Pedals and Effects: SY-1 Synthesizer by Boss

Boss are a mainstay in the effects pedal world and for good reason! New for 2019 is the Boss SY-1. Continuing the legacy of the SY-300 and SYB-5, Boss is opening the door to a wide variety of synth sounds. With 121 different modes, impeccable tracking, (meaning no more proprietary pickup!) it has never been easier to get into the unique, weird, and totally out there sounds that we love here at Pedals and Effects.
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This video was shot by Nick Reinhart, and Juan Alderete; and edited by Scott Ward
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[@That_Idiot_Bass_Player]

I remember being in middle school in like 84, and going over to this kid's house who played guitar. He was that kid who was the first legitimately good guitar player you ever met. I was blown away by his playing, BUT... he had these two metal boxes between his guitar and amp: a DM-2 and a CE-3. Thone things were like fucking MAGICAL to me. I can't tell you how much what those things could do reassembled my 13 year old brain. Anyway, 35 years later he still has those, and they're still in great condition.

[@mykeday]

I know what you mean I still use a dm-2 fantastic pedal. Haven't found a better delay.

[@blakevickrey]

Thank you Juan and Nick for showing us pedals the way we might actually want to use them

[@nathanvassiliades1790]

Playing starts @ 00:01

[@seybovhka1673]

thank you

[@TheJwolf1101]

Thank you

[@pulpero666]

Next Tera Melos album its gonna be insane 😁

[@LikeigiveAFaboutU]

For suuure

[@charizardoystersauce]

🥲

[@jakeewingmusik9880]

@@charizardoystersauce 😭

[@JRP3music]

Put that Miku pedal on the send and return!

[@anibalresendezpulido]

blues lick, for the lawyers out there lol

[@countstoneula]

Anibal Resendez love reading the comments before watching through the whole video. I was dying at this comment. 🤣

[@RCAvhstape]

This is Boss saying to EHX, "Hold my beer."

[@TheZooropaBaby]

at least Boss pedals dont click and pop like EHX pedals do

[@Eiende]

I have the EH synth9 pedal, love it too, but I can’t stop thinking about the SY-1. I’ve had two Roland ready Fender Strats, a 12sting dual midi Warr guitar, and some Chapman products... these track better!

[@RCAvhstape]

@@Eiende We are truly living in a golden age of music gear.

[@Eiende]

Helium Road it’s fun to imagine of what may be available in the future.

[@grillman7170]

And Source Audio and Keeley ... Boss will hit them hard.

[@HunterAnton]

"we are definitely firing synth players"

[@-l_gavin_l-]

That's some amazing tracking! Definitely on my list of effects to get now.

[@RobFlaxMusic]

I'm blown away... this is stepping on Enzo's toes real hard...

[@TheZooropaBaby]

Nah Enzo is much more tweakable, it seems like

[@NONAMEACCESSIBLE]

Yeah but this is much more affordable to an average mortal, you gotta think real hard if you want to pay $200 more for some synth sounds.

[@mindbodylightsound10]

It's all about the effects loop tho

[@deepwell2255]

Trust and believe you’ll want Enzo’s presets if you plan to implement a synth pedal live. Plus the arpeggiator is one of its best features.

[@jsogman]

Enzo is brilliant but I sold mine bc I found the tracking, while good, to still be not to my liking, I feel like the technology for that kind of polyphonic tracking is very close but just not quite there yet to imo... not sure if its FFT transform tech or what, I just feel like if there's an Enzo 2 it's going to be my shit by miles ...this one also looks fantastic though

[@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

I love Boss and so psyched for this.

[@KaltOhm]

This is the best demo of a pedal ever made in the history of humanity. Period.

[@timcrenshaw5920]

I whole heartedly agree, they're able to make some kind of techy stuff easy to understand for a n00b like me. Excellent presentation and educational for me.

[@merman93]

Amazing! The dual SY1’s sound like my old 1980 GR300( trying my best to sound like Fripp in King Crimson). These are backordered everywhere but at least I’m on the waitlist for Nov 25 ship. I totally love your channel.

[@gazzy_burns]

You guys always kill it with demos. Keep it up 👍🏻

[@johnkeenan9495]

Just got mine flew days ago it blows my mind pretty neat effects in this bad boy

[@Diegoalfonsocrespoya]

I was about to buy the ehx mono bass synth pedal,. I guess i have to try both now. Great review!!

[@neilbopperson4801]

Alfonso Crespo-Yapur same!

[@colingrogan111]

As someone who has been struggling to learn keys to get more production versatility, this is p much the greatest shortcut ever. I'm def getting one.

[@hulkslayer626]

YUP!!! Definitely getting 3 of these and a Boss BCB-30!! It's gonna be so sick!

[@SANDBASSMAN]

Juan please, more demos on bass. It’s fantastic and amaaaazing...

Pre ordered, cant wait

[@Felix_Macho]

This pedal is so exciting

[@superhuman6156]

This goes to the top of my Want List

[@eskilseter]

God damn, this box is insane. I need one yesterday.

