Boss RC-5 Loop Station - Features, Demo & Quick Start Guide - How To Use The Boss RC 5!
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Sam takes a look at how to use the main features of the new Boss RC-5 looper pedal. Order yours at PMT online: www.pmtonline.co.uk/boss-rc-5...
00:00 Boss RC-5 Intro Demo
01:07 Overview & Specifications
02:46 RC-5 Layout & Controls
03:39 Basic Looping Controls & Demo
05:06 How To Use The Drum Machine
06:08 Recording A Loop With Drums & Demo
07:15 How To Use Loop Reverse
08:05 Saving Loops & Settings
08:30 Boss RC-5 Looping Demo
10:11 Where To Buy A Boss RC-5
The Boss RC-5 is part of the next generation range of Boss Loop Station pedals, replacing the now discontinued RC-3. Main features include 32-bit digital processing, 13 hours of stereo recording time, 99 memory patches for saving loops and settings, an onboard drum machine with 57 preset rhythms and 7 drum kits, loop reverse function, USB and MIDI connectivity and a control pedal input...all housed in Boss's classic compact pedal design.
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Thank you for a clear demo, easy to understand without the "look at me shred" guys on other videos. Now back to my pedal for more practice.
Just picked up my RC-5 yesterday. This was a fantastic video, Boss should use this as their startup guide! Cheers
Glad it helped Sean! 🤘
@@PMTVUK hey buddy!I'm having trouble figuring out why when I first loop it in a clean guitar sound,and then go to play over it distorted it distorts my already clean loop as soon as I press press distortion pedal!have any idea how to stop this??
@@nicholasdorazio10 is the loop at end of chain?
@@sy17_ yes it was,i do use overdrive channel on my Blackstar and a sparkle drive to boost it so o figured that was why,so I plugged it into the effects loop in the back with my reverb and that worked,but now I can't change the reverb without it changing the sound again🤣
I just got this pedal a few days ago, and literally just tried it out for the first time a few hours ago. I was feeling sick from a graphic documentary I had to watch for film class, so I needed to get my mind off things. Decided to bring out the new pedal at 10pm at night, made sure my Fender Pro Jr was at 2 and just started cranking out tunes on my Fender Strat Pro2 with the RC5. Let me tell you, a whole hour felt like 10 mins! I went to another place. Looped a few basic cords and just played around them. Love this pedal, small, simple to use, tons of fun, seems durable. I highly recommend it. Never owned a looper pedal before so this was a good choice.
What was the graphic documentary? I love a good downer.
how long can a loop be for example can you have 12 bars
@@proofalleyeson4889as many as you want! 3 hours sample time or something like that.
Thanks man been eyeing this up for a few years now and need some guitar positivity your comment has secured my interest prior was
Looking at the boss rc-3 for several years and then they release the rc-5 and rc-3 is discontinued !! Thanks for
The comment boss has another customer
@@willkoestner4159 Oof, I can’t remember to be quite frank, however it was concerning cartel violence. That documentary was so graphic that I was physically ill after watching it. The music helped me forget about it. Anyway, sorry I can’t remember the documentary’s name.
Great simple video by Sam. Excellent introduction to the RC-5.
Excellent demo and quick start guide! Thank You so much!!
Top notch article - great presentation; clear, comprehensive and comprehensible. Excellent presenter.
Sam, thanks for this video. This looper can do SO much that it's a little intimidating just to get started, but you broke this down so well that I know I'm going to keep coming back to it. There are a lot of RC-5 videos out there, but of all that I've watched, this is one of the best. And great playing!!
This is a major upgrade from the RC-3. Cool!
Brilliant set up video. It’s a complex bit of kit but this was super clear. Red records, green plays back, yellow overdubs. Simples
Awesome! I was about to get the rc1 but now I decided ! Thank you for the info and creativity!
just ordered one! This is very helpful, I'll have half a clue as I open the box- thanks😎👍🎸
I bought one today this video is a great help to get me started thank you.
What a fantastic and informative video. Perfectly done, thank you!
I've just been ploughing through the user manual for my new RC5 and my head was spinning. This is the best and easiest to understand user guide I've come across. Nice work
Thank you for sharing, great video! I thought the rc-3 is the best but obviously this one is much better with the 32 bit and extended drum options. These Boss pedals are perfect.
