TC Electronic Ditto X2 Looper Pedal, MultiColored, Reverse and Half Speed

It is small but it is great looper, I’m really happy with it.

THIS IS A GOOD LOOPER, WORKS AS DESCRIBED

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

I'm going to start off with a slight caveat which is that I haven't owned this looper for very long and I probably haven't explored all the features yet. Let me just say that so far this pedal is the perfect marriage of ease of use and powerful versatility. I've experimented with a lot of software and hardware based loopers. I decided it was time to go with a hardware looper since when you're playing variety or open mic gigs when you have to be on and off stage pretty quickly, you sort of need to be able to plug in and go... something hard to accomplish with software based loopers. Most of the hardware based loopers I had experimented with seemed to have limited functionality to create anything that would generate interest and dynamics as the song went on and seemed to be mostly meant for the guitar player who wanted to lay down a riff and practice a solo over it (useful, but not exactly a way to spice up your live performance). On the flip side software based loopers seemed to involve too many "moving parts" and became unwieldy when trying to layer or create secondary loops. Too much input was required to create the desired effect and distracted from the performance. What TC electronic has done is basically to leave the important parts to you and do the rest. Highlights of the pedal include; the sync/serial switch which allows you to either run both loops simultaneously or create loops that work as separate parts of the song, the all stop function and the ability to stop and start loops while remaining in sync individually. The FX section is a pretty cool added feature as well as the ability to independently control levels and the rate of decay of old loops as new ones are added (many of you I'm sure are aware that as intense overdubbing occurs, things can get a bit muddy). The sound quality of the unit is also amazing and the fact that you can add in backing tracks created in your DAW through the USB connectivity is pretty cool. My only complaints are that some of the switching is sometimes hard to accomplish. For example to stop an individual loop (i.e. stop loop 1 while keeping loop 2 running) it requires a double tap which for is sometimes hard to do without sending it into a single tap for overdub (perhaps this could be solved with external MIDI input, still looking into it). The other thing I think could be improved upon in this pedal is the versatility of backing tracks. At this point you can only load 1 backing track per loop button and any kind of MIDI input doesn't allow any further versatility there. I would like it if there were an interface through the USB connectivity that allowed you to program your preferred inputs for each command on the unit. Overall, this thing is fantastic, and besides a few quirks it's very intuitive and streamlined to use and will allow you A LOT of creativity with your looping. Personally I've been doing experiments with a mandolin going through a Boss OC-3 Octave Pedal creating pizzicato viola/cello like lines under my mandolin.

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 !!!!

Ho fatto un reso di questo pedale, ma solo perché onestamente non mi ci sono trovato bene, troppe opzioni e poco intuitive x me, nessun manuale se non la versione online in inglese. Il pedale in se è ben fatto, solido e con i giusti spazi tra i pulsanti. Alla fine ho studiato poco il suo utilizzo anche perché è molto ingombrante e ho fatto un cambio di pedaliera che non mi consentiva di inserirlo all’interno. Secondo me resta un buon acquisto per la cifra di 160 circa, e mantiene un buon rapporto qualità prezzo. Ma se avete bisogno di qualcosa di più compatto e con meno possibilità dovete orientarvi su altri pedali (volendo anche della stessa azienda). Probabilmente se avete esigenze complesse potrebbe fare al caso vostro, ma vi consiglio di valutare bene informandovi e guardando video che ne parlano.