All user reviews of 4/5 for the Boss RC-3 Loop Station

looper pedal screen (boss)

UTILIZATION

easy to use
clear manual in which you can easily plunge in case of doubt

SOUND QUALITY

I did not notice any degradation of sound, but I limit myself to 3 or 4 overdubs (for now)

OVERALL OPINION

New user I'm not disappointed.
My goal is to work easily scales, improvisation, and rhythmically and ca is the top
I do not put a higher score because I think the 10 drum rhythms are hardly sufficient. I think rc2 had thirty ... but hey you can not have everything.
You do again this choice? YES without hesitation.

- Looper 99 loops until 3am recording
- Drum machine (only 10 beats, but you can change them through the pc.
- Audio and USB connectors. Usb to import or export the loops, and rhythms, and to update the firmware via the rolan site at: http://www.roland.com/support/article/?q=downloads&p=RC-3&id = 62081892

UTILIZATION

- Yes, the manual is very simple is very clear.
- Use also very simple, especially if we go by car registration, which starts as soon as you play.

SOUND QUALITY

- Yes, the loops are very realistic if we found the right set of input volume guitar, which is not obvious at first.
- I use it with my standard telecaster squier Hot us and my road I entirely recustomisée. Less results are waiting for you.
- It should be noted for its sound settings as stated above not obvious at first.

OVERALL OPINION

- I utlise 2 years.
- I also have another looper on my Zoom G5.
- That I love him most: light, strong can be done quickly pleasure.
- What I like least: Small bb for managing sound, no setting of the input guitar signal. Suddenly the guitar is often too low and then if you want to replay the loop solo, you must always remember to keep a little reserve volume on the guitar, if not impossible to hear in his solo.En does best is to use a small amp (I use a small boss table).
- Yes I do it again this choice if n 'there is nothing better that was my case when I bought it.

Case Boss standard size metal. Input and output jack for stereo x2 + supply + 9V USB port to connect to PC. Mini jack AUX MP3 player. And an input for a boss pedal. Several buttons on the top, volume, ...
Once connécté can save what is recorded and can also load WAV file. super convenient. 99 presets available. There are also 10 drum accompaniments.

UTILIZATION

The fact that there was only one pedal must juggle one click and two clicks to start or stop the recording. You can also adjust the recording to start at the first note played.
Speed ​​tempo we rule by "typing" finger but it is not necessarily easy to get the desired tempo (or so I'm not good!).
It is super simple to use, support battery is chosen, rule tempo, pressing on the pedal, play a trick on support 2 times on the pedal and hop is in the box, can be ca turn loop by accelerating or slowing it down, if you want to put a layer on the manipulation again.
The number of recordable layer does not seem limited and the total recording time is 3 hours!!.

SOUND QUALITY

Accompaniments batteries are a bit bogus. But I think the sound is very clean after the pedal. I use a Kustom RC30, I made out of my pedalboard for not changed the sound of the pedal with other pedals distortion and reverb.

OVERALL OPINION

I bought there two years I think I put a lot of support within which prevents me to put CD to accompany me, I just choose the preset and sends live hop ca in the amp. In addition you can register if that is cool to progress.
I have not tried other foot because I did not think it was equivalent (price / simplicity) also rated so highly.
I would do the purchase if needed.

View specs

UTILIZATION

Pedal easy to use, clear manual, it takes some getting used to the principle of the pedal.
1 clap: recording
1 clap: stop recording the first loop but a second loop is triggered automatically if you continue to play.
Two consecutive clap to stop together.

drive forward once:
1 clap: play
1 clap: recording another loop --- or ---
2 clap to stop

simple deletion loop if you do not want to keep them: there was a loop on the back. We recorded another loop over but we decided not to keep the start: Long press on the pedal and faded. But you do not lose what you've saved.

Whenever I'm happy I backup to a memory of the pedal. Then if I want to add a loop, I can make all the mistakes that I want because I can deleted the latter without losing the backup. That's how the pedal works.

The drum machine is minimal. Although bosser for being somewhat along.

The adjustment rate is ......... why do not they added a button?? in place of the button "tap tempo" with which we are left to reproduce the tempo of the rhythm that you want by pressing the button at the right speed ?? But it sums up the spirit of the pedal: the instrument worked and try their hand by adding more lines ...

SOUND QUALITY

The sound of my strat is made relatively faithfully. The signal through the pedal, I hear a difference anyway. It is negligible, really, but some will understand what I mean. Live was 100% and connecting the pedal 99%, and we pass a second or two to wonder where is this percent. Then we play.

I believe that the sound quality is not reduced.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 1 year. It allowed me to focus on my pace of games, give left hand and right hand, on this kind of music I like to play.

