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Personally I'd be happy with most Boss pedals from a bypass perspective.
Don't forget they are cashing in themselves in that market with the Waza range and most people would consider a DM-2W as good as any other analog delay offering.
I think much of the issue with Boss is they exchanged some great sounding pedals with not so great sounding digital variants and players wanted the old Boss tones they no longer offered, so in a way, they helped create the boutique market.
Love Boss pedals.... never given a second thought to buffers .... never had a Boss switch fail me.... wish other pedal manufacturers would use that design, I know Digitech/Dod did & a few other less well known brands Axl/Johnson.
Prince infact had boutique pedals built into boss enclosures, he was a big fan of everything vertex but boss paid out more in endorsement money.
The solution is simply to turn the amp up slightly, or if you're really bothered, add a fixed level boost on the pedalboard to restore the original level. Using an LS-2 or modifying a GE-7 to give a fixed boost are simple ways of doing that.
Same here, when about a week after I sold mine for £70, Boss discontinued them and the price almost doubled overnight!
These days I won't use anything other than Boss or something else with the same sort of reliable buffered switching... I've fixed *way* too many other types of pedals with broken switches.
Although not long ago, the number of Boss footswitches I've replaced in over thirty years of professional repair work shot up drastically... from three to four .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I honestly think most are over 40
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Now I'm a bit surprised to find I have SEVEN Boss pedals on my pedalboard (CS-1, FZ-2, LS-2, TW-1, PN-2, DD-6 and RV-5).
I really don't like their phasers, flangers and choruses though. The BF-2 in particular leaves me cold.