EVERY SINGLE BOSS DRIVE/DISTORTION

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After a month or two of equal parts procrastination and actually being insanely busy, I finally knuckled down and cranked out my demo of all the current production Boss overdrive/distortion pedals.

I've gotta say - we spend so much time these days chasing boutique pedals that sometimes you forget that Boss pedals sell by the truckload for a reason! I'm especially impressed by the Waza and "-X" series updates, they all sound very organic and versatile.

And hey, even old staples like the Metalzone can achieve some pretty decent tones in the right hands (aka NOT 15 year old me).

Check out the video on Youtube for timestamps to jump straight to particular pedals :)
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Nice! I liked those Waza pedals, hadn't heard of them before.

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Interesting demo. A lot of work you put into that Ed. Nice lick too.

Sooo much choice and most of them sounded similar to my ol' ears. How can one possibly make a choice?
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Great video!

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jvpp wrote:Interesting demo. A lot of work you put into that Ed. Nice lick too.

Sooo much choice and most of them sounded similar to my ol' ears. How can one possibly make a choice?
Cheers! Yeah I literally spent a few weeks trying to figure out what the guitar loop should be.

Haha well at some point it becomes a matter of which feature set works best for you I guess. You're right, most of them can probably cover *similar* tonal ground - but they're pretty versatile too!
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Awesomeness Ed!
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I'll watch this at lunchtime but.....





...did you put them all on at once?

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sirvill wrote:I'll watch this at lunchtime but.....





...did you put them all on at once?
Haha no - though I will have to check and see whether I have enough patch cables to actually do this. All but 2 of them have batteries so it might actually be achievable...
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OD1-X and OD3 were my favourite. Footloose riff is in my head now :)
Tube amp and guitar tones straight from 1958… amazing how believable the sounds were back then, even without the modellers...

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Wish they'd re-release the original OD-1 (black label one)

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slash-ed wrote:I've gotta say - we spend so much time these days chasing boutique pedals that sometimes you forget that Boss pedals sell by the truckload for a reason!
^This.

They've always been the Corolla of pedals to me... easy to use, work for most applications and above all, reliable. Aesthetically they're kinda blunt and industrial, but who buys a pedal with their eyes?

Blinfold test, I'd be hard pressed to tell apart a lot of boutique FX from their Boss counterparts, but perhaps I just have average Joe hearing :lol:
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The Scarecrow wrote:Aesthetically they're kinda blunt and industrial, but who buys a pedal with their eyes?
Haha EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET though. :lol:
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slash-ed wrote:
The Scarecrow wrote:Aesthetically they're kinda blunt and industrial, but who buys a pedal with their eyes?
Haha EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET though. :lol:
+1 I've not bought pedals in the past because they're hideous :lol:
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jeremyb wrote:
slash-ed wrote:
The Scarecrow wrote:Aesthetically they're kinda blunt and industrial, but who buys a pedal with their eyes?
Haha EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET though. :lol:
+1 I've not bought pedals in the past because they're hideous :lol:
And this is why my FX turnover is low :rofl:
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Lyle wrote:Nice! I liked those Waza pedals, hadn't heard of them before.
I really like the Waza pedals. The voicing switch on them seems to yield rounder, slightly softer clipping - sounds a lot more in that boutique ballpark of tone that Boss have been missing out on.
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