Boss ME-50

Once you realize how the pedal is made up its very very straightforward.

If you want to get the most out of the ods/dist models you need a tube amp, otherwise they will sound very harsh and uninspireing. The modulations and delays sound good through SS/digital rigs regardless. Reverbs are plain crap IMHO. The noisegate and compressor do there job. I use the enhance setting on the tone modify it seems to improve my tone slightly. I'm playing this through a valve junior and im really loving the ds-1 model. Rating for going through a tube amp only.

Well built. So far so good. Had it about 3 years

Never dealt

Perfect for gigging, no cables to trip over, easy to tweak and good tone if the rest of your gear is of good quality.

you can operate this unit with your eyes closed from the minute you take it out of the box. excellent layout. no learning curve at all with this unit. editing patches is almost too easy. the manual is to the point and worth reading even if you don't need to.

using an ibanez rg350 into a marshall 40w valvestate i get a very good tone, nothing breathtaking but enough to give me those usual sounds, spacey, heavy, bluesy, folky, jazzy and even some weird synthesizer effects.
what stand out for me is the delay, distortion colours, the phaser and chorus. the tone modify feature only seems to have an impact with clean tones. the octave mode is excellent, although that and the harmonist effect and the ring mode effect can only be used for single notes i.e chords sound terrible.

no problems at all very reliable

im sure they are useless as usual and thankfully ive never needed them

Ive owned about 5 multi effects units and this one is the best but not by much. It has its drawbacks, the wah is very weak indeed, when i line it up with my Dunlop 535q wah or even my Digitech Hendrix wah, the Boss ME50's effort at the wah is just lame. The voice and resonance are interesting but again they don't pack a punch. the reverb is also weak and seems to steal so much tone compared to my amps reverb.
distortion effects are good, the OD-2 setting is the one i find gives the best tone for me, the others get too mushy and nothing i do can get them to sound any good. the guv (high gain) is meaty and crunchy also but again the rest are just lacking for my set up.

last but not least is the compressor and noise reduction, just fantastic. i get a lot of interference from my PC and other stuff (like picking up radio stations and taxi's as they drive past) and this thing eliminates them, and as for the compressor i can huge sustain, in fact the most impressive thing ive noticed about this unit is the ability to get infinate sustain using the compressor and wah pedal set to about half closed.

Extremely easy to use and versatile as hell! You can get pretty much any sound out of this pedal that you want by doing a little tweaking here and there. As with any pedal it's good to pay it some attention. I spent about a week getting to know mine before i found "my sound" but that's only because i'm picky!

It does look complicated at first but read the manual through and it's plain sailing from there. You shouldn't need to read it again...

I play indie rock, alternative, metal and funk and this pedal does EVERYTHING i need. My current set up is a Burns Marquee into a Mesa/Boogie Roadster with Engl 4x12 and the ME-50 is my SOLE effects unit. I can't see why you would realistically need any more pedals than this. It seems to incorporate just about every decent pedal on the market as well as the whole Boss range.

First of all the Distortion options are superb. The Boss OD-1 and OD-2 settings are great for thick, liquid soloing while the BD-2 is exceptional for rhythm sounds or for fattening things up if you're the only guitarist in the band. With a Muff, an Ibanez Tube Screamer and a Marshall Guvnor also on board...you're sorted for overdrive and distortion. There's also a nice octave fuzz and a Square synth sound (think effector-13) if you need to wierd it up a bit!

The modulation channel is where i think the pedal lets itself down slightly. The phaser is stunning, as is the vibrato, but the other settings offer a very limited range for tweaking. The flanger could be MUCH better and the chorus needs fattening up a little more. Having said that i enjoy the Harmonist and the Rotary (very Lesley sounding) options.

The Delay is all good. All the Boss options are here along with some nice extras. The Hold setting offers a short sampler which is very nice for those set breaks or when someone snaps a string. Keep the crowd going with some nice layered delay sounds! It is, however, beyond me why anyone would use a 0-30ms delay...

