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Mark, I would love to pick your brain on the rang 3. I’m
currently debating on whether to get a second working echoplex to run them in
stereo or sell the one working EDP I have to buy the rang 3. I am ashamed to
say I am not tech savvy enough to even attempt something like ableton or
another software solution. When it comes to computers, I can only describe
myself as functionally illiterate. I write patient reports on them , get e-mail
and browse the web. I’m perfectly content with that even though my
sweetwater sales rep has been trying to get me to do that for at least two
years now (they can be pushy you know). I seem to change my mind on the subject every day. On the one
hand, I have spent tons of time learning and getting proficient with the
echoplex and don’t want to admit the technology may be getting outdated
(please don’t all flame me at once). On the other hand, the rang seems on
paper to do everything I need, runs in stereo, has more recording time etc. Not carrying a rack to gigs once or twice a week would also be a
major bonus for my lazy ass. LOL I do a “one man band” type thing with multiple
instruments. My setup is similar to Arthur Lee Land (hand drums, bass, guitars
etc.) except I mic amps rather than use modelling into the board. I also have a
turntable and scratch mixer plugged into the board which I use as a percussion
instrument either inside the loop or against it and a sax I solo with
occasionally because I won’t admit I’m just not very good at it LOL.
Long story short, I have so much gear to carry by myself that I have
found myself wondering if I should just hire someone else to do it and hand
over the check from the bars to them for their effort. Lame right? What I want to do is run the stereo effects loop of my
mixer through a stereo looper so I can start experimenting with expressing
myself through sweeping and panning with a pedal and also so I can place
different instruments in different parts of the PA mix. I think that would
really expand my sound options and I wish I had set up this way to begin with. Obviously the Rang option is the cheaper and lighter way to go
stereo. Do you have experience with both the EDP and the Rang? What sort of functionality do you think I would lose by
doing this? Of course, advice from any of you other mythical gods of looping
would be greatly appreciated. Ace From: Mark McGlinchey
[mailto:markmcglinchey@gmail.com] I agree, I am loving my Rang
III but everytime I use it I find a point where I want to use some of the as of
yet unreleased full feature set. Very annoying, I can't complain though I was
aware of what the implications of buying a pre-prod model were when I did it. On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Ace Ovil <aovil@wfubmc.edu> wrote: Yes, that would work great, but I think
a multiply function was pretty important to him if I recall. I’m not sure
about the twenty but I know the RC-2 will not do this because I have one. I
think the Rc-20’s cannot either, but I could be wrong on this. For me,
that would be a deal breaker and it’s the main reason I sold my otherwise
awesome 2880. If there is anything I have learned from
pouring money into this bottomless pit of looping gear over the last few years,
it is to get what you want right off the bat because you will end up spending
more money in the long run if you don’t. For me at least, it is a
pretty bad disease. Once I get a piece of gear that
can’t do what I envision musically, all I think about when I’m
playing is “it sure would be nice if it could do X”. I
don’t feel the same way about other instruments though, I can live with a
guitar, bass, sax or drum kit that doesn’t have “quite
the right tone” I envision but as soon as a looper limits my
creativity I get annoyed with it, Maybe I’m just a glass half empty
kind of guy but would any of you agree with this? Ace From: scott
hansen [mailto:evanpeewee@yahoo.com]
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