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Post subject: Anyone successfully using the G-DEC 15 looper feature?
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:25 pm
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I'm aware the G-DEC 30 has longer looping time, optional footswitch, and overdubbing capability. My question is about the original G-DEC 15 model.

I've had a G-DEC 15 since they first hit the market and am quite happy with it for everything except the looper (phrase sampler).

I messed with it a bit when I first got the amp and found it works fine for recording a signal from the aux in jacks, like a CD or mp3, where you can have your finger right on the stop button to hit it at just the right time to make a good loop. Works great for slowing down fast licks to learn them, etc. No complaints there.

But while playing guitar, I was never able to get my hand off the guitar and to the stop button fast enough to make a seamless loop. My loops always had a pause in them before the loop started over. So I forgot about trying to use this feature while playing guitar...until this weekend, when I tried the looper feature again, just for the heck of it.

I somehow managed to make a perfect, seamless loop with no pause while playing guitar through the G-DEC. This tells me it's possible to make a good loop on the G-DEC 15.

The problem is I can't do it again. I don't know what I did to get it right but all my previous and subsequent attemps sound like this:

1 2 3 4 pause 1 2 3 4 pause 1 2 3 4 pause...

How can I make it do this?

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2...

Is the answer simply to have a lightning fast finger that flies off the guitar and punches the stop button in time with the music or is there a setting somewhere that quantitizes the loop, like with the Boss Loop Station pedals?

Thanks for any advice.


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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 4:36 am
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I had the same problem. I used time intermals that gave me even meausures when the phrase sampler timed out. For Example, if you use 70 bpm you get 4 measures in 14 seconds. If you use 140 bpm you can record 8.


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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:04 am
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I've used mine several times and for me the trick has been to keep my loops within the 14 second time span. I'l play the phrase that I want to sample while the record is on and watch the meter bar while I'm playing. I may have to make a few adjustments to the phrase to make it fit in that 14 sec space, so it takes me a few tries, then I'll record and sample it and let it go.
One thing that can help when you are trying to create a seam;ess loop is to end the phrase with a chord that has either a 2 or 4 count. this will give you time to hit the stop button and keep it consistent.

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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:49 am
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workerbee and HarleyHexxe, thank you both for your advice.


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