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.
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@builtforlucky10 ай бұрын
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 !
@UrryKurtz4 ай бұрын
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 :))))))
@plaineearth894622 күн бұрын
Best multi effecter ever with me-5
@Theshark15z3 жыл бұрын
I used this one for a little while before I got the BOSS ME-50.
@AndyDion3 жыл бұрын
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 🤘
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
Dad rockers unite!
@Steve_the_Bastard Жыл бұрын
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…
@syncopatedbox3 жыл бұрын
Thanks to u im buying one now
@jfredricks239416 күн бұрын
me: walks into a music store.. can't find anything cool... Clifton: yeah I found this in mint condition in a happy meal
@bipbipletucha3 жыл бұрын
Love the greco "Rickenbacker"
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
Me too! I live in Tokyo so I’ve been hoarding lawsuit guitars until the government sends me to a new assignment
@ontherhodes80882 жыл бұрын
I just purchased one of these after watching this video. Great unit for the money.
@LeonTodd3 жыл бұрын
12:43 - YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
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.
@LeonTodd3 жыл бұрын
@@cliftonwright7081 it reminds me of that choppy trem thing at the start of "I Want You" by Savage Garden
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@hummer2223 жыл бұрын
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.
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Choose gt 5 for minimum gt.. gt 3? Better do not doing that
@RickMichaelis633 жыл бұрын
😎 Review Cliff!👍👍✌️🎸🎶❤️☮️
@zombiemosher1139 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@cliftonwright7081 yeah, I agree. Always found it a bit toysish feeling. Sounds great though.
@builtforlucky10 ай бұрын
@@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_Sabinin10 ай бұрын
Вы здоровский играете. ❤
@SteveBillyHughes3 ай бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Would gonna love OD 1 sounds !
@gilwe Жыл бұрын
You have a very interesting playing style
@gilwe Жыл бұрын
A little explanation about the scales you're using?
@blacksquareknight2 ай бұрын
Super player! Would you look at the me6, compare distortion please ?
@stevemora7845 Жыл бұрын
Great playing! 🔥💯
@cliftonwright7081 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Steve!
@batmaniac662 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I have the M-8 too, great stuff! Can you share 3 or 4 of favourites settings that you made? Thanks!
@leegollin44173 жыл бұрын
DS1 is the best of the most hated pedals. I used them on 10 whole lps.
@thehive29703 жыл бұрын
Jeez.... ridiculous chops!!! 🤯 It's either that foxy shirt or: A L I E N S !!!! 👽 Someone call History Channel.
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
I love the me8 …. Great vid man
@cliftonwright7081 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@yafittsouri805410 ай бұрын
wow. sounds great
@cliftonwright708110 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Billywagner223 жыл бұрын
Yaddie yaddie yaddie, boop!!!!
@user-rm6vo7pg3o Жыл бұрын
I wonder how good player is this man 🔥😎
@clearisbeautifulwindowclea38873 жыл бұрын
Great Chops man!!! I love it with the Hawaiian Cruise shirt, it’s like watching Huey Lewis sing for Metallica or something
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
Hahaha I’d buy a ticket for that.
@agustinapf6 ай бұрын
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.. )
@cliftonwright70816 ай бұрын
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.
@peterjepps12293 жыл бұрын
Nice Bass 👍 another great review
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
Thanks man! It’s a 70s Greco lawsuit copy I found in a Japanese thrift store!
@peterjepps12293 жыл бұрын
@@cliftonwright7081 very cool Greco made good gear, man you got great mij picking over there
@LoveGuitar632773 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for you to go full Frampton on the humanizer lol. Wild sh!¥
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
It’s pretty comical. It makes me laugh every single time.
@theguitfiddle3 жыл бұрын
Johnny 5! Killer stuff bro!
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
Thanks man, what you been up to?
@Sailor_Man_Music3 жыл бұрын
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!
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
Thanks man! I do play some classical and jazz combo stuff but I’m a country boy at heart.
@reaver2755 ай бұрын
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. : (
@MegaOscar19652 жыл бұрын
you are really Goooooood!!!!!!!
