“The JamMan Looper is a great performance tool for using both delay and looping live. The three instantly available delay presets combined with tap tempo make it one of the most practical delay pedals for gigging and the lopping controls are optimised for onstage use”.
Digitech’s latest addition to the JamMan family, the JamMan Delay, is reviewed in the new issue of Guitarist magazine receiving a 4.5 out of 5 Guitarist rating and is awarded the magazines coveted ‘Guitarist Choice’ award.
The Looper in the JamMan Delay Looper offers true stereo looping with 35 minutes of built-in memory, 99 internal loop memories, and an SD card expansion slot for an additional 99 loops and over 16 hours of stereo loop storage! The JamMan Delay Looper's delay is a powerful stereo delay with 3 fully programmable preset memories that can be recalled instantly via dedicated footswitches. A palette of 8 delay types offers tremendous flexibility in crafting virtually any delay sound.
“As a delay unit this JamMan covers all the different genres, providing a wide range of effects from crystal clean digital repeats to emulations of older technology – the analogue and tape delays sounding nicely authentic with sympathetic parameters adjustable via the modifier buttons”.
“A time stretching facility can slow down or speed up loops without changing pitch. This is great if you want to use the unit for phrase training, perhaps loading a track via the JamManager software, which is a welcome utility for transferring your loops from your JamMan delay to your computer or vice-versa. Not only can you organise any loops that you’ve made yourself but you can also use the software’s file import facility to take audio files from anywhere on your computer and load them into your JamMan”.
“Individually, the looping and delay functions score highly then, but the icing on the cake is that you can use both together. Delayed sound in your loops adds another dimension to them and you can synchronise the delay and loop temps by holding the delay tempo footswitch for two seconds and then setting the tempo for both with the loop tempo footswitch”.
“The JamMan Looper is a great performance tool for using both delay and looping live. The three instantly available delay presets combined with tap tempo make it one of the most practical delay pedals for gigging and the lopping controls are optimised for onstage use. Separately, both offer a lot of versatility, but get the synchronised and you can create some great textures by recording delayed guitar into the loop”.
“Factor in the possibilities that the pedal offers for practicing, phrase training and composition, and you have a facility that we’re sure that most guitarists would be very happy to own”.
To read the full review, pick up the October 2010 Issue (Issue 334) of Guitarist Magazine. The Digitech JamMan Delay is available now at £387.75 RRP.
