ME-80 : Good value for the price

A very powerful effects processor. It has two sides - it can work as a true patch-based multi-effects processor or it can work as a pedalboard with 5 stompboxes, an expression pedal and a preamp simulator. If used in memory mode, the user can create banks (U1, U2,...) that hold 4 patches (U1-1, U1-2,...) each patch can have 2 variations under it ? individual effects can be switched on/off or the user can choose a parameter that changes by the press of a CTL button. But these variations can hold only one set of effects, you can not change the type of distortion (for example) only the level.

This unit has a 3,5mm headphone/record out, so it can be plugged in to the PC to record demos quickly. The effects are awesome, but I didn't yet understand how to use the preamp simulator ? it makes the effects sound worse.

I also strongly advise the Boss Tone Studio software, it makes the process of creating patches oh so easy and quick.

The one weakness of this processor is that it doesn't support the effects loop, it only has an input and stereo outputs, so it can be used only before of the amp.