The combined volume/expression pedal is great. Anyone who finds it difficult not to knock it out of expression into volume needs to take a little more care when jumping on it. Don't try to play chords in the +1 octave, -1 octave or ring modulator modes though - not a nice sound.

The reverb is ok but i don't use it. I use my amp for that.
The compressor works well - nothing wrong there
The Noise Gate is a nice feature however you will need to play around with it in relation to the distortions.
The Tone Modify knob is one of the best things about this pedal. There are 10 settings and each one sounds totally different.

I've had no problems so far and i've had mine for over a year. It's very sturdy and i wouldn't particularly urge you to buy a case for it. I just whack mine in a bag with all my leads and it's been fine up to now. It's been dropped, kicked around and stamped on and not even a scratch!

One thing though - load it with 6 AA batteries regardless of whether you have a power adapter. If the adapter gets yanked out (which it shouldn't because there is a hook to wrap your power cable around!) you don't want to be left scrabbling around on the floor trying to put it back in!

Never needed it

It's a great pedal. You can get any sound you want from it with little work. However it could be improved slightly. SOME of the modulations need looking at (tremolo, all 3 choruses and flanger) and i WISH that the power adapter and bank switching pedals were included. Also don't expect instant switching when in patch mode. There is a noticeable lag which gets VERY annoying. However a little practice and you'll get used to it.

Overall i'd recommend it as a good first pedal. It's got everything you need and is very easy to use. If you're thinking about buying a multi-effects pedal and don't want to spend your life savings on a processor, go for the ME-50.

Contact me if you have any questions about the pedal :)

I stay away from the memory mode, and in manual mode this is the easiest multi-effect I've ever used. It really is like a consolidation of a few Boss pedals into one. Fantastic to use, especially when I want to change settings on the fly mid-song.

I am quite picky with tone, and after tweaking the compression and noise gate I notice no audible alteration of my tone. The distortions are decent (especially the tube screamer and fuzz face, very close to the originals which I own and have tested side by side), but the key to my distorted tone is my amp (15w Crate Palomino, fantastic little amp despite its brand name). The modulation and delay effects are top-rate, and sound identical to their Boss stomp counterparts. The modulation effects are extremely sensitive and can be tweaked to just where I like them. Pity I do not have a second amp handy at the moment as I would love to play with some of the stereo effects. The expression effects are all of good quality as well. Volume works spot on, and the pitch shifts are excellent. The ring modulator is wild, fun effect to play around with in extreme moderation. Resonance is kinda lame (perhaps it will come to life in stereo?), and I find the voice effect somewhat difficult to get a use out of (for now anyway). The wah is excellent, sounds very Vox-ish, but I would have liked if it had a wider sweep. For what I was looking for--Modulation effects, delay, comp, noise gate, wah, and some 'go to 11' for solos, etc.--this thing is perfect. Although I will never sell my Turbo Tubescreamer, I am going to be parting with some old stomp boxes now that I have this thing.

I love my single effects, don't get me wrong, but I'm sick of pedals dying on me and I can't afford to have them repaired anymore. If there is one thing Boss is known for, it is rock solid tank-like reliability. This is made of steel and high quality rubber and I know it will last me as long as any of my other Boss effects.

None of my Boss pedals have ever broken, so I have no experience with Boss' customer support. This is a good thing.

Having owned myriad stomp boxes over the years, there is nothing like tweaking individual effects to taste. But, on the other hand, I enjoy the simplicity of having everything in one compact unit. The ME-50 offers a nice middle ground. It is extraordinarily simple to use and is very much like having several Boss stomps at your feet. The quality of most of the effects is top notch, I do not notice rampant tone sucking or digitization problems as I have with multi-effects in the past (Line6 PodXT Live, for example). For a little more than I paid for my Line6 DL-4, which is a fantastic pedal if it didn't break :( , I now have a compact, easy to maintain effects unit that keeps it simple and straightforward. There are enough sounds in the box that I will not need any more effects for a long time. And I can trust that Boss makes reliable products that last forever if properly cared for. Feel free to ask any more specific questions, as I am something of an effects junkie and I will be able to get as little or most technical as needed.. I'll be glad to answer anything I can.

