It's been that way for years, but it's best not on guitar, but on vocals. I sing into this in my one-man band, on a two-year tour across the US, aiding people in their recovery from interplanetary complications.
me personally i use it as a strait up nasty distortion pedal with the distortion and level all the way up with the tone almost at noon gives a killer tone
I used to use the ds1 a lot to achieve John fruscante tones. But when I got the ds2 it just made the tone and range I had so much more better thru my Marshall’s. Sure do miss my old ds1 though was a absolute killer pedal for the price I paid for it. I remember it was the first pedal I got in highschool with just enough money I saved to go get it at guitar center. Still wish I was a beginner miss being able to learn so much
@@billyjettison I’m there right now and you may be able to help me. There’s this band from Chicago that started in 1986 called “Life Sentence” if you could, could you tell me if a waza craft boss hm-2 can achieve that sound?
I’ve been using this pedal for ever since the early 90s I don’t know why people hate on it either if it’s good enough or Kurt Cobain, that’s good enough for me
It was made during an era of loud stage volume and Marshall 1959 superlead amplifiers were still king, master volume Marshall only had been out a couple of years at this point. And stage guitar leads were super long erasing lots of high frequency. It was a great pedal for that era. I still love it, go ahead and get your favorite coily cable, it’s high frequencies attenuation will be your friend!
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.
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
Tim Pierce once said that you need less gain than you think you do, and that helped me clean up my mix so much. The sweet spot for most genres is between that 10-35% gain area
I run the DS1 into an overdriven amp. Not gained out. Think a Fender combo that’s starting to rumble a bit. Tone at 1/4. Drive at 1/2. Level flat out on 10. It sounds fat round and beautiful. Add another tube screamer or Klonish pedal for 80’s rock. Love it!!!!
As Rhett Shull says, and I agree with, it's better than any tube screamer pedal. I also run this with my vocals on my one-man band set, helping people understand and hopefully resolve their interplanetary complications
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 use the DS-1 almost as a surrogate tube screamer, and i’ll also use it in conjunction with my hm-2 for tones reminiscent of black/death and groove metal.
I use mine as a boost for my rat pedal. It works superb and it's also a good crunch pedal / overdrive if you turn the distortion knob to the left side.
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.
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.
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
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
Used to be my favorite drive pedal, but over the years, I've gravitated more toward the Boss SD-1 overdrive pedal, as it sounds better with my classic Fender Champ. Back in the day, I used to play a Sovtec Mig 100 half stack that was slightly driven with a DS-1 in a punk band. The thing about the DS1 is that less is more. You don't want to put the drive past noon and you want to put it in front of a slightly driven tube amp to get a killer tone.
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
I have every dial on max for my bass and guitar. Just ordered a HM-2 for my guitar though because I felt like my guitar could be heavier. I love the highs I get on bass when I max out the DS1 though
Fun fact: both Steve Vai and Joe Satriani’s lead distortion was from a already driven amp and a DS-1 it is also countless other artists main distortions I love it so much I bought the DF-2 which is a version with a feedback machine build in when you hold the stomp down it also doesn’t sound exactly like the original DS-1 yet some say they are the same I prefer the DF-2 for the smoothness it presents
My first pedal was the Digitech DF-7. I didn't read the manual when I got it, but ended up choosing the DS-1 mode over all other 6 distortions without knowing it was a DS1
I loved my ds-1 when i had it. To be honest i cant remember why i even got rid of it. You could get a nice punk distortion or turn the distortion down and the tone up and get a little od boost. but then tone down distortion all the way and you get a doom metal fuzz as well. Such a versatile pedal and does all the sounds great.
When i first got into gear a lot of what i read about this pedal was negative. I bought a DS2 as my first pedal years ago. The first setting is basically a DS1 and i thought sounded great. There seems to more positivity about this pedal recently and im happy.
No, thats a myth. If you analyze it properly you will see (and hear) that the DS-2 has a different character, you cant get the exact same sound out of both. I prefer my DS-2 and even my MD-2 over my DS-1 but none of them can sound exactly the same...
Digitech is a brand that never gets the love it deserves! Bad Monkey proved it can outshine or go toe to toe with all the boutique builds. The hardwired series was some of their best work.
I'm considering a strat with 2 humbuckers. My main guitar for many years has been an HSS strat. I need another strat anyways to keep as a 1/2 step down guitar for songs that I struggle with singing.
An HH was the route I wanted to go as 2 of my Strats are SSS and 1 HSS. This one has a SH-11 in the bridge and the 78 custom in the neck both by Duncan.
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
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
The problem is we as kids bought it and plug it into a clean and cheap amp in order we sound as Vai or Satriani... What we had instead was sadness and noise. 😢
Same thing with mxr prime distortion. I just bought it yesterday at guitar center in the used section for 34 bucks and its got the same amount of punch as the ds 1
So i use a proco lil rat and that thing in gnarly. The sound is golden and it is clear and crunchy simultaneously. I have the gain all the way up and the volune at like mid and it's great. I also play with my amp in rythm mode and beef up the volume to get a warmer sound. Rat also stacks nicely. The ds1 is cool and all, but i'm definately a rat guy.
