Mooer announces GL100 looper and drum station with 300 minutes of loop time

December 18, 2024 · 3 sources

Mooer announced the GL100 Looper & Drum Station on December 18, 2024, a dual-footswitch stereo phrase looper with a built-in drum machine¹. Guitar World reports it is based loosely on the template of the MVP3 Loop Station¹, and Gearnews describes it as a flagship looper pedal².

The pedal's headline figure is 300 minutes of total loop time, saved manually or automatically into 100 storage slots¹. Gearnews describes those as 100 user-assignable memory slots². Loops can be imported or exported through Mooer Studio software for Windows and iOS¹. The dual footswitches use short presses and long holds to trigger recording, playback, overdubs and cancellations, and players can switch between storage slots with the footswitches while performing, or browse with the menu encoder¹. A 1.3-inch circular touchscreen handles control and visibility, alongside buttons for Auto Rec, Tap and Drum¹². Gearnews also lists an internal quantizer, time-stretch, tap tempo and quantization¹².

The drum machine runs on what Mooer calls AI Band Technology¹. Gearnews says the feature "intelligently suggests matching beats to your guitar playing"². Guitar World reports 11 variations of 20 different drum pattern styles in various time signatures, with four stop modes for different loop endings¹. Connectivity includes mono and dual-channel connections with isolation of the drum machine and instrument channels, a 1/8-inch headphone jack, .wav export over USB-C, and a 9V DC power supply (included)¹².

Guitar World gives the price as $137, available now¹. Gearnews lists the same figure in its Thomann widget, $122.00². The two outlets differ on price.

The GL100 joins the looping pedals market alongside the Electro-Harmonix Pico 360+ Looper, also announced on December 18, which offers 6 minutes of loop recording time and unlimited overdubs across 11 loop memory banks at an MSRP of $137.30³. Gearnews wrote that with the GL100's 300 minutes of loop time, "the EHX model looks a little expensive"³.