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Legendary Boss guitar tones
Whether you're shredding on electric, slapping on a bass or strumming on acoustic, the Gigcaster 8's powerful multi-FX engine can voice your tone. It features the same suite of effects, Boss amps and cabs as found on the flagship GT series, with a multi-coloured touch screen to make fine-tuning your patch a breeze.
This combined with the Gigcaster 8's space-saving design means you have one neat solution for your music needs - no extra equipment or heavy rigs needed! With its ready-to-go preset library of optimised sounds for guitars, singing and speaking, the GSC-8 lets you simply plug in, play, and create!
Control your content on the fly
It's the key to a seamless performance. The GSC-8's intuitive control interface lets you ensure smooth audio for any scenario. With five independent faders and mute buttons for the five input channels and master output, you can quickly adjust levels to their ideal settings. And if you need to quickly insert an audio effect for your show, customisable physical effect pads give you dynamic options for audio playback and real-time effect control. Using the dedicated Gigcaster 8 App, you can sound pad playback, edit parameters, backup, and convert audio files!
For musicians or casters that focused on performing rather than audio tweaking, Boss's array of footswitches, expression pedals and GA-FC EX foot controller lets you influence the GCS-8 from afar.
Singers and podcasters, rejoice!
For high quality vocals, look no further! The GSC-8 Gigcaster's mic inputs feature phantom power and high-grade preamps with low noise to ensure sparkling clarity and vocal articulation. With a staggeringly wide gain range (+70dB) it can adapt to any input level you encounter.
But it's not just crystal-clear, because the Gigcaster also feature vocal processing effects to embellish your cadence. Dedicated vocal effects, harmony and voice transformers derived from VE vocal processors enable you to take your music - or podcast! - in engaging and creative new dimensions.
Even more useful podcast features
In addition to its excellent vocal quality, the Gigcaster supports audio ducking to automatically lower background music while a participant is speaking, guaranteeing a seamless show without the need to constantly alter levels. And with a handy Talkback feature enabling discrete communication between presenters, you can keep your podcast on topic and tight. And if you prefer a headphone mic over a dedicated unit, headphone 1 output supports those or inline mics.
The Gigcaster 5 or the Gigcaster 8?
With two exceptionally powerful audio control centres, Boss have given content creators plenty of choice for commanding their streams or recordings. But which is right for you? The Gigcaster 5's streamlined approach is ideal for users that don't require physical effect pads or the extra three channels, however, if you're searching for that advanced functionality, consider the Gigcaster 8's upgraded feature set.
Specifications
- Product Name: Boss GCS-8 Gigcaster 8 Livestreaming Audio Mixer/Recorder
- Product Code: GCS-8
- Sample Rate: 48 kHz
- AD Conversion: 24 bits
- DA Conversion: 32 bits
- Processing: 32-bit floating point
- USB Audio: Input: 20 ch, Output: 14 ch
- Bluetooth: A2DP, HFP
- Recording: Data Format: BWF (48 kHz, 32-bit float), Storage: microSD card (sold separately)
- Sound Pad: Data Format: WAV (48 kHz, 16-bit linear), Storage: internal storage (16GB)
- Effect Patches: GUITAR: 200 (User) + 100 (Preset), SING: 200 (User) + 30 (Preset), TALK: 200 (User) + 30 (Preset)
- Number of Effects: GUITAR: 1 ch (DISTORTION, PREAMP, EQ, NS, PEDAL FX, FX1, FX2, FX3, DELAY/REVERB), SING: 2 ch (COMP, ENHANCE, DESS, EQ, NS, PITCH CORRECT, HARMONY, FX1, FX2, FX3, DELAY/REVERB), TALK: 4 ch (COMP, ENHANCE, DESS, EQ, NS, FX1, FX2), CONSOLE: 7 ch (COMP, ENHANCE, DESS, NS, FX), FX: 1 ch (for SOUND PAD), OUTPUT: COMP, REVERB
- Nominal Input Level(Adjustable): GUITAR INPUT: -10 dBu, INPUT 1--4 (XLR type): -40 dBu, INPUT 1--4 (TRS type): -10 dBu, MOBILE IN: -20 dBu
- Input Impedance: GUITAR INPUT: 1M ohms, INPUT 1--4 (XLR type): 5.6 k ohms, INPUT 1--4 (TRS type): 27 k ohms, MOBILE IN: 22 k ohms
- Nominal Output Level: MAIN OUT L, R: -10 dBu
- Output Impedance: MAIN OUT L, R: 1 k ohms, PHONES1--4: 47 ohms
- Recommended Load Impedance: MAIN OUT L, R: 10 k ohms or greater
- Display: Color Graphic LCD (480 x 272 dots) Touch screen
- Controls: CH1--8 Edit button, OUTPUT Edit button, CH1--8 Mute button, OUTPUT Mute button, CH1--8 Monitor button, Talkback button, Rec button, Mark button, EFFECTS button, Pads 1--8, CH1--8 fader, OUTPUT fader, Headphone 1--4 knob
- Connectors: Guitar jack: 1/4-inch phone type, Channel 1--4 jacks: Combo type (XLR, 1/4-inch TRS phone), balanced, Mobile jack: Stereo miniature phone type (CTIA), MAIN OUT (L, R) jacks: 1/4-inch phone type, Headphone 1 jack: Stereo miniature phone type (CTIA), Headphone 2--4 jacks: Stereo miniature phone type, FOOT SW jack: 1/4-inch TRS phone type, USB port: USB type C, DC IN jack
- Power Supply: AC adaptor (PSD series), USB BUS Power
- Current Draw: 1.8 A (with phantom power), 1.6 A (without phantom power)
- Dimensions: 217 (W) x 267 (D) x 80 (H) mm, 8-9/16 (W) x 10-9/16 (D) x 3-3/16
- Weight: 1.36 kg, 3 lbs
- Accessories: AC adaptor: PSD series, Owner's manual, Leaflet "USING THE UNIT SAFELY"
- Options (sold separately):
Footswitch: FS-5U
Dual Footswitch: FS-6
Expression Pedal: FV-500L, FV-500H, Roland EV-5