Thank you so much for this. I have been going nuts for days (not much of a trip, admittedly) trying to get two tracks to play in series, verse/chorus/verse. You demonstrated it to the point where lo and behold, it works! Others have talked about it, but you put the video of your actual foot switch actions up and that made all the difference. I have been playing for a long, long time... my 66 Strat was a 16th birthday present, for crying out loud... and I think your videos are terrific and highly entertaining. Jam on!
@@AdrianRichard-tx2bc Hi Adrian Yeah, this was a little tough to figure out. Under Memory: Play mode: Single Single Change: Loop End Track Change: Series Record your verse or part on Track 1 Do the other part on Track 2 While playing either track back, at any time during the verse, click the Track Select button and then the Rec/Play button. When the playback reaches the end of the track you're on, it will go right into the other. Same thing to bring it back. You don't have to worry about timing, just somewhere near the point where you want to trigger the change. When recording, it obviously helps to play right past the cutoff point a tiny bit so there won't be any dead air, so to speak, when the tracks switch. I hope I've explained this well enough. It was a bear learning it, but good old Eystch got me pointed in the right direction.
To get the two tracks to play in time you have to ensure that you start the second track at the end of the first and end the second track at the end of the first as well To do this you have have the display on “two tack position” To get to that *menu *setup by pressing memory/value once scroll to 2TRACKPOS then when recording on second track you must watch the screen and visually line the two tracks up I hope that’s clear It’s very annoying and inconvenient and unlike any other Boss looper ( and I have had them all) but the difference between 16 and 32 bit recording is worth it
Thanks henning for this ULTIMATE review 😊 this video is very useful ! If Boss is reading… here’s my 2cents as final customer : • I’m using it with a 9v powerbank…works perfect. • I have bought the expensive boss midi cable, quality cable but like you said, it’s way too expensive ! • Rythm section : i would like to have more rock/metal/pop & dance patterns ! The additional rythms available at « Boss tone central » are useless : they take the place of 1 looper track ! I would expect that we can import and add more rythm inside the rc500, not instead of a looper track… • External midi pedalboard is mandatory if you want to use all the parameters : so add 150/200 € to the rc500 pricing… • You have an xlr mic input for vocals … i would like in a future update to have the vocoder/robot/autotune effect like the RC505 !!!! At the end, I’m happy with this rc500, but it needs a lot of menu diving, and it’s not always easy to locate some parameters. But quality is there and when fully extended with midi , it's a beast.
You can actually get male TRS to 5 pin MIDI female connectors that allow you to use any midi cable, and they’re not at all expensive. I’ve used them with my Boss RC5 and they work perfectly
14:15 The reason BOSS stipulates specific model BOSS adapters is because *in some cases* some pedals draw more current than others. For pedals that draw a lot of current - say, one that pulls .5A, using a low current-rated 9v DC adapter - say, one rated for 200mA might work....for a few minutes....until the adapter catches fire. You need to respect current draw, and be careful when ignoring those adapter requirements. They're not always BS.
i've been a long time follower and even if all this time i had been waiting just for this video, so THAAAAANK YOU. i've been looking for a looper that could have pre determined loop lengths. thank you, thank you, thank you. every other video has skimmed over this just saying "oh you can do this" but never showed how it worked.
Thank you so much for making this lengthy video! It was very interesting and informative. I’m new to all of this and just got the rc 500 yesterday. I’ll be rewatching this video again a few more times and playing with the loop station to get it to stick in my head. This is definitely a “get to know” pedal before you start doing anything serious with it.
Thank you for this great, funny and informative review HP! By the way the MIDI cable is TRS-MIDI Cable A. If you search for that, there will be cables that are much cheaper! I got 3 for under 11€...And they are working with various Boss pedals ;)
Marvellous, thank you, the most in depth (and funny) video of the RC500. Well done for grappling it to the ground. You have taught me a lot about it, as i wait to buy this.
I just bought one of these, looks like i'm gonna spend more time watching this video over and over again than playing the damn thing. Thank's for sharing this, this will be very helpfull.
after 6 months. boy this thing is corky! congratulations for going through filming this without apparent brain damage. and even more congratulations for making this video understandable
Really helpful tutorial, I have a basic understanding of loopers but this is fairly advanced and I was struggling with syncing up the two channels. Well demonstrated , I was able to immediately go back to it and get going!
Thank you, man. That’s one of the best video to know what this red box can do. Moreover, i didn’t get bored with this length of video because of your sense of humor.
Just found your channel while looking for RC500 review, glad I found yours. Funny to watch but you dropped all the in and outs... and pros and cons. That's perfect, I loved the humor... and I laughed at the "Proprietary Boss Cables... type A" hahaha. Thank you.
Hi there! Just bought myself the boss RC500!! What a demo you did!! Awesome!! Just a question, how do you path the RC 500 with the boss katana MKII 100? I don’t find any clear details on it.. and afraid of doing something wrong… the guitar in the input of the katana amp.. TRS cable from Boss RC 500 Input A to effects send in the katana - TRS cable from Boss RC 500 Output A to Effects return on the boss katana MKII amp?
After 1:28:30: I am glad to own a simple Boss RC-1. What you do for customers cannot be appreciated enough! I would love to see a review of the Boss Nextone Amp series, which are in my opinion the most underrated solid-state amps out there ...
21:02 PEAK SRC is the green light above the input button to see if your signal is clean (green) slightly hot (yellow) or peaking (red) for your input sources (or other options)
Thanks for the depth of your dive and candid commentary that is helpful for a new RC-500 owner. An hour-and-a-half is too much for a video like this, but nothing that some organization and planning wouldn't help with. Tip of the hat to the video editor who sped-up segues, sometimes accompanied with cool graphics, to bypass moments of silence, excessive noodling, etc. How do I get a studio like this?
Very good video. I spent a few hours learning RC-500 (during February 2024) and returned it for several reasons... having to use the output jack to turn it on, having to disconnect the output jack to turn it off, no way to set rhythm volume globally, output cannot be used for headphones unless we like everything only in one ear. Two times of a rhythm coming through my speakers at volume level 100 pissed me off. It seems like it should be $55 not $350. It reminds me of little Coleco games in the 1970's and 1980's.
Hello and thank you for this video. I have used the RC-30 live for three years and really enjoyed it. I upgraded to the RC-500 about a year ago. I am still not confident enough to use the RC-500 in a live situation because it is too flakey in the garage. The learning curve on the RC-500 is very long. All the midi capabilities are lost on me because I don’t use a midi. The flaw in the RC-500 is that it is designed for people sitting in the studio doing stuff in a controlled environment with no consequences for unforeseen errors. All these parameters and settings and not knowing for sure whether the setting is “system” or “Memory” introduces surprises on stage. I’m beginning to think that the 32 bit upgrade alone does not compensate for the lack of practicality in using this thing live. I’ll keep plugging away, but really, the amount of time and energy dedicated to learning the RC-500 is detracting from my live show. I’m about ready to sell my RC-500 and throw in the towel. Parameters and flexibility is great, but obviously, the RC-500 was not designed for live shows. In live shows, you don’t have time for changing things. You don’t have space for screw ups. Everything has to work right, every time, or you do the famous “looper face plant.” Indeed, I did a few with the RC-30 in the beginning, but the RC-500 introduces a whole new vista of potential “looper face plants” because it is: a) too complicated; b) too difficult to program and operate; and c) possibly flakey? I was very excited about the percussion features of the RC-500, but have given up on that as well. It’s too unpredictable! Best, Marc Roberts
But apart from not really doing it live, it's great for recording and just getting your hands on the guitar 🎸 Less complicated than Logic pro whatever it is! I can half understand this machine.
