Boss GT-100

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Boss GT-100
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House of fun!
Branko O. 30.10.2016
Wow! Amazing!
I've had GT6 for a long time and it was great, but this is light years away. Dual displays make it easy to see everything. Easy to surf through the menus, everything intuitive. Within seconds you can go and set your tone up to your liking.

Effect chain is totally flexible and effects can be placed anywhere. I use this in 4 cable method and it is excellent in this mode. Effects before my preamp, whatever I want. Effects after my preamp, whatever I want. Don't want my preamp? No problem - I can use simulated preamp within GT100. Two amps at once if required, because effects chain has split/join option to run two amps in parallel.

Simulated amp/cabinet list is endless. Effect list is endless. Unlike GT6, FX1 and FX2 have same options. For example, set both FX1 and FX2 to harmonizer with two voices. Place each into it's own branch with split/join and there you go - four voices of a harmonizer. Crazy!

This processor really surprised me and went beyond my expectations!

Only minor downside is tone coloring. It does color the tone in 4 cable method, no matter what global setting is used. So equalizer effect should be used to balance this. From what I see on the internet, it seems that most competitors suffer the same. Tone purists should stick to pedals or go for rack units... but that's what they do anyways :-)

EDIT : I am adding these lines about year and a half after my initial review. During that time I slowly acquired some habits of tone purists, go figure :-) It was there before but I never paid attention to it - I was never satisfied with the COSM amp models. GT6 was not up to my liking. BR80 based on GT10 did not have what I needed. GT100 as well. All of those do not have good crunch or distortion for my ear. It is not responsive and dynamic as it should be, it sounds cheap in all those products. I couldn't put my finger on it until I recently got VOX Tonelab ST. It's not mind blowing and it has it's faults, but that little VOX is way ahead COSM models. Dynamic and organic playing way above COSM models - for crunch and higher gain also. I don't know about other Tonelab units, but ST does the job way better. Note that cleans are good in COSM world, it is just that driven stuff sounds cheap.

So if you're after fine art of dynamic playing and your ears are refining through the years, do not go for this unit. This unit can only give you excellent and mind blowing effects, combinations, routings, user intuitiveness, and robustness that is hardly available elsewhere for this price. If you plan to use it that way, keep in mind of tone coloring I mentioned in my original review.

For all others that are mostly high gain shredders - this unit will satisfy you. Though I see that even some high gain shredders don't like what they hear from COSM models, just like me.

So if your ears are starting to hear something you don't like then pay attention. Do your homework and search for something else. Youtube can come handy but also sometimes misleading because people leave poor recordings. Day by day, you might find you need more money to satisfy the need, but that's what usually happens when sensitivity grows in you. And.... sometimes there are exceptions to that rule just like that little VOX. Listen listen listen... closely listen... maybe even that little thing will not satisfy you. Because you - is you :-)

Overall I'm leaving all my ratings the same except the sound and total. Sound is now 1 and it was 5 stars. Total is now 3 and it was 5 stars.
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