I couldn't thank you enough for this guide and these little tips from this video. I have been trying to get close to Gojiras "Magma" album sound and I thought I had tried everything but as soon as you mentioned how fizzy katanas sound like, it immediately clicked with me what I was doing wrong. Once again thank you.
Finally, someone showing how to get high gain tones not just for drop D djent chug shit, thank you!! The second you said it sounded fizzy I realized what I was doing wrong.
Cannot wait for mine to arrive, back order probably at least another 3 weeks, how long have you had yours? Cool to see another Jimmy out here🤘, what kind of music are you using your Katana for?
I use the crunch channel with boosters, both the internal and some external. I also set the master volume up full and set the level using the channel volume. This gives me the biggest fattest and most valvey tone..
Nice and very informative video! Thank you! The Katana amps are what I tell new players to buy which they are very affordable and versatile and sound very good. I wish I had an amp like this when I started in 1981!
Same, and CZcams would've moved things along a lot quicker. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Us oldies had to look a pictures and listen through tapes and spend a shit ton of money to get a good sound.
Glad I finally found your channel. I recently got a Katana, and so many videos are no help... they just explore the channel knob, or at best what can be done from the panel. This is the first video I've found that inspires me to explore the app and find out what it can really do
Paul I would really like your free patches you mentioned. I almost sold my K because l wasn't happy. Old tube guy with minimal effects. Want to buy you a pint mate, you deserve it. Extremely educational for older players !
This is pretty impressive. I’m a home / bedroom player who likes fairly high gain sounds (like a kind of slash tone) but needs to keep the volume pretty how. I get some pretty good tones from the Yamaha THR10 but looking to try something else too. The katana seems like a good option. For under 300 bucks as well! Thanks
Adam White ive but it sucks cuz he doesn’t go over the settings. I believe to achieve Chucks tone must come down from the 2xn dimarzio pickups he used. I barely got into guitar 6 moths ago and got a jackson with stock pickups which are pretty shit if you want to play death. Which is all what i am interested in learning
These video's were my lifeline when I got my MK2 50. I like to use modern most then deep. I find vintage too fizzy. I have my gain at 10 and I like to switch between the tube screamer and the guv distortion. I have the gain at 50 in the booster and use 2 EQ'S. I now have what I think is possibly the best chunkiest metal sound. I've had a few amps over the years from a Marshall valvestate 80 watt to a hughs and kettner 15 watt. I can't remember the actual name of it. At first I wasn't happy with the amp, but know that I've figured the amp out. Tone studio is a must with this amp or you really have access to 25% if that of katana range. It has everything you could ever need built straight in to it. You can get any sound from clean to really nice chunky metal. I'm pretty damn happy with this amp I have to say. I highly recommend. Or you could spend $1500+ just for a tube head then another $700+ for a cab. Then theirs any effects you want. That's another $500+ if your going for more than 2 effects. It depends on where in the world your from. I think $350 is an absolute bargain.
Great video and patch! I have a Katana MKII 100 watt and I love the way it sounds direct into Studio One Professional 4.6. It may not have tubes, but I have found it to be extremely useful and now use it as my main amp for recording. Tons of features and options for dialing in great tone! Can't beat the price for the amp either. Boss truly hit it out of the park on this one! The amp is really that good!
@@dazzmetcoll3843Hello! Yes, I run the Boss Tone Studio in a different window outside of Studio One to change the amp settings. I also use the line out instead of the record out because it allows use of the speaker and the line out signals at the same time. I use the 5 watt setting and mic the speaker into another channel in Studio One. This allows you to mix both signals with great results.
My Katana Mk2 head and pedal in out for delivery as I type this. Thank you for this video. Had to make my backup Mesa Cab into a 16 ohm yesterday for it. Looking forward to plugging in with your settings from this vid and the others you did. Thanks
Hello. I've just discovered your channel, very interesting and your video is well done. Would be great if you could also demonstrate how to get a good CLEAN sound with the Katana, most of the channels always focusing on high gain presets ! I would be more interested by the Katana as a clean amp with a lot of possibilities of effects and recording ... Cheers from France
Can you show me how to make a basic tones (Clean, Crunch, Drive and Lead) for live use, and adjust the volumes so there's no massive volume drops or jumps. I've always had trouble setting those up using my old amp (Fender Mustang 3 V2). I mostly use Line Out to PA System. Recently I got myself a Boss Katana MK2 100, and I'm loving the tones right out of the box, really brings the true sound of my guitars, but I don't want to dig into the amp too much (If I don't have to).
Thanks so much for the tips! its been ridiculously tricky and tedious to get even semi-decent tones on this amp. Finally managed to get a tone that is somewhat similar to modern metal bands (Periphery, Monuments...)! (also, if you have any ideas on how to get those kinds of guitar tones, that would be sweeeet!) The one major drawback of the amp is that the sound coming from the amp itself is WAY better/cleaner/sharper than that of the USB-recorded audio. Do you know what the deal is? is there a way to compensate for that? Cheers!
