On 2004-01-28, Jims rated this Boss OD-20 a 5...(7704)
Purchase: I bought this unit at a local music stor for $400 (canadian), the price seems a bit high, but this little box lets you have 5 different types of distortion (4 memories and whatever you have the knobs set to), and to buy 5 different distortion stompboxes (even cheap ones) would cost more, plus i live in a fairly rural area, so if you live a city it would probably cost alot less.
Pros: I like just about everything about this effect. you can choose between 22 base types of distortion that you can make you 5 settings from, so no matter what style you play, this things got it covered. this box gives you alot more freedom to explore and find the sound you want than a single effect does. i would definatly recommend it to anyone who is looking to buy a distortion effect, especially if, like me you would prefere to have more than one type of distorion available.
Cons: the fact that you have to cycle through all five settings in a certain order can be anoying, but you can set it on a different memory mode that gets around this, or you can just be quick with your foot, but besides that its an amazing pedal
Quality: if you've been looking at any reviews of boss products they all say that their built like tanks. its true, boss made this unit to take what ever kind of abuse you give it, tho I dont see why anyone would want to try and break it, I'm betting nothing short of a large sledge hammer/axe and a body builder with anger problems could evn sratch this thing. if your looking for quality construction in guitar efects, ur honestly not gonna find any thing that beats boss, ask anyone.
Review Summary: bottom line: the tone quality of the efects is amazing, which is the most important part. the thing won't break under anything close to normal use. the price is kinda high, but its well worth it, and to buy 5 effects of this quality would put yoor wallet quite a bit farther into the gutter. also I would recommend buying the ac adaptor for it, since it takes 6 batteries at a time, and I've heard they dont last too long. all-in-all, this is an amazing product and if you can afford it I would highly recommend it.
On 2003-08-14, martin c rated this Boss OD-20 a 1...(5457)
Purchase: i bought this at my local store for £149.99 thinking i could get many great distortins
Pros: its built really sturdiy cause its boss all there stuff is built to last
Cons: this pedal sucks. none of the distortions sound like what there suposed to sound like for a sdtart the mt-2 is pathetic you would not guess that there supposed to be exact compies of the origanal as they are all very week sounding also quite tiney .
Quality: like i said great its boss no faults there
Review Summary: what u see before u buy is not what u get with as it sports 22 different popular brand distortion and overdrive pedals in one twin padeal unit. but in reality its just a freakin paper wait it has a control on it named heavy octave. u would expect this to give your sound more of a punch but it just turns your sound into a complete mess
