[fly135]

I just got the Digitech Jamman for Xmas and have been monkeying with it. I know a few of you have loopers. Krissovo's got the Boss. So maybe you guys could help with this.

When I record a rhythm loop. Lets say 4 measures as an example. Then I start overdubbing to it. I'd like my overdub to be any number of measures until I hit the switch to stop recording.

However the Jamman records 4 measures of my overdub and then the next 4 measures are overdubed on top of the original and the first 4 measures of my overdub. I.E. it just overdubs continuously for 4 measures. If I try and overdub 12 measures onto the original 4 measure rhythm, then the 12 measure overdub gets stored as 3 - 4 measure overdubs.

So my question is... do other loopers do this the same way. And does anybody knows how to make the Jamman work different than I described?

[737blues]

I have a Korg AX1500 stomp box which I bought, partly because it was supposed to do looping too. Sounded great on the internet demo but in practice it does exactly what your Digitech does. Not very useful at all. I assume it's just a memory limitation within the unit.

[krissovo]

That is what mine does as well, it will only loop what you play into it and not extend it. The next level of loopers do like the boss RC-50.

Hey fly are you having fun with it?

[fly135]

It's pretty expensive but I think it's going to be worth it from the standpoint that it will make me start paying attention to my timing. I haven't hardly scratched the surface yet. One of the first things I did was play a short 4 bar repeating rhythm and then played a few notes over it and I was surprised how good it sounded. So yeah, I guess you could definitelty say I'm having fun.

I really thought that I could cheat more though. Like having that 4 bar repeat and then lay down a longer solo. But that's OK.