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BOSS ME-8B TURBO FACTS

The ME-8B is a tough floor type multiple effects unit offering the extra expressiveness
bassists need. Maintaining the operational ease of the ME series, the ME-8B is powerful
enough to accommodate the sonic requirements of any bass player, easily and affordably.

Initializing the ME-8B

1. Turn power off.
2. Press/hold CURSOR DOWN & LEFT buttons.
3. Turn power on.
4. Press WRITE.

Calling Up Patches
The ME-8B has 64 patches; four groups each with four banks of four patches. Group 1 & 2 are user, 3 & 4 are presets. Here is how you call up the patches:

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

The Tuner

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

Manual Mode
Like having BOSS pedals on the floor. There is one additional memory for manual mode.

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

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 the EDIT button.
2. Use the foot switches to turn effects on or off.
3. PARAMETER to select the MASTER effects.
4. Use the VALUE buttons to modify the Level.

Writing A Patch Into Memory
There are 64 patch location (plus one manual mode patch). The first 32 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.

The Defretter (EDIT Mode)

1. Press EDIT, use the PARAMETER left/right to select DEFRETTER.
2. VALUE up/down to select TYPE [dF].
3. PARAMETER up/down to select ATTACK, SENS, DEPTH & LEVEL - set them to your liking

. The Synth Bass (EDIT Mode)

1. PARAMETER to 4: SYNTH BASS. Turn on with pedal 4.
2. PARAMETER to WAVE and try the different waveforms. (There are eight Synth Bass waveforms. The ninth selection is Touch Wah.)
3. PARAMETER to select LEVEL and Direct LEVEL and VALUE to set a balance between the normal and synth bass sounds.
4. There are eight parameters for programming SYNTH BASS. PARAMETER up/down and left/right buttons to select them, and VALUE to set them to your liking.
5. Press pedal 4 to turn the SYNTH BASS off.

Tap Tempo Modulation (EDIT Mode)
Program a patch using the Hi Band Flanger effect set to respond to the TEMPO foot switch:

1. PARAMETER to BANK: FLANGER. Press the BANK pedal to activate it.
2. PARAMETER to MODE and VALUE to [HFL].
3. PARAMETER to RATE and VALUE to [t-1].
4. PARAMETER to DEPTH and VALUE to [30].
5. PARAMETER to RESO and VALUE to [-90].
6. To set the rate, tap four times on the FS-5U foot switch, connected to the TEMPO In.
7. Turn the OD/DS effect on and off to check out the FLANGER with clean and crunch settings.
8. Press BANK pedal to turn the FLANGER off.

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

1. PARAMETER left/right to select MASTER.
2. PARAMETER to ASSIGN (CTR). VALUE to[1] PEDAL WAH.
3. Try this unique effect by playing a note and stepping on the pedal. Experiment with the pressure sensitivity of the CTR pedal.
4. VALUE to [2-1] RING MODULATOR, [2-2] INTELLIGENT R.M., & [3] SLOW ATTACK. Try these unique effects with the bass.
5. VALUE to [5-1] ARM DOWN 1. Experiment with the pressure sensitivity of the CTR pedal.
6. The CTR pedal can be set to SYNTH HOLD. Turn the SYNTH BASS on and try this.
7. CTR pedal can do the same TEMPO function as the TEMPO foot switch plugged in back.
8. CTR pedal can do REMOTE effects on/off.