Im a convert. This pedals best uses are...leads, or low gain overdrive stuff. Stand alone, it can kinda do the early 2000's mid gain thing. Think, Creed, 3 Doors Down, etc.
Not a good sound to begin with and it gets worse. but no hate my man ❤️. Just my 2 cents. I always found it hard to find good open marshall type crunch sounds (other than a cranked jcm800 lol)
I do urge you to give it a shot yourself if you have a DS-1 lying around. Fine tune it to your liking and you will be surprised. More tonal sweep than a stock screamer IMO.
I had one back in the early 1990s, but I replaced it with a Ibanez DS-10. Now that's a mean little green pedal! Thumped on the power chords tru a couple old Marshall tops. But eventually I got rid of that too as I went for a cleaner jazzier sound. Still, listening to the DS-1 on this video, I'm sorry to say I never really liked the sound.
One of my all time favorite guitar solos, Marillion's "Easter" was recorded using a DS-1 with the tone all the way off, I believe. And it sounds amazing.
This pedal here in Brazil is extremely expensive, always wanted it, you can get a used one for around 200 R$ , a new one can get to 700 R$ , wich is very expensive for the people don't know
That pedal works with literally anything. I bought one in high school in the early 00s & it sounded great when being pushed through a fuckin Fender Frontman 10 MIJ from 1981 lmfao
Honestly i run this with my fender champion 100 with about 6 gain on the amp and I barely have the pedal activate tbh, with low mid with the pathos pedal. Just adds a nice crunch
I’ve come across this complaint a few times. I will debunk this again. We ran an experiment at a buddies using his Fender Rampart combo, a Wish Klon Centaur as the main base of drive, with a DS-1 in the front. It sounded just as flawless to a digital simulator like an Iridium or a Marshall head. Point being, rather than spending time complaining how it was an unfair test, go out there and experiment yourself. You’d be amazed at how much tone you can get when you spend the time with your gear and not focus on brand names. FYI, an Iridium this day and age is considered outdated vs the other modelers which are doubled-triple what an iridium is.
@@Varone26 I’ve owned a DS1 since I was 12 - not complaining that it’s an unfair test, I’ve used it plenty and experiment on a daily basis. Just found it funny.
It was designed to be a distortion. That's why it says distortion right there in on the box. The Boss Blues Driver and SD1 Super Overdrive are closer to a "color boost overdrive" as you describe. But there are no rules. I personally love using the DS1 as a slight overdrive. But I also think it sounds good at high gain settings, too. Just a great pedal for the money
I'm still a beginner, but I've got a Les Paul and a Marshall mg50fx, but it seems the od setting on the amp still doesn't put out a lot of distortion, would this pedal help a lot?
Cobain used it a lot so that sold me on it because he has the best alternative rock guitar tone live to me and I used to be a tone snob until I came back to my roots and quit caring.
You have just highlighted the problem - you have to know how to use it to make it sound good as with all the Boss distortion pedals. Whereas a Rat as the main equivalent sounds great on every single setting.
@@Varone26 That is my point. Even the biggest fans admit that even when you use it the "right" way it sounds horrible with certain settings. It shouldn't have any horrible settings.
Is that 2 humbuckers, a 3-way switch, 1 volume, no tone knob and an arcade button kill swich? Ive been wanting to do that but not sure how i would wire it
If you still have your iridium on hand I would highly suggest playing around with different impulse responses, whether they be from York Audio, Celestion, or many others that are available. My iridium is loaded with York audio.
Boss pedals are incredible… except for their drive pedals. I’ve tried so many overdrives over the last 20 years and boss just can’t nail it. The blues driver is ok, but there are far better sounding pedals on the market
I don't hate it, I simply prefer distortion pedals that are on the more absurd side of distortion. DOD Buzz Box, Digitech Death Metal, that's my scene. BOSS D.S. is definitely not terrible.
Y'know what meme pedal is actually quite good? Metal Zone. Very good pedal, just not for metal. I got a cheap DS-2 which everyone says is just a DS-1 with a 'Turbo' mode, not sure if that's the only difference between two. I've seen side-by-sides and owned one years back. it seems to me that it depends on the rig whether or not they're gonna sound distinct from each other, I don't know how else to explain it. Of the two, I prefer the DS-2 - particularly when paired with another overdrive.
