BOSS GT-1000CORE Guitar and Bass FX Processor

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.

この価格帯のマルチを購入する人は恐らくアンプシミュレータとしての品質に期待していると思います。正直、各モデルが実機に似ているかと言われると、そこまで似ているわけではないと思います。ですが、音が悪いのかというと決してそのようなことはなく、デジタルの良さをとことん追求したものであるといえるでしょう。 特に言われている歪みの音のデジタル臭さも、個人的にはオケ馴染みがよく、扱いやすい音だと感じました。ステージギタリストというよりは、DTMerこそ積極的に使いたくなるような音であるように思います。 逆に、実機らしさを求めるのであれば、HeadRushさんのpedalboardやgigboardを購入したほうが幸せになれると思います。 DTMer的な観点でソフトウェアアンシミュに例えて比較すると、PedalboardがIK MultimediaさんのAmplitube5で、GT-1000シリーズがNative InstrumentsさんのGuitar Rig6の立ち位置なのかなと思います。 前者はよりリアルのアンプに近いサウンドが出せますが、その分音作りやミックスも難しい印象です。後者はお手軽高品質がメリットで、オケ馴染みも良くミックスがしやすいものの、前者に比べてリアルアンプにはあまり似ていないような気がします。 次にエフェクターとしての品質ですが、こちらは文句なしの100点満点です。色々な製品を比べた中で、個人的には一番好みかつ使いやすい音だと感じました。 歪みやMOD系も素晴らしいのですが、特筆すべきは空間系の品質でしょう。音の解像度が各社製品の中でも頭ひとつ抜けているように感じます。 アンプに関しては、現在は後から購入したアンプヘッドを使用していますが、歪みカテゴリのOD-1Xモデリングと空間系はいつも愛用しています。

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.

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.