Boss Katana – How To Get A Great Drive Tone
In todays video, I look at how to program drive tones using the Boss Katana.
Im always getting asked how to get great overdrive tones using the Boss Katana. My favourite channel on the Katana is the clean channel and but eq’ing and adding drives in my opinion produces the best drive tones.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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Yeah katana is the most overrated amp ever. 90% of the YouTube videos are paid or otherwise incentivized. I had a mark 2 100 and it just doesn’t come close to my ampless board through a pa.
Using the katana as a powered speaker ironically sounded better than any sound the preamp makes.
I live boss but not a katana fan.
You guys are amazing! Keep up the awesome content! Cheers
Sorry, unless we have the same guitar, same pickups, your work is in vain.
It is possible to use the boss katana's mk1 usb input with a bluethoo receiver, eliminating the usb cable for foots transmission?
Why not making a warm blues tone ? I'm very interrested to watching it. Great vid !
Great tutorial. Amazing that you obtained that sound while working out of the clean channel. You underscored how versatile the katana can be while using the tone studio. Thanks so much.
How to remove the Humming sound/Static sound/grounded noise? I only used the Panel of Boss Katana Mk2 100
brilliant, thank you
all this video did is make me think my katana must be broken or something…
No matter what I do, my amp on clean setting with any amount of gain will not ever sound like yours in the very beginning of the video. I do not know what you did, to me you are a wizard
Thanks
So helpful. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into these informative videos!
lmao my clean channel doesn't have that drive, maybe it's my guitar idk what kind of black magic is this
????here coz my tone is too fizzy and I hate it. I even tried changing the speaker and it didn't change much. Using a Les Paul standard too! Hopefully your video will help
Use the software…. EQ the amp internally.
Can you make some tones that actually sound like that coming from the amp itself? Alot of us play through amps for people, not through our DAW'S like most of your videos.
Since I finally got Tone Studio sorted (phew!) I really enjoy following along with Paul and copying all the settings. Not only does it make the end result fairly idiot proof (which it needs to be with me) but actually going through the steps reaches me a lot about the various amps and effects and how they work together. Thank you!
There good for beginners. This guy make everything sound fantastic then when u get it home after buying it. U find it's junk. The boss katana is nothing more than a child's toy. Not honest
How do I control the variation on the 100 watt artist mk 2
Wow thank you big time! Subscribed! ????
Ah this is only for 100. 50 doesn’t have some of these like cab resonance
Paul, recently purchased Katana 100 MKII artist head. Love how you go through the tone studio controls. Ok – I go to the site and there is all these live sound downloads, do I just go through all of them before touching controls and figure out what I can suit to taste….. love the sound you have on this video….. Thanks, John S
Can’t complain about these tone one bit!! This is a great live rig for sure
My problem is that the clean channel is just so low volume. Even with the volume at 100, I barely get anything without cranking the boost.
I have watched this a few times now and there's no doubt. You are doing something right and many others are doing something wrong. Some make the katana sound very crappy. And then they blame the amp! Your set up sounds so good. I covet a katana now. And as soon as my wife says it's O.k. I will get one. And this is one sound I will want to have. It will be my main drive tone. Geat job.Cheers.
Hi Paul, I've had trouble in the past getting satisfactory drive tones on my Katana Mk 2 so thanks for this video ! My main issue though is that I seem to never get nearly as much drive as you do with the clean channel, could it be caused by an insufficient pickup output ? (using roswell HAF Humbuckers)
#PAUL!
Paul I know you really don't do the HIGH GAIN MODERN stuff, however you appear to have a far better grasp of how to get town from that amp. Could you please ( for the HIGH GAIN METAL GUYS ), make another video illustrating HOW TO get a High Gain Chugging amp tone form that amp?
With the exception of when I'm playing thrash metal and shredding, I keep it on the clean channel for everything else. I made the discovery for myself that the clean channel is awesome.
The mic is making a huge difference to the sound here or it's the Katana artist!! Even tried one of my EMG-loaded guitars and could not get the clean channel to distort. But, a great upload, and thanks for the tips. ????????
Hey studio rats, so I have a Boss Katana combo amp and I've noticed that I get little shocks from the bridge and occasionally the frets of my guitar. I figures you'd be the guys to ask. Is there way to stop the shocks. They're not painful but annoying and shocking – literally. Thanks!
What 1×12 cab would you recommend for the Kat Artist head? I dig the sound of the Artist combo speaker but for portability purposes I’d like to move over to a head cab setup. The combo is great but too bulk for a SS amp.
Wow! , just wow !
Hey Paul really liked your video on dialing in dirty tones. I play hard rock/metal, do you have any suggestions for good rhythm tones as well as lead tones for metal and hard rock?
Oh poor me over here with my little katana 50
You show how to make a cool sound on a katana! Could you create the sounds of Yngwie Malmsteen from his best album Rising Force?
What are your other eqs?
Thank you! Would it make a difference if we tweaked the EQ on the panel (on "EQ" or "EQ2") instead of on the Global EQ of the System tab? Just asking so that it does not affect the EQ on the other patches I've got. Thanks!
Great video was really struggling with getting good tone for recording out of my Katana, this was really helpful
Is it just me who’s not get anything like this tone with these settings? I’m using a Gibson 2014 LPJ and a Boss Katana 50 Mk 2.
Great times.. found one at the pawn shop. Updated it, downloaded tone studio, now I’m getting awesome sounds. Your tricks are very achievable and are producing top notch tone and drive.
Much appreciated
Global EQ is on do you have a setting we can see to try out
Do you have this tone up on the boss tone exchange?
what is your settings in the tone shape global EQ that might be why i cant get your tone
random unrelated q…. having real trouble with my Boss Nextone Artist, amp itself is great, but when I connect it to my pc via USB the software to modify the tones works great, but when I try to record via the USB there is a 1-2 second delay between what I play coming out of the amp vs coming out of my pc speakers. Is this because I need an audio capture device in between? Read elsewhere it's not needed due to the USB output on the amp. I have a high spec PC, 5ghz oc CPU, 32gb RAM, good PSU, it just lags on the audio from the USB. Thanks to anyone that can help!!!