Digitech Jamman Looper - Creating a Band Simulation

[chikinhaka]

aweosme video :) what wah wah pedal is it?

[caincolesr]

I ran my guitar in the guitar input and the out into my amps input.But when I record distortion and then play over it the signal seems to fight each other and sounds terribl. Am I running it the right way or does it have to be in an effects loop? Thanks...

[zaplane]

@caincolesr

The looper records the signal you put in, not the one out the amp. So If you want to record the distortion effect, you must plug the looper after the effect pedal or in the effect loop of your amp.

When you plug the guitar directly in the guitar input, you just record the dry sound of the guitar. If you change the effect on yout amp, you apply the effect of the amp to the recorded dry sound...

Hope It was clear enought.

Zaplane

[ugotpimp]

wow cool

[MercyCollazoMusic]

this is freaking great! just what i need to stop depending on flaky bands...

[panaloni]

Hey, thanks for the demo. I didn't mind donating 9 minutes of my life at all. Good job.

[EddySanchez101]

Sometimes I use the front of my fingernails

[APbeatbox]

these are footpedals but you touch them with hands :D

[BartoszXIV]

JamMan doesn't have drums?

[doctorbusiness]

Thanks man! I cannot wait to get one!

[TheFlyers09]

remember u can get some good drum loops right here on youtube. plug ur pc speaker output into the aux input on the jam man and youve got real nice starting beat. screw the rc-20

[orbitration]

Just a suggestion... but less talk, and more do

A lot of what you do is very obvious, you really don't have to detail every little thing

[scienceyblues]

bad musician...

[maryannemay]

Thank you so much for great video.

[reagansmash68]

Thanks for showing us how to back the tone knob halfway, lol. think the reason people are leaving neg commens is because they want more of a demo on how to use the jamman pedal. not how to play while using the jam man pedal. as you know this pedal has hundreds of bass lines and drum beats to use as backing and they're a little tricky to use. Which I think is what most people were looking for. People don't walk away with a better understanding of how the pedal works.

[cristianyzeus]

NICE =)

[sk8357]

good job I think people just lay down to many loops with looping pedals and it tends to sound to busy but a good demo all in all

[StrattyBoiz]

i just a got the jamman and it works great! but... when ever i turn on my distortion (i only have a foot switch that came with my amp, its a marshall 100dfx) my amp gets really fuzzy or when i turn on the wah and im on a clean channel it has a hint of distortion and im not sure whats wrong can any one help me? please!

[rodwyr]

@StrattyBoiz

From guitar to amp, what's your effects chain? In regards to the wah, it should be before the distortion. Also, I don't think the distortion from the AMP would work because the looper is before the gain. Use a gain-based effect before the looper. Matter of fact, the looper should be the last pedal in your chain so all your effects can feed into it, so to speak. Hope that helps!

[StrattyBoiz]

@rodwyr

Yes thank you that helped me a lot thanks mate:)

[rodwyr]

@StrattyBoiz

No prob! Glad to help!

[rootvalue]

It really annoys me people are whining about your helpfulness. I was just about to go to comment on your thorough explanation of the process you're going through. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm, even if some people are unthankful. :)

[pcareca1]

7:22 onwards exellent do it again

[mikeyfatstrings]

yeah i'm sorry i can't see your face either...

[AdamLong08]

That was a pretty cool idea for the bass drum sound. I actually do a lot of one-man-band-jamming, and I invested in a guitar synthesizer, so I can play a full drum kit on my guitar (even though I suck at drum beats). I had been using a Line 6 Delay Modeler for loop making probably for like the last 7 years, and I finally decided I needed to get a real looper yesterday. Word to the wise: buying a JamMan is a good fucking idea.

[SORGENSxKAMMER]

How will the jamman work with a peavey bandit?

[designerx2006]

I like the wah, it takes me back to the 70's. Thanks.

[stephen102]

i have one of these but for some reason when i plug it in theres no sound coming out. i opened it up and there didnt seem to be anything wrong with it visibly can anyone help?

[mcduffee23]

@stephen102 take it back and get a new one

[TheSAJ11]

good porno music

[kirkmillerdotcom]

I am POSITiVE that song was in a bad 1970's porn movie. Ironically, this video and that movie had disappointing endings, ahahahah! Have fun with your looper, man! You put in the time and that's more than I did.

[FThisNameGame]

Dude! Mayb I have like OCD but the only thing I took in from your whole video was the two differnet color socks your wearing.

[52appaZ]

you can always fastforward if you dont like it or video response something if you think youre better peeples.

[bozemanbro26]

that was really helpful, thank you

[Tominer]

boring...

[man2marryu]

Cool groove, cool sound :-)

but...

your distortion sounds like shit :-(

[torque222]

I just bought a Spider 4 HD 150 half stack w/ FBV Shortboard Mk II, I like the effects that are built into the amp and having USB control with my comp is a plus, but the amp doesn't have an FX loop. What are my options as far as using my Spiders effects and the Jamman? I am thinking I will just use my other amp with some FX pedals and the Jamman to do my loops, and then solo with my spider 4 (and its built in looper). Just like having another guitar player in the room. What do you think?

