Boss ME-30

[Monster Zero]

Just picked one up for very little $$. I've been surprised with it.
I'll be honest I didn't even try it out in the store because I got it
for 20 bux. Pairs very well with my Bad monkey and my Weeping Demon
Wah. One thing I've noticed is if you keep away from extreme settings
in the distortions you can get some very nice and controllable crunch
out of it. The chorus is lush and the delay and flanger are both
pretty good. The pitch shifter on it is probably the worst I've ever
used but I have no use for a pitch shifter any way. The compressor
works nicely for a little more punch and sustain and the noise gate
works fine. The wah on it is serviceable but I like the wide sweep of
my WD-7 much better.

Not crazy about the display as it's not visible enough for me when
standing. Whatever plastic it is made of is very durable and even with
this thing being almost 10 years old the switches are still super
tight. I do not like that the tuner has to be disengaged the same way
you engage it by depressing two buttons at once. In the cheapy MFX
dept this thing ranks above my ZOOM G2 "sound wise" easily. Very
natural sounding through my Fender 75 head and a closed back 4x12 of
Eminence Alnico V's with no digital clipping when paired with the Bad
Monkey which is something I've fought with the ZOOM. I wouldn't say
I've found my Holy Grail but I'd gig it with the 3 patches I've built
on it so far. As I said earlier if you keep it away from extreme
settings it performs great! Overall it's definitely a "diamond in the
rough" find.

[Monster Zero]

Post by Monster Zero
Just picked one up for very little $$. I've been surprised with it.
I'll be honest I didn't even try it out in the store because I got it
for 20 bux. Pairs very well with my Bad monkey and my Weeping Demon
Wah. One thing I've noticed is if you keep away from extreme settings
in the distortions you can get some very nice and controllable crunch
out of it. The chorus is lush and the delay and flanger are both
pretty good. The pitch shifter on it is probably the worst I've ever
used but I have no use for a pitch shifter any way. The compressor
works nicely for a little more punch and sustain and the noise gate
works fine. The wah on it is serviceable but I like the wide sweep of
my WD-7 much better.
Not crazy about the display as it's not visible enough for me when
standing. Whatever plastic it is made of is very durable and even with
this thing being almost 10 years old the switches are still super
tight. I do not like that the tuner has to be disengaged  the same way
you engage it by depressing two buttons at once.  In the cheapy MFX
dept this thing ranks above my ZOOM G2 "sound wise" easily. Very
natural sounding through my Fender 75 head and a closed back 4x12 of
Eminence Alnico V's with no digital clipping when paired with the Bad
Monkey which is something I've fought with the ZOOM. I wouldn't say
I've found my Holy Grail but I'd gig it with the 3 patches I've built
on it so far. As I said earlier if you keep it away from extreme
settings it performs great! Overall it's definitely a "diamond in the
rough" find.

Couple things I forgot.. The reverbs are decent but I don't use them
use because both my main amps have very good built in reverb and also
If I were to describe the crunch I get on it I'd say it definitely has
it own sound, I wouldn't call it "Marshall like" or anything like
that. I guess the "Crunch" setting I use is supposed to be the same as
a DS-1 but I find it better than any DS-1 I've had. Not that the DS-1
is a bad pedal but this is better. I also have not used the amp sim on
it yet through anything direct so I can't comment on that but I own
Guitar Rig 2 so I doubt I'll ever use this thing for recording direct
but I may try it just to see how it does.

["Monster Zero" >]

Post by Monster Zero
Just picked one up for very little $$. I've been surprised with it.
I'll be honest I didn't even try it out in the store because I got it
for 20 bux. Pairs very well with my Bad monkey and my Weeping Demon
Wah. One thing I've noticed is if you keep away from extreme settings
in the distortions you can get some very nice and controllable crunch
out of it. The chorus is lush and the delay and flanger are both
pretty good. The pitch shifter on it is probably the worst I've ever
used but I have no use for a pitch shifter any way. The compressor
works nicely for a little more punch and sustain and the noise gate
works fine. The wah on it is serviceable but I like the wide sweep of
my WD-7 much better.
Not crazy about the display as it's not visible enough for me when
standing. Whatever plastic it is made of is very durable and even with
this thing being almost 10 years old the switches are still super
tight. I do not like that the tuner has to be disengaged the same way
you engage it by depressing two buttons at once. In the cheapy MFX
dept this thing ranks above my ZOOM G2 "sound wise" easily. Very
natural sounding through my Fender 75 head and a closed back 4x12 of
Eminence Alnico V's with no digital clipping when paired with the Bad
Monkey which is something I've fought with the ZOOM. I wouldn't say
I've found my Holy Grail but I'd gig it with the 3 patches I've built
on it so far. As I said earlier if you keep it away from extreme
settings it performs great! Overall it's definitely a "diamond in the
rough" find.

So anyway my point was if you see one of these for cheap don't be afraid to
buy it just cos it looks "cheap". There are some pretty good tones hidden
away in that little blue box and it's built much more solid than it looks.