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Sheeran Looper X: 10 Things to Set Up First
Straight out of the box your Looper X looks nothing like Ed's stadium rig. Track naming, input routing, Ed's effects racks, a custom pedal menu, sync mode and bounce - the ten things to set up befo...
BOSS RC-600 Setup Guide: From the Box to Your First Loop
A beginner walkthrough of the BOSS RC-600: the three pedal modes, the renamed Menu and Loop menus, finding rhythm settings, the ENTER mix...
Sheeran Looper X Setup Guide: From the Box to Your First Loop
A plain-English walkthrough of the Sheeran Looper X for a brand-new owner: wiring your inputs, routing them to tracks, the two function m...
14 BOSS RC-600 Features You Need to Know
Custom pedal modes, a hidden one-press mixer shortcut, USB audio, reverse playback and more — the RC-600 settings that unlock what this L...
Sheeran Looper + Setup Guide: From the Box to Your First Loop
A complete beginner setup for the Sheeran Looper +: battery vs 9V power, mic and guitar gain levels, mono/stereo output, the four pedal m...
Neural DSP Quad Cortex Setup Guide: From Blank Preset to Your First Patch
How the Quad Cortex directory actually works — set lists, banks and presets — plus building a patch in grid view, the three footswitch mo...
Line 6 POD Go Setup Guide: From the Box to Your First Preset
A beginner walkthrough of the Line 6 POD Go: play and edit views, stomp, preset and hidden snapshot footswitch modes, changing block cate...
Loop Pedal Buying Guide: Which Looper Should You Buy?
Stompbox or desktop? One track or six? The honest decision framework I give every guitarist choosing their first (or next) loop pedal.
BOSS RC-600 Setup: 10 Tips to Configure It Properly
The settings I change first on a new RC-600: updating firmware, reassigning footswitches to reach all six tracks at once, choosing a reco...
BOSS RC-505mkII Tips & Tricks: Routing, Markback and Hybrid Control
The hidden RC-505mkII features that change how you perform: markback, per-track output routing, external and MIDI footswitch control, and...
How to Loop Like Ed Sheeran: Recreating His Live Setup
The gear behind the Chewie Monster — and how to recreate Ed Sheeran's input-per-track live looping workflow with pedals you can actually ...
BOSS RC-500 Verse & Chorus Looping: A/B Track Switching Setup
How to set up the BOSS RC-500 for section-based looping: Loop Sync off on both tracks, Play Mode set to single, why the parallel versus s...
BOSS RC-5 External Footswitch Setup (FS-6)
Wire a BOSS FS-6 to the RC-5 with a balanced TRS cable, then map Control Pedal 1 (footswitch B) to Track Clear and Control Pedal 2 (foots...