If you’re a guitarist on a budget who is interested in creating loops at home or to use in smaller live settings, you might be interested in the Groove Loop X2 by Mooer Audio. This is a stereo looper and drum machine pedal that combines two essential tools for guitarists. In this review, I will share my experience with this pedal and why I think it is a great addition to your arsenal of guitar gear, especially for home use. Check Amazon Price
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Lekato Looper Review
The Lekato Looper pedal is a white label (generic) looper / tuner pedal that Amazon can sellers buy in bulk from China, rebrand, and resell as their own. That said, you get a ton of bang for your buck with this looper. It’s loaded with features and will easily have you jamming solos and working out songs at home. If you can put up with potential quality control issues and a lack of customer support, this is one of the best (all things considered) cheap looper pedals you can find. Plus, you get a built-in tuner so it’s like getting two pedals in one!Check Amazon Price
Donner Circle Looper Pedal Review
If you’ve been shopping around for loopers for a little while, you’ll have undoubtedly noticed it can get real expensive if you don’t want a crappy pedal. Boss essentially rules the game through sheer numbers, and the new “flagship,” the RC-600, costs almost $700. No matter how much you love looping, that starts to sting a little. But what are your alternatives? Can you even get a looper for $150 or less without being limited in some way as with something like the Ditto? Are there any choices that aren’t painfully stripped-down or painfully expensive? Enter the Donner Circle Looper. Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-600 Loop Station Review
The Boss RC-600 is the new “flagship” looper for players who want as much functionality as possible, despite the size. It’s intended as the successor the older RC-300, boasting six independent tracks for an unparalleled looping experience. But does it live up to expectations? Check Amazon Price
Pigtronix Infinity 3 Looper Review
Pigtronix made a big mark on the looping world through the Infinity 2. Now they’re aiming to build on the successful formula with the new version. And it definitely looks great: clean, well-presented, with rugged metal footswitches but not too much cluttering up the body. It touts features like the option to run dual loops in parallel or series, the ability to easily switch up the pitch or speed of your loops, new synchronization options, and more. But is it really all it’s cracked up to be? Can they justify charging more than the Boss RC-500, for instance – or could you get better value for money elsewhere? Check Amazon Price
TC Electronic Ditto+ Looper Review
The original Ditto Looper broke the mold when it came to looper pedals. While other manufacturers were cramming in as many features as possible, the Ditto focused on its core functionality. It stood out from the competition by focusing on a clear, well-captured tone. This was immensely popular even with pro players who just wanted something that sounded great. The lack of memory was a pretty big limitation, however. TC Electronic listened to its customers and fixed this with the Ditto+ Looper. It is essentially the Ditto, plus, memory and a few other things. See what they did there?Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-5 Loop Station Review
Boss pretty much dominates the looping world. Their RC series of pedals have been among the most sought-after pedals in the field since they were first released, and they also do a pretty admirable job of meeting the varied needs of people looking for looper pedals. In particular, you don’t have to pick up a behemoth unit like the RC-300 (and now 500), because they have some stripped-down, stompbox-sized options out there too. The RC-3 was awesome, but the RC-5 aims to improve on the same formula. Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-500 Loop Station Review
The RC-500 is a bit of a departure from its predecessor, the RC-30. While the older unit had a just two footswitches, supplemented with a fairly busy upper section, the RC-500 adds an extra switch and streamlines the top. There are three metallic footswitches on the lower half of the body, angled towards you as you play, with a series of buttons, a couple of dials and two sliders on the top section, surrounding a small LCD display. There is around the same number of buttons, but the design has more of a focus on minimalism and simplicity so it’s less daunting as a new user.Check Amazon Price
Singular Sound Aeros Loop Studio Review
The more features you add to a looper pedal, the more it tends to blur the boundaries between different types of pedal. For example, the JamMan Delay is a Frankenstein-style combination of a looper pedal and a delay pedal, and the Nu-X JTC Pro Rhythm Looper is like the love-child of a looper pedal and a drum machine. But any looper, especially a multi-track one, blurs the boundaries between looper pedal and multi-track recorder almost by definition. The Singular Sound Aeros Loop Studio, though, takes this to the extreme.Check Amazon Price
NUX JTC Drum & Loop (NDL-2) Review
It sounds bad, and sometimes it’s annoying when the smaller version of the pedal is just the big one but with fewer switches and less functionality, but it does have some benefits. Most of all, it means you can get a different version of the same basic pedal to suit your needs and budget. For every RC-300, there is an RC-3, for every JamMan Delay there is a JamMan Solo, and for every JTC Drum & Loop Pro, there’s a JTC Drum & Loop / NDL-2. So in a sense you know what you’re getting here, but is it worth the money? Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-10R Rhythm Loop Station Review
For a long time, the rhythm section on looper pedals was kind of crap. Not that it’s not a nice additional feature, more so that it was just something tossed in with some token patterns and often synthetic-sounding drums. But the RC-10R sets out to change all that. It’s essentially the love-child of a traditional, Boss-level looper pedal and a drum machine, complete with interesting patterns, the option to throw in fills and a choice of drum kits so you can change up the sound to suit your compositions. This all seems great on paper, but how does it work out in practice? Check Amazon Price
NUX JTC Drum & Loop Pro Review
Clones are a fact of life in many industries. Where one company comes up with some innovative concept that catches on and brings in a lot of sales, there are always tons of alternatives on the market shortly afterwards, hoping to cash in on the same basic idea. But for the customer, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Fair enough, they might be rushed-out from some corner-cutting factory and fall to pieces on you faster than a hard-shelled taco, but you just might get something just as good for much less money. Check Amazon Price