Boss gt-6

Other Way Round

Does anyone here have this thing, i am considering getting it,
but i'm not sure. My amp and guitar are on the very cheap side, and i don't want to spend my money on this if it ends up sounding like shit. I'm not to concerned with getting great tone, i just don't want it to make my sound any worse. Any thoughts?

pariah

Well, it certainly won't make your sound worse, but...

if I were you and had that much money to spend, I'd look for a good guitar first. Effects are nice, but if your amp and axe suck, they won't save your sound. You can make some weird noise with it though.

Pacomc79

Well my friend it's like painting a honda accord snazzy. Anyway you paint it it's still vanilla. While said car does everything its supposed to do get you a to b no matter what you do to it it will never be a Corvette or a Ferrari.

First you must ask yourself what is my style, what overall sound am I looking for. Then you can work from there. Effects are good at augmenting your sound. Spicing it up adding character making things interesting for you. Your overall guitar and amplifier choice have a profound effect on how the overall rig sound. The Boss GT-6 is very nice for a multi effect and if you plan on recording strait to a pa system or a recorder it's fine. Or if you are just a digital junkie and you want knobs to play with. Being one also challenged with Ferrari taste and Yugo budget I have experimented myself with multieffects. The problem with said effects deals with the fact that they are digital and cold. Cold precise and accurate like a computer what goes in comes out. Analog sound is different it is warm it is imperfect the way that the signal clips in relation to the gain is different. It is etherial it is warm like a living breathing thing.

Every piece of your guitar rig from the wood in the guitar and the cable to the way the speakers magnet material effect your tone. You much ask yourself how you would like to sound first and then seek to get it. To do this you much educate yourself on how things sound. We much know what or who you would like to sound like and the area in which you have to work with.

If you would like to sound better do not immediately jump to the conclusion that a multieffect/amp moddeler will help you because most people have one or 2 sounds in their head that they really really imagine their guitar tone sounding like.

My suggestion is that you go out and seek the tone you have in your head. Find out about musicians they like and how they achieve this tone, then work on getting it before you spend $600 on a multieffect that is designed with hopes to emulate these sounds. The problem being that rich warm analog sound just doesn't sound the same as cold digital precision. It's like the difference between the CD and Vinyl neither are bad just different. But if you go with the GT-6 keep in mind that they sound much better through bigger amps or no amps at all in fact the amp would color the GT-6 especially if it is smaller. If you buy the GT-6 it will sound best through some sort of clean PA system or monitor system because the processor will be running directly to the Power Amp with no pre amp clutter.

Hope that somewhat helps.