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Boss GT-6

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

Flonou Flonou
Published on 01/23/07 at 02:11
Audience: Beginners
See the manual is good and other notices. There's too soon to say but:
amp simulation, distortion, modulation, noon, ... Produced a fairly complete in terms of possibilities

UTILIZATION

You should know cling to use the beast. The edition, however, is easier I find a g-major example. The bracket format makes it possible to have more buttons. The parameters are enough for each section.

I regret the lack of firmware updates that could add options to the GT-6 (some competitors are listening to reviews and updates based on requests).

Otherwise what is to the south (since I began using it as a controller), do not expect to do everything. There is the patch changes, a control pedal (again, a problem, it sends 127 when it is pressed, 0 otherwise. No possible trigger ... pity we can not set this up), additional control "under" expression pedal. Good thinking but you have to put all its weight to trigger the button. Impractical. And finally an expression pedal. It seems rather well. Although his curve is not adjustable (that said, you can play on the calibration of the latter if it is really necessary).

A good point I confers and makes me regret not to use it as a midi controller: The expression pedal. She served as the control for volume and other violonings and I was really delighted.

SOUND QUALITY

I used two different ways:
1 - live in PA (no amp so). Tendency to feedback, modeling but sometimes moderately convincing effects of good quality for the price.
2 - With an H & K tube 50 (4 cable assembly for use distos my amp). The sound improves as it goes especially for modeling and distortions that are not at all to my taste. However, the sound loses badly in dynamics. Maybe he should spend more time on set and be fussy but suddenly you spend more time fiddling to use and it is not easy to be spontaneous enough when looking for her.

That said, for the price it's still okay. For less than 500euros, we have a range of sounds admittedly difficult to adjust to get a good sound, but it remains very wide.

OVERALL OPINION

I see already some criticism that I may do: Connect a multi effect at 500 euros on a tube amp that is at least as much. I prefer to buy a multi initially not knowing what to buy as an effect (so for beginners, I recommend such products. The sound quality is not the priority when it starts. It learning). Then I bought my 50w tube amp and I spent distos and models of GT6. it allowed me to have a more homogeneous in concert. Now, I use the GT6 to control a g-major that passed me. This really respect her more. And since I use almost more than modeling, my sound no longer enter the GT6. I use it temporarily as pedal noon but he did not meet my needs in this use ...