Hej John, thanks for your fine Videos. I had a Helix Floor Unit, a Kemper Stage and an Axe FX 3. Sold them all and use the GX-100 for live gigs playing Guitar and Bass. I think, this Unit has a better „Play feel“ regarding the response on picking dynamics and latency. I am sure nobody in the audience will be able to tell the difference between the devices, once you dialed in „you“ sound. The GX-100 is very user friendly and you can make really quick changes in the heat of a gig, if necessary. Personally I just don‘t need 150 Amp models, for most live situations I just need one clean, one crunch and one Lead Sound for Guitar, just one good sound for Bass. So for me it’s definitly the best bang for the Buck and reliable. For Recording it‘s a different story - is there more fun than tweaking one good valve amp with a good cabinet in a good room with some decent mics? (By the way, I don‘t need 110 dbA, 85 is enough 😉 )And if it has to be quick, you just need one good VST you really like. The less time you need to get to know your tools, the more time you have to practice and play 😊. Keep on rockin‘ P.S. I am convinced that 80% of your tone is in your fingers. And for at least 80% of the audience it is more important that the song you are playing is good and you support the Song well
Who cares about snapshots which can only change the settings and states of the present preset when you can change everything with switching a patch with gapless switching, i really dont understand what people are talking about when they say they miss snapshots, preset changes eats snapshots for lunch. BTW i think the GX-100 was always very competitively priced even before the others raised their prices, its way more powerful than the POD Go when it comes to functionality especially.
Snapshots have their reason to be and they would be great to have in a gx actually. In cases where you have radically different sounds it is better just to change patch, but staying in a song with 3 or 4 variations, and being able to recall them is great. I know you can work around that, sort of, doing multiple assigns but it is cumbersome and frustrating when you change man6 effects/paramters at a time: snapshots are at a higher level and they do simplify life.
@@myTubesTube Snapshots are only there for the reason that the modeler isnt powerful enough to change patches so that they are instant/seamless, when the modeler can change patches that way snapshots are obsolete since a patch can do all a snapshot can and much much more.
The GX-100 is my favorite of all the modelers I've owned. The Assign section is actually very powerful. The amount of switching/parameter changes you can pull off with one button press is pretty amazing. I even have the expression pedal raising and lowering amp gain, while raising volume to compensate, switching from hi gain to med gain, and turning on shimmer reverb at the bottom. It's so smooth and sounds great.
Combined with a tonex this is super powerful.... I have a dual tonex rig with one in the gx100 loop and the other in the loop of a hx stomp xl........then i put my physical pedals infront abd after them to create a '2 amp rig' that can split into 2 to 4 speakers for double stereo ping pong..... Im just lucky i have been collecting pedals for years so i have over 100 different physical pedals covering every effect to create unique signal chains and blending effects with triparallel mixers and splitters from EHX so i can have a third superego+ synth chain with a range of effects in its loop independent of the other 2 effects chains...... Utilising most of the pedals has allowed it to become a modular synth style tool for home use, using the 2 multifx and tonex as the 'core'.......
I remember plugging this pedal in the first time and being very disappointed, but what Ive learned is that you need to spend a lot of time learning to use it and all its functions properly, thats only when you unlock its true potential. The dual amps is also definitely where this pedal shines.
I own an FM-9, but before I bought it, I played the Boss GX100 for quite a while at a music store and thought it sounded awesome. I love my Fractal, but is it worth $1400 more (I also bought a fractal volume pedal!) ? I don't think so. Is the FM-9 still better? yes, in some fundamental ways, and some peripheral ways, but.... I agree, the Boss is def the best value/bang for buck out there.
My favorite preset of the GX-100 is JCBOUTIQUELEAD :) (OD+Dumble+Delay) so sweet
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question , can i have dual amps running in mono and have a line out with cab sim for front of the house and one with out cab sim for my on stage cab ? also can that IR be a custom one ? thanks!
I have a pod go and switched to gx100 and there is no turning back…. Sounds great (the X-mod on here sounds great and I use it loads),it has loads of DSP, great form factor, expression pedal, midi. It seriously does it all for £445. Then throw in the Bluetooth module and you can stream music to it and tweak on a tablet rather than PC or the unit. It will take something special to turn me away from it. Would need to be helix 2, but half the size, all the effects and same price…!!! Yeah more like £2k. But all seems to be going pedal modellers now (IR2, pod express, lion, toneX one etc)
Oh wow! I'm enjoying my pod Go just started gigging it. Can this boss beat the litigator amp? Better live feel? How does it compare to the newest 2.0 update on the pod Go?
