BOSS GX100 assignment deep dive. Get more out of your patches with Control and Assign functions. 

Right on, glad you got some info from it. As a fellow older guy, I had to think about this a few times before filming. 😆🤘🏻

Now I just need those bigger footswith add ons or whatever those are! @@DoubleDguitar

@@vonswagltd ah yeah, very helpful. Mooer Crystal Clear toppers 😉

Man, that is awesome to hear and is exactly why I do these. The GX is deep, but felt familiar after working with the ES8. I’m really glad you got set up, have fun with the GX!!

I’m really glad this helps you and you’re totally welcome. I’m glad you found it, enjoy the GX100!

You’re welcome and thanks for checking them out. Hope they are helping.

You’re welcome and enjoy the GX!! 🤘🏻

Sweet, it will work great for that! Glad you found the vid 🤘🏻

Thanks man! I am glad I decided to film it this way, instead of showing the software on the screen. It’s a killer unit with everything I need.

You’re welcome, I hope it helps you along with the GX 🤘🏻

Haha right on! It’s a fun spot for me, for sure. Sweet, I think you will enjoy the GX. I hope some of the videos help you out. If you are on Facebook, there is a good user group on it. 🤘🏻

Thank you! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

You’re welcome! I hope it helped.

Oh nice! I hope these videos help you get the most out of your rig with it.

Awesome! I am glad you found the vid. I really hope it helped.

Great! Enjoy the GX and I am glad I could help.

@@DoubleDguitar do you have facebook, I just wanted to.learn more

@@janmartinlucero8081 I do, the best place on there is the Boss GX100 user group. I am in that and a few other groups, very helpful place.

Hey man, thanks for watching and for your question. That is used to help even out your output levels per patch. Like you may want one patch a little louder for a lead tone, or your preamp sound on another patch is really low, but you want that sound, so you use the memory level to then have an even output for your sound guy or recording device to consistently see. I hope this helps, well at least helps explain how I use it. 🤘🏻

It will be in the assignments menu, midi cc in as the source and set your midi channel to correspond with the channel on the gx. Then put the desired effect in the target space of the assign menu as on/off.

Hey man, I know the gate is a little funky. I put it after my preamps and set it to input detect. This helps me a ton. Try that.

I am glad you found the video and got some info from it! I want to make sure I am following you, you are only feeling the volume effect from the exp pedal? I know I had to calibrate my pedal, but only because the last option during calibration is the sensitivity for the EXP SW, which I lowered to about 3 or 4. This made it easier to activate the switch and make the treadle become a wah, and vice versa back to volume. Try adjusting the sensitivity of that last option during calibration, if you are having trouble getting it to trigger.

@@DoubleDguitar Thank you for taking the time to respond, it's very much appreciated! I will convey my issue more clearly and understandable: After adjusting the sensitivity (which i learned how to do from your video so thank you!), the wah works like regular on all the factory, and my custom presets. But after I tried to add a wah to a new preset I downloaded and uploaded from Tone Lab, The wEXP only works for the on-off function, but it's not working as a wah. When the wah gets activated, the EXP function as a volume pedal. Could there be some kind of Control function setting that's missing or was set differently by the fellow who actually made the preset? This is what i am thinking but I don't know what I would have to do.

@@shneurlieberman5388 you’re welcome and hopefully we can figure it out. I am not near mine, at the moment, but I am wondering if maybe you could try to add the volume pedal instead of the wah, and then check your settings to make sure you are on vol/wah. Maybe the expression pedal itself is assigned to a parameter within the patch you are using, as well. So it could be that the patch is trying to do a little too much with the Exp pedal. If your other patches are doing what you want, then we know it isn’t a global assignment that need tweaking, it sound like an assignment within the patch is interfering or interrupting the wah action on this patch.

@DoubleDguitar Thank you for the help. I went into the control function and saw that the exp was only assigned to the volume, so following your advice, i switched it to FV-Wah, and it now works how it is supposed to. It would be that the fellow who made the patch had that setting because there was no Wah in the pedal lineup. I am glad I learned much more about how the GX-100 works and operates. Thank you!

