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Used and in near perfect condition with original box and manual
What it does and features it has:
1] Records up to 20 seconds of your performance.
2] Allows you to initiate and finish a recording at any moment with a stomp
switch, when activated.
3] Begins looping a few thousandths of a second after the record process is
finished.
4] Remembers your loop even when unplugged or with the battery removed, for
up to 100 years.
5] Has true bypass.
6] The true-bypass switch initiates loop playback from the sample’s beginning
at any time.
7] Has vibrato with speed and depth controls, allowing a vibrato/chorus/Leslie-like
shimmer.
8] Has very slow vibrato speed for warped-record effects, to very fast for jiggly
playback.
9] Has real clocked-analog recording with no analog-to-digital conversion.
10] Records using velvety compression for a smooth organ-like sound.
11] Allows overdriven recording of storage cells using ‘record level’
control.
12] Has a tone control that rolls off hiss and other annoying artifacts for
burbling, mellow samples.
13] Has hiss! Lots of it! It’s analog, remember, with no noise-reduction,
and it’s lo-fi. 8^)
14] Has very limited frequency response. Nothing above 2.6 kHz. Brick-wall filtering.
15] Has a safety-switch to protect a favorite sample from being recorded over
accidentally.
16] Plays back at any volume, louder than your direct guitar if you wish.
17] Has a gorgeously transparent guitar preamp built-in to give your direct
guitar a glistening finish.
18] Really small footprint, like a fuzz factory.
19] Draws as little as 2 mA from the battery when in bypass mode, and about
12 mA when activated.
20] Smells great.
21] Features aliasing artifacts, distortion, hiss, out-of-tune effects, strange
behavior, and long battery life.
22] Allows loop erasure during bypass, resulting in a looping hiss sample.
23] Never sounds like what you played into it. Always alters the original tone
and dynamics.
24] No learning curve! Five simple knobs, two stomp-switches for bypass and
record, and a safety switch.
25] Has simple LED status indicator. Lights up solid while recording, blinks
once at the end of every loop. Stops in bypass mode.
What it does NOT do:
1] No sound-on-sound. No multiple layers, no overdubbing, just one simple loop.
2] No digital crispness. No dynamic preservation. No high-end detail except
on direct guitar. No hi-fi.
3] No reverse playback. Sorry. I wanted this too. The analog recorder chip won’t
play backwards.
Description:
I've made something. You'll have to decide if it's worth it. It took me years
of goofing around with this strange analog recorder but I think it's finally
finished. I've put my best foot forward to make your guitar sound really special
this time. The recorded version of your performance may never sound the same
as the original, but sounding the same isn’t always the most important
part of what effects do.
This is the Lo-Fi Loop Junky. It’s really low fidelity… the recording
of your guitar is filled with hiss, moan, distortion and warped-record strangeness,
but everyone will be able to tell the loop from your real guitar. Because the
processing of your direct guitar is done with my new bootstrap circuit, with
the very highest impedance circuit I’ve ever developed (even higher than
the super hard-on circuit) your direct guitar will have detail incomparable
with anything you’ve ever heard. The juxtaposition of your direct guitar
against the smashed, distorted, shimmering/warbling recording of the loop mechanism
will make it clear once and for all who is the guitarist and what is the machinery.
I’ve always been bothered by digital loopers. Who knows who is you and
what is the device? Enter the Lo-Fi Loop Junky. No one will ever question who
is who and what is what again.
There are distinct advantages and disadvantages to my new, tiny, battery-saving
device. You may only record one loop. There is no sound-on-sound available with
this technology for now. But, if you unplug your cables, take out the battery,
and bury it for a hundred years, the last loop you recorded will still be there
when you drag yourself out of the grave and plug it in for the centennial resurrection
gig. That’s because it uses really bizarre technology that literally crams
analog signals into static digital storage cells without a-to-d conversion.
That’s right… THERE IS NO ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION. It’s
pure analog storage, just like the old bucket-brigade technology, for 20 seconds
straight. It would take 25 800ms analog delay pedals to hold the loop that this
thing can play. For those of you who know how an a-to-d converter works, I offer
this brief explanation: Inside the big fat chip, the voltage of the analog signal
is sampled thousands of times per second and stored in sample-and-hold cells.
The voltages of these individual cells are transferred using a horrifying silicon
machine that squirts charge (something like a caulk-gun) into digital storage
cells normally designed to hold ones and zeros. When the circuitry decides that
the voltage in the cell is close enough to the sampled voltage (who can predict?)
it moves on to do it again. It’s like some kind of electronic Russian
roulette, where the recording may or may not be accurate when compared with
the original, but at least no computer ever puts its paws on the signal. Dig?
There are no computers and no a-to-d conversion chips in this pedal!
How does it sound? Some people compare it to a warped, damaged 45-rpm record.
Some say that the compression is immaculate, while some say it destroys any
concept of the original dynamic. Some say that the noise is intolerable…
some say it’s as precious as snow in the middle of nowhere. Some people
have no taste. Lucky for me, taste is not the issue. I can promise one thing…
your direct guitar will sound impeccable. I can’t promise that the loop
will sound good… you’ll have to make some adjustments to your concept
of “good” to be sure of that. I can promise that the loop will be
different from any sampler you’ve heard.