Re: Introductory Looper

[Darren Nelsen <darren@curiomusic.com>]

I hate to make a blanket statement, but in my book, anything Digitech  
= crap in terms of production quality. In other words, it'll break.  
I've never been happy with any Digitech device I've ever had. (Had to  
send one device back to the manufacturer twice, and it still broke.)  
Even sales reps point me away from Digitech when I ask about  
durability. This seems to be notorious with Digitech.

I'm a fairly new looper too. I just purchased the Boss RC-50. I love  
it. It does what you've described (pretty much), but there's a limit  
to the amount of subtractions you can do. You have three "phrases"  
that you can record to, layer onto. You can drop any one of the  
phrases out at any time, bring them back, or re-record them. It has  
99 patches and you can switch between patches on the fly, tho there  
seems to be some glitch that's been reported here on the list. (I  
don't switch between patches within a single composition, so not an  
issue for me.)

Darren

On Mar 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Seth Hain wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for an introductory looper.  I've been looking at the
> DigiTech JamMan.  The material on it states that one may record up to
> 99 loops.  As I'm new to these I want to make sure it will do what I
> want, mainly be able to on-the-fly record a sample and start it
> looping and then record another sample and start it looping and
> continue in these manner and then subtract off the loops in any order
> I want.  Is this feasible with the JamMan.  Did I just describe a
> looper in general?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Seth