Beastly Guitar Effects in a Compact Pedal
The BOSS GX-1 serves up pro-grade tone and features in a compact guitar effects processor pedal. Whether you’re practicing, recording, playing local clubs, or hitting the road, the GX-1 delivers the top-tier performance you expect from a BOSS pedal. Loaded with premium guitar amps and effects, the GX-1 endlessly fuels your creativity, while its intuitive top-panel layout, high-resolution color display, and proprietary Gear Suite software make sound creation quick and easy. Powerful, portable, and nearly indestructible, the GX-1 is brimming with inspiring sounds for guitar players of every musical persuasion — from beginners to touring professionals who need a do-it-all pedal with world-class sound. Sweetwater’s take: Don’t be misled by its affordable price and petite dimensions — the GX-1 is a beast!
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Professional sounds for every guitarist
Packed with 23 highly responsive AIRD amps, complemented by over 140 effects from the massive BOSS library, the GX-1 is the embodiment of decades of BOSS guitar sound development in a compact, versatile processor pedal. With eight concurrent blocks and adjustable effect order, plus a volume/expression pedal and onboard noise suppression, you can quickly conjure custom guitar rigs for any genre and songs on your set list. And once you’ve created your sounds, you can assign the GX-1’s footswitches and volume/expression pedal to control anything you want, from simply turning effects on or off to tweaking one or more parameter settings at once.
Quick and easy sound crafting
In the heat of a live gig, you don’t want to be fiddling with a complex multi-effects processor. That’s why BOSS designed the GX-1 for frustration-free sound crafting. Whether you’re editing presets or building sounds from scratch, the GX-1 makes it quick and easy to design and save your custom sounds. Inspired by the GX-100 and GX-10 interfaces, which are acclaimed for their user friendliness, the GX-1 employs hexagon-shaped effect buttons that give you instant visual representation of sound categories. You can use them to turn effects on or off with a toe tap or to access detailed parameters with a long press. There are 99 memories loaded with ready-to-play presets, plus 99 user memories for storing your custom sound creations.
Gear Suite, Tone Studio, and more
The GX-1 features Gear Suite, a powerful feature for quickly dialing in amp and effect sounds. With each amp/effect type containing multiple Gear Suite factory settings, you can call up a complete set of professionally curated parameters with the twist of a knob. Of course, you can edit the effect settings to taste and save your personalized patches in Gear Suite user memories for instant recall. When you’re ready to work on your chops, dive into BOSS Tone Studio’s Session feature, which lets you play along with songs and lessons on YouTube, complete with speed adjustment, A/B comparisons, a metronome, and rhythm tracks. And don’t forget to check out BOSS Tone Exchange inside the app for access to amazing pro sounds. Editing tools are also available for fine-tuning effects and organizing your sounds.
BOSS GX-1 Features:
- Compact guitar FX processor pedal with premium BOSS sound and features
- Intuitive top-panel layout with high-resolution color display and effect category buttons
- Authentic tube amp tone and response, powered by AIRD technology
- Excellent audio quality with 24-bit AD, 32-bit DA conversion, 48kHz sampling rate, 32-bit floating-point processing, and onboard noise suppression
- Loaded with 23 amp types and 140+ BOSS FX; 8 concurrent FX blocks
- Gear Suite lets you quickly configure amp and effect combinations with a single knob
- 99 ready-to-rock preset memories and 99 user memories for storing custom patches
- 3 footswitches and volume/expression pedal with toe switch (both assignable)
- Onboard Bluetooth lets you play along with music streamed from mobile devices
- USB-C port for recording with DAW software on your computer or mobile device
- Compatible with BOSS Tone Studio app (macOS/Windows/iOS/Android)
- Download and share Livesets on BOSS Tone Exchange
- Support for loading WAV speaker IRs
- Expansion jack for additional footswitch or expression pedal
- Supports optional FS-1-WL wireless footswitch and EV-1-WL wireless expression pedal
- 1/4-in. input, L/R output jacks, and external pedal input; 3.5mm TRS headphone jack
- Powered via AA batteries, AC adapter, or USB (computer bus power or mobile battery)
- Compact, lightweight chassis easily fits in the pocket of your gig bag
