never thought I would be grooving to get down with the sickness! just bought one of these and it's shipping - sucking up every vid I can find right now - looked at Boss but decided what I really wanted, and what had always tripped me up and made me lose interest in loopers too quickly, was simplicity above all
Great show! I really appreciate seeing your methods, hearing your musical vision. There is so much more to learn when you share these less-than-obvious use scenarios. Big thanks! I have to say that omitting half the MIDI communication seems, well - I’ll say it; stupid! This is a company whose primary products lean very heavily on MIDI and they choose to build the equivalent of one walkie-talkie. I trend slightly toward cynical but facts is facts. It is not a budget unit and I expect everything.
@@martijn3151 This is a product I would neither buy nor recommend. “Sheeran?!?” What a cheese branding ploy. Headrush has told me something very important about their business in general. I appreciate the knowledge I can use to narrow my choices.
Cracking Review, really helpful. Great songs too.. I have one of these, it is my first looper and i am learning every day. This video has really helped me. Thank you
Excellent video - I really appreciate the deep dive! Can you set this up to trigger record automatically after a count in from the beat buddy? In other words, track one is armed and waiting for the Beat Buddy count in to finish before it starts to record. I do this with my Beat Buddy and EHX 1440 and I love it.
Hi. One thing you didn't seem to mention was the loop level. Am I right in assuming there's no loop level control. The RC 500 has faders as does the 300. I'm just wondering how you'd control loop levels, especially in a live situation?.
Could this be used with the Valeton GP 200 as external footswitch looper … although Valeton has a looper this may help with timing issues and Valeton has a drum machine 100 drum loops , syncs with loop too settings but I love idea of bigger pedals My Valeton is my favorite pedal ever every user patch is useable and you can make your own and buy few Metallica presets import and export also easy to load IRs too
Re: This Sheeran Looper + with BeatBuddy. Now, after having a little experience with these two units, I am finding that they do not play nice together. The problem is that the Sheeran looper, although able to receive Midi Sync, will not round off the start and end points (of your foot stomp) to the nearest measure or bar. It only registers the in and out points to the next or previous midi clock beat, whichever is closest.  It is important to understand that midi clock beats can be of increments of a 16th note, 8th note etc. , but it does not round them off to the nearest measure or bar, which causes a problem because it leaves no room for human error . This is a feature of many loopers which is called quantization. The sheeran looper + has no ability to control or edit this . this feature is desirable because it eliminates the need to be absolutely precise on hitting with your foot the In and outpoints of the loop. Having them round off to the nearest start of the measure or end of the measure (Barr) allows a comfort zone for human error in terms of timing . So consequently, in the sheeran looper if you happen to be off even by a 16th note between the start and the endpoint of your foot stomp, it will eventually drift out of sync between the loop and the beats of the beat buddy. So yes, you can sync the units together, but without the quantization the two units do not continue to sync together in terms of bars and eventually drift apart. It’s like a bad marriage.
have you been able to apply separate effects to your mic and your guitar? i do loops and want to have a nice clean mic'd acoustic looping and then electric guitar over it
Like your headrush a step below is the Valeton GP 200 has clock syncing for looping built in drum machine tap tempo and a dial to adjust tempo but my problem was first attempt loop I was doing can’t get no satisfaction and I tried to make fuzz preset and clean for acoustic but when you switch patch mode the fuzz patch becomes clean and zeros it out. So I know by watching your video I need to upgrade my FS5 to a FS6 I’m believing it can do it because second guitar line for acoustic and taking away my original issue. I don’t have your voice so I won’t be stealing your awesome mash but I’ll do something similar with Johnny Cash and few other baritone
Awesome review. Did you provide Headrush with your feedback on why it is they chose not to wait until the beginning of the bar? Seems really fiddly tbh. Perhaps they are able to fix this in an update?
Thanks. I just noticed that you can't assign the external foot switch to load a saved song. I would like to prerecord loops for live performances. I wonder if they plan on doing this in the future.
