tc electronic Ditto Looper 4-stars Reviews

Simple and reliable Looper - great practice tool

I use the Ditto Looper, for practicing with a backing chord/riff progression or to develop ideas.

Pros:

- Good Sound quality

- Able to record loop over loop, multiple times and to redo last loop, if you wish

- Very small footprint

Cons:

- To pause it you must double tap, which can be a bit annoying

As a first looper I really like it and wished I had bought it long ago

This looper is not the option for a live looping musician. It's mostly a tool for practising. It doesn't have many features, but all I wanted was a looper pedal with just the basic functions mostly for practising and finding my tone, and only some playing along looping tracks. It can be used as a backing track looper, though, but only for medium creativity. If you are after a pedal for live situations with various types of layers and not just one layer over another, then you might want to check pedals with more functions. In terms of its simplicity, it is indeed simple, however I put 4 stars in handling, because I always find it a little difficult to work with loopers myself. Guess I should practise even more.

Small & simple

Pros:

1. It is a good looper choice for practicing like I do. Because it is very very simple one. I record one base riff and play solo on it. Sometimes I record many things on top of each other for fun. That's all.

2. Supporting to this simplicity, It has only a Level knob and one switch for multiple operation like record, add/remove track, stop playing

3. And another thing I like is: When you record a riff and then shutdown the electricity, the recording will be available on the next power on! I do not need to record the same riff again and again on each start of practicing.

4. Small size is an advantage if you have many pedals on your pedalboard

Cons:

there is no cons for those whom is looking for simple looper.

Great for "normal" looping

It's one of the most used looper for a reason, it works perfectly for simple single track looping while taking up almost no space.

It is a bit tricky to operate with only one stomp switch though at least unless you get used to it

Needs more controls

Sounds good, it's easy to use and the recording time is fine.

But having to stomp twice to stop the loop makes it impossible to use live.

Nice looper

Good and simple. Works very well.

Little but awesome

Great little looper! very easy to use and the sound quality is perfect.

It was smaller then I thought but I'm fine with that.

Really good build quality, my only problem is that there is a slight delay between loops, no idea if its because of me doing something wrong or not.

Perfect

sound good .. do the job .. veryy small .. cheap price ...

Good for practicing alone and refining ideas

Very simple looper pedal, really easy to use and no setup whatsoever. Very very compact and sturdy and the button is nice and responsive. I've had great fun practicing with it, however it does have a slight hum/buzz sound when looping. Would recommend for the price.

It's better than I am

The sound is great as is the ease of operation, I'm just too much of a klutz to use it properly on stage. Great fun for practicing ideas in the house. I've also used it for generating random loops live when it's been getting all Fripper-tronics on the audience.

Just loop

I found this Ditto very nice, with all I need in a loop pedal, an no-nonsense.

Exactly what you expect

This looper pedal is what you expect of it. It's small, well built and it does what it is supposed to and that's it. It doesn't have ANY extra feature or anything like that, but it sounds good enough, though the one button thing is a bit tricky to get used to.

However, for this price, it's a steal.

Simple but fun

I just use this product as a bit of fun to mess around with in my downtime. It's not quite suitable for live playing due to the limited features, but for what it is it's fantastic. The tone is pure, it's easy to use and it's a load of fun. However, Only having one pedal does make it difficult to stop and start the recording in time. This is a clear flaw in the product but otherwise it's tone is great and it's a nice way to practice and hone your skills. Mine unfortunately ran into some electrical difficulties after maybe 2 years of solid playing but this may just be a one off.

A simple and fun pedal but slightly impractical. 4/5

Simple but effective

For those of us not technically proficient, this is the ideal looper pedal. One button covers all functions, and there are a few functions. The pedal has a small footprint too, which I like, so all in all, I couldn't be happier.

Good pedal, wish it had an extra button

I bought this pedal to use during live shows in which I perform with foot drums.

First, the good:

- the sound of this thing is clear and dare I say it, perfect. There is no difference in quality whether I use it or have it disconnected completely

- the build quality is excellent. Solid, beautiful, that button is clicky and cool.

- small! This thing is tiny which of course adds to the awesomeness.

- very fun. Jamming is natural and very easy to get into.

Well, now the bad.

- One button. I know it looks clean and saves space but it is soooo difficult to operate during a show for this reason: tap to record and tap to playback is great and natural but if you want to stop it you need to double tap and that does not come natural at all. Also, if you don't manage to delete the loop on first try, you might end up starting a loop again before it deletes which is dreadful in a live show.

To sum up, great pedal but ultimately made for a guitarist with their feet free and more suited for home/studio practice than live shows

Very good loop unit

The TC Electronic Ditto loop pedal is a great little helper and it is easy to use. The operation can be learned in a few minutes and then you can start to work with it. The quality of the sound of this pedal is very good (24 bit), I would rate five stars for that.

I use this loop device with my bass guitar. The playback volume of the loops is sufficient and there is no loss in the low end bass frequencies if the unit is playing the loops.

I use the pedal with a microphone also. Sounds great, too.

The build quality of the device is very high.

No instructions.

This was a present, so can't comment myself, but my husband tells me all is good. Only downside was the lack of instructions, he had to go online and download some. A lot smaller than expected.

Does what it says on the tin

Small simple and good quality, sits in my amps effects loop happily which is more than I can say for cheaper loopers I have had in the past. If you are happy with the minimal controls then look no further.

Simple to use, infinite possibilities

It is incredible what such a simple and well design device can add to your guitar journey...

Recording your own loops isin my opinion way superior to readily available backing tracks. It forces me to constantly work on my timing and rhythmic skills. “Writing” your own chord progressions is also a good way to put in practice some simple concepts of music theory.

I record my scales practice with it from time to times in order to judge my regularity and clean some of the unwanted sloppiness that I am guilty of.

Of course, It will never fully replace the joy of a jam session with a mate, but like a great philosopher once said “You can’t always get what you want!”

Too bad the recorded loops cannot be easily exported.