Thinking about buying a looper pedal!

[HeeBGB]

Any of you guys have experience with multiple looper pedals and can weigh in on pros? cons? of the various pedals you have used?

[xtian]

Yup. Is this for performance or just practice?

Digitech Jamman suff, years ago, had poor D/A converters, hissy, bad for anything except guitar. This is probably old news and their new stuff has better bandwidth.

Line 6 M9--my favorite. Four-button looper, great converters, very low noise. Limited time (45 seconds?). No memory.

TC Electronic Flashback. One button. I hate that. Double-click to stop, no resume play!

[billyz]

I recently got a TC ditto looper. Very simple, good sound quality. I do have trouble getting in sync with it though, no quantizer. I use it for practice only or song writing.

[martin manning]

My lad has a Ditto and is happy with it. It's fine for simple on-the-fly gigging and recording stuff, the "upgrade" X2 version looks interesting too.

[norburybrook]

Yup. Is this for performance or just practice?

Digitech Jamman suff, years ago, had poor D/A converters, hissy, bad for anything except guitar. This is probably old news and their new stuff has better bandwidth.

Line 6 M9--my favorite. Four-button looper, great converters, very low noise. Limited time (45 seconds?). No memory.

TC Electronic Flashback. One button. I hate that. Double-click to stop, no resume play!

I have a line 6 M9 too on my bass gigging board, I do a solo spot where the band leaves the stage. I agree 100% with the above statement, works great , sounds great.

I have a TC flashback Alter ego x4 on my guitar board and that too sounds great although it doesn't work exactly the same as the line 6 so I sometimes get confused.

I also have a looper on my Eventide H9 but haven't really used it for looping, I would imagine it would certainly sound great.


I suppose you've got to ask yourself ; do you JUST want a looper or could you get something like the TC x4 and have a nice delay pedal as well?


Marcus

[HeeBGB]

I was hoping to pick something up that I could use for solo acoustic gigs

[Ken Moon]

I agree with billyz about the TC ditto looper.

I've enjoyed fiddling with mine, but I think I would need to spend more time with it to figure out when to start playing. I always come in late and mess it all up, but I've seen people use the same unit just fine, so that's why I think it's a matter of practicing with it.

One thing I like is the small size. The whole series of TC mini sized pedals and their Toneprint software is a great idea, and TC sound quality has always been very good.

edit:: one of TC's mini pedals is called the BodyRez, that magically makes acoustic pickups sound better. If you live near a Guitar Center, they should have the whole TC mini pedal series (and several other loopers) that you can try yourself, rather than rely only on YouTube videos.