TC Electronic Ditto Looper - NPD & Review

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TC Electronic Ditto Looper - NPD & Review

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This thing is great. Everything you've seen and heard about it is bang-on the money. The sound quality is excellent, both with distortion and clean, and is every bit as good as its counterparts; arguably better. There is no signal loss or degradation when on or off. Latency is almost perfect; it's barely noticeable. Because the footswitch is soft to press, it's hard to make a mistake and miss-time your feet.

The only problem I have with it is, you can't undo overdubs further into the piece, you can only undo the most recent layer. So if you don't press undo for long enough you can actually record something, whatever your guitar is doing at the time, and then you can't undo the one you really wanted to undo. If you try to undo again you just redo the mistake. This is the limitation of such a small device.

Other than that I'm really happy. Hopefully the switch will last long enough, because I've heard they're not very rugged. The size is smaller than you'd think, the knob feels comfortable to turn, the light and sounds to distinguish where you are in the looping phase are all intuitive (though you can't see the light when you hover your foot over it), there is zero perceivable latency, and the sound quality is excellent.

I'm happy - though I did just break the nut on my new Telecaster, so yeah.
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Well this is on my list now. Maybe I'll pick this up along with a new delay and flip the Timeline (because it's main use for me is that awesome looper).
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Nice review, thanks for that! Definitely keeps my interest in this pedal going.
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I posted this video in another thread yesterday. It's a lot of fun. Need to rearrange my pedalboard so that the looper and expression pedal are close together.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok_UYeSw-vo[/youtube]
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Cool! I love simple loopers. Definitely gonna pick up one of these
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Thanks for posting a review! I have a Ditto on the way, it sounds like I will be happy with it. :)

I wonder if it would be possible to mod the volume switch to a expression/volume pedal input..
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Anyone in the states able to find them yet? Went to Sam Ash in NYC and the two sales ppl never heard of it, then after googling it told me they dont carry it. It annoys me when sales people arent up to date on new items. and this one seems like ppl should have heard about it
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the Life Aquatic wrote:Anyone in the states able to find them yet? Went to Sam Ash in NYC and the two sales ppl never heard of it, then after googling it told me they dont carry it. It annoys me when sales people arent up to date on new items. and this one seems like ppl should have heard about it


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May have to stop at the GC by union square in NYC after work.

Someone go and check for me first so I don't have to take the subway down there to come return home empty handed. :hello:
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the Life Aquatic wrote:May have to stop at the GC by union square in NYC after work.

Someone go and check for me first so I don't have to take the subway down there to come return home empty handed. :hello:


Give them a call, that's how I knew one was there.
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Yea, I plan on calling as soon as I leave the office tonight, just can't wait haha. i need instant gratification.
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Wait they have em in the Guitar Center in Lincoln Park? the one next to that home depot. It doesn't even show online. I totally wanna get one.
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sergiomunoz74 wrote:Wait they have em in the Guitar Center in Lincoln Park? the one next to that home depot. It doesn't even show online. I totally wanna get one.


Yep, they had three on sunday...and I have one.

I think TC just leaked a few to the US, that's why its not on any of the associated websites yet
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I'm gonna call and see what's up I may stop in tomorrow and pick one up.
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