| The BOSS ME-33 Page Trying to REmember Everything I can about the BOSS Replacement I had for the ME-6 and Digitech RP-200A for a short time |
 The BOSS ME-33 MultiEffects was released soemtime around 2002 or so, and was a Patch/Bank based Digital Multieffects unit in the same vein as the ME-6, but offered Amp Modeling to compete with products by Behringer/Digitech/Line6 at the time. It also could be used on batteries as a headphone practice station, and had some unique effects built in such an arpeggiator, intelligent pitch shifter, and a feedbacker effect (all three I used a TON for the brief period I was using this device). It also offered an expression pedal for wah wah effects and volume swell effects. It offered no computer based editing options nor MIDI, so making presets was 100% Manual just like the ME-6 before it for me.
I bought mine in the summer of 2004 after my first Digitech RP product shit the bed from getting showered in cat pee (I lived with a crazy cat lady of a mom where moody cats would destroy my floor-bound electronics on the frequent). I think I paid something like....$54 for it or something on e-bay? It was a long time ago. This one suffered the same fate but kept working after the cat piss. THe problem was, I could no longer effectively use it because the display was shot so seeing parameters for editing was impossible. This lead to me buying the Behringer Vamp Pro to get all the FX stuff off the floor. This board had some GREAT features though. Even though it was incredibly hard to dial in (not much unlike the Boss ME-6), it ran on batteries so I could jam out electric with full distortion, even when the power was out (which happened a lot in Alabama in those days), and a lot of the effects options allowed for some really cool sounds. |
