Boss ME-33

Very simple has i pretty good manuel that explains most thing very simmple to setup u be playing quickly after u take it out of that box

Pletty of great sound some of the level is differnt but u know
My setup is Kramer Striker>ME-33>sm-7smash box>marshall mg80rcd soon to be with half stack if i could get a damn job!! i am in a band,Waiste of space,we play metal tool mixed with slayer kind of stuff so we will be recording a demo cd shortly. well i just got the me-33 today took it out of the box read a little bit of the booklet setthe pedal up started to play.it has great patches 90 most all are great sounding all effects sould great every thing is great sound. i also use one effect and my distortion pedal. do not get me wrong the me33 has plenty of distortion except i wanted to get my sound as i used to some what and no extra noise even with my other dist pedal on wit anther dist on th me33 great sounds

ya it will last a while
try not to use batteries because i am sure it will take them up fast power supply

???i am sure it is pretty good

This is on of the best i have heard i would say it is better than most other multi effects great sound no noise sweet pedal i would get another if stolen

It's fairly straight-forward and intuitive to use. The manual lacks detail and is poorly organized, so the best way to learn is to mess with it a while and use the manual for reference only. Editing patches is very easy.

I play my home-built Strat thru a Carvin DSP-type amp. Noise is fairly low, audio quality is better than other units priced in this range.

It's fairly reliable, although it did "whack-out" once or twice and needed to be re-booted. My Zoom 505 occasionally did the same thing. Like all digital effects boxes, it's not as reliable an an analog unit.

I emailed Roland with a few questions and email bounced back with no forwarding address. Roland is playing "musical websites" as well...some of their sites that we functional 6 months ago are gone-zo. I'd suggest buying this from a store with a 30-day trial period, 'cause /RolandBoss won't help you.

I play a lot of blues in the style of SRV. I'd say you can get reasonably close to SRV's sound with this thing but again, nothing will really replicate the sound of analog effects and tube amp except analog effects and a tube amp! But for what it costs and what it does, it's not bad. It's quieter and more flexible than a Zoom 505 and costs about the same.

Read the manual first. Though I do enjoy buying cheap gear off of people who couldn't figure out how to use it, you're much better off reading what they have to say first. :-)
I did the normal thing of running through all the presets... ugh... a few were cool but the rest were nowhere near what I consider "professional" sounds.
It took me about 15 minutes to get some decent settings out of it. 2 clean and 1 distorted. I write and debug code all day, so needless to say the programming of this thing was not challenging at all.
The only problem I have with using this is its size. If you try to run over and use the expression pedal it'll stand up on its side and you'll twist your crazy ankle! Of course I'm kind of a freak when I play, so this might not be a common occurrence.

I used my rg560 studio guitar for this, into a crate GX-130c. This unit sounded great! The ultimate test for me is when you hit the "bypass" when you have the level of the unit and your amp synced there is little to no difference.
Once you get the hang of the modeling you'll find it's very easy to get some killer sounds out of this.
I was going to get the GT-5, but I tried both and in my opinion the GT-5 is not worth the extra $300 .Right now this is the only effects box I'm using and I'm totally satisfied. Already recorded a few tunes with it and I'm very impressed!
When I first plugged it in it was noisy as hell, but it turns out that it was the old patch cable I grabbed to plug it in. Time to bust out the soldering iron!

Seems fairly dependable. Step on it all you like. people have been knocking the crap out of Boss pedals for years....they build quality stuff. Though it's like any other peice of gear, if your bass player drops it off the back of the truck, it may break. ;-)

I've dealt with Boss in the past, great people. Friendly and attentive.

In the last few years I've quit shredding and concentrated more on expanding my musical vocabulary. This unit is great, you can switch from style to style and it always sounds great!
I would buy another one the same day if it got stolen. Great peice of gear.
I give this a 9 because my fiance really likes it. She's been listening to me play for years and the day I bought this she came downstairs and said "Wow honey, you're getting really good!" Thanks honey....glad you're listenin' :-)

Editing patches is a snap, and you can swap patches and exchange them.
Everything is very tweakable which does add some complexity to the unit, but for how complex and tweakable it is, it's very easily run and edited. The manual is great, very forward and to the point.
Saving patches is easy and you can rename them. the knobs are awesome when it comes to tweaking individual effects....it's like running stomp boxes, and you can run it in a "stomp box mode" under the manual setting. So if you read the manual for a while on the hard stuff like swapping/exchanging patches, and on some of the hiden cool stuff then it'll be awesome. even if oyu figure it out on your own, it's not too bad. one more thing, the expression pedal switches on and off like a real Wah pedal....push hard on the toe. it's sweet.

