It’s a Prog 70’s pedal. Sorted

It's an overtone pedal, Luane! Do you want me to bring the cat in here and see if he gets it?! Cos the cat's gonna get it

@StompboxBreakdown

11 ай бұрын

Perfection.

@Disco.Wizard

11 ай бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown haha first time I've ever had a YT comment pinned, very pleased it was this one personally. Great t shirt man, great video too :)

@keitharsenault9738

9 ай бұрын

Can I borrow a feeling? ...Will you lend me a jar of love?

@endezeichengrimm

7 ай бұрын

It's almost too simple. 🇵🇸

This will be the final video you watch before buying a pedal, this guy does it right!

Dude, I love your demos. Unlike a lot of other content creators, you really break down what one can expect when purchasing a pedal. I just sub'd because, why not? You responded to my BBE tremolo comment. So anyway, you and AndyDemos are awesome, keep doing what you do.

@frankfrank7921

2 күн бұрын

100%. Jeff here and Andy Martin's are my two favorite video channels. Stefan Fast of Pedal Zone is also great. What they all have in common is no-nonsense, minimal hype just play the pedal and show what it can do with a bit of exposition where needed.

I love your style of demos (only have watched a few so far). This video sold me on this pedal.

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it.

LOVE your humor plus good solid, helpful information !!!

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

I really love your demos!

@StompboxBreakdown

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

I play a couple of different electric mandolins (5 string) through this pedal. The mode switch is really clear with these instruments. 1 = octave above dry note, 2 = octave above and same octave as dry note, 3 = octave above, same octave, and octave below dry note. I use it to broaden the range of the emando; give it some breadth and depth. It works well for playing without someone (keys or guitars) who covers the midrange as a matter of course, especially when playing single note melodies.

Currently using one in between my two fuzzes to enhance and thicken the tone with mode 3 and make even more octave artifacts pop out of the super fuzz it's going into right after. Only need a bit of wet signal to get a good amount of an extra layer of harmonic tones, noise and sizzle. All the extra tones really make for some epic sounding looping with some reverb. I've never got these sounds with a pitch shifter or a harmonizer.

@whitekony1006

9 ай бұрын

That sounds really interesting, could you expand a bit on your rig; what fuzzes,guitar,amp,etc? I'm an fn nerd when it comes to octave+fuzz related glitching and artifacts,I'm not happy unless my guitar sounds like robot diarrhea in monophonic disjunction hell lol. Most of my collection is built around those sorts of sounds,from the venerable blue box and DOD buzzbox all the way up to the eqd data corrupter and other such boutique offerings. I'm waiting on a shields blender general production preorder that I'm really excited for.

My favourite pedal of all time. Impossible to explain to people. But, fun fact: It sounds KILLER after a wah pedal. The way the octaves respond to the EQ shift accentuates how vocal the wah sounds, and adds harmonic characteristics otherwise unachievable. In Mode 1, it sounds marvellous before a wah too.

@johnplayer420

3 ай бұрын

Fun tip, if you want to use this for vocals, try setting it to Mode 1, diming the Tone knob, and turning the Balance the whole way down, then nudge it upward as slightly as possible. If you're using stereo-out from the M0-2, try diming the Detune knob. I found that gives vocals a nice tape-y tone, similar to the effects used for vocals on Toto's Africa.

Great video with a lot of precious data. You're a f****** genius. Greetings from Mendoza, Argentina!

Thank you, I needed this explanation!!

Very well done! You present the pedals in a pleasant way, still very informative and with a nice portion of humour. I also appreciate the effort - and results - in filming, editing, sound quality and creating some backing music to it once in a while! Concerning the MO-2, what I hear the most, is the "octavish" charakter of the more prominent overtones. Thus for me, the guitar sound gets a bit of an "organesque" support. Like it!

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad you pick up what I'm putting down. I think the other pedals are doing a filter-into-pitch-shift thing, which sounds organ/synth-ish, but relies on tracking. This seems to be doing a deeper analysis of the signal where it can pull out, and using that to either pitch-shift or synthesize something to round out the sound. I've seen people get a really convincing 12-string sound out of it... for me, I mostly had fun with that organ sound, for sure.

@marcofioravanti4176

2 жыл бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown Thumbs up again 4 the great reply! Cheers! 🙂

I have on my my board, I tend to use it to fill out clean parts with a kind of B3 sound just to give to some depth. I also used it on our next single, burnt Orange Michigan out at the end of the month to beef up the guitar sound towards the end of the song, along with an ehx pitch fork! - great videos, for an under rated pedal!

