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Good loop pedal recommendations?

Do you mean like a looper pedal that loops what you play or a bypass loop? If it's the first option the ditto looper by TC electronics is pretty awesome. Simple and to the point. With up to five min of loop time and you can have up to two layers of overdub. I think it's two. There are quite a few out there. I've heard the boss loop stations are pretty boss...... Hehe....... I also have a hardwire DL8. It's a delay and a looper in one.

If you meant a bypass looper, there's tons of those. I use a 6 channel bypass looper by pedal racks. That's the only one I've used though. It works great for me.
 
I want an easy to use looper with multiple loops. I need external storage, so I can record and set up loops for verse/chorus/bridge at home, and then recall them as parts of songs at the gig. I'm looking at the boss RC-50, and also thinking about a software solution like Ableton. Anybody with experience here?
 
I've seen a solo artist use the small compact Boss RC for drum playback. I'm sure he loaded the pedal with digital music files via DAW. The new TCE ditto x2 may have the same capabilities and it has the same features as the line 6 DL-4. I'm interested in live sound looping so I'm going to wait for the Ditto x2 because my first looper was a DL-4 and am most comfortable with it.