Boss ME-80 Guitar Multi Effects Pedal - Complete Demo! 

It's so refreshing to see great guitarists who don't act like hardasses

I have one of these,im just an old guy that mainly plays in the bedroom , but for me its perfect. I can do so much with it , and could easily gig with it. great product , great value.

Chappers is the guy at rehearsal that doesn't stop playing when you're trying to talk

Just reading a few of your comments here - glad you like the pedal! Anyway... Yes you can put this through a PA (it has speaker emulation), yes it has a tuner built in, no I don't think the 4 cable method will work as the ME80 has no FX loop, and yes I agree - all the new Chapmans look badass!!

I've had an ME-70 for maybe 4 years, now and I've loved it. I ordered this immediately after it was announced.

I bought this about a month ago and it's one of my favorite, least regrettable guitar purchases. First off, Lee said the batteries probably wouldn't last long, but I put Energizer batteries in it, and they're still working a month later. I'm amazed at just much bang I get for my buck. A lot of devices that offer lots of amp sims and effects are pretty mediocre sounding, but the ME-80 sounds great. It's basically every Boss pedal ever and a Boss Katana all on one pedal board for only $300. Pedals are great and all, but they can be a real pain to move around. I just wish I had found this before spending money on lots of pedals.

Any chance Rob of doing a blindfold test between this and some boutique pedals?

The main benefit Ive discovered from my first multi effects pedal, is the ability to call up certain sounds. Switching between sounds is so much easier than individually adjusting each pedal to get a sound you have in mind.

Lee, When I hear you play, it inspires me and shows me that I can get to be a respectable player. When I first started exploring guitar and started watching your channel, i can remember you lacked confidence and played very basic stuff. You have gotten really good and I really enjoy listening to your playing now. I’ve got hope that someday I’ll get there as well. I can play acoustic fingerstyle ok but I’m not there with a pick and especially on an electric guitar. But I will get there. Thanks for inspiration.

You know you are close friends when you can control the wah why your buddy plays the lead.

Hi from Germany, i love this ME-80 and my 2 Fender FM 212. The best Sound of the World.

X~D Chappers knows those Captain blues so well he can wah for him!

I've got one of these. STILL rocks and makes for a great practice headphone amp as well.

That wah pedal collaboration was the most musically bromantic thing I have ever seen. Two thumbs up

they really are the top gear of guitar reviews haha

Just bought one last week very nice instrument. thanks for the sounds demonstration pretty cool sounds. you guys play awesome

I love these videos! I really never considered buying a multi effects pedal, but I really want to try one of these out!

I have had mine since August and I am very happy with my purchase

What review do you guys not have! You guys are so freeeking awesome!!!! I watch your channel all the time. I find myself looking at your videos 99% of the time that im on youtube lol! You guys are awesome!!! Very fun to watch and very educational.

Wauw, the Ml2 classic looks so beautiful, i'm in love.......

I've got the ME-70. Has it for about 4 years now and it is literally the best multi fx I've ever used. Don't think it ever change it unless it completely broke

I bought this base on the review and love it, thanks cap and chap

I like how people take one of the classic guitar designs and make 1 or 2 minor changes and start selling it as their own.

wow amazing multi effects, by the way i love the shark over the orange amp :)

“Megatron’s Foot”, sounds almost instantaneously like the name for a killer 80s retro band that was a homogeneous everything excellent about the decade from Tears for Fears to Def Leppard to Journey to Enya to Prince to Tina Turner to Lionel Richie to Kraftwerk - and everything in between! This demo has got me so tempted to try trading in my Line 6 Pod HD 500 for one of these. I have hitherto scarcely used the Pod and would think that this particular paddleboard would be much more user-friendly. In addition, it is battery powered.

i'm about to buy one of these. I used to have a Boss Me-50. It was so fun and easy to use. I do like the new features in the 80.

