BOSS GT-1000CORE | Compact Guitar Effects Processor | Class-Leading Sound Quality | Ultra-Versatile Guitar Amps Crafted with AIRD | Premium Onboard Effects | Built-in Bluetooth | I/O Features

Really very impressive given the price, size, quality of effects. I particularly like that there is basically no lag when switching effects. It seems robust and potentially very simple to use.

Other people have referred to this pedal having a steep learning curve if you want to start creating your own presets. This is absolutely true and, I think, worth expanding on with an example. What may be a common feature in this type of hardware - the ability to customise effects based on frequency and picking dynamics - is completely new to me. The Boss 'ultimate guide' has a section on what you can do, but a worked example explaining how to do it would have been very helpful. It's not super complicated, but it uses some product specific terminology, and I've ended up figuring it out through a mixture of trial and error and product tutorials on YouTube. I have the pedal plugged into my computer permanently, and am using the desktop software (Boss Tone Studio) rather than the menu-heavy interface on the pedal itself. It shares similar UI foibles to some other Boss software that I've used (Waza Air mobile). Every parameter is presented as a dial with the same user interaction to change it. It can be hard to set numeric values accurately, and there are other off/on parameters where it might have been more intuitive to represent the UI element as a switch. I've also found that Tone Studio has hung on startup a couple of times, but I suspect this may be down to some unrelated hardware and software that I've using on my pc. It, and the driver, are clearly pretty complicated pieces of software: the driver sets up 3 audio playback devices. Being able to listen to PC audio to play over (using the MAIN GT-1000 device) on headphones is really useful. One of the reasons that led me to look at the Boss in the first place was because I have a couple of pedals that have stereo out (reverb and delay) which I'd never used. Ironically, I think I may end up not using them as much as I expected. While it has what feels like a bewildering amount of configurability, the presets that are installed out of the box demonstrate the quality and flexibility of the GT-1000CORE. Barring a couple of minor quirks that don't help when you're getting started, it's a great piece of kit.

I bought this to replace my Boss ME 800, as I never used the foot pedal and the variety of sounds appealed to me. The unit is very easy to use right out of the box and the 250 built in sounds are mostly excellent. I use the unit directly into a Tascam recording deck so the amp models are very useful. The 250 built in patches cannot be edited, but they are repeated in a second section, which is for user patches. This means that you can tweak the existing sounds and save them, move them around so the ones you use most are all in one place, or indeed create your own sounds from scratch. There is a steep learning curve for editing and creating, but there are some excellent videos on YouTube to help, and I would recommend these. I must admit though, that I have found pretty much all the sounds I need in the existing patches.

This neat little multi effects unit combines just about every boss effects pedal ever made into one compact box with lots of input/output and control options. The delay and reverb sounds are infinite, it has a 36 second looper, chorus, phaser, flanger, wah, slicer, to name a few of the other effects, and the distortions are varied and many. You have 250 presets, and another 250 user presets that can be edited and stored, which is more than enough! I'm sure the unit will suit many guitar and bass players, but I decided to return the unit as I prefer my individual boss pedals for ease of use and to my ears they sounded warmer than the GT-1000 cores sounds.

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I'm very impressed by this pedal. You can do almost anything with it. It's super powerful, no latency can be detected. Even using a pitch shifter to change the tuning latency is barely noticeable. The chain of effects can be insanely complex. Two effect loops allow me to use a valved preamp (Friedman IR-X) with a 4-cable method, which gives me a complete high definition gear with just two pedals for recording or playing with an amp in stereo. The effects are great (I never felt like I missed a higher quality effect from the analog pedal I have). The only downside, IMO is the IR's they are terrible if you ask me. I tried the amps with another IR from another pedal, and the amp sounds are great. But the IR section of the chain is really bad. Doesn't sound real, doesn't sound nice, and regardless of what you do, the quality is always questionable. In my case, it doesn't bother me because I use the IR from the IR-X, which is MUCH better. But if you plan to use the GT1000 core alone, it's better to consider something like a Tonex or another amp simulator or IR to replace the one provided by the GT Core. I didn't try loading my own IRs into the pedal ,but it might be that this would fix this frustration I had.

