New Blog - BOSS pedals of the Pros

[rickenbackerkid]

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

I've had the DD-20 and DD-5 twice each, DD-3 (new version) and DD-2/DD-3 (old version) twice, 3 TR-2s, 2x RV-2, 3x BD-2, at least 4x TU-2. I should learn my lesson and stop selling them.

[The Scarecrow]

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.

[Kloppsta]

Speaking of Boss pedals of the pros......seems Bloc Party guitarist is a massive Boss fan!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqaFU3y-Jo[/youtube]

[rickenbackerkid]

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

[AiRdAd]

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

That's how I test my kids

[Gringo]

What? No Metalzone??

[handsoffmatt]

What? No Metalzone??

A fantastic pedal to be sure, just not often seen on pro pedalboards.

[rickenbackerkid]

biffy clyro!

[jeremyb]

I used to have a metalzone on one of my pedalboards, it wasn't connected, just there to get reactions

[Gringo]

I used to have a metalzone on one of my pedalboards, it wasn't connected, just there to get reactions

Dude, an ovation acoustic through a metalzone into a peavey solid state amp was a tone machine back in the day!

[Polar Bear]

I was there. It wasn't.

[handsoffmatt]

So, this just happened...

http://nz.boss.info/products/ce-2w/

[Cdog]

nice strat
TLDR; is it using BBD like the orig, or digisplootz?

[handsoffmatt]

nice strat
TLDR; is it using BBD like the orig, or digisplootz?

100% analog. BBD.

[rickenbackerkid]

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 !