I bought an official ROLAND midi cable with an after market adaptor (for the RC-500)... I've also been cussing for days wondering why it won't connect to my ROLAND drum machine. THANK YOU for clearing up this bullshit issue.
An RC 30 user here for almost 10 years. I was looking around for an update. I have bought the RC 505 and now the RC 500 and I must say for my kind of playing both of them they lost what the RC 30 have. RC 30 has this "Instant" factor that all those new loopers hasn't. Use it with an external controller and it does what it supposed to. In the other hand both 505 & 500 have better sound quality but the new workflow with the menus and all that glitchy things makes the creativity go away sometimes. I know that if you learn the new workflow its gonna be instant again it's just that I like the simplicity the RC 30 offers. Also I would like to stress that out, RC30 is out of the market right now and soon you wont be able to buy one from a store. I think its gonna become a vintage gimmicky item that its price in 10 to 20 years from now will rise. So keep it somewhere safe! I will also buy a second one hehe
I totally know what you mean. I had the RC-30 when I first started out and then moved to the RC-2, which the RC-2 had better drum sounds. What I loved about the both of them was, that you could at a live gig play on the fly and everything synced as I had strummed with the Auto Rec. I'm guna have to re-train what I knew to adapt to this pedal as the 32bit sounds awesome.
@@Kestar75 Heehe i was thinking about the same thing to train myself into rc500 for the 32bits sound but I ditched it and I'm back to Rc30 i think its sound will become what they call ''Vintage'' so yeah why not hehe
Great video. Thanks for putting the effort in. Had my RC-500 since last week and was frustrated at lack of in depth video so perfect timing. One query/issue it still have is to do with Rhythm variations. You mention the A and B variations but don’t demonstrate. I cannot get these to change at all, end of loop or end of measure it doesn’t happen. Any idea? You also mention creating a preset and copying it to other memories but don’t explain how (I may have missed it as fell asleep for 5 minutes somewhere in the middle) ;-)
just make a preset, hit save and pick a new memory... do it for all of them. As for variations.... you have to assign a variation change to a foot controller
@@EytschPi42 thank for the reply. Annoys me that count in isn’t on by default and would also like to reduce level of drums globally. Will have a go at a custom preset tomorrow. Was under the impression than the A/B transition was something you could set without needing to trigger with pedal. Thanks for clarifying.
You answered several questions I couldn't seem to figure out. I tried going through the 500 several times trying different things and yet still had problems doing what I wanted it to do. The instruction book is sort of vague on a lot of things. I'm going to have to watch this video several times to really absorb most of it. One thing I will recommend to everyone is to go on the Boss web site and download the latest operating system which is more stable in operation than the original version.
If they made a looper like the RC-2 with an output separately for the drum track....would be a game changer also in 32bit. The auto rec on the RC-2 is second to none by syncing everything to what is being played. Thank you for you video review. It was definitely informative and I will probably buy the RC-500.
i think the fact that you can use midi to swith each parts of the drum kits on and off is awsome, and i hope ppl didnt miss that, it is like the drum part itself is a 4 layered looper with two traks and even fills when you switch between them if you want , you can use a controller to switch kits and patterns on the go too, that is UNLESS you chose to play and record your own drum patterns using any of the onboard kits trough midi in (they have many samples eachas you will find out when playing them with a keyboard, opens up for almost limitless loads of new variations
This is a game changer. So could i sent midi from my Novation Circuit to use as parts in the RC-500 drum kits? I also have an Electribe with drum and bass samples... Thx
59:49 Is this because you are recording on track 2 and that track 2 was set to 4 measures? And then adjusted the tempo to your playing because you ended the recording before the 4 measures within the set tempo? This would be awesome because it means you can set track 1 to 1 measure and track 2 to 16 or whatever. And it means you could record a one measure loop on track 1 (without needing to have the metronome stuck in your ear) and let that first recording set the tempo. I am hoping that it works like that indeed!
Watched this to decide if I wanted to buy the thing. Now that I’ve been using it for a while I’m watching again to see if I find something I’ve been missing.
It's interesting to be able to send the drums to the output B. This way you can have guitar and drums go through different effect loops while playing live.
You mentioned several times that that you can copy memory settings globally, how do you do this? Is it done in the ToneCentral or is it on the device? This is such a great video, thank you!
While on the preset you want to copy, click Exit + Enter. Scroll using the Memory/Value dial to the preset location you want to copy the current preset to and click Enter.
@@jinaisponnampadikkalkader6672 @EytschPi42 I don't understand really. The first step is easy, as you said : if you are in memory 01, after pressing WRITE you see "WRITE 01 Memory 01" and you can turn the dial to "Write 02 Memory one" and so on "Write 03 Memory one" My problem is LATER when I use Memory 02 and change a few settings : First problem : when I try to save Memory 02 the display shows "Write 02 Memory 01" even if I have completely changed the presets and there is no way to get rid of that "01" (ONE) with the dial, I have to clear the Memory and loose my changes. Second problem : still while saving Memory 02, if I turn the dial one time the display changes from "Write 02 Memory 01" (ONE) to "Write 03 Memory 03" (THREE) and that is misleading because when it is done and you go to Memory 03 the display shows "03 Memory 01" (ONE) I really don't understand what I am saving....
@@EytschPi42 I don't understand really. The first step is easy, as you said : if you are in memory 01, after pressing WRITE you see "WRITE 01 Memory 01" and you can turn the dial to "Write 02 Memory one" and so on "Write 03 Memory one" My problem is LATER when I use Memory 02 and change a few settings : First problem : when I try to save Memory 02 the display shows "Write 02 Memory 01" even if I have completely changed the presets and there is no way to get rid of that "01" (ONE) with the dial, I have to clear the Memory and loose my changes. Second problem : still while saving Memory 02, if I turn the dial one time the display changes from "Write 02 Memory 01" (ONE) to "Write 03 Memory 03" (THREE) and that is misleading because when it is done and you go to Memory 03 the display shows "03 Memory 01" (ONE) I really don't understand what I am saving....
Seriously nice work, Eytschpi42! After listening to your review, I am thinking of a decision tree in the form of a series of questions, The first for me being “do I want to record in serial or in parallel?” Each question sets Up prompts or reminders, things to keep in mind when pursuing a particular path. Probably, just by doing this I will get my head around the unit (coming tomorrow evening!), But I suspect it will help to catch the unexpected settings while I am learning. It reminds me of setting up PA for a live show: place the equipment, then run power, then run audio, then normalize gain- hey, wait! Why is there no sound? Ah, I left the break switch engaged. Why do I always forget that? The advantage of Boss loopers is their weakness: The unit is capable of setting up multiple scenarios, but because of that the unit requires setup for each scenario. It reminds me of the Apollo 11 moon landing: forgetting to turn off one switch overloaded The computers, throwing them into an otherwise unnecessary abort/continue decision. And somehow that reminds me of this meme: commas save lives! “Let’s eat, grandma.” Versus “Let’s eat grandma!” Enjoying your humor and your pets. Thanks for all your hard work on this.
