using a loop pedal live for many hours is no joke. There are many possibilities where you can make mistakes while playing. Ed doesn’t get recognition he deserves when it comes to loop pedal. He's basically producing a song live in front of you. And young girls nowadays be like "he's just a guitar man" only because he's not dancing or doing any crazy stuff on stage like kpop artists or new pop singers who are always lip syncing on stage since dancing and singing it's really hard. I'd rather watch a performance with loop pedals in live, than lip sync performances, that's why i love Ed
yeah ever since he's upgraded to the chewwie pedal and lately the custom "Sheeran " looper for the mathematics tour i've begun appreciating him more. I bought an RC-30 after saving up for 2 years from my part-time job, its only when i began looping myself i realised how complex and difficult it can get. TIMING IS LITERALLY EVERYTHING!!
What he does is UNBELIEVABLY difficult, from plsying everything correctly, in time, with the right articulations AND producing drum/bass parts, getting the volume on each layer correctly and singing live (and harmonizing with himself) on top of all of that?? How anyone can disrespect him is beyond me, plenty of people don’t have the slightest clue what goes into a true live musical performance, they just care about “vibes” and lifting platforms
The impressive part is that he gets all of the loops in a single pass, properly timed, and blending together properly so that it sounds like a full band. Yeah, it is just one guitar, and he isn't playing anything mind blowingly difficult, but he puts together so many different sounds that all go together amazingly. He takes one instrument and makes a band. I'll check out your channel to see what you can do with one guitar.
I agree it's timing. I used to play around with the best equipment money could buy when I worked for a Pro Audio company... and this is still mind blowing.
It’s actually quite simple. What isn’t simple, is combining all the layers in to one sound, if you get what I mean. It’s way harder than it looks - he isn’t playing anything super complicated on the guitar, but it is not easy at all to get it to sound right. One small timing/note screw up in just a single layer of the 6-7 layers he lays down here, and it’ll sound all fucked up. He truly is insanely talented, and has spent thousands of hours on the loop pedal.
I see: I have to do another million tutorials like this one ... ... and then still have enough problems with my little looping station... What a genius in music, humor and sympathy !
He's not a novice, he's a standard intermediate player, but what makes him different is the smart ways of using the knowledge he has on guitar, and make interesting sound combinations out of it.
It's called timing but now the pedals time stretch and quantize in real time so it's not as hard as it used to be with old school gear. Used to play over a tape echo loop,
@rabashibarabasha it's not the individual pieces that make him great, it's how he can put it together with ease. He is a one man band and studio with very little equipment or tools. Not to mention that he constantly improvises and changes up his songs, further expressing his talent. Any guitarist can practice scales for hours and hours and eventually master them. It takes a true musician to put together layers of basic sounds and make them sound extraordinary.
I've got the same pedal - it's a lot of fun but I'm not sure that the dual pedal RC30 is better than 2x singles. It offers quite a lot less options and is harder to work with realtime, but it's only like $50 cheaper than two solo's
I just noticed something, many people asking what type looper is he using and multiple answers... So many wrong answers... geez. He is clearly using the Boss RC-20xl. It shows it on the video, so then why all the wrong answers? It is not the RC-30.... It is the RC-20xl
He's a standard. You're forgetting that what makes his music great is the lack of complication he puts in it. I'm aware that this isn't the best side of his guitar skill, he just might be able to do cool solos (in fact there's a solo in Kiss Me which sounds decent) but he just doesn't like to create too loud music.
Humble question: that works for a song which uses the same chord (2 or 4 or how many ever) progression. How does one use looper when chord progressions change, day from verse to chorus to back to verse and then to bridge, etc?
I believe the white pedal is a Boss tuner. The TU-3 is the newest model, I think. You can tune with it and when you turn it on it mutes your guitar as well, so you can change guitars or whatever.
How do you remember the order in which you recorded all the layers, in case you want to leave a few out for a few rounds and then add them back later on? And if not, the point is just to add and add more layers?
