Maybe that's how bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest were born? I'm no expert but the timeline checks out. Scientists created pedals that chugged and metal was born. Oddly enough 1978 was also the year of the ProCo Rat.
Has everyone forgotten that fuzz pedals were around for over a decade? It was also well-known that using a Treble Booster into amps and fuzzes would give a tight distortion sound.
The ds-1 was actually made to be layered on top of a slightly dirty amp, like a crunchy plexi, so that they could get distortion without blowing everyone’s head off. Most people hate this pedal because they say it sounds like shit, but they use it as more of a “amp in a box” type thing which it’s not. It’s more of a heavily colored boost that pushes the amp hard. Hope this helped at least one of you guys understand how to truly use this pedal. Cheers 🍻
I got this pedal yesterday hoping it would just make my clean tone sound chuggy but figured this out toying around honestly really like the pedal using it the way you said
@andre I tried it the way you’re saying and need to experiment more with it that way. I’m not sure if I tried one in the late 70’s, everybody was telling me to get a Rat at the time so that’s what I did. Late last summer or early this year is the first time I bought and really tried one. Found one for $35. I actually like the tones with the gain and tone lower-has a nice low to mid gain overdrive and doesn’t squash the low end like a Tube Screamer does. Full gain with tone to taste is a little like fuzz. My theory is-see what a pedal does on its own first. A pedal really should stand on its own and it does that but only to a point. It’s pretty scooped so when add mids on a graphic EQ it’s better. I’ll try it with a little gain some more. Thanks!
Guys, just place these pedals on the next chain: Boss CS3 compressor + Boss DS1 Distortion + Boss GE7 Equalizer. you won't need anything else to make it sound as you wanted.
For years I've thought this pedal had the perfect amount of gain. You could have more, you could have less, but with a DS1, I always felt you could get this sweet "just right" vibe :)
Just a side note, Peter Steele from Type O Negative ran his bass through a Boss DS-1 for his distorted stuff. I currently use mine instead of a TubeScreamer to boost my signal for almost all my guitar tracks. Good vid, mate. Nice to see the DS-1 get some love.
I've watched about five of the "Will it Chug?" videos and you have been able to get them all to chug. This leads me to believe that you are just so good at tuning audio equipment that you can make anything chug. Maybe even the "Rainbow Machine" by EarthQuaker Devices?
Or the equipment he tests are all for rock and metal and chug regardless. Turning up the one single level knob takes absolutely zero expertise at all. Its what it was designed to do: provide distortion, and in other cases: overdrive. Distortion= what makes things chug. There is literally nothing special about Ola, sorry to burst your bubble
It definitely is a great pedal, there's a reason so many top guitarists use them. Some people who think it sucks don't get how to use it right. Like if it's a beginner guitarist with a ds-1 and practice amp they use it incorrectly and forever think its bad. Like with small solid state amps you need to turn the volume on the pedal way down and turn up the amp volume, otherwise the ds-1 can overdrive the practice amp, which sounds terrible with bad solid state amps. Keep the volume on the pedal way down and it can sound glorious even with that kinda set up. Or just eventually get a tube amp and it will sound great.
@@tommykaira8775 no because he made it sound good. Granted he could probably make anything sound good. But even so that's just because he's using it properly. It's like his video about the Metal Zone, and he made that thing sound fantastic, just simply by having sensible settings and plugging it in the effects loop instead of through the front. These pedals get shit on a lot by snobs and people who don't know what they're talking about, and also people who own boutique pedal companies and want to rip you off. But Ola actually knows what he's doing, and he's the furthest thing from a snob. He goes by the rule, "it it sounds good, it IS good". Which is the only rule in music that matters.
i’ve got the most basic generic setup. a ds1 into just a generic fender amp. i play an ibanez rg series and i’ve always thought it sounded pretty good. i can play muse with it, slipknot, van halen, even some amon amarth sounded pretty damn good
Ever since Fluff demo'd that Crossroads pedal, I'm shocked when someone says 'this is my clean tone' and it's ACTUALLY CLEAN. That bastard gave me a complex I swear.
When Ola started the "Oh shit it actually sounds good" all i can think about is a guy born and rised in Sweden in the 80s... This is like his kindergarden lullaby.
