Being in metal bands in college, we'd often say we needed a keyboard player. Now, the band just needs another guitarist. Kidding aside, this pedal sounds wicked, and I appreciate the detailed breakdown. Cheers.

I think one of the best things about this pedal is the tracking. When recording, the SY-200 lets you imagine a synth part, and play it really accurately with guitar. Once you're in the daw, you can convert the track to midi, and put any other sound on it. But the SY-200 lets you capture a perfect performance with your guitar. As a non-keyboardist I appreciate this a lot!

This is time and time again turning into my favorite pedal effects channel. I literally know nothing about many of these synth pedals so it's cool to learn about them. I had a Digitech Dirty Robot in the past but that's pretty much the closest thing.

Brilliant Review - thanks a lot!

VERY helpful. Thanks!

Thanks for this. I got mine 2 weeks ago and it is addictive. Using it in the send return of my NUX MG-30. I love being able to add more direct guitar to the mix as well as the amount of synth in the mix. Moving it in the chain of the MG-30 changes the sounds radically!

Crap, now I gotta upgrade too. Congrats, another fantastic video! I really enjoy your channel.

Oh man, I'm so glad I got my demo out before you! No way would I have wanted to follow this. Fantastic breakdown, dude. As per!

This is great, man! Even after many years every now and then there is someone who disects a pedal differently than the avarage. Yours really couldnt possibly be topped. I subbed for future references.

Great video. I have an SY-1 which I really rate. I previously had a Meris Enzo - a truly incredible synth pedal, but while I consider myself a geek and a nerd, it was way too hard to edit and the granularity of the controls was not good enough, so tiny changes would ruin the sounds you created/made it impossible to recreate something I liked. That said, I liked it so much that as soon as I sold it I had FOMO and bought another. But the tracking on the Boss is arguably better, and while the sounds are less tweakable there are still a whole bunch of great tones packed into the compact format. The 200 looks good, and I think you've hit the nail on the head - if presets are a thing you would use and enjoy, the 200 is definitely worth the upgrade despite the increase in size. I have a tape cribsheet on my SY-1 so I can swap between my most used settings. Most of the time it's fine, but anything with a pitch shift needs to be double checked in case you don't quite get to the right point and end up +/- 1 semitone ("jazzy"). Presets fix that.

Sweet thanks. I love the phillips pointer too.. :)

And Thank You for your Video!

another home run! thank you for your incredible deep dive into a really deep box from our heroes at Boss. i'm wondering what happens if one runs a synth into it! terrifying, and potentially Event Horizon-esque... Being that guy that uses guitar pedals for synths, i'm always happy to try a new stereo, line level capable pedal. in this method, i've been absolutely lost in OBNE's new dual filter, Float. can highly recommend.

All the presets of this synth sound like they are coming from behind of a curtain… in every video I found on YT

thanks for this i will be upgrading from my sy-1 for the same reasons you mentioned, im not able to get the same sounds sometimes when i change to another sound on my sy-1 but its still a killer pedal the sy 200 just makes more sense all visuals you can tweak and know where you are at i think the price is not bad too plus my old band member thought that i owed him money for a rehearsal spot he has that i was just pitching in here and there with no contract that he was ok with until i decided to leave and pick up my equipment which he said i owed him money i know he really liked my sy1 and wanted to keep it along with my genz benz head schroeder cab and pedal board with a wah and distortion too.

Organ variation 4 has definitely been my favorite organ sound from this pedal get into a minor groove and it makes it soo moody. I've had heaps of fun with my sy200

I swear, with the right pile of Boss pedals and processors, you dont need anything other than a way to hear it loud enough. While completely in another world in terms of price range, i'd be super curious how to see you go down the rabbit hole of a full fledged sy-1000 and Gk-3 setup/effects chain one day (maybe throw in a few other Boss pedals you cant live without that arent emulated lol). Great stuff as always!

That intro demo is the most 80s thing I've ever heard in my life.

I originally wanted the sy-1 but ended up going for the SY-200. No regrets!

An excellent comparison - loved the sounds you got from the SY 200. A few queries - if you hold down control 1 on the SY200 will that affect pitch/ swell/ hold? Also, does the SY200 retain edited presets after it's switched off? Do the foot switch and expression pedals have to be Boss ones? Thanks. ( I have the SY1 and wondering whether to buy the 200 too).

I'm going to have get one...

I went the opposite direction. I originally had the SY300. Never took the time to learn how to program it and never liked the fact that Boss never did any firmware updates other than onesimple bug fix, so I sold it. I missed the sounds though but I passed on the SY--1. Once the SY200 came out I grabbed it instantly.

I had an SY-1 for two days. Thanks to Amazon, I was able to return it, and I bought an SY-200. The capabilities of the SY-200 are well worth the $$ if you are using it live. It is extremely live-application friendly, and it has several additional sounds. If you can afford it, the SY-200 is well worth the investment.

