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Did you ever get any feedback on this? I might be interested. The part about chewing up the sound actually sounds especially interesting... --Josh michael sintros wrote: > it occured to me i should make people aware of the > existence of yet another piece of loop gear. i'm > speaking of the pyle pdsp850 phrase sampler. this > little unit i picked up online knowing nothing about > it except what it claimed to be able to do. they go > for around $100 new. it's a somewhat thin rackmount > unit and is basically a very simple dj phrase sampler. > you've got a few different banks to choose from which > give you different amounts of time to deal with > (probably their way of crudely managing memory on this > p.o.s.). according to the tools of the trade site > list, this would fall under the category of not being > a true looper, since it does not allow you to hit one > button to record and another to stop recording and > immediately initiate playback. in addition to the > buttons to select a memory location, there are a few > other buttons such as 'read' and 'write'. to sample, > make sure the 'read' is lit up and then hit the record > button and it'll start recording, then hit the button > again to stop. then you've got to hit the 'write' > button, after which you can hit the same record/play > button to play or stop the playing loop. it also has > a knob for controlling the speed of the loop just as > on a tape machine or record player. the range is not > that great, maybe about half an octave in either > direction. you can crank the knob all the way in one > direction to record fast and then turn it all the > other direction to get a greater decrease in pitch > then if you had started with the knob at the middle > point. kind of nice. main problem with this baby is > that the sound quality coming out of it SUCKS! it > seems that levels that are already well optimized such > as if you have a cd player plugged right into it > usually don't come out sounding too bad, just a bit > grainy. but if your input signal is even a little bit > soft, it seems like this thing really mangles it. the > knobs that control input and output volume also don't > seem to behave as espected. for instance, put the > input level way down to avoid clipping (which is easy > with this thing), you'll have to turn the output knob > up to compensate for that. so record a loop then play > it back. it will come out very very loud. it's as > though there is an automatic normalization process > that happens to the loop when it is stored, because i > would expect the loop to come out sounding as loud as > it did when i was playing through the unit. or the > input and output volumes affect the throughput and the > stored loops differently, which is retarded. > > anybody else ever been unfortunate enough to buy one > of these? if so, anything you'd recommend to make it > more usable? i never use it anymore because it's too > noisey. if anyone is curious and wants to try one > out, i would be willing to sell mine at a rather low > price, since i know i have not exactly given a rave > review of it. but one man's garbage is another man's > ... aesthetically pleasing garbage. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > >