Loopers opened up a whole new world to me- anyone playing alone should do themselves a huge favor- get one and don't stop until you can use it efficiently. Their sis something about making real music instead of just sitting around noodling- it puts you a fast track to getting much, much better. Your timing improves, your creativity improves, but most of all- it's just a lot more fun.
Good lord Pete, that off-the-cuff loop @9:45 was TASTY. Also I find it slightly hysterical that you almost have to INTENTIONALLY miss the end of the loop to show off that the pedal will auto-quantize the loop
looping has its purpose (used sparingly) but there is nothing worse than having a guy spend 2 or 3 minutes just adding all this crap before finally starting a song..zzzzzzzz
There was more you could do with the rc 30. It has effects I like them. This one don't have. The sound quality it's almost the same. So there's is almost no improvement. They made a more expensive pedal, with less features. And discontinuing the good one. Ok I'm still keeping my rc 30. For the next ten years. As for the rc 10, it's an attempt to copy the digitech trio+. The boss Got better drum sounds ,. But the trio has 5 looping, drum part's. You get the Bass sounds .And it cost's less.
good video. I'm watching several tutorials for this pedal and I've realized that it has a bug when playing track 2, the first time it's played right after recording, a few tenths of a second of recording disappears, it's like it started late.... and I have seen it in other videos of this pedal. The truth is that I am quite disappointed because I have ordered it from Thomann. it's a shame 😔
I have to say you two guys never cease to amaze me!! Hands down my favorite music site I visit! And you make understanding these products so easy! Thank you for always making me smile and laugh!
Thanks for the great video. Pete's comments about the switches having high accuracy is spot on. I find the the RC-500 easy to use, super flexible, creative, and fun. My previous looper (was not a Boss) was much harder to hit the one. On the RC-500, seems easy to punch in and out accurately. Much easier time with seamless loops. So happy, highly recommended and way better than expected.
Guys, it's a great review and a lot of fun as always but neither RC-500 nor RC-5 have 96 kHz :) They both run on 44.1 kHz, as per specs on Boss website :)
Shout out to the random can of Fast Fret in the centre of the rug. I feel it was just awaiting its chance to shine as an improvised percussive device of some sort, but alas it wasn't to be. I see you little guy, I see you.
Thanks for your video - very insightful. I'm a bit bummed at the lack of different rhythm types. It's very Latin heavy. There's no reggae one drop or ska, Drum and bass, and no Country (really). I bought this pedal on a whim and wish i'd played through the rhythms before I pulled the trigger. Editable drums would be so so brilliant. I really hope there are are more patterns on a firmware update...
no chance of using it without studying the simple manual and after this ths second manual believe me ; it is agood piece of gear but not that intuitive guy's
Mine didn’t want to boot anymore after just a week. Furthermore, there is no way to change the play and dub colors, making it hard for a color blind to see the difference. Boss doesn’t seem to support it well anymore. It was fun while it lasted, but the looper feels a bit dated tbh.
The drums on RC 10 sounds just horrible just listen to the snare drum😢 there must be a better sounding looper reg the drums. I wonder which looper Mr Pete uses most of the time
Could someone PLEASE tell me which pedal or effect does he turn on when recording the loop at the end od the show? The first pedal on his left side when he starts recording his guitar sound after he is done with 'percussions'. Pleaseee
Pete is a master at looping!!! I’ve just bought this pedal… but I’m new to this stuff! I’ve got the Boss Katana MKII 100W amp… and checking out how to setup it? But cannot find a clear path how to signal it with my katana amp? Somebody can help me out? I guess guitar in the katana amp input.. input B RC500 -> Effects send loop katana / Output B RC 500 to effects Return katana amp? Thx in advance! 🎸🤘
I love your videos! Question after you created a loop on the rc-500 can you add the drums to loop you just created? Will the drums sync? can the rc-500
Needs more Cowbell, lots of Loopers for Sale in February on Ebay then. Looper King got to be Ben McGarity, well worth checking his Videos out lots of cool ideas.
Great video. If anyone could help me. How should I connect RC500 with my Boss GT1 guitar processor and then to the stereo PA mixer? What cables should I use? ( balanced or unbalanced) Thank you in advance:) I'm a completely novice with these things Kind regards
I was looking to upgrade from my Ditto and RC-1. Your review has probably convinced me to get the RC-500. The 300 & 600 are awesome, but probably more than I need for home use. This looks just about right. Great video and playing as usual!
