HOW TO Loop Pedal: Boss RC-30 (all you need to know)

A fast, easy, straightforward video on everything you need to know and then some on how to use the looper pedal: The Boss RC-30
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[@lrowlands53]

Yeah, just the most f-ing helpful tutorial on the RC30 anywhere. Makes you think those other tubers don't really know their stuff.

[@Kellsstringz]

Wow damn this is the sweetest message ever!!! Thank you!!!

[@lrowlands53]

@@Kellsstringz Happy to oblige. Down here in Aussieland we do often say bluntly how things occur for us - no guns to speak of so we are a bit relaxed about many things. Keep those notes happening. Cheers.

[@no-brakes]

I wish I saw ur vid 4 years ago when I got the rc30. Finally, I'm starting to use it thanks to you!

[@Ponty30]

Me too😄

[@RobertRoweMusic]

I've watched a lot of Boss RS-30 tutorial videos, and this one was the shortest, most-concise, fun one of them all. Where other's spent 30 minutes (or more) going over everything, you distilled it down to just over 6 minutes, without missing any of the details! Subscribing to see what else you do!

[@Kellsstringz]

Wow thank you so much Robert! That’s honestly one of the coolest comments I’ve got. I really appreciate that and I’m so glad the video was helpful ! 🙏👊🏼🙌🏼

[@taticarvalho7015]

Even the oficial Boss video doesn't show all possibilities

[@papersleeves]

I was gonna say. Yeah, not too in the weeds and highlighting some elements I was tryna figure out. Cheers!

[@nickcarlson6860]

Ok, I have looked ALL over KZbin and the internet for a good description or demonstration of how to do the second track. I’m pretty good on RC1 and RC3 and can do a lot on RC30 but I just wasn’t getting the second track. Your video really helped me. THANK YOU!

[@Kellsstringz]

Nick so glad this helped you figure it out! Thanks for the message!

[@fatmatblue1]

The very best “ how to” I have found on the internet.

[@Kellsstringz]

Thanks!!!

[@brianlietz]

Thanks for keeping it down to 6 minutes. I've already forgot pretty much everything that you said, so now I have to go watch it again.

[@Kellsstringz]

Haha thanks I'm glad it was not too long. Hope it was helpful! 🙌🏼🙏

[@paulm4415]

Very helpful, many thanks

[@kiercronin1442]

Watched this yesterday..... coming back today after using the pedal to tell you this was a great video.... helped loads. Thank you.

[@MONITOSPISANDOPUCHOS]

Excellent! Thanks

[@amoblahblah]

Thank you for the concise demo 🙌🙌🙌

[@dereklynch2576]

So glad I found your video. I purchased this loop station from Guitar Center online used and it came with no manual. Thank you, you made my day.

[@Kellsstringz]

Derek - that is so great to hear! Happy Looping 👍🎼!

[@Robin_0011]

Great video honestly! You went straight to the point! This was all I needed to know!

[@Kellsstringz]

Thank you Robin! Glad to hear that - I really appreciate the comment and I'm so glad the vid was helpful! 🙏🙌🏼

[@spritualdiary]

This is the best tutorial i found... thanks fot not talking to much... but showing and demonstrating it all.. ..thanks again.. its really helpfull

[@Kellsstringz]

Really glad to hear it!

[@TreyAgnew810]

short video, but the best one i've seen on the RC-30. Well done, thank you so much!!

[@liamsteigerwald9560]

wooahhhhh cooollll maaaannnn thanks for the video!

[@caitline8354]

Thanks for this very helpful! Always wanted to know how to loop the loop

[@Kellsstringz]

Thanks for the message Caitlin! Loop on 👍✌️!

[@polish_king98]

Wow, I have had this pedal for years and I didn't realize you could switch between the tracks with the foot pedal. I feel ashamed lol. Thanks for this amazing tutorial!

[@Kellsstringz]

Haha don't feel ashamed at all! It's a complicated pedal! Glad the vid was helpful - thanks for the message🙏 🙌🏼

[@ichbinberta]

Thank you for showing the Loop Peal, can't wait to get one soon :)

[@Kellsstringz]

Most def! Happy looping - Lmk which one you get!

[@lautarorussell4198]

Great video! Thank you

[@Kellsstringz]

Glad to hear - thanks!

[@TMoody]

You are awesome.

[@elementgypsy]

thanks. Lots to learn

[@Kellsstringz]

yw - yes most def!

[@actiontw6653]

Nice

[@PaulKater]

I found out that loop stations exist only a few days ago. Thank you for making this so very clear with fun examples.

[@Kellsstringz]

Glad to hear you've discovered the world of looping! Glad my video was helpful - Thanks for writing and happy looping!

[@PaulKater]

@@Kellsstringz Thank you. I found an RC-30 on ebay that's going to be mine soon. :)

[@Kellsstringz]

@@PaulKater That's great! Congrats! Are you going to use it on the theremin? That would be amazing! You might like my Billie Eilish loop cover of bad guy because I show the loop pedal and exactly what I'm doing in order to change tracks etc. Happy Looping Paul!

