RE: WHAT DON'T YOU LIKE ABOUT YOUR LOOPER(S)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Walker [mailto:looppool@cruzio.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:54 PM
To: LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)
Subject: WHAT DON'T YOU LIKE ABOUT YOUR LOOPER(S)

I"m being approached continually by newbies and asked
about my recommendations about what to buy when getting
started with live looping.

I have my own personal favorites in different price ranges (and I'm mostly
talking about hardware here,  though do alert people to how many options 
are
available through cool new software solutions).

One thing I thought might be valuable as a resource is to find out
what people DON'T like about their favorite loopers and what,
in a perfect world,  the loop manufacturers would add to an
existing looping pedal (or software solution).

It's nice to know what the drawbacks are in a pedal when you are trying
figure out if you want to buy it or not.

I'll start off by listing one of my favorites stomp box loopers:
The Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeller/Looping pedal (street price $250):



WHAT I DON'T LIKE ABOUT THE LINE 6 DL-4:

I love this pedal but wish to hell that it was a true stereo pedal rather 
than
a sum to mono pedal that purports to be stereo.

Additionally,  I wish it had midi synchronization.

I know that all units that do midi synchronization cost a lot more, so
it makes me wonder.   Does adding midi sync capability truly
add that much to a floor model live looping device?

And one last wish:   I think it would be cool if it had a 1/4 time switch
as well as a 1/4 time switch for the loops (which would allow one to
do things that are 4 times as fast or 4 times as slow depending on
how one started recording (in 1/4 time bandwidth or full time bandwidth)

I know that this would add so many artifacts that the loop would sound
really weird and non-naturalistic:   That's why I wish it had such a 
feature
which seems not too difficult to program.

Now the Line 6 people have, in the past, been completley uninterested in
adding features for the sake of the looping community.   The live looping
community is just a small fraction of the people who buy this
pedal (mostly for it's digital modellings of all the cool delay units of 
yesteryear).

Still,  this is what I"d add.

What do you all think about your favorite pedals limitations?