Looping stations

[Steiger]

G'day Lads,

I'm looking at getting a looping station/pedal and from what I can see there's about 3 real choices for my budget

(In no particular order)

1.Digitech Jam Man - has a usb port, compact flash card for up to 6.5 hours of loops, xlr input for mic, some people say it colours their sound.

2. Boss RC-20XL - similar to jamman but no usb or flash, 16 minutes of loops, a fade out feature, people seem to like the 'transparency' of this on their gear

3. Boss RC-5 compact pedal - similar to its big bro the 20XL but only half the size but still 3/4's the price...

Has anyone got any opinions on these or any other looping pedals? I'm going to the music shop some time soon to try the boss pedals out. I can't find any local retailers that have the jam man...

I only have one warmoth -at the moment- so I want a looping pedal so I can hear several Warmoths at once and bask in that tonalicous warmothastic sound  :glasses9:

 

[jimh]

Bask in that tonalicous warmothtastic sound  :glasses9:

Now there's a quote for the new look Warmoth website!!!!!!

 

[hannaugh]

I have the RC-20XL.  I like it.  It's pretty versatile and it doesn't change my sound.  It was recommended to me by several different people, so that's the one I got.  I've seen some musicians do amazing things with it... not me, because I still am not that great at manipulating it.  But it's not that hard to figure out and if you, unlike me, practice with it, I'm sure you could do some pretty cool stuff with it without too much difficulty. 

 

[stubhead]

I have a Boss RC-20XL that I really like, but the key to getting a good sound is to NOT plug a guitar into the INST input - I use a processor, then a mini-mixer's "effects send" into the MIC input on the RC20XL. Then the output comes back into it's own channel on the mixer. It's a recording device, after all, and an unprocessed, un-EQ'd electric guitar is a pretty twanky sounding thing, for the most part. There are various ways to hook them into the effects loop of an amp, depending on what you want. I can/do set up with two separate preamps into my mixer - one bass, one guitar - and I can record a bass part and play over it with guitar or vice-versa with just a few seconds switching around. I've never used it live, but a lot of people do. Like anything recording, levels and noise have to be fiddled with considerably to sound best. Another one to consider is the Electro Harmonix 2880, it looks really cool:
http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/ElectroHarmonix-2880-Super-MultiTrack-Looper?sku=153338

In this demo, he uses it to act as normal as possible, but I'm sure it's good for better things than THAT :hello2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOz8PtQ1FGA&annotation_id=annotation_599973&feature=iv

 

[rockskate4x]

Bask in that tonalicous warmothtastic sound  :glasses9:

Now there's a quote for the new look Warmoth website!!!!!!

Aside from the fact that I love Warmoth this is why I love this blog lol!!!