@swardmusic I still love the Pod go and haven't sold it. Just I needed more options in the chain (fender to marshal amp switching, 2 delays, 2 ODs, chorus, reverb, trem, fuzz etc). GX100 does all that in one patch... the gx100 has the lowest latency of all modellers so feels very dynamic and responsive and i like the amp tones i have. But that said the litigator and grammatico on pod go are great, also I love the harmonic trem on pod go which the gx100 doesn't have. So always some trade off. What I would say is if you don't need loads of effects and like the tone from pod go stick with that... Great unit
You mention snapshots quite a few times, but with GAPLESS preset switching why would this be a concern? This is quite a bit more powerful if you can spin through rigs without dropping audio.
I have a Helix floor that I carry around in a heavy flight case and I was looking for something smaller to use when I didn't need the power of all those amps and when the stage size became an issue and I picked the Boss. It does something that I've fought the Helix with....it has clean programs that I can use with my G&L Comanche AND my Les Paul without tweaking anything. Yes, the touch screen icons are a bit weird but the unit sounds great, it's lighter than my Helix and it's built like a tank.....all metal. My Helix is still king but I have no problems with the Boss at gigs.
Snapshots functionality is actually available (with gapless switching) in the Memory Mode. You can also change the settings so that you can switch modes with a single press of C2 rather than the hold which is on by default. While I do think it needs some updates, I do love this unit and sold all my other stuff to use this full time!
I’m thinking about it, sell all other stuff. I’m only afraid of a bad functioning or other problem happening to the unit. Pedals are more expansive but the chance of being surprised is lower. Raising some money would be nice, but I’ll keep both for now.
Did exactly that for the C2 switch as I know I will be changing patches more often than tuning. Only thing I wish is that the hold time for the tuner be slightly quicker to activate it.
I have always preferred the Boss effects sounds over any of the other multi effects units. For amps I prefer ToneX, Fractal, and QC, but for delays, reverb, chorus, phaser, octave, OD, etc I like the Boss stuff better. So on my board I usually just use a ToneX for amps and a GT1000 core for effects. But the GX100 has a way better UI. I wish Boss would make a GX100 core that has the smaller form factor but the UI from the GX.
This unit is so customizable it’s actually crazy lol. The one thing I realized after a month of endless playing around is that for the harmonizer, you can pretty much set any parameter for the 4 quick use knobs below the screen EXCEPT changing the key for the harmonies… thats literally the most useful one to have for a quick adjust in a live setting and it’s not available.
I had a GT-1000 (my bandmate then bought a GX-100). Both were impressive, but I disliked the wah and pitch shifting. In the end I went back to a pedalboard with individual pedals, but I use a Boss OD-200 for overdrive / distortion. Having a TS, Klon, Blues Driver, Fuzz and others all in one pedal is awesome.
imho boss needs to: hear its customer base ,support their (expensive) products more(aka updates and bug fix),get a 2024ish ui and signal routing,invest in comunity and preset sharing...i have an sy1000........
Amazing time to play guitar. I came across a little Flamma FX100 for $50 and bought it on a lark, and it surprised me how solid it was, tones "quite good". An amazing time to be a musician! 👍
I've been a BOSS user for years... Just got a GT-1000 that I've been messing around with. I'm still not 100% sold on modelers for live stuff. Sounds great as always John.
I have had my Boss GX100 for a year now. I love it. The tone is great and it footswitch assignment is very flexible. Like most modelers you need to put a high cut in and have an ear for tone.
@@MOAB-UTnah, what? You don’t need a high cut and an ear for tone? The tone isn’t great? The foot switch assignment isn’t very flexible? I must know what you mean!
I have an Axe FX 2. Sounds great. I also have a Eventide H90 I use with the Boss GX100 for reverbs and " Wierd" effects. Oh.. one other thing.. I can play the hell out of the Guitar so the gear is secondary. 🎸 🤣
I got it as soon as it was available and really like it, easy to use, sturdy as can be and great sounds. This one is going to stay here for a long time 😊
I work with my two GX100 ( one is spare ) in the Studio and live . I like the Stompbox Mode , so I have 2 Gain Stages , 2 Delays , Univibe,Tremolo , Looper and a Wah / Volume Control. Plus a very good Tuner it has everything I need. I don't need a bunch of Amp Models . I need one Amp ( Boutique Amp ) that is on the edge of breakup. No bank switching , nothing.
I’ve used a GX-100 for a couple of years now. It’s pretty easy to dial in and sounds really good. Perhaps it’s not a fractal or whatever but it works great and the switching is super flexible.
I’ve noticed the retailers here in Japan don’t even have the GT-1000 or Core on shelves anymore. Only the GX-100 and the ME-90. Could simply be from a lack of sales but it makes me feel like a “GX-1000” is coming soon so they didn’t stock up on the old model.
