Looper pedal advice?

[Boudoir Guitar]

Looking for a lopper to tag onto the back end of AM4, mostly for practice not so much creating layers/music:

I'm going to be in a GC later this week that has a used Aeros Looper for $350, and I almost think I should just snag that at that price, but curious if others have other thoughts.

(1). quantization important. Not sure what's the best option here -- internal to the pedal or clocked from tap tempo on the AM4?

(2). Ideally want it to be pretty easy to set fade time on a loop.

(3). Ideally I could remotely control it via a MIDI controller on the floor with looper up on desk so I can manually control volume of loop vs. playing.

Thoughts?

 

[quadgear]

The Aeros is a great looper. Lots of features, very nice display, easy to use (especially if you stick to 2x2 mode), and sounds great. 6x6 mode is sort of like a foot operated DAW (6 parts each with 6 tracks). Another midi foot switch or two will be helpful as you get deeper (and oddly you can add an expression pedal, but not an analog switch). Lots of options for quantization, free form, midi sync, etc.

It has some interesting limitations (e.g., can't change tempo, limited fx, limits to signal routing), but nothing that bothers me. Works ok with their drum pedal, but the integration is a bit loose with a few options to choose/configure IIRC the shoegaze decay feature has some quirks. Read their forum. I doubt the product is going to change much now (and it took them a while to get it to where it's at now). Other loopers will have their own limitations.

IIRC, they are selling for $450 new (not sure if that's just holiday pricing) which feels about right.