Compact stereo loopers

[van Sinn]

sylvianfisher said:

I had half an hour to kill while out shopping this afternoon, so popped into my local music shop and had the pleasure of trying out the new electro harmonix stereo memory man with hazarai. It's a great little delay pedal and has a 30 second looper. It's stereo in and out. Has the usual array of echo patches, including a really clever reverse mode. What's really good though, is that you can access the looper without having to leave any of the other echo modes. You just press and hold the left footswitch, and release to start the loop playing. If you want to add anything to the loop, you press and hold the left switch again. All the echos continue to function normally in loop mode. You can reverse the loop, or play back at up to -/+ one octave. Big downsides - I don't think (at least I couldn't find a way) the loop has any form of feedback, nor can you fade out the loop, it just stops and starts abruptly. Nevertheless, it's great fun and makes the Boss efforts look pretty sick *. Sells for about £130.

I thought I'd get the URL in before Nick does .

www.ehx.com/instructions/Stereo_Memory_Man_with_Hazarai_instuctions.pdf

Well, just had a peek through the manual. Yup, I too see no (easy) way of having fadeout and/or feedback. Actually, if only they hadn't used the Decay knob for controlling Reverse, it could be modded so once a loop was recorded, turning down Decay would do a soft fadeout.
Other issues IMO is I see no way of stopping/restarting a loop, plus deleting a recorded loop is done by pressing BYPASS + holding down TAP/RECORD for half a sec.

BTW: Is it true stereo? For echo, no problema, for looping, I don't wan't a monofied image.


Anyways, whatza matter with dem manufacturers? Obviously they don't read reviews on the net, poke loopers-delight, or read Stephen's (IIRC) looping page et al.. How difficult can it be gettting the last few detail right sheez kebab..
Now, first off I intend to become a reverse engineer, then emerge as a pregnant dogen good designer


While in (soft) rant mode.. couldn't find 'my' thread, gone! Ohh, relocated to a sub. I can see the point of organizing posts; however, many threads tend to diversify anyways, as have this one, so relocating it makes less sense.
I suggest using subforums for dedicated stuff, like specific hardware (which I'm sure was your intension, Nick), and leave the rest scattered around with original topic titles.
Also, when this forum grows, you may find yourself doing quite some admin work ;D
Absolutely no pun intended at all..

[nick robinson]

vansinn said:

I suggest using subforums for dedicated stuff, like specific hardware (which I'm sure was your intension, Nick), and leave the rest scattered around with original topic titles.

That's how I'll do it, more or less. It's a learning process for me as well, I'm just trying to organise things as I'd hope to find them, learn how the forum works, delete duplicate posts (as you'll notice), move threads about etc. Do say if I'm being too proactive and equally, tell me if you want me to create more sub-boards!

As the administrative workload increases, this will probably happen less and less