The Boss RC-300 is definitely superior but it also costs about $550. That is not going to happen when a used RC-50 is available for about $300. I have not seen an RC-300 listed as used and that may some distance to telling you people who buy them usually keep them until they fall through the floor.
The specific point of superiority in the RC-300 is the ability to store three hours of loops. That's excellent but I have never run out so it's good but not significant in my own context.
It's said it's easier to switch phrases on the RC-300 but all that's required for the RC-50 is to kick a button to switch between them so I'm not clear on whatever may be easier than that. Ease does not strike me as worth $250-$300 more
There is also the capability for real-time effects in the RC-300 but I don't want any effects in the looper because all are generated coming out of the mixer. Adding effects in the looper would mean effects get loaded on top of other effects and that mix invariably yields mud.
If I were buying a looper of this sophistication for the first time, I would definitely go for the RC-300 but I need 100% compatibility with the software (i.e. loops I have recorded on the sick RC-50) and there can't be the slightest deviation. It would stun me if the loops are not compatible with the RC-300 but it's never been my experience in a long, checkered history with computers that switching to a new anything will always introduce some kind of incompatibility. For my purposes, that can't be tolerated but, to start, I wouldn't hesitate on the RC-300. Go for that big recording time and use. Have a ball ... and I'll continue looking for the least-expensive RC-50.
Some take to loopers easily and others find them formidable but stay with it after you buy one as that's a pile of money to turn into a dust magnet in a corner somewhere.
Perhaps you don't want to kick up the big bucks and your purpose is to record a guitar track using chords so you can loop it and play some whizzy lead guitar over the top of it. For that circumstance, you may well be satisfied with one of the other Boss loopers as they're easy to use. Kick it once to start recording and then kick it again when you want to hear it playing back and looping. If this is satisfactory for you then save the money and go with the less-expensive unit.
Note: there is a single-phrase looper built into the Boss GT-100 guitar effects unit and it's a bit clumsy for my taste but it's effective, albeit with a relatively-short recording time. The GT-100 does not become a toy when the RC-50 is here because the latter is connected via MIDI to a drum box and the only way to play without any drums is to use the GT-100. So, it remains useful regardless of whatever other devices may be in the kit.
The RC-50 is required when I want to use multiple instruments as, here at the Rockhouse, I can play bass, keys, and guitar into it with relative-ease and all will be synced with the drum machine due to the MIDI connection which controls start / stop and tempo of the drum machine (i.e. Boss DR-600, also damaged in the Nice scooter crash and wounded but not terminal).
Research phase is completed and I'm satisfied the RC-50 will be the right move when I figure out in the next phase how that will happen.
The relief in recovering those loops is immense. Whacko!
Note. my ol' Dad said that a lot and I guess it must be Australian slang for 'really excellent' because I've never heard it here and I didn't hear it in the UK. Maybe he invented it but, whatever the genesis, I like it. Whacko!
The specific point of superiority in the RC-300 is the ability to store three hours of loops. That's excellent but I have never run out so it's good but not significant in my own context.
It's said it's easier to switch phrases on the RC-300 but all that's required for the RC-50 is to kick a button to switch between them so I'm not clear on whatever may be easier than that. Ease does not strike me as worth $250-$300 more
There is also the capability for real-time effects in the RC-300 but I don't want any effects in the looper because all are generated coming out of the mixer. Adding effects in the looper would mean effects get loaded on top of other effects and that mix invariably yields mud.
If I were buying a looper of this sophistication for the first time, I would definitely go for the RC-300 but I need 100% compatibility with the software (i.e. loops I have recorded on the sick RC-50) and there can't be the slightest deviation. It would stun me if the loops are not compatible with the RC-300 but it's never been my experience in a long, checkered history with computers that switching to a new anything will always introduce some kind of incompatibility. For my purposes, that can't be tolerated but, to start, I wouldn't hesitate on the RC-300. Go for that big recording time and use. Have a ball ... and I'll continue looking for the least-expensive RC-50.
Some take to loopers easily and others find them formidable but stay with it after you buy one as that's a pile of money to turn into a dust magnet in a corner somewhere.
Perhaps you don't want to kick up the big bucks and your purpose is to record a guitar track using chords so you can loop it and play some whizzy lead guitar over the top of it. For that circumstance, you may well be satisfied with one of the other Boss loopers as they're easy to use. Kick it once to start recording and then kick it again when you want to hear it playing back and looping. If this is satisfactory for you then save the money and go with the less-expensive unit.
Note: there is a single-phrase looper built into the Boss GT-100 guitar effects unit and it's a bit clumsy for my taste but it's effective, albeit with a relatively-short recording time. The GT-100 does not become a toy when the RC-50 is here because the latter is connected via MIDI to a drum box and the only way to play without any drums is to use the GT-100. So, it remains useful regardless of whatever other devices may be in the kit.
The RC-50 is required when I want to use multiple instruments as, here at the Rockhouse, I can play bass, keys, and guitar into it with relative-ease and all will be synced with the drum machine due to the MIDI connection which controls start / stop and tempo of the drum machine (i.e. Boss DR-600, also damaged in the Nice scooter crash and wounded but not terminal).
Research phase is completed and I'm satisfied the RC-50 will be the right move when I figure out in the next phase how that will happen.
The relief in recovering those loops is immense. Whacko!
Note. my ol' Dad said that a lot and I guess it must be Australian slang for 'really excellent' because I've never heard it here and I didn't hear it in the UK. Maybe he invented it but, whatever the genesis, I like it. Whacko!
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