Boss GT-1000CORE Multi-effects Processor & BMIDI-5-35 - Type A MIDI to 3.5mm TRS Cable - 5 foot

If you are looking at this "multi-effects processor," you probably have experience with pedals and an idea of what you want. There are a lot of reviews and videos online that provide more detail about all of the features it has than I could offer here. I am writing this to share my experience after about a month of use and the reason I chose this device over its competitors.I am reviewing the Boss GT-1000 Core as a multi-effects processor and not as a pure guitar pedal. To me, a good pedal responds dynamically to the controls on the guitar and also to my picking dynamics. It should sound "authentic" and not "synthetic," like a cell phone ringtone. Here, one of the biggest draws is the signal processing. You really can tell the difference between its 32-bit/96kHz processing and many of its competitors. It sounds surprisingly good. On the downside, however, it does not respond very dynamically to changes in picking or to a guitar's controls. It will clean up a little with lighter picking, but not like a good standalone pedal. Most of the change is just in volume. I can detect very little effect from the guitar's tone controls in most of the effects.As far as the effects themselves, they are surprisingly good and useful. Almost all of them sound authentic. There are a lot of them - 250 to be precise. Most are named in a way so that you can appreciate what they will sound like without having to guess, which I like. They are arranged in two, duplicate, banks: one bank is factory pre-set, and the other is a user programmable copy where you can save your changes. I like that because the factory presets are good, and you can always come back to them for reference when you find that the settings you chose for your Stratocaster are not working the way you want for your Les Paul.I do not think most people will miss the foot pedal that was deleted for the "Core" version of the Boss GT-1000. There are expression and wah effects built into the device. I find the reduced size to be more useful. It fits easily into a gig bag along with a few cables and its power supply.As mentioned by others, the user interface is not terribly intuitive. There is a nice app for PC or tablet that helps. However, the unit lacks Bluetooth, so you have to hard wire it to your computer, and it's still using the older USB micro-B connector instead of USB-C. I was going to downgrade my rating because of the complexity, but I realize that this product is like Photoshop or AutoCad: It's a career in a box. It has features that most people will never need, use, or even find. Nevertheless, like those other products, you don't need to understand everything about it to enjoy it and get what you are looking for out of it. Despite what you might read elsewhere, you can literally plug and play the GT-1000 Core without even reading the manual and make it do what you want. I think it's a feature that, if you want to spend the time digging into everything it has to offer, then you will be rewarded with a plethora of things to explore and fine tune.I chose the Boss GT-1000 Core over the Eventide Harmonizer H90. At the time of my purchase, both were priced within $50 of each other. Despite the fact that the Eventide is marketed as a harmonizer, and the Boss is marketed as a multi-effects processor, the two products are remarkably similar. The Boss offers harmonizer and pitch shifting functionality. The Eventide has a multitude of effects. Both are fairly complicated to fully master. To me, the processing power of the GT-1000 made all the difference. Many of the H-90's effects sound like a cell phone ringer to me, while the GT-1000 sounds like a guitar. Also, Eventide gives its effects names that don't indicate what the effect will sound like. What does a "Wormhole" sound like? Boss uses names like "Premium Overdrive," which will give you an idea of what to expect.This is my first "multi-effects processor," and the initial allure was being able to experiment with different pedal effects that I do not own as a standalone pedal, such as a phaser or a sound gate, to see whether I would like to buy one. However, as I use it more, I realize the convenience, flexibility, and sound quality are making it my go-to for most of my playing.

This unit has a more accurate sound thanks to a better d/a converter. It's a compact model of the top of the line GT-1000 which costs a lot more. Nita Strauss uses it in concert and she was guitarist of the year 2019.

This thing sounds fantastic - the sounds can compete with HX Stomp, but the user interface isn't nearly so straightforward. I ended up returning it simply because I didn't want to tackle the learning curve, especially when the Line 6 sounds more or less just as good at a substantially lower cost. Ironically, my favourite reverb on the HX Stomp is Ganymede, which is apparently an emulation of the Boss RV6 modulated plate, but the Line 6 ease of use is just impossible to beat.

I've had the HX Stomp before and this blows the HX Stomp out! Sound, feel and the expansive amount of effects. BOSS is the BOSS!

This is a must have for any player professional or novice the sound quality is excellent. You have 250 sound effects/ patches and the ability to make 250 custom for yourself...mmm not including the additional sounds you can connect with the boss/Roland site. This has midi, mini usb to connect to other electronic devices and the chain combinations for other pedals. I got mine today and played for over 4 hours to find a few favorites effects not to mention the nice compact design. Nita Strauss she explains in 1 minute and 21 seconds on you tube like she made this machine it is one of the reason why I brought this machine to complement my krog Pandora box with 128 effect when i play. Today is 6/24/2021 this is an update I haven't even scratch all the features what this powerful machine can do, yes there's more! I can tune my guitar and loop my music that I play I still brought the rc-5 looper station 13 hours of recording always helps too. then there is the amp features like choose the katana 50 or the katana 100 out of the amp selections for the sound very flexible and customable it has it all. pack this in a bag and you're portable for your next jam you can assign the bass guitar and your lead guitar and play at the same time...mmm wonderful!

