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Hi all,
I have a passive feedback looper. It's cool to try with different effects, but can get out of hand really easily and reach ear-piercing volumes. I don't want to destroy my guitar amps either so my hand is always on the feedback amount knob on the pedal.
I want to get a new feedback looper that has expression pedal out. Barge concepts used to make one but they're out of business and it's impossible to find second hand: http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/bargeconcepts/vfbx
I've contacted a few builders, seem like they can build one. But I want to get some opinions from people who are familiar with these issues. It's claimed that active (vs. passive) feedback looper has important advantages, mainly sound quality and sensitivity of the controls (like feedback volume/amount). It's actually really annoying that the feedback amount knob on my passive looper doesn't do much until the very end of the range, and then there's very little difference between manageable feedback to blow-the-speakers feedback. However, active looper costs twice as much. What do you think?
And the expression pedal thing is not so straightforward as I thought. These things also have an impedance value and the passive pedal cannot drive many expression pedals. The active one can. But on another forum, I got the suggestion that placing a volume pedal after the last pedal in the loop would be enough to control feedback, and when I tried this tonight, I got good results. I don't know what advantage an active pedal would bring over this.
And more generally, how do you use your feedback looper? What pedals do you put in the loop? I'm starting this thread with the hope that fb loop users can share their experience whether about the logistics or the musical use of feedback.
I have a passive feedback looper. It's cool to try with different effects, but can get out of hand really easily and reach ear-piercing volumes. I don't want to destroy my guitar amps either so my hand is always on the feedback amount knob on the pedal.
I want to get a new feedback looper that has expression pedal out. Barge concepts used to make one but they're out of business and it's impossible to find second hand: http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/bargeconcepts/vfbx
I've contacted a few builders, seem like they can build one. But I want to get some opinions from people who are familiar with these issues. It's claimed that active (vs. passive) feedback looper has important advantages, mainly sound quality and sensitivity of the controls (like feedback volume/amount). It's actually really annoying that the feedback amount knob on my passive looper doesn't do much until the very end of the range, and then there's very little difference between manageable feedback to blow-the-speakers feedback. However, active looper costs twice as much. What do you think?
And the expression pedal thing is not so straightforward as I thought. These things also have an impedance value and the passive pedal cannot drive many expression pedals. The active one can. But on another forum, I got the suggestion that placing a volume pedal after the last pedal in the loop would be enough to control feedback, and when I tried this tonight, I got good results. I don't know what advantage an active pedal would bring over this.
And more generally, how do you use your feedback looper? What pedals do you put in the loop? I'm starting this thread with the hope that fb loop users can share their experience whether about the logistics or the musical use of feedback.
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