GT-10 Review

The GT-10, driven by BOSS' latest custom-made DSP and proprietary sound-modeling COSM® engine, is a floorboard powerhouse that offers natural and musical response as well as a marked improvement in sound quality from previous generations.

Ease of Use:	9.6
Sound:	9.3
Reliability:	9.9
Impression:	9.8
Overall rating:	9.7
Users rating:	7.8
Comments:	52

overall: 9.5

Featured review by: sus4th, on may 14, 2008

Price paid: $ 499

Purchased from: sweetwater.com

Ease of Use: The unit is very easy to use. Unlike the GT-8 which needed a lot of experience with tweaking, the GT-10’s wizard makes it very easy to get the tone you want for a variety of musical expressions. Using a Schechter C-1 E/A I was able to come up with a really fun crunch tone, a flanged crunch tone, a mellow chorused tone, an acoustic tone for the Piezo, and a cool Jerry Garcia type clean tone. All of this in about 3 hours. I did a lot of tweaking of the preamps and the effects, very easy to do. // 10

Sound: I use a high end pair of headphones for creating my tones as am using this unit in recording and church situations. For Live, I go into a DI box and take the ¼ out into a small Fender amp for monitoring and then the XLR goes into the house. From my headphones, the amps sound true, all though you really have to tweak the mids to get warm sounds. Although I was not able to hear myself through the mains, my wife said it sounded really good, in fact she liked my tones better than when I was using the GT-8! // 9

Reliability & Durability: Can take a lickin' I am sure! I will be using this in the studio and in a church situation, so no beer soaked stages in my future. However, this is a tough unit with a metal case and strong foot controls. Looks like it could take a beating! It is a bit heavy. // 10

Impression: Over all the GT-10 is the only unit I will need. It works great in the studio and Live, but then I do not really use an amp Live. If you are married to an amp and the tone you get from that amp, then this will probably not be the unit for you. But if you want a huge variety of tones, great flexibility, amp modeling that sounds very close to the originals, then this is the unit for you. The one drawback thus far are the LED lights. They are so bright that I believe that the space shuttle pilots can be guided by them. You can’t even read the words above the lights to see what they control when they are on. But other than that, this unit is killer! // 9

overall: 9.5

Reviewed by: Shor-T Zero, on june 11, 2008

Price paid: $ 499.00

Purchased from: Sam Ash

Ease of Use: Usually, a multi-effect pedal is supposed to be an ordeal to learn, in that you have to spend hours finding a good Overdrive or Distortion tone. Not so with the GT-10. It has a feature called the EZ Tone, which lets you graphically shape your tone. Once you do, you can save it as it's own patch, and there you go. I'll break it down into steps, since no one has yet.

01. After clicking Create under the EZ tone category, you'll choose from genres like Blues, Country, Soul Funk, Jazz, 70's Hard Rock, 80's Metal, Modern Metal, Punk, Progressive, Acoustic, and a few others.
02. From there, you Pick a variation (for example, Modern Metal has different variations that will focus on solos, or rhythm).
03. Once you Pick a variation, you use a graph system with the main knobs that feels like you are drawing on an Etch-and-Sketch. The tone is shaped by what area of the graph your cursor is in (in an x, y coordinate graph). The farther right you go, the harder the tone hits. Moving to softer warms up the tone. And then there is the solo or backing axis that modifies the mids and higher ups in the EQ.
04. You can then set delay and reverb in the next graph.

And that's it. Then you can nit-Pick from there, and that could take a little while, depending on how picky you are. Editing patches is easy as well, feels like a normal unit, but it is pretty fast and easy. The manual is a little thick, but the font is also a bit bigger, so it is easy to read. The manual also has a cut-out booklet, basically a 4 page deal (front and back of 2 sheets) that has all of the presets. Very easy to use if you put at least 5 minutes into getting acquainted with the EZ-Tone deal. After that, it depends on what sound you want. I haven't owned a previous iteration of the GT-x series, but I can definitely say, it's probably a huge step up because this thing rocks. // 10

