DITTO LOOPER Highly Intuitive Looper Pedal with 5 Minutes of Looping Time, Analog-Dry-Through and True Bypass

This looper is very easy use . Great sound reproduction, takes guitar playing to another level .

The Ditto Looper is a well-known product that has been around for a while. I bought this to practice playing to rhythm. It works as it should.

Years ago, I bought the stomp box looper that was the industry leader's current model at the time. (Fire engine red, rhymes with LOSS, the model number was RC-2.) In the meantime, they've updated that model, so I can't speak about their current quality. With pre-programmed drum loops and the possibility to connect a separate "stop" foot-switch, you'd think that that device would have an advantage over the x2. But as I found out in five short minutes of testing the Ditto, sound quality is everything. The Ditto plays back your loop sounding exactly like the original. You may not even notice that your looper can't do that, until you feel the difference. This is huge. I'd even say my old unit made the sound of the "live" playing worse. With the Ditto, you find yourself playing like you would with a buddy, as opposed to a machine. It's remarkably easy to get the loops to "fit", because it's so intuitive, and the soft touch foot switches allow for quick and precise punching in and out. Having a dedicated stop switch makes a world of difference. Reverse and half-speed are fun, but they don't amount to much more than fun little jokes that you'll play around with for a while before getting tired of them. One possible exception: You might consider recording a guitar loop while the x2 is in half-speed mode, then speed it up and play a bass line, slow it back down, and you'll have something that sounds almost like a real bass guitar (if your playing is precise enough). But it's more convenient and convincing to hook up an actual bass to the second input. Again: The absolute winning characteristic of this thing is the stellar sound quality. I'll give my little red toy looper to a needy nephew and loop on in CD quality. If you've got a good setup for your acoustic, that works like a charm as well, by the way. Hurray.

I like the simplicity of this pedal. Took me all of 5 minutes to learn how to use it, and 4 of those were spent looking for the tiny slip of paper the instructions were written on. It's small design fit very easily onto my already packed pedal board. And it sounds great. Well.. it WILLl when my chops improve LOL (garbage in, garbage out) I've been a rhythm guitarist for around 20 years and I feel I need expand my abilities. So, I mainly bought this pedal as a tool to teach myself to play better leads. I record a repeating chord progression and then try to play a lead over the top of it. For this, this pedal rocks. It's quick. It's easy. And it works perfect for what I bought it for. I could see, however, how the one button design would not be ideal for more performance based use. But, I don't think it's something that practice and a volume pedal couldn't help. Just think about your needs before you buy. The one thing that keeps it from being a 5 star for me, is it's tendency to "clip" when dubbiing multiple loops. Get too agro with it and the signal starts cutting out a bit. Again, I think that practice and proper volume control can help you eliminate this issue. (note: I use an acoustic with an active pickup which could be part of the problem as it has had a tendency to overdrive a few of my other pedals.) All in all, it's a fun little tool that gets the job done, quick and dirty. But, as with most things, if's not ideal for every one. As stated before, think about your needs before you buy.

The Ditto looper is a good rugged pedal that does what it's supposed to . It lacks all the bells and whistles of some of the others and it has a few bells and whistles that no one would really want like reverse and 1/2 speed .....whatever . One good feature is that it has a dedicated stop button instead of having to stomp twice to stop the loop and it gives 5 minutes of continuous looping as well . And it is also true bypass . It is a basic utility pedal that's easy for musicians to use live on the fly. Not my only looper or my fave but for reliabiliy and ease of use it will stay on my pedalboard for the time being

Bought this for my boyfriend who's VERY picky, and he seems to LOVE it! When people complain about loopers, it's usually because they might not get the timing thing - always stomp it on the One beat (as in One, Two, Three, Four) whether you are STARTING the recording or ENDING it. It will work out fine, trust me! My boyfriend doesn't have the best sense of timing either, but once he understood that concept, he GOT it! This is a solid little piece of hardware and works great for practicing your leads over your own rhythm, and helps with your sense of timing. It would be great for any gigs where you need that extra bit of background rhythm guitar as well. It's very well constructed, very solid, and very basic in the way you use it. Whenever you first press the button, it starts recording. Press it a 2nd time, it plays the loop. Press it again and it will record another layer over the first loop, and when you press again, you will now have BOTH of your recordings playing. From what I can tell, there's no limit to the amount of layers, just that there's a 5 minute limit of recording time. Still, that's a LOT - and it will play back the loop forever if you let it! To remove ALL recordings, press it twice but hold down on that 2nd press. Bam, clean slate! Just check out a few youtube videos on the pedal and you'll get it. Anyway, I'm relieved at least that this is one gift I've bought him that he actually LIKES!

