Using a looper to set up your effects chain

[Edenburgh]

So this might have been covered before - but I've seen a fair few YouTube pedal reviews where they use a looper to capture a bass line then do lots of knob twiddling with the loop playing to demonstrate what the pedal does.   Makes a lot of sense as you have a consistent input and can clearly hear the difference when adjusting each fx parameter.

This inspired me to use this approach to 'tune' my own pedalboard.  Yeah sure once we get gigging every room will need some EQ tweaks but this has really helped me get the sound in my head in quite a controlled manner.

Just using a really cheap B1on to capture the loop.    

I'm not a massive fx guy, just compression, EQ and a teeny smidge of drive - usually with a '74 P Bass.

Recording just a simple loop then made it a 10 minute job to get the pedals set up just as I wanted.

Anyone else do this?   Is there an even slicker way of going about it

[paul_5]

I’ve tried this, but find that when I play live (remember doing that?) I get excited and really dig in, so end up adjusting stuff on the fly!

It’s a great way to break the back of it though.