Boss GT1 tutorial - How to setup like a stomp box board 

I think what many people don't realize is that since your process sets up a virtual stomp board in *one patch* it means they can create many different virtual boards in separate patches. Brilliant, Gary!

Gary - thanks a million, your videos are the most useful and helpful I've found. I bought the GT-1 several years ago, couldn't make it do what I wanted, and put it aside and let it gather dust. Now, with your help, it has replaced my pedalboard - smaller, lighter, simpler, more options. Well done.

I love my Boss GT 1 but I have soooo much to learn still about it! Thanks!!

I've had my gt1 for a year and this is what I wanted from the start. Thank you.

Only you my friend showed the secret of this device. Madness. Absolute madness. and to all the rest that made this device bad: you guys.

Great advice! Thanks for taking the time and for the clear instructions. Very useful. Most valuable demo of them all! And I've seen most of them.

Thanks Gary. Just came across your GT1 videos. I use it for small (bandstand) gigs direct to our little PA system but you’ve opened up all sorts of extra flexibility and alternatives to switching between half a dozen different patches on the fly 🤘🤘🤘

Thanks Gary for this.I was going to get a boss gt1000 but no need now.I’m going to set my gt1 this way now.

Thanks. Just got one and first thing I did was use your tip to turn off the volume/FX setting on the expression pedal. I wonder if that is why many people complain about the built-in patches having unequal levels. I thought same until I realized I was touching the pedal and turning the volume down. ...later realized I had to do that for each patch!

Best tutorial i've found yet. You really gave me the most useful tips

I’ve had one of these for over a year that I used as a looper when I first got it. I had no idea how much it could do until today 😂. Yours looks like it has seen some serious action!

I use a lot of what you mentioned, HOWEVER, in a live setting I keep my patches in order so I only need the down button. Opening up the up button for other options as well as the FS-6 (I prefer the horizontal orientation). You should probably mention that buttons that ARE NOT CTL buttons have limited options to them. Still useful, but not as versatile so you have to choose accordingly. A very solid MFX board.have been giving with it for a year now👍🏼

Excellent. Thank you Gary. Exactly what I was looking for. ❤️☮️

Thank you very much sir. So helpful maximizing my gt1. From Philippines🇵🇭. 🤟

This was very helpful thanks. I use this pedal in my livestream setup, it's a great pedal

Great video. Thank you!

Thanks bro! Been looking for a way to do that, works great! Thank You

Thank you for this tutorial! Was thinking about getting this but I thought you could only switch on/off the pedals from CTL1. Definitely getting the GT1 because of this!

Very cool, not thought of using it like that before. Cheers

VERY HELPFUL

Amazingly helpful, thanks very much Garry.

Beau boulot Gary. Merci !

This is what everyone does in quarantine

I still use my GT-1 every time I play. AND it is dirt cheap so if a drunk pukes/spills bear on it, I can get another cheap. It also has stupid low latency for use with S-Gear on my computer. Thanks for the videos Sir and Best Regards and Best Wishes!

Thanks for the video… explain a lot.. 🙏🙏

I think as well if you go into the boss tone studio software while its connected to your pc and set the preferences for the buttons to 'system' instead of 'patch' then the buttons will always work as you've mapped them & you wont have to copy the patches, but i can see the benefit of copying them as well.

Thank you for sharing this idea. Here and now I'm exprimenting with the Boss GT-1 and the FX-loop in my amp. I'd like to hear your oppinion on FX-loops and GT-1.-

Received my GT-1 - what an awesome device. Very similar to my GP-10 (without the synth of course) The footswitch mode described here by Gary works a treat. Only thing to note is there does not appear to be a way to use the Assign feature on the up/down pedals. This is a shame, as on the GP-10 I could assign multiple things to one footswitch. E.g. Overdrive + Delay. On the GT-1 The Up/Down pedals can be assigned to just a single function - e.g. Overdrive only, with no other Assigns (unless I'm missing something). Shame. It still works for me. I’m happy. But thought I’d mention it.

I'm going to try this. I have mine setup as a sequence of patches named for each song in our setlist. I use a 3 button external pedal that do exactly what you're doing with the Up, Down and CTL1. I figured if I have 99 spots, I can use the first 48. This also helps me for the few songs we do that are drop D. I have a patch that does nothing except remind me to tune back to std. I can't count how many times I've started Little Sister in drop D. I'm getting fairly good at tuning back up on the fly but it's not ideal. I really appreciate the tip with the expression pedal. I've accidentally hit that and killed my volume. Funny because of how long it takes your brain to realize what you've done. Not long but feels like a minute when your live. Love my GT-1

ok, I have added all the functionality here. Thanks bro. Is there an easy way to match the outputs per patch, so that there is not a drastic volume boost/loss in the patches during the changes, that I am using, currently 5 patches.