I hear so many different stories about this amp! Others have said that it sounds great through usb, as someone trying to decide weather to buy one it's very confusing.
Hi friends, Considering that live I use the volume of the guitar to the maximum, and the 100 W mode, in your opinion how it is better to memorise and adjust gain, vol and master for lead channels Thanks you for now Livio
If you took he time to read what the manufacturer says firstly the volume is always set at MAX for the full range of what it's capable of...EVERY other reviewr we've watched knows this.
Before you get off your high horse Darryl. Why don’t you watch the video I did comparing the master on full vs back. I think you’ll find you theory is nonsense. By the way putting words in capitols doesn’t make it fact.
What do you haave running in the background? Is that truly the amp or is it ran through an interface? I'm new to all of this but my amp sounds nothing like that with the exact same settings. 🤔 Thanks in advance for your help.
and you Paul do you have any band ? still showing boss stuff , do they pay you for this ( sorry for my English) I speak four languages and I was brought up en many places , France , Spain ....
great videos - i'm working with a 50 mk1 and trying to get Steve Stevens tones from Whiplash Smile era - Don't Need a Gun / World's Forgotten Boy and the solo in Eyes Without a Face - any tips/suggestions?
Thanks for great videos! Really useful! However, I haven't been able to replicate this sound. I dialed exactly the same values on my Katana Boss MK2 100watt. Before turning on the booster it sounded quite close to what you played. Not exactly to my ears, but close (all values identical with yours). Whatever sound you come up with (including other great videos with Katana), it's much more tight and kinda fat, full and "compressed" compared to my attempts to replicate, even when there's no comp in the chain. I don't get why that happens to my tone. There're two variables I can think of. You own high quality and great sounding guitars like original Fenders, Gibsons with great pickups, etc. I try to replicate the sound on an inexpensive Cort Katana KX1Q (haha by the way, it's a Katana, too LOL). Also, the tone is in the players hands. Anything else? I'm not a great player, but do my best to attack strings, keep hands synchronized, etc., but the difference is significant. May be the recorded sound we hear on the vid goes through some post production? Or it sounds differently recorded into your DAW when compared to the "right in your face" sound I get in front of my katana? My sound is less tight, more chubby, distorted and as soon as I add that booster it starts kinda falling apart, way too distorted and seems to have extra gain, though booster values are also identical...What am I missing?
upd. I've found one of the reasons. I lowered my pickups about 1 milimiter, or slightly more. The sound became more tight and distinct, one setp closer toward the one you designed in the video. I have EMG HiZ pickups, I guess their output is a bit too intense and it distorted the sound. It sounds better now, however, not exactly what I'd like to hear.
It sounds like what you're describing is a simple difference in the types of guitars and especially the pickups... I found this out very quickly after I swap some stock Jackson pickups out of my Jackson Dinky and put in some Seymour Duncan Distortion pickups... I had to dial back my gain and equalizer settings to tone match the different pickups. You basically have to take these headaches as a template and adjust the discrepancies.
@@alexanderholden82 I've figured that out already, thx for the reply anyways! In my first attempts to dial the tone I was using a cheap Cort guitar. Later I bought a much better instrument, a Schecter made in Japan with Seyomour Duncan pickups. The difference in sound quality was so obvious in favor of the Schecter! Also, I figured out that the room where I often play is not the best place for sound design. I used to take the Katana with the new guitar to my friend's place (he's a mixing engineer), he's got a home studio with very basic acoustic treatment, but in his space the Katana sounds so much tighter and distinct. There's much less fizziness and low end. All those things sum up and have influence on the tone. That's my experience, hope my comment will help others to understand where's the root of all evil in designing guitar tones! Cheers!
Thought I'd help you out here...couple of tricks for Owner: use the crunch channel on mid gain so it is just beginning to break up. Bass=0, mid=37, treb=50. Vintage cab and 60 presence. That gives you a reasonable tone (depending on your guitar, of course). Next I use a short digital delay (124ms, 12, 4.0, 43,100) and short plate reverb (.9sec, 20ms, 400, 4.0, 6, 30, 100) to get that thick slap back effect. Now, for the riffs you're gonna use the Harmonist in the FX section. Put it on 1 Voice, 5th, 44, 0ms, 0, key of C, 100) This will give you the parallel 5ths as you play. You'll want to switch this on for the riffs, then off. I assume you're playing A-B-C-D-D, G-G as your chords. May need to change the Key in the harmonist if you're using something else. Good luck!