[@PaulKater]

@@Kellsstringz Found the video and watched it (1st time ;-) Yes, I intend to use the looper on the theremin. I already expanded the 'armoury' with a synth-box which works amazingly well (I put up a small demo of it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/maS9fYpvnMuJd8k - I honestly had no idea what I was doing ;-) This is going to be an interesting journey. Thank you, Kells, for guiding me along the way! Just by watching your videos I already learnt a lot.

[@Kellsstringz]

@@PaulKater I’m stoked for you for your journey I think it’s absolutely epic idea to merge the theremin w experimental pedal work and loops 🙌👏 ! So glad my videos were of some help or inspo!

[@kiosko33hz]

Hi Kells,thanks for this demo, not only informative but fun to watch:) Do you know if you can use the effects without using the looper? If i wish to plug in a synth and use the lofi effect for example, and record it to the DAW, would it work? Peace.

[@Kellsstringz]

Hey Kiosko - thanks for checking out the video and the message! I don’t believe you can use the effects running thru the looper live I think you can just put them on what is looped. You could totally throw down a loop and run that from the pedal w the effect on it into your DAW and then edit it from the daw but yeah that’s probably not exactly what you’re looking for. I would prob recommend finding a good Lofi plugin for your DAW and run your midi keys/synth through that for recording.. If I run into anything good will shoot a message on here - Peace ✌🏼

[@HOL]

Super to the point vid. How does one stop it replaying at end of the loop? Very annoying for live playing

[@Kellsstringz]

THank you! Glad to hear it was helpful. Not sure exactly the question so I'll just over answer here haha but you basically stop the loop by hitting the right foot pedal, if you have multiple (2 ) tracks going you hit the right pedal twice fast to stop both at the same time. Then to delete the loops you hold down the right pedal with the top of your foot and pivot to hit the left pedal with your heal so they're both being pressed down at the same time starting with the right pedal... this will DELETE / CLEAR the whole loop so don't do that if you want to save it but if you want it all deleted you can do that. the screen will indicate that it's cleared/deleted. Does that make sense or answer your question? Let me know if not and I'll see if I can help further!

[@HOL]

@@Kellsstringz Thanks, Actually I worked it out using the One Shot option so track auto-stops at end but I think your response will be helpful to others.

[@davidgrunstra3680]

How do you one foot erase? With the rc20 you hold the stop for two seconds.

[@MihailRock1985]

Очень крутой супер, спасибо красавица за обзор 🥰

[@benkribben3620]

haha you're funny! great and usefull explanation

[@Kellsstringz]

Thanks Ben 😁

[@ruudheijblom]

Hello, thanks, I have recorded water stream on track 1 and birds sound at track 2. for 2 different episodes in the song.How can I swiftly change from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 1 track. Any Tips?

[@Kellsstringz]

Hey Ruud - Sounds like some awesome loops you've got going on. Two ways you can flip from one track to the other and play - if u go to timestamp about 2:55 in the video I think I demonstrate this. With Feet: If you hold down on the right foot pedal, you'll see the light jump from track 1 to track 2, hold it down again (the right foot pedal) to switch back from track 2 to 1. By Hand: You can do the same thing by hand by actually clicking on the lights buttons under select. That is honestly probably the fastest way to do it if your hands are free. If you're looking to do a lot more quick turn ons and off on multiple tracks with singing for instance and samples, you might be interested in the (more expensive but more diff tracks available) Boss RC-505 tabletop looper. I don't like work for Boss or anything I'm just enthusiastic about loopers and pedals in general. Hope this is at all helpful and feel free to shoot any other questions! happy loopin!

[@vincelujan2873]

Can you play track one (let’s say it’s a percussive beat) on a one measure loop and then play track 2 (guitar part) on a longer 3 measure loop? Every time I try it forces me to play the track 2 loop the same length as the track 1 loop

[@Kellsstringz]

This is a great question Vince. Basically the very first track you record sets the timeframe of everything else. So you can’t really have the first loop be 2 measures and the second (within the same song) be 3.. you could put down a percussive 4 measure loop and then add a loop to it that doesn’t use all 4 measures but maybe has something in the second and fourth measure, for example. Does that make sense ? Hope that’s helpful. Rock on 🤘🏼

[@vincelujan2873]

@@Kellsstringz it does make sense. My goal was to make a simple percussion loop with my guitar and then on the second track loop it longer with Guitar parts but seems that won’t work. It’s ok I’ll figure something out.

[@zhonglaizhu5049]

can i have my keyboard and guitar both connect with rc30 at the same time？

[@Kellsstringz]

Hey Yes you can if you patch one via quarter inch cable and the other through an XLR cable.. Probably it would be quarter inch cable out from your keyboard into the looper and if you have a DI for the guitar you can patch the guitar into the DI quarter inch and out of the DI with an XLR cable into the looper. Does that make sense ?

[@meganh.9044]

Hi I really like your video, but I have a problem When I record the tune there is always a short pause after and then it starts to play again. That's why the loop isn't smooth. I don't think it should be like that and I don't know what to do.

