All user reviews of 5/5 for the Boss DF-2 SUPER Feedbacker & Distortion

I've been playing guitar for over 30 years--both with & without effects. Currently you'd most likely find me playing a 12 string at church. (no distortion though.)

I got this in the mid-80's. I already had a DS-1 & the distortion is the same as the S-1, but they added in the feedbacker part--and it's great! I tried it in the store, and as they had a 50% sale that day--I bought it. I forget how much it was--but it wasn't a lot.

It's a great distortion sound--from fuzzy to edgy to sharp.
The feedbacker part is great to have fun with--as long as you keep your foot pushed down on the pedal the note sustains! So you can play licks over the feedbacking note--or do some other tricks with it--it's a lot of fun!

There's no volume control for the feedbacker part, so you can't have it in the background while you play a lead line or riff or chords over it. it will be the same volume as the rest of it. (Although sometimes I get around that by going through my echo which has a stereo output--I put the DF-2 in one channnel where the amp is set on a lower volume. You could also put a volume pedal after the signal is split.)

Sturdy case--like Boss pedals tend to be--it's been knocked around and still works.

An excellent tool & toy, although in some ways it is more toy--but it is a lot of fun to play and use the feedback--You can use it which other effects too. It works great with echo.
If you have a DS-1 and like it, maybe try one of these if you see one available--just for that something extra. if you use a different distortion pedal or use the amp to overdrive your sound, then maybe try this for the feedbacker part. Anyway--it's a lot of fun.

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I have a made in japan "super distortion & feedback", of course analog. A volume knob, one tone, one gain and one to adjust the feedback. Brief solid boss has a habit of making. When you open the beast we realize that the boss has to study the damn thing to get everything there bazard dedant.
1 point less for the inability to adjust the volume of feedback (we'll see below)

UTILIZATION

Frankly anyone who does not know to use it would do well to buy a brain rather than a distortion pedal.
The tone has a scope very Largen, some would say too. It is certain that in normal use it will be used in the middle, but its a very dull, at least it's very interesting, is the most garish. But in fact we can experiment a little by playing on the guitar pickups and the EQ of the amp.
The knob adjusts the frequency of feedback highlighted for you push the pedal to generate the artificial feedback. A kind of tone feedback.
The feedback is activated by pressing the left pedal after the distortion switched on, a little annoying if you want to enable other things at once or make very long but good feedback loop is a bit the price for a pedal compact.

Edit: About the tone it will definitely not too far in the end. On my peavey ultra + has a clean channel very special I trouvasi the DF-2 sounded crap, wrong! In fact everything to build on the amp, the bright switched on, the knob of the df-2 for at least tone it sounds as well as boosted channel of the amp! Only if we make adjustments more "orthodox" Sounds good rotten. I understand why some find this pedal anywhere: you really get the settings, play with the amp and do not hesitate the most extreme stuff!

SOUND QUALITY

The distortion appears Vrau zero at the beginning, finally I was. Besides, I only used it very little, only with the gain to a minimum in order to make use of feedback, but in fact when you learn to discover she's a very interesting feature which is really the amp that used with. On my little Marshall Valvestate I think we approach the mesa's on my randall (lamp) is even more marked, but on another amp sound more british ca. In any case an amp lamp we get a very good result. I heard that this distortion was not top on an amp without trying shit and a good set may, after maybe made in the tawian it sounds differently there anyway I find it very good !
Feedback is excellent but too bad we can not adjust the volume, it is often much lower than the notes played, it must be managed with a pick to do to hear while playing. Otherwise it simulates a really good feedback just all Feedback elsewhere: you can get a result as when we put the guitar on the amp, or against, or feedback micro. In short excellent.
EDIT: I had this test done on normal power supply, battery on the sound changes a lot (PSU PSA / aca done its work ...)! One gains in stack of potato and grain exchange, it is less "molton" more aggressive, more suited to styles more angry, but matter of taste, I like less.