[mpbjazzrock]

Very funky! Nice...

[CWFanClub]

thanks bro...good stuff

[speck444]

play dont fukin talk

[misterjim05]

Is there any way to run a drum machine through the jamman to get better beats recorded to the unit?

[motokev]

very nice in deed.................

[lNllClK]

nice socks

[svetbrat]

Briliant!

[yesmon4real]

You are very clever, really cool !

[zerofreak22]

you are beter off with a distortion pedal in front of the jamman instead of trying to use a preset distortion in your amp right??

[Cheftee]

I was curious about the same thing.

[foshizRAWR]

@zerofreak22

Yeah, because if you use your amp, just say you have a clean track on the Jamman, once you use your amp's distortion, the whole loop will become distorted. (which obviously, you don't want because you want to control whats being distorted..)

[kennyt957]

Very cool

[SotR59]

Sounds like an incidental music track for a 1970's "Blacksloitation" flick. Pretty cool actually.

I bought a JamMan recently but still getting the hang of it.

[werewolvesofmohnton]

i dont think this is compatible with any mac

[TokiTheSlayer]

Is it compatible with my iMac?

I have this year's and 2008's iMac

[cynicaldemon]

Heey.. I always wear mismatched socks and people constantly comment it xD

Nice name

[1bulldog998]

nice video ;i have a jamman ,grunge and a rp100 ,its hard to see your hook up can you help me out is your jamman at they end of your loop,how should i hook them,thanks

[MismatchedSockGuy]

Yea, it's got to be at the end so that all the efx are feeding into it.

[alexlocurto]

@MismatchedSockGuy That was awesome!

[almcg2]

@MismatchedSockGuy I know this was an old post, but just had to respond. I don't know why some folks were so negative. I thought this was a very good example of building a song. Was it Voodoo Child or Texas Flood, or a metal head epic? No, but I don't think that's what you were trying to do. I thought it wass a very good demo and pretty tight result. Good job.

[OZZYTS808]

very creative!!

[perduaparis]

I'm sorry but that was a lot of boring, irrelevant waffle with the result being a completely monotonous and unimaginative loop that anyone could do with five minutes and a jamman. I hate leaving bad comments but I just wasted 9 minutes of my life waiting for you to do something original.

[MismatchedSockGuy]

Anyone? Give us the link to your looping demo so we can judge for ourselves.

[perduaparis]

you know something, I think I might just have to take you up on that. I'll let you know as soon as I've put up a video.

[kdjfnvjvd]

Quick question. My amp has an FX loop that i use for delay and reverb. Through the main input i run the overdrive,fuzz,and compressor. Should i run the jamman in the FX loop or through the front??

[jesusmyking1988]

Run the jamman or any loop pedal at the very end of your fx chain. Def run in in your fx loop if you have one.. i knw on my amp though reverb isnt in the fx loop, so if you have a ton of reverb, your jamman will play with that washy reverb sound, keep that in mind if your amp is the same..

[kdjfnvjvd]

where in the loop should i run the JM? Does it matter? Secondly, my amp has an FX loop in the rear panel so i was just wondering whats the purpose of the " FX loop?" I assume it's something to do with a better processed final signal?

[jesusmyking1988]

A loop pedal should always be ran as the last pedal in your channel, because the point of the looper is to record all of your sounds/pedals.. if you ran it first, even if you were running a dist box you would still only have a clean signal recorded... The purpose of an fx loop on an amp is, that it bypass the preamp stage, eq/distortion, and places your effects after that.. for instance, run a delay pedal in front of the amp with distortion, then put it in the fx loop with dist, HUGE diffrence!

[kdjfnvjvd]

@jesusmyking1988 okay thanks!

[1337mas7er]

@MismatchedSockGuy Constructive criticism, be a little less tedious or youll lose our attention. Cool video though

[hermanshermits124124]

@MismatchedSockGuy the amount of thumbs ups says it all

[kimkikki]

@MismatchedSockGuy come on man,try to be humble.those are little things,seen seen and again seeeeeen.

[mikecuzins]

@MismatchedSockGuy

well it wasn't the most creative thing.......

[nese67]

@MismatchedSockGuy.......... check out......... dain bramadged

[alwizard11]

Are u surprised? It's 99% youtub''s content like this.

[Billkilllman]

@perduaparis

haha. way to watch it, hate it, and then complain about watching and hating it.

[Chris1975N]

@perduaparis I think it was more about giving ideas and less about building a masterpiece. But rest asured that anyone who has nothing better to do than just troll this guy is a dusche. Nice vid SockGuy.

[perduaparis]

@Chris1975N Look Chris, the comment was a long time ago, but if you can honestly say that this video forwarded you in any way in your looping and in all honesty didn't bore the tits off you, then ok I'm a dusche. But I think you're just more interested in a calling me a 'dusche' cause this video really, really does my head in. 'Now I'm using the back of my fingernails ...........' Christ !!

