October 21 2002 The Vegetarian Experience Healthy and Easy Vegetarian Recipes By Natalie Tamosianas This week | am going to delve into the banana conspir- acy. The bananas in PG are always cheap. Rather suspi- cious don’t you think? Anyway if you are like me, a starving student, you buy things that are on sale. Thus | have a large amount of bananas. Also, if you are like me, they may get really brown before you have a chance to eat them. Luckily someone discov- By Destrudo This issue | am reviewing the Boss DD-5 Digital Delay stomp box. This little item gives you a very wide range of delay settings to play with. It offers a Effect Level knob, a Feedback Level knob, a Delay Time knob, and a Mode switch. The Effect Level allows you to adjust the output level of the effected sound. Rotating the knob all the way to the left will mute the effect, while turning it all the way to the right will give the effected signal more volume than your original signal. The Feedback knob allows you to adjust how many repetitions of the effect you wish from one to more than you need. The Delay Time knob allows you to adjust the delay time in a given mode. For example, if you select mode 3 you have the range of 200 to 800 millisec- onds, 200 being fully rotated to the left and 800 being fully rotated to the right. The Mode switch allows.you to pick from one of 11 modes of delay. Modes 1-4 are quite simply different delay ranges that you can fine tune with the Feedback and Delay Time knobs. Mode 1 gives you a range of 1-50 ms, mode 2 gives you 50-200 ms, mode 3 gives you 200-800, and mode ered that mushy bananas are good for something other than throwing at siblings-banana bread! This recipe is great because it is so simple. It also has the added bonus of requir- ing less dishes, so clean up is faster. Banana Bread 1 1/4 cups fiour 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 4 gives 800-2000ms of delay time. This effectively allows you to fine tune from one mil- lisecond to 2 seconds of delay. Mode 5 is a hold function which allows you to play a riff while holding down the pedal and record up to 2 seconds of a performance and replay it as long as the pedal is in the ON position (red LED is on). Of course, this performance is erased the moment you step on the pedal again. This comes in kind of handy when trying to think of what to play over a simple, short guitar riff of your own invention. Mode 6 is a Reverse mode which gives the effect of reverse play back. This sounds really cool and reminds me of some of Hendrix’s backwards work. Mainly, this function seems to be more fun than practical for me, but having fun is good to. Mode 7 is a special feature that has a range of 1-400 ms ° and allows you to utilize both of the units two outputs (that’s right, | said “two outputs”). This sends a _ direct, unprocessed signal to one amp and the delay effected signal to the other amp. This allows you to keep a clean sig- nal at all times. Modes 8-11 are modes that utilize the Boss FS-5U foot HONDA Brad Irvine Sales Consultant Honda North 105 Branswick Street Prince George, B.C. V2L 2B2 Sales: (250) 562-9391 Parts & Service: (250) 562-4744 Fax: (250) 562-5151 Email: info@bondanorth.ca 1/2 cup vegetable oil 2 very ripe bananas 2 whole eggs 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees 2 Blend weil ali ingredients together in order given 3 Pour batter into greased loaf pan 4 Bake for 50-60 min or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Here’s Some Gear switch as a tap tempo for the pedal. This feature allows you to use your foot to arrive at a delay time. Mode 8 sets the timing in time with your foot tap, mode 9 puts three delays between your first and fourth taps, mode 10 puts a delay between each tap, and mode 11 puts two delays between your first and third taps. Alt in all, | would have to say that a delay pedal is a must have for any guitarist who likes to fool around or has the role of keyboard textures in a band, and at a price of $235 at Electron Sound & Percussion, it comes in well within my price range considering its versatili- | would also like to mention a sweet little find at Electron; a little device called a Smokey Amp. It claims to be the small- est guitar amp in the world and it just might be right. It is quite literally, the size of a cigarette package. It runs on a 9 volt battery, which is included, and it is very solid. In fact, you can plug in to this amp, put it on the floor, and put your foot on it to get a tremolo effect by muting and unmuting the plas- tic covered speaker. Not only that, but it also has a speaker extension output which allows you to plug into any speaker cabinet with a quarter inch patch cord and play. It handles 4, 8, and 16 ohm speaker enclosures and boasts a fan- tastic half a watt for power. 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