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BOSS - GX-100

Description

Color Your Music with Inspiring Tone
Fusing advanced BOSS tone technologies into a sleek, ultra-modern hardware design, the inspiring GX-100 delivers top-level performance everywhere you play. Explore 32 AIRD amplifiers and over 170 effects derived from the flagship GT-1000, and craft great sounds in seconds with the intuitive color touch display. Up to 15 simultaneous effect blocks provide unlimited tone possibilities, coupled with deep real-time command via onboard footswitches, an expression pedal, and external control support.

Authentic Amps and Cabs
The GX-100 provides superior tone and natural tube amp feel in any playing situation, thanks to AIRD technology backed by the BOSS refined Tube Logic approach. AIRD is infused into the DNA of every GX-100 guitar and bass amplifier, while AIRD Output Select types let you perfectly tailor the sound for any destination, whether it's an amp input, FRFR monitor, or house PA. A wide selection of onboard speaker cabs are also available, plus slots for importing your own speaker IRs via USB.

Exceptional Effects
With over 170 top-quality effects from the vast BOSS library, you're able to realize nearly any sound you can imagine with the GX-100. Numerous overdrives and distortions are available, plus BOSS classics like Slow Gear, Octave, and more. There's also a diverse range of mod effects, delays, and reverbs, along with many effects specially tuned for bass. And with the send/return jacks, you can integrate favorite stomps or your amp's effects loop into the GX-100 ecosystem.

Craft Your Personal Voice
The GX-100 comes with 100 preset memories to start playing right away. But it's easy to edit them for your needs or build new ones from the ground up. Let your imagination run wild with 15 dedicated block types-including two amp blocks-and chain effects in series and parallel to create all types of sonic variations. And with 200 user memories, you're able to store enough onboard sounds to cover nearly any song or style.

Touch and Go
Sound creation and on-the-gig editing are simpler than ever with the GX-100. The vivid color touch display offers intuitive control of patch and effects selection, parameter tweaks, signal chain adjustments, and much more. The display works in harmony with the four knobs and page buttons on the panel, providing a frustration-free experience that keeps your attention focused on the music.

Custom Command
The GX-100 offers deep real-time control with eight custom footswitches and an expression pedal with toe switch. They come configured for patch/bank selection and patch-specific control, but you can freely reassign them to meet your unique needs. Switching into Manual mode provides direct stompbox-like control, and you can go even further with external control via footswitches, an expression pedal, or MIDI. There's also a jack to remotely switch channels on your amp with memory selection or an assigned footswitch.

Your Partner in Tone
In addition to stage use, the GX-100 excels as a USB audio interface for recording and performing with a computer. You can record directly into music production software, re-amp tracks, and monitor the overall sound through the GX-100's outputs. The headphones jack lets you practice anytime and anywhere, while the onboard looper is perfect for jamming, developing sounds and ideas, and extending your creative range while performing.

Go Deeper with BOSS Tone Studio
Using BOSS Tone Studio for macOS and Windows, you're able to tweak every GX-100 parameter, save sounds, and organize Livesets for different gigs from your computer. And with the optional Bluetooth® Audio MIDI Dual Adaptor, you can wirelessly adjust settings on the gig from the BOSS Tone Studio app on your mobile device and stream backing music from your device's library.

GX-100 Version 2.0: New Amps and Effects, Enhanced Features
The Version 2.0 update brings numerous enhancements to fuel creative journeys with the GX-100, including three new AIRD guitar amps powered by MDP technology, six new bass amps, and seven new effect types. The update also provides more mic types for the onboard speaker cabs, user interface improvements to streamline your workflow, and eight new presets that showcase the added sound options.

New Guitar Amps
- X-Ultra: High-gain amp with extended dynamic response that's not possible with traditional analog designs.
- X-Optima: This high-gain amp strikes the ideal tonal balance between chords and single notes, providing well-defined rhythm sounds and rich lead tones that sit perfectly in every mix.
- X-Titan: This articulate amp type is perfect for aggressive metal styles driven by heavy riffs. MDP delivers sharp, tight sounds on the low strings while retaining fatness and body in the high ranges.

New Bass Amps
- Studio Bass: Models the Markbass Little Mark III head.
- Silver Tube: Models the Fender Bassman 100 head.
- Classic Blue: Models the Acoustic 360 head.
- Solid Stack: Models the Gallien-Krueger 800RB head.
- Fat Tube: Models the Orange AD200B MKIII head.
- Dark DRV: Models the Microtubes B7K preamp from Darkglass Electronics.

