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Boss ME-20

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

Burned Out syn Burned Out syn

«  Not bad for beginners »

Published on 09/21/12 at 08:43
So for the effects I find this pedal well organized. The effects are divided into three categories, distortion / overdrive, modulation (chorus, flanger, phaser, etc. ..) and delay / reverb and a mini equalizer simpa well. There's also a noise reducer. And especially the most convenient one master volume!
In pedal stroke can access the tuning function, or the "memory". it there's 10 banks, each containing data accessible by foot 3sons programmed. To change the bank is the pedal (not sold) or by hand.
Wah-wah/volume handy pedal, the wah good it's not a cry baby but it takes its role.
No connection to the PC though.

UTILIZATION

Effects are editable directly on the pedal, very easy with knobs rather sensitive, so you get something really accurate there is attention.
It can be be in "memory" to access the recorded sounds, be be publishing mode to play with effects.
I did not need the manual, it's pretty easy to use. Editing effect and that there's more simple, one button to define an effect and then turn the knob.

SOUND QUALITY

The effects are very well very clean, the only downside is that the distortion sound really digital and distos some metal sounding pretty vintage with a lot of grain. So to play modern metal (avendeg sevenfold, bullet for my valentine) is not terrible.
After modulations are I find the reverb really not bad. This allows precise adjustments, it is the knobs: 4 options to edit a sound every time.
Eg for distos, we selected this distortion with a first knob (overdrive, metal, fuzz, blues ...) then with the second tone knob, gain the third, and then the volume of the effect with the fourth .

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 4 years, it was my first multi-effect, and I always keep it there.
Initially I used it for everything, then I had a boss pedal distortion. So now I used this pedal for distortion and ME-20 for the modulations, delays, EQ and the wah too.
It is very practical shame that distortion be too grainy for my taste.
I used a lot of multi-effects are strong point is its simplicity and the fact that all sounds are accessed very quickly compared to other.

I think I'll choose the model right above if I had the chance, just because of its metal and distortion that I can not find top