To see the full details of how your data is managed, as well as your rights, please view our full privacy policy. Often offering aspiring professional musicians a wide range of options for their live performances and studio sessions, BOSS have now taken that extra step with the innovative GT-1000, an all-new, flagship multi effects unit that sets a new standard for sound production. The full DSP muscle of the flagship GT-1000 lives inside this mini juggernaut, driving class-leading sound quality, advanced AIRD technology, 24 simultaneous effects blocks, and over 140 unique amp/effect types for unlimited creative expression. To see the full details of how your data is managed, as well as your rights, please view our full privacy policy . With BOSS's onboard looper and the Bluetooth connectivity, you can now perform a virtual soundcheck: simply record your tones into the unit, then step away and tweak it from where your audience would be, allowing you to produce the perfect tones for each venue!

Amazingly powerful and ultra-versatile, GT-1000CORE delivers the most complete guitar and bass processing experience available in a single stompbox. BOSS have done this kind of thing for a long time now and this new model is a bid to keep their prestige in a sea of similar products. With the Boss GT-1000, boss have taken all that they've learned over the years a, nd incorporated all of the acclaimed sounds from the company's stompbox effects history, in addition to harnessing tones from the "500" series of Delay, Modulation and Reverb pedals, as well as the ground-breaking MDP technology to offer the kind of dynamic response not available with any other unit. Mastering FX—Eleven different Mastering FX allow you to shape the overall sound at the line output for different styles and playing situations. I personally had somehow expected to be able to cover all the Boss 200 units which this does, and all the 500 units, which this actually does not fully cover as such - i.We know we're going to be making regular firmware updates here and the old hard-wired cable method really needs to be relegated to the past now! The impressive DSP engine delivers on-demand power for all available effects, so you’ll never worry about running out of processing while building sounds. I was bummed at first because it doesn't have a model for the MXR M117 flanger but since I do have the actual flanger I was able to get a very close approximation using the flanger in the Core. I hope they do a GX-100 core as the full size GX-100 is probably my favourite BOSS modeler but I have no need for a built in exp pedal.

For now his is very much a V1 / Work-in-Progress, and Boss is playing catch-up here in several respects.

I actually use quite a lot of low-frequency content so didn't really want to shave off the Bass response, while I found setting the Hi-Cut to 8kHz worked a treat for me - and brought back that analog style warmth again. The Tube Logic design philosophy fully realizes this interactive experience, and it’s been hugely successful in the self-contained guitar amps where it’s been employed. Absolute stunner of a piece of work The most important is that you can now reprogramme it on the fly via proprietary software for your Phone, Tablet or PC.

The contents of this article are subject to worldwide copyright protection and reproduction in whole or part, whether mechanical or electronic, is expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of the Publishers. Certainly the Helix might have an edge in that department, although personally that advantage is not as big as to make it the key aspect to prefer the Helix. Since the screen contents on both devices seem identical, there seems no advantage other than font size to be gained from the iPad’s larger screen, which some will find a shame. The BOSS Tone Studio app is compatible for both iOS and Android platforms, and allows you to connect your mobile device directly to your GT-1000 via Bluetooth. Guitar Guitar Limited trading as guitarguitar acts as a credit broker not a lender and is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, firm registration number 742103.

And with GT-1000CORE’s versatile effects and output routing, you can deliver optimized sound to a stage amp or PA mixer—or both at once. Unless you’ve got eyes like a hawk, when you’re standing up the small fonts and level displays over the edit controls don’t make it easy to glance down and know instantly what you’re looking at — especially with multi‑screen parameter controls, where only a row of small dots at the bottom of the display indicate the presence of additional screens.

The parameters that can be edited in this display mode by the six rotary controllers are common to all screens — Patch up/down, Gain, Bass, Treble, BPM Tempo and Patch Volume Level. They have effective marketing and because of that, a loyal, rabid fanbase which Helps their word of mouth. My amp needs are covered by just a few models in the GT-1000, but a small version (with stereo inputs for my Kingmaker Fuzz) might be worth my while. Offering a complete sound processing solution in an ultra-portable package, GT-1000CORE lets you travel light and tackle any professional playing situation with no additional pedals. If you need more switches…add 2 analog switches via the ctrl inputs…or use an expression pedal (I use it for delay lvl)…are add a small midi controller….The Line6 engineers are constantly working to build new models and features and add them to the unit. I need 2 FX loop so I can connect a tube preamp pedal (and consider my amp's preamp as a pedal using one of the FX loop on the GT-1000 Core and switch preamps using the loops).