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I have purchased virtually every pedal that Donner has made. For some reason, I always passed up the Tiny Looper. I didn't think that I would find a use for it. I was very, very wrong. It has brought new life into me being a musician.
As I mentioned, I have many Donner pedals. I fell in love with their "Mini" series and own over a dozen of them. The Tiny Looper is my first in the "Nano" series. This thing goes far beyond any pedal I've ever seen before. It allows you to record up to 10 minutes and then loop your guitar part until you want it to stop. You can record on top of what is already looping as many times as you want. It is very important that you take advantage of the "instruction sheet" because that one simple piece of paper will tell you everything the pedal can do and how to do it. I have found so many uses for this amazing device and I'm going to list and describe a few of them.
This pedal is excellent for people learning how to play guitar. If you are just getting started and not ready to play with a full band yet, this pedal will allow you to play along by yourself and get used to your rhythm and timing. Simply record a rhythm part and when you're happy with it, loop it. While the recording is playing, you can play along with it to improve your timing or practice lead guitar or solos. You can record the additional parts on top of the original recording and play it back to see what you sound like. Again, for a beginner, this pedal will help you improve your skills and have fun while doing it.
This pedal is great for experienced guitar players as well. If you are a little rusty and have a show coming up where you have to perform, use the Looper to get yourself conditioned for your concert. This is great for the rhythm player but more so the lead guitar player. First, record your rhythm track and loop it. If the pressure is on you to rip out an incredible guitar solo during your performance, simply practice your lead parts over the rhythm recording until you feel comfortable to pack up your gear and head to the venue. If you think you have it down but you're unsure of yourself, after recording your rhythm loop record your solo on top of it. This way you can play it back and hear what you sound like or mimic the exact solo you have recorded by playing along.
Over the past couple of weeks I've really experimented to see what I could do with this pedal. I ended up using the Looper as a multitrack recorder! I'm not joking. I hooked up my drum machine to the pedal and made a drum pattern and then I looped it. While playing back the drum loop, I connected my bass to the pedal and recorded a baseline over the drum loop. At this point it allowed me to hear drums and bass and practice my rhythm guitar part. When I was satisfied with my playing, I recorded the rhythm part and looped it. I then doubled up and recorded a second rhythm guitar part. The sound quality was excellent and I was listening to drums, bass, and two identical rhythm parts that really thickened up the sound. Of course I had to do a guitar solo as well. I was pretty proud of myself and listened to the recording of all the instruments over and over again. Then I thought to myself, if I can hook up a drum machine, a bass, and my guitar to the Looper than what was stopping me from connecting a microphone? The answer is nothing. It worked great. I recorded two local parts over top of the instrumentation and had a complete song recorded on this tiny little pedal that fits in my pocket. Going through all that trouble of playing and recording all those parts only to have to my guitar amp for playback doesn't really seem worth it, does it? Well, Donner includes a Micro USB to USB 2.0 cable so you can record it onto your laptop, desktop, or even your multitrack recorder if you own one. I am a family man who has very little time for myself and definitely not enough time to play in a band as I once loved doing. Now that I have the Donner Tiny Looper, I can pretend that I do have a band playing along with me. I simply record, layer, and loop whatever parts I want and then play along as the lead guitar player. I was so pleased with myself and this pedal that I had to brag to all my friends and tell them to buy one themselves. For the technology, build quality, simplicity, and price, every musician should own one of these.
Something else I should mention. One night at dinner, my ten-year-old daughter told me that she wanted to start an acapella group. I immediately thought of the Tiny Looper. If I could layer all those different instruments on the pedal and even the microphone worked for the vocals, than why couldn't this pedal be used to record multiple vocal parts? It can. Again, it worked great. My daughter recorded herself several times singing in different keys and harmonizing with herself. She simply looped it. She's only 10 years old but she is an amazing singer. She came back to loop a couple more parts while changing up the vocal timing and truly sounding like a one-person acapella singing group. She is amazing and so is this pedal.
I never thought I would use this pedal for anything and I can't believe I never even gave it a shot until now. There are other Loopers on the market that come in all different shapes and sizes and all different prices as well. If more people were aware of what Donner can do, than many of these other companies would be out of business. This pedal is built solid and is small enough to fit in my pocket. When you play back the loops that you have recorded, they sound great and have excellent quality. The more loops you record don't seem to degrade the sound quality at all. The fact that this can be transferred over to my tascam 24-track or my Pixel Chromebook is an added bonus. No other company is going to beat the price and I am sure of that. If you love playing guitar or are simply a musician in any way shape or form, you should give the Donner Tiny Looper a try.
I absolutely love it and it stays on my nightstand so it's always within an arm's reach.
