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Re: Boss RC-2 Shipping Now...Just Recieved Mine



Hi Krispen,
I'm a fan of your music and am grateful to you for imparting with the rest of us much valuable knowlege from the world of looping.
 
Tanx for notifying us about your acquisition of the RC2.Although I've been very fond of the idea of acquiring an Echoplex the cost and lack of local aftersales service makes it a diffult choice. I was excited about the Digitech Jam man but was dissapointed with the eventual layout and whatnot despite the massive memory capacity. I wrote to Digitech and asked if they'd consider a Pro version and their reply was kinda coy so maybe who knows ya. :) If the genius behind the great Plex could somewhat revise his designs to incorporate the use of large memories available at much lower costs these days I'm sure I'll be in the qeue with many of you guys. :)
 
Currently I'm a happy RC50 user at the moment and the machine has been somwhat of a long time looper dream come true for me. I do find the lack of feedback and multiplier function a strange non inclusion and suspec Boss was aiming for the mass "Karaoke" guitarists out there. Hehe.
 
I am very interested to see if the much luggage friendly looking RC2 can fit my needs for smaller solo gigs which I currently use the DL4 and DD20 for. One question I have is based on the strange procedure you experienced for deleting a loop. Is it possible to assign the external foot switch to delete instead?
 
Lastly I would be most grateful if I could receive a copy of the manual from you at your convenience. Thanks to you for your kind attention.
 
Regards
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 5:30 AM
Subject: Boss RC-2 Shipping Now...Just Recieved Mine

I just got my Boss RC-2 looper, as they are shipping them now...not a bad little device for a backup or basic busking gigs.  It is similar to the Boss RC-2, but more functionality built into the single button to match what can be done with the two buttons of the RC-20.  A few pros: it has undo!  It's small and a perfect match for the Roland Microcube. It has most of the features of the RC-20, including auto record, loop saving, one shot playback, etc. You can hook other Boss foot switches to it to control the functions.
 
A con: Two delete a loop, you have to press and hold the button while the looped is stopped or while it is playing (not in overdub mode). The problem is that if it is stopped, you have to hear the loop play for a few seconds before the press and hold deletes the loop.  You can apparently clear the loop out of memory with one of these external switches, but you still have to press and hold the button..so I'm not sure if it plays the loop for a few seconds or not. I have the manual if anyone has any other questions.
 
Kris
 
 
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