Nux Loop Core Guitar Effect Pedal Looper 6 Hours Recording Time, 99 User Memories, Drum Patterns with Tap Tempo

The Nux Loop Core pedal rocks. I gig every weekend and use this pedal at home to practice song parts. So easy to use, sounds great, drums are a little wimpy sounding, but really work well for my use. I am actually in the process of recording loops of my drummer and will be importing them into this thing. I will never come close to using all the features on this pedal. This thing really gives Boss and some other companies a real run for the money. I highly recommend this one!!Ryan from KelliSaid....***update 6/28/16*** I plugged a stereo cable from headphone out of the house mixer for my band into the 1/8" input on this pedal and recorded a whole set in stereo. Sounded awesome. It's about CD quality. You can do this, but remember, you can't pause, can't rewind or fast forward, and if you stop it, you will have to start all over. But, I use it to rehearse the whole set live. pretty cool.

I'm writing a 5 star review specifically *because* this pedal is not simple to learn. I'm at about 80% mastery and even at this stage I can say I'd buy this pedal again.Here's the first thing to know: The NU>X loop core provides a bunch of features with a small set of control buttons; and the features (particularly drum tracks with level control) are great. BUT you will have to be your clever self at the party and bring your persistence as you learn the interface. There are YouTube videos and a passable instruction sheet; but you'll need to work with the device to get it down.My number one tip: Don't stop figuring it out until you can set up a rhythm track at your desired tempo AND enable automatic record-start. This plays the drum track (or metronome) without any worries about punching in on the stomp switch: Recording starts when you start playing.Number two tip: Making a recording does not Save the recording; so if you jump to another recording track your un-saved recording evaporates. Save is just tap tap on the save button and wait for it to write the track to its data drive.Another key is button holds (press and hold). This is how they fit multiple control features into single buttons, particularly the Save/Delete button and the Stop Modes button.

[Note: updated after contacting support and getting a replacement. Very positive experience with support. Updated to 4 stars.]I bought this in February 2016 and in December 2017 it is basically dead. The recorded loops still play fine, but the guitar input has decided to eat about 95% of the signal and heavily distort the rest. Not very useful. Item had been sitting on the floor in my board when it died - no travel, no abuse, no movement in weeks.As a looper, it's good. The only downside is I find the round-style button to be difficult to hit twice quickly (to stop recording in time so that the loop loops smoothly), especially when not wearing shoes. A flat (Boss-style) button would be better, or 2 buttons (one dedicated to stop recording). The sound quality is fine (except for the problem above). And despite the failure, the build quality seems OK: solid box, dials move smoothly, soft buttons respond well.I did find the sounds for the tempo annoying - not even close to real drums. But rarely use them.Contacted support - will update review based on response.

This was my first looper pedal, so I don't have a comparative, but in looking at the more simple single button lower priced options, this seemed to make the most sense. It has built in drum sounds with a tap tempo option, which is nice to add some rhythm in and fill out the loops. It has plenty of recording time and saving options, which is nice for practice or live performances, to key up already recorded tracks to just play over. There are plenty of lower priced and higher priced options out there, but for a mid priced pedal with lots of bells and whistles this one is hard to beat.

I really like it, basically an RC3 without the Boss baggage/cost. Same 16 bit processing rate as an RC3, same single switching control (unless you get a 2 button footswitch and TRS cable) but even a 2 button footswitch that isn't BOSS costs less, so you aren't getting anything more, really, with the Boss and actually you are saving money after buying a footswitch for added control with this one.A note about my setup. I use a wireless guitar system, virtual amps, physical amp, and both virtual and physical pedals, mostly in a home case scenario, though I can duplicate it somewhat with a laptop when im out. Sound isn't as good since I use an audio interface for my guitar to do the heavy lifting for my virtual amps that I don't have when I travel, but I digress.Basically, I have my Nux in the effect loop on my Katana (set up as Chain 3 in Tone studio, so its completely outside of pre and power amp). That way I can change settings on the amp all I want and the root loop or backing track I pre-loaded sound doesn't change with it. I run my wireless guitar pedal (the black one) into my multi pedal, and the multi pedal goes out to my audio interface (at home) or to the front of the amp if im elsewher. I have an 1/8 inch aux cable coming off the back of my audio interface and going into the Nux or the amp depending on what I want to do. This way I can play my guitar to wireless to multi pedal (if I need it), out to my audio interface or to the front of amp. The aux cable takes care of my virtual amps run by my computer. They play through it, into the Nux (if I want to be able to loop that sound) or into the back of the amp aux, out through the effect loop, and to speaker. This way I can loop with my virtual amps or not depending on my choosing by moving 1 cable (the aux).If I want to play just the amp, I just run the multi pedal out into the front of the amp-wireless guitar pedal is already hooked up to that anyway. Backing tracks already stored on the looper can be played out through the amp and I can change my amp settings for the guitar and play to the songs (remember, since im in the effect loop my amp changes don't change the backing tracks sound, just the guitar). If I want to actually loop, though, I do lose the ability to play my saved backing tracks at the same time unless I want them repeating in a loop unless I move the aux cable back to my amp. I can still play over them, I just can't loop (sound in = sound out with a looper). In that case I just either use the aux cable to play the backing track off my computer or the vitual amps into the back of the amp aux port instead using the Nux to do it.So, 2 cable changes and I can play either at home with virtual amps/pedals, regular amp and physical pedals, play backing tracks off the Nux for accompaniment, or my computer, or actually loop with the pedal if im so inclined.