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Boss ODB-3 Bass OverDrive
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Published on 05/30/09 at 13:21
It's an overdrive
analogue
effects are not ditables
of a jack, an output jack
um for me rack or rack is put in a 19 "so I would say that it's not because it is a rack-mount pedals, but nothing prevents you to fix on a pedalboard.
Four rglages: volume, bass eq / treble, balance and gain
A solid aluminum casing
intrupteur under a pile of pedals
A good look

UTILIZATION

Gnrale the config is pretty simple, examples are in the booklet
The knobs are effective
The manual is simple, clear, and the examples are nice if it is THE FIRST exprience with overdrive, they clairent a little about the standards of use of the overdrive.
APRS you to make your sound
Rglages the bass / treble are friendly and efficient, has permits to do its overdrive pedals not only on the bass fiddle or pramp.
It can be used as a boost for the slap by putting the drive to zero, or even small eq to play two sounds alternately DIFFERENT, but not really doing it for, say a service can make a case o.

SOUND QUALITY

The effect is trs effective, however, even when it has a small cot just synthetic, we feel that this is not the lamp, the small default is more or less strong according SETTING THE effect and bass.
I use this bass with Ibanez, the GIO base (my first love for beginners) and a SR505 BM.
My amp is a combo fender rumble 100 watt.
I put a good little while to find the sounds I really wanted, I pass the power crunch, has the overdrive "sweet". Must also say that I did evolve my bass sound for a year and a half, so my tastes have voludonc it's normal that took me a while to find my rglage.
T The last I had put up for sale because the overdrive do with my amp suited me better without his cot a little more "roots", but in the end I went back to buy it back (the one the m I am sold lol) because I realized that even when there silent no more Polyval the amp for overdrive.
This despite the pedals default, has to be MRIT gnraliste and adapts to all situations (my taste).
Of course we should not compare it with a valve drive, it's not the same range dutout.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been a year and a half that I use.
What I love is the versatility and 4 rglages, what I like least is the little breath a high volume (but hey I think it's normal, when all fawn we play we do not hear it), and the grain may be too synthetic / nasal.
Acqurir before I had my korg disto AX10B, thus forcing the ODB is a standard cot.
It cost me 94 euros in stores, it's expensive, especially since the store does not have concurrency in my city, so prices yay!
However the report quality price trs respectable boss is solid as well as the electronic box.
Exprience I would do with this choice, except for the lamp.
I put that 8 because the sound synthetic / nasal rglages complicated a bit, and the breath also, against a big applause for Polyval!
I will change the bass and amp in this t if all goes well, so j'diterai few months after the notice history to have a step back.

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I have since sold this purpose, to invest in an EBS Valvèdre soundly beating all aspects of the diverse and Varis ODB3. I blamed the synthetic sound too ODB3 mainly.