Your bassist is awesome )))))) Thanks for the review, very interesting pedal!

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Haha, he's pretty good, Doesn't complain, and I can pay him in mozzarella sticks.

Great work!

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You seem to be the brother I wish I had. Subscribed!

@StompboxBreakdown

7 ай бұрын

Haha, thank you. First time I’ve ever heard that!!

Thanks for the fairly thorough dive. This seems to be going for a ~sympathetic strings~ effect like you might get on some sitar, the odd lute, or gittern. [+ octave / DSP jazz] It reminds me a lot of E-mu's Z-plane filters they developed in the '90s, similar to a sampler patch or three I made back in the day. Cheers :) 🍻

Getting jazz organ meets Black Hole Sun vibes here, very cool!

Your jams were great!

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Starlight! That means a lot

Awesome shirt!

Love the intro (feels so familiar) love the dignity shirt well done. The effect sorta sounds like a Hammond organ, or whatever John Lord used.

I swear, every time you do a video on a pedal that I'm planning to feature myself at some point, I come away feeling like I no longer need to. Great job, dude! 😎👍

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

I still want to see your take on this. Boss left this pedal's role so ambiguous, I bet five different players would come up with five different things they'd use the pedal for.

@mikeroadblock

2 жыл бұрын

You’re the only you.

@PedalExperiments

2 жыл бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown Haha, well ok then! I guess I'll have to keep an eye out for one...

@stuartchapman5171

Жыл бұрын

We want to see your unique take on it. I've just watched the new Domek video on it. His take is different yet again (a fellow noise connoisseur) but we all bring something to the table. Every take explores different ways to use a device.

Nice video! It would be interesting to hear what this pedal would do on a bass.

love the beginning bit. That's me when I'm explaining synth circuits to my friends who dont give a damn lol This thing is kinda cool, like Boss's take on a unique modulator. Seems like its triangulated somewhere between a uni-vibe, time modulator and granular processor.

So it turns your guitar into a church organ, got it.

@blizzbee

11 ай бұрын

🌚🌝

It kind of sounds like a vibrotone or rotary +chorus cool, but it also sounds like a lot of the over produced 80's stuff. Great video even if I'm not in love with yet another boss pedal.

It's a EHX POG with a fixed setting and 3 detune intensity presets

@guitaristssuck8979

2 жыл бұрын

Enough said

@jimkranz2181

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but half the price and half the size.

@jumpingman8160

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimkranz2181 and a third of interest

@jimkranz2181

2 жыл бұрын

@@jumpingman8160 Each there own. It work for me. Just didn't need the flexibility of the POG. Doesn't mean it doesn't do exactly what they made it to do.

@jumpingman8160

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimkranz2181 sure

I think the confusion about this pedal is basically because Boss is putting more emphasis on HOW they are achieving the effect than what the effect is, actually. I believe that this pedal is relying on the same technology as was originally developed with a plugin like Melodyne where you can digitally manipulate a polyphonic signal by separating out the individual notes by some kind of digital magic and you can then alter those notes to be something else.... mess with the harmonic structure of them. Melodyne will let you change a single track with multiple harmonies and tune each voice differently. That miracle technology has brought us the Multi-Overtone and later, the EHX -9 synth/keyboard simulator pedals and the Boss SY-1/SY-1000 Guitar Synths that require no special hexaphonic pickup. I am not certain if this is how the Digitech Drop/Whammy did their thing, though. It's possible. The technology is pretty incredible, make no mistake. This stuff must have come from aliens, if you ask me. This effect, however, is much easier to describe if you ignore HOW it's doing it's job (by analyzing, deconstructing and manipulating the harmonics) and just say what it sounds like. It's a pitch shifter/detune pedal. By those functions, it can do a pretty good job at simulating a 12-string guitar or an organ with a leslie on it. You can do many other creative things with it as well, but at it's core, those are the effects you should expect from it. Because of how it does it's thing, it doesn't have the same sort of latency that an typical old school digital pitch shifter does. That is an improvement, for sure. It's not going to mis-track or glitch like a pitch-voltage guitar synth. It's not going to go crazy like an old school monophonic analog octave-down pedal or sound fuzzy and ringy like an old school octave-up fuzz like an Octavia. You can certainly combine it with other pedals to make some crazy sounds, though. I love how you demonstrated distortion BEFORE and AFTER the pedal. That's a huge difference that not everyone understands.