Sound: I have a few number of setups. I've yet to try my main one, which is my guitar into a Crate half-stack. I'm debating about putting my Mesa/Boogie V-Twin pedal in front of the GT-10 or behind it. I'll see how it goes. So far though, I've used it on a small Ibanez practice amp, a Fender 212R combo amp, and the headphone jack. My guitars include an ESP/ltd. Viper-400, Dean Dime Razorback (two-tone), and a Schecter Revenger 7 (7stringer). Another great thing about this pedal is that it has an output selector, which lets you Pick what kind of amp you are coming out of, and then the GT-10 will adjust it's voicing to that. You can Pick between a JC120 (from Roland), a small amp (practice amp), a combo, a stack, and a line/headphones sound (for use with a PA/mixer and/or headphones). Also, you can Pick the return inputs on the combo, stack, or JC120. Most of the presets are pretty decent. There are some that excel, but of course there are a few failures. The sound has been cleaned dramatically (from what I've heard about the GT-8) and almost all of the distortions sound great. Some of the pre-amps this thing models include a JC-120, a Vox, a Mesa/Boogie combo, a Marshall 1959, a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, and a Tube Screamer (the pedal from Ibanez, but voiced to a pre-amp! ), a Peavey 5150, and many others. The Rectifier sounds really good. It is easy to adjust any of the pre-amps, so that shouldn't be a problem. This thing has a good number of pedals modeled too. A few I'll mention are pretty much any of the Boss od/ds pedals, a Tubescreamer, a Proco Rat, the Guv'nor pedal, a Dist+, an Octave Fuzz, and a Muff fuzz. The pedals sound really good, and there are many things you can edit about them (EQ, voicing, etc.). The distortions have a nice bite to them, and aren't very hiss-prone or whiny, like my Boss MT-2 sometimes is. In fact, I think the MT-2 modeling on this pedal might even be further improved on the original MT-2, if not even better than a modded one. it's all in the ears though, so take heed to that. There are a huge number of effects. You can make a single-coil sound like a humbucker and vice-versa. And even make your guitar sound like a hollow-body or an acoustic. I was playing this at Sam Ash with an ESP/Ltd. Eclipse, I think the 600 model with passive pickups. I turned it to an acoustic setting, strummed, and thought I had grabbed an electric/acoustic. The simulators aren't supposed to be this good! Very clean tone. Besides a guitar simulator, there are a number of effects. These are some of them: compressor, equalizer, delay, chorus, reverb, pedal wah/pedal bend, noise suppressor 1, noise suppressor 2, t wah, auto wah, sub wah, adv comp, limiter, graphic eq, parametric eq, tone modify, guitar sim, guitar synth, and many others. There are a few other synth effects. there is even a feed-back effect that simulates getting feedback, even if playing through head-phones. Pretty useful if you need a single-note phrase with some feed-back kicking in. Each effect has many different parameters to work with. Users familiar with the GT-8 will be happy to know there are now 2 control (ctrl) pedals. Basically these Switch channels on the pre-amps, turn effects on/off, and more. You can hold down on of the control pedals with your foot and get a higher Harmony part for as long as your foot is held down. So if you have a higher melody part that you want, but it comes in for 2 measures every other time you repeat the phrase, you are good to go with that, instead of looking like you are trying out for River Dance. I give sound a 9 just because of a few of the effects being a bit too "out there" in that I might never use them. But for a progressive type of player, this could be a gold-mine of effects. // 9

Reliability & Durability: Oh yes, this thing seems rock solid. You can't use it without the power-cord since there is no place for batteries. But this thing is built like a tank otherwise. The only problem is that the bank switching pedals are a little out of reach. But they aren't anywhere near the screen, which is good. I never really feel safe at any gig. I'd depend on this, but I'd carry some back up effects with me, just because that keeps me comfortable. Otherwise, if I only had room for my amp, guitar, and this, I would most definitely gig without backup. // 10

Impression: I play in a band that plays hard rock with a slight hint of metal. This pedal does everything I need it to in the band. As for myself, I write music as a solo project and for fun, and this takes care of everything. And I will go between different genres. If I'm feeling some blues, I kick that on. If I want to do some fun techno stuff or dark synth for industrial, I can flip that on with no problem. This really is a great pedal. It has 2 midi jacks, so you can use the GT-10 to control MIDI objects as well. I don't use MIDI, so I don't have too much to say about it. The USB is one problem though. They don't include a cable with the GT-10, and I can't get my GT-10 to work with my computer. But that's only because I have a 64-bit version of Vista Ultimate. There are drivers for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Apple. So you should be safe. Check Boss's site for more info. on that. I can't really explain that stuff, since I'm not very tech-savvy. Customer Support, after you register for "backstage" or w/e at Boss so you can see the different manuals and stuff, is very helpful. I e-mailed yesterday about the drivers, and I was replied to today. They even sent a request to the main headquarters to see about making a 64-bit driver. No info. on that though, but it's understood. They were helpful as far as they could be, so for that I thank them. I've been playing for almost 5 years, and my multi-effect pedal before this was the Zoom GFX-5. A knob broke on it, and I wasn't too happy with what I was hearing so I decided to upgrade. I was thinking about this and the DigiTech RP-500. But I decided on this after hearing it, because it just seemed to good to pass up. And I wanted something that could create tones, instead of just full-on replicating them. My friend and other guitarist in my band isn't going to be too happy about me getting this instead of the RP-500, since we were thinking about getting the same pedals so we'd have identical sounds and he doesn't want to shell out for this. I don't really care though, because this pedal probably kicks the RP-500's ass many times over. Maybe the replication isn't as great, but this thing has enough tones and effects where I am completely satisfied. I'm going to be learning things about this system for a good amount of time to come, and then the fun will really start. If you are thinking about getting a multi-effect pedal, and have the cash... get it. I believe you won't regret it. If you plan on recording via USB though, make sure you aren't running a 64-bit OS. Otherwise, go for it. If there is anything else you need, feel free to message me. Or better yet, check the Boss site and look at all the effects and stuff they have under the Knowledge Base. I give this a 9, only because of a few of the presets (which really shouldn't be taken into account, but for those that like all presets to be great, then the 9 is for them... otherwise, if you aren't too picky with presets, give it a 10) and the USB driver problem. I'm sure someone will have a fix sometime soon. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and get back to jamming out with it. // 9

Reviewed by: unregistered, on september 23, 2008

Purchased from: Veerkamp

Ease of Use: This is not your ordinary fx box. You can use preset patches or customize your own, but the killer feature is the "manual mode", in which you turn your GT-10 into up to 8 separate stomp boxes + a wah/pitch bend/volume pedal. If you have many separate stomps, you might find this a good way to enter the world of multieffect pedals. If that's not your thing, well, patch edition is easy: you toggle stages by a button, you may rearrange them and the 4-way nav + dial is not always the most intuitive but rotating the dial is way easier than clicking a push-button a thousand times. Then there's the EZ mode, in which you can pretty much get near the tone you hear in your head without much of a hassle.

