All user reviews of 1/5 for the Boss DS-1 Distortion

Distortion pedal, power supply: battery or power supply (not included)
three knobs (volume, tone, gain) between one and one output, is simple.

USE

Three buttons, so not complicated. Turn them what you will, step on it, and made loud noises (unless everything is zero, which is perhaps the best after all ...) For versatility, it's not a .. . A rock dirty and without character, voil what you can get.

SOUND QUALITY

I primarily accuracy of all I have a very transistor any amp (I bought a pack with my guitar ...) So perhaps this pedal sound correct with tube amp in a room with perfect acoustics, but at home, on my amp, and even playing with a Gibson SG, it's just devastating. The overdrive of my amp rotten makes a thousand times better (but there's no footswitch so ...) In short, made noise is very dirty, you could rub your guitar against a wall cr worse instead of playing mdiator has not change as the sound is dnatur and that, whatever the rglages. In short, this pedal is perfect for someone who does not play guitar, it totally obscures the game messes up the masterful guitarist and Manire her into a bitter thing and / or filthy. All without character, so no longer esprez express yourself with your guitar.

NOTICE GLOBAL

I have this pedal for 2 years, a friend has given me. He had bought this pedal when he started the guitar. Today, it is a true purchased: a Blackstar HT Dual. Well I quickly understood why he did not take what I pay him when I get me bought another.
At the same time, for the price it is expected much. But when even more than a.

In any case rflchissez well before you consider buying this pedal, imagine that you will play with you stronger in stores, your amp will be worse than the one on which you test p dale, and that you might find in trying it, "pchu and destroy", is rvlera so deafening and ugly.
Also take into account the fact that no one will want you to buy it, so you have that you have a beginner guitar player friend at hand to rid esprer you one day ...

This is a distortion pedal.
Supplied without power.

UTILIZATION

Setup is simple, we can find different sounds easily. It's pretty simple, a few knobs turn and basta. Easily found the maximum potential of this effect.

SOUND QUALITY

The effect is not at all effective in my case. The sound is really very very very "digital" ca rens really artificial to perfection and it is clear that we have a Distortion pedal 50 € the colors of the DDE.
Joe Satriani has one it seems ... But it also seems she is moddée. This may be the value of this pedal. It is not too expensive, is it can be made to be moddée.
But new, vulgar distortion simulation discount is obtained. This is really bad.

I used this pedal on a Gibson Les Paul 70's Tribute, and an Ibanez RG on Marshall amps Valvestate VS265R Marshall DSL40C, Orange Micro Crush CR-3. Nothing ay do is bad!

OVERALL OPINION

I used it a few days, not more. I had not used real effects worthy of the name before that this is a Peavey VYPYR with effects in models of same value or Multi zoom effects that gave the same effect made made in Lidl

With the experience I do not redeem this pedal. First I try to test the DS-1 modées before I started!

What a distortion. 1 tone, 1 level, 1 gain (Dist).

UTILIZATION

Configuration could not be more simple, three knobs.
I do not have the manual.

SOUND QUALITY

I found this pedal absolutely disgusting ... A real fridge, no distortion thickness for a little pronounced, slobbery. The gain is pretty ridiculous, even cranked out a big crunch, you can not get a little distortion consistent, the palms are sick mute> <What cool what a tube amp.

OVERALL OPINION

It's been a few times that I try in-store or with a buddy on the Peavey XXX, Vox Valvetronix, Vox Lil'Nighttrain or Peavey Vypyr 15 with my Cort EMGX rise each time I was very disappointed.
My advice to flee, except the side plug'n'play, I find him no interest ...

Boss in a classic

UTILIZATION

Very simple 3 knob and a button

SOUND QUALITY

I put one and I c is the gentiles as the most corrupt and most ignoble obtained with a pedal.
it sounds rotten transistor I possess 6 years and I keep it just to have friends to discover what it's like an anti his music.
for me after hundreds of test the shred master is still the supreme single pedal just light years from ds1

OVERALL OPINION

I bought the lot with a pedal and not try.
I understand why the guys wanted to get rid without

Well, then I think everything has been said!

UTILIZATION

Same: it's a pedal, it's simple to understand and use ...

SOUND QUALITY

This is where it gets funny. The sound is synthetic, metallic, just awful. In their place, I never sold it. I thought it came from my transistor amp, as some have said, but when tested on my very light ENGL screamer, it is the same its quite crap. Fortunately the lead of my ENGL hi just raise the level. Do not even try to raise the tone too much, you could die laughing so much it's awful. Ultimately, for agreements, rhythmic, and letting the tone almost to 0, the term may be less grain rot (a mixture of notes requires), but when attempting a solo, it soon returns to reality ...

OVERALL OPINION

I preferred to buy a brand lamps hi gain rather than suffer this atrocity. Just because I was looking for THE sound of distortion (well, for my taste!), And I thought this pedal would ... If you say that Vai and Satriani's own, so it should sound, forget it, because and they have nothing to do with the DS1 taiwan.
I hesitate between the bear to show it to my friends scratch, just to type a good time to laugh, or sell it, but I would be disrespectful if I tried to sell this waste. I put 2 / 10 for robustness (that BOSS) for the supplied battery, and also because There's the sound that comes out, anyway ... xD

Probably the most beginner or entry level distortion box you can buy. You can find this pedal in just about every music store in the world. There is a couple reasons for that, one being that everyone likes this pedal and its marketed very well. The other being it is as cheap as they come and can get you somewhat of a desired result.....not really

This is a pedal for a learning guitar player who got $50 from his parents for Christmas. If your on a budget then I can see this pedal working out for you.

Simple design and layout as follows..

Level, Tone, and Dist

Level will turn your overall volume up or down. The tone will brighten or darken your tone depending on which side you turn it to. The Dist with give you the grind or saturation that your looking for.

UTILIZATION

The sound is very metallic in nature as most OD pedals can be. It isn't going to be suitable for recording or any real band applications. I guess some people can be creative with it but those people are just going to get something that works for them and not spend much time tweaking a pedal that sounds like forks hitting aluminum siding.

Very easy to use as only three knobs are present. The manual....well I didn't even open because any monkey who can figure out how to turn on an amp can turn this thing into the most usable situation.

I gave it a middle of the road rating since it was easier than pie to figure out though it sounded like trash cans banging around.

SOUND QUALITY

Horrible is an understatement! I would say it would be better suitable for hitting someone in the head with if they touched your amp then actually using in your chain or effects. I used my Les Paul which I though would give it the best chance of sounding decent but no goods. I also tried a Strat and it sounded so bad with single coils that I just unplugged it and never plugged it in again.

I couldn't see myself even touching this pedal again. I heard that they make a mod for it that you can pick up on ebay. Maybe this address the volume loss when engaging this pedal or makes it sound like garbage from utter and complete ruin. I guess you can only go up from utter and complete ruin.

OVERALL OPINION

I like the color of the pedal. That is about all I can say that was good about it. It made me want an ice cream pop but not want to pick up my guitar and jam.

One more good thing I can say which is not exclusive to this pedal is that Boss makes very rugged and road worthy products. If you decided to use this pedal I believe it would last you forever. Boss/ Roland does makes some stomp heavy ready boxes.

I wouldn't recommend this pedal to anyone. Save up and buy a used Boss OD-2!