LEF-319

This is one amazing little pedal! From the weight and high-end look of the packaging and pedal when you first recieve it, all the way to the absolutely astounding performance and clarity of this nano looper, it's on another level completely from what I had been expecting for this kind of affordability. But to be completely honest, just as with my Alpha Force pedal from Donner I took a chance on last winter, I'm total enamored by this ingenious little looper. I'm normally strictly working on multiple DAWs these days, only because I prefer that kind of fully submersive control and my own music is weird as s***. So I wasn't expecting to be so incredibly taken with my purchase. Ivr just never had any interest in a looper pedal even though the demand has skyrocketed enough the last few years But this little nano looper is is truly amazing. It's crystal clear for me, really intuitive and tremendously simple even after only aftert two minutes of use (at MOST!!!), it works far better than I could have ever possibly expected it to, and the amount of controls you can manuever with the push of just the one button is unfathomable. Using active pickups through a high gain distortion (Donner Alpha Force), and then into a high gain amp(!!), all the way from hyper-active pups in my heavt metal Strat, when bypassed or active, this mutha is silent. I do mean silent too. I will try to make a short video in case anyone happens to be on the fence still. It's the quietest pedal I may have ever played through, as to when the effect is in bypass mode. Even as it's active you still can't hear anything except the music you intended to come out if this surprising little guy. No RF pollution or distracting background humming, buzzing, or even bonechilling ghost-like demonic growls. It's nice and clean and impressive including all the way to ten minutes of looping on this dude. Just BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you use a power supply with the CORRECT POLARITY! The reviews about their looper crapping out after a little while seems like bad luck of the draw, but with my experience so far, the customer service level is just as impressive and professional as the atmospheric level of elation I'm enjoying due to buying this thing. I have been impressed with every detail in respect to this looper pedal, and just as importantly, with this company. I can honestly profess that I'm grateful I decided to try this looper. Nice job, Rowin! You've knocked this one out of the park and halfway through the moon.

edit: received another pedal from Rowin, directly. It works a lot better than the first one. Great company with superb tech support. original review: Been going crazy, picking up a few Rowin pedals (this tuner, Trelicopter, Dumbler, Chorus, Plexion, etc). This tuner is the opposite of high-precision. I tested it with a strat and Les Paul-- when it says it's in tune, it isn't quite there. Usually flat by about 20 cents. I also had my friend test it out with his strat (perfect intonation, perfectly set up)... same issue. We also tested it by detuning each string to see if the tuning improved when strings were way out, but... nope. 20 cents or so off. Testing with one of those handheld Korg tuners showed each string wasn't quite there. A quick strum of an open chord told us the same. In theory, great price for a simple tuner. But high-precision... no. What would be really helpful is if the blue LEDs were faint when "close" and then bright when "on point." Similar to the way the TC Polytune works... bright LEDs when you're on point, and slightly darker when you're not. Wanted to hang onto this tuner but it's not happening... put in for a return a few days ago. Btw, I teach guitar, do a lot of home recording, and have been playing for over 10 years. I've owned/used the Boss tuners, TC's Polytune, Snarks, and those handheld Korgs... each of those tuners works great, but this doesn't come close. Cheap pedals and their effects can sometimes not quite achieve their desired sound, but I can usually roll with that. The tuner's the most important pedal on your board... invest in a fully accurate one. Nice try, Rowin.. but, some tweaks are definitely needed.

For the cost and functionality, it's pretty difficult to complain about the Rowin noise gate pedal. I mainly use this pedal when using distortion, and it does a pretty good job of reducing hiss. When stacking distortion with overdrive, I noticed the gate tended to cause signal decay quickly, so I had to tweak it a little to find a sweet spot, which took around ten minutes. Once I found the sweet spot for my set up, I tested it with my modulation pedals as well, and I had no issues. The compact size of the noise gate pedal is also a huge plus for gigging. I prefer a lightweight, compact pedal board, so this pedal is perfect for my needs. The pedal require 12v power, pretty much standard for the majority of guitar pedals on the market. I use a typical 12v power supply, and the Rowin noise gate works with it just fine. This is a solid pedal for any musician looking for a compact, inexpensive noise gate.

i was surprised how well this worked. it has a nice cut off that is adjustable

It doesn’t remove all the noise but is a decent cheap pedal.

Wow.... This thing is SMALL! When I opened the package I thought "ahhh geez... What the hell kinda toy is this!?" I almost filed for a return as soon as I saw it. No way that a tiny little thing smaller than my friggin thumb is a real loop pedal... But....I was sooooooooo wrong! It's really a real loop pedal. And it WORKS!! I hooked it into my pedal board and gave it a shot... Recorded a whole 8 measure chord set and it looped perfectly! No gap in the recording, no degradation in sound quality, just the same great sound coming out of it as what I put into it! Sooooooooo glad I took a chance and bought this pedal. I previously had a "TC Electronic flashback" and it stopped looping properly after not using it for about 2 years. I should have just stopped using it for loops and just kept it for the delay function... But that's not why I bought it. I needed a friggin loop pedal.... So it got thrown across the room and broken into 20 pieces against the far wall. No tolerance for malfunctioning hardware, software or people. Anyways...moving on. The new pedal has one function that it excels at... And that's all I need. No more combo pedals, no more all in one printers, no more multi-function devices with their focus split to the point of uselessness. One pedal..... One function.... Done!

Effects are good, but looper terrible. Cannot get a flush loop no matter what I try and the loop plays back much louder. The only way to combat this is to record the loop at a quiet level so you can hear yourself playing over it. Strange... I kept it because reverb is nice. Also, if that black box in the middle is supposed to be a LDC screen it does nothing. Does not light up at all.

This Noise Gate does the trick. Mind you, I am a complete newb to the world of guitars, so I had to do a serious amount of tweaking for my set up. I have a strat copy that I modified with a lot of new parts. I find that when I set both of the tone knobs at about 2, I get enough tone with a very small amount of feedback. With this as my foundation, I run that clean sound through my compressor, then into my booster before it hits the noise gate. There is still a hum that I think only comes from the amp when turning the volume higher so I keep the volume fairly low enough (around 1 or 2) to where I don't hear the hum very much, but can still get a nice sound out of the speaker. The overall tone could stand a bit more brightness, so I'll be adding an EQ Pedal to the setup today to fine tune it even more; however, the noise gate is doing its thing! The only time I really hear any feedback is when I switch to the bridge pickups and thats when the sound is pushing through the gate. Once the tones sustain starts to fade, the noise gate kills the feedback nicely. I honestly did not know what to expect once I added this pedal to my set up, though I can say after a week of using it, I'm happy with the purchase and would definitely recommend this item as a must have.