Boss Is BEST (2018)

today I want to talk about why boss pedals are the boss I know it's a pun but I love puns I want to make you a fanboy or fangirl as much as I'm a fanboy and I'm going to give you the reasons why and let you decide what you think about boss [Music] Before we jump into my incessant boss fanboying which I plan on doing today I want to show you something that I got at the 40th anniversary celebration so boss released these tribute reissues to the original silver screw small format pedals so you see my shirt now you will understand so the boss 40th anniversary of compact pedals box set tada see the shirt the pedals the pedals the shirt but the original spectrum that was the first boss pedal ever small format sp1 the overdrive OD one and the phaser pH one pretty cool pretty big deal and they sound great these actual units have the silver screw and they're made just like the old unit so pretty exciting if you're a boss nerd like me I have to give a disclaimer if you're not into someone fanboying incessantly over a product item or design this might not be the video for you I've been a boss fanboy since the 90s and I intend to stay a boss fanboy so if you're annoyed by that I still like you I still want to hang out I still want to be friends but this video is gonna have a lot of fanboying going on because boss is awesome so as a lot of you guys know I started this whole thing just modding boss pedals and it escalated I put him on eBay and they sold for way more than I thought the bid would go up to there was a local guitar shop in Jackson still there pondering guitars and Jackson Mississippi I sold stuff on consignment wood Patrick the owner people just kept buying things I want to show you a couple old pieces that are pretty cool pretty special to me if you're a boss fan they're cool and if you're JHS fan they're a little extra cool so this is an old JH s mods ds1 modification called the Lexy drive at a Greyhound we had adopted named Lexi and I was playing off plexi Marshall Lexi plexi get it well if you'll notice that's just an old Avery label maker thing and get it like Target or Walmart the old stickers say JHS mods not pedals I never intended to do pedals make my own stuff I was just gonna mod stuff for some extra cash and it took off here's another old one the TR - I think it's the dual Versa trim but once again the JH s mods sticker you can see here that it's like just paper wearing off this was the beginning thoughts that led to the honeycomb dual trim because you click the switch and you get a second speed pot and that's how the honeycomb came to be - pretty old pretty cool pieces of history at least I think they're cool I'm sitting here with a lot of boss pedals over 40 years of innovation setting on this table and this doesn't really do it justice there so so many more what I will try to do here with what I've gathered from the shop everything I could find there's a few things at my house I wish I had but this is enough it's enough I keep telling myself it's enough and I'm going to show you the evolution of boss boss started as a company idea from roland and it was originally called meg so Roland owns boss but the original boss name was Meg so there are actually I saw a unit original old spectrum unit the red pedal you saw earlier I saw that with a Meg label on it pretty cool know what that's worth the boss chorus since omble this is arguably one of the best chorus vibrato has ever made all analog the parts are so hard to find they get more and more expensive I mean Andy Summers police tones you got guys like Britt from spoon he depends on this for his vibrato sounds so many people love it that same era you've got things like the pw1 rocker wah really huge I mean I have a big head looks bigger than my head I think is it it's it's a little crazy not a lot of sweep there and it feels really strange maybe that's my only complaint ever with boss the sweep of this wah I think so then the compact pedal so you saw the spectrum the ph1 and the OD one earlier so what else was in that series is and how can you tell if something's that old well the original units all had a silver screw you notice most boss pedals at the black screen you see a silver screen Hospital buy it up especially if it's cheap so you got the g6 I've got a bf to silver screw here ds1 somewhere there's a DM to silver screw I've got a CD to silver screw there's so many pedals here we're good to go where do the ds1 go ah I found it people played es ones that are like do you see what it sucks it doesn't suck this sounds phenomenal one other thing about the early boss units is it might all be in my head it's not in my head but if you put them up next to each other this is a newer ds1 this is an older silver screen the older one has more of a rounded bubbly look to it you see that do you see it bubbly there's a slight bubbly cartoony look to this this is more square yeah I'm not crazy from there we got some other things in the 80s they released this ma one so these are strange no foot switches on these and they have belt clips because when you're a guitar player you want to walk around with stuff on your belt you know you're dating a girl and you're like I play guitar she goes yeah sure and then you lift your shirt up and you got guitar pedals on your belt that's when she knows you're serious anyway it is an amplifier literally I can plug into this and play right out of this speaker in the enclosure but you can put it in line like a guitar pedal and it's a boost kind of overdrive premium this guy's a little more famous because the edge picked it up in 84 when they're tracking the unforgettable fire and he uses it into his amps as a booster as a treble and a bass like a back send off thing a flat and a low-cut and they're getting more and more expensive so the fa1 FET amplifier very cool and one of my favorite boss colors so let's focus on all the modulation on the table the super chorus ch1 it's a more modern chorus pedal like Robert Smith still uses this this is a classic the dimensions CDC - you don't need knobs you just click buttons not different losers [Music] the c2 I can't tell you how