Boss ME-50 Multifx pedal Overview Review
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Now Then, this week we are taking a look at the Boss Me-50 Multifx pedal. Its big, its bold and its got a tonne of different features and effects!!
Such a cool pedal and its up for grabs! Holla at me!
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Hey all hope your handling the heat well! Damn its warm! Keep hydrated. Are you a fan of Boss? Tried the ME50? Get better results than me? I hope so haha.
I’ve had mine for 20 years, and for a long time I gave up on it in favor of ‘better’ amp or pedal combos, etc. I ended up moving into an apartment a couple years ago, and always kept this bad boy. I had to go to a line 6 spider 3 (the shame) and on a clean setting with the tone dialed in on the amp, the OD/Distortion settings dialed back a bit... it’s back in my signal chain. I have some redundancy with other pedals but I’ve gone to using this for my primary bedroom tone lol. Odd thing honestly. I only used it for effects and expression before.
Yeah man I couldn't get it sounding great going direct, if I had maybe stuck it infront of a clean amp it would have been better. I just didn't have that luxury when it came to record the video. Still a brilliant pedal for the money! Thanks for checking it out man.
Goliath Studios I plugged it in as an “eh, why not?” and for whatever reason I got the tone I wanted when for years I was saying “good for everything but distortion” lol. Granted I’d rather have something nicer but this gift as a kid turned into a hidden gem as an adult.
@@sparkinton wow it’s like you stole my thoughts on the distortion. I thought exactly the same also now changed my opinion on it. Glad I never sell my old gear.
@@roe3474 same here man. Whenever I DO sell gear I almost instantly regret it. Sure, this pedal is out of date so to speak, but it’s always fun to try old stuff in new applications. Glad you enjoy it still man!
That thing has some serious crunch to it!
its not bad really for what it is man.
My old guitarist had one of these! Into his Vox it’s sounded great, worth it for the cool modulation and delay effects alone
Yeah the delay and modulation sections are worth getting it for alone.
When I first got my ME50 about 20 years ago (actually 20 years ago this week 😳), I remember a lot of people saying the thing sucked.😕
Now, every time I turn around, people are talking about how awesome it is. Took me until just a couple years ago when I got more serious with my playing that I realized how good it sounds. 😎
Awesome man!
I picked one up for $50cad. I'm still learning, so this unit and my monoprice tube amp are all I need. Great fun to try new things and see what I like without dumping insane amounts of money on pedals.
Nice find! Its a very good idea to get a feel for what you like effects wise.
Ive had the me 50 for ten years and I love it. I added a looper pedal and run it into a clean tube amp and it sounds amazing. Modern overdrive with the button pressed is my personal favorite for playing metal. It gives a nice low end grunt. 🤘🏼
Very cool!
I have the me 80, is it as good as the 50?? I dont know how to use my board
Have the pedal. Bought used don’t have manual on saving settings and jumping from one setting to another? Help lol
On the modulations, I’ve found it sounds best to set the depth (middle knob) high, then use the effects level (right knob) to set the amount.
Ah, I should have read a manual ;)
@@goliathfx not really in the manual. Just learned by trial and error. 👍🏼
That's awesome pedal!
Yeah it's a cool pedal!
I got this still use it after 20 years. I either use headphones with this for practice or run it through fx loop on Marshall with a few pedals + wah in front of amp. It’s also got stereo outputs you can do some pretty cool stuff with
Yeah I moved it on not long after I got it so didn't get to play around with it that much. Still a cool cheap pedal.
Had a Boss GT-5 back in the day, I believe my cousin still uses it too (traded him many moons ago)
GT-5 old school dude! Haha
What I like about this, is I can use my clean Channel from my own amp without it effecting the Mids. I can't do that with my Digitech GNX1 because I lose my mids if I set the clean on Direct. Second, is that it's easier setting up the Expression pedal for a WAH since I don't have to create Patch for It, I can use it anytime, with out leaving the setting from what I just made. Third, this Pedal board uses analog dials for controls instead of digital menus that you have to scroll around to make changes. I love my Boss ME-8 but I hate wasting time going through the menus. I notice that the higher the number goes up the more Boss drifts away from the buttons and goes for the Dials.
Man, reading some of the comments on this I wish I had kept it and spent a bit more time with it! Thanks for sharing man!
press the pedal firmly at the V to activate it.
