And, of course, tweak and memorize our sounds with many guitar amps and effects to choose from, taken from the Boss GT-1.

I still feed the music tracks from the JS-10 into the Pocket GT using a Bluetooth transmitter, but the sound coming from the Pocket GT is much better that from the JS-10. The app has a number of features: The “Smart Jam” function, which effectively listens to you play and can then creates auto-generated bass and drum tracks to accompany it. From there, the application recognizes them (with title included) and shows them to us on a screen of its own interface, where we can add bookmarks. If you’re super exquisite or need very specific high-quality sounding effects, look at the next option. Just having chosen a more jovial color than black would have subtracted some of the 1996 CD player aesthetic.Control volume and wah, change patches, operate video playback, and more—all with a cable-free connection.

As we’ve already established, this is fast becoming the standard for many do-it-all products, so what’s different here?You can also download tonnes of fantastic patches at Boss Tone Central to inspire you and expand your performance palette. That's pretty great, but what really impressed me is that you can pick a random YouTube video and pull it into the in-app player and use it as a lesson, with all the same controls, which include pitch-corrected alternate playback speeds. Selecting effects and amp models is a breeze and the signal path can be rearranged if you need some effects before or after your amp block. As a result, the Pocket GT boasts over 100 world-class amps and effects in a process that fits in your pocket. Let's say you're learning a Pink Floyd song - paste the relevant video URL into the app and then setup all the sounds you need for the intro, verse, chorus and solo section.

Furthermore, because the Pocket GT and GT-1 are in the same family, you can share amp and effects setups between each of the units via the Boss Tone Studio editors. By default they're mapped to Gain, Level, Reverb, OD/DS amount, Mod and Delay levels, but can be re-assigned if required to whatever you use the most. For more control and the ability to make more detailed edits to the huge amount of inbuilt effects, you can use the free Boss Tone Studio app.

At its heart, the diminutive Pocket GT is based on the same core technology as Boss' GT1 floor unit. I dare say that the Boss Pocket GT is the first of its kind: it’s a combination of multi-effects and a Bluetooth remote control for YouTube, designed to make our practice sessions more profitable.

Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The app also boasts several editing tools for you to quickly and easily shape your sound however you want. Although we knew that this is a product designed from its conception to be paired with our smartphone, with a laptop in an OS environment (that is, a Macbook), it worked. However, there are some differences, such as that the desktop version of the Boss Tone Studio app must be controlled by connecting via traditional cable and not by Bluetooth. You can still stream the audio with Bluetooth and play along but you won't be able to use the session features.

It is an amp modeller , multi-effects unit and practice tool all in one, and it is about the size of a mobile phone. Making it a pedalboard option or even giving the option of purchasing separate pedals for tweaking things would have been huge. This phenomenon hasn't gone unnoticed by Boss and, with their Pocket GT, they are aiming to integrate YouTube use with a truly pocket-sized amp modeller and multi FX for the ultimate portable practice and learning setup.