Yamaha GW10 Multi-Effects

->The sound is easy to tune. The manual tells how and it takes some months.
-> Editing what?
-> The manual is technical and complete. I didn't need it at first.
-> Yamaha says this item might not be available in the US.

->Marshall with 4 speakers, S101 telecaster and a Digitech p100 are enough for me to go with the GW10.
->Some settings are noisy but this is not noticeable. The settings possible are endless.
>Effects are sometimes weak and when set up this unit has 20 positions to choose from + a pedal control. I choose 1 and play for hours.
->100w Marshall amp.
->Stones, Led Zep, Beatles, Police, Duran Duran, Bangles, Black Sabbath, Waylon and Willie, Crystal Gayle, the Beach Boys [in general the sound matches any band I've bought recordings of].

-> Always works.
-> I was wondering about this today. It's one of those where you might die if it didn't work correctly and you might not be able to find another one.

->Yamaha is usually costly. I have an '81 Yamaha bike and the company told me to go elsewhere with old things.
->I bought this unit at a pawn and really wanted a wah pedal. It is only a couple of years old.

->ASCAP sent me money so I bought my present system. I play modern rock mostly.
->I've been struggling with music for 4 generations.
->Replace.
->The sound is sooooooo good. I kind of hated setting it up. Favorite feature is turning all of the dials and having it work out perfectly.
->Has everything.
->Essential for every song.
->Buy one and run the output into a Digitech p100, then into the amp. You will admit it sounds like your favorite guitar.

Diamo un po un italianizzata a 'sto sito!Dunque, questo multieffeto e abbastanza facile e ogni effetto ha 3 parametri di controllo. Salvare setting e suoni personalizzati e molto semplice, basta premere 2 volte un pulsante ed e fatta. L'unica pecca puo essere il fatto che ha un unico footswitch tramite il quale selezionare o deselezionare gli effetti mentre suoni, per cui se vuoi deselezionare la distorsione e selezionare contemporaneamente il delay (per esempio) non puoi farlo!

Suono con una strato Tex-Mex e una Epiphone Supernova. Con la strato la distorsione e un po rumorosa ma probabilmente questo dipende piu dai pick up e dall'ampli che dalla pedalina. I suoni sono bellissimi (soprattutto il crunch, il chorus e il delay) e gli effeti che si possono ottenere sono moltissimi, dai suoni piu normali a quelli piu assurdi e sperimentali. L'amplificatore che uso e un Marshall VS100R. SI riescer a produrre qualsiasi tipo di suono, da suoni bluesy o jazzy, a Jimi Hendrix, al metal.

Si, in 12 anni non ha mai dato problemi di nessun genere. Suono in un gruppo e la uso sempre sia alle prove sia nei concerti. Perfetta!

Mai avuto bisogno

Suono da 13 anni, sono passato attraverso molti generi (grunge,rock anni '70, jazz, rock pop) e posso dire che questa pedalina mi ha sempre servito a dovere.

Si queremos sacarle todo el rendimiento, es absolutamente necesario leerse las instrucciones para poder empezar y dedicarle un tiempo para su aprendizaje. Pero durante ese tiempo podemos ver las posibilidades que tiene, que son enormes.

La calidad de sus efectos en tremenda. Todos lo esfectos que posee, superan a la mayoria de los pedales multiefectos de su gama, e incluso de gama superior. Las distorsniones son de gran gcalida, el delay, el pitch, el compresor y todo lo que tiene es de verdad, de muy buena calidad. Mejora la profundidad, la tonalidad del sonido de la guitarra, con el ecualizador y otros efectos que tiene. Yo la he utilizado para versionar canciones de Radiohead, U2, Rolling Stones, Weezer, Offspring, Nirvanna, y otros muchos gurpos de pop-rock, y para tocar blues y jazz.

Una vez que la aprendes a utilizar, ya no te puedes prescindir de esta pedalera. Te da tantas posibilidades y con tan buena calidad que se hace imprescindible. Es extremadamente versatil.

Absolutamente aconsejable este aparato. Se le puede sacar todo su rendimiento una vez que se es un buen guitarrista, pero incluso siendo un principiante, tambien da muy buenos resultados.