Even being a paid review, thank you for your honest comments! Thats what we are looking for. I saw that you also made a review of the Harley Benton Midi Controller (aka Melo Audio Midi Commander, which I own). I was wondering if this MIDI Controller would work with RC 500 as you have mention that MIDI message should be 127 and 0 on a single push of a button. Thanks!!!
Hi, thanx for this very interesting video. I have a question about using a backing track and play over it in a special way. Don't know if what I want, is possible. Situation is as follows. I got a backing track of only the piano track of the song Feel from Robbie Williams. In the middle and in the end of this song is a part in were I (play the guitar) have to play two parts in the same time. First a riff and then the riff and a wah piece both together. So I thought this can be done by the RC500. But what I forget was that the backing track is playing the whole song and there only twice a part were I would use the looper. So, is it possible to let the looper play the backing track on Track 1, and if we are in the middle, I can switch the looper on to record on track 2 and then record the riff. After the riff, I let loop the riff and can play the wah piece over it, while the backing track goes on on track 1. What happened is, that if I start to play the backing track from beginning, and goes to track 2, it seems that recording on track 2 is still on. The recording on track 2 should starting only when I hit it in the middle or end of the song.
I have a theory on the "use our 9v power supply" thing. In one of the recent Tone Talk episodes Josh Fiden of Voodoo Lab or Dave Friedman said that boss spent a lot of time and money designing a quiet 9v wall wart which is why theirs is more expensive. Because of this, boss might say "you must use our 9v" because they can't assure quiet functionality from other power supplies.
As a big company they may just be covering their own arse from a safety/EMC/RF compliance standpoint too. 🤷🏻 Everyone knows a different supply will work, but as a digital pedal with no doubt dc-dc converters and microprocessors in, they escape all blame for noise and interference if you don’t use it with their one they’ve tested it with, and use some other crappy switch-mode PSU.
I want to clearify something that is not correct in this rant. You can NOT use ANY 9v adapter to power this unit. While it is true that you can use other 9v power adapters, i ahve tried 3 of them and none of them works. The boss adapter is 9, v 500ma, the manual says it draws 350 ma with phantom power on for mic, and 250ma with it off. So anything below that wont work. One of adapters is 400 ma, dont work. one of the is from a pedal board power supply, dont work. The third i have is 2000ma, and that even dont work at all. I bought a 9v 500 ma and that works (not boss) Second, it is NOT true that you MUST get the boss cable for midi. If you need a 5pin to trs 3.5 then any type A will work. If you control from a akai controller etc, a normal 3.5 trs to trs will work, not even the boss cable will work there. also, you can use the usb in to control midi, not just the trs midi in... very important!!!! also, the REASON you CAN record the drums, is because you CAN play any of the included boss 500 drum kits yourself using your midi keyboard or a midi controller and record any pattern you want!!!!!!!!!!!! the possibilities are then very very amazing compared to others looper even with rythm
Watched this and your video on the rc10r.. aargh would love a combination of the two.. so which one to choose 🤔 I'm guessing for someone coming from the rc1 that the rc10r is a logical choice for added track and drums and "ease" of use?
The one parameter that's left out is the ability to program the write operation...That would be HUGE! If that were possible you wouldn't be limited to two tracks....You could program a switch to store your current loop and jump to a new location ...the possibilities would be endless...but you need to be able to write on the fly...
Hi and thank you very much! I'm a sax and keyboards player, and I've been told by a friend I should buy a looper for live gigs (you know nowadays it's more and more difficult to play with bands for little gigs so I'm thinking to play alone sometimes - we need money too ;-). The problem is that I'm not good with electronic and computers, menus etc... I first thought to buy RC3 (I don't know if you can use it with a sax), now I'm checking RC500... What would you advice me to buy if I want to prepare at home loops with keyoard or sax (3 or 4 parts), and then go play live, knowing that I would prefer an easy one? RC500 seems to have a very complicated menu, I'm not sure if I can use it... Thank you again!
Does it have though the feature that the RC-10 has, which can make an outro fill on the drums? This is very useful if you want to use the drums on a live gig.
Amazing video and amazing product. It s difficult to learn, but worth it. Question...why at times am I not able to change my loop length from a fixed number of measures on my track menu? I know I am missing something simple.
Thanks for the great review! I recently purchased an RC 500 and it sounds great. I’m just having one problem which occurs when trying to setup verse/ chorus in single track mode with track change set to loop end while sending MIDI to my Roland TR8-S. I have Quantize set to measure and It works as expected except for one important problem. If the loop length the first loop is an even number of bars eg an 8 bar loop then the loop on Track 2 also needs to be an even number of bars eg 2,4,6,8 etc. Conversely if the first loop is and odd number of Bars eg a 3 bar pattern then the other track needs to have either 3, 6, 9 bar pattern. If track 1 is say 16 bars long and I try to record a 17 Bar section on track 2, it automatically adds an extra bar so it becomes an 18 bar section. I'm using FREE Measure mode on both tracks which I thought meant that each track could be any number of bars without being related to the other. I was able to achieve this easily with the RC 300. Is there a way to use the RC-500 in this way where the measure numbers of each track can be unrelated? Many thanks! PS i've tried emailing Boss Tech support but have had no replies. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks again for your great reviews!
@@EytschPi42 thanks so much for your reply! I’ll try that when I get home. However I’m hoping there’s a way to have each track play totally independent bar numbers as per the RC 300. Having to pre count each section and set the loop Length for every song would be very time consuming and cumbersome on stage.
Henning, those macmull guitars are great right? I think they have a f style 9.5" neck radius (which I like), I was looking at your hp42 signature guitar, 13.something" radius... so what I'm asking is aren't the mcmulls a little bit curved for your preference?
Hey, thank you so much for this very useful review! Did you figure out a way to make midi controller work when it just send 127 messages in CC? Because I bought the MP-100 from Harley Benton and realize that it's not working the way it should. You can edit the custom mode and set it toggle, but it means that you have to press 2 times for every actions... Maybe there's another way to program the mp100, to make it send 127 when pressed down and 0 when released?
This was exactly my concern! Right now i'm looking for the best midi foot controller to easily work with this thing and have the 8 toggles at your disposition. Was thinking of the Harley Benton MP-100 or the old Behringer FCB-1010. Thought of going for the Harley Benton but if what you're stating is the only option to make it work, its a hassle. Curious what other people's experiences are!
I noticed you finished recorded and started playing Loop 1 before recording Loop 2 and jumping back to Loop 1. Is it possible to finish recording Loop 1 (verse) and instantly start recording Loop2 (chorus)?
While the "use Boss PSA adapter only" sticker is bullshit, "any 9V adapter will work" is not quite correct either. The PSA needs to be able to support at least the current draw of the pedal. For this looper, it should provide at least 240 mA (330 mA if you want to use phantom power on the mic input), according to the specs on Boss' website. It would be nice if these specs were printed right on the pedal though, instead of that useless sticker.