If you are looking at this "multi-effects processor," you probably have experience with pedals and an idea of what you want. There are a lot of reviews and videos online that provide more detail about all of the features it has than I could offer here. I am writing this to share my experience after about a month of use and the reason I chose this device over its competitors. I am reviewing the Boss GT-1000 Core as a multi-effects processor and not as a pure guitar pedal. To me, a good pedal responds dynamically to the controls on the guitar and also to my picking dynamics. It should sound "authentic" and not "synthetic," like a cell phone ringtone. Here, one of the biggest draws is the signal processing. You really can tell the difference between its 32-bit/96kHz processing and many of its competitors. It sounds surprisingly good. On the downside, however, it does not respond very dynamically to changes in picking or to a guitar's controls. It will clean up a little with lighter picking, but not like a good standalone pedal. Most of the change is just in volume. I can detect very little effect from the guitar's tone controls in most of the effects. As far as the effects themselves, they are surprisingly good and useful. Almost all of them sound authentic. There are a lot of them - 250 to be precise. Most are named in a way so that you can appreciate what they will sound like without having to guess, which I like. They are arranged in two, duplicate, banks: one bank is factory pre-set, and the other is a user programmable copy where you can save your changes. I like that because the factory presets are good, and you can always come back to them for reference when you find that the settings you chose for your Stratocaster are not working the way you want for your Les Paul. I do not think most people will miss the foot pedal that was deleted for the "Core" version of the Boss GT-1000. There are expression and wah effects built into the device. I find the reduced size to be more useful. It fits easily into a gig bag along with a few cables and its power supply. As mentioned by others, the user interface is not terribly intuitive. There is a nice app for PC or tablet that helps. However, the unit lacks Bluetooth, so you have to hard wire it to your computer, and it's still using the older USB micro-B connector instead of USB-C. I was going to downgrade my rating because of the complexity, but I realize that this product is like Photoshop or AutoCad: It's a career in a box. It has features that most people will never need, use, or even find. Nevertheless, like those other products, you don't need to understand everything about it to enjoy it and get what you are looking for out of it. Despite what you might read elsewhere, you can literally plug and play the GT-1000 Core without even reading the manual and make it do what you want. I think it's a feature that, if you want to spend the time digging into everything it has to offer, then you will be rewarded with a plethora of things to explore and fine tune. I chose the Boss GT-1000 Core over the Eventide Harmonizer H90. At the time of my purchase, both were priced within $50 of each other. Despite the fact that the Eventide is marketed as a harmonizer, and the Boss is marketed as a multi-effects processor, the two products are remarkably similar. The Boss offers harmonizer and pitch shifting functionality. The Eventide has a multitude of effects. Both are fairly complicated to fully master. To me, the processing power of the GT-1000 made all the difference. Many of the H-90's effects sound like a cell phone ringer to me, while the GT-1000 sounds like a guitar. Also, Eventide gives its effects names that don't indicate what the effect will sound like. What does a "Wormhole" sound like? Boss uses names like "Premium Overdrive," which will give you an idea of what to expect. This is my first "multi-effects processor," and the initial allure was being able to experiment with different pedal effects that I do not own as a standalone pedal, such as a phaser or a sound gate, to see whether I would like to buy one. However, as I use it more, I realize the convenience, flexibility, and sound quality are making it my go-to for most of my playing.

Cet appareil est un formidable outil à recommandable aux musiciens. Il contient un grand nombre d'effets et fait par la même occasion office d'un pré-ampli. C'est juste génial comme outil, très riche et facile à utiliser.

まず良くないところから。 梱包が、商品の箱に伝票貼っただけ。もはや梱包していない。箱も傷だらけでえぐれて穴が空いている部分もありました。 新品と記載してある以上、物自体は新品なのでしょうが、仮にも精密機械ですしこの配送方法は信じられません。もしかしたらアマゾンの方で梱包の仕方を決定しているのかもしれませんが、正直ショックです。後々中古で売ることなどを考えて箱を取っておこうと考えてる人もいると思うので、その方は注意したほうがいいです。 商品自体に関してはとても良かったです。前までBOSSのme80(2014年発売)を使っていたので、音質やデジタル的な操作性、本体の小ささ、軽さなど、大変満足しています。何より、この大きさでセンドリターンが2系統あるのは嬉しいです。あとソフトウェアでもエフェクターを編集できるのも地味に便利。少し高い買い物でしたが、それだけの価値はあったかなと思います。 梱包さえしっかりしてくれれば…

Ho da sempre utilizzato effetti boss per la chitarra elettrica. Sui processori digitali ero scettico, ma per necessità di spazio e volume ho deciso di provare con la gt1000core che ho trovato qui ad un prezzo davvero conveniente. All’inizio bisogna capire come muoversi, ma l’utilizzo è facile. Utilizzando il software per PC ho iniziato a creare le patch che mi servivano e devo dire che la qualità delle simulazioni è davvero buona. Per quanto riguarda gli effetti come chorus, flanger, delay, reverb penso che non ci siano rivali. Bellissimi i suoni puliti. Unica pecca è il MIDI: per collegare il mio controller ho dovuto creare io un adattatore 3,5 jack maschio - DIN 5 pin femmina, ma comunque funziona benissimo e senza alcuna latenza. Ritengo sia stato un ottimo acquisto.