NAMM 2025: Make your electric guitar sound like an acoustic, a sitar, a banjo… An analogue synth? Boss unveils the V-800 V-Guitar Processor, a unit that allows players “completely transform their sound at the push of a button”

Boss V-800 V-Guitar Processor.

NAMM 2025: Boss has launched a new virtual guitar processor that can take the signal from your electric guitar – or indeed bass guitar – and turn its sound into something totally new. The V-800 V-Guitar Processor draws upon Boss’s formidable modelling tech to present players with a bewildering array of possibilities.

Say you have a Les Paul; the V-800 can make it sound like a Stratocaster. Or a Telecaster, perhaps any model of guitar you can think of. You can also go unplugged while remaining, err, plugged, taking your electric signal and turning it into an acoustic guitar of your choice.