Re: New Boomerang and Blooperang Update...

[mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 10:37 AM -0400 7/17/06, Nemoguitt@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 7/17/06 4:04:12 AM, aleatoric12@gmail.com writes:
>>
>>what is a blooperrang?
>
>there were a bunch of buggy rangs.....i think the bug was: if you 
>record a maximun length loop, the rang will stop by itself and you 
>have to engage the play button to make the loop play.....if you do 
>not do this quickly enough the rang gives out a nasty sound and the 
>loop is useless (to some of us.....:).....i seldom if ever make 
>loops this long so for me this would not be an issue.....mike nelson 
>kindly told us that he would sell these at a great discount, i 
>forget the price but seem to remember that it was a nice deal.....i 
>would think that this bug will NOT effect 95% of the rang users 
>seeing that hardly anyone uses that long a loop.....i hope the new 
>rangs (stereo) will be as elegent and simple to use as the original 
>rang.....hope this helps.....michael
>p.s. if i had the $ i would get one of these blooperangs.....no 
>doubt about it!

Yeah, that's pretty much spot on: you fill up the entire memory with 
one single loop until it stops recording, then let it just sit there 
unplayed for a few minutes.  I guess the time left sitting varies a 
bit, but it's measured in minutes, not seconds.  When you finally 
return to play the loop, it's degraded into a nasty noise.  You can 
get the Blooperang back to normal by simply erasing that loop and 
recording a new one.

They're going for $279, I think, and Mike was kind enough to post 
their availability last June or July, IIRC.  I woulda killed for one 
while I was stuck in Japan with no gear for 3 months last August, but 
I figured by that time they had to be sold out by then.  Oops!

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