Boss DF-2 Super Feedbacker & Distortion
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2020
- We are looking at another vintage Boss pedal...today its the FD-2 Super Feedbacker & Distortion...a pedal that was (in my opinion) WAY AHEAD of its days!! Let us know if you have one and how you use it!!
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Bought this brand new in 86 as a kid and I still have it.
My first pedal ever!
I bought it from my first guitar teacher.
It's quirky as a sustainer, but sometimes that leads you into the unexpected, which is cool if you indulge.
As a distortion, I prefer it to most Boss distortions I've tried.
Absolutely...same here one of my favourite Boss distortions...I think it’s more in the Super or Turbo Overdrive world...we should do a shootout
@@TSFAHTPS Agreed
Just bought one and love it!
This is a slammin great pedal. I had one on loan from a friend for about a year. It was hard to give it back, lol. And I do think it is very close to, if not actually, a DS-1 with the added feature it is named for.
That was my first distortion pedal 🥺 ooh I miss it
Oh cool...I always wanted one but never got one until I got this one maybe 5 or 6 years ago...I think they are great
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That’s an awesome first pedal. A huge upgrade from a boss ds-1
Better than a Metal Zone
Not better just different
my first pedal (but the original one super distortion and feedbacker)... and i still have it, since 1985...
I have two of these at home, only mine are the earlier super distortion and feedbacker models. They must have started in 84 as Th of mine date to then. It was actually my first distortion pedal, paid $20 second hand in 96😂 IT can be tricky to get right but man does it sound good shoegaze with a bunch of Reverb and delay
Oh cool...yeah they are apparently quite rare!! Thanks Luke
I still have mine. Never thought to use it for shoegaze. Good idea
It was my first pedal too
Be interesting if it had an input for an expression pedal for the sustain to modulate the harmonics.
I would love to see the df2 broght to the waza craft it can have an output for expression pedal and a standered mode and custom mode the custom mode can have a feedback equivalent to the sustaniac pickup on jackson Phil collen guitars
Yes…DF-2w…I’m all for that
I bought one a few years ago. I have an early one that's labeled "Super Distortion & Feedbacker." It's an awesome distortion for grunge. Very similar to my 1980 DS-1. The tone control is a bit different though. Not as harsh as the DS-1.
I was wondering that aso lol it's a distortion pedal ..its named super distortion .. why is theirs named super feedbacker lol
@@billygwalthney369 Dimarzio sued Boss for calling it the Super Distortion as they have a pickup named that, hence for the later bit of the production run they swapped the words around :)
@@cynicalart7686 so mine is worth money since its pre name change limited edition. Lol
@@billygwalthney369 yep, although both versions are rare so they seem to be going for very similar at the moment
Weird. I’ve owned this for years and hardly played it. Watched a few old videos recently then this brand new one appears on my timeline! Talk about synchronicity!
It’s funny how that kinda stuff happens...
This was my first, back in 1986? I think I gave it away after I purchased a Boss HM-2 in 88' still have that one.
I bought mine back in 1985 Super Distortion & Feedbacker
I ran one DF‐2 into another and went back to 1984.
Haha...is that what the Flux Capacitor is made of?!
Matt Talbott from the band Hum used this pedal I believe. You can hear it on sounds from the 1995 album You'd Prefer an Astronaut.
Oh cool…gotta check it out!! Thank you!!
I owned one of these but personally liked my Freeze pedal better. I get it's not a distortion as well but for half the price I can buy a freeze and use my own favorite distortion/fuzz.
I have a df2. I was going to say something about using it with a dd6, but wat this new dd8 also has warp???
Look up the BM Fuzz-Feedback. It came out 10 years earlier and essentially does the same thing 🤙
Is this basically just a DS-1 with a hold function?
My first pedal and still have it :)) won’t sell it for anything
me too! I just noticed they are rather valuable eh? like 220 to 320 $ or so! I also bought a TS-10 tube screamer from the same pawnshop in the early 90's and I'm surprised they are both worth more now lol. Cheers!
Will the feedback continue if you vibrato wide? The digitech freq will not allow vibrato
Way back in the day there was a local band who made pretty good (Toadies), and the guitar player used one of these. They played loud as fuck so he got plenty of natural feedback, but he used this thing to great effect. I had a different sound in my head so I bought one but I never got it to do exactly what I wanted.
That’s actually a great idea...play it at really high volume where the guitar gets feedback naturally anyways...and then add this to it...thanks for the tip I’ll definitely try that out!!
@@TSFAHTPS Yeah it's a pretty crazy sound but it worked out really well for what he was doing. If you listen to their album Rubberneck, I'm pretty positive he used it in the studio, too.
