Electro Harmonix 720 Stereo Looper

Finally! after a few months waiting for this pedal, its here.

I've been using this pedal for a few weeks already, its pretty intuitive and easy to use, has a lot of record time compared with the Ditto, a separate stop button (which is great to have when playing live), and you can also store several loops in memory that stay put even after it's powered down.

I like the size and layout of the buttons too. I mainly use it for on the fly looping while practicing, so I can play some lead over a rhythm, but I plan on fitting it into some songs while jamming live too.

If simple and easy to learn is what you want, this is a piece of cake, The red, green, and yellow LED lights, and the seven segment display are also pretty cool, and give you great feedback of which mode you are in at any given time.

I totally recommend it!

I bought this to have a few more features and a bit more ease of use than the Ditto Stereo I had before.

I wanted to have a few slots for different loops, so I can easily have my own backing tracks to practise over. The Ditto does have space for audio files via USB but I couldn't ne bothered to do it that way. The 720 has 10 slots and it's very easy to cycle through them and see which ones are empty or not.

It's almost my ideal looper. The only thing it lacks for me is a way to easily see the loop progress (like the circle that fills up on some other loopers). I think the 720 has a mode where it counts out the loop time on the screen, but I'm not sure how to use that and it's not very practical. That's a very minor complaint.

Creating loops works just like with most/all other loopersw and the other features are very easy to use, like setting the fade-out length, and using the reverse and half-time effects.

I often have to look up how to use all the functions of the two footswitches a few times because I keep forgetting how to stop and erase a loop. That's not the pedal's fault, I probably still have the muscle memory from the Ditto and I just haven't used the 720 enough yet.

I read comments that it's difficult to accurately set the start/end of a loop, and I read responses to those comments that the footswitch triggers release and not on the initial press. I naturally do a quick tap and not a long press to start/stop recording. Maybe it doesn't automatically sync the beginning and end as well as other loopers do, but I haven't found this to be an issue at all. It probably just takes a bit of practice.

All in all, no complaints really. I would strongly recommend this if you want a simple 2-button looper with a few extra features.

I have never understood why looper pedals must look like space ships and have features that constantly have you reach for the user manual. The 720 is nothing like that. It is what it says on the box. A straight forward looper. No more, no less. For me, using it more or less exclusivly for practicing purposes, it is all I need. I would imagen that if your into building looper landscapes and/or using it in a live context, there might be other, more exact and precise loopers, but for me, this is perfect. Also: It does not look like something out of a StarTrek movie. Which I also like...