BOSS GP-10 Guitar Processor Review with Skunk Baxter & Mitch Gallagher - Sweetwater Sound
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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Mitch Gallagher sits down with legendary guitarist Skunk Baxter to put the BOSS GP-10 Guitar Processor through its paces. Enjoy the video, then click the link above for even more info on the BOSS GP-10.
Baxter is a legend. It's great to see an amazing player from the older generation whole-heartedly embracing modern technology.
John Regan's Reviews, Tutorials, & More AHEM.... What do you mean "Older Generation" ???? THose are like WWII guys.
From the "older gen." Les Paul ,Chet Atkins, Django Reinhard a.o., but hardly Mr Baxter.
Jee Whiz, Thanks GOD I still got one of those with my GK3 attached to my Grass Root guitar. Still love it, even playing acoustic - too! Thank you for this 7 years video and still good and kicking.
Great demonstration. Best I've seen in a long time. Great playing also. Mitch was also a great host. I'm completely sold on this unit after seeing this.
A true gentleman and a guitar legend. Learned so much from Jeff. Thank you sir!!!!
I'm in 3 working cover bands, 2 country and one pop/ rock/ funk dance band that does classic and current hits. I have 3 independent song lists on my computer in the GP 10 software and can easily arrange the presets in the order of the set list for that day's gig, and load it right into the GP 10. I go from 12 string capoed Hotel Cali to Joe Walsh tone different capo position, back to 12 then to Don Felder tone, etc. In one of the country bands we do a song called Pontoon, and I go from a 12 string lead intro (sounds just like the studio tone). and I've heard others do it, but it sounds like a "I'm settling for right notes wrong tone" (like playing Let It Be piano part on a Fender Rhodes) and when I do it, it sounds like the real deal. In that song, I have the acoustic 12 string, and can turn off the 12 string to do a 6 string acoustic rhythm part on the verses, then have another electric guitar tele type of deal with some slap back on the next preset, all without having to change guitar; all I have to do is step on the foot switch. The guitar I use is a Parker Fly with Graph Tech's Hexpander system installed with Ghost saddles. I play the GP10 through Line 6's L3T as well as coming out of the Phones port with a Y cable and going straight into the PA. but you can use any guitar with this pedal if you put a GK 3 pickup on your guitar (I like having the 13 pin built in though). Is it better than the real deal when recording an album if you have the choice of using boutique amps, vintage tele's, Les Pauls, Strats, and PRS guitars in recording rooms with perfect acoustics, and mic's all the way from Shure SM57s to Neumann's all over the place, consoles costing thousands, etc and an engineer that knows how to use it all? Absolutely not. Is it better than a non GK strat plugged into an amp when you are covering songs live from multiple bands and artists that use different tones and guitars and tunings and amps, and effects, and Banjos, and dobros, and sitars, and a Rickenbacker plugged into an AC30 with some chorus to make the Pretenders song Brass In Pocket sound like Brass In Pocket, and you are the only guitarist? Absolutely. IMO almost seamless switching from one preset to the next. We were playing Boston's Foreplay/ Long Time (our keyboardist, man, he does that intro awesome), when I switched from that hard electric part to that capo'd up acoustic part, there was this guy watching me on the side, and when I started in on the acoustic tone, he got this puzzled look on his face like "man how did he go from that to that?!?, hehehehe! BOSS, hire me, lol! Sorry for being so long winded.
RobTackettCovers This is great response. Thank you. I'm overdue in buying one of these.
Hey, thanks. I'm always experimenting. Another way to go into the pa without doing the Y cable thing and still have your own speaker system like one (mono) or 2 (stereo) L2's or what ever flat response monitor(s) you like, you can just use one or 2 DI boxes, use the xlr output to go to the board and the 1/4 outputs to go to the speakers you are using so you can hear what you are doing. My rule of thumb is when I go from patch to patch, if i'm in a show, and I switch patches, if I hear that I made a particular patch too low or too hot in volume, I can turn the volume up or down on the GP10, because if you hear an unwanted drop or boost in volume, the house will get it as well. I've found by experience, that to avoid this as much as possible, when working on your volume for your presets before a show, do not do it with head phones or at low volume, but turn it up so the sound at least fills the room you are working in at home.. Start at the top of your set list, go from preset to preset, adjust volume, save/ next/ adjust volume/ save/ next/ etc...then once you get the whole set list done to where each patch is similar in respect to volume, save the whole thing to your set list library. That way that whole group of song patches are volume ready; you can rearrange them in any order, load them into your GP10, and they will be good to go.
