EHX 720 Stereo Looper Settings Guide

For Live Looping: Level 7/10, Blend 7/10. Standard live looping setup — Level at 7 balances the loop with live playing. Blend at 7 means the loop is prominent. Two-footswitch operation allows stopping cleanly without awkward double-tapping. Memory slots allow pre-saving loop content for a live set.

For Practice: Level 6/10, Blend 6/10. Loop slightly below unity for practice — the recorded loop is a background reference rather than a co-equal element. Level at 6 and Blend at 6 allows playing over a chord progression loop with the loop clearly audible but the live guitar prominent.

Level: Loop playback volume relative to dry signal (Off to Loud). Blend: Mix between looped playback and dry input (Dry to Wet)

Two-footswitch loopers are significantly more practical for live use than single-footswitch designs — Record/Play on one switch, Stop/Clear on the other, eliminates the complex double-press timing of single-footswitch designs. The trade-off is pedalboard space. The tap-tempo quantization aligns the loop end point to the nearest tap-tempo beat — this prevents loops from drifting off tempo when the end-record point is tapped slightly imprecisely. Enable this for any tempo-based looping. Stereo I/O allows loops recorded through a stereo effects chain (chorus, delay panned wide) to retain their spatial width on playback, a real advantage over mono loopers for ambient and textural use. The 10 memory slots are worth organizing by song before a gig rather than during soundcheck — recalling the wrong saved loop mid-performance is a more disruptive mistake than most other looper errors. For practice specifically, recording a simple chord loop at a slightly reduced Level than the live-performance setting keeps the loop as a reference rather than a competing element, making it easier to hear phrasing and timing mistakes in the live playing.