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My wife doesn't know what to get me for my upcoming b-day, so just asks me to show her. I do. Since I know what it is, she lets me play with it now. (After all, gotta make sure it works.) 
I love my wife.
I've been wanting one of these "looper" pedals for a long time. Don't know why I didn't snag one earlier. This one seems to be feature packed. I especially like the USB connectivity and SD card capability. You can extend recording time out to 32 hours!
The "Aux-in" input is a nice touch too. This thing has a bit of a steep learning curve, but you can still get it up and running straight out of the box, so to speak. Anyway, I won't ramble on here. You can watch YouTube videos all day long about how cool this thing is.
However, I did discover one "flaw", that is really annoying. There's several different ways to start a recording. The primary one, is to tap the foot-switch at the exact moment you start playing, and tap again at the exact stop point. For someone with poor coordination like me, this doesn't work well. JamMan to the rescue. They have an "auto-start" feature. Tap the foot-sw, and the LED flashes, but it isn't recording yet. It waits for the 1st "sound" to come in. Problem is, it isn't capable of detecting my finger-picking on a Fender Strat, with Duncan STK-4/4/9b's. That's a reasonably hot signal. I spent a long time going through the manual trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, 'til I finally struck a chord and it took off recording.
Solution was to put my SFX-01 Pickup Booster in front of the JamMan, but that shouldn't be necessary. There really should be some way to adjust the input "trigger" sensitivity.
So, except for that mini-rant, I love this thing. It just has a couple of quirks.
Artie
I love my wife.I've been wanting one of these "looper" pedals for a long time. Don't know why I didn't snag one earlier. This one seems to be feature packed. I especially like the USB connectivity and SD card capability. You can extend recording time out to 32 hours!
The "Aux-in" input is a nice touch too. This thing has a bit of a steep learning curve, but you can still get it up and running straight out of the box, so to speak. Anyway, I won't ramble on here. You can watch YouTube videos all day long about how cool this thing is.
However, I did discover one "flaw", that is really annoying. There's several different ways to start a recording. The primary one, is to tap the foot-switch at the exact moment you start playing, and tap again at the exact stop point. For someone with poor coordination like me, this doesn't work well. JamMan to the rescue. They have an "auto-start" feature. Tap the foot-sw, and the LED flashes, but it isn't recording yet. It waits for the 1st "sound" to come in. Problem is, it isn't capable of detecting my finger-picking on a Fender Strat, with Duncan STK-4/4/9b's. That's a reasonably hot signal. I spent a long time going through the manual trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, 'til I finally struck a chord and it took off recording.
Solution was to put my SFX-01 Pickup Booster in front of the JamMan, but that shouldn't be necessary. There really should be some way to adjust the input "trigger" sensitivity.
So, except for that mini-rant, I love this thing. It just has a couple of quirks.
Artie
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