Boss ME-8 Stereo guitar play through

Tonight we're checking out a classic ME-8 "Guitar Multiple Effects" pedal made in Japan by the fine folks at Boss. Really nice overdrives and very easy to program.

[@builtforlucky]

I've seen what's inside, the Boss Me 8 uses a sturdy iron frame like the Me 80, 50, 70, 25. Surprisingly, inside the plastic box there is a sturdy iron frame. However its BOSS !

[@UrryKurtz]

I was ready to buy it together with the Jackson PS-4 back in 1995. But I saved some rubles and went with locally made distortion pedal (PROFI 501). Couple years late I lost a bag with that pedal and some cables. I was so happy it wasn't ME-8 :))))))

[@plaineearth8946]

Best multi effecter ever with me-5

[@Theshark15z]

I used this one for a little while before I got the BOSS ME-50.

[@AndyDion]

Just found you from Robert Baker Badass playing and great tones! Love my BOSS ME-50, have had it since 2000 and still works great. NewSub from fellow dad rocker 🤘

[@cliftonwright7081]

Dad rockers unite!

[@Steve_the_Bastard]

I have been running my me8 through a i.r pedal into a power amp into a cab. It’s awesome and so much fun…

[@syncopatedbox]

Thanks to u im buying one now

[@jfredricks2394]

me: walks into a music store.. can't find anything cool... Clifton: yeah I found this in mint condition in a happy meal

[@bipbipletucha]

Love the greco "Rickenbacker"

[@cliftonwright7081]

Me too! I live in Tokyo so I’ve been hoarding lawsuit guitars until the government sends me to a new assignment

[@ontherhodes8088]

I just purchased one of these after watching this video. Great unit for the money.

[@LeonTodd]

12:43 - YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH

[@cliftonwright7081]

Hahahaha I clicked on the time link like 7 times in a row. I didn’t notice it was saying that until now. So many missed gag opportunities. I need to make a video of all of my dumbest sounding gear.

[@LeonTodd]

@@cliftonwright7081 it reminds me of that choppy trem thing at the start of "I Want You" by Savage Garden

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@LeonTodd oh man I thought I’d live a lot more years without remembering savage garden now I must do a solo acoustic arrangement of their smash hit single.

[@hummer222]

I sold my GX700 as wasn't that impressed with the pedal emulations. The ME-8 though kicks arse there! It also has some crazy sound fx which I dig for ambient guitar. Gonna have to explore mine a bit more! The GT3 and GT5 are also great tone monsters.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Yeah! The analog drives are far-and-away the stars of this unit, I’m still fixing my ME-10. Only 100 more tiny caps to go lol.

[@luckyirawan]

Choose gt 5 for minimum gt.. gt 3? Better do not doing that

[@RickMichaelis63]

😎 Review Cliff!👍👍✌️🎸🎶❤️☮️

[@zombiemosher1139]

A mate of mine ran the ME-8 for years from when they first came out. He still has at least 2 of them, maybe 3.

[@cliftonwright7081]

It’s an odd duck. To me, it has the best analog over drive and distortions of all the Boss floorboards but, simultaneously, the junkiest construction. I guess that was meant to keep it light and affordable.

[@zombiemosher1139]

@@cliftonwright7081 yeah, I agree. Always found it a bit toysish feeling. Sounds great though.

[@builtforlucky]

​@@cliftonwright7081The Boss Me-8 uses a sturdy iron frame like the Me 80, 50, 70, 25 series. Believe me, inside the plastic box there is a complete and sturdy iron frame.

[@Gleb_Sabinin]

Вы здоровский играете. ❤

[@SteveBillyHughes]

Anyone got the sheet of best settings for this? I found one years ago with great metallica settings and you could get the tuner set to a pedal too. I had it set at 1. Very clean sound no fx 2 metallica 3 chorus 4 oasis distortion sound 5 clean with delay and press bank the tuner came up

[@luckyirawan]

Would gonna love OD 1 sounds !

[@gilwe]

You have a very interesting playing style

[@gilwe]

A little explanation about the scales you're using?

[@blacksquareknight]

Super player! Would you look at the me6, compare distortion please ?

[@stevemora7845]

Great playing! 🔥💯

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thank you Steve!

[@batmaniac66]

Awesome! I have the M-8 too, great stuff! Can you share 3 or 4 of favourites settings that you made? Thanks!

[@leegollin4417]

DS1 is the best of the most hated pedals. I used them on 10 whole lps.

