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any favorites in the cv digital delay realm?
i tend not to use tap tempo for anything.. just never quite seems to 
sync the way it's supposed to for me.. no biggie though as my playing 
style tends to produce somewhat amorphous tempos :P

i was also looking at the Hiwatt Custom Tape Echo which has an 
expression input for motor speed. but this unit is getting harder and 
harder to find.

that said i'm definitely leaning towards the cotk delay over the moog 
pedal it seems to be at least a hundred bucks cheaper.. but alas the 
size of that module has me planning my third 22 space cab. (i mean it 
seems like a waste of an 8 module adapter for only one cotk module)
sigh.


--- In dotcomformat@yahoogroups.com, John Mahoney <jmahoney@...> 
wrote:
>
> At 12:42 PM 7/22/2008, ~Morbius~ wrote:
> >I'll second that. It will lock it tight in sync. But... it is 
> >constantly looking at two 'taps' to set the sync-point... and even 
> >pulling or patching a patchcord tied to it's 'tap input' will 
> >confuse it, thinking (so to speak) that the noise was something 
it's 
> >supposed to count. (Not really an issue...  just saying).
> 
> Excellent points.
> 
> 
> >One thing about the 'tap tempo'.... (the one drawback  is that it 
> >won't allow the user to offset that tempo any. I find that very 
> >oten, it's too perfect...  that you get better effects by the 
tempo 
> >NOT being in perfect sync, but rather, slightly out of sync. And 
the 
> >best way... IMO... is to listen to the slapback, balancing the 
tempo 
> >of the sound(s) rhythm, against the tempo of the delay... and 
> >offsetting the two.
> 
> [In mock horror] You do it... by... ear?!!!   ;-)
> 
> For a repeat that is behind the beat by a set amount, you can use a 
> gate delay. (Delay the signal going to the tap tempo input.)
> 
> 
> >I've 'wondered' from the original point...  but, when one tries to 
> >sync any type of delay... it's pretty much the same factor. This 
is 
> >one case where perfect sync may not be desirable...  but rather, 
an 
> >offset of perfect sync, or slightly faster or slower... but 
> >listening to the result to set the timing.
> 
> Wandering is fun!
> 
> John
>