[@NicholasGreenwood]

I'm into it! I've got a guitar equipped with a Sustainiac, so I wonder what this could do for a prolonged synth pad sound.

[@awogbob]

This is the most perfectly trackign synth pedal Ive ever heard honestly.

[@Knightsie]

YES! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME

[@rolyat]

Hahaha I love the simple blues riff being played into a space gun sound

[@gex581990]

It’s a parallel send and return that is used for adding effects to just the synth sound so it doesn’t affect your dry signal or any pedals earlier in your chain and only blends with the synth signal

[@Spaghettaboutit]

Label Me Justin technically it's series - I'm assuming it goes this -> Synth Input -> Synth preamp -> external send -> random pedal -> Return -> Synth Effect -> Output

[@jpl9148]

All Boss pedals from now on should be like this

[@topcurve4963]

Great video!!!

[@francisgori5631]

Land of the lost! Juan with the Sleestack love!!!

[@andy62]

2 pedals= 2nd box in Primer. I haven't eaten since tomorrow lunchtime.

[@PedalScience]

Lol I cannot wait to see someone stack 10 of these in parallel

[@SubjektAudio]

P&E please do this

[@SuperKillbill66]

Yeah would sound nothing short than an alien invasion

[@buffalobrown3000]

Haaaaa yeesssss!

[@NahTrust]

Please

[@benrothschild6074]

subjekt Audio mission accepted just give me a while to buy them all and a couple of those new ehx parallel mixers

[@JeffHendricks]

A Squier Venus!!! Holy cow, haven't seen anyone else with one of those in ages! I thought I had the only one left!

[@MrFuzzyBoss]

The possibilities of this pedal seems endless , with a bass is even more inpressive than with a guitar. I use it one , send the guitar sound in my amp and the synth sound in the PA system thru an ABY box and a DI box. Really great immersive stereo sound.

[@dsrecords22]

plug it in and fuck around is my life story. i love those pedals.

[@backlogbro874]

This is too dope

[@colingentile]

I knew you were on the VIP list for this buddy !! :) So obvious !

[@tcwestcott]

Love the pedal and the Land of the Lost reference.

[@AbhishekDas14]

Okay I want this right NOW

[@PingPongPix]

Great demo on the bass! Lots of decisions now, the EHX Mono Synth, the Keeley Synth 1, the soon to be released Sound Audio C4 Synth or this. Who knows???

[@jmd76family]

Can't wait for the one I ordered to come. Gonna use it with pigtronix mothership 2.

[@nou1101]

with the 2 sy1's stacked in the send it would be cool to put a tremolo before the second one

[@emiliorizzo7690]

love to see this vs enzo.

[@planzed463]

Great review guys, thanks so much! OMG - stacking 2 is awesome!! *and P.Z. doesn’t have a synth player to sack 😊(bonus, happy days!)

[@danopticon]

That tracked the fretless really interestingly!!

[@sandyturner1911]

It's the same color as the Roland GR300 I had, back in the day. (1982)

[@JRP3music]

They need a midi version in a standard size Boss pedal! There is a lot of sounds to manage. I am a little skeptical of how long it takes to recall a sound live. Tracking is perfect.

[@sleepingchildhood5640]

Insane bass lines

[@originalsongsbyjonathanlew1512]

I like that you started with playing

[@globalevents0]

You've convinced me. I'll buy two 😭

[@countstoneula]

Why did you have to run the second SY-1 in the effects loop. I went from wanting one to wanting two! 🤣

[@nickpelkey]

Curious about polychaining a few of these and exploring the expression options

[@kevmac1230]

Get well Juan, I'm pulling for you.We need you doing pedals.

[@DimestoreLiam]

Right before the final kraut-rock interlude: "WOW mama mama mama" hahahahahaha! That was cool, hahaha! It's about time I started fucking around with that bass synth pedal I bought a couple of years ago and have never used... Very inspirational video, gentlemen!!!

[@mheberling5939]

That synth pedal sounds rad on bass.

[@ryannicholas6702]

One thing I'm really curious about that I've yet to see a video touch on: with any of the Organ presets, is there a "rotary" type effect, and if so, can the expression control the speed like a brake?

[@jamesmcmahan1236]

Not sure it replaces a synth player for a band that is synth focused, but if you're using synth in a few songs or doing concept work, wow this would more than work in a pinch

[@andre257]

I love that pedal. Have you tried it with a bass that has a preamp in it to see how that tracks?

[@normanbates5182]

For those times when you just do not know what to say, just say something from straight from the heart "kraut rock in a box"

[@KesslerMickschGeorgeII]

I’m only 55 seconds in and just wanna say this pedal is awesome and it’s totall bull crap that there’s no one in the world to take my money and send me this pedal. Thanks for the torture Boss!!!

[@JRP3music]

Skold is going to kill with one of these!

[@JRP3music]

Maybe put the original Bass synth pedal in the loop? Bet, that would sound crazy, along with EHX synth pedals!