She told me also introduce to the superposition of lines of instruments, so rudimentary that's true, but after one year I want to spend on recording and I spotted the gear that would suit me. Playing with the amp, you can easily convert his guitar low nickname. Add the battery (drum machine) and two lines of guitars, it gives you four lines, and the song appears.

This is an excellent tool through but it does not worth to buy new ca, wait a Cygnus, it is too expensive for what it is.

Saves and run a loop. You can then save temporarily or permanently this loop. We can overlay "layers" add one or more parts of a loop.

Some rhythms (binary, ternary) and styles (blues, rock, salsa, ...) for saving battery on a tempo (editable).

Everything is done with the pedal, but the addition of wav file that requires a USB cable connected to the computer.

UTILIZATION

Sounddriver simple, by pressing the buttons on the pedal. on the other hand I hassle to switch the tempo of binary ternary ... but hey, there's the instructions!

SOUND QUALITY

Spend WAV in and you will notice that it does not distort the sound evil.

OVERALL OPINION

I'm happy, it allows me to bosser my scales and modes.

Sounddriver pretty (classic Boss pedal) in red, it farts!

There's potential that I do not operate like plugging two instruments and stereo output.

If I ever do, I will seek an opportunity as it has increased since I bought it new.

Although this is not the Rolls in the field, I think it is really necessary to work because when playing alone, it is not always obvious ...

I recommend this pedal.

I will not repeat what you already know about the features.

UTILIZATION

The basic configuration is simple, even too simple: the single pedal requires various manipulations, and the "double tap" to stop the loop is neither accurate nor practical. We are sentenced to add a FS-5 or 6.
I'll also mention the race of the two potentiometers is disastrous, not at all progressive.

SOUND QUALITY

The sound quality is good.

OVERALL OPINION

Another problem is the sequence of loops is done with a gasp: impossible to pass smoothly from one loop to the other, to put an end to start another in stride as - for example - with the JamMan Stereo which, for a lower price, is more generous and successful.

This is a looper pure juice: no effect available. But a single track loops to infinity stereo if necessary. 3:00 Registration, 99 loops storable in the memory of the beast. No SD card but a usb connection type B to clear the memory.
Connection available for various footswitch pedals: one to start or stop the loop for another pass loop loop. There is a double pedal from Boss, which allows for one and the other functions.
You connect a guitar or microphone (it works). An auxiliary input allows you to connect any other stereo equipment: a synth, an mp3 player, a BAR etc ... It can play both.
Also handy metronome whose volume is adjustable and can be deleted as soon as the loop in place. Note also that the overdub function can also be removed if you want samples of "one shot".
Think the 9 volt battery required to keep track of the loops. We Roland: the transformer is sold separately ...

UTILIZATION

I am not a guitarist but RC 3 allows me to quickly produce accompaniment on my keyboards without sequence: MKXL, microSAMPLER or my Wavedrum Mini. The metronome lets you work clean, without lag. The manual is very clear and the interface is so well designed it quickly becomes useless.
I also use the RC as to produce a master tape (not final: we can not solve anything, or equalization or pan ...) It allows to get a general idea /. In short, it is a notepad handy and very portable (but heavy! Any metal, solid!).

SOUND QUALITY

The sound quality is remarkable considering that this is a pedal, not a recorder. After five superposed loops, must recognize that the whole becomes confused ... We dream of a pan function ... short we dream.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a week. I previously used the looper the Kaossilator Pro is detestable not limited to 16 (4 measures) but who has the grace to provide four tracks. RC 3 has a track loop but can last up to three hours ... In short, the two complement each other perfectly.
ATTENTION! The problem reported for the RC 30 RC is valid for 3: when you pass from one loop to the other, in manual mode, there is a latency of less than a second, but slow enough to be heard, it's been a hole in the web. So do not expect to build an entire song with alternating verse-chorus with RC alone. I bypasses the difficulty in integrating my RC 3 loops in AUDACITY.
The device has become expensive (40 euros more than nine in two years, without pedals or the transformer) but the competition does not offer memory or to store computer link. This is what makes the RC 3 unsurpassable.

Loop, rhythm
Everything is editable and transferable once consolidated PC via USB
Rack-mount model, digital
2 jack input, 2 output jack (1 mono + 1stéréo)

UTILIZATION

Easy to use, for both manual in all languages ​​provided

SOUND QUALITY

used with any instrument or microphone

OVERALL OPINION

I had an RC2 and RC20XL, the biggest advantage is that USB and memory infinity. 99 banks. more rytmes available
The only thing I reproach him is that when you use it all your first loop requires two pressure? if only he continues to record automatically.
No regrets
I use the effects loop of a Vox VT100.