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Tried it with a LP copy, strat, tele, mustang into a Traynor YGM3, which has powerful treble/bass controls. Tried stacking it, tried all the internal controls. The best setting I found was to dirty up the clean signal and use that with the overdrive circuit turned all the way down.
You just need to use your ears and the controls together. Massively underrated pedal.
Sounded really good, no problems or distortion. There's either something wrong with your Behringer pedal or the way you are using it.
My vote for World's worst pedal is Boss Blues Driver. It's the FX pedal equivalent of a Phil Collins album.
There is a reason why most pro musicians still use them - a few almost exclusively.
"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
They are brilliantly ergonomic, very robust, very reliable - I’ve only had one fail in 30+ years of using Boss pedals. No other range is as consistently good in my view.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to play my telecaster through my fuzz face and bassman.
Generally, if they sound so great stock then why is there such a healthy modification market? Just saying...
You can get multi fx pedals for the price of one waza pedal.
Sound wise I personally think they are bang average. If they were all conquering as you often make out you wouldn't have the volume of manufacturers that you do now days. Also bare in mind that several pedal manufacturers started life offering mods to boss pedals to make them sound better.
Older musicians, yes they use boss. Like older forum members seem to gravitate to Boss. Newer bands not so much.
I do tend to find it's generally you guys that are into your forties and beyond that bang the boss drum the most.
Now days Boss are a company playing catch up to the likes of strymon, eventide, earthquaker devices etc
They've even dropped their best feature, the big paddle foot switch from their current 500 flagship range and opted for footswitches like everyone else.
They will only go so far on reissuing old pedals.
@AlexC I think you have hit the nail on the head fella. Generally all you get in a boss pedal are 80s tones (although there are some exceptions)
My favourite Boss stuff is the Roland/Fender modelling stuff like the RE20 and FRV1. Admittedly, I have limited experience with their ODs/Distortions other than the DS1 and DS2, which aren't my thing.
However, the Marshalls aren't just as well-made - the switches break. Boss ones don't, or at least so rarely it's essentially never compared to anything else, especially anything that uses a mechanical switch. I've replaced only four Boss footswitches in over thirty years of professional repair work.
Because people seem to like to fiddle with stuff. Personally, I've tried a few modded Boss pedals and found them no real improvement over the stock version. (Other than de-hissed GE-7s.)
Maybe because they're the pedals we have found most consistent and best over the last thirty years and more... new stuff comes and goes.
This massively annoys me. Admittedly the switches only look like 3PDTs, but I still dislike that they've thought it necessary to do that, and I probably won't buy one.
Boss fixed the problems with mechanical footswitching nearly forty years ago now, and it should have stayed fixed. If the Boss buffered switching isn't perfect - and it isn't - then the right solution should have been to develop buffered switching that is, not reintroduce the crap way of doing it... only with even less reliable switches than the big SPDT/DPDTs of the past.
"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 understand and why people like them, I should like it (on paper) but it’s just so dark and it really adds too much to my tone. I just want delays.
I went back to my Boss DD3 for long delays and a Deep Blue Delay for my short slap backs.
To get involved in the convo, Boss pedals are great but because you can buy them as a teenager I think people perceive that you should grow out of them and buy better. And you can but it’s so marginal in a lot of instances. Take the Tremolo pedal they have, it’s ace and does exactly what it’s meant to do. It’s not especially amp like and Vintage but if that’s not what you’re after it’s perfect.