Great video! I watched the whole thing, and was very entertained while learning more about the RC-500. The highlight was the 9v power supply and MIDI cable rant. Great point! Coincidently I spent several hours yesterday trying to get the RC-500 working with the MeloAudio MIDI Commander and the Exuun MIDI (TRS) Cable on Amazon with no luck controlling any of the MIDI functions. I should be receiving the BOSS MIDI TRS cable today, and am hoping that it works as per your and BOSS' recommendations. I'll reply back with my findings...
I'm pleased to reply that the RC-500 (kind of) works with the BOSS BMIDI-5-35 MIDI/TRS cable. DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME/MONEY ON MEMORY ASSIGNMENTS FOR MIDI CONTROL WITH OTHER TRS/MIDI CABLES. It probably won't work. Apparently there are known issues with the MeloAudio MIDI Commander with loopers and other host controllers that require toggling/momentary switching, so I need to double-click the foot switch to send the command function. I also discovered the XSONIC AIRSTEP MIDI foot controller while watching your RC-500 review, and then watched your AIRSTEP review. I'm hoping it goes on sale next week as scheduled!
As you say, track1 won't play as you start to record track2. Don't why Boss couldn't allow this, but I've found a way to do it. After recording track1, go to record track2 set record, but don't record anything. Then when it's run, select both tracks (purple mode), then record track2 in DUB mode whilst listening to track1.
Man the glory and the suck are strong with this. Totally agree about the global settings. I like this pedal but man there are just settings that need to be global. Then give you the option to override them per loop. As a live player with a Kemper this is the strength of the Kemper. Set all your globals. 99% of the time that's just what you want. On the 1% you don't want that you can override the one or two settings. That's my issue with the 500 series pedal. I own a couple of them first thing I do is spend 4 or 5 hours figuring out the defaults I want. Then set several defaults I want then I copy them way down the end so I have them always anytime I want something new. Then I go up copy what I want paste it back down lower slot. But sucks a lot of time.youn have 99 storage spots and you save 5 or so for common things you may want. That actually when I got rid of my dds 500 delay pedal. I changed from Kemper rack to Kemper stage which has different midi controls. Instead of just changing a single global midi setting I have to go change every single saved delay. Great pedals and great sound and great features but user interface sucks. Really need to make it as a permanent part of your pedal board. With the thought I may replace ever single pedal amp and midi controller. What makes it easy for me to do this.
I have an RC300 and i dislike that it doesnt get the complete tail of my reverbs. Its like theres a gate or something on the input. Now i have to buy this one.
Great vid thank you I’m planning to get an expression pedal to control rhythm volume I find I only use a range between 15 and 75 , is there a way to set those values as a minimum and maximum and save ? Couldn’t find this in any documentation Cheers
I forgot: Since I'll play outside I'd like to know what is the autonomy if you play with batteries? (I checked but didn't find a sure answer). Thank you again
i have ordered the boss rc 500 and will read the manual, but i have a question re: loading wav files created on previous loopers ie rc 300. if i load into a 1 - 99 preset on the RC 500 that i have edited and saved all the various parameters discussed, will the wav file adopt those RC 500 parameters - ie play to that rhythm, effects, tempo, ctrl assignments, etc - or is there a container file that loads along with the wave files and replaces the current RC500 preset parameters?
What about something simple like recording one of the great full song backing tracks from RUclips, But, with the ability to have control (from this loop station) of the tempo for the pre-recorded backing track to one track, then your rhythm and lead on the 2nd track instead of struggling with being a drummer and guitar player trying to figure out ALL the options it provides? Can adjusting the tempo of ANY pre-recorded, full song backing track be done on any brand looper out there?
Another quick question. If I want to name a loop is there a way to clear the existing name in one hit first (like a backspace) or do I need to start at the end and select each character and scroll to a blank working backwards? I find it very annoying to have to do this and can’t imagine there isn’t a simpler way.
Thank you for a very good tutorial, but you forgot to show/tell how to save your settings and recordings to a memory, and especially how to save the settings globally 🙂
Dear EytschPi42, I almost gave up on my new gear buy of this Boss RC-500 till I came across your comprehensive video. Your outfit kept me going haha! Coming from the simpler TC Electronic world of loopers, this was hard stuff as I finally learnt at your mark of 1:09.24 how to create verse and chorus loops in series. This gave me confidence to try to lay down something here. But the strange part is when I power back the pedal after saving my loops, it seems as if the sound is mildly distorted and has a "slight tremolo" because it seems to have been affected by the drum rhythm tempo, though I did not trigger it at all for the saved loop: ruclips.net/video/Y9U5ig-UJe8/видео.html
Thank you so much for this. I have been going nuts for days (not much of a trip, admittedly) trying to get two tracks to play in series, verse/chorus/verse. You demonstrated it to the point where lo and behold, it works! Others have talked about it, but you put the video of your actual foot switch actions up and that made all the difference.
I have been playing for a long, long time... my 66 Strat was a 16th birthday present, for crying out loud... and I think your videos are terrific and highly entertaining. Jam on!
Ohm and very important question: can I configure the Boss vie Software instead the smal display?
Where did he explain this I need to go from track 1 verse to track 2 chorus with one push separated
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Hi Adrian
Yeah, this was a little tough to figure out.
Under Memory:
Play mode: Single
Single Change: Loop End
Track Change: Series
Record your verse or part on Track 1
Do the other part on Track 2
While playing either track back, at any time during the verse, click the Track Select button and then the Rec/Play button. When the playback reaches the end of the track you're on, it will go right into the other. Same thing to bring it back. You don't have to worry about timing, just somewhere near the point where you want to trigger the change.
When recording, it obviously helps to play right past the cutoff point a tiny bit so there won't be any dead air, so to speak, when the tracks switch.
I hope I've explained this well enough. It was a bear learning it, but good old Eystch got me pointed in the right direction.
To get the two tracks to play in time you have to ensure that you start the second track at the end of the first and end the second track at the end of the first as well
To do this you have have the display on “two tack position”
To get to that *menu *setup by pressing memory/value once scroll to 2TRACKPOS
then when recording on second track you must watch the screen and visually line the two tracks up
I hope that’s clear
It’s very annoying and inconvenient and unlike any other Boss looper ( and I have had them all) but the difference between 16 and 32 bit recording is worth it
Hey bro, Do you ever have sync problems changing from track A to B, and track 1 goes out of time. They are different legths
Great tutorial for the capable but often baffling RC-500. Thanks so much for making this helpful video!
Thanks henning for this ULTIMATE review 😊 this video is very useful !
If Boss is reading… here’s my 2cents as final customer :
• I’m using it with a 9v powerbank…works perfect.
• I have bought the expensive boss midi cable, quality cable but like you said, it’s way too expensive !
• Rythm section : i would like to have more rock/metal/pop & dance patterns ! The additional rythms available at « Boss tone central » are useless : they take the place of 1 looper track ! I would expect that we can import and add more rythm inside the rc500, not instead of a looper track…
• External midi pedalboard is mandatory if you want to use all the parameters : so add 150/200 € to the rc500 pricing…
• You have an xlr mic input for vocals … i would like in a future update to have the vocoder/robot/autotune effect like the RC505 !!!!
