Most people had a bad experience with this pedal because they did not understand that the tone knob if cranked will make you sound like garbage and your notes will be lost in the mix. Only usable with the tone almost off. It sounds great on a pedal board right after your overdrive pedal.
This is indeed the best demo of the DS1 I've seen. Definitely considering getting one. Thank you for showing the great tones you can get out of it and dispelling the fizz fear.
The magic is running it into a crunchy amp with low output pups. This pedal came out in the 70’s. Makes sense right? It sounds amazing into a cranked tube amp. Great pedal.
Nicely done! An often scoffed at pedal, it's great. LOTS of bands, even shoegaze stuff back in the day, used this pedal. Sometimes I wonder if BOSS should just charge more to see if its appeal increases haha.
So good to see a pedal demoed in a style I like and might actually play. So much metal and bluesy stuff out there that I just don’t connect with. I bought this pedal in a pawn shop, beat up to hell. I’ve never been much of pedal or tone guy, so I’m still learning. I always had trouble dialing this in and you’ve given good ideas of how to make it work!
DS-1 is my go to for stoner rock type tones, once I realized it likes an amp with breakup instead of crystal clean it was a game changer, my only complaint is that the DS-1 always feels quiet. found a killer heavily modded DS-1 clone from a company called Drunk Beaver that fixes that problem and has switchable op amp and diode clipping.
Excellent demo of a legendary pedal. I've owned DS-1s for decades. Have one now among my other pedals. I have a Marshall that gets more than enough gain for me right out of the box, but every now and then I like to turn the gain down and use one of my Boss pedals to give it a tweak just for variety. Yes, the magic trick is using just enough breakup from the amp and pushing it with the pedal. It's all about balance, about getting the amp, the pedal, and the pickups in your guitar to make the magic happen. This is how the greatest guitar tones were created, NOT with rare super boutique amps. That's a myth. While there may be some instances where this is true, any decent producer can get the ultimate sound with just a Marshall, a Fender and a good pedal. The great thing about a pedal like the DS-1 is it's a transparent pedal and it doesn't color the tone of your amp and guitar too much. As I said before, it's all a balance.
You had me at. "Do NOT use a very Clean tone." That's when I knew you knew this pedal, for starters. Hey! I just realized that maybe I can use this properly after the superb Blues Driver!
I got the Waza DS1 because I just wanted straight up distortion, I wanted the sound of my guitar but distorted and it gave me exactly that. Then I noticed I liked using my blues driver with all the knobs at noon as my crunchy or clean sound, and I loved cranking up the gain on it for distortion. When I got a Screamin Blues, which is a blues driver with low and high eq, I used that as my all around heavier distortion and my blues driver as my creamy overdrive. Now my DS1 is just my guitar solo button. It's thick, creamy, loud, mid rangey, and I can use it with just the one pedal alone and get all the distortion I need or add a blues driver or boost pedal to it. I love it.
Got mine a week ago but I'm still experimenting with new settings. I never knew it cleaned up so well, I'll have to try it. I've also been using some high output humbuckers so I'll give the single coils a try as well. All in all, the video had some good tips. Learned something new, so that's a like from me
I got to know your channel thanks to this video. I also underestimated the DS-1, and preferred to buy Digitech Hot Head as one of the first distortion pedals, which, although it is a clone of the Boss pedal, allowed me to customize exactly the sound that I always wanted. I immediately noticed how you design the video and really like how you meticulously compare different pedals, do not focus on what is cheaper and what is expensive or rare like other bloggers. In my opinion, you really have one of the best channels on the subject along with Andy from Proguitarshop and Ryan Lutton. I hope you will have even more views and subscribers, you really do great reviews.
Well done Dude! And to answer your question...yes I have one. Your time is excellent. I drum and I'm going to rewind and jam with you in the blend :) I like the footage you mixed in right there in the middle...brings me back. Cheers!....you had my blood pumpin at the end
Haven't tried one of these at home yet, decided to give the DS-2 a shot first as that's what Kurt started using later in his career, and it is really something. If you guys love these grunge tones but want something more scooped and a bit fuzzier, it's worth a shot
@@metal571 yeah in the first setting it's more scooped than the turbo setting but still has about the same scoop as a ds1 imo. At least that's what I've found. The big difference for me is that it has less sustain and is a bit smoother than an actual ds1. Almost like an sd1 with more fizz. I actually prefer the ds2 turbo mode in clean amps but definitely prefer the sustain and clarity of the ds1 in a marshall.