Quite easy to use for a processor.
Editing patches is again relatively easy, however it seems limited for some sounds (I.e.-a certain distortion you're playing may not be able to retain the same sound if you add delay)
The manual is pretty complicated.

I've used this with many different set-ups including keyboards and vocals.
I found it to be excellent, with seemingly endless options for control of sounds. The effects are fantastic.
I use a rare Maton stack, playing through clean and the distortion is excellent. I bought this when i was a lot younger and naive about effects etc...i remember i was blown away with the quality and sounds for about 2 years!(i bought this probably 6 or 7 years ago).
The chorus, distortions and compression are brilliant. Also the wah is the best i've ever heard....i still use it...the wah has a HUGE range.

Well the main stomping button is getting harder and harder to use...i have to press the little led buttons, which makes it very hard for live playing.
I STILL use this as my main distortion with a boss overdrive for solo's....i plug it in and leave it these days, because it is pretty hammered from all the abuse.
Oh i did have to get the adaptor plug fixed at some stage too...but that's cause i trashed it.

n/a

I get very attached to good things...and i am VERY attached to this. This unit has helped me to progress as a guitarist, opening my ears to SO many sounds i may never have known about.
Although an advanced player may use other things, i would thoroughly recommend this to the middle range guitarist age 10-20.
I've been able to emulate the sounds of Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, RATM, Led Zep almost perfectly. It really does thta chorusy guitar sound on STP's 'Core' album.
If you are considering this unit, buy it!!!!

Not vrey hard to use...very easy to edit pathces.

I use a yamaha rgx 121 D and a small marshall practice amp.
The effects sound good but you can't get a great variety of sounds out of it if u think regular music...but you can get a lot of weird and experimental sounds.
I play mostly rock/metal and the best sound i can get out of it is a Jimi Hendrix one and also nice industraial distortion.Still not a good thrash metal one... The chorus is very good and the pitch shifter.I don't really like the wah.

Built like a tank.
Still, I would use a backup

no problem with it untill now

I play metal and it's not a good choice for that.I wouldn't buy another one. I love it's atmospherical sounds but i hate the lack of tonal variaty for distortion.Anyway it's nice as a first multi-effects unit.

Well, first time I got to program it I thought it'd be difficult. But after 30 minutes of experiments I was familiar with it for 100%. Extremely easy to use.

The sound quality is OK. I use this device for about 5 years and now became more sceptic about it, but you know, nothing is perfect. The main complain is about some cross sounds that can be heard if I bend first or second string at high positions(when high gain distortion is used). The overall sound gets some high pitch squeals.
But I can live with that. The most important, that this processor has a good distortion, chorus, wah and some other effects.

I suppose I always can count on my device, it never let me down yet.

I play heavy music and this thing satisfies my needs.

this effect is so easy to use that it almost sickens me. everything is right in front of you, the manual is almost redundant. switching banks sometimes takes a second step, but that is the only flaw as far as that is concerned.

this pedal is simply amazing...the distortions are extremely versatile. i've used several guitars through this...a gibson '76 sg with a bigsby tremelo, an aria telecaster copy, a samick es-335 copy, and a yamaha rbx765 5 string bass. all of them sound incredible through it. when recording, more often than not i will run direct out of the pedal...there is often no need to mic with this thing running. the swirling chorus effect is great...i can't say enough about the pedal's modulations.

the pedal actually did cut out on me two minutes before i started playing at a gig....i had to switch over to a line 6 pod for the show. i haven't tried it out at a show since, i have been procrastinating getting it repaired...this effect is worth the cost of repair. it gave me a few years of solid use before that event, but the scare it gave me at the show will bring its reliability down to a six.

n/a, although i do have to try to get it repaired.

i am a very "phasey" player, i don't like getting too comfortable in any one genre for too long....i like everything, and therefore like to play everything. if i wanna play a nine inch nails song, this is the pedal for the job. if i wanna play a radiohead song, this pedal can more than handle it. hell, if i want to play a celine dion song, i could probably dial up the tone on this pedal. this pedal is so fun to use, it invokes creativity simply by making you not want to stop playing. as i stated earlier, i also own a line 6 pod, but i use/have access to a boss ds-1 and ce-2, dunlop wah, and dod tec4 in addition to that. this is the only pedal that has an all in one deal, and manages to sound great in the process. kudos, yamaha.