It was my first distortion pedal when I was seventeen..Now I'm almost 45 and I still keep it in a drawer at home for sentimental reasons.... It works on bass if you plug it in some kind of looper with blend control.
This is so much fun to watch - considering back in the day we all tried to get the heaviest sounds by turning up bass and treble to max and completely scoop the mids. Which is why distortion pedals sounded like cheap secondhand shit. All it takes is good pickups with the right style mids, and basically any old distortion pedal will CHUG like a thing possessed! I love my vintage Tokai beasts for instance - just the thing for a sunny afternoon of METAL MAYHEM 🤘😎🤘
I originally got my DS-1 a few years back for Nirvana covers and always loved it. I've recently found that the same settings I use for Nirvana covers boosted with my Ibanez TS-9 has a pretty nice old school death metal sound. Max distortion and level with the tone around eleven o'clock on the DS-1 and no gain, tone at 11 o'clock, and max level on the TS-9. You can max the tone on the DS-1 as well for super chainsaw.
I'm sure everybody who clicks on these videos hates Nirvana (except for me), but Kurt Cobain used a DS-1; he thought it was "the main factor in his tone." John Frusciante uses a DS-2. They're good pedals.
I used to use the DS1 as overdrive for the gain of my JCM900 it sounded great. I used to rock dimarzio evolutions on a jackson RR1 I loved that setup for 80s metal sometimes I even mixed a little bit of the boss overdrive for extra drive and still very natural valves sound for my taste.
@@xalalalala I am picking on random fellow metalheads man. I broke my fucking back I can't play guitar for 6 months doctor said. I hate my fucking life. I wish I just died.
@@xalalalala Thanks man.. meanwhile I just watch others play. My friend insists I go to a concert with her in this condition. I can walk but not without severe pain. Let's see.
The ds1 can be a pretty pleasing distortion if you’re not Looking to chug with palm muting. Strumming through power cords sounds great. I like this pedal for punk rock stuff
This is the pedal that Grave used, of course it's going to chug! But you knew this Ola! Badass video regardless. Love this pedal just as much as the HM-2.
Okay I'm living in the Twilight Zone. I looked up a bunch of stuff about whether this pedal could do metal last night. And as SOON as I wake up, Ola makes a video about it.
I just bought one of these the other day on the strength of how hard it slammed in the music store, both through a clean 4x12 and through a Boss katana 1x12. When paired with the MXR 6 band, it is positively SEARING! Then however, as an American metalhead and fellow massive Dime fan, I had to do the Swede thing, and run the aforementioned pedals into the crunch setting on the katana, and it was fkn murderous! Now, that's all well and good, but after throwing a Donner gate in front of them, it was perfection. Conversational quiet, without even rolling off the volume, and swedish chainsaw at the fingertips.
i started playing about a year ago and this is my only pedal used with a peavey vyper vip 1 amplifier and i absolutely love this pedal. definitely a good first pedal to start out with
It sounded like that because Ola was chugging on a low B chord, the same as the riff of The Mirror, which was just a B chord chugged in different ways.
@@kennhern the guitar part is actually the exact same thing throughout the whole intro. The drums change around it to make you interpret it in different ways.
THAT PEDAL SOUNDS MORE LIKE ALICE N CHAINS SOUND GARDEN ETC IT DOES CHUG BUT ITS SO SENSITIVE ON CERTAIN AMP IT NEEDS AN EQUALIZER IT SOUNDS OK ON CERTAIN AMPS BUT OTHERS IT SOUNDS LIKE CRAP IT MAKES MY 100 WATT CRATE HEAD SOUND QUITE DECENT THOUGH ITS OK ON A PEAVEY SUPREME BUT ION MY MARSHALL I CANT QUITE GET IN THE ZONE U JUST HAVE TO EXPERIMENT ON WHAT AMP IT SOUNDS GOOD AND FOOL WITH THE SETTINGS USUALLY BASS ON QUARTER AND AND TREBLE ABOUT 3 OCLOCK GAIN ABOUT 12 WILL SOUND OK ANYTHING ELSE TO MUDD.Y I LIKE MY METAL ZONE BETTER IT SOUNDS GOOD ON ANY AMP ALSO TRY A MODTONE EXTREME METAL ITS A NICE LITTLE METAL PEDAL GETS A GREAT TONE AND THEY CAN BE FOUND CHEAP
od2 is better i have it kinda sounds more like a distortion pedal than a n overdrive its more over the top then the sd1 i prefer it i might get a sd1 and stack two overdrives on a clean channel just like christ olivia of savatage he also used a laney pro tube aor 50 with el34 tubes on clean with two boss sd1 pedals thats how i got part of his tones that and his hands
This is part of the way Entombed got the "Left Hand Path" sound. HM2 left and right channels with a DM1 down the center all through a 50 watt Peavy Bandit.
