condition for a
reliable and creative live performance, and also be
a smart option regarding the cost X benefit X
technology X quality issue.

Counting on your expertise people....thanks a lot.

Peace.

TUNGA
    

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