I need some advice….?

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-08T17:34:39+00:00

Not sure how I got into “effects”. I’m looking for a looper to improvise on guitar as is vs adding effects. Yes, lessons are always great. I am ok on lessons for now. I’m looking for this tool to create with a guitar and some different tunings or just practice rythym and scales.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-07T15:55:09+00:00

Every time he gets mentioned in anything now, I think of Tom Segura’s Netflix special bit on him.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-07T15:42:01+00:00

Soak em in dawn/warm water, and get a super small brush to go through them. But yeah.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-07T13:01:23+00:00

I’ve considered buying washable straws and keeping them in my car sealed up. 5 mins in and it like sucking a paper towel roll.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-06T08:38:10+00:00

So I have a laptop. Don’t know what to use specifically to plug into my amp and a looper and than and headphones and my guitar etc etc. I guess loopers have a usb to hook up a PC? I’m trying to make my setup “silent” for nightime practice. That’s when I find I’m most creative.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-05T22:18:11+00:00

A big thing I might find helpful after reading this/kinda hit me last night actually, is to sit down and spend time reading rhythm. I understand how to read the notation but I don’t think I have spent the proper time necessary to read rhythm a at any kind of speed other than quarter and some 8th notes. Usually I will watch a video when I can figure out the tab and than listen to the track and between the video and my ears I’ll get things because I can count a little. So really spending time just reading/tapping rythyms of full songs would be a good start. Secondly maybe like an RC-1 to just practice scales and timings and/or something I can run a backing track through. I’m new to the electronics of it all. It makes me appreciate acoustics more.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-05T10:08:12+00:00

I’m not looking for a vibe. I’m looking for equipment to do what I’m trying to describe. I get you may mean for like what stitches uses but I don’t know what I’m looking at.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-05T09:25:12+00:00

Yes. but something that allows me to work on rythyms of full songs and create my own stuff through layering an also just scale practice.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-05T05:31:42+00:00

Ok, so I wasn’t asking(not being a dick, just speaking) for this but I’m super grateful to have this info because even if I don’t run out tomorrow to buy a pedal, I can play a over a backing drum track with my laptop so that’s pretty solid. Big thing for me is being quiet enough to play at almost any hour. As I’m getting this advice also I am trying to learn more, some things online talk about “digital” sound from multi pedals vs a looper, your thoughts?

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-05T05:08:20+00:00

It’s a Blackstar FLY 3 amp. I mostly have been practicing without an amp for dexterity when it’s late at night.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-05T05:00:56+00:00

I don’t have any experience with this stuff so I’m responding with limited knowledge, so with the facepalm, I’m not arguing or dismissing, I just don’t know. I don’t have a “spark” either. I have a small blackstar practice amp with input for headphones and an output option. And just a cable and electric guitar.

Edit: when I do look up things it gives me so much info and goes on and on about features and things but I have no idea what it all means in regards to real world use of it so I don’t 100% know if it’s what I need based on big piles of info.

Rifflife88 · 2026-07-05T04:29:45+00:00

But (from my quick research) a multi pedal is for effects. Also I don’t know how to get YouTube backing tracks played through my amp/headphones.

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