BOSS GS1: Is this the greatest synth guitar ever?!?

Introduction to the Boss Eurus Synth Guitar
In this video Huw demonstrates just how well the Boss Eurus synth guitar actually plays and sounds... and its actually quite impressive.
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Every guitarist is on a highly personal tone journey, continually honing their skills and searching for the perfect gear combination to unleash their full potential. The EURUS concept presents a bold new creative path for adventurous sonic explorers, expanding the traditional guitar experience with powerful and expressive BOSS technologies. Born from this breakthrough approach, the EURUS GS-1 infuses a premium instrument with advanced guitar synthesis techniques refined over more than four decades. Deep, inspiring, and infinitely playable, the EURUS GS-1 will take your musical vision where it’s never gone before.
The EURUS GS-1 fully leverages BOSS’s vast expertise in guitar technology to bring endless creative possibilities to your music. This inspiring instrument has all the sound, feel, and detail you’d expect from a pro-quality guitar, coupled with a polyphonic BOSS synth engine that offers a stunning range of analog-flavored sounds to launch your musical expression into a new dimension. And with onboard Bluetooth®, you can customize synth sounds and control multiple performance parameters with the convenience of wireless connectivity.
The synth engine in the EURUS GS-1 delivers exceptional sonic quality and natural touch response realized through 40-plus years of BOSS guitar synthesizer development. The six onboard memories come filled with ready-to-play sounds, and you have access to many, many more with the GS-1 Editor. There’s also a synth control knob that enables a wide range of dynamic expression as you play. Every synth sound offers smooth playability that fully responds to all your guitar techniques, with no latency or triggering issues to disturb your musical flow.
The GS-1 Editor app for iOS and Android mobile devices unlocks deep programming power for the guitar’s synth engine. Many different synth types and variations are available for crafting sounds, along with tone, resonance, and other adjustable parameters. You can also assign a range of target parameters to the guitar’s synth control knob and save favorite sound combinations on your device for quick loading before performances.
The optional EV-1-WL Wireless MIDI Expression Pedal brings cable-free external control to the EURUS GS-1 via Bluetooth®. Using the GS-1 Editor, you can assign parameters such as pitch bend, hold, filter depth, and more to the EV-1-WL’s pedal, toe switch, and up to two external footswitches. Each sound can contain its own set of assignments, allowing you to perform octave bends on a synth lead, slow filter sweeps on a pad sound, and nearly anything else you can dream up.
Crafted in Japan with pro-quality details and components, the EURUS GS-1 is truly a pleasure to play. The modern offset body design is stylish and well-balanced, and the slim-profile neck features a compound radius fretboard for playing comfort and 24 frets for extended range. High-performance Gotoh hardware delivers smooth tremolo action and solid tuning stability with a two-point fulcrum bridge and staggered-height locking machine heads. Custom designed for the EURUS GS-1, the two humbucking pickups provide wide-range tone plus split-coil voicing at two stops of the five-way switch.
The guitar and synth electronics are fully independent in the EURUS GS-1, allowing you to switch between the two voices seamlessly. Use it as a regular guitar, then instantly transition to the selected synth sound with the flip of a switch. And with the two ¼-inch outputs, you can send the guitar and synth to separate destinations for dedicated processing.

[@davidcurry6784]

Thanks I really appreciate the video. Am thinking of getting a midi guitar and this one looks like a winner. Love your playing to illustrate the options.

[@director2bob]

Thanks for video. I learned about this guitar today and immediately went online and found one in mint condition for $1657. Tone Gods were looking out for me. Can't wait to get it. am a busker and use a channel switching amp with built in effects so my only pedal will be the expression pedal. All the other tones will be coming from guitar and battery powered amp which will trip people out. I am so happy for are digging it because the guy who left last comment was in the minority. It's not for everyone but definitely for me. Thanks for reinforcing what my intuition already told me.

[@amj20007]

This guitar does me remind of the Hammond condor which was a midi connected to a keyboard on a stand. I still have the guitar. 2000 euro is it well worth...

[@MrLaurizio]

How it sounds now after two years? Im considering buying that miracle guitar....are those picups really good?

[@18nomah]

Great video. Is it compatible with GR series from Roland?

[@williamroberts8174]

Great, but can it do the two sounds Pat Metheny used on his Roland guitar synth?

[@williepurificacion2474]

I tried this guitar on the shop... VERY BAD!!
1) The fingerboard is so narrow that first I thought it's a children's guitar! And if you are use to play on a standard size guitar you will surely have difficulty adjusting to it much more if you are used to playing on a jazz guitar!!
2) The switch between normal guitar and synthi is absolutely useless! It has only 2 poles: either guitar sound or synthi sound, no possibility to mix the two sounds together except if you have to connect 2 cables for each!! Bad concept!
3) There's NO VOLUME CONTROL for the synthi sound, meaning you are *obliged* to purchase a specific volume pedal extra for the gear... very, bad!!

[@tohaason]

Specs says "42mm" neck width, which is about the same as a Fender Strat.. personally I prefer 1 3/4" which is >44mm, but that neck width sounds like a pretty standard one for that style of guitar.

[@milkdud3618]

Hoping it would be an upgrade from GR 55. It’s definitely not sounding usable to me. My GR cable drops the G and or B string out on occasion. Hoping for a cure.