The Boss pedal sounds the best.

@metalmaniac6896

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@xvor_tex8577

3 жыл бұрын

Personally I feel like Boss is better from sound and price perspective, don’t get me wrong Boss is good but I feel Boss is better

@iamnoone4046

3 жыл бұрын

Lol how do you only have 2 replies

@blizzbee

3 жыл бұрын

Along with delay, tuner,,, I have three "gain pedals" on my board, they're all Boss and they're all yellow LOL. od3 sd1 os2

@Dragonblaster1

3 жыл бұрын

@@blizzbee I ran with a Metal Zone and Compression / Sustainer on my pedal board for years in a metal band, playing a Strat in humbucking mode ("in-between" selector switch position). It was always a handful, but I got the hang of it and it never got away from me. But the best pedal choice I ever made was the NS-2 Noise Suppressor, which I only got after my eight years of glory with The Uninvited. A handful? Not any more! I still get the same mega-gain meaty distortion and sustain - but it's controlled. I dial in the feedback I want, and the NS-2 never lets it run away. It makes pick scratches and pinched harmonics so much more satisfying.

I like that you don't talk for 3 minutes between each pedal demo so the sound of the previous pedal is still fresh in my mind. Too many pedal demos have the guy blabbering on about settings, etc.. so by the time you hear the next pedal you forget what the last one sounded like! Cheers! I used to have a Heavy Metal and I loved it!

@achrisofalltrades5620

7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking this exact thing lol I also like the fact that he played the same riff, it helps with the comparison

@rickytv24

6 жыл бұрын

Samuel Barrett yeah right.

2:50 clean single coil No-0 (LOL) 2:58 Od-2 Turbo Overdrive 3:20 Ds-1 Distortion 3:44 Ds-2 Turbo distortion 4:10 HM-2 Heavy metal 4:35 MD-2 Mega Distortion 5:00 MT-2 Metal Zone 5:35 Clean Cumbucker LOL Hum-0 hehe 5:45 Od-2 6:11 Ds-1 6:38 Ds-2 7:05 HM-2 7:32 MD-2 7:59 MT-2 8:35 ALL 6 pedals at the same time WTF-666 last HA

@kosolobik

7 жыл бұрын

Reagan Ronaldさん、od-2　がありますか?

@ky09n

6 жыл бұрын

ありがとう

@ky09n

6 жыл бұрын

なんでここだけ日本人ｗ

@DarrenD777

6 жыл бұрын

@JayEdom - "Hum-0 hehe" It's funny that there's some hum/buzz seeing as he's playing "humbucker" pickups.

Love the midrange boost of the Turbo Distortion.

You have the best Boss distortion demo on the internet ! Great job !

@kierenmoore3236

6 жыл бұрын

Lol ... Wut?!

@filstarove

3 жыл бұрын

True

Thank you for your video. I really enjoyed it. I've always wondered what the differences are and no one can really explain in words. But you just did. Plus all of them together blew my mind. That was awesome. Cheers!

one of the best distorsion i ever saw

Thanks for the excellent, prompt, demonstration. Distortion all the way up, and the same chords and riffs across the demo. Very helpful. So many other demos are pretty tedious and drawn out by comparison. Thanks again.

I think the 'Turbo Overdrive Mega Heavy Metal Distortion Zone' won this shootout. (TOMHMDZ-3)

@blizzbee

3 жыл бұрын

Damn

Thank you for the review. The DS-2 is my favorite, especially in Turbo II mode. I love those mids.

Excellent review! It is clear the sound nuances of each pedal. I go with the Turbo Overdrive. Great video.

Each pedal has its own distinctive sound for different playing styles. I have them all and I love them. Boss can be the be all end all choice. You just can't go wrong with them. It covers all those great distortion sounds.

These pedals are what all the boutique pedal makers use for there base sound then they just try to tweak the sounds slightly so they can differentiate themselves and charge a fortune. Just buy Boss you cant go wrong.

Thank you for using the same riff for every pedal!!!!!!!! 😎

That was a really great demo of 6 great Boss pedals. It's amazing how I still like the sound of the DS-1 the best from this video. I guess I'd have to have been in the room listening or I'd have to have them all myself to see which one I thought was best for my liking still. Still GREAT JOB on the demo.

I actually think we were all waiting for 8:30 !!! AWESOME

this man makes the best demos ever! #1 !!!!!!

Your pedals are just awesome man!!

Your pedal collection is neat-o. Thanks for showing us all the different variations and what-nots. I like your channel a lot.

