After rediscovering this old Virtual Amp pedal, I plugged it into the Mac to record direct in GarageBand.
The 7 1 setting, clean AC 30 like pan delay with multiple repeats, generates ideas under my fingers if I had not heard it in a while (e.g. the intro to Island but not exactly the way I recorded it there).
In GarageBand the sound with a bit of compression and EQ was right. Yet I had to set the metronome at 168 to get the effect to fit. Regardless of whether 84 and double time would also work, if I record with looping for multiple takes then the effect gets chopped at the end of a loop, rather than decay gracefully.
It would be cool to take the 23 presets and import them into GarageBand.
Figments of a lack of imagination
[...] sound is not quite as rich as the 7 1 setting on the old Ibanez pedal, but GarageBand automatically adjusts the ping pong echo speed in accordance with the tempo. Not [...]
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