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Post subject: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:36 pm
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Okay, so not a Fender topic, but here I go.

I just received a BOSS RC-3 Loop Station and I having trouble using it. The problem is me. I'm not a tech guy, and I have trouble interpretting instructions from manuals. I'll read the instructions and sometimes things don't work the way they are supposed, or at least how I think they are supposed to.

What I need is a great website with videos or PowerPoint slides showing step-by-step instructions for all of the features. I've never be very good with electronics which have 1 buttom that does 5 things. This is why I never bought a Line6 Pod, and all my great is analog.

I'd just about pay for a personal course on how to use this thing properly.
Any advice and or support would be greatly appreciated.


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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 3:02 pm
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There used to be a Boss User's Group - not sure if it's still up and running, but maybe worth checking...good luck!

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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:01 pm
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try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PW9fTY-iE8


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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:03 pm
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Plus you can do this with it, this guy tears it up on the guitar, he had to use a fire extinguisher to put out the flames when he got done!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qpuAvDanY4


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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:46 am
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paris wrote:
... I just received a BOSS RC-3 Loop Station and I having trouble using it. The problem is me. I'm not a tech guy, and I have trouble interpretting instructions from manuals. ...
    Hi Paris. Reading your post I had a flashback to when I was trying out the RC-3 at a local music store because I felt the same way. What added the proverbial insult to injury was the teenage clerk telling me how "easy" this pedal is to you use and how "anyone" can learn to use it. :evil:

    I bought the pedal and managed to muddle through the manual with a lot of trial and error attempts to get it to work. Sorry I can't offer any practical advice on how to use the RC-3 but at least I can offer a sympathetic "been there done that". :)

    Cheers!
    BM

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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:14 am
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Hi guys: not a direct answer to the question asked, but a bit of me does empathise with someone finding a pedal overly complicated and hard to get a handle on. That can often apply especially to loopers, which can be laden with features that permit you to pretty much become a one-man band if you like, but can be a bit OTT if all you want is to lay down a quick pattern to jam against, which is probably what most of us do most of the time with these units.

So just a suggestion for anyone who's looking at loopers and hasn't pulled the trigger yet. Fellow Forum user The_Nutter very generously bought me one for my last birthday: he got me the TC Electronic Ditto, and I can't recommend it highly enough. It does just what practicing guitarists want, and nothing else. One knob for level, one button - that's all. You tap the button once to begin your recording, tap again to start the playback. You can do that again to overdub extra parts, with unlimited overdubs. You can tap-and-hold for undo and redo, and you can double-tap to pause or then hold to clear. Up to five minutes of loop time.

And that's it. Nuttin' else to know.

The entire instructions fill a piece of paper the size of a credit card. A great little gizmo. Affordable, simple, quick and intuitive to learn.

Anyhow. An option.

Cheers - C

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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:54 pm
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I'm the same way I look 1 button that does 1 thing. I like my amps simple also I don't need or want a bunch of knobs.


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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:00 pm
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Ceri wrote:
The entire instructions fill a piece of paper the size of a credit card. A great little gizmo. Affordable, simple, quick and intuitive to learn.

Anyhow. An option.

Cheers - C


+1

I own a ditto as well and it's great. I tried to like the RC-2 but just couldn't bond with it. It's not that it wasn't a good looper, it was the fact that since I didn't use it frequently I was always having to resort to the manual/utube for refresher courses. The ditto is simple, effective, small, inexpensive, and does the job.

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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:21 pm
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Guitar teacher Ben Sherman at Coffey Music in Westminster MD might be able to help. Website is benshermanguitar.com


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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:07 pm
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Bluer Monkey wrote:
paris wrote:
... I just received a BOSS RC-3 Loop Station and I having trouble using it. The problem is me. I'm not a tech guy, and I have trouble interpretting instructions from manuals. ...
    Hi Paris. Reading your post I had a flashback to when I was trying out the RC-3 at a local music store because I felt the same way. What added the proverbial insult to injury was the teenage clerk telling me how "easy" this pedal is to you use and how "anyone" can learn to use it. :evil:

    I bought the pedal and managed to muddle through the manual with a lot of trial and error attempts to get it to work. Sorry I can't offer any practical advice on how to use the RC-3 but at least I can offer a sympathetic "been there done that". :)

    Cheers!

    BM

Thanks for your stpory. It's good to know that I am not alone.

I think the problem is not necessarily the pedal, or its design, but the manual and the fact that I have nothing to compare with what I'm doing with the pedal. For instance, the instructions explain the steps for "Count-in Recording." Pretty helpful tool, but when I perform the steps, I have no way of knowing if I've been successful. A little display indicating that information would be helpful.

Online videos of people using the thing, doesn't really help very much. I really need a person in from of me showing me step-by-step how things work.


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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:10 pm
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oldguy101 wrote:
Guitar teacher Ben Sherman at Coffey Music in Westminster MD might be able to help. Website is benshermanguitar.com


Thanks! I'll have to look him up.


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Post subject: Re: BOSS RC-3 Loop Station
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:14 pm
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To the entire thread-

Overall, I'm having a lot of fun playing with the RC-3. I like having ainstant drum beat, tap tempo and 3 hrs of recording time. I'm still using it like a blindfolded person walking in a maze, but like anything else, I need to work through it. I am going to look up Ben Sherman and see if he can help me get a handle on it.


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