I would just like to say thanks to the CAPTAIN & PETE & ROB CHAPPERS all you guitar loving people that make me smile and I have a good time watching these fun videos THANK YOU THANK YOU😃
I have simple question and hope I can get a simple answer. It relates to being able to switch to a different loop and have it play immediately with no delay. If that can be done I will buy this loop device. Let me use one of our songs, That's Amore as an example. I am sure you are familiar with it. The song starts slowly with the "In Napoli...." intro. For this we use a steady tambourine sound, just shaking the tambourine. When the verse starts we have a 3/4 time percussion loop we use since of course it is a Waltz. When the song gets to what I will call the bridge "when you walk in a dream but you know you're not dreaming signore" we need to switch back to the tambourine and when that is done and you get back to "scusa me but in old Napoli that's amore" part we need to switch immediately back to the 3/4 time percussion loop. I tried to do this with my R-5 and footswitch using 2 adjacent memory locations and there is an annoying delay when switching back and forth so It will not work with the R-5 (unless I am just not doing it right). Can this RC-500 do what we need done? We do not play this song this to a fixed tempo so when I need to make the switch to the needed loop it needs to be an immediately change. We do this type of thing with a number of songs. I might post this question on a few other review videos since I need an answer to this important question.
I played quite a few gigs with a shitty $100 looper. I can kind of make drum sounds by palm muting my strings and like raking the gbe strings. I could make it sound like a full band with a couple other pedals, octave etc. A lot of Mayer Hawthorne covers
You make me laugh, Pigtronix Infinity had this feature (no drum machine included) 6 years ago, and you never talking about? Do you get money from Boss?
When I route my inputs to outputs A (mic) and output B (guitar) I get a huge volume jump on playback. Can only use the pedal this way if i set the track volume sliders way down to around 10 (100 is the mid point or supposed unity). Really frustrating and no answer from Boss as to why it is the case. I think I’ll have to send it back, too frustrating to be useable without the input and the output being naturally matched.
Someone please tell me you can extend the length of the fadeout on this otherwise it's nothing more than a useless gimmick, I'm finding it only lasts about half of a very short loop, I tried playing the loop in for a few more bars thinking it may be a percentage of the overall loop but no, very disappointed if that's it's limit.
Heck with the looper pedal, were tawkin thats der sexy Tele, never seen quite that color combo and the F hole is sweet....!!! Jus sayin' and I'm a self confessed Strat addict.... hahaa
Thanks for the video. I have a question. Is it possible to assign a pedal to switch between two different drums? And I would also like to know if I can have different drums assigned to each of the two tracks. Thank you
Ive been using a TC Electronic Ditto X2 for a while and found it to be unreliable , it would sometimes freeze while using it , Just got a Boss RC500 and been sweet so far XX
Is it possible to set up the footswitches on the RC-500 to trigger pre-recorded backing tracks (imported from a computer) without needing to link it to an external footswitch unit like an FS-6?
Would you be able to plug in lets say the Digitech SDRUM and use that as a one-shot drum machine and record that to any of the 2 tracks? And would that quantize and sync the same way as in the video? :)
Loopers opened up a whole new world to me- anyone playing alone should do themselves a huge favor- get one and don't stop until you can use it efficiently. Their sis something about making real music instead of just sitting around noodling- it puts you a fast track to getting much, much better. Your timing improves, your creativity improves, but most of all- it's just a lot more fun.
HAHA Lee trying to keep getting in with the Cow Bell, Classic.
You can never have enough cow bell ...
I'm amazed at Pete's looping skills. By the time I've layered three or four loops, everything sounds like a train wreck.
Make your first loop a click track- then you can line everything else up on the clicks- everything works.
I think it was my train that hit yours. 😂
You missed the golden opportunity to loop in audio of Christopher Walken requesting a greater abundance of a certain percussion instrument.
More Cow Bell!
Eat - sleep - Pete - RePete
Dude! That should be an Anderson's T-shirt 👕!
