All user reviews of 5/5 for the Boss RC-50 Loop Station

3 separate loops that can start, stop, play together or separately, to which can be added again and again ...
A useful USB port for import / export of loops from PC via USB cable.
1 microphone and 1 stereo input.
There is sth to MIDI but I've never used so far are not very fond of computers.

UTILIZATION

It is very quickly to the machine, even without reading the manual (I really wanted to make my first loops ...) we can quickly stack multiple loops in stop, station wagons, to stall in rhythm (this is for!). And the PDF manual available on the website of BOSS is useful if you want to advance in the use of various options, numerous enough as long as we have a little imagination. It is well done and quickly finds what you are looking for.
Reflecting the ease of use makes it I said it seems hard to do better ...

SOUND QUALITY

I'm not a sound engineer but his ear is completely clean after me.
I have a microphone for voice and sometimes percussion or acoustic guitar, melodica, ukulele, flute ...
And then an electric guitar with an effects pedal (BOSS GT6) and KORG SP250 and everything comes in a 20W amp Ibanez guitar keyboard. Since there is only one instrument input I had to unplug every time I wanted to change from piano to guitar, but that was before I have a small mixer and now this is paradise.
I tested the sound quality as the difference between the sound of my keyboard without the pedal and that through the pedal and the amp that is significantly worse even if it is far from being catastrophic. The difference is perhaps the amp as I know.

OVERALL OPINION

Tried anything else like looper before buying it seemed to be a reference and I'm delighted for 1 year.
I tried for a RC 3 (who has a track) and this is obviously a bit limited and then zoom with two tracks and qq effects. I did not find anything fantastic and not very easy to use but it was a short test.
It's expensive 250 euros but it was a bit of decline since then and it is so good to all that music alone. The craft reliable and robust hitherto air. From a year to several hours a week to see a day in places not necessarily own etc ... even if I try to take care and not a button has taken the game and everything works perfectly.
I think I'm far enough to use 100% too.
Another entry would not be too much for the multi instrumentalists but with a small mixer so good ...
There is no effect in the RC50, it simplifies things and then I made the purchase of a multi effect GT6 I'm happy, but that's another story.
I recommend it in general. For a guitarist who just wants her to improvise a rhythmic RC30 would do but quickly we realize the potential of three separate tracks and it's actually great.
Well, I said that I did not share at BOSS, just a little amateur musician without too much on and it's just good stuff.

Looper digital with three layers
2 stereo inputs (line and instrument) 1 microphone input with 48V
USB for loading and unloading of samples
250 MB of storage (49 min mono)
MIDI sync
Many metronomes with all possible metric of 2 / 2 to 15/16
2 independent outputs (Main / Sub headphone and) every sentence is freely assignable

THE FAILURE: The headset is the MAIN output, if you want one click only in the headset, you have to swing out to the public and the SUB once the master gain is at headphone

UTILIZATION

Not obvious at first, be sure to read the user manual to understand the subtleties. The manual is good although I was only in English.

DEFECTS: a hole in her early in the second loop, you must replay the first time otherwise it looks stupid. After walking the loop quantize nickel. The algo stretch of time is not great. The color of the LEDs is not clear enough between REC and OVERDUB, it must be very focused to get it right on stage.

Editing patches is well thought out, each parameter may depend on a particular patch or a global setting. All parameters are controllable by MIDI.
The Loop Sync keeps synchronous loops of the same duration. If it is removed you can run multiple loops of small but high sync is lost if we stop being the one and then delivers.

Two pedals are seven assignable to a parameter choice.
If you really want to drive all there must be other controllers, an expression pedal for volume sentences, it can serve.

SOUND QUALITY

Excellent sound quality. 24 bit 44.1 khz
Mode "Flat Amp" is available to compress the micro or the AUX input.

OVERALL OPINION

Excellent pedal despite these major avoidable default. Super fun to play with concentration.
Use to stuff quietly in his corner, to make arrangements and work on a click in the headphones.

