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I also had enough of issues such as the DD3 being finicky with certain power supplies or the TR2 still making a hissy/swiching sound even when switched off due to not being true bypass, assume their other modulation pedals have similar issues?
I said maybe.....
Depending on price, I might get the DS1, just to sit on a shelf. But I can see it costing a lot (for what it is).
I love Boss pedals, that don't always sound the best, but they are tanks, I just can't hate them
Overall, their NAMM line-up is disappointing.
Any digital delay and a lot of analog ones are fussy with power supply. You need to isolate them. Same with modulation pedals - boss ones actually usually play nice when daisy chained, although not always.
I find the current range is a bit odd - I love the digital drive pedals, such as the da2, d1x and od1x. They're original, very low noise and dynamic. I love a couple of others but they're marmite - ds1 and Ds2 for instance. I also really like the bd2 and, to a lesser extent, the od3.
But I do wonder why they won't rerun old classics. The od1, sd-2 (seriously they need to get on this one), ph1r, dd2 and the old vibe could all be brought back.
The fz2 was an absolute beast apparently...
They seem to have lost a bit of steam. Even their modellers have become obsolete, they aren't doing anything new with the technology. I really like my GT-001, but it could be way better.
I'd love to see a new version of the Spectrum and the Slow Gear. All the 1 series are pretty iconic pedals and sound excellent (the ones I've played anyway - OD-1, PH-1).
Half the boutique pedal industry is built on overpriced versions of Boss's old pedals (more than that if you consider the tubescreamer a direct descendant of the OD-1)
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
That's a vibrato pedal, I was talking about vibe as in univibe style pedal. Also the Boss VB-2W is an insane £190 for a pedal with not that much variety in sounds. The Digitech Ventura Vibe offers similar sounds, plus Univibe and Rotary sounds for £130 in pedal that feels higher quality with Stereo In and Out. It's as though Boss has no eye on the competition.
I still like my old DD3, but delay wise Boss offer nothing that competes with the TC Electonics Flashback x 4 (3 foot switchable preset delays, tap tempo, 4 editable toneprints, looper) for similar money.
Univibes? Really? Sorry but I'm not a fan - the 'throbbing' thing doesn't work for me. Its great for Hendrix and Trower inspired stuff but I'm not inclined to play like that. If I want a Vibrato sound, the Univibe isn't it...
As for Boss delays - each to their own but I prefer a Boss DSD2/3 to much of the fashionable stuff thats about at the moment. There was a reason we jettisoned our analogue delays back in the 1980s and plugging into some of these reminds me of this. A lot of these delay units are over complicated too - I don't use tap tempo, as I like repeats to clash with the beat and some of the controls on these things just are there for twiddling sake for me.
As for reissuing thing - yes, Dimension please, with the switches rather than the knobs. Slow Gear (or whatever the fuck it was called) would be good too.
Plus the custom mode on the VB2W has a more Univibe style voicing.