BOSS DS-1 Distortion Pedal Review
Boss DS-1 Distortion Pedal – Since its appearance in 1978, the BOSS DS-1 effect has often been present in the pedal board series of guitar legends, from Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani to Kurt Cobain. After more than 30 years on the market and still sticking with its shape and performance, many say that the BOSS DS-1 pedal is one of the best-selling pedals of all time.
Sound & Performance
Like the classic effects pedal, the Boss DS-1 Distortion Pedal only has 3 adjustment knobs: level, dist, and tone. But it’s not the knobs that make this pedal widely used by guitarists. The advantage of this pedal lies in the quality of the sound produced. And the interesting thing is that this thing can also be used for bass and even keyboards.
Tests to BOSS DS-1 Distortion Pedal
The first thing to do when trying this pedal is to use it with a clean channel (Guitar -> DS-1 -> Amp) with the knob setting all flat at 12 o’clock. With the settings mentioned above, the sound produced by this object will remind us of the sound of this pedal. classic rock drives like AC/DC and the like.
If we turn the distortion knob even higher, the resulting sound will be a little “fuzzy” with greater compression. For the tone knob itself, it will accommodate us to make the sound darker/brighter.
The second attempt was to try this pedal with the lead channel (still with the same configuration; Guitar -> DS-1 -> Amp). Well, when we try this we will immediately conclude that this pedal we will need to boost when we are doing guitar solos. This pedal provides saturation that gives the impression of a BIG sound lead, Just add delay, and we will get an epic sound lead.
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Conclusion
Versatile, maybe that’s the right word to describe the sound that this thing can produce. Starting from low drive sound to high gain can be covered by this pedal. Even though the title of this thing is a distortion pedal, it can also do things like an overdrive pedal (though it takes a little more experience to get that sound). And along with the development of technology, currently, the Boss DS-1 Distortion Pedal is also available in a “modified” version, of course with a variety of sounds from the default version.