Thanks!
I use this pedal, a looper pedal, and a tube amp. All my other pedals are collecting dust. I like that I can go tone-wise from Stevie ray Vaughan, to Eddie Van Halen, to Greg Tribbett (mudvayne) all in one pedal.
Cool mate. I found some of the drives just didn't do it for me. But for what it is, its a great bit of kit.
Try out the Natural drive setting. Its a real ballsy distortion and my all time favorite on mine. I gig with mine using that, the chorus, and delay and the wah. I run a boss ge7 before it for all my sound boost for leads.
Awesome dude! Good to hear these are still being used out in the wild!
I own alot of other guitar processors but my me50 still does the job the best for me. I also own the me 80 and still go back to rhe simplicity and all of the genius me50.
Cool man, I don't have this any more but was quite cool.
Can you get allan holdsworth type lead tones, yes i know its all in the fingers, but im not going for an acdc tone, so you get the jist, cheers
I couldn't see why you wouldn't be able to achieve a huge array of tones with it. Going into a nice little combo like the Crush20 or 35 you'd be able to pull pretty much anything off with a bit of work and patience!
Hi, this is a very helpful video. How does the sound quality of the various effects compare to single dedicated pedals? For example why would someone choose to get a Boss CE-2 pedal etc if they could just get this multi effects pedal instead? Is there a kind of trade off in quality of some kind? Kind regards
I honestly cant answer for everyone, but I would guess having everything in one unit and on presets is easier to some people, rather than having lots of different pedals. As for sound quality compared to single pedals, as far as I understand it the circuits inside are similar to single pedal versions.
Single pedals allow you to change the order of signal chain. I have this and single pedals. I would buy the Me50 again.
Hi, how do we quickly switch between tones we recorded earlier? This is very important for me to use it on stage.
Not sure, didn't explore the presets.
you have to operate totally in memory mode. and pre-saved your settings in the correct order. like INTRO-Bank 1/Patch 1. VERSE - Bank 1/ Patch 2. CHROUS - Bank 1/Patch 3. BRIDGE - Bank 2/Patch1. SECOND VERSE - Bank 2/Patch 2. and just save all song sections in the order they need to go. my me-50 only has 10 Banks with 3 Patches in each bank. use space wisely. a lot of the songs i compose, seem to have to have 7 sections before the story/or message of the song can reach closure... lol. but i think that just me..
more video please
Lots more on the channel and one comes out every week. 😉
To use this pedal board, is it better to use with a modeling amp or just a regular amp with no effects built into it??
I would say you could use this with anything that can provide a clean guitar signal. So pretty much anything would work. You could go direct to an interface etc hope that helps.
Was thinking about getting one, To put in front of a micro terror. Thoughts??
Hey, its a Multi FX unit, it should work in front of most things to be honest.
@@goliathfx thankyou
No worries man! Enjoy it if ya get one.
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Do you know what exact chorus sound is on the boss me50, is it a boss ce2 or super chorus
Not a clue sorry man. Doesn't even say on the Boss spec for it.
i got my me50 used & there is a free PDF manual that is only about 10 to 20 pages including the front cover, electrical warnings, some blank pages, tons of info on the i/o & settings . at the back it has a breakdown of all the pre sets & what they were cloned and modeled from. im sorry, i just looked & it doesn't say anything about it.... i seen it somewhere, recently... it might have been on the boss web site. there was a storyline about them that spoke of thier start until now
does it have a looper
Nope - www.boss.info/uk/products/me-50/
I have this exact multi effect board and it kicks ass but is missing a looper, so I had to buy one. Those are the only effects/pedals I have and my amp is a bass amp and I can virtually achieve most any tone.
well , i have the me-50 & i just "did" the 2 second looper they stated it had... its in the hold function area/ grouping.... but.....2 seconds wasnt enough time to do shit.. as for the OD/dist. sound and settings. id say they lack when standing alone. my signal path is this; it starts in my soul & then thru epi LP then thru the boss me50 then thru the EFXloop on the Fender FM-100H then thru the Nux Loopcore Deluxe then back thru the Fender amp. if i had ppl over , i would run thru the PA , so we could get a better mix
Essa pedaleira grava???🤔
não apenas efeitos 😀
NFL with and accent
Okay......... Merry Christmas!