+Eline Mann Music I'm pretty sure the only way to remember your layers like that is to practice it and have it down until you know exactly what you want and can do it perfect every time. I just bought my RC-30 loop station which is what he is using in this video and the only way to remove tracks at all after they have been recorded is to "undo" and even then you can only take the last one that has been recorded. Even for that to work you have to have stopped the recording and started a new one. If you were in overdub mode it will take away everything you just did. The point is just to add and add, or add until you are happy with how it sounds. Its up to the musician to record their layers in a way that works for them
I have an RC-30 Loopstation and the main problem I'm having is not looping or guitar playing.. It's trying to make sure my tracks don't clip because beating on the guitar makes it too loud.. I'm plugging into an Alesis MultiMix 4 via USB straight into Logic Pro X.. My assumption is that it's the mini mixer I'm using but I'm not sure.. What would someone recommend for a broke person to do? Lol
Try turn the gain to 9 o'clock on the Alesis multimix where the loop pedal is plugged into, keep the pan center, turn the High EQ between 10-12 o'clock and the low EQ between 1-3 o'clock. Then adjust the level to how loud you want it. Make sure you guitar volume is on full & that the loop volume matches with the volume of the guitar as you don't want to loop something that drowns out the guitar whilst being played on top of the loops. If you don't like the settings then try tweak them a little! :)
using a loop pedal live for many hours is no joke. There are many possibilities where you can make mistakes while playing. Ed doesn’t get recognition he deserves when it comes to loop pedal. He's basically producing a song live in front of you. And young girls nowadays be like "he's just a guitar man" only because he's not dancing or doing any crazy stuff on stage like kpop artists or new pop singers who are always lip syncing on stage since dancing and singing it's really hard. I'd rather watch a performance with loop pedals in live, than lip sync performances, that's why i love Ed
And he used a fucking RC-30😂😂😂 ONLY that makes it insane lol
yeah ever since he's upgraded to the chewwie pedal and lately the custom "Sheeran " looper for the mathematics tour i've begun appreciating him more. I bought an RC-30 after saving up for 2 years from my part-time job, its only when i began looping myself i realised how complex and difficult it can get. TIMING IS LITERALLY EVERYTHING!!
@@theodor_1028 Is an RC 20 XL with no Balanced XRL MIC and single track.
What he does is UNBELIEVABLY difficult, from plsying everything correctly, in time, with the right articulations AND producing drum/bass parts, getting the volume on each layer correctly and singing live (and harmonizing with himself) on top of all of that??
How anyone can disrespect him is beyond me, plenty of people don’t have the slightest clue what goes into a true live musical performance, they just care about “vibes” and lifting platforms
Getting a good loop first try is no joke. Ed is a VERY specific kind of genius
if you got rhythm, it is pretty easy actually
@@sanderschat I grew up listening to lead belly, sun house and all those Delta boys.
I got soul but no rhythm 😐
@@willkoestner4159 rhythm is learnable
❤sweet goinEd beautiful h my how exciting 😢🎉❤❤❤
Very clever, 9 years ago. Today a big star that fills up stadiums. Was at his concert in Vienna yesterday. It was great! Well done, what a talent.
The impressive part is that he gets all of the loops in a single pass, properly timed, and blending together properly so that it sounds like a full band. Yeah, it is just one guitar, and he isn't playing anything mind blowingly difficult, but he puts together so many different sounds that all go together amazingly. He takes one instrument and makes a band. I'll check out your channel to see what you can do with one guitar.
Josh Stevenson it’s the great Ed Sheeran 😂
and a loop pedal ;) hehe
Properly timed??!? What fucking video we’re you watching. For how famous and successful he is, he’s surprisingly sloppy.
This is 90% just smoke and mirrors. 10% musical skill.
@@9hk38f how so?
Watching him build a loop is fascinating and he's so damn good at it.
there's nothing cooler than seeing someone doing this kind of thing live though.
Just got this loop station yesterday for my birthday!
