Boss GT10

[Ralph]

Does anyone have one? What do you think of it?

[murkat]

Good solid units, Boss quality. Reliable.

Sounds like....

Boss

[Ralph]

I have a Fender Mustang 3 amp the guy is wanting to trade me for it.

[Bobby Marshall]

I have its sister Roland vg-99. Can sound great or not depending on what you run it through.

If you are a tweaker it can be great. If you don't have a lot of tweaking time, not so much.

[hamerhead]

I still have a GT-3. You have to get in there and tweak like Bobby says, but once you get the hang of it, there's a lot to be had.

Dollar-wise, the Boss has the edge, so if it's an even swap you'd be ahead. Personally I'd take the GT-10 over the Fender any day.

[Ralph]

That's what I was thinking. The amp is just collecting dust.

[LordOfTheThighs]

I have one. I like it a lot. But I usually only use a few of the multitude of settings. The "Early UK Blues" setting is my fav, with a few tweaks to dial it in for my liking.

The thing is built like a tank. Pre-sets are pretty easy to tweak. But for me, it has WAY more capability than I know what to do with. Don't be worried about it's quality.

[Ralph]

Thanks for the replies. I'm gonna do the trade.

[Feynman]

I had a nongizmocapable friend recently get one of these and ask me to come over and help him learn how to use it. I warned him that my other Boss units could end up in deep editing with no clear path back to the top... Surprisingly enough, I found the GT-10 to be pretty intuitive. It didn't take long at all to dial in some good stuff.

Though I didn't spend too much time with it, I got the impression that it's a pretty nice unit. You may like it. If not, it will sell easily. Give it a fair shake though.

[Teh]

I have one and like it a lot. It has an interesting "Tone Finder" feature where you tell it what kind of pickup you play (Single/HB), what kind of style tone you're looking for (rock/funk/country/blues/jazz/etc), and then you can scroll around a 4 quadrant grid to tweak out the tone and dirt to your taste. Interesting results.

A ridiculous number of presets and an equally ridiculous number of user slots. As is typical for these kind of boards, several useful ones and even more useless/outlandish ones. All are easy to tweak, including pedal position in signal chain, cabinet type and mic position. When you are done the presets, put it into manual mode and use the pedals to activate individual effects. Amp modeling is pretty decent. Can switch between two patches based on attack (Neat feature). Has a looper built in but no storage for preset loops. The LCD panel is BRIGHT BLUE and the buttons are BRIGHT RED. You can go blind looking at them. Output can be set for PA/headphones, combo amp, stack or JC-120.

For recording and late night noodling, I use the modeling and it works well. For live, I've set up a second set of the patches I like without the amp models and run it through the amp and it works equally well.

Overall, it's a very solid unit. For the money they're getting on the used market, it's a nice unit. Have fun!!!!

[jaberwock]

I have its sister Roland vg-99. Can sound great or not depending on what you run it through.

If you are a tweaker it can be great. If you don't have a lot of tweaking time, not so much.

I also have a VG 99, which has the same effects block as the GT10 it seems most Roland/Boss units come with pretty dreadful stock presets, but between downloading patches on the web, and tweaking myself, I've got some really good sounds out of it; overall very happy with it.

jABERWOCK

[hamerhead]

Manual mode gives you nearly limitless virtual pedalboards. It's really cool. You can also add external switches to gain more control over other features. AND - the expression pedal can be set up to morph between different patches and/or effects all along the sweep of the pedal. I'm not sure how useful that is, but it can make for some pretty bizarre sh!t.

[Ralph]

Do you run it through the clean channel on your amp or does it matter?

[hamerhead]

Depends on the amp. I set up 2 identical banks of presets, then added OD/distortion to one bank for running clean amps.

[Victor (Fret Friend)]

Gt-3 is the best of any of the GT's IMO...