The manual is informative, but you have to really play with the unit in order to realise all the possibilities. // 9

Sound: I play mostly through a Marshall combo but also got an El-Cheapo rectifier combo. I also use it with headphones for nightly practice, simulating my amp -- it's not the real thing, but gets close enough. By itself it's not noisy, but all the buzz your guitar picks up gets amplified by overdriven settings. Unavoidable, but manageable.

I'm very impressed by the quality of the wah. I like it better than my friend's actual wah pedal (can't remember which brand, not an unknown but not Dunlop). OD/DS pedals sound close to actual ones too. Loop recording/overdubbing is mono only, which is a shame, but it's good nevertheless. // 9

Reliability & Durability: If it needs a backup, you might as well gig with the backup. It's a brick, covered in sheet metal. It's heavy, and I'd only be afraid of kicking a knob and breaking it. The rocker pedal is nice and heavy, you have to really step on it to toggle it, and it definitely doesn't feel fragile at all. // 10

Impression: I play anywhere from latin rock to Grunge, and from the Beatles to the Pixies, but I like to find my own tone, and I really like what the GT-10 does for me. I've been playing for 5 years now, with an Ibanez AXS32 (SG-like) and a stratoclone, and no matter what gear I play with, I always seem to get my personal tone out of it. It's been easier to get my tone out of the GT-10 than it was to get it from my Marshall MG250DFX alone.

I don't use preset patches nor do I create my own ones because I love "manual mode". I feel as if I'd bought 40 stompboxes for the price of 10 or less. After using a DigiTech RP50 for a year... well, what can I say? It feels like you took your guitar and lowered its action by half an inch. To some people the POD X3 Live might sound better. However, the GT-10 matches my idea of multieffect pedals, and delivers the sound I want in the way I want. // 10

overall: 9.8

Reviewed by: LJHarris, on may 11, 2009

Price paid: A$ 900

Purchased from: RockShop

Ease of Use: I’m going to be concentrating primarily on the GT-10 in this review but I would like to occasionally touch on the line x3 Live there are a lot of people that can’t decide which of the two would be better for themselves so I hope my I can clear a few things up, I have played both the GT-10 and Line 6 x3 Live but liked the GT-10 much more. All the rating are based on the GT-10 not the X3 Live!

The GT-10 is very easy to get solid tones out of the ez tone it features for those Who do not feel like going through all the individual effects and EQ settings to create a tone they like is very cool, just follow its simple step by step procedure (I know another reviewer has mentioned this so I’m not going to go too deep there), If you have a patch that you very much like but want to tweak it a bit its dead simple, simply hit the buttons/LED'S corresponding with which effect you want to change and from there you can use the parameter knobs to play around with what settings to change, if an effect you have you want to turn off no need to go into the system to do so, simply hit the button/LED twice and this turns it off, the first time you hit the button it allows you to tweak it the second time switches it off. The manual has 50 pages to it and I seriously thought it would take months to figure it out but I have had my GT-10 for roughly a week now and finding patches and tweaking tones is very easy to do now, for the GT-10 it has a very shallow learning curve. What I like also with the GT-10 is its large screen, all the dials and buttons make it much easier to use and understand. // 10

Sound: I very much like both the tones in both, distortions in the GT-10 sounded very nice and the crunch also did the Line 6 X3 Live tone sounded as good if not better then GT-10, the GT-10's tone isn’t as natural and authentic as the X3 but saying that it was not completely noticeable for my untrained musical ears but the major let down was the effects, the wahs sound a bit crappy in the X3 and if you push down a little too hard it switches to volume which sucks, besides I really liked the variation in the GT-10 wahs with cry baby, Vox seven stringer and a few others, the GT-10 in my mind offers more tweaking tonally (the EQ works like magic offers a view graphically what is happening with the tone) with the effects for example... Tweaking the wah in X3 Live you can’t determine the level (volume) you want in the effect which the GT-10 can also the GT-10 allows you decide how deep you want the wah to "wah". // 9

Reliability & Durability: It's built rock solid, I could drop it of a two storied building and still feel comfortably that it's going to perform even if I had a gig that same day, but seriously it's built tough with a metal enclosure and yes I could definitely depend on it without a back-up! // 10

Impression: I really did like the GT-10, the tones sound very hot! Offers more tweaking as I said previously over the Line 6 X3 Live. Both GT-10 and X3 Live will allow you to find the right kind of tone you want for your genres or the sounds like your favourite bands. I play blues, rock & progressive and it sounds very nice on all. I would get it back in a heartbeat if it were stolen, plug and play into your computer for home recording is a blast, using a usb chord certainly does the trick, the Line 6 X3 is from what I heard also very nice for recording, only problem with these two is there is no recording software that come with them so you will need to buy one online, the effects sound better on GT-10 but the preamps on the Line 6 X3 probably to me sound slightly better, when full blown at a gig the GT-10 really shines it's true colours.

