Boss DS-1 Distortion Demo (inc PostMod Video)

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:23 am

robroe wrote:did you dye your beard jet black?

hahahaha

pussy

I hadn't shaved in a week. It's what happens if you're a man.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:51 pm

i think the shadows in the room make it look bigger than it is. its like all long on the sides under your chin and then you aint got shit under your nose

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:59 pm

It was pretty dark so it was just light from these shitty energy saving lightbulbs Joanna made me buy which are crap for making gear demoz.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:51 pm

I was reading over on FSB that in late 2007 they changed the op amp on the DS-1 to one that supposedly sounds better than the '94-'06 ones. allegedly it's less fizzy sounding. do you remember which yours has?

Tezifon · Post by **Tezifon** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:58 pm

hi, i did another mod to my ds-1 this week, so easy you just can try it with some alligator clips

it makes the sound less trebly, the mod consist in a cable in the tone resistors

Post by **Doog** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:58 pm

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Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:55 pm

mage wrote:I was reading over on FSB that in late 2007 they changed the op amp on the DS-1 to one that supposedly sounds better than the '94-'06 ones. allegedly it's less fizzy sounding. do you remember which yours has?

It was brand new when I bought it so it will have the newer op-amp. Still sounds arse stock.

Cheers all.

riotshield · Post by **riotshield** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:24 pm

actually, the DS-1 without mods sounds grunge in a good way. i can imagine it sounding big playing with a nice fender amp thru a big PA

Post by **Doog** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:03 pm

riotshield wrote:i can imagine it sounding big playing with a nice fender amp

That pretty much is the "Bleach" sound.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:03 pm

I don't like it. Doesn't work at ALL at rehearsal volumes. So fucking shrill.

I managed to chip some of the paint off the DS-1 so I might refinish it some odd colour for laughs.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:04 pm

Doog wrote:
riotshield wrote:i can imagine it sounding big playing with a nice fender amp
That pretty much is the "Bleach" sound.

It sounds better on record than it does in person, they must have EQed the living hell out of it.

Post by **Doog** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:10 pm

Maybe one of the mystical Japanese DS-1s?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:57 pm

Teh kurdtz had a japanese one.

I still think the DS-2 sounds awesome if you have a decent tube amp, especially on neck position single coils. It also doesn't sound like a DS-1, on either mode, no matter what anyone says. If I can find it it's demo time in '09.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:43 pm

yeah apparently the MIJ DS-1 had yet another op-amp that sounds better. these were the ones made pre-1994, so... yea, that's the one teh krudtz had. apparently a lot of the keeley mods are just reverting things to MIJ specs.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:51 pm

Not really. They're mostly upping cap values to inrcrease bass response, and adding LEDs to the Clipping Stage in place of pure Si clipping

william · Post by **william** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:26 pm

Mike wrote:Not really. They're mostly upping cap values to inrcrease bass response, and adding LEDs to the Clipping Stage in place of pure Si clipping

and changing the nobbs.

nice work mike. really doesnt sound like a ds1 at all anymore, but then again why would it afterall the changes you made. the world is one less shitty ds1, one more awesome mike pedal. hoorah.

i had a ds1 for like a week and sold it. wtfzzz with ds1 popularity? i didnt think it sounded anything like teh kurdts, really, like somebody said they mustve eqd the buttholes out of it. and thats alot of eqing, if buttholes are coming out of TEH DSONEZZZ.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:13 pm

william wrote:wtfzzz with ds1 popularity?

Price, availablity, celeb association cred. And because of all that, they're the first page of any "ALL ABOUT EFFECTS PEDALS" book, which has probably drawn a few more poor souls in.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:15 pm

They're also instantly recognisable.

There's not many other pedals that are that colour, it's like that's Boss' DS1/2 territory.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:26 pm

The MXR Phase 90 would argue otherwise, probably muttering something about seasick green under it's breath in the process.

william · Post by **william** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:37 pm

green muffs are like that too. cant think of another pedal in that army green.