The Boss Katana NEVER Sounded So Good - SNEAKY GOOD!

this channel is supported by true fire true fire is an online library of lessons from some of my favorite players there's thousands of lessons on there you can use the promo code jnc40 to get 40 off of any of their courses [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Applause] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] I have to say this is super exciting to me if you're not subscribed to the channel maybe you could consider doing it just in case uh you're interested in either Katana videos modeling videos guitar lessons all that sort of stuff uh it's all on this channel if you want it not obligatory but uh you know an option uh if you wanted to like And subscribe leave a comment all that sort of stuff it does just help these videos have a bit of a longer life anyway right I'm very excited by this discovery today so I was looking up some stuff on Reddit about the boss Katana the other day and found a resource which kind of mentioned this thing called sneaky amps and um if you've not looked this up maybe you could consider doing it but essentially some of the other videos that I've done for Boss by the way have been sponsored this one's not and I don't know if they want people to know about this sort of stuff or not but I think it could really unlock some real potential in your Katana particularly if you're into I don't know maybe some different styles of music so maybe you're into more variety of clean edge of breakup tones or maybe you're into even more heavy music than what the boss Katana kind of implies so essentially what this sneaky amps thing is is that somewhere in the the brain of the katana essentially is something like a boss GT1 and there are actually 29 amps in there that are potentially available and the way that I access these was via a gum town and there's this um boss Katana effects floorboard thing so some clever bloke has put together an editor where you can access all of this stuff and it's also an editor that I think is a little bit more intuitive than the Boston Studio stuff um so it's kind of a bonus in that way it's got these kind of uh essentially it sort of represents the actual effects there so all I've done is just plug a laptop into the boss katana and you can access these things so what I was using in the introduction there for the clean tone I was using a Fender Twin emulation which is somewhere in the brains of the boss Katana and then for the lead tone the first one I was using a marshall Plexi jumped which is also in the brains there of the katana and something you know a little bit closer to an Eric Johnson tone than maybe he is hidden in uh the the front panel of the katana um what it also gives you access to is kind of uh some eqs and stuff that are actually available in tone Studio as well but I thought this was really exciting for me because it enabled me to dial in some things that I've been kind of hoping to but maybe hadn't quite got there with and it also helped me then to get some good stuff back out of the the stock amps if that makes sense so for instance I've got here this is my kind of lead that I dialed in with the uh Marshall [Music] thing is you could also then dial back the booster so I'm using the Distortion plus which is like the mxr but it responds really nicely without that one as well [Music] and then you could bring it back in if you're wanting some more um you know bring it in gradually foreign [Music] but then as a result of that I actually thought well what does it sound like compared to the normal leader [Music] which I also think sounds really good [Music] and then bring in some of that booster again [Music] [Music] and then the clean tone was something sort of Eric [Music] maybe a little bit too dark foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what's really exciting about this is that there's new possibilities that I wasn't aware of in the katana that are really easy to get access to and quite easy to edit I'm not necessarily having to just use my imagination too much I can think well what did these people use and there's a choice now of 29 amps to get into as well as there's actually a Mesa Boogie on there now as well uh the Boogie lead [Applause] [Music] you're hearing all of that through the mesobi Mark III cabinet and speaker in there's a Eminence EV kind of Neo clone but yeah I think I'm really enjoying some of these tones and for sure those are things that I would use a ton so I consider maybe if you've not checked this out this sneaky amps thing I think is worth a look because it could unlock some things in the katana that until now you've not really known what's in there um and I think it's definitely a new way to it's not even new is it people have known about this for ages new for me uh you may have already known about this leave a comment below if you have um but yeah gum town I think is called Katana Mark II FX floorboard um I don't know I'm really excited by that uh it sounds pretty cool in the room able to get the feedback thing going on and uh yeah great fun um let me know your thoughts on the old sneaky amps thing in the comments let me know as well do you want me to upload these tones somewhere I'm not sure if I can put them up as a tone set I'm not sure I'll maybe ask and see what boss think I don't know catch you in another video soon cheers

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Length: 11min 35sec (695 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2023