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I've gone through the VG8 to the GR30 and the Boss GP10 finally ties it all together. VG sounds, plus regular preamp, any blend thereof plus great effects all easily configured with a USB editor. All sounds coming out of my regular guitar amp mono. I use it on all my electric gigs now, 1-2-3 a week. Love it!

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Though yes it does have it's limitations you have to be realistic and work with it. It's a fantastic do it all unit for those that need a little of a lot. If you are expecting a 400 dollar unit to be as good or better than something that costs 1000 bucks then the issue isn't with the unit it's the end user. When properly set up this thing is HUGE bang for the buck. Great guitar tones, alternate tunings, acoustic sims that are outstanding if eq'd right and plenty of user created patches that will get you going. There is absolutely nothing to this day that does EVERYTHING this unit can do for this price and thats why BOSS still sells it. I just bought it for the 2nd time because I traded mine off looking for something to replace it. Dumb move on my part and I won't be trading this one away until someone comes out with something that can do everything this thing does for under 500 bucks.My one gripe with the unit is that BOSS stopped updating the firmware for it. If they are going to sell a product they should keep it updated. There are things they could still improve with better firmware. Also BTS can be flaky at times.

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I have owned a VG-8 and a GR-55 and this thing rocks with better tracking, better sounds and an overall smaller package.

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Unfortunately, while it is a good idea it fell short of my needs and I will be returning it today. Some the biggest "issues" for me are that, for the price, there are too many limitations when selecting effects for a given patch -if you want a compressor, you can't have something else, etc... In this day and age, processing power is cheap and it seems that BOSS is deliberately "dumbing" down products for marketing reasons. IN addition, the AMP and EFX affects both the guitar input and the modeller so, you can't have two separate processing. Huge shortcoming for me. The tracking varies widely between WAV Synth and SYNTH, the former having the worse tracking of the two. But, since it also has the most varied programming parameters for synth-based sound creation you'll want to use it instead of the simple SYNTH modeler. Guitar modeling is OK but, not as good as other units for sure - my Variax has a more realistic emulation of the various guitars, it has MORE models and MORE parameters to boot (such as pickup position, tilt, etc...) - and you can still hear a bit of a microphonic effect even with the GK pickup which is what they recommend using. Finally, their EDITING software is buggy at best and in some cases it and/or the drives don't install properly - the web it full of such complaints. IN my case, the installation program would hang even though Windows message would say, "You hardware is installed and ready to use" - well, BOSS's own program thought otherwise so, I couldn't get it to work on XP PRO, Vista or Win 8.1 - and once you read the super-long list of "issues" on Roland's own website you have to wonder how they couldn't find a capable company to write the drivers and editor for them. I am returning mine today as I have just received the RMA - hopefully, something better will come along soon.

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Pretty good, still needs some tweaking to get it to track just right - Can't really do what I wanted to do with this unit, Horns, was my main need - this unit doesn't fill it.GR-55 may be a better fit

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