Nickel for what I wanted to do (start a solo project on stage).
For more details see the post of arnoterra above.

UTILIZATION

Same, nickel, and in Effect Center was given the user manual in English AND french
Few buttons, of course, but once they have been in hand, it's easy and nature (God for me) knows I'm bad with the accessories with the "boutonnite"

SOUND QUALITY

What can I say? Although used in the ass with a sound card correctly I think sincerely able to get out my own demo CD in the near future (I have my entire system since only a few days is going to require a bit of sound engineering, so )

OVERALL OPINION

I use it recently but I am delighted!
Exactly what I needed to launch my solo project. In three weeks I have already pre-projects that ring for compound 4 (and 6 other about to be "orchestrated").
Obviously, this requires concentration and good rhythm management if: duck, inevitably (and then after three days of use, we catch ourselves wondering what to redial to use it without sync because it should not hide his pleasure), but hey, it's the same with a group, right?
I made mini-lives in front of friends (including musicians) and they were all amazed, especially those who know how the electronics tends to make me ... the effect of prunes ...
While I do not use the MIDI yet (actually I do not need to first show that I prepare), and therefore can not comment on the issues raised in this regard.
But for someone who just wants to make zic and self-support, which machine!
I almost buy the Digitech looper but I can say today that if I fly the RC 50, I go into debt to buy!

Everything you would expect from a multi-Fawn Loop pedals (3 + 1 for the rate Intgr bote. Ditables All parameters are with a traditional ergonomic products for boss .

UTILIZATION

The manual is clear enough for our answer to the questions that arises when using the machine. The number of features is important to o some time to digest the whole. Nanmoins, ergonomics is good.

SOUND QUALITY

The sound quality is clear to the appointment.

OVERALL OPINION

Ok, there is indeed a default of read-white THE FIRST APRS loop recording (I feel its length dpend the size of the loop), which should be corrected by patch up days (well, I Espree). For the rest, from the RC20, and have tried a Jamman, there's no photo, I keep the RC50. Not using syncho noon, no opinion on the subject.

Concerning the RC 50 latency issues are often due to the original settings that put a fade in and fade out on each sentence avrifier. The only regret I think that the undo redo c only works on the last registered function among the three sentences and not on each sentence. We do not really looper between 3 feet of the shot. But is this so serious? For those interested I cre a blog to disseminate what we can do with the RC 50 then Do not hesitate to broadcast bipez me http://compobossrc50.musique.com/

erik

UTILIZATION

More than a single multi purpose

SOUND QUALITY

I use mainly with acoustic guitars

OVERALL OPINION

The RC 20 is really cheap
the rc 50 a bit expensive though I almost buy a 576 euros before you see that not far from home he was silent available 448 euros ....

See more advice, he loops around, but not the curlers.
There are two main modes of loops on the three available tracks:
or sounds are played down, or the loops are sequenced, with or without syncrho for two modes which allows for complex possibilities.
The functions of each pedal may be reassigned for each of the 99 patches, which can be very useful for example to start playing to a sample.
For me, there is a weak point, that on a track overdub everything is done and we can not recover each layer separately on a PC to play with a sequencer.
Well since we have three tracks, we still three separate samples.
This is probably related to the amount of memory available, which often appears as a weakness (I vacuum regularly on a PC, so no problem on that side).

UTILIZATION

Manual in french or better in English because the translation is sometimes a little ambiguous.
It would be very careful to stop at the "Quick Start" manual as the features are not intuitive. Everything is configurable, pedals, MIDI control.

I use a rather complex routing of signals since I came back my instruments - vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussions roland and exit loop RC50 - 8 tracks on a AW16G sends itself the instruments on the entrance RC50. In short, it allows me to have when I register each layer separately + track loop.

Next afternoon, I had no problem to drive my RC50 for my AW16G so I do not understand the previous reviews (the manual is really that complicated?). I use the MIDI Clock and MTC for non sync. And it works. The tempo of the RC50 is well tuned to the click of my AW16G and it also receives the carefree twelve o'clock start / stop.