What times we live in!
Watching this made go out and add the GP10 to my collection.
So awesome to get the historical perspective and experience from Mr. Baxter!!!! Came for the GP-10 demo, stayed for the entire conversation!
Jeff is a legend for demos! I saw Skunk demoing the Roland GR-700 guitar synth 30 years ago in Sydney...an amazing demo (especially when he played the organ parts for 'Gimme Some Lovin' !) Keep on rockin' Jeff and Roland!
Really love the tone wood on that guitar. Very warm sound with crisp higher tones..
Love the sound of a midi keyboard too?
Wow, great demo, Skunk. Thanks so much, man, now I know what I'm using for a synth the next time I get something with a 13 pin output. Those models really sounds great.
great to see the skunk...would kill to have his talent
But you wouldn't have much chance to use that talent in prison.
Great. You've convinced me. I'm going to get one.
I've heard it said that it will work just as well with an ES335-type guitar.
I just ordered one, along with the Roland pickup, on eBay, supposed to arrive in a few days. I can't wait!
So badass to see great guitar players using the Washburn Wonderbar
I use Washburn Wonderbar on two Fender Stratocasters. Perfect intonation.
Wow! Great demo, thank you both!
What a great video! My GP-10 arrives on Wednesday. Wondering, if possible, where can you download Skunk's patches?
I just got one today floor model here in Canada from a long * McQ store for like $222 USD pretty much brand spanking new. my new favorite toy.
WOW REALLY !?!?!?!?!?!!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Skunk Baxter es un tremendo músico, lleno de historia. Me gustó verlo usando el boss gp10.
Lo compré hace poco tiempo atrás básicamente por su habilidad de usar afinaciones alternativas con solo mover unos botones y sin tocar el clavijero de la guitarra.
En cuanto a su sonido, hay que se criterioso, pues algunos van a funcionar mejor si se conectan a un sistema de sonido de rango completo, por ejemplo, si se usa una guitarra acústica virtual de 12 cuerdas en un Ampli convencional de guitarra eléctrica perderá toda sutileza.
A su vez si se usan sonidos de guitarra eléctrica en un Ampli de guitarra eléctrica conviene apagar las simulaciones de amplificador y cabina , sino el sonido resultante puede ser delgado y chillon.
A pesar de que al 2021 es tecnología algo pasada, aún suena muy bien y hace cosas con su cápsula roland que otros Fx no pueden hacer tan bien, es compacto e increíblemente versátil.
“You tell yourself you’re not my kind
But you don’t even know your mind
And you could have a change of heart”
This works without the added pickup then?
What a great demo!
Just watched this after getting my RC10r loop-rhythm box. Plug in this baby and my Godin Freeway synth access guitar and One-man-banditis here I come! 😝
a true legend!!!! (love BOSS gear too!)
I met Skunk about three years ago at a national security conference. He's actually got a second career working with national security agencies. He's a really nice guy and very talented.
The Hank Marvin patch @ 9 minutes... hilarious. If there was ever a Hank Marvin sound-a-like competition, don't enter. You'll finish behind Angus Young and Tony Iommi.
Yes, it was nowhere near a Hank Marvin sound- in fact none of his sounds were much cop. Just sales talk.
This was a great idea for a product however one containing a lot of quirks and issues. The midi pickup is just as flimsy as when these things came out. The whole process of balancing the pickup strings of the midi pickup and then also having to do so in the patches as well is incredibly tedious. This would have worked a lot better if it had the capacity of hosting IRs and had an effects loop that allowed 4 cable method. Sadly there was never a follow up or an improvement. Any of these sort of products would require some compromises however it seems that they often fall short of professional application.
