1. Records up to 20 seconds of your performance.
2. Allows you to initiate and finish a recording at any moment with a stomp switch, when activated.
3. Begins looping a few thousandths of a second after the record process is finished.
4. Remembers your loop even when unplugged or with the battery removed, for up to 100 years.
5. Has true bypass.
6. The true-bypass switch initiates loop playback from the sample’s beginning at any time.
7. Has vibrato with speed and depth controls, allowing a vibrato/chorus/Leslie-like shimmer.
8. Has very slow vibrato speed for warped-record effects, to very fast for jiggly playback.
9. Has real clocked-analog recording with no analog-to-digital conversion.
10. Records using velvety compression for a smooth organ-like sound.
11. Allows overdriven recording of storage cells using ‘record level’ control.
12. Has a tone control that rolls off hiss and other annoying artifacts for burbling, mellow samples.
13. Has hiss! Lots of it! It’s analog, remember, with no noise-reduction, and it’s lo-fi. 8^)
14. Has very limited frequency response. Nothing above 2.6 kHz. Brick-wall filtering.
15. Has a safety-switch to protect a favorite sample from being recorded over accidentally.
16. Plays back at any volume, louder than your direct guitar if you wish.
17. Has a gorgeously transparent guitar preamp built-in to give your direct guitar a glistening finish.
18. Really small footprint, like a fuzz factory.
19. Draws as little as 2 mA from the battery when in bypass mode, and about 12 mA when activated.
20. Smells great.
21. Features aliasing artifacts, distortion, hiss, out-of-tune effects, strange behavior, and long battery life.
22. Allows loop erasure during bypass, resulting in a looping hiss sample.
23. Never sounds like what you played into it. Always alters the original tone and dynamics.
24. No learning curve! Five simple knobs, two stomp-switches for bypass and record, and a safety switch.
25. Has simple LED status indicator. Lights up solid while recording, blinks once at the end of every loop. Stops in bypass mode.

Vol: loop volume. Gets really loud if you need it. Tone: cuts noise and distortion. Makes the final sound of the loop rolled off and organ-like if necessary. Rec: record volume. You can decide how loud to drive the recorder… to overdrive if you like. Depth: vibrato depth. Adjust for the level of pitch twisting that makes you happy. Speed: vibrato speed. Adjust for the speed that spins the sound around in a way that fits the music.

On the left: bypass. When you kick this in, the loop starts playing. When you kick it out, you have true-bypass, pure silence, just like all other Z.Vex effects.

On the right: the record switch. Hit this just as you start recording a new loop. Switch it off on the exact same beat when you finish recording your loop. If you’ve made a mistake, quickly hit it twice so you can hear the gentle hiss of nothingness instead of your bad loop. You can defeat this switch with the safety switch located between the two vibrato knobs. You will record silence if you hit the record button while the pedal is true-bypassed.

At the top right: the safety switch. This tiny switch lets you save a favorite loop so you won’t accidentally erase it, no matter what condition you might be in while stumbling over your pedal. Woo-hoo! Yee-haw!