If you play the ds1 through the fx loop it acts as a pre amp and you get a better tone, the ds 1 was my 1st pedal many years ago, and figuring that loop trick out opened up a new world
I loved this pedal in 1993, paired with a clean Fender Twin Reverb, and believe me... the sound was awesome! I played Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Green Day, OffSpring, Stone Temple Pilots, etc... Didn't need much else. The amp had Reverb and Chorus.
Honestly its a great pedal to combine with the amplifier and everything becomes agresive i think is a overdrive more than a distortion pedal great video man
The DS-1 was my first pedal. I was so giddy... For a pedal! It sounds like ass on it’s own in my opinion but a decent boost on an already distorted channel. And that is how I use mine. Used in my Time solo cover video with my VH-4 if you’re curious to check it out. It’s on my channel.
Give the DF-2 Distortion Feedbacker pedal a try. It's a fun pedal that when activated, you sustain a note and hold down the pedal to create overtones that mimick feedback. It can be useful.
I actually really loved the tone... Precise and muddy at the same time, that's weird but it has a unique flavour and it has a form of brute sound that can clearly be used in metal. Interesting!
I’ve had my DS-1 since like 1999 and love it. I’ve found I can get some super fuzzy doom metal sounds (think: Big Muff) with (plz don’t make fun) my telecaster, a compressor/sustainer, and combining it with the overdrive on my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Totally got it to chug like a monster. ❤ I love how defined it sounds.
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You asked for it! The DS-1
Most awesomely shitty pedal of all time! I love it!
olaaaaaaa ! yay
Ola Englund 1.21 GIGAWATTS !!!
Ola Englund I’m glad your thumb is ok so you can play once again
Sounds pretty punk to be fair.
imagine hearing this for the first time in 1978 though
There was no other
Youd proper shit your pants!
Maybe that's how bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest were born? I'm no expert but the timeline checks out. Scientists created pedals that chugged and metal was born. Oddly enough 1978 was also the year of the ProCo Rat.
Has everyone forgotten that fuzz pedals were around for over a decade? It was also well-known that using a Treble Booster into amps and fuzzes would give a tight distortion sound.
People in 1978 listening to sultans of swing be like "what the actual heck"
It ALWAYS chugs. Don't you get it man? The chug...is in you
The chug is in the 5150
@@niallooo not in the clean channel that he's using, it isn't.
It didn't chug
What does "chug" mean. Could you explain? Thanks
@@samrotschild Watch the video where he plays the Apex Preamp and listen to the differences
Ola: *plugs into an english muffin*
Ola: "Will it chug?"
Muffin: *Chugs*
That's the name of a real pedal...
@@ProCoRat EHX baby
Hahahahah
Please someone make a pedal called English muffin
do not like his comment
got here searching for guides to beat a Dark Souls 1 Boss, video got me to pull my guitar out that I haven't touched in like 2 years.
What boss was it though?
Chris G Ornstein and Smough-la from Prepare to Chug Edition
Haha yeah, searching "ds1 boss" will do that
Thats funny I bought dark souls because I was looking for a ds1 mod
You still playin?
The ds-1 was actually made to be layered on top of a slightly dirty amp, like a crunchy plexi, so that they could get distortion without blowing everyone’s head off. Most people hate this pedal because they say it sounds like shit, but they use it as more of a “amp in a box” type thing which it’s not. It’s more of a heavily colored boost that pushes the amp hard.