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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
i love how the ds-1 is having a renaissance
It's been that way for years, but it's best not on guitar, but on vocals. I sing into this in my one-man band, on a two-year tour across the US, aiding people in their recovery from interplanetary complications.
I just bought one I love it, even on a clean amp
"uhh i just make it sound like my guitar is crunchy" -me a guitar noob
Actually, that's pro level guitar language.
me personally i use it as a strait up nasty distortion pedal with the distortion and level all the way up with the tone almost at noon gives a killer tone
It can work great like that too. Especially modded versions like the Keeley and JHS models where they treat it as an *amp in a box* distortion.
Yup
Idk I tried one at my local guitar centers and it sounded no different then my gain on my Marshall amp. Not worth the money for the same sound
I used to use the ds1 a lot to achieve John fruscante tones. But when I got the ds2 it just made the tone and range I had so much more better thru my Marshall’s. Sure do miss my old ds1 though was a absolute killer pedal for the price I paid for it. I remember it was the first pedal I got in highschool with just enough money I saved to go get it at guitar center. Still wish I was a beginner miss being able to learn so much
@@billyjettison I’m there right now and you may be able to help me. There’s this band from Chicago that started in 1986 called “Life Sentence” if you could, could you tell me if a waza craft boss hm-2 can achieve that sound?
diatortion at 10 o clock tone at about 9. treble at 5 mids at 6 or 7 and bass at 4 sounds so good for crunchy acdc sound
I'm a sucker for a good crunch tone that doesn't make open chords sound like crap
I’ve been using this pedal for ever since the early 90s I don’t know why people hate on it either if it’s good enough or Kurt Cobain, that’s good enough for me
It was made during an era of loud stage volume and Marshall 1959 superlead amplifiers were still king, master volume Marshall only had been out a couple of years at this point. And stage guitar leads were super long erasing lots of high frequency. It was a great pedal for that era. I still love it, go ahead and get your favorite coily cable, it’s high frequencies attenuation will be your friend!
The Boss DS-1 was my first ever pedal and I still love it.
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.
I had a Fender strat, a Fender frontman 15 amp, and a ds1 and it gave a pretty good sound for covering Nirvana.
DS-1 stacked with a another OD in front of it is unbeatable. You can get get nearly any kind of tone, from hard rock to death metal.
100000% agreed
Cool
One of Steve Vais favorite pedals. He said it's his go-to in the recording studio.
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
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
Tim Pierce once said that you need less gain than you think you do, and that helped me clean up my mix so much. The sweet spot for most genres is between that 10-35% gain area
I run the DS1 into an overdriven amp. Not gained out. Think a Fender combo that’s starting to rumble a bit. Tone at 1/4. Drive at 1/2. Level flat out on 10. It sounds fat round and beautiful. Add another tube screamer or Klonish pedal for 80’s rock. Love it!!!!
My first pedal back in the 80’s was the boss DS1. I loved that thing. In fact I still have it.
That was my first pedal, still own it, just got a PSK DS-1 clone for a neat side piece in my Boss collection.
As Rhett Shull says, and I agree with, it's better than any tube screamer pedal. I also run this with my vocals on my one-man band set, helping people understand and hopefully resolve their interplanetary complications
This is exactly how i use mine too, i love the DS-1
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
Love that guitar
This and an mxr phaser were all I ever needed
I use the DS-1 almost as a surrogate tube screamer, and i’ll also use it in conjunction with my hm-2 for tones reminiscent of black/death and groove metal.
Love my boss blues driver.
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 use mine as a boost for my rat pedal. It works superb and it's also a good crunch pedal / overdrive if you turn the distortion knob to the left side.
Amazing pedal
That was my first guitar pedal like 10 years ago, still use it to this day.
I USE IT FOR MY IBANEZ 20 BASS, LEARNING ALL KINDS OF COOL SOUNDS
Awesome demo!
I bought one. I’m happy.
I’ve always used it as a crunch boost, gives it a nice Punk sound
So cool!! I’m definitely going to have to get a distortion pedal soon!! 🤘
Dude these are cool pedals, i can even get good sound into a clean fender champ 100, i love this pedal😊
I have one! It's so cool
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!
Love the arcade button kill switch I’ve never seen one on a fender
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.
Extremely versatile and "underrated" pedal
One of the best
I love my ds-1 its in my chain and im happy
Beautiful brother 🔥
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.
Beautiful strat
Boss ds-1 always on my team.
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
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 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!
I use a boss blues driver and DS-1. Has all the gain I need.
Dang mang that sounds good!
Used to be my favorite drive pedal, but over the years, I've gravitated more toward the Boss SD-1 overdrive pedal, as it sounds better with my classic Fender Champ. Back in the day, I used to play a Sovtec Mig 100 half stack that was slightly driven with a DS-1 in a punk band. The thing about the DS1 is that less is more. You don't want to put the drive past noon and you want to put it in front of a slightly driven tube amp to get a killer tone.
I do gain stacking with DS-1 at the end. Start with TS into DS-1 into amp.