@gazmasonik2411

Жыл бұрын

Sounds awesome combined with a Slicer SL2, creativity overload, perfected at last! We've waited since 1947. Roswell unit not easy to back engineer

@-jank-willson

Жыл бұрын

sounds more like a chorus/vibrato thing with reverb added LMAO

@yallimsorry5983

2 ай бұрын

@@-jank-willsonit literally doesn’t have any reverb and it adds a separate pitch?

Multi Overtone and Tera Echo are my favorite algorithms of Boss！

I sure wish more pedal demonstrations proceeded like this one, just going through the settings one by one, the pedal before the distortion, after the distortion. Needless to say I've subscribed to this channel. It sounds like channel 3 adds a sub octave, channel one an octave up and perhaps is 2 both? The de tune seems to be doing what a flanger does. It sounds really nice after the distortion like a sitar or something, kind of blown out before the distortion, like an overdriven tube amp.

@arlobrubaker

Жыл бұрын

I have one. Two is a "mids setting" ... mode 1 is Octave up = high mode 2 is __________ = mids mode 3 is Octave down = low

How does the stereo output work? Is it a wet/dry split like some other Boss pedals?

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

Good question. Best I could tell, it seems to be tied to the detune function. I couldn't quite figure out exactly what the stereo function was doing, just that it sounded even bigger. Sorry.

I dig it.

Does the boston sound perfect with a stereo set up

Cool jams, first one made me think of early Yes, and loved that second one that called to mind Prince’s Purple Rain outro. No idea if those are in the ballpark, but loved those jams. This was a challenging pedal, and I’m sure to explore and plan out a video. Much thumbs up for a great exploration and explanation. ✌️🙂🎸

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

Second one was definitely Purple Rain, not sure what I was going fit on the first one. Thanks for watching, it was tricky, with not a lot of info to go on.

Seems like a cool sleeper pedal. Almost like it's amplifying the "synthy" sound that people say bad octave pedals have. But that actually makes it interesting.

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely a sleeper. I use a synth pedal (SY-1) with my bass for a cover band, just to get a somewhat more dramatic sound, but it doesn't handle chords and dynamics quite like this. It's a totally different approach. Neat stuff, glad Boss is still trying stuff out.

@EricTheCleric93

2 жыл бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown Interesting. I've heard the SY-1 handles polyphony well. I've been wanting to get one to compare it to EHX's Synth9.

LOL 😆 Love your intro!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It sounds a lot like a Leslie.... And I’m sure that it uses algorithms from Leslie pedals. You’ve really don’t an excellent review.

I really want to get one of these and try it on my electric 12 string now, it has the type of thing i think about a 12 on the 6 so adding that to a 12 would be fun

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

ALL THE STRINGS!!

I got the Red Panda Raster 2 and I'm trying to determine what the MO-2 does differently? I'm hearing all sorts of flange, chorus, and cool wobblings going on, which adds such depth and layering to any sound! I think the Raster does something similar (and more) with exotic flavorings, but the controls are really 'out-there', and 90% of the settings are really unusable. Also, the Raster relies heavily on the web based interface (translation: you need to plug it into the computer, make a bunch of setting adjustments which alter whatever is on the dials), and while that seems cool, it's annoying. I don't have time or patience to be doing all that. The MO-2 seems to take the best sounds out of that, and make it into a more straightforward, easy-to use pedal. Which, I'd consider getting just for the simpler controls!

Mode 3 with little detune reminds me of that hokey match organs. Boss really went crazy with this line of pedals. It's a shame that they are mostly ignored by most people. My Tera Echo never leaves my pedalboard. Guess I'll have to find one of these also. Btw, great review as always

@R1GAMBLER

2 жыл бұрын

this one is meh, but the Tera Echo is a keeper

@bloozedaddy

2 жыл бұрын

Tera Echo is actually useful. This sounds like garbage to me. You can use it as an octave with fuzz/distortion added but that's not exactly a new sound.

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

I forget where I read the comment, but someone was saying that once the Tera-Echo gets discontinued, it'll get spotted on some well-loved guitarist's board and instantly be in hot demand. I have to agree. I wish I had been doing the demo jams when I covered the TE-2, it really fits into a band jam in a way people don't expect.