Hope this helped at least one of you guys understand how to truly use this pedal. Cheers 🍻
I got this pedal yesterday hoping it would just make my clean tone sound chuggy but figured this out toying around honestly really like the pedal using it the way you said
@andre I tried it the way you’re saying and need to experiment more with it that way. I’m not sure if I tried one in the late 70’s, everybody was telling me to get a Rat at the time so that’s what I did. Late last summer or early this year is the first time I bought and really tried one. Found one for $35. I actually like the tones with the gain and tone lower-has a nice low to mid gain overdrive and doesn’t squash the low end like a Tube Screamer does. Full gain with tone to taste is a little like fuzz. My theory is-see what a pedal does on its own first. A pedal really should stand on its own and it does that but only to a point. It’s pretty scooped so when add mids on a graphic EQ it’s better. I’ll try it with a little gain some more. Thanks!
its funny how the Metalzone works better as an amp-in-a-box than the DS1 does haha.
exactly...thats the way its made to be used...with a dirty amp nt clean.
It stacks beautifully with a BOSS SD-1. That combo intio an amp on the edge of breakup is a beautiful thing.
You plugged it into a 5150, of course it's gonna chug.
True
i was thinking the exact same thing! 🤪 try it with a $100 amp and show us the real pedal sound 🤣🤣🤣
He uses the clean channel
try with belcat ampli 😆
I plug it into a fender hot rod deluxe and it chugs pretty nicely
The DS-1 sounds decent so long as you keep the tone knob pretty low. You need an overdrive in front as a boost if you want to chug, though.
You can also use the DS-1 as a boost for an amp with decent results
I like having a EQ in front of a ds-1 to boost low end, and mid frequency. I keep the time knob on the ds-1 at around 2/3 o'clock.
Got um both yellow n orange ds1 sd1are the years there made signifigant?
I made one chug without any kind of boost
Guys, just place these pedals on the next chain: Boss CS3 compressor + Boss DS1 Distortion + Boss GE7 Equalizer. you won't need anything else to make it sound as you wanted.
Nirvana - Endless, Nameless - Live At The Paramount
Best DS1 tone
He actually usef a ds2 at that gig if you looked closely. But it's an amazing tone too
@@spiritoftime8464 Well, yeah, but he never turned on the turbo, so it's basically the same thing
@@randomguy263 not true, they are different circuits all together
@@randomguy263 common misconception
Type O Negative
For years I've thought this pedal had the perfect amount of gain. You could have more, you could have less, but with a DS1, I always felt you could get this sweet "just right" vibe :)
Just a side note, Peter Steele from Type O Negative ran his bass through a Boss DS-1 for his distorted stuff. I currently use mine instead of a TubeScreamer to boost my signal for almost all my guitar tracks. Good vid, mate. Nice to see the DS-1 get some love.
Al Cisneros of Sleep uses it too.
@@ripdeth didnt know that. That explains a lot about their sound. Gives me some more appreciation for Sleep
My parents (about 20 years ago) got me a bass but I really wanted a guitar. 50 bucks later, distorted bass. Played that mfkr like a guitar lol
Sweet. Makes me want it more. I'm getting 1
Dang I started using one as a boost for my bass too just to get more tone out of it
I thought this was a beer-chugging series, no?
How Irish are you?
I'm sure there was many beers drunk that night for Ola.
I mean, it certainly "could" be...
Do they drink beer in Sweden? I thought that was vodka country.
@@xangrycatmanx5104 yes
"Without you guys....... I'd probably make this video anyways."
At least he's honest lol
Digitech Death Metal *>* Acoustic Sim *>* Roland Jazz Chorus..... *will it chug??*
Paul Leach jazz chorus integrated distortion is atrocious
bwahahahaha
Finally....
Jazz Chorus built in dist is no good. Pedal dist into jc will sound better
My 'JCM120' is fuckin brutal with ISP Theta preamp/distortion!
Found out by accident, lol
Make a "Chug Norris" Ola Signatur Pedal 🤘😎
I'd buy
Great idea
Here... Take it 👉👑
🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻
😂
"Where we're going, we don't need Rhoads"?
Not so Suhr about that ...