Would make any Ozzy song sound like Rage Against the Machine. This was my first pedal. I jad no clue what i was doing but man i cranled some wicked stuff thru it
I use the DS-1 as just distortion. I think it can make an amazing Ride “The Lightning tone” if you know how to use it: turn distortion all the way up on The pedal. put the tone (ON THE PEDAL) at halfway. Make sure your guitar is on a clean pre-set, then turn up your treble (on amp) and then turn up to your tone (ON YOUR GUITAR) all the way.Then turn the gain all the way up and same with the delay settings. The rest (like bass, medium, ETC) you can tweak to whatever you like and if you understood these directions well (and I have good directions) you should Have a “Ride the Lightning” guitar tone
Depends what kind of amp you have. If it has a OD/Distortion channel then it wouldn’t be necessary unless you want to pull off what I did in the video using it as a boost. If you have only a clean amp, a distortion and OD pedal would help. Or a 2 in 1. There’s plenty of options.
Got my first DS-1 in 1980 used it all the time back then. Have had many since and end up going back to it often. Yes it Still works!! For Christmas got the new(ish) DS-1Waza and have to saywith its extra options, Like it a LOT!! Better part is , on sale right now for 89 bucks
I've had a few DS-1's starting about 20 years ago, and I'll agree that it's not NECESSARILY a "bad" pedal, I also don't think it's a "good" pedal and don't think it deserves any real defense. There are and always have been a ton of much better alternatives with much better sounds that are much easier to use. Sure, you can get okay sounds out of it, but I would never recommend it to anyone because 99 times out of 100 you'll get better sounds and more versatility out of almost any other distortion/overdrive pedal. 100% not an "underrated" pedal.
What i usually do is plug my guitar into the input then have a lead from the output to my amp. Then i press the footswitch until the light comes on then i turn the knobs to taste. You're welcome.
The pedal is an amp simulator, not a gain stage distortion/OD. If you listened to what I said in the video, you can use it with an already dirty amp. The time you spent commenting could’ve been allocated for you to test it yourself.
"trigger the boutique guitar community".... then plugs it straight into a boutique amp/cap simulator. DS-1 sounds great as long as you have a boutique pedal or amp to run it with!
The iridium is widely available through most retailers, found on most resale platforms for a reasonable cost, and doesn’t have a waitlist starting at 3 months……
@@DrZirta I can assure you that you can achieve the same result with any budget friendly amplifier whether it be tube or solid state. you can even get away with using VST software, whether it be GarageBand, bias, FX, or amplitube. A few months back, we took one of my buddies Fender rampart amps along with a Amazon kit Klon Centaur. We pushed the Klons gain acting as the main drive and did similar settings with his stock DS-1. And it was able to cut through a mix no problem along with sounding extremely saturated and filthy. The rampart is a $300 CAD amp. The Klon clone off Amazon is $50 CAD. You can make any piece of gear work, no matter what you have, and no matter what your budget is. Look no further than to what JHS did with the bad monkey overdrive having it go head to head with actual boutique pedals. You just have to spend the time to tweak it to your liking and not make excuses as to why your tone may stink.
The "Boutique" crowd = trust fund kids with no rhythm or soul. A great pedal is a great pedal, period.
it’s shit if you’re not using it as a boost coming from someone who isn’t rich
Lol how tf did nirvana create one of the biggest records of all time using this pedal then
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@@Uninterested69420 hit album or not Ive used this pedal and it sucks
@@bigweenoryou don’t know how to use it, I used to hate this pedal up until I discovered how to use it.
@@numbers7889 I used it how everyone says to I used it as a boost it sounds like a slightly below average boost
Sounds a bit like Ed😊
Im a convert. This pedals best uses are...leads, or low gain overdrive stuff. Stand alone, it can kinda do the early 2000's mid gain thing. Think, Creed, 3 Doors Down, etc.
