Boss SE-70

Easy for good sounds, factory settings are organized to show off the strong points of each algorithm. These algorithms had to have been written by people who make music, they are very well thought through and stick to the most likely uses instead of offering pages of little used parameters. Editing is cake, highly organized, menus appear only for active effects.Screen size dictates many menus-I'd kiss the ___ of anyone who could recomend a patch editor for this machine! Manual is pretty good explaining all parameters and algorithms in detail. Some midi info a little fuzzy. ( Isn't it all?)

Effects are clean even in algorithms that contain many effects.(The ones I'm using are for guitar processing and have about 9-10.) I'm using an ART TUBE MP to crank my guitar up to line level cause the front end preamp is not really quiet plugging straight in.Distortion section is totally analog and totally responsive-actually "feels" like an amp. This combined with the best cab emulator I've heard is giving me a punchy, non-squished DI stage tone with none of the typical fuzz and lack of guts.Has authentic Fuzz Tone setting also. Reverb in these huge algorithms is understandably compromised. Dedicated reverb algoritmns sound lush dense and musical. Authentic pre distortion wah, wicked 40 stage phasers and other seldom seen effects like ring modulators are inspiring.

two fiends turned me on to this thing. They both own two SE-70's and have not had problem one. Jacks are real chassis mounted, metal. I have mine mounted to the underside lid of my homemade pedalboard and it is transported and stored in non temperature controlled areas. We'll see, won't we?

Roland/boss sucks, don't even try to call them, they aren't interested. I tried to find out if my unit was editable by a patch editor through sys ex and the guy on the phone didn't know and didn't seem to care. Thier web page is equally useless.

I will buy another SE-70 as soon as budget allows.It is the most over-looked machine made. Every day I discover some other feature that I thought could not possibly be included for the price. Truly deep, easy to use.

Using this unit is a bit of a drag, having to zip through all the parameters of every effect in a chain. The manual is good, clearly laid out and informative.

It's quite noisy with pre-amp fx like distortion; they've placed the eq BEFORE the noisegate in all chains which have one; specific fx: the phaser lacks the spacy quality of my (now sold) Korg Wavestation; the reverb sounds cheap but (just) adequate; the various distortions are good

the big twiddly know (ahum) fell off after only a couple of weeks; probably my fault; it works fine all the time

i would only buy it for the vocoder and the various distortions; seen in that light, it was too expensive for me; i hate the reverbs; i chose one because of the great bang-for-the-buck specs; a better reverb and phaser would turn this into a real sonic bomb; i use it mainly to process electronic drums (Aphex Twin like sounds)

This unit is rather easy to use, the patches can be quite simply altered but it would be nice if you could go directly to the effect you wish to work on instead ofhaving to run through all these preset effects. I haven't really read much of the manual, but it is pretty good

The sound quality is good an d not at all noisy The distortion effects aren't that great if you ask me 'cause they sound a bit too much like plastic to me.(but that could be because I let my SE-70 go through the loop) I dont like the vocoder that much, 'cause it tends to overdrive my speakers

this machine has an immense ammount of quality effcts, but some of them ( (like the sampler) are really not that big of a deal. one thing I really dislike about it is the pause between switching the effects . (I really HATE that!, so if anyone has got a solution for this problem , please mail me)

Ease : 8 Editing patch is not very easy on the SE70 . It is very easy if you use a MIDI link with your computer The manual is well written but a little too short

very low noise the sound is great, very great for this size of Multi FX very good : leslie cabin, distortion (crunch and built in Amp) very good : the Vocoder.21 and the old vocoder 10 whith distorsion bad : no bad effects !

very reliable but sometime the se70 becomes very hot...

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