I DID NOT know this pedal ....never heard of it or saw it before ...... THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! .....I think it has some settings that are very important for what I'm trying to do. I wonder how it will react with a ringmodulator....

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

I think the universe might collapse on itself if you were to do that. THIS plus the RT-20 rotary...

@MYGAS21

2 жыл бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown lol! NO WORRIES! Did you know scientists - I think at CERN - have posed the theory that THEY PROBABLY collapsed the Universe and a new one instantly took its place ? (NO JOKE) ..(and WHAT IF the new copy isn't exactly the same? This could explain the Mandela effect!) Why should the CERN people have all the fun?

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

@@MYGAS21 I'd believe it. Watched a number of videos about multidimensional parallel universes lately. I'll have to try and find that one, sounds interesting.

@MYGAS21

2 жыл бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown I heard it from Sean David Morton and I think he was referring to some article.... good luck in findiing it though....post the link here if you do. SO back to music.... I'm currently (for a bell or gamelanish sound for my arpeggios) using a ring modulator only on the treble part of the spectrum and for the rest of the spectrum I layer a KILLER V vibrato that simulates a pulsating bell in this context. The sound has the calm mystical feel I want, but I'm curious to see what more I could do. So I think this pedal could maybe add some useful harmonics - either feeding the ringmodulator or even the Killer V Vibrato with some MO-2 detune (so it's closer to the nature of ringmodulator detuned sound but with a different detune so the true pitch comes through - if that makes sense). I dunno, I'm also considering buying a NUX AMP Academy and loading a DIY gamelan IR in it. QUESTION: Somebody in the comments said that this pedal is a sort of POG...do you think this adds only octave harmonics?

Another cool video, man. love the entire MDP series. The Tera Echo is probably my ‘desert island’ pedal. I have this one on my board, too, and use it a a 12-string type of sound. I’m curious as to the difference between the Adaptive Distortion from the series and the DS-1X. I have the DS-1X and it sounds fantastic, but I’ve yet to pick up the AD-2. Do you have any experience with either of these distortions? Thanks for the content!

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't played around with the AD-2 or DS-1X. I have to imagine it's different sets of the algorithm's functions being put to use in different ways. These pedals seem to have a more precise way of monitoring dynamics and overtones than anything previous, and it's just doing something else based on that realtime information. If I see a good deal on the AD-2, I'll pick it up, so far it seems to not show up much on the second-hand market.

@jacobbrown1690

Жыл бұрын

I run a od1x into and ad2. Great sound. Both have mdp

Yeah it adds adds some organ grinding into your mix. I run mine in from of a Pi muff for a massive sound.

Would be super sweet for covers of Earth's Bees Made Honey. Interesting!

One of the ingredients in Mike Stern's sound

Would I be wrong to say it says like an organ pedal?

I just found out Mercedes from Softcult uses one of these and immediately had to find out what it does lol their sound is so cool

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Oooh I didn’t know that, but it makes total sense.

Ok so what I got from the first test is it gives you an automatic accompanying rock organ lol

Imagine this going into a rotary

Maybe it's an exciter with modulation?

Hmm the effect on the solo in the first demo almost sounds like the old Roland guitar synth used by Fripp.

I just ordered this pedal! To me this pedal seems perfect for getting some deep purple /rainbow tones

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Enjoy it!!

It's dignity!!!

Dignity!

I used one of these as a fake organ pedal. It's a neat effect to add to your leads as well, but it doesn't have a lot of variety.

Nice, same kind of effect as the Ehx HOG, less versatile but also takes a lot less pedalboard space

Any other company without the matter-of-fact naming structure of Boss would simply call this an organ simulator. That's the simple way to explain it. It makes your guitar sounds like an electronic organ.

That demo song has some Ween vibes!

If you’re looking for that late 80s thing. Which I always am

My hollow body already does this whenever the hell it wants because of the tailpiece TwT

I think I here some sound elements of Prince's Purple Rain in this pedal.

Dignity

ITS DIGNITY!!

@StompboxBreakdown

11 ай бұрын

We didn’t all go to Gudger College

cute old doggo. i hope it's well

@StompboxBreakdown

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! She’s doing great. We just got a kitten and they’re best friends. It’s super adorable.

Dist after!

It’s clearly adding an upper and lower octave pitches.

I want this guys shirt more than the pedal

@dennissaldivar5881

Жыл бұрын

im trying to remember what the hell the image is its so familiar!!