@@saddestchord7622 LOVE The Toadies! I take it you’re in Texas... they were my first show in Austin in 2000, opening for STP (amazing show). Very cool to know Vaden used this on Rubberneck 🤘🏻 🎸
@@BogoEN He was called Todd back then but he's not the one who used it. It was Darrell, who was their other guitar player for a while and the one who played on Rubberneck. Anyway, yeah, used to see them all the time in Dallas and Fort Worth in the early/mid 90s. Great live band.
got one in the early 90s...still have it...made in taiwan model i think
As far as I know the MIJ & MIT are exactly the same...it’s a great pedal!! Thanks Brad
Lou Reed used one of these for a while. I think it's on "New York", "Songs for Drella" and, maybe, "Magic and Loss".
I'm pretty sure that it was used for the lead part on "Dime Store Mystery" .
We had one in our little Indie band back in NZ, early 90s. Our lead player got pretty good at getting the right timing as to when you hit the note and stomp the pedal. Lotta fun memories.
Oh cool...I have to check that out...thanks Matt!!
@@TSFAHTPS Welcome!
@@TSFAHTPS I could be wrong about the song.. It's definitely on one of those albums.
Matt Gilbert didnt Lou Reed use custom made Cornish pedals, which were essentially Boss clones with his special $1000 buffer?
@@ShlomirBareketYes, he did. The G-2 was made for Lou, I think, and Gilmour used it too. That's a Muff, idk about the DF-2, whether or not he used the Boss or a Cornish clone/version.
I have a great G-2 clone made by Devtech here in Australia. He really knows his stuff, uses the right components and the build quality is fantastic
Damn i love the sound of that! Can you turn the distortion knobs all the way down so it basically acts as just a feedbacker?
There is always a fair bit of gain there...even with the distortion knob all the way down! Boss make a Booster/Feedbacker pedal that can just be used for the feedback
Santiago Durango used this pedal in Big Black.
Matt Talbott of Hum also
A fuzz into a delay into that DF-2 would sound cool.
That can be arranged
Hello! Today i have a new pedal, the Line6 Dr distorto, which contains a Feedbacker/sustainer. I want to share that is not the same as the Boss DF-2, Boss FB2, Digitech Freqout, or the ones on the Boss GT-5/GT-3... BUT, it can give you infinite fake sustain, is useful in some ways. Just won't do the trick of sliding through the fretboard like an ebow/Fernandes sustainer/Freqout can do. I would like to see a video of the Boss FB-2, i love that pedal just for the midbooster!
I played again now with the Line6 Dr distorto, and we are now becoming better friends. Doing slides and hammer-on's it can be done with the sustainer, but not everytime. It feels a little like a Korg Miku, it can do wacky feedback, but doesnt recognizes lower guitar tunings
wow its my pedal set up from 1995
Can You just HOLD the pedal for feedback, or You have to have Him on and then PRESS AND HOLD?
You have to turn the pedal on and then press and hold
Could this work as an overdrive?
Kinda
why did they not just control the feedback control for themselves when playing? Why did the other guy have to press it? Weird choice.
They did that because it’s hard for them to use their foot to step on a pedal that’s on top of a table in front them...and yes they could have put it on the floor in front of them but then they would have had to move a bunch of furniture around and change camera angles and lighting and stuff like that...that’s why they did that oh so weird thing where the other guy pushes the pedal - I mean who does that?!?
“High School sounds all over that” 😉
I'm wondering if the feedback works with gain at zero
Or at least, putting gain at zero and use the amp distortion
I’m pretty sure it’s still pretty gainy with the gain at zero…but I’ll give it a try
@@TSFAHTPS Thank you! I found a demo that supposed to be like a "clean boost" with gain at zero, but i'm not sure about that
We need a Waza one
; )
I’m all for it!!
I'm wondering why yours is named backwards lol . In U.S it's super distortion and feedbacker
Boss originally called them ‘Super Distortion & Feedbacker” but Dimarzio threatened to sue them because they owned the rights to the name “Super Distortion”…so Boss changed the name to “Super Feedbacker & Distortion” …if yours is a “Super Distortion & Feedbacker” then it’s actually quite a rare pedal
@@TSFAHTPS yea I bought it in 1984/85 so I'm sure it was when it first came out
Sounds like ehx freeze. Good demo
Thank you!!
I bought a freeze and already had this pedal but I believe the freeze is polyphonic for chords. So that makes the freeze worthwhile. Cheers.
HUM (Band) in a box
5:16
4 min. To turn it on
Well...it was on in the very first second of the video - during the intro...BUT...I know what you mean and that’s why we put the little notification in the bottom left corner of the video (about 10secs into the video) saying that at 4:49 you will start hearing the sounds the pedal makes...all our newer videos now also have chapters in the timeline
I had this pedal for over 20 years and hocked it on Facebook. It was bloody shithouse. Really tinny distortion sound and the feedback is stupid and useless. One of the worst pedals,ever.
How were you running your amp?
Most people complaining about it sounding bad powered it with 9v. This pedal needs 12v though
@@deconimus2393 I always thought it was great. Have it since the early 90's as well. But with all the good feedback I'm seeing now I'm going to use it more: )