@cliftonwright70812 жыл бұрын
Haha thanks man, I don’t really think so but I do try to have fun when I play!
@MKRISING753 жыл бұрын
That sounds great and not expensive like all the high end stuff nice video.LT sent me here Rock on 🤘
@darlenemcmillan58023 жыл бұрын
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?
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
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!
@joseluislopezcastro290611 ай бұрын
Friend, could you give me some overdrive configuration for metal please?
@cliftonwright708111 ай бұрын
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.
@thepoweroftheweed22158 ай бұрын
Does this pedal have loop station capabilities?
@cliftonwright70818 ай бұрын
Negative, Mr. Weed. It has a loop for adding an external pedal to the signal flow but no phrase sampling ability.
@thepoweroftheweed22158 ай бұрын
@@cliftonwright7081 Thanks, Mr. Clifton 👍
@fernandobarahona96832 жыл бұрын
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
@cliftonwright70812 жыл бұрын
I think I have it going into the helix in this video.
@rontaylor97363 жыл бұрын
Awesome! EEEEEIIIIIIOOOOO! Lol 😂
@jaxplanner72823 жыл бұрын
I have a me-30
@produciendomusica_OK2 жыл бұрын
Check Wowel with O-U in slow mode. Its great
@cliftonwright70812 жыл бұрын
Hahaha all the combos are pretty funny. I’ll give that one a shot
@jbognap3 жыл бұрын
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. 😁
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
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!
@christianboddum87833 жыл бұрын
Isn't the GT-5 the last one with analog drives or is that the GT-3?
@jbognap3 жыл бұрын
@@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. 🙂
@christianboddum87833 жыл бұрын
@@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) ;-)
@yusafsidhu53272 жыл бұрын
Sir plz tell me about beautiful distortion tone and clean plz...... 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍
@cliftonwright70812 жыл бұрын
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
@blizzbee2 жыл бұрын
14:18
@pauloost59 Жыл бұрын
Aiaaiaaai!!...😂👍🏻
@cliftonwright7081 Жыл бұрын
Step 1, have fun. Step 2, profits?
@kaylaa358 Жыл бұрын
can we put the noise gate and guitar cab sim together?
@cliftonwright7081 Жыл бұрын
I think? Not sure, it’s been a while since I’ve messed around with this unit.
@Yupppi3 жыл бұрын
After hearing the intro, I have no need to guess where the Korg Miku came from.
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
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
@danieljbdj2 жыл бұрын
what adjustments did you make it looks great
@danieljbdj2 жыл бұрын
keep posting more things about this pedalboard
@katasiapa9 ай бұрын
How much you paid for this me-8?
@cliftonwright70819 ай бұрын
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
@katasiapa9 ай бұрын
@@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.
@cliftonwright70819 ай бұрын
@@katasiapa thanks for dropping by! The cool thing about having a small channel is that I can talk to everybody!
@dagoldigol3 жыл бұрын
What is the difference between boss me6 and boss me8?
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
Not a lot, just some additional effects in the 8
@dagoldigol3 жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
EEEEEEE!!! ahahah! 👍
@LoveGuitar632773 жыл бұрын
Only that had been an Ibanez. Otherwise …. very cool!
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
There’s an old purple and pink Ibanez Paul Gilbert at the thrift store by my house I’ve been eyeing…
@LoveGuitar632773 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
@@LoveGuitar63277 it’s a PG30 and they want like $400 for it which seems kinda steep
@LoveGuitar632773 жыл бұрын
@@cliftonwright7081 $600-ish on 'verb in questionable condition. In the US.
@cliftonwright70813 жыл бұрын
@@LoveGuitar63277 whelp, might be cool! I usually play big necks with 11s, but a shreddy guitar might be fun.
@gwoodtones11 ай бұрын
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
@cliftonwright708111 ай бұрын
Haha that’s alright man, I tried to do something that would have something for everyone! Thanks for the kind words!
@gwoodtones11 ай бұрын
Done very well though!
@cliftonwright708111 ай бұрын
@@gwoodtones thanks! Yeah just a little burst here and there to express some joy is alright!