Re: First post - newbie advice wanted

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

A lot of people who loop don't use pre-recorded loops, they make them
on the spot.  When the EDP was first introduced, memory was really,
really expensive (around $800 for 16MB--that's MEGAbytes, not
Terabtyes), and neither USB nor Firewire had been invented yet, so
there weren't cheap high-speed storage technologies available for
musical gear.  Keyboardists were lugging around Zip disks and big,
slow SCSI drives.

The EDP has tons of performance-oriented features that have been
developed over several versions of the software which make it really
good for improv style looping, and less so for band-minus-one type
applications, which is where the JamMan pedal really shines.



TH

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Rhod Evans <rhodhebrides@yahoo.co.uk> 
wrote:

> Then I discovered the Jamman, and that seems ideal - pre-record drum and
> bass loops in LIVE, download to the Jamman, then on stage play and record

> rhythm guitar verse/chorus whilst singing over the top of it, then loop 
>and
> play lead guitar, harmonica or whatever and sing over the top of it.
>
> However I notice that most of you seem to prefer the Echoplex.  Am I 
>missing
> something here?  As far as I can tell the Echoplex doesn't have the 
>ability
> to download pre-recorded loops (no way of storing them?) so I would be
> severely at a disadvantage - how it be possible to get 3 sets worth of
> prepared music onto it?  I'm not worried about the cost - it's more
> important that I get the right kit, as I have gigs waiting.