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Boss ME-30

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

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Published on 05/02/02 at 07:28
This small pedalboard includes compressor, OV / DS equalizer / phaser, noise gate, delay, chorus / flanger / tremolo / pitch shifter, reverb, plus expression pedal that can manage the selection volume, wah, ring modulator, and different type of pitch (4 in all), the pedal having two possible positions in the effects loop.
all these effects are editable.
the pedal has a guitar input, 2 output (mono / stereo), headphone jack, a power supply sector (or cell, very practical).
Rackable not
it has 10 banks of 3 factory sounds and 10 user sound bank of 3 or 60 possible memory. There is also a manual mode, a tuner and a recorder that can record ten seconds with the possibility of slowing with or without changing pitch (very handy for deciphering solos)

UTILIZATION

configuration is very simple since it is in the form of a set of Boss pedals, c very clear and easy to edit each effect with many potentiometers.
the manual is good and sufficient, it has a blank table to record its end configs.
the presentation is really smart and can not be clearer

SOUND QUALITY

In fact, each pedal takes roughly the existing pedal boss, with a slightly lower quality (c normal). I use it for the metal and are true that the distortion sounds a synthetic hair and drools a little if you push the 'drive' but really tiny and c can have a big sound. modulation effects are really very good especially clear sound (besides the clear sound through headphones is pure happy) and the setting is still quite large (even if we want to combine several modulation effects which is impossible)

OVERALL OPINION

I use the ME-30 for over 3 years, and even in concert and I prefer it to the simple saturation of the amplifier. I use it live, not in the effects loop of the amp.
I think this is one of the best quality / price ratio in music today, one can learn to work for a sound BEGIN c ideal. Mine has had its day I'm going to buy a POD pro for studio for the ME-30 is a bit short. Otherwise affirmed as the most newbie: you throw it!