BOSS ES-8 Effects Switching System: A 101 demo/tour.

http://www.boss.info/products/es-8/
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Despite some seriously great effects switchers having been on the market for some years, there's no doubt in my mind that the release of the Boss ES-8 is a milestone of that technology group. Put simply, it outshines most or all of the competition with important features like the ability to route switch effects loops in any order you please and in series or parallel. Add to that full MIDI capability; stereo sends and returns; dedicated external control, volume and tuner interfaces; patch assignable input and output buffers and it's a tough proposition to pass up. I love it so much I had an entirely new board built around it (at my own cost, for those wondering). I'm glad I did because it's full of possibility and discovery, the two greatest inspirations I look for when creating.

For your reference, these are the pedals on my board and their corresponding effects loop numbers.

Loop 1: Origin Cali76 Compressor
Loop 2: Bondi Effects Sick As OD
Loop 3: Wampler Plexi Drive Deluxe
Loop 4: Tech 21 OMG OD/Distortion
Loop 5: Strymon Mobius - 8th position
Loop 6: GFI System Clockwork Delay
Loop 7: Eventide H9 Max (stereo)
Loop 8: GFI System Specular Reverb (stereo)
Volume pedal: Mission VM-PRO
Tuner: HardWire Polyphonic Tuner

The Gentleman pedalboard was built by Chris Hine at Caseman (also C&C Cases). See: http://www.pedalboardsbycaseman.com.au and my video showing it off at    • Gentleman Pedalboards: Caseman  

The pedals were chosen by me and incredibly well installed and wired by Jack Hudson using only Free The Tone solderless cable, jacks and DC jacks See: http://www.freethetone.com/en/product.... The entire board is powered by a single T-Rex Goliath. Visit Jack Hudson at https://www.facebook.com/jack.hudson.... and http://www.jackhudsonproductions.com/

Further videos featuring this board and the ES-8 are forthcoming.

Today's tools:

Guitar: Palir Guitars "White Knight" T-Style with Porter Pickups (See: http://www.palirguitars.com and http://www.porterpickups.com)
Amps: Marshall Bluesbreaker combo RI (left); ROLA JTM-45 and Palmer 1x12 cabinet (right). The amp and cab both run Greenbacks.
Extra effects: See above.
Cables: Providence
Mic: Shure SM57 (ROLA); Violet Design The Amethyst (Marshall); Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera : Canon 60D (me) and Sony HDR CX150 (pedal)
Soundcard: AVID Mbox Pro 3
Computer: Apple iMac 27" i7 3.4 GHz 16 GB RAM
Software: Pro Tools 11, Waves L3-16 Limiter (to keep levels in check at output), Apple Final Cut Pro X (video editing and Youtube compression).