Electro Harmonix 22500 Dual Stereo Looper

I?m overall very impressed with this piece of equipment. It has totally opened up my options for performing live. I predominantly record violin and guitar with this. As a guitar pedal, it is clearly more suited to dealing with this kind of sounds, as I find the sound quality is degraded a little when looping the violin. That said, the reduction in quality is not enough for it be a problem in a live context. And it replicates the guitar tone fantastically well so no complaints there.

One element which I find irritating is that there are no footswitches to activate reverse or halftime/doubletime modes. These are done with smaller buttons and must be operated by hand, which is a shame if you?re wanting to activate one of these options while playing, s bear that in mind!

Other than these relatively minor issues, I?ve been having a tremendous amount of fun exploring the potential of this pedal. The fact that you can split the stereo in and out is a godsend. That way I can keep guitar isolated on the right and sent to an amplifier while the violin is isolated on the left and gets sent to the PA. Very, very handy!


Would certainly recommend this.

It's been years since I've tried to get hold of a hardware looper to substitute some functions only found in software loopers without paying a fortune. More than one tracks, choise between independent and synced tracks and feedback control(stated as overdub function in 22500). Other features such as reverse and tempo and pitch change found also in many cheaper units are OK but are more like gimmicks that I wouldn't often use. This is a serious live composing instrument. The only gripes I have is that build finish is a little on the homemade side and the power supply puzzled me a bit as it says center positive but I believe it's just a missprint of the OEM chinese market adapter that came with the 22500

This seems like a great looper in theory. Lots of features. I liked the idea of a free form mode with different length loops. In reality it is a really badly designed, poor sounding piece of gear.

The design team decided to pile on features then make the interface really complex for no good reason.

It doesn't hold its settings when powered off.

It has no internal memory

The playback signal is poor quality.

The menu is a system of scrolling through LEDs that light against a printed menu, then four, 7 segment displays that hold sometimes 3 layers/pages of menu give incoherent numerics that are all accessed and changed with one push/turn knob. .....really cheesy.

A badly designed poor quality product. There are plenty of better looper pedals out there.
Don't buy this.