Secrets of the Ditto x4 Loop Pedal

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5 жыл бұрын

Here's 2 (and a half) secrets you can do with this amazing loop pedal: amzn.to/2Ww03oR
I bought this ditto x4 loop pedal as a 'back up' pedal (I normally use the TC Helicon Voicelive 3 as my main looper and fx unit), and have been playing around with it. It's SUPER useful if everything else fails and this is your only option, although having to switch to double speed to get a bass line for EVERY song would get annoying. but... ITS POSSIBLE! and that's pretty fun and pretty handy!
Also... this is kind of a loop tutorial (you get to watch what I'm doing to create the basics of the Englishman in New York tune that I use as a teaching example), buuuut a lot of this is really specifically relevant to the ditto x4.
Creating Bass Guitar 1:41
Creating a higher 'organ' type sound 3:36
the 1/2 tip... 6:21
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@katz5434 Күн бұрын

Loving the versatility❤

@davidshanhun Күн бұрын

😎 it's a fun lil unit!

@wallacenock7423 5 жыл бұрын

Once again a great Video bud. Never looked at it that way. Keep the videos and songs coming.

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wallace!

@GetUpTheMountains 4 жыл бұрын

This just arrived today and you're the first one I've seen mention this loop2 effects recording trick. Thats slick. I'll definitely be experimenting with these techniques. Great video, thank you.

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Klesh! Have fun with the pedal!

@tubetime345 Ай бұрын

Its really cool how you can flip ariund between settings on fx without it freaking out on you

@davidshanhun Ай бұрын

definitely eh!

@dovane9932 5 жыл бұрын

I was looking for a way to add some chords differently for a long time. This half speed tip is great. You are still the looper man to me.😃

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dov! :)

@derekdean7580 6 ай бұрын

An excellent tip. Thanks for taking the time to share that, greatly appreciated : )

@davidshanhun 6 ай бұрын

most welcome!

@RBPhantomTilt 3 жыл бұрын

Mate!!! Love that little bass line trick! Gonna try that!

@davidshanhun 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Have fun experimenting with it!

@kensod6034 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks David , I just ordered a used one on ebay. I can't wait I'm super stoked. I'm reading the PDF Manuel now. Its arrives 4/20/21. 😃 🎸.

@mc100hu 2 жыл бұрын

"Its arrives 4/20" obviously

@jakedooom 4 жыл бұрын

brilliant demo. great sense of humour

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

thanks 😊

@RumblinMan 4 жыл бұрын

I subscribed because you’re playing a Tak and I like the nature of your video! Blessings.

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

Go the Takamine's! haha. Cheers! :)

@RumblinMan 4 жыл бұрын

David Shanhun absolutely! Cheers. Great channel.

@rommelrivera1186 2 жыл бұрын

Most awesome rhythm/baseline/percussion groove I've ever seen and heard! 1:06 Kudos, man.

@telantas 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video, thanks! If you don't mind a small correction, I believe Englishman in New York is a Sting song. It was released in 1987, 3 years after The Police disbanded. It's in the album "Nothing Like the Sun". As I said, excellent tutorial and great rendition of the song!

@davidshanhun 3 күн бұрын

Thanks - and yes you are correct thank you - just Sting not with the Police!

@sebastianmuller7059 Жыл бұрын

Hey David, Thanks for sharing this with us. Really great how you show the versatility of this looper. I have the Ditto X4 already four years by myself and yet I didn’t quite figure out how to use it correctly. Would you mind sharing how you have set the switches at the back of your ditto? Thanks a lot and keep doing what you’re doing - it’s just great!

@davidshanhun Жыл бұрын

hey Sebastian - I wish I could - gave this looper to Shim to create some violin loops and have fun with. This won't answer your question (I don't think he mentions the back settings), but is a great resource if this is your looper. wolfewithane.com/pedalurgy-all-the-ditto-x4-looper-pedal-tricks

@speahlo4471 3 жыл бұрын

The bass thing was genius!!

@davidshanhun 3 жыл бұрын

😎 hehe! Hope you have fun with it too!

