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Re:New DOD delay pedal etc.



>I enquired at several muisc staores today about the impending release of
>the 8 sec. delay w/ reverse to no avail. One "proprietor" could not
>believe that the current 4 sec unit existed let alone something more
>advanced.
>Someone wrote that he saw the new unit in a catalog of some sort
>(?)...where was this and how might I track it down?
>In my quest I came across some info on a new BOSS unit with 4 minutes of
>sample and a digicard type set-up. I inquired if this was a floor unit
>or rack and the response was: "neither, it's a...box."
>Dave

Don't you just love music store drones? Not only are they generally
ignorant, but they assume they know everything. I spent an afternoon in
Portland recently looking for the new Electro-Harmonix Q-tron envelope
follower. Not only did no one have it in stock, but several sales drones
tried to convince that it didn't exist, I was misinformed, and one even
tried to patiently explain to me what an envelope follower really does. I
want to get a button to wear to these places that says, "Don't assume I'm
stupid".

By the way,I believe the Boss SP-202 is the unit you're talking about. It
is neither a floor or rack unit, it's more along the lines of the TB 303,
kind of a cross between a really big caluclator and a table top synth
module.

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Dave Trenkel : improv@peak.org  : www.peak.org/~improv/

"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
                                            -Sun Ra
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