Best Ways To Use The SHEERAN LOOPER + At Gigs

Ed & HeadRush, or should I say "Ed-Rush".... have teamed up to bring us the new Sheeran Loopers. Ed has made a career looping, so he'd have a few ideas!

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0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Overview
4:10 - Midi - Use a BeatBuddy
5:18 - Performance 1
10:31 - Multi Mode
11:00 - Performance 2
13:58 - Song Mode
14:10 - Performance 3
16:20 - Outro

[coreytravisbean]

Best review of a looper I've seen as it pertains to actual live performance. Most reviews i've seen seem to be centered around either bedroom practice, or just making a back track someone can solo over. I'm more interested in how it can be used to build into a song, how it can be used to take away and add layers when needed during real time performance. Your review covered it well.

[acnorrisuk]

Great vid! At 9.20 you can clear both tracks by holding down the stop pedal for a longer amount of tine.

[kevinmcarthur]

Excellent video - I really appreciate the deep dive! Can you set this up to trigger record automatically after a count in from the beat buddy? In other words, track one is armed and waiting for the Beat Buddy count in to finish before it starts to record. I do this with my Beat Buddy and EHX 1440 and I love it.

[theRobertDG]

Great demo man and very informative. Thank you!

[TaterCreator]

This was super helpful and ur performances were sick! 🤘

[johnfinocchi]

excellent video Dave- explained the Beatbuddy control well. Seems like you have to be spot on with the stomp on the Looper to work properly.

[artysanmobile]

Great show! I really appreciate seeing your methods, hearing your musical vision. There is so much more to learn when you share these less-than-obvious use scenarios. Big thanks!

I have to say that omitting half the MIDI communication seems, well - I’ll say it; stupid! This is a company whose primary products lean very heavily on MIDI and they choose to build the equivalent of one walkie-talkie. I trend slightly toward cynical but facts is facts. It is not a budget unit and I expect everything.

[TheQuinnzo]

Cracking Review, really helpful. Great songs too.. I have one of these, it is my first looper and i am learning every day. This video has really helped me. Thank you

[gailswanson]

So you use a 2nd mic for any of the vocal looping? I was wondering about that, because I like to have easy control of my main mic on the board for EQ/effects/volume. Great video thank you!

[christarpy]

Thanks Dave! I've got a Beat Buddy - great to see it plays nice with the Sheeran kit...

[shaddow]

never thought I would be grooving to get down with the sickness! just bought one of these and it's shipping - sucking up every vid I can find right now - looked at Boss but decided what I really wanted, and what had always tripped me up and made me lose interest in loopers too quickly, was simplicity above all

[bk-ewny]

Great demo! I recently bought this looper and really dig it. As a newcomer to looping, I have a question regarding the inability to add effects (as you mentioned in the video). I have over 20 guitar pedals in the signal path before the looper. Is there any way to run these through the microphone connected to the looper? Thanks.

[artnelsoncreative]

Good video. I think it would be helpful if you would show what settings need to be changed on the looper + in order to use it with the Beatbuddy

[timdeltoro]

Just discovered your channel! Great work! You’re an excellent musician and performer too! Subscribed!!

[JohnPaulMusicUK]

Stealing that Mashup! You can steal Mine and Add on No Diggity onto the end! hahaha
good video btw.

[bennyhill]

Hi. One thing you didn't seem to mention was the loop level.

Am I right in assuming there's no loop level control.

The RC 500 has faders as does the 300.

I'm just wondering how you'd control loop levels, especially in a live situation?.

[benplazek]

have you been able to apply separate effects to your mic and your guitar? i do loops and want to have a nice clean mic'd acoustic looping and then electric guitar over it

[leohkharlo]

Thanks Dave! (you know what I mean!😅) 🤘🏻

[Mybeu]

Re: This Sheeran Looper + with BeatBuddy.

Now, after having a little experience with these two units, I am finding that they do not play nice together. The problem is that the Sheeran looper, although able to receive Midi Sync, will not round off the start and end points (of your foot stomp) to the nearest measure or bar. It only registers the in and out points to the next or previous midi clock beat, whichever is closest.  It is important to understand that midi clock beats can be of increments of a 16th note, 8th note etc., but it does not round them off to the nearest measure or bar, which causes a problem because it leaves no room for human error . This is a feature of many loopers which is called quantization. The sheeran looper + has no ability to control or edit this . this feature is desirable because it eliminates the need to be absolutely precise on hitting with your foot the In and outpoints of the loop. Having them round off to the nearest start of the measure or end of the measure (Barr) allows a comfort zone for human error in terms of timing . So consequently, in the sheeran looper if you happen to be off even by a 16th note between the start and the endpoint of your foot stomp, it will eventually drift out of sync between the loop and the beats of the beat buddy. So yes, you can sync the units together, but without the quantization the two units do not continue to sync together in terms of bars and eventually drift apart. It’s like a bad marriage.

[Ghelp]

Hi Dave Thanks for this video. I am having the hardest time synchin the BB to the Looper +. The MIDI cable that comes with the looper + and the cable for the BB as you know has both female ends. I went ahead and purchased another cable for the Looper plus to take the signal from the BB to the looper + hooked it all up and set all parameters and it seems the looper + is not getting the clock synch. When I try to record a loop while the BB is running it just sits in record waiting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.