@@LeviBulger that makes more sense. The lack of gain caught me a bit by surprise considering how much ds1 seems to have. Haven't tried it yet but I might try running my soul food into it as a clean boost
I have a shitty $50 no brand amp, it only has gain tone and volume . Ironically when I put the tone all the way down on the pedal and distortion at 12 0 clock it sounds amazing.
When you said about high output guitar pickups, how high did you mean? I was thinking about getting a version of a jb brigde pickup. Would that be too high?
We don't know the JB. Generally speaking, we would try to avoid active pickups or very high output humbuckers. Single coils or PAF-style humbuckers are perfectly fine. This is just a suggestion based on our experience and taste, there are no rules, in the end.
Music history wise, this pedal is far more iconic than the general musician population seem to want to admit. I don't know why that is, but just google it and see. Very nice demo, thank-you for posting.
The "trick" to the DS-1 is in the amp settings, not so much the pedal itself. I'll differ a little from the advice from #1: Instead start from a good warm cleanish amp sound -- on a tube amp with some good warm bottom end -- and then nearly anything you do with the pedal will sound wonderful. I can nail almost any distortion sound from the 60's through early 90s on that amp setting with the DS-1. But the more gain you have on the amp itself, the harsher the overall sound when using the pedal. You'll then be turning the pedal down trying to find some elusive sweet spot, much like hunting unicorns. At the extreme, if you start from a heavily over-driven amp, you'll get nothing but fizz and unusable noise. The DS-1 isn't the best for modern death metal.... but it wasn't designed to do that either. Think Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, and Sabbath through 80s Ozzy.
What about something not exactly a tube amp but valve tube celestion 12 inch vox Cambridge 40. Some of the high gain stuff too much jesus and especially the dial of dif tones I really don’t enjoy when mixed with ds 1 feel like have to walk on eggshells. If i go to a really high gain channel has litterly screeched so loudly unplugged immediately and same thing with irig hd 2 mixed with the effect tone dial on amp. Shit can get outta hand
I've owned and used Boss DS-1's for about 20 years now, I think they're criminally misunderstood, but when used correctly (tone under 12 o'clock) (gain under 12 o'clock) to push an already distorted amp, they're pretty much one of the most iconic drive sounds ever produced, mine sits on a board next to an Ibanez TS9 another pedal totally misunderstood and misused very often.
I feel like this video more than adequately gave the DS-1 the love it deserves. Lately I've been stacking it on top of an EHX Soul Food (Klon Centaur clone with the Soul Food being my "clean" tone) and it sounds great.
That's a good idea. The clean on my fender champion is kinda lame. Never even thought of running a pedal for a clean tone. Do you think many bands do that?
My usual settings for my ds is having my amps gain at 12 on then clean channel, the having the tone on the ds 1 set to about 10-11 ish, dist set to max and level on max
I used one for years. Plugged into a Fender tweed. One trick is to dime the gain and then back it off a hair. You can hear the change. It compresses the input a bit which smoothes the bite out. Now a Blues Driver, run fairly clean in front adds a boost and with that you can run it into a clean amp; tube is better. Super Overdrive works well. Lots of tones but you have to work it. Everything including your amp eq makes a difference. The DS-1 IS a great pedal. Oh the Keeley mod does wonders!
I agree. Recently bought one used, mint for £40. Had Boss ODs in the past but always seemed thin and harsh, not what I was looking for. Finally settled in an OCD V1.4, rich sound, but improved with a treble booster (kit built) in front especially if warm source (humbuckers/semi hollow guitar). Thought I'd try the DS-1, expected it gets close to the OCD + Treble booster in one go...it does, plus more high end distortion, for a quarter the price! Still use the OCD or/and Treble booster for classic OD.
I have the black sd1, I generally don't have it in my rig as I prefer high gain amps with a screamer or alternately blues breakers into a Marshall or Fender
yeah it does seem to favour alnico pick ups more..but if you have ceramic like everything its a matter of taste. it just depends on if you are trying to copy a sound or carve out a new one.
I had it when I was a kid. Sold it during my "vintage fuzz tone frenzy". Bought another (used) a few years after. I missed it. I use it in front of an old Ampeg, sometimes in couple with a compressor (dynacomp style) or a simple boutique OD that gives just a bite of gain. Everything's super sensitive to guitar knobs. No mods required. This Just to say, great video, great sound, I totally agree with you.
@@WeAsACompany I think it's because of the wrong use in the late 80s and 90s. The market of good low wattage single channel amps was little, everybody wanted high gain high wattage three channels amps even for small gigs and were used at excessively low volumes pushed on clean channels with pedals and coupled with old style digital stuff. At least that was the italian style in those years.
