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RE: Boss DD-20 review
If you ever need a place to post stuff like this, let me know, I'll be
happy
to post it on www.iLiveMusic.com.
Additionally, if anyone would like to be a music gear blogger on a fairly
popular (and getting more popular) music gear blog, then let me know
offline. I could use a couple more bloggers.
Thanks,
Don Mak
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Baldwin [mailto:coyotelk@optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:40 AM
To: Mech; Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Boss DD-20 review
> I've had one or two tiny revelations over the past few days which have
> helped. First, I'm really used to working in BPM, as opposed to straight
> milliseconds, so overwriting all the memories with that time measurement
> has helped.
I posted a bunch of delay formulas a few weeks back, including transforming
bpm to ms values. It's part of another big document I'm putting together
on,
uh, delay formulas and how to use them.
> Second, I made a little discovery using the optional FS-5U footswitch
>last
> night. [snip] I tried using the unlatched
> FS-5U with the on/off mode, and it does indeed work. The advantage here
is
> that the DD-20 only accepts input while your foot is on the pedal. Lift
> your foot, and it stops. So, you can play a sustained note or chord,
>then
> tap morse-code type rhythms into the delay, much like the trigger-gates
> used in a lot of electronica. Neat!
>
> Also, you can reverse the polarity of the pedal with the flick of a
> switch. Then, you can have everything you play fed into the delay (don't
> worry the normal on/off switch on the pedal still functions normally at
the
> same time, so you could turn it off entirely). In that mode, the audio
> stream will be *interrupted* any time you press the pedal, so you can
>clip
> out little bits of silence as you record.
This is really cool! I wish I had known this before I submitted the DD-20
review to the Kimster. I checked the archives a bit before finishing up my
doc, and I saw nothing on this topic either. Maybe you can add it after
mine.
Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
coyotelk@optonline.net
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic
hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good men die like dogs.
There's
also a negative side."
--- Hunter S. Thompson