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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Boss guitar synth is a real synthesizer that uses the power of dsp to synthesize classic analog sounds from your guitar signal. It works with guitar, bass, keyboards, plug in and start playing!

The note tracking is polyphonic, meaning that you can sound pads and other synth tones using chords. The tracking is perfect, i use with a jazz bass and it's a ton of fun to tinker with.

Boss sy-1 is an incredibly advanced (and compact) piece of effects circuitry. The syb 5 has its own internal compressor and doesn't require another compressor before for tracking. It is nice, the tracking is better than sy 300? Well, boss sy 1 comes t... Read More

Cons

Extremely disappointed and will not be purchasing from them again. Used it for about 6 months. It sounds like *!

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Highlights

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Quality

Build quality is fantastic, menus are ergonomic, connectors are solid.

Found some nice string stuff that sounded awesome with the guitar brought to unison with the synth level.

I suppose if you feel comfortable altering the patches by fiddling around to a degree with the settings, you might be able to g... Read More

But the sounds are just presets, and very.

Price

I was skeptical at first because of the high price.

Packaging/appearance

It fits into the familiar compact boss pedal footprint, has only a few control parameters promising just over 100 different syn... Read More

Competitiveness

Boss put the best of the sy 300 in a standard size pedal and at a third of the cost.

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This product had a total of 562 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 26 2023.