Thanks for just getting to the point & demo - it is so nice not to listen to five minutes of talking first. This is pretty much how I used mine but made the mistake of often starting with a clean tone.
A little tip I've learned from using this pedal if your one that uses heavier picks and plays kinda hard try using a lighter pick or be less aggressive with strumming I've found that with the tips on this video and that you can get a really good tone
So i have this high wistle sound even when my volume on my guitar is off Is this because i have seymour duncan sh-4 bridge humbucker ? Or Is this something else i can fix ??
Nice. I have one,,,,store credit for a Super Shifter. Also a Micro Cube 1st gen. That i loved. DS1 just sits (Bad Monkey or BBII first). Tried a dial in during shut down. Time for another go :)
I'm still getting good results even with unrecomended equipment. I have the fender champion 100 (which is super clean) and my guitar is the J. Mascis Jazzmaster. Honestly, the ds-1 completes my desired sound of very clear clean tones with raunchy distortion. I had issues at first turns out it was the battery dying but after a swap and some adjusting I can mimic Day Tripper from the Beatles all the way to Lithium from Nirvana. I highly recommend this pedal. For years I used a metalmaster but didn't play metal. I just liked the crunch of palm mutes. This brings more balance to my style with a tiny bit of crunch.
Bro I love this video, it absolutely inspired me to use my ds1 the right way and love it for what it is . Could you please make a video of what you are playing cause it sounds awesome as fuck . Thanks again .
We don't have experience with the Pure Sky but both BD2 and DS are great. If you want to stack one of them with the Pure sky we would try first with the BD2 at low/mid gain.
What kinda amp are you pushing the pedal through a tube or solid state? bc my ds-1 sounds fizzy as fck through my peavey solid state amp, and I even changed my guitars pups to jb humbuckers ...wtf am I doing wrong .. someone pls help!?
I'm pushing a valve amp, it's a modified Selmer Treble'n'Bass. Try to get a dark clean tone on the edge of breakup, this should be better. I have few solid-state amp and I struggle to get a good tone with the ds1 with them.
I have a 1988 Marshall 3310 solid state head and cant get any distortion pedals to not sound like shit. Seen a video of someone using one of these with the same Marshall and it sounded good. Not with mine. Any pedals you know of that work good with solid state amps?
Thx for your comment. Try to push the amp to a breakup and then push it with a boost pedal or with a more mellow overdrive like Tube Screamer, Boss OD3, Fulltone OCD, etc.
Same tone circuit as used in big muff I believe? And everyone knows those style fuzz pedals don’t work well into clean fender style amps- needs some dirt to blend into. The right amount of compression going into it along with single coils and it wakes up! I also believe they tuned the tone network to act as a treble booster for the dark amps that were still in circulation into the late 70s. With the JCM800 era, all amps became bright- Boss engineers should have re-tapered the tone knob such that 11:00 became 3:00 o’clock to keep up with the new development and a mid boost shift toggle switch. A dynacomp it’s easy to adjust the output level lower so you can drop the signal strength going into Ds1 as well as fattening up the tone before being clipped
After years of trying various boutique (and expensive) fuzzes, I have come around to the conclusion that my favorite "fuzz" tone is a dimed DS-1 into a crunchy amp.
I disagree about the dirty amp thing. This pedal sounds amazing through a totally clean amp. You just need to be using the right type of amp. The DS-1 seems to love most Fender style amps, but sounds muffled and lifeless through darker, british style amplifiers. If you're using something like a Marshall or Orange amp, this pedal might sound better with a bit of amp gain, because the added gain will compensate for some of the treble frequencies that are getting dumped by the amp's tone stack. It will still sound muffled and compressed, but that's due to the amp style, not due to any shortcomings of the pedal itself. Running through a crystal clear Fender Twin, the DS-1 has a very nice EQ curve and sounds great on its own.
That has puzzled me, many say it sounds bad into a Fender amp, but I also use the DS-1 into the clean channel of a Fender amp and it's sounds great (DS-1 Tone around 10 o'clock). This is using fairly low output Alnico II humbuckers on a semi-hollow guitar (so fairly warm tone). Not finding the DS-1 quite so good with single coils; more EQ experimenting required.
I'm playing through a katana head on the crunch channel, tone and dist at less than noon, still sounds buddy and gross. Not sure where I'm doing wrong.