I’ve got the mk1 and when I put it on the same settings as you in the beginning with no effects, just the lead channel it sounds nothing like that and has almost no gain to it
I just purchased a new Boss 50 Mk II. This is my first modeling amp and I am learning how to use it. The "Using BOSS TONE STUDIO for KATANA Mk II" instructions seem to be somewhat straightforward, but doesn't explain everything for a newb like me. I know how to create a new tone set by overwriting an existing tone set, but is it possible to create a tone set from scratch without overwriting another one?
@@TheStudioRats Thank you for your response. Like I said I am a newb at all of this stuff, but I am making good progress at learning the Tone Studio software. I have learned how to create a liveset in the librarian and download tone sets into it, and I have read how to create a new tone set by overwriting an existing tone set in the tone setting select area. I don't understand what you mean by a new patch or bank though. When you refer to a "patch or bank" are you talking about a new tone set, and is there anyway to create one without overwriting an existing toneset in the tone setting select area? I guess I cannot save a new tone setting directly to a liveset in the librarian. Sorry if I'm asking redundent questions...
@@TheStudioRats Thank you again. I think I get it now. A new patch is referring to a tone setting that has been created and overwritten onto an existing tone setting in the "Tone Setting Select Area". I have four of them in my 50 Mk II. Two tone settings in bank A and two in Bank B.
The katana isn't a modelling amp. They're just their own amp that do their own thing with their own sound. They don't try and model any other type of amp. It's just a misconception people have with them. They're not modelling amps.
Hi Steve we still have an account but CZcams now offers people to donate with the THANKS button next to the subscribe button, and that seems to work better.
@@TheStudioRats thank you for this information. I subscribed to your channel initially because of the great content of the Katana amplifiers. Keep up the good work
Can you please do a video on how to fix the “connection failure” on the windows 10 version? Nobody seems to know, yet it sends to be a huge problem. If anyone can do it, you can! Please!!
@@TheStudioRats thanks for the reply. Maybe there’s a chance you could talk to someone at Roland and mention it might be nice if they did something to help….. thanks again. I really enjoy your videos and just wish I could use some of your patches….
Hey does anyone have any advice about getting a good drive/lead setting on the Katana for a Strat with a Hot Rails bridge pickup? I love the hot rail through a lot of amps, but the mids are too strong with my Katana 50 MKII. I prefer the sound of the "lead" amp over the "brown" one, but the mids are already very high on the "lead" amp, so it sounds weird with my Hot Rail. I've noticed that when I scoop the mids on the Katana that it doesn't respond like most amps do. It actually cuts other frequencies besides mids, it seems. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking of switching to a little '59, but I don't have the money right now to operate on my guitar.
I got it few months ago. Still can't get over the fact how many different sound you can make with it. Opening up the Studio was another whole new discovery of possibilities. But since I'm a beginner with an electric guitar I still don't know what exact setting to use to get a blues sound, metal sound etc.
Lars Walther it has to do with make you have. You probably have a boss make 1 aka mki. The newer amps mkii that came out in October 2019, it now has 8 presets you can access using the amp alone, or using the boss gafc.
Hey man thanks for the video but I have a question for you ? I have a katana 100 watt head but it’s the tone studio that you’re showing on this video that’s the problem ? On mine it doesn’t have the speaker type thing so is there another download or something that I’m missing and could you tell me what version it is please thanks
Hi Paul. How do you get all your guitars to sound so full and chunky? I can't achieve that for the life of me. It sounds too 'hollow". Perhaps it's the pickups on my guitar (stock Ibanez)? Would love some tips! Using the Katana 100 mk2.
Hi Shezad, cheers. Have you tried using a different guitar? It’s possible the Ibanez is a brighter thinner guitar, in the past I’ve sometimes found that.
@@TheStudioRats Hi Paul, thanks for the response! Unfortunately my only guitar is the Ibanez RG550 and I haven't had people over in a while lol. However, I just discovered the Rat FX (!) on Tone Studio and it gave the tone a significant chunkiness. Perhaps something to play around with!
What do you think of them for rehearsal and live use at a bit of volume I just can’t gel is dull and lifeless with mine And I’m a fan of amp sims ect great for recording though any ideas I could try ?
It's really hard to create a modern metal tone with the katana. I dont understand why the BOSS-people didn't add that sort of an amp type like a dual rectifier or peavey 5150. I literally only play guitar to chug
Unofficially it actually does... Boss used amps sims from the GT series for the amp models... Clean: Roland jc120 Crunch: fender tweed bassman Lead: Peavy 5150 Brown: soldano SLO 100
@@kaspergamer460 I replied with a link to a Reddit Forum where I was reading about this topic. Apparently these simulations are leftover as the sneaky amps because boss used the same Hardware platform for the katana that they used with the Boss gt-100. Someone had found the original computer source TSL files for the amp types were the same as these particular amplifier types. Although I personally think that the lead and brown channels could be switched... meaning I could imagine the lead Channel being more of a Soldano emulation and the brown channel of more of a 5150 emulation.