I am playing a Peavey Predator w/whammy and 3 single-coils, and a Gibson 75 Les Paul Deluxe w/ a 490 and a Dirty fingers. Both are played into a Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212, which is a GREAT amp.
I've heard that Multi effects are noisy...well...not this one. It's very quiet....now if you run metal distortion, on top of an amp model, a guitar sim, chorus, phaser, and eq, she's gonna buzz. BUT, I own several distortion stomp boxes and they buzz too, so if you are running tons of distortion, that's what ya get.
I haven't figured out how to get a deep sweet Metallica chorus feel, like on "Nothing Else Matters", so if anyone has any patches on that, send em!! I think it's there I jsut gotta tweak it. the Distortions/Overdrives/Fuzz/Metal are all tweakable from huge to tinny. they sound great. the phaser is good.....I like the flanger a bit better. A POD/Nirvana/'Tallica Lead sound ain't hard to get at all. haven't made any Creed patches, but I plan on it. 3 doors Down...yeah....gotta work on those a bit more. But it sounds good...the Wah is...well I dunno. I've never played with a "real" wah, so I can't say. it takes some getting used to. But the EFX don't sound digital or lifeless. the tubey efx are great...it sounds real.

This thing is built tough. it;s really heavey duty...I have bashed on it yet..I only got it yesterday, but I think that if you don't jump up and down on it, it will last forever. On the ME-30 I read complaints about the expression pedal being weak...not here, it's tough and smooth. I wouldn't gig without a back up because I've burned up two wall worts on my stomp boxes, and if it happnes here I'm screwed. Never gig w/o back up....it'll bitecha in the butt eventually.

NEver had to probably never will, but I've heard great stuff about Boss, even over Digitech and Korg.

Overall it's good. IT's a bit of an overload right now cause I've never had that much at my feet, but it's good. It's tough, the LCD is backlit, the EX tones help with distortion...it'll do anything you've heard before. some of the stuff like auto riff is worthless unless yuo can't play guitar at all, but you can erase the lousy pateches and build better ones. the tunes is GREAT, the tweakability is almost unlimited, it's plug it in and Go. I'd buy it again, this is the unit that bridges between your Korg ax-1g's and your Roland $1K units. this is that crossover. go check one out and let it sell you. save your pennies...these babies are better than DOD, Digitech, or Korg.
Email me if you figure out any deep Metallica chorus stuff, or if you find a ME-33 homepage wtih patches.
Enjoy!!
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Pretty easy to get around on...I started tweaking right away and only had to consult the manual a couple of times to figure out how to save patches and do the EZ Tone stuff. I would have liked it if the various levels would show right away above the knobs so that you have some idea of where it is before you move the knob. LOVE the built-in tuner.

Unit seems VERY quiet and the bottom line for me is that it seems to get pretty decent quality distortion effects with very little effort. I have tried the POD (took it back) and have an ME-30 (not as nice-sounding as the ME-33 and certainly not as flexible. As hard as I try, I can't get the compressor to sound as nice as the one in my ADA MP-1.

No ideas. I'll never take it out of the studio. I'm using it as a POD-replacement. Couldn't wait for the Amp Factory, and the one I tried at NAMM sounded like it had the same capabilities as this ME-33. My ME-30 has the backlight out (or is it just not backlit?)

For the type of music I write, this unit seems to fit the bill. I am using it mostly for chunky rhythm distortion sounds. It definitely sounds better than mic'ing anything else (I have a TriAxis, MP-1, JMP-1 and the ME-30) going direct, and that's the bottom-line. The guitar modeling thingie seems like a little bit of smoke-and-mirrors, but I'm sure I'll use it to quickly get tones. I do like the EZ Tone function...it's another way to get good starting points for sounds.