Harley Benton FXL8 Pro

Well it is a entry into world of switched loop happiness.

You get a lot for the price.

You will need to sit bit longer and think how do you want to use it specially if you have more than 8 pedals on your pedal board.

Some pedals can just go in front of it and some can be in same loop but than your layout of the pedal board has to be good so you can access those as well.

Please note that you will need isolated PSU or two PSU to get rid of possible ground loops.

One PSU for Looper and digital devices and other for your analog pedals. Du not know is your pedal analog or digital? Well if it draws 5 to 90 mA it is 99% sure analog pedal. If it is 100 to 500 mA it is digital with some strange birds here and there.

When you separate your pedals in loops expect them to sound differently than what you have been used to if you have had them in daisy chain. In most of the cases your OD pedals will sound like you have more gain.

In mix of buffered and true bypass pedals lot of things can happen and order of pedals is crucial.

When you have them separated with a looper pedals do not influence each other unless both are activated but than that is completely different scenario.

Do not expect Gigrig G2 for this price. On other hand this unit will not kill sound of your Boutique pedal. So if it can cover your scenario this is excellent looper.

Remember that if you have like two Strymon pedals 300-500 mA and this and only for those 3 devices you will need min 2A PSU. Yes 1,5A is needed but you do not want to run 1,5 A PSU with a load of 1,5A. It iwll not last long and it will create issues.

So be clever with it and isolate pedals and power feeds and you can make very nice setup with this looper.

Worth every penny.

een mooie budget variant om een switch eens goed uit te proberen. het apparaat doet wat hij moet doen. Je kunt er verschillende loops op in stellen en ik kan er zelfs de kanalen van mijn versterker op instellen.

Positief is dat ik gemakkelijk alle loops zo kan instellen dat ik precies krijg wat ik wil met 1 druk op de knop. Het enige nadeel wat ik heb kunnen ontdekken is dat er een kleine vertraging zit tussen het switchen. Voor mij is dit geen probleem maar houdt hier rekening mee.

Deze FX switcher is het hart van mijn pedalboard. Ik bestuur er probleemloos verschillende FX loops mee. Interessante toevoeging is dat je ook midi signalen kunt uit sturen, zo dan ik ook mijn rack affecten aansturen en (nog niet uit geprobeerd) je kunt ook 'gewone' triggers gebruiken om bijvoorbeeld van versterker kanaal te wisselen. Stevige constructie en compact dus niet te veel ruimte op je pedalboard. En dan die prijs...je zult heel lang moeten zoeken voor je een vergelijkbare FX switcher vindt (als dat al lukt)

Sometimes you buy a cheap piece of gear, just to see if the workflow is for you. And sometimes that cheap piece of gear ends up being so good that you don't need anything else. The FXL8 Pro is a great example of that last category.

Not only do you get 8 loops, they're already split in two sets of four so you can have pre-amp and FX-loop effects without sacrificing a loop to routing. You get a separate tuner output with a mute option.
The amp switching outputs are separate, which is nice if you run two amps. But be aware that you will need a Y-cable to switch an amp that has a two-switch footswitch.
The MIDI-output allows you to send two independent MIDI messages in each preset, which is brilliant because it allows me to switch my Strymon Timeline and Big Sky independently. And all of that in a metal case that feels like it'll last many, many gigs.
If I had to name one thing I like less about it, it would be that I would have loved to have more than 8 banks of presets, so that I could use one bank per song in my band instead of having to share presets between songs. But hey, at this price that's just whining!