Boss SY-1 Guitar Synthesizer...Huge Synth Sounds, Compact Pedal! - Review & Demo

Intro - 00:00 Overview & Features - 01:03 Sound Examples... Leads - 05:30 Pads - 07:04 Basses - 08:30 Strings - 09:45 Organs - 11:04 Bells - 12:10 SFX - 13:28 SEQ - 15:16 The latest addition to Boss’s range of iconic compact pedals, the SY-1 takes the tech from their groundbreaking SY-300 guitar synth and squeezes it into a more pedalboard friendly design with simplified, intuitive controls. There’s 11 sound categories to choose from, transforming your guitar into a classic sounding analog synth, with sounds ranging from layered pads and leads to phat basses, organs and other sound effects, and each category has 11 variations, so that’s a total of 121 onboard sounds to choose from. There’s two simple knobs to tweak either the synthesiser tone or the rate and the depth of any modulation, and all of the sounds are super responsive to your playing, reacting to dynamics, bends and vibrato really naturally and expressively. Unlike the guitar synths of a few years ago, just like it’s bigger brother the SY300, there’s no need for any specialist pickups to be fitted to your guitar, you just plug straight in with a standard 1/4” jack cable and select whether you’re using either a guitar or bass via the switch on the back of the pedal. It’s really impressive how well the pedal actually tracks what you play, with virtually zero latency and glitching, it works equally well with guitar or bass, and there’s separate volume controls allowing you to blend your original guitar tone...