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Boss GX-700

Multi-Effects for Electric Guitar from Boss

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Published on 11/08/05 at 12:45
Value For Money : Excellent
Digital Preamp rack.
* Posibilit to simultanment:
-compresseur/sustainer/limiteur
-Wahwah
-overdrive/distortions: fuzz, metal, vintage, blues ...
-Preamp: preamp simulation
-Loop: to set the effects loop
-Eq: three-band graphic EQ
Simulators-speakers
-Noise gate
Modulation: flanger, phaser, harmonizer (which may be Octaver), vibrato (tremolo growing fast), pitch, ring modulation and humanizer.
-Chorus
-tremolo/panoramique
-Delay
-Reverb
* Tuner
Bypass *
* Control of gain between
* Alim by 9V transformer
* Input, two exits, one mono, headphones, connectors noon to pedal, effects loop send / return, between expression pedal.
* Volume control output.
* 100 presets and 100 unsine users with the possibility to recover from the effects on other presets.
No PC or mac editor, but I personally do not care.
Full Ulta though I AIM prfait leslie effect but with the tremolo and chorus we démerder.

UTILIZATION

Complicated!
Tons of SET with lots of parameters that effect by a sEvent not much. They are trs (trop!) prcis: most settings are made on a scale of 100 with a step untaire. Sub menus has no end that prevents it from settling effects simultaneously.
Make an effect is a mission, there are always problems of equalization (knowing that many effects of demand response rates in several frequency bands which represents an additional equalization for each effect) so this gallery. The manual is complete and trs trs explains well the principle (which is not be complicated but it is not he who will tell us how to edit effects.
In fact the use of the device is quite simple but effective editing is a nightmare.

SOUND QUALITY

Ben numerical What! So many ups and downs ... especially since the beast is out there about ten years so the not so good with Digital Sample Rate good bass and a certain coldness to certain effects. The compressor and chorus are good but without all the modulation effects (phaser, flanger, wah wah, tremolo ...) create a blast that we enttend without playing, but it goes further. The phaser, flanger, harmonizer make noise bursts, the predominant effect even with settings too LIGHT. The reverb breath, the delays are so unnatural, it has more noise than an exact reproduction of sound in the echo. I do not use the speaker simulator that color the sound too (in the bad sense). However, the effects are good preamp and gives a little life and expressiveness the processor (on an amp transistors, at the same time this will be a shame to use an amp on lamps GX700). For cons, I find the distos surprisingly good (when they are equalization).
Simpa is to possess the totality of existing effects and fun with lots of effects but it is not eccentric IDAL if you really want sound quality. But having said all the effects are still usable.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been there over a year and a half. I have had time to assimilate and yet I still can not edit a corect effects so I am content to preset already programmed. It allowed me to make my debut and I must say that the amount of effects available simultaneously and is unlimited. It's good value but not the large multi purpose. A great machine for the time in digital but it has many old.
I'll buy a boss ME-50 which only effects and not amp simulation, strings, picks and gods knows what else and who has only pottards (no menus). That in addition to having taken a step in terms of digital effects remains an analog part (of APRS I'm told) but is in any case much better quality.