Loop
Lee-Pete
Good lord Pete, that off-the-cuff loop @9:45 was TASTY. Also I find it slightly hysterical that you almost have to INTENTIONALLY miss the end of the loop to show off that the pedal will auto-quantize the loop
That’s fun. I just bought the RC5. After seeing this video I think I’ll return it and buy the RC500.
So when is Pete coming out with an album for these loops? I want to buy/listen to them
The BOSS RC-500 is amazing, so far so good!! Got my full review coming tomorrow! Great vid guys!!
Really great playing, Pete is a oneman Show. Need to practice with my Looper... 😁
Ok fine you've convinced me I'll get a looper
Can you use 2 tracks for like verse and chorus and switch between them?
yes you can. check my videos on that subject. th-cam.com/video/rn0V7tT1jbI/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant, as always, gentlemen! Quick question… what brand of stool are you all using and where can I purchase one? Andertons? Thanks!
More cowbell.
Logged on to comments to look for this post 👍
Pete should have his own signature looper pedal.
7:06 "I will ge.. I will give you... I will give you... A cuddle!" *All my monetary dreams have VANISHED.*
I would pay money to see Pete make a 13 hour loop.
Danish Pete goes George Benson - nice loop.
What chord was that Pete?
A good chord Lee...
😂
I love it
I still want to know that chord progression it was sooo groovy.
You know it's going to be a good video when Danish Pete breaks out the maracas.
Cuban Pete! 😆
He keeps them on his belt at all times.
Lee’s sad face made me spit my coffee out.
looping has its purpose (used sparingly) but there is nothing worse than having a guy spend 2 or 3 minutes just adding all this crap before finally starting a song..zzzzzzzz
There was more you could do with the rc 30. It has effects I like them. This one don't have. The sound quality it's almost the same. So there's is almost no improvement. They made a more expensive pedal, with less features. And discontinuing the good one. Ok I'm still keeping my rc 30. For the next ten years. As for the rc 10, it's an attempt to copy the digitech trio+. The boss Got better drum sounds ,. But the trio has 5 looping, drum part's. You get the Bass sounds .And it cost's less.
Boss is boss, no contest here.
good video. I'm watching several tutorials for this pedal and I've realized that it has a bug when playing track 2, the first time it's played right after recording, a few tenths of a second of recording disappears, it's like it started late.... and I have seen it in other videos of this pedal. The truth is that I am quite disappointed because I have ordered it from Thomann. it's a shame 😔
I have to say you two guys never cease to amaze me!! Hands down my favorite music site I visit! And you make understanding these products so easy! Thank you for always making me smile and laugh!
Every time i watch this channel my wallet gets screwed. Bloody hell man. (Great)
I need a loopah
“Well guess what! I’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!” Wondering I this a thing in the UK? Great SNL skit from 2000.
13 hours should just about cover a blues soloist.
Just bought one of these about a week ago and it’s the best piece of music equipment I’ve purchased in a long time. Thanks for the great review guys!
Mr. Danish Pete is the loop meister, if there ever was one 😁👍
Thanks for the great video. Pete's comments about the switches having high accuracy is spot on. I find the the RC-500 easy to use, super flexible, creative, and fun. My previous looper (was not a Boss) was much harder to hit the one. On the RC-500, seems easy to punch in and out accurately. Much easier time with seamless loops. So happy, highly recommended and way better than expected.
Ok numerical order markes sense now, RC-300 will got out, you'll have 500 and 600 ! exciting with the new flagship 600 !! cheers
Anytime BOSS comes out with a new looper I get pumped😤🥳
Pete is mounstrous at guitar. Give him a lopper and he could stop all wars on earth
Yes, Mr Pete! That last loop... delicious my dude! Thanks
...and there's me still struggling with my RC-1 haha!
Guys, it's a great review and a lot of fun as always but neither RC-500 nor RC-5 have 96 kHz :) They both run on 44.1 kHz, as per specs on Boss website :)
32bits float though, pretty cool!
RUMBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Shout out to the random can of Fast Fret in the centre of the rug. I feel it was just awaiting its chance to shine as an improvised percussive device of some sort, but alas it wasn't to be. I see you little guy, I see you.
Thanks for your video - very insightful. I'm a bit bummed at the lack of different rhythm types. It's very Latin heavy. There's no reggae one drop or ska, Drum and bass, and no Country (really). I bought this pedal on a whim and wish i'd played through the rhythms before I pulled the trigger. Editable drums would be so so brilliant. I really hope there are are more patterns on a firmware update...