I find it to be a fairly easy piece of gear to use..


The only thing that I do not like about this pedle is that there is a 1 second break while changing banks. It usually causes a bit of truble if you were playing a live set.

I found the manual to be very easy to follow.

I use the peddle along with a Dj setup (Turntables & Mixer)I run from the mixer-to-peddle-to-amp.. I find it to be really good.

The overall noise levels are really clean becides the distortion setting that can tend to get a bit noisy(the way it should be anyways)

The effects quality are really nice and clean. I love the great sounds it can gerate.

I am using an old Acoustic 134 guitar amp.(4x10 speaker cabnet)and I also use a Marshall JCM900 with a 4x12" cabnet. #

Over all I rate the GW10 a 9/10. Very cleaver piece of gear..

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh yea!

I don't use a back up. I only use the one unit.

I would say that it is easy to "build" a database sound system that matches your taste, provided that you have already used this kind of effects proccesor( i was using a zoom 1010 before the Yamaha)

I am using a "valvestate 20 model 8020 Marshall amp" and i would say that it matches with the settings that i personally want(meaning heavy metal sound). Also i would say that it has a splendid distortion and a terrfific wah effect.

I can depend on it provided i have used and also tested the presets i wanna play with.

The unit has good sounds, the manual does a decent job of explaining the programming. For me the most limiting feature is that due to the single pedal design, in order to get from patch #1 to patch #5, you must stomp on the thing 4 times. At times in a live gig situation, this can be awkward and if you need to change sounds in the middle of a song it requires having the patches adjacent to each other so that a single stomp gets you to the right sound (this obviously requires some planning) The 20 sounds are divided into 4 banks of 5 sounds each and bank switching is done by holding the pedal down for a count of three where it will kick in a bank change. Don't even think about trying to do a patch change between banks in mid-song, the delay in switching makes it impossible. The programming on the expression pedal is pretty flexible when it comes to defining how it impacts patches. One irritation is that there is no setting where the expression pedal is disabled. If you don't define it to perform some other function, it defaults to being a volume pedal. This can cause trouble when switching from patch to patch where the pedal is assigned to a different feature. For instance, I have combined my clean and chorus patch by defining the expression pedal to control the "wetness" of the signal. All the way back is no chorus and all the way down is full chorus. If I step on the patch change switch to change to a patch where the pedal is now defined as a volume pedal, there's a jump in sound levels (again, it requires some management in a live scenario)

The unit has generally good sounds. I play a Strat through a Fender Twin and I have no complaint other than the noise created by use of the compressor (which is partially an artifact of the single coil pickups. Switching to the "out of phase" position reduces the noise significantly)

Solid. Built like a tank. I routinely use it at gigs without backup

Never had to contact them. I've had the unit for 3 years

I play "Classic Rock". Everything from Beatles to Cream and some newer stuff. The unit pretty much covers the basic sounds for those styles. At the moment I'm shopping for something else as the limits imposed in a live situation of having to stomp on the thing multiple times to rotate to the right sound have gotten annoying. Over the weekend, I brought home a Digitech RP-7 but ended up returning it. It gave me some additional flexibility in terms of switching patches but for the sticker it didn't feel like enough of an upgrade. I'm currently evaluating the BOSS GT-5.

Once you know the deal, Programming is easy. The manual explains it all. Editing-same.... The foot-wah controller is a good feature to control one parameter on any effect. Easier to use than the EMP100 Actual programming takes little time at all and is very direct and real-time.

The gap between switching patches is embarrassingly long, or would be in a live situation (half a second) Chorus is a bit weak but when up full makes a cool swoopy stereophonic noise. The Touch-wah is heaven but thee distortions are to cheesy, like a Boss pedal and noisy (but thats just me). Delays are OK, The Amp simulator is cool for tube/stack/combo try-hards.

Apart from the small gap when changing sound patches, the pedal is incredibly reliable as a foot controlled multi effects. It is virtually indestructible.

N/A but replacement memory battery is easily available according to the Manual

Never seen one elsewhere or heard of someone who has seen one, and I got it as a store-worn model, so I would buy it again. The T-wah is dreamy and unparalleled. The sounds don't sound at all "processed" as most multi effects do.