Most guitarists don't think immediately of Akai when they think of stompboxes and guitar effects, but maybe they should. Owen O'Malley shows that BOSS and DigiTech have some stiff looping competition with the Akai E2 Head Rush, which also doubles as a normal, dedicated delay.
Finger pantomime? Five amps? Has Owen O'Malley gone mental? Probably. Owen uses his experience as a high school cheerleader to stack five amps in pyramid fashion and connect them all to the Akai E2 Head Rush for some seriously complex delay effects. This rig would be highly impractical to tote...
We were psyched to try out the Line 6 JM4 Looper after seeing how similar it looked to the highly touted DL4 and FM4 boxes, some of Line 6's finest pieces of work. The JM4 is good at something, but it just doesn't seem like looping is its forte. It does do looping, but it seems like Line 6 was more ...