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THE BEST guitar FX Processor
Posted by OttoMatick from Seattle on Nov 23, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Rock Star
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, country, gospel, blues
There are only 2 cons to this unit, 1 no Vista 64 support for the PC based FX editor software(XP/Vista 32 bit only) and 2. You have to pay additional dollars to get a midi foot pedal. I like mostly the clean and mod FX. Nails the vox ac30 and fender twin for amp modeling. I run through a Valve king 100 head and into a Yamaha EMX5000-12 mixer board at the same time. The tube and distortion tones are very good and the mod FX(chorus, delay, vibrato, roto) and the rest are as good or better than like BOSS pedals. The single note synth FX's are absolutly awesum. Gotta love the WAVE synth. I highly recommend adding this to your cauldren of guitar magic.
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I've had my GT Pro for about 2 years...
Posted by trusoundstudios from Wherever im gigging on Nov 21, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: active musician, recording engineer,
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, blues,
I've had my GT Pro for about 2 years now and the only complaint I have is there are too many choices! I still prefer tube amps for streight out tone, but with a lot of tweeking, you can get fairly good tones. The Chorus, reverb, delay, flange, and phase are great. The distortions suck and so does the pitch shifter. I've never used the auto riff. I would recommend using a tube pre-amp before the input if you use hot pickups I'ts hard to set the input (digital clipping is horrible!) The coolest feature is being able to use two different pre-amp models and split them left and right or use them in mono. I use the same pre-amp settings, then set the speaker and mic simulator to simulate a stereo mic'd amp. I came up with a cool trick I use in the the studio. I put the pre-amp in dual mode, then use a different mic settings on each to get a stereo image of the cab (or you can use any cab sim you think sounds good). If you use two different pre-amps, you can get a rhythm guitar track that is really close to a doubled guitar track panned hard left and hard right. Don't expect to plug it in and get great tone right off the bat, it's taken me 2 years to finally get a respectable tone. One thing is for sure, it blows the POD all to HELL with better sounding FX and options.
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wonderful rack!
Posted by from PA on May 28, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Engineer, Sound Designer
Reviewer's Play Style: Metal, progressive,ambient, rock
Ok I have played 13 years or so and in that time I have gone through loads of amps and rack units. Recently I have bought and returned A M-audio black box, several stand alone pedals, A roland cube 60, and a Marshal TSL100. All sounded great in the stores but at home I just couldnt get the tone I wanted, none of them seemed flexible enough I guess even spending 1500 on a TSL100 should have helped but it didnt. The BOSS GT pro however does what I need. Fat tone to thin middy tone. The fact that it doesnt have tubes bothered me at first but after plugging in I did not mind at all. The GTpro is easy to manipulate with or without a PC unlike old rack units that I had (digitech 2101,rocktron voodoo valve, alesis quadra verb2) the GTpro has most of the knobs you will need while playing live and making quick adjustments. Basically its good studio or stage, its got great tone(s), kills the POD stuff, and doesnt break your back to carry it around.
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Exactly what I had hoped for
Posted by Da Bone from Griffin, GA on Mar 28, 2007
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Christian, Blues, etc.
Right out of the box I was impressed by the ease of use. The sound quality is great whether I am playing through my tube amps, my stack or Fender Cyber-Twin SE. I was really amazed when I ran the outputs to two different amps. Then after I finally read some of the manual and tweaked some of the patches with GT Editor I was really blown away. It is fairly easy to backup my favorite patches or banks. I loaded some other users shared with ease.
I would definitely reccomend adding the FC-200 pedal board to complete your rig.
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Only gear you need
Posted by sbone from Wellsville, KS on Oct 22, 2006
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active/Studio musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock/Metal/???
I've had my GT-Pro for over a year now and have never been disappointed. The amp modeling is as good as it gets, the "stomp boxes" are as good as the floor units they replace, and all can easily be tweaked and retweaked. I've had a lot of rack gear thru the years, this unit alone will replace most pieces and take up a lot less space. This is a rack unit to be tweaked on though, don't expect to get your sound right out of the box (although they're are some killer patches from the factory). Don't expect to set the effects exactly like your stompboxes either, play with them, move them around in order, etc.
Bang for buck, this will replace $9000 in rack gear and use up less space.
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