Thank you, Rob and Lee. This helped me decide on the ME-80 over spending the extra money on the GT-100. The only thing that kept me wavering was the ability to hook the GT-100 up with a four cable method to put the compression, noise gate and etc. before the preamp on my Blackstar HT-40, use the amps natural overdrive and that awesome Blackstar clean tone my tubes give me, then use the modulation type effects through the effects loop after the pre-amp. I have the limited edition of the HT-40, with the Celestion Vintage 30 in it, and I love my amps tone. What I would really like to do most of the time is use this unit with the amp modeling off through the effects loop of my amp. By that, I mean plugging my guitar straight into the input of my amp, running the effects send from the back of the amp into the input of the unit, then running the output of the unit into the effects return on the back of my amp. However, I don't know much of anything about signal strengths of any of this, and I don't want to damage either the unit or my amp. Will this work in that configuration? Also, if I want to use the amp modeling of the ME-80, can I plug the guitar into the ME-80 and the output directly into the effects return on the back of my amp so that my amps preamp section does not color the modeled sounds? Thank you for any help you can give me with this. I've searched all over but have been unable to find a video or discussion on the subject.

i bought it for travel and those gigs that room is a factor..i have a massive pedal board that ill still use. great little board thanks for the great video

Ah, very good catch by Rob at 4:50. The ME-80 unit has "trails." One of its competitors, the Zoom G5, which is very good in many respects, does NOT do this.

Thanks for the demo!

the New ML-2 Classic looks amazing and sounds even better! :D

I have a zoom G9tt and I absolutely love it!! The twin tubes make a huge difference

These ME systems can also be played into most home entertainment systems via aux out. I get awesome stereo modulation from my old ME-50 compared to my amp. Great fun at home!

i have boss me-25 and it is awesome, sound is so harmonic to play alone and sits so nice in mix.

Great Demo just bought one thanks for this insight

this pedal is fucking amazing! I just recorded several demos for my band running everything except vocals and drums through this pedal(2 guitars 1 bass), it sounds fucking badass! easy to use, and incredible versatility. Not the best for more heavy stuff :/ you can get a decent distortion out of this, but not if you need a pedal for death or black metal etc. incredible 4/5!

Very nice demo, guys!

I just bought a ME-70 off Ebay for $150 U.S. ,and I love it. It is a bit out dated, but a huge upgrade from my ME-33 ! I am loving it! Still trying to figure out how to properly utilize all the features. Funny ,as I was just in a Sam Ash ,like a month ago ,and they still had the ME-70 on the floor for $300. So I am pumped to have it ,even though the 80 is out.

Smoking playing guys. Great info thx ! Great sounds!

I've been playing the Boss Me-80 for about a year. I play a wide variety of stuff, but mostly blues. I went from using analog pedals with a tube amp to using the ME-80 with a solid state (for convenience reasons). The switch had me dissapointed in some regards at first as digital obviously does not respond to your playing the way analog does. But after adjusting my approach, it worked out great. It sounds very good. I do find myself constantly tinkering to try it make it sound more like an analog rig - which is never going to happen. Regardless it is really good. But I have 4 complaints. 1. I went from used a hall of fame2 reverb pedal before this and with the ME80, I am disappointed with the lack of control on reverb. It is pretty vanilla with one knob for reverb. I think they should treat reverb like a real effect and not an afterthought. Give me controls for reverb tone, level and decay, and some more reverb types. 2. The ME-80 has a built in cabinet simulator and it sounds much better when it is on than when it is off. The only way to turn it on is by plugging something into the headphone jack. This is just dumb. They should at least have a switch in the Tonestudio software or menus. When I gig, I plug the ME80 straight into the PA (no amp) and have to put a dummy plug in the headphone jack to turn on the cab-sim. They should just include the Cab and Air-feel options that are on the Katana. 3. I hope that they can improve on the overdrive section. It's not bad, it's just underwhelming compared to the other effects. The drive that comes out of the gain on the amp models is Soo much better than what is in the drive section. Then issue is that the amp drive reacts to your playing much better, while the drives don't react at all, so they sound fake. 4. Not so much a complaint, but I would love if they can replace the current EQ section with a 10band graphic eq. I've never found myself having to use FX3. I only use EQ and would love to have better control of the frequencies.

Just bought it from Andertons, gonna arrive on Tuesday cant wait :)

Proper Boss Metal! That's a badass statement really XD

Great review. I would trade in my me-70 but it's taken me a year to create quality patches. This unit is definitely more versatile.

You two are fantastic

Great test thanks!

