OWEN O'MALLEY: Okay, so as you can see we've got phrase 1 selected. It's empty, and our red light is blinking so we are ready to record. Now, when we do record, when we hit that button [THE RC-50 PLAYS A GUIDE PATTERN], ah yes. That's our guide pattern. Let's stop that for now. Now, the guide pattern is intended to make sure that basically the first phrase that you lay down is tempo synced with whatever tempo that you've set here so that it will then sync up with the phrases that you record later. Let's take a listen here.

[OWEN O'MALLEY TURNS ON GUIDE PATTERN OF THE RC-50]

You can adjust the level relative to everything else or you can bring it out completely if you don’t want your guide level there, and there are a number of different patterns that you can choose from.

[OWEN O'MALLEY SWITCHES GUIDE PATTERNS OF THE RC-50]

Rock stuff...,

[OWEN O'MALLEY SWITCHES GUIDE PATTERNS OF THE RC-50]

...Latin rock, groove beat, shuffle patterns, and so on and so on. You can also change the time signature by using the parameter button here. You hit guide>select>parameter. So we've got 4/4, we can choose from 3/4, 2/4, 5/4, 6/4, we got a 5/8, 6/8, bizarro time signatures you'd never want to use in a loop situation. You can set it to count off before you record. You can set it to do a whole bunch of different things, change the level here, so we'll keep our phrase off for now -- our guide level off for now. We're just going to use the tempo light to serve as our conductor or guide here.

Now, when we're going to start recording, you just tap the pedal once and it starts recording, and you hit it again when you're finished with your recording or for any reason you want to start looping again. So let's wait for our downbeat, two, three, four.

[OWEN O'MALLEY RECORDS A BEATBOXING LOOP WITH THE RC-50]

Now, if we don't like what we just recorded, we can actually do undo and kind of get rid of it, or then you can hit redo and have it come back in, and see it's back so we can play it again.

[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYS RECORDED BEATBOXING LOOP WITH THE RC-50]

Forgive my terrible beatboxing. Now, let's lay an overdub on top of this. The overdub mode that it's in right now, as you can see over on the right side is just overdub, which means that when we hit the record/play/overdub pedal again, we're just going to lay another layer on top of what we've already got recorded.

[OWEN O'MALLEY OVERDUBS ANOTHER BEATBOXING LOOP WITH THE RC-50]

Now whatever length of phrase you record to start off with that's going to dictate your loop length even as we get to the other phrases that we can record on to. That's in multi mode anyway. We'll get to that in another video.