Looper?

robgilmo

So I play by myself in my music room and I figure I could play with myself if I had a looper pedal, I sometimes use backing tracks but I always play my own tunes so I reckon a looper would give me more enjoyment , so guys, a cheap, easy to use, no frills looper pedal, second hand would be good, what do I need? I want a decent recording time, I dont want a gadget that does anything other than allow me to play with myself, but I dont want a load of old pants either, what do you recommend?

sgosden

Ditto

mistercharlie

sgosden said:

Ditto

+1

munckee

mistercharlie said:

sgosden said:

Ditto

+1

Ditto, can you see what I did there!

stickyfiddle

Yeah, the Ditto is perfectly adequate as a simple looper. The only trouble I have is forgetting what combinations of double or long presses you need to stop or delete stuff, so I'm now on the lookout for something with more buttons

Fuengi

Ditto works well. Personally I'd go for the RC-3 because it gives you loads more options for a few quid more. The main additional benefit is that you can save your loops and ideas in its bank, but it also has a metronome, tap tempo and click track. 

munckee

stickyfiddle said:

Yeah, the Ditto is perfectly adequate as a simple looper. The only trouble I have is forgetting what combinations of double or long presses you need to stop or delete stuff, so I'm now on the lookout for something with more buttons

That's my only bug bear I can never remember how to delete just the last loop but for playing chords then lead on top its great, about £45 second hand.

danishbacon

Rc-1, rc-3, ditto and RC-30 are all excellent. Rc-30 being my favourite for more complex layering and ditto for everyday simple practicing. 

MagicPigDetective

Anyone tried a ditto x4? 

cbellanga

Got a rowin twin looper lt-02 for £25 from amazon. Comes with an extra stop footswich and works perfectly. Would struggle to justify paying much more than that on the Ditto just for home playing.

notanon

You say only play with yourself (phna, phna) but if you have the budget I would consider the digitech trio as that extra bass + drums can make the difference. It is far from perfect IMO but it adds depth - you can always turn bass and drums down. What I like about it is that it picks up when you have looped based on the chords so you do not have to be as accurate. Also it has auto start on strumming the first chord. I don't know if Ditto is this 'smart' but it took me a while to get anywhere near decent on the Zoom G5 looper.

Having several songs stored and available when you switch it back on is what I really needed. Nothing worse than hitting an interesting sequence only to forget it the next day.

Good luck.

joetele

Ditto X2 - the second button is vital

Voxman

KT Tunstall used an Akai Headrush E2 - I had one and they are brilliant and really easy to control and use & solidly built.  They can't save loops (unlike the Boss RC3) but it has tape delay & it's much easier to use and sounded much better than the RC3 to my ears.  I sold it, bought an RC3 but sold that because it wasn't as much fun and not as easy to use (at least not without 2 additional external control pedals) and regretted selling the Akai.  If you're not worried about saving loops & want to have a great sound with something really simple to use, this is the one to go for...but you'll have to go used as these are now discontinued.

http://www.akaipro.com/products/legacy/e2-headrush

peaches

MagicPigDetective said:

Anyone tried a ditto x4? 

Yeah I had one a while. Great functionally for what it does, I just feel at that size/price point it should be able to save loops. Other than that it’s pretty awesome, I didn’t get into the really deep stuff though. 

Kultschar

Voxman said:

KT Tunstall used an Akai Headrush E2 - I had one and they are brilliant and really easy to control and use & solidly built.  They can't save loops (unlike the Boss RC3) but it has tape delay & it's much easier to use and sounded much better than the RC3 to my ears.  I sold it, bought an RC3 but sold that because it wasn't as much fun and not as easy to use (at least not without 2 additional external control pedals) and regretted selling the Akai.  If you're not worried about saving loops & want to have a great sound with something really simple to use, this is the one to go for...but you'll have to go used as these are now discontinued.

http://www.akaipro.com/products/legacy/e2-headrush

Kultschar

Think Greenwoods choice also.  

I had the infinity with all the bells and whistles but it was a bit OTT for me

joetele

Voxman said:

KT Tunstall used an Akai Headrush E2 - I had one and they are brilliant and really easy to control and use & solidly built.  They can't save loops (unlike the Boss RC3) but it has tape delay & it's much easier to use and sounded much better than the RC3 to my ears.  I sold it, bought an RC3 but sold that because it wasn't as much fun and not as easy to use (at least not without 2 additional external control pedals) and regretted selling the Akai.  If you're not worried about saving loops & want to have a great sound with something really simple to use, this is the one to go for...but you'll have to go used as these are now discontinued.

http://www.akaipro.com/products/legacy/e2-headrush

I had the Headrush 2 for a few years but I always found that the sound quality diminished with additional loops - it turned into a mush and each new loop was more difficult to hear, whereas I've never found that with the Ditto and Ditto X2 pedals, they're really transparent. 

Creed_Clicks

Ditto pedals are great.

samzadgan

I’m not a fan of ditto’s 

for it all out functionality I’d go the pigtronix...for simpler stuff the EHX loopers I find much better than ditto 

carlos

I'm using the one-button ditto live these days. It's simple, which in a live setup is great.

ewal

I had a Ditto x 2 which I've now replaced with a Jamman Solo XT. I switched because I need the ability to save loops because I build up drones at home which I then use live. The Jamman is a very flexible pedal and there's lots of functionality I've not really explored yet.