Boss ES-8 musings.

[rfurtkamp]

It's as easy as any of these things can be.

Set up a patch, for performance or otherwise, hold down the "manual" button for a second, and it turns into "each footswitch turns off the individual pedal on/off".

And the built in expressionator thing looks to be decent enough - it's on my list of things to play with this weekend once the cables I've been waiting on to finalize setup show up tomorrowish.

[Jwar]

My only issue with bypass loopers is the amount of pedals I use on a board at any given time. So currently I have about 23 and yes that seems excessive. I do however use up to 5 pedals at the same time to get a tone I want. So they all get used for different reasons at some point. So in order to use this or any looper, I'd have to put several pedals in the same line. which would to me defeat the purpose. If I was only using 8 pedals then they each get their own dedicated line.

Does that make sense? If this had 20 ins and outs, I think it'd be fucking killer. I want something pretty unreasonable though, I realize that. LOL

[rfurtkamp]

Yea, I'd love a megastupid option, but this has 9 (the volume loop is movable and controllable like anything else).

I typically run a dozen pedals on the master board that feeds everything, plus the stuff after that.

But I realized a couple of the pedals never moved, so I was fine with 9.

[AndyBassist]

My only issue with bypass loopers is the amount of pedals I use on a board at any given time. So currently I have about 23 and yes that seems excessive. I do however use up to 5 pedals at the same time to get a tone I want. So they all get used for different reasons at some point. So in order to use this or any looper, I'd have to put several pedals in the same line. which would to me defeat the purpose. If I was only using 8 pedals then they each get their own dedicated line.

Does that make sense? If this had 20 ins and outs, I think it'd be fucking killer. I want something pretty unreasonable though, I realize that. LOL

thing is with the midi stuff you could grab a few patch extenders like the voodoo labs Hex which has 6 loops and control those with midi from the es5/8 however that would take away the changing order part of the es pedals, but with 2 of those you get 20 patchbays that would need some programming but it could work! be pricey tho

andy

[rfurtkamp]

Heh, that's cheap.

I"m considering getting a second ES-8.

[Ruiner]

Well.... maybe I need to pull this thing out of my closet that's been sitting there since I bought it the week it came out and used it maybe twice......

[stilwel]

I love my ES-8. Total game-changer for me.

[rfurtkamp]

The parallel routing thing I got addicted to with my rack, where everything (normally, since patchbay makes that nothing more than a suggestion, and it's a lot easier to work with a patchbay at human being visible level than pedals in that regard) is run off one signal split into each device once it leaves the preamp so I can adjust relative levels of the apocalypse in mixdown if I need to.

Currently waiting on some more velcro to finish out the current ES-8 setup. Also need to get some scribble strips for the ES-8.

Since I don't control anything with my feet by design (except rare instances of good day) due to health, I was able to take a couple of the bigger pedals and put 'em under the board and save upgrading the board itself.

Currently (and most are "required use" pedals for me, so likely near eternal):

Loop 1: Mr Yuck Scrambler clone
Loop 2: Metal Zone
Loop 3: Original Test Pattern
Loop 4: Proper Bee Baa clone
Loop 5: Godbox Test Pattern from Hell
Loop 6: Godbox 1893 World's Fair
Loop 7: Noisekick 3-in-1 Guano Loco! (fuzz/stutter trem/warp delay), and the warp switch is accessible for good foot days by virtue of floor
Loop 8: Fender Blender
Lool 9/V: Boss FRV-1 fake outboard verb tank

out to pictured CE-2W (pretty much forever on CE-1 mode) and Space Echo that goes from there to master preamp and split to other effects and the three amps that are part of the beast.

[dunbine]

Heh, that's cheap.

I"m considering getting a second ES-8.

Is there a way to connect two ES-8 units together to make a huge 16 loop unit? Perhaps use the second ES-8 like an expansion unit? I took a quick look at the manual and didn't see anything.

[rfurtkamp]

Can use midi on one to control the other (send patch change message to unit #2 on switch), but can't get a 18 loop unit together (keep in mind the ES-8 is 9 loops, since the volume pedal loop is just another insert/moveable/routable like the rest) directly.

For my uses it'd be fine as I'd use it for the stuff I run post Space Echo or to set up a second board, but YMMV

[AndyBassist]

you guys seen that theres a laptop editor and an update coming for the es-8!

[rfurtkamp]

I haven't.

[stilwel]

[AndyBassist]

liking the look of mixer mode aswell

this should be great guessing you have to use the midi in to do this which could be annoying but hey not that bad, for the ease of programming and stuff

Andy

[rfurtkamp]

Midi in/out, but the USB cables for it are cheap enough.

I have a set anyway for a couple rack devices, I can just move it over to set up patches.

We'll see when it goes live.