Get a Boss RC-10R Looper (that’s an affiliate link, y’all, if you buy anything in that link I get a very small kickback).
If you’ve been watching our channel for any amount of time now, you have probably realized that most of our demos of pedals involve NO TALKING. People seem to REALLY hate talking in demos. Trust me, I get it. But this is a little different. It’s hard to really showcase a looper and how it works by just turning knobs. Also, the point of loopers is to loop, not to effect your sound in any meaningful way.
But to the pedal — the RC-10R is NOT just a looper. It’s also a lil’ drum machine pedal. You can use the drum machine with the looper, the drum machine by itself, or just the looper without any rhythm sound (you’d just turn the rhythm track down all the way to accomplish this).
One very cool thing about the rhythm part is that you can have two different rhythm loops — almost every drum beat in this box has a part one and a part two. I assume this would primarily be used for verse/chorus differentiation. It adds a little character to your sound that way.
In this demo, you’ll seem me:
1. Use the RC-10R as ONLY a drum machine for two different rhythm parts (0:00)
2. Use the RC-10R as a looper with rhythm for one looping part (4:45)
3. Use the RC-10R as a looper with rhythm for two different rhythm parts (7:45)
Like any looper, this machine takes practice to master. You shouldn’t let that discourage you. For such a small box, the features it offers are pretty amazing. If you’re a singer/songwriter, the rhythm machine alone is worth the price.
But if you’re looking to loop live with different rhythm parts for every song, I think that would be hard, but not impossible. What I’d recommend is at least setting the specific rhythm parts for the songs you intend on playing as pre-sets that you can jump between. Even better if you add bass, keys, and any other part before you hit the stage with your guitar. I think that would be really great — I saw Lisa Prank do something similar when she opened for Liz Phair in Seattle in 2019.
Signal chain is:
1. Electronic Audio Experiments Halberd
2. Fender Reflecting Pool
3. Boss RC-10R
4. Strymon Iridium
Guitar is Squire Starcaster (Classic Vibe)
With Gunstreet Wiring updated wiring harness
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