Great job explaining it all, as always. Thanks.
Very well explained. Thanks for sharing this demo.
Very talented demo. Nice, tasteful stuff - not crazily overdriven, but good tempos in those compositions.
Such a great video thank you! Will be coming back to this again after buying it.
Getting one this week!! Super excited!
How has it been for you!! I got to mess around with one at my friends house the other day and I liked it so much that I ended up buying it. Definitely a huge upgrade from the 50 dollar one I’ve been using for the past while.
This was super helpful. Thank you!
Just got this pedal as a birthday present. It is a BEAST of a loop station, and already with very instructive videos like these very easy to use.. It gives credit to Boss once again that 13hrs of loop memory once again has been fitted in the already known pedal shape. I am also a big EHX fan of which I also own several pieces, but Boss outmatches them for fitting even the most complex of functions in the same pedal shape. I was already floored by the Boss SY1 synth pedal, but this loop station...well. enough said. Try one and you will see what I mean.
Wow. This is exactly what I'm looking for. Great video. Really cool device.
I've had this pedal in a bag since I bought it intimidated by it till now Thank you. thumbs up given Subscribed.
Fun video. Really enjoyed that fire loop at the end. Planning on diving into my new RC5 today
Money's been something else though I just bought this yesterday and can't wait to dig in. I have been looping for many many years though after using the Ditto X4 and having it MIDI sync'd to my drum machines/interface using the RC3 just wouldn't do. Not being able to pick the BPMs and not having MIDI made it almost unuseable for me. I'm excited to see the upgrades and just ordered the MIDI 2.0 cable. I'm excited and want to say thank you for doing this video breaking down some of the product.
I have an RC-3 and its great but the reverse loop effect is awesome might have to upgrade soon
What a superb explanation. Thank you. I’m going to start practicing as soon as I get home from work!
very nice demo, thanks :)
Awesome demo my friend
great video so educational thanks
That guitar looks incredible
Having a lot of fun with the new RC5. I came from the RC2 and the sound quality on the 5 is so much better. The drum beats are inspiring
Im gonna pick up an rc5 tomorrow just because of the drum machine. Id rather buy one loop station instead of shelling out an extra 300 for a beat buddy
How many bars can you record on
Highly recommend picking up a 9V power supply for this. It runs through batteries fast!
I read somewhere 2 hrs but mine is going on almost 4! And well, that still sucks lol but much better than I expected.
@@chrisjamesies the battery life is definitely long enough if you are taking it to a gig, band practice, etc. but for just practicing at home getting a power supply is the way to go.
@@Matt-iz9pe Ok yes I am learning the harsh reality of this today. It's so bad they should just ditch the space and add a new feature lol.
Ain't that true my battery was low a day or so after getting the pedal lol
Man tbh its kind of a no brainer lmao idk anyone that regularly uses batteries for pedals anymore. like 50 bucks for a donnar power supply that includes all the cables and 9v power for up to 8 pedals. You can mount it under your board and power a whole board with one physical plug into the circuit.
Just got one yesterday!!! Hells bells yo!
Me too, (it's my birthday) have you worked out auto record yet? Rc3 did it but I'll watch this video till the end and hope it's mentioned
@@markyboyz1300 congrats not yet, still just playing without readin manual..lol.
If I get bored, thats when I read the manual. ;)
Superb!!
Thanks so much, love your videos!! AS a non English native speaker, I wish close caption were included.
Two words: Thank you.
Just wow you’re a guitar playing is cool and it makes me wanna get the rc5 Thanks.
I've just rented one of these but feel completely overwhelmed given my lack of experience w pedals in general. Thanks for providing some insight, even if I'm still confused.
Amazing loop pedal!!
one thing that can up the game on this is, a small attachable remote control for all the hand controls instead of bending down everytime you want to change something.
Great video very easy to understand. What is the maximum time for each loop phrase you want to record? Thanks again and great job!
Nice
Never mind got it thank u
nice
Nice demo and awesome little pedal! I'm def getting one... maybe even 2 to synch them together for a 2 track looper! Were you'r tones coming from the Boss GT 1000? Nice playing and tones! :)
Just got mine yesterday and the manual that IS INCLUDED with a brand new, unopened pedal is not that helpful.
Great bit of pointers you provided. Thanks!
Your internal metronome is sick.
