Re: EDP Footpedal vs. FCB1010 ? ?

[Adrian Bartholomew <adrian@bartholomusic.com>]

aaahhhhh
somebody loves me

yeah the uneasiness freaks me out. last night in 1 song, the mute button doubled up. ie, it cont playing after my big grand final chord gesture. god i hated it. the next time, it fired another function entirely. after that, i didnt use it. i got up, went to my 1010 and used that. inconvenient but sure.
i havent tried cleaning it yet though, as kim advised me.
___
Adrian Bartholomew
Leawood KS
On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Luis Angulo wrote:

> DonŽt feel bad Adrian i am as well guilty for putting
> down the EFC-7,i change those switches god knows how
> many times and it always made me uneasy onstage,i even
> started hating the EDP for it.Since i got rid of it
> and got a fcb1010 i love life and the EDP!
> The fcb1010 has a learning curve but with patient
> anybody can learn it and it will turn your basic EDP
> into a loop giant!
> And by the time the fcb1010 buttons go bad youŽll be
> in a psychatric clinic for EFC-7phobia!
> Luis
>
> --- Adrian Bartholomew <adrian@bartholomusic.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Adrian Bartholomew <adrian@bartholomusic.com>
> > Date: September 13, 2005 11:22:41 AM CDT
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: EDP Footpedal vs. FCB1010 ? ?
> >
> > kim, u sound like i did when i did
> > marketing/advertising.
> >
> > the client would outline their market target
> > audience and also, like u, 
> > through statistics, provided by 3rd party companies,
> > i had to pinpoint 
> > who they were by their race, socio-economic strata,
> > age, sex and 
> > musical tastes (i also did jingles or commissioned
> > them out).
> >
> > if the marketing didnt work, what then?
> >
> > do i challenge the advertiser to enlighten me with a
> > better idea based 
> > on a sarcastically appointed imaginary marketing
> > degree i suddenly 
> > hinted that they might have? that wouldve
> > been....bad. jobwise and 
> > karmawise.
> > do i blame the public for not "getting it"?
> > tempting, especially after 
> > all the working hrs, love, sweat, sleepless nights,
> > attention to detail 
> > and scientific "facts" presented in the project.
> > sometimes i was stubborn too.
> >
> > but no.
> >
> > all we can do is recall the vehicle and try
> > something else based upon 
> > new information eg. data from questionaires given to
> > random groups 
> > within the target market in a controlled
> > environment.
> >
> > because THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.
> >
> > now i do also have quite a lot of engineering
> > experience so i 
> > completely understand u and ur company's reasoning
> > behind the design of 
> > the footpedal. i, however, believe that a lot of ur
> > customers would 
> > prefer, and indeed even pay more, for a product that
> > didnt go bad so 
> > relatively quickly (WITHOUT SELF SERVICING) even
> > though it could be 
> > fixed easily. the moment onstage is gone.
> > try building a powered, midi controller with
> > switches based on 
> > different technology for more money and see which
> > sells more. designed 
> > BY gibson. that would be awesome.
> > im not alone in this. how many of ur beloved EDP
> > users have complained 
> > about ur footpedal.
> > come on kim. they're EDP USERS. how many others want
> > it and cant afford 
> > it. ur users are already in the category of, "im
> > buying it cause its 
> > the best, not because its cheap".
> >
> > i dont quite swallow the... faultyness of all
> > switches used on a 
> > regular basis... theory. we all use many switches in
> > our lives that 
> > never fail, though some do. i have keyboards that
> > are as good today as 
> > they ever were. every key on the keyboard is a
> > switch isnt it? what 
> > about the program buttons. they too are switches.
> > the keys on my 
> > computers never went bad. laptop or desktop. the
> > lightswitches in my 
> > house. my gtr pedals, volume sustain for my
> > keyboard. NEVER. i know 
> > others may have  different experiences but i could
> > safely say that lots 
> > of folk never had problems with any of these above
> > switches.
> > reliability is in the hands of the beholder not just
> > in engineering 
> > calculations.
> > i will try to clean my edp footpedal switches.
> > thanks for the tip. im 
> > comfortable with electronics.  but i guarantee u
> > this. no matter HOW 
> > easy it may be for me ...and u...and others like us,
> > most of ur 
> > customers will never be comfortable opening up an
> > electronic device. 
> > they dont want to have to.
> >
> > ___
> > Adrian Bartholomew
> > Leawood KS
>
>
> www.luis-angulo.com
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