New Effects
- SD-1: Models the BOSS SD-1 Super Overdrive pedal.
- DS-1: Models the BOSS DS-1 Distortion pedal.
- Slicer: A signature BOSS effect that chops the incoming audio with different rhythmic patterns, ideal for creating distinctive tempo-synced backing.
- Humanizer: Adds vocal vowel sounds to the note attack.
- Sitar Sim: Simulates the buzz sound of a sitar.
- Auto Wah: A cyclic filter that produces an automatic wah effect.
- Feedbacker: Generates natural harmonic feedback at any volume.

BOSS Tone Studio Update
BOSS Tone Studio has also been updated to elevate your GX-100 experience. BOSS Tone Exchange is now accessible within the app, allowing you to download Livesets and share your patches with the BOSS community. With the macOS/Windows version, it's also possible to load user speaker IRs without using a separate app.

Features

* Powerful, easy-to-use amp/effects processor for guitar and bass
* Exceptional audio quality with 24-bit AD and 32-bit DA conversion, 32-bit floating-point processing, and 48 kHz sampling rate
* Authentic tube amplifier tone and touch response with AIRD technology
* 32 amplifier types and over 170 BOSS effects
* Ultra-flexible amp/effect routing with 15 assignable blocks
* Wide selection of onboard speaker types and support for loading WAV speaker IRs
* Streamlined modern design with intuitive color touch display and rugged metal chassis
* Unlimited effects control with freely assignable onboard footswitches and expression pedal with toe switch
* Connect up to two footswitches or an expression pedal for expanded control
* Send/return loop for external pedals or four-cable method
* Control jack for remote channel switching on your amplifier
* MIDI I/O jacks and multi-channel computer recording via USB
* Edit sounds from your computer with BOSS Tone Studio for macOS and Windows
* Download and share Livesets at BOSS Tone Exchange

Specifications

Sampling Frequency
- 48 kHz

AD Conversion
- 24 bits + AF method
- AF method (Adaptive Focus method) This is a proprietary method from Roland & BOSS that vastly improves the signal-to-noise (SN) ratio of the AD and DA converters.

DA Conversion
- 24 bits

Processing
- 32-bit floating point

Effects
- 154 Types

Maximum Number of Effects
- 15+3 (DIVIDER/MIXER, SEND/RETURN, PHRASE LOOP)

Memories
- 200 (User) + 100 (Preset)

Phrase Loop
- 38 sec. (MONO)
- 19 sec. (STEREO)

Tuner Internal Detection
- +/-0.1 cent

Nominal Input Level
- INPUT: -10 dBu
- RETURN: -10 dBu

Maximum Input Level
- INPUT: +18 dBu
- RETURN1: +8 dBu

Input Impedance
- INPUT: 1 M ohm
- RETURN: 1 M ohm

Nominal Output Level
- OUTPUT (L/MONO, R): -10 dBu
- PHONES: -10 dBu
- SEND: -10 dBu

Output Impedance
- OUTPUT (L/MONO, R): 1 k ohm
- PHONES: 44 ohms
- SEND: 1 k ohm

Recommended Load Impedance
- OUTPUT (L/MONO, R): 10 k ohms or greater
- PHONES: 44 ohms or greater
- SEND: 10 k ohms or greater

Controls
- BANK DOWN switch, BANK UP switch, CTL1 switch, CTL2/TUNER switch, 1--4 switches, POWER switch, EXP1 switch, GND LIFT switch EFFECTS button, CTL/EXP button, MENU button, EXIT button, WRITE button, IN/OUT SETTINGS button, PAGE button, 1--4 knobs, SELECT knob, OUTPUT LEVEL knob, EXP1 pedal

Display
- Color Graphic LCD (480 x 272 dots) Touch screen

Connectors
- INPUT jack, OUTPUT (L/MONO, R) jacks, SEND jack, RETURN jack: 1/4-inch phone type
- PHONES jack: Stereo 1/4-inch phone type
- CTL3, 4/EXP2 jack, AMP CTL1, 2 jack: 1/4-inch TRS phone type
- MIDI (IN, OUT) connectors
- USB COMPUTER port: USB B type
- Bluetooth ADAPTOR connector: Dedicated connector
- DC IN jack

Power Supply
- AC adaptor

Current Draw
- 1.2 A

Dimensions
- 460 x 193 x 73 mm (18-1/8 x 7-5/8 x 2-7/8")

Maximum height
- 460 x 193 x 94 mm (18-1/8 x 7-5/8 x 3-3/4")

Weight
- 3.5 kg (7 lbs 12 oz)

For optimal performance, stay up to date with the current GX-100 system software and BOSS Tone Studio.