At the end, I’m happy with this rc500, but it needs a lot of menu diving, and it’s not always easy to locate some parameters. But quality is there and when fully extended with midi , it's a beast.
You can actually get male TRS to 5 pin MIDI female connectors that allow you to use any midi cable, and they’re not at all expensive. I’ve used them with my Boss RC5 and they work perfectly
14:15 The reason BOSS stipulates specific model BOSS adapters is because *in some cases* some pedals draw more current than others. For pedals that draw a lot of current - say, one that pulls .5A, using a low current-rated 9v DC adapter - say, one rated for 200mA might work....for a few minutes....until the adapter catches fire. You need to respect current draw, and be careful when ignoring those adapter requirements. They're not always BS.
i've been a long time follower and even if all this time i had been waiting just for this video, so THAAAAANK YOU. i've been looking for a looper that could have pre determined loop lengths. thank you, thank you, thank you. every other video has skimmed over this just saying "oh you can do this" but never showed how it worked.
Thank you so much for making this lengthy video! It was very interesting and informative. I’m new to all of this and just got the rc 500 yesterday. I’ll be rewatching this video again a few more times and playing with the loop station to get it to stick in my head. This is definitely a “get to know” pedal before you start doing anything serious with it.
Thank you for this great, funny and informative review HP! By the way the MIDI cable is TRS-MIDI Cable A. If you search for that, there will be cables that are much cheaper! I got 3 for under 11€...And they are working with various Boss pedals ;)
thanks, important info
its probably possible to resolder one yourself too
Marvellous, thank you, the most in depth (and funny) video of the RC500. Well done for grappling it to the ground. You have taught me a lot about it, as i wait to buy this.
Thank you man, you made my day, I appreciate your humorous deep dive a lot
I just bought one of these, looks like i'm gonna spend more time watching this video over and over again than playing the damn thing. Thank's for sharing this, this will be very helpfull.
after 6 months.
boy this thing is corky!
congratulations for going through filming this without apparent brain damage.
and even more congratulations for making this video understandable
Really helpful tutorial, I have a basic understanding of loopers but this is fairly advanced and I was struggling with syncing up the two channels. Well demonstrated , I was able to immediately go back to it and get going!
Thank you, man. That’s one of the best video to know what this red box can do. Moreover, i didn’t get bored with this length of video because of your sense of humor.
Just found your channel while looking for RC500 review, glad I found yours. Funny to watch but you dropped all the in and outs... and pros and cons. That's perfect, I loved the humor... and I laughed at the "Proprietary Boss Cables... type A" hahaha. Thank you.
Thanks a million! Not only am I really well informed now, but also enormously entertained and even relieved by your rant, which I definitely share!
Wow HP...I didn't expect War and Peace length review when I clicked on this...🤣 ( still watched it all, damn you! LOL)
you didn't see time int he corner? Why in the world would you watch this whole thing?
@@EytschPi42 because I am crazy and supportive like that...
Hi there! Just bought myself the boss RC500!! What a demo you did!! Awesome!! Just a question, how do you path the RC 500 with the boss katana MKII 100? I don’t find any clear details on it.. and afraid of doing something wrong… the guitar in the input of the katana amp.. TRS cable from Boss RC 500 Input A to effects send in the katana - TRS cable from Boss RC 500 Output A to Effects return on the boss katana MKII amp?
“And hire a decorator to come here quick because-DAMN!!!” -Men in Black 1997...
(Just funning with you! Thanks for the great review!)
After 1:28:30: I am glad to own a simple Boss RC-1. What you do for customers cannot be appreciated enough! I would love to see a review of the Boss Nextone Amp series, which are in my opinion the most underrated solid-state amps out there ...
21:02 PEAK SRC is the green light above the input button to see if your signal is clean (green) slightly hot (yellow) or peaking (red) for your input sources (or other options)
Thanks for the depth of your dive and candid commentary that is helpful for a new RC-500 owner. An hour-and-a-half is too much for a video like this, but nothing that some organization and planning wouldn't help with. Tip of the hat to the video editor who sped-up segues, sometimes accompanied with cool graphics, to bypass moments of silence, excessive noodling, etc. How do I get a studio like this?
Very good video.
I spent a few hours learning RC-500 (during February 2024) and returned it for several reasons... having to use the output jack to turn it on, having to disconnect the output jack to turn it off, no way to set rhythm volume globally, output cannot be used for headphones unless we like everything only in one ear. Two times of a rhythm coming through my speakers at volume level 100 pissed me off. It seems like it should be $55 not $350. It reminds me of little Coleco games in the 1970's and 1980's.
Jesus. Boss needs to give us more than two lines of text or an app that we can control it via Bluetooth. Great video. Thank you.
Damn that would be great!
All 9v adapters works but there are some who gives a buzz or hum. That’s why they recommend they’re BOSS PSA adapters.
Good job. I got one and it's been difficult. Couple days ... really. Your tutorial helps a bunch. And then some. Thanks.
Hello and thank you for this video. I have used the RC-30 live for three years and really enjoyed it. I upgraded to the RC-500 about a year ago. I am still not confident enough to use the RC-500 in a live situation because it is too flakey in the garage. The learning curve on the RC-500 is very long. All the midi capabilities are lost on me because I don’t use a midi. The flaw in the RC-500 is that it is designed for people sitting in the studio doing stuff in a controlled environment with no consequences for unforeseen errors. All these parameters and settings and not knowing for sure whether the setting is “system” or “Memory” introduces surprises on stage. I’m beginning to think that the 32 bit upgrade alone does not compensate for the lack of practicality in using this thing live. I’ll keep plugging away, but really, the amount of time and energy dedicated to learning the RC-500 is detracting from my live show. I’m about ready to sell my RC-500 and throw in the towel. Parameters and flexibility is great, but obviously, the RC-500 was not designed for live shows. In live shows, you don’t have time for changing things. You don’t have space for screw ups. Everything has to work right, every time, or you do the famous “looper face plant.” Indeed, I did a few with the RC-30 in the beginning, but the RC-500 introduces a whole new vista of potential “looper face plants” because it is: a) too complicated; b) too difficult to program and operate; and c) possibly flakey? I was very excited about the percussion features of the RC-500, but have given up on that as well. It’s too unpredictable! Best, Marc Roberts
But apart from not really doing it live, it's great for recording and just getting your hands on the guitar 🎸
Less complicated than Logic pro whatever it is! I can half understand this machine.
If you go to a 3/4 beat it has less beat options and also has the accent on the 1 where as a lot of waltz beats have the accent on the 2 and the 3
The pajamas tell a story. Maybe a Disney fantasy. Keep doing what you're doing!
I bought an official ROLAND midi cable with an after market adaptor (for the RC-500)... I've also been cussing for days wondering why it won't connect to my ROLAND drum machine. THANK YOU for clearing up this bullshit issue.
I certainly hope they paid you for it! There manuals are terrible!
Thanks after hearing the learning curve. I'll go with keep it simple.
