I was looking for way to improve my timing and also open the option for me, to make phrases in a scale.
I bought this little beast that seemed like best option for me. I cant wait to get out of prison (work) to start messing with that!
Nux Loop Core Stereo has:
6 hours record
2x mono (stereo)
1x headphone
MIDI
99 banks
50 build in drums
LCD with interface, also showing the length of the loop
it is 24hz and I read somewhere it can play backing tracks uploaded inside memory too!
In the past I had Digitech Trio+, but that seemed extremely complex to me, so I did not have energy and will to mess with that. Too many knobs. This one should be much more easy and also now on my journey I know little bit more than year or two ago.
First thing I will do is try to learn make great loop as backing, so I can improvise like Justin in Grade 2 over C Major Scale. Then I will try to follow some Danish Pete opinions about how to loop, he is so great (that guy from Andertons, but I am pretty sure you know).
I think loopers are one of the best learning tools out there - improves timing, allows you to create any backing track you want and you get to listen to yourself on a recording too.
I bought one of these a year or so ago after one of my other loopers broke.
The ‘must have’ feature for me was that I can send drums out to a separate channel - this was the most inexpensive looper with that feature I could find at the time.
Paul - my opinion, too, couldn’t agree more. Actually, most of what I’ve learned throughout my life as a guitar player, at least in terms of improvisation, began in 2014, when I purchased my first looper, a TC Electronic Ditto, a simple unit with only five minutes of recording time…
I also just acquired a looper about a month ago and I have to say it is phenomenal in practice. My son has also been using it also using it. He is 12 and very beginner struggles a lot with rhythm. Being able to make his own groove and then play along has been just fantastic to watch.
One thing I found that helps is a First Take approach. I forgot where I heard this, but when I first got the looper, I would spend take after take trying to get the perfect record, but pretty quickly realized it is sometimes more educational to go in up front with the idea that I am going to loop the First Take. I can tell you that my first takes have certainly improved knowing that I wont give myself a second attempt.
Thank you all for tips and sharing your experiences.
First thing I did was putting metronome in back, but when I started it it was so loud it almost bounced me out of chair. Fixed that.
Then I had problem I did a loop and I wanted to play over that with some stored bank effect on my AMP. Well… I was surprised and angry it changed the tone of loop too.
I found out my Boss Katana MK2 50w does not have “isolated loop”, so I cant do that, but it is solvable with pedal between guitar and looper that I can just turn on and off… or at least AI told me that. Will try in “far future”, because I am waiting for Nucleo reverb pedal, but it is really limited stock and I have to wait around 1-2 months more (paid around Christmass).
I found the way, thanks to AI, I should do the loop on volume around 7 with guitar and then improvise over that with 10. It kinda works good and biggest possitive here is I can change the volume of loop or drums in the looper separated, so I can mess with that alot!
Also I am finding idea, that I create simple loop on clean and after that I switch the switch to bridge or series bridge and neck (I have Tele with 4 way switch mod) and then I can improvise over that.
Like this I was just noodling around in C Major Scale and I found some new “phrases” and tones to play! Of course it is still really poor and not that great, but I am exploring and that is the reason I wanted this piece of equipment.
I was pretty surprised how well I did my first loop in time too.
Hi Michal
This is a solution that works for the Trio and should work for your looper too if it’s got a headphone out socket.
Connect a double male cable from the headphone out socket of the Trio+ to the Aux in socket on the amp. The amp plays the Trio loop/backing track clean and you can then separately put whatever fx you want on the amp for the guitar. This should work with any non fx loop amp with an aux in socket.
Fixed that.
