The looper has had troubles for quite a while because the LED was giving up. It's an excellent unit but it's at least six or seven years old and has been beaten hard. It was another survivor of the bike (i.e. scooter) crash in Nice.
The symptom is the LED would flicker so much as to make it impossible to read. After turning it off and letting it take its time to start back up again, maybe fifteen minutes or so, the LED would work and life is good.
Now the LED has failed altogether. The unit is off but the plan is to try one more time to bring it back up again. If that's successful, I can try to extract anything loaded to it so that can be loaded to another one sometime.
Which brings us to the problem as there's no possible way I could afford another one. This was total despair on seeing it and it happened this morning so it's been percolating in the back of my head.
The flash: eBay
There are Boss RC-50 loopers listed for $299 to about $340 and, sure, that's a lot but a new one is around $600 and the newer model likely more than that. I still don't have a solid solution but it was a huge boost to discover that. At $600, there's no chance as my income for a month is $770. That ain't going to work. At $299, it's still big difficulty but it may be possible somehow or other.
Now the biggest question is whether I can salvage the loops on it. We shall see. It could use a rest and so could I. So, tomorrow.
There's no question of the Boss RC-50 for me, even in the presence of a newer model as it's, by far, the best and most flexible looper I have ever used. My history with loopers goes back to the tape-loop Echoplex of the sixties / seventies. That sort of thing was way high-tech at the time and it looks kind of primitive now but it was a gas to use.
The symptom is the LED would flicker so much as to make it impossible to read. After turning it off and letting it take its time to start back up again, maybe fifteen minutes or so, the LED would work and life is good.
Now the LED has failed altogether. The unit is off but the plan is to try one more time to bring it back up again. If that's successful, I can try to extract anything loaded to it so that can be loaded to another one sometime.
Which brings us to the problem as there's no possible way I could afford another one. This was total despair on seeing it and it happened this morning so it's been percolating in the back of my head.
The flash: eBay
There are Boss RC-50 loopers listed for $299 to about $340 and, sure, that's a lot but a new one is around $600 and the newer model likely more than that. I still don't have a solid solution but it was a huge boost to discover that. At $600, there's no chance as my income for a month is $770. That ain't going to work. At $299, it's still big difficulty but it may be possible somehow or other.
Now the biggest question is whether I can salvage the loops on it. We shall see. It could use a rest and so could I. So, tomorrow.
There's no question of the Boss RC-50 for me, even in the presence of a newer model as it's, by far, the best and most flexible looper I have ever used. My history with loopers goes back to the tape-loop Echoplex of the sixties / seventies. That sort of thing was way high-tech at the time and it looks kind of primitive now but it was a gas to use.
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