Boss's GX-100 Guitar Effects Processor is its smartest Multi-FX unit yet - with Cool Touch Screen, and Blue Tooth Support Onboard

The GX-100 is the latest evolution of Boss’s Guitar Effects Processor platform evolving from the GT-1000 - where it’s intended as the ultimate Mid-Level Multi-FX unit.

Its new interface gives you a more creative means to organise your signal chain - where the screen’s touch-control gives you unprecedented hands-on control for more immediate changes and edits. This is combined with Blue Tooth support - such that you can buy a snap-on Blue Tooth Module for just €49 / $55 / £42 equivalent - such that you can control everything direct from Boss’s Tone Studio App.

The GX-100 unit is a very slightly stripped down affair - where you have 15 effects blocks at your disposal versus the 24 of the GT-1000 and CORE. You largely have the same banks of effects overall - and that slightly more intuitive interface to make everything go more smoothly.

This is Boss’s challenger essentially to Line 6’s Pod Go - it is slightly wider in stature but otherwise has a comparable feature set and functions - where Boss’ key comparative benefits are the Touch Screen and Blue Tooth Support.

I will be looking forward to seeing the Blue Tooth and Touch-Screen support on eventually forthcoming flagship GT-1000 varieties - that will surely come within a year or two. I’m really excited for the potential of these new features on those flagship devices - in combination with various suggestions I made during my in-depth review of the GT-1000 CORE - some of which issues have been tackled - while the majority of what I raised still rings true today.

The GX-100 marks a new high water-mark for Boss’s Multi-FX Units - and it shows considerable progress and evolution in interface design - which I have often felt (screen-wise) was traditionally one of Boss’s weaknesses.

It will be interesting to see all the demos to see how much ’on-rails’ the assignable blocks are - or whether this offers some more inherent flexibility compared to what has come before!

I went to see the Musical Six recently at London’s Vaudeville Theatre on the Strand, and spotted what looked rather like a GT-1000 from a great distance - it looked to be circa that form factor albeit impossible to tell 100% from the back of the central circle. I would imagine the GX-100 would be the perfect candidate for such a usage scenario - giving you rapid access to multiple voicings within an extensive and swiftly changing musical repertoire!