Cheers Fred, it’s a great looper and drum machine and the 256 backing track feature rocks, enjoy it Fred and glad the tutorial helped you :)

hi how long does one recording loop last ie 3 min 5 mins 10 mins like if i recorded myself playing a tune on guitar that lasted 6 mins would it record it all or would it stop betore the 6 mins was up .

@@archmccallgreenockscotland The specs say the pedal has 6 hours of recording capability, but I don't know if you can you use all 6 hours in one loop.

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That’s great thanks for the extra info, I’m sure it’ll help others, and thanks for watching Lonnie, cheers!

Thanks George!

Glad to help! Thanks for watching!

Sarah Peterson thanks! It’s a great little unit for the solo musician or band without a drummer.

Thanks John! absolutely agree, i remember back in the day all those proprietary file formats that other systems couldn't use, as i said in the video i wish i had this back in the day when i ran drum tracks from a 3 1/2" floppy through a Korg X3, cheers man

Ozzy Mandias hi Ozzy, I hear ya, but I guess at least you have the option, plus also it doesn’t necessarily have to be the whole backing track, could just be something you’ve recorded yourself I.e. drums and a string section, possibilities are there :)) cheers man

@@DerekPaulGuitar Hi, yes, that's what I'm doing, I'm recording harmonies but the temptation to use Backing Tracks is there and growing, I'm fine with it but it's just if someone comes up after and say's 'Hey man, that's cheatin', I don't think it is, I mean. if you play more complex songs like for instance Queen, they don't always stick to the verse/chorus structure and although I'm capable of laying the songs it would take an age and by the time I was ready the Audience would be out the door...

Definitely not cheating at all! Music isn’t a sport as they say, use whatever you can to entertain your audience, I don’t think they’ll question it as long as they enjoy what you do, I spent 10 years in a band where we used drum tracks with piano and synths because we didn’t have A drummer, no-one cared, they just loved what we did :)

Hi ya ..how long can the 1st loop be ....any ideas 💡

Haha you spotted it, I always try to sneak something in :) gotta have a bit of fun in videos I reckon, cheers!

The backing track functionality isn’t a primary function of the unit, it’s something I discovered, but yes, it would be great to have it!

Most other demo videos focus on the looper and drum features of the pedal. Your video is the only one I've seen that deals with loading and playing backing tracks. Thanks, Derek!

Sorry i missed your comment Fred, thank you, i appreciate that

@@DerekPaulGuitar No problem, Derek! Thanks again for a really helpful review.

Hi Derek, good review as always. I would have liked to have seen more on the drum and looper side as this is the first review of the piece of kit that I have seen and I could well see it being of benefit to me when I'm away on business. BTW, what's the current cost of these things?. I followed your' link to Amazon but there was no price displayed.

Gareth Poole sorry I missed this Gareth, KZfaq only tells me about new comments, I think it’s around $150, the looper is just a regular looper style pedal, the drums are ok, not the best but they will work absolutely fine :) cheers

Thanks man! appreciate that

Hi Rob, I think (as I remember) I got them fro KZfaq using a downloader, it was a while ago though

Hi Brad, a very happy new year to you too and hope you had a good holiday break, thanks for the comment as always :) yes it does function as well as the Boss, it operates in the same way (the Boss does have stereo inputs though) but the JTC has 6 hours loops time as opposed to the Boss which has 12 Minutes, in my opinion if you are in the market for a looper (and this has the auto start function as well, meaning it will only start looping once it hears a note or chord from the guitar) then this is amazing because for me the backing track feature is incredible, thats why i focused on that part of it, if you need any more info Brad then let me know.

As I remember the backing tracks are just mono, I checked the manual and no option for drums L&R unfortunately

Ok, that's what I imagined, thanks for confirming this for me

No problem at all

Ah fantastic, glad you figured it out!

Absolutely :) even has an out to a mixer, cheers

Hi, yes you can do that and switch the drums loop in and out when needed, I agree, I think they could highlight some great features on these :)

I can confirm the drums loop perfectly :)

No fills on this one

Hey! Sorry to hear that NUX have great support if you reach out, cheers!

Hope you get it sorted!

Hey Dennis, thanks for the kind words, you can’t slow a backing track down unfortunately, there’s probably a lot of software options to do that though and then import them, cheers and thanks from the beautiful Netherlands

Yea that’s correct, thanks

@@DerekPaulGuitar so the backing track volume is considered a drum loop and not on the rhythm channel? I want to be able to control the volume of the backing track and my guitar separately!

