LEKATO Looper Pedal

This guy is dead simple to use and sounds great. If it’s not transparent, it’s wry close to it—but mono. You do have to work on your timing/coordination/memory to get perfect loops, but it’s doable. Most loopers are just as challenging in this regard. The Ditto+ is a very similar looper for twice the price, but still worth it for its ability to import loops and thus have perfectly timed loops. This looper claims to be able to do it, but it doesn’t seem to work with my computer. There’s a chance the Ditto+ wouldn’t either but I decided that I really don’t need that functionality anyway. It is possible to just ‘loop’ a backing track on this device. The Ditto+ also has more memory slots, but 9 is enough for me. If you want preprogrammed drums, extended overdubs (the Ditto+ does that) and/or stereo, there are other loopers that will fill the void. A simple, cheap, perfect sounding mono looper with 9 memory slots is what you have here. It has a built in tuner as well if you don’t have perfect pitch or good relative pitch, but I’ve never used it. The fact that it comes with a power supply is very nice. Unbeatable for the price. Right now I just put my backing tracks in just like I was looping. It works really well though it would be nice to drag and drop. I guess I’ll have to read the manual to see if I can get the drag/drop backing tracks to work. I’d say you can’t go wrong with this looper as long as it has every function you are looking for.

I'm 72 and have been playing guitar and bass for 50 years. The last 35 have been playing alone at home. I'm not capable to play 2 guitars at the same time like Stanley Jordan. So, this little looper is a real nice way to play along to anything you can input. Play a song and play along to it. Great to now play leads over rythmic tracks. Really good quality and easy to use. Also easy to save the loops on my Mac. The tuner works great too. It's fun and inexpensive .

This is an excellent looper. I've used others that are maybe a little more fancy, but this does exactly what it should, no fuss. Works great. Love it.

The product is exactly what it is great loop time and play back tuning is great accurate

Looper works great with many YouTube videos on it’s operation.

I've been playing guitar on and off (mostly off, lately) for over 15 years. Recently, I decided to build a "GuitOrgan" (Guitar-Organ) rig. I've got a nice organ pedal and reverb pedal, but wanted to add some boost before the organ pedal that wouldn't color the tone. I suspect LEKATO is a newer company, and I've tried low cost stompboxes from new companies that quickly went away, and their pedals did too with regard to working order, so I was a bit hesitant on getting this pedal. With regards to longevity, time will tell. But I hope this thing outlives me, for the summary reason in the review title. I was expecting a "transparent-ish" overdrive that would maintain a flat attack and breakup, and just muddy up once the knobs were turned up enough, but WOW. This pedal is really clear!! Now, that's with the pedal in it's normal state. Flipping the toggle switch to 'TS' (Tubescreamer) will indeed slightly color the tone and give a predictable attack and breakup, but that's what a Tubescreamer style pedal will do. For me, flipping the switch to the unmarked mode is where this pedal shines! Even with the pedal dialed past unity gain (12 o' clock on the knob), varying your pick attack will drastically change how this pedal drives! With a clean amp tone, pick very softly, and this pedal will add just a little hair to your tone, perfect if you want just a touch more pizzazz. The harder you pick/strum, the more aggressively this pedal drives your sound! This is huge to me because the last time I tried a new OD/Distortion pedal, this behavior was reserved for cutting edge pedals and/or pedals that had actual vacuum tubes in them. Maybe I'm just behind on the times, but if I'm not, then I've found quite a gem here! And of course, the pedal will respond to input volume. Running hot humbuckers with the volume on the guitar maxed will cause this pedal to produce sizzling crunch, while mellow single coils with the volume dialed down will just add a little hair. Speaking of the crunch, I like this pedal in that regard. The overdriven tone it produces, to my ear, sits nicely between tight and focused and loose and spongy. It's very well balanced and doesn't try to direct your amp's tone. I did buy this for the GuitOrgan rig but... Man, I really want to dust off my 5 watt Ampeg and run my Carvin Bolt through this pedal into the amp, and I bet it will give me a SPECTACULAR blues tone! But I digress here. On the surface, this pedal seems solid. Metal enclosure, the footswitch feels robust, the jacks feel tight, etc. But as I said, time will tell if this pedal is of good build quality. But for now, especially at the sale price I got it at, this pedal is a gem and boasts spectacular tone quality if you truly want a transparent, dynamic overdrive!

Good recording quality but have to keep the sound turned down low on the pedel and gyitar outpur as it overloads easy. Contaced support and they said this was typical of thier pedals.

A pretty decent looper. Not too hard to figure out (tap, double tap, tap and hold the footswitch). Tuner seems to be accurate. Has a USB connection (can't recall off hand the specific type but it's a common one and it includes a cable) so you can upload or download loops from a computer. Audio quality is certainly good enough for practice and putting down musical ideas.I haven't tested it enough to see how the audio quality stands up to several overdubs and using a lot of distortion. As for the cons: The tuner and switching loops requires the use of the small buttons so you can't use your foot (well, maybe barefoot with your toes). You could build a tool or modify a cane to press the buttons, or heaven forbid, reach down and do it by hand. Can be annoying if you like to switch loops a lot. The main con, which will probably be a non-issue for intermediate or better musicians, is there is no count in to start recording or a way to sync your overdubs. May be an issue for people starting to learn. However once you get the hang of it you should have no problems with it.

Fabuloso para uso amateur, fácil de usar, muy intuitivo, las luces ayudan mucho a armar un loop. No mete ruido, se ve muy resitente, es metálico y pesado.