Boss ME-70 - A Review

For years I accept acclimated a Boss ME-50 as a added multi-effects pedalboard to my capital furnishings system. I accept a huge pedalboard that contains just about every aftereffect I could possibly want, but therein lies the problem. For quick gigs, practices, or added occasions area I charge to be mobile, a 50 batter pedalboard can be absolutely a hassle. The ME-50 has been a advantage in extenuative me both time and trouble. Just if I admitting it couldn't get any better, Boss alien the ME-70. Suffice it to say, it's gotten better...a lot better.
For starters, the ME-70 just apparent looks better. Don't get me wrong. I don't adjudicator a pedalboard based on its color, but the atramentous ME-70 just looks a lot added able than the baby-blue ME-50. In the looks department, the ME-70 is just sharper.
But looks aren't everything. It's what's beneath the awning that counts. That's area the ME-70 absolutely shines, too. It's got the agnate of 40 Boss furnishings pedals beneath the hood, and these are the aforementioned Boss furnishings sounds that we've all collapsed in adulation with over the years. All my admired overdrives, distortions, delays, and accentuation furnishings from the ME-50 and my old Boss pedals are all here.
But the ME-70 has a few tricks of its own. I acclimated to abstain multi-effects boads with congenital preamps because I never acclimated the preamp section. Then, one day I had a gig area my amp died, and I had to go absolute from my pedalboard into the P.A. Ugh! It articulate horrible. Fortunately, the ME-70 has a congenital COSM preamp that it calmly bypassed if you don't charge the preamp sound, but if you're anytime in a bearings area you charge to go direct, the ME-70 could be a lifesaver. It could even be the alone account you yield for some gigs.
Another acceptable accession to the Boss ME-7o is the onboard looper. Boss makes abundant looping pedals, and if you've anytime acclimated a Boss Bend Station, you'll admit the aforementioned Boss superior actuality as well. The looper gives you up to 38 abnormal of bend time, which is aberrant for a non-dedicated looper.
One of my admired furnishings is compression, and that was consistently a shortcoming of the ME-50. The compressor didn't accept its own pedal, and the controls were appealing meager. Fortunately, the engineers at Boss saw fit to add a committed compressor area to the ME-70. Smart thinking.
Of course, all the abundant things about the ME-50 are still here. There's adjustable reverb and babble abolishment as able-bodied as the rocker pedal area you can get wah, volume, and pitch-shifting furnishings control.
So, if you're searching for a world-class multi-effects pedal that will not breach the bank, you should absolutely analysis out the Boss ME-70, a aces almsman to the ME-50.