I like your Demo! I have an ME-70 but it's on my Gator G Tour Concert/Big stage pedal board and when I'm not on those stages and playing at a club the whole rig tends to be a bit much.So I decided to get the ME-80 and use it in smaller venue's.One unit in a carrying bag same great sounds without the big bulky road rig I use.The ME-80 seems to have every thing I need for the R&B Oldies shows I do I'll just program and save the same sounds in it/also save the sounds in my computer on the new software that comes with the ME-80 (couldn't do that on the ME-70) I had the ME-6 for 19 years on the road and clubs, bought the ME-70 5 years ago this November and now the ME-80. I guess you can say I'm a boss man.I use Line6 amps but not the pedals. Sema'j

I like knobs. I loath menu wheels.

I use the me80 only for FX through my amp's FX loop. Aside from the distortions, the sound quality on this device is actually quite good. There's some FX that aren't so great, but overall, it's a fantastic piece of gear, and there's a lot you can do with it. The delays, looper, and volume pedal alone justify the price. I know what I'm talking about, because I've owned several top end individual pedals. Btw, If you look up the reviews on this, you'll see that 95% of people who own it say the same thing.

I freaking love this pedal!! I've had it for about a yr!! And I may understand 20% of it you got to be like a sound engineer lol !! It's so awesome tho!!

Megatrons foot hahaha epic stuff Rob!

I bought one of these to use with my Blackstar HT-5, as I am the proverbial bedroom player. I wasn't quite happy with the preamp sounds I was getting, but traced this to a design quirk with the ME80. The internal amp simulator is only turned on with headphones, or a plug inserted into the rec out/phones socket. Solution: get a 1/4 inch to 2.5mm adaptor plug, connect to one end of your guitar lead, put this in the rec out/phones socket, then plug the other end into the return of the fx loop of your amp, if it has one. Result: much better tone. I've not tried running into the front of my amp so can't comment on what the sound is like but the preamp of a valve amp will colour the tone of the preamps on the ME80. I suspect a solid state amp will not have these problems but I traded my Peavey Vypyr 15 in for this, so again, can't confirm that.

Thx for the excellent demo. A very common mistake with the ME-70 is driving too much overdrive/distortion "gain" through a good tube amp... i.e., less is more. With my amps, I usually find the gain sweet spot around the 9-10 o'clock position. Ordering the ME-80 tomorrow.

I have this and it is way more that meets the eye. It takes time to go all the features but it is the best thing if you just want to plug and play! Very very nice sounds and all of the them are for real use and not just.....

Tasty clean playing there mate......nice to 'ear that......

Actually, we have some pretty cheap pedals here in the States - the Danelectro FAB pedals run $15 each ($25 for fuzz and delay) and you can get a lot of great sounds from it, so making a big pedalboard is super easy and affordable. :) I honestly love them.

Did you found any mini delay or sound cut while activating the switches, i mean, did sound stops for a while until the effect starts while playing for instance with a clean sound and you suddenly decide to add chorus and delay?

Just came across this video. I use an ME70 for busking and I change my batteries once every three to four weeks including home use.

I still have an old boss ME 33 from the late 90's and it still works and still has all but one knob. the distortions and amp models never did sound very good but all the other functions we're not bad, if you frig with it you can get some usable tones out of the tube distortion and the Blues distortion but they're not great. but at least they're very reliable I've had mine for over 10 years thrown in the bottom of vans and cars, and it still works.

That Goldtop is the first Chapman guitar I´d really want to buy, it looks great !!!!

For a rhythm guitar player, playing a strat through a vox ac 30, would you recommend the Boss ME 80 or the Vox stomplab 2G? Thank you!

Great job guys!! Thanks for this video looking to buy this pedal, love the sounds in it. Oh hey Rob Ill take that tele double humbuckers guitar on the wall behind you please lol!!

Nice the Free beginning!

Love the effects. Preamps are OK.

12:00 the eq/fx2 effects can only be used 1 at a time or can you activate the phaser and chorus at the same time for example?

Would be really cool and helpful to see a a multi effects pedal shoot out similar to the cheap amps one

Loving the purple 💜 East Coast electric guitar I bought from sunny Suffolk.

Rob, that gold top is gorgeous !

Best Demo's On You Tube

1:29, LOVE THAT guitar!

Shame on boss...I hate it when companies sell the power supply separately....dunlop do the same with their cry baby pedals and that annoyed me no end. They know you're going to need it if you're gigging...you can't rely on a battery....just include the power supply

Looking to get into effects and honestly this is exactly what I was looking for! Great vid

That ML-1 HotRod is KILLER!!!

