Electro hamronix 2880 looper and foot controller review

demanding the most out of your gear

Perhaps I expect too much out of my gear. Especially consumer semi pro gear. not realizing that a true pro studio may pay a quarter of a million dollars or more for their gear and I expect the same audio quality out of gear costing a tiny fraction of that haha.Perhaps I have been spoiled by the sound quality of my Roland Digital recorders which are outstanding and can be had for a couple of hundred dollars these days. Maybe so, but any gear that is not performing well or does not do what it should , I have to dispose of.

Electro Harmonix 2880 Looping pedal and foot controller
Gone, sorry Charlie, while I hoped that this would be the holy grail of looping pedals that would actually sync to midi flawlessly.I was mistaken!! The pedal has been a nightmare since I foolishly handed over $500 bucks or so. Granted, The company thought i may have received a faulty unit as it would lock up after trying to sync to midi and would lose the midi sync for no apparent reason. I would have to pull the power adapter regularly for it to function. Also, it seemed very straight forward but not intuitive. In other words to get the right timing for the pedal without quantitzing, was very difficult and just not practical. Also, the foot controller pedal was the worst idiots delight i had ever witnessed.Each switch had to be pressed 2-3 times to engage the record function and each switch was loud as hell!!! I mean really loud and sure to ruin any recording I would try to make. It seems that the midi sync function was based on the infamous boss rc-50 in its approach to do midi sync, which , as the rc-50 has shown just doesn't work very well at all.

I do give the 2880 points for an excellent sound quality, not musical ,but just straight forward good sound quality. (Musical as in a boomerang pedalboard that just has a very intuitive musical sound). Also, the physical box and paint are really cheap and scratch super easy. I cold only recommend this pedal to someone who wants to fart around on it in the studio, but for any serious live looping forget it.

I finally decided enough is enough. I promptly arranged full refunds form the 2 companies I bought the pedal from and the foot controller from. Was I sent a bad unit out of the box? maybe,maybe not, maybe its a design flaw. The company itself wanted to send it in to be repaired?! Wait I just got this thing. Ok, so how long would I be without it?! Also, The pedal seemed fine of the most part except the sync issue and like the boss rc-50 it just failed int hat respect. I boxed both up and mad3 arrangements to return them for a full refund!! Note: it costs me $25 to send both units back. I wont mention the companies as they may be great companies and will give me back a 100% refund or they may be really shady companies who charge restocking fee's and take away shipping fee's etc....time will tell. If a company sends a defective unit and then wont take it back for a full refund that does reflect poorly on the company.

In any case, we will see what kind of companies I was dealing with and the end result. Anyway, nice to get the 2880 looper out of my studio and guitar setup for ever. It just didn't work for me at all. I really hope the company I bought the actual pedal from comes through an does issue a 100% refund and doesn't slap me with all kinds of restocking fee's shipping fee's,etc...as they seem to be a decent company and in fact got the pedal to me in two days and it seemed to be in good shape and midi sync is quite a specific function that not everyone uses; so its easy to not see a flaw or problem in that area. Ok well, I will post the results of my returns here!!

Mackie 32x8 8bus mixing console
It's up for sale ($650+$150s/h with power supply email denis@dtguitar.com if you want to buy it). Ok,this is a love hate relationship. I love the mackie board's routing and the sound quality. However, for me, Ineed otbe able to record quickly, sometimes I only have an hour and getting board prepared eats way too much time and also for one person ,32 ch's is overkill. Also, if the board were brand new, that would help a lot too because with older boards some things are a little glitchy here and there. I mean it works, but the slightest touch of a cable ,etc...can create a drop out etc...also, and this is the big one, I need room in my studio room!~!@!!! I mean I am tripping over stuff and am lucky nothing has broken. It's just too big a board for my needs. though , I will misss its great sound and I recorded few albums with it.