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"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
My favourite fuzz - not that rare, and tend to sell for £70-£80 in good used condition I think.
"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
agree about their drives though.
Spread them out though and they are the best switches around.Seems everyone is moving away from them though.
Don't get me wrong, I buy into it as well, but I cannot see me being without at least a couple of Boss pedals on my board.
Probably the best pedal design in the world and they mostly sound bloody great.
I'm still not 100% sold on Boss Distortion units, though - I detest the DS1 with a passion and yet I know some of my favourite guitar sounds were recorded with it... how Steve Rothery gets that smooth sound using one, I'll never know - each time I've owned one it ends up sounding like a flatulent wasp caught in a milk bottle. I've always prefered a RAT for proper distortion - an in fact, when I bought my original RAT in 1987, the DS-1 was auditioned along with the HM-2... the HM-2 was better but somehow sounded lacking compared to the RAT.
I totally agree on the Boss Flanger (the purple thing) being a bit naff - its just not a patch on EHX's offerings. And Chorus... lets just not go there, eh?
The Boss Rotary simulator has been a permanent fixture on my board since I bought it - gorgeous sounding. The best I've owned of its type.
I keep buying and then selling Boss compressors because of getting sidetracked by "boutique" bollocks that rarely improve on the sound. That reminds me... (scuttles off to eBay to buy another Boss compressor)
What I would like to see:
-Single pedal tape delay emulator like the EP103
-Nicer compressor
-Nicer Tremolo
-Non emulated Fuzzes - Compared to Skreddy's offerings they are in a modelling stone age.
-Analog octaver ala MXR & Foxrox
-A distortion that sounds like a Marshall. The OD-1W is alright (still beaten by a Zendrive) and the OD-3 is ok (little mids,what do you use it for? Rhythym perhaps?) but noting sounds 3D or organic and is frankly shit compared to the Blackstone & Buffalo TD-X I'm using.
More analog basically.
FWIW the DM-2W, CE-2W, DD500 and ES-8 are great new products
Although its been side lined by the timeline (due to midi and more dedicated song presets), I'll never sell my DD-20. Its stupidly versatile, and easy to use.
Tube screamer into a dirty amp, with the DD-20 in the loop, could get me through a set Im fairly sure. It does me nicely if I'm going out for a jam and cba to take my rack set up.
I hope the guy who designed the pedal format is on a percentage cos he's a genius.