Boss pedals appreciation thread

[hbombgraphics]

metal zone on order from the bay
good deal because it's missing the battery compartment screw
I have a box of boss parts, I am sure I have one

will try as a boost,
Not sure Why I have never owned one
I have had many of the "metal" pedals

DOD Death
Arion Metal Master
Ibanez Metal Charger

[stripes]

The bossest Boss pedal.

I have a green label one of these... so warm and delicious subtle or cranked.

[Helter]

love the cs-1 and dm-3. Only two I have tried but boss is awesome in my book.

[Gearmond]

i wanna get a mega distortion or one of their 90's distortions or w/e just so i can get on that before it becomes a thing

The mega distortions are just awful.
My buddy has one, and it has no balls whatsoever. It's all like, spikey treble, sub bass, and no mids at all.
Don't even waste your money. I really hope they never become a thing.

you say that as if thats not what i want

also Xtortions >:3

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqbkFzQUQk[/youtube]

get dem vocal-y mid quack Zappa toanz

[01010111]

Boss makes some pretty...boss loopers. I'm using the rc-30 right now and it is super useable. I love that you can toggle the effects on and off by double stomping the play switch. I recorded some mid neck arpeggios into a dmmtt with the modulation set fast and when I had the looper drop it two octaves it made it sound like chellos! And I looped some drums on it and it made them sound insane when I had it drop it two octaves. I don't know why it thinks drums should sound like that, but I'm glad it does.

Also HM2 I've never had a pedal that that seemed to just heave with so much bass. But does anyone else have trouble with it being too quiet?

[spacelordmother]

Also HM2 I've never had a pedal that that seemed to just heave with so much bass. But does anyone else have trouble with it being too quiet?

Nope - mine has plenty of volume...

[goosekevin]

DD20 is my first love in pedal form
even though i drastically overpaid for it (i was young and dumb) ($350 aud if you were wondering) i love it to bits

[Andrew]

I've got two HM-2s (both types). I just run it as a boost for my Amp gain (zero gain), it just injects filth into the tone

Do you notice any difference between MIJ and MIT? What do you have the high and low set at when you're using it as a boost?
Curious!!!

I'll post a clip shortly

[madmax1012]

DD20 is my first love in pedal form
even though i drastically overpaid for it (i was young and dumb) ($350 aud if you were wondering) i love it to bits

GOD DAMN.

[goroth]

I love this thread!

- my HM-2 is loud as shit.

[goroth]

i wanna get a mega distortion or one of their 90's distortions or w/e just so i can get on that before it becomes a thing

The mega distortions are just awful.
My buddy has one, and it has no balls whatsoever. It's all like, spikey treble, sub bass, and no mids at all.
Don't even waste your money. I really hope they never become a thing.

you say that as if thats not what i want

also Xtortions >:3

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puqbkFzQUQk[/youtube]

get dem vocal-y mid quack Zappa toanz

I've only got the Behringer copy of the Xtortion, and it is a seriously good pedal (edit: the original, the Behringer is plastic fantastic). You can get some great sounds out of it. Wrong pedal at the wrong time I think.

[ryan summit]

somethin weirds me out about that xtortion
cant put my finger on it
gives me an uneasy feeling

TU-2 or pitch black?
im done with clip on tuners

[fungalattack]

I picked up Tu-2 used and now it is a part of all my boards. It is quick, reliable and a tank. Im never looking back, no more out of tune nonsense (unless it is on purpose of course). I don't have any experience with the pitchblack. It is slightly more kvlt looking!

[bobcunningham]

I like Boss products. I'm currently only using their MT-2 though. Most people don't know how to use the Metal Zone and therefore don't like it. The secret to avoiding the fizzy bee's nest sound is to roll back on the gain knob.. keep it around 10 o'clock. My MT-2 settings are Level 12 o'clock, Treble 2 o'clock, Bass 4 o'clock, Middle 10 o'clock, Mid Freq 2 o'clock, Dist 10 o'clock. All chunk and no mess.

Other Boss pedals i've owned are:

OC-2 - this octave pedal tracks nicely
DS-1 - Nirvana sound
SD-2 - great dual overdrive, one stage is real bluesy, the other stage is fuzzy. I would buy this again.
CE-3 - very effective stereo chorus, but a little shrill sounding
DF-2 - a DS-1 with the added option of feedbacking
OS-2 - the overdrive stage of this pedal is shrill and useless, but to my ears the distortion stage is like a DS-1 with more balls
CS-3 - fine compressor
RV-3 - great combination of delay and reverb, but the sound dropout when the pedal is switched on/off is a deal breaker
RV-5 - offers the best modulated reverb i've heard so far
DD-5/DD-6/DD-7 - great delays, tons of features
BF-2 - pretty good flanger after i played with the trimpots inside
AC-2 - terrible thin acoustic guitar simulator

[ryan summit]

all that boss ^and not one PS
they really get a bad rap huh