Is your playing stuck in a loop? Looper pedals can be a fantastic way to revitalise your practice performance and composition. However, it can be an invaluable tool for any guitarist, whatever style you play.
A looper pedal records your guitar as you play a riff or chord sequence and plays it back to you over in a loop. This buyers guide will take you through everything you need to know about loopers. From making practice time more enjoyable to building up epic live loops on stage and even in composition, the looper pedal is one of those unsung heroes that you should seriously consider picking up. This seemingly simple function is extremely useful. It gives you a simple way to stand back and really assess your playing.
You can also make quick tracks for recording. When composing music, you can experiment with layers and hear how a song flows. If you're willing to get really creative, you can use loops as samples in your gig, either creating them on the fly or pre-programming sounds to enhance your performance.
To create a loop, all you have to do is tap on the pedal at the beginning of your phrase to start recording and tap it at the end to stop recording. The pedal will then continue playing the loop until you press stop.
Start with something really simple so that you can get the hang of it and build up so that soon you can get that perfect loop every time. Some pedals come with built-in metronomes or preset drum beats, but you can always create your own beat by playing muted strings to set a tempo. Experiment with different note ranges to try and expand your mix.
Not every overdub has to play from the start to the finish of your loop. Try one overdub that plays for the first half and a second overdub for the second half, like a call and response.
The most basic loopers have more than enough storage for an average user creating single loop and unlimited overdubs. The other possibility is that it feels so good because the display is great. The massive glowing ring that displays loop length and playback is nothing short of fantastic, and makes it easy to see at a glance what's going on, even on the darkest stage. The RC-1 is 16 bit, which puts it a bit behind some of its competitors, but it's unlikely you'll notice this live.
It doesn't support external loading of samples either, but it can preserve your current loop when powered off, so that is an option, even if it's of limited utility. It's got all the meat-and-potatoes looping functionality of workhorses like the Ditto X2, while also having some of the more coveted options of classic performance loopers like the Line 6 DL4.
While the Ditto X2 supports half-time and reverse like the MXR, it can't do double time without some crafty manipulation of the half-time mode. The Clone Looper can't go toe-to-toe with a weird experimental loop pedal like the Red Panda Tensor, as it can't do dynamic time-stretching. However, the ability to do one-shots means it has feature parity with the Line 6 DL4. A modern pedal with all the modes that made the Line 6 DL4 such a popular live looper is pretty exciting at this price point.
So what's the catch? Pretty simple, really. The one-shot mode is only accessible using an external tap control, which of course will set you back a bit more cash and pedalboard space. Read the full MXR clone looper review. The smaller brother of the EHX , as you might guess from the name, the can store up to seconds of audio, across 11 loops.
Like most compact loopers, it supports unlimited overdubs until you run out of space. Unlike many cheaper options, it supports save and recall, making it useful for mid-set interludes and other sound-design type uses. The only annoying thing about this pedal is that if you don't need the save-and-recall functionality, then there are smaller and cheaper options on the market.
The side-mount jacks on the mean it's not only larger than a nano-sized pedal, but nearly the size of a Ditto X2, with its top-mount jacks. When buying a budget looper pedal, the two key concerns are audio quality, and whether or not there's a dedicated stop footswitch. We're going to sound like a broken record by the end of this article, but for live use it's better to be safe than sorry.
Though we've seen plenty of players using single-button loop pedals on stage, smoothly playing, re-triggering and stopping loops generally requires a dedicated stop control. For songwriting, jamming or home use, or indeed use for drones or synth parts, this might not be an issue. Generally, the main downside to a two-footswitch looper is price, followed closely by size. Greuter Audio Fokus review: A boost to cut through the mix and the competition.
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