When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Ed Sheeran became known for using a looper pedal in his live performances, creating powerful ...

LAST year Ed Sheeran was wrongly accused of using a backing track during his Glastonbury performance. Ed actually relies on a loop station, a music device which allows artists to build layers of music ...

Did you know when you go live on Facebook, in between pressing go and it appearing on your page there’s a few seconds of delay? Well Irish indie foursome The Academic did, and they managed to use this ...

The Boss RC-1 is a well-laid out, easy-to-use looper pedal with 12 minutes of stereo recording time. It’s a single footswitch pedal that, with a various number of stomps, can do a lot, though you do ...

A man who claims to have taught Ed Sheeran how to use a loop pedal has spoken in a new interview following the singer’s loop-filled Glastonbury headline set. Sheeran is known for using loop pedals for ...

When looper pedals started really taking off, there was a race between the manufacturers to fit in as many features as they could. Things like effects, MIDI and higher memory buffers were all headline ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images If there’s one thing that Ed Sheeran is known for - ...

Loop stations are neat things, able to replay one or more loops of audio over and over again while you perform over the top of them. Musicians like [Marc Rebillet], [Reinhardt Buhr], and [Dub FX] have ...

Ed Sheeran comfortably brought Glastonbury to a close last night with an accomplished set dubbed "dizzying and mesmeric". But it seems the usual mob of professional moaners on Twitter found his ...

For those new to Ed Sheeran, his headline slot at Glastonbury caused a bit of confusion. How come he could stop playing his guitar, yet the music carried on? Was he miming? Or using a backing track?

To celebrate the release of his album Play, Ed Sheeran stopped by NPR on Friday afternoon for a live-broadcast edition of their Tiny Desk series, which also served as a fundraiser for the public ...