Harley Benton FXL8 Pro

Well it is a entry into world of switched loop happiness.

You get a lot for the price.

You will need to sit bit longer and think how do you want to use it specially if you have more than 8 pedals on your pedal board.

Some pedals can just go in front of it and some can be in same loop but than your layout of the pedal board has to be good so you can access those as well.

Please note that you will need isolated PSU or two PSU to get rid of possible ground loops.

One PSU for Looper and digital devices and other for your analog pedals. Du not know is your pedal analog or digital? Well if it draws 5 to 90 mA it is 99% sure analog pedal. If it is 100 to 500 mA it is digital with some strange birds here and there.

When you separate your pedals in loops expect them to sound differently than what you have been used to if you have had them in daisy chain. In most of the cases your OD pedals will sound like you have more gain.

In mix of buffered and true bypass pedals lot of things can happen and order of pedals is crucial.

When you have them separated with a looper pedals do not influence each other unless both are activated but than that is completely different scenario.

Do not expect Gigrig G2 for this price. On other hand this unit will not kill sound of your Boutique pedal. So if it can cover your scenario this is excellent looper.

Remember that if you have like two Strymon pedals 300-500 mA and this and only for those 3 devices you will need min 2A PSU. Yes 1,5A is needed but you do not want to run 1,5 A PSU with a load of 1,5A. It iwll not last long and it will create issues.

So be clever with it and isolate pedals and power feeds and you can make very nice setup with this looper.

Worth every penny.

A classy looking switcher being great bang for the buck.
Let's start with the downsides:
- Loud pop when turning on, so make sure you turn your amps on after powering the switcher, or at least muted.
- There is the tiniest bit of lag in patch switching, most notable when actually listening for ir, but it's there.
- Due to processing limitations you can only switch loops 1 through 4 or loops 5 through 8, meaning you have to change between the high and low banks.
Takes getting used to and makes for a somewhat tougher learning curve.

Selling points:
- Great looking
- Connectivity is very rich, you can (ab)use some outputs differently than intended which makes it even more flexible.
(Tuner out for me goes to tuner, obviously, and then into a DI for dry DI signal for reamping purposes).
But you could also use it as a split for an extra amp or a dedicated output for a talkbox amplifier.
- Very flexible and highly usable.