Pannemat most agile! Cheers!
The issue is the tone control. You can have no high end and a muddy low end below 12 o’clock, and no low end and fizzy high end above 12
Satriani used that pedal to make "surfing with the alien", of course it´s good.... :D
Oh we know the pedal is good, but does Satriani chug? No, he does not.
Now I need it
Actually, his Satchurator is based on DS1, so if the boss chugs, the Satch pedal should as well.
@@SlyMan420 He does not chug, he shreds.
Wow clean signal..not unlike certain bearded youtuber :P
Ho boy...it's the Clean Tone Police...
Don't call it that 😂
@@sylfan1 Yet he always forget to rectify his rectum clean.
Lol i agree with you normally. But this is actually pretty clean. It’s weird that people are actually siding with fluff about his clean tone though.
this made me laugh a little too hard
It definitely chug if you wanna play some 70/80's hard rock or grunge.
Grunge was 90’s. Thank goodness it stayed and died there quickly
@@AudaciousAce1989 You are absolutely right. Grunge sucks.
Ola: *unleash the 7 hells of chugness brutality*
Also: Nah. Needs more chug...
I've watched about five of the "Will it Chug?" videos and you have been able to get them all to chug. This leads me to believe that you are just so good at tuning audio equipment that you can make anything chug. Maybe even the "Rainbow Machine" by EarthQuaker Devices?
Or the equipment he tests are all for rock and metal and chug regardless. Turning up the one single level knob takes absolutely zero expertise at all. Its what it was designed to do: provide distortion, and in other cases: overdrive. Distortion= what makes things chug. There is literally nothing special about Ola, sorry to burst your bubble
He was unable to make Dark Matter chug.
boss ds-1 definitely chugs especially for a first pedal
It definitely is a great pedal, there's a reason so many top guitarists use them. Some people who think it sucks don't get how to use it right. Like if it's a beginner guitarist with a ds-1 and practice amp they use it incorrectly and forever think its bad. Like with small solid state amps you need to turn the volume on the pedal way down and turn up the amp volume, otherwise the ds-1 can overdrive the practice amp, which sounds terrible with bad solid state amps. Keep the volume on the pedal way down and it can sound glorious even with that kinda set up. Or just eventually get a tube amp and it will sound great.
@@duffman18 They are like 15-20 usd at pawn shops, so I'd agree that for a first pedal this is a great choice.
@@duffman18 You mean Ola is using it wrongly?
@@tommykaira8775 no because he made it sound good. Granted he could probably make anything sound good. But even so that's just because he's using it properly. It's like his video about the Metal Zone, and he made that thing sound fantastic, just simply by having sensible settings and plugging it in the effects loop instead of through the front. These pedals get shit on a lot by snobs and people who don't know what they're talking about, and also people who own boutique pedal companies and want to rip you off. But Ola actually knows what he's doing, and he's the furthest thing from a snob. He goes by the rule, "it it sounds good, it IS good". Which is the only rule in music that matters.
@@duffman18 damn true
I’ve always considered the DS-1 more of a highly aggressive overdrive. Sounds best for lead playing.
Tone to the max, distortion to the minimum, and you got yourself a perfect overdrive
Sounds like shit
You'll need to mod it to make it a good overdrive. Though, just buy a SD1 instead.
i’ve got the most basic generic setup. a ds1 into just a generic fender amp. i play an ibanez rg series and i’ve always thought it sounded pretty good. i can play muse with it, slipknot, van halen, even some amon amarth sounded pretty damn good
Wtf every part of this comment is me rn
Slipknot you say? I just got this pedal and kindly ask you on how to achieve that slipknot sound. I'd really appreciate it.
@@eliplaysguitar4634 bruh this is so weird that's exaclty my setup too lmao
This was my first setup in 2006: RG->DS-1->Solid state fender amp
My man, use an IR loader. Will sound 10000000x better.
Ever since Fluff demo'd that Crossroads pedal, I'm shocked when someone says 'this is my clean tone' and it's ACTUALLY CLEAN.
That bastard gave me a complex I swear.