Not a good sound to begin with and it gets worse. but no hate my man ❤️. Just my 2 cents. I always found it hard to find good open marshall type crunch sounds (other than a cranked jcm800 lol)
I do urge you to give it a shot yourself if you have a DS-1 lying around. Fine tune it to your liking and you will be surprised. More tonal sweep than a stock screamer IMO.
put it into your effects loop .
This has been done before, however it’s not as useable in the FX Loop. A Boss Metal Zone works terrific in the loop.
I have one! It's so cool
I do gain stacking with DS-1 at the end. Start with TS into DS-1 into amp.
Nice.
I had one back in the early 1990s, but
I replaced it with a Ibanez DS-10.
Now that's a mean little green pedal!
Thumped on the power chords tru a couple old Marshall tops.
But eventually I got rid of that too as I went for a cleaner jazzier sound. Still, listening to the DS-1 on this video, I'm sorry to say
I never really liked the sound.
the ds1 is the best selling effect pedal of all time. metallica used them.
This and an mxr phaser were all I ever needed
Amazing pedal
One of my all time favorite guitar solos, Marillion's "Easter" was recorded using a DS-1 with the tone all the way off, I believe. And it sounds amazing.
Literally my only gripe with the DS-1 is it’s not got enough output level.
This pedal here in Brazil is extremely expensive, always wanted it, you can get a used one for around 200 R$ , a new one can get to 700 R$ , wich is very expensive for the people don't know
That pedal works with literally anything. I bought one in high school in the early 00s & it sounded great when being pushed through a fuckin Fender Frontman 10 MIJ from 1981 lmfao
I don’t have this pedal as I don’t really need one but I do think this is a great pedal
Ds-1 off
Kurt cobain uses that
Yo lo uso hace 20 años pa los concert le agrego un ts9 streaming y suena genial
Honestly i run this with my fender champion 100 with about 6 gain on the amp and I barely have the pedal activate tbh, with low mid with the pathos pedal.
Just adds a nice crunch
That pedal is mandatory.
Keeley mod that DS-1, great thrash pedal
Lmfao “this affordable pedal is great - listen to it push my 400$ strymon” cmon mate
I’ve come across this complaint a few times. I will debunk this again.
We ran an experiment at a buddies using his Fender Rampart combo, a Wish Klon Centaur as the main base of drive, with a DS-1 in the front. It sounded just as flawless to a digital simulator like an Iridium or a Marshall head.
Point being, rather than spending time complaining how it was an unfair test, go out there and experiment yourself. You’d be amazed at how much tone you can get when you spend the time with your gear and not focus on brand names.
FYI, an Iridium this day and age is considered outdated vs the other modelers which are doubled-triple what an iridium is.
@@Varone26 I’ve owned a DS1 since I was 12 - not complaining that it’s an unfair test, I’ve used it plenty and experiment on a daily basis. Just found it funny.
It was designed to be a distortion. That's why it says distortion right there in on the box. The Boss Blues Driver and SD1 Super Overdrive are closer to a "color boost overdrive" as you describe. But there are no rules. I personally love using the DS1 as a slight overdrive. But I also think it sounds good at high gain settings, too. Just a great pedal for the money
Love the arcade button kill switch I’ve never seen one on a fender
Same as metal zone
The Nirvana Bleach sound is a solid reason to own one in of itself
And one day I’ll own one too when I’ve got the money
I got 5-6 great years out of a used DS-1 I bought for like 30 bucks, and I finally went out and bought a new one. Great pedal
Love my boss blues driver.
That was my first guitar pedal like 10 years ago, still use it to this day.
I'm still a beginner, but I've got a Les Paul and a Marshall mg50fx, but it seems the od setting on the amp still doesn't put out a lot of distortion, would this pedal help a lot?
everyone hates on boss simply because they’re boss. if they took 1 minute to try a boss pedal, they’d realize,
they’re boss.
OG ALERT, OG ALERT, HIDE YOUR KIDS AND HIDE YOURS WIVES!!!
Never heard a bad sound from one. Except when you turn the tone knob right side of 12 o’clock.
It’s used to give it a beefier tone. However, that’s the kind of tone I’m looking for and I personally love the boss.
Who hates on it?