OVERALL OPINION

After several months of using very satisfied, especially for the price! I saw that on ebay america ca partat at crazy prices, apparently was the case here a few months or years, no doubt given the unique feature of this pedal and its its rating is still underestimated.
A single pedal indétronée to date, indestructible and that sounds!

I will not repeat it, cf. other opinions.

UTILIZATION

Usage is simple enough, but maybe because I'm used to address me to my board to turn the knobs. We can take the feedback and play with the knobs, as will be explained later.

SOUND QUALITY

So that is the subject of my post. I have since yesterday, but being big fan of various experiments, I tried a few things and I came across a pretty funny feature. I have a MIJ, but I guess it's the same on Taiwan:

When one starts the feedback, the pedal plays a note that roughly corresponds to the root of the chord played. If you release, the feedback stops, but if tamping fast enough, it can resume. So obviously I tried to do something with it, and inevitably at some point I waited a few tenths of seconds more, and the PAF, the note changes! It is more serious, it has nabbed a part of the note of feedback. Even funnier, the new replacing the old notes, we can apply the same effect, and so on.
The great scientists that you will probably eventually realized that out of the audible signal and a distortion (so close to the triangle or square), we arrive at PocPocPoc that resemble Kraftwerk Geiger Counter. So of course we can not adjust the speed as they do, but try to turn the Overtone, and tell me if you regret having read this long paragraph to the end ..

OVERALL OPINION

This pedal is one of the most trippant I have for now (I speak in terms of sonic explorations).
If you are unable to reproduce the effect described, please contact me.

(Originally written by nihilsbajo/translated from Audiofanzine FR)

I have a "Super Distortion / Feedbacker" (analog effect) made in Japan. Volume, tone and gain controls plus a feedback control. Typical heavy-duty Boss manufacturing. When you open the housing you get the impression that Boss had to go to great lengths to fit all those components inside.
I'll take 1 point off because there is no way to control the feedback volume (see below).

UTILIZATION

Someone who doesn't know how to use this pedal should buy a brain rather than a distortion pedal.
The tone knob has a very wide control range, too wide would say some. For normal applications, set this control in the center position. If you want a very dull sound it can be interesting to turn it down to the minimum, for a shrill sound turn it up to the maximum. And you can also play around with the pickup settings of your guitar and the amp's EQ.
The feedback knob controls the emphasized frequency while you step on the footswitch to generate the artificial feedback. It's some sort of tone knob for the feedback.
To activate the feedback effect the distortion must be on and you must hold down the footswitch as long as you want the feedback to last. It's a bit cumbersome if you want to control other effects at the same time or if you need a very long feedback.

SOUND QUALITY

At the beginning I found the distortion sound really bad. I used it very rarely, only with a minimum gain so that I could use the feedback function, but now I've gotten used to it and it can provide a very interesting sound depending on the amp. I discovered that with my small Marshall amp the sound comes close to a Mesa. This impression is even stronger with my Randall tube amp but you'll get a more "British" sound with other amps. Anyway you'll get very good results with a tube amp. I heard comments about this distortion pedal not being that good. But that's maybe if you use a very bad made-in-Taiwan amp and the wrong settings, but with my gear I find the sound is very good!
The feedback function is excellent but I miss a dedicated volume control for it because it often sounds softer than the notes I play and I have to adjust my pick attack for it to be audible while I'm playing. But it simulates all sorts of feedback quite realistically, from the feedback of a guitar placed close to the amp to microphone feedback. Excellent.
EDIT: I first tested it with a power supply but the sound changes in battery operation! When battery operated the pedal has another sound character. The tone is more "aggressive" and fits harder music styles better. But it's a matter of taste, I personally don't like it that much.

OVERALL OPINION

After several months I'm very satisfied with the performance, especially considering the price! I saw the pedal is sold at very high prices on Ebay USA and it was the same in Europe several months or years ago. With its unique features, this effect pedal is really underestimated.
Up to now it has been a unique, indestructible and great sounding pedal!