Three of the Best Effects in the Boss GX100

[@LeonTodd]

That "range" control is brilliant on the Poly Octaver (and the OC-5). The Overtone and Tera Echo are 2 seriously under-appreciated modern BOSS effects too.

[@johnnathancordy]

I'll dig into that Tera echo a bit further - cheers for the recommendations sir Leon!!

[@jacobpittman1996]

Long live MDP!

[@garywaddell6309]

As much as I am really enjoying my gx 100, nothing beats listening to a great, melodic guitar player like you John. What a complex piece of music you have played here and such a tasteful way to use the gx 100. Cheers!

[@jakollee]

Wow, all three of these are awesome! Love the slow gear - over tone combo, and the poly octave was perfect for doing the bass and melody parts of I Wish! Now re-listening to the intro track, brilliant!

[@jacobpittman1996]

2 of my favorite effects from my Roland VG-88 that I bought in 2003: Boss’s Slow Gear; the Organ sound. Some things stay great. Thank you, Mr. Cordy, for reviving attention for these lovely effects.

[@EnmandsBand1]

another Man of culture, I did gigs with a VG-88 too playing western guitar sounds with bass sounds on the lwoer strings...

[@Stefan-]

Great stuff and great playing ! I just got a GX-100 myself.

[@BrianMorris-zc4md]

Sounds glorious, thank you John.

[@christopherjbutler]

KNEW when I read the thumbnail that you were gonna say Slow Gear! Something that I only could get in my 1998 or so Roland GP-100 rack processor. That is a piece of gear that was way ahead of it's time. Robert Fripp had a pair of them in his stage rig all the way until The Axe FX 3 came out. Devin Townsend too. There are some really unique capabilities in that unit, and from what I am reading (Downloaded the GX-100 manuals) a lot of those if not all are in the GX. The grandaddy Roland (NOT Boss) GP-100 and I am discovering, the Boss GX-100 has never gone the Line6 or Fractal route of really trying to directly model specific amplifiers and cabs, but it covered TONS of Boss stomp boxes and rack effects. You just dialed up a tone in the generic amp category and built it until it simply sounds great. And they did. Back then it shone best when there were lots of effects on, but I think now perhaps the dry amp cab microphone sound is up to par too. I am really hoping to grab a GX next Christmas after bonus time if the economy permits me a decent one :-) Love these videos, love your playing. I wonder, have you ever heard or played through A Roland GP-100?

[@adriansoul7223]

absolutely gorgeous man

[@10smdjbtk]

Very unique and interesting sound.

[@cliffgraham5185]

Whoa! I've had the thing for 2mo and your Poly Octave Range bit had my mouth agape. Thanks! Next I'm scheming on how to use it to imitate a resonator and I think that's gonna take a while, LOL

[@grishabueche]

Thank‘s for this video!

[@John-APCL]

Thanks for this video. A very usefull and clear video. Thanks to you I noticed the existing posibilities of this product. What a great sounding multi-effect this is. I am impressed. I sold my HX Stomp last week. It's a great tool for making music, but somehow it was missing something. I'm a guitarist, not a keyboardist. And the Helix always makes me feel like a keyboardist. Too digital, too many tricks, too many configurations to get a decent sound. And you really need IRs to get a good guitar sound (otherwise it sounds so digital). So I went back to my simple setup based on separate pedals. I hadn't actually heard of the GX-100 before, but came across it today. After following a few videos I am so impressed with the sound quality of this device that I am going to think about purchasing this GX-100. So now maybe I have to return to the digital realm. What an impressive guitar sound. So pure but full compared to the Helix. And cheaper than the HX Stomp I noticed.

[@picksalot1]

Those are 3 beautiful effects, well designed by Boss. Of course, we have to ask how close can we get to those with our Line 6 Helix gear? I know that Alex Price figured out how to do something similar to the 3rd effect, getting octaves on just the lower bass frequencies. Is there a good POG organ in the Line 6 Helix units?