Nice @5:08
08:11 niiiice.
Nice demo!! Wanna ask does this pedal have a volume control for drum kit
Keep it , as a gift 's ...buys 3 sets soon.( a gifts, for next player's, children's love it .very much ...me , too!
I'm having trouble understanding from the videos I've seen, but if I have this hooked up to midi, could I switch loops back and forth like an A and B section, kind of like the RC10R?
Thanks for the video!
I have a question, there is the same undo function on the overdub track like the rc10? Thanks
Hi and thanks for the review. Do you know if it's possible to make drum fills ?
Also, is there a way to send the drum beat out to output A and have output B with no drums?
I am connected to a guitar amp and bass amp and don't want the drums coming out of the Output B bass amp
Thanks for the Intro, covers a lot of useful things!
I have a question though: Is it possible to control, or rather toggle the drum kits via an external footswitch? If so, would I need a MIDI footswitch for that or would a regular one like Boss FS-6 do the trick? I know that this scenario might not be the most common but I'd like to have the option to have the rhythm section not kick in as soon as I begin recording, but say as the second or third layer of the loop.
Did you find a solution?
@@ScottPhillipsCreative I have not bought either but from what I gathered afterwards a MIDI footswitch is the only solution. There are small ones like the MIDI Baby by Desaster but they are quite pricey
Apologies if this has been answered, but I can't seem to find this anywhere. Does this, or the RC-1, have extended overdubing? ie where your first loop is 4 bars and your second can be 8 bars
Can you set your drums to a half time? In other words, in 4/4, the snare on 3?
Can you use one input for vocals and one for guitar? I need an independent channel for vox and an independent channel for guitar. Is that going to be something that I could do on this?
Can i use it with a focusrite audiointerface/computer guitar rig etc?
Does it save for each overdub recording a seperate audio track? would be awesome for importing into a DAW in mixing later
A question: just transferred loops to my laptop for the first time. No problems. Only - The drums are missing. Is there anyway to get them included into the wav file so to speak?
Can this one have the rhythm drum track go out B while guitar dubs go out A like the rc500?
First of 2021
Excellent overview. I just had a session with mine for the first time and found it pretty frustrating. Hence the video search. This was excellent. Boss should thank you for making this. Probably save a lot of returns. One Question - when I created a loop, the playback was louder than my guitar through the amp. How I set the playback to be at a lower volume than my guitar? Is it possible?
You click on the loop level button, there should be written "loop level" on the screen, if not click another time, and then turn it anticlockwise, normally it should work
How many bars can you record
Mannn how did you get that tone at 9:30 mins and what is that song 😍😍😍
How do you replay and listen to a saved loop at a later time? No one on UA-cam demos seems to go through this process. Thanks.
👍 👍 👍
Question: Where the looper output goes In? Because drum sound in my Fender Reverb Deluxe seems to be really weird for me especially with the tremolo on.🤣
How do you play some clean tones, save it then switch your amp to gain without changing the clean tone previously saved, without it switching to gain tone as well?
Will this looper sync the drums to a loop?
Example
If i play a basic loop first, then can you just sync the drums to the loop you just previously played, or do you have to start drums first, then loop your loop???? 👍
Thank you Sir! Please show me, how can i adjusted up and down volume of rhythm (Drum) on RC5 pedal. I feel the sound of Drum is too loud for the guitar volume. I want down volume of Drum, while keeping the guitar volume, i hope you can help me. Thank a lot!
I know I’m a bit late, but if you didn’t figure it out yet, you can hold down on the rhythm button to access the rhythm volume.
@@tylerrosier1068 do you have to do that each time for every single loop or can you adjust it globally?
Can you send the drums to separate speakers? (Drum tracks sound bad through amp and cab)
The sound from the pedal replay is very similar, to what we hear when you play, my RC-5 replay sounds a bit muffled, is it a faulty device?
I upgraded from RC-3 last November and I had about 20 songs recorded and saved. I play full backing with tempo set, guitar, bass then extra guitar. I noticed recently that even though they were saved it put the generic beat under the songs in the incorrect tempo! I put a lot of effort into these and now they’re useless.
I’m very very angry now as it seems this thing scrambled and botched my tracks for some reason.
Anybody else experience this?
