RE: A quieter, gentler footswitch?...

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: A quieter, gentler footswitch?...

>>My final question is this: Is there any recommendation for a stand-alone live looping tool (no
laptop or software or MIDI required) with a well-functioning foot controller, and no significant
noise issues, suitable for looping live miked acoustic instruments? [snip]<<

sounds like you are close to your wits' end there. I would begin looking for a decent 2nd hand original jam-man if I were you. nice quiet switches, basic standalone operation......

but are there really no musically-inclined techs in your neighbourhood who could help you re-engineer the EH footswitch controller into near-silence?

half the problem is the clunky switches they use, believing that this things are only going to be used by lead-footed guitarists & that only a fuzz-box switch from 1972 is going to be tough enough.

about 90% of the remaining problem is the tin box that EH are so sentimentally attached to; is it really cheaper &/or more desirable to bend silk-screened monkey-metal than to cast some chunky aluminium? then why do MXR, line6 et al use the latter?

I would that this engineering challenge were a little closer, geographically.
 
ironically, my guitarist would be in the market for trading his lexicon footswitches (& since he is occasionally using two jam-mans, there are potentially four lots of double footswitch to keep track of, in the dark) for something with six noisy clunky fuzzbox switches on it (hell, he doesn't care- he's using three distortion pedals at once into a marshall stack & a fender bassman) that would drive both jam-mans from one small bit of stage real-estate.

& the original lexicon jam-man pedals are as quiet as anything.

where are you based, brainpan?

duncan.

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