BOSS has joined the game (GT-1000CORE)
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Re: BOSS has joined the game (GT-1000CORE)
That does look awesome. What I also like about it is that it's not line6.
I'm a bit grumpy at line6 because my very expensive and <6 year old M20D mixer randomly stopped working and apparently they aren't designed to be fixed; rather they are designed to just have the mainboard replaced as that would be cheaper. Except, line6 decided that 6 years is also far too long to support a product and hence mainboards are no longer replaceable.
Whereas I'm confident that Boss will continue to provide support for its products based on what I've seen of past history.
I'm a bit grumpy at line6 because my very expensive and <6 year old M20D mixer randomly stopped working and apparently they aren't designed to be fixed; rather they are designed to just have the mainboard replaced as that would be cheaper. Except, line6 decided that 6 years is also far too long to support a product and hence mainboards are no longer replaceable.
Whereas I'm confident that Boss will continue to provide support for its products based on what I've seen of past history.
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Boss are the most on point manufacturer right now, they keep hitting home runs!!
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Nah they need to bring back Johnny DeMarco
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Ever since Matt went there. Coincidence?
Probably
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Love him!!! he's great!!!
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I think its safe to assume we can credit their revival and new found success to Matt, but adding Ed as well has put the icing on the cake!
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Never mind that, what about the new looper. I need to upgrade from my RC-10R!
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Re: BOSS has joined the game (GT-1000CORE)
Beware that the really nice and interesting sounds on the 500 series boxes are not in the GT-1000. No Vintage Digital delay or SRV reverb, for example. The reverbs are incredibly bland and were basically unusable for me, and the delays are no better than a simple DD-8. All the modulation sounds were pretty sterile and were mostly unusable for me as well, outside of the chorus sounds. Terrible phaser, tremolo, pitch-shifting, etc.
Strangely the OD section is actually not too bad (RAT clone is OK, Fuzz is OK, etc), and there is a nice HM-2 emulation in there that is inexplicably absent from the OD-200. However, simple and cheap analog dirt pedals will still sound noticeably better on a pedalboard.
Biggest problem with the GT-1000, however, is when using it on a pedalboard and playing through a real amp, when you bypass it the whole signal still goes through AD/DA processing, which colored the tone so much I couldn't stand it. That's what made me sell it, ultimately. My plan was to turn off the verb/delay/amp sim in the GT-1000 and put some good delay and reverb pedals after it in a signal chain, and I tried that but I just couldn't get it to sound decent. They don't mention the GT-1000CORE is true bypass (or that it has analog dry through) so I doubt it's different in this regard.
With that said, if you only plan to use it as an all-in-one, always-on unit, and you always use its amp sim, it can sound pretty good, especially through headphones.
The RC-500, however, looks really interesting and usable to me and I might just have to buy that!!
Strangely the OD section is actually not too bad (RAT clone is OK, Fuzz is OK, etc), and there is a nice HM-2 emulation in there that is inexplicably absent from the OD-200. However, simple and cheap analog dirt pedals will still sound noticeably better on a pedalboard.
Biggest problem with the GT-1000, however, is when using it on a pedalboard and playing through a real amp, when you bypass it the whole signal still goes through AD/DA processing, which colored the tone so much I couldn't stand it. That's what made me sell it, ultimately. My plan was to turn off the verb/delay/amp sim in the GT-1000 and put some good delay and reverb pedals after it in a signal chain, and I tried that but I just couldn't get it to sound decent. They don't mention the GT-1000CORE is true bypass (or that it has analog dry through) so I doubt it's different in this regard.
With that said, if you only plan to use it as an all-in-one, always-on unit, and you always use its amp sim, it can sound pretty good, especially through headphones.
The RC-500, however, looks really interesting and usable to me and I might just have to buy that!!
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i dont believe the main board excuse, the main processor will go forever on anything well made as long as it suvives the first power up.Kiwiaxe wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:33 pm That does look awesome. What I also like about it is that it's not line6.
I'm a bit grumpy at line6 because my very expensive and <6 year old M20D mixer randomly stopped working and apparently they aren't designed to be fixed; rather they are designed to just have the mainboard replaced as that would be cheaper. Except, line6 decided that 6 years is also far too long to support a product and hence mainboards are no longer replaceable.
Whereas I'm confident that Boss will continue to provide support for its products based on what I've seen of past history.
. its the power supply that dies in most cases.
saying that i`m still trynig to fix my ensoniq without even measuring the PS so what do i know.
There are still some that think the neck PU is moved to accommodate the extra frets which only proves they cannot detect the difference in length of each.
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I watched the video. This is what I learned. The unit has effects including overdrives. Some effects loops. Not sure if it can be midi switched. Not sure what effects I can combine at the same time. Don't know what it will cost. The guitar player has good chops. I wish I could understand this stuff better.
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Yeah the information provided so far has not been particularly informative.werdna wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 11:39 am I watched the video. This is what I learned. The unit has effects including overdrives. Some effects loops. Not sure if it can be midi switched. Not sure what effects I can combine at the same time. Don't know what it will cost. The guitar player has good chops. I wish I could understand this stuff better.