[@MarkGraham]

Mr. Alderete ! 😎 It's Machine 😎 Great channel 👍👍👍 subscribed

[@lilbasedboi]

Ehx wants their gear that does this sorta stuff to sound this good

[@morbido13]

15:58 "For the lawyers out there" 😂😂😂

[@adyingsensemusic]

I just want to hear this with a bass and then an OC-2 and a gated fuzz in the loop

[@JRP3music]

Tomita would love this too!

[@edwardbarnes8747]

I always enjoy your videos! Just curious...were you guys stoned when you made this?

[@DK-qe6uo]

Since it has a USB port in the back I hope they update it to where when you the pedal down you can tap tempo in the sequencer

[@SR-ih1be]

16:06 "For the lawyers out there. The ones that you love."

[@Benny_Howie]

Can't wait to hear a bass player Rio one of these through a PA system

[@VitaEx]

The sy 300 is awesome but it’s always nice to have a classic guitar pedal form factor just to get you in the zone for moving knobs as opposed to programming patches I have a sy 300 i don’t need this but man no lie I’ll probably pick one up cause this stuff is my crack now if only some would make a dedicated chiptune pedal for snes and nes tones and anamaguchi songs Like plagues chipsounds in a pedal I wish lol although the sy300 is much more accessible then say the gr55 The sy 1 is looking pretty great though

[@ulfsvensson9710]

13:19 "It sounds like Neu!" I want one.

[@markwhitman8262]

Very flash Gordon love it

[@paulyb-englishmaninhangzho3609]

Gordon’s alive!

[@RadityoPramAdi]

Put that ring thingy exp control from Source Audio and go nuts! (and why suddenly I thinking about Power Windows...)

[@sloobydoobyboo]

Miss you Juan

[@jamesprisciandaro3144]

This vs Enzo (tracking, tone, etc)?! Spill them beans, please, Nick!

[@veerchasm1]

1:30 WE DON’T NEED NO STINKIN’ MIDI! First Boss pedal I’ve been excited about in years

[@jpl9148]

Talk for yourself

[@keeperofthelowend]

Is it just me or is boss trying to get in the keyboard/piano pedals aka electro harmonix b9,c9, key9, mel9, synth9? Either way I wouldn't mind having one.

[@nicks4802]

This, the vocoder.... It all makes sense now

[@sammadden5540]

The boss ones won't break though

[@quadrogong1111]

Analog technology is like almost a century old, the digital algorithms are at the forefront of modern music tech, it’s only natural that they’re tinkering w that stuff now

[@poribrutal]

oh, so I need to buy two

[@lespaulthomson3167]

Great for late 80's early 90's video game soundtracks.

[@flipmacyt]

Which pedal should i buy ? The Sy-1 or the SY-300 ? What is the difference ? Which one would you recommend ? I would even use it for electric violin concerts with DJ ...

[@DavidCaraccio]

Dayyyyyuuum

[@janipashkvan797]

˝Sounds like Neu!˝ :)

[@GregJay]

Seems more like a interesting gadget but not very usable for me, glad I saw this, good job on showing what it does, seems more like a novelty item.

[@johnlong5003]

presets a must for me so wont be indulging but sound cool

[@zumbrunsky]

Hello, very nice demo you made. Do you think I can reproduce with my bass guitar the bass synth sounds from these songs from the 80's: Like a virgin (Madonna), West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys), Don´t you want me (Human League) etc ? Thanks

[@nevillepark4068]

The reverb/delay treatment? ... Is that a "one" default setting or... how assignable are the timing, depth, and decay. In other words can I configure it to my own sounds or will I have write sngs to fit the sound?

[@Reprodestruxion]

Tienes que tocar con Enrique Bunbury , Juan

[@fabiangarciakh]

Con tantas banderas mexicanas esperaba subtítulos en español, saludos.

[@geerhoar]

Sleestaks FTW!

[@mrmatthew2443]

Can you play a blues lick with that sound ?...LMAO You two always entertain Thanks

[@RobFlaxMusic]

Ok but how can I get this right now?!

[@ryanhull167]

I think it's so new that it hasn't even been shipped out yet. I've been looking for an hour where to get one 😂

[@AlexCVeach]

You can get it on Reverb: Syn­the­sizer pedal effect - Boss SY-1 - NEW 07/2019 reverb.com/item/26115500-syn-the-sizer-pedal-effect-boss-sy-1-new-07-2019?

[@doogdoogdoogdoogdoogdoog]

@@AlexCVeach Pre-order, bruv

[@AlexCVeach]

@@doogdoogdoogdoogdoogdoog yup yup

[@locomonk]

Time for Synth Wars!!!

[@GrinningFeline]

Nick, what is this guitar?

[@boundbylogic760]

dude is that a sig fender? seafoam green super rad!

[@juddalexander5642]

Sleestack!!! My generation!!!

[@stonehouseguitars3869]

Hey, I got mine today and played around with it for a little bit, I was running it in the FX loop on my amp, and it sounded really bad. That's where I would traditionally run pedals like this, are you supposed to just run it straight into the front? Does anyone know?

[@soundmapper]

22:40 Final boss.

[@mykhedelic6471]

Pauly Shore and Aaron Eckhart have a pedal show? (Bad jokes aside, great demo.)