ELECTRO HARMONIX STEREO MEMORY MAN WITH HAZARAI

[shug]

Hello,

just wondering if anyone has had a chance to put one of these through it's paces. i am interested primarily in a looping pedal, just wondering how the looping end of the pedal compares to say the Line6 DL-4.
the memory man looks like good value.

also i know the DL-4 has a poor reliabilty reputation but purely as a looping device is it still the one to go for or is it a matter of taste. the options appear to be;
ELECTRO HARMONIX STEREO MEMORY MAN WITH HAZARAI
LINE6 DL4
BOSS RC-20XL
akai headrush

anyone had a chance to compare specifically the looping ends of these pedals.
thanks for any opinion, the new memory man looks like fun.
cheers,
hugh.

[OhThePeacock]

I know there is someone here that has mentioned having one. I'm thinking it may be Mystic Boo so just wait a little and whoever has one will help ya out.

[dancehallclasher]

if you're interested in looping most, I'd forget the Memory Man. As far as I know you can't easily record, stop, play from beginning, stop again, etc without holding down switches, and that's a deal breaker for me. I have the Boss RC-20 and it does that very well.

[grygrx]

COUGH

[JanusZarate]

Originally Posted by OhThePeacock

I know there is someone here that has mentioned having one. I'm thinking it may be Mystic Boo so just wait a little and whoever has one will help ya out.

I've used one, but I don't own it... yet.

I won't be getting it for the looper, that's for sure - it's more of an on-the-fly basic looper with a few feature perks. Not something for the die-hard loop abuser. Get it for the delay!

[Mingus Addict]

I found the looper to be pretty good but I'm not a "die-hard loop abuser" and I haven't used many other looper's to compare it to. I like that you can use the looper and the delay effects at the same time very easily and I don't know if many other pedals can do that. The looper can be engaged in any of the modes on the SMMH. Oh yeah, COUGH again.

[JanusZarate]

I've seen his thread, man. I even posted in it before.

I just hope the OP sees it.

[dirtgroove]

the only two i've had from your list are the headrush and the dl4. I'd put the headrush above the dl4 as it has easier editing functions for on the fly looping. the dl4 doesn't allow you to undo any loops that you add on, so if you botch your loop your stuck with it

[RickenBoogie]

The Ehx smmh is a great delay pedal, but the loop function is a bonus, not a super looper like a dedicated loop pedal. Like Boo said, get it for the delay, if you need a dedicated loop pedal, look elsewhere.

[shug]

Yes yes,

i see a lot of Coughing going on there, must be the winter weather coming in
i should have been more clear and stressed that i'm really interested in the looping capabilites of this pedal and how it compares to the line6, Boss and headrush in this regard. it seems the SMMH is a delay pedal first with a looping function thrown in or am i wrong. I'm wondering how many loops can be recorded on top of eachother, what the sound quality is like, can one loop be recorded then another recalled to play on top of that? i've seen this done a lot at gigs and it has always been a DL-4 used and i'm wondering does the SMMH have the same abilities.
my apologies as i haven't used any of these loop pedals and would like to get one. i was looking at the Boss or the Line6 to buy online and i noticed th new SMMH.
Thanks for the input guys,
Cheers,
Hugh.

[JanusZarate]

http://www.gearwire.com/electro-harm...emory-man.html

That should answer your questions. It's a long video, but it's a nice intro to what the Memory Man is capable of. IIRC, he plays with the loop function at the end.

On a slightly off-topic note... all of us on TB were pretty disappointed with the shoddy videos that Gearwire did, but at the time, there were no other videos or clips of those new pedals, so we had to live with it.

[Rumblee]

There is also this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKbtNvXJtfE

followed by part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BOzomocUk0

Which are both a little dramatic but do showcase some of the interesting features and loop capabilities of this unit. I liked it.

[SnakeAnthony]

Here's the exact review I gave for it in another thread:

Originally Posted by SnakeAnthony

I finally got to play one of the SMMH last night, and was actually throughly impressed. Played a jazz through a CL and an 810E, and it sounded awesome. Lots of cool settings possible.

This is another one that's kind of weird. The Filter and Decay controls had some really cool effects on the repeats. In my brief time with it, I couldn't make that go away and make a normal clean delay, but I wasn't really worried about it, it sounded very cool.

Tap tempo worked very well, although I had some issues in getting the looper working how I wanted, it did do as advertised, loop a brief lick. I'm sure someone more fermiliar with the pedal (i.e. someone granted more than a half hour, where I was playing more than knob-fiddeling) could quickly fix any control issues I had with it. Except pitch bending, which I couldn't get it to do

More detail:

The looper did not do the dedicated looper function very well. Neither does the DL-4. As to my knowledge, neither does the Headrush.

Keep in mind, I only had a brief time, but its just an understanding that its basic looping functions aren't going to be the most versitile. As a delay, this is in the top three that I've played for bass guitar. Some awesome sounds, and what it did, it did much better than its price suggests it. But that's only good news if your buying it to be a delay pedal.

The thing is, these are delay pedals with a looper function, none of them very intuitive systems, its a 'you press down, you play, you release, it loops that riff.' If you really want an interactive looper, your better off looking in the ways of the RC-20 or RC-50.