Can a $300 Boss MultiFX compete? 🤷♂️🧐 (BOSS ME-90 play through)
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00:00 intro
00:25 Boss ME90
02:59 Dry Amp Tones
03:44 Heavy Tones
07:18 FX Tones
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I used the ME80 for years every weekend to Gig. I just upgraded to the ME90 2 weeks ago and love it even more! Ive had many local Guitarists comment on my Tone and ask for my settings/patches. I play 80's Metal and Blues. Does everything i need it to pretty damn good
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There’s so much there at this price point compared to when I was a kid in the 80s. OMG!
I had the ME-80. It was great used as effects only not using the amps. The amps have since been improved, I don’t think it’s terrible. Certainly great for a beginner rig.
You have to take the time to dial these into whatever you’re going to use it with. This is an incredible tool, and for the money it’s ridiculous and shows how the technology has improved. I’ve now got rid of my Atomic Amplifire 12 as the quality of this is much better - driving this into an Atomic valve drives FR amp - the sounds are superb and it’s so easy to adjust, no stupid menu-diving when all you want to do is play……Not sure you can do it justice with a quick run through Mikey-Boy😉
It’s a “Swiss army knife” guitar tool. It does a bunch of stuff moderately well. It’s not supposed to be the be all end all of amazing guitar tones. Just like you wouldn’t use said Swiss Army knife to cut and eat a $150 Wygu steak at a fancy restaurant....you wouldn’t use this to record a huge album in a million dollar studio........but you COULD. As a practice unit...grab and go board for impromptu jam sessions...or a backup rig for when Murphy pays a visit at a gig........it’s a no-brainer. 🤘🤘
Tube snobs are already on here trashing this unit. But I think this unit is great for practicing with at home.
It's $300, and it does pretty much everything. It's not $4,000 and it doesn't have little glowing glass bottles inside it.
So the tube snobs will always hate it. 😆
I think it sounds pretty damn good especially at that price.
I have one, and use it with my mini SLO for live rigs. Wired to have multiple channels, cleans, pitch and effects with a mono channel amp. Very useful
You buy one delay pedal for 300$... Or you can get the Me90... A work horse for that price and sounds good as well..
Yeah, there's some usable tones in this and the effects are usable too. Great job Mike!
Sounds pretty damn good to me, would be awesome if you created some patches for this unit!
I have the ME-80 and was super excited when the ME-90 was announced. I immediately got a pre-order in with Sweetwater for the 90 and BT adapter. When it came in, I messed with it for a couple of hours and was VERY disappointed! I A-B switched between it and the 80 and the 80 sounds so much warmer and more natural. Many of the tones from the 90 sound like computer replications, some were “over compensating” and some were thin. I twisted knobs and check for firmware updates and ultimately sent it back for a full refund. I was super disappointed. I played my ME-80 last night and I love it.
One guys opinion.
This is surprisingly cool!
I recently purchased the GT 1000 core after remaining on the fence for about 8 years. It sounds absolutely fabulous I can't imagine having one complaint about it
You can certainly get some convincing tones out of this unit.
Sounds good!
This is my late night practice tool. All the way back 15 some years to the ME-70.
I grew up on an ME-50, Boss is way underrated.
To be fair, I think a better way to highlight this fx unit would be to dial in some tones and present it with a killer intro song like your other high-end product demos.
You have a great ear for awesome tones, I'm sure you could write an awesome little intro tune that would give this thing justice! (It's not what you use, it's what you play 😉)
El jefe💪!!
If my first generation Pod back in the day sounded this good, I probably would’ve never bought a tube amp haha.
Clean sounds at the beginning very thin, but after some tweaking it sounded pretty good, I think you could make it work for any genre… it’s not the wasp nests type sounds from zoom from the past… pretty tasteful starting point from Boss. A song would have been nice. I think it still would have sound great… I just rediscovered my HX stomp (bought it only to be used as an IR loaded for my reactive load)… I think it’s pretty awesome what these small boxes can do nowadays…
I really enjoy mine. You really have to use the post EQ to get the best out of the amp models. I wish it had a two knob high pass and low pass filter on the back. I’ve not checked out the ‘amp in’ output settings.
That’s the only small downside. I think I’m gonna look for something outboard to velcro to my FRFR.
The output settings are non-intuitive and can drastically alter the end sound. The basic manual is useless on that. You should check into that.
Please make more content on this.
i think it sound pretty good!!!
That tone at the 5:00 mark would be perfect for an early 90s Suicidal Tendencies tribute band 🤘
the effects are pretty good, specially the delays and reverbs. The amp models have that cocked wah sound that is typical of the Boss modelers. But for $300 it could be worth for the effects alone, although I can think of better options for not much more...
Totally agree. It’s the same problem with their more expensive units. All the amps have this weird character to them that you can’t un-hear. Boss should partner up with someone like Michael to sort this out for the next generation.