That shirt. Dignity!! 😂

the moment you said, "or if you're a dude in your basement surrounded by peavey amps", I was like damn this dude can see me thru the monitor ....is he monitoring me?! lmao.

@StompboxBreakdown

10 ай бұрын

A basement without Peavey amps just feels empty

"it's a floor polish... no... it's a dessert topping... hold on... it's both a floor polish AND a dessert topping!!!!".. Mostly it makes you sound out of tune. 🎶

Mono in 😮‍💨

Adaptive Distortion >MO2>Tera Echo TE2>Stereo to 2 amps = Thank you sir may I have another

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

That combination would melt minds

@mattgilbert7347

Жыл бұрын

@Stompbox Breakdown mine is like fondue so yes, it doeeessss....melttt minddzzz

A lot the sound reminded me of the sounds of Pete Townshend in the Tommy era!!!

It's got a very "Electro Harmonics" sound to it.

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

Totally

It’s almost like a church organ or something. I love it.

I’m a lead bassist (no guitarist in the band), and I use the MO-2 as an octave up (Balance on hi, Tone on zero, Detune on zero, Mode on one), followed by a distortion pedal, going into a guitar amp, and split into a clean bass amp. My sound is wide and huge.

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

That sounds amazing!!! I wanna listen to your band, got a link?

@RHINOSAUR

Жыл бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown - Thanks! Not quite yet. We have a dozen hard rock originals, but haven’t recorded yet. Soon though!

@josku5

11 ай бұрын

@@RHINOSAURYou got them yet?

@weedian710

11 ай бұрын

@@RHINOSAURI want to hear the double bass! Sounds really interesting.

@RHINOSAUR

3 ай бұрын

@@StompboxBreakdown ​​⁠​​⁠- Okay, finally recorded a single… it’s called Rainbow, a powerpop anthem dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community. It’s just me singing, on bass, going through 2 amps, and a drummer. We’re called REVULATOR. kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4OOo8eDmam0n6g.htmlsi=QMQUuyLTmtCKmE6n

This would be good with an electric piano type sound

"We all know what Vin Diesel sounds like" Jokes on you, I don't know a SINGLE THING

well that's just darn right goofy!

@marjeziorny924

Жыл бұрын

Like you

@teslaedison6236

Жыл бұрын

No I think it's Pluto

what the hell are those demo names dude

Cool video, but what does it do?

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

Still not sure, but now my clothes smell dryer-line fresh!

Sounds very similar to a chorus ensemble

My ears hear a 12-string vibe. It also has a organ -sound overtone.

Nice job explaining something that is hard to explain.

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

nice g and l

@StompboxBreakdown

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Gonna be using it for a lot of videos in the near future

I have the Boss GT 1000 core and all I’ve ever got out of the Tera Echois some lame phaser on the repeats.

Sounds like a PS2, but without delay.

Do but does it what?

I wish there was a pedal that made me richer!

Church gigs only, for sure.

subscrived after this video...

@StompboxBreakdown

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

This pedal sounds like a harmonium.

Makes me think of Free Falling by Tom Petty.

aounds a little like a rotary

Take this as exaggerating pedal capabilities. You still can use this sporadically and with just a little on the mix, which he never did.

B9 EHX SUPER!!!! Boss MO-2 shit!!!

I have one, it is really diferent...

so it's a Octaver.

@StompboxBreakdown

11 ай бұрын

If that’s what an octaver sounds like to you, then sure. Effects are a subjective thing a lot of times.

I hate how Boss is just releasing these pedals that have multiple fixed settings like this and the space echo (just to name a couple). I used to like Boss BUT....

@tungtobak

2 жыл бұрын

This pedal came out 9 years ago.

@Jeymez

2 жыл бұрын

@@tungtobak sure did, i seen one in a store back in 2013. i didn't look at it at the time, i was trading in for a new guitar, but anytime something new comes out or is fairly new, most stores will put it out on display. Boss put out a few new pedals during that time, 3 years in a row going back to 2011. i like how it sounds, but to be honest it sounds like a mix between a flanger, modulation, and some delay. the other parts i wouldn't have a need for since i do have a real Synthesiser that cost me just a little over 100, but it does alot at it's price point. it's a studio version rather than the pro which would cost twice what i paid, but there's a jack to plug in a guitar.

Sounds like a phased, 12-string organ.