Boss DS-1

[Lionelsax]

Hi !

I wanted to share this with you, I play with the Boss DS-1 at 2:14

I think it can be a good pedal !

[dlew919]

It’s a great pedal. Versatile and used properly one of the best distortions you can get.

Wind that tone back and you’re in heaven.


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[maxiim]

thats a sick setting

do you play there often?

looks like italy

[Lionelsax]

thats a sick setting

do you play there often?

looks like italy

It's where I live, in Provence.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, it's my village.

[ruger9]

I'm pretty sure that was not the design intent of the DS1 HAHAHA... but sounds great!!! I love when people make the gear they have WORK.

[wildschwein]

DS-1 = classic.

[dogletnoir]

Hi !

I wanted to share this with you, I play with the Boss DS-1 at 2:14

I think it can be a good pedal !

"Avec sucre ou sans sucre?"
i think that that Nighthawk sounds pretty sweet already.

[icr]

I love my DS-1. This is my DS-1 running through the clean channel of a Mesa amp.

[AcVox]

icr,
I really enjoyed your improvisation, phrasing and tone, thanks for sharing this. While Im quite familiar with the DS-1, Ive never heard it sound quite like yours. Thats very interesting !

Perhaps its the quality of your phrasing but you made your Boss DS-1 sound almost 'Dumble' like.
Could that be the Mesa amplifier influencing things ?

[Just Fred]

The DS-1 was the first pedal I bought when I went electric. Now, I'm back to more acoustic, so it lies idle most of the time...

[icr]

icr,
I really enjoyed your improvisation, phrasing and tone, thanks for sharing this. While Im quite familiar with the DS-1, Ive never heard it sound quite like yours. Thats very interesting !


Perhaps its the quality of your phrasing but you made your Boss DS-1 sound almost 'Dumble' like.
Could that be the Mesa amplifier influencing things ?

I'm using the DS-1 with the blonde Mesa Maverick on lower right. Actually I posted this image here before and someone made fun of me for not having one of those goofy over-hyped 'boutique" pedals instead of the DS-1.



Sometimes I think the Mesa sounds more Dumble than my Dumble clones (seen in the background turned off).

[icr]

Of course, what is the "Dumble" sound as each amp is a little different. My one clone has this 'over the top' sound like nothing I have heard.

[Greentone]

When I employ a distorted sound, I use the good old DS-1. Heck, it was good enough for both Prince and Mike Stern.

Near as I can tell, it's hard to get a bad sound out of the old orange pedal.

[ruger9]

When I employ a distorted sound, I use the good old DS-1. Heck, it was good enough for both Prince and Mike Stern.

Near as I can tell, it's hard to get a bad sound out of the old orange pedal.

Well... I wouldn't go that far. I bought one about a year ago, because I had never owned one in all my years playing with gain, and I thought it was... not great. To put it nicely. And I've been thru probably 100 overdrive and distortion pedals at this point. If I was using it for just a little gain, like in the OP's video, I could see it being usable. But with gain turned up it gets pretty nasty/gnarly.

[jads57]

The DS-1 pedal was always a bit harsh or fizzy to my ears. I found their Turbo OD pedal more ear pleasing overall. I also thought Prince and Mike Sterns tone harsh!
For me Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Carlos Santana all have way more round less fizzy tone.

[steve burchfield]

I bought the VHT D-50 for about 850$ new from GC with a 45 trial time and a 70 watt Fender Bluesbreaker 1-12 speaker cab,which is part open and mostly closed. I think with your fave Verb pedal and OD box makes a really good poor mans Dumble. To each his own.

[AcVox]

Pedals into a clean valve amp will always sound thin and fizzy until you use the volume or level control on the pedal to 'goose' the amplifiers input section. Its this 'push' that brings valve amps alive, and makes your pedal sound like its just part of the host amps circuit as opposed to that rather tinny and fizzy sound that people dislike.