All "drive" all the way up! Thank you, this is how one should play a distortion or overdrive pedal.

Love the set up !!!

the DS-2 is my winner :)

Thanks to the settings displayed on the MT-2, I'm now able to use a pedal that I had since 1995.

like that you demonstrated playing the same piece with each pedal. Smart.

OD-2 is the guitar at the start of the gig and the MT-2 is your guitar by the time you come back for an encore. Great demo.

If this taught me anything, its that you can never have too many Distortion Pedals.

The Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive is a really good one too.

Well heres my take on pedals: any pedal is good through the right amp. Ive tried a cheap behringer ultra distortion through a marshall mg n it sounded great. Ive put a cheap daneelectro fab overdrive in front of my dark terror it sounded great. Dont rely too much on youtube videos for tone quest, what matters most is believing in your own ears and what sounds best to you

@MrCesaradrianer

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah I've seen a lot of videos about my Behringer Distortion X and most of them make it sound like shit, but I've tried it on a Peavey and it makes it sound really killer.

@AhmadIkramBinAhmadHisham

10 жыл бұрын

MrCesaradrianer behringers are awaesome! managed to squeeze out EJ's n gilmour's tones from my dark terror withhep from the hd300 n boss ch1 n dd3

@butteredbiskit3497

4 жыл бұрын

I agree and add, knowing what I know, if I saw some dude's pedalboard with all these distortion/overdrives, I wouldn't blink an eye. They all have a certain quality. None of them suck.

Ahhh the Boss HM2 Heavy Metal pedal...my first ever boss pedal back in 1986...

Nice. I always enjoy your videos. Thanks. (I have a HM2 but I don't use it for metal though. I really like its eq knobs, and really good for sustain especially when stacked.)

My pedal board (all Boss): TU-12 Harmonic Tuner NS-2 Noise Suppressor MT-2 Metal Zone distortion CS-2 Compressor/Sustainer CH-1 Super Chorus BF-2 Flanger PS-5 Super Shifter pitch shifter

@rtomas47

3 жыл бұрын

Shouldn't be the metal zone i the FX loop? It doesn't sound right when it's in front of amp

@Dragonblaster1

3 жыл бұрын

​@@rtomas47 I run the TU-12, NS-2 and CS-2 through the front of the amp., whereas the modulation effects come out of the jacks on the pedal board ( BCB-60) and go through the FX loop on my JCM4212 combo amp. Also the MT-2, because I don't think you've lived until you've overloaded the power amp.

Man my first pedal was a DS 1 I had no clue how to use it fifteen years later I got one again and love it

I got a HM1 a OD1 and a DS1. I dig em all and use em all. I like the different variety of power ya get.

Thanks!! Very helpful

I think it would be easier to compare them if you played 1-2 power chords on each pedal for the first cycle and then a short riff on the next cycle. Decreasing the time to go through all the pedals helps one compare the active pedal with previous pedals. Just sayin, but thanks this was an informative clip about something Ive always been curious about.

Love the Ds-1

I hear the Stairway to Heaven solo right away

@gregolsen4995

8 жыл бұрын

+George Zoorob Jr same

@llawliet1834

5 жыл бұрын

The same

Great vid, i have an HM-2 great pedal, that & the DS-2 were best to my ears. :)

AWESOME!!!

OD-2 and Ds-2 both have a mid boost sound. I like both.

Well done !

when he switched all six pedals on, I thought the devil's gonna come

@777disneyland

4 жыл бұрын

LOLOLOL

I have the TURBO OverDrive and Mega Distortion. Both are great. Mega Distortion has killer thick bottom while I use the TURBO OverDrive for brighter stuff. I think its a good combo.

i preferred both the turbo OD and turbo dist. Especially that turbo OD with the gain cranked - it sounds great and not too overpowering

The most important lesson to be learned by this demo! is ....always demo overdrive/dist pedals wide open on the gain! thanks man! i hate demos that start off with the gain at 50% or less etc!

@GhostGuitars

9 жыл бұрын

Sam Patterson yeah whats the point of that? No one browsing big distortions is going to use it on lower settings!

Boss DS-2. I like the midrangey tone.

Very Brian May your playing is in this video. Mainly in the chording do I hear it; it's a compliment believe me.

@GIGeorge23

10 жыл бұрын

not to mention playing into an AC30

All 6 on at the same time, now THATS a real guitar player there!!! #UpTheIrons!!

