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  • January 3, 2009 at 10:10 pm #77483
    spencer vex
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    hello everybody first post here

    ive finally decided on what looper to get after alot of research and the 2880 w/footpedal seems to fit my bill exactly and then some.

    does anyone here have experience with the 2880? any problems with it? anything at all worth noting? any suggestions of any sort?

    btw im not using this with a guitar, in fact i dont play guitar at all. ill be running a turntable and a synth through a Rane TTM56 scratch mixer. a korg koass pad 3 will be in the FX send/return of the TTM56. all of that will be then routed to the 2880.

    any feedback appreciated

    i cant wait to get this thing

    January 4, 2009 at 11:32 pm #90080
    julian
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    I haven’t played one myself, but from what I’ve heard from owners is that it is pretty awesome

    January 8, 2009 at 12:06 am #90294
    spencer vex
    Member

    so the 2880 arrived today and i just opened it up.

    first impression was of the build quality. it seems to be built extremely well except for the rotaries…

    they feel loose or flimsy. anyone else notice this on any EH product?

    this is my first EH purchase and ive been hearing such good things

    whats up with the dials tho?

    January 8, 2009 at 1:03 am #90297
    spencer vex
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    ok now somethin seems weird

    i just opened the user manual and it looks as if it was put together by hand… possibly a 10 year olds hands

    serially, the pageas are all over the place. all bent up lookin like a backdoor xerox job.

    what gives?

    January 8, 2009 at 1:05 am #90298
    electro-melx
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    I suspect they aren’t ‘normal’ pots do they spin right round like the hazarai knob or whatever…I don’t know what to call them…digital pots or something!?

    January 8, 2009 at 1:07 am #90299
    electro-melx
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    Quote:
    ok now somethin seems weird

    i just opened the user manual and it looks as if it was put together by hand… possibly a 10 year olds hands

    serially, the pageas are all over the place. all bent up lookin like a backdoor xerox job.

    what gives?

    hahaha, is this your first ehx pedal? all ehx ‘manuals’ are photo copied sheets of paper! :D

    why pay extra for a glossy manual is the motto I guess.

    January 8, 2009 at 1:16 am #90300
    spencer vex
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    Quote:
    Quote:
    ok now somethin seems weird

    i just opened the user manual and it looks as if it was put together by hand… possibly a 10 year olds hands

    serially, the pageas are all over the place. all bent up lookin like a backdoor xerox job.

    what gives?

    hahaha, is this your first ehx pedal? all ehx ‘manuals’ are photo copied sheets of paper! :D

    why pay extra for a glossy manual is the motto I guess.

    yeah it is

    and at first i thought “maybe thats just how they do their manuals… “

    i can dig it tho

    ima take it for a spin right now

    January 8, 2009 at 1:17 am #90301
    spencer vex
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    oh and im still waiting for the foot controller

    i ordered all this from GC and the foot controllers are on backorder

    so i cant really run this thing through the paces yet

    January 8, 2009 at 1:31 am #90302
    electro-melx
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    oh and im still waiting for the foot controller

    i ordered all this from GC and the foot controllers are on backorder

    so i cant really run this thing through the paces yet

    ah, thats kind of annoying…..although at least you’ll have some fun with it now and then when the foot controller arrives it will seem new and exciting again!! :D

    I’m kinda jealous, I’d love one of those. The video demo totally blew my mind the first time I saw it.

    January 8, 2009 at 1:49 am #90303
    spencer vex
    Member

    after the first go im very impressed

    performance is solid!

    January 8, 2009 at 9:57 pm #90327
    spencer vex
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    Quote:
    so the 2880 arrived today and i just opened it up.

    first impression was of the build quality. it seems to be built extremely well except for the rotaries…

    they feel loose or flimsy. anyone else notice this on any EH product?

    this is my first EH purchase and ive been hearing such good things

    whats up with the dials tho?

    are there any EH employees who can comment on this?

    these rotary dials (example: inputs, pans, clix level etc…) are wobbly

    meaning they actually wobble from side to side… the clix level dial being the worst

    are they supposed to be like this?

    thanks

    January 9, 2009 at 12:11 am #90339
    McSpunckle
    Member

    I have a 2880. I don’t find the knobs flimsy or loose. They are small and plastic, though. Probably just what they have to use to fit.

    January 9, 2009 at 12:28 am #90340
    spencer vex
    Member

    well actually as soon as i unwrapped it from the bubble wrap and bag it was in i went right for the faders. specifically because im going to be using the track faders alot. being the skratch head that i am i know what heavy use can do to a contact fader. all was well with the faders.

    then i started turning dials. everything was cool until i got the the clix lever dial. it felt “flimsy” so i inspected further. the dial cap slid off it pretty easily and i saw the stem. the stem turned just fine, but it had alot of play from side to side… thats what i mean by the “flimsy” feel. it feels as if the dial isnt seated or mounted to the unit very well. after putting the cap back on i checked others and found a couple of others that just dont feel mounted well. they spin or turn just fine, but move around within the faceplate hole.

    other than that im totally impressed with this product. its easily the nicest looper ive ever laid hands on.

    i just hope this unit lasts for a long time.

    January 9, 2009 at 1:31 pm #90359
    exil2009
    Member

    great tool! mainly using it for voice only performance.
    now what would be REALLY great if future models could have the possibility
    to pitch the 4 tracks independently!

    and a volume control for the aux input would be good.

    January 13, 2009 at 5:15 pm #90640
    salbador
    Member

    Hello, I´ve just got one too. My knobs seem ok, not loose or anything. My question is another: I´d like to use one loop as rythm, and build it real fast, so I can play the rest of the tune with that rythm. But it seems that the rest of the tracks all remain with the same length of the first one I record. Isn´t it possible to record longer tracks than the first recording, without it going overdubbing once the length of the first recording reaches the end?

    Thanks

    Sal

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