Boss RPS-10
Category: Products / fx & processors / delay
Added: 04-Nov-07 | Author: admin
New price: discontinued | S/H price: 50 quid
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Boss RPS-10
The Boss RPS-10 pistch-shifter/delay - Part of the classic Boss Micro-rack series which graced a huge amount of home studio's back in the 1980's.Click here for larger image of the RPS-10
RPS-10 rear panel connections
back in the days just before fostex brought us cheap multitrack reel to reels, portastudios or 1/2 inch 8 tracks ruled the budget home studio world.
Of the common, cheap, but decent fx available at that time, we already had Rebis, who's 'rack & card' based FX system had become a common sight in many budget studios as had the similar Stdiomaster rack-range... Then there was a brand called Accessit with a cheap range of fx/proccessors too... and there were kits if you were a sparky person.
Boss decided to get in on the act, which made sense as they are the budget division of Roland corporation, who were already turning out a decent range of fx & processors of their own.
The Boss Micro range quickly became a firm favourite in the UK as a range of cheap but decent quality units perfect in both price and SIZE for the home studio enthusiast & smaller commercial studios.
Units could be bought individualy, and a 'master rack' could be purchased to house and power a whole set.
Individual units took a wall wart supply for their DC power, the optional 'rack' could have a distribution power unit to power the whole lot (RPW-7 Power unit).
I think you could also get an optionable pressed steel 19" rack bay to house 2 Units at a time in a convetional 19" studio rack.
The Mini-rack itself was a small plastic unit which had dinky but pointless 'grab-handles' moulded into the front sides. ... still.... it looked nice, the units worked well for their price, and lets face it, for the quickly expanding budget studio field they were perfect, and if you had a whole range the mini-rack had a small footprint being half-rack size so it could be easily placed on desktops etc & took up little room in what for many was bedroom studio use.
Items in the Boss Micro Rack series range:
Boss RDD-10 Digital delay (great little delay, 400ms time)
Boss RDD-20 delay with longer delay time
Boss RSD-10 Sampling delay
Boss RPS-10 Pitch shifter/delay
Boss RPD-10 Panning Delay
Boss RCE-10 Chorus
Boss ROD-10 Distortion/Overdrive
Boss RPQ-10 Preamp/Param.EQ
Boss RBF-10 Flanger
Boss RRV-10 Reverb
Boss RGE-10 graphic eq
Boss RCL-10 compressor/limiter
Boss RPW-7 Power supply unit
Great units... can I get a witness?.. Please leave some comments if you use or have used this...
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User Comments
Product: Boss - RPS-10
Name: phil
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 18-Apr-09
yes i have one and have played around with it as an amateur musician. quirky is a word i would associate with this old style but still useful, unit. it is a delay (up to 800ms and 'inverted') and pitch shift (from -1 octave to +1 octave with a separate fine tune control knob) mini-rackmountable unit. all sorts of wierd lo-fi sounds emanate from this device when you play with the dials ,and it is particularly fun when you run a theremin through it and play with the feedback knob.
it has a bypass switch; tuner, keyboard, remote effect and hold (foot pedal) inputs, as well as inputs (jack and rca) and outputs (jack and rca) and a level boost switch.
certainly worth a 'play around', but not what a serious musician would probably invest in given the range of modern fx units now available.........but as i said earlier, i'm an amateur and just enjoy making noises!
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Product: Boss - RPS-10
Name: matt
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Activity: Professional
Date: 07-Mar-11
i played live with an sh-101 running through this on friday night. if you're like me and enjoy a hands-on experience, then these little boxes are a cheap and easy way to get your tweak on
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Product: Boss - RPS-10
Name: CALVIN
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 03-Oct-18
Hi I am looking for a boss rps 10 effect. [quote] phil wrote: yes i have one
and have played around with it as an amateur musician. quirky is a word i would
associate with this old style but still useful, unit. it is a delay (up to 800ms and
inverted) and pitch shift (from -1 octave to +1 octave with a separate fine tune
control knob) mini-rackmountable unit. all sorts of wierd lo-fi sounds emanate
from this device when you play with the dials ,and it is particularly fun when you run
a theremin through it and play with the feedback knob.it has a bypass
switch; tuner, keyboard, remote effect and hold (foot pedal) inputs, as well as
inputs (jack and rca) and outputs (jack and rca) and a level boost switch.
certainly worth a play around, but not what a serious musician would probably
invest in given the range of modern fx units now available.........but as i said earlier,
im an amateur and just enjoy making noises! [/quote]
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