Wirklich gut und umfaasend erklärt Henning, würde mich aber eher für den RC-600 interessieren. Ok, viel Arbeit trotzdem: kommt das mal? Alex
An RC 30 user here for almost 10 years. I was looking around for an update. I have bought the RC 505 and now the RC 500 and I must say for my kind of playing both of them they lost what the RC 30 have. RC 30 has this "Instant" factor that all those new loopers hasn't. Use it with an external controller and it does what it supposed to. In the other hand both 505 & 500 have better sound quality but the new workflow with the menus and all that glitchy things makes the creativity go away sometimes. I know that if you learn the new workflow its gonna be instant again it's just that I like the simplicity the RC 30 offers. Also I would like to stress that out, RC30 is out of the market right now and soon you wont be able to buy one from a store. I think its gonna become a vintage gimmicky item that its price in 10 to 20 years from now will rise. So keep it somewhere safe! I will also buy a second one hehe
I totally know what you mean. I had the RC-30 when I first started out and then moved to the RC-2, which the RC-2 had better drum sounds. What I loved about the both of them was, that you could at a live gig play on the fly and everything synced as I had strummed with the Auto Rec. I'm guna have to re-train what I knew to adapt to this pedal as the 32bit sounds awesome.
@@Kestar75 Heehe i was thinking about the same thing to train myself into rc500 for the 32bits sound but I ditched it and I'm back to Rc30 i think its sound will become what they call ''Vintage'' so yeah why not hehe
You are absolutely correct… and having no global control to sync track lengths makes zero sense… I miss my RC30 already … wtf Boss?!?!
Nice Rant, that's why I watch this channel daily. For the Truth : )
Qq
That standard poodle is great. they are so clever. your review is great too.
Great video. Thanks for putting the effort in. Had my RC-500 since last week and was frustrated at lack of in depth video so perfect timing.
One query/issue it still have is to do with Rhythm variations. You mention the A and B variations but don’t demonstrate. I cannot get these to change at all, end of loop or end of measure it doesn’t happen. Any idea?
You also mention creating a preset and copying it to other memories but don’t explain how (I may have missed it as fell asleep for 5 minutes somewhere in the middle) ;-)
just make a preset, hit save and pick a new memory... do it for all of them.
As for variations.... you have to assign a variation change to a foot controller
@@EytschPi42 thank for the reply. Annoys me that count in isn’t on by default and would also like to reduce level of drums globally. Will have a go at a custom preset tomorrow. Was under the impression than the A/B transition was something you could set without needing to trigger with pedal. Thanks for clarifying.
Awesome Tutorial - far out!! After all - how do you copy the preset? You mentioned it so often but did not say how….? Got the RC500 yesterday😊
save it to another slot, then save it to another slot again
Ah, of course - vielen Dank 🤩
You answered several questions I couldn't seem to figure out. I tried going through the 500 several times trying different things and yet still had problems doing what I wanted it to do. The instruction book is sort of vague on a lot of things. I'm going to have to watch this video several times to really absorb most of it. One thing I will recommend to everyone is to go on the Boss web site and download the latest operating system which is more stable in operation than the original version.
If they made a looper like the RC-2 with an output separately for the drum track....would be a game changer also in 32bit. The auto rec on the RC-2 is second to none by syncing everything to what is being played.
Thank you for you video review. It was definitely informative and I will probably buy the RC-500.
just shared your video to a friend whos getting this looper as you have a proper deep dive n to the product - thank you!
I’m waiting for mine to be delivered today. I appreciate the information!
It's TRUE a 9volt generic adapter works, but they are usually noisy. The PSA is quiet.
Dayuum! Calling out BOSS on their adapter like that!
i think the fact that you can use midi to swith each parts of the drum kits on and off is awsome, and i hope ppl didnt miss that, it is like the drum part itself is a 4 layered looper with two traks and even fills when you switch between them if you want , you can use a controller to switch kits and patterns on the go too, that is UNLESS you chose to play and record your own drum patterns using any of the onboard kits trough midi in (they have many samples eachas you will find out when playing them with a keyboard, opens up for almost limitless loads of new variations
This is a game changer. So could i sent midi from my Novation Circuit to use as parts in the RC-500 drum kits? I also have an Electribe with drum and bass samples... Thx
59:49 Is this because you are recording on track 2 and that track 2 was set to 4 measures? And then adjusted the tempo to your playing because you ended the recording before the 4 measures within the set tempo? This would be awesome because it means you can set track 1 to 1 measure and track 2 to 16 or whatever. And it means you could record a one measure loop on track 1 (without needing to have the metronome stuck in your ear) and let that first recording set the tempo. I am hoping that it works like that indeed!
Watched this to decide if I wanted to buy the thing. Now that I’ve been using it for a while I’m watching again to see if I find something I’ve been missing.
It's interesting to be able to send the drums to the output B. This way you can have guitar and drums go through different effect loops while playing live.
You mentioned several times that that you can copy memory settings globally, how do you do this? Is it done in the ToneCentral or is it on the device? This is such a great video, thank you!
no you can’t... you have to copy your favorite preset on all the other presets
While on the preset you want to copy, click Exit + Enter. Scroll using the Memory/Value dial to the preset location you want to copy the current preset to and click Enter.
@@jinaisponnampadikkalkader6672 Thank you!!!
@@jinaisponnampadikkalkader6672
@EytschPi42
I don't understand really.
The first step is easy, as you said : if you are in memory 01, after pressing WRITE you see "WRITE 01 Memory 01" and you can turn the dial to "Write 02 Memory one" and so on "Write 03 Memory one"
My problem is LATER when I use Memory 02 and change a few settings :
First problem :
when I try to save Memory 02 the display shows "Write 02 Memory 01" even if I have completely changed the presets and there is no way to get rid of that "01" (ONE) with the dial, I have to clear the Memory and loose my changes.
Second problem :
still while saving Memory 02, if I turn the dial one time the display changes from "Write 02 Memory 01" (ONE) to "Write 03 Memory 03" (THREE) and that is misleading because when it is done and you go to Memory 03 the display shows "03 Memory 01" (ONE)
I really don't understand what I am saving....
@@EytschPi42 I don't understand really.
The first step is easy, as you said : if you are in memory 01, after pressing WRITE you see "WRITE 01 Memory 01" and you can turn the dial to "Write 02 Memory one" and so on "Write 03 Memory one"
My problem is LATER when I use Memory 02 and change a few settings :
First problem :
when I try to save Memory 02 the display shows "Write 02 Memory 01" even if I have completely changed the presets and there is no way to get rid of that "01" (ONE) with the dial, I have to clear the Memory and loose my changes.
Second problem :
still while saving Memory 02, if I turn the dial one time the display changes from "Write 02 Memory 01" (ONE) to "Write 03 Memory 03" (THREE) and that is misleading because when it is done and you go to Memory 03 the display shows "03 Memory 01" (ONE)
I really don't understand what I am saving....
Seriously nice work, Eytschpi42! After listening to your review, I am thinking of a decision tree in the form of a series of questions, The first for me being “do I want to record in serial or in parallel?” Each question sets Up prompts or reminders, things to keep in mind when pursuing a particular path. Probably, just by doing this I will get my head around the unit (coming tomorrow evening!), But I suspect it will help to catch the unexpected settings while I am learning. It reminds me of setting up PA for a live show: place the equipment, then run power, then run audio, then normalize gain- hey, wait! Why is there no sound? Ah, I left the break switch engaged. Why do I always forget that? The advantage of Boss loopers is their weakness: The unit is capable of setting up multiple scenarios, but because of that the unit requires setup for each scenario. It reminds me of the Apollo 11 moon landing: forgetting to turn off one switch overloaded The computers, throwing them into an otherwise unnecessary abort/continue decision. And somehow that reminds me of this meme: commas save lives! “Let’s eat, grandma.” Versus “Let’s eat grandma!” Enjoying your humor and your pets. Thanks for all your hard work on this.
why "seriously nice work Thomann"... what does Thomann have to do with this video?
