Why no stereo through?

[trent]

In the original Jamman, one of the coolest things was although it only looped in mono, it passed true stereo through the unit unscathed. Its a dam shame that the Digitech (Harman) Jamman pedal has a stereo input (aux) that does NOT perform this feature, which effectively nukes half my signal chain, and relegates the unit as a cute side accessory.

I could go on, It could have been such an amazing unit, but they stopped at 70%.

Having to stop your loop playing back just to save it (in order to return to it) means advenced applications of live multi-part songs are impossible live. (True live meaning no pre-recorded loops)

[Stephen Scott]

Ditto for the Boss RC20XL. Pretty much the same as the Digitech Jamman, ie, has a stereo aux in, but only single mono out, have to stop the loop running to save it, so can't use it to create multi-part tunes live.

I used to run mine off a mono aux send from the mixer, and used it as a secondary looper.

With the Digitech, I think the fact that it can store massive amounts of loops on a memory card aims it at people who want to play over pre-recorded loops, rather than liveloopers. But I agree, for livelooping, it leaves a lot of room for improvement.

[trent]

Interesting. I understand that CFC card (Jamman memory utility) has read/write issues that prohibit 'fly-saving' loops to return to, but they never MENTIONED that in the marketing did they?...

Ah well.

All I can say is thankfully Mike Nelson's Boomerang III is gonna be the pinnacle of live loopers. Very small footprint, has some original software modes and is STEREO...
That is, if he manages to finish the software protocols before the US economy crashes!