Which brand/model
Looks like a Boss RC-20XL to me
Hanh Bangsia it is an RC-20 but I recommend the RC-30 😉
@@chillingguy9979 Is the rc-30 or Rc-300 better? For singing, guitar and liver performance
Bumi go the rc 300 hundred is better but about twice the price
i don't think I've ever seen anyone else get such clean rhythms with a loop pedal
+timothy james it's more a matter of perfect timing. I don't think his equipment helps him out in that regard
I agree it's timing. I used to play around with the best equipment money could buy when I worked for a Pro Audio company... and this is still mind blowing.
timothy james the Loopings Station he uses, you get for around 200€
Alexander Lee havnt seen david ford then. state of the union for example.
Kevin Young damn I was just about to suggest the fantastic Mr Ford...
Incredible talent👌 he’s brought looping to the mainstream
He's so good. Words can't explain his performance.
yes they can.... "he has a lot of money and a lot of free time"
He's playing a part of You Need Me I don't need you 😀🔥🔥
Damn you Ed Sheeran! You manage to do, what I have wanted to do for years, in a simple, single take! Maybe there's still hope!
I think he needs to do a lesson of this loop I cant stop listening to it its awesome
It’s actually quite simple. What isn’t simple, is combining all the layers in to one sound, if you get what I mean. It’s way harder than it looks - he isn’t playing anything super complicated on the guitar, but it is not easy at all to get it to sound right. One small timing/note screw up in just a single layer of the 6-7 layers he lays down here, and it’ll sound all fucked up.
He truly is insanely talented, and has spent thousands of hours on the loop pedal.
Awesome. I have all the basic instruments in my house and can’t even do a good intro.. this guy just got one little guitar & does it all 😆
I see:
I have to do another million tutorials like this one ...
... and then still have enough problems with my little looping station...
What a genius in music, humor and sympathy !
he's brilliant
wow amazing I just discovered loop pedal and then I see a lotta great stuff and this is the best I've seen yet
Amazing looping skills!!! LOVE IT!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Utterly incredible
his voice is just so great. i just can't
🎉🎉🎉🎉😢😢😢😢❤❤
He's not a novice, he's a standard intermediate player, but what makes him different is the smart ways of using the knowledge he has on guitar, and make interesting sound combinations out of it.
“Standard intermediate player”…. He’s a made millions and become as famous as a musician can get. Get back to making my latte barista.
"Standard intermediate" 🤣🤣🤣
Superb. Just got the rc 300 cannot wait to jam the shit out of it
I don't think the final product was that clean but watching this surely is a great experience!
With just an rc 30 and two channels this is awesomely cool
It's called timing but now the pedals time stretch and quantize in real time so it's not as hard as it used to be with old school gear. Used to play over a tape echo loop,
@rabashibarabasha it's not the individual pieces that make him great, it's how he can put it together with ease. He is a one man band and studio with very little equipment or tools. Not to mention that he constantly improvises and changes up his songs, further expressing his talent. Any guitarist can practice scales for hours and hours and eventually master them. It takes a true musician to put together layers of basic sounds and make them sound extraordinary.
I really liked this so much it sounded amazing :)
Very talented
I've got the same pedal - it's a lot of fun but I'm not sure that the dual pedal RC30 is better than 2x singles. It offers quite a lot less options and is harder to work with realtime, but it's only like $50 cheaper than two solo's
not the best singer but the best musician and artist the industry has ever produced. for me.
Yup best musican and artist in our millennial generation
You better still not believe that he isn’t one of the best singers to this day
@@atufts7753 well his singing is great but not the best, but his skill to make music was unbelievable
uuhhh... naaah
Arun Kumar I totally agree, he’s not the best singer, but he the best artist i know hahaha
Actually, I think it's an rc-20xl. The rc-30 has two switches for volume, but the rc-20xl has knobs.
Certainly. It's BOSS RC-20XL. There is no YoYo or JoJo
I'm So glad Damien inspired him. :)
I want a loop pedal so bad! ed sheeran is awsome!
