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Will be doing a video comparing the GT, Helix and Kemper in the near future.
Wot no Amplifire?
There's no denying the interface is much better on the Helix but I'm editing the GT on the computer at the moment and that's not a problem. Not sure where to start on the unit itself.
That is interesting to hear that the Boss comes out on some points over the Helix.
So I've had a few days with the GT-1000. Initially it was very frustrating trying to navigate round the thing having came from the Fractal way of doing things. I'm slowly getting used to it and its starting to make sense.
Initially I was a bit disappointed with the factory sounds (to be expected) but I was exactly the same when I got my AX8. The first preset (Premium Drive) which sounds great on a lot of the demos and I thought I would like, sounded so so on my setup. So I was a wee bit down heartened and starting to regret the purchase. I did a bit of tweaking and managed to get it sounding better but still not anywhere near to what I had been used to from my AX8 and Helix before that.
So I hit YouTube to look for some inspiration which I found in Leon Todd. He recently posted a video up of some GT-1000 presets he dialed in with his own IR (Bonus!!) I used a lot of his presets on my AX8 and they always translated well on my setup.
I downloaded the presets and the IR. Getting the IR onto the Boss was a bit convoluted (More searching on Youtube needed) but I got there in the end. The presets instantly sounded miles better than what I'd been hearing with the factory presets and any tinkering I had done up to that point. So I started to get some hope back that it could work for me after all.
Since then I've uploaded some familiar IR's that I'm used to, gone back to the drawing board and dialed in some amps with my IR's and this thing is starting to come to life. It actually sounds great. I'm now hearing the sound and getting the feel that people describe.
The effects are easily on par with the Fractal and in some instances they are better. It's a lot more flexible in terms what you can assign to the foot switches (You can assign up to 16 simultaneous functions to one foot switch!!) and in the routing of the effects chain.
I like the simplicity of it in terms of available parameters on the effects and the amps etc (Fractal had way too many options). All the familiar boss effects are on there and they all sound great as you would expect.
So it's been 3 full days and I've gone from initially feeling disappointed to feeling very happy and excited about what the boss can do.
I think I've got it sounding as good as my old AX8 in 3 days which is no mean feat.
It took me about a month to get to the point where I was happy with the AX8 and even then I was still tinkering with it up until I sold it.
I think with more tinkering on the boss I can get it sounding even better.
If it is possible, I would love to know what the tap tempo performs like on the GT-1000. I'm very curious about whether it introduces weird pitch-shifting squirrel noises whilst tapping in the tempo as you play at the same time. The GT-100 did this, and I'm hoping they fixed it with the 1000.