NAMM 2018: BOSS launches new GT-1000 multi-effects processor flagship
New flagship multi-effect from Japanese effects giant
Boss has just unveiled the brand new GT-1000 Guitar Effects Processor to their lineup, this new floor pedal based unit looks like it is all set to take on Line 6 on in the modelling wars.
Boss GT-1000 Guitar Effects Processor
This new Boss GT-1000 comes equipped with AIRD or ‘Augmented Impulse Response Dynamics’ technology that uses an ultra-fast DSP engine and has a 32-bit AD/DA, 32-bit floating-point processing with a 96 kHz sampling rate.
Tube Logic
The unit also uses the same algorithms as their already hugely popular DD-500, MD-500, and RV-500 pedals and of course Boss is using their popular Tube Logic that they have been utilising in their recent Katana amp series, so we should expect a great sound from these new floor processors.
They claim it has fast preset changing and that with the new AIRD / Tube Logic technology that it should all sound pretty swish and ‘real’, which is what players want.
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- Boss GT-1000 coloured controls · Source: Boss
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- Boss GT-1000 front panel · Source: Boss
Control
I reckon that as the Katana amps have done so well, that this could be a contender in the war of the floor ‘virtual amp with effects’ control pedal war that is currently raging in the guitar world. You can use the GT-1000 with footswitches, expression pedals, MIDI, and USB for external control (or attach to editors in your DAW etc) and it also has built-in Bluetooth so you can edit the patches with either an Android or iOS app.
With a large display and six user-assignable switching knobs, it looks pretty easy to use and has the usual obligatory onboard tuner and that has both mono or polyphonic operation.
Outputs
The pedal has ¼-inch jack main outputs and XLR sub outputs with independent AIRD output select as well, so you can configure effects in mono or stereo loops.
Boss GT 1000 Rear panel · Source: Boss
On the back are next to the stereo main out and the input further outputs for phones, Send 1 + 2, Return 1 + 2, Sub Out L + R, CTL 4-5 (Expression), CTL 6-7 (Expression), Amp CTL 1-2 and a USB port, through which you can connect the GT-1000 to the computer.
The whole unit looks pretty good and the demo video below gives you an idea of what it can achieve, so at this sub £900 price it should sell well and be in direct competition with Line 6’s Helix.
RRP- GBP 879
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