looping pedal

[ball420]

i am an intermediate guitar player who has learned and always played on "cheap guitars" i'm looking to purchase a new electric acoustic and but i also want to purchase a recording pedal so that i can loop rhythm and solo to it any suggestions. thanks for the feedback

[ball420]

please help i'm ithcin to purchase i just want some advice

[Weslaba]

No experience myself, although I have always kinda wanted one. Anyways, I dunno about your funds, but they are quite expensive. My friend has a jam man looper and loves it, and the new boss looper (RC-1) looks pretty sweet, but I haven't heard much about it. Hope this helps in some way. :cool:

[Gargy]

I have a pedal that lets me do a 10 second loop; its hard as hell to do on stage and control everything just right so the rythm stays in tempo and you dont' hit the pedal too soon or too late. Of course I'm sure that Boss pedal will let you record a longer loop which may remedy 90% of the difficulty I experience with my pedal.

[Andrew Sa]

I have a Digitech Jam man, and think it works well for what you seem to be looking for. It comes with 24 minutes of record time, but by upgrading your flash card, as I have, you can save up to about 6 hours of loops.
There are only two problems I have found with this unit, one is that you are limited to 100 loops, which is almost certainly more than enough.

the other is that there is no way to set tempo apart from tap tempo...so if you're playing with a drummer who plays to a click trck, and you want to use a loop, you have to be spot on with your tap and cant set the tempo to an exact tempo with a dial or anything.

There is a metronome on the pedal, and various time signitures...

it's great for jamming, but not ideal for live shows...but close

[guitarzany]

I have a Boss RC-20 that'll record up to 5 mins. I think I paid $200 on ebay but they might be even cheaper now that the newer models are out.