Re: Boomerang

[The Unit Circle <unitcirc@keys.com>]

If you couldn't tell, I'm very late in responding to e-mail.  Sorry if I'm
rehashing too many old threads for people.

About why I think the EDP is too complicated for a performance setting (at
least in my case).  Like many people on the list, I've got a ton of pedals
sitting around my feet when I perform.  The less I have to concentrate on
any one, the better.  Once I've got my loop into the boomerang, I pretty
much only use one button, the overdub one.  Sometimes I'll hit the
reverse.  I like the simplicity of the 'rang.  I also like the fact
that it's built like a tank.  I imagine that if I spent some serious time
with the EDP, I could probably be as comfortable with it as well.  A
friend of mine had two EDP units and sold them both and bought 'rangs
because he got tired of getting confused while trying to play.  Like I
said, the EDP sounds like a nifty tool for my studio work (where I can
spend time crafting my loops), but in a performance setting, it's more
than I need to deal with.

Now, when is someone going to create a looper that can have two
(or more) different length loops playing simultaneously fighting with each
other. .

Kevin




> 
> At 05:58 PM 7/22/98 -0400, The Unit Circle wrote:
> >  It isn't as powerful as the
> >echoplex, but it is much simpler to use in a performance setting.  If I
> >had more cash, I would use the echoplex in the studio and the 'rang on
> >stage.
> 
> We designed the echoplex specifically to be easy to use in performance, 
>and
> based that off quite a lot of study of it's predecessors and users. For
> instance the display and LEDs show you what is going on and where you 
>are,
> and are large enough to see. The functions all operate in ways we found 
>to
> be most musically intuitive. And if you accidently hit the wrong button 
>and
> destroy or screw up your loop, you just press Undo and it's back, even
> staying in time.
> 
> So I'm sort of curious about your impression that it isn't simple or 
>useful
> in performance. What specifically do you find complicated about it? If 
>there
> is something that can be improved, we'd like to hear your opinion.
> 
> kim
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