What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

[Imp]

Re: What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

yeah, really fuzzy logic from boss there...

stuff they should do:

1) reissue the OD-1
2) get a decent circulation of spare parts to customers who need them
3) Make the manuals all available online (if you buy 2nd hand)

and the biggest one?
4) true bypass in everything. NOT THAT HARD.

anyone with me on these? :burnout:

 

[Stratcat]

Re: What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

yeah, really fuzzy logic from boss there...

stuff they should do:

1) reissue the OD-1
2) get a decent circulation of spare parts to customers who need them
3) Make the manuals all available online (if you buy 2nd hand)

and the biggest one?
4) true bypass in everything. NOT THAT HARD.

anyone with me on these? :burnout:

Sounds good to me.

 

[JeffB]

Re: What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

I've tried them and while they DO offer 3 or 4 different flavors per pedal they're all very cold and lifeless sounding to me.

Oh..sorry I missed your post here. Thanks for the info. Thats what I figured. I never had much luck personally with the DOD/Digitech stuff in the past, so I was skeptical from the get-go.

Back to the subject at hand..Does the blues-driver make a good gain boost for a cranked Marshall (as the OD's and Tubescreamers do) or is it more of a Fender replica type sound?

 

[TheArchitect]

Re: What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

yeah, really fuzzy logic from boss there...

stuff they should do:

1) reissue the OD-1
2) get a decent circulation of spare parts to customers who need them
3) Make the manuals all available online (if you buy 2nd hand)

and the biggest one?
4) true bypass in everything. NOT THAT HARD.

anyone with me on these? :burnout:

Not necessarily on the true bypass. It depends on the application and the pedal. BOSS doesn't send the signal through the entire circuit even when it is off like most wahs for example do. They use a buffering circuit instead of true bypass though.

If the total combined length of all cables between guitar and amp is less than 20 ft then cool. More than that though and the capacitance of the cable starts to kill off high end. You need something to buffer the signal and the boss pedals do exactly that.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people string together pedal boards with 10-15 effects and then bitch that one particular pedal is killing there tone be cause it isn't true bypass. With that many patch points in the circuit what comes out the other end will be **** regardless of whether they are buffered or true bypass.

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

Re: What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

Not necessarily on the true bypass. It depends on the application and the pedal. BOSS doesn't send the signal through the entire circuit even when it is off like most wahs for example do. They use a buffering circuit instead of true bypass though.

If the total combined length of all cables between guitar and amp is less than 20 ft then cool. More than that though and the capacitance of the cable starts to kill off high end. You need something to buffer the signal and the boss pedals do exactly that.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people string together pedal boards with 10-15 effects and then bitch that one particular pedal is killing there tone be cause it isn't true bypass. With that many patch points in the circuit what comes out the other end will be **** regardless of whether they are buffered or true bypass.

I always use a "buffer" after the my guitar and before my pedals...If you lose highs and output,you need to invest in some kind of a buffer to put inline...Great post from the Architect...

 

[B2D]

Re: What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

Back to the subject at hand..Does the blues-driver make a good gain boost for a cranked Marshall (as the OD's and Tubescreamers do) or is it more of a Fender replica type sound?

In my opinion the BD2 is quite a different animal that the OD's and TS's. The BD2 sounds more wide-open and transparent, with more crisp highs, snarlier lows and somewhat pulled mids while the OD/TS stuff tends to be very smooth and middy.

As far as distortion flavors go, if you turn the gain to about 11-oclock and the tone to about 2-oclock it's not hard to get a Jimi-ish overdrive sound that I always thought was reminiscent of a Bassman. But turning the gain up and the tone backed off a little results is a little more of a British type tone. This pedal matches up so well and is voiced so nicely thru my rectoverb, its just ridiculously good with that amp. when used in conjunction with a good dose of amp overdrive with the pedal set to a boost the amp tone takes on a fatter, more agressive, snarlier tone but still retains smoothness. GREAT effen pedal!

 

[Stratcat]

Re: What's your favorite Boss Overdrive Pedal?

Here is a good link for info on Boss pedals past and present.

http://www.bossarea.com/