Mooer GL100 Groove Loop & Drum Station

A simple footswitch press also primes the pedal for various drum synchronization features, triggering the drum pattern to stop after one bar, repeat, or reset the looper, making it easy to perfect the loop’s ending and creation–not just the beginning. To aid in this, an internal quantizer function is active to ensure that users always trigger and stop recording perfectly, even if they are slightly late with the footswitch press. Better still, the phrase looper even has a time-stretch feature, facilitating the changing of the tempo of a recorded loop but without changing the pitch, allowing any loop to sync perfectly, in key, with the drum machine.

As with any other MOOER product, the team’s designers have really pushed the boundaries when it comes to the user experience. Despite packing so many features into such a small device, MOOER’s signature multi-purpose footswitches, dials, and, most notably, touchscreen have all been integrated into this pedal to ensure users can squeeze as much dynamic use out of it as possible. A perfect example of this is how users have two different ways to browse through their phrase loop creations–both through using the pedal’s menu encoder and by pressing and holding the footswitches, enabling dynamic looping control and real-time phrase selection without needing to stop playing the guitar.

Furthermore, the GL100 also stands out from MOOER’s past loop stations for its flexible audio routing functionalities. As you would expect from a modern looping pedal, stereo input, and output are provided, but these inputs and outputs can be used with different amplifiers or instruments depending on the routing settings, allowing performers to coordinate complex loop phrases and drum patterns together in a coherent and sonically diffused manner.  This includes mono connections, dual-channel connections, and even the isolation of both drum machine and instrument channels.

Finally, the GL100 comes with its own MOOER Studio software, compatible with both Windows and iOS, which users can use to save, export, import, and delete phrase recordings, expanding the device’s storage capabilities. This same software can also be used to download firmware upgrades to the device when available and to complete a factory reset if ever necessary. Overall, this pedal combines an expanded showcase of MOOER’s impressive looper and drum machine functions, along with a focus on innovative user experience, convenient performance flexibility, and, most importantly, accessibility to create the perfect loop from start to finish.