In to the return of the fx loop on a Marshall dsl1 it sounds so meaty and thick compared to scratchy and harsh through the front. It sounds decent into the input of a katana 50 though.
I mean, there‘s a reason why PJ Harvey had two DS-1 pedals on her board. Stories from the city stories from the sea has one of the best guitar tones ever and I‘m pretty sure, a DS-1 was also playing a role on that record. Thanks for putting „this is love“ in here, PJ deserves much more attention as a guitar player
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Ok guys, this is one of the most popular distortion box ever. Do you have one? If yes, is it on your board?
I have one, DS1 Doctorsound mod.. It's on my board, great pedal!!
@@depotgear Don't know that mod. Is it similar to Keeley?
@@WeAsACompany Yes, it's similar to keleey but some difference on freq response. I love the DS-1 original too, the 40th anniversary more 😉
@@depotgear Is the 40th any different in sound?
@@WeAsACompany a little bit different
Most people had a bad experience with this pedal because they did not understand that the tone knob if cranked will make you sound like garbage and your notes will be lost in the mix. Only usable with the tone almost off. It sounds great on a pedal board right after your overdrive pedal.
Nineties' rock style? You had my curiosity but now you have my attention
Thx for your comment.
This is indeed the best demo of the DS1 I've seen. Definitely considering getting one. Thank you for showing the great tones you can get out of it and dispelling the fizz fear.
Thx!
Yes, i have one...i bought this on 2006year, i use DS1 for My Nirvana Songs...1st album BLEACH...greetings from indonesia
Just scored one of these on eBay today and after watching this I cannot wait until it arrives. Nice informative video guys.
Thx a lot for your comment. Let us know if you're happy with it.
The magic is running it into a crunchy amp with low output pups. This pedal came out in the 70’s. Makes sense right? It sounds amazing into a cranked tube amp. Great pedal.
Nicely done! An often scoffed at pedal, it's great. LOTS of bands, even shoegaze stuff back in the day, used this pedal. Sometimes I wonder if BOSS should just charge more to see if its appeal increases haha.
appreciate hearing “i am one” from gish by smashing pumpkins in here :)
So good to see a pedal demoed in a style I like and might actually play. So much metal and bluesy stuff out there that I just don’t connect with. I bought this pedal in a pawn shop, beat up to hell. I’ve never been much of pedal or tone guy, so I’m still learning. I always had trouble dialing this in and you’ve given good ideas of how to make it work!
Oh, and that riff you played at the 4:00 mark was cool
DS-1 is my go to for stoner rock type tones, once I realized it likes an amp with breakup instead of crystal clean it was a game changer, my only complaint is that the DS-1 always feels quiet. found a killer heavily modded DS-1 clone from a company called Drunk Beaver that fixes that problem and has switchable op amp and diode clipping.
Excellent demo of a legendary pedal. I've owned DS-1s for decades. Have one now among my other pedals. I have a Marshall that gets more than enough gain for me right out of the box, but every now and then I like to turn the gain down and use one of my Boss pedals to give it a tweak just for variety. Yes, the magic trick is using just enough breakup from the amp and pushing it with the pedal. It's all about balance, about getting the amp, the pedal, and the pickups in your guitar to make the magic happen. This is how the greatest guitar tones were created, NOT with rare super boutique amps. That's a myth. While there may be some instances where this is true, any decent producer can get the ultimate sound with just a Marshall, a Fender and a good pedal. The great thing about a pedal like the DS-1 is it's a transparent pedal and it doesn't color the tone of your amp and guitar too much. As I said before, it's all a balance.
I’m on my second Boss DS1 now and I’m pleased to see that you’re using your settings just as I do. I run a Blues Driver in front of mine. Cool video.
Found this from the one of the boss groups. Nice straight forward video with a solid demo.
thx a lot man!
Great job these riffs and sounds are everything I’m looking for in guitar. I keep trying different ods but it always comes back to this! Rip Kurt
…and long live 90s and early 00’s rock 🤘🏻
@@dustinalker972 amen brother
You had me at. "Do NOT use a very Clean tone." That's when I knew you knew this pedal, for starters. Hey! I just realized that maybe I can use this properly after the superb Blues Driver!
