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Chances are you will need to do some fiddling in your switcher to make sure its switching correctly, the Boss switchers can be configured so that different functions can be assign to the ring and the tip of a stereo cable, for example.
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His use of Oily Water to demonstrate was nothing short of genius.
Tiny compared to the GT100
Mine arrived yesterday and Im with @Dungus, it's gonna take a bit of time to get my head around it
It is surprisingly small, which is nice, but the screen is like something out of the 1980s. Poor clarity and pixelated.
That aside, the unit looks very promising...
The UI sucks. It's a 2-line 20 character LED display. Once you get into the manual and understand the philosophy behind the patch building it's very very easy, but it requires study. At the Feb guitar show I stood in front of a Helix, which I'd never even laid eyes on before and built a version of my rig in less than 5 mins. If I look at the Headrush, I'm sure I could do the same.
I know BOSS is a quality manufacturer with a long history and tradition, but I wish they would look at their floor units and get the UI out of the 1980s.
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All listed in there mate.
I want to run 4 cable and that would only leave me with two loops..
Wonder if it will have the loops 'unblocked' as well...
As to the effects, and I'm just going on first impressions from the presets - the modulations/delays/reverbs seem very good indeed to me, with a smooth, pristine, clean quality. Maybe I'd like a few more variants on the modulations, but I'll have to have a play and see what range of sounds I can get from them - they will certainly do nicely enough for me.
The drives seem not so brilliant if I'm honest, although I may be able to get something I find more tolerable with a bit of tweaking. But on first impression, they are somewhat harsh and fizzy. But really I'm OK with this anyhow - I got this unit intending to use it with a couple of my own drive pedals I like in 2 of the loops, which is what I'll do - drive sounds aren't a massive thing for me anyhow, and I don't need to have tons of different models/flavours of overdrives and distortions - as long as I've got a couple of good tones on tap.
So now I've got the job of re jigging my pedal board with the new MS-3 installed, and getting a bank or two of my typical favourite effects combinations/setting programmed in, and then I'll be on my way I guess.
I actually think that the screen is SO archaic as to be almost unusable at times... My Helix is due this month (birthday pressie) and that might do all that I need and more.
My first thoughts was as a midi device, but Ive been trailing the Faves switch for CB Brothers/Gravitas and that seems to work very well.
I need an hour or so with just the MS-3 on its own I guess.
Update to follow.
The MS-3 screen is pretty basic also it's true - I'll just get all my own patches sorted and know where they are (unlikely to need much more than 4 banks of 4 patches) and then the screen becomes less important for me anyhow. But agreed Boss should be looking to improve this aspect on future products.
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