Smallest Loop Pedal?

[COOL AND DEADLY]

I don't think it's small but I heard the Boomerang is the most user friendly stage looper. I think Victor Wooten uses it too.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

You seem to be limiting yourself a bit much.

Yup. You're not going to do better than the Boss RC-2 for size, and if you don't like the feel of it, you'll have to go larger. The Digitech Jamman/Boss RC-20XL are by no means "huge"- even if you don't have room on your pedalboard for one, they fit in any gigbag pocket (or almost any pedalboard pocket) easily.

 

[JanusZarate]

The Boss RC-2 is the smallest pedal of its kind, AFAIK... everything else is larger and/or better.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I don't think it's small but I heard the Boomerang is the most user friendly stage looper. I think Victor Wooten uses it too.

It's not small at all- it's quite large The RC-50 is probably just as user-friendly and has a lot more features. If you go to a rack looper like the Looperlative or the Echoplex, you can control them with a programmable MIDI foot controller and make using them as easy or hard as you like.

 

[dancehallclasher]

Where are you getting your info from? Bad mouthing EHX and Boss is like bad mouthing Hagen-Dauz and Ben&Jerry ice cream!


If you "didn't like the feel of the RC-2" then you'll outa luck buddy.

Yeah this seems like a "suck it up" situation to me. You want small, you make some concessions.

 

[Bjazzman]

first off I wasent trying to badmouth ehx. they're just not my cup of tea. and I do dig some boss pedals but I don't care for the feel of the footswitch for a looper since I use my hand and not my foot for pressing switches.

I had the boomerang and it was the best in terms of feel. if I could have that in the shape of a small pedal that would be my perfect loop pedal. I was just curious of what's out there is all

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

You use your hand instead of your foot? You're not going to get very accurate loops going that way- at least not if you're using a bass

 

[Bjazzman]

I loop keys with my hand. and saxes with my foot

 

[SteveMcB]

I have a headrush E2 and as far as I can tell it's by far the simplest of the cheaper loopers to use, and the immediacy of the switching is also great. I love it. If you don't use the delay part and you want more room on your pedalboard, you could mount another pedal on a little riser over the knobs on the headrush or put that part under a second tier maybe? Sounds like you like the headrush but are after more space, if so those are pretty much the only suggestions I have!

Good luck,
Steve

 

[McSpunckle]

If you wanna be able to use both your hands and feet perfectly, the Electro Harmonix 2880 is pretty much perfect with the optional footswitch.

But, it is pretty huge. So is the footswitch....

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I loop keys with my hand. and saxes with my foot

Do you use any MIDI with your keys? Some loopers operate on MIDI and you could possibly program some of your keys to function as MIDI commands.

 

[Bjazzman]

eh. i like the fun of spontenaity. some boutique company really should make a tiny no frills sound on sound looper

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

It'd be really tough to get the boards for a looper in anything smaller than the RC-2. I mean, Boss pedals are really compact as it is.

 

[Bjazzman]

yeah but i figured that they can make pedals small like catalinbread, zvex, etc.. so why not make a loop pedal in the same vein? Is it because there are too many out there or it would cost way too much to make for what it would do?

 

[sunbeast]

There's just alot more to the circuitry in a looper than something like an overdrive or analog delay, etc...- the RC-2 is as small as it is because they pretty much crammed it to capacity vs. user friendly! This requires mass-production capabilities vs. hand-built boutique style pedals. Plus the smaller it is, the harder it is to get access to all the functions (like how much of a PITA it is to erase a loop in the RC-2). I would definitely agree with those that suggested the Memory Man w/ Hazarai- it does almost everything the Headrush does, but with alot more options (and its stereo, so you can have 2 different instruments looping seperately to 2 different amps- I use it to make solo music with guitar and bass at the same time to great effect!). It sounds as good or better to my ears as well- and I don't get a "pop" effect at the beginning of some loops like I do with my Headrush. It is also significantly smaller than the Headrush and has a slightly higher loop time. There are a couple caveats- you can't undo an overdub without erasing the whole loop, you hold the switch down to loop vs. pressing 2 buttons, and you can't change to the delay using footswitches...

Karl

 

[pashute]

voicejam for iphone. its not a pedal, but it does what your requesting

 

[Bassed in NZ]

TC Flashback might be worth considering - plus you get the delays with your looper