It is the most strait forward, easy to use multi-effects system on the market period. One knob for each effect what more can I say.

It's no better than the individual pedals that it models, but no worse either. I only own three guitars...(i know, the few but the proud). A cort M-600 (extremely accurate knock-off of the PRS Custom 222), Seagull Enterage rutic acoustic-electric, and and antient relic (1905 or 1935 not sure which) SS stewart archtop. And from what I've found this unit will even perform at an exceptional level with acoustic guitars.

Expression: I use all of the expression settings except the ring mod because it's freaky and they all do what they say they do quite well (except the pitch benders, they only perform when playing one string at a time and muting the others)

Tone Modify: These are great tools, set it for what ever type of music you're playing and leave it there.

Reverb: useless, they are almost un-noticable when turned on.

Noise gate: set it to about three o'clock and leave it. It works perfectly

Disortion: high quality, extremely versitile. The varient patch works great with tubed amps. Any style of playing that uses distortion can be covered with this unit. Also for added base boosting without distortion set gain to minimum and use the bottom knob to get wicked base.

Modulation: all great versitile tools for all music styles. Harmonist one string at a time. Couldn't tell you about the pan effects...only own one amp.

Delay: Perfect and extremely usable from subtle to in your face no problems with this.

Over all I've found that haveing on bypass doesn't affect the sound of play at all and the effects only have things to add no draw backs

Had it for a year now never shown a hint of an inckling of an issue. Made amlost entirely of metal, and where there's no metal there plastics so solid they could be run over with a hummer.

I'd gig with this unit in a thunderstorm, infront of the entire world if my life depended on it without a backup... Nuff said

Wouldn't know... never had an issue

I play anything fron blues to hard rock and it will deal with anything that I can throw at it.
I've been playing for about 4 years now, I've got 3 guitars, The boss metal zone MT-2 distortion drive, and a very recently aquired Fender Blues Deluxe. If your amp has an effect loop use it with this unit. If this one for any reason was lost or stolen I'd get another one hands down. love the versatility, hate the rever on it, particularily like the distortion. I had a pedal that was made be some company called Zoom for a day and it broke so I got this before that I had a digitech that died in 6 months so this is the longest lasting pedal I've had. It has been the single best purchase musically I've ever made and it will continue to be for a long, long time

This pedal is a God-send for the gig'ing musician. Ease of use, convenient, instant set-up and great sounds is why ya buy this particular effects unit. I've been using the ME-50 for a couple of years now and have had no desire to go back to the 5 to 7 individual pedals I use to set up. I play country, rock, surf, a lot of Chet fingerstyle. Everything I need for the gig is in this unit and can be adjusted easily in real time without having to scroll through menus. It does have 30 presets and I've played with them but its rare that I will pull one up at a gig. I just use whats there in the non-program mode and there is a lot there; excellent compression, excellent distortions, great Univibe, great phaser, great flanger, excellent tremelo, all manners of delay including a cool reverse delay, four different reverb types with full adjustment on one knob (probably the most important feature for quick set-up in various rooms), excellent volume pedal, accurate tuner, nice wah and expression effects. But the big deal is that all of these are so easily accesible and adjustable for each new room you in which you find yourself.