Hi Paul. Any tips on how to stop the terrible static sound on a Katana 100\212. Anything other than clean setting gets very crackly and the brown setting is unusable? Thanks
I get a consistent HISS. I used the Noise Suppressor but lose my high (treble) This is a situation I have been dealing with the whole time with this amp. Can you help me with this problem. Live I hear it in the Mix (( Bad )) Thx
Normally I would think so but, I have been using these same guitars for 6 and 10 years now. I got this Katana MK 2 cause of the tube sound. I am puzzled for sure.
Just got a katana mark1. When using Booster/mod , I can only have one of them turned on at a time - same goes with delay/fx. When I turn the knobs it goes from one to another. Isn´t it possible to use at same time? In tonestudio same problem?
Hi Henrik, I’m using a mk2. I don’t know for sure but I’m thinking this is a limitation of the mk1. There’s always ways around stuff but you might have to miss whatever is in the mod slot.
Brown channel, gain to 75% and there's zero metal crunch...f**k this amp its too confusing. After messing with channels & settings on pc everything sucks and can't get it to un-suck.
All the info is in these videos. I bought the presets and there is nothing special to them. Every knob is almost at noon and the only difference is the amp type. You can literally do all this yourself and not spend the money. Thanks for the info studio rats, but you should not be charging money for these presets. They are worth no money and you should feel ashamed you’ve ever taken anyone’s money for these presets.
Jason statham really rockin the katana! Lol. Thanks man, been having a hard time mixing my katana but you showed me a good template to start on.
I couldn't thank you enough for this guide and these little tips from this video. I have been trying to get close to Gojiras "Magma" album sound and I thought I had tried everything but as soon as you mentioned how fizzy katanas sound like, it immediately clicked with me what I was doing wrong.
Once again thank you.
Corsai7 my pleasure, I’m glad your getting something out of the videos. There are plenty more on the Katana on the channel.
Finally, someone showing how to get high gain tones not just for drop D djent chug shit, thank you!! The second you said it sounded fizzy I realized what I was doing wrong.
Thank you for the tutorials. I'm getting great tones from my amp now. Thanks again.
Cannot wait for mine to arrive, back order probably at least another 3 weeks, how long have you had yours? Cool to see another Jimmy out here🤘, what kind of music are you using your Katana for?
Cheers Jimmy, I’m glad it helped.
I use the crunch channel with boosters, both the internal and some external. I also set the master volume up full and set the level using the channel volume. This gives me the biggest fattest and most valvey tone..
Nice and very informative video! Thank you! The Katana amps are what I tell new players to buy which they are very affordable and versatile and sound very good. I wish I had an amp like this when I started in 1981!
Same, and CZcams would've moved things along a lot quicker. 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Us oldies had to look a pictures and listen through tapes and spend a shit ton of money to get a good sound.
@@chriswalton3383 There’s a benefit in having learned the old way though. It forced you to develop your ear.
I like the T-Scream boost the best for high gain. That blues drive does sound good though
Glad I finally found your channel. I recently got a Katana, and so many videos are no help... they just explore the channel knob, or at best what can be done from the panel. This is the first video I've found that inspires me to explore the app and find out what it can really do
I scored a Katana 50 mk2 about a year ago and it's by far the best solid-state amp I've ever owned.
Wow!! You are like a doctor....except you tell us what you are doing while you do it....great lesson.
How about a video on getting the Rockman/ def leppard tones.
Paul I would really like your free patches you mentioned.
I almost sold my K because l wasn't happy. Old tube guy with minimal effects.
Want to buy you a pint mate, you deserve it.
Extremely educational for older players !
This is a great video, a road map how to get to the tone in my head. Thanks man!
For $229.00 and acoustic setting I’m hooked the hotrod and black star tube amps can rest up till I need them
This is pretty impressive. I’m a home / bedroom player who likes fairly high gain sounds (like a kind of slash tone) but needs to keep the volume pretty how. I get some pretty good tones from the Yamaha THR10 but looking to try something else too. The katana seems like a good option. For under 300 bucks as well! Thanks
These are very helpful, especially with having a mk2 katana, it's nice you can use the mk 1 patches as well.
Could you do a vid for a death metal tone. More specifically Chuck Schuldiners tone
Yes Yes Yes Please !
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Adam White ive but it sucks cuz he doesn’t go over the settings. I believe to achieve Chucks tone must come down from the 2xn dimarzio pickups he used. I barely got into guitar 6 moths ago and got a jackson with stock pickups which are pretty shit if you want to play death. Which is all what i am interested in learning
Didn't he use a Marshall valvestate amp?
