Looper…is it worth spending up ?

[RectifiedAmps]

I have a Jamman Solo XT and it’s packed with features including just about everything you mention: stereo in/outs for splitting signals, switching banks on the fly (using external switches), quantisation, aux-in and a micro-sd which you can (apparently) pre-load with samples. I can’t comment on signal quality or how it compares to other loopers but it definitely does way more than I need it to. They’ve been out of production for a while now but they still come up on Reverb and are cheap.

[mule]

To be honest, I’d get what has more footswitches. This stupid single or dual magical tap dance nonsense takes all the joy out of looping

So what’s the go ?

The RC's are pretty good at letting you connect external footswitches and assigning them to parameters to help with this. https://support.roland.com/hc/en-us/art ... itch-pedal

Not sure about the infinity.

[robthemac]

ok this might be a silly question:

is there a looper that will send my guitar signal to my guitar amp and the drums/bass/keys to a full range monitor ?
and modeling ?

Yes, a stereo looper (e.g. RC30) could be used with guitar left channel and misc instruments right channel. Problem will be combining all the signals, but I actually have a small 5 channel mixer that you can borrow if you're wanting to play that game.

Interesting, I had an RC30 for years and never thought of using it like that, but then I have to wonder why would you bother?

This apparently is for home use, composing band songs etc, trying a setup to separate guitar from everything else seems needlessly complicated.

Just get the RC600 which has all the guitar modelling built in, can do all sorts of amazing things and just run everything into something full range.

By the time you’ve bought this and that to get working off a lesser looper you may as well have just bought the bigger looper!

Needlessly complicated is kinda my M.O.

[NZTone.e]

Yes, a stereo looper (e.g. RC30) could be used with guitar left channel and misc instruments right channel. Problem will be combining all the signals, but I actually have a small 5 channel mixer that you can borrow if you're wanting to play that game.

Interesting, I had an RC30 for years and never thought of using it like that, but then I have to wonder why would you bother?

This apparently is for home use, composing band songs etc, trying a setup to separate guitar from everything else seems needlessly complicated.

Just get the RC600 which has all the guitar modelling built in, can do all sorts of amazing things and just run everything into something full range.

By the time you’ve bought this and that to get working off a lesser looper you may as well have just bought the bigger looper!

Needlessly complicated is kinda my M.O.

Lol, fair enough…

[jeremyb]

ok this might be a silly question:

is there a looper that will send my guitar signal to my guitar amp and the drums/bass/keys to a full range monitor ?
Or do I just get a good full range monitor and (omg shudder) get a modeling amp pedal thing?

Goal - to do some demos of some of my cool guitars and amps
- to compose new tunes for the band

Or yeh, is the the looper game just one that youd play will full range monitors and modeling ?

Hang on, do you want to loop the drums etc as well? otherwise I don't see the need for this functionality, how were you planning on creating the drums, keys, bass sounds?

If it was me I'd skip the looper, create drum and keys and bass tracks in my DAW with plugins, then mic an amp and run it into my interface, record the parts I wanna loop into my DAW and copy paste them... jobs a goodun!

If you wanna do a hardware only solution, there are many options...

- You could use a digitech trio+ as it can do the drums and looper functionality for you, has separate outs for guitar and drums, mic up your amp and run it and the drum out into a Zoom recorder or similar.

- Use your iPad for drums, keys, bass etc into a small mixer, guitar amp mic'd up into same mixer, outputs into some kind of recorder like a Zoom or similar.

Plenty of other options too, just depends on what exactly you wanna achieve

[Conway]

Boss RC-500. Drum loops built in. Output drums to PA, guitar to guitar amp. Stop faffing around and get the one that is the best. Don’t waste your time and effort reinventing the wheel, just get the Boss.

[jeremyb]

Boss RC-500. Drum loops built in. Output drums to PA, guitar to guitar amp. Stop faffing around and get the one that is the best. Don’t waste your time and effort reinventing the wheel, just get the Boss.

This one is even local to you and a semi decent price! https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace ... 4581765540

[TmcB]

To be honest, I’d get what has more footswitches. This stupid single or dual magical tap dance nonsense takes all the joy out of looping

So what’s the go ?

I’d go a DL4 MKII or a Boomerrang

[StrummersOfThunder]

Boss RC-500. Drum loops built in. Output drums to PA, guitar to guitar amp. Stop faffing around and get the one that is the best. Don’t waste your time and effort reinventing the wheel, just get the Boss.

Yeh this is the ticket I think

[Conway]

Did I mention that I had 2 RC-500s, one on each of my two pedalboards. My arm might be twisted...

[robthemac]

Boss RC-500. Drum loops built in. Output drums to PA, guitar to guitar amp. Stop faffing around and get the one that is the best. Don’t waste your time and effort reinventing the wheel, just get the Boss.

Yeh this is the ticket I think

I may have one sitting in the sauna that we could do a comparison with.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Did I mention that I had 2 RC-500s, one on each of my two pedalboards. My arm might be twisted...

Did not mention
Arm looking vulnerable

[NZTone.e]

There’s an RC500 on fb at the moment…

[StrummersOfThunder]

Ive put a cheeky offer on a pigtronix infinity 3 with universal control pedal (one on TM)
let see if the seller is feeling sassy my good man !

[Conway]