Boss GT-10 Review
Introduction
The GT-10 is the most recent multi-effects (MFX) floorboard unit from Boss. It's described as a modeller using Roland's COSM technology and essentially is meant to provide digital modelling of well known amps and stomp boxes. It's in competition with the POD X3 Live, Digitech RP1000 and TC Electronics Nova System.
Overview
The GT-10 has one 1/4" input, MIDI IN/OUT, SPDIF Out, Headphone Out, USB, Left (Mono)/Right 1/4" out, Send/Receive Loop 1/4" in and out, external amp channel switch, external expression/control pedal line.
Like any MFX, it's designed around patches. There are 200 factory patches which can be modified but changes can't be saved. And there are 200 user patches which by default mirror the factory presets but changes can be saved. These are all grouped into Banks of 4 patches each. A useful feature allows the user to set how many banks are accessible. The player might program 8 patches into 2 banks and restrict peformance access to just those 2 banks which means that pressing the Bank Up/Down switches will only cycle between those 2 banks - useful if you don't want to get lost when live!
To make it simpler for first time users, not only are there the 200 presets to go through and test, they added a feature called EZ-Edit. This allows you to quickly make a patch from scratch following the on-screen instructions and manipulating the sounds with dials.