Excuse me! I'll listen to the Intro Loop again. See you! Greetings from Argentina!
Real missed opportunity for a Looper Messiah joke
Lee looks so happy in that opening loop! 🤣
you guys need to take clips from this video to show Lee's facial expressions in future videos.
yall get me to click on some strange stuff. what manner of sorcery is this?
no chance of using it without studying the simple manual and after this ths second manual believe me ; it is agood piece of gear but not that intuitive guy's
Wow. Lee is hilarious. And Pete is so so good at it.
Nice guys.
Such a wee jazz cat pete
12:05 yes to Andertons. Roughly 200 to 250 million Portuguese speakers worldwide. The people at Boss know that. 😂
somedays i don't know if i listen to you guys for product reviews or for those sick chord progressions you do!
I just bought the RC-10R... They keep coming out with new and better stuff...
Beautiful outro, 15:10, had to rewind a few times. Really beautiful!
Mine didn’t want to boot anymore after just a week. Furthermore, there is no way to change the play and dub colors, making it hard for a color blind to see the difference. Boss doesn’t seem to support it well anymore. It was fun while it lasted, but the looper feels a bit dated tbh.
You guys trying to cover Billy Joel’s “Keeping the Faith” and MJ’s “Human Nature”?
Can you tie multiple loopers together so you can add more things . One looper for vocals, one for drum/bass , one guitar etc?
It is possible to do this with midi connections. I recommend checking out Ben Rowland’s videos to see how to do it.
Can you change presets during loops? So for example i have my verse saved and than i want to go to my chorus. Is it possible?
If you want to get something similar to Chewie 2 (Ed Sheeran's pedal) check out:
sonnit.co.uk
And the boss pedals used in The Chewie Monster or Chewie II are only used as buttons
Imagine the guy who plays his 13 hour long loop, then he messes up the loop point at the end. "Damn, that's not a seamless loop, let's try again"
The drums on RC 10 sounds just horrible just listen to the snare drum😢 there must be a better sounding looper reg the drums. I wonder which looper Mr Pete uses most of the time
Can you overdub longer loops than your first base loop? My RC30 cant.
Lee is so happy - like a little boy on a last day of school.
Could someone PLEASE tell me which pedal or effect does he turn on when recording the loop at the end od the show? The first pedal on his left side when he starts recording his guitar sound after he is done with 'percussions'. Pleaseee
What’s the maximum length you can make the loop?
Pete is a master at looping!!! I’ve just bought this pedal… but I’m new to this stuff! I’ve got the Boss Katana MKII 100W amp… and checking out how to setup it? But cannot find a clear path how to signal it with my katana amp? Somebody can help me out? I guess guitar in the katana amp input.. input B RC500 -> Effects send loop katana / Output B RC 500 to effects Return katana amp? Thx in advance! 🎸🤘
RC-10r also gives you an option to record two separate tracks that run at the same time.
I love your videos! Question after you created a loop on the rc-500 can you add the drums to loop you just created? Will the drums sync? can the rc-500
Yes it can but not always perfectly. Is one big win over the RC10r in my opinion.
I see loop I see pete I am a simple man, I click
Needs more Cowbell, lots of Loopers for Sale in February on Ebay then. Looper King got to be Ben McGarity, well worth checking his Videos out lots of cool ideas.
The specs in portuguese it suits me perfectly.
Could you do a demo of the Dookie Drive by MXR?
Can someone tell me the chords on the loop track in the middle? Beautiful 👌
Did you ever figure these out?
Great video.
If anyone could help me. How should I connect RC500 with my Boss GT1 guitar processor and then to the stereo PA mixer? What cables should I use? ( balanced or unbalanced)
Thank you in advance:)
I'm a completely novice with these things
Kind regards
The guy who’s the playing guitar is high or what?!!
I was looking to upgrade from my Ditto and RC-1. Your review has probably convinced me to get the RC-500. The 300 & 600 are awesome, but probably more than I need for home use. This looks just about right. Great video and playing as usual!