That sort of broken low mid distortion setting you got out of it really gave me Bolt Thrower vibes, definitely chugged
this tone sounds like the snare drum from St Anger...solid 6/10
Lmao
For 1978, that's not too bad haha
lmao gottem
When Ola started the "Oh shit it actually sounds good" all i can think about is a guy born and rised in Sweden in the 80s... This is like his kindergarden lullaby.
The classic High School Tone
I love Boss pedals. The SD-1 is still my favorite and on my pedal board.
The most over and underrated pedal of all time!
this actually makes a lot of sense
most underrated? this is Cobain's pedal and this is the third place on Thomann
think of this like *the dark side of the moon* of pedals
best review ever: "wow shit"
Are you planing to do a video on Bolt Thrower sound?
@J Thorsson YES
To get the proper tone u also have to do the bass setup, otherwise it doesn't sound right.
That would be freaking awesome, yes yes yes!
YES!
Yes please
It was my first distortion pedal when I was seventeen..Now I'm almost 45 and I still keep it in a drawer at home for sentimental reasons.... It works on bass if you plug it in some kind of looper with blend control.
Can you explain this? Over my head.
One of Steve Vai's favorite petal. Now you just need the Carvin amp
Did Steve use the DS-1 into the Clean Channel in his Carvin X-100B, or into the Dirt Channel, and use the DS-1 as a boost?
Vai used his as a boost, just like Satriani.
David Smith it's not fair to compare anything Steve Vai does with the rest of us mortals
He went into the lead channel of the legacy with it. Many vids on his rigs with this pedal
paul andrews Steve vai is pretty mortal. Don’t put a man on a pedestal just because of his skills.
This was my first pedal back in 1993. Loved it.
I’ve used this pedal for years and I must say it sounds great
Love the way he looks around when hes thinking..or listening..or confused..or whatever..
Boss TU-3
Will it chug?
Lol. Tuner hah
Chug in tune? Yes.
“S...t, i think it is chugging”
Comedic gold. These are the big questions of our day, lol.
This is so much fun to watch - considering back in the day we all tried to get the heaviest sounds by turning up bass and treble to max and completely scoop the mids.
Which is why distortion pedals sounded like cheap secondhand shit.
All it takes is good pickups with the right style mids, and basically any old distortion pedal will CHUG like a thing possessed! I love my vintage Tokai beasts for instance - just the thing for a sunny afternoon of METAL MAYHEM 🤘😎🤘
Well, I used to play Slayer with one so for sure!
I originally got my DS-1 a few years back for Nirvana covers and always loved it. I've recently found that the same settings I use for Nirvana covers boosted with my Ibanez TS-9 has a pretty nice old school death metal sound. Max distortion and level with the tone around eleven o'clock on the DS-1 and no gain, tone at 11 o'clock, and max level on the TS-9. You can max the tone on the DS-1 as well for super chainsaw.
I love the reaction of when someone actually finds out the DS-1 is a badass distortion
I'm sure everybody who clicks on these videos hates Nirvana (except for me), but Kurt Cobain used a DS-1; he thought it was "the main factor in his tone." John Frusciante uses a DS-2. They're good pedals.
I know man. Stick em through good amps and they rarely disappoint.
The DS1 was a great pedal. I still have a certain fondness for it. Nostalgic moment :)
I used to use the DS1 as overdrive for the gain of my JCM900 it sounded great. I used to rock dimarzio evolutions on a jackson RR1 I loved that setup for 80s metal sometimes I even mixed a little bit of the boss overdrive for extra drive and still very natural valves sound for my taste.
Hi there chugger! You should try the Ibanez Trash Metal Soundtank pedal in these series... Trust me!
You're tone deaf. Please puncture your eardrums with a large screw driver thank you very much.
@@nibbadelicious3918 what? 😂😂😂
@@xalalalala I am picking on random fellow metalheads man. I broke my fucking back I can't play guitar for 6 months doctor said. I hate my fucking life. I wish I just died.
@@nibbadelicious3918 oh man sorry to hear that. I hope you'll get well soon enough. Take care man!
@@xalalalala Thanks man.. meanwhile I just watch others play. My friend insists I go to a concert with her in this condition. I can walk but not without severe pain. Let's see.