@@EytschPi42 my mistake-thought Thomann was your name. Fixed it.
Even being a paid review, thank you for your honest comments! Thats what we are looking for.
I saw that you also made a review of the Harley Benton Midi Controller (aka Melo Audio Midi Commander, which I own). I was wondering if this MIDI Controller would work with RC 500 as you have mention that MIDI message should be 127 and 0 on a single push of a button. Thanks!!!
as gar as I know the Melo can’t do that. It is fairly limited.
Hi, thanx for this very interesting video. I have a question about using a backing track and play over it in a special way. Don't know if what I want, is possible. Situation is as follows. I got a backing track of only the piano track of the song Feel from Robbie Williams. In the middle and in the end of this song is a part in were I (play the guitar) have to play two parts in the same time. First a riff and then the riff and a wah piece both together. So I thought this can be done by the RC500. But what I forget was that the backing track is playing the whole song and there only twice a part were I would use the looper. So, is it possible to let the looper play the backing track on Track 1, and if we are in the middle, I can switch the looper on to record on track 2 and then record the riff. After the riff, I let loop the riff and can play the wah piece over it, while the backing track goes on on track 1. What happened is, that if I start to play the backing track from beginning, and goes to track 2, it seems that recording on track 2 is still on. The recording on track 2 should starting only when I hit it in the middle or end of the song.
late to the party, but this is the best video on the rc 500 i watched - and i watched A LOT. well done and thanks!
"Comes with manual tremolo"... lmao! 😅 Great vid!
Came for the demo... stayed for the pants n shirt !!!!
There is lot of work there! Many thanks for the video. Nice job 👍
I have a theory on the "use our 9v power supply" thing. In one of the recent Tone Talk episodes Josh Fiden of Voodoo Lab or Dave Friedman said that boss spent a lot of time and money designing a quiet 9v wall wart which is why theirs is more expensive. Because of this, boss might say "you must use our 9v" because they can't assure quiet functionality from other power supplies.
but "must" and "recommend" are two different things
@@EytschPi42 That is very true.
As a big company they may just be covering their own arse from a safety/EMC/RF compliance standpoint too. 🤷🏻 Everyone knows a different supply will work, but as a digital pedal with no doubt dc-dc converters and microprocessors in, they escape all blame for noise and interference if you don’t use it with their one they’ve tested it with, and use some other crappy switch-mode PSU.
It is also for warranty things I think people uses all kinds of 9v powers... Btw the 9v standard was made by boss
53:15 has helped me so much! Thank you!
I want to clearify something that is not correct in this rant. You can NOT use ANY 9v adapter to power this unit. While it is true that you can use other 9v power adapters, i ahve tried 3 of them and none of them works. The boss adapter is 9, v 500ma, the manual says it draws 350 ma with phantom power on for mic, and 250ma with it off. So anything below that wont work. One of adapters is 400 ma, dont work. one of the is from a pedal board power supply, dont work. The third i have is 2000ma, and that even dont work at all. I bought a 9v 500 ma and that works (not boss)
Second, it is NOT true that you MUST get the boss cable for midi. If you need a 5pin to trs 3.5 then any type A will work. If you control from a akai controller etc, a normal 3.5 trs to trs will work, not even the boss cable will work there.
also, you can use the usb in to control midi, not just the trs midi in... very important!!!!
also, the REASON you CAN record the drums, is because you CAN play any of the included boss 500 drum kits yourself using your midi keyboard or a midi controller and record any pattern you want!!!!!!!!!!!! the possibilities are then very very amazing compared to others looper even with rythm
Watched this and your video on the rc10r.. aargh would love a combination of the two.. so which one to choose 🤔 I'm guessing for someone coming from the rc1 that the rc10r is a logical choice for added track and drums and "ease" of use?
Danke für die Übersicht Henning. Wollte nur eben in Erfahrung bringen wie Stereo funktioniert und sofort gefunden
The one parameter that's left out is the ability to program the write operation...That would be HUGE! If that were possible you wouldn't be limited to two tracks....You could program a switch to store your current loop and jump to a new location ...the possibilities would be endless...but you need to be able to write on the fly...
Hi and thank you very much! I'm a sax and keyboards player, and I've been told by a friend I should buy a looper for live gigs (you know nowadays it's more and more difficult to play with bands for little gigs so I'm thinking to play alone sometimes - we need money too ;-).
The problem is that I'm not good with electronic and computers, menus etc... I first thought to buy RC3 (I don't know if you can use it with a sax), now I'm checking RC500...
What would you advice me to buy if I want to prepare at home loops with keyoard or sax (3 or 4 parts), and then go play live, knowing that I would prefer an easy one? RC500 seems to have a very complicated menu, I'm not sure if I can use it... Thank you again!
Interesting take on the TRS-to-MIDI standard issue.
Id like to see a more indepth on the midi capabilities. and parhaps a review on your midi controller pedal that you use. video was very helpful
Does it have though the feature that the RC-10 has, which can make an outro fill on the drums? This is very useful if you want to use the drums on a live gig.
Amazing video and amazing product. It s difficult to learn, but worth it. Question...why at times am I not able to change my loop length from a fixed number of measures on my track menu? I know I am missing something simple.
you can’t change it if you ready recorded a loop in that memory
Thanks for the great review! I recently purchased an RC 500 and it sounds great. I’m just having one problem which occurs when trying to setup verse/ chorus in single track mode with track change set to loop end while sending MIDI to my Roland TR8-S. I have Quantize set to measure and It works as expected except for one important problem. If the loop length the first loop is an even number of bars eg an 8 bar loop then the loop on Track 2 also needs to be an even number of bars eg 2,4,6,8 etc. Conversely if the first loop is and odd number of Bars eg a 3 bar pattern then the other track needs to have either 3, 6, 9 bar pattern. If track 1 is say 16 bars long and I try to record a 17 Bar section on track 2, it automatically adds an extra bar so it becomes an 18 bar section. I'm using FREE Measure mode on both tracks which I thought meant that each track could be any number of bars without being related to the other. I was able to achieve this easily with the RC 300. Is there a way to use the RC-500 in this way where the measure numbers of each track can be unrelated? Many thanks! PS i've tried emailing Boss Tech support but have had no replies. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks again for your great reviews!
have you tried predefining the measure numbers?
@@EytschPi42 thanks so much for your reply! I’ll try that when I get home. However I’m hoping there’s a way to have each track play totally independent bar numbers as per the RC 300. Having to pre count each section and set the loop Length for every song would be very time consuming and cumbersome on stage.
@@acklandb if you figure this out I sure would love to know!
@@fulltonesmusic I wish I had a solution! Still no reply from BOSS/ ROLAND.
@@acklandb did you ever get an answer or figure this out?
