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Boss VG 800 Guitar Processor Demo | NAMM 2025

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Ted Drozdowski
By Ted DrozdowskiJan 25, 2025
Ted Drozdowski

Editorial director Ted Drozdowski is an award-winning journalist and music historian, and a musician, songwriter, producer, and film consultant. He’s a maniac for slide and psychedelic guitar, and has toured and taught workshops internationally. Ted is also the proprietor of Coyote Motel, his psych-roots band, who star in the film The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South. Connect with him at ted@premierguitar.com.

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A blend of guitar and bass modeling and effects processing makes the NAMM-revealed VG-800 a killer sound machine. It does require Boss’ Serial GK divided pickup to open up all its capabilities, but that by-the-bridge-mounted device reveals a world of sound. You can summon up latency-free strings, harmony, modeled synth tones, and a lot more, including changing tunings to Boss’ presets or your own in a snap. The pedalboard-friendly encyclopedia of sound has a $649 street price and is available now.

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