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BOSS ME-8 TURBO FACTS

The ME-8 Guitar Multiple Effects is a BOSS pedal board-style unit, which
combines impressive proprietary technology with the most popular BOSS effects.
It has 100 Patches, 50 User and 50 Preset, plus an easy to use manual mode and built in tuner.

Selecting Patches
There are 4 Groups each with 5 Banks of 5 Patches. Groups 1 & 2 are User, 3 & 4 are Presets.

1. Press GROUP.
2. Pressing a numbered pedal selects the GROUP.
3. Press the BANK foot switch.
4. Pressing a numbered pedal selects the BANK.
5. Pressing a numbered pedal selects the Patch.

The Tuner

1. Press TUNER, or an FS-5U connected to TUNER REMOTE.
2. Play a note, the letter will appear in the display.
3. Tune value will show up on the LED's. Activating the tuner mutes the sound.

Manual Mode
There is one additional memory for manual mode.

1. Press MANUAL or an FS-5U connected to the MANUAL REMOTE input.
2. Effects can be turned on/off with the pedals.

Delay Remain
Delay Remain makes transition between patch changes smooth when the newly selected patch doesn't have Delay and/or Reverb on.

1. Turn DELAY on. (If you're not in edit mode, press EDIT and press the BANK pedal).
2. Press WRITE twice to write the patch into 1-1-1.
3. Patch 1-1-2 has DELAY off. Play staccato note or chord and change to Patch 1-1-2 with out DELAY.

Patch Editing
Parameters are a matrix directly below effect type. Four PARAMETER buttons select the parameters. The LED on the right shows where you are. VALUE up and down buttons change the value of the parameter and foot pedals turn effects on/off.

1. Select patch 1-1-1. Press EDIT.
2. Use the foot switches to turn effects on or off.
3. PARAMETER to select the MASTER effects.
4. Use VALUE to modify the Level.
5. PARAMETER down twice to GUITAR AMP SIMULATOR.
6. Use VALUE to select [S] or [L] cabinet sizes.

Writing A Patch Into Memory
There are 100 patch location (plus one manual mode patch). The first 50 are user programmable.

1. Make desired modification, then press WRITE.
2. You can write this patch into any user location.
3. Press WRITE again and the patch will be saved.

Programming the Crunch (EDIT Mode)

1. Press EDIT, use pedal 2 to turn the OD/DS on.
2. PARAMETER left/right to select 2: OD/DS.
3. VALUE up/down to TYPE and try them.
4. PARAMETER up/down to select other OD/DS parameters including DRIVE, TREBLE, BASS & LEVEL and set them to your liking.
5. ORDER swaps position of EQ and OD/DS.

The Noise Suppressor (EDIT Mode)

1. PARAMETER to select MASTER.
2. PARAMETER down to NS Threshold and use VALUE up till the noise disappears.

The Harmonist (EDIT Mode)

1. PARAMETER to 4:HARMONIST. Press pedal 4 to activate it.
2. PARAMETER up/down to type and select [Hr].
3. PARAMETER down to KEY, VALUE to one you are comfortable with.
4. To set the two intervals, PARAMETER up to PITCH and VALUE up or down for two octaves. (Use PARAMETER left/right to select between PITCH 1 & 2. Selection will be indicated with the LED at the top of the row).
5. Turn the OD/DS effect on/off to check out the HARMONIST with clean and crunch settings.
6. Press pedal 4 to turn the HARMONIST off.

Bells, Whistles & Real Time Effects
Programming unique effects and real time control to the controller CTR pedal:

1. PARAMETER left/right to select MASTER.
2. PARAMETER to ASSIGN (CTR). VALUE to [2-1] FEEDBACKER.
3. Try effect- play a note and step on the pedal.
4. VALUE to [2-3] RING MODULATOR, [2-4] INTELLIGENT R.M., & [3] SLOW ATTACK. Try these unique effects with the guitar.
5. VALUE to [5-1] ARM DOWN 1. Experiment with the pressure sensitivity of the CTR pedal.
6. CTR pedal can do the same TEMPO function as the TEMPO foot switch plugged in back.
7. CTR pedal can do REMOTE effects on/off.