Hi, thanks for watching, when converting the tracks in the NUX app are they 24bit WAV stereo? Cheers

That is weird! Did you make a backup of the unit?

That’s a good question and as far as I can remember (my nephew has the pedal now) it doesn’t, it just records the loop from the guitar, the drums then can be switched on and off

@@DerekPaulGuitar Thank you for the quick response. No I don't believe it does. But it still looks like a really fun and creative pedal. One popped up at my local guitar shop, used, at a good price. I am going to check it out. Thanks again. Cheers!

No worries, I used it for the backing track feature and large storage capacity, cheers!

Hmmmm strange! maybe try a different cable as some are for charging only, i've made that mistake before

I if you loop a two bar loop and try to play a further six bar loop on top it will play a 6 bar loop if that makes sense, doesn’t sound possible if I understand correctly

I donated the unit to my nephew to use about a year ago now so I’m not sure sorry! But thanks for watching!

@@DerekPaulGuitar thanks for the reponse

Same slots allocated for loops yes, you can record 256 loops and it backing tracks and yes you can record over the backing tracks with loops, hope that helps, cheers!

They don't, you'll have to play the loop in time with the drums, cheers

@@DerekPaulGuitar cheers Derek. I thought as much. No improvement on the rig I have now.

No worries Chris! Happy to help

Thanks Matt! Appreciate that

@@DerekPaulGuitar Welcome! I'm considering upgrading from the Loop Core Deluxe. The JTC Pro seems waaay better. Thanks for sharing the secret!

@@mattgilbert7347 No worries Matt! glad it helped you out, cheers!

I’m not sure sorry, I’m using a Mac and there was no driver needed, there are some good forums out there as I understand, cheers

Hi Paul, the pedal doesn't detect the tempo (it just plays at the imported tempo) and secondly you can't loop over it as it uses the same footswitch to start the backing tack (although of course you can play over the backing track or get a little cheap looper to achieve the same thing, lot's out there) thanks for the comment

Hmmmm not sure, about that!

@@DerekPaulGuitar I think im sorted now. My ME80 is now routed to the looper. Looper into Return

@@focalfusion ah fantastic, glad you got it sorted :)

Ol Grey Bear thanks Bear! That’s a good question, I would try it but I don’t have a iPad available or the cable but as long as the ipad recognised it then it work, thanks for the comments, the feedback really helps and thanks for subscribing, look forward to chatting in the comments, maybe reach out to NUX for some advice on the iPad ? Cheers

If you like having backing tracks available then the NUX, if you prefer to just use drums for looping then the Flamma, they are both great loopers and drum pedals, cheers!

It’s a great piece of kit! Cheers man!

Yes a dynamic mic should work fine!

Hey Chip! I have made some on the past but I usually just grab them from KZfaq and use a downloader, cheers!

I’m not sure to be honest as everything you’ve done seems correct! Perhaps reach out to NUX, they have a great customer support, hope you get it sorted, cheers

nvm i found the answer in your comments, i had to convert the files to stereo

@@pr0ph3t5 ah I was just going to say, glad you found the answer

Thanks Rick! If I understand correctly the first half of the song is just you on acoustic and your vocalist, then you kick in the backing track for the other half of the song? If so then absolutely! Just create your backing track to start half way through the song and load it into the unit, does that help? Cheers

Hey Chip, I don’t think you can, I think it’s all or nothing, I.e. backing track and lead out of the same output (I leant the unit to my nephew early last year and haven’t seen it since lol)

@DerekPaulGuitar thnx for the update bud.

No worries dude!

Hi Don, I just do a google search for whichever backing track I need and invariably there is a load of free ones out there, hope that helps

@@DerekPaulGuitar Thanks Derek, what do you think of the Line 6 JM4? (I know that it's been out for a while but it also has 'built in' songs including bass lines.)

@@donwilliams322 I havent had any experience with that unit unfortunately, but from what i've read and heard it does sound good! cheers Don

Yes, you’d have to create those parts separately as separate loops though then switch between them, can’t remember if you can use the footswitch to do this though

Nice man! Enjoy it

Thanks for the comment! Unfortunately it isn’t possible, be great if there was a firmware update to rectify it as so many people have asked for that feature, cheers!

@Derek Paul Guitar Damn, I just ordered it and then saw your reply. I hope there is a firmware update to fix this but as the product is 3 years old it seems unlikely. Ifi really want to do what I plan, I may have to just use the pedal to play back the backing tracks and then just play along with them through something other than the looper, perhaps through a second looper, though that's kind of clunky.

