Raised in Hawaii, living in Washington, DC. I sound like Sublime + Johnny Cash + a healthy dose of honesty. Videos are about looping with the Boss RC-300, songwriting, and how to do stuff as a DIY musician. Trying to upload often and keeping it family friendly. Subscribe to my RU-vid channel and then start digging through all the curated playlists I've made for you.
I’m thinking about getting one of these, or at least one this size. (I saw your comment about it bowing in the middle). How heavy is it with all your pedals placed? Is it too heavy to lug around? Have you replaced it due to the bowing and what would you replace it with? I’ve had a Helix and now Fractal FM9 that I had road cases custom made and it’s SO heavy to lug around.
I’ve gone back to a smaller board. It was just too big, bowed, and when it was fully loaded with pedals it was a beast to carry. I too have done the helix etc for a time. I prefer now to just have exactly what I know I love with the option to use analog dials and knobs to fix anything in the moment instead of using a digital interface.
It adds this bassy effect to your guitar sound (from what I have looked into), adding this really thick sound. It’s basically the Boss Octave OC-3, but for $40. If you listen to CKY and how their music sounds bassy and grainy, that’s because they use Octave Pedals
Now, I want to record a mixed signal composed of sound coming from mic and sound coming from my laptop (RU-vid music). Laptop is connected to USB to RC300 and sending sound to RC300,, but when trying to record on Audacity using RC300 as recording device, only the mic is present.
Thanks for the info dude !! Just had a couple of questions. Do you use balanced cables for the outputs of the boss ? Also if you put track 3 as a main left to 100% will it only come out on the left speaker ?
I'm surprised that nobody is moaning that it's made of plastic... For those of you aren't buying these pedals because of negative reviews regarding the casing just remember that car body parts and construction site helmets are also made of the same material. They are NOT going to break unless you are an absolute animal so ignore the daft "iT'S mAde Of pLAsTIc" comments. I own loads of Beringer pedals and they are ace for the money, you can buy two or three for the price of a Boss pedal.
So, if you're a CKY fan, it does their songs well. Lots of stoner rock, actually. It adds a LOW and a high voicing to your playing, making you fat, yet self harmonized higher as well, at the same time. Like playing guitar with a buddy who can match your leads in that awesome 80's hair metal way, BUT, you also got the bass line in it coming through. So damn cool. Ordered 3, one for me, 2 for my students.
What do I know….? I know I don’t know how to use it…. and I think you may not know either…. and now you know I don’t know and the internet world now knows we both don’t know anything about the pedal
Thanks for the video. I see how this works for recorded tracks, but all my "live" playing either on top of a recorded track or before I record one is muted, right? Maybe I fundamentally dont understand how to connect this looper, but i cant get this to work unless I choose main or main + sub...but i dont want that because then it sends drums / vocals and keyboard into my guitar amp instead of my PA. Can anyone point me a setup with these: 1) guitar w/ guitar amp using INST L (mono). My amp has an fx loop (i dont even know if need to use the loop, but assume I might if i wanted it to play back guitar through the guitar amp?) Ideally, i can play "live" guitar stuff through the amp and my recorded guitar tracks/loops also play back just through the guitar amp. (This last part was covered in the video very well!) 2) a mic for vocals. I have a PA but i think the mic goes directly into the rc300 "mic" port if i want to do beatbox loops to do beatboxing right. It would be great if the vocals played back just tbrough the PA and not both guitar amp and PA. 3) a keyboard into INST R. Would like it to come out just through PA/keyboard amp. Is this possible? Thanks
Great video!! One question. Why did u mute the input out? we need live signal too that might be played right.? Or u use an AB switch before looper so input is always going to the main mix. Can u help me understand the logic here please.
Quick question for you Marc (and the audience). I'm still struggling with my live looping setup. I want to lay down a rhythm track, anywhere from 4-8 bars. This will play through the whole song. I want to be able to add layers of other rhythm components mid-loop, say from bars 3-5. Currently when I do this, my consecutive loops start at the same point as the main loop (bar 1), and therefore are out of time. I note I can overcome this by switching record/reaction to 'dub' as you have above, but then I don't want the dub mode on automatically for consecutive loops. I want to create 6 individual tracks that can be overdubbed but won't align to bar 1. Essentially, I want all 6 tracks to work like an independent looper with overdub, but not the automatic overdub that seems to occur when record/reaction is set to 'dub' as above. Many thanks in advance.
Wow thank you for this very useful video. Two questions: do these routing settings apply to, say, memory #3 only or do they affect the whole system, in general? And when you set the input on MUTE, does it mean I can only hear the different sounds when they're recorded? I didn't get this part
Would it be possible to still have the "overall stuff" on the main right for example? I'm using the rc 300 with a kemper and I would need to return the overall signal back to the kemper for its fx return. I don't know if this would work since I set all the tracks to a specific out with the output Jack's or am I missing something here?
Juts stumbed across your video, I've been using the RC-300 for years now live - carefully mixing the volume of every instrument every time for every gig and unless it's perfect it can sound like such a mess when it's all combined! Been searching for this answer for so long without having to get a mixer with an FX send and return so this is absolutely brilliant! Thankyou so much for taking the time to share this, I myself and it looks like many others are very appreciative! ☺
I setup the RC-300 to do the same for drum practice with each track going to individual amplifiers. The challenge sometimes is to maintain timing. The RC-300 transmits MIDI clock data at all times. I configured an Arduino to receive the MIDI data and control a strip of LEDs to flash the 1/4 notes so that a visual "click" is provided when the start is activated.
I commented in your other video, too. I have used Atomic in the past, and still own a Firebox; not anymore. I won't use their products, recommend them to anyone, and will never do business with them. Atomic amps' customer "service" doesn't exist. They simply don't reply or care about their customers. At all. They won't even prove us wrong, because they do not care. I regret sending them any money. I'll recover, but these....fraudsters.... deserve to be held accountable.
Every comment just confirms that I did the right thing in making this video. Proving there are way more people out there who’ve had similar experiences.
Good advice. Atomic amps is doing the same thing to Tonocracy software owners, with a twist. Early buyers were *offered* a refund from Atomic - who isn't refunding them either.
@@MarcAllredVideos Indeed it is. My credit card company saw it that way, though it took a couple tries because Atomic, while never replying to me, quickly replied to my credit card and said they didn't owe me a refund. After some go-around, I was able to get the refund. This alone shows that Atomic is fully aware and complicit in their actions. What else could be inferred when a company ghosts a customer ~4 months, while replying within 24 hours to a company? Clearly, they do not value customers, or honor their own words. Glad I got the money back, and never ever again will I have a thing to do with anything related to Tom King.
Thank you so much for taking that extra step to figure it out. I can’t count the number of comments or messages I’ve received on this one, and I’ve already explained it!! All the best my man🤙🏻
If you want to know what this pedal does I recommend Learning Curve and Budget Guitar Show channels on YT, they will actually show you what the pedal does not just tell you
