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It's also true that I prefer the DF-2, but the DS-1 would be the second choice.
"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
same as far as I know. Black casing and different screw knob on the battery bit. Not convinced either mod will affect the sound too much!
One is bog standard, and works really well.
The other has the "big fat mod" done. I acquired it from @MattFGBI like that. It has a touch more low end and is slightly smoother than the original.
Both are fantastic distortions. As @ICBM says they do need to be set carefully though.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I've compared it in the past with the DS-2 (when I had both..but now have neither) And I preferred the DS-2 with its Turbo on as that gave a bit of what I always found missing in the DS-1 ie mids! I've had a stock DS-1, and a modded copying the Seeing Eye mod from Keeley) and the DS-1...and a Vox Satchurator which is just a DS-1 slightly tweaked and dropped into a new bigger box. The DS-1 types can be redeemed with a nice middy OD pedal stacked with it though IMO.
Never tried a Jap original DS-1....are they really much differenterer? Or is it just interwebz rumour/myth? Mooer Cruncher winz IMO, but that's another matter......
"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
That being said, for other sounds, and probably for a more all-round distortion box, there are other pedals I like more. But it certainly is a good pedal for certain things IMO, and you could probably make the argument that even most legendary pedals only qualify as legendary if you use them for what they're best at.
* I'm possibly slightly cheating with this as I have a digitech hot head which is a glorified clone, but you know what I mean. And the Digitech Hardwire Valve Distortion is sort of like a "better" DS1, in that it has a wider range of sounds available.
I hate you all.
(as long as you're not suckered into unfounded MIJ snobbery)
I bought a Keeley one a while back and every so often I try and like it. It just sounds like a big horrible bucket of fizz to me though.
I think people successfully use them with the gain very low to get a creamy quality to an already overdriven amp but I think there's load of pedals that do that better.
I successfully use them with the gain up a fair way into a clean amp, and I hate 'creamy' sounds... I think, although I'm not 100% sure what that means . I hate smooth sounds, anyway.
"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
DS-1 dirt is hard edged fizzy and gutless in the mids. So needs help. Other pedals are smoother/creamier and have oodles of mids and sound more 'amp like'....less like a wasp in a jam jar, more 'organic' 'valvey' n warm n stuff.