Boss GX-10

Colorful Tones, Portable Design

Players everywhere love the GX-100 for its streamlined design, free-flowing interface, and high-quality tones. Armed with the core GX-100 engine, the compact GX-10 brings you the same inspiring experience in an even more portable footprint. You get loads of AIRD amps and effects for covering every style, plus speedy sound building with the intuitive color touch display and panel knobs. Adding in multi-mode footswitches, an integrated expression pedal, and USB audio connectivity, the GX-10 seamlessly transitions from nightly stage performing to desktop recording, song creation, and daily practice sessions.

FEATURES

• Compact amp/effects processor for guitar and bass

• The same sound engine and color touch display as the GX-100 in a portable, travel-ready design

• 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 170 BOSS effects

• Ultra-flexible amp/effect routing up to 15 assignable blocks

• Wide selection of onboard speaker types and support for loading WAV speaker IRs

• Streamlined modern design with a rugged metal chassis

• Three footswitches with flexible control modes

• Onboard expression pedal with toe switch

• Connect up to two footswitches or an expression pedal for expanded control

• Send/return loop for external pedals

• Record and play tracks in music production software on a computer or mobile device* via a USB-C®

• Edit sounds from your computer with BOSS Tone Studio for macOS and Windows

• Download and share Livesets at BOSS Tone Exchange (compatible with GX-100 Livesets)

• Optional Bluetooth® Audio MIDI Dual Adaptor allows you to edit sounds and stream audio from an iOS or Android mobile device

*Compatibility with all third-party devices and software is not guaranteed.

No-Compromise Sound Quality
The GX-10 brings you a universe of ultra-responsive BOSS tone processing in a travel-ready size. Take on every playing situation with 23 guitar amps and nine bass amps, including high-gain X-Ultra, X-Optima, and X-Titan types crafted with our latest technologies. And let your imagination run wild with 170 effects, including overdrives and distortions, mod effects, delays, and reverbs, plus dedicated bass effects and BOSS classics like Slow Gear, Octave, Slicer, and more.  

Build Great Sounds Fast
The GX-10 enables fast sound creation with its inviting color touch display and four dynamic parameter knobs. Assign up to two amps and 15 effects in each memory. Create serial or parallel effect routings and change the order by dragging blocks with a finger on the screen. And patch in your go-to external pedals with the send/return loop. BOSS Tone Studio takes things even further, allowing you to edit sounds and load IRs from your computer or wirelessly tweak tones via our optional Bluetooth adaptor and the mobile version of the app.

Flexible Real-Time Command
Packing clever control options into a minimal layout, the GX-10 gives you powerful tools for real-time sound adjustment while performing. Versatile control modes provide maximum flexibility with just three footswitches. The expression pedal toggles between volume and wah and activates the tuner when you pull the pedal back. But you can customize it to control nearly anything you want with the GX-10’s assign matrix.

• Up/Down Mode—Simplify your rig by scrolling through memories one at a time. Set up basic memories for clean, crunch rhythm, and lead sounds. Or load up the 66 banks and 198 user memories with custom sounds for your set list and tap through them sequentially on stage. 

• Manual Mode—This reconfigures the footswitches to control three user-assignable targets. Use them like a pedalboard to turn effects on/off or kick in a solo boost. Or go deeper by changing up to 20 assignable parameters with just one press.

• Bank/Number Mode—This mode allows you to select memories within banks. It also unlocks the Current Number function, providing access to one or more parameters by pressing the switch for the currently loaded memory. Using this function, you can extend your tonal options for each memory with a solo boost, delay effect, or anything else you’d like to assign.

Organize and Record
In addition to editing, BOSS Tone Studio allows you to organize GX-10 sounds into Livesets for different gigs and playing situations. You can also access BOSS Tone Exchange within the app to download professionally created sounds and share GX-10 Livesets with the global BOSS community. GX-100 Livesets are fully compatible with the GX-10 as well. In addition, there’s a built-in USB-C audio interface for capturing high-quality guitar tones in music production apps on computers and mobile devices.

SPECIFICATIONS

Sampling Frequency: 48 kHz

AD 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 Conversion: 32 bits

Processing: 32-bit floating point

Effects: 170 Types

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

Memories: 198 (User) + 99 (Preset)
Phrase Loop: 38 sec. (MONO) / 19 sec. (STEREO)

Tuner Internal Detection: +/-0.1 cent

Nominal Input Level
INPUT: -10 dBu
RETURN: -10 dBu

Maximum Input Level
INPUT: +7 dBu
RETURN: +7 dBu

Input 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

Controls:

• DOWN switch, UP switch, CTL1 switch, POWER switch, EXP1 switch,

• PAGE button, MENU button, EFFECTS button, EXIT button, WRITE 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

• CTL2,3/EXP2 jack: 1/4-inch TRS phone type

• USB COMPUTER port: USB Type-C(R)

• Bluetooth ADAPTOR connector: Dedicated connector

• DC IN jack

Power
Power Supply: AC adaptor
Current Draw: 600 mA
Power consumption when in OFF mode (when the power automatically turns off): 0.0 W

Dimensions
Height: 300 (W) x 183 (D) x 74 (H) mm / 11-13/16 (W) x 7-3/16 (D) x 2-15/16 (H) inches
Maximum height: 300 (W) x 183 (D) x 96 (H) mm / 11-13/16 (W) x 7-3/16 (D) x 3-3/4 (H) inches
Weight: 2.2 kg / 4 lbs 14 oz

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
Wireless MIDI Expression Pedal: EV-1-WL
Wireless Foot Switch: FS-1-WL

*0 dBu = 0.775 Vrms

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