Agree on the DS-1. Some people think you must mod one in order to make it better. That might be true, but if you're tweaking your amp in conjunction with the DS-1, you'll get some tight raunchy distortion with clarity.

Ahhh.... Okay you did run all six together - and you survived! Congratulations :-)

I have both. The DS-1 from japan tends to have a fuller , less edgy tone. It can do a nice clean boost too. The "new" taiwanese batch tends to have a high peak on mid-high frecuencies. Not a great difference but the japanese/early taiwanese model seems more warm and fuzzy

...Single Coils: 2:47 OD-2 2:57 | DS-1 3:20 | DS-2 3:43 | HM-2 4:09 | MD-2 4:34 | MT-2 5:01 Humbuckers: 5:30 OD-2 5:45 | DS-1 6:10 | DS-2 6:38 | HM-2 7:05 | MD-2 7:32 | MT-2 7:59 My Bloody Valentine: 8:31

Mega sounds so close to my ML-2 Metal Core? Thank you for the demo, I bought pedals randomly and loved them DS-1 vintage old distortion, MT-2 Metal Zone modern with some vintage hybrid distortion, ML-2 Chugging kinda modern side sound, I love them all, and BD-2 for smooth distortion a bit of Fuzz type distortion, love them all

Great Demo. You have to try the Keeley modded MT-2, it's an animal. He adds a 3 position mode switch, it has 3 huge tones. He adds better quality components to give it a much clearer top end, never harsh. It's my secret weapon for when I need to go to 12.

Great demo! All six on at the same time was painful.

Never heard some of those before, and I love that you used single coil and humbucker guitars. I really liked the mid-boost of the Turbo Distortion. One question: How does the non-turbo OD on the Turbo Overdrive compare with the SD-1?

turbo overdrive is the best! I hope roland makes a reissue for this awesome pedal. like what ibanez has done for tube screamer.

I use the md-1 it's amazing with a low output guitar and a clean channel with the mids boosted and the distortion on about 8

Damn they all sound awesome. Makes my decision too difficult

@LBibeauB24

8 жыл бұрын

The metal zone is actually very easy to not be able to get a good tone out of. get an amp with a built in distortion channel and then get an over drive pedal for a boost or for crunch tones on the clean channel.

All six was great, haha...soooo much feedback.

Towards the end, when they were all turned on one can really hear how the Turbo mode on the Turbo distortion filters the sound

I dont understand people that knock these pedals.These pedals are for punk,grunge,hard rock etc etc NOT fucking blues or blues solo's.They are meant to sound how they sound, "undesirable" if you like.That is why Kurt Cobain used one,like alot of player in the 90's hated EVH type lead solo's(i still do)give me noise and mess anyday. Blues players commenting on punk pedals is hilarious. Not everyone wants to hear the 'tonewood' etc etc.t5he idea in the 90's was to destroy that BS and eliminate gear geeks which is now almost the norm unfortunately.

@MS-lj4yu

6 жыл бұрын

FOOKYA MODELLE SAME

@guitareMTL

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! I mostly play blues and I like vintage tuby overdrives but most of the boss and digitech drive pedals are great at what he were build for. Still own my ds-1 and my digital metalizer for occasional trash fun!

Ds2 is my favorite

100% agreed

I like the md2

damn the difference ~ noble effort though ~ good to know they all REALLY do sound the same (Metal pdls excluded)

Max 'em all put and play Smoke On The Water.

Good video for my favourite Boss Pedal. I would love, if you play one song using one by one. Next by next.

That turbo overdrive is so nice I have the ds2 but prefer the big muff from electro harmonix

There you have it, they all sound like distortion !

I like mega distortion 2,and fuzz

Hi, glad you like the videos! I don't think there would be very much difference in tone between the two. G

the riff you play reminds me of final fantasy

I had this Boss BCB-60 pedal board with a bunch of good pedals and sold it like an idiot along with my half stack amp Peavey 5150 2. So stupid I know. This is about Boss but my favorite lil Pedal was The Weapon Dan Donegan DigiTech pedal even though it was his sounds it's a good lil Metal pedal too though. Dan Donegan from the band Disturbed used to use the Boss Metal Zone MT-2 in his live rig for the EQ mainly I think. There's a video of it here on KZread

The OD-2 Turbo Overdrive wins. It sounds like the person playing it. Totally different on Turbo and Non-turbo. Very versatile.

HI, I really admire your very instructive videos, All yout videos Has helped me a lot to make up my mind in the moment to buy a pedal...!!!! ... Could you give me your opinion??? is there any difference between The DS1 japan MAde and the Taiwan????