I played with that for a while but found it actually sounded better BEFORE the bluesdriver, using the bluesdriver at low gain
He had me at "Swallowed". ;)
I use mine after a boss super over drive. I set the overdrive at very low gain and boost the ds-1
I got the Waza DS1 because I just wanted straight up distortion, I wanted the sound of my guitar but distorted and it gave me exactly that. Then I noticed I liked using my blues driver with all the knobs at noon as my crunchy or clean sound, and I loved cranking up the gain on it for distortion. When I got a Screamin Blues, which is a blues driver with low and high eq, I used that as my all around heavier distortion and my blues driver as my creamy overdrive. Now my DS1 is just my guitar solo button. It's thick, creamy, loud, mid rangey, and I can use it with just the one pedal alone and get all the distortion I need or add a blues driver or boost pedal to it. I love it.
Love these classic riffs you're playing!
Thx a lot!
this is how reviews of pedals have to be done
Got mine a week ago but I'm still experimenting with new settings. I never knew it cleaned up so well, I'll have to try it. I've also been using some high output humbuckers so I'll give the single coils a try as well.
All in all, the video had some good tips. Learned something new, so that's a like from me
So true . So many combinations not only with the pedal but the guitar and amp controls too. Great job
Watched this a couple times and just realized that Swallowed by Bush is playing in the beginning. Love that song so much
I got to know your channel thanks to this video. I also underestimated the DS-1, and preferred to buy Digitech Hot Head as one of the first distortion pedals, which, although it is a clone of the Boss pedal, allowed me to customize exactly the sound that I always wanted. I immediately noticed how you design the video and really like how you meticulously compare different pedals, do not focus on what is cheaper and what is expensive or rare like other bloggers. In my opinion, you really have one of the best channels on the subject along with Andy from Proguitarshop and Ryan Lutton. I hope you will have even more views and subscribers, you really do great reviews.
Thx very much for your words.
I got it for a week now and I'm really fine with it! Using it w/ a Fender American Performer Strat and an Orange Micro Terror and Orange 108 box.
Very Very Very important video! Tks for that! Great tone dude!
Thank you for playing the KYUSS riff. But even without that a great demo! Keep up the good work!!
Well done Dude! And to answer your question...yes I have one. Your time is excellent. I drum and I'm going to rewind and jam with you in the blend :) I like the footage you mixed in right there in the middle...brings me back. Cheers!....you had my blood pumpin at the end
Haven't tried one of these at home yet, decided to give the DS-2 a shot first as that's what Kurt started using later in his career, and it is really something. If you guys love these grunge tones but want something more scooped and a bit fuzzier, it's worth a shot
Thx a lot for the tip. We're prepping a Ds-1 vs Ds-2 shootout for the next month.
Ds2s are less scooped. They almost sound like they have a cocked wah on them compared to DS1
On the first setting? I found that one pretty scooped. I guess we'll find out in the near future what waac thinks
@@metal571 yeah in the first setting it's more scooped than the turbo setting but still has about the same scoop as a ds1 imo. At least that's what I've found. The big difference for me is that it has less sustain and is a bit smoother than an actual ds1. Almost like an sd1 with more fizz. I actually prefer the ds2 turbo mode in clean amps but definitely prefer the sustain and clarity of the ds1 in a marshall.
@@LeviBulger that makes more sense. The lack of gain caught me a bit by surprise considering how much ds1 seems to have. Haven't tried it yet but I might try running my soul food into it as a clean boost
Great video. This is really THE TONE!
I have a shitty $50 no brand amp, it only has gain tone and volume . Ironically when I put the tone all the way down on the pedal and distortion at 12 0 clock it sounds amazing.
Of all the videos out there on Ds-1 this is the best. Thank you SO much! Buying tomorrow, rocking out to some Oasis by next week!
Oasis with the DS1 is pure magic. Thx a lot for your comment.
Did Noel use it with the jcm900?
When you said about high output guitar pickups, how high did you mean? I was thinking about getting a version of a jb brigde pickup. Would that be too high?
We don't know the JB. Generally speaking, we would try to avoid active pickups or very high output humbuckers. Single coils or PAF-style humbuckers are perfectly fine. This is just a suggestion based on our experience and taste, there are no rules, in the end.
death used this pedal with an X2N so i think in the end any pickup will work lol
Music history wise, this pedal is far more iconic than the general musician population seem to want to admit. I don't know why that is, but just google it and see. Very nice demo, thank-you for posting.
The best video on UA-cam of this amazing pedal.
