LINE 6 DL4

Meet the looper pedal that started it all.

RRP: $619.99

Bypass: Buffered Footswitches: Four Dedicated stop control? Yes A/D/A conversion: 24 bit

PROS:

• Can be used as a normal delay • Range of modes like one-shots

CONS:

• Reliability issues

• Sampler sums loops to mono

Ground zero for guitar looping, its powerful, expressive looper earned the Line 6 DL4 legendary status as one of the most important guitar effects ever made. However, its large size and tendency to die have seen its popularity wane as smaller, more reliable multidelays have come on to the market. As a looper, it can very much hold its own, with features like one-shot loops, speeding up and re-triggering that many other loopers still don’t have. That said, depending on where you are in the world, it may be surprisingly expensive for a unit released in the year 2000, and there is a reason that many of the pros who used it as a looper traveled with a couple of spares.