Great great sounds come from this baby. I've been gig'ing with it for a couple of years and still find new ways to use it. Recently at a rehearsal, I couldn't understand why my sound was particularly good. When I got home and hooked up my gear to investigate whether I still that great tone, I noticed that I accidentally had the "tone modify" section engaged. It was set to "Enhance". I don't know exactly what "Enhance" does electronically, it may just be an EQ setting but boy did it give my country playing a nice big steel string character. It also sounded good in conjunction with the distortions and delays. I love the variety of distortions. If ya need a fuzz, its there in a few variaties and sounds great. I'm not a metal cruncher so I can't speak to the quality in that regard but it has great flexibility in overdrives.
The Modulation section also has very high quality sounds. I am particularly impressed with the Univibe. It has all the delays I need and accompanying adjustments, again very easy to dial in at the gig.

The single reverb knob to adjust all reverb possibilities originally seemed like a cheapy way to go BUT it has proven a golden feature of this unit. The knob has 4 reverb types assigned to it. Starting at the 6-o'clock position is a room reverb that reaches max depth in the 9 o'clock position. From 9 to 12-up is hall reverb, min at 9, max when the knob is turned to 12. The last two quadrants of the knob are given to Spring reverb (not very good or useful), and "mod" reverb whatever that means. I use either the room or hall reverb settings. Its the fist thing I set at the gig and is very quick and easy. No scrolling through 27 hall reverbs, no 32 room reverbs to select just the right one, no stereo reverbs (as if audience is gonna notice that at the gig) etc...Nope, its just one knob with enough variation. Set it and forget it.

Compression is another "set-it-forget-it" function but has two knobs, level and sustain. It works very nicely.

Threshold, set and forget again is nice gate feature if you're experiencing a lot of noise typically when using distortion with a lot of drive and single coil pick-ups. I could detect no robbing of tone what-so-ever even when the threshold is tured all the way up.

The volume pedal is a fantastic feature in that you keep your full range tone when pulling back on the volume. The other expression effects such as wah, and some very fun pitch-bend effects are great BUT you lose your ability to control volume when they're engaged (so you have to use the guitar volume knob if you find you're too loud).

I tested the ME-50's tuner against a good full-VU tuner. It is calibrated right on the money. It only has five leds to guid you to the right note which is a little "coarse" but once you're used to them, it works very well.

I have played with the programming, its very easy to do. I think I have some nice ones in there, but I only rarely use my programs at a gig.

The unit is very robust. I carry it around in an old brief case. The expression pedal, even though plastic, is very strong and sturdy heavy duty plastic.

Haven't gone there yet.

I have found the other fancier largely-programmable units useless at gigs. They sound great when set up at home but take 'em to the gig and they need to to be readjusted 'cause every room sounds different. If you are a home-enthusiast, sure, a fancier programmable set up may offer more possibilities, but the ME-50 has plenty of options as well and is much quicker to adjust on the job.

Ok i rated this one a lil while back. Now i think i can give a really good review on it cause i have put tons of hours into it and used it quite a bit. So Ease of use: Not very easy at all, if your a very specific person with your tone, if you actually know the difference between a boss ds-1 a rat and a tubescreamer. your not the kind of person thats gonna just want to use the presets. And it will take you a while to get to the point where you can start getting the sounds your looking for out of this beast. You can get there its just gonna take a while, the worst part about editing patches is theres just to much crap in the top end of the unit. i really think the preset eq is kinda useless, im almost inclined to super-glue it to the off setting. never read the manual, im not a manual guy, my opinion is ill figure it out eventually. my advice is if you get one, study the manual or just be patient in learning it.