@@shneurlieberman5388 awesome! I am glad you could dig in and figure it out. I am actually just sitting down with it this evening and I forgot how great it sounds!

I just checked Amazon, and they are sold out. If you search for Mooer Crystal Pedal caps, you should find them on their site or another shipping site. They help hit those switches, as those things don’t always do what I want, when I want them to 🤣🤘🏻

Hey man, glad you got some good stuff from the video and yes, you can definitely do that with the CTL out. It would be the same type of setup.

@@DoubleDguitar I understand that I could use CTL 3,4 for that but am using that for a second Expression pedal. So no way to use Amp CTL for this? Thanks.

@@SonicVision oh I totally missed the word internal. I am so sorry. No, the output will only do another unit/amp. It won’t be seen as an input. I do use the EV-1-WL and it has an input for two more CTL inputs. However I am also messing with the M-Vave Chocolate, check out my latest video (about 2/3rd the way in) to see it doing a quick preview of internal control…wirelessly.

@@DoubleDguitar no worries, thanks for your replies. I will check out the video you mention. Cheers!

@@SonicVision thanks man, have a great eve!

You can make another switch or the CTL inputs to activate the tuner. Definitely.

Hey man, thanks a ton for all the nice words. It does get tough to decipher the manuals from BOSS for their intricate stuff. I really appreciate all this and huge thanks for subscribing! Enjoy the Gx!!

That’s a good question. I do not think you can place the BT audio in the signal path the way you can a pedal, which is how you would do this in a dual output situation. I think it’s placement in the chain is fixed and will come out of both outputs at the same level. However, I haven’t tried this, so I can’t 100% say you cannot. And there may be a workaround somehow.

Thanks!@@DoubleDguitar

Hey man, thanks about the video and I am glad you found some good info. It sounds like you need to adjust the sensitivity of the toe switch, which is one of the very last options in the expression pedal calibration menu. Go through the sweep points and then when asked, bring that sensitivity way down. I think 3 was what worked for me. I am at my shop, and not near the GX at the moment, so I can tell you exactly which initial menu to select, but you will find it.

@@DoubleDguitar thanks so much for the speedy response! I'll give that a go and let you know what happens.

Sorted! "3" is perfect.

@@alexhutson8256 excellent! Super glad I could help. Enjoy the GX!

I think I am following you, you are saying you want to be able to turn on one main effect with a single button push, and that push also turns off the others in the chain? If so, yes you absolutely can. It may take a little time tweaking the on/off states and the state of the switch before you totally grasp it. But I think this is what you mean, right? And thanks for watching btw 🤘🏻😉

@@DoubleDguitar Wow! Thank you so much for your quick replay! And yes, that's exactly what I need. It would be awesome if you can upload a video explaining how to do it.

@@JoseOrtega-oc9ip I will try to get to it, I have another small request from someone regarding another device but I bet I could get them both covered in a shorter video. You want to look into the assignment menu, when you get the unit. There are 20 slots per patch (!) so it becomes a little overwhelming, at first. But the concept will be easy to cover. I have a 4 day weekend coming up, so extra yt time for me. I will make this a priority. 🤘🏻

Hi! Curious if you were able to record the video. I also contacted Roland asking them about it, but their answer was short and not what I was looking for. It almost seems like they should add a third mode where it would be manual mode, but only have one switch on at a time. It’s like the memory mode, but change individual effects instead of banks of effects. Thanks.

@@JoseOrtega-oc9ip I have not had a chance, but I do finally have a PC that can connect and should be able to do this video by next weekend.

Hey man, welcome to the channel and thanks for asking a question. That is strange that you don’t hear a change in the amp sounds. There is a blend, for mix obviously. Are you trying to assign a switch to do this move (go from a mixed/dual amp sound to a single amp on one preset)? I can give a look this weekend and see how I would tackle it.

