The Boss RC-1 is a well-laid out, easy-to-use looper pedal with 12 minutes of stereo recording time. It’s a single footswitch pedal that, with a various number of stomps, can do a lot, though you do ...

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 ...

Using a loop pedal, a violinist layers sounds to create a complete beat live. The song comes together in just seconds.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images If there’s one thing that Ed Sheeran is known for - ...

Essentially, a looper gives us guitarists the flexibility of sampling. It’s funny, though. Ask any guitarist what or who they think of when they hear the word “looper” and you will get very different ...

Did you know when you go live on Facebook, in between pressing go and it appearing on your page there’s a few seconds of delay? Well Irish indie foursome The Academic did, and they managed to use this ...

As a group, guitarists have always been noted for exploring new sounds and developing unexpected performance techniques that astonish and delight the listener. This in turn has fuelled a vast array of ...

Loop stations are neat things, able to replay one or more loops of audio over and over again while you perform over the top of them. Musicians like [Marc Rebillet], [Reinhardt Buhr], and [Dub FX] have ...

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 ...

To celebrate the release of his album Play, Ed Sheeran stopped by NPR on Friday afternoon for a live-broadcast edition of their Tiny Desk series, which also served as a fundraiser for the public ...