Chuck used This on deaths first 2 albums. I love the Scream Bloody Gore tone
Got this pedal a few months ago. Really pleased with the sound I got. I kept the tone at about 9 - 10 o'clock otherwise it would sound fizzy.
How can a badass like the Boss DS-1 Not Chug??
Just remember this stomp box is what single-handedly saved us from disco!!?!☮
Ooohhh... Want this 5150 😜. This is Spooky... I bought a DS1 and DS2 some days ago. Like the Metal Core Pedal... 🤔
1:02 "and this is the clean channel"
Ah yes, my first pedal. Such a beautiful little thing
Mine 2 ...my first and last
Same here, but DS-2
Totally thought it was Spongebob in my quick swiping through my recommended lol.
In the 80's, there was two real choice: BOSS "DS-1" and/vs MXR "Distortion +". The BOSS was, imho, the best of the two.
Also Pro Co RAT.
The ds1 can be a pretty pleasing distortion if you’re not Looking to chug with palm muting. Strumming through power cords sounds great. I like this pedal for punk rock stuff
With the gain at half and boosting it with an overdrive, those sound pretty cool.
That is what I do with mine, to me the pedal sounds horrible on its own, but with a overdrive added sounds amazing.
This is the pedal that Grave used, of course it's going to chug! But you knew this Ola! Badass video regardless. Love this pedal just as much as the HM-2.
Okay I'm living in the Twilight Zone. I looked up a bunch of stuff about whether this pedal could do metal last night. And as SOON as I wake up, Ola makes a video about it.
I just bought one of these the other day on the strength of how hard it slammed in the music store, both through a clean 4x12 and through a Boss katana 1x12. When paired with the MXR 6 band, it is positively SEARING! Then however, as an American metalhead and fellow massive Dime fan, I had to do the Swede thing, and run the aforementioned pedals into the crunch setting on the katana, and it was fkn murderous! Now, that's all well and good, but after throwing a Donner gate in front of them, it was perfection. Conversational quiet, without even rolling off the volume, and swedish chainsaw at the fingertips.
i started playing about a year ago and this is my only pedal used with a peavey vyper vip 1 amplifier and i absolutely love this pedal. definitely a good first pedal to start out with
2:25 I deadass thought Ola was about to play My Own Hell.
Reminds me of the tone from the Awake album by Dream Theater
Lmao ironic that a $80 stomp box could sound like that gigantic £4k+ Mesa Triaxis/IIC+ rig JP was using 😂
I immediately heard Lie when he started to chug lol
It sounded like that because Ola was chugging on a low B chord, the same as the riff of The Mirror, which was just a B chord chugged in different ways.
@@kennhern the guitar part is actually the exact same thing throughout the whole intro. The drums change around it to make you interpret it in different ways.
@@TheCoolSquare yeah nah, its accented differently
It farts!
2:52 Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come
I used to own this back in 1993...as a broke College student , I considered this one as a luxury purchase 😁
Ola: This is the clean sound
*strum pattern*
Pretty brootal
you'd love the Boss Keeley-modded DS-1, it really does kick ass
Bought my DS-1 1979, it has served me well throughout the years.
Nasum used DS-1 on some of their records. I use one as a sort of HM-2 clone. Has that buzzsaw tone, without the extreme mid-range that HM-2.
My God!
I dont konw goodness of DS-1 until Ola Playing!
The Heavy boost this is !!
Try the MD2 Mega Distortion and see how it compares to the DS1. That should chugg
pearljaime2 my first pedal ever 😂
THAT PEDAL SOUNDS MORE LIKE ALICE N CHAINS SOUND GARDEN ETC IT DOES CHUG BUT ITS SO SENSITIVE ON CERTAIN AMP IT NEEDS AN EQUALIZER IT SOUNDS OK ON CERTAIN AMPS BUT OTHERS IT SOUNDS LIKE CRAP IT MAKES MY 100 WATT CRATE HEAD SOUND QUITE DECENT THOUGH ITS OK ON A PEAVEY SUPREME BUT
ION MY MARSHALL I CANT QUITE GET IN THE ZONE U JUST HAVE TO EXPERIMENT ON WHAT AMP IT SOUNDS GOOD AND FOOL WITH THE SETTINGS USUALLY BASS ON QUARTER AND AND TREBLE ABOUT 3 OCLOCK GAIN ABOUT 12 WILL SOUND OK ANYTHING ELSE TO MUDD.Y I LIKE MY METAL ZONE BETTER IT SOUNDS GOOD ON ANY AMP ALSO TRY A MODTONE EXTREME METAL ITS A NICE LITTLE METAL PEDAL GETS A GREAT TONE AND THEY CAN BE FOUND CHEAP
@@thrashfan4ever ok but can you not cap all the letters?