@bbqbilly1 4 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Your groove on this is WAY funkier than Sting’s!

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

aw thanks Bill! 😊

@narcsoul 2 жыл бұрын

Great playing. Is there an inernal mic inside your guitar ? I can "see" that acoustic beats with your hands are ultra clear and loud. I cant achive that with my electroacoustic piezo guitar! Can you help ? Thanks in advance

@icebob8555 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the reply love your ch

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

😊

@dskandaliaris 3 жыл бұрын

is it so difficult for a company to make one simple looper that has 3 channels with one being a bass (octave on off) chanel? An all start stop button and a simple effects unit with a chorus and reverb will make things perfect. Thanks for the demo!

@davidshanhun 3 жыл бұрын

Haha I agree! Been watching the new gear coming out waiting for this!

@mainsblanches8793 3 жыл бұрын

Two things about the Ditto X4, the buttons are a bit noisy and I wish there was a "short fade" and a "long fade"!!...other then that, it's super cool to use and very versatile!!...

@davidshanhun 3 жыл бұрын

haha yes to the fade options that would be amazing! Buttons are ok when it's a loud show - not so great on the more intimate settings though eh!

@padrhaic 5 жыл бұрын

Nice try David :) All my TCE... loopers and pedals (3) just died on my board. Still alive, others US brands, not affected, such as 1 MXR, 2 KEYLEE, 1 CAE, 2 EH... Looper is just a practice tool - one track is enough (A low budget mini stuff in the MOD effect loop of your board). It's a crutch. And this one is x4 crutch (Sorry for my french, you know I love you David, you're so talented)

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Patrice :) Fun to create with and yes definitely handy for practise! Sad to hear that you TC stuff all died :( that's not good!

@OGBlackBridge 2 жыл бұрын

@ghost mall yeah, I didn't quite understand the whole crutch opinion either. When I have nothing but myself in a room and I'm trying to get ideas out, I use an X4.

@alenbostjancic967 4 жыл бұрын

Help me. I'm deciding to buy Ditto 4x looper for acustic live preformances and I would like to ask if I can plug in two separete instruments in this pedal (in my case electro acustoc guitar and the electro acustic stomp box ) since it has the stereo mode?

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Alen, yes, you can plug in two separate instruments. There are two jack inputs and they stay on their own channels, so you will have two jack outputs also - one for the guitar, and one for the electro acoustic stompbox. Works great!

@alenbostjancic967 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidshanhunthis is it. Thank you for the answer. Best wishes

@olivergearing 5 жыл бұрын

That double speed trick is crazy! Love it though - do the audience enjoy the variation of doubling the speed of the track for a short period?

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

haha yeah pretty odd but interesting eh! ...I dont actually know the answer to that regarding audience response! I've used this at home jamming mostly as my backup, and fortunately (touch wood), haven't had to run it for a full live show - I think I would choose to do it on select tracks only if I was doing a longer show, and run my OC-3 pedal as the bass sound. One or two tracks its a cool gimmick, but if it was every track I think it'd get pretty annoying!

@olivergearing 5 жыл бұрын

I think you’re right - you could get away with it for one track perhaps, and a couple of smatterings elsewhere. It’s quite a strange way for a hardware company to come up with a speed up/slowdown function, pretty unique as far as I can tell. For a guitar looper, unless you’re happy to double the speed of your track, it’s difficult to use live. I think you should give it a crack at your next covers gig... CHALLENGE :-)

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

@@olivergearing challenge accepted Oliver :) putting together a pedalboard with the ditto, so once I have that completed I'll use it for a gig and do some filming

@olivergearing 5 жыл бұрын

David Shanhun - excited to see the results...good luck 👍🏾

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

@@olivergearing thanks!

@wesman4838 4 жыл бұрын

Cool video man great pedal man I got one too but I had enough money to buy shoes after I bought the pedal 😆

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

haha love this Wes! ...next time i'll remember to put both shoes AND loop pedals on my shopping list haha!

