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Pedals at all price points and pedals of every kind. GGreat for all kinds of player.
They pioneered many effects - the parent company invented chorus, the first company to make a compact digital delay pedal. And most of what they made sounded great (CE-2s and DD-2s were ubiquitous in professional set-ups).
It seems to me that much of that innovation was driven - as in the guitar world at the time - by the Japanese having their American competition firmly in their sights (specifically MXR in the case of Boss). I suspect their R & D budgets were massive as Roland dominated the fast-growing hi-tech market.
Yet now, Boss seems to be looked down on. Things like the DD-7 are still widely used but owning a Boss pedal just doesn't seem flashy enough in the 'boutique' world we now live in - where people pay silly money for what are often mildly-tweaked versions of older pedals.
May be what the pedal market needs, is to stop treating the signal from an electric guitar like it is full of nuance like a Stradivarius and start doing radical things to it, by inventing new effects that make things sound fresh again....
Fwiw, I think a lot of modern players are "shitter" (can't think of the right word, tbh) than those listed, or shitter than most of the players that have been around the past 20 years or so. I know you did pick some true modern greats - I don't expect the guitarist in, say, Pigeon Detectives (lol) to be as good as Graham Coxon, but the fact there's so little fresh playing around is pretty sad.
Well done for saying this sir. I'm sure 90% of the boutqieu market is smoke and mirrors combined with cork sniffing.
I was interested (and pleased) to read the "which overdrive is your favourite" thread where so many people were saying either an SD-1 or a Bad Monkey. I own both, i also own some other overdrives which cost a lot more. What's on my board for gigging each week though - the Boss SD-1. It does everything I want, i know it will not break, i'm also not afraid in case some horrible person steals it.
There is some truth in what you say. I consider Boss as a road worthy no thrill yet good alternative, the Ronseal of the pedal world but I get some of the boutique pedals too. Anyone building a pedal with care and checking the end product before shipping has my vote, particularly for Germanium fuzzes. That's why Dunlops are hit and miss and Sunfaces/Sunbenders are consistent.
I remember in the 70's when electronics was a popular hobby, and guitar effects were a staple of their content. Not a microprocessor in sight, just transistor Fuzz, OD, Wah and BBD's.
I don't ever remember being happy with any of the pedals I built though!
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I'd quite happily rock a whole pedal board of them. At the risk of sounding silly, to me they look really industrial and futuristic and in many ways a lot cooler than many of the fancy boutique pedals out there.