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Looper Pedal
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Mooer Micro Looper. Best features and quality for the price
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I bought a Ditto 2 a few months back after a long well researched and demo search and it died within a week. During that week I did all the factory suggested hard resets and other things that supposedly clear it up with no help- dead again within ten minutes. It would eat up a fresh set of batteries in about 1 hour and 20 minutes; not even long enough for a single gig. That alone is a joke that they call it battery operated and do not provide a wall wart for power. On paper it is very attractive and seems like the best choice out of all of them. No matter how much I wanted to like it, the Ditto 2 was the most worthless piece of junk pedal I have ever purchased in 40 years of buying pedals. $150 theft from me by TC Electronics; a looper shaped object. If you look around the web, you'll find hundreds of similar stories. I wound up with the Boss RC1, simple, reliable, and still in use on my pedalboard, with a slight improvement by adding the $25 external momentary stop switch.
One thing to pay attention to if you are going for a multi switch pedal is the size of your feet. If you are a little person with small feet it is no big deal, but most of the more complex models I tried with multiple footswitches are way too close together if you have large feet so you will constantly hit two switches at once messing up or deleting your loop at inappropriate times. The models with a lot of features and drum tracks can also start up extra features unexpectedly. Simpicity and reliability rule. I needed a simple pedal to get a basic job done and focus on my playing, not a foot operated supercomputer that I spent hours trying to figure out how to program and operate. A great pedal should be intuitive- pull it out of the box and go straight to the gig with it and only read the instructions after it is obvious you want to keep it.
One thing to pay attention to if you are going for a multi switch pedal is the size of your feet. If you are a little person with small feet it is no big deal, but most of the more complex models I tried with multiple footswitches are way too close together if you have large feet so you will constantly hit two switches at once messing up or deleting your loop at inappropriate times. The models with a lot of features and drum tracks can also start up extra features unexpectedly. Simpicity and reliability rule. I needed a simple pedal to get a basic job done and focus on my playing, not a foot operated supercomputer that I spent hours trying to figure out how to program and operate. A great pedal should be intuitive- pull it out of the box and go straight to the gig with it and only read the instructions after it is obvious you want to keep it.
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The X2 and X4 can. I own an X2. Another member suggested his computer is the best and while I can't disagree with that, because recording software is definitely superior, It's not as mobil or convenient as a pedal.
+1 Another vote for Boss RC series loopers. i have a RC-3 and a RC-50, I have gigged/travelled with them and they are reliable, robust and easy to use
The TCe Ditto X4 takes that further, it's got a cool midi clock sync. So you can sync anything else that's also midi. You can clock sync Eventide, Strymon delays and verbs or most drum machines. It's very powerful. The Zoom B3 is a cool device but it's limited to what is integrated into the box, it's not so good in dealing with anything out side of itself.
I actually have both! And while the Dittox4 does midi sync, and works great, you need an external clock source, while in the zoom you can just tap away or enter the BPMs manually, quite an useful feature that I would LOVE to see more often in loopers, it's quite dramatic that manually setting BPMs in a looper is only possible in a non-specific looper pedal!!
There are a few others- the Boss RC300 comes to mind.
I do love my Zoom B3, but I never really use its looper feature- I like to save my loops when I have the option, and I'm not keen on the way the B3 hinders your ability to switch effects as easily while using the looper, since fast effect changes are the lifeblood of a great liveloop.
Oddly enough, though, my little Zoom B1on gets a lot of use as a looper, but only because I like to play outside and it's ultra portable and mad battery efficient. Even so, not even having an undo button is honestly terrible and if it were my only looper I'd be left seriously wanting.
If I'm indoors, I'm generally using an RC3 or RC300 for looping, with a Zoom B3 plugged in as my main effects unit.
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