Overall the GT-10 comes out on top, everything in the GT-10 is more tweak able, love the wahs, hate the wahs in the X3. I would have to say tonally the X3 and GT-10 are very evenly neck and neck. // 10

Reviewed by: unregistered, on august 18, 2008

Price paid: C$ 489

Purchased from: ItalMelodie Montreal

Ease of Use: This GT-10 is very easy to use. It has so many great presets already in there but you can get your own tone in about 5 mins. There's a little 4 pages manual that explains every preset patches and you can find any details on how to create your own patch in the other manual that comes with the pedal. If you're not really good in english, you can go to Boss's site and check out the french or other languages manuals. You can record yourself easely with a USB cable, I do it via my webcam, setting the mic to Line GT-10 and using my Sennheiser HD555 plugged in the pedal to hear myself, by the way the sound you get in the headphones doesn't compare to anything I've tried, this pedal freaking rocks! It's a pleasure to use this pedal, buy it you'll see! // 10

Sound: I'm using my new Ibanez Iceman ICT 700 and a Marshall AVT 150X wich from I unplugged the 6 Switch pedal that came with it (useless with that GT-10). The pedal isn't noisy at all and you ever get a setting that is noisy, you can go in the effects and just turn the treshold of the noise supressor. I didn't find any effect that was weak on this pedal, seriously you won't be able to stop playing once you get that pedal. I can get any sound I want from '80s trash metal Metallica sound to a perfect acoustic sound from Opeth. I like to play Quo Vadis songs too and I can really get that Death Metal tone. I recently changed my Joe Satriani for another ICT 700 so now I got two of those awesome guitars, the second one is in setup right now for B standard tuning, it's gonna be so powerful with that pedal. // 10

Reliability & Durability: I don't know if it's durable yet, I got it today so I'll post a comment later to tell that but it seems pretty solid. I would totally use this pedal on a gig without any backup. I don't have enough caracters in that section so I'm just gonna right that I don't have enough caracters. // 10

Impression: I play mostly metal but with that pedal I think I'm gonna learn other styles it sounds so good. I've been playing for 6 years now, I had an Ibanez S470DXQM, a Joe Satriani, now I got two Iceman ICT 700, a Marshall AVT 150X and a Crate GT65. If the pedal was stolen I'd get another one or hang up myself. I love the ease of use, the tones you can get out of it and the USB interface. I own a DigiTech RP200 Artist pedal and it's a piece of garbage compared to the Boss GT-10, DigiTech sucks asses big time, I got a little Line 6 Ãœber Metal too and the only thing that's great with this pedal is the noise gate, the distortion is so digital and crapy compared to the Boss GT-10! So if you got 500$ to spend on a pedal, get this one! // 10

overall: 10

Reviewed by: adamc100, on july 16, 2008

Price paid: $ 499

Purchased from: Daddy's Junky Music

Ease of Use: This is such an easy pedal to learn how to use. A retarded monkey would be able to fudge some killer sounds with this unit. I like to build my sounds from scratch having been used to the GT 3 and the GT 8. But I b-s'ed some ez-tone sounds to get a feel for it and they actually sound startlingly good for the little amount of tiempo I put into it. // 10

Sound: The sound is sick! I use a Fernandes Montery Elite w/ the sustainer, and a baritone home-made monster running through a Solid state Hughes And Kettner. Probably the best feature is the dynamics of the amp models. So the lower you turn the volume on your guitar, the more tame the gain gets and the louder you turn up your axe the nastier the gain gets. As opposed to earlier gt models that stayed at the exact same gain no matter where the volume on your guitar was making them sound dreadfully fake. My whole set up is solid state but it still sounds much warmer than previous Boss gt models. All the effects sound fantastic, as usual. // 10

Reliability & Durability: Built rock solid. This thing could hold its own with the equipment brutality of a tour. You could gig with this and take it into the studio the next day. You only need one unless you're Hulking out and decide to suplex this bad boy, and even then it would probably still be OK. // 10

Impression: I play rock, metal, hip-hop, electronic, and experimental music and this pedal can enhance my sound and meet my demands for all these genres. I've been playing for 13 years and use a Fernandes Montery Elite with the sustainer running into a Hughes And Kettner solid state amp. If this were stolen I would so have to get another. This thing is too awesome! I love how (once you know the pedal better) you can dedicate the tempo of any effect that has a pulse with tap tempo control feature, how you can have two totally different sounds coming from either side with different effects, how you can make interesting varying textures with the wave and internal pedals (the effects can have any part of them be it cutoff, resonance, feedback, gain level, anything automatically without you having to do anything), the looper pedal, The accuracy of the synth sounds with my sustainer system (it really does sound like I'm playing a synth), the new visual eq system that makes it wicked easy to get an awesome sound from old time radio, to balls to the wall rock'n roll, to subtle mood changing ambiance, how cool it looks, the usb feature, how well it's built, how easy it is to use and make rediculous new sounds, the slicer with a phaser and the wave changing the depth, I could go on... there's just too much great stuff you can do with this! The only thing that would make this pedal absolutely the shit would be if Boss added a 12ax7 tube to get an even better amp simulation, that would be awesome! This is till the best multi effects I have ever used though. // 10

overall: 9.5

Reviewed by: Punkismygod, on may 07, 2008

Price paid: $ 554.4

Purchased from: Local music store

Ease of Use: GT-10 is really easy to use and get some amazing sound by it, it's library has so many different voices, for example you can choose a list of blues/metal/rock/clean sounds and there are more than 20 sounds you can still edit. Myself I found editing sounds pretty hard, but I haven't really got the whole idea of it. There comes a small manual with GT-10 and it tells really good how to start using the pedal. Boss GT-10 is basicly upgraded GT-8 but offers a lot more, and GT-10 has an USB, GT-8 doesn't. // 9

