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It’s funny, on paper this pedal is great. However, it takes you to sonic territories where I’d rather not be.

Maybe my traumatic experience with the Microcosm is the cause to that. I just can’t stand that kind of nostalgic tape flutter any more.

But I understand many people can and will have fun with it.

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From Hologram Electronics :

Thanks for reaching out! Capture does not have overdubbing. It is intended more to be an ephemeral performance/improvisation tool, rather than a dedicated looper.

No, the first batch has not been delayed, it just filled up with orders. Orders placed at this time will ship in January.
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All the best,

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wooow :frowning: will need to contemplate a bit…
I do have other loopers but I enjoy instruments primarily for what they can do as a self contained unit before adding other pieces for augmentation to the mix… it would have been extremely advantageous to be able to overdub while re-ordering fx on top of one another and the fact that they have capture but not overdub really is an omission imho… personally I don’t know why anyone would make a looper without overdub capability…
thanks for confirming this… alot of people would have gotten caught up in assuming otherwise.

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I guess it comes down to personal preference and especially the kind of music one is making. If you record say a guitar riff dry, and the same guitar riff with a delay pedal, you will definitely play it differently, adapting to the repeats of the delay, adjusting how hard you hit some notes, bypassing the delay for some passages, and so on.
Sure, it’s more convenient to be able to change effect settings after recording (or just audition the FX while recording). But this can also lead to endlessly messing around with settings over minor details, and I know I’m guilty of that whenever I use plugins.
I guess it comes down to whatever works for you, but as with synths, it’s just much more fun to have hardware to play around with. And this might be especially true for the chroma console, seeing how easy it is to swap FX, change their order, and record knob movements.

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Yeah if I played guitar I can see the benefit for pedals. I was mainly using the Bim and Bam as typical Delay and Reverb sends and they do sound incredible (like really, couldn’t recommend them enough) but in this context it just was hard to justify when I could plop down more reverbs easier.

But yeah, this is definitely a personal thing for me and really just explaining my reasoning why I gotta fight the gas on this one lol. Also just my shift to eurorack. I wish more pedal companies would make Eurorack modules (understand completely why they wouldn’t though). I’d love this in my rack.

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Holy heck, nothing subtle about the effects here. Looks fun though.

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So far i find the UI well thought but the FX quite meh.

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Just an aside, does anybody know why they wouldn’t allow returns in the first place, their other pedals have sold really well… what could be the reason for not accepting returns on a piece of hardware like this?

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Well… maybe the answer is the same than “why are there wars?” or “why so much bad music on radio?” = money? Like give me your money, thank you, bye.

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Perhaps too many people ordered microcosms on a whim, tried it out and then decided they didn’t like it… would be pretty expensive for Hologram to cover all those returns

I guess the following only applies to shipping in the EU: Guarantees, cancelling and returning your purchases - Your Europe

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The AH+FX looks way more wild than this. From what I hear in demo, it’s looks like it sound better without FX. I thinks it’s definitivly a kind of lofi-ambient sort of thing.

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to me it seems more ‘rock-fi’ than necessarily lofi (though totally biased from the demo)

I quite like that it isn’t a pristine AHFX type unit and instead might impart a bit more grungey organic style, at half the price and with guitar pedal simplicity.

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I’ve had this in the basket for 2 days… keep going back n forth… one it looks cool and fun to use… be a great little random fx box end of chain and can go on my guitar pedal board…could inspire some cool stuff

Then I start thinking… I bet the drive and fuzz sounds are weak, just use proper drive pedals… the looper seems no use to me… doubt how useful half the effects will be with guitar so doubt it’ll live on my pedal board…

So if it’s gonna be my synth fx box… bit like above… so do I just get AH+FX…(granted its more expensive but I can get it (and return it) anywhere…).

Still 50-50.

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So, I just received an analog heat+FX a few days ago. My plan was to mainly use it for guitar FX. While it does sound very nice, the user interface is not fun at all. Creating patches feels tedious as you have to scroll around from menu to menu, so it’s going back. Seems like hologram nailed that part with the chroma console.

I wrote some paragraphs on this in another thread:

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Basically we all want AH+Fx quality FX with Chroma UI.

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I smell a bit of GAS and FOMO right there. I wouldn’t do it: it doesn’t sound like you really need it. You can always wait for more YouTube demos and, with time, decide if the sound is for you (and also wait until the early adopters start reporting what they don’t like or what bugs there are). You can always order it in a couple of months; you’re not going to miss anything. That’s how I would do it, at least! the Hype is on its highest point right now.

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agreed, it is a bit tedious, the gain staing, and all the different menus…

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I just want to hear drive and fuzz at max …

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Then you might as well buy a Big Muff.

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no midi no buy

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