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Re: electro harmonix 2880 w/footpedal **thoughts**
Title: Re: electro harmonix 2880 w/footpedal
**thoughts**
I have owned and/or used nearly every looper on the planet at one
point or another. If I listen to what results I have produced, I would
say that to me the music is interesting in inverse proportion to the
bells and whistles on the looper.
At the top of my list is the Lexicon Jam Man. Even before I
installed Bob Sellon's superior OS, this looper has a magical
liquidity to the tone that others lack. When used with a MIDI foot
controller, it's interface is quick and intuative.
The Repeater has lots of useless bells and whistles, the pitch
and tempo control creates the most worthless artifact, and permanently
corrupts the data if the tempo is altered before an overdub is
recorded. The repeater is also beseiged by digital clocking noises.
Perfect example of "Looks good on paper".
The EH 16 second delay has some ineresting features, such as
knobs for all the functions. The time stretching is quite granular.
The sound quality can be improved considerably. I modified mine.
The Echoplex pro has incredible software, but uses an antiquated
conversion topology which uses pre-emphasis/ de-emphasis and
this makes the unit highly subject to aliasing (ever try a fuzzbox
direct into it?). It also uses companding which alters the tone in a
unique way. It's an instrument, right?
The Line 6 pedal is quite simple but you cannot defeat the direct
signal path, which because it is digital, produces latency. It's only
useful as a stompbox in line.
The Boss RC50 has far too many menues and pedestrian features.
How do you start a new loop without the damn drum machine blasting
your audience??
The 2880 falls somewhere in between all those loopers, it
promises features found only on the repeater, but suffers from
originality, so it is often harshly compared to the Repeater. It lacks
any of the editing capability of the multi segment loopers, such as
A/B loops. It certainly sounds better than the repeater. It's more
like a crazy 4 track recorderd with a 2 track mixdown deck than a
phrase looper, though it can be used this way.
CZ
I've been really interested in the 2880
recently and am thinking about picking it up.
Right now I'm using the akai headrush to loop my sounds.
Most of my songs are around the 5 minute range, and I create my loops
using the headrush,
but basically when I want to create a new loop with a different beat
or melody, I have fade out the existing loop into silence
and then start recording a new loop.
I'd like the ability to transition into a new melody without any
silence.
So on the 2880, I'd create maybe a 4 layer loop on track 1..then when
I'm bored of that melody, create a new loop on loop 2
and then fade track 1 down to make the full transition to loop 2 and
so forth.
For those of you that are using the 2880,
what are your biggest complaints?
Thanks in advance,
Dan
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