[abergreg]

@perduaparis I pretty much agree although i would have settled for something worthwhile rather than original, original normally costs a few bucks. The pity was (apart from the 6 minutes of pointless preamble) that the distorted rhythm sound was so awful (wasp in a jar is close) that it obscured the other parts AND left no space for the solo to sit. My best ever tip was to leave space and make sure the lead and solo parts had different tones so they didnt cancel each other out.

[ThePowrWithn]

@perduaparis I usually just stop watching videos when I dont like them...

[Tyrantblood]

<---- wants that Charvel

[grandpaatemydildo]

Hey nice one! Any of you guys used Line6 JM4 looper? How does it compare to the Digitech?

Can you easily use Jamman to recall a seqence of stored samples - recordings on the fly with the extra footswitch (in a live performance situation)? for example verse, chorus, bridge.. I don't think you can do this with the Line6 JM4, only going through menus

[fistfullofmeat]

go with the digi works 10 times better and ezer

[alwizard11]

Using Line6 JM4 u simply can concentrate on actual music and practice with real drums or real play-along trax recorded by real cool pro level musicians, which is much more seriouse.

[Tyrantblood]

Yea..all cool and all but man.... your wearing two different socks!!

[DJBkrabi]

dude, his youtube name is mismatched sock guy.

[TheBoldBroadcast]

Boss RC-20XL or the Jamman? I can't decide...

[danielmizzle]

JamMan for sure. It has a USB input, Mic input, standard input jack for guitars, an input for ipod so you can loop in samples from songs or movies etc., 99 loop banks to use so you don't have to replace anything you want to keep unless you have done about 100 loop/jams.

[evelskunny]

no im not,i wouldn't kid about something like that,

[evelskunny]

why not ditch all the pedals &get a boss gt-8,all the same chips from the pedals are in the unit,i use to play all individiual pedals with a custom board with its own power supply,i must of eliminated a dozen wires,by getting the gt-8,& a better sound too,

[ARXHMalakas]

U KIDDING RIGHT

[evelskunny]

great,but how long do you wanna do the same riff,over & over,

[PhatLarkin]

correctly using a loop pedal is an art within it'self. it takes skill to make something that doesnt make you want to kill yourself after 1,000 repeats of itself.

[evelskunny]

your getting a lil carried away its not rocket science dude,its fairly simple,what i meant was this loop never changes,there is only one riff,no key changes or chord changes,

[tripleshiftofficial]

Very cool and useful video. I'm buying one this week and am really looking forward to it. Nice stuff.

[Bemso77]

SCHEISS SOCKEN!!!!!!!!!!!

[crackshot345]

i like this video with pride

[mashedash]

Hey matey, nice stuff, i wish there was more like this about!

Is there any chance you could do one using verse, chorus & bridge changes as i am newish to the Jamman and would like to do that but a bit unsure, i have the optional footswitch.

p.s. nothing wrong with unmatching socks, in fact i've got mine on today (just to annoy the girly of course! :)

Cheers!

[1withatwist]

I'm distracted because your socks don't match ;)

[stevedawn50]

dude you made lough my ass off!!!!!!hahaha

[petro062]

I put a 2gig chip in mine amd it never fills up again. I got full songs on it now. I had to format the chip for it to work.2gig is the biggest it will take. $30 at radio shack.

[guitarpie123]

Cool. But do you have to make ONLY loops or can u create full songs including vocals also?

[MismatchedSockGuy]

You can do vocals also, I just decided to demo the guitar. Full songs are do-able, but changing to verse, chorus & bridge is tricky to do seamlessly.

[guitarpie123]

Thanks. I know it wont come out perfect, but ill prolly use it to make some full songs and make a cd when i get one. And thanks to your demo, i am DEFINETLEY getting one!

[cxpage]

If you have a big enough memory card you can record hours of sound. That would be enough to load full songs that you could then play over.

You can have it play the loop only once if you want and the loop can be long enough to be a whole song.

[BASSPOD100]

Ive got one of these in the post. Now I do Know it will do what I want it to. Thanks

[jsilke]

great demo...well done !

[xtrasuperficial]

great concept.. especially for creating drums with an electric guitar, thank you! keep up the good work...

[erod1944]

That was extraordinary. Probably the best demonstration of the Jam Man I've seen. Nice Playing & Concept.

[MismatchedSockGuy]

I've wondered why there aren't more people posting this kind of Jamman video. I find it very intuitive, albeit with some serious limitations. I planned on using it in a solo covers gig, but not anymore since I found that it doesn't play nice with drum machines and such. The only way is to pre-load drum loops onto the memory card. Would be great if it had a MIDI in and out to sync up with automatically starting a drum machine as your rythmic pallette to overlay your loops.

[neanderpaul]

Or you could play real drums live like I do as your 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th track. While singing etc.

[Ravage86]

thank you for demonstrating it!

great job!

[guitarrelic]

I loved it - great work ! Looks like a lot of fun too.

[PsYCoB]

Really nice video and demo!

[DrtyWrm]

nice funky groove you got going there. nice looping and set-up