recommend a looping station/looper pedal to use with viola please!
September 17, 2013 1:21 PM Subscribe
Hi all! I am looking to buy a looping station soon. Here are my perimeters:
1. price<300
2. have more than 30 seconds of loop time (basically, what I want is a Line6 DL4 with longer loop time!)
3. half time playback, and can record in half time to have double tim playback
4. reverse playback a plus but not essential
5. undo a plus but even less essential
no delay or reverb necessary but I don't hate them. No drumtrack necessary. I'll never use it.
Right now I am considering DL4, TC Electronic's Ditto Looper, and maybe a Boss RC-3. But I need more ideas! none of them are perfect!
thanks!
I haven't had the aforementioned problems with my DL4, but it just doesn't have enough loop time. It's a looper as an afterthought. Headrush will give you about 2x the DL4 loop and have delay as well. It's been too long since I've used one, so I'll defer to others' reviews.
posted by current occupation: at 9:12 PM on September 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by current occupation: at 9:12 PM on September 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Best answer: I have the Ditto and an RC300 too.
The Ditto is an awesome little thing and you'll love it. It's possibly my favourite pedal of all time. It does one thing but it does it *perfectly*. And it's tiny.
The RC300 is a beast but it does everything you can imagine.
I found that the middle ground was not great -- everything seems compromised.
Buy two Dittos and you've got a monster set-up. They can't be synced but that might be half the joy.
posted by sweet mister at 10:40 PM on September 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
The Ditto is an awesome little thing and you'll love it. It's possibly my favourite pedal of all time. It does one thing but it does it *perfectly*. And it's tiny.
The RC300 is a beast but it does everything you can imagine.
I found that the middle ground was not great -- everything seems compromised.
Buy two Dittos and you've got a monster set-up. They can't be synced but that might be half the joy.
posted by sweet mister at 10:40 PM on September 17, 2013 [2 favorites]
(I've also used Loopy on the iPad but to get hands free operation you have to get airturn pedals or something, and there's an audio interface to consider... it all gets too complicated and error-prone. The Ditto is the opposite of that).
posted by sweet mister at 10:41 PM on September 17, 2013
posted by sweet mister at 10:41 PM on September 17, 2013
Response by poster: yeah, tried Loopy on ipad and it's just too complicated in live situations!
posted by atetrachordofthree at 4:55 AM on September 18, 2013
posted by atetrachordofthree at 4:55 AM on September 18, 2013
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Buy a halfway-decent sound card, and use Mobius.
Learning curve is kinda steep, but "none of them are perfect" cannot apply to Mobius; it is insanely configurable. The community will help you set it up to be Your Dream Looper. (I.e. you post to the forums "I want a button that does thus-and-so" and someone posts the script that makes the button you need.) And it's free!
DL4's buttons will break and its power supply will fry. Waste of money.
RC3 interface makes me pull my hair out (and using it with a mic on a viola is sub-optimal)
Boomerang III is what I'd advise for you, if you had no budget limitation
I don't know the Ditto well enough to comment.
posted by BrunoLatourFanclub at 1:43 PM on September 17, 2013 [2 favorites]