Looper for Pedal Board

  • Thread starter Thread starter Haljon
  • Start date Start date
I dont personally use one on my board, but I think it states it quite well in the product description:


Uses:

Turn on multiple effects with one click.

Use as a simple interface for activating back row effects on the front row of your pedalboard.

Add true bypass capability to any effect and eliminate tone-sucking effects from your signal path. When you want them off, they'll be COMPLETELY off. (each loop grounds out the send for zero bleedover)

Use for effects that do not have on/off switches.


The way it achieves "turning on multiple effects with one click: you'd just hook up a chain of pedals into the send/return of one of the loops. Say you play rhythm dry them want to kick in something like phaser/boost/delay without tap-dancing, you could hook up those 3 pedals into one loop.

Something like this is quite a simplified looper. You can get more programmability with with something like the Rocktron Patchmate Floor, Carl Martin Octaswitch, and of course the Musicomlab.
 
Thanks for the reply. I just wasent getting it.

Use as a simple interface for activating back row effects on the front row of your pedalboard.?? I don't see the benefit from this. But the chain aspect, now I get that.

And thanks for the other loopers !!!
 
Haljon":l0n6tdcm said:
Use as a simple interface for activating back row effects on the front row of your pedalboard.?? I don't see the benefit from this. But the chain aspect, now I get that.
Click to expand...

Quite often, especially if you're using a bunch of pedals, guys have boards that are 2-3 rows deep. Rather than reach all the way to the back row pedals, this allows you to switch them on/off at the front row (where most guys place their loopers).

Loopers like the Carl Martin allow you to assign different combos of pedals to each footswitch. Say you have 8 pedals, each one will have its own dedicated send/return. then using little dipswitches (numbered 1-8, corresponding to your pedals) on each footswitch, you can change up what combo of pedals you want on each. Say footswitch 1 has pedals 2,5, and 7 on for example.

The Musicomlab EFX (quite a bit more expensive) is more digitally controlled, allowing you to store something like 60 presets (via banking up/down) and ability to do amp switching and MIDI stuff.
 
I have a loop-master on my board. Its pretty nicely built. Took six weeks to get in though. It does eliminate a lot of tone suck if you are running several pedals in a chain. Plus, everything is switchable from one place on my board which is very nice when drunk pedal-dancing on stage!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top