Boss RC1 guitar pedal review and guide

hey nish here and today we're reviewing the boss rc1 loop pedal comes in at the cost of about 79 pounds and it's really highly recommended for beginners who want to get into looping in this review i'm going to talk about what a loot pedal is for and why you might even want one then i'm going to go into detail about this pedal in particular give you a demo of it talk about some other competitors and then close it off with a conclusion hope you enjoy it and let's get started so the idea of a loop pedal is to record a small snippet of your playing and essentially loop it play it over and over then you can add on extra layers by playing over that or you can just keep the loop as it is and maybe solo over the top now why you'd want to get a looper pedal well i think it's really good as a first pedal because there's a lot you can do with it good as a beginner to work on your rhythm and also you know we're all stuck at home so in the absence of being able to actually jam with people you can jam with yourself you know you can play some chords down and then solo over the top and i've enjoyed you know trying to map out different songs and different ways to play them so the pedal has the same construction that all boss pedals have and that's a really good thing because this is very sturdy it's made of metal very solid the footswitch feels really good and i can see this lasting a really long time it's really been built to last in my opinion the inputs and outputs are the standard quarter inch jack there's also an additional plug here and that allows you to assign a pedal to the stop undo function that'll make more sense as i go through the demo in terms of the i o it is very minimal as you can see you've literally just got a level on this pedal and then the loop led indicator now this is really cool and again i'm going to show you in the demo why that's useful and what that kind of indicates to you as for power it takes a 9 volt input now unfortunately it doesn't come supplied with an adapter but you can buy one for about five or six pounds you can also power it using a nine volt battery so that's working portably and you can access that by undoing the screw here then you can put the battery in and they say it will last about four hours using a battery so that's a pretty decent battery life if you're planning to take this out and about but enough about this pedal let's jump in to a demo first off the pedal doesn't power on until you put something into the output so this is good in case you're using the battery and you don't want the battery to run flat by mistake now the first press of the pedal puts into recording mode which is indicated by these red leds swirling around now anything you record here will start playing once you hit the button again and it starts looping that now you can see that after the first press there's still red leds around and that means this is in overdoing mode so the green means it's playing and the red means it's recording overdub mode means that anything you play will get added onto the loop as well as the initial thing you did but if you press the pedal again it will go into play mode where it's only playing and anything you play will not get added you can pause the loop or stop it by double pressing the pedal in fairly quick succession and then resume it by pressing it again and if you want to clear your loop you can stop it by double tapping and holding the pedal the last thing is that you can undo the last loop you did by just a single press and hold so with that out of the way i'll grab my acoustic guitar and give you a quick demo let me know in the comments if you know the song [Music] [Music] do [Music] so now as you can hopefully see from the demo this is a really easy to use pedal and that led indicator makes it really easy to see what you're doing as a beginner that's great because if you're new to looping you don't want to screw it up but i think even if you're used to using a loop pedal it's nice to see where you are and it just means you're less likely to make a mistake you can obviously get cheaper loot pedals 79 pounds yeah you could probably find some for around 40 50 pounds that are simple again and have a single loop track those will tend to be more compact as well if that's something you're interested in and i guess it's just a trade-off between going for the reputable brand i think this led indicator is useful not all of the cheaper loopers you'll find will have that kind of thing another thing to bear in mind is is the ones that are smaller size they don't take a nine volt battery as a power input so they wouldn't be as portable so that's another thing to bear in mind but yeah it's it's a tough trade-off i mean what i did was bought this used so i think i only paid about 50 or 55 pounds for it so it's in the ballpark of the cheaper loop pedals now as for boss's other offerings if you want to basically pimp out the rc-1 with extra features there's the rc3 that has 99 memory banks which let you record up to 99 loops you can then send them to your pc by connecting them up or you know just recall them while you're using the pedal so that's really cool it also has kind of drum loops built in if you want to have that extra element obviously you can't plug a drum kit into here the other way you can expand is the rc1 only has the one track on there so if you're interested in having multiple tracks i don't know like a verse chorus kind of thing there's something like the rc30 that does get quite expensive i think you can pick them up used maybe for about 100 quid and the other thing that has is a mic input as well which is pretty cool so you can loop mic tracks as well as guitar ones but yeah that obviously things go crazy i could talk about some of the crazy stuff where they cost like 300 400 pounds but in terms of simple loot pedals hopefully i've covered everything you needed to know that okay so thank you very much for watching this review um to conclude i'd say this is a really good beginner loot pedal i i highly recommend it i think it's worth that little bit of premium to pay for but let me know what you think in the comments uh whether you've had a better experience with a different type of loot pedal or if you have any other recommended pedals that you think i should check out or that you think anyone else can benefit from checking out thanks again for watching do subscribe for more to the point reviews and content and i'll catch you in the next one [Music] you

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Length: 6min 27sec (387 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 05 2021

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[u/Cyzstix]

This is an amazing video!

My buddy and I play guitar and he's been searching for a looper pedal for a while! It's a shame you don't have an affiliate link because I would've certainly used it by now haha.

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Anyway, the video itself was fabulous, however, I do have two tips aside from content:

• Change the Font in the thumbnail: You use a bold font throughout your video which is great for catching attention, however, the most important time to catch an audience's attention is in the thumbnail, so I would suggest changing that font for something bigger and bolder!
• Typo in the title: I read the title and noticed you had "Look Station eview" instead of "review"? I'm not sure if you intended this, but if not, I'd go back and change that too.

Overall fantastic video & an excellent job! Keep up the great work, and thanks for sharing this awesome pedal!

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This is a very high effort/quality video Your voice is clear and fits perfectly with the visual material. The video is just the right length + the review delivers everything the viewer needs to know about this product. Thumb nail & title looks fine. In the future you could design a space for specifically for making video instead of random room background. Overall, I could easily see this video coming of a 300k sub YouTube channel. Good job.. keep up the hard work.

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I’m surprised no one has named the song you played yet! It’s Feel Good by Gorillaz!

But I enjoyed the video! You’re voice sounds great and very professional! I agree with the other comment about the thumbnail font. I’m actually going to take that advice myself for my future videos! Lol

Overall great video and content!

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Nice video! Regarding SEO, use 3 tags at the end of the video description. And maybe a better title with music related keywords?

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Watched it till the end. Never felt boring for a moment. The thumbnail was good. Consice and to the point. The structure of the video was perfect. Good work. Keep it up.