od2 is better i have it kinda sounds more like a distortion pedal than a n overdrive its more over the top then the sd1 i prefer it i might get a sd1 and stack two overdrives on a clean channel just like christ olivia of savatage he also used a laney pro tube aor 50 with el34 tubes on clean with two boss sd1 pedals thats how i got part of his tones that and his hands
This is part of the way Entombed got the "Left Hand Path" sound. HM2 left and right channels with a DM1 down the center all through a 50 watt Peavy Bandit.
It sounds pretty good just lacks the overtone accentuation to make it C H U G
i’m convinced at this point that ola can just make anything chug
If you play the ds1 through the fx loop it acts as a pre amp and you get a better tone, the ds 1 was my 1st pedal many years ago, and figuring that loop trick out opened up a new world
2:25 sounds close to weekend nachos tone and I’m all for it.
I love this pedal, I used to use it for a little extra stank on my gain channel.
I loved this pedal in 1993, paired with a clean Fender Twin Reverb, and believe me... the sound was awesome! I played Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Green Day, OffSpring, Stone Temple Pilots, etc... Didn't need much else. The amp had Reverb and Chorus.
There's something in the lower mids that I REALLY like. I also own a 6505, time to get one of those I guess, thanks!
Honestly its a great pedal to combine with the amplifier and everything becomes agresive i think is a overdrive more than a distortion pedal great video man
The DS-1 was my first pedal. I was so giddy... For a pedal! It sounds like ass on it’s own in my opinion but a decent boost on an already distorted channel. And that is how I use mine. Used in my Time solo cover video with my VH-4 if you’re curious to check it out. It’s on my channel.
Nostalgic sound
A blast from the past
This pedal came out the same year that my mom was born.
Does she chug?
@@florisoudshoorn97 she can chug chocolate milk
Used one of these from about 1982 to 88 for Punk and Metal!!
Give the DF-2 Distortion Feedbacker pedal a try. It's a fun pedal that when activated, you sustain a note and hold down the pedal to create overtones that mimick feedback. It can be useful.
I actually really loved the tone... Precise and muddy at the same time, that's weird but it has a unique flavour and it has a form of brute sound that can clearly be used in metal. Interesting!
So, what determines whether it “chugs” or not? Sounds pretty chuggy on my end. I don’t get it.....
me neither
Same
1:47 When he turned the tone knob, I liked how it changed like the tone.
Do a best of chugs and then shred with the bestest.
The moment he finds THE ds-1 setting (tone at 10 o’clock) I lol’d
the ds-1 is my favorite pedal for grunge
I’ve had my DS-1 since like 1999 and love it. I’ve found I can get some super fuzzy doom metal sounds (think: Big Muff) with (plz don’t make fun) my telecaster, a compressor/sustainer, and combining it with the overdrive on my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Totally got it to chug like a monster. ❤ I love how defined it sounds.
4:00 I heard you like distortion, so I got you a distortion so you can distort your distortion...
I used the distortion to distort the distortion
😂😂😂😂
The best part is that cool green guitar Ola is playing.
ahhhh my first pedal, was great for Smells Like Teen Spirit!
I love how he found the Kurt Cobain setting without even realizing it
What pedal’s are good for THRASH METAL, Distortion, Overdrive, or Deathmeal pedal?
ds1+od(or any tube screamer) is a way better than deathmetal pedal
Try a distortion+. Will not disappoint, I promise.
Of course it chugs! It's an OG CHUGGAH!
I want to see Will it chug: Acoustic Electric guitar!
I just like the way that he’s blown away by how brootal it sounds. To see his face makes me wish I was there