The JamMan Solo seems to be Digitech’s challenge to the Boss RC-3 Loop Station, the smallest of Boss’s line of looper pedals. The JamMan Solo is the compact, inexpensive sibling of DigiTech’s larger JamMan Stereo and JamMan Delay Looper pedals, and is now somewhat eclipsed by Digitech’s newer Jamman Solo XT, which offers a few small improvements over the Jamman Solo. The challenge faced by manufacturers producing compact pedals like the Jamman Solo or the similar Jamman Solo XT is maintaining the same level of functionality offered by the larger models.Check Amazon Price
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Digitech JamMan Review
Right off the bat, you may have noticed the similarity in look between the JamMan and Boss’s RC-20XL. You are certainly not alone. The RC-20XL came out in August 2004, and the JamMan a year later, to the month. This leads to a lot of competition between the two pedals, and they are in many ways easily comparable. DigiTech has since released a couple of new pedals, the JamMan Solo and the JamMan Stereo, but then again, so has Boss. Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-50 Loop Station Review
Boss has been on the cutting edge of looping technology for some time now. After raising the bar with the RC-20XL, they attempted to build the holy grail of looper pedals with the RC-50 Loop Station. But is the RC-50 really the holy grail, or did they miss the mark? For some basic info on looping, click here. Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-20XL Loop Station Review
The Boss RC-20XL is the mid-sized looper in Boss’s older RC-2x series, and the predecessor of the more recently released RC-30 Loop Station. In Boss’s older RC-2x series, the RC-20XL offered a wide range of features in a much smaller (and cheaper) package than the monster RC-50, but easier access to its features than the much smaller RC-2. The RC-20XL was actually an upgrade of the now obsolete RC-20, which only offered 5 minutes and 30 seconds of recording time, compared to the RC-20XL’s 16 minutes.Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-2 Loop Station Review
If Boss’s range of loop pedals were to be described in iPod terms, the RC-2 would be the Nano. The miniaturized sibling with all the key features crammed into a tiny little package. You could argue that it’s quite difficult to get all the functionality of the big boys (the RC-20XL and the goliath RC-50) into a little box, and it’s not like they’d opt to provide you with a unit that was nineteen inches long if there wasn’t a benefit to it. But don’t discount the little RC-2 straight away; you’d be surprised how much you can fit into such a small package. Check Amazon Price
Boomerang III Phrase Sampler Review
The Boomerang III may look like the control panel for an 80s arcade game, but it’s simply a unique looper pedal with retro styling. Loop based music has spawned a variety of cool looking devices over the years, but the basic idea is that your guitar chords and riffs are recorded and repeated for you to jam over. Using techniques like reversing, changing octaves, layering and overdubbing, looping can actually become its own art form. Check Amazon Price