Great vid! Just one question; Does the boss Gp-10 is plug into the Roland Cube amp that we see in the video or he is plug in somekind of PA?
Thanks!
his tremolo is Floyd Rose without top lock?
I think it's an old Washburn Wunderbar. Nut is a fender roller nut.
Rolland, make a USB to MIDI cable for this unit (doesn't have a MIDI in). All these presets, and you can't really use it in a live show if you can't switch between banks (songs) and song sections with ease.
now, if only they would update the MIDI to be class complient. Then we could just plug it into an iPhone running Garageband. And if only the editing application was not relying on Adobe Air anymore..
a Fender Lucite body rosewood neck with a Floyd Rose bridge and midi? FrankenFender? Same guitar from his 90's instructional video. Man these acoustic guitar and jazz hollow body simulations sound so good. Really have to consider getting one of these. I dont think the sy-300 is what i want after watching this. at least for me 23:50 , 26:24, 26:40 acoustic guitar sounds are amazing and the 31:27 jazz guitar..wow!
I'm trying to figure out who was cycling between the presets when the only thing in frame was the GP-10, and Jeff's feet nowhere near the pedal's controls. I'm only about 20 minutes in, but I have to think that someone off-camera is controlling the presets through a laptop via USB.
Did I guess correctly? I suppose I'll have to watch the rest of the video to find out.
Ah-HAH!!! I just figured it out. Jeff has "Increment" and "Decrement" buttons just above his pickup switcher. I wonder how much THAT mod would cost?
+Amwas “Phos FourDots” Willbe Roland Ready guitars have those built in!
+guitarzdotcom I discovered shorty after my two initial replies a couple posts by a guy on the unofficialwarmoth[dot]com forums (search for "topic=16573.0") who built those controls and the GK-3 controller circuit board into the Warmoth parts guitar he built. That's what I'd like to do with on of my guitars.
It has Roland Ready electronics. He's using a hex pickup and the 13 pin cable to control patches, and synth/cosm based voices.
No. Jeff poked a button right on the GK3
Skunk Baxter always get's a thumbs up from me. And I have a GP10. AWESOME!!
8:58 Hank Marvin?? I've got tinnitus, lost a shed load of frequencies thanks to 35 years of gigging, but I still know that ain't no Hank Marvin tone. And am I hearing two guitars? Some sort of weird ADT shite going on. I can only guess they couldn't hear it in the studio.
Great, put one of the greatest musicians on the face of the earth on this to demo. Now every time I play it, the damn thing sounds like garbage (just joking). Mr. Baxter is a LEGEND. Thank you for this awesome video. Long live Rock!
Dr. Skunk is in da house!
Hey Skunk ! Nice playing , how much time do you think you wasted pressing the patch buttons up and down to get to the patch you really wanted ??? And that's because Roland/Boss was too cheap to provide a MIDI in socket so that you could use an external MIDI patch controller , sucks , would be handy , especially if you are changing patches on multiple sound modules at once , USB port doesn't cut it for live performance
Amazing, analogue to digital then analogue out........sounding like the original modeled instrument......amazing
What kind of guitar was Skunk playing ?
SKUNK STUNK...
Skunk on the Lucite!!!!! Because it IS rocket science!
what kind of bridge is that it looks like a Floyd but its got no locking nut, maybe roller nut ?
Looks like a kahler term to me. Nut sure about the nut.
+gabewow It's a Washburn Wonderbar trem. He put them on several guitars when they were still being made. He loves them. Pat Simmons has one in a guitar Mr. Baxter made for him, also.
what's the song at 11:30?
GR-55
Sweet!
Steve Gould water ;)
Ask him about colors and vibrations.
I want those presets!!!!!
In what way does that Hank Marvin patch sound anything like Hank Marvin? That was a joke, right?
Since when did Hank Marvin become a digital fuzz player?
😲🎸👏🏻
Skunk, it clearly does not fit into that bag ¬¬ 55:24.