[@Kellsstringz]

Hey Megan! Thanks for checking out the video and your message! Try hitting the left pedal right when you’re finished playing what you want to loop. I can do a video on this.. depending on how the measures of your loop line up you want to click a pedal to stop the loop (that you’re playing / recording live) on the downbeat of the measure that the loop is supposed to start again in. It’s a bit complicated to try and explain but give it a try and please let me know if any of that makes sense. If it’s still confusing, let me know. 👊🏼🙌🏼

[@jeffrowlette]

I mean really REALLY pretty 😍

[@My6stringer]

You have the best tutorial on the Boss rc-30 and you're very cute !!...could we get married ?

[@TusetDwiz]

Quicksilver is now playing violin

[@Kellsstringz]

Oh wicked I'm gonna check it out

[@alfiemusic1370]

How many loops can it do

[@Kellsstringz]

Good question Alfie - First off you have 2 separate tracks to each loop ie you have two tracks to keep layering over in one loop. You can save / "write" up to 99 loops saved in the loopstation but ALSO you can save and transfer your loops into your computer as WAV files via the USB 2.0 port from the loopstation. Does that make sense?

[@alfiemusic1370]

@@Kellsstringz yes that’s very helpful thank you

[@alfiemusic1370]

@@Kellsstringz actually one more question. How many loops can you record on each track. Like how many times can you overdub. If that makes sense

[@Kellsstringz]

@@alfiemusic1370 hey Alfie yeah totally... basically I think you can just keep layering and layering as much as you want... the issue you will end up having, though, is after two many of the same instrument’s layers on one track , it will get muddy.. this is due to too much of the same frequencies clogging up a track. Does that make sense? There’s nothing differentiating the EQs of the instrument. So one thing that can help this is make sure you don’t later too much of the same thing. Change up the ranges and the types of layers. ie if you’re using guitar have some rhythm and lead and not too many lead in the same range. You could use the other track for layering voice or beatbox or bass. You can turn on a pedal to change the sound or tone of a layer. On my Billie Eilish cover of bad guy I use an octave pedal to make the pizz layer sound like a bass for eg. it doesn’t compete frequency wise with the other higher strings that come later.

[@alfiemusic1370]

@@Kellsstringz great that’s very helpful I’ve made my mind up

[@jeffrowlette]

You're pretty 😍

[@lm4112]

I really like how the only dialog is necessary to the looping. So many tutorials are loaded with too much talk

[@johnnyhaiku8521]

You are such a babe! I think i'm in love!

[@pyannaguy4361]

Hi, Ready for the dumbest question EVER? How do you turn it on? I can't find an ON switch. Yeah...No, seriously.

[@Kellsstringz]

It’s okay - not a dumb question! It is a bit tricky bc there’s no on/off switch. First, you have to make sure it has power source by either batteries or power cable. Then, once you plug in your instrument or mic input +output cables (I can’t remember which one is the trigger) but once they’re plugged in, the whole pedal will turn on. Hope that’s helpful and happy loopin!

[@pyannaguy4361]

@@Kellsstringz Thanks a million for the quick & patient response, Sister! I've tried those things but I think, since it's an old, well-worn unit I borrowed to see if I should buy one, the problem could be in the power cord or somewhere else. With simple-to-follow tutorials like yours, though, I feel pretty confident about getting "the hang" of it. I bought a Helicon VL3 Extreme Harmonizer & the looper on that insane mega-gadget almost scared me away from looping forever! Thanks, again!

[@Kellsstringz]

@@pyannaguy4361 check the power chord to make sure it's the right one... with THIS particular BOSS pedal, it has a designated power cable so you can't unfortunately just plug a regular 1 spot into it, if that makes sense? In terms of getting one, I personally, obviously haha think it's a great pedal! It depends on what you want to do with it really... it's a thousand times better than the next step down of the boss loopers which are around the 100-150$ price range... and it doesn't have as many channels as the next step UP which would be the RC-300 which is about $600 so to me it's right in that sweet spot coming in at about $300 for just the pedal if you buy it new. I've never used the Helicon before... it sounds a bit difficult.. cool that there's a harmonizer too but yeah. The nice thing about this looper is it also has all the effects I went over in the video. In any case, best of luck with all your looping and thanks for the questions. Definitely happy to help!

[@pyannaguy4361]

@@Kellsstringz It was really nice of U to give me the time & attention you did, my friend..& I'm almost embarrassed to confess that I must have simply not been thorough enough to have really inserted that 1/4 in. into the right output properly, because ONE more solid try & the unit finally came on! My face is red! BUT..in the meantime, a looper hero, Reggie Watts also was nice enough to give me a bit of time AND I watched his demo of the EHX 95000, & as sophisticated as it looks, it also looks quite learnable & intuitive. I'm thinking I'll take the plunge!

[@Kellsstringz]

@@pyannaguy4361 no worries at all - always happy to help peeps with the loop de loop. Huge fan of R Watts what a legend. I haven't messed with the EHX yeah it definitely fits into the next price range up loopers with loads more channels and yeah I bet it's just a monster looper. It has a built in quantizer AND reverse which is awesome. If that's Reggie's looper then it's gotta be fire. Good luck @pyannaguy and happy looping!