Sound: I use myself an Epiphone Les Paul Standart and Roland Cube 60 it gives some annoying background noises if I use a lot distortion, but I think the biggest fault on it are the mics of my Les Paul. Effects are marvellous, they almost always sound really great. But sometimes they make playing sound like straight from a toybox, but thanks to advanced editing options we don't have to stand it! It is really use to get sound of your favourite artist, if you know what are you looking for. There are few presets for songs like: Creep by Radio Head, Bulls On Parade by RATM, Down With The Sickness by Disturbed, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana etc. Most of the pedals certain effects sound pretty neat, but some of them are made so efected that they sound pretty bad. // 9

Reliability & Durability: GT-10 is a pedal to trust. I used it in my first gig we played Ozzys Crazy Train and the sounds with it we're like straight from the album. It also works really nice with acoustic guitars. The best is that you can Switch effects on and off by your foot, that can come really handy during a gig. // 10

Impression: I play rock music and a lot of it's genders GT-10 is made to rock 'n roll, really worth buying if you need a pedal to rock with. But it also works great with clean songs and softer playing. I've been playing about 2 years and I got a Line6 Pocket POD pedal also and I can tell you it has no match on GT-10. If my GT-10 would get stolen, I'd probably get a new one if I had some extra money to get one. I love the good distortion and editing possibilities but I hate the annoying background noises that comes automaticly with a lot distortion. The favourite feature of this pedal that it has one of kind sound library. I'd compare this pedal to Line 6 POD X3 Live they both have really good preset libraries, are both just appeared and easy to use. GT-10 is a realy good pedal for guitarist Who looks a good easy-to-use pedal. // 10

overall: 9.8

Reviewed by: abhiwltya, on august 19, 2009

Price paid: $ 520

Ease of Use: I know there r a lot of reviews already present on GT-10 but am writing one because it might be useful for those people Who WANT A COMPARISON between GT-10 and other processors. I have a friend's shop where for 3 hrs I tested the GT-10, Line 6 POD X3 Live, Line 6 POD XT Live, DigiTech RP-500 and Boss GT-8. The comparison is done one the 'overall impression'column.

This unit is basically very eaqsy to usewhen it comes to a normal sound creator like me whose only experiences of creating the sound was from my last guitar pedal Zoom G2.1u and suprisingly it took me 3 days which is the same amount of time it took me to understand G2\.1U although GT-10 is a massive powerhouse and G2\.1U was an effects processor with 1/10 of total effects on the GT-10.

Editing patches is the easiest of all.there are different switches namely compressor, preamp, overdrive/distortion etc available which when lighted shows that the particular effect is in use.so basically you want a delay free patch just double tap the delay Switch to unlight it and that's it.

The manual is also very informative and its a promise if you go thru it jus once you ll b able to tame this beast to ur like. // 9

Sound: I am using this unit with a small Stranger practice amp and a high end pair of head phones.

The effects are awesome.9 effects can be used simuntaneously with two c rows of effects for the preamp type.one thing I would like to mention here is when I tested this unit with POD X3 Live, XT Live and DigiTech RP 500, this unit had the most royal sound in any category whether it's distortion, clean channels, wah, flanger or delay.

I usually play Thrash metal, classic rock and some new stuff. You can select from 39 preamp types and chose the speaker you are playing it in and the mic distance and mic type, which combined can give you any sound possible on earth. You select the Boss Metal amp on the pre amp list, get slight reverb on it, adjust the eq and you can get the Megadeth sound. Similarly the Marshall hi gain amps, the rectifier amps and the Mesa Boogie amps sound awesome.

The unit is quite noiseless thanks to the nosie gate, the inital made patches can be a bit noisy depending upon what setup you use. I can easily get the Megadeth type of sound, Maiden, Metallica, Skid ROW, ACDC, GNR sound, are the sounds I tried yet and they are very convincingly perfect. This is where you begin to believe that it's worth d money.

Talking about the overdrives and distortions, Boss GT-10 provides 25 great distortions and overdrives covering the wide range of sounds and they are awesome.some mind blowing od/ds types are Metal Zone, Boss ds-1 and natural od.

Delays, 6 types of Wah and 34 types of awesome effects including auto riff(play one note n gt 10 will play the rest for u!) 2*2 chorus and harmonist cant be defined in words.

One more thing worth mentioning and which I always missed in G2\.1U is the Acoustic guitar simulator. Boss has done an unbelievable bit of work in this respect and beliieve me the Acoustic sounds are great. // 10

Reliability & Durability: This thing,as other reviews have mentioned is bulid like a tank. Solid Metal body cool and birght LEDs and very nice LCD screen.

Don't try throwing it from a 2 storey high building but you can throw it from a 1 storey high building and tek it to a gig... It will work... Atleats this much am sure. Using it in a gig without a back up is sumthing I can do without thinking twice. // 10

Impression: Ok so here comes the Comparing part. See the most difficult comparison was between GT-10 and Line 6 POD X3 Live which took me around an hour playing both the units and comparing...which is very easy to decide if u concentrate on the wah, pre amp and distorion and overdirve sounds. GT-10 takes the lead with wah being way more better than POD X3 Live and pre amp n distortions being better in quality. Reverb and Chorus are sound same quality and depth wise in both the units.

DigiTech RP 500 impressed me a lot for is price and the quality of effects.atleast 200 $ cheaper than GT-10 or x3 Live but had a really good sound and effect types. So if you r short on money RP 500 is the unit for u.