The first three sounded best to me- warmer and more mid-range. Beginning with the Heavy Metal unit it sounded somewhat scooped in the middle. Perhaps this was a result of the settings on the HM?

9:08 sounds just like the intro feedback on STP's "Vasoline"

If you have these many distortion pedals and you don't occasionally turn them all on at the same time, are you even a guitar player?

@blizzbee

3 жыл бұрын

This is the device to communicate with ppl on Mars.

All 6 on together at the end, just for the chaos.

The Turbo Distortion (Orange box) seemed to have more realistic overtones, sounded the most dynamic to me, the other seemed too compressed and artificial.

@goldchoconite

9 жыл бұрын

***** I would say it's possibly the most commonly found pedal on the planet lol

@mikeyseney6570

8 жыл бұрын

+goldchoconite other than a big muff

@goldchoconite

8 жыл бұрын

+Michaels Covers dunno tbf, I have a Big Muff (giggedy) and a DS1 pedal, but I've not really met many (if any) guitarists who have the BM pedal and even more who never heard of it! Could be a US vs UK thing though

@savanaviolenta

7 жыл бұрын

Yes the DS2 is a classic distortion pedal love the tones you can get out of it from mild overdriven to full blown raw distortion and my Strat pairs with the Ds2 like bread and butter

I would like to see if all the pedals sound the same when the equalizer, tone controls are at middle position. That would be a true test of the distortion. Then at the end you can twiddle the knobs, and show how to shape the sound. I like all the boss distortions. The one that I had was the FB-2 Super Distortion and Feedbacker. My neighbor let someone borrow it and I never saw it again.

that yellow one more bright sound

Any recommendations or Jan Hammer wannabe distortion keyboard soloists? I was tinkering the Over Drive/Distortion OS-2, or the Power Stack ST-2, before the mandatory Chorus Ensamble CE-5, DD-7 Digital Delay, and RV-6 Reverb. The latter three are no brainer for a dry keyboard like the DX7. But what about the distortion pedal to make the FM synthesizer sound like Jan Hammer guitar-like keyboard solos?

You can really hear those pedals come alive with humbucking pickups as opposed to single-coils.

@savanaviolenta

7 жыл бұрын

Strats shine really trough DS2 omg

@rorycunningham5457

4 жыл бұрын

Totally the opposite.Any of these pedals are pretty useless with humbuckers they just have to much output even the weakest ones.

@lomoholga

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the humbucker was like a blanket was placed over his amp

In my opinion the best Boss pedal isnt represented. ThevBoss DA2 adaptive distortion. Awesome pedal

what's the name of intro song?

DS-1 is the best

The Turbo Overdrive for me, that HM-2 pedal to me sounding like it was modified, the one I own sounds like a thousand buzzing bees attacking.

Which one is the more natural/realistic sounding of the 6? I need a pedal to put into the low(clean) channel of my Jcm800 because I can't put my delay pedal in front of my high(distortion) channel. So I can put the delay after the distortion (using a distortion pedal before).

DS1 forever!!!!

The original Japanese DS1 with the Keeley mod is my fave. The newer Taiwan-made Boss pedals just aren't the same. There's a Chinese company called Daphon who do really good knock-offs of the original Japanese chipsets. My guy at Roland swears by them.

@GhostGuitars

9 жыл бұрын

Flex Music I recently got a Daphon Heavy Metal really cheap on ebay. Sounds great! Would you recommend the chorus?

@flexmusic89

9 жыл бұрын

The chorus is very good, it doesn't sound out of tune like a lot of cheapo chorus pedals. If you're looking for analogue, reliable and cheap then yes.

@GhostGuitars

9 жыл бұрын

Flex Music cool thanks!

Great video.I have the hm2 &was curious to hear other boss dist pedals. What guitar Is it u play w the humbuckers?

@blondegraemey

10 жыл бұрын

I think it as my Les Paul.

@Abhyyt

8 жыл бұрын

+blondegraemey You said it was single coil? Did you mod the lespaul?

@blairgill8799

7 жыл бұрын

John d Looks like a strat

@TrevorPrinceMusic

6 жыл бұрын

The first was a strat the second was a les Paul

That intro =:O

epic finale!! ajja

How do you think an older digitech RP200 compares to these?

Is the beginning track we are the pigs from suede?

They have at least one more that is called a Metal Core!

It's quite similar. More Tube Screamer like in terms of gain. G

Clearly the DS1 and The Heavy metal got a fuller range and clarity..Resonant as well..