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Yeah, I've had two of those, but found them both to be too noisy. One of the few Boss pedals I've actually had an issue with. Bad luck maybe. I suspect maybe one of them had been modded very badly. I also had a modded TR-2 which had a similar horrendous noise level

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ME50, which is pretty much like having most of the candidates mentioned in one unit.

I've had at least a full shoebox of Boss stompers between the mid 90's and now. Like most, my first taste of distortion was a DS-1 (ran into a Princeton Chorus and a strat, very Cobain-ish) around 1996. In the late 90's/early 00's your local Cashies was a the best shopping grounds for old Boss units at good prices - acquired at least a dozen that way, and kept them for many years. Found a lot of random stuff like the old T-Wah, and a Dimension C that way. Finally sold the last off around the time I went multi-fx about 7 years ago. Kept my TU-2 though, always a place for that even if just plugged into the setup at home.

Like Matt, I rate the GE-7. I had mine for about a decade, useful for taming some amps, and tweaking others.

Only ever bought one pedal new, which was the BD2 Bluesdriver. Smooth little OD, great into a clean 100w tube amp.
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Speaking of Boss pedals of the pros......seems Bloc Party guitarist is a massive Boss fan! :)

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Cool sounds, but I can't get into the band, I've tried! Saw a Boss thing on YT this morning where they demonstrate their testing machines - one pedal from each batch gets dropped, knocked, shaken and switched thousands of times to test that the batch is up to scratch. No wonder they are so reliable

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bbrunskill wrote:Cool sounds, but I can't get into the band, I've tried! Saw a Boss thing on YT this morning where they demonstrate their testing machines - one pedal from each batch gets dropped, knocked, shaken and switched thousands of times to test that the batch is up to scratch. No wonder they are so reliable
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What? No Metalzone?? :evil:

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Gringo wrote:What? No Metalzone?? :evil:
A fantastic pedal to be sure, just not often seen on pro pedalboards.
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biffy clyro!

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I used to have a metalzone on one of my pedalboards, it wasn't connected, just there to get reactions :lol:
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jeremyb wrote:I used to have a metalzone on one of my pedalboards, it wasn't connected, just there to get reactions :lol:
Dude, an ovation acoustic through a metalzone into a peavey solid state amp was a tone machine back in the day!

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I was there. It wasn't.
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So, this just happened...

http://nz.boss.info/products/ce-2w/
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nice strat :)
TLDR; is it using BBD like the orig, or digisplootz?

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Cdog wrote:nice strat :)
TLDR; is it using BBD like the orig, or digisplootz?
100% analog. BBD.
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Awesome! The CE-2 is just about the only chorus I like, be totally keen to get one if I continue on the indie rock vibe !

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