And I rejected the Boss GT-8 because of the simple reason that I was getting an updated unit for just 70$ more.

ALL in all whether you want to use it for the studio or for gigs or doesn't matter if you are a simple guitar player Who jus wants to play for fun n nothing else... This unit is a POWER HOUSE..n POWER HOUSE Provides power not only to itself but to everything that is within the range of it. HOPE U GOT WOT I MEAN. PEACE // 10

overall: 9.3

Reviewed by: Boy Wonder, on may 28, 2008

Price paid: $ 499.99

Purchased from: 8th Street Music

Ease of Use: I have to say that (although I generally never use them) the GT-10 has some of the best preset patches I've heard out of one of these units. The new EZ Tone feature allows you to dive right into creating your own sounds and tones by basing them off of certain generes of music (Blues, Soul/Funk, Jazz, 70's Rock 80's Metal, Modern Metal, Punk etc.) you can literally create a pretty decent tone in about 5 minutes. The general patch editing features are still there in case you wish to tweak your sound further. The Interface will take some getting used to because it's almost too easy and finding the functions for the Wah can be tough. // 9

Sound: My set up is a Gibson Les Paul Studio, and two modified Fender Stratocasters, I usually plug into a Fender Pro Reverb amp. They've really stepped up the sound of the effects here only a trained ear could tell the difference between the GT-10 and the stompboxes that they replicate. The Amp and Pickup simulator is even better than before I was able to use my Les Paul Studio in conjunction with it to get a nice Hollow Body guitar sound. A big fan of The Police I was able to get dangerously close to some of Andy Summers' sounds from the Zenyatta Era. They also have some really cool Presets for some of my other favorite bands/artists (SRV, Van Halen, Cream, ) and even bands I don't particularly care for (Green Day and Radiohead). The two control pedals (as opposed ot the 1 on the GT8) allow you to add other sounds (Distortion, Delay, Reverb, corus etc.) to your pre-existing sound. Not to mention the addition of the phrase looping function. My only complaints were the Wah Auto Wah (which tends to get noisy)and 60's Fuzz Sound (I used both quite often with my GT-8) but I was able to use (and adjust) the OCT Fuzz to get the sound I wanted. // 9

Reliability & Durability: Boss always makes reliable and durable stuff. Once I get the sounds I want I won't need a backup for it. The unit will get confused everyonce in a while (I had a patch with the phrase loop on I switched to another patch and the phrase loop function was still on). // 9

Impression: I play original music that jumps from new wave, to funk, blues, and soul (I also play guitar for a choir in a black baptist church once or twice a month) so it benefits me to have something like this. I can create a different guitar sound depending on the song and get it just the way I want it without having to turn knobs on stage. The possibilities with this thing are almost endless. With the exception of the three things I mentioned I like this pedal a whole lot and I've only explored about 75% of it's features. I won't be switching to the POD anytime soon. If you're an effects guy or just a guy that likes to play with gear you'll probably like this too. // 10

Comments

[AncientMariner0]

How easy is the new method of altering the parameters? This new graph setup? Is it any use? Is it more limited because you have to choose a style of sound as opposed to the old system where you could chose and amp model and then build from there?

[Punkismygod]

AncientMariner0 wrote:

How easy is the new method of altering the parameters? This new graph setup? Is it any use? Is it more limited because you have to choose a style of sound as opposed to the old system where you could chose and amp model and then build from there?

I dunno really about the graph setups, I have no manual yet. You can still chose the amp model and build from there as you want, there is alot of empty space in the sound library for your own sounds.

[stuehmer]

avd

[Time Seller]

Only one review? Wonder if I should get this or the GT-8, not too sure.

[FlameIbrah]

Time Seller wrote:

Only one review? Wonder if I should get this or the GT-8, not too sure.

Get the GT-10. It has basically all the features of the Gt-8 and a bit more. Plus it's much easier to use. You can't go wrong with it!

[iplay6string]

SINCE WHEN WAS THIS OUT?

n i prefer my ME50 to the GT8 but that might just be me, the sounds seem better on it as it went for quality not quantity (and if you dropped it on the floor rather than breaking it would probably bounce back off the floor and kill you!)

this looks pretty damn sweet too though!

[arowana1027]

[quote]iplay6string wrote:

SINCE WHEN WAS THIS OUT?

quote]

Where you been?

[iplay6string]

far away my friend...

nah i just aint been looking at pedals lately as i dont need to (already got a ME50)

so yeah

[PopPunkPotHead]

this thing is only $50 more than a gt8 near my house

[DeanMarkleysDad]

im puking because i just bought a gt8. i went through all the trouble to get a pod x3 live but i traded it for my gt8. does that thing have a looper?

[ChicNStu0017]

I just bought a gt8 too lol

[arowana1027]

I got rid of my gt8 last october, when I heard this thing was coming out. I traded it for a bunch o' pedals. My gt10 will be here in a few days.

[bellerophon]

@ DeanMarkleysDad

It has a phrase looper.

Click on pictures below the pic at the top and you can see the pedals to the right of the shuttle control.

[DeanMarkleysDad]

im just gonna grab a dl4 for my delay and looping needs. i had one before with my me50 and that was a good combo

[BEASTMAN]

Im wanting to buy an effects prossesor, Its either a GT-8 Or the GT-10, I play death Metal and not sure on which one to get?

