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Loop pedals discussion, info and suggetsions

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camelspotter

Sep 21, 2005
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#1
hello! it's been a while since i posted in here.

i made this thread for discussion specific on loop pedals.

i'm having trouble finding info on loop effects and pedals on the internet. i would like to own one myself but it seems impossible to find a variety of these online.


i would like those of you who own one to give me some info on these.
what i'm searching is something with which i can record at least 4 to 5 loops and be able to play any of them at any time or two or more simultaniouslly. to have at least 4-5 foot swiches each for every loop i write. more would be better of caurese. i don't like the idea of boss RC 2 and RC 20. i hope this make sence to you.it's hard to explain what i mean.

something like that.
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#4
I think the only looper that will do what the OP wants is the looperlative. I hope you are cashed up! :D

I have an EHX2880 which is multitrack, but still works on a master loop track basis (Ie you can't have a short loop of say 1/2 second and then another loop of 8 seconds.
 
#5
rratajaski's right, the pic is of a bypass looper, the kind of looper you're talking about is a phrase sampler.

I posted a looper (phrase sampler) comparison chart in this thread. Lots of info there, I found it pretty useful when I was looking anyway. Hopefully it's helpful!

I currently have a Boss RC-2 and have owned a Boomerang+ in the past. I love(d) them both for different reasons, the reason I went with the RC-2 is because of it's very pedalboard friendly size.

That Looperlative looks like it but that's a hefty price tag. You could get multiple RC-2's and daisy chain them...... Man, now you've got me thinking... lol

5sg.

P.S. I can't take credit for the chart though, I simply reposted from someone else... wish I could remember who posted it originally so I could thank them. :)
 
#6
that's something the EHX 2880. 4 loops but can do a lot!!!

what i pictured above is a bypass looper. so what's a bypass looper?

i saw a guy the other day playing live with a thing on his feet with at least 15 switches. he was recording one loop on every switch and he had like 15 loops ready anytime to choose from. that was was i was talking about. and could start one or stop one at any time, press another switch and record something while playing over varius loops.
 
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camelspotter said:
i saw a guy the other day playing live with a thing on his feet with at least 15 switches. he was recording one loop on every switch and he had like 15 loops ready anytime to choose from. that was was i was talking about. and could start one or stop one at any time, press another switch and record something while playing over varius loops.
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Maybe some kind of MIDI setup? :confused:

5sg.
 
#10
camelspotter said:
i saw a guy the other day playing live with a thing on his feet with at least 15 switches. he was recording one loop on every switch and he had like 15 loops ready anytime to choose from. that was was i was talking about. and could start one or stop one at any time, press another switch and record something while playing over varius loops.
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The only thing you can record more loops with than the Looperlative, which can create 8 loops as well as infinite overdubs onto each loop, is going through computer software. So either the guy had a laptop he was running off of, or what you saw isn't quite what you thought it was. No all-inclusive looper has anywhere close to 15 switches, so what you saw was almost surely a MIDI foot controller which would have been controlling either a computer program or some rack looper like the Looperlative. Do you know the name of the performer you saw? Was it at the recent L2K loop fest?
 
#11
Bryan R. Tyler said:
The only thing you can record more loops with than the Looperlative, which can create 8 loops as well as infinite overdubs onto each loop, is going through computer software. So either the guy had a laptop he was running off of, or what you saw isn't quite what you thought it was. No all-inclusive looper has anywhere close to 15 switches, so what you saw was almost surely a MIDI foot controller which would have been controlling either a computer program or some rack looper like the Looperlative. Do you know the name of the performer you saw? Was it at the recent L2K loop fest?
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I like the Looperlative but it is not great (for me) in a live setting. The 'rang 3 is perfect for live performance

Mike
 
#13
There's a helluva lot of good info at this site: http://www.loopers-delight.com/loop.html I consulted it extensively when I first got interested in looping and decided to buy something. I don't think it's been updated in years, but there's still a lot of good stuff.

I ended up getting an RC-50 (http://www.roland.com/products/en/RC-50/). I've seen a few bad reviews of it here and there, but I think it's great - the layout is pretty simple and intuitive, it's got a lot of options - up to three separate loops either simultaneously or in series, full stereo option, it saves the loops and has a lot of recording time, and the sound quality is so good I can't tell a difference - and they're pretty reasonably priced for what you get (I lucked out and got a used one for $250US; used ones regularly go on eBay for $300-400US). It only has three loops, but if you record in stereo, add a couple of bypass loopers to the inputs, and run the ouputs to separate amps, you could be able to essentially double the number of loops that you can control.

-Yools
 
#14
Mike Dimin said:
I like the Looperlative but it is not great (for me) in a live setting. The 'rang 3 is perfect for live performance

Mike
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If someone's not carrying around a rack already, then a Looperlative is definitely far less convenient than a Boomerang- that's the winner AFA space while retaining features goes. It is also a more intuitive interface.

If someone has the space though, the benefit of MIDI controllable interfaces like the LP-1 and a few others have is that they can have a footswitch/knob setup be as simple or as complex as you want for live use, in addition to all of the other features.
 
#16
Victor Wooten told me he prefers the RC-20 to the RC-50 and the JamMan

I know this isn't really my opinion, but I figured since he is a experienced performer there is something to be said about its on-stage usability.

I like my RC-2 with a footswitch pretty well, same as the RC-20 without a loop reverse
 

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