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celtwyn « Perfect for crafts »
Published on 10/01/12 at 03:37Well ... there are 3 buttons, and unlike other Boss pedals with 3 buttons, level and tone are ... reversed ... Personally I find it very stupid, no doubt it was their first pedal and they realized after they used more often than the level knob Tone knob (once set as you want, you touch more), when suddenly I tested in store I put the Tone 9 - 10am and 12pm at level ... thinking that I had done the opposite, and was surprised that the pedal does not sound so acute nor crunchy on the videos I saw ...
UTILIZATION
... This is a distortion pedal ... manual can help to sound different, because there are examples.
SOUND QUALITY
The sound quality ... I must say I was surprised. I bought this pedal (used for € 30) in order to tweak and to use it as a training ground for reviewing the different switch mod that I found and understand how it all works.
First I think its crunch when the gain is at least interesting. It responds very well to attack, you can really calm her playing softly and launch at least already attacking the strings hard. The sound seemed much less catastrophic than the demos I've seen on youtube! No doubt many have a tendency to start to tone treble, and there is not a success ...
I prefer the tone rather around 11am.
I associated with my Boss BC-2 Combo Drive and there, I admit that it rocks a lot, nice surprise, the sound was more serious, less screeching biggest ... (given the settings the BC- 2) The BC-2 is a simulation of AC-30 amp (and therefore light) I understand that this pedal sounds better on an amp lamp.
Otherwise I associated with other overdrive pedals to see, always leaving the minimum gain and pushing the overdrives. it goes rather well with the BD-2 (Blues Driver) OD-3 and T-rex Tonebug overdrive. But my preference is for the association with the Boss DN-2 (Dyna Drive ... that I sold some time ago and I did well to change my mind)
Dyna adds a side light fuzz that I like, it's also the color slightly, but subtly.
This is good for the DS-1 Original (Made in Taiwan in December 2009), because after I started to tweak, change resistors, diodes ... ha hey, I found myself with an overdrive ... very nice, but I have more crunch my minimum gain .... okay, I know it has to change, I'll come back when I'd go around the mods ... I may not mix the components with the original scheme I can even transfer all, I could always return to the original (must not fuck up the original components, and be very methodical and check before they can replace them with new ones without problems)
OVERALL OPINION
This pedal is great considering all the mods that exist, it can happen to get what you want if you know how to hack. Its exploration is very interesting, and opens the way to understand the inner universe of the pedals and steer towards after "Do it yourself" or delve into his other pedals to adjust as desired, remove the treble one hand, increase the bass, soften or harden the gain ...
In addition it is cheap used, and changing three components are in fact very quickly a nice overdrive at a price defying any competition.
For components, do not look far, you can be free if you are lucky in your city bulky (TV, stereo, Minitel, printer ...) are deposited on the sidewalk. (No luck for those who must take them to the recycling center because they can not recover once over there .. I hate that!). Me what is it that I find most of the components (except some diodes).
The value for money is no comparison (even if it is cheap to buy components, why buy 100 resistance - minimum lot-when you need it as 2?!) And as you have the chance to find the diagram on the net, unlike many pedal, it is a valuable aid to not get lost.
After you see it, but between buying a pedal kit "Do it yourself" for 50 euros, and change component on a DS-1 at 30 euros, the choice is quickly made
UTILIZATION
... This is a distortion pedal ... manual can help to sound different, because there are examples.
SOUND QUALITY
The sound quality ... I must say I was surprised. I bought this pedal (used for € 30) in order to tweak and to use it as a training ground for reviewing the different switch mod that I found and understand how it all works.
First I think its crunch when the gain is at least interesting. It responds very well to attack, you can really calm her playing softly and launch at least already attacking the strings hard. The sound seemed much less catastrophic than the demos I've seen on youtube! No doubt many have a tendency to start to tone treble, and there is not a success ...
I prefer the tone rather around 11am.
I associated with my Boss BC-2 Combo Drive and there, I admit that it rocks a lot, nice surprise, the sound was more serious, less screeching biggest ... (given the settings the BC- 2) The BC-2 is a simulation of AC-30 amp (and therefore light) I understand that this pedal sounds better on an amp lamp.
Otherwise I associated with other overdrive pedals to see, always leaving the minimum gain and pushing the overdrives. it goes rather well with the BD-2 (Blues Driver) OD-3 and T-rex Tonebug overdrive. But my preference is for the association with the Boss DN-2 (Dyna Drive ... that I sold some time ago and I did well to change my mind)
Dyna adds a side light fuzz that I like, it's also the color slightly, but subtly.
This is good for the DS-1 Original (Made in Taiwan in December 2009), because after I started to tweak, change resistors, diodes ... ha hey, I found myself with an overdrive ... very nice, but I have more crunch my minimum gain .... okay, I know it has to change, I'll come back when I'd go around the mods ... I may not mix the components with the original scheme I can even transfer all, I could always return to the original (must not fuck up the original components, and be very methodical and check before they can replace them with new ones without problems)
OVERALL OPINION
This pedal is great considering all the mods that exist, it can happen to get what you want if you know how to hack. Its exploration is very interesting, and opens the way to understand the inner universe of the pedals and steer towards after "Do it yourself" or delve into his other pedals to adjust as desired, remove the treble one hand, increase the bass, soften or harden the gain ...
In addition it is cheap used, and changing three components are in fact very quickly a nice overdrive at a price defying any competition.
For components, do not look far, you can be free if you are lucky in your city bulky (TV, stereo, Minitel, printer ...) are deposited on the sidewalk. (No luck for those who must take them to the recycling center because they can not recover once over there .. I hate that!). Me what is it that I find most of the components (except some diodes).
The value for money is no comparison (even if it is cheap to buy components, why buy 100 resistance - minimum lot-when you need it as 2?!) And as you have the chance to find the diagram on the net, unlike many pedal, it is a valuable aid to not get lost.
After you see it, but between buying a pedal kit "Do it yourself" for 50 euros, and change component on a DS-1 at 30 euros, the choice is quickly made