RE: Effects units

["Rainer Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

Steve,

I recently acquired a TC Electronics Fireworx I got used for ?1000, and
although I only found the time to barely check through the presets, I'm
convinced that this is THE device:

The great thing about the Fireworx is the the great combination of
"traditional" high quality effects (reverbs, pitch shifter, delay), 
flexible
routing, parameter tweaking and realtime control and the addition of 
several
extremely weird algorithms. If you absolutely need the best pitch shifter
available - go for Eventide, for the best reverb in town, Lexicon might be
the address, but for my use (I don't need reverbs that sound like a real
room found anywhere on earth, anyway), the Fireworx does the trick as the
"all-in-one single rackspace" machine several people have asked for on this
list recently.

A few highlights (mentioned partially with regard to ongoing threads here):
the best distortion I found so far in a device that was not made 
exclusively
for distortion, including digital sampling artifacts generator. A fine
vocoder. A monophonic synth, which can be controlled by a pitch tracker, so
you can have a synth that tracks your voice and sends the corresponding 
MIDI
notes at the same time. The great "modifier matrix" concept. The filters 
are
the bomb!

Back to the discussion which had been ongoing here re: "How many loop
manglers does one need ?": I could live with just the Fireworx as a loop
mangler, plus a second Fireworx for the non-loop stuff, and then I'd be
ready to extremely strip my rack down, getting rid of the Sony GR-MP5, the
Digitech StudioQuad (a great device for its price BTW, the V2 version is
going for below ?125 on ebay recently), the Vortex, the DL4 and the Filter
Factory and just keep the Fireworxes plus a compressor...

        Rainer

Rainer Straschill
Moinlabs GFX and Soundworks - www.moinlabs.de
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Steven Ginn [mailto:sginn@airmail.net]
> Sent: Dienstag, 21. Mai 2002 01:03
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Effects units
>
>
> I have been thinking about getting an Eventide Eclipse which looks
> amazing, but I am wondering what anyones thoughts are about whether or
> not it is worth it for the price?
>
> I recently saw a TC Electronics M2000 for about $700 and was wondering
> if maybe that might be comparable to the Eclipse and save me
> some money
> in the mean time?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>