Rob rocking the smart look today...

question; if you use the pre-amp of the me-80. Do you use your normal input on your amp or would it be better to plug it in the return of the effectsloop??

Does the overdrive/distortion switch in manual mode allow more then 1 effect at the same time? What are you running it into in this vid?

great video, as always. I tend to use an old BOSS GT-8 which I've spent forever getting the sounds I like. I wonder though, have you guys ever review the Digitech RP stuff? Like the RP500 for example?

Hi , pls i need some advice. I connect my me 80 to my Laney 120 front input clean channel but it sounds bad and too different from the speaker emulation. When I plug it into the return input, it sounds much better but lose gain cause I use the me 80 mastef volume. Did you pluged the me 80 into the front input of ur blackstar or effects loop?

Hi! I was between this and the Line6 HD500, have you tried both? what you recommend regarding tone?

Does this pedal interact well with Model Amps? I have a Peavy Vypyr 30 watt at the moment and was wondering if this would be a good buy for me instead of buying several individual pedals.

I miss these guys

Chappers, do you know if the ME-80 can be plugged straight in to any cab? Thanks

I do have a good pedalboard but still would buy this, issa really good product fr

I own an me 50 and have been reduced to running it in manual mode due to the short silence or interuption in sound when switching presets in program mode (more then a little annoying) I really wished you guys had demoed switching presets in program mode to know this multi has seamless transitions from one preset to another.

Chappers i seen a review on the me70 and he said it affected his tone with the preamp off (thinner and compressed)? Did you notice this with the 80? I just want a multi that i can add things like chorus, reverb ect to my tone without affecting it?

I bought it 6 months ago and used to record with it using the usb cable, now it has some annoying noise in the background the moment I plug it on the boss outpout. any suggestions?

9:02 reminds me of the guitar sound on Planet Caravan... soft and smooth.

Into what are you running the ME80 into? Active/passive speakers? Guitar cabinet? Amp?

Hello Admin: I need serious help: I cannot find the me80 driver for windows10 in the official Website of the Boss.the file is available but after the download i can find only the Readme File and not the setup of the driver. help me brother.

Waaaaaah!!! The hot rod is awesome...

How did you actually plug the pedalboard in this demo : inside the Blackstar effect loop, or before the input ?

pls aswer me can i plug in two guitars on boss me-80.i mean if i have 2 guitar jack input amp can i plug in seccond guitar on boss me-80 then to amp.answer me pls.thanks

my me 70 has some kind weird problem. so I preset my own tone. ok lets say im use the patch 1 bank 1 sound, then I want to use patch 1 band 2, here is the problem . the distorted sound is carry over to the bank 2. so there is a loud gain effect on bank 2. how to fix it? I just move the amp effect effect knob arpund and move it back to regional place. but if I play in practice or even play on stage if I get a chance. I don't want to kneel down and do all these things, I don't have time for that. so can you help me out?

im an open minded person, but ive always thought multi FX and amp modeling sounds crappy, and despite you doing a great overview of it all, my mind is yet to be swayed. cheers guys!

My biggest problem with multi-effects units (I used to own a Digitech rp500), was I spent more time playing with sounds than actually playing guitar

Hi Guys, I m about to buy the 80 to replace my 70, but does the ME80 has a way to pause and continue the looper ? because the 70 doesn't have it and it is annoying if we want to stop and replay it later. Thanks.

What do i choose between these 3? Boss me 80, line 6 firehawk or the line 6 pod500? Please help

does this have that new fangled adaptive dynamic circuitry like in the new OD-1X ?

Just got mine. Considering the price this is a very decent piece of equipment. I only play every once in awhile when I have time as a pastime. I got it on sale at Guitar Center for $250 bucks and it definitely is a huge upgrade from my old Zoom G2.1u that I payed $200 for about 12 years ago. Hey it's a Boss, made by Roland so I think it's the best bang for your buck unless you're a pro and want to spend several thousands on an Eventide.

I have a POD HD-500. It sounded fine when I had a line 6 stack that was all digital, but then I switched over to a vox all tube amp and now it sounds horrible! Will this sound ok with a tube amp? I'm kind of scared to by these types of pedal boards now.

Can it be used as a USB input to a DAW like Reaper and will the effects be recorded or just a clean guitar input?