Description

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 32 AIRD amplifiers and over 170 effects 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.

Standard Features

Powerful, easy-to-use amp/effects processor for guitar and bass
Exceptional audio quality with 24-bit AD and 32-bit DA conversion, 32-bit floating-point processing, and 48 kHz sampling rate
Authentic tube amplifier tone and touch response with AIRD technology
32 amplifier types and over 170 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

For optimal performance, stay up to date with the current GX-100 system software and BOSS Tone Studio.

Download “BTS for GX-100” for iOS
Download “BTS for GX-100” for Android
Download “BOSS TONE STUDIO for GX-100” for Windows/macOS

SPECIFICATIONS

Sampling Frequency48 kHzAD

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 Conversion32 bits

Processing32-bit floating point

Effects 170 Types

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

Memories200 (User) + 100 (Preset)Phrase Loop38 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 dBuInput 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

ControlsBANK 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 Draw1.2 A

Power consumption when in OFF mode (when the power automatically turns off)0.1 W

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
Carrying Case: CB-BM-M
Wireless MIDI Expression Pedal: EV-1-WL
Wireless Foot Switch: FS-1-WL

SIZE AND WEIGHT

Width460 mm
18-1/8 inches

Depth193 mm
7-5/8 inches

Height73 mm
2-7/8 inches

Maximum height94 mm
3-3/4 inchesWeight3.5 kg
7 lbs 12 oz