Thanks mate ! Really the best tutorial for that thing :D
Henning, those macmull guitars are great right? I think they have a f style 9.5" neck radius (which I like), I was looking at your hp42 signature guitar, 13.something" radius... so what I'm asking is aren't the mcmulls a little bit curved for your preference?
I play whatever I have in my hands... I don't care about radius!
Hey, thank you so much for this very useful review!
Did you figure out a way to make midi controller work when it just send 127 messages in CC?
Because I bought the MP-100 from Harley Benton and realize that it's not working the way it should. You can edit the custom mode and set it toggle, but it means that you have to press 2 times for every actions...
Maybe there's another way to program the mp100, to make it send 127 when pressed down and 0 when released?
This was exactly my concern! Right now i'm looking for the best midi foot controller to easily work with this thing and have the 8 toggles at your disposition. Was thinking of the Harley Benton MP-100 or the old Behringer FCB-1010. Thought of going for the Harley Benton but if what you're stating is the only option to make it work, its a hassle. Curious what other people's experiences are!
I noticed you finished recorded and started playing Loop 1 before recording Loop 2 and jumping back to Loop 1.
Is it possible to finish recording Loop 1 (verse) and instantly start recording Loop2 (chorus)?
While the "use Boss PSA adapter only" sticker is bullshit, "any 9V adapter will work" is not quite correct either. The PSA needs to be able to support at least the current draw of the pedal. For this looper, it should provide at least 240 mA (330 mA if you want to use phantom power on the mic input), according to the specs on Boss' website. It would be nice if these specs were printed right on the pedal though, instead of that useless sticker.
Great video! I watched the whole thing, and was very entertained while learning more about the RC-500. The highlight was the 9v power supply and MIDI cable rant. Great point!
Coincidently I spent several hours yesterday trying to get the RC-500 working with the MeloAudio MIDI Commander and the Exuun MIDI (TRS) Cable on Amazon with no luck controlling any of the MIDI functions. I should be receiving the BOSS MIDI TRS cable today, and am hoping that it works as per your and BOSS' recommendations. I'll reply back with my findings...
I'm pleased to reply that the RC-500 (kind of) works with the BOSS BMIDI-5-35 MIDI/TRS cable. DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME/MONEY ON MEMORY ASSIGNMENTS FOR MIDI CONTROL WITH OTHER TRS/MIDI CABLES. It probably won't work.
Apparently there are known issues with the MeloAudio MIDI Commander with loopers and other host controllers that require toggling/momentary switching, so I need to double-click the foot switch to send the command function.
I also discovered the XSONIC AIRSTEP MIDI foot controller while watching your RC-500 review, and then watched your AIRSTEP review. I'm hoping it goes on sale next week as scheduled!
Hi :) Master, what good cheap driver would you recommend to boss rc 500? :)
As you say, track1 won't play as you start to record track2. Don't why Boss couldn't allow this, but I've found a way to do it.
After recording track1, go to record track2 set record, but don't record anything. Then when it's run, select both tracks (purple mode), then record track2 in DUB mode whilst listening to track1.
Man the glory and the suck are strong with this. Totally agree about the global settings. I like this pedal but man there are just settings that need to be global. Then give you the option to override them per loop. As a live player with a Kemper this is the strength of the Kemper. Set all your globals. 99% of the time that's just what you want. On the 1% you don't want that you can override the one or two settings. That's my issue with the 500 series pedal. I own a couple of them first thing I do is spend 4 or 5 hours figuring out the defaults I want. Then set several defaults I want then I copy them way down the end so I have them always anytime I want something new. Then I go up copy what I want paste it back down lower slot. But sucks a lot of time.youn have 99 storage spots and you save 5 or so for common things you may want. That actually when I got rid of my dds 500 delay pedal. I changed from Kemper rack to Kemper stage which has different midi controls. Instead of just changing a single global midi setting I have to go change every single saved delay. Great pedals and great sound and great features but user interface sucks. Really need to make it as a permanent part of your pedal board. With the thought I may replace ever single pedal amp and midi controller. What makes it easy for me to do this.
gotta love Doodle. He's just as crazy as our Zora, she's a poodle too.
That intro is very John Mayer-esque
Noodles got them shakes! Free the Noodles inner drummer!
Lovely moments!
Hello, did you test the rc505?
I have an RC300 and i dislike that it doesnt get the complete tail of my reverbs. Its like theres a gate or something on the input. Now i have to buy this one.
Great vid thank you
I’m planning to get an expression pedal to control rhythm volume
I find I only use a range between 15 and 75 , is there a way to set those values as a minimum and maximum and save ?
Couldn’t find this in any documentation
Cheers
Thanks dude that Video along with the manual helped a lot.
I forgot: Since I'll play outside I'd like to know what is the autonomy if you play with batteries? (I checked but didn't find a sure answer). Thank you again
great video! I am trying to make the midi work with Midi Baby 3, dont know if they have "burst" any ideas how thaT would work?
Very informative and funny learning! Thanks for this video!
You're a legend.. amazing video and very entertaining 😊
i have ordered the boss rc 500 and will read the manual, but i have a question re: loading wav files created on previous loopers ie rc 300. if i load into a 1 - 99 preset on the RC 500 that i have edited and saved all the various parameters discussed, will the wav file adopt those RC 500 parameters - ie play to that rhythm, effects, tempo, ctrl assignments, etc - or is there a container file that loads along with the wave files and replaces the current RC500 preset parameters?
Great vid ......is it possible to change the names of the memory patches to say names of tunes etc ?
yes
What is the difference with T2 output A (T1 output B) and T2 PAN L50 or R50?
What about something simple like recording one of the great full song backing tracks from RUclips, But, with the ability to have control (from this loop station) of the tempo for the pre-recorded backing track to one track, then your rhythm and lead on the 2nd track instead of struggling with being a drummer and guitar player trying to figure out ALL the options it provides? Can adjusting the tempo of ANY pre-recorded, full song backing track be done on any brand looper out there?
I wish someone would make a video on how to sync 500 to beat buddy. There are people that no zero about midi. Thanks for your videos.
Another quick question. If I want to name a loop is there a way to clear the existing name in one hit first (like a backspace) or do I need to start at the end and select each character and scroll to a blank working backwards? I find it very annoying to have to do this and can’t imagine there isn’t a simpler way.
Your review was good but how about a Review of The Aeros Looper and Beatbuddy Combo! by Singular Sound. The Ultimate looper and Drum Machine
Am I right by saying that there are not any input fx?
Thank you , great explanation 👍
Is this recorded in the largest music store in Germany ?
Thank you for a very good tutorial, but you forgot to show/tell how to save your settings and recordings to a memory, and especially how to save the settings globally 🙂
Dear EytschPi42, I almost gave up on my new gear buy of this Boss RC-500 till I came across your comprehensive video. Your outfit kept me going haha! Coming from the simpler TC Electronic world of loopers, this was hard stuff as I finally learnt at your mark of 1:09.24 how to create verse and chorus loops in series. This gave me confidence to try to lay down something here. But the strange part is when I power back the pedal after saving my loops, it seems as if the sound is mildly distorted and has a "slight tremolo" because it seems to have been affected by the drum rhythm tempo, though I did not trigger it at all for the saved loop: ruclips.net/video/Y9U5ig-UJe8/видео.html