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Mike Vegas(Nice Rack Canada)talks about ES-8
Mike Vegas is a world-renowned designer/fabricator of a custom pedalboard and rack system building shop, Nice Rack Canada. He talks about the BOSS ES-8 Effects Switching System based on his professional expertise and experience.
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ES-8 Effects Switching System
Foot-Stomping Creativity. The ES-8 Effects Switching System begins life with a sharp and clear mission: to provide pro and high-end users with cool and creative solutions.
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Quick Start 1: Connecting Your Equipment
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 2: Saving and Recalling a Patch
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 3: Switching Between Memory and Manual Modes
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 4: Changing the Effect Loop Connection Order
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 5: Making a Parallel Connection
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 6: Specifying Carryover
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 7: Switching the Amp's Channels
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 8: Using the External Footswitch to Change the Delay Time
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
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Quick Start 9: Switching a MIDI-Equipped Effects Unit's Memory
These Quick Start Videos contain step-by-step instructions that will quickly introduce you to its major features.
Flex Your Routability with the ES-8
One of the ES-8’s key features is its innovative routing flexibility, which provides the ability to easily rearrange the order of a chain of stompbox effects. This gives professional guitarists the ability to access a wide array of effect combinations, offering total creative freedom to achieve the unique sounds that they desire. In addition, the ES-8’s parallel chain function increases the effect combination options further, thereby expanding the final sound variation capability exponentially. What’s more, all of these programmed configurations can be saved for instant access during a live performance.
Isn’t it about Time You Got Connected?
Supporting the ES-8’s superior functionality is its comprehensive connectivity, which empowers this amazing switcher to do the job it does. In addition to the eight effect loops on board, there are three TRS control output jacks, two TRS expression output jacks, and two TRS control/expression input jacks. MIDI capability is also included for integrating seamlessly with MIDI-controlled stomp effects. These centralized controls make the ES-8 even more powerful as a total command center of sound creativity. Of course, as is consistent throughout the ES-8 system, all of these control settings are also storable.
Protects the Purity of Your Precious Tone
In addition to routing capability and connectivity, the ES-8 pays particular attention to sound quality. It’s designed in a way that does not contribute to sound deterioration, keeping your tone pure and free of noise. These results are accomplished by carefully designed analog circuitry developed with the know-how, experience, and design expertise of the Boss engineering team. In further regard to tone pureness, the ES-8 is equipped with input and output buffers that can be turned on and off independently as needed to suit any rig.
Pro-Level Design for Gig Durability
The ES-8 effect switching system is more than just a smartly designed tool for the creation of awesome sounds. It is also a handsome piece of hardware that is going to look really good on your pedalboard. Built with durable mechanical functions in a road-tough design, the ES-8 combines huge technical innovations with small useful conveniences. Memory capability with 800 patches, a large display with extensive naming capacity, and robust responsive foot switches with full assignability are just a few of the features that make this switcher the choice of the pros.
