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It’s easy to use. It has all the effects without the noise or complexity of cables. It has a phrase looper. You don’t need an amp, only a pair of headphones with a 1/8 to 1/4inch adapter to play through it. I like it better than the ME-80, which I owned and enjoyed but gave to a friend a year ago. The ME-80 was a larger more feature loaded unit, but the ME-70 has a better foot pedal in my opinion. I spend more time playing and practicing because of it.
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The effects are pretty good, though I don't go for raspy solid state distortion. Great for metal/thrash in the band-limited CD age, though. Not too good for live play, though. Too many button stomps required to change patches to allow for instant change on the beat. I'm looking into a way to, at least, assign a patch to each of the 4 switches but I'm not sure it will do that. I will probably have to design circuitry to fix this problem. Don't like the wah. Not enough resolution and so it changes too quickly. Really hard to do anything subtle with it. Might be able to adjust it it some but I'm not sure it will help.
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The Boss ME 70 pedal is a very versatile pedal. I have done a lot of research on this and others like it and found this particular pedal to fit my needs quite nicely. I was looking for something to get a great distortion sound and had thought of a compressor. With this pedal I get the best of everything Boss has to offer. over 70 stomp boxes in one. Plus, the on-board preamp section helps to take the "Ice pick" out of the treble of the new fender amps and returns it back to it's "Blackface" roots. No need to buy an expensive "reissue" fender with this. Between the eq on the preamp and eq on the amp, you can get just about any sound you want. I haven't tried the presets or tried to make user presets at this point. I find it needless to do so as the manual mode give me everything I want in effects for guitar. Others may find this model insufficient and think they need more switches to obtain their signature sound. I am a simple guitarist who uses only delay, chorus, compressor and distortion and run through a "clean" HRDx. It does everthing I need it to do. Switches seem to be sturdy although appear to look weak. I haven't had any problems with it to date. I do think Boss needs to put an actual electrical connection on these type of pedals as the power supply for it has a real thin cable to it and may not last very long without extra care. I know these are meant to be mounted on pedalboards, however, with this, I don't need other pedals. I replaced 7 pedals with this one pedal. One note, if you use a "wah or volume" pedal, you may want to continue to use it as the pedal on this unit is doesn't have enough "travel" and "resistance" to get a smooth taper in volume or an effective wah-wah sound. However, you can set the pedal control to actually control certain effects by clicking in the pedal as you would with a wah-wah pedal. I'm very happy with my purchase.Read full review
I purchased this as a replacement for my poor old beloved Digitech RP12 for situations where stage size at the various bars we play don't allow enough room for all of us and my 15 piece pedal board. My son bought one so I had a chance to try it out before shopping for a used one. Have not been a hardcore Boss pedal fan (been buying pedals since 1969)but I must admit I like the design idea of semi-programmable stompbox format. Likes? 1) Overdrives and distortions have nice analog flavor especially through my tube amp. 2)Plenty of FX to pick from. 3)Harmonizer,though very simple, tracks relatively well and is very easy to use. I still prefer my Digitech HarmonyMan but this works well for the "traveling light" scheme. 4)Tuner is pretty stable compared to even my beloved Digitech. 5)The ability to set up a seperate preamp or the compressor stompbox for a solo boost took some experimenting for me but once again the space savings of one less pedal is nice. 6) Suboctave is nice and even and tracks well giving my guitar an almost synth sound. 7)EZ Tone button allows you to recal one favorite setting to each FX on the pedal and the Memory Mode allows more complicated parameter recalls for those songs where you need to jump from a 420 ms delay with compression and subharmonic with just a bit of edge from an overdrive to a metal distortion with chorus to a bluesy overdrive with delay and a bit of boost for the solo...for example. 8) Additional footswitch jack for either kicking on the Preamp mod or Reverb mod remotely. Especially handy if you want to walk over to centerstage to start your solo and don't want to have to run back and forth quickly to engage your solo boost Dislikes? 1)Panel is very hard to read in the low shifting light on a bar stage. I fixed this by removing the silver caps on the knobs and glueing a thin strip of glow tape to the knob for ease of seeing where it's pointed at. And thicker strips on the four switches.I highly recommend a MightyMite pedal board light as the pretty glossy metal flake finish also makes it hard to read the printing on the face with available bar stage light. 2) When coming out of the Memory Mode, instead of just returning to what your settings were before accessing that mode, the pedal automatically turns on the preamp and reverb and shuts off the EZ Tone function. Why they did this I have no logical answer for and neither did Boss. Their solution was to have those mods turned off. Which means you have have to turn them off before going into memory mode then back on after returning to stompbox mode....hardly convenient. 3) Doesn't come with power supply (can be battery operated with 6 AA Alkalines). Why guys? You pedal makers, here's a lesson for you. Unless, like the early Digitechs where you need to make a proprietary external power supply, throwing in a cheap filtered 9v wallwart is not going to jack the price so high that we're not going to buy it. An extra $12 is worth the hassle of shopping for one. Especially if you don't feel like eating up 6 AA Procells. Neutral points? (Things that would be nice but not deal breakers) 1)More than just 10 banks of 4 presets in Memory Mode. 2)Latching EZ Tone mode so it doesn't disengage when turning off the tuner or coming out of Memory Mode. 3) A little more space between the output jacks to accomodate a pair of right angle 1/4" jacks. 4)Thicker Chorus. But I love it and actually use it more now than my "big rig"Read full review
At first I wanted to have all the stomp boxes of boss series. That would have cost a lot. Would have then to buy one by one. Then i fell on this one in an ad. At first sight I knew it was the one i would like. This one was so different from other. Never seen an equal before from all those Ive ever seen or used. All the settings and knobs are there. No need to get through study hard of manuals to get the presets ready at home for performing afterwards.Before even having bought the product I nearly 70% already get known to how to use it only from viewing review vids. I often had this kind of problem where the sound I would get at rehearsal would different from live. You may change any preset or effects immediately and can even forget the presets.Taken from the GT10 some features such as COSM which includes Amps modeling such as fender bassman, Marshall 19XX , etc.Compression, distortions, delays, Modulations, looping, pedal FX. It contains all the effects I could not even buy once or imagine to have. Its price was so cheap compared if I had to buy all the effect stompsincluded individually...may be 20 times cheaper. Now one wonderful feature is that you can use different effect at the same time just as you would use classic stomps together. It has a beautiful shape and good metal texture. The only complaint i would made is that it does not have a USB out or interface for direct recording. I would recommend this one to all grade of guitarists.Read full review
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