Adam White an 8080 I think, you can still find them 2nd hand
These video's were my lifeline when I got my MK2 50. I like to use modern most then deep. I find vintage too fizzy. I have my gain at 10 and I like to switch between the tube screamer and the guv distortion. I have the gain at 50 in the booster and use 2 EQ'S. I now have what I think is possibly the best chunkiest metal sound. I've had a few amps over the years from a Marshall valvestate 80 watt to a hughs and kettner 15 watt. I can't remember the actual name of it. At first I wasn't happy with the amp, but know that I've figured the amp out. Tone studio is a must with this amp or you really have access to 25% if that of katana range. It has everything you could ever need built straight in to it. You can get any sound from clean to really nice chunky metal. I'm pretty damn happy with this amp I have to say. I highly recommend. Or you could spend $1500+ just for a tube head then another $700+ for a cab. Then theirs any effects you want. That's another $500+ if your going for more than 2 effects. It depends on where in the world your from. I think $350 is an absolute bargain.
Great video and patch! I have a Katana MKII 100 watt and I love the way it sounds direct into Studio One Professional 4.6. It may not have tubes, but I have found it to be extremely useful and now use it as my main amp for recording. Tons of features and options for dialing in great tone! Can't beat the price for the amp either. Boss truly hit it out of the park on this one! The amp is really that good!
Dons Guitar Lounge, cheers for your comment .
Hi don When u record in studio one can u Still acess the tone studio while u have the katana as your input to change pedals ect ?
@@dazzmetcoll3843Hello! Yes, I run the Boss Tone Studio in a different window outside of Studio One to change the amp settings. I also use the line out instead of the record out because it allows use of the speaker and the line out signals at the same time. I use the 5 watt setting and mic the speaker into another channel in Studio One. This allows you to mix both signals with great results.
New subscriber, keep up ALL THE GREAT BOSS KATANA WORK MAN !!!!!!😎🎸🎼🎸👍✌
My Katana Mk2 head and pedal in out for delivery as I type this. Thank you for this video. Had to make my backup Mesa Cab into a 16 ohm yesterday for it. Looking forward to plugging in with your settings from this vid and the others you did. Thanks
Fab, I hope you enjoy the head.
Really great (and super helpful!) video, Paul. Thanks so much!
exactly what I was looking for
Sounds freakin' killer.... thank you!!
Hell yeah!... what a sound.... thanks
Love your work! Any chance you could share the patch files?
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I have just been given this amp and cant wait to sit down and explore! Thanks!! Sub'd 🤘🏼
Cheers Robert, enjoy!
Great tone.
Helped alot. Cheers!
Cheers Steve.
Hello. I've just discovered your channel, very interesting and your video is well done. Would be great if you could also demonstrate how to get a good CLEAN sound with the Katana, most of the channels always focusing on high gain presets !
I would be more interested by the Katana as a clean amp with a lot of possibilities of effects and recording ...
Cheers from France
DevadipEric hi, thanks for your comment. I’ll get round to that video soon for you. Best Paul
Great tutorials. Could you explain how to get the Black Sabbath sound? Cheers
Yes that be great
Wonderful video, very informative. You mentioned you set the resonance to vintage. What do you set the other control to? Record or Live?
Fantastic video thanks Greetings from Spain. ;)
great vid for a new user
Great video Paul!
Larry North cheers mate.
Can you show me how to make a basic tones (Clean, Crunch, Drive and Lead) for live use, and adjust the volumes so there's no massive volume drops or jumps. I've always had trouble setting those up using my old amp (Fender Mustang 3 V2). I mostly use Line Out to PA System. Recently I got myself a Boss Katana MK2 100, and I'm loving the tones right out of the box, really brings the true sound of my guitars, but I don't want to dig into the amp too much (If I don't have to).
Thanks so much for the tips! its been ridiculously tricky and tedious to get even semi-decent tones on this amp. Finally managed to get a tone that is somewhat similar to modern metal bands (Periphery, Monuments...)! (also, if you have any ideas on how to get those kinds of guitar tones, that would be sweeeet!)
The one major drawback of the amp is that the sound coming from the amp itself is WAY better/cleaner/sharper than that of the USB-recorded audio. Do you know what the deal is? is there a way to compensate for that?
Cheers!
Sounds like shit especially when you crank up the gain through usb. I bought a cheap 50$ usb microphone to "compensate" for the crappy sound quality.
I hear so many different stories about this amp! Others have said that it sounds great through usb, as someone trying to decide weather to buy one it's very confusing.
Brutal!! Thanks 👍🏻
I'm not at home right now but when I get the chance I'll do exactly that! Hope I can make that p.o.s. sound that good, it's the mk.I btw
Good Stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it
Wait, he sold a Kemper for a Katana ...?