You can of course adjust the volume of the drums and play over them but not what you were after doing, as you say though maybe another cheap looper in the chain? Cheers

Michael Caz thanks Michael, the acoustic is an Ibanez Artwood AC340 (I did a video on it, Ibanez vs Martin :)) thanks for the comment and good luck with the research man!

This AND the Trio. Hell yeah.

but does anyone know how long one slot last i have a donner looper but one slot only lasts for 4 mins not enough fir some tunes ???

@@archmccallgreenockscotland Unfortunately i'm not sure sorry

Hi, when you extract your loop you just get your loop, no NUX drums, hope that helps and cheers :)

@@DerekPaulGuitar thank you Derek. That was really helpful. :)

@@Kostas-Kantounis Glad to help :)

@@DerekPaulGuitar Hi Derek! I put my WAV files to the NUX JTC on my PC. And the files are in the right direction (WAVE). Now, I see the files on my pc but I don’t see them in the looper itself. For instance the first slot of my looper has no (.) dot next to (001) but the second slot, which I directly recorded in to the looper itself and I see it as (002.) Any idea of why my extracted files are visible when I connect the nux looper to my pc and are invisible when it’s connected to the pc?

@@gorilkamil6514 Hi, hmmm it might be worth using the NUX file converter to convert them to .wav, did you try that?

maybe try another USB cable? other than than nuxefx.com has a support contact :) cheers!

@@DerekPaulGuitar ha! ya know what - that was the issue as far as connecting the unit to the computer. Will try the software again - cheers :)

@@Tubedriver42 ah excellent! Hope it works out :)

Hi Darren, I’m not really sure man, I’m hoping someone can help you out though, cheers!

Got it sorted, so if anyone asks you send them to me. Av got it all up and running, last question, av messed up folders 3 and 7 and am tryna delete them and put different tracks in there place, any ideas on how to do this ? Or any one u know got an unofficial bigger manual ?

@@darrenmitchell1744 that’s great and I will do!!! I’m not sure on that one either, NUX have a great support crew though, cheers!

Yes you absolutely can, perfect for that, cheers!

@@DerekPaulGuitar Thanks Derek 👍

Hi John, the drums have a stereo feel but are not really true stereo in that the Tom’s don’t fill in stereo (left to right e.g.) cheers

@@DerekPaulGuitar thank you for letting me know I appreciate it

@@johnburris8499 no problem John, cheers

Hi Anton, to be honest the Jamman looks like it’ll do what you need from digitechs website, the spec looks good

@@DerekPaulGuitar Thank you so much. I appreciate you taking the time to help. Best Regards, Anton.

@@antongoonetilleke2432 no worries at all Anton, cheers and stay well!

@@DerekPaulGuitar Hi Derek, its me again (pain!) in my Digitec Jamman Stereo, I cannot loop more than one bar! How do I work around it to say do a 12 bar loop? Thanks....

@@antongoonetilleke2432 hey Anton, oh I’m not sure, had a quick Google and there seems to be some forums on it if you type ‘DigiTech jam man loop more than 1 bar’ hope it helps, cheers

Hi, i haven't tried it, i use it in a simple way, i'm purely mono guitar input and stereo backing track, have you got the unit, did you try it? cheers!

@@DerekPaulGuitar I just got the unit, I tried by Mono Guitar in, and Mono cables out of each (ROUT & LOUT), and I can see that if I connect both, ROUT has Only the Drums and LOUT has only the guitar. If I just connect to LOUT, both Drums/BackingTrack and Guitar come out in Mono. I haven't got a splitter (TRS to Dual TS) so I could see if the Drums (or Backing track) come out in Stereo. On NUX website, the animation for the Recording / OverDub signals show the Drums in Stereo. Which would be really cool. If is depicted correctly. So I wanted to know if you have tried since you've had it for a long while...

@@nenesaurus ah gotcha, no I never tried it, but it would be interesting to find out if it did work that way as I know other people would be interested and may have even asked the question, cheers!

And when I am able to try it, I will reply here...

@@nenesaurus sounds good man! Cheers!