@DoubleDguitar I have the DIV assigned to the Ctl1 to switch between amps. This works. Yes what I am trying to do is go from 1 amp to mixing 2 amps when I hit the Ctl1. 👍

@@TMFJ983 gotcha. I will check it out this weekend.

Hey buddy. Fair question, this thing gets deep with menus. Try selecting the Menu button, select play option and then try the different bank mode options on the first wheel. Let me know if that helps.

@@DoubleDguitar Will give this a go in the coming days and post after. Thanks!

@@accentontheoff cool beans, definitely let me know if that helps.

Thanks! Yes it helped. The second bank mode. To change patches, you press the Bank button (either) and then the Ctrl.@@DoubleDguitar

@@accentontheoff great!! Glad we got you sorted. The Gx is killer!

I am not near mine, currently. But it sounds like you would have to assign a button to switch back. What switch are you currently using to get to manual mode?

@@DoubleDguitar I loaded a preset from another user to get this manual mode on a particular preset. But, i don't know how to exit from this and get back to preset / bank selection. I use the software to do this. But i don't know how to do this on live situation on the effects unit. Does this makes sense?

@@StefP. it does. If you look through the assignments in the patch, I am betting the designer of the patch built a manual/patch mode button, most likely an external assigned to 3 or 4. Possibly on onboard. I set up CTL 1 to go back and forth by foot from patch to manual, on the patches I wanted.

@@DoubleDguitarYes, i found it! Thank you,

@@StefP. Sweeeeet! I’m glad o could help out. Enjoy!

Hey man, these are the Mooer Crystal Clear toppers. I just grabbed them from Amazon. They fit perfect and throw the led lights nicely into n stage.

It is, it’s the Boss EV-1-WL and it’s pretty cool. I can connect it to my Mac for plug ins, or use it with the GX either wired or wirelessly.

Hmm I don’t mess around in manual mode too much, but I am also having some struggles with limited control. Check out my 3 button looper set up video to see if that helps at all, but I didn’t get too much into manual. I thought the bank selectors could be part of an assignment, but it has been a while since I tried.

Thanks, Double D. There still are more switching options at my disposal with this than if I had gone with my original intended purchase, the GT-1000 Core.

@@Shred_The_Weapon yeah, the core seems cool for what it is. But def need to add options, that’s what we do!!

Thank you for the video, great information

@@GWiz14 thanks a ton, man. I am glad you liked the video. The foot switch covers are the Mooer Crystal Clear toppers. They fit great and make it a little easier to hit the switches.

@@DoubleDguitar Thanks

Hey man, are you using 3 buttons for the looper or just the one button method? Check the looper section in your assignments and make sure you are not set up for loop stop as the button you are trying to use to stop your actual loop recording.

@@DoubleDguitar i will check settings got to be something I’m doing wrong. Thanks for getting back to me.

@@DoubleDguitar and no I haven’t setup the three button thing I will

@@jimlongo9153 ok cool, also check the action of the looper. There is a play/stop or play/loop setting for the action of the loop, but I can’t remember where that is in the menus , and not near the unit.

@@DoubleDguitar setup the three button this morning still no different has to be another menu for looper action jesus drive me nuts for something so simple

Hey man, these are the Mooer Clear Toppers. Got them off Amazon. www.amazon.com/MOOER-Transparent-Guitar-Footswitch-Toppers/dp/B08F2HLX8H

@@DoubleDguitar OK Thanks.

@@TheBbtlegit you got it. Thanks for checking out the vid.

Hmm I think the arrow keys when you are in the patch mode is what navigates you through what the screen displays for the patch. Left all the way was what I tended to use. Some like one click to the right.

@@DoubleDguitar Bingo! Thanks so simple! Your videos are helping me a ton 🤘🏻

@@marishnosh sweet! I’m am really glad they are so helpful. Enjoy the GX!!🤘🏻

If you press really hard on the toe down, on most patches it should kick over to wah, unless you have done some changes. You can adjust the sensitivity in the expression pedal calibration setup as the last step, this makes it easier to press that activation switch.