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So tonight i've been messing around with my new boss RC-2 loop pedal. Okay, it's not new, i've had it since like christmas 2007, but have only started to use it tonight because i was too lazy to figure out how to use it. I eventually figured out how to set a tempo and record a track to be looped. I've been playing with it for the past half hour and it's amazing! Like i can't believe i played before without it. I was able to put in some song that i just thought of and play a small riff over it:
This riff is based on the pentatonic scale.
Loop Pedal from Rachel Gleeson on Vimeo.
Okay so it's not great but it's a good start, also the video was taken on my phone so obviously the quality sucks. Basically everyone who's serious about the guitar should get one of these. They're like the best value for money loop pedal on the market.
Anyway enough advertising for Boss!
Today i got some great news. One of the junior cert student i teach maths to has gone from getting like a D in the christmas exams to getting 80% in his mocks. This is amazing and very reassuring.
Tomorrow i have a good bit of work to do. I have to start a design for an 2 stage opamp, write 10 pages of FYP report and look into AVR code for my microcontroller. I had a midterm on Friday that was worth 30% of the VLSI module and i think i did pretty well in it. Unfortunately no drums for me this weekend because my Dad is in Morocco and he has the fob for the Gates to the business park where i practise. I was also going to go to Clonmel, but decided not to due to money, weather etc.
PS guys Vimeo is the new Youtube, make the move!
So tonight i've been messing around with my new boss RC-2 loop pedal. Okay, it's not new, i've had it since like christmas 2007, but have only started to use it tonight because i was too lazy to figure out how to use it. I eventually figured out how to set a tempo and record a track to be looped. I've been playing with it for the past half hour and it's amazing! Like i can't believe i played before without it. I was able to put in some song that i just thought of and play a small riff over it:
This riff is based on the pentatonic scale.
Loop Pedal from Rachel Gleeson on Vimeo.
Okay so it's not great but it's a good start, also the video was taken on my phone so obviously the quality sucks. Basically everyone who's serious about the guitar should get one of these. They're like the best value for money loop pedal on the market.
Anyway enough advertising for Boss!
Today i got some great news. One of the junior cert student i teach maths to has gone from getting like a D in the christmas exams to getting 80% in his mocks. This is amazing and very reassuring.
Tomorrow i have a good bit of work to do. I have to start a design for an 2 stage opamp, write 10 pages of FYP report and look into AVR code for my microcontroller. I had a midterm on Friday that was worth 30% of the VLSI module and i think i did pretty well in it. Unfortunately no drums for me this weekend because my Dad is in Morocco and he has the fob for the Gates to the business park where i practise. I was also going to go to Clonmel, but decided not to due to money, weather etc.
PS guys Vimeo is the new Youtube, make the move!
Anyway good luck finding information on how to build the RC-2, or most Boss pedals for that matter. They have theire own Roland brand of DSP chip called "Roland ESC" which they haven't relesased much information about. Apart from that it's just a series of discrete components. It does use a Samsung memory chip but none of this is useful without the DSP chip.
A good site for guitar pedal schematics is:
http://www.muzique.com/schem/index.html
but i dont know of a loop pedal is among the list.
With programming of a dsp, buying components etc it might just be in your interest to buy one.