Quick question. How do I get my guitar to sound louder than the looper? When I turn down the volume of the looper the guitar also gets softer. I'm trying to build my own backing track on the looper but want the looped tracks to be in the background and not so up front. thanks.
I've had MANY loopers, three this year alone..... boss my favorite. I've purchased two RC-5 about a year apart. This second one seems to have a volume issue with the drum tracks being excessivly LOUD! since I never experienced the problem with the first RC-5 ..... I'm gluessing the second one might be damaged? I have tried finding a global volume control with no avail. I ran a factory reset twice, with no change. I hate to sell it and pass on the problem to someone else, I also hate to take a $175 dollar loss! Any thoughts?
I come from the infinity looper and I change few days ago to the boss rc 5 because I reduce the side of my pedalboard. I use ableton as a midi master clock for the looper and I use to Record at the start of the next measure after the switch has been pressed. That's work perfect in the infinity but I don't see this option in the Boss. How can I do this or similar with the RC 5?
Can you get the drums to save on the loops so you can hear them on the pc?
1 question here!
Let’s say I set the footswitch to “MEMORY INC”.
If I’m playing memory01 then press that footswitch (so it changes to memory02), will it continuously play memory02 right away?
Or I have to press the pedal again to play that memory02 loop?
If it plays right away, I could use memory01 as the verse section, and memory02 as the chorus section.
This is a killer feature for me and I can’t see anyone demo it. I really wanna know if it works before buying the RC-5 + footswitch combo.
Thanks in advance!
Question: the unit has drum fills, but how does one use/trigger/activate them?!? Only thru pedals?
At the beggining of the video, how did you manage the loop not to record immediately after the button was pressed, but, the record started when precisely you started playing guitar?
Setting
Thanks for this! Maybe someone can help me with this, none of the tutorials I've watched cover it: How do I record just 1 phrase and then stop it without playing it back right away? If I record and then press the pedal (be it short, long, twice,...) it immediately plays back. But I want to just stop it and play back later on. Is this possible?
Nice video, thanks! Does this pedal just have a basic metronome click as an option within the rhythm presets? I don’t want any of that drum machine stuff… Just a simple tick tick tick.
It does!
How many tracks can it loop?
can you plug in headphones directly to the looper?
Can u pick out an individual channel? Say like pick channel A & record 1 loop of music & send that loop to only channel A? And then choose channel B & record something completely different & send that to channel B only? That would be so cool. Being able to split the channels like that & stack competing recordings would be a game changer for anyone.
Can I get this to stop with one press? 🤔
How many layers can you play? Infinite? or there is a limit?
Does it have the quantization feature?
I just got one but it may be faulty? The looper is very loud and with my guitar full on it is barely audible over the looper. The "Loop Level" doesn't make any difference from zero to 100. Shouldn't that be the way to turn down the looper volume?
what was the song called in the looping demo!!
New to electric pedals does this have a drum machine built in? So could I plug into my blues jnr and drums will start playing and then I can start playing?
Yes, I believe this has 50+ drum rhythm on it and you can download more, you can change the tempo of the rthytm pattern selected
Helpful video. It should be noted this comes with no manual nor does the Boss website offer one. I am sure I am not getting all I could be out of mine as I have no patience for playing around in a bunch of menus that are not intuitive. At least I can save some loops after watching this.
Owners manuals plus reference guides in various languages are available on the Boss website product page. You can also download the Boss Tone Studio software which can be used to import/export files directly to the unit. www.boss.info/global/support/by_product/rc-5/
Bought mine off sweetwater, mine came with a manual.
Yes, they do come with a manual if purchased brandnew. I purchased mine yesterday from GC and the manual was there, although it doesn't go into great detail.
@@SeabeeBuckeye This is correct, technically, though the “manual” it comes with is more of a quick start guide. For example it is advertised as being able to upload backing tracks...definitely won’t find that in the “manual”. Manuals should explain how to use all the features otherwise label it a quick start guide.
How do you control volume of beat?
Odd time are possible? (11/8 7/4 5/8)?
Hello. I just want to use a simple amp with rc5 and a few effects. When I change the amp effect, the effect of the looper recording also changes. Can I prevent this? Is there such a setting in rc5?
No, the sound is in the amp and not in the pedal. You can buy some separate pedals to mimic the sound you want you guitar to sound too.
When I want to save a loop it says 'Stop All'. How can I save a loop that's playing?