Hi Dave Thanks for this video. I am having the hardest time synchin the BB to the Looper +. The MIDI cable that comes with the looper + and the cable for the BB as you know has both female ends. I went ahead and purchased another cable for the Looper plus to take the signal from the BB to the looper + hooked it all up and set all parameters and it seems the looper + is not getting the clock synch. When I try to record a loop while the BB is running it just sits in record waiting. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Don’t know if you got yours working; I was having the same problem. I had my Sheeran + set on Omni midi and receiving outside clock. I went into the Beatbuddy, pushing down on the drum set and tempo knobs simultaneously. Then scrolled down to midi settings- midi out and opened that screen up. I guess Singular Sound has the default midi channel on 1 so I got out and selected Midi channel 1 on the Sheeran and works perfectly. Like Dave said you have to be precise when starting your loop. I started at the beginning of looping and pretty much all of them were like this.
Looper + won’t slave like a Boss looper. It will receive the midi clock as long as you have both devices set correctly & it will stay in time, but you need to trigger the looper to start and stop on the appropriate down beats. Muting tracks will keep it in sync, but start stop has to be accurately pressed.
Don’t know if you got yours working; I was having the same problem. I had my Sheeran + set on Omni midi and receiving outside clock. I went into the Beatbuddy, pushing down on the drum set and tempo knobs simultaneously. Then scrolled down to midi settings- midi out and opened that screen up. I guess Singular Sound has the default midi channel on 1 so I got out and selected Midi channel 1 on the Sheeran and works perfectly. Like Dave said you have to be precise when starting your loop. I started at the beginning of looping and pretty much all of them were like this.
Great content. I recently bought the Looper + to see if it could function like my Jamsync Pedals when used with my SDRUM. I don't often play with a live drummer, so for years I've set my Jamsync Pedals to start recording a loop on the downbeat of the drum part. However, it seems that the Looper + begins recording on the next clock beat instead of the downbeat, and it also stops on the next clock beat. In contrast, the Jamsync stops at the end of the measure. This timing mismatch doesn't work for me, and I'm not willing to relearn every song in our set. It's a shame because the pedal has a great design and feels good to use. I appreciate the ability to adjust the input and output to mix with other sounds. I believe I have it set up correctly-it's connected to the SDRUM via a 3.5mm cable, and I've adjusted the settings to receive the MIDI Clock signal. Do you have any suggestions on how I can get the Looper + to function the way I need it to?
I was having the same issue. As far as I could tell, the Looper + isn’t encouraged to work with a drum machine. It was doable, but it was tricky and I found myself in the same situation as you. For me, it would be perfect as a looper for a small acoustic rig, but it wouldn’t be for my Beatbuddy setup. To use it with a drum machine you’d need to make the sacrifice & learn the change.
At this stage the Looper doesn’t slave to the BB. It follows the midi clock and loops to the closest midi downbeat. It’s usable, you just need to be accurate with the initial loop and figure out a way to make it work for you.
Can you send say a bass loop to the bass amp and guitar loop to guitar amp? I like to make loops and play drums over them. And playing drums is better with a bass rig going.
Here the issue I’m having. When I double tap the r/p button to switch tracks, it immeeediately starts recording after the first tap so I always end up with a split second of recording whenever I switch tracks? wtf? Help!
That’s a pain that it’s recording that small amount before transitioning. Firstly check you have the latest firmware. Otherwise, only thing I can think of would be to use an external switch for changing to the 2nd track.
Thanks for the helpful video! What type(s) of external footswitches are compatible? Latching, momentary... Can they be passive or do they need to be powered? Thanks!
Can I quantize to a tempo from an external device. Like set the tempo to 85BPM start the loop then when I start the record it will quantize the loop...make sense?
It will follow the tempo set from external device, but you need to be accurate when you record and end the loop. The Looper+ midi syncs to the nearest midi downbeat and will quantize to that, so if you’re out, you’re loop will be out.
Their importance is entirely up to the individual performer IMO. Personally, I don’t bother with either. If I ever came across a song that would really benefit, then I’d try it out. But meh, doesn’t matter to me.
Hi Dave. I was wondering if you could help been using the Rc 300 for years and been try to download beats from my make as wav file s but keep getting error messages. unsupported format. can you help ? plus I really like your channel Ive leaned a lot from you thanks for all your info !!!
Hey mate. Firstly make sure you’re exporting the wav files at the correct sample rate. From memory I think RC300 only accepts 44k 16bit. If you still get unsupported format, I have found that you can’t just delete the loop from the pedal, you need to delete the file in the folder when connected to the computer, and sometimes even replace the folder. Just make sure you name it correctly and it works fine. It’s definitely a bit scary deleting the folder, just make sure to double check everything and it will be all good.