Hi friends,
Considering that live I use the volume of the guitar to the maximum, and the 100 W mode, in your opinion how it is better to memorise and adjust gain, vol and master for lead channels
Thanks you for now
Livio
Thanks for the tone settings I had this amp set all wrong. Wrote it to the panel gonna be my main jam tone
That’s great Al, I’m glad it’s useful.
thx for this video
What if I liked the first sound more?
i just goy a katana 50w mkII and there is nowhere near the gain at those setting as you get- why is that
Great Video, i just received my 100mk11 212. Love it. Any patches for Rock n Roll Star, Oasis please
Is the sound of the guitar on this clip recorded with mic or line out/usb?
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🇺🇲Americans: kuh taw nuh
🇬🇧Brits: kuh tan uh
If you took he time to read what the manufacturer says firstly the volume is always set at MAX for the full range of what it's capable of...EVERY other reviewr we've watched knows this.
Before you get off your high horse Darryl. Why don’t you watch the video I did comparing the master on full vs back. I think you’ll find you theory is nonsense. By the way putting words in capitols doesn’t make it fact.
Love to see your patch/footswitch sounds for a function gig using the Katana?
Larry North funny enough I’ve nearly finished my function patches. A couple more gigs and I’ll post it. Cheers Greg.
New sub here, hello from Australia.
Nice video video Paul! What recording chain are you using here mic,ox or di? Thanks
Cheers Sir Mick. This is using the USB out of the Katana straight into the computer.
@@TheStudioRats so that's why mine didn't sound the same through the cab
What do you haave running in the background? Is that truly the amp or is it ran through an interface? I'm new to all of this but my amp sounds nothing like that with the exact same settings. 🤔 Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi, it’s being recorded via USB straight to the computer. There’s no other fx just the Katana.
and you Paul do you have any band ? still showing boss stuff , do they pay you for this ( sorry for my English) I speak four languages and I was brought up en many places , France , Spain ....
great videos - i'm working with a 50 mk1 and trying to get Steve Stevens tones from Whiplash Smile era - Don't Need a Gun / World's Forgotten Boy and the solo in Eyes Without a Face - any tips/suggestions?
Thanks for great videos! Really useful! However, I haven't been able to replicate this sound. I dialed exactly the same values on my Katana Boss MK2 100watt. Before turning on the booster it sounded quite close to what you played. Not exactly to my ears, but close (all values identical with yours). Whatever sound you come up with (including other great videos with Katana), it's much more tight and kinda fat, full and "compressed" compared to my attempts to replicate, even when there's no comp in the chain. I don't get why that happens to my tone. There're two variables I can think of. You own high quality and great sounding guitars like original Fenders, Gibsons with great pickups, etc. I try to replicate the sound on an inexpensive Cort Katana KX1Q (haha by the way, it's a Katana, too LOL). Also, the tone is in the players hands. Anything else? I'm not a great player, but do my best to attack strings, keep hands synchronized, etc., but the difference is significant. May be the recorded sound we hear on the vid goes through some post production? Or it sounds differently recorded into your DAW when compared to the "right in your face" sound I get in front of my katana? My sound is less tight, more chubby, distorted and as soon as I add that booster it starts kinda falling apart, way too distorted and seems to have extra gain, though booster values are also identical...What am I missing?
upd. I've found one of the reasons. I lowered my pickups about 1 milimiter, or slightly more. The sound became more tight and distinct, one setp closer toward the one you designed in the video. I have EMG HiZ pickups, I guess their output is a bit too intense and it distorted the sound. It sounds better now, however, not exactly what I'd like to hear.
It sounds like what you're describing is a simple difference in the types of guitars and especially the pickups... I found this out very quickly after I swap some stock Jackson pickups out of my Jackson Dinky and put in some Seymour Duncan Distortion pickups... I had to dial back my gain and equalizer settings to tone match the different pickups. You basically have to take these headaches as a template and adjust the discrepancies.
@@alexanderholden82 I've figured that out already, thx for the reply anyways! In my first attempts to dial the tone I was using a cheap Cort guitar. Later I bought a much better instrument, a Schecter made in Japan with Seyomour Duncan pickups. The difference in sound quality was so obvious in favor of the Schecter! Also, I figured out that the room where I often play is not the best place for sound design. I used to take the Katana with the new guitar to my friend's place (he's a mixing engineer), he's got a home studio with very basic acoustic treatment, but in his space the Katana sounds so much tighter and distinct. There's much less fizziness and low end. All those things sum up and have influence on the tone. That's my experience, hope my comment will help others to understand where's the root of all evil in designing guitar tones! Cheers!
You are correct, the difference in sound is DAW vs. the Katana's (Amp) speaker.
Thank You for the good tutorial. Please show for us How to get a "Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes" Katana patch. Best wishes from Brazil.