I really appreciate this demo; but I'm desperately looking for a synth pedal that can emulate the vocal "doo" sound. Might pick up the SY-1 though just because it's awesome

Have you had a chance to play with a Meris Enzo? I have the Enzo and I think it's kinda too much for me. I like the idea of the SY200 having presets to tweak as opposed to coming up with a sound pretty much from scratch with the Enzo. I've been eyeing this pedal off for a while now, and this video is making me seriously consider selling the Enzo to fund an SY200. Thanks for the demo and keep up the great work!

Can someone please answer this for me???!! Can this synth send MIDI notes thru Midi out?

The SY1 allows the guitar signal to be adjusted/blended with the synth sound. Does this pedal allow that too? Also I play 80s music on distorted guitar. Can the SY200 provide a synth sound in the background without drowning out the guitar or the guitar drowning out the pedal? When playing distorted guitar, the sy100 doesn’t have the headroom to allow the guitar sound to be helped.

Nice video as usual, and nice Reverend. How do you like it? How’s the Railhammer in the bridge treating you?

HI! One question for SY 200, does pressing the pedal increase the gain a lot? Because I bought it and when I turn it on the gain goes up a lot.

At 8:00 the arpeggio your playing sounds like the same notes and type of patch that Camel’s Lady Fantasy uses. Great song btw, check it out!

How about the SY-1 into the loop of the SY-200. I would imagine you could get some massive sounds with that setup. Great video.

If you think you need sy1000 Here's a thing How well verse are you in tweaking actual roland synthesizer

Great SY200 demo. Congrats! On the SY1, I found the Lead Synths don't work above about top E (High E string 12th fret). The sound just goes dead above there. What happens with the SY200 if you play above above that top E ? Thanks!

I have I love it.do you think this was made by the same ideal as yamaha dx7 fm syth ideal case to me it kinda seam that way

Hello Guys Can I connect the Rolland GK-3 pick up to be pairing with SY-200? , please advise

I’ve never really fooled-around with synth guitar very much. I’m 52 and still amazed I finally own a tube-amp. 😂 Your intro was cool though. I have a Boss GT-1 with the synth circuit emulated. I may do a morning bong-rip and get weird. Cheers! ☮️

Can i use it on acoustic guitar with piezo pickup?

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Actually it started out as SY-300, then SY-1, then SY-1000, then SY-200 ;) The SY-300 is fully programmable guitar synth that don't need a gk pickup and it has tons of options and control to deep dive. The SY-1 and SY-200 is pretty lame compared to the SY-300, as there's not much options for editing your sound. And the SY-1000 is super awesome too and can be used without gk pickup, but only synth you can use is the dynamic synth which is pretty much the same synth inside the sy-300, sy-1 and sy-200, but if you get a GK pickup then you have tons more options and the synth actually sounds more warmer and analog.

Does the SY200 also output the midi notes we play with guitar?

The 8-bit chiptune sound being polyphonic is actually a big deal, as I don't think there's any other pedal that can do that. My RPS Arcade Machine is cool but it's monophonic and the tracking isn't nearly as good.

What drum machine are you using, or, just a software thing?

I traded my sy-1 for a jhs 250 preamp overdrive and the guy I traded it to is now selling it so he can upgrade to the sy-200 I'm kinda over my synth pedal phase I think I love the sounds but I haven't found any way to incorporate it into my band so I just can't justify keeping a bunch of synth pedals around

Guess what? My SY-200's in the post and my SY-1 will soon be relegated to my practice pedal board. They got me!

I was just about to ask you if you had this sy 1

I never knew Kevin James knows how to play 😮😮

it kinda sounds like dx7 fm syth l0l

First. I’ll tell you what I like about it later lol

I like you on Impractical Jokers. I didn't know you played guitar.

They did this so they can sale things 2 times like the speed control that was not with sy 1 lol

I own both and sucks to say the su-200 doesn’t have more sounds they just over repeated the same sounds mix with bell or other noise sound , the other part it’s that to get good tone it’s hard cuz the time I used una gig it hurts ears … no worth it, just the boss sy-1 regular the sy-200 it’s a tramp

In my last comment I said I was going bankrupt because I want to buy every single pedal you've been presenting... and now, after watching this video, I have to sell one of my kidneys... this pedal here in Brazil is too much expensive. 😕

Many sounds are just as dinky as the SY-1, so it's not worth the upgrade. Thank you for saving me a couple of hundred bucks. The SY-1 will do: it has enough good tones to justify owning one. I can't say the same for the SY-200, all the nice features don't hold up when the tones are basically the same as the SY-1.

Big cheese box vs little cheese box 🤔

Try the SY 300, you’ll loose your mind! The SY 1000 can not do what the 300 can. Yes it has samples, but the SY section isn’t as capable as in the 300. I’ve spoken to Boss

I’ll be brutal, you will find you like a smaller handful of sounds and stick to them and forget the rest! Stick with the SY-1

It was only a synth, it was only a synth.

Na, get the sy 1000

It's not worth the price. Where are the standard synth sounds found in keyboards? No whistle, violin and other synths sounds.

Yes It has Great Sound. However what I Hear is Not The Guitar. Just Sounds coming From The SY 200. Throw your Guitar Away. 🎸 :).

Inflation is crazy and I’m super cheap if anyone has one they’d like to give away I’d appreciate it