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Boss GT-5

Multi-Effects for Electric Guitar from Boss belonging to the GT series

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Published on 03/22/09 at 01:04
Digital Multi effect including the classic (distortion, compressor, delay, reverb, phaser, etc..), And less traditional (harmonizer, ring modulator, slow gear, kind of a gradual increase in the volume and feedback that is aptly named ).

The patches are usually recoverable and editable via MIDI, but the editor only works with certain versions of firmware and did not work with mine. Regarding the MIDI, the GT offers an opportunity to control an external MIDI controller that can tamper with the live sound by hand (I used a PhatBoy mounted on a mic stand, it allowed me to tinker with the sounds and Larsen directly down without me).

Side connections is simple, it comes in mono, it comes out in stereo or mono. The stereo and really means you can play with it, which is not true of all multi-effects and it's good.

Multipédales format is classic, special mention for the all-metal body and the general construction of the machine, no special mention for the jog wheel has a tendency to break down.

UTILIZATION

Simple configuration in all, once before the logic of the machine. A really excellent feature is that you can chain effects in the order you want to put the reverb-like BEFORE the distortion to the true ;-) For mashed against the parameters are accessible only via a sub menu where value is adjusted with the jog wheel, not very user friendly.

The manual is ben boss, what, it's 100 pages, it summarizes everything and you do not need a quarter of the information provided.

SOUND QUALITY

The distos are amazing for a digital multi. I who love grains serious drooling, I came out with interesting textures, particularly because of the possibility of chaining to the request that I mentioned above. Well, it obviously does not imitate your fat Mesa everything thoroughly with your good old DOD death metal before, but not for that either. The amp simulation seems to be a joke, but I would say the same for all simulations then should not rely too probably :-)

the point of super-strong GT5 are the bizarre effect: I used to death on reverse delay, flanger feedback and to make strange noises that would not be ashamed Accelera Deck. Do not look the type to experience Sonic Youth, not the type "I give the impression of using a synth, but it's not a guitar ".... Really a great tool for those who like to mess with a mail-like guitar.

OVERALL OPINION

I got five years and I did not do the trick. I sold it because I had more room to put it and since I sold almost the price I had bought it, it's one of the best purchases I've made. I had plenty of multis low-end (with whom I was the same as the GT) and a host of pedals. Just remember that the price of a secondhand gt is that of a poor zoom-machin-korg digitech all plastic that sounds rotten / flattering and that will be outdated next week.

The large black dot is in the editing via menu, not easy in itself and further complicated by the μ *$¤%£ jog wheel when she kidding.

The big big big highlight is the oddities that can leave the bug using the chaining and the strange effects that I mentioned.

Well, I do not like bosses in general, since it's style to say this, it sounds cold and digital, blah (as if a POV 'pedal to 100 euros could give the lamp a grain engl). I can not repeat what I've seen more choices instead of putting it, but I'm so broke that I can with the counselor.