Thought I'd help you out here...couple of tricks for Owner: use the crunch channel on mid gain so it is just beginning to break up. Bass=0, mid=37, treb=50. Vintage cab and 60 presence. That gives you a reasonable tone (depending on your guitar, of course). Next I use a short digital delay (124ms, 12, 4.0, 43,100) and short plate reverb (.9sec, 20ms, 400, 4.0, 6, 30, 100) to get that thick slap back effect. Now, for the riffs you're gonna use the Harmonist in the FX section. Put it on 1 Voice, 5th, 44, 0ms, 0, key of C, 100) This will give you the parallel 5ths as you play. You'll want to switch this on for the riffs, then off. I assume you're playing A-B-C-D-D, G-G as your chords. May need to change the Key in the harmonist if you're using something else. Good luck!
Do you have one for Randy Rhoads tribute??
I’ve got the mk1 and when I put it on the same settings as you in the beginning with no effects, just the lead channel it sounds nothing like that and has almost no gain to it
I just purchased a new Boss 50 Mk II. This is my first modeling amp and I am learning how to use it. The "Using BOSS TONE STUDIO for KATANA Mk II" instructions seem to be somewhat straightforward, but doesn't explain everything for a newb like me. I know how to create a new tone set by overwriting an existing tone set, but is it possible to create a tone set from scratch without overwriting another one?
yes you need to save to a new patch or bank.
@@TheStudioRats Thank you for your response. Like I said I am a newb at all of this stuff, but I am making good progress at learning the Tone Studio software. I have learned how to create a liveset in the librarian and download tone sets into it, and I have read how to create a new tone set by overwriting an existing tone set in the tone setting select area. I don't understand what you mean by a new patch or bank though. When you refer to a "patch or bank" are you talking about a new tone set, and is there anyway to create one without overwriting an existing toneset in the tone setting select area? I guess I cannot save a new tone setting directly to a liveset in the librarian. Sorry if I'm asking redundent questions...
The patches are the buttons on top of your katana. You should have 4 buttons called tone setting.
@@TheStudioRats Thank you again. I think I get it now. A new patch is referring to a tone setting that has been created and overwritten onto an existing tone setting in the "Tone Setting Select Area". I have four of them in my 50 Mk II. Two tone settings in bank A and two in Bank B.
The katana isn't a modelling amp. They're just their own amp that do their own thing with their own sound. They don't try and model any other type of amp. It's just a misconception people have with them. They're not modelling amps.
Thank you..
Have u tried this with plugins? Like threw the power amp section?
Are you using the buy me a coffee anymore? I Didn't see a URL for it for you guys.
Hi Steve we still have an account but CZcams now offers people to donate with the THANKS button next to the subscribe button, and that seems to work better.
@@TheStudioRats thank you for this information. I subscribed to your channel initially because of the great content of the Katana amplifiers. Keep up the good work
Can you please do a video on how to fix the “connection failure” on the windows 10 version? Nobody seems to know, yet it sends to be a huge problem. If anyone can do it, you can! Please!!
Hi Jim I’m afraid I don’t have a windows computer
@@TheStudioRats thanks for the reply. Maybe there’s a chance you could talk to someone at Roland and mention it might be nice if they did something to help….. thanks again. I really enjoy your videos and just wish I could use some of your patches….
Very nice tone bro. Do you have something similar for MK1?
Theo Buitendijk hi Theo. I’ve only got a mk2 I’m afraid but I’m using the non variation amp so it should be more or less the same.
Will the same apply to a Katana Artist?
Hey does anyone have any advice about getting a good drive/lead setting on the Katana for a Strat with a Hot Rails bridge pickup? I love the hot rail through a lot of amps, but the mids are too strong with my Katana 50 MKII. I prefer the sound of the "lead" amp over the "brown" one, but the mids are already very high on the "lead" amp, so it sounds weird with my Hot Rail. I've noticed that when I scoop the mids on the Katana that it doesn't respond like most amps do. It actually cuts other frequencies besides mids, it seems. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking of switching to a little '59, but I don't have the money right now to operate on my guitar.
I’m getting the 50mark 2
I got it few months ago. Still can't get over the fact how many different sound you can make with it.
Opening up the Studio was another whole new discovery of possibilities.
But since I'm a beginner with an electric guitar I still don't know what exact setting to use to get a blues sound, metal sound etc.
This is the best sound I have heard on the Katana. Most of the videos sound fizzy, and very non valve sounding.
Thanks
Im sorry for this stupid question, but could anyone tell me how they've got so many saved tone channels or whatever? I can save maximum 4 tones only.
Lars Walther it has to do with make you have. You probably have a boss make 1 aka mki. The newer amps mkii that came out in October 2019, it now has 8 presets you can access using the amp alone, or using the boss gafc.