Beware, this is an older model nowadays and you don't know really what you're getting in the box. I received the unit, played it a few times early on with no problems. Tried using it for a few ideas after it just sitting with the batteries installed. Only had it long enough for the return period to expire. The problem is major. When pressing the loop switch, a loud pop occurs and is recorded as part of the loop. So every loop has this loud pop and a second of no sound. When stopping the loop, there is a loud pop as well. Went to see if there was a fix by downloading firmware update and there were no updates for the X2 on the TC Electronics website. Had to read a ton of comments on the pedal and it's reliability, found a popping issue that dealt with possible capacitor charge buildup, nothing I can fix. Submitted a ticket to their Music Tribe customer service, will update review if they follow through. Update - I did receive a response with some solutions such as check PSU and hard reset; had done all that already. They said to contact third part seller, Alto Music, for warranty. Only an address on Amazon page for Alto so I started a chat with Amazon to see if there was a faster email address. Long story short, Amazon was able to allow me to return the defective unit! Amazon is reliable, TC products made in China are not.

Absolutely flawless pedal, by far the best looper I personally have ever used (haven't been able to use the $300+ loopers yet so my opinion is limited in that regard). I particularly like the halfspeed function, it yields a lot of interesting possibilities with your overdubs. Watch any one of the youtube demos of this pedal and you'll see what I mean. As far as quantization goes, a lot of people (in other places on the internet) have complained about there being no quantize features. After having used this pedal for several months, I understand why that feature could be so helpful--if you're even slightly off on your timing, the loop will fall out of phase after X amount of cycles (depending on how far off you were initially). You could either work this into the performance and stop/restart after certain lapses of time, or you could work on making your timing better, which is what you should ideally be doing as a musician anyway. In that regard, I don't think the lack of quantization is even remotely a downside for this pedal considering all of its features for how inexpensive it is. I'm by no means a virtuoso and I'm probably not as good as many would-be guitarists you'd find on the street, but even I was able to eventually get my timing right to use this looper in conjunction with a drum machine WITHOUT phasing issues. It just took some practice. And that's where this pedal really shines: it makes practicing guitar extremely fun and newly inspiring, especially if you've been playing the same sh*t for too long and have run out of ideas. Having an option for a dedicated stop switch takes away the nuisance of double tapping the main switch every time to stop a loop, and the footswitches themselves are the softer-engage style (have no idea what the proper term is) that is easier to tap than the average footswitches that are rough on bare feet. You'll also enjoy layering with the various effects (reverse and half speed--watch the youtube demos), and with everything considered you'll probably be pleased with the results, not to mention the high audio quality of the loop itself (which shouldn't be understated). For $170 (I got mine ten dollars less when the price fell for a few weeks), you cannot buy a better looper than this. You just can't.

THIS IS A GOOD LOOPER, WORKS AS DESCRIBED

My son loves this Christmas gift. Fantastic loop pedal for a busker - acoustic set

Slowly getting to grips with the 2 pedals and successfully did a nice 12 bar loop with 3 part harmony, and yes, with a mike overdubbed on the guitar tracks. More interested in a straight 4.5 minute backing drum track used non-loop, and overdubbing from there. It took 1 minute 15 seconds to sync in 45 megs of wav file after I undocked the ditto X2 and will add tracks from there using the drum track as a metronome. The possibilities are pretty exciting as to what can be done with this neat contraption. Reminds me of my recording days back in the 60's. Just love it !!!!

Todo lo que esperaba, en realidad no utilizo los efectos, son una tontería que a mí no me sirve para nada. Pero la calidad de sonido del aparato es perfecta. True bypass real perfecto, muy claro y la construcción del aparato es de alto nivel. Muy contento.

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