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57Deluxe

Was  explaining how loopers work to one of my young students who seemed obsessed with only the ones that had excessive loop times.

I told him you just grab a few secs or a bar and loop it - not entire performances! Anyway to demonstrate the experimental ways you can use a looper I plugged in his electro acoustic to an analogue echo pedal and did some taps with the pick on the body with extended delay repeats and than got him to sing into the sound hole.... only for him to hear his voice coming back at him through the delay pedal! Now if you take that and loop it and another vocal phrase and loop that you can build up a full vocal performance using just the guitar!! Mad...

benmurray85

Being concerned with the loopers loop time isn't necessarily such a bad thing. Yes you may generally loop 30 seconds to a minute but it's once you start overdubbing that they add up and that eats into the overall available loop time. 

Legionreturns

benmurray85 said:

Being concerned with the loopers loop time isn't necessarily such a bad thing. Yes you may generally loop 30 seconds to a minute but it's once you start overdubbing that they add up and that eats into the overall available loop time. 

Pretty sure most loopers now only have a max time for the loop, overdubs don't add any time. Mine is 10 minutes with, in theory, unlimited over dubs

Dominic

helix one is too short

steamabacus

benmurray85 said:

Being concerned with the loopers loop time isn't necessarily such a bad thing. Yes you may generally loop 30 seconds to a minute but it's once you start overdubbing that they add up and that eats into the overall available loop time. 

I think that would only be true if you had infinite layers of 'undo' available (and therefore each layer would have to be stored separately) and I don't know of any loopers with that facility. Usually there's just one layer of undo - whether that's accounted for in the stated 'loop times' (effectively halving it) I'm not sure. The only looper I've ever come across a practical limit on in use is my old Line 6 DL4 (14s, 28s at half speed)

benmurray85

I might be wrong but pretty sure all the Boss loopers work on that basis! Thats the reason I switched over to TC Ditto X2

57Deluxe

My Digitech Delay has a 5sec of loop setting, but countless overdubs...

But the post was more about recording your voice through the Acoustic guitar's Piezo PUP that amazed me...