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Re: Original Boss RC-20



Totally agreeing with Richard that new products may not be the best.
But please note that this about Roland/Boss loopers and the RC-50
really is the best among those. So sad it is going out of production
now.

Looped Greeetings

Per Boysen



On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:57 PM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com> 
wrote:
> Victor,
>
> A bit of wisdom that may and may not apply to the RC 50 but has applied 
> to MANY things I've bought, upgraded, swapped, sold, horse traded etc:
>
> THe newest version is NOT always the best.   In fact, after having spent 
> hundreds of thousands of dollars on music stuff, I frequently wait to 
> buy the newest versions so the creator has time to iron out the bugs 
> that slipped through the cracks.  Quite often, WE are the focus group, 
> the test group of new devices, software etc.  I remember this well in 
> the first days of Digidesign where I would call with an issue, they'd 
> ask me to repeat what happened.  Then there would be silence and they 
> would say, "Oh cool!  I think I know what that is.  I'll get back to 
> you."
>
> Think of the Jupiter 8, the old tweed Fender Supers and Twins, the Tube 
> Screamer, the migration from analogue tape to digital (both have extreme 
> advantages over the other).
>
> Newer is not necessarily better.  Sometimes it is, often it's not.  For 
> Digidesign (now Avid), MOSTLY it's improvement... but often it's four 
> steps forward, one terrible step back.
>
> With time, marketing hype starts to sound like white noise.
>
> Just my simple headed opinion!!!  Results may vary!
>
> Richard Sales
> Sent from my IPad
> www.glasswing.com
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Victor Eijkhout <victor@eijkhout.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Paul Richards wrote:
>>
>>> I checked 4 major music vendor sites and saw the discontinued message.
>>
>> Guitar Center lists it for a clearance price of 450.
>>
>>> Interesting...will Boss be replacing it with a re-vamped version?
>>
>> That would be cool. If it weren't for the fact that I bought my RC-50 
>> only a few months ago.
>>
>> Btw, http://www.eijkhout.net/mp3s/loop/Friday%20loop.mp3
>>
>> Victor.
>>
>
>