Live looping has come a long way since Robert Fripp’s epic ‘Frippertronics’ performance, with the loop pedal’s journey from an obscure minimalist song creation tool to its mainstream application in ...

The one-person band has existed for several centuries. A harmonica at the mouth, an accordion at the waist, bells around the ankles, drums at the feet – that's the traditional picture conjured up when ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If recent releases are anything to go by, Electro-Harmonix is taking looping very seriously, and ...

It’s not the easiest loop pedal to get started with, but once you’ve explored the manual the DigiTech JamMan Solo HD offers huge potential for a variety of looping needs. A powerful tool for the live ...

The battle for looper pedal supremacy is heating up nicely. Last week it was Zoom’s MS-90LP+ MultiStomp, the first looper with “dual AD converters and 32-bit float technology” and this week it’s Mooer ...

LAST year Ed Sheeran was wrongly accused of using a backing track during his Glastonbury performance. Ed actually relies on a loop station, a music device which allows artists to build layers of music ...

A man who claims to have taught Ed Sheeran how to use a loop pedal has spoken in a new interview following the singer’s loop-filled Glastonbury headline set. Sheeran is known for using loop pedals for ...

This guitar pedal can record, playback, and modify samples. [Colin Merkel], also know for his work on electronic door locks, built this to replicate some guitar effects he heard in recordings. By ...

In 2013, David Packouz sampled some beats played by a top drummer and put realistic percussion at the feet of guitarists. That drummer-in-a-pedal got a baby brother a couple of years later, and now ...

Xenia Rubinos, a composer and singer based in Brooklyn, uses a Boss looping pedal to create a sound that's distinctly uneven, textured, and elegant. Here, she and the drummer Marco Buccelli explain ...

Ed Sheeran may have busted out his full-band look during his recent Late Late Show residency, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to retire his trusty one-man-band loop pedal. In a TikTok video posted on ...

Ten songs into Ed Sheeran's performance at Gila River Arena in Glendale, the singer invited another musician – his touring carpenter, to be exact – on stage to join him on piano for "How Would You ...