[rahulrmishra]

i'm plannin to buy a new processor.. i have an ibanez paul gilbert signature model ie PGM 3 .. and i play metallica.. shud i go for GT 10 or Line 6's POD X3 LIVE ? please help out..

[mind_freak007]

Can somebody write about the looper and its specs on the GT 10....
Also heard that it can handle 2 independent signal paths like the POD X3 live!
Can a vocal microphone be used with it?If so what are the amp models/tweak parameters available?
Anyone???

[Blasphemylol]

Oh God... You ate all this acid?

[gurg06]

mind_freak007 wrote:

Can somebody write about the looper and its specs on the GT 10....
Also heard that it can handle 2 independent signal paths like the POD X3 live!
Can a vocal microphone be used with it?If so what are the amp models/tweak parameters available?
Anyone???

It has 40 seconds of loop time and as far as I know it can't be used for vocals. The gt-8 had the two independant signal paths long beefore the pod x3 live so I'm guessing the GT-10 does too

[Shor-T Zero]

I'll try and get a good review up here about this, i just got mine today. Trust me when I say this, the EZ Tone graph thing is not only super easy to figure out, it will pretty much set you up for "your" tone (as in its your own custom one that you've been searching for). And the graph thing is easy to use. I'll have a review up tomorrow hopefully, so stay tuned.

[iamv]

Hi, I am a little confused with the review posted by sus4th. He says he finds the XLR outputs to be very useful, but the GT-10 doesn't have any.. Am I wrong?. thanks.

[Shor-T Zero]

no, iamv, you are right, there are no XLR outputs. There's a microphone position simulator in the pre-amp and acoustic effects (somewhere in the parameters). But that's as close to XLR as it gets. He must've gotten the MIDI connectors confused as XLR outputs...or, he just has the wrong pedal. Or, a third possibility...completely wrong and stupid.

[dodz07]

i am currently comapring between this pedal and the zoom g9.2tt i really dont know which is better so i would appreciate any opinion

[S.L.A.S.H.]

The GT-10 is awesome! Its about 1,000,000 times better then my old Zoom G7.1ut

[DeanMarkleysDad]

hey, my keyboard player has a boss rc 50 loop station and i was wondering if the gt10 and the rc could sync up with the midi loop.

[the_voltage]

GT-10, the best a guitarist can get!!!!

[Eyeball-Tickler]

If this is so great, how come the users rating is in the mid 7's. Was thinkin bout gettin this but now not so sure?

[hellview_666]

I recently bought this and I hook up my Blackstar DIST-X and Boss OC2 into the Send/Return loop.....downside I've had with is when using the A/B selection so I can go from clean chorus to my Blackstar is that the clean tone sounds like it wants to be distorted so I get his hissy tone.....any ideas?

[DeanMarkleysDad]

those would be all the people that have pods. to be honest i had a x3 live and i liked it alot. i would have kept it but the button i used most (the od/stomp) started crapping out after i had it for 3 months. i had a me 50 and now i have a gt 8. boss makes a way better floor board then line 6 but i think i line 6's amp models are better. the boss has more stomp boxes and the line 6 only has like 10. ps the delay on the line 6 sounds amazing.

[DeanMarkleysDad]

on a different topic i was so pissed after i sold my ge7 eq to get my pod. u would think a multi fx board would have a real eq not a bullshit parametric. but after owning both boards i realized that neither has one. i mean would a 7 or 10 slide eq really kill them?

[DeanMarkleysDad]

hellview_666 : i think its because u have your loop in a weird place in your fx chain. try placing it b4 the pre amp and such.

[androctonvs]

how does this baby sound for metal? I want to play a massive «Burn My Eyes» tone!

[androctonvs]

anybody?

[gabollo]

This monster can do everything man... Mine wakes me up every morning with the smell of breakfast, haha..

It sounds great for metal (and everything else too).

[D&DLover]

I was gonna get an me 50, but it seems like a much better idea to save up more and just get the gt 10 so i don't have to upgrade very soon.

[Bez-za]

does this thing have a whammy pedal built in?

[Eternal_Heart]

Does anyone knows if this pedal is better than Zoom G9.2tt? I'm playing most of the time metal.

[freak180]

Eternal_Heart wrote:

Does anyone knows if this pedal is better than Zoom G9.2tt? I'm playing most of the time metal.

the zoom compared to his is a piece of shit i tell you hwat.buy this and you'll sound like a god

[WallsOfJarrow]

I hear alot about the annoying fuzz the distortion..is this curable?

[Shuvro]

can we have those realistic COB,Dragonforce, and realtime extreme metal riff tones better in gt 10. compared to the new x3 live by pod?????

[mrrman]

I am curious about the GT 10 to as I was also looking at the Pod X3 live...I am leaning toward the POD....any comments on this...

[ashrr213]

this or the pod x3 i play mostly alternative to hardcore

[LJHarris]

I’ve tried both the line 6 x3 live and boss gt-10 first played the gt-10 loved it easy to use and like you said very tweak able the wahs sound great and so does the tone and its built rock solid, looping is very cool and still allows recording to computer, I actually took it back believe it not because I heard the tone in the line 6 x3 was better than the gt-10. I played the line 6 x3 live and tone definitely sounded as good if not better not completely noticeable for my untrained musical ears but the major let down was the effects the wahs sounded a bit crappy and if you push down a little too hard it switches to volume which sucks, besides I really liked the variation in the gt-10 wahs with cry baby, vox seven stringer and a few others. The x3 live was a little more complicated to use and definitely not as tweak able as the gt-10 and when tweaking the gt-10 it is very easy once you’ve used it, for me the same week I bought it. What I like also with the gt-10 is its large screen, all the dials and buttons make it much easier to use and understand.