@@Sperzel 100%
Load your own IR's. Problem solved😊
For rock/metal stuff, I think the X-Modded setting would be totally usable if you had to use a rented backline and into a clean channel
was wondering if you have to plug a headphone jack into headphone socket on the back to turn on cabinet sim mode like the ME 80 ..otherwise it assumes your pluging into front of an amp ?great all rounder...
The FX were decent but it seems like overall technology has come so far you'd think this would be light-years away from a line6 pod but it really isn't idk is it? Idk great playing!
I would use this as a pedal board, not my whole rig
The manual mode is great for that.
Good morning. I ask for help regarding the ME 90. Trying the delays: MODULATE, WARM, TAPE, ANALOG, STANDARD and also the one in the EQ/FX2 part, they are practically all the same and not even a stereo one. Is this the case or did they give me a defective pedal board? I've been using Boss pedals for a long time but never with this limit. Thank you and greetings. G.
It really depends on how you run it. if it's mono into an amp, they'll sound pretty similar. A stereo setup into studio monitors should have a mildly noticeable different in the amount of highs and lows you hear in the delay
It seems pretty good for the price but too many knobs and the small LCD display is not what i would like,you could buy a NUX MG30 for $300 and it sounds good and also the color display is great and it is very easy to navigate!When the boss ME90 first came out it was $300 for a while but now it is around $350 new!
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Yeah, not so sure. Maybe if you had done a tune with it. I'd be curious to hear what it sounds like through your IR's as well (or was this?).
To be honest, when I was doing the play through, I was NOT vibing it at all. So, I didn't feel like doing a tune. I almost just packed it up and sent it back. But in listening back, it sounds better than I remember. I think it's usable, but at the price, I think there are better options.
@@BigHairyGuitars There were a couple of tones that weren't too bad. Maybe a short follow up using your IR's.
@@BigHairyGuitarsman that's a perfect answer ! Exactly what I thought! I don't really like boss's amp modeling at all but I do love their effects
@@BigHairyGuitars fair comment...give it a second chance.
The time based effects are decent and seem completely useable imo.
How about run this Me90 into Roland Jazz Chorus?
That would work great.
3:41 very interisting tone... is it the "brit stack", right? Sounds kinda Friedman-ish
Nah, not for me. What do you think of the Boss IR2 pedal, that seems more interesting.
Was the video cut short? Didn't hear your take on the unit as a whole.
No. I say in the beginning that I'm not gonna give my opinion on it. I'm glad I didn't because when I was trying it out, I was really not enjoying it. However, listening back, it's ok. Much better than I was feeling on the day. There's some good tones in there.
@@BigHairyGuitars I don’t think it whips the llamas ass
Dang, Mike, you’re really G.A.S 😂
Great value
I wouldn’t buy/use one now it would annoy me
But a young buck absolutely
Seems cool......IF I WAS 4 !!
Do a blind test between this, Fractal stuff, Line6 etc.. My guess is all the snobs would have no clue what they are listening to.
The Yamaha THR10X will destroy this one.
Brown 1 and Brown 2 are all you need and the chorus sounds almost like a harmonizer.
The effects are kind of good to ok but the amp sounds are a bit lifeless. I would rather go for a Hotone Ampero for the amp modeling and a few simple effects.
Is it worth $300? From my vantage one can get more than $300 in value from it!
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Back in the days (ie 1996?) all the press was raving about the Boss GT5. I had to have it. Big mistake. All these multi FX were pure crap. Now I would rather save for quality sounding gear. Tube amp and handful of pedals for the win.
I don't agree with you about your comment about the Boss GT5. I used to own the Boss GT3 effects processor. The Boss GT5 & GT3 was the last Boss multi-effects processors to have analog distortion/overdrive. The sound of the effects on the GT5 & GT3 sounded warmer & more organic due to the processor chip installed. I also ran a Fryette (formerly VHT) Valvulatator tube buffer/power supply in front of the GT3 to buffer the effects processor and get rid of the grainy digital tone. I currently use a Fryette Valvulator I tube buffer/power supply & Boss MS3 with some analog overdrive pedals running 4 cable method into a clean pedal platform amp and am getting great tone out of it.
I never cared much for boss amp modelers but they are great as multi FX units! I still miss my GT-100 even though I use a AX8 these day. Still miss it somehow.
Sold my ME90 after 2 months.
The overdrives and preamps were almost unusable.
However the acoustic modeller, and modulations were tremendous.
I think it sounds great but the two digit LED display is unacceptable. In 2023/2024, when you can get high resolution, color LCD displays on an mp3 player/phone you can buy at Dollar General for $15 or less, sticking these two digit LED displays you would expect to see on a piece of gear from 1978, NOW on a $300 unit, is a joke. BOSS/Roland always tries to see how much they can get away with, shafting buyers with the hardware/BOSS name premium ratio.
Meh... didn't really care for this one. The cleans were especially terrible!
Agreed! Bought and returned!
You just need to set them up properly that's all. After a bit of tweaking the sounds you can get out of this board are excellent.
I can´t hear any reason to stop being a boss hater . But I like their tuners ,they are solid.