The "trick" to the DS-1 is in the amp settings, not so much the pedal itself. I'll differ a little from the advice from #1: Instead start from a good warm cleanish amp sound -- on a tube amp with some good warm bottom end -- and then nearly anything you do with the pedal will sound wonderful. I can nail almost any distortion sound from the 60's through early 90s on that amp setting with the DS-1. But the more gain you have on the amp itself, the harsher the overall sound when using the pedal. You'll then be turning the pedal down trying to find some elusive sweet spot, much like hunting unicorns. At the extreme, if you start from a heavily over-driven amp, you'll get nothing but fizz and unusable noise. The DS-1 isn't the best for modern death metal.... but it wasn't designed to do that either. Think Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, and Sabbath through 80s Ozzy.
yes this pedal can give me some Sabbath /Zep tones very easily, and some Steve Vai too, obviously Nirvana is the easy target,
Didn't Kurt use a sansamp completely clean?
What about something not exactly a tube amp but valve tube celestion 12 inch vox Cambridge 40. Some of the high gain stuff too much jesus and especially the dial of dif tones I really don’t enjoy when mixed with ds 1 feel like have to walk on eggshells. If i go to a really high gain channel has litterly screeched so loudly unplugged immediately and same thing with irig hd 2 mixed with the effect tone dial on amp. Shit can get outta hand
@@lordviewer7305 i just want something that sounds good thru this celestion
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Great run through of this pedal. Very helpful. Thank you
I've owned and used Boss DS-1's for about 20 years now, I think they're criminally misunderstood, but when used correctly (tone under 12 o'clock) (gain under 12 o'clock) to push an already distorted amp, they're pretty much one of the most iconic drive sounds ever produced, mine sits on a board next to an Ibanez TS9 another pedal totally misunderstood and misused very often.
Great video......One of the best, and easy-following one I have ever seen,,,,,, P.S. Love the foot grooving
I feel like this video more than adequately gave the DS-1 the love it deserves. Lately I've been stacking it on top of an EHX Soul Food (Klon Centaur clone with the Soul Food being my "clean" tone) and it sounds great.
I’m running the same combination, sounds killer!
That's a good idea. The clean on my fender champion is kinda lame. Never even thought of running a pedal for a clean tone. Do you think many bands do that?
one of the best ds-1 reviews on yt. well done
Thx very much!
You just sold me on this one. I’ll pick up a DS-1 this week! ☮☮
sounds awesome!!! need it on my pedal board!!
I like the setting at 5:40 still lots of jam but not too overly crunchy more of an aggressive booster.
You have the balls in to tell people they’re wrong and your right and then you make them read. Damn
We don't pretend to be right, we just want to show how we use the DS-1. The title is kind of ironic.
I use this boosted by an ibanez tube ts9 tube screamer, and a noise gate. Reminds me of that trashy melancholy 90s hum guitar tone. So beautiful.
Yep, really '90, that means really good! ;)
Totally agree does your set up work for the song Stars distortion sound?
My usual settings for my ds is having my amps gain at 12 on then clean channel, the having the tone on the ds 1 set to about 10-11 ish, dist set to max and level on max
I used one for years. Plugged into a Fender tweed. One trick is to dime the gain and then back it off a hair. You can hear the change. It compresses the input a bit which smoothes the bite out. Now a Blues Driver, run fairly clean in front adds a boost and with that you can run it into a clean amp; tube is better. Super Overdrive works well. Lots of tones but you have to work it. Everything including your amp eq makes a difference. The DS-1 IS a great pedal. Oh the Keeley mod does wonders!
I agree. Recently bought one used, mint for £40. Had Boss ODs in the past but always seemed thin and harsh, not what I was looking for. Finally settled in an OCD V1.4, rich sound, but improved with a treble booster (kit built) in front especially if warm source (humbuckers/semi hollow guitar). Thought I'd try the DS-1, expected it gets close to the OCD + Treble booster in one go...it does, plus more high end distortion, for a quarter the price! Still use the OCD or/and Treble booster for classic OD.
The Kyuss riff made me believe, well done! I wasn’t using it right
that last riff is killer!
Helmet, In The Meantime. ;)
Whats the 2nd to last riff around 7:16 it sounds so good
Improvisation around a G chord.
The sweet sound of DS1, if you put an overdrive before it, gives more punchier lead sound.
Nice,very nice tone in riff #4 - PJ
I have the black sd1, I generally don't have it in my rig as I prefer high gain amps with a screamer or alternately blues breakers into a Marshall or Fender
The black(gold DS1 is super cool. We need to get one at some point.
really good tone and sound in this video
Thx a lot!
You've just totally sold me on this
yeah it does seem to favour alnico pick ups more..but if you have ceramic like everything its a matter of taste. it just depends on if you are trying to copy a sound or carve out a new one.