@daltonreedhentel 3 жыл бұрын

Hey mann!! a help how do you connect you headphones to your pedal so that you can listen cuz I have a Rc 30 boss and I put my normal headphones but I can't listen to me pliz a help

@davidshanhun 3 жыл бұрын

Plug your headphones into the L/Mono output from the Boss RC-30. You will have your guitar/instrument plugged into the L/Mono input. Depending on your headphones you will likely have to turn up the volume on your guitar to max as the output is not designed to plug headphones in directly. It can work however and have done this in the past. 😊

@merlingallagher4484 5 жыл бұрын

You could use one of these impulse response pedals to make your acoustic guitar sound less quacky. In fact they are so goid these days that i can't really hear any difference. It just sounds so much better in the mix.

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

oooh Merlin you just reminded me of a friend who swears by one of these. I need to go find out which specific pedal it was haha!

@davidshanhun 5 жыл бұрын

ToneDexter was it's name...

@merlingallagher4484 5 жыл бұрын

@@davidshanhun Yeah, there are a bunch of them. I have a fishman aura something, although nowadays there are much cheaper pedals doing the same thing.

@tecnoline57 27 күн бұрын

friendly!!

@davidshanhun 24 күн бұрын

🥰

@claptrap3030 4 жыл бұрын

Wondering why there are no loop pedals with just a nice delay/reverb and octave effect? Having to speed things up or slow them down doesn't really work live.

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

Super good point! That would be an amazing pedal! I'm going to pass this on to a dev team and will see if something may come of it down the track.

@Tapepusher 4 жыл бұрын

video starts at 1:08 ;)

@steveboel12 3 жыл бұрын

This applies to all loopers with a 2x, 1/2x and face fx features though

@davidshanhun 2 жыл бұрын

In most cases - they don't all work quite the same with the octave overdubs from different speeds. Not aiming to explain each looper and how they work with their fx, simply showing how these ones play out on the ditto. Thanks for the note though 👌

@KeberMaknaan 4 жыл бұрын

even the mistake delivered with cool 😎

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

aw thankyou! 😎

@ajaybangi 2 жыл бұрын

Could you set loop 1 as main verse, loop 2 as chorus?

@jasonbull3987 7 ай бұрын

Yes you can. A switch between channel 1 and channel 2 knobs

@guitarado 4 жыл бұрын

it is the best looper i ever had. I sold it though.. now i have trex acoustic soulmate and i regret it because the sound is not so cool ant not talking about fxs it does not have

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

ah true that. It's a pretty neat set up for sure. do you feel that you lose tone on the trex somehow?

@guitarado 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidshanhun Yes somehow it is not so balanced clear and loud

@icebob8555 4 жыл бұрын

Double and half speed.You do that during a gig or is that a studio trick

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

Live it's not something I would do for every song, just a one off for fun and impact/intrigue in most cases. I use an octave pedal for the bass for live shows so that's covered already. I think the audience would get over it pretty quickly if it was used for every song to build a bass line etc.

@1dkappe 4 жыл бұрын

It hasn’t bricked yet? ;-)

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

working like a charm... you'll see the video of course if this changes haha!

@9um9um9um 4 жыл бұрын

I’m not going speed the track up to lay down a bass line that seems bad to me.

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

No worries Ken! fun to play around with, but not the greatest for live gigs 🤪

@myrrhsvetlana6859 4 жыл бұрын

just learned how to sing englishman and showing my teeth :) . sweet wibes. peace//

@davidshanhun 4 жыл бұрын

yay! love it 😊

@myrrhsvetlana6859 4 жыл бұрын

@@davidshanhun likewise.

@imtlac 2 жыл бұрын

he's hot

@davidshanhun 2 жыл бұрын

why thank you 😉😎

@ReidAWarren 3 жыл бұрын

My ditto x4 can’t do this stuff!

@davidshanhun 3 жыл бұрын

yes it can brother!

@ReidAWarren 3 жыл бұрын

@Soy Orbison It's most likely the firmware, I tried updating it and the whole thing shut down- had to send it to TC Electronic in Denmark so they could fix it.