looper people, what am i doing wrong?

[Help!I'maRock!]

i've been playing around with this RC-30 looper for a couple of months now. and the thing that is absolutely killing me is getting the cutoff right. it seems that when i start with a strum/beat pattern the unit picks up the ending better than when i just play a chord progression. but my impetus for buying the thing was to use it in my band and i really want to use it to pre-record guitar parts.

now i will never consider myself the most coordinated person. i seem to have rhythm down to my knees. it stops somewhere around my shins and somehow never quite makes it to my feet. this is why i can't dance or play the drums. but i can stomp a damn stompbox in time.

thoughts? pointers? dancing lessons?

 

[Mark Wein]

Ill let you know after my Ditto shows up next week

im just getting one to use in classes though.


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[dodgechargerfan]

Press the pedal with something above the knee?



I know what you mean, though. I struggle with getting the timing right.

 

[fused]

I had to figure this out too....

Lets say you're just doing a simple 4 count...
step to start one
then step on ONE at the end of 4....

So stomping the button...
Count
1 STEP
2
3
4
1 STEP

I keep my foot above the button and ready....

It does take some practice... If I haven't used it for a while, I mess up a lot until I get the hang of it again....

 

[baimun]

Since you want the note to sound on the 1, try pressing the button on the "And"

1 and
2 and
3 and
4 step
play and
2 and
3 and
4 close

 

[Mark Wein]

On my ditto looper it seems like I need to tap my foot on the downbeat of "One" to make the loops happen in time.

 

[micwalt]

I haven't messed with my looper in a while, but I seem to recall that you have to step right on the one.

 

[Mark Wein]

I haven't messed with my looper in a while, but I seem to recall that you have to step right on the one.

Can you post your looper videos again, or at least bump the threads? I was telling the guys in my Skype class last night about them...

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

It's not the on I have an issue with, it's the off.

 

[micwalt]

Sure.

 

[micwalt]

It's not the on I have an issue with, it's the off.

I believe that's right on the 1 as well.

 

[Mark Wein]

It's not the on I have an issue with, it's the off.

Thats what I was saying. On my Ditto the "off" seems to be where you want the next loop to start, and not where you would think it should end if that makes any sense.

 

[Norsegod]

Wow.

Micwalt your Stone in Love is fantastic. Really nice.

 

[micwalt]

Wow.

Micwalt your Stone in Love is fantastic. Really nice.

Thanks!
I need to dig the looper out and do another one of those.

 

[baimun]

Oh... Howie.... check to see if your looper is one where it engages/disengages when the button is PRESSED... or RELEASED. I had that issue with one of them... can't remember if it was the boomerang or the RC50... but it would actually be when I lifted OFF the switch, so if my feet were slow it would mess up, so I got in the habit of stepping down on one beat and lifting on the next.