Dlz « correct »
Published on 03/01/14 at 15:50Classic BOSS pedal RAS
UTILIZATION
The pedal has the advantage of providing separate settings for each channel (unlike the DS-2), which allows to refine the overdrive and distortion according to his tastes and his gear without compromise.
The pedal can either switch between: and bypass overdrive - bypass and distortion - overdrive and distortion.
I would have preferred to scroll bypass, overdrive and distortion but it's very hard for a single compact pedal.
SOUND QUALITY
The overdrive is very plain, it is all the more regrettable as it is called "SD-2" and the SD-1 offers a very good overdrive.
It's still usable but nothing folichon well.
The distortion is a bit more successful, this is a kind of MD-2 (Mega Distortion) with a more soft sound a little less loaded with bass and gain more common, but not bad either.
OVERALL OPINION
This SD-2 is somewhat reminiscent of the Jeckyll & Hyde visual sound which also offers in the same OD and distortion pedal, but two different SD-2 does not accumulate OD and distortion, also if Jeckyll has a good overdrive and very any distortion there is a reverse since a distortion clearly above the overdrive.
The interest of this pedal lies in its versatility and its price (in secondhand 50 € is a pretty good deal), but the versatility at a cost that is an OD back, we are also faced with the impossibility scroll through all the modes (bypass - OD - Disto) foot which reduces the interest of concept "all in one".
UTILIZATION
The pedal has the advantage of providing separate settings for each channel (unlike the DS-2), which allows to refine the overdrive and distortion according to his tastes and his gear without compromise.
The pedal can either switch between: and bypass overdrive - bypass and distortion - overdrive and distortion.
I would have preferred to scroll bypass, overdrive and distortion but it's very hard for a single compact pedal.
SOUND QUALITY
The overdrive is very plain, it is all the more regrettable as it is called "SD-2" and the SD-1 offers a very good overdrive.
It's still usable but nothing folichon well.
The distortion is a bit more successful, this is a kind of MD-2 (Mega Distortion) with a more soft sound a little less loaded with bass and gain more common, but not bad either.
OVERALL OPINION
This SD-2 is somewhat reminiscent of the Jeckyll & Hyde visual sound which also offers in the same OD and distortion pedal, but two different SD-2 does not accumulate OD and distortion, also if Jeckyll has a good overdrive and very any distortion there is a reverse since a distortion clearly above the overdrive.
The interest of this pedal lies in its versatility and its price (in secondhand 50 € is a pretty good deal), but the versatility at a cost that is an OD back, we are also faced with the impossibility scroll through all the modes (bypass - OD - Disto) foot which reduces the interest of concept "all in one".