Boss RC-1 5-stars Reviews

Great pedal for easy looping

I bought this pedal a few years back and I haven't been disappointed once. There's no clicking noise when you turn it on. The sound isn't affected by the pedal recording it.

I use it with multiple pedals in front of it, which works perfectly.

Another great feature of this guitar is that you can plug in 2 instruments (ex. guitar in mono A input and Keyboard in B input) and still go to one amp output while still having both instruments' sounds.

Great pedal!

Great looper with the standard Boss quality.

The flashing LED's is a huge plus.

The absolute tool for practicing alone at home or even in a standalone live set.

easy to use

Perfect looper for live play. Easy to use, no hussle and same sound quality as RC-300 Small and easy to use. Just limited to 123 minutes. Great if you record your loops on stage. If you need a memory, you'll need a 'bigger box'.

Basic Looper

For those who want a straight forward looper to practice with, this is perfect--no fuss with controls and easy to use.

best of the simple loopers

The boss rc-1 is the best of the simple loopers out there. The end.

Sound: Clean signal without any hum or any other noises.

Features & handling: as simple as it gets,i love the visual display of the loop length-thats the reason i bought it over the ditto.

With only one button you press once to start recording, press one more time to instantly overdub. There is also an option to configure pedal to start the playback on the second tap without overdubbing.

After a while i bought an extra pedal (used for 10e) to stop the loop instantly.

Quality: It is a boss pedal, enough said!

Definitely recommended!

Value for Money

The Boss RC-1 is as easy to master as it gets.A click to record , a click to stop, two clicks to pause , and a long press on to delete your loop. It takes 15 seconds to learn how to use it.

Having said that I bought the particular pedal to work on my phrasing and groove with my bass guitar. A loop pedal will expose all your sound vagueness and technical aspects that a player might lack. I write and rewrite my basslines or my guitar themes which makes it a great tool for studying.Sometimes I write a bassline and let the loop on to grab my acoustic guitar and add themes over it

Soundwise it is very clear the level will give you the ease of listening to your loop to any level you wish to , so that your loop can become a good background to your soloes.

Its biggest advantage and disadvantage is that it does record anything you play and if you do not have a good sense of rythm , learning to loop might be a hard task at the beginning. So, if you do purchase this amazing pedal , don't get frustrated if your playing cannot make it fully usable.

Overall it is a great tool for studying , listening to yourself and even helping you monitor something that your are up to composing.

Great looper that I use for practicing alone at home. One of the features that I love is visual display of the loop length which is extremely helpful, especially if you don't have any previous experience with looper pedal. Also the boss-style silent switch is great, since it doesn't make annoying click and is very easy to engage and disengage. Press once to start recording, press one more time to instantly overdub. There is an option to configure pedal to start the playback on the second tap without overdubbing, which might be useful for some players. The only caveat is that erasing the loop (hold the switch for a second) would initially playback around a second of recorded loop, which makes it not very usable in live situation, but external footswitch totally solves the problem. Looper stores in memory whatever you recorded on it even when turned off, but there is no option to store multiple loops and switch between them like using presets. Build quality is perfect like on any other Boss stompbox, it is very solid and feels like this pedal would perfectly work for ages without failing. There was no AC adapter included and I've never tried running it from batteries - I'm powering the pedal with my power supply and don't have any hum or noise issues. In overall, great and very easy to use looper for home practice, which can be extended for live situations with external footswitch.

Straightforward Quality Looper

I'm pretty low-tech,largely analogue gear,haven't even managed to master a multi-fx(bought a Digitech RP back in the 90's which is still NOS somewhere)and still mourn the days of casette 8 tracks so held off buying a looper for a good while...even the fairly simple looking Digitech units...but then I saw this and decided to take the plunge...yep,I can manage it,using it just to throw down a bass or rhythm backing and working away after that..so that to me means its a success!

I would have no use for it live so can only say it seems very easy to use if you were to gig it.For my use at moderate volumes it sounds v.good esp as I'm simply running it through whatever miscellaneous amp is available...very happy with this purchase which displays all the traditional solidity and functionality of BOSS products..

Simple looper

I bought this pedal as I wanted a cheap looper to use or improv. As it is a Boss pedal, I expected it to be good and it is. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a cheap and simple but yet still reliable looper