On 2004-02-01, Riggs rated this Boss DS-1 a 5...(7760)
Purchase: I bought this pedal at Mars Music and I got it on sale for like $35.oo dollars.
Pros: What I like about this pedal the most is its great power it offers for just a $35 dollar pedal. It has alot of Distortion and great level and really good tone for its price i beleive. It also really sturdy and i should know my pedal has been through some pretty good abuse and it still rocks just great.I think it is an excellent begginers pedal and even for others as well.
Cons: Umm,, not too much i dislike about it i greatly recommend this pedal.
Quality: Very sturdy and can take the abuse it gives. Review Summary: The Bottome line this is a really exellent pedal if your thinking about buying a distortion pedal for the first time. Great power awesome distortion and really good tone and level. In addition its very sturdy and can take abuse as well. I think its very much worth the price. On 2003-12-14, Joe Blow rated this Boss DS-1 a 5...(6872)
Purchase: i bought tihs for $40 canadian in a panw shop.. the original dials had been replaced with crappy ones but who cares. i have been extremely surprised with the sound for the money. it sounds just like my friends $160 pedal!
Pros: -best sound ever
-variety of different sounds possible
-easy to use
-UNBREAKABLE!
-so pretty... orange makes me glow all over...
-makes such a great sound
Cons: -they dont fall from the sky.
Quality: amazing. throw it out a 3 story building and it will work fine. built like a tank, as all boss pedals are. Review Summary: sweet miracles! buy it now! On 2003-05-28, Erik L. rated this Boss DS-1 a 5...(4943)
Purchase: A few months ago, I was playing with my Zoom 505 II en I was wondering how crappy this distortion was.
Well, I bought this second hand Boss Dist for 25 € and it sounds great.
Pros: I like the warm and fat distortion sound of this pedal. It's great to turn the dist-control wide open and play some rock songs.
The sound of it is very variable, comparing to the used pickups, amp, guitar, other effects, ...
Cons: ... (no dislikes)
Quality: The quality of this pedal is superiour. Great quality components in a solid metal box. When you're playing a gig you can jump on it, it won't die. Only your audience will die of the fat solid rock sound you get. Review Summary: Only one thing to say about this pedal : It's the best, most warm, fattest, thickest, most solid, most variable distortion pedal you can get. On 2003-03-19, King Chicken rated this Boss DS-1 a 5...(4574)
Purchase: I got this unit as a present from a family member two years ago, I believe she paid around 50 bucks for it.
Pros: This is the best pound for pound, cent for cent distortion pedal ever made in the history of pedals. The tone is great and distortion goes from as little as you could possibly want to as crazy as you could possibly want.
Cons: Theres only one thing that has bothered me about this pedal for the past 2 years and that is if you turn the tone up to loud it gets overly twangy.
Quality: Basically Undamagable, could probly survive being run over. Review Summary: Get this pedal. On 2003-01-12, cconq9 rated this Boss DS-1 a 5...(3923)
Purchase: Bought at Guitar Center for $40 (US)
Pros: I can get basically any type of distortion I want, from heavy Pantera stuff to British Punk to crunch.
Cons: Eats up batteries a lot, I only get like 4 hours playing time w/ it on.
Quality: Built like a friggin brick. Review Summary: I highly reccomed it to anyone who will ever be using distortion. On 2003-01-05, Ben S. rated this Boss DS-1 a 3...(3797)
Purchase: I aquired the unit through a band mate. The price paid is unknown, but it currently retails for approximately $135-139 (AUSD).
Pros: It has the solid (some might say indestructible) construction typical of Boss compact effects pedals, which I certainly appreciate, and the circuit board is seperate from the battery compartment and sealed from same with a rubber grommet. This prevents damage to the circuit when changing the battery. Controls include volume (akin to a line level control) distortion and tone. It has a reasonably smooth sound with good sustain, but it is easily discernable as a transistor type distortion. It's not terribly versatile unit but it does a handful of sounds quite well.
Cons: I dislike a few things about the DS-1. After about 9 o'clock on the tone knob, the tone becomes unpleasantly nasally with all of my setups. It's quite limited in the tones it can produce, but as I said, it will please you with the ones it can if your into Nirvana, etc. It's lower gain settings can get quite bluesy. It doesn't have allot of gain, and at full gain it develops an unpleasant sort of 'gonk' to the midrange that sounds like clipping. it sounds best at low to mid gain settings to my ear.
Quality: Excellent, from an engineering point of view, the unit is both practical to use and maintain (with regards to changing batteries) and solid as a rock. I have never had a problem with a Boss compact pedal and do not expect to in future. Review Summary: It's a competent pedal with excellent and solid construction with very gig-worthy battery access and sealing, and as an aside it's very light on batteries. However, it doesn't have enough gain for some tastes. A kind of gravelly distortion.. has a bit of mongrel in it. Try it. On 2002-02-07, Matt rated this Boss DS-1 a 5...(1569)
Purchase: Bought from: Guitar Center in Texas
Why: I had no distortion pedal
Paid: about $30 or so
Pros: This is a great effect! I love how versital it is. It is, in my opinion, the epitomy of what a distortion effect should be: small (easy to pack in gig bag), versital, and cheap enough for the average Joe to afford. This is not just a great first distortion, it could be your last, too. This pedal is used by such big names a Steve Vai. Another great feature is the battery life. I've had it for about a year and I've only had to charge the (included) 9 volt battery once. So you can pack it and play for hours and not worry about running out mid-gig!
Cons: I have found absolutly nothing wrong with this pedal. If you are the type of person who needs a disgusting amount of distortion (perhaps to hide the fact that you can't play good?) you might need something alittle more drastic, but even when I'm playing heavy drop D stuff like Pantera, this little workhorse keeps up just fine.
Quality: This little pedal is the most solid piece of musical equipment I've ever come across! It has the longest warrenty availible on a guitar pedal (5 years), so that tells you BOSS's confidance in their pedals. All single effects by BOSS are strong enough to survive a nuclear blast (should that become an issue...) Review Summary: Bottom line: if you don't have a distortion pedal, definatly give this a try. Head down to your local music store and try it out. I would highly recomend this pedal to a friend (I recomend Danelectro to my enemies!) |
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