Regarding the first problem that is not played, it's true that I am not pose any problem because it allows me to see if I looped well.
That said, I tried yesterday the new boss of firmware and after installation, you can start the Boss RC50 by pressing [loop sync] + [clause 2], and after it plays the loop from the first sample san worries

SOUND QUALITY

Very good, you can listen to an improvisation done in one take, which I was happy enough to put it on my album - on Jamendo:
http://hwww.jamendo.com/fr/album/4005/
This is the final piece: "09 - bonus loop - the spy".

There is almost nothing that had to mix / master (a bit of compression)

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 8 months, and I've never been as happy and as productive as I have since this gear. This is a working tool and creating incredible, and yet I feel like using all possible functions (including adding a MIDI foot controller).
You can buy it eyes closed, it's really a good machine

I can not believe it, says it all does. 3 tracks and 24 minutes in Stereo (double mono) or 256MB of internal memory is ample for my use. Compltes inputs and outputs (+ Stereo microphone with power supply fantme, noon, headphones, USB ...), 99 programs who remember ALL (configuration of sync, scenic trails, reading inverted e, VOLUME each of the three tracks ...) and so on and the best

UTILIZATION

Live only for me. I play alone. I run a loop percu, a guitar and yalla! Trs easy to use when you know the concept and uses dj. Everything starts as you want and you can save everything. The manual is in French. May be a chouille complicated when you do not mtrise with the concept (especially around the options loopsync, timesync, loopquantize ... you get lost a little sometimes)

SOUND QUALITY

Word, 24-bit 44.1 kHz is largely good, especially live. No noise and no noise. Good!

OVERALL OPINION

For Those about the loop, we salute you! Incredible, I am a regular of the genre, I play alone and used for over a year the RC20 looks like a toy gadget ct point of this machine. We can all imagine, plan and save everything to return easily what you want to reproduce live. The default? I see it. The issue of time limit between the end of the recording and reproduction of beginners is not teachers: in gnral loop when you want something, we always play a little contunu on able to APRS. The fact that there have a quick end to double white sound. And then on the one hand, there is no dcalage in the timing as I could sometimes have with the RC20 and also has the default t corrected with the new firmware. The rest is that of happiness: I run a loop djembe pan in the center, a guitar riff pan right, left, and I send a rhythm of big! In short, I love. I got it for 349 Comeback music, delivered in 24 hours with me ... What you ask for?
A regret? Yes just one good: there shall have been a memory card reader and I cry for perfection ...
PS: I have yet to test the south ... but I need not impractical ... I will tell you

Everything is already amply detailed.

UTILIZATION

The general configuration is relatively simple, however, it is essential to read the user manual.

SOUND QUALITY

Very good in general. Cons should be avoided by changing the tempo of the patches created.

THERE IS NO WHITE early in the loop when used correctly.
All the moaners on this point have the right to challenge before accusing the gear. it is a false problem only to the use. it is not a magic box that guesses what you want to do, so you must be a minimum square to make it sound!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 6 months. it's really an excellent new product, my favorite is the three separate loops that can exceed the pure principle of loops by adding breaks etc..

I would definitely do it again this choice

See more advice and site boss.

UTILIZATION

Everything is perfect!

SOUND QUALITY

1) Stop with this story latency!
does not exist.

I encourage everyone to take a look under the heading tips or explain how.

NO UPDATE OR ANYTHING!

2) I saw a lot of people think that when you adopt the 3 loop, the clik stop too and it is impossible to do otherwise!

That's true but there is a solution!

Suppose you want to send the clik drummer, a headphone or other and the loop in your amp:

a) Send clik on "Sub Out" and loop "Hand Out"

b) Connect an expression pedal to the input of EXP RC50 and assigned him the volume control of one of three boucles.exemple: the # 1

c) Now rotate your 3 loop with the clik that goes in the back of the drummer. stop the loop 2 and 3 instead of # 1 stop down the volume thanks to the pedal ... The MIRACLE clik continue to play!

