Re: FS: Boss DD-20 stereo delay/looper

[=?utf-8?Q?tEd_=C2=AE_kiLLiAn?= <tedkillian@charter.net>]

DM,

Yeah . . . FWIW at one point I owned and used 3 of the buggers at once.

If you dial in numerically-related times on different units the times 
remain amazingly well synced.

Whatever digital "clock" circuit that's in them it must be really quite 
accurate.

Nowdays I only own and use the one . . . for my "mini" looping rig . . . 
and (like Mark) I use that pretty seldom.

One of the stupidest parts of the DD-20 is the fact that the maximum delay 
time is 23 seconds -- a prime number that's not divisible by much of 
anything.

I can't tell you how many times I thought: "If they'd only made it 24!"

What were they thinking?

One little tiny second more and you would have a number divisible by all 
sorts of useful factors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12) in "whole" numbers too 
(which says nothing for the fractions of a second possibilities).

Oh well . . .

Cheers,

TK

---- Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote: 
> And when you do that with two of them, well, *GRIN!
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On 5/22/08, tEd (R) kiLLiAn <tedkillian@charter.net> wrote:
> > Yes, they can definitely be of different length.
> >
> >  You can dial them in in milliseconds toi make them whatever length 
>you want and then store the delay length times in the "banks."
> >
> >  This enable you to do one of my favorite "tricks" with the thing:
> >
> >  Let's say you want to do a piece that is 96BPM, that handily works 
>out to having delays that are some multiple of 0.625 seconds
> >
> >  Set up the banks as follows:
> >
> >  0.625 seconds = one beat
> >
> >  2.5 seconds = 4 beats
> >
> >  5 seconds = 8 beats
> >
> >  10 seconds = 16 beats
> >
> >  20 seconds = 32 beats
> >
> >  As you can see, this even subdividing has some handy musical uses 
>(even if you only get to have 2 contiguous delay time going at any given 
>time).
> >
> >  Just step through the different "timezones" and build yourself a 
>basic blues song (if you want) or something more abstract if you prefer.
> >
> >  It's is also quite nice that it's stereo.
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >
> >  tEd (R) kiLLiAn
> >
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> >
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> >
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