Ok heres where i get to say what ive learned, Now here is the one thing about this unit that is unmistakably the biggest error with it and hopefully someone will come out with some sort of mod to fix it down the line. or upgrade. its the one thing you will not be able to get past. theres a maybe one second delay when switching effects. if your not the kind of pewrson that uses more then one effect in a song dont worry about it. if you are, your gonna have to learn to work with it. now with that being said. Distortion: Not bad but you will have to get the hang of them. certain things dont work well together on this pedal. if you have the distortion on stay away from the eq. as they mess with eachother real bad in your tone. the od's are good, the rat is dead on. the tubedriver sounds weak, not a suprise for some reason, its a boss pedal right. the guvnor is ok. the ds 1 is pretty damn accurate. stay away from the plus settings. keep that button off till you learn the pedal well. Mod: ok the chorus is weak with the distortion. clean its not so bad, about as good as the domestic boss chorus they have now. thats clean though. same with phaser but works perfectly fine with distortion, same with flanger. they all sound pretty close to there domestic counter-part pedals. now im not talking about the vintage MIJ models ok. this is a 300 max pedal and you shouldnt expect that, if you want that what are you doing with a multi pedal anyways? now the trem is the same, right on with the boss pedal. all the mods are pretty much just as good as the domestic counter parts. except the non boss settings. now those are another thing. not too good. the roto vibe is pretty lousy, the rotory setting is awesome, just avoid with distortion. ok Delay: all great, thats where this thing shines, if your all about complex delay in your band and thats your main thing and you can deal with loosing tone in a live situation yes, you need this, yeah this thing kills your tone, but tone loss versus having to try to tap out your delay time at a gig and it ruining the song for everyone, yeah this thing wins. ill get back to this at the end. Expression: excellent, follows better then the whammy 4 which doesnt say much for the whammy 4 now does it considering it cost more and only does its deal, but hey i have a whammy so ill just stop right there. eq: sucks, id just forget its there unless youve already figured the whole unit out. only about 3 of the settings are worth a damn. fat helps fill out sometimes. compressor and the noisegate do exactly what there supposed too. Tuner: ok in a live setting, im just gonna skip forward. this thing is only good in a practice setting or a live setting. do not buy this thing thnking your gonna throw it on your pedal chain, your not. and a bypass is just silly cause the damn things pretty big. i use live a MIJ jazzmaster with a vintage duncan neck, quarter pounder bridge. then my fender tuner(by the way if your a fender fan, dont get the boss tuner get the fender, works just as well and is half the price!!) then this unit, then my 4 10 fender hotrod tube amp. why? cause it does not play well with others!! i might throw in my jekyll and hyde eventually but like i said it does not play well with others!! this unit is great cause it gets close enough to the sounds you need without having to spend all the time setting up your pedal rig. i dont like the idea of bringing anywhere from 250 to 1000 dollors worth of little boxs that people can snatch into a gig setting. plus if you have crazy settings it can be a real pain in the ass between songs unless you wanna bor the audience to death. they didnt come to watch you screw with your pedals buddy remember that. dont go and get rid of your vintage pedals. save them for recording. this is just good to have for live situations and practices. or if your poor. if you only use a few effects, then use those live. if you have twenty pedals. then you should get this. it gets the job done.

ok heres where i go back into sound quality sort of. for what it does, man this thing is built great! just as good as any other little boss box. thats what makes it worth it. i love the interface. i hope this sends a message to all the other multi pedal makers out there. back to basics like the old ibanez multi units. thats what people want. you can beat this badboy up and itll just come back for more. metal case, tuff knobs. honestly id say for what your paying you really have no right ot grip about the lack of tone quality considering its built this well. this thing should be called the working mans box. thats more or less what it is. if you gig and dont wanna destroy your vintage pedals, get this lil beast. youll be glad you did when your bandmates 500 dollor wh-1 gets stolen. even if you get it jacked, 300 isnt as bad as loosing those vintage pedals. so with that said this thing was built to take a licking and keep on ticking.

