Guitar loop pedal for use on live vocals (spoken word)

[tobbogonist]

I know there has to be someone on here who can assist me, being the eclectic bunch we are.

I guess to put down some history, I do stand-up comedy quite regularly and I often muck around with pre-recorded things and such, i work mainly with fictitious stories and one liners.. OK, now I really want a set up that will allow me to record live and then replay later on in the show. Say, as a really basic example, record a punchline which works so if a joke dies i can loop the old, successful, line back.

I know there are guitar pedals that do this, but how do they work? how affective are they? can i record several bits and then cycle through them?

Or can you recommend anything else?

I want to be able to do it live on stage. i have mucked around with a pedal and a guitar before, playing bass line, looping it and then playing over the top of it, that's what gave me the idea.

Thank you,

Tom

[Jerrick]

Go for the Digitech Jamman Stereo. It has the XLR input youd want for your mic. You can easily record your punclines and whatever, loop that, save it to a preset, dub over it, all within a click or two of the pedals.

I think stock they already have 99 presets, which youll probably never use, but have a good line on preset one, you can just scroll to it, play it back and stop it, another line can be on preset 2 and so on.

There are also a few other companies making looping pedals, Boss has some good stuff, but id pick the Digitech over the Boss.

They do have a learning curve, but its not big, so just an afternoon with the pedal and youll know it. Digitech also has the jamman solo, which could still work, but its a little limited, specially in the control aspect of changing presets and whatnot, which on stage, you dont want to fumble.

[tobbogonist]

thanks for the reply Jerrick, I actually had you in mind whilst typing the thread.

That seems to be what i am after. At the moment i know nothing at all about them.

An opportunity has arose where i can get one of these quite cheap BOSS Rc2 would this be appropriate to start off with. I am not really sure what i am looking for, but it seems to have the functions I need.

[Jerrick]

That should work fine, specially if you can get a good deal on it. Most of the smaller loop pedals like that are going to be pretty identical except a few small changes and options here and there.

Id go for it.

[tobbogonist]

Thanks for your help jerrick. I am going to give the boss a go and if it is succesfull enough i will upgrade.
I should be able to get some footage up towards the end of the year once all the kinks are iron out.