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Boomerang Musical Products is a Texas based company known for its superb looper – Boomerang III. This looper has become a choice of many serious artists all over the world.

Boomerang Musical Products: boomeranglooper.com

Boomerang Musical Products was founded in 1995 as a partnership between Lee Hardesty and Mike Nelson who were friends for decades, played guitars and were technical accomplished guys. BMP is based near Dallas, Texas.

Unfortunately Lee passed away in 2015. Two years later BMP was sold to Alex Kova who was going to continue manufacturing and customer support. New pedals should be shipped in February 2018.

BMP as you might have guessed is a VERY small company that has released only few items. I don’t care because they released Boomerang III looper in 2009 and it is still one of the best loopers on the market!

They produce an optional Side Car Controller to expand looper’s functionality, but $ 300 for a simple controller that will not work with anything else but Boomerang… it’s too much in my understanding.

 

   PROS    CONS
  • Extremely low level of noiseless with 48KHz / 24 bits sample rate (in comparison with Boss loopers)
  • 3 or 4 loops
  • MIDI sync to an external MIDI clock source
  • Decay and separate Volume knobs
  • Stereo / mono
  • Compact and lightweight
  • 4 Play Styles : Serial / Serial Master / Sync / Free (not sync)
  • 48KHz true stereo recording yields about 4 1/2 minutes
  • No internal / external storage of audio files
  • No rhythmic guide and alternative output for that
  • No MIDI control of parameters (only start / stop commands and tempo sync are supported)
  • No smooth volume change (you can hear discreet steps of volume getting up and down when you turn volume knobs)
  • Inconvenient logic of looper’s control (on the other hand it’s a pay-off for its size and number of functional options)
   PROS
  • Extremely low level of noiseless with 48KHz / 24 bits sample rate (in comparison with Boss loopers)
  • 3 or 4 loops
  • MIDI sync to an external MIDI clock source
  • Decay and separate Volume knobs
  • Stereo / mono
  • Compact and lightweight
  • 4 Play Styles : Serial / Serial Master / Sync / Free (not sync)
  • 48KHz true stereo recording yields about 4 1/2 minutes
   CONS
  • No internal / external storage of audio files
  • No rhythmic guide and alternative output for that
  • No MIDI control of parameters (only start / stop commands and tempo sync are supported)
  • No smooth volume change (you can hear discreet steps of volume getting up and down when you turn volume knobs)
  • Inconvenient logic of looper’s control (on the other hand it’s a pay-off for its size and number of functional options)

 

I own Boomerang III looper for 5 years now. It’s great. Though there was a kind of disappointment with it caused by some carelessness in the manual.

“…if you want to record a smooth, continuous note or chord, like an organ, the volume dip can be heard. It’s not a pop or a click, but it is noticeable. So what’s a drone enthusiast to do? Simply turn on the Stack optional behavior. Doing this removes the volume ramps added during stacking.”

Well…. It does not. One of the reasons to buy Boomerang III was a wish of SEAMLESS LOOPING when you don’t have to struggle with volume drop-outs at the place where the loop’s end is joined to its beginning. I was really upset to find out that Boomerang III could not give me that option. Though in all other aspects Boomerang III met my expectations and I have no regrets for buying it.

I used to communicate with Mike Nelson several times concerning the above mentioned Stack Behavior issue and Hold-to-Stack option (that they finally included in one of the firmware updates). Mike turned out to be a very nice person, so I hope the new BMP crew will be on the same level.

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