In need of some advice from all you fellow musicians out there.

I write a lot of songs, sing and play guitar. I struggle with coordinating some of the more complex guitar riffs with the more complex vocals, so am contemplating getting a loop pedal.

I also love the idea of sampling, creating instrumental stuff and beat boxing as elements to my music. I also have a keyboard/synth in my possession (with gooseneck mic) to use for a bit.

My thinking is how versitilte can a sub £200 loop pedal be? Ie, internal memory, output quality, channels, ease of use/versitility etc? I know nothing about them!

Original plan was to buy a korg microsampler off eBay for circa £250, but part of me is thinking id be better building my home studio around a cheap pedal and spending a bit more on a lite version of Ableton/Logic etc so I can actually get my work down.

What would you guys recommend? I can probably spend up to about £500 this year on building up my kit.

Thanks all!

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Google 'Tom Clements' and have a look at some of his videos (especially the one at the Boathouse, Bournmouth). He uses a loop pedal only for all his backing - give you an idea how versatile it is......
(n.b. he incorporated one pedal to turn all the others off and on at one time to save a lot of footwork at 'busy' vocal/playing times.

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An old Akai sampler would still do a good job as an external source but most DAWS have sample manipulating VST's

I hear this is quite a good bit of kit to have NI's maschine

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