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

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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.

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.

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.