BOSSRC-500 Loop Station Compact Phrase Recorder Pedal

This is by far the ultimate looper for anyone who is looking to perform solo. With the included drum section, and stored loops available, a single player should be able to entertain with just their wits and this looper. It's more looper than I'll likely ever need but rather too much than too little.

A great looper with 2 individual tracks. I tried Roland's new, over-hyped Boss RC600 but found too many bugs making it almost unusable for my recording purposes (as many users have complained about on various forums). So went with the RC500 for its ease of use while still having the same 32-bit audio quality and many of the same features as the RC 600 - for about $300 less.

Simple to use, the Boss RC500 has turned out to be a delightful companion for guitar practice, improv, jam sessions at home and live gigging. The audio quality is top notch even with saturated phrases, and the wide array of functionality and configurations allow you to personalize the hardware itself to better suit your needs. Make sure you buy the AC adapter though, as decent batteries will only last 3-4h at most. Highly recommended!

I have had this now for about a month. Really fun tool to play around with, but making a "chorus and verse" (2 parts) is not really an option unless you want to deep dive because it isn't intuitive. That is the only drawback I have found. As a looper it is awesome. The effects and little creature features are cool. I will probably sell this or trade for the 10-R but only because that model has better sounding drums to my ears. I think if this is what you are looking for you will be pleased, but watch the reviews. There are a few models of these Boss makes and they all have different pros and cons.

We went on a pedal buying spree...and now I have various photos of my partner lying on the floor looping to his hearts content with the bass, the guitar, the Korg, my electric cello, the kid screaming made up songs. Anything you can make digital and get in this little pedal, you can loop, and loop, and loop. We love the Boss line of pedals and have a couple loopers and digital delay. They are all fun, but this one (while it has a bit of a learning curve) will provide for hours and hours of fun and exploration. Just don't try to do the same thing twice...unless you're a pro! And we are not that, so we just play and are happy with whatever wild sounds we can make and then the next day we do something else. Just for us.

I've had this looper pedal about a week and have been learning how to use it for about 6 hours total time. I've not used a looper pedal prior to this one other than having an RC-5 and immediately returned it to upgrade to the RC-500. Having two tracks make the RC-500 far more useful than the RC-5 for what I wanted to do with it. I create loops of bluegrass and old time tunes that I can practice with. I also have the Boss A/B switching pedal which is a useful addition to the RC-500. I have the A/B pedal doing the memory increment and decrement. I've assigned Track 1 to Record/Play/Stop with left button on the pedal. I've made a similar assignment of Track 2 to the middle button. The right button is All Play which is also All Stop. I think I finally understand how to correctly use the Track Parallel vs Track Serial feature. I don't know that I'll ever use the Rhythm section. All it does right now is get in the way. I wish the pedal had an option to turn off that flashing light.

this thing works great, But Please read the directions you get with it.

Works as advertised and then some. Takes a little learning. But when you do , this looper does a lot