Check out the TC electronices Ditto looper. It's super easy to use and has a lot of clarity as well. One switch that's it.
Todd Hooper except the rc 30 has two tracks and mic input
His concerts are great! Go if you can. He's awesome
no one is freaking about ed giving away his patek phillipe?!
Totalmente extraordinario un gran compositor musico y cantante
I wonder how he makes the guitar sound like that. Like the effects and the thumpyness.Wonder what his eq settings are.
OMG! that was amazing!
Musical genius right there!
that was incredible
I hate a lot of the popular music crap, but there is no denying his talent
I miss this ed bro 🫡
Very good idea to give a tutorial!
The tragedy is he probably deletes this after the demo, yet if I made this I’d be scared of losing the track lol!
It's a loop he does as part of "You need me, I don't need you" live performances so he didn't really lose anything.
Every loop is ofcourse slightly different at every gig
exactly what I want to be able to do haha
I just noticed something, many people asking what type looper is he using and multiple answers... So many wrong answers... geez. He is clearly using the Boss RC-20xl. It shows it on the video, so then why all the wrong answers? It is not the RC-30.... It is the RC-20xl
RC 30 is all you really need, I use an RC 300 because I like to loop bridge sections and drop tracks in and out
Remarkable.... impressive. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Hendrix
Clapton
Page
Beck
Gilmour
White
Sheeran
Grohl . No order.
Every single time I try to make a loop there’s a hitch in the loop where it repeats. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
thinks i'll sell my looper after seeing that hahaha....that was nuts
Be My Husband by Nina Simone, listen to the version he did for the Warner Live Lounge, it's amazing.
wowowowowwowowowoowowowowowowowoowowowowowowowowow he so good dude
dude the original sheeeesh at 0:56
Plays the guitar:
“Oh I can do that”
Takes the mic:
“Oh yeah that’s Ed Sheeran”
Is there a full video of this session/interview somewhere?
Remember when Ed Sheeran used RC 30 instead of his Chewie?
He's a standard. You're forgetting that what makes his music great is the lack of complication he puts in it. I'm aware that this isn't the best side of his guitar skill, he just might be able to do cool solos (in fact there's a solo in Kiss Me which sounds decent) but he just doesn't like to create too loud music.
Will the looper work with acoustic and electric guitar?
holy shit he is so talented
This is a great song already!
It actually is a song of his, he always build this beat when he plays it live
Rose Hathaway called?
You need me, i don't need you (live performance ones though. It is incredible live. )
must be just the live version then
Amazing
the laugh track was really bothering me
Does anyone recognise the loop station model he is using (1:38)? Not the RC-30 I know of.
same question
oh I've seen someone say it's RC-20XL :)
Humble question: that works for a song which uses the same chord (2 or 4 or how many ever) progression. How does one use looper when chord progressions change, day from verse to chorus to back to verse and then to bridge, etc?
Yeah, I was asking myself the same question, I think I will get myself a loop station and figure it out 😅
You need me man, I don't need you.
Smooth stuff! I like to do the same thing mixing Spanish guitar and reggae, its in the video responses.
I need to learn how to use one of these things!! I think Ive finally found how Im gonna do songs!
But he’s using a boss rc 20xl not rc 30
Which kind of guitar he is using? Plz any one name🥰
What kind of Martin is this? And what kind of electronics are in it? His guitar sounds so freaking good plugged in!
This is an little Martin LX1E
Just the basic fishman really
+15estrem He doesn't use the Fishman pickup he never has he always installs his own pickups in, ones you cant buy anymore!
+Joshua Craddock what pickups does he use then?
+Toby Scott here you can learn about stuff ed uses: www.acousticguitar.com/How-To/Loop-the-Loop-Create-your-own-Ed-Sheeran-sound
2:37 That's right... You are in the presence of a god.