Love the Skunk Baxter and everything he did with The Doobie Brothers & Steely Dan,...but not crazy about this BOSS GP-10 Processor.It sounds too sterile and synthetic.Rather use the real gear.How do you get the best Fender Stratocaster and Fender Tweed amp sound and tones?,...use a Fender Stratocaster and Fender Tweed amp.
Absolutely, but if you are in a cover band doing songs going from Fender Twin, to Marshall, to VOX ,to Mesa...and from Srat, to LP, to Rick, to a guitar with P90's, and then deal with alternate tunings on top of all that, and you are not playing venues that monetarily support having the real deal of all that plus pay a tech to run guitars back and forth to you, depending on the song you are playing next, then IMO the what I call "honey bee' pedal is kinda hard to beat.
What? The player or the pedal!😅
I don’t find the Rickenbacker sound accurate
Musicians tend to fight against this kind of thing.
Two old blokes talking about guitars....
That opening riff had distortion so loose it sounded like a wet shart leaking out of a pair of skivies. I've had better sounding $19.00 distortion pedals that were plastic from denelectro,, literally. The rest sounded great though.
il devrait se tailler la moustache un peu quand même !
26:44 dude tune the instrument
Oi Skunk! This aint rocket science you know!!
This is a worse con than the Apollo moon landings.
How?
Weak Trolling.
I wish these guys would just stop with the chatter and let us here the freaking thing this is 55 min chat it put me of buying in anything
The modeler is ultra outdated. It sounds like shit compared with the Helix modeling or Kemper.
When will they release something new?
To sum up this video in one word: Absolutely
I'm sold
AMAZING!🎸😲(the sound is shocking)
No one like the skunk!!!
great job! Skunk is awesome.
The tech is powerful, but not overwhelming.
Jeff Skunk Baxter what more is there to say
A legend
Don’t care about guitar effects, he is the real deal.
Magic from those fingers
Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers legendary bands, studio work
This is still the best GP-10 demo. Mine's been parked for a few years but I'm going to dig it out for a bit.
Does It have input lag?
I’m curious about that actual guitar 🎸? Will it become an available model?
Great demo👍
this thing is obsolete now.
😂
On a more immediate note, Mitch, can you get me a power supply brick for my GP10? I can't remember if you guys sold me mine, but I'd sure be grateful to revive this marvelous piece of electronic genius to use in my sets again.
Thanks!
I got into this GK3 stuff some years ago when I found a Godin Freeway synth guitar for a great price.
She's now my go-to instrument.
2/20/22 WEDNESDAY VIEWING 👋
can it make the strat sound like a gretsh hollow body?
Yes it has a L5 hollowbody patch in there.
Although this model does not have Gretsch filter-tron pickup models so if you want to Brian Setzer things, well maybe a Gretsch and tube amp is your device.
Really enjoyed the demo, enough detail to inform, but lots of practical application too-cheers
Good stuff😎🎸🎶🎸🎶🎵🥁👏🎸🎶 skunk Baxter one of the old school elite!
we met Jeff Baxter in the 90s at NAMM in a coffee kiosk line , interesting guy.
hope he got back his two weeks pay. That guitar must be worth a fortune.
What's the model of the Guitar? I'd like to have that GK-Ready Guitar 🎸
have a sax in it?
great demo
11:20
I ❤it👍
Ahhhhh Mmmmmm. I would have to use it and then form an opinion.
Boss makes some good stuff, but I am really picky about my tone not sounding processed.
Sorry, but IMO some of the tones sounded pretty digital.
I can see a lot of uses for it though, for writing/practice, and gigs where you need a synth sound or like Jeff said.. if there is a break in the song that goes from electric to acoustic... or whatever, you can get that sound instantly and then go back to your normal one. Based on those uses alone, its probably worth the buy. I'm just not sure if I would let it be my goto main tone machine.
Can we get a trumpet sound out of that like gr 55
I want to know how people are putting these in their setups. In an effects loop, or pre?
@Trunk McEight Yea I bought one and love it.
Good question! I am going to try both and maybe swing on back to tell you. Have you got any further?