TC Electronic released a new simplified guitar looper that makes life easy for guitarists
TC Electronic Ditto Looper, only two buttons
TC Electronic Helicon just released a looper in Europe that looks like a winner, the Ditto Looper.
It’s so simple you get 5 minutes of guitar looping with just two switches.
The first time I saw someone use a guitar looper he was toe-flipping switches on a multi-pedal board from Roland.
The thought of remembering the step sequence on stage was daunting. There is enough to worry about when playing guitar.
TC Electronic Helicon must have figured that out as well – they just released what looks like a powerful and simple looper just for guitarists.
The Ditto Looper has two switches: bypass and loop level. Sort those two out and looping looks intuitive,
The price is expected to be around $100 to $130 American and should show up soon on store shelves.
The data path on bypass is analog so it won’t mess with the sound and it uses 24-bit processing as well.
How do you use Ditto Looper with one foot switch?
One foot switch – multiple purpose
The same switch does everything so it changes based on a cycle sequence. Press once to record, press again to play the loop. Press again to add another layer of sounds which you can repeat until you run out of ideas.
Press and hold to Undo a layer and press and hold again to Redo. Press twice to stop, after which you can press and hold to clear the loop.
That might be a little tricky, trying to remember which press you did last. Time will tell.
TC Electronics is part of TC Group a holding company of six companies: Tannoy Group, Lab.Gruppen, TC Electronic Group, TC-Helicon, TC Applied Technologies and White Acoustics.
Samuel
It’s TC Electronic dumbass not TC-Helicon (two seperate companies) the clue is in the name printed on the product in big letters! 😉 looks to be a cool product though and just what I’ve been looking for for years!
Stephen Pate
Thanks for your sharp eye and note. Corrected the story. I mixed them up probably because I have several TC Helicon pedals and deal with them.
TC Electronic and TC Helicon are subsidiaries of TC Group. Helicon is voice and Electronic is pedals, amps and broadcast. Kevin Alexander who was the CEO of Helicon (based in Canada) was appointed to VP for TC Group and moved to HQ in Denmark last year.
Thanks again for the correction.
Samuel
Much better 🙂 Then again if we’re being picky and you really wanted to even more like a journalist you’d spot the brand painted on the product as TC Electronic and not TC Electronics 😉 do love your blog though.
Stephen Pate
Ditto and thanks.