Special Edition BOSS Pedals with Premium Tone - OD1/X & DS1/X

Fretwired

Interesting .. http://www.bossus.com/gear/productdetails.php?ProductId=1311

Flanging_Fred

Is it a klone? There simply aren't enough of them around...

Fretwired

There's a DS1/X as well ... http://www.bossus.com/gear/productdetails.php?ProductId=1310

ICBM

Bugger. I thought it was going to be a reissue of the OD-1.

Which is in fact the one that started it all… the ancestor of all "Tube Screamer-type" circuits and probably anything else that uses clipping diodes in an IC gain stage feedback loop.

thermionic

I thought this would be a digital modeller like many of Boss's recent drives, but at 45mA I guess not (although it's possible, you don't need that much processing power to model clipping I suppose).

The OD-1 is the first pedal I ever bought. Did it predate the Tubescreamer then? I thought they were derived from Maxxon pedals which were around before Ibanez put their name on them.

ICBM

thermionic said:

I thought this would be a digital modeller like many of Boss's recent drives, but at 45mA I guess not (although it's possible, you don't need that much processing power to model clipping I suppose).

At 45mA it will be digital - an analogue overdrive/distortion only draws 5-10mA. Most modern digitals draw in that sort of range, not like early ones which could be well over 100mA.

thermionic said:

The OD-1 is the first pedal I ever bought. Did it predate the Tubescreamer then? I thought they were derived from Maxxon pedals which were around before Ibanez put their name on them.

Yes, it pre-dates the Tube Screamer and I think even the other non-TS Maxon pedals. (OD-1 - 1978; TS-808 - 1979.) Boss patented the asymetric diode-loop clipping circuit, but Ibanez/Maxon got around it by simply making it symetrical . They also added the tone control stage - which Boss then re-copied for the SD-1 (1981.) I'm pretty sure the SD-1 is a TS derivative not an independent evolution of the OD-1 since the circuit is nearly identical.

ThePrettyDamned

Quite excited for these as the more recent digital boss I tried (the dyna drive) was really quite nice, if a wee bit bright. It was tamed with the tone control, but needed fine tuning rather than your average plug and play.

I would have loved to have seen a reissue of the original ds-1.