ever-changing loop solution?

hi guys,

I have a question that probably some of you might have as well. So I have about 8-10 effects in my board, all are True Bypass so I'm good in the chain, just have one issue with the loop (should I will need one ..)

On my board, like most of us I have the following order: filter, compressor, 2 ods, fuzz, phaser, chorus, delay, boost. Everything works just fine for me. My initial plan, I thought of grouping filters + dirt boxes to Loop 1, and modulation on Loop 2.

However, soon I realize that I probably want some Chorus on songs that I use my Filters for and so forth. So I began to see the needs of cross-usage of pedals in the 2 initial loops, does any of you face something like this? I play in my church's contemporary rock band and will probably use the Loop 1 for louder praise songs, that I probably will need some phase or delay on them as well on a few certain songs, but setting them to the initial 2 loops won't be too efficient won't they?

What would you do in my situation? Bottom line, I will never need both loops to on at the same time, but I may find some need to cross loops for pedals I will use.

any thoughts shared?

 

actually .. that's not really what I am looking for at this moment if i have to do master by-pass for those, it will be similar to me not having any looper at all since all effects are already TB .. if I do the master by-pass like you said, I will have to make sure which pedals I want to be ON or OFF at the moment, that will pretty much left me the same way if i don't use any looper at all, just that I have a better grouping for loop 1 and 2 .. so

for example I have this in my order

BASS >> filter >> compressor >> OD >> fuzz >> phaser >> chorus >> delay >> boost >> AMP

How would you solve this if let say .. (weirdest case possible ..)
song #1: i need only filter, comp and phaser
song #2: i need OD, and slight delay
song #3: i need Filter, OD, and some chorus
and so forth ..

Again, not ideally always but those above is the extreme case examples. I know that without using any looper at all, I can just tip-toe on them as I need it but since its about 8-10 effect, I am just wondering what solution of efficient looper would be robust enough for such performance

 

Ah ... I think i sorta see it now peter ..

so I shall have any number of loops necessary that will sort of be my 'fixed' loops that I will use together most of the time, and to use some things on the fly, i'll by-pass them to my liking? got it ..

apart from that .. let say you engage the master by-pass, does it turn off the LEDs of the 2 original loops as well? and when you're in master by-pass mode, if you step on the loop 1, will it disengage the master by-pass too?

thanks for the explanation, i've never use a master by-pass loop before

 

yup that's the thing ..

 

also .. since i have set 'pedal space' and I am sure I won't be having huge additions to my pedal list, would it just be easy to go without loop? and simply tap toe them .. won't be efficient .. but given i only have 8-9 pedals, a few that will always be on, probably won't be too bad? ... this would be my last resort though

 

a looper strip would probably do