[@johnnathancordy]

For the Pog/Organ sound specifically, not really? Maybe you could use something like the 12 string pitch block and a rotary?

[@luckyno888]

Intro reminded me of Tom Quayle and Martin Miller doing Janeck Gwizdala's "Mana." There is some BOSS LEVEL playing in that video.

[@johnnathancordy]

Wow - not on that level but thanks!

[@malcolmdouglas5873]

You are a fantastic guitar player, in control of your sound, dynamics and understand the modelling better than nearly everyone. There is a but, everything sounds like a recording rather than a live sound, I tried the virtual amp experience but found it too overwhelming in that I had too much control over variables you don’t get with real amps. I like the organic experience but love what you do.

[@rishaBh_c]

This is great! I bought the gx100 recently. Will these effects a go! More videos on this unit if you get the chance. Cheers 🍻

[@planzed463]

Dude, try putting the swell effect on reverbs 😉👍🏼

[@micwalt]

Wow, I didn't know about the range control.

[@None_of_your_business666]

This is fantastic

[@whelanbdubs]

Where are the drums coming from and how are they synced to your loop? VERY curious. Great demo and playing.

[@johnnathancordy]

I record to click - the drums are added in the DAW

[@whelanbdubs]

Ok, thank you for the reply!

[@MrAntpre]

Hi John nice one. You must be knowing but in case on the tera echo of the bossgx100 you can activate a freeze effect.

[@vladaspetrauskas2800]

You are best!

[@samnewton5959]

Okay I am looking at this and the HX Stomp. If you could only have one, which one would it be?

[@the1trueporkchop]

Man I WISH Helix had that poly octave effect in it. That Range setting could go so far!

[@johnnathancordy]

If you check out Alex Price's channel he has experimented with using the crossover to do something similar

[@the1trueporkchop]

@@johnnathancordy hmmm…. Oh snap….

[@the1trueporkchop]

@@johnnathancordy checked out and attempted. Pretty cool results! My main issue is that I have to do ALOT to get some upper harmonics into the faux-bass. I wish there was a poly option with low note priority. That would really unlock what I’m looking for. ;-)

[@sixtyaffairs]

Until 1:21 I thought , ok , this time he screws it up. No chance that could be something worth recording. Totally mess. But when the Drums come in - everything makes sense. You're a Looping Master John.

[@johnnathancordy]

LOOOL Yeh I didn't know if it would come together hahah

[@dare2funk]

Are you going to release these on your website?

[@dykeneuk]

This unit sounds so good now that guys like you have worked out how to dial in the tones. So different from helix.

[@angusorvid8840]

My question now is this: Is the GX-100 the top of the line for Boss, or is it still the GT-1000?

[@Paralung]

The GT1000 is still their flagship. Although it looks dated in comparison (basically due to the screen) it's still more powerful in terms of processing power. Still, the GX100 is a very good device, andd thanks to the improved UI it seems to be convincing more people to get aboard the Boss ship.

[@christopherjbutler]

@@Paralung I wonder if we are going to see a GX-1000 in near future? :)

[@filtermat]

Slow Gear is impressive

[@elfieborimera3178]

Like to here the distion to the cmods brownie dis

[@adriansoul7223]

Is this in the GT1000 core as well?

[@johnnathancordy]

I believe so!

[@ronrobins3513]

I watched quite a few of your videos, and not always by choice. You seem to have a surface and superficial attitude about gear. If it's not expensive or on everyones lips it doesn't really rate with you. BOSS has either developed or perfected many effect categories that more flashy companies that are only around because of their marketing budgets. just imitate.They give it a fancy paint job and pay half a dozen KZbinrs to promote it and call it VHS DUST LOFI SWAG, charge $300 bucks. Reality it's no better than effects Boss came out with 20 years ago. Or better yet the almost monthly KLON clones or "TRANSPARENT" boost that are no better than a OD2 or a BLUES DRIVER. Plus Boss/Roland as a company will be around much longer than these 2 man companies holed in Portland or Seattle in a space that used to be a dry cleaners 😂