Sounds really good. He makes everything sound good. I have the GT1000 and finds it great and very flexible... The 16 assigns are powerful High cut rolled to 6.3khz to 8khz makes a difference for boss pedalboards
Heads up guys although hxstomp xl is 800 in the UK, thomman has a crazy deal on a limited edition silver hxstomp xl for £560 for their 70th anniverary.....get it if you are thinking about it!
@@juggert not to the UK, its all included in their pricing, and i bought it from them a few weeks back so the price is 568 all in, its an offer for their 70th anniverary......they are doing a limited edition silver tonex for 300 too
@@conordyer2307 Oh ok. Sounds good then. I tried to order the same but it would come closer to £ 760 for me including taxes and delivery. I managed to get a deal on the regular HX stomp for £500 here so was more than happy to pick it up. Plus the silver is bit too much for me. Too much Late 90's -early 2000's
I’m surprised that boss isn’t talked about more often. I’ve always been into their gear. I’ve owned single pedals, the me50, and now the gt1000 core. I have a hard time coming up with good excuses to buy anything else for a comparable price.
@@Newnodrogbob Despite the lack of updates, the Boss products still hold up to the competition. But I agree, there are only so many videos a person can make on that. Cordy seems to make more Boss related videos than most channels, to be fair.
Great video. I've been using the GX-100 for a couple years now. I use the Tone Studio software. Yes, it's a little quirky but I can dial in great sounds with it. One of the tricks is to use the In/Out Settings to choose the right output system and then customize it from there. Boss recently updated the firmware and added a few goodies - more amps, a feedback effect, a slicer, a sitar simulator and more bass models . Maybe the best thing is the IR loader is now built-in so you don't have to launch a separate piece of software.
Boss has had that assign matrix since at least the GT-10. I think the acoustic simulations and also the pickup emulations (hum to sing and vice versa) make their units flexible for if you want those tones out of a guitar that doesn't have splits or is a single coil only. Their dual amp workflow to me has always been great.
Boss basically zigs while everyone else zags. That's both good and bad for them. If you just want stuff that sounds good and aren't into "gear" Boss stuff is hard to beat. They make great stuff (interfaces suck IMO though). The probably is their amps are usually their own flavors and most gearheads like the idea of playing modeled version, if not direct capture, of a real, legendary amp. That's where it doesn't feel as fun to play boss stuff IMO. Silly yes, but that's been my experience. I say that as a lover of their headphone amp.
Its a Brilliant pedal for £450ish. You can go crazy on these moddlers but really for Gigs we've found you only really need Two Duluxe Amps amps (Running at the same time ) Running with the Drive and Gate Infront (Each Drive Pedal its own Gate . Sounds Cleaner) The Modulation and Delay in the Loops . Reverb at the End for some realness . Eq at the End to Sculpt the Tone Live. High Cut and Low Cut on the Global EQ . Done ✅ Gigged the GX100 straight into the P.A for Guitars and Bass . Its our Bands Ampless Rig now for Weddings , Party's and Pubs . Good thing is the Feel once its Dialed in you won't go back . Looked at the expensive pedals but unless you need that level of IRs , Amps and just noddling about for the Studio they just dont sound or feel any better live. £450ish all day on this beast !!!
Have you try to use boss gt 1000 but the full gear? Because I’ve seen you have some videos about gt core. But you should try the boss gt 1000. You have so much power there !
So, I went into my local guitar shop to talk about getting into pedals…I hadn’t got a clue…I was shown a Boss ME90 I think it is and I shown this. I said I wasn’t sure what I was looking for, I knew I wanted to play metal and have some effects, but I didn’t know what they were… …chap recommended I look at a multi pedal like this, I preferred this to the ME90 as it had the touch screen… …for a beginner, 12 months into their guitar journey, is this too much? I don’t understand pedals and effects enough to start buying random pedals, but I acknowledge that this is nearly £500 and I’m still pretty new and just want to make what I play sound more like what it is supposed to be.::
I’ve been a boss user since 94 with lots of stomp boxes. I love the me-80 and me-90 of which I have 2. I even like the GT-1. I bought the GTX-100 and couldn’t use it. I read the manual, I watched videos. The interface is SO BAD. I just couldn’t use it. It went back to the store.
There's quite a lot of tiny downsides that make modern boss stuff not competing well with others. For example, no balanced outputs, amp modeling is lacking in terms of both quantity and quality, strange and ugly ui and etc. I actually used boss stuff a lot before, but nowadays there's not much reasons to use any of it.
I absolutely love my GX100. I love being able to assign boost, delay, and chorus to a single button for those big solos! Running the X-Modded with the Recti Stack in parallel sounds soooooo good.
John, I think you should look at the Boss GT1000 core prices, currently you can pick one up for as low as £510 Brand new, and in that price bracket it smashes everything else out the park.
