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I've owned all the Boss GTs except the GT-3, and way back also a VG-8EX and so am pretty familiar with the development of the Boss Cosm modelling...and well whilst I'm not a huge fan (of the COSM) as such, its not like as bad as many make out. I mean I've also owned the Vox Tonelab SE and LE, Digitech GNX3000 and Pod XT...and played some others from Zoom etc along the way.
I do agree that Line 6 and Digitech do better here, cant remember being bowled over by the Tonelabs but they were ok to. But anyway watch these 2 for a comparison one being the Pod HD and the other being the GT-100...same player etc! Both sound very decent in the right hands IMO. So why does Boss get so much stick for its COSM modelling? In fact they were the very first to do it as well beating Line 6 by a few years. Fair enough I think Line 6 sound better on the modelling front, but anyway.....
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I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I've never been a fan, although there are a very few applications it seems to work OK in. One or possibly two of the drive models on the ME-50 were quite good. (The 'Natural Overdrive', which very surprisingly was, and I think the octave fuzz but I can't remember for sure.)
I actually blame COSM for what I think is probably my over-sensitivity to digital sounds - the very first modeller I tried was the GP-100 (not GT-100!), and I think it somehow sensitised my ears to that odd glitchy/glassy sound that (to me) is so characteristic of almost all modellers.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I had one of the Fender Deluxe reverb pedals and had a chance to put it up against a real 65 deluxe reverb in NOS condition. The pedal's overdrive was more gritty but otherwise it was surprisingly close.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
All COSM dirt I've played I didn't like and almost always had to run a compressor afterwards to smooth out the crappy note decay.