Its a cool peice of kit .You just pushing srtymon. Which i love.😂
I run a DS-1 into a TS mini. Very satisfying.
Sick tone
Better then people 1st thought. Im happy the ds-1 is cool again.
I love this pedal stay use it on my bass pedal board
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
Kurt loved it
I have every dial on max for my bass and guitar. Just ordered a HM-2 for my guitar though because I felt like my guitar could be heavier. I love the highs I get on bass when I max out the DS1 though
I use the ds -1 and ds-2 always
I enjoy it. It’s a good catch all, get the job done, classic distortion
Ace feckin tone 🍄
Mate it’s brilliant. Uses it since day one it’s heavy af through a tube with an eq pedal
Very nice! Just picked up a used Boss Mega Distortion MD-2 yesterday at a local Sam Ash for $50 + tax.
The MD-2 is mighty and very flexible. Its super underrated but i still prefer the DS-2 for its hump at 400hz. You cant get that with the MD-2
Fun fact: both Steve Vai and Joe Satriani’s lead distortion was from a already driven amp and a DS-1 it is also countless other artists main distortions I love it so much I bought the DF-2 which is a version with a feedback machine build in when you hold the stomp down it also doesn’t sound exactly like the original DS-1 yet some say they are the same I prefer the DF-2 for the smoothness it presents
I use the ds-1 as a beautiful burst of orange near my feet, it really sits nicely next to my DL4.
Agree. I use mine just to give a punch to my solos.
My first pedal was the Digitech DF-7. I didn't read the manual when I got it, but ended up choosing the DS-1 mode over all other 6 distortions without knowing it was a DS1
I loved my ds-1 when i had it. To be honest i cant remember why i even got rid of it. You could get a nice punk distortion or turn the distortion down and the tone up and get a little od boost. but then tone down distortion all the way and you get a doom metal fuzz as well. Such a versatile pedal and does all the sounds great.
That was my first pedal.
Keeley mod that DS-1, great thrash pedal
When i first got into gear a lot of what i read about this pedal was negative. I bought a DS2 as my first pedal years ago. The first setting is basically a DS1 and i thought sounded great. There seems to more positivity about this pedal recently and im happy.
No, thats a myth. If you analyze it properly you will see (and hear) that the DS-2 has a different character, you cant get the exact same sound out of both. I prefer my DS-2 and even my MD-2 over my DS-1 but none of them can sound exactly the same...
I got a clone of this which had s 2 band eq for really cheap its called the hot head by Digitech. Full recommend
Digitech is a brand that never gets the love it deserves! Bad Monkey proved it can outshine or go toe to toe with all the boutique builds.
The hardwired series was some of their best work.
Never heard a bad sound from one. Except when you turn the tone knob right side of 12 o’clock.
Its the only distortion pedal I have and likely the only dirty pedal I'll ever need
Nice.
I'm considering a strat with 2 humbuckers. My main guitar for many years has been an HSS strat. I need another strat anyways to keep as a 1/2 step down guitar for songs that I struggle with singing.
An HH was the route I wanted to go as
2 of my Strats are SSS and 1 HSS.
This one has a SH-11 in the bridge and the 78 custom in the neck both by Duncan.
Boss pedals are awesome!!!
Yo lo uso hace 20 años pa los concert le agrego un ts9 streaming y suena genial
That pedal is mandatory.
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.
I don’t have this pedal as I don’t really need one but I do think this is a great pedal
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
The new waza ones allow you to use it as an amp in a box if you want a clean tone
A lot more gain and mid’s with the custom switch on it. Even modded versions like the Keeley and JHS allowed for that.
an amazing pedal that every guitarist should have
Even more so for the metal zone
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 got the Metal zone.sounds just as nice.slighty more heavy but cool.
When dialed in correct, or even used in an amps FX loop, the Metal Zone can be phenomenal.
Use it to play Flying turkey trot, by Gary Richrath of REO Speedwagon. 😀😎
The problem is we as kids bought it and plug it into a clean and cheap amp in order we sound as Vai or Satriani...
What we had instead was sadness and noise. 😢
I run tone 9 o'clock dirt 7 o'clock level 2 o'clock. This through a boosted tube amp!
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
Same thing with mxr prime distortion. I just bought it yesterday at guitar center in the used section for 34 bucks and its got the same amount of punch as the ds 1
the ds1 is the best selling effect pedal of all time. metallica used them.
So i use a proco lil rat and that thing in gnarly. The sound is golden and it is clear and crunchy simultaneously. I have the gain all the way up and the volune at like mid and it's great. I also play with my amp in rythm mode and beef up the volume to get a warmer sound. Rat also stacks nicely. The ds1 is cool and all, but i'm definately a rat guy.
Everyone’s gonna have their go to’s.
I never messed around with Rat’s but have heard nothing but praise.
@Varone26 yeah. Same goes to the ds1 for me. Never used it but heard great stuff
The trick is to stack em. DS1 into Rat then into EQ,out to amp.
i just got one last week used for $30
Sounds like the 80s 👌
Peter Steele used the ds-1