Review
Miel from Belgium
Review Loopholic 5 v2 by TKI Lazeman (www.loopholic.com)
Contact person: Jang
Pre-order: After
reading lots of opinions, forums and reviews and thus comparing the different
possibilities, I chose the Loopholic for it’s versatility, amp-selecting,
MIDI-controlling and the 10 loops + 1 volume loop. The website looks a bit
amateurish and cheap, but it contains the basic info about the different
products, some pictures, reviews and video’s. You can download the manuals
which is nice, because that gives you a pretty good idea about what you’re
buying.
I contacted them through e-mail and got a very quick
reaction from Jang. He is very kind and helpful, but his English is rather
basic.
But it’s always better to be answered quick in basic
English than not to be answered at all! After giving it some thought, I decided
to order one.
Ordering andshipping: After paying $720 through PayPal, Jang contacted me
immediately with a FedEx tracking number and a day later, I could see on the
FedEx website that my package had been picked up. Two days later, I received a
phone call from FedEx
The package: It’s
fairly simple actually… You get the Loopholic, a 15V DC center positive adapter.
Packaging was done very decent with several layers of bubble wrap, a cardboard
box and double brown paper. The package survived the trip without a scratch.
Testing the unit: So far, so
good, but of course the most important thing about buying a true bypass looper,
is that it has to loop pedals and stay very quiet while doing so. At first I
had some problems with some kind of hum which Jang told me probably came from a
grounding problem with the adapter. So I went online and bought a DOUBLE
ISOLATED Toshiba (laptop) adapter and the problem was fixed. As Jang had no
previous experience with this issue, he was so kind to refund the purchase
price of the adapter. So he helped intensively with the search for the problem
and he paid for the solution. That’s a really good service, if you ask me! Once
this issue had been solved, the looper was dead quiet. I spent a lot of hours
arranging my pedals and building them into my MKS Pedal Pad. When this was
done, it all went very quickly. Learning how the Loopholic works is really
easy. First of all, I had already watched the YouTube video by Leroy Miller, so
I knew about the basics. But really, it’s as easy as falling off a log. You
hold the mode button, push on the buttons of the pedals you want in your loop
and push the save button.
Even the MIDI-programming is child’s play.
There is no audible popping when switching except when
you switch from a 6-pedal heavy preset, to a clean preset, but that’s normal
because you switch of 6 pedals at a time.
Overall
The Loopholic 5 is easy to use, very versatile,
silent, well built and ugly as hell so I would give it 9 out of 10 if asked to
score on a scale of 10. But since nobody asked, I’m not going to do that. :-D
Miel (www.alonerends.be)
april 14th
2010
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