Thanks! Very helpful as I'm looking at that exact gear right now. Unfortunately the footswitch seems overpriced - about CAD $200. That's almost half the price of the amp!
Hey man! Great video!! I have a question about Katana and can't QUITE find the answer to it. I'm looking at the Artist MKII combo with GA-FC footswitch. What I need it to do is seamless switching from let's say clean sound with comp, reverb and chorus, to high-gain with only boost and then to lead which is high-gain with delay and chorus. I know that these amps have all these effects built in. But how fast can Katana switch between these presets? I don't want there to be a lag when I step on the footswitch in the middle of the song. Thanx and cheers from Sweden!
So let me get this straight, first off boss made the GAFC only compatible with the 100w, instead of working on something that people could use with the 50... they just designed a whole new amp? This idea seems kind of redundant since you can just use a Airstep in place of a gafc.
@@kevinblythe2192 I have a are step that I use with my Katana 50, I've had nothing but great luck using it.... I only use it to change between my four channels alongside my pedalboard.
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With the GAFC you can program 8 channels and have the panel, so 9 at your feet. Then, very easily each channel can be edited by your foot by turning off/on any effect within each channel using the GAFC. If you like the change, you can even save it by using the panel button to hold and save. I have not used the BOSS tone studio yet but learned all this from the youtube BOSS Katana 50EX intro and how to save settings videos (2 videos). I can't wait to learn how to use the software and then maybe grab a patch from Higher HZ Fabio or one of the many other FREE ones! Plus, then you can access every 65 BOSS effect to add to your custom channels too. I need to do it for the noise gate alone because the lead, and brown channels, especially the red light modes are very noisy. I get so caught up just learning how to edit and save channels with the panel buttons on the amp alone I haven't even ventured into the studio software yet. You do, well I did, need to spend time going between channels to tweak volumes and always return to the panel to re-tweak to keep them in the same or close range, or just have higher levels for lead, etc. I'm 55 and very old school of just "plug in and play" but this has been a total game changer. Good luck!
I think you can't, cause you have to create the preset before....you have to decide in the preset which boost/effect you want, and then through the footswitch decide to engage or not. Fabio
I have plenty of amps and controlls i dont need to be online for , and Boss katanas hidden controlls in a recess at top rear is pretty bad call , a good update would be putting the controlls whare they should be !
GA-FC EX will provide the functionality of the standard GA-FC for any BOSS/Roland amplifier compatible with the GA-FC. Explore the functions of the standard GA-FC to get a feel for those features. The expanded functionality of GA-FC EX works with 100W Katana MkII amps. Currently, full functionality is available on the following models: Katana-Artist MkII Katana-Head MkII Katana-100 MkII Katana-100/212 MkII So wih your mkii 50 the GA-FC EX will be limied to work as a normal GA-FC Fabio
It"s impressive! I'm going to buy them for my son soon! Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
Fabio
Thanks! Very helpful as I'm looking at that exact gear right now. Unfortunately the footswitch seems overpriced - about CAD $200. That's almost half the price of the amp!
Thank you for making a good review!
You're welcome!
Fabio
Welll done. Waiting for mine.
Great overview, thanks!
Thanks! You're welcome :)
Fabio
Hey man! Great video!! I have a question about Katana and can't QUITE find the answer to it. I'm looking at the Artist MKII combo with GA-FC footswitch. What I need it to do is seamless switching from let's say clean sound with comp, reverb and chorus, to high-gain with only boost and then to lead which is high-gain with delay and chorus. I know that these amps have all these effects built in. But how fast can Katana switch between these presets? I don't want there to be a lag when I step on the footswitch in the middle of the song. Thanx and cheers from Sweden!
Hi the footswitch acts like a normal footswitch so will be recalled fastly cause all the sounds are pre-loaded into the amplifier.
Fabio
Hi can I get the patches? by Boss Exchance?
So let me get this straight, first off boss made the GAFC only compatible with the 100w, instead of working on something that people could use with the 50... they just designed a whole new amp? This idea seems kind of redundant since you can just use a Airstep in place of a gafc.
What’s an air step?
Not good outcomes with the Airstep from what I have seen.
@@kevinblythe2192 I have a are step that I use with my Katana 50, I've had nothing but great luck using it.... I only use it to change between my four channels alongside my pedalboard.
With the GAFC you can program 8 channels and have the panel, so 9 at your feet. Then, very easily each channel can be edited by your foot by turning off/on any effect within each channel using the GAFC. If you like the change, you can even save it by using the panel button to hold and save. I have not used the BOSS tone studio yet but learned all this from the youtube BOSS Katana 50EX intro and how to save settings videos (2 videos). I can't wait to learn how to use the software and then maybe grab a patch from Higher HZ Fabio or one of the many other FREE ones! Plus, then you can access every 65 BOSS effect to add to your custom channels too. I need to do it for the noise gate alone because the lead, and brown channels, especially the red light modes are very noisy. I get so caught up just learning how to edit and save channels with the panel buttons on the amp alone I haven't even ventured into the studio software yet. You do, well I did, need to spend time going between channels to tweak volumes and always return to the panel to re-tweak to keep them in the same or close range, or just have higher levels for lead, etc. I'm 55 and very old school of just "plug in and play" but this has been a total game changer. Good luck!
The decision for me is do I upgrade from my Katana MK2 50 to the EX version??? Is it worth it?
Need some help: How can I switch for example between red/yellow/green effect using my ga fc ex (linked to an Artist mk2)?
I think you can't, cause you have to create the preset before....you have to decide in the preset which boost/effect you want, and then through the footswitch decide to engage or not.
Fabio
Can i access the amps sounds without a computer ?
Yes you can play with the amp after you have decided the which sound you want to load on it
I have plenty of amps and controlls i dont need to be online for , and Boss katanas hidden controlls in a recess at top rear is pretty bad call , a good update would be putting the controlls whare they should be !
Does this work with the mk2 50 normal? Not the EX one
no
Will that foot switch work on the mkII 50? I have a FS-6 switch now
GA-FC EX will provide the functionality of the standard GA-FC for any BOSS/Roland amplifier compatible with the GA-FC. Explore the functions of the standard GA-FC to get a feel for those features. The expanded functionality of GA-FC EX works with 100W Katana MkII amps. Currently, full functionality is available on the following models:
Katana-Artist MkII
Katana-Head MkII
Katana-100 MkII
Katana-100/212 MkII
So wih your mkii 50 the GA-FC EX will be limied to work as a normal GA-FC
Fabio
Apparently, I’m the only person who plays single coil pickup guitars
I Had to purchase one sorry 😂
Fabio
Nobody plays the amp, they just talk and talk. Play the amp so we can hear it. Don't care about the minutae if I dont like the SOUND!