like youd need it. ha

ok, so all and all. this thing is great for the working and gigging musician. it can take the live shows and be just fine. i wouldnt be suprised if it outlasted all my other gear. its not the greatest sounding thing. but in a live setting it gets the point across just fine. at home i have a visual sound jekyll and hyde, whammy 4, boss eq-7, mxr phase 100, boss hyper fuzz, boss rv-3, pro co rat, boss ds-1,and im forgetting a few sorry. now does sound like those pedals. no not exactly, it does get the point across, well except for the rv-3 nothing really sounds like the rv-3. now if you have a 2 grand amp and a 2 grand guitar. dont buy this. your stupid if you do. why would you mix a 300 dollor pedal with 4 grand of gear. but if your rocking out a 800 or less guitar with a 800 or less amp. then this unit is perfect for you. since you like me obviously cant afford to loose your vintage pedals. if i lost this lil guy id replace him in a heartbeat and id feel it was worth it. and in my opinion this is the best multi unit out there in its league. the only one id compare it to is the old ibanez 9 series multi unit if you can actually find one. dont come up with your sounds on it if you can, it works better if you come to it with a preconcieved sound. so with all that said you you do punk, go get a marshall head. but rockabilly, surf, trippy stuff, indie, metal, or just your own thing. check it out, you might find its worth the dough. when you take two minutes to set up at a gig instead of 15 youll be glad you got it.

A little background real quick. I'm a teen musician who works on guitars as a main hobby and does sound engineering on the side. So I guess you could say I know my way around the block decently well. I play anything from Pop to Metal. So it's a big spectrum I like to cover. However, money is tight when your a high school senior and getting that big rack system you're dreaming of isn't really an option. So after a hand full of people recommended me this unit, I took the dive. My set up mainly consists of various Les Paul shaped guitars running through this and a couple of pedals into a modified Peavey Classic 50. It's a great budget setup for versatility.

Well enough about that let's get to the review.

Out of the box things weren't too hard. I've been adept with computers and electronics my whole life so this was basically child's play after the first 20 minutes. What can I say? Read the manual. You'd have to be a fool to not figure out this unit. Separate knobs for every effect. Come on. It was made to be user friendly.

Patch editing is pretty much a breeze. Set it and forget it to be sure. Everyone gripes about the patch change time. But in reality, even the high end units like Lexicon and TC do the same thing. IF YOU ARE SWITCHING PATCHES WITH ANY MULTI-FX UNIT THERE WILL BE DELAY. Deal with it. It's not that bad.

The manual is great. Any small details left out can be easilly figured out if you do a little experimentation. But it really does a good job of explaining everything.

Overall I found it VERY easy to work with.

Me playing lots of different styles, I have to have a large pallete of sound to work with. Let me first start out with an effect by effect review of the unit.

expression pedal - As a volume pedal it works just as it should
wah - pretty standard wah. It's usable. I actually use it a good bit.
ring modulation - this is a freaky effect. Stay away unless you're into weird styles like acid or whatever.
pitch shifts - I love this thing. Works just as it should. Perfect.

Tone Modify - Everybody says they want a 7 band EQ. But Boss didn't put it there. So we get this. It's actually pretty decent. The acoustic sim is great. Everything else is uh...usable.

compressor - I always keep it on. It sustains perfectly.

noise gate - Let is be said. When you turn on the Distortion for high gain, this unit gets noisy. And you will use this. Otherwise don't.

reverb - the only thing on the unit that really suck bad. Don't get me wrong...they are okay. But let's be honest...the spring verb on my peavey is better.

pre-amp - A lot of people are either love or hate on this. But I think Boss did a great job. MOST of the stomp emulations are great. A couple kinda suck but for the most part it's spot on. Let me warn you though, getting into the big high gain modes can be really noisy. So be warned.

modulation - I use chorus a lot. And this one it pretty good
flanger - great
phaser - also great
harmonizer - It gets the job done pretty well.
tremolo - it's good if you sit down and turn the knobs a while
pan - same as tremelo
uni-vibe - meh...it's okay
rotary - tweaking required and then it's just okay


delay. VERY VERSATILE. Sounds better than single pedal delays.

Oh and the tuner works great.

Well I haven't exactly dropped it or anything, but I've hauled it to practice and shows multiple times and it's never had a problem.

It's amazing for the price. Nuff said.

This processor is much more hands-on than most of the other processers I've used before. Just about every function has a dedicated knob or button attached to it. The tuner is easy to read, though I personally don't use it much. I also can't really speak for the memory mode either, as the real beauty of this processor lies in the manual mode.

