are you sure that you’re putting your foot on the switch at the exact moment you start playing and off the switch the exact moment you stop playing? because i had trouble with that at first but you’ll get used to it.

Hello All,
I have a feeling that the SMM does not do an auto-crossfade or does a not very accurate one. I do mostly ambient stuff so there is a lot of room to allow spaces. I’m going to try some percussion loops to see how it works but it definitely takes some careful footwork to make sure you get into & out of the loop at the right times. It’s not like a sampler that allows you to edit the loop & do all that full stuff to make perfect loops.

Hello,
I found the gap you are referring to but I’m not sure why it’s there other than the reasons I wrote in my previous post. Perhaps a EHX person could comment here?

Hi! I found that with mine also. At first I thought it may be a fault as I was used to doing loops on a 202 sampler(with a 202 you edit out the gap) I have found that with practice you can get it so it loops good and if your playing in a band situation it wouldnt be noticed ( as long as you got it in time haha!)

I realy like the look of the boss slicer. My drummer has a loop station and he has told me that you dont get a gap at the end of the loop with it so I may just get a dedicated looper and just use the haz for delays.That gap still bugs me though!! why!!! I think ehx should let us know!! apart from that my haz is my best friend!

Well, I highly recommend the Slicer, it’s without a doubt for me the best Boss pedal I’ve ever used. It also has MIDI SYNC which for me has worked great. I’ve recorded a lot of parts on previous projects & not had a single problem although I do find giving it a few measures to sync up works best. I agree that it world be nice if an EHX Brainiac would address the glitch problem on the SMM. I hope this gives enough of a hint……….

Well, I saw a thread about the SMMH having a gap on the loop. Since I own this pedal, I decided to enter the conversation. I opened by stating my position that I do not have the same problem with the pedal that others in this thread do have, specifically the gap between end/start of a loop. It was demonstrated by tweedsuitcase that he definitely has this gap as he played a sustained keyboard note and it dropped out. So I tried mine in a similar way and it faded into the start of the loop just fine, without that glitch. I thought it might be interesting to share my experience so people don’t think that this is necessarily what its supposed to do. It also changed my point of view that the people having this problem just have no rhythm . I mean, that still may be true, but clearly there is a glitch.

I segued into my next statement which alluded to my unfortunate experience that this, and other EHX products tend to differ in quality from one to the next. I own/have owned 13 EHX pedals and nearly half of them (six) had to be returned or replaced for quality issues, which is way more than the number of other pedals that have ever malfunctioned on me (zero). But that would be off-topic, so I brought it back around to the SMMH and summarized that regardless of some inconsistencies, the pedal’s great features, including the ability to loop sounds from delay modes, make it all worthwhile.