Harley Benton Mini Looper

The Harley Benton Mini Looper is a compact phrase looper pedal: a small box that records what you play and plays it back on loop, so you can layer parts over the top, practice against a repeated phrase, or build a one-person arrangement live. Harley Benton describes it as a compact phrase looper small enough that "you could fit this little fellah in your pocket"¹.

It is a deliberately simple looper. There is one footswitch with an LED and one volume control, a single 6.3 mm jack input and a single 6.3 mm jack output, and up to 10 minutes of recording time¹. Harley Benton says the recorded sound is "completely neutral without any colouration, distortion or other artifacts"¹.

What the Mini Looper does

A phrase looper records a passage of your playing, then repeats it for as long as you leave the loop running. You tap the footswitch to start recording, tap again to close the loop, and the pedal keeps cycling that phrase while you play over it. The Mini Looper keeps this to the bare essentials: one switch handles the record and playback duties, and the LED shows you what state the pedal is in. The volume control sets the level of the looped playback against your live playing¹.

Because it has a single input and a single output, it is a mono pedal. Players who want their loops in stereo, for instance with two amps or a stereo effects setup, would need a looper with stereo jacks such as the Electro-Harmonix 720 Stereo Looper or the TC Electronic Ditto Stereo Looper³.

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Power and current draw

The Mini Looper runs on a 9 V power supply, which is not included in the box; Harley Benton notes a matching supply is available separately¹. There is no battery option in the maker's specifications, so unlike something like the VOX Lil' Looper, which MusicRadar's reviewer noted can run off battery power, this pedal needs external power from the start.

Current consumption is listed at 94 mA¹. That is a modest draw for a digital pedal and will run from a typical isolated 9 V supply output without trouble.

Size, weight and build

The pedal measures 95 x 41.5 x 58 mm (L x W x H)¹. Harley Benton's own page gives two weight figures, 200 g in one place and 290 g in the specifications list, so the two numbers disagree and the actual weight sits somewhere in that range depending on which figure is correct¹. In a gearnews.com roundup of value looper pedals, George Loveridge described the build: "Housed within a solid metal case, you get a volume control and a chrome footswitch that illuminates the LED."²

How it compares with other small loopers

The Mini Looper's 10 minutes of recording time puts it in the middle of the compact looper field. Some rivals offer more, some less¹:

The Mooer Micro Looper triples the loop length in a similarly tiny enclosure, while the MXR Clone Looper offers less time but stores its layers even when the pedal is off⁵. Against the Boss RC-1 Loop Station, the Mini Looper's appeal is mainly price: gearnews.com listed it at $37.00 USD in February 2025².

What reviewers said

Published coverage of the Mini Looper is thin, but gearnews.com included it in a February 2025 roundup of five value looper pedals. Writing there, George Loveridge recommended it for players starting out with looping:

He also noted the solid metal case, the volume control and the chrome footswitch that lights the LED². Harley Benton's own product page describes the Mini Looper as a compact phrase looper with a switch with an LED and a volume control, and states that the recorded sound is completely neutral without any colouration, distortion or other artifacts¹.

For a first looper, the Mini Looper covers the basics: a loop of up to 10 minutes, neutral playback, a solid metal case and a current draw of 94 mA. Players who outgrow it usually move on for more recording time, memory slots or stereo operation, all of which appear further up the looping pedals range¹².

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