If you've got the katana 100, push the "panel" button to switch from one bank of 4 sounds to other one...
Hey man thanks for the video but I have a question for you ? I have a katana 100 watt head but it’s the tone studio that you’re showing on this video that’s the problem ? On mine it doesn’t have the speaker type thing so is there another download or something that I’m missing and could you tell me what version it is please thanks
Hi Lee, I’m using the mk2, if you have a mk1 things are slightly different.
Hi Paul. How do you get all your guitars to sound so full and chunky? I can't achieve that for the life of me. It sounds too 'hollow". Perhaps it's the pickups on my guitar (stock Ibanez)? Would love some tips! Using the Katana 100 mk2.
Hi Shezad, cheers. Have you tried using a different guitar? It’s possible the Ibanez is a brighter thinner guitar, in the past I’ve sometimes found that.
@@TheStudioRats Hi Paul, thanks for the response! Unfortunately my only guitar is the Ibanez RG550 and I haven't had people over in a while lol. However, I just discovered the Rat FX (!) on Tone Studio and it gave the tone a significant chunkiness. Perhaps something to play around with!
Great, yes the Rat pedal is a good’n!
What do you
think of them for rehearsal and live use at a bit of volume I just can’t gel is dull and lifeless with mine And I’m a fan of amp sims ect great for recording though any ideas I could try ?
Try looking at replacement speakers, to me it really sorts out the Mid scoop, lost in the mix type sound.
How do you dial out the top end fizzyness? Sometimes we can, but mostly can't. Frustrating. Cheers.
Have a look at the presence control.
Is this the same for the MK 50?
But... how does he do it????
It's really hard to create a modern metal tone with the katana. I dont understand why the BOSS-people didn't add that sort of an amp type like a dual rectifier or peavey 5150. I literally only play guitar to chug
Unofficially it actually does... Boss used amps sims from the GT series for the amp models...
Clean: Roland jc120
Crunch: fender tweed bassman
Lead: Peavy 5150
Brown: soldano SLO 100
@@alexanderholden82 That's strange if true, those Katana-channels sound nothing like the real amps then.
Ps. where did you learn that information?
@@kaspergamer460 I replied with a link to a Reddit Forum where I was reading about this topic. Apparently these simulations are leftover as the sneaky amps because boss used the same Hardware platform for the katana that they used with the Boss gt-100. Someone had found the original computer source TSL files for the amp types were the same as these particular amplifier types. Although I personally think that the lead and brown channels could be switched... meaning I could imagine the lead Channel being more of a Soldano emulation and the brown channel of more of a 5150 emulation.
Hi Paul. Any tips on how to stop the terrible static sound on a Katana 100\212. Anything other than clean setting gets very crackly and the brown setting is unusable? Thanks
Sounds like it’s faulty, but have you tried the noise suppressor?
The Studio Rats Thanks Paul. I didn’t know it had but but now I have had a fiddle it seems to have cured the issue. I increased the threshold. Thanks.
this works with the boss katana 50 mk2? Thanks!
Glad it works for you.
I get a consistent HISS. I used the Noise Suppressor but lose my high (treble) This is a situation I have been dealing with the whole time with this amp. Can you help me with this problem. Live I hear it in the Mix (( Bad )) Thx
Hi Cheech, I think your best bet is to contact Boss technical support. It could be a number of things. My first thought is your guitar.
Normally I would think so but, I have been using these same guitars for 6 and 10 years now. I got this Katana MK 2 cause of the tube sound. I am puzzled for sure.
Is that a 2012 Traditional! Why doesn't mine sound like that?
It’s a 2011 1960 custom shop.
Where do you get the sofware?
The Boss website.
does it work for katana MKI
if you follow the settings the sound will be more or less the same.
Just got a katana mark1. When using Booster/mod , I can only have one of them turned on at a time - same goes with delay/fx. When I turn the knobs it goes from one to another. Isn´t it possible to use at same time? In tonestudio same problem?
Hi Henrik, I’m using a mk2. I don’t know for sure but I’m thinking this is a limitation of the mk1. There’s always ways around stuff but you might have to miss whatever is in the mod slot.
Brown channel, gain to 75% and there's zero metal crunch...f**k this amp its too confusing. After messing with channels & settings on pc everything sucks and can't get it to un-suck.
All the info is in these videos. I bought the presets and there is nothing special to them. Every knob is almost at noon and the only difference is the amp type. You can literally do all this yourself and not spend the money. Thanks for the info studio rats, but you should not be charging money for these presets. They are worth no money and you should feel ashamed you’ve ever taken anyone’s money for these presets.
Not impressed with this amp
High gain tones? Really? Disliked.
Yeah, that's high gain idiot
Love your work! Any chance you could share the patch files?