What Was I thinkin' when I traded my hardearned $$ for this
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I felt exactly this when I tried the Boss DS-1 distortion. Having seen people rave about it, I expected a lot better, at least more control over the distortion. The tone control absolutely sucks and the tone resembles a fart closer than anything else. Tried this on stock fender pups, seymour duncans, and a les paul, no dice.
However, after I modded it, the pedal really rocks. The DS-1 is capable of far better sound than the engineers at boss give us.
I felt exactly this when I tried the Boss DS-1 distortion. Having seen people rave about it, I expected a lot better, at least more control over the distortion. The tone control absolutely sucks and the tone resembles a fart closer than anything else. Tried this on stock fender pups, seymour duncans, and a les paul, no dice.
However, after I modded it, the pedal really rocks. The DS-1 is capable of far better sound than the engineers at boss give us.
snuffleupagus said:
johnny_be_goode
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hmmm
Guitarport :evil:
Guitarport :evil:
AvonRellets
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ShredCow said:
SACRILEGE! YOU DARE DISS THE HOLY DS-1! INFIDEL! I SHALL CALL A HOLY WAR ON YOU! :wink: :wink: :wink:
Epiphone Les Pauls are pretty hit-and-miss. Sometimes you get a good one, sometimes a really badly made one. All depends on the Korean factory worker's mood
Oh yes, here's one I found on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Worst-Disto...ryZ41416QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
detroit_red
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hahahahah nice description there ..
Levaiathan
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T.C. Electronics 2290
AvonRellets said:
haha that description on ebay was so hilarious i thought i should post it here for everyone's enjoyment :lol: :
Ok, so here's the deal.
You are playing your guitar, writing a new song when you are right in the groove and it's all happening and sounding good. You are getting right into a clean channel build up, about to go into a huge distorted riff you just know is going to sound awsome. You play the last few notes of the clean channel crescendo, and then hit that first heavy chord that will lead into what you know will be a killer distorted harmony, whilst simultaneously stepping on the distortion pedal. It is going to sound so good and give you the feel you need to write your best song yet. But what happens?
The distortion pedal just sits there like absolutely nothing has happened at all.
You get nothing but a big clean lifeless powerchord. The mood is totally killed, and the momentum of the song is gone. You know you will be unable to capture the feel of what you were trying to write ever again, it had to happen now or never. You look down at the pedal, and it just sits there all innocent-like, as if nothing had happened. You can just tell it is trying to say to you: "What, you never pressed me! I am ready for action." So you press the pedal, and guess what? It switches on NOW, when it is too late. The pedal is secretely laughing at you, yet if you were to tell anyone this they would look at you very strangely for a second, and then ring the mental health emergency number. The men in white coats with the big smiles would come and take you away, and it would all be this pedal's fault. You would sit in that homogenous padded room trying to remember the feel of the song in vain, and when visitors came to see you all they would hear as they approached your door would be a madman yelling "Why couldn't you just switch? WHY?".
So if a pedal has an intermittent random switching problem, how does it 'know' when to work and when to not? How can it switch fine when it does not matter, and yet NEVER switch right when you need it to?
This pedal is an Ibanez Soundtank Powerlead distortion pedal. I guess when the thing actually does switch on the sound is ok, but it ain't no Metal Zone or anything. Has Level, Tone, and Distortion knobs, and looks like some kinda wierd black bug. Power supply or battery required for unique immense switching frustration.
The only thing that suprises me about this pedal is that I have not thrown the bloody couch on top of it. I am normally prone to punishing inanimate objects that have wronged me, but for some reason this one has recieved no ill-will from me, apart from profuse swearing and death threats.
If you are looking for something to give you a quite-possibly legal excuse for murder or arson or something, here is your ticket. One day of trying to get this pedal to change when you need it to may just have you burning your house down just to make sure it is dead.
Other uses for this pedal I can think of are:
- As a wheel chock for working on your car. But no doubt the switch would actually work when the wheel moved against it, allowing just enough momentum for the car to roll over it and crush you and all your expensive tools that actually do work.
- A great test object in a Quantum Mechanics experiment. This could be used to further test the part of the theory that states looking at a random quantum event actually causes the particle to choose one path or another, like the double-slit experiment or something. Because this pedal already knows what it will do, and simply judges the amount of frustration that will likely result from a given choice of whether to switch or not switch. This could even revolutionise Quantum Physics, leading to a Unified Theory of Everything. Or it could bring the whole thing to it's knees and send us back to the Dark Ages, which is the more likely scenario from my experience.
- A toy for caged monkeys. They would have endless fun with it, pressing the switch and wondering if it would work or not each time. It may even bring them out of the domain of pack animals and into the world of culture if they used it to make decisions over disputes etc., and we could end up with a second intelligent species on Earth given enough time. Maybe even a Planet of the Apes type deal. But this is unlikely, as they would probably just eat the thing because it looks like a giant fricken bug.
- It could be sent out into space to scare off any Alien Races thinking of taking over Earth. They would try for many years to understand the technology that allows it to intuitively switch only when it is not important that it actually does. They would conclude that we are a much more Technologically advanced species than them, and Wormhole-Jump back to their home Moon with their tentacles between their legs. Of course there is always the possiblilty that the pedal actually IS an alien construction (it is shaped like a wierd bug creature after all), and would lead them right to us, therefore being responsible for the demise of Earth; something I am sure it is distinctly capable of.
Anyway bidding starts at a Dollar, knock yourself out.
Crawldaddy
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Hmm.
a 2nd-hand Boss DD-3. bought it at a 2nd-hand dealer and the damn thing crapped out on me after just 3 weeks. cost me a damn arm and a leg for a 2nd hand pedal. cheesebun.
a 2nd-hand Boss DD-3. bought it at a 2nd-hand dealer and the damn thing crapped out on me after just 3 weeks. cost me a damn arm and a leg for a 2nd hand pedal. cheesebun.