Boss ME-80

lovely

exactly what you'd imagine it is

Great all around, very versatile sounds and a lot of fun.

Great value and fully-functioned

I have used this unit solidly for three years, for rehearsals and gigging, and it is the only one you'll need. The effects are first-rate, as you'd expect from Boss, and the value is remarkable comparing to the separate cost of each effect.

PRO's: The unit is small, light, and the battery backup feature is very useful. The knobs are easy to see and use, and so much quicker to adjust than stepping through menus (which you can still do if you must). Very robust construction. Great effects with very low noise. Everything you'll ever need. Loads of patches to be found on the web. You can save your own to your computer. But the preset ones cover 90% of what you'll need.

CON's: The only things I don't like is that you must use a separate plugpack, and that the upper row of switches can be tricky to use without standing on something else. It is just a little cramped, but you can always use a separate MIDI controller if this is a problem.

Great unit

Happy with the purchase,sturdy unit,sounds are very good, buy it.

Very versatile piece of equipment.

All in all, very good product. Impressed with the quality of sound for the money. The only small let down is that there was potentially room available to have the pedals spaced out a bit more which would have been handy. The turn on/opff button could have been placed in a better location. But not a big let down compare to the capabilities of this unit.

great product

absolutely love it.

Easy to use, sounds great, i dont even store patches, just go through the knobs on manual mode , its like having a rack of separate pedals but in a compact format.

the greatest idea ever!

excellent choice

I've owned different pedals, but for last few years I've played guitar-straight-to-amp and haven't bothered myself with pedalboards. I had never owned a multi-fx before, although I had tried few zoom units which some friends had years ago and those couldn't impress me as they were lagging and I couldn't find a good tone. Anyway, as technology develops, I decided to give it one more try and was torn choosing between HD500X, GT-100 and ME-80 (yes, there's GT-1000, Helix etc, but that's in another price range). Unfortunately any of those units were not available to try in local store so I had to decide only by the price and reviews. I started with ME-80, because it seemed almost the thing what I want. It's with lot of knobs, so I can modify the sound quickly and easily without going into deep menus. I thought if I'm not satisfied with it, I can always return it and try HD500X or GT-100, but after messing it for a while, I decided to keep it. It has every effect I ever need and they all work brilliantly (tera echo is absolutely amazing). It's also good that some effects can be used under several sections (chorus, phaser, boost, delays etc) and it's possible to turn them off and on together with saved patches. I use memory mode and manual mode both and getting to switch between them and edit them on the go, is something I really need. There are few cons of course as well. It took some time to dial high gain sound and what I finally found is fairly okay. I'm still on the search for better one, but I'm sure it's there. If not, I can just connect it to loop and use amp channels instead. Other con is that it doesn't have ext loop, it's possible to use it only in front of an amp, in amp loop (using amp channels for gain) or connect it directly to amp loop. But 4 cable method is not possible. Wah is bit sterile, looper is only 38 seconds and loop patch can't be stored. But probably all this is bit too much to ask for a fx-unit for this price.

If you need alot of different effects and buying each separate pedal for that will break the bank, then this is certainly a unit worth to try. You'll have most of BOSS effect pedals just by your feet which all sound amazing.

Highly recommended!

Beautiful piece of gear! Well built by Boss... with a great sound and very easy to use!

Use

The most powerful sound I have ever had.

Easy to adjust and complete software to precise the music.

You can play music as Tchaikovsky - "Swan Lake" or DT - "Constant motions" or PF - "Sorrow".

Amazing device.

Intuitive, Easy to Navigate, Great Value.

Firstly, I would say ditch ,most of the factory presets and create your own sounds! Clearly they are for demonstrative purposes and not generally for real world use! The amount of tones and effects you can access is only limited by your own imagination or input, once you get to grips with how it works, (and that doesn’t take long), you can set the sounds you want for your needs. Great for home recording and home rehearsal as the headphone input means you can set sounds without annoying the neighbors. For gigging some tweaking is required as you would expect as when you add amps and volume the dynamics change but no big problem. The unit is useful as it can be easily carried around unlike a huge pedal board and can be D/I’d to a PA when you don’t have access or room to carry an amp, the amp modeling works pretty good. Overall a great buy, I would say! I use it in stereo and the delays and modulation effects really come to life!