Nah man
Cobain used it a lot so that sold me on it because he has the best alternative rock guitar tone live to me and I used to be a tone snob until I came back to my roots and quit caring.
I'll just stick to my DigiTech grunge pedal
Used mine once, and it broke.
I use it is an ‘amp in a box’ distortion and I think it sounds great, don’t really get the hate, just roll the *tone* off
You have just highlighted the problem - you have to know how to use it to make it sound good as with all the Boss distortion pedals. Whereas a Rat as the main equivalent sounds great on every single setting.
I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s a problem. It’s just an opinion in how I think the pedal was originally designed and supposed to be used.
@@Varone26 That is my point. Even the biggest fans admit that even when you use it the "right" way it sounds horrible with certain settings. It shouldn't have any horrible settings.
Beautiful brother 🔥
One of the best
Its a cool peice of kit .You just pushing srtymon. Which i love.😂
Is that 2 humbuckers, a 3-way switch, 1 volume, no tone knob and an arcade button kill swich? Ive been wanting to do that but not sure how i would wire it
You’re correct!
Nice video. I was never able to get my Iridium to take pedals well. Sounds good!
If you still have your iridium on hand I would highly suggest playing around with different impulse responses, whether they be from York Audio, Celestion, or many others that are available. My iridium is loaded with York audio.
@@Varone26 thank you!
Boss pedals are incredible… except for their drive pedals. I’ve tried so many overdrives over the last 20 years and boss just can’t nail it. The blues driver is ok, but there are far better sounding pedals on the market
Who could ever hate that pedal?
Bruh the people that hate on this pedal need to get a life. Nearly every rock guitarist that's worth a damn used the Ds-1
Ds-1 is for every guitarist teens from early 2000s blasting it through line 6 spider amps or use like in video lol
I USE IT FOR MY IBANEZ 20 BASS, LEARNING ALL KINDS OF COOL SOUNDS
I use the ds -1 and ds-2 always
I don't hate it, I simply prefer distortion pedals that are on the more absurd side of distortion. DOD Buzz Box, Digitech Death Metal, that's my scene. BOSS D.S. is definitely not terrible.
Kurt cobain used this for a while then went to the DS-2. to talk shit about this pedal is to talk shit about most of 90's grunge.
Y'know what meme pedal is actually quite good? Metal Zone. Very good pedal, just not for metal.
I got a cheap DS-2 which everyone says is just a DS-1 with a 'Turbo' mode, not sure if that's the only difference between two. I've seen side-by-sides and owned one years back. it seems to me that it depends on the rig whether or not they're gonna sound distinct from each other, I don't know how else to explain it.
Of the two, I prefer the DS-2 - particularly when paired with another overdrive.
All little rich boys and such bags will shit on the old boss pedals… but yet they suck at playing
It's good enough for Steve Vai
Agree. I use mine just to give a punch to my solos.
I'd still have to go with "sounds like shit" 🤷
What is your pick up Sir?
Even more so for the metal zone
Your guitar is suck my guy!
I love dark souls pedal
Sounds like the 80s 👌
That was my first pedal.
Yep, still sounds like garbage.
I enjoy it. It’s a good catch all, get the job done, classic distortion
I regret selling mine back in the 90's
Would make any Ozzy song sound like Rage Against the Machine.
This was my first pedal. I jad no clue what i was doing but man i cranled some wicked stuff thru it
I use the DS-1 as just distortion. I think it can make an amazing Ride “The Lightning tone” if you know how to use it:
turn distortion all the way up on The pedal. put the tone (ON THE PEDAL) at halfway. Make sure your guitar is on a clean pre-set, then turn up your treble (on amp) and then turn up to your tone (ON YOUR GUITAR) all the way.Then turn the gain all the way up and same with the delay settings. The rest (like bass, medium, ETC) you can tweak to whatever you like and if you understood these directions well (and I have good directions) you should
Have a “Ride the Lightning” guitar tone
I ordered the wazacraft one a few days ago and im sooo excited! My amp doesn't get dirty enough on ots own so i think its gonna work great for me!
What's there not to like?