many pedals RC juice like course pedals how many of them are just see twos there's nothing wrong with that in fact there's a good reason for that boss starts all this in the late 70s and technology is being created in the late 70s that we still use today it really hasn't gone that much further like the original bucket brigade devices that people use in a chorus you know the engineers at boss are trying to design a chorus so they get these bucket brigade ships these time-based chips and they know they can develop a chorus modulation with it well you look at a datasheet that the people who invent the part give to the engineers who are designing new products and there's only a few ways to turn the chipsets on you buy a car and it comes with a manual and it tells you how to operate it well nobody gets mad if you operate the car the way the car should be operated well that's how it is with these pedals you buy a part as an engineer boss the part has a certain way to use it and you use it that way so when we want to make a chorus pedal and want to use the same part you end up having to use it the same way that's kind of how that works so boss was the first person to the plate so to speak and that's why so many pedals are based around what we see as boss pedals when you see a good analog chorus with with a bucket brigade chip it's probably a ce2 the chances are very high because boss was first one to make it with the tip set we have the ce-5 chorus ensemble these are like killer digital like stereo courses we have the digital dimension dc3 this is a mix of like delay and chorus ah the high band flanger hf to notice the green label those are always really cool made in Japan there's a black label made in Japan which is like your typical like early boss pedals I didn't mention that silver screw black sticker that's the earliest ones and you also have a green label Japan sticker which is a little later and they'll usually have the black screw the bf2 silver screw black label this is a classic flame and so many flanders are based around the same idea because boss got there first the fazer the ph1 are black label but black screwed so there's in between eras great fazer is there a better tremolo than the TR - it's so simple workhorse trim at its best I was in a restaurant in Nashville walked into the bathroom and there was wallpaper on the wall that a TR - on it bathroom wall paper with a TR - on it equalizers like the GE seven the earlier GE six I made a joke in an episode about how it took a decade to figure out how to add another band six and seven get it anybody compression Oh another silver screw the CS one very very early if not the first stock box compressor I'm not well Dan Armstrong but as far as the compact format like this silver screw black label amazing CS one country players love this pedal the Blues driver the Blues driver is how I got into this I had a broken blues driver fix the stomps which got really curious as to why my stock one didn't sound as good as the kili one why they sounded so different went down the rabbit hole but the B D choose classic guys like John Mayer I've loved it for years Andy Timmons countless players love it the sd1 this is you know tube screamer stealthy little smoother little creamier this is a boss Mouse it has a USB cable you plug it into your computer and as a side wheel and you click the knobs it's a computer mouse this is an SD one computer mouse this is the pedal this is the mouse this is the pedal this is the mouse don't confuse those don't put this on your board and don't put this on your computer mouse pedal say that after me say Mouse say guitar say computer computer good job we have the OD one which this is the first tube screamer I'll get into that later this is literally one of the first designs ever this is an 82 version we have the OD three very similar to this but more of an in-between of the OD one and the sd1 another silver screw OD one as far as OverDrive's go Deus wants what you've seen the digital metalizer blue label Japan it's like we don't go man I wish I had a digital drive pedal but people did and it sounds really cool it's drive with slap and echo on it the turbo overdrive OD to the dual overdrive SD - so you guys have probably seen my red remote system well the inspiration and idea came from the fact I used to use one of these the system is very different than this this is way more complicated but it had a remote and you can switch between the two drives here is a modified one where I put the switch on top now when I first met with Yoshi about the idea of a collaborative between us the JB - this was the pedal that I took the sexual cuddle into the meeting sat down and said we should do something like this and we did and here it is the angry driver JB - so as you can tell I'm a huge fan boy I've stated that over and over this was a crazy crazy experience if you haven't played this go play it try it out listen to the demos they even went after the little JHS knobs so crazy [Music] buzzes boss the FZ - this is a very sought-after fuzz it's funny to talk to you she to talk to boss they never really sold that well as with some units that you'll see through history and once they're discontinued everybody wants them so they're always being asked to make this [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes three the fz5 a classic the heavy metal hm - made in Japan this is a love/hate pedal people love it or hate it and what's funny this is really one popular way to use it you ready turn every knob all the way up I know that sounds crazy but that is like the magic setting for this pedal the heavy metal HM - talking about the metal where's it at where's it at one of the most hated pedals and loved pedals in the universe the metal zone MT - the amount of people who say this pedal is bad yet boss has sold millions is this funny contradiction it's like when Jim Gaffigan says nobody eats at McDonald's but they sell a billion hamburgers somebody's lying to many of these so we got more distortions the ds2 turbo distortion the super feedback RDF - you've seen this in a previous episode let's get into delays the DSD to digital