[RWP] Please Guitarists, Recommendation for Looper Pedal

[Rusty Perez]

Hi Indi,

I am a guitarist who uses loopers.
There are a few good hardware choices if you want to buy a new pedal.
I recently purchased a Boomerang III Phrase sampler made by Boomerang
musical products.
The pedal is able to record, play and overdub three discreete stereo
tracks on its own, and even four if you want to reduce some feature
availability.
the pedal has five foot  buttons. You can also purchase a second foot
controller with five more buttons and have access to lots more
features directly.
The main drawback for some people is that this unit cannot save any
loops. It is purely a performance tool.

there is also the Electro Harmonix 2880 or 4500. These two products
work more like a four track multi track recorder, but they do not have
any foot buttons, you need to purchase an additional unit for foot
buttons, or configure a midi pedal board.
But, this one does allow you to save loops. The 45000 allows more
flexible saving features.

These, I believe, are the most accessible units right now.


I perform with a looper regularly and would be happy to answer any
questions you have.

I would also love to correspond with you about your drums and flutes!
I'm a bit of a percussionist as well.

Rusty


On 6/14/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> 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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