The amps all sound the same... Almost like they're just different variations of gain or brightness. It a lot of cases, overly bright. Though, I think when you dial it in, they really responsive and fun to play.Boss still makes a sub Par reverb. And with this unit, it leaves a lot to be desired. Even if you think, yeah, I can just combine parallel paths and make my own cool stacked reverbs, NOPE! The predetermined signal chain doesn't allow you to. You're stuck with short tail, sterile verbs. They need better compressors too.The routing is flaky too. Counter intuitive. And knowing boss support they're likely not going to update the unit anymore than they already have as of Oct 2022. There are better platforms out there that allow you think outside the box. OR jump into this thinking youre going to need to add to it. Unless you're a keeping it simple and in the box, playing classic rock tunes or funk tunes.

Great product. Not even gonna deny that. Works as should. I gave it 4 stars bc of packaging. Yes it was tight. But the fact you could see what it was bc it was only bubble wrap. Everything else was great. Recieved it faster than expected.

The sound quality is sampling rate is a step up from the GT 100. However, I find that this unit makes kind of poor use of the presets. None of The sounds are good synth emulations for solo guitar which is a complete head scratcher for example. Not super user friendly.

El tamaño es compacto. Los sonidos son de alta calidad. 96 kh x32 bits flotantes. Las opciones para conectarlo son varias; desde la más básica, hasta conexiones avanzadas de 4 cables. Y se pueden combinar con pedales de efecto externo. (2 loops) El precio es justo.

Other people have referred to this pedal having a steep learning curve if you want to start creating your own presets. This is absolutely true and, I think, worth expanding on with an example. What may be a common feature in this type of hardware - the ability to customise effects based on frequency and picking dynamics - is completely new to me. The Boss 'ultimate guide' has a section on what you can do, but a worked example explaining how to do it would have been very helpful. It's not super complicated, but it uses some product specific terminology, and I've ended up figuring it out through a mixture of trial and error and product tutorials on YouTube.I have the pedal plugged into my computer permanently, and am using the desktop software (Boss Tone Studio) rather than the menu-heavy interface on the pedal itself. It shares similar UI foibles to some other Boss software that I've used (Waza Air mobile). Every parameter is presented as a dial with the same user interaction to change it. It can be hard to set numeric values accurately, and there are other off/on parameters where it might have been more intuitive to represent the UI element as a switch.I've also found that Tone Studio has hung on startup a couple of times, but I suspect this may be down to some unrelated hardware and software that I've using on my pc. It, and the driver, are clearly pretty complicated pieces of software: the driver sets up 3 audio playback devices. Being able to listen to PC audio to play over (using the MAIN GT-1000 device) on headphones is really useful.One of the reasons that led me to look at the Boss in the first place was because I have a couple of pedals that have stereo out (reverb and delay) which I'd never used. Ironically, I think I may end up not using them as much as I expected. While it has what feels like a bewildering amount of configurability, the presets that are installed out of the box demonstrate the quality and flexibility of the GT-1000CORE.Barring a couple of minor quirks that don't help when you're getting started, it's a great piece of kit.

Ich nutze als Multieffektgerät einen Line 6 Helix. Den GT 1000 Core habe ich mir als Ergänzung zu meinen Einzeleffekten der Firma Boss geordert. Die Preset Sounds sind gut, die High Gain Sounds finde ich sogar überragend. Die "mitgelieferten" Effekte sind allesamt von guter Qualität. Am Ende ist das Gerät natürlich sehr kompakt (um es nicht klein zu nennen). Die Einstellungen direkt am Gerät sind erwartungsgemäß etwas unübersichtlich. Mit der Boss Software lässt sich das aber alles am Computer komfortabel editieren. Problematisch könnten für den ein- oder anderen Nutzer auch die sehr eng beieinander liegenden Anschlüsse werden. Insgesamt ein absolut empfehlenswertes Gerät. In dieser Preisklasse liefert im Grunde lediglich Line 6 mit dem HX Stomp (XL) eine adäquate Alternative. Wer 300 EUR mehr berappen kann, sollte aus meiner Sicht aber zum großen Bruder GT 1000 greifen.

Ho da sempre utilizzato effetti boss per la chitarra elettrica.Sui processori digitali ero scettico, ma per necessità di spazio e volume ho deciso di provare con la gt1000core che ho trovato qui ad un prezzo davvero conveniente.All’inizio bisogna capire come muoversi, ma l’utilizzo è facile.Utilizzando il software per PC ho iniziato a creare le patch che mi servivano e devo dire che la qualità delle simulazioni è davvero buona.Per quanto riguarda gli effetti come chorus, flanger, delay, reverb penso che non ci siano rivali.Bellissimi i suoni puliti.Unica pecca è il MIDI: per collegare il mio controller ho dovuto creare io un adattatore 3,5 jack maschio - DIN 5 pin femmina, ma comunque funziona benissimo e senza alcuna latenza.Ritengo sia stato un ottimo acquisto.

it is the best multi-effect of Boss. but, there are a lot of functions that I don't know how to use.If you have many ideas about these functions, it will be useful.but, for most people, very difficult.