I prefer ovedrive pedals Like the valeton OD-10 Basically built on OD-1 Boss . But the DS-1 is also good for people who need more distortion gain.
ds1 off : active is 1magnetic... ds1 on: active is all magnetics. play the single magnetic challenge
Nah sounds pretty shitty.
Use it to play Flying turkey trot, by Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon. 😀😎
i bought an electric guitar without buying a distortion pedal. do i need one to play heavy songs or is there a setting on the amp?
Depends what kind of amp you have. If it has a OD/Distortion channel then it wouldn’t be necessary unless you want to pull off what I did in the video using it as a boost.
If you have only a clean amp, a distortion and OD pedal would help. Or a 2 in 1. There’s plenty of options.
Ds2 are beast
Ds1 and the Metal zone for them to be such terrible pedals they sell in the millions each year kinda makes you wonder
I use it on a clean channel
Clean with the distortion down a bit is awesome, also love it with the level ip
@@gupster24 I try to use Cobain settings but it's too loud at home hahaha.
For me level at at 12oclock
Distortion from 11 to 2 o'clock
Tone full.
45 years old. What they carnt up with better
Amen
It's gotta be cause its orange colored but not the Orange brand.
how to buy
Got my first DS-1 in 1980 used it all the time back then. Have had many since and end up going back to it often. Yes it Still works!! For Christmas got the new(ish) DS-1Waza and have to saywith its extra options, Like it a LOT!! Better part is , on sale right now for 89 bucks
I've had a few DS-1's starting about 20 years ago, and I'll agree that it's not NECESSARILY a "bad" pedal, I also don't think it's a "good" pedal and don't think it deserves any real defense. There are and always have been a ton of much better alternatives with much better sounds that are much easier to use. Sure, you can get okay sounds out of it, but I would never recommend it to anyone because 99 times out of 100 you'll get better sounds and more versatility out of almost any other distortion/overdrive pedal. 100% not an "underrated" pedal.
I will argue until the day I die that the BD-2 is everything the DS-1 wishes it could be.
This peddle is the nirvana peddle
I love my ds-1 its in my chain and im happy
The Strymon is all u need, just set it up better
Boss ds-1 always on my team.
I run tone 9 o'clock dirt 7 o'clock level 2 o'clock. This through a boosted tube amp!
What i usually do is plug my guitar into the input then have a lead from the output to my amp. Then i press the footswitch until the light comes on then i turn the knobs to taste. You're welcome.
Uh oh! Sassy Pants over here with the sarcasm because someone has another opinion🥺🥺
This is exactly how i use mine too, i love the DS-1
NOT A REAL TEST... you used it with another pedal...
Like... common, sis
The pedal is an amp simulator, not a gain stage distortion/OD.
If you listened to what I said in the video, you can use it with an already dirty amp.
The time you spent commenting could’ve been allocated for you to test it yourself.
Boss pedals are awesome!!!
Mate it’s brilliant. Uses it since day one it’s heavy af through a tube with an eq pedal
"trigger the boutique guitar community".... then plugs it straight into a boutique amp/cap simulator. DS-1 sounds great as long as you have a boutique pedal or amp to run it with!
The iridium is widely available through most retailers, found on most resale platforms for a reasonable cost, and doesn’t have a waitlist starting at 3 months……
@@Varone26 still a pairing of one of the most affordable pedal with one substantially more expensive :)
@@DrZirta I can assure you that you can achieve the same result with any budget friendly amplifier whether it be tube or solid state. you can even get away with using VST software, whether it be GarageBand, bias, FX, or amplitube.
A few months back, we took one of my buddies Fender rampart amps along with a Amazon kit Klon Centaur.
We pushed the Klons gain acting as the main drive and did similar settings with his stock DS-1. And it was able to cut through a mix no problem along with sounding extremely saturated and filthy.
The rampart is a $300 CAD amp.
The Klon clone off Amazon is $50 CAD.
You can make any piece of gear work, no matter what you have, and no matter what your budget is. Look no further than to what JHS did with the bad monkey overdrive having it go head to head with actual boutique pedals. You just have to spend the time to tweak it to your liking and not make excuses as to why your tone may stink.