Mooer Micro Looper MML1 Guitar Effects Pedal

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This pedal only uses high grade components so that the signal going in and coming out of the pedal sound as close as possible. This means that no matter how much you layer up your sound will still be your sound so you can take this pedal live without worry. Pedalboards took a departure from bigger sized pedals in recent years and companies like Mooer have fully taken advantage of that by creating a pedal for pretty much every effect you can think of… Mooer Audio are based in Shenzhen, China and have been producing their micro guitar pedals for a few years and have subsequently taken the world by storm by capturing great tones in such small enclosures. This is handy for a number of reasons but mostly because these tiny pedals will help you save space on your pedalboard meaning you can cram more effects onto your board than ever before. I own about a dozen Mini Mooers of various stripes - and each of them does a fantastic job, while to date I only have one of the X2 Series - or namely the X2 Model X Preamp - which rounds up a load of Mooer’s Micro Preamps into a single enclosure - and those presets / algorithms mostly sound very analog in style with no noticeable hard or brittle Digital artefacts - some require some finesses on the dial in - but nearly all those varieties can sound pretty spectacular. I’m a big fan of both Mooer’s Micro / Mini and X2 series, while I think NUX has stolen a march with its Mini TRS Stereo pedals - that Mooer has yet to answer. Mooer is still though the archetypal Mini Pedals Brand - with so many great examples in that diminutive format - including fantastic gain, modulation and utility pedals - and the formidable Micro Preamp Series.

The Looper X2 is the culmination of over a decade of experience - developing easy-to-use standalone and combination pedals. The Looper X2 supercharges practice sessions as well as live performances by empowering the player to start jamming as soon as possible. Here we see new generations of the Drummer Drum Machine and Looper Pedals - each featuring 7 ’Parts’ in the larger more feature-rich editions - noting that the ’Looper’ variety here is quite a different pedal to the fairly similarly named ’Groove Loop’ The Micro Looper II is a powerful and compact loop pedal that provides an impressive 480 minutes of recording time spread across three Banks. When Micro Looper is in the Bypass status, it would not affect the original signal,which ensures your signal to be clear and lossless.

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The Digitech Jamman Stereo Loop Pedal also makes it possible to slow down or speed up a loop to required tempo, and has a headphone output and footswitch input which allows you to add greater handsfree control over the features. There are also a few additional controls for greater loop control, including Level and Threshold. Level does exactly what you’d expect, while Threshold works in tandem with the Auto Rec mode that starts looping as soon as a signal level is detected.

Mooer also produce Mini guitar amps like the Little Monster 5w Tube Amp which is a tiny lunchbox head that’ll turn into a roaring beast when plugged into a 2x12 or even 4x12 cab! Whatever the case, the micro looper market is most definitely hotting up, and with pedalboard real estate becoming an increasingly valuable asset, the more mini looper pedals to choose from the better.This also means you can record by plugging directly into the interface and get a great direct guitar sound and use your other effects pedals in front of the preamp as if it were a normal guitar amp. All of the preamp pedals in the range have been modelled after famous guitar sounds to give you access to those great tones at a fraction of the cost. Pedals like the UK Gold 900 and Brown Sound 3 will probably give you an idea of the sounds you can expect. For me this is worthy getting pretty much just for that Auto Record function - as unless you're Pete Honoré or another of those looping giants - you will often get the timing a split second wrong on the startup - so much easier if the pedal simply senses and knows when to start recording! This little knob can control the volumn of loop. Can’t hear your SOLO? Turn down your volumn a little bit! The Mooer Micro Range of pedals consists of everything from overdrive and distortion to delay, reverb, chorus, boost and other modulation pedals. If you can think it, you can find it. This includes the GE100 and GE200 Multi-Effects units. With its AUTO REC function, the Micro Looper II automatically starts recording as soon as an input signal is detected, making it easy to capture spontaneous musical ideas without having to press any buttons.

Obviously the larger pedals give you stereo output and considerably more features and options - while the Mini / Micro editions are still formidable and potent in their own right. The new style of Mini Pedal legends gives those pedals a more imposing look. And it’s not often you get Mini and Compact versions of the same effects all being launched / released at around the same time.If you have a working knowledge of guitar pedals throughout the years then you’ll quite easily see the similarities between Mooer pedals and their more expensive counterparts that they might have been based on such as the Ninety Orange Phaser and Green Mile Overdrive. The Boss RC-1 Loop Station is the simplest of the range. It is designed to be the most user-friendly for those of us who don’t want to read instruction manuals. It is easy to make a mistake when using a looper live; with an overly complicated pedal it is easy to forget whether you have disengaged the integral buffering linear wingwam before engaging the secondary memory bank of immortal doom…. Sometimes one button really is the best. This again has that smart 'Auto Record' feature which is also found on the Mini. I use my Ditto+ a lot for when testing out new pedals - and I feel the Auto Record could make the smaller Mooer here a new favourite of mine for that particularly purpose! Inherit the Mini size of the MICRO SERIES pedals, your pedal board can have more space and therefore you can put more pedals in it. The Looper X2, like with other X2 devices, includes Stereo I/O and a ¼” External Control out for connecting a footswitch as well as True Bypass to stay quiet when not in use.