Guitar Jam/Solo/Improv 2 with the Boss RC-2 Loop Station.

[papasmurf530]

amg sick how much did that cost you?

[apallo88]

@papasmurf530 The BOSS RC-2 Loop Station Pedal cost me about $175.00 Canadian. Great pedal and investment!

[moe354sa]

@apallo88 is that retail or craiglist pricing?

[apallo88]

@moe354sa It's retail. Plus the tax, it was around $200.00.

[linkinpark0909]

wow.. nice sound dude ! respect !

[apallo88]

Thanks man!

[sixstring1234]

Another gem man!! Keep it up!!

[marielise000]

Great job on the whole piece; I luv the clean tone btw!!

[bassmanwho]

man, this rocks!! Nice rhythm and jam!

[Bezirk38531]

can you give me please the tabs for this nice"song"????PLEASE!!!

[apallo88]

Hey Bezirk, The whole thing was improvised on the spot except for the rhythm part which is a song by Michael Schenker called Armed and Ready. If you punch it up on google, you'll be able to get the tabs for the rhythm part. I always solo on the spot and for me to write down what I did would take forever man!!

[buttertaco]

You have to hook up a distortion pedal to record distorted pieces? This is a problem when you want to record during a live set and im running direct into my stack. Is there any way i can put it between my head and cab?

[apallo88]

When I record dirty sections, I use a distortion pedal. You can try to hook up a distortion pedal from your Head to your cab. There should be a cable that hooks up your head to your cab. Unhook that and plug it into the RC-2 and run the output from the Loop Station to your cab.

[TheColdNorthWind]

don't do that! you'd be plugging a speaker cable into the RC-2 and a cable into the speaker cab.. you'll damage your amp and possibly speakers too.

if you use amp distortion, put the RC-2 in the amp's fx loop. ie between the fx 'send' and 'return' (sometimes labelled 'preamp out' and 'poweramp in').

[apallo88]

Thanks! What would you do if you don't wanna use the amps distortion but rather use a distortion pedal. Would you hook up the cable from the guitar to the distortion pedal and then the RC-2. Then from there, go straight to the Head unit and then into the Cab?

[TheColdNorthWind]

yeah, Guitar > distortion pedal > RC-2 > Amp input. make sure you use a speaker cable between the amp and cab though. if you use guitar cable you'll blow parts of your amp up that are expensive to have fixed/replaced.

[apallo88]

Thanks a lot for the informative advice bro!!!!

[thejbizzle89]

that was so cool!

[oliviaesp]

man, that's great work. very nice soloing. really!! I am a bassist in progress, and basically i love jaming with drums. and that little gizmo looks absolutely great. what do you think is the difference between the RC-20XL loop stastion and this one?

[apallo88]

Thanks for the comment! The RC-20 is everything the RC-2 is and more. It's a little bigger in size. I've heard great things about it and the RC-50 as well.

[oliviaesp]

hm....i believe the RC-2 is more than enough...one more question... what do you think is better single compact pedals or multi-effect pedalboards?

[apallo88]

The 2 systems have their advantages and disadvantages. I personally like to use compact pedals in a pedal board daisy chained because of the versatility in the settings and sound. If I wanna rearrange the order of a pedal and put(certain pedals) it anywhere in the chain, I can do so and slightly add colour or alter the sound somewhat.

[apallo88]

Whereas the multieffects is a little cheaper in cost, but I don't like the fact that u really can't get certain sounds u desire because the original sound that comes with the unit is the one you'll get.

[apallo88]

The only thing is you might be able to enhance the tone , mids , & bass of that particular sound. Another thing is if u have to repair something, u have to take the whole rack in whereas I would just take out the pedal that's broken and still be able to play through the pedalboard. This is where versatility is important.  I've spent over a thousand dollars Canadian to finally get all the pedals I need to get a tone I'm happy with.

[oliviaesp]

i am sure you did.... :/ but it was worth it!!! do you have an msn account? i will send you mine in your messages.

[tigreslokos]

hey man, nice vid, just wondering, can i use all my effects with it? i mean, run distortion, wah, and delay pedals to record??? is it a good buy overall?

[apallo88]

Thanks for the compliment bro! You sure can record with a distortion, delay and wah; just be very careful not to use too much effects as you can muddy the overall sound with too much on at the same time; especially after you lay down the bass and rhythm fills later on. On this video, I basically used delay, phaser, Compression, & EQ.

Great overall buy my friend! Go out and get it because it won't disappoint u. You can also erase the last track u did if u end up not liking the sound. Enjoy it!

[apallo88]

Ran out room as they only allow 500 characters. Back to your question of whether it is a good buy? In my opinion--super buy as I only paid $185.00 before taxes here in Canada. It's worth every penny and more. I use it everytime I jam and practice. It'll improve your timing, creativity, rhythm and lead playing since it's like jamming with a band, but the difference is you get to create your own rhythm, basslines, fills, and soloing. Plus, you get to choose whatever 4/4 beat u desire!

[tigreslokos]

wow, sounds great, thanks man...

[FrostGrimm]

yeah, i'm gonna buy that thing.

[apallo88]

Don't wait bro, get it because u won't regret it.

[FrostGrimm]

i need this ting, so i can easly record my riffs, so i don't forget them. It's awesome.

[rlta04]

The drum beat coming from the loop station too or is that a different machine?

[apallo88]

The beat comes from the pedal as well. It has something like 33, 4/4 beats

[rlta04]

cool pedal

Easy to use and figure out how to operate it?

[apallo88]

Great/awesome pedal, but it took awhile to figure things out as the manual wasn't all that user friendly. I basically did a lot of things by trial and error. Took me about a day to figure it out. There are some things I still don't know how to use properly, like the 3/4 beats. Hope this helps bud!!

[rlta04]

yep.Thanks

[drummersforever]

SWEET use of such a fine pedal! Good job mate!

[slingerjake]

Great sound and tone on the clean rhythm!

[lickslick77]

Awesome work! Like the solo-great sustain man!