Despite some moderate effort I havenāt really been able to find a regular jam buddy to help me improve. While jam tracks are helping I thought itād be fun to buy some gear so I got myself a looper to play around with.
Basic Boss RC-1.
Excited, it arrives today.
Congrats on your new ājam buddyā Rhys.
Iāve been contemplating (for quite a long time now) these loopers too.
For that exact same reason.
Seems kinda crazy to me that I canāt find anyone either to jam with. For all the players here, yaād think there would be some in our own neighborhoods. But alas. Iāve not found anyone either so Iāll be looking forward to hearing how you like the looper. If it at least kinda fills the void of a jam buddy.
Interesting your comment on the jam tracks too.
I used to do jam tracks but lately have kinda got away from them. I donāt know why. Perhaps I feel that āIā want to make music, not play along with the pro band (player). I have also used back tracks for getting the drums or bass into a song I might do though. But even then, it feels like Iām kinda faking it. I want it to be me. Your looper may fill this void so I will be interested to hear if meets your needs.
imho, looks like ya got the right looper to me too. The simple one. If I were to get one, thatād be the route Iād go too I think. Iām kinda big on using gear that fulfills my needs but is not over complicated w/many features. The RC-1 seems to be in that order.
Hope ya let us know how this works out for you in future comments.
It looks like a win to me as a looper is still on my radar for future gear I may want to acquire, I just aināt made the move yet.
Congrats! Rock On!
I have the same looper Rhys and itās a lot of fun to play around with. Enjoy!
Hope your new pedal scratches some of those itches. Iām pretty sure Justinās got at least one lesson on using a looper (I found it). I got a Donner Circle looper about a year ago but sadly havenāt really taken the time to become best friends with it. My loop timing is still pretty shaky and Iām absolute trash at trying to overdub loops. On my to-do list but I need to put in the time. That the āuser manualā is really quite hard to read and with occasional odd language translation isnāt helping.
Please let us know how you get on.
The other one Iāve had a bit of fun with is Rock Band - default apple product on phones, iPads etc.
You can set up a drum track, a bass guitar loops etc and choose tempo and keys. So for any of the intermediate JG practice sessions you require you can have a bit of fun with it as an accompaniment
Where are you located?
Brisbane, Australia
The default settings for that looper are record ā overdub ā playback. I prefer to record ->playback-> overdub. You can change the settings as explained in this vid.
The Looper or āHetfieldā as I now call it. Is proofing to be good fun and a good teacher.
Iām working through Intermediate levels in the JG course at the moment so itās lots of scales and learning to jam so blues tracks are obvious good practice.
With my looper Iām playing a quick 12bar blues into the pedal and chucking it on loop then practicing various blues licks and otherwise developing my own patterns in the minor pentatonic shape 1.
The looper is cool as a jam buddy obviously because I get to play with these licks etc. What I didnāt plan for is the teaching. To get a good backing track you 12BB has to be bang on, no tempo drift and a shot note on loop grinds, so itās really improving my technical precision on the ruthenium aspects too.
Super happy I bought one now, behind distortion, this will be my no. 1 recommendation to players on what pedal to buy first.
