Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:13 am Post subject: Phrase Samplers!
Having watched Guthrie use his Boomerang to such great effect, I've decided to get me a phrase sampler. I've been looking at the boss RC-20XL, which seems very good, but I can't find the boomerang anywhere - most probably because I live in the UK. Can the Boomerang do anything that other samplers can't? Would it be worth my while waiting until a boomerang comes up on ebay or anything?
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 1:41 am Post subject:
It does seem the Boomerang allows you to manipulate the looped sounds a lot more but I could be wrong as I'm not familiar with the Boss unit. _________________ Ed Yoon
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I think the Boomerang intereface looks really striaght farward and easy to use. I've heard good and bad things about the unit. But I've also heard great things about the Boss. With the Boss unit you can literally save loops, which seems like a cool feature. I plan on using a looper in the future for my acoustic gig, aswell as jamming/improv, and songwriting in the future.
Digitech also has a version coming out-Actually an updated version of the Lexicon JamMan that has a memory car slot and can be expanded to hol over 6 hours of sampling. I definately want to check this one out too.
.....maybe Guthrie can shed som light on all this aswell.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:05 am Post subject: Re: Phrase Samplers!
atomicpanda wrote:
Having watched Guthrie use his Boomerang to such great effect, I've decided to get me a phrase sampler. I've been looking at the boss RC-20XL, which seems very good, but I can't find the boomerang anywhere - most probably because I live in the UK. Can the Boomerang do anything that other samplers can't? Would it be worth my while waiting until a boomerang comes up on ebay or anything?
Any info would be greatly appreciated
I bought a Boomerang a couple of months ago from the US, from Music 123 in fact.
It was Mr Govan who I first saw with the 'rang and it was simply the tool I had been looking for. Something for easy loop/backing creation in a practice/teaching situation.
The interface is straight forward to use and you can easily stack sounds on top of one another which I'm sure you've seen Mr Govan do. The realtime reverse mode is also very very cool and great for live playing, though you can't store created loops you can create loops up to 4 mins long iirc.
I'm still getting to know the 'rang, there still bits of functionality I've to try, but I can safely say it suits my needs perfectly
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