Ed sheeran u so fucking good
Oh thats ma fav song u need me man i dont need u! Wooohoooo
this explains the marks on his guitar
human from heaven
hell yeah
Whoa, that's pretty damn good...but uhh, I'm not sure if any amount of my practice I'll ever be "that" good 😉 👍
I’m getting one at Christmas !
this sounds like "take it back" which means he wrote that over two years ago
lyrics it's the loop in you need me i don't need you. this song and take it back have the same key
Michael Tan not the same key, but the same chords progression
Michael
pkr No it sounds like You Need Me I Don't Need You
So was this comment
any instrument store in your area, if they dont have one they willl most likely ask you if you would like them to order you one. They did that to me.
HE. IS. AMAZING!
He is so talented ! (:
WONDER WHAT VOCAL PROCESSOR HE IS USING
I quite listening to the radio for a week and what does Ed do he goes on my two favorite radio stations but I guess that's why there is RUclips.
Please anyone, what type of guitar that Ed Sheeran play? Sorry for my bad English but I'm so curious.
ian aabian lx1e Martin
Anyone know what the white boss pedal is beside the loop pedal? you can only see it sometimes, but I'm wondering what kind of pedal it is?
I believe the white pedal is a Boss tuner. The TU-3 is the newest model, I think. You can tune with it and when you turn it on it mutes your guitar as well, so you can change guitars or whatever.
Yeaaahhh no fucking way I can do that with a loop machine... respect Ed
ed sheeran is the shit
+EHOODFLA You´re the SHIT :)
+Hakanes EM not sure if u readed well or jk xd
+Hakanes EM if your not familiar with calling someone "the shit", it's a compliment. It means really good, as opposed to shit.
+FP ESS Ou. Then sorry man. I thought that he abuse him. I really didn't know this because my primary language is not ENG. Thanks for explaining :D
i thought you thought he was abusing him that's why i explained to you lol
How do you remember the order in which you recorded all the layers, in case you want to leave a few out for a few rounds and then add them back later on? And if not, the point is just to add and add more layers?
+Eline Mann Music I'm pretty sure the only way to remember your layers like that is to practice it and have it down until you know exactly what you want and can do it perfect every time. I just bought my RC-30 loop station which is what he is using in this video and the only way to remove tracks at all after they have been recorded is to "undo" and even then you can only take the last one that has been recorded. Even for that to work you have to have stopped the recording and started a new one. If you were in overdub mode it will take away everything you just did.
The point is just to add and add, or add until you are happy with how it sounds. Its up to the musician to record their layers in a way that works for them
+Aaron Trindorfer Actually he is using a Boss RC-20xl which is slightly different but functions mostly the same
nice !!
where can one discover the tab for this video?
Ed Sheeran ♥ !!!
What size do you think that guitar he is using? It looks smaller than a lot of other classical guitars.
I have an RC-30 Loopstation and the main problem I'm having is not looping or guitar playing.. It's trying to make sure my tracks don't clip because beating on the guitar makes it too loud.. I'm plugging into an Alesis MultiMix 4 via USB straight into Logic Pro X.. My assumption is that it's the mini mixer I'm using but I'm not sure.. What would someone recommend for a broke person to do? Lol
Try turn the gain to 9 o'clock on the Alesis multimix where the loop pedal is plugged into, keep the pan center, turn the High EQ between 10-12 o'clock and the low EQ between 1-3 o'clock. Then adjust the level to how loud you want it. Make sure you guitar volume is on full & that the loop volume matches with the volume of the guitar as you don't want to loop something that drowns out the guitar whilst being played on top of the loops. If you don't like the settings then try tweak them a little! :)
what loop machine do you use? if ya could message me with the details thatd be sick. i wanna start. this is inspiring!
Is that the BOSS RC 20?
That guy probably didnt realise Ed put a 100k+ watch on his wrist!
Do they use bass amp, as the base of guitar can be heard clearly
What’s the name of the loop pedal
Hey @Steve Morris it's the Boss RC-30. I own one myself. Unfortunately they don't make them anymore :(
Brilliant!