Equal to two RC-5 pedals
"I've had this looper pedal about a week and have been learning how to use it for about 6 hours total time. I've not used a looper pedal prior to this one other than having an RC-5 and immediately returned it to upgrade to the RC-500. Having two tracks make the RC-500 far more useful than the RC-5 for what I wanted to do with it. I create loops of bluegrass and old time tunes that I can practice with. I also have the Boss A/B switching pedal which is a useful addition to the RC-500. I have the A/B pedal doing the memory increment and decrement. I've assigned Track 1 to Record/Play/Stop with left button on the pedal. I've made a similar assignment of Track 2 to the middle button. The right button is All Play which is also All Stop. I think I finally understand how to correctly use the Track Parallel vs Track Serial feature. I don't know that I'll ever use the Rhythm section. All it does right now is get in the way. I wish the pedal had an option to turn off that flashing light."
Good Looper with some Flaws
"I almost returned this unit because of some issues, but I’ve decided to keep it. I’ve listed my pros and cons below (kind of long).
Pros
• Pedals are angled and well positioned for stomping – no audible click
• Easy to navigate menus once you figure out what you’re looking for
• The ability to change pedal assignments helps a lot – I don’t much like the default
• Sounds great
• I like being able to quantize as my timing, currently, sucks
• Mic capability
• Lots of memory and save slots
• Helps with guitar lessons
• No more jam tracks needed
• Just a really good looper
Cons
• The bottom of the unit does not have any rubber feet so it slides all over (not trying the little ones that come with the unit until I truly decide to keep it).
• Weird, semi-useless effects
• There are a lot of rhythms but they all sound very similar. I don’t understand why the rhythm tracks cannot be taken from the RC-10R, which had a better rhythm suite.
• Serial tracks – both loops have to have the same number of measures. You can multiply the measures (if I have a 4 bar loop I can make the other loop 4, 8, 16, etc., measures). There’s no way to finesse different length measures; so if your verse and chorus aren’t the same length you can’t use this.
I’d return it but I have done extensive research on loopers, and unless I want to cough up the massive price tag for an Aeros, I can find nothing compatible except for the Electro Harmonix 22500, which seems very fiddly and difficult to use (I've read the manual twice and my mind is made up unless someone can change it).
So if you're thinking of buying this, I’d say go for it. The irritations, to me, aren’t deal breakers, but BOY do I wish they’d tied up the loose ends with this thing."
