All user reviews for the Boss OS-2 OverDrive/Distortion

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UTILIZATION

Nothing to understand is very simple, you just try to find her ear that you love.

SOUND QUALITY

This is my first distortion pedal, because before I thought that a pedal that could do worse than a distortion of a good amp, and so it does me no good. And now I changed my mind.
I like this pedal for its versatility. I now play a Start with a Fender tube amp 40W, which, however, I appreciate the drive channel. But that makes me a third channel in a way. I like to use the overdrive, and sometimes with just a little drive, it colors the sound a bit, but the version with more drive distortion sounds great too and we embarked forward for more rock.
And with 4 different pots can do just about what you want (except of course the big distortion of metalheads)

OVERALL OPINION

I played with for 6 months. This reassured me over my prejudice is that this pedal is very musical. I expected something rather cold and metallic, and not at all. Now I can not do without.

Hello musicians!

Following the changes that make it very clear improvements MSM on my Boss DS-1 and my Rat ... I sent my Boss OS-2 which was at once more on the ball ...
everyone is following me!


UTILIZATION

My Boss OS-2 lacked everything, definition, level, growth in the settings, a short pedal OS-2 standard ... on his return and after making many attempts at rehearsals and concerts, is a pedal ... p Now, the settings are more responsive, the sound is huge ... it looks like a Marshall 3 bodies in action, the definition is increased, the range of each setting is significantly increased without altering the original pedal but it goes much much more away at the beginning. To say that this pedal is improved would be simplistic, we can speak of sublimation, I dreamed to hear this pedal turned eS Aime Aime made me!

SOUND QUALITY

Frankly as for the other 2 pedals ... I'm not disappointed at all, while retaining its original character, the OS-2 now integrates seamlessly with my pedals, I can even add the DS-1 with OS-2 I tell you ... it's not mind-blowing!
I said that this amendment, no additional switch but happiness ... so if you have an OS-2, no hesitation sending the fast to be changed you will truly stuck ...

OVERALL OPINION

What about the entire team of MSM ... THANKS minimum because it really struggles for us musicians who always want more ... not to mention the quality of work, availability, taking into account requests, the extreme sympathy that I could exchange e-mail leading to the modification of the OS-2!
Too bad we can not meet the team MSM (or maybe at the Paris Motor Show in November at La Villette) or talk on the phone to achieve the changes but I guess the phone would not finish them so the changes do not disturb are not easy to do!
All my gratitude and friendship to MSM
Musically I go to enjoy myself by fiddling the pedals until the next snooze!
Dominica
http://www.myspace.com/dominiquevassart

The Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion is exactly what the name of the pedal suggest - an analog distortion and overdrive guitar pedal. It has a 1/4 inch input and a 1/4 inch output and is powered by a nine volt battery or a nine volt power supply. It is not a rackable unit as it is a stomp box.

UTILIZATION

The configuration of the pedal is quite simple. It has four knobs - one for level, one for tone, one for drive, and one for color. Different combinations of the parameters will give you a wide variety of different overdrive tones. The tone is like an EQ, with all the way up being hi, and all the way down being lo. The color knob can either lean towards overdrive or distortion. I don't have a manual, but the pedal is easy enough to figure out that you shouldn't need it.

SOUND QUALITY

The tone and overall sound quality of the Boss OS-2 is about average in my opinion. While there are a few different sounds you can get from this pedal, none blew me away, and a lot of them came off sounding a bit stale and tinny. I have only used this pedal with guitar as it is what I play and is what the pedal is made for, although it is compatible with any instrument you can plug a 1/4 cable into. I like the overdrive type sound more than the distortion, and while the effects from this pedal are usable, they aren't ground breaking and didn't impress me as much as I would have liked.

OVERALL OPINION

I've been using the Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion pedal for about four or five years. However, I don't use it all that often as I'm not a huge fan of it overall. While Boss makes some great pedals and this pedal is built like a brick, the tone quality is about average and I have found some pedals I consider to sound much better than this one. Don't get me wrong, the pedal has a usable overdrive and distortion tone, but I prefer the Boss DS-1 as a distortion and would rather have a Nady TD-1 or a an Ibanez TS-808 for overdrive. The price of this is reasonable, but isn't cheap enough of a difference to make up for the sound quality. I recommend checking this out if you are looking for an overdrive and distortion pedal in one, but this isn't my favorite pedal out there.