Boss SY-300 Guitar Synthesizer Pedal
Kick on this pedal to turn your guitar into a fat polyphonic synth. The SY-300 doesn't require a special pickup to be installed -- just plug in and play!
Overall User Ratings (based on 3 ratings)
Submitted December 28, 2016 by Mike M in Fremont, CA
"Mind Blown!"
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I'm a 24 year guitar veteran. I use to gig on a semi-pro level and now I am just a hobbiest. I was always against any sort of midi / guitar synth system. Then one day I got a wild hair up my arse and decided to buy the Boss SY-300. This is one of the best purchases I ever made! MIND BLOWN!! I liked this so much that not long after I bought this I ended up getting the Boss GP10 and the Roland GR55 guitar synths. These processors hooked up with head phones.....MIND BLOWN!!!!
Musical Background:
24 years
Musical Style:
Rock
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Submitted September 2, 2015 by Joseph R in Windham, NH
"unique but expensive"
This unit is way more convenient than the type that requires a midi cable. However, the sounds that it can produce are very limited and it does not really work well unless your using a clean channel without any distortion. I am using a splitter so that the synth is is going to a clean amp with a volume pedal and my other amp has the typical overdrive tones. This is the only way that I found it usable for playing out in a band. It adds much texture and fullness but at a steep price,
Musical Background:
Play professionally -guitar and keys
Musical Style:
rock and pop
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Submitted March 7, 2018 by Billy J in Simpsonville, SC
"Canned Noise"
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As a typical synthesizer, there are hundreds of patches, most are useful. In this situation, there are hundreds of patches and maybe 1 or 2 were usable. Just a bunch of sound effects you'd find on a movie soundtrack, nothing you could play single note scale or solo unless you just held a chord for 10 seconds waiting for the outcome of your sound. Such a bummer because you don't need a special pickup and there is no tracking issues, just no usable sounds. Epic fail Boss!
Sound
Sound was very clear, just not musically useful.
Features
You can edit, but extremely limited editing. The sounds were all canned and very little manipulation was allowed, so you are stuck with cheesy canned sound effects.
Ease of Use
Extremely limited, very menu intensive, not at all user intuitive.
Quality
Built like the best paper weight ever made.
Value
It's equivalent to one of those novelty cheesy synth stomp boxes that winds up in a pawn shop for $125
Manufacturer Support
The company is obviously not going to allow you to have the same sounds on their expensive synthesizers in this box unless they can sell you special pickups and deal with tracking issues.
The Wow Factor
Looks great, built a nice looking box, unfortunately it's a way over priced useless box.
Musical Background:
Guitar, bass, synth and drummer for 30 years, studio musician
Musical Style:
Rock, pop, dance,
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