Boss GX-100 AIRD Touch Screen Guitar Effects Processor

Color Your Music with Inspiring Tone

Fusing advanced BOSS tone technologies into a sleek, ultra-modern hardware design, the inspiring GX-100 delivers top-level performance everywhere you play. Explore 23 AIRD amplifiers and over 150 effects derived from the flagship GT-1000, and craft great sounds in seconds with the intuitive color touch display. Up to 15 simultaneous effect blocks provide unlimited tone possibilities, coupled with deep real-time command via onboard footswitches, an expression pedal, and external control support.

Features

• Powerful, easy-to-use amp/effects processor for guitar and bass
• 24-bit AD/DA, 32-bit floating-point processing, and 48 kHz sampling rate
• Authentic tube amplifier tone and touch response with AIRD technology
• 23 amplifier types and over 150 BOSS effects
• Ultra-flexible amp/effect routing with 15 assignable blocks
• Wide selection of onboard speaker types and support for loading WAV speaker IRs
• Streamlined modern design with intuitive color touch display and rugged metal chassis
• Unlimited effects control with freely assignable onboard footswitches and expression pedal with toe switch
• Connect up to two footswitches or an expression pedal for expanded control
• Send/return loop for external pedals or four-cable method
• Control jack for remote channel switching on your amplifier
• MIDI I/O jacks and multi-channel computer recording via USB
• Edit sounds from your computer with BOSS Tone Studio for macOS and Windows
• Download and share Livesets at BOSS Tone Exchange
• Optional Bluetooth® Audio MIDI Dual Adaptor allows you to edit sounds and stream audio from an iOS or Android mobile device

Specifications

Sampling Frequency

48 kHz

AD Conversion

24 bits + AF method
AF method (Adaptive Focus method) This is a proprietary method from Roland & BOSS that vastly improves the signal-to-noise (SN) ratio of the AD and DA converters.

DA Conversion

24 bits

Processing

32-bit floating point

Effects

154 Types

Maximum Number of Effects

15+3 (DIVIDER/MIXER, SEND/RETURN, PHRASE LOOP)
*depending on the circumstances

Memories

200 (User) + 100 (Preset)

Phrase Loop

38 sec. (MONO)
19 sec. (STEREO)

Tuner Internal Detection

+/-0.1 cent

Nominal Input Level

INPUT: -10 dBu
RETURN: -10 dBu

Maximum Input Level

INPUT: +18 dBu
RETURN1: +8 dBu

Input Impedance

INPUT: 1 M ohm
RETURN: 1 M ohm

Nominal Output Level

OUTPUT (L/MONO, R): -10 dBu
PHONES: -10 dBu
SEND: -10 dBu

Output Impedance

OUTPUT (L/MONO, R): 1 k ohm
PHONES: 44 ohms
SEND: 1 k ohm

Recommended Load Impedance

OUTPUT (L/MONO, R): 10 k ohms or greater
PHONES: 44 ohms or greater
SEND: 10 k ohms or greater

Controls

BANK DOWN switch, BANK UP switch, CTL1 switch, CTL2/TUNER switch, 1--4 switches, POWER switch, EXP1 switch, GND LIFT switch

EFFECTS button, CTL/EXP button, MENU button, EXIT button, WRITE button, IN/OUT SETTINGS button, PAGE button,1--4 knobs

SELECT knob, OUTPUT LEVEL knob, EXP1 pedal

Display

Color Graphic LCD (480 x 272 dots) Touch screen

Connectors

INPUT jack, OUTPUT (L/MONO, R) jacks, SEND jack, RETURN jack: 1/4-inch phone type
PHONES jack: Stereo 1/4-inch phone type
CTL3, 4/EXP2 jack, AMP CTL1, 2 jack: 1/4-inch TRS phone type
MIDI (IN, OUT) connectors
USB COMPUTER port: USB B type
Bluetooth ADAPTOR connector: Dedicated connector
DC IN jack

Power Supply

AC adaptor

Current Draw

1.2 A

Accessories

AC adaptor (PSB-1U + AC Cord Set)
Owner's manual
Leaflet "USING THE UNIT SAFELY"

Options (sold separately)

Footswitch: FS-5U, FS-5L, FS-6, FS-7
Expression Pedal: EV-30, FV-500L, FV-500H, Roland EV-5
Bluetooth(R) Audio MIDI Dual Adaptor: BT-DUAL
Carry Bag: CB-ME80