In 2011, Boss updated it’s line of looper pedals by releasing the RC-3 Loop Station, the RC-30 Loop Station (reviewed here), and the RC-300 Loop Station. The RC-30 Loop Station is Boss’s updated twin pedal and the mid-sized option of the three. It’s a multitrack looper with two synchronized stereo tracks and built-in loop effects, and hours of recording time. Overall, Boss offers several improvements over Boss’s older twin pedal, the Boss RC-20XL. More recently, however, Boss has released the Boss RC-500 Loop Station which is now Boss’s flagship looper.Check Amazon Price
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How to Fix the Boss RC-50 Guide Problem
A lot of people experience a problem using Jam Tracks with the Boss RC-50 because the built-in metronome (the “Guide”) automatically starts playing at the same time as the jam track. The result is a lot of noise until you manually turn off the GUIDE. Fortunately, there’s a fix.
Electro-Harmonix 2880 Super Multi-Track Looper Review
The 2880’s instantly recognisable layout provides you a degree of familiarity, and even if you have never used a multi-track recorder before, the reason it’s layout is used so widely is because it’s so simple. It’s got an impressive resume too, it gives you CD-quality sound, in stereo or mono, lets you connect up to your computer to store loops, and will even help you keep your loops in time if you want it to. Check Amazon Price
Line 6 JM4 Review
Line-6, whose amps are favoured by such guitarists as James Hetfield, Mick Thomson and Tony Iommi, present us with their prized looping machine, the JM4. Offering an onboard 24-minutes recording time, with the possibility of increasing this with an up to 2GB SD card, the JM4 could give you around six and a half hours of recorded jamming. Check Amazon Price
Digitech JamMan Delay Looper Review
DigiTech has combined the best of both worlds in the new JamMan Delay Looper. The JamMan Delay Looper features both true stereo looping and a fully programmable stereo delay with powerful control over both effects. The Looper in the JamMan Delay Looper ffers true stereo looping with 35 minutes of built-in memory, 99 internal loop memories, and an SD card expansion slot for an additional 99 loops and over 16 hours of stereo loop storage. Check Amazon Price
Digitech JamMan Stereo Review
After amazing success with the original JamMan, Digitech improved upon it and unleashed three brand new loopers: the Jamman Solo, the Jamman Stereo (reviewed here), and the Jamman Delay. The JamMan Stereo is the mid-sized version, the one Goldilocks would have chosen. The question is whether being in the middle really does make it ‘juuust right.’ Users of the original JamMan will be right at home with the layout of the Jamman Stereo. There are a couple of extra footswitches, but apart from that, there won’t be any teething problems.Check Amazon Price
Digitech JamMan Solo Review
The JamMan Solo seems to be Digitech’s challenge to the Boss RC-3 Loop Station, the smallest of Boss’s line of looper pedals. The JamMan Solo is the compact, inexpensive sibling of DigiTech’s larger JamMan Stereo and JamMan Delay Looper pedals, and is now somewhat eclipsed by Digitech’s newer Jamman Solo XT, which offers a few small improvements over the Jamman Solo. The challenge faced by manufacturers producing compact pedals like the Jamman Solo or the similar Jamman Solo XT is maintaining the same level of functionality offered by the larger models.Check Amazon Price
Digitech JamMan Review
Right off the bat, you may have noticed the similarity in look between the JamMan and Boss’s RC-20XL. You are certainly not alone. The RC-20XL came out in August 2004, and the JamMan a year later, to the month. This leads to a lot of competition between the two pedals, and they are in many ways easily comparable. DigiTech has since released a couple of new pedals, the JamMan Solo and the JamMan Stereo, but then again, so has Boss. Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-50 Loop Station Review
Boss has been on the cutting edge of looping technology for some time now. After raising the bar with the RC-20XL, they attempted to build the holy grail of looper pedals with the RC-50 Loop Station. But is the RC-50 really the holy grail, or did they miss the mark? For some basic info on looping, click here. Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-20XL Loop Station Review
The Boss RC-20XL is the mid-sized looper in Boss’s older RC-2x series, and the predecessor of the more recently released RC-30 Loop Station. In Boss’s older RC-2x series, the RC-20XL offered a wide range of features in a much smaller (and cheaper) package than the monster RC-50, but easier access to its features than the much smaller RC-2. The RC-20XL was actually an upgrade of the now obsolete RC-20, which only offered 5 minutes and 30 seconds of recording time, compared to the RC-20XL’s 16 minutes.Check Amazon Price
Boss RC-2 Loop Station Review
If Boss’s range of loop pedals were to be described in iPod terms, the RC-2 would be the Nano. The miniaturized sibling with all the key features crammed into a tiny little package. You could argue that it’s quite difficult to get all the functionality of the big boys (the RC-20XL and the goliath RC-50) into a little box, and it’s not like they’d opt to provide you with a unit that was nineteen inches long if there wasn’t a benefit to it. But don’t discount the little RC-2 straight away; you’d be surprised how much you can fit into such a small package. Check Amazon Price
Boomerang III Phrase Sampler Review
The Boomerang III may look like the control panel for an 80s arcade game, but it’s simply a unique looper pedal with retro styling. Loop based music has spawned a variety of cool looking devices over the years, but the basic idea is that your guitar chords and riffs are recorded and repeated for you to jam over. Using techniques like reversing, changing octaves, layering and overdubbing, looping can actually become its own art form. Check Amazon Price