Multifunction effects pedal

Barely two months ago, when writing about the rotary chorus pedal¹, I wrote "Hopefully this is the last pedal that I will purchase (some hope)". That pedal has become extremely useful, but there are times when I wished that I had a more subtle chorus pedal, or delay, or reverb. Theoretically the guitar amplifier² has effects but I have yet to find a good setting; also, only one effect can be set, and it is always on, if it is being generated by the amplifier.

As is my habit, I was browsing through items at Temu when I saw the multifunction effects pedal, the Looper Pro. I'm not interested in looping, but a delay/chorus/reverb pedal is intriguing. Today the pedal arrived and I installed it on my pedalboard, removing the cheap delay (or was it chorus³) pedal that didn't seem to make any difference to my guitar's sound.

As opposed to the amplifier effects loop, I can have all three effects working at the same time, although should I want only one, I'll have to turn the others off. I'll probably do the same as I did on the rotary chorus: mark a reasonable setting, so I can turn the effect off then restore it without trying to find that reasonable setting again.

I realised that the delay effect really should have two knobs: one for the length of delay and one for the number of echoes. The 'level' control is wasted: it controls the output volume of the pedal, whereas it would be better if it set the 'mix' between straight sound and effected sound - as per the octave pedal.

It's a bit difficult to see in the picture, but there is a red LED on top of the circle surrounding the foot switch, beneath the E of loopEr. This shows whether the pedal is connected to power - which it will be all the time in a session. It would have been better to have this LED show when the effect/s is/are being used; instead a much smaller LED next to the 'level' control shows this.

Enough griping; what does the pedal sound like? I set a small amount of each effect to be 'on' and this produces a warm sound. The delay is problematic if I'm chopping out chords with no sustain, but it's good when I'm picking. This effect then is a candidate to be turned on for certain songs and off for others.

Maybe this pedal will be the last pedal that I buy.

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