Does setting it up like this affect the controls for looping?

Hello Gary, thanks for the video! Do you think this is possible with a Moore ge 150?

I cant figure out how to change patches from external footswitch. How did you do that?

Great. I just got one yesterday. Your video really helped. To start i’ll be using it to go directly into an amp. Next, play through a pa. I’d also like to use it for acoustic guitar into pa. Any experience with that? If that inspires a tutorial I’d watch it!

Sorry if you've already answered this, but can I use the effects already on the unit in stomp box mode? Example: would I be able to put Metal Dragon on the down button and Natural Clean on the up?

i prefer to just ctrl 1 i dont like to add extra pedals i like the small foot print as is. but the video was informative thanks

Great video, thank you! Was wondering, for the 3 big buttons, any way to have them go to the built in guitar effects? Like button Down="Natural Clean", button Up="Royal Lead", etc? (dedicating the buttons so I am not scrolling).

Hi Gary, great video, question, can i assign the banks change the effects and also hold to change the banks? like the Ampero

bought this in Saudi Arabia 3 years now but I didn't have the patience to read the MANUAL

Genial!

Great stuff. Just for clarity - when you Write the EX1 to be only Pedal FX, this only changes the pedals function for that one patch, correct? So in other words, if I want to make the onboard pedal ALWAYS be only for Pedal FX (never volume) I would need to do this for every patch? Thanks!

Hi Gary , final question , if you play a gig and go through the venue PA via a mixer board , do you use the setup line/phones . ?

Can you reassign the preamp button to an fx pedal?

Good Morning again. Thanks for your replies to my crazy ideas. I have another q for you. I love my Gt1. I use a program called stagetraxx 3 for my backing tracks, and guitar on stage. My next project is to understand how to control the gt1 using stagetraxx 3 and I know thats a different thing, but I wanted to see if it can be controlled via midi for this purpose. So im hearing I can have stagetraxx 3 change soundbanks without using a foot controller. It would be so cool if it could just change the patches, like from clean to distortion, without having to stomp on switches all the time. Think I can do that with the gt1?

When i assign ctr 1 to overdive such as OD-1 and then activate it it hisses so bad that the pa guy puts on a noise gate that is really interfering with my playing. Basically the noise gate is cutting out the length of the notes and cutting out smaller subtle movements. Anyone had these same issues or have any wisdom to share on how to get a result?

how do you "just plug it in" without an amp, considering there is no built-in DI box?

Is it possible to assign tap delay to the BOSS FS-7?

Hey Man. Maybe im over thinking this thing. If I have 40 songs and some may have the same effects, amps, etc. but some may not. Would I just be better off creating 40 patches with the song names? Im thinking, I start on song one "The song remains the same" example. Now I have my effects and stuff set up for that song. When the song is finished I use my fs7 to go to the next patch (song) and so on and so forth until completed. Does this make sense for this unit on stage? I cant seem to think of a more organized way of doing it so I know what song is next and my effects, and amp models are unique to each song? I would like to know your opinion. Peace

Is there a way to jump from for example patch 1 to patch 20 without having to loop all the 20 patches??? Or if there is a way to use the up and down pedals without activating the next patch, so you don't loop the entire 20 patches??

how do i erase a patch i´ve accidentaly added to the pedal, please

Hi Gary please help . I’ve just recieved my gt1 . I connected a Amparo A/B foot switch . I followed your video everything was good until I tried to push the pedal if I go up the path he’d just fly through until they reach a P patch same if a go down . So I tried my tv helicon switch 3 . Same reaction they fly through . What have I done wrong ?

Can you stack 2 distortion effects at once ?? For example, a rat and a fuzz at the same time ??

Right now my it says my pedel is off how do I turn it on

When I change to different patches the volume get real quiet and others get real loud .I've checked the master ad pre amp volumes.thx

I just gave myself my 600th like on this video to give it a nice round number. What a douche 😂 Keep the Qs coming folks. I'll answer any and all non-douchey comments when i can 👍

wow this is brilliant i had this for 4 years hahahhahaha never know this how st**** am i or just lazy

I feel like we're overthinking some of this. I'm willing to trust the factory knows what works for the vast majority. Just got one myself and its gonna be a long time before I find the need to start tweaking things.

Is there an English translation for Americans? Op obviously doesn’t respond to his own channel.