[RWP] Please Guitarists, Recommendation for Looper Pedal

[TheOreoMonster]

Sounds like what you may be on the hunt for is hand held multi track recorder.
On Jun 16, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nope, not a clue about the creme de la creme of loopers either. My
> dodgy Digitech Jam Man thingy has always sufficed for quick and dirty
> loopy stuff here. Thought it was worth posting to reassure new people
> that we're not dying a death though. These lulls happen every so
> often, presumably when people are otherwise engaged (maybe making
> music), but the list always picks back up again.
> 
> On 6/16/14, Jes <jessmith at samobile.net> wrote:
>> Indigo, I am not sure about an answer to your question, but I think
>> this list may be dying off. It may be coming to its end. It is not
>> normal for the list to be this quiet and have almost zero replies in
>> the last 48 hours. Of course, this may be just me.
>> 
>> Original message:
>>> 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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