Boss has a long tradition of providing effects processors for guitar and bass. From it's instantly recognizable individual stomp boxes to fully fledged multi effect processors, Boss continues to improve upon the science of digital modelling and realism for digitally generated guitar sounds.

GT stands for 'great tone' and the distortion sounds do represent a big leap forward primarily due to how the pick attack and dynamics react against your playing, just as if you were playing through a real tube amp. Of course there is still a massive way to go before digital modelling could ever come close to a tube amp but nonetheless these effects processors are improving.

As you'd expect from Boss the range and quality of the effects in this unit are excellent and you pretty much get the entire range of Boss pedals. Almost all user reviews describe them as very transparent, powerful and crystal clear. The unit gives you a lot of possibilities in terms of how you mould your guitar sound and on the front end of the unit it's tried to make it very simple and easy, even for complete novices, to achieve a good quality guitar tone across a wide range of genres.

On a personal note I didn't like the Wah Wah sounds so much but having said that it's always possible to use your own external wah pedal. The unit is build like a tank, looks great and seems very roadworthy. I would expect to see it being used a lot by local musicians gigging around town especially due to its portability and sound versatility.

For the bedroom musician practising at home it's an ideal toy to play around with and some of the sounds you can achieve with the Boss GT-10 are huge! Go and try one out.