[@thehive2970]

Jeez.... ridiculous chops!!! 🤯 It's either that foxy shirt or: A L I E N S !!!! 👽 Someone call History Channel.

[@cliftonwright7081]

Haha I felt like I Jimmy paged my way through the whole thing, but if you liked it, it was 100% the shirt

[@Steve_the_Bastard]

I love the me8 …. Great vid man

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks!

[@yafittsouri8054]

wow. sounds great

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thank you!

[@Billywagner22]

Yaddie yaddie yaddie, boop!!!!

[@user-rm6vo7pg3o]

I wonder how good player is this man 🔥😎

[@clearisbeautifulwindowclea3887]

Great Chops man!!! I love it with the Hawaiian Cruise shirt, it’s like watching Huey Lewis sing for Metallica or something

[@cliftonwright7081]

Hahaha I’d buy a ticket for that.

[@agustinapf]

Hello, congratulations for the channel and the contents! How do you see the ME8 in comparison with ME5 in terms of tone quality and warmness? grateful if you have any suggestion or personal experience on how you prefer among the 2 models for example etc etc …thanks a lot! ( I play smooth and pop styles with sometimes some rock tones.. )

[@cliftonwright7081]

With or without the nostalgia factor, I think the ME8 has the best drive pedal sounds of any Boss floor unit ever made. Especially the blues driver. That’s just my opinion though. The effects are dated but serviceable. If you ran one into a newer amp sim box like an iridium or a UA dream, you’d have a wildly versatile set up.

[@peterjepps1229]

Nice Bass 👍 another great review

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man! It’s a 70s Greco lawsuit copy I found in a Japanese thrift store!

[@peterjepps1229]

@@cliftonwright7081 very cool Greco made good gear, man you got great mij picking over there

[@LoveGuitar63277]

I was waiting for you to go full Frampton on the humanizer lol. Wild sh!¥

[@cliftonwright7081]

It’s pretty comical. It makes me laugh every single time.

[@theguitfiddle]

Johnny 5! Killer stuff bro!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man, what you been up to?

[@Sailor_Man_Music]

So good! Hell yes! Your an amazing player! Nice job! Country, Blues, Rock, and Metal. Wow! One question where is the classical. Lol you have all the bases covered your a great artist!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks man! I do play some classical and jazz combo stuff but I’m a country boy at heart.

[@reaver275]

how do you set the equalizer for metal lead guitar tone? i cant understand the way it works it sounds scooped even with the mids on max. : (

[@MegaOscar1965]

you are really Goooooood!!!!!!!

[@cliftonwright7081]

Haha thanks man, I don’t really think so but I do try to have fun when I play!

[@MKRISING75]

That sounds great and not expensive like all the high end stuff nice video.LT sent me here Rock on 🤘

[@darlenemcmillan5802]

Hi there. Great video. Love Boss stuff! Just subscribed. Your buddy Robert Baker sent me here.......now that I'm here, what do I do?........Dude,......... where's your pants?

[@cliftonwright7081]

I’m on vacation! It’s too humid in Japan for pants today! Whelp, you can make requests, chat about whatever, check out reviews, whatever you want!

[@joseluislopezcastro2906]

Friend, could you give me some overdrive configuration for metal please?

[@cliftonwright7081]

On this unit? A good place to start is using the Metal Zone style drive in the distortion block. It’ll pretty much immediately sound like heavy metal as soon as you pull it up.

[@thepoweroftheweed2215]

Does this pedal have loop station capabilities?

[@cliftonwright7081]

Negative, Mr. Weed. It has a loop for adding an external pedal to the signal flow but no phrase sampling ability.

[@thepoweroftheweed2215]

@@cliftonwright7081 Thanks, Mr. Clifton 👍

[@fernandobarahona9683]

Sounds nice! What are you using as preamp when the board is bypassed? Or does the ME is built in some preamp? I heard a little hot clean and cab simulator

[@cliftonwright7081]

I think I have it going into the helix in this video.

[@rontaylor9736]

Awesome! EEEEEIIIIIIOOOOO! Lol 😂

[@jaxplanner7282]

I have a me-30

[@produciendomusica_OK]

Check Wowel with O-U in slow mode. Its great

[@cliftonwright7081]

Hahaha all the combos are pretty funny. I’ll give that one a shot

[@jbognap]

Man, that is some sick playing! I take it you started your hybrid technique playing country? I think you could dump all that other gear and do it all with the ME-8 and an amp/speaker sim. I don't know whether to go back and mess with my old GT-5 or practice. 😁

[@cliftonwright7081]

Haha yeah, I’m from south Texas so country was one of the basic facts of life. The thought has cross my mind! I like the OD sounds in this unit more than a lot/all of their later stuff, though the plastic needs to be taken care of!

