I just recently traded a bunch of older Boss Guitar Pedals for this thing because I am focusing on Bass these days and this thing in more than I expected.

I have been using Boss Guitar Pedals for 15 years now and this is the first time I got a Boss Bass Pedal and I must say that this is the best sound in the business. Even for the price this thing is a steal. The only down fall is that you have to buy a separate foot controller to change bank settings live, but other than that, there is no reason not to get it. It even sounds good with my Gibson Explorer!

I play many different styles of music, but no matter what style I'm playing that day, I always have my Boss effects handy. I've been using this pedal set for 2 years now and the rest of my band mates agree it's a good buy when running through my Ampeg and Spectors

When I bought this unit in march of 08, I was wanting a simple tuner with a muting switch and an easy-to-use noise gate. It will easily tune down to low B flat(I've never tested it lower, I can't report on that). I tested the tuner against my Peterson strob, I can verify the tuner is plenty close enough for live work, and you can see it in the pitch dark very well! The gate works PERFECT for me (I'm an established guitarist also, so I play cleaner than the average bassist). The synth stuff is as good (or as bad,depending on how you look at it) as anything out there (I also play synth on a Korg M50 live, obviously I have no use for the synth section). The wah I suppose is decent, but I have no use for it, so I'd say it "is what it is". When I bought it, I never considered using the eq section, but I do actually use it. The key to this unit, it adds NO noise into your chain whatsoever (This to me was the most important issue on adding something into my chain, and I tested it extensively)! VERY DURABLE product! Even tho I take very good care of my gear, there is NO sign of any problems yet, playing out 100 times with the unit already without a single glitch. I've even recorded some solo stuff using it as my pre (I still like going straight in generally speaking, old-school I guess).. If your looking for a synth, then BUY A REAL SYNTH, a bass is NOT a synth. But for the "I want a weird sound" kind-of-guy, the synth section might work for you. I play in a 3 piece, so I have to fill-in during leads, the octave up, adding a distortion to that octave doesn't sound that bad live (By itself it sounds like crap, but in the mix it does kind-of work). Put this rig behind a Warwick, into a Markbass (my rigging), you WILL be HAPPY!!!! I promise you! StudioMan

For the price you have to pay this is a good deal, but I have to warn you, the distorions (overdrive, metal, distorion, muff fuzz) suck! So I really advice you to get another pedal for that, I already owned a boss ODB-3 (overdrive) and I kept using that.

Another thing, the wha-wha pedal isn't the best one out there but it does the job, I also own a morley wha, for a quick gig or jam the one on this board wil do.

The rest of the effects are good, but obviously not the best out there.

My advice... If you have the money, don't buy a multi-effect. If you're on a tight budget this multi-effect is your way to go.

Individual pedals are always better! But expensive

The sounds out of this thing are pretty darn good considering the price point. I'm not totally sold on some of the filter section settings, but I don't believe any pedal can really make an electric bass sound like an acoustic convincingly. The distortions are different enough from each other and do a pretty decent job of hitting their mark.

Using the external switch you can adjust the speed of the delays and the phaser and flanger, which is nice to get things coordinated. I just wish there were more options for delay and chorus/phaser/flanger than they have there. They had to cut corners somewhere though.

The octave tracking is so-so. It produces a sound, it doesn't actually take your sound down or up an octave, so the added octave sounds nothing like your tone. Still, it fills out the sound a bit. This is not true for the whammy setting, which does move your pitch. If I want to simply switch my sound up or down an octave I use the whammy setting as it's more convincing.

The best part about this pedal though is that it's like using three stomp boxes at any given time. You don't need to mess with menus or anything complicated like that. Just set the top knobs to what you want that pedal to do, dial it in just like you would on that stomp box and click it on or off. Simple.

The Kick Drum feature is a nice bonus as it can set up a really audible metronome blasting through your amp.

If you want something simple to take to gigs or if you play a lot in tight venues or if you're still trying to figure out what sounds you need, this is absolutely the way to go. There's no amp modeling on this thing which is GOOD because hopefully you bought an amp that you LIKE the sound of. To me the fact that this is pretty much the only decent Multi-Effects unit out there that doesn't have amp modeling is one of the best reasons to go with this.

By the way, this works great with guitar too. The guitar one doesn't have synth models, so if you're into that, this might be the guy for you. Fewer distortion options (who needs 8 distortion types anyway?) and slightly less flexible modulation with delay/reverb, but that's the trade off you make.

It's a solid buy.