DigiTech JML2 JamMan Stereo Looper and Phrase Sampler Guitar Effects Pedal  

The reverse is a cool feature to have, no easy way to live edit tempo and undoing loops proves to be unreliable.

Upon buying the Jamman, it worked for about a month until the loops started skipping on the 3rd beat. Tried contacting the company and was told that I had to manually alter each track seperately by turning off the rythm machine. this is a huge waste of time and is completely not worth the effort. NOT recomended for live performance due to Digitechs policy of cutting corners to save money. After manually "fixing" this problem, both output jacks give no signal out (in the middle of a  jam) and left me stranded. If your willing to spend $300 on a unit whos shelf life is about a month, then by all means go for it.

Definently recomend against purchasing this product due to its unreliability and hastle.

software:

plus: allows setting a bpm tempo, volume leveling, arranging sequential order of loops, storage on the jamman and archiving onto a computer.

minus: with any type of multistep saving, the interface freezes and does not recover w/o restarting program.  so get ready for some major frustration - you have been warned

on stage:

plus:  the ability to send a click track to a monitor mix (drummers love you for this), you can circumvent the sound engineer (they may hate you for this) and control your vocal, instrument, loop track, and rhythm volume.  

minus:  pedals click loudly, inability to set loops to advance automatically in order

home/studio:

plus:  transitions are seemless unlike RC 30, recording space limitless unlike RC 20

minus:  refer to my software review

For me, this was a toss up between the Jamman Stereo and the Boss  RC-30. I think I would have been happy with either, but the Jamman is an  impressive machine. I've had it for two weeks, and I'm finding it easy  to use. Where I get stuck, I turn to the brief owner's manual.

The  main drawback right now is that Jammanager, the software that transfer  files between your Jamman and computer, really doesn't work. (There are  known, ongoing problems with it, and the Digi-Tech contact who got back  to me acknowledged there were issues that needed to be fixed in relation  to OSX, which is what I'm using.) Unfortunately, I expect 75% of what I  want to do with the looper will involve loops imported into the  machine, rather than loops created by using the Jamman itself (whether  live/on the fly or prerecorded). That's not enough to make me want to  return the machine--the actual pedal is great, and there is a line in  for recording from an outside source. (This also means I can't utilize  another cool feature--the rhythm track that can be sent just to your  monitor mix.)

I also didn't find any of the tone suck  I've read other guitar players talk about. That was actually my biggest  concern going in.

Ultimately, if Digi-tech can fix the bugs in Jammanager, this will be a 10 in my book. But I have to knock two points off for the software's current bugginess, which makes 3/4 of what I do more difficult (but with a workaround, not impossible) to accomplish.

i wish there was a faster way to remove your frist loop. if it goes wrong, you have to hit stop and then hold to erase. it's only a couple or seconds but when playing live...?

(perhaps the footswitch extension can speed this up? or why not just hold the rec. as one does for all other subsequent overdubs)

There are other small things that could be changed with an software down load update. Perhaps a choice of features that maximizes the unit for either live looping or backing tracks, depending on what the user wants it for.

Very solid

I bought this for live looping on the fly as appose to prerecord backing tracks. It’s not perfect but it’s very close. The jam manager software was an afterthought for me, but now that I’ve used it, I like it a lot. It’s simple and reliable and quite useful. I’m very impressed with this product. It’s got to be hard to make everyone happy with a device as versatile as this one, but I think digitech is off to a great start at a great price, and they seem to be making improvements as they go along.

I use this for filling in sound in a live setting or when I'm trying to write music, I've had it for about 1 year.  It took me a while to get use to all its functions.  But once you get a hold of it its a breeze...  I haven't really used the software with it enough to comment on it so far I have no need to download my own loops into it.  i

solid build.  nice metal casing.  haven't had any issues with it not working.  I usually only have it at home for writing.  But like i said its fairly well built if youre not too hard on your pedals

I love using loopers to write and this one has tons of space for me to record directly onto.  so for that its been really good.  I had this one recomended to me from a friend over the boss re-20 because of the storage capability.  I like it