Post by Stephen Scott on May 7, 2008 10:29:48 GMT
Been playing around with one of these for a little while. I have put it, for the moment, post guitar-preamp-vortex-behringer and digitech fx, so pretty well at the end of my chain, but pre-loopers. Not sure if this is the best place for it, but it'll do for now.
No IP level adjustment (shame), so I'd also budgeted on buying a little pre-amp to control the level going into it, but this hasn't turned out to be neccesary, my levels seem to keep the little green IP light happily on all the time (it glows at 2 different levels of green before going red), with only very rare excursions into the red - in fact, it seems to have a pretty wide dynamic range for budget gear, even at low levels, noise isn't a problem.
Quick precis of the details; stereo phono (RCA) in/out connectors, plus a headphone mini jack OP (which has the same OP as the phono) with a small volume wheel for that. There's no through output, which is a shame. 100 patches, 2 of which can be stored in memories A and B. Like most of these DJ toys, the thing uses BPM, which is either tapable or can be set with a knob. The BPM range seems to be 20-about 300.
All of the sound mangling is done via the smallish 2-D touch pad, which controls various parameters depending on the patch. There is a little 'hold' button which freezes the current settings of the touch pad so you don't need to keep your finger on it all the time.
I found that the number of useable (to me anyway) patches is a bit small. I'll probably occasionally use various filter, flanging, phase, and decimator patches. There are one or two good echo / delay patches. One of my favourites is 63 (with the hold button on), which gives a nice 4 second 'tape delay' - mono only. 54 is a simple L/R ping pong, but you can get that nice and slow too. Patches 47-50 are quite nice 'slicers' (harsh trems), BPM related, some with filters in the y-parameter of the touch pad. Finally, there are some single shot loopers (patch 77 onwards) which allow various tweaks such as instant loop reverse, or crossfading of forward / reverse at different levels, pitch shifting, loop slowing or speeding up.
It's all good fun, some of quite useable in the looping domain. Not terrific value at £100 (plus you have to shell out more cash for the OPTIONAL PSU!), but might be worth the investment, especially if you can bag a bargain.
No IP level adjustment (shame), so I'd also budgeted on buying a little pre-amp to control the level going into it, but this hasn't turned out to be neccesary, my levels seem to keep the little green IP light happily on all the time (it glows at 2 different levels of green before going red), with only very rare excursions into the red - in fact, it seems to have a pretty wide dynamic range for budget gear, even at low levels, noise isn't a problem.
Quick precis of the details; stereo phono (RCA) in/out connectors, plus a headphone mini jack OP (which has the same OP as the phono) with a small volume wheel for that. There's no through output, which is a shame. 100 patches, 2 of which can be stored in memories A and B. Like most of these DJ toys, the thing uses BPM, which is either tapable or can be set with a knob. The BPM range seems to be 20-about 300.
All of the sound mangling is done via the smallish 2-D touch pad, which controls various parameters depending on the patch. There is a little 'hold' button which freezes the current settings of the touch pad so you don't need to keep your finger on it all the time.
I found that the number of useable (to me anyway) patches is a bit small. I'll probably occasionally use various filter, flanging, phase, and decimator patches. There are one or two good echo / delay patches. One of my favourites is 63 (with the hold button on), which gives a nice 4 second 'tape delay' - mono only. 54 is a simple L/R ping pong, but you can get that nice and slow too. Patches 47-50 are quite nice 'slicers' (harsh trems), BPM related, some with filters in the y-parameter of the touch pad. Finally, there are some single shot loopers (patch 77 onwards) which allow various tweaks such as instant loop reverse, or crossfading of forward / reverse at different levels, pitch shifting, loop slowing or speeding up.
It's all good fun, some of quite useable in the looping domain. Not terrific value at £100 (plus you have to shell out more cash for the OPTIONAL PSU!), but might be worth the investment, especially if you can bag a bargain.
