Using two loopers - advice?

[bassbiscuits]

Eh up. 
 

So I’ve been having so much fun with my Boss RC1 looper that I picked up an RC3 this week with a view to running them both on a board - the idea being for have more control over different bits to drop in and out. 
 

However it doesn’t seem to be that simple. The second looper in the chain records whatever is coming down the signal path from the first looper, which means it’s doubling up on that as well as adding whatever I put into the second looper and things quickly sound terrible (and also seem to drift out of time rapidly). 
 

Am I missing something obvious here? To have two separate loopers going would I need to have an A/B pedal of some sort, to stop one merely repeating the other one?

 

[nige1968]

You would need to split the signal, but you also have the problem of syncing the loops. Try to do it by feel and you generally find the two loops won’t stay together. The longer you play them, the more out of step they become.

 

So you’d need to use something like midi clock sync. Alas, I don’t think either of the loopers you mention supports that feature.

 

 

[bassbiscuits]

Yeah cheers. I think I’m beginning to understand how complicated it can be! I’m fine with one looper - it’s just a case of getting it in time and then the entire phrase is locked together, but spreading it over two loopers has that ability for them to drift apart as you say. 
 

Hmm indeed. 

[AndyTravis]

They did the rc50 - probably about another 5 versions on now…but that was like a multi looper, I think syncing the 2 separate units would be a headache…can’t fully recall but they’d need some sort of midi clock functionality to do that.

 

 

[bassbiscuits]

Cheers Andy. Yeah I hadn’t really factored in this stuff! The quest goes on then…