Donner Circle Looper Pedal | Stereo Guitar Looper Pedal | 40 Slots 160 mins with Drum Machine 100 Drum Grooves, Tap Tempo, Fade Out

Good product

just what my husband was looking for. great value for the money. he likes the drum tracks and ease of use.

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This is the looper you have been looking for (Or at least, it's exactly what I was looking for). 1. The drum machine is very good. There are an incredible number of beats, mostly 4/4 and 3/4, as well as a metronome that can do a whole bunch of timings. It can also be used separately from the looper (turn off the green Merge button in the middle) when you just want a straight drum machine. The beats themselves are good, with appropriate fills for their respective genres. 2. If you're merged with the drum machine, you get a click-in (1-2-3-4!) to start recording, and it will "round" your recording to the nearest bar if you stop it a fraction of a second off (which I always do). For non-pros, this makes it a lot more functional and your loops will sound much better than if the time is a touch off, as often happens when amateurs like me play with manual loopers. 3. Controls are really easy, though there is a bit of a curve. There is a sound level setting for both the drum beat and the loop, so you have quite a bit of control, though setting a good volume on your instruments is still important. 4. Build quality is excellent. It feels like a solid box you can stomp on over and over. And the stomp switches have good action and feel as good as the ones on more expensive brands. In short, for the price, this does just about everything the RC3 does, and does some things better. The only missing features are the ability to run off a 9V battery and it has less memory for loops (40 loops, vs 99). VERY happy with my purchase!

Can't stop using it. The Donner circle looper is a looper with 40 memory slots and a synchronized drum machine in one pedal. There are 100 different beats, in 10 different styles, plus 10 metronomes, bpm control and an independent volume for rhythm and loops. Did I mention tap tempo? It has tap tempo. You can run the looper and the beats in synch or not in synch. There are two inputs and two out puts that allow you to run the looper off two instruments or out of two amps. So, for example, if you want to run a guitar in one channel and have it come out of one amp and a bass or a eukele in the other and have it come out of a different amp, you can do that. Or, you can run a stereo reverb or delay or chorus or something in front of the Circle and then run to two different amps and get stereo sound. I am really enjoying the beat library. I have not used them all yet, but I find having that many different rhythms at my finger tips is pushing me to learn to styles and new techniques that I might not have gotten around to without the Circle Looper. The Drums sound organic and lively. There is a button in the middle of the looper called "MERGER CTRL." When you push it, it turns green. Then when you switch from the rhythm side to the looper side and start the loop, you get a count off and then the drums start when the loop starts. And everything stays synched. If you don't push "MERGET CTRL" the beat and the loop won't stay synched. I'm sure there is a use for a loop where the music slowly drifts away from the drums, but I'm not there yet. The first time you don't use the "MERGER CTRL" it becomes clear why you should. LOL. Quick note, the drums and the loops act independently. So if you record a loop and save it, and you want it to play with the beat you recorded the loop with, you will have to set the drums to the settings you had them at when you recorded it. This is really easy, but if you don't realize that your drums aren't automatically saved, it can be a little jarring when you wonder why you thought you had been on time yesterday and today it sounds like there are two different songs playing. Going back to "MERGER CTRL" once you dial in the drums that you used to record and press 'start' the drums and the loop will start at the beginning of the loop. I hope I'm not making this sound complicated, it's not. The Looper has an led screen that is easy to read and very useful. The screen has a little "circle" that runs around the outer edge of it to tell you where you are in a loop, once you've recorded the first layer. So, if you get lost, you will kind of know where you are in the song. The Screen also tells you what memory slot you are on, what beat you are using, what bpm you are at. It will also tell you if you are coming into the looper too hot. The Directions are clear and detailed. This pedal is a little more complicated than just a simple looper, but it is definitely worth the effort. I honestly can't stop using it. It's just great and for the price, it's down right amazing. I believe these have already sold out twice, so if you see one, snatch it up.

Just got this looper and have been playing with it all day. It's pretty great. The drum sounds are okay. Too many fills. I actually bought it mostly as a drum machine, but I think it's the looping capabilities I might end up using more as I try to improve my vocal harmonies. Had a Boss RC5. It was great, but there were too many things standing in the way of creativity. Like, a lot of deep scrolling in menus to set up the drums. Had an RC10r. Fantastic looper and drum machine, but also too many things standing in the way of my creative flow. For one, each track had an intro and outro, which you had to manually delete for each new loop. Etc. The Donner Circle Looper feels like it has the potential to be more creatively intuitive. For one thing, it saves loops automatically. This is a huge deal. With both Boss pedals I had to bend down and press buttons to save every loop. This one just saves. Even if you switch loops mid-loop, while recording, it saves. That's amazing! Big improvement over the Bosses. Also, it just seems easier to scroll through drums, and just seems generally easier to use than either Boss. Fewer menus. The one thing standing it the way of 5 stars for me is that when you switch mid-loop, say go up or down a loop, it doesn't do so at the end of the measure, but immediately. This means you can't really use it for a verse-chorus situation. This is too bad as the auto-memory saving would make that possible. You can try to time it, probably fine for practice, but you'll never get it completely on time. Also, the drum volume is very loud, even on 1, which is weird. You can fiddle with it and get the levels okay. Overall, and especially for the price, I think I'll like it better than the Boss ones, at less than half the price. Just ordered a generic version of a Digitech FS3x footswitch to go with it.