I would just like to say thanks to the CAPTAIN & PETE & ROB CHAPPERS all you guitar loving people that make me smile and I have a good time watching these fun videos THANK YOU THANK YOU😃
I have simple question and hope I can get a simple answer. It relates to being able to switch to a different loop and have it play immediately with no delay. If that can be done I will buy this loop device. Let me use one of our songs, That's Amore as an example. I am sure you are familiar with it. The song starts slowly with the "In Napoli...." intro. For this we use a steady tambourine sound, just shaking the tambourine. When the verse starts we have a 3/4 time percussion loop we use since of course it is a Waltz. When the song gets to what I will call the bridge "when you walk in a dream but you know you're not dreaming signore" we need to switch back to the tambourine and when that is done and you get back to "scusa me but in old Napoli that's amore" part we need to switch immediately back to the 3/4 time percussion loop. I tried to do this with my R-5 and footswitch using 2 adjacent memory locations and there is an annoying delay when switching back and forth so It will not work with the R-5 (unless I am just not doing it right).
Can this RC-500 do what we need done? We do not play this song this to a fixed tempo so when I need to make the switch to the needed loop it needs to be an immediately change.
We do this type of thing with a number of songs.
I might post this question on a few other review videos since I need an answer to this important question.
I played quite a few gigs with a shitty $100 looper. I can kind of make drum sounds by palm muting my strings and like raking the gbe strings. I could make it sound like a full band with a couple other pedals, octave etc.
A lot of Mayer Hawthorne covers
You make me laugh, Pigtronix Infinity had this feature (no drum machine included) 6 years ago, and you never talking about? Do you get money from Boss?
When I route my inputs to outputs A (mic) and output B (guitar) I get a huge volume jump on playback. Can only use the pedal this way if i set the track volume sliders way down to around 10 (100 is the mid point or supposed unity). Really frustrating and no answer from Boss as to why it is the case. I think I’ll have to send it back, too frustrating to be useable without the input and the output being naturally matched.
Someone please tell me you can extend the length of the fadeout on this otherwise it's nothing more than a useless gimmick, I'm finding it only lasts about half of a very short loop, I tried playing the loop in for a few more bars thinking it may be a percentage of the overall loop but no, very disappointed if that's it's limit.
Heck with the looper pedal, were tawkin thats der sexy Tele, never seen quite that color combo and the F hole is sweet....!!! Jus sayin' and I'm a self confessed Strat addict.... hahaa
0:36 What is he shaking there? some type of maraca?
Thanks for the video. I have a question. Is it possible to assign a pedal to switch between two different drums? And I would also like to know if I can have different drums assigned to each of the two tracks. Thank you
This is the 5th tutorial I’ve found. They managed to answer every question I had in the first 30 seconds.
Ive been using a TC Electronic Ditto X2 for a while and found it to be unreliable , it would sometimes freeze while using it , Just got a Boss RC500 and been sweet so far XX
Is it possible to set up the footswitches on the RC-500 to trigger pre-recorded backing tracks (imported from a computer) without needing to link it to an external footswitch unit like an FS-6?
Would you be able to plug in lets say the Digitech SDRUM and use that as a one-shot drum machine and record that to any of the 2 tracks? And would that quantize and sync the same way as in the video? :)
Here is a demo of my Boss RC-500 failing to maintain playback with midi clock sync: th-cam.com/video/AyXfGOZyyv4/w-d-xo.html
To have someone look at you like the Captain looks at Danish Pete... 17:30
They are saying the tracks can be quantized. The owners manual mentions nothing of a quantizing feature. Can anyone verify? Thanks!
Get This Man A Hurdy Gurdy...Now! Pe-tah, So Gloriously Infectious!
Hey Danish Pete, when are you going to be posting the TAB for that outro, that was immense.......no, I'm serious........
chorus verse chorus work..? has it 2 independent loops? can you switch between verse and chorus...? if yes how do you do it, please
You are the best 👍🏻 I was going to buy the Boss rc30R, but It has a lot of bad reviews 😩 what do you think the Rc5 or Rc500 ? Hello from Mexico 🇲🇽
RC 300 is more versatile
I have the RC-300 but these 2 guys still make me want to to spend money ...i really should unsub lol
PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST LET THE MAN PLAY HIS COWBELL!!! -Chris Farley
this one threw me for a loop
I guess you need an IT guy ;-) your black Friday server is down every 5 minutes ... ;-)