Boss ME-80 Multi-Effects Pedal - 2024 report by Whydis
Boss ME-80 Multi-Effects Pedal
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Consolidate all your pedals into a single, powerful pedalboard with the BOSS ME-80 Guitar Multi-effects Pedal. You get 59 different effects and nine guitar preamps to sculpt the tones you need for your gigs and recording sessions...
Everything works great as described, good delay, good Reverb, the overdrive in my opinion can use a little work, but overall cannot beat it for the money, lots of effects to choose from, the tone capabilities seem to be endless, I really wish it had a rectifier stack option on the preamp selection like the Roland micro cube.
Many times a single delay isnt good enough so this is huge and is one of the major drawbacks of
The delays are quite good, and I absolutely love being able to store my effect settings in different banks, instead of having to turn the knobs on individual pedals
The main thing is that the distortions and overdrives are great, the delays and verbs are easy to operate, and the wah is just fine.
Great layout design and solid build, so why only 3 stars
The exterior design and ruggedness of this pedal is phenomenal, great but a pedal has to sound great if not there's no point
USB in to your favorite audio software I.e. garageband, logic...etc (check the prices on M audio boxes), intuitive, easy to use, great sounds, sturdy and well designed
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you believe that amp models will make your PA or home stereo sound like real amps then these are decent enough models
With the ME-80, I feel like you are getting a pretty outdated model of digital processing
So..lengthy review..should you buy it?.While there is nothing particularly striking about anything that this board does sonically (home runs excluded), for the money you get a well made, portable, well thought out, very easy to use, decently sounding all in one set of stompers with an expression pedal and adequate amp models for most uses.highly recommended.
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If you have a solid state amp, it will still sound solid state, but if you have a tube amp, then you will get a closer feel
This pedal board and a cheap but decent sounding solid state amp left in the orchestra pit do the job where they sound fine with no complaints from audiences or musical directors
Line 6 is a wonderful solid state amp with many huge epic sounds (don't get this board and just spend a little more and get a Line 6
This pedal board and a cheap but decent sounding solid state amp left in the orchestra pit do the job where they sound fine with no complaints from audiences or musical directors
I'm a Mesa Boogie tube amp player and I realize there is a need for solid state sounds IE; full on metal etc
However it's very important to keep the manual because if you forget how to save a tone then that sucks and all the other stuff is easily explained In it
Run a $60 RAT pedal in front of a clean Fender Twin and you can dial in a respectable crunch tone in less than a minute
Distortion/OverdrivePerhaps the weakest block, and the only one I spend time trying to dial in a decent tone
In about 5 minutes of adjusting I found the clean tone and the distortion that I have been looking for all these years
But the tone and dynamics improve markedly when you use an old 1/8 male headphone plug on the headphone input which turns the cab simulator on for all outputs
This pedal board and a cheap but decent sounding solid state amp left in the orchestra pit do the job where they sound fine with no complaints from audiences or musical directors
The downside is the overdrive, Cosm amps, and distortions are very poor
If you are looking for something to put in front of a clean amp to get a variety of tones, look elsewhere
If you have a solid state amp, it will still sound solid state, but if you have a tube amp, then you will get a closer feel
The clean, tweed, blues amp simulations are outstanding
Adding an analog compressor and drive pedal improved the overall sound immensely - of course, that adds to the price, so to speak -All in all it will be best used as an additional effect unit for an existing rig or best used for clean sounds by itself - add an analog compressor and/or drive if you really want those to sound good - you will have to live with the compromises about the EQ and reverb - keeping all of that in mind, this can be useful for smaller gigs and/or practice.
BUT this pedal is the thinnest, most unnatural, plated sound I've ever heard
USB in to your favorite audio software I.e. garageband, logic...etc (check the prices on M audio boxes), intuitive, easy to use, great sounds, sturdy and well designed
Incredible number of features and that great Boss Sound.
so get some nice spacey sound going, play a chord, freeze it, remove mod, add OD and solo over the top of yourself...get bored, roll off the pedal & play another chord/note and repeat..8
The clean settings sound the best - the modulation section is weak and lacks the lushness and/or thickness of other units as does the reverb section (which is also is very minimalist in its approach, not allowing you to set any parameters at all, save for ONE knob - while some less experienced users might like this, others will certainly be disappointed, given the unit's price)Lack of a full-time EQ section is also a strange choice - the only way to use an EQ is either to engage the amp model section or the EQ/FX2 section - which of course will replace any effects on that module.
The clean settings sound the best - the modulation section is weak and lacks the lushness and/or thickness of other units as does the reverb section (which is also is very minimalist in its approach, not allowing you to set any parameters at all, save for ONE knob - while some less experienced users might like this, others will certainly be disappointed, given the unit's price)Lack of a full-time EQ section is also a strange choice - the only way to use an EQ is either to engage the amp model section or the EQ/FX2 section - which of course will replace any effects on that module
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Consolidate all your pedals into a single, powerful pedalboard with the BOSS ME-80 Guitar Multi-effects Pedal
You get 59 different effects and nine guitar preamps to sculpt the tones you need for your gigs and recording sessions
With stompbox-style knobs, eight footswitches, and an expression pedal, the ME-80 conjures up the greatest hits from BOSS's famous collection, including overdrives, distortions, reverbs, modulations, and more
It uses the GT-100's flagship COSM modeling to simulate world-class amplifiers, and it even has a built-in 38-second phrase looper
You also get BOSS's MDP (Multi-Dimensional Processing) as featured in their Tera Echo and Multi-Overtone pedals
And don't forget the USB audio interface that lets you record to your favorite DAW and tweak tones via BOSS's Tone Studio software
When you consider how much come packed into this unit for the cost of just a couple of stompboxes, it's clear that the BOSS ME-80 ME-80 Guitar Multi-effects Pedal is one heck of a value!