sample and delay blue label Japan kind of hard to find the DD 6 this is my least favorite of the boss delays cuz it has an integrated tap where you hold it down I just never been a fan of that the DD 5 this is a modded one sorry I put a switch in here to change modes but the DD 5 was the first tap tempo small format pedal ever and it still sounds the best so when you play a Pink Panther my idea was like can I even get close to this so the Pink Panther in a way as a digital delay with tap is a tribute to the boss DD 5 the DD 2 was the first digital small format ever 1984 blue label Japan ah the DD 20 I have some soft switches put in here this still ok I worked in a music store I was a teenager I think 20 say 20 I was 20 years old worked in a music store when these came out there's still nothing that sounds better or really beats the preset ability for a normal player like Strymon is amazing if you need a thousand presets they're the way to go but if you're a normal player like me or whoever may be a lot of you and you just need a couple presets this gives you four presets in one manual setting and the sounds aren't better in 2018 like delay sound didn't get better in my opinion this is an incredible unit and they're dirt cheap run stereo the whole thing it's crazy how good that pedal is they make killer expression pedals they make a killer volume pedal and it's small the loop stations I remember when the big loop station came out well you know the RC one the RC 2 it's hard to beat how simple boss made looping they were the ones who I felt pushed it into the forefront back in the day a small pedal that lets you record play over it use it in a live environment it's hard to beat there RC series boss has a ton of reverb my favorite being the rv5 the our v6 is amazing as well and these are just incredible digital reverb in the small format with tons of sound spring plate Hall modulate gate and room these are on so many records because they sound so good recently boss got the hit and they released the Wazza craft so the watercraft is cool it is their tribute back to some of these classic effects if you go by the VB 2 which by the way I want to keep saying everything's my favorite boss pedal but like gosh this thing's amazing incredible vibrato I don't know if I mentioned it in the modulation settings [Music] but they released the Wazza sounds identical I'm so proud of them it took the hint people love these old pedals but they're getting so expensive so they released the Wazza they did the same thing with the c2 if you go find an original C - they're really pricey but now you can buy the Wazza and in the Wazza they incorporated the ce-1 mode you noticed from this big hulking one the c1 is in here now so pretty incredible not only did boss make guitar pedals they branched into some really strange stuff like a unit called the clapper which I don't have anymore but units like the percussion synthesizer PC - what does it do well you go out into an amplifier or a board you put a trigger in here or you use the pad and it's a percussive drum synthesizer has there ever been a guitar player more known for using boss pedals than Robert Smith of the cure maybe Prince but this album the cure disintegration features boss at its best I was fortunate enough to go stand side stage at a concert here in Kansas City with the Cure got to meet them I took my brother along and it was just really surreal they actually tried out some pedals they use a few and what an experience because when I think boss chorus flange and drive I think about this his rigs at that show he had the original boss pedal boards down at the floor and he even had boss chorus pedals back in his amps tape set like do not touch and they're always on it's just such a crazy good sound and he still relies on those original boss pedals he doesn't use fancy new things he's just using these staple consistent boss pedals and I think this record really showcases that this may have my favorite cure song ever fascination street the plane song love song pictures of you just such a crazy good record so if you've never heard this please please please please go check it out if you have heard it go listen again and hunt down those boss tones so what I need you to do is share with me your favorite record that you're pretty sure there's a lot of boss on it there's a lot of guitar players known for their boss pedals so let's talk about albums with boss pedals on them let's talk about artists that use boss pedals at least and yeah I look forward to seeing those suggestions and checking them out if I haven't heard [Music] guys this episode was an absolute blast to film because I love boss and getting to show you some of the collection and tell you the nerdy stories and things up my alley if you've been enjoying these episodes please subscribe to the channel hit the little bell to get notifications if you want to keep knowing when we release a new episode and hit like if you like this episode I feel like the vlog is growing it's getting better and I'm learning how to get all the stupid stuff in my head all the factoids into the camera and that's exciting for me so man I really enjoyed this I want you this is your job to leave a comment about your first boss pedal I'd love to know everybody's first boss pedal if you don't have a boss pedaled and put the pedal that you want to buy one that you really like but I'd love to know your first boss pedal I'd love to know all about it mine was to be d2 and I still have it killer pedal you guys have a great day bye I just I love boss bells so much you know like people don't understand you know like I've talked to people I try to have discussions about it but uh sorry I just nobody feels what I feel you know what I'm saying they don't feel it they don't feel this thing inside that I have I mean I really do love boss but I have really bad allergies and despise ename multi-action eye allergy relief it's a real winner here in the Midwest check out Visine com

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Id: Zg6JYTbt0d4

Length: 21min 36sec (1296 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 05 2018