“One of our best-selling pedals for over a decade with an updated feature set”: Electro-Harmonix responds to sky-rocketing looper competition with the Pico 360+ – can this mini looper take the crown?
Downsized reimagining of EHX’s best-selling 360 Looper channels the original’s magic, adds unlimited overdubs, and bottles it all in an ultra-tiny chassis
(Image credit: Electro Harmonix)
In case recent releases haven’t made the current state of the looper pedal market competitive enough, Electro-Harmonix has now dropped a teeny version of its best-selling Nano 360 Looper that, despite its shrunken footprint, packs more features than ever.
The regular Nano 360 Looper has remained relatively unchanged for around a decade or so, so this upgrade is certainly a welcome one, with the Pico 360+ boasting overdub controls, fadeout abilities and a downsized chassis as its chief updates.
Coming as part of EHX’s pocket-sized Pico range – which transfers the magic of some of the firm’s most revered pedals into tiny pedalboard space-saving housings – the affordable single footswitch stompbox offers six minutes of recording time, unlimited overdubs, and 11 memory slots.
Granted, that’s a core dwarfed by the 300 minutes of total loop time and 100 memory slots of Mooer’s recently announced GL100, but EHX is confident that those specs are plenty good enough. With that in mind, it’s seemingly focused on delivering better features elsewhere.
Over to the Overdub knob, then, which sets the feedback level of an, erm, overdub. In practice, the level of all previous layers are lowered the more you stack. Setting the knob at 50% lowers the previously tracked overdubs by, you guessed it, 50%. EHX says this helps players “create an ever-changing loop.”
With smoother live performances in mind, an adjustable Fadeout mode is also included. This allows for smooth fadeout endings when the loop is stopped.
Electro-Harmonix Pico 360+ Looper Pedal (EHX Demo by Tom Burda) - YouTube
The majority of the pedal’s functions – such as record, playback, overdub, undo, redo, stop, and erase – are all operated via the footswitch. Other competitors may outshine the Pico 360+ by throwing a veritable kitchen sink of features at their own pedals – Zoom’s new MS-90LP+ offers a handy undo feature to quickly fix mistakes, for instance – but the EHX charms with its simplicity.
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The tiny looper captures high-quality, uncompressed audio at 24-bit, 44.1kHz, and, pleasingly, ships with a 9V power supply. It’s available for $137.70, making it far cheaper than many of its competitors.
(Image credit: Electro Harmonix)
“The Nano Looper 360 has been one of our best-selling pedals for just over a decade,” says EHX. “Enter the new 360+ Looper with an updated feature set and a smaller footprint.”
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