[@christianboddum8783]

Isn't the GT-5 the last one with analog drives or is that the GT-3?

[@jbognap]

@@christianboddum8783 Yes. I play a GT-100, but after watching this video, I went back to the GT-5 for a bit. I didn't really notice much of a difference and the 100 is so much more versatile. My next unit will probably be one of the smaller ones - GT-1000 Core, HX Stomp XL or the Headrush MX 5. Though I need more than 3 footswitches. I would be all over a GT-1000 Core XL. 🙂

[@christianboddum8783]

@@jbognap I was thinking of up scaling to a GT-100 around 2017 but made the plunge for a Helix floor, and man I'm glad I did. It would be nice If all that programming could be fitted in a smaller box for some situations though. For me the distance between the switches is Really important for live use, I even find the distance a little too narrow on the Helix, but hey, then it would be too big for normal carry (in a flight case) ;-)

[@yusafsidhu5327]

Sir plz tell me about beautiful distortion tone and clean plz...... 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍

[@cliftonwright7081]

Thanks for the question! The ME-8 has a metal zone in it which I used for the heavier distorted sounds. For clean sounds I like using the built in compressor and some pitch shift +delay

[@blizzbee]

14:18

[@pauloost59]

Aiaaiaaai!!...😂👍🏻

[@cliftonwright7081]

Step 1, have fun. Step 2, profits?

[@kaylaa358]

can we put the noise gate and guitar cab sim together?

[@cliftonwright7081]

I think? Not sure, it’s been a while since I’ve messed around with this unit.

[@Yupppi]

After hearing the intro, I have no need to guess where the Korg Miku came from.

[@cliftonwright7081]

It can make some other enjoyably dumb sounds! I had some little digitech pedal when I was a kid that had a similar but much worse sounding type of thing

[@danieljbdj]

what adjustments did you make it looks great

[@danieljbdj]

keep posting more things about this pedalboard

[@katasiapa]

How much you paid for this me-8?

[@cliftonwright7081]

I got it in a used book store in Japan for like ¥3500 I think. It was a few years ago so I do not remember exactly, but it was a solid deal for all the good drive sounds

[@katasiapa]

@@cliftonwright7081 wow that's very cheap, in my country the second market price is arround $150. By the way thanks for your reply, awesome video.

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@katasiapa thanks for dropping by! The cool thing about having a small channel is that I can talk to everybody!

[@dagoldigol]

What is the difference between boss me6 and boss me8?

[@cliftonwright7081]

Not a lot, just some additional effects in the 8

[@dagoldigol]

@@cliftonwright7081 thnx sir,😁one thing it's a vintage and i have this one a couple of weeks ago, actually don't have volume/Wah pedals it's okey sir if mix this with another multi effects like mooer GE100? Mooer ge100 equipped with Wah/volume pedal plus 180seconds looper.

[@stephanefontaine5944]

EEEEEEE!!! ahahah! 👍

[@LoveGuitar63277]

Only that had been an Ibanez. Otherwise …. very cool!

[@cliftonwright7081]

There’s an old purple and pink Ibanez Paul Gilbert at the thrift store by my house I’ve been eyeing…

[@LoveGuitar63277]

@@cliftonwright7081 Get it! It's probably like one in his instructional vids. Gilbert's contemporary necks are typically too big for me. I had one of the white 3-pup models for a short while.

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@LoveGuitar63277 it’s a PG30 and they want like $400 for it which seems kinda steep

[@LoveGuitar63277]

@@cliftonwright7081 $600-ish on 'verb in questionable condition. In the US.

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@LoveGuitar63277 whelp, might be cool! I usually play big necks with 11s, but a shreddy guitar might be fun.

[@gwoodtones]

Hey, Thank you for the nice review. And wow... your playing is rediculous awesome... only I don't like superfeest shredding metal solos... it sounds hideous

[@cliftonwright7081]

Haha that’s alright man, I tried to do something that would have something for everyone! Thanks for the kind words!

[@gwoodtones]

Done very well though!

[@cliftonwright7081]

@@gwoodtones thanks! Yeah just a little burst here and there to express some joy is alright!

[@eduarditohernandez2895]

😷👣📲📱