[RWP] Please Guitarists, Recommendation for Looper Pedal

Indigo 33indigo at charter.net
Sat Jun 14 15:08:29 EDT 2014


Hi everyone,
I've been entirely acoustic for a while, happily making long long bamboo 
flutes and wooden slit drums.
This morning I rigged a flute neck strap so I could play the flute with 
1 hand and the drum with the other, and tuned the fundamental of the 
flutes to the fundamental of the drum.
I'm about ready to record on a looper pedal, one that records in 24 
bits, hopefully 96K, which I could do with PC and Reaper, but a pedal's 
handier, or maybe I should say footier.
This amazing slit drum has become like a real percussion synthesizer, 
with an infinitude of notes and steel-drum-like chords, all 
complementing and in tune with each other.
I installed a couple of screws on the back edge, of the drum's wooden 
box, with a screendoor spring stretched between the screws, across the 
soundboard, so I get a built-in no-batteries-required spring reverb, 
plus if I hit harder at certain places I get a slapback, or a snare 
effect, depending on where and how hard I hit.
It even bends notes when I both press on tongues and hit tongues 
simultaneously, and pressing different positions, like frets, along the 
length of the screendoor spring raises the whole drum's resonant 
frequency, plus choking off the drum's sound port radically affects its 
resonance, pitch and timbre.
Anyway, at the moment I'm having a good time with these low-tech 
devices, but need recommendations on what's currently the clearest 
recording guitar looper pedal, with enough memory for a decent number of 
discreet tracks.
I already own a couple of pedals that include a sound-on-sound type 
looper, where there's only 1 loop, so previous recordings deteriorate in 
quality as you make new recordings, so don't need another of that type 
of looper, but want one that does entirely discreet stereo recordings, 
all run from a foot, requiring no button presses from fingers to select 
and begin playing previous trax and begin recording the next new track.

Any pointers, anyone?
Thanks,
Indi




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