Post by lawrie on Nov 18, 2007 14:24:27 GMT
Hi,
I guess I'm the first one to post here in this section. I figured I might as well copy something I posted in another forum about a month ago. It might be of interest to those who have an RC-2 or 20XL.
First, here is my current setup;
It's been about three weeks now since purchasing my Boss RC-20XL loop station, and putting my pedalboard together. Since I'm new to using a loop station, I spent the first week playing around and getting used to it. After the week of practice, I took my whole setup over to my drummer's house for a jazz/blues jam.
Instead of our regular compliment of musicians, I played all the bass lines and guitar parts; comping, head, and soloing. I used my guitar only via the pedalboard through to my Cube 60. After three hours of jamming, we both agreed that the use of a loop station exceeded our expectations overall. There is a bit of learning curve, but nothing that we can't get used to. The only thing that my drummer mentioned, was that the bass was not as defined coming through my guitar amp when combined with the guitar rhythm. When we jam with our regular group, I'm playing the bass, and he's used to tuning into my bass lines. At one point, we tried plugging in a set of headphones, but they weren't volume controlled, so that didn't quite work.
Since the whole setup is mono, the bass and guitar tracks can't be seperated. After some careful thought, I went on the premise that if I split the mono signal (using a splitter), I could connect the pedalboard to both my bass and guitar amps simultaneously with the expection that the bass amp would emphasize the lower bass frequencies, and the guitar amp would emphasize the higher frequencies.....even though both guitar and bass tracks are going through both amps.
So I bought the splitter, tried it out first at home, and...wow....it actually works. The added bonus is that I can control the bass and guitar volumes/tones independantly on the amps themselves if I need to. I've used this setup a few times now while jamming at volume and it's great.
Just thought I'd share this experiment with you all.
Lawrie
I guess I'm the first one to post here in this section. I figured I might as well copy something I posted in another forum about a month ago. It might be of interest to those who have an RC-2 or 20XL.
First, here is my current setup;
It's been about three weeks now since purchasing my Boss RC-20XL loop station, and putting my pedalboard together. Since I'm new to using a loop station, I spent the first week playing around and getting used to it. After the week of practice, I took my whole setup over to my drummer's house for a jazz/blues jam.
Instead of our regular compliment of musicians, I played all the bass lines and guitar parts; comping, head, and soloing. I used my guitar only via the pedalboard through to my Cube 60. After three hours of jamming, we both agreed that the use of a loop station exceeded our expectations overall. There is a bit of learning curve, but nothing that we can't get used to. The only thing that my drummer mentioned, was that the bass was not as defined coming through my guitar amp when combined with the guitar rhythm. When we jam with our regular group, I'm playing the bass, and he's used to tuning into my bass lines. At one point, we tried plugging in a set of headphones, but they weren't volume controlled, so that didn't quite work.
Since the whole setup is mono, the bass and guitar tracks can't be seperated. After some careful thought, I went on the premise that if I split the mono signal (using a splitter), I could connect the pedalboard to both my bass and guitar amps simultaneously with the expection that the bass amp would emphasize the lower bass frequencies, and the guitar amp would emphasize the higher frequencies.....even though both guitar and bass tracks are going through both amps.
So I bought the splitter, tried it out first at home, and...wow....it actually works. The added bonus is that I can control the bass and guitar volumes/tones independantly on the amps themselves if I need to. I've used this setup a few times now while jamming at volume and it's great.
Just thought I'd share this experiment with you all.
Lawrie