Level of sound quality no worries, but if you put the effects before and there is a slight hiss, it will be amplified as double registration. Obviously the more you overdub more you hear this breath. So you have to think to send the signals as clean as possible.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for three years with a bass, synths, loops, Reason, and sometimes a microphone singing.

Quality / price excellent! I do not see the benefits of investing in the rack looper extremely expensive ...

All that is regrettable is the absence of a memory card slot to expand memory! (Simple commercial reason I think they include it in the next version and everyone will resell the RC50 to buy the new version!)

Everything has already repeatedly said t ....

UTILIZATION

It takes a little time to get the bte, in all it is relatively intuitive.
Manuel with many redundancies ...

SOUND QUALITY

The sound you are playing is the sound that the machine reproduced, no worries of the cot.
J still emits a reserve on the single mode, because my sound is distorted when I play without the guide. A fault of my machine?

OVERALL OPINION

I used the last two weeks, what I like is the ability to play three different sentences to make a "real" piece in the web. I do it again this choice without hesitation, using not n the south that it seems a few rats, and despite two or three errors in the design of the machine.

For specifications, site builder or previous opinions.
Coupled to a DR-670, no sync problem noon ...
Exit Sub handy ...
I did not used once the USB functions of the machine. 24 minutes of stereo recording is sufficient.

UTILIZATION

It's not very very complicated to use them. It's very intuitive.

Comprehensive manual.

A small external type footswitch or Behringer AB200 Boss FS is very convenient to delete tracks directly without having to wait for 2 seconds.

Editing patches is very simple but like all pedals should be addressed. It can also be placed on a table and start recording at the front.



SOUND QUALITY

Personally, I used the "stereo" to plug a guitar and a bass at the same time above. The outputs are connected to a guitar amp and a bass amp, obviously. The pan setting of each track can refine the return of other instruments (mic and taken) in the two amplifiers. I am not top top of the requirement so we'll say okay.

To avoid blanks in the door, I try to start and stop my recordings as close to the beginning of a measure and it works. And so the white of the first recorded track is disagreement too, still replaying the first note of the first measure at the same time you press Rec / play / overdub.

And you do not enjoy too much to change the tempo of your songs already recorded, the resampling is not top-top. In any case, it is frowned upon to turn up on stage with the machine full of loops already recorded.

How to choose the way to the ignition with the updated BIOS.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using for a little over a year.
Before, I had a RC20XL and we can say that the RC50 is alone in its price range in view of its performance. So I have not tried the electro-harmonix or other models. I was tempted for a moment by SuperLooper Linux but a bracket is still more compact than a PC.

What I like least, that's me farting to set back the names of the patches and the panoramic tracks. The side a bit random white trails in early use (default tends to disappear gradually as I'm using is what we should call progress)

What I like most is finally turning bass lines and scrape it, or otherwise. No longer be limited to a structure (RC20XL) but can bind verse, chorus, bridge. Superimposing the three tracks at the same time and add each time is also pretty trippy, it dribbles too much and the results are, if successful, at least interesting.

Report qualité.prix unbeatable but remember to add a few euros for a footswitch.

I drooled over long enough to make the election again without any hesitation. At the same time, I'm just a scratch (scratch or a little way) and I did not fully exploit the afternoon. For an engine-or a keyboard, I do not know if this is the point of hell.

I use the Boss RC 50 in which I have prepared my drum loops through protools and my mac. The result is the way I want.
The batteries are already established good cause for s even though in the long run we would like to change them.


UTILIZATION

The manual is clear and the general config is as much for the little that we take the time to follow a logic of wiring.


SOUND QUALITY

I used with a bass and singing!

OVERALL OPINION

For 2 short months. I did not even have tried it on stage but it would delay
The average value for money is because the loop still costs dearly in Europe. on the other hand, if you have friends in the U.S., where c is cool! You can bring down the price of 150 euro!