tc electronic Ditto Looper Reviews

Updated review after ~3 years of use. Bad quality!

Updated Review:

The switch on this looper is very bad quality, there is a spring inside and after decent amount of use the mechanical switch will give out, and the switch will not function properly. I had to open it up and fix it twice already, will not use it in a gig, or even in rehearsals with band.

Another big problem is it cannot handle Line-Level FX loop on amps. In simple words if you are running this pedal in FX loop of your amp, and you hapen to have an amp which has FX loop on line level, this pedal will give you a volume drop. Even though the manual says that it should work on line-level impedance, it doesn't.

And if you loop too many sounds over it, it sound like a mud, also tends to go out of sync.

Review when I bought it:

I play in a post rock band, and I slowly build overlays of various sounds and in the end achieving a massive wall of psychedelia, and looping is quiet essential in this process,therefore I wanted something simple, and due to lack of space on my pedal board I wanted something small. And Ditto-Looper pretty much fits the bill.

It is quiet simple to operate, the instruction manual is barely a page long. Gives you a maximum of 5 mins loop time, true bypass, 24 bit-96Khz sound quality, and a knob to control the voulme of the recorded loops, this I think is essentially what everyone wants from a looper.

And I really like the foot switch of looper, it is quiet soft, allows you to operate it with a subtle press, otherwise in other pedal the footSwitch is a bit more hard to press you need to time things with more concentration.

I have been using this pedal since 7-8 months, and it has been very helpful in coming up with song ideas, I often loop guitars, and play bass and drums, and figure out some new ideas for the song. It is a very helpful tool, this has also in a way helped me to improve my guitar playing ability. It is a nice tool and quiet simple to use, and I totally recommend it.

Cool

Solid, works a treat and a great piece of kit !

Excellent but not perfect.

I was very excited when TC Electronic released the Ditto. I had been waiting for a simple looper for years. It appears to be well built and is extremely simple to use. I only wish they had made it big enough to accommodate a second switch for stopping the playback though. That would be much more comfortable than double-clicking, especially in applications where sudden stops are required. And I would gladly sacrifice the true bypass for a quieter switch. Other than that, it's a great inexpensive looper that is easy to use and has an excellent sound quality that is good enough for studio applications.

A Fantastic little pedal

A simple easy to use foll proof looper for everyone. It's really quick to pick up and start looping straight away.

Looping is great way to create a big sound from a few instruments or voices.

Buy this looper.

Your very own rhythm guitarist is here.

Playing mostly at home this has been one neat product for practicing and trying out song ideas. Using it is easy, there is only one knob and volume control.

The instructions are easy and simple aswell.

Volume knob is maybe only one bad thing because it is too big and you easyly change volume by accident. easy solution was to just cut it off and leave just enough to turn it and then tape it down.

Other than that, it has made me better player to make rhytm parts and then playing over.

Having 5 minutes of loop time is also good.

TC Electronic Ditto with Double Bass

The day my TC Electronic Ditto arrived I was playing double bass in a pit orchestra for a production of 'The Sound Of Music'. I arrived early to put the Ditto into action before sound check.

The Ditto excels in every aspect that I was hoping it would. My previous experience with a looping pedal was with a Boss RC-20. I liked that pedal for the most part but I sold it for two reasons. 1: It was too large to permanently stay on my pedal board and 2: I felt that it altered the tone of my bass. So these two factors were what I was looking for in the Ditto. I was not disappointed. The size is obviously a big selling point, but the tone coming through the pedal is the clincher for me. Another bonus is that, because I used it first with my double bass, I found that it has a high input impedance, meaning that I did not need to place a piezo buffer in front of it. This is a very useful feature for me.

As for the looping functions - the simplicity is a huge selling point too. Some might think that it has too few features, but I give it five starts because the simplicity of the features is what attracted me to it. The Boss RC-20, whilst brilliant in it's ability to store what you've previously recorded, was simply more than I needed. No fault of Boss there. The Ditto just stores what you are currently looping. Disconnect the pedal and the loop is gone. I'm 100% fine with that. The only knob on the Ditto is to control the volume of the recorded loop - this is a very useful feature in my opinion as that really is the only parameter I want to have control of.

So, all in all it's a great product and absolute value for money.

No frills looping

I purchased the TC Electronic Ditto looper after seeing many popular artists using it and being blown away by how simple it was. I will mention as well that I am fairly new into my bass playing adventures so this was also my very first pedal.

As with most TC Electronic stuff that I've seen, it's a smart little unit that feels extremely robust. It's a lot smaller than I expected as well, but it's plenty big enough not to miss while stepping on (which is important as you'll find out). The controls are dead simple and just require memorising a small amount of patterns to start loops, delete them etc. Although I've rated 5 stars for features, it doesn't advertise itself as a do-everything pedal, it just sticks to looping and it does it brilliantly.

All in all it's a great little unit for the price and offered me a great way to practice as well as become more creative.

keep it simple

Looper pedals have to be easy to use and that's exactly what the ditto delivers: one button, idiot-proof use, very obvious system to work the button, nothing else.

Perfect.

It takes 5 minutes to understand how it works (reading the manual helps, though), and then you can loop yourself into infinity.

It's a small pedal with a great logic, undoing and redoing is made really simple - both on stage and dduring practise.

Jamming along with yourself never was so much fun, but the simplicity really is the key feature that got me hooked. I don't like having too much stuff and too many pedals, but the ditto looper is a must-have.

The perfect loop companion

It doesn't get much smaller and easier than this! A good quality loop pedal for guitar, in an extremely small casing and without a learning curve. Just buy it!

TC Electronic Ditto Review

This pedal is a smart buy for frequent players. If your laying down backing tracks for solo playing or just adding loop after loop its an easy to use, reliable pedal. The single stomp system can be slightly frustrating, but compared to other loopers on the market,and the is value for money, this is an excellent pedal.

Ditto.

Great for gigs, just press button once on verse before lead break, press again and the backing you just recorded comes along for you to do your lead guitar break over.

Also good for practicing lead guitar riffs and licks, simply load your loop chord progression onto the ditto in a few seconds, then practice lead break variations all day long.

Man its great at e125 and well capable of doing all you need.

Looper

Excellent looper. Tiny footprint. Simple to use. Only disadvantage is no battery !

TC Electronic Ditto

Does what it says on the tin, what more do you want at this price, pity TC did not include it with their 2 for 3 offer