Boss Pedals

i have a boss DD6 and i love it. i mean i realllllllly love it.

only problem is i can't get reverb.. it always comes out as a strange sounding delay... but then again it's not a reverb pedal

the difference in the dd6 and dd3 is special features.

Warp - hold down the pedal and it drives it into some choatic thing, which is really cool but not all that useful.

reverse - kick ass. i've used this more and more as i grew to understand it.

hold - sample up to like 5.2 seconds of sound. a bit choppy on the replay.. i never have a use for it.

it's worth the extra money just for the fun, but the delay itself; i.e. the pedal stripped down (the dd-3) is just terrific.


i also have a boss comp./sustainer and i like it.

it's very useful as a compressor, limiter, sustainer, even overdrive to some extent. and as always with boss pedals, it's easy to manipulate the pedal to do what you want it to.

Now i don't have a lot of experience in compression so there might be a better buy,... if this is the same pedal those guys are talking about (CS-3... little blue pedal... i'm too lazy to go look ) than they're right about the white noise. But i only get that when the attack and sustain are high. When used as a limiter (i can crank my little marshall practice amp up to get a nice sound and comp. the signal to even it out... very handy for late at night so i don't wake anyone up ) it's nice and quiet.

based on what i've got i'd say boss makes pretty good pedals; esp. considering price.

Ya I've been thinking about that pedal. I have a DS-1 but I want an overdrive.

keeponrockin wrote:

Ya I've been thinking about that pedal. I have a DS-1 but I want an overdrive.

I have a DS-1 and think it's pretty solid....

I also have an SD-1 the Super Overdrive one, which I use way more than the Distortion, it's a really solid OD pedal for the money and you can blend the 2 together to get some really rockin' tones.

I liked the EH Big Muff too when I was checking out OD's

moster78 wrote:

I've been debating selling off my Boss pedals, SD-1, BD-2 and DS-2, ever since I got the Greedtone. I find that pedal can do it all, and haven't even plugged in any of the Boss since I got it. Any takers?

I would love to get my hands on a BD-2 if the price were right

Would that be weird though?? (Having a DS-1, SD-1 and a BD-2)

Dirty_Frank wrote:

And supposedly the best OD pedal for the money:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/DigiTech-Bad-Monkey-Tube-Overdrive-Pedal?sku=150831

Costs about $40.00, and people say it sounds better than many that cost up to $200.00.



I'm going to buy one and give it a shot one of these days.

I have the Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive pedal and I beg to differ

BinFrog wrote:

I have the Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive pedal and I beg to differ

Where do you get the Blackstone pedal? Thats my last name and would love to have one.

BinFrog wrote:

The best position is the one you figure out that has the sound you are going for. There is no right or wrong.

oh, don't be snob: saying like this is like if you go to a guitar tutorial and your teacher tells you "there's nothing like chords: there's just the sound you are going for"..... of course if you're hendrix then you can invent... but maybe you can ask for some basics, at the beginning...

Puck78 wrote:

oh, don't be snob: saying like this is like if you go to a guitar tutorial and your teacher tells you "there's nothing like chords: there's just the sound you are going for"..... of course if you're hendrix then you can invent... but maybe you can ask for some basics, at the beginning...

I'm not being a snob. I was trying to give honest advice. You can learn chords and scales and theory. But to ask what setting you should use on a distortion pedal makes no sense. Tweak the knobs (hey, it's a DS-1, there's 2 and a volume knob) and find the tone that works for you. There's no 1-size-fits-all setting. I hardly think that's snobby advice.

I've used and loved several Boss pedals, but I stopped using all of them when I got a GT-6, which I now can't live without. I still use my Dunlop Crybaby, though.

keeponrockin wrote:

I still can't make the jump to multi-fx.

What's holding you back?

Sounds like some differing opions on the overdrive and distortion. Some like the BD-2 sound quit well, then that Monkey one, then Blackstone. Hmmm, hard to decide which is best. Several don't like the Sd-1 though sound like, keep that in mind. Maybe i misinterpreted, but seems like overdrive is favored over distortion, I know they are different to some degree, but that is what I think I read.