Thank you! I just plugged it into the acoustic preamp (KNA SG-1 in my case) and it just worked, I know that probably doesn’t help

@@DerekPaulGuitar thanks! Perhaps, the pedals needs a higher voltage signal

@@DerekPaulGuitar just another question. Is it possible to have stereo input through TRS cable? This is because I think this pedal should be last one on the signal chain and it should be the able to receive stereo effects, like stereo delay or chorus

The newer pedals have a TRS option but I don’t think this does, cheers!

@@DerekPaulGuitar really thanks!

Hi, thanks for the comment, the build quality has been and is fantastic, nothing to moan about at all, i use it fairly regularly as a looper and it been great, stay well and cheers

Had it years. It’s the best one.

Hi David, you’ll have to make sure they are 24bit .wav files, NUX have a free converter on their website nuxefx.com to do this but of course the Roland backing tracks will need to be exported as .mp3 or .wav to get them into the NUX

@@DerekPaulGuitar Thank you, very helpful Derek.

David or Rose Miller you are more than welcome

No worries, the only think I can think of at the moment is, did you use the NUX software to convert the files to 24bit Wav? Cheers

@@DerekPaulGuitar Hi Derek, thanks for answering, yes I used the NUX converter. So there aren't any missing steps; I wonder if I try a different usb cable it might work, or perhaps the pedal I have is faulty? Hopefully NUX might eventually answer my email. Otherwise I'll be tying two cymbals between my knees! Thanks again

@@nigelseed1559 haha I’m imaging that now, saying that…. The usb cable might be the problem?

@@DerekPaulGuitar Hi Derek, the answer was to convert the files to 24 bit AND STEREO! Why they don't put it in the manual I don't know. I eventually got a reply from NUX USA which told me the key. Do you want to buy two cymbals?

@@nigelseed1559 Ah you solved it!! Good stuff, hopefully this helps others too!

Hi, the only link i have is through nuxefx.com or here www.nuxefx.com/jtc-pro.html but i use a Mac so not entirely sure if its for windows as it doesn't specify, other than that NUX have great after sales support, cheers!

@@DerekPaulGuitar Cheers Derek thanks for your quick reply sent already just waiting for the reply . Ps have you tried using the aux footswitch yet?

@@ANGESPURS No worries man! i haven't tried it yet, if you do... let me know what you think!

@@DerekPaulGuitar No problem will do👍

@@ANGESPURS cheers man! Good to chat to you

I agree, could just be a simple firmware update

@@DerekPaulGuitar If it had that feature I would buy one but without that if you where playing live you would have to change the tracks with your hand which is a deal breaker for me

I hear ya man, I guess with enough feedback it could be introduced but it’s manufactured to a price, cheers and stay well

@@DerekPaulGuitar I can't believe they never thought of it...what were they thinking? ... It's a shame :(

@@st3voguitarist I guess they were focusing more on the loop and drum side of things, i saw it as a USP though :)

You can’t add more drum patterns but you do have the 256 backing track slots so you could add your own drum only backing tracks, cheers

Thx mannn. 1more question. Can we tap tempo on my loaded backing track?

@@shizuruart That's ok man! unfortunately you can't, but you could load 2 different tempos in there in two different slots :)

Hi rolandready thanks so much for the comments, when I did it I was using a Mac, I connected the looper using a compatible cable (I used the power cable from my JBL flip 4 and that worked fine) and the NUX showed up as a drive on my Mac, and then I navigated to the ‘WAVE’ folder where the 256 folders were and dragged backing track 1 into folder 1, backing track 2 into folder 2 etc, are you using windows to do it? Cheers dude

@@DerekPaulGuitar Thank you! I really appreciate that. On windows when I plug it in it shows as "F" drive but there is no folders. I'm wondering if something is wrong with this one. Again, thanks so much. Really appreciated.

@@rolandready3207 Hi man, i'm not too sure, might be worth reaching out to NUX, they are helpful guys :)) (sorry i missed the comment)

@@DerekPaulGuitar Finally got it! Thanks for your help. LOVE that it does the backing tracks not so sure on the drums though. Still messing with it. Thanks again for your help.

rolandready superb! Did you get the drive to show up and get the backing tracks in? I love it for that, I hear you on the drums, could be better but maybe running them through a compressor should help give them a better sound :))

Absolutely, import the loops as a 24bit Wav and just loop them as long as you need in the DAW before importing

@@DerekPaulGuitar Hi Derek, I am wondering if I can export Digitech TRIO loop files, to the NU-X JTC software, convert them to a Nu-X file, then Save and play the TRIO song files on the Nu-X JTC ?