Let me first preface this section by saying that I'm only 18 years old.
Most of the time I spend playing with other people usually ends up being a sort of ambient/extremely experimental/noise jam. I've been playing for about six years now, and my setup is as follows:

Fender 60's Strat / Schecter Tempest Custom (both stock) -> ME-50 -> Digitech RP350 (crap pedal, stay away!) -> Fender Hot Rod Deluxe

I haven't been touring my entire life, and I've never owned a rackfull of state-of-the-art gear, but I like to think that I have a decent ear for good sound when I hear it. Most of the sounds available are very usable, though the tone modify section doesn't seem to anything special in terms of practical application. All of the OD/distortions have at least a few solid sounds in them. The three different choruses, which admittedly all sound the same to me, are pretty good. I've never been one to obsess over a good chorus sound, so I don't know what to compare it to. The phaser, which is the effect I use most often, works well for what I do, which is setting the rate at 2 o clock, depth and level at 10 o clock. I don't use the flanger much, so I'll just omit that one. I do use the harmonizer an octave down on occasion for those especially strange moments, and it sounds good. The rest of the effects are pretty standard, nothing special, but nothing to complain about.

I use delay heavily, and this thing delivers what I need, and nothing of what I don't. I especially like the reverse delay. I can't really take advantage of the stereo opportunities involved with the delay section, so I can't comment on that. The reverbs, I believe, are the only real problem with this processor. Boss could have easily taken out the virtually useless tone modify section and had the room to expand upon the reverbs, making it more than a simple line 6-style knob. I mainly use the reverb on my amp, but for really ambient moments, cranking the Mod reverb will make my sound swirl around the room.

I really only play at home, every once in a while jamming with a few friends, so I can't really comment on how this box would hold up to relentless gigging. Seems like its definitely built sold enough for my applications.

I've never dealt with Boss.

If this thing were lost, I would be furious, because it would take me weeks of saving and working for minimum wage to replace it, but I defeinitely would. I've gone through a number of modelers and processors and modeling amps and this and that before coming to this one. I've owned a Digitech RP200, a Vox Valvetronix, a Behringer modeling amp, The infamous Line 6 POD, and a bunch of other crap I can't remember. This one is staying with me, because of the awesome hands-on approach and the fact that it doesnt try to model an astounding array of amps. Most of the boxes modeled are Boss products anyway, so the core tone of the original is there. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this to a gigging professional, as there are many more capable and better-sounding (and markedly more expensive) pedals out there that can satisfy your needs. But, for someone just getting into multi-effects or the thousands of guitarists on a budget, it wouldn't hurt to give this thing a try.

The ease of this machine is terrific, basically connect two wires - one to the amp - one to the guitar and voila.

The name of the effects are pretty straight forward, for example; the metal effect is labelled, 'METAL'.

the effects are adjustable from 1) being hardly hearing it. To 10) your amp almost getting up and shouting at you...it's amazing...

It has 3 Chorus' and they are all amazing, trying to get sort of BMFV sound is so easy.

The ease of of getting your fav. bands sound is so easy, and sounds amazing

This is the only thing I would say lets it down, it almost eats batteries...I would only use it at a gig if I'd put new batteries in it just before

It is incredibly robust, but is quite heavy, and the edges are quite sharp to carry with bare hands. But can stand a good old STAMP!

Haven't had to deal with BOSS

I play trance metal and screamo and it's perfect. For stuff like Blues and Jazz it would be perfect to as it has got Blues Drive on it and other great effects for things like that.
I use it with a Fender Princeton 65 and it was slightly tinty before I got it and it was not what I wanted but it made it sound lovely and meaty.
I chose this one over the 'Line 6 Floorpod' because it looked more professional and more robust.
It has everything I wanted out of a multi effects pedal and I love it
The only thing that lets it down is that it eats batteries

9.9999999999999999/10