Avis sur le produitBoss ME-70 Delay Guitar Effect Pedal

Great sounding pedal with great effects. Will use for a very long time.

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.Lire l'avis complet...

If I lost this or it got broken I'd buy another one.

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"Lire l'avis complet...

The best onstage multi effect pedal on earth till now !

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.Lire l'avis complet...

Worth is weight in features alone.

This baby packs a lot of punch for its price. This is from Boss too, and that makes it even nicer!!! I play in a garage band, and wanted to add effects to my guitar, but didnt want to go the route of buying one or two pedals at a time. This one has so many, and that you can save them to memory, allows you to call them up easily. The pre set sounds are pretty good too, my only draw back is, that some, when you click on them are amplified so much louder then others, so if you have your speakers up for the softer tone, the new one you plug in about knocks you deaf. The frame of this is solid and can take the banging of moving it around. I have had this only for about a month and I am glad I made this choice.Lire l'avis complet...

Good pedal for rehearsal

I use this pedal for rehearsing with my cover band. It is nice having a few different stomp box effects and distortion channels to use instead of lugging all the pedals around individually. the wah/wammy/volume expression pedal is a nice addition to this unit as well. I would say that this is a good pedal to use for rehearsal, but in live situations depending on the venue and type of concert I wouldn't necessarily recommend this unit. For as many effects that it has the tonality of those effects are still much more limited than if you went and bought the those stomp boxes individually; but at the end of the day the guitar and amp make the biggest difference so if you have a respectable amp and guitar you'll do alright.Lire l'avis complet...

Compact and Versatile!

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.Lire l'avis complet...

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As easy to operate as individual stomp boxes

This multi-effect box was designed to be operated just like your favorite single-effect box with little learning curve to be able to get the sounds you want. There is no complicated programming, and it comes with great sounding preset effects (in some cases with the era of music they apply to) and the ability to store user presets if that is your desire. I'm not a big fan of having to spend a lot of time learning how to get what you want out of a computerized guitar interface. I would rather just plug it in, dial a few controls and get going like normal stomp boxes. Don't get me wrong, there are advanced features but you don't need to go there to get good effects out of this box. It is also built like a tank which means it's a little heavy, but so are several stomp boxes daisy chained together and this box is everything you need in one package. All around it was a good value for me as I paid much less than separately buying the boxes that this unit replaces.Lire l'avis complet...

Pretty good stomper.

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.Lire l'avis complet...

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Don't believe the hype this unit won't and can't replace your pedal board

Background: I've been playing lead guitar for 25 years in various cover bands. I own many amps and guitars and I'm crrently running a Orange OR15H through a 2x12. I bought the ME-70 because I was looking to simplify my rig set up. I currently use about 7 pedals including two overdrives, a reverb, chorus, compression, tuner and wah. I went the ME-70 because of reviews that said it would replace your pedal board and it's simple to use. Well, it's simple to use. However, it sounds nothing like pedals and the effects are pretty much useless in a live setting or for recording. The pre settings and amp simulations are horrible. The worst sounding garbage I've ever come across. The wah is weak. There is very little difference between presets for individual effects as stomp boxes. The reverb is HORRIBLE. Just unusable. The overdrive doesn't boost your signal and adds little gain to your tube amp. Nothing like the actual Boss Pedals that it supposedly emulates. I currently use a Boss Overdrive and it is my go to pedal when I'm running my Marshall JMP50, for that extra dirt. The version on here is a joke. There is no way to do the four cable method so this is useless in that respect as well. If you want to use it as a pedal board your limited in the pedals you can use when running it up front and your limited if you run it through the loop. I've also owned the Digitech RP1000 and it is 1000 times better than this hunk of junk. I played one gig, got extremely annoyed with the Boss ME-70 and sold it.Lire l'avis complet...

It's not the me-80 but that's totally okay.

This not-so-little piece of musical equipment packs quite the punch. I have played with the ME-80 at the music shops and had my eye on it for a long time but i decided that i should spend less and get the previous version to start with. Boy, what a great decision.

It may not have the capabilities and range of its later version, but that doesn't stop this comprehensive pedal board from being fun.

The only drawbacks are that you cant really download patches like the newest model, but at leas you can find patch libraries online. And the usability of this pedal board makes it quick to write patches and edit them. It just takes time to find tune the right sounds since you have so many options.

If you do buy this item for yourself, here are some tips.

1. Buy decent sound equipment to get the most of it.
2. Jack into the headphones area (just the jack) to activiate the preamp completely.
3. Find a decent patch library to find unique sound combinations in.
4. Carefully read the manual to get yourself familiarized with all of the controls and shortcuts.
5. Most importantly, prepare to spend tons of time experimenting with different sound combinations and effect set ups.Lire l'avis complet...

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