Awesome riffing! Very nice video overall! Thanks
I bought one off Facebook marketplace and it's on its way now. I only bought it because it was real cheap and has a hilarious custom paintjob
I have a jackson js32 king v, how can i work these pedal with high output ceramic pickups?
I own a DS-1 and I set the Level knob at 10 o'clock for a crunchy old school metal tone.
As with most pedals it also depends on the amp and speaker combination it is played with. What amp did you use?
Selmer Treble'n'bass custom.
What is the "super standard version"? I've never heard of this.
Great informational value here.
Used correctly we could rule the world!!! 😅
I had it when I was a kid. Sold it during my "vintage fuzz tone frenzy". Bought another (used) a few years after. I missed it. I use it in front of an old Ampeg, sometimes in couple with a compressor (dynacomp style) or a simple boutique OD that gives just a bite of gain. Everything's super sensitive to guitar knobs. No mods required. This Just to say, great video, great sound, I totally agree with you.
Thx a lot for your kind words. I don't understand why this pedal is such a sleeper. To my ears is way better than so many boutique stuff.
@@WeAsACompany I think it's because of the wrong use in the late 80s and 90s. The market of good low wattage single channel amps was little, everybody wanted high gain high wattage three channels amps even for small gigs and were used at excessively low volumes pushed on clean channels with pedals and coupled with old style digital stuff. At least that was the italian style in those years.
@@Tulkazar Think you're right.
Thanks for just getting to the point & demo - it is so nice not to listen to five minutes of talking first. This is pretty much how I used mine but made the mistake of often starting with a clean tone.
A little tip I've learned from using this pedal if your one that uses heavier picks and plays kinda hard try using a lighter pick or be less aggressive with strumming I've found that with the tips on this video and that you can get a really good tone
Thx a lot, very good tip. I tend to use light picks all the time, I agree with you, I think with dirty tones work just better than hard picks, IMHO.
i am about to buyt the ds-2, is the ds1 same in ds-2 when in none turbo mode?
They're similar but not identical.
Once I heard the KYUSS riffs I was sold!!!
;)
That not i use for kyuss tone but it could work
So i have this high wistle sound even when my volume on my guitar is off
Is this because i have seymour duncan sh-4 bridge humbucker ? Or Is this something else i can fix ??
Have you tried another power supply?
@@WeAsACompany yeah i tryed, a 9volt adapter or lithium
@@alternativejeff3775 weird, never had that issue. Maybe there's something to fix in the pedal.
Great video got my pedal today and used this video to get that school rift and helpful tips thanks a lot
BUSH at the beginning 👍 👍 👍
Love that album!
kyuss and helmet references? ok, i'm in
Yeah!
Loved it ❤️❤️❤️
Nice.
I have one,,,,store credit for a Super Shifter.
Also a Micro Cube 1st gen.
That i loved. DS1 just sits (Bad Monkey or BBII first). Tried a dial in during shut down.
Time for another go :)
I'm still getting good results even with unrecomended equipment. I have the fender champion 100 (which is super clean) and my guitar is the J. Mascis Jazzmaster. Honestly, the ds-1 completes my desired sound of very clear clean tones with raunchy distortion. I had issues at first turns out it was the battery dying but after a swap and some adjusting I can mimic Day Tripper from the Beatles all the way to Lithium from Nirvana. I highly recommend this pedal. For years I used a metalmaster but didn't play metal. I just liked the crunch of palm mutes. This brings more balance to my style with a tiny bit of crunch.
Dig the format. Got rid of mine and replaced it today. Where’s the link for the Monkey Boots.
say i were to use a strat with a SD 59T in the middle, would that go fine?
We never tried the SD 59T. You can achieve great tones with DS1 for sure, the low-output thing is more suggestion/preference.
Bro I love this video, it absolutely inspired me to use my ds1 the right way and love it for what it is . Could you please make a video of what you are playing cause it sounds awesome as fuck . Thanks again .
I'm seriously confused.....I have a caline pure sky , now what do I stack in , looking sd1 , blues driver and ds1 . Anybody can input me
We don't have experience with the Pure Sky but both BD2 and DS are great. If you want to stack one of them with the Pure sky we would try first with the BD2 at low/mid gain.
@@WeAsACompany what about SD1 and BD
@@k.yhk8274 Never tried that one. The BD boosting the DS1 seems interesting.
How do you think it will sound with a seymour duncan jb jr? Is the output too high for this pedal?
If this is a PAF-style kind of humbucker you're ok. But single coils are still better in our opinion. In the end, it's just a matter of taste.
