#19

Is anybody here using a Blooper? Mine arrived today – and I have a problem: As soon as I plug in an external foot switch, the internal left foot switch becomes inactive – so I can’t delete loops by pressing both internal foot switches. Pressing the external foot switch and the right internal foot switch doesn’t work either: nothing happens. Any ideas?

#20

While I use & love the blooper, I haven’t tried with an external switch (and don’t have one to try with).

I recommend checking out the reddit that they set up for a blooper community. I’m sure someone there has tried this or could do.

#21

Thanks, I solved it. The foot switch was opening, not closing. I re-soldered it and it works as intended now.

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#22

I recently got a Blooper and I must say that this pedal made me wanna play guitar again.
It’s definitely a lovely pedal.

I bought also a Chase Bliss Midibox and eventually I’ll try sending midi to it.

Theirs pedals have a very high price but they’re absolute quality though.

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#23

updated firmware 1.2 is a huge improvement for reducing the clicks and tweaking the workflow

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#24

Update 2.0 is here with loop download, modifier management and some interesting new modifiers.

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#25

Messed around with swapper just before heading of to work. Lots of new creative potential.

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#26

here is the new browser interface. Yeah, I feel it’s a lot for a guitar pedal looper.

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#27

Update’s great. Made a little something with it as the kids were asleep -

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#28

I’ve had my blooper for a few weeks now and have been loving it, but I do have one gripe (or is it a question?)

Does anyone know- when a loop is being slowed down with the “smooth speed” mod, is there any way to have the original (unaffected) loop window shorten or lengthen to the “smooth speed” loop? I’m finding that it’s nearly impossible to record parts on top of a slowed down loop without the loop getting cut up in weird ways or turning into pitched chaos.

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#29

Sadly, I have also not been able to find a solution for that. I guess it is because blooper treats pitching more like an effect than part of its fundamental play-engine, if that makes sense. Usually I try to record/dub things in normal speed and then slow the loop down. It is not ideal of course.

#30

That’s what I was afraid of. Beyond it not being able to overdub properly with a pitched/slowed down effect on, it means that the effect can’t be baked into your downloadable loops.

It’s not a deal-breaker for me though. I still love the blooper. I guess I’ll just have to incorporate other looping methods into the process, or record it into something that sends clock, detect the bpm of the recording, and then sync my blooper to the adjusted clock for extended overdubbing. I have yet to try syncing the blooper to anything but I’m guessing that would work?

#31

Had some fun feeding blooper in the modular.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CITtAKvBK3_/?igshid=19qc5c9l7yddc

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#32

I think they’re talking about changing blooper fundamentally so it will work this way. Excited to see how it goes.

Anyone using CV clock to sync blooper? Having trouble getting it to work, seems like when it receives a pulse it’s both recording and stopping the recording at the same time so it’s not actually capturing anything.

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#33

Blooper is so weird. I really love it, but it really feels like it’s ready to burst out of the chase bliss format into a bigger stereo pedal with more controls. It’s also weirdly tuned for guitar, I find myself less satisfied for what it does to other instruments, perhaps because the sampling rate is a bit low (but perfect for guitar).

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#34

Yeah, I saw that Knobs mentioned something about that on the blooper subreddit! It would definitely make the blooper better at manipulating loops towards something more melodic/linear, which is how I would prefer to use it.

#35

Hi, hey, hello. I’ve made a beat tape of sorts with only the Blooper and YouTube. It shouldn’t work. And it doesn’t, really.

Please let me know if sharing the Bandcamp link is poor form, because I love y’all and I don’t want to ruffle feathers (unless they make a cool sound).

Songs for Loop Pedal and YouTube

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#36

I’m glad you did. I’m making a sampling record (or I should say, my first record using only samples) and the blooper is a huge part of that. In some way I wish it was a tabletop device with loads of knobs because I’d also like to make a record only using that. Anyway I’m looking forward to checking this out, thanks for sharing.

(Edit since I also have an H6, I am now really tempted to make my own version of this idea and post it here)

#37

I’d love to hear anything you make with the Blooper! Yes, it would better serve our needs as a tabletop device, but part of what makes it fun to use is its clunkiness. I can never get quite the right timing with my taps or my knob twists, and the imperfection is part of its prowess.

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#38

You want the same functionality in a tabletop device? I would suggest a laptop or an iPad…