The GT-10's tone isn’t as great and authentic as the X3 but near enough for you to still want over it because of the effects that sound better and offer more tweaking as I said previously. For example.... the wah in x3 live you can’t determine the level (volume) you want in the effect which the gt-10 can and how deep you want the wah to "wah".

Both gt-10 and x3 live will allow you to find the right kind of tone you want for your genres,

It’s like comparing fords and holders

Hope this helps

[Sorrows]

Eyeball-Tickler wrote:

If this is so great, how come the users rating is in the mid 7's. Was thinkin bout gettin this but now not so sure?

Well honestly i have been following this products rating, and on multiple websites it has been rated 9.5 to 10. I have a suggestion after playing for 7 year. The thing is YOU need to try it out and see if it is right for YOU. I just got the GT-10, and its sounding pretty epic on my ESP F400

[abhiwltya]

@ sorrows i totally agree with you...i just bought this thing yesterday and it has impressed me in one day...this thing rocks whether its the tones amp models or the ez tone....am glad i made the right decision!

[abhiwltya]

ashrr213 wrote:

this or the pod x3 i play mostly alternative to hardcore

gt 10 ...read my review

[LJHarris]

Forgot too mention in my review that the GT-10 has a built in looper, these are worth at least $100+, just another reson why to buy the GT-10!

[LJHarris]

If this is so great, how come the users rating is in the mid 7's. Was thinkin bout gettin this but now not so sure?

Trust me this is as good as it gets, well nearly. I told my guitar tutor and he was super jelous- I had the GT-10. If rob marcello, and all the other guys say it rocks and hundreds of others including myself say so, it does! Boss has cetainly after all the time spent on this unit definely got it right.

The best way to optimise the tone is to ensure the master volume is set down low (1/4 of the way up) on the GT-10 and turn up the volume on the amp as loud until you get desirable volume, NOT vise versa. This will give the tone more air too breath, metaphorically speaking.

[wkcchampion]

A lot of people give low marks because they don't understand how it works.
It should be plugged in an amp's input ONLY for OD/DS, WAH and COMP effects.
For PREAMPS, DELAY, CHORUS, REVERB etc... it should be plugged into the Return FX loop, or use the 4CM method.

Obviously the output must be set accordingly.

DON'T USE PREAMPS IN FRONT OF AN AMP!!!! It won't work!!! I know it's pretty obvious, but for many don't.

This is NOT for the casual player. It's an advanced tool for engineers, like me If u want simple things, stick to stomp boxes. If u want thmost technological and best sounding floor processor, this is it.

[MUTUALEXECUTION]

Just got it in the mail today. I've used this thing for only 2 hours in a jam with my band this afternoon.....I use it for metal .....but you can make any sound you want with this...
I took 5 MINUTES TO MAKE THIS SETUP...
Found a Heavy sounding but clear distortion messed with the eq a little( which is a good eq)the distortion... sounds better than any combo of different tube amps dist. or any pedals. metal zone tube screamer blah blah even older boss models ive used, line 6 digitech ect.) (I mean tons of freaking amps and pedals tubes n blah blah I have no money because of gear obsession haha.)
Stomp of a button and i have a lead mid boost for solos to climb over the other guitars sound a little.top of that (using the wah pedal{which sounds better than my cry baby does!})
Stomp the next one and i have some delay or wah effects for solos on top of the boosted mids distortion (using the wah pedal for the wah effect{which sounds better than my cry baby does!}and a set delay.. blah blah)
It sounds way better than all my pedals ever could have haha. way too good. no hum or buz when i mute the strings. so many good distortions... had 2 leave the jam after 2 hours or so and left it with my gear at the jam space. but yeah easy 2 set up if u have half a brain. and sounds better than anything i have used in 15 years of constantly buying new gear for better sound. Makes me angry to have made such a good sound in 5 minutes that i was looking for in 15 years hahahah.

For all you tube lovers. im one of you haha and yeah yeah but this kicks ass. i still use yubes.. but this things distortions are way 2 good. gona be able to havea genuine and sick sound for every solo i have with this hah.

the LOOP STATION IS WICKED! stays in time n its easy 2 use. first try i made up random riff for a couple bars than clicked the button again. and start soloing to that riff ... endless things to do with this feature...

Plus dont you hate it when a noise supresor takes out some of your highs or u have like like 10 little cords all ur pedals r hooked up with sucking your sound away or you have so many power sources for pedals blah blah blah. its just better than anything ive used

its big bit smaller than i thought.. probably gona be worth it to build a plywood box around this with disatachable lid .its tough already though. but before that im going to move my amp stacks home tomorrow and probably wont leave the house for a good 2 days to program all my settings i want for it than bak to the jam space to see what this beast can really do. im gona try n push my other guitar player to get this 2 haha but im no salesman. this thing sold me...

Grow your hair, bang your head , buy Exodus and Testament albums and dont be a god damn poser...100% Thrash for life

[§ynysterSte]

does this thing have a whammy pedal incorporated? im 95% sure of getting this for christmas

^ Yes. The expression pedal can be used for various functions, such as volume, wah and whammy. It can actually control about any function in the pedalboard, such as preamp gain, delay time, ... anything, basically.