@@roryt1985 Hi Rory, is that the Ampero Stage II? I must admit I dont know much about them and after just having a quick look it certainly seems to have much more versatility in terms of amps & cabs, effects seem to be roughly on par but I wouldnt have a clue how good they are and although the Ampero seems much more limited in the effects chain compared to the Boss you could easily argue who would want or need more than 15 effects at one time. I also couldnt find one for less than £610 new although I did see that the stomp is cheaper at about £480. Personally I still rate the GT1000 core, although I will admit I also have a Tonex pedal in the effects loop although I dont always use it as some of the boss amps are really good.
Bought my GX100 for £280 off eBay. I’m looking forward to setting up my preferred patches using the tips in your videos 👍 I’ve bought a GT 100 used (for £97) and 2 way foot switch for a backup rig. All for less than the price of a HX stomp. Reckon I am set up for the foreseeable future.
First of all, keep it simple. Throw away literaly everything from a patch and start from scratch. 1. Compresor. Just a little bit. Not too much. Like a pinch 😉. 2. For warm tones try some tweed amp simulation. But, to be honest, almost all of them will work fine. It's just your taste that matters at the end of the day. 3. Keep the amp at lowest gain switch. Adjust gain knob to your preferences (important: don't set much gain, set it low, but add more volume). 4. Adjust tone knobs: high on 11h, mid on 3h and bass on 2h. Aprox. At the end and some eq. With all of tones on 2h (more or less). 5. If necessery add some Tubr Screamer between Comp and Amp. But keep it at lowest gain possible. Just use it as a booster. (Important: a real clean booster doesn't work as good as TS. Nobody knows why. It's probably magic😉). And that's it. That's the base. Now you can add some reverb, echo, delay or chorus. But first you have to set a proper foundation.
I tried everything I could get my hands on but chose the gx100 because to me it felt the most like a real amp. Having models of super specific amps is nice and all but honestly how does any body really know how accurate it is and does it even really matter? As long as it sounds good I’m happy and I’ve got a Tonex that will cover all that any way. Got an ox stomp to add in as well and IMO that is superior to any IRs I’ve loaded in. The only thing I wish the gx100 had was a stereo effects loop and xlr outputs. Aside from that, with the ox stomp it is extremely hard for me to tell the difference between the gx100 and a real amp especially when it comes to the feel of it.
I absolutely love their gain, for punk rock I like their X-modded and for metal either Recti, Uber, or Orange with an overdrive set at low gain to tighten up the sound.
I am waiting to buy this unit but has the IR issue solved? They claim they solved it but it is still the same, the IRs loaded on the Boss GX100 sound low volume, dark and muddy.
I've worked with Boss since Feb 2024 to fix the IR issue. They dont seam interested in a fix. However, you can tweak IR volume/EQ to make them sound good.
The distortion sounds are so bad, lol. I have, and still use, a very old Boss GT-3 from the late 90's. It's mostly great, with a ton of useable effects, but the distortion tones are also garbage in that thing. Boss needs to sort that out, yo.
@@joebowbeer Yeah, you dont neccesarily need as much switches if you just play at home so you can buy often buy a small and even very simple unit to use for that. As you say, the GX-100 is more aimed at gigging.
@@TomWhite-nu2rp isnt it good because of quality or because it starts to have more problems the more you pitch down? i am asking because i dont care about more than 4 semitones.if at this range is good then its good for me.
For some reason I can’t get this unit to sound nearly as good as the HX stuff or Ampero II . Sounds too artificial to me . Glad other people like it tho, I’ll be listing mine on reverb soon 😅
I don´t think this argument is valid. How many people have played the real amps? This "real life" thing is just a thought of what it might sound like. Are you comparing the "real sound" with what? With another modeler or with actually the real amp?
@@matmarchi Agree, this contant nostalgia baiting in the modelling world is weird to me. I actually appreciate Boss including unique amp sounds, it's fresh and new. But sadly it seems like most consumers just want everything to sound like the same 4 amps from the 60's.
@@matmarchi I've been down the Boss amp modeling rabbit hole for years. You can great sounds of them for sure. But if you want an accurate Marshall sound. An accurate Rectifier sound. An accuarate Bogner Uberschall sound. You aren't getting it out of a Boss product. This is compared to real life amps. As well as whatever Fractal I have in front of me at a given time. This is not me snobbing on Boss; this is me saying "maybe you should pay attention to real amps and the fact that not everyone wants to grab the Juggernaut model when they really want a 5150 or Dual Rectifier or Mark series amp" because that's what amp modeling is supposed to be.
I said this in your other vid, IR management. Better IR management and this thing will fly off the shelves. I should be able to put at LEAST 32 custom IR on this thing.
You can tell their pitch shifting is simple shifting, because there are audio artifacts when playing those chords. Need something like a polycapo, but I expect that device doesn't have the DSP for that, or at least not with all those other things.
