I hadn't even heard of this pedal until now. Have you had a chance to use it yourself?
Hi,
Sorry for answering lately. Yes I had the chance to use it and believe me or not I bought 3 of them :
The first one at the very beginning : I was so excited by the features, no other device on earth was doing the same thing. Result : it was cool but there was a big phase problem with the impression that in 3 guitars mode the panning of one guitar was constantly changing. You could clearly hear it with headphones. Moreover, when the new FW was released, I tried to load it but it failed. I returned it, bought a second one … same problem, had to send back the second one too.
I contacted TC Electronic to talk about the problem. I have about 10-15 emails from them. At first, they didn’t took it too seriously but when I sent them some samples (done with the Axe of course), it was clear. In fact, I could trigger le problem just changing the attack of the pick, the pan/phase problem could easily be heard. They send me (and some other guys having the same problem) the 1.2.00.1162 FW and the problem was still there. I had to buy a third Mimic Doubler just to try this and I had to send it back for the third time !!!
Don’t get me wrong, I know people who find this pedal great with 2 tube amps but with headphones with a surgical listening, it’s not professional at all.
Thomann (I bought 2 of my pedals from them) don’t sell this pedal anymore…
To finish : When I used dit in the loop of the Axe, I experienced a latency problem and when I replaced it with an Enhancer block, it was night and day : no latency, better result… but it’s not a dubbing
Having such a feature in the Axe FX III would be great, it would be the unique device to have it but finding a good algorithm IS NOT easy. A good challenge fot FAS.
PS : If you want to read me more about these problems with the Mimic Doubler pedal :
http://forum.tcelectronic.com/topic/21012/problem-with-mimiq-doubler-pedal/