What I Wish I Would Have Known Before Buying a Loop Pedal
I hope this video helps you if you are considering getting a loop pedal! These quick tips are all things I hadn’t really considered when I was first getting into looping- I was surprised how much more difficult it was than I initially thought! If you are a loop pro, comment any tips you have for beginners!
Here’s another video I created on how to loop as well:
After playing around with this pedal for a while, in hindsight, here is the one I would get:
TC Electronic Ditto Jam X2 Looper Pedal:
https://sweetwater.sjv.io/nLN7mV
Researching the Ditto Jam X2 pedal, it has the “BeatSense” technology to help you stay on time, a separate stop button, and unlimited overdubs. This one seems pretty cool from the reviews so this is what I will be trying next! It’s also currently retailing at $200 so not going the break the bank.
My current loop pedal just FYI:
https://imp.i114863.net/0Jq7AY
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Purchased an RC-1 Monday just gone, it is Thursday now. It’s a gem because already had a dual (A,B) FS-7switch which enables full switch control utilising all functions with one tap of any foot. 2 inputs 2 outputs & dual switch input. A Looper is a very powerful tool for live music making. Probably I could have gone for RC-10 or whatever but wanted to get started and be able to make some music. Anything more than the RC-1 was too much to think about. I guess if I were going to go for something more advanced would go for the RC-600. This RC-1 is enough and it’s more about seeing how much I can exploit the limited functions onboard the entry level looper which makes it about creating something on the fly then deleting is and making another.
My zoom multi effect pedal gives me the option of setting up a 1 button Looper Or the 2 button looper for start stop since it has multiple buttons that can be assigned.
Nice example jam at the front of your video showing how the looper can be used
Ha… back in the day, we would sew patches on our jean even where there was no holes. Times they are a changing.
Nice video, but you've got mice in your wardrobe.
Helpful inf0. Thank you!
I use two loopers, one at the front and one at the end of my pedalboard. I’ll play a music part and loop it, then manipulate it with the effects pedals in real time and capture that with the second looper. And during the song I’ll go back and forth between the two loopers creating a multi part sound scape.
just kidding.
you talk too much
Thanks I’m looking to buy a looper and this is extremely helpful
Great info, thank you!
Can someone tell me how to play along with a loop with my distortion pedal without distorting my loop? I’m 70 years old and all this is new to me ????
save your money and buy some pants
Thank you! Good stuff !
Which loopers have the ability to quantize?
does the Ditto have this option?
Thx for your input
hey, quick heads up, there's another pedal that doesnt require double tab and it's cheaper than the jitto jamx2, its the donner circle looper. Only 100$ and comes with loads of features
Oh, Got it Completely On the Double Tap. And Yes! Learned that about the Chain from Left to Right It should be on the far Left. I use the Keeley Caverns on far right, then the NUX RECTO For Distortion than the Loop core to the Left.
Hey Haley! Frank From Upstate N.Y. HERE. I'm 66 and bought my first Looper about 7 years ago. A NUX Loop Core. Sat in the box for almost two years and realized, " hey i have to use this!" Love it….. I started playing guitar at 14 years old and once i was in my 20's didn't play as much thus working life kept me busy until the 1990's bought a Nice Used Washburn Acoustic and then finally got my first electric [ Fender Tele] in years. still learning the Looper. Have done A few Covers using it……. Two in particular….which are on my Chanel. " Frank Behr" utube if you are Interested….. But I will finish your Vid. Thank you!
loopers are very versatile for playing alone. even cheaper simpler ones. I regret not having them sooner
Good Points! One lesson I had to learn the hard way is never to rely on the internal memory of any loop pedal alone. The constant rewriting will lead to failure at some point, and to me that point was reached on stage. Did a firmware reset and it worked fine 'til it happened again. Solution: Get a loop pedal that can store loops onto an external replaceable storage such as an SD card. Get the highest quality memory and get into the habit of backing up. These storages will also fail at some point. But then you will pull out a replacement which ideally will have backup loops already prerecorded. Much quicker than exchanging the whole pedal with a backup device (which I'm sure every pro looper is carrying around ;)…
❤Excellent work ❤
I dont really understand the placement of the looper? End of the wha wha ? 🙂
Could you explain it like placement for dumbs? 🙂
Really good advice, Haley!
Thats a 3000 dollar guitar do the music man have the best necks.?…RocknRollflat5
Great review. Thank you.
Thank you Haley ????
Music Man Guitar ????
Could you show how to hook them up and is there one that already has bass, drums ect for blues, rock, country ect and you just click the button and it's doing a blues backing track then you can set the tempo Thanks
The Goodwill has some very cheap jeans available.
Got my 1st looper after having 4 yrs – well sort of looper: in the Eighties I used a rat mounted delay for "ambience", a bit like that EHX pedal…*I digress, but: WHOHATT is it with that pico deep Freeze I just watched a vid of… 5minutes, I'm sold…guitar, be the end of me – sold my soul to SMD…* Via self-oscillation I could get a drone, and there was a foot switch which sometimes did not blend but abruptly switch different pitches. I liked the sound a lot, and after tinkering with the "drone"-unit realized the rack-piece was supposed to echo your tones by repeating them (quite stupidly as I then found at first), thereby letting you create 2or even 3 polyphonic arpeggio-like structures in a set speed (think that can e Edge, or Gilmour right at the beginning of Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2).
TL;DR Go Walk RUN get a looper!
It will make your practicing that much more fun, a bit like playing with someone else (NOT the same),
and practicing scales is one of its major uses for me: The drone lets me solo "over something", more importantly allowing me to get a better feeling for the position/function of each tone, as I open an interval with each note played (played note + drone), that is my hypothesis anyway…
It'll help your timing (@looppool has his treatise below for all your skeptical nitty-gritty).
It'll allow you to become a fake personality, and pose as a bass guitar. Ethics of that needs further exploration.
@looppool: A bit harsh, maybe…? You could argue for quantised looping with regards to no matter how complex the. music, and/or setup, your loop will be on time. To me, it seems the tradeoff (what you'll "pay") for that safety is a loss of creative options, as I'm now "bound to the grid). An old-fashioned looper with no quantitation puts you back in time… to a time, when Rock'n Roll was in its prime, music was recorded to analog tape, and Cher had not yet traded her voice for autotune. It's risk. It's fun. Yeah, after a while I become as tight with it as the quantization helps me to be from take one… Had a Boss pedal with a round light, completing one circle in one measure of the loop… I found it as confusing as you may have found my explanation…. rest assured; You're OK – it's me who is obviously too stupid to play to measures & fixed time-frames. I can tell great stories, and come across mega-sympathetic, which is probably why I've been playing live for ages, and neither bands nor fans notice… If you like looped stuff, an Australian beat-box/loop-master with a great voice and great messages in his music would be Dub-FX (I've been fan since 2009, thus, if y'all know him by now: sorry for the old news…
I just can't get over the monotony of it melody-wise. Never cared for them.
How long can the loops be? I like to play long chord progressions.
Thanks for the info. I use the L6 Helix and the looper is configurable as a single stomp or a 6 stomp – and can be moved in the chain to any place you want instantly. Wish it had more memory but for what I do (mono) 60 seconds is plenty.
Thanks for the useful tips.