@@johnmcminn9455 Hi John, if you can convert them to wav files somehow then it’ll work, the NUX requires 24bit wav files :) hope that helps

I just grabbed them from youtube, one was John Mayers Gravity and one was Tom Petty :)

@@DerekPaulGuitar what's the type file format can we import to that pedaL?

@@xtremeboy851 it’s a 24bit WAV but NUX provide a file converter as shown in the video :)

@@DerekPaulGuitar I guess we can put mp3 backing t without converter. can you make a video how to import/convert the file ? more detail. thanks

@@xtremeboy851 you can’t unfortunately, it has to be 24bit WAV files

As far as I can tell you have to start your guitar loop on beat 1 of the loop, I think you started on beat 3? Thanks

@@DerekPaulGuitar Watch again and you'll see I punch the first beat. I contacted Nux and they confirmed you can't split the 4 count. Something to do with the drum fills working properly. Also if you record it without the drums it works perfectly.

That would make sense though if I understand correctly, glad you got a reply from NUX!

It’s just the sound of the snare for me, but I’m a little fussy, it’s a top quality unit though, maybe watch another YT video on the drum section of the pedal to decide, cheers

@@DerekPaulGuitar cheers! I bought it. I will find out about the drums sound quality in few days. I think it should be ok, since we can separate the drums and the guitar output, and put the drums through some equalizer / filter / enhancer in the editing software. we can even entirely replace the drums later on.

@@TigerCarpenter exactly, or compress the drums and eq them, which I did, let me know how you get on, cheers!

​@@DerekPaulGuitar after few days of using it (many hours a day), I think it's a solid looper. the first impression of listening to the drums was bad. I wanted to return it. then I downloaded NUX JTC Pro Firmware V1.4, and upgraded the pedal through USB (it took me 1 day to figure out not all USB Micro B cables transfer DATA !!!), and BOOM! they re-did the drums samples !!! I couldn't believe how big the change was. even directly plugged to Line6 combo guitar amp. then I put my return decision on hold and I started testing all the connections: 1. F3 stereo out : guitar L to Line 6, drums R to PA (Sony integrated music system) 2. F4 stereo out: both guitar + drums to L and R (just Line6 and drums EQ) 3. F4 stereo out: both guitar + drums to headphones and it sounds excellent. the drums are not only usable for the practice or jamming. I am actually using them now for recording my songs. I decided to keep it, I don't see much benefits of getting Boss RC-10R (6 hours of storage just like NUX PRO) or Boss RC-500 (13 hours of storage). yes Boss has that dual track advantage, which could be great to have. I mostly use the looper as a digital storage (in 1 session I can record as many takes as I want and then choose the best one), to practice the phrases / techniques / licks etc. I also use it to compose my songs, I can structure the song as: - intro -verse -chorus -verse -chorus -solo -outro I can record each part as a separate phrase / loop / memory slot, using different effects / sound settings, and I can perform the song, by sequencing the sub parts using NUX NMP-2 phrase switcher. then I can copy all the pieces to the Reaper on Ubuntu Studio, and fine tune the sound / timing / transitions between parts. so yeah sorry for the lengthy comment, but the conclusion is: NUX Drum and Looper PRO is a keeper, as it does everything I need to structure a song, practice, and to use it as digital recorder, prior to processing it in the DAW. I actually prefer that workflow: to record many takes to the looper / storage, and only then edit it in the software. PS For example I recorded the background riif loop many times, trying to perfect it, and then I put 2 takes (of the same phrase in the same tempo) as a stereo track in the software, and man! it sounds so good. you get those little imperfections of live performance, panning from left to right naturally (imagine 2 Iron Maiden guitars playing the same thing synchronously but slightly differently)

@@TigerCarpenter oh wow! Glad it worked out for you and I’m glad they redid the drums, the pedal is amazing apart from those, so now it’s spot on! Your comment is fantastic and will definitely help other people who are thinking of buying it, cheers!

But… CD’s were 16 bit, nothing wrong with that, you wouldn’t hear the difference

I don’t play bass :)

No problem, the USB port is a micro USB at the back, I didn’t use too many of them, only at the beginning, apologies, I should have demonstrated them, and I kept it low in the mix, thanks for the feedback, cheers

Haha sorry, I should have put a warning on the video :)

Maybe it just wasn’t important enough to them, they need me in their marketing team :)

Maybe. But as you said it Maybe the Only pedal that can do this feature ! Yes, they need you in their team😊

I’ll be sure to mention it next time 😉