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Digitech JamMan Delay Looper

anyone had any experience with this yet?
i'm very tempted, i feel i've taken my Boss RC-2 as far as i can. the short loop time is really starting to annoy me.

I assume the digitech will have the built in drum machine, as lame as the beats on the RC-2 were they were often useful
regards
tim
 
I had a JamMan for a while. It had some basic beats in it. I have also tried the Line6 looper. I could 'get creative' with the Line6 way faster. However they both sucked my bass tone dry. Another friend of mine who is a pro player uses the Boss RC50 and it looks to be the looper to get. I currently have no looper because of the tone sucking aspects associated with them. The Line6 is way easier to use but probably effects the bass tone more than the Digitech. The Line6 also has a much better set of drum sounds stored in it out of the box. I'd try the RC50 next if it were me.

If you do end up with the Digitech make sure you get the optional 2 button pedal you will most likely enjoy it much more with it.
 
thanks for the food for thought
for all its faults and limitations the RC-2 didn't ruin my tone too much, i'll investigate the models you mention

the looperlative seems to have a small number of controls for a large number of features, i wonder how user friendly it will be?
 
I'm seriously considering this, It's got tap tempo and 35 minutes of stereo loop time. Can do 16 hours of audio too...:eek:

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Features
Powerful Stereo Looper and Stereo Delay together in a single pedal design

Store over 35 minutes of stereo, CD-Quality loops in 99 internal memories

Optional SDHC card can store over 16 hours* of CD-quality audio in 99 additional memories (198 memories total)

Downloadable JamManager™ librarian for PC and Mac archives and organizes your loops over USB

Reverse Loop Playback

3 Loop Stop modes (Stop, Finish, and Fade)

Time Stretching lets you slow down or speed up loops without changing pitch

16 seconds of true stereo delay

3 fully programmable delay presets

8 unique delay types including Digital, Tape, Analog, Reverse, and Modulated delay

Expression pedal input for morphing between 2 delay settings or controlling loop playback level

Dry path defeat for parallel effects loops

8 Heavy-duty metal footswitches for looping and delay control

Rugged metal chassis

Power supply included

Optional footswitch adds additional Hands-Free™ functionality


*with optional 16GB or higher SDHC memory card
 
thanks for the food for thought
for all its faults and limitations the RC-2 didn't ruin my tone too much, i'll investigate the models you mention

the looperlative seems to have a small number of controls for a large number of features, i wonder how user friendly it will be?

As far as I understand it's the only looper that will allow you to loop laterally...so instead of setting a loop and being stuck with it you can add in this or that wherever you want in that loop and it won't get cut off where it stops/starts.

Though it'll be mono it will sound great and be easy to use.