Kurt apparently used JBs and he’s arguably the most famous DS-1 user so take from that what you will.
What kinda amp are you pushing the pedal through a tube or solid state? bc my ds-1 sounds fizzy as fck through my peavey solid state amp, and I even changed my guitars pups to jb humbuckers ...wtf am I doing wrong .. someone pls help!?
I'm pushing a valve amp, it's a modified Selmer Treble'n'Bass. Try to get a dark clean tone on the edge of breakup, this should be better. I have few solid-state amp and I struggle to get a good tone with the ds1 with them.
@@WeAsACompany thanks man i'll just still to using a valve amp, appreciate the response
@@therealjulez7886 You welcome!
try stacking it with an overdrive like od3 or bluesdriver
04:15 where the images from?
was that a Big Chief riff at 3:16 ?
Dig the video! What Boss distortion pedal would you recommend for high output pickups?
It really depend on what you're looking for. I'm a huge fan of the BD-2, it can go from transparent overdrive to proper distortion.
I have a 1988 Marshall 3310 solid state head and cant get any distortion pedals to not sound like shit. Seen a video of someone using one of these with the same Marshall and it sounded good. Not with mine. Any pedals you know of that work good with solid state amps?
Thx for your comment. Try to push the amp to a breakup and then push it with a boost pedal or with a more mellow overdrive like Tube Screamer, Boss OD3, Fulltone OCD, etc.
Hi! Good tips, man! What's your signal chain? Thanks!
Same tone circuit as used in big muff I believe? And everyone knows those style fuzz pedals don’t work well into clean fender style amps- needs some dirt to blend into. The right amount of compression going into it along with single coils and it wakes up! I also believe they tuned the tone network to act as a treble booster for the dark amps that were still in circulation into the late 70s. With the JCM800 era, all amps became bright- Boss engineers should have re-tapered the tone knob such that 11:00 became 3:00 o’clock to keep up with the new development and a mid boost shift toggle switch. A dynacomp it’s easy to adjust the output level lower so you can drop the signal strength going into Ds1 as well as fattening up the tone before being clipped
After years of trying various boutique (and expensive) fuzzes, I have come around to the conclusion that my favorite "fuzz" tone is a dimed DS-1 into a crunchy amp.
I disagree about the dirty amp thing. This pedal sounds amazing through a totally clean amp. You just need to be using the right type of amp. The DS-1 seems to love most Fender style amps, but sounds muffled and lifeless through darker, british style amplifiers. If you're using something like a Marshall or Orange amp, this pedal might sound better with a bit of amp gain, because the added gain will compensate for some of the treble frequencies that are getting dumped by the amp's tone stack. It will still sound muffled and compressed, but that's due to the amp style, not due to any shortcomings of the pedal itself. Running through a crystal clear Fender Twin, the DS-1 has a very nice EQ curve and sounds great on its own.
Thx for the insight. It seems that we have to try one trough a clean fender.
That has puzzled me, many say it sounds bad into a Fender amp, but I also use the DS-1 into the clean channel of a Fender amp and it's sounds great (DS-1 Tone around 10 o'clock). This is using fairly low output Alnico II humbuckers on a semi-hollow guitar (so fairly warm tone). Not finding the DS-1 quite so good with single coils; more EQ experimenting required.
Melhor vídeo! Best Vídeo man \w/
No Recess!
Wouldn't you believe it
It's just my luck
I don't think Bush actually used a DS1 but it still sounds great
I'm playing through a katana head on the crunch channel, tone and dist at less than noon, still sounds buddy and gross. Not sure where I'm doing wrong.
You certainly have made it sound good! The DS-1 is the only pedal I’ve bought 6 times. It sounds better because it’s orange.
Imo the DS-1 is best when blended with other distorted tones. I actually like it with higher drive and tone, but my amp is a bit warmer.
Kyuss 😎👍...I use it with the gain down on my 800, sounds great ! Then switch to the sd1 for some preist
In to the return of the fx loop on a Marshall dsl1 it sounds so meaty and thick compared to scratchy and harsh through the front. It sounds decent into the input of a katana 50 though.
nice use of I am One!!!
Pls guys, what is the song played at 04:03?
School, Nirvana
@@WeAsACompany Thanks a lot, man! \m/
I mean, there‘s a reason why PJ Harvey had two DS-1 pedals on her board.
Stories from the city stories from the sea has one of the best guitar tones ever and I‘m pretty sure, a DS-1 was also playing a role on that record.
Thanks for putting „this is love“ in here, PJ deserves much more attention as a guitar player