Boss has announced the GX-100 Guitar Effects Processor, packaging advanced tone technologies into a sleek hardware design with a colour touch display. It features 23 AIRD amplifiers and more than 150 effects derived from the flagship GT-1000, up to 15 simultaneous effect blocks, and deep real-time command via onboard footswitches, an expression pedal, and external control support.
The effects include numerous overdrives and distortions, plus Boss pedal classics like Slow Gear and Octave. There is also a diverse range of mod effects, delays, and reverbs, along with effects specially tuned for bass. Send/return jacks enable users to integrate further stompboxes or an amplifier effects loop into the GX-100 ecosystem.
Players can craft sounds with the GX-100’s 15 dedicated block types – including two amp blocks – and chain effects in series and parallel to create all types of sonic variations that can be saved in 200 user memories.
Sound creation and on-the-gig editing are achieved using the colour touch display, which allows patch and effects selection, parameter tweaks and signal chain adjustments. The display works with the four knobs and page buttons on the panel.
The GX-100 features eight custom footswitches and an expression pedal with toe switch that can be assigned to control nearly any parameter. Switching into Manual mode provides direct stompbox-like control, and players can go further with external control via footswitches, an expression pedal, or Midi. There’s also a jack to remotely switch amplifier channels with memory selection or an assigned footswitch.
In addition to stage use, the GX-100 can be used as a USB audio interface for recording and performing with a computer. There is also a headphones jack for quiet practice, plus an onboard looper for jamming, developing sounds and ideas, and performing.
Using Boss Tone Studio for macOS and Windows, players can tweak every GX-100 parameter, save sounds, and organise live sets for different gigs from a computer. And with the optional Bluetooth Audio Midi Dual Adaptor, it’s possible to wirelessly connect with a mobile device to adjust settings on-the-gig from the Boss Tone Studio app and stream backing music through the GX-100.
The Boss GX-100 Guitar Effects Processor is currently available for US$599.99.
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