That fact that you guys are showcasing a direct competitor's products for the sheer purpose of helping us all find more cool stuff, is just awesome. You guys are truly the best.
My very first pedal was the FB-2. I love it. It was really fun being able to get feedback from my tiny fender amp at age 13 without driving my parents nuts
The XT-2 Xtortion needs to be added to this list. Produced for less than a year, came out around the same time as the PW-2. Also the XT-2 has a red sparkle finish
4 in japanese is close to the word 'death' in japanese, so makes sense that there is superstition around the number making it even weirder that this is the only boss pedal (according to josh) with the number
Yeah, 士 (shi) "four" is a homophone of 死 (shi) "death", so it's avoided kinda like 13 is in the West. (Japanese people usually pronounce four as "yon" when it can't be avoided.)
Sorry I missed that. Was there a good local music scene here then? Only been in Jax since 2007 and it’s been a while since I saw any actual local bands- long before covid.
@@naturaljoe759 the mid 90s to early 2000s was a really healthy time for jax indie/post hardcore. einstein a go go, the theory shop and stripmine records really were the glue around those times. there were also some really cool house venues. unfortunately, it ain't what it was but, there are some youngsters doing the dang thang these days.
@@Crodon We all have different tastes. I should mention I was using it in parallel so that could easily be the difference. I actually don't have it on my pedal board. I use the Double Barrel. Right now I use the Morning Glory side as a clean drive always on and the Moonshine side for dirty drive.
I used a dyna drive as my always on pedal on bass for a very long time. Not on high settings in an alice cooper tribute band. Just did something to the overall sound that worked well.
We need a semi-ironic bumper for every time Josh says, "I could care less" so we can do some kind of Pavlovian/aversion therapy to change the behavior.
The jams in this video BLEW ME AWAY!!! Josh you are an inspiring shoegazer. Holy cow the sounds that are possible. What would Mozart or Chopin have created if they had access to tone like this??
The rarest Boss pedal is surely the flood damaged PS-2 that I salvaged from a studio and never managed to fix that lives dismantled in a sandwich bag in my projects box?
If you think the fz3 was good you should look out for the fz2 from the early 90’s two different fuzz settings (mod/vintage) and it had a separate clean(ish) boost setting. Best pedal I ever owned.
@@spoke4N Not hugely comparable; the FZ-2 is an octave fuzz, which is a really love-or-hate-it sound. The FZ-3 is a plain ol' fuzz face, but which doesn't freak out with buffers or active pickups. Very different pedals and liking one doesn't mean someone will like the other.
I love the Tera Echo and the Multi Overtone. The Multi-Dimensional Processing line is pretty fantastic all around. The Adaptive Distortion is very worth checking out from that series. Thanks for another great episode!
When I was 18 (in 1993) I got a little Boss catalogue in English from a dealer. I studied it front to back and I asked constantly to my english teachers about the words I didn't know. Google Translate wasn't invented yet. Some of these pedals appeared on that catalogue and I remember seeing some of them in the store. I became a pedal freak. I was more attracted to pedals and processors than the guitars or basses I played while they were playable, sounded good and stayed in tune..but man I have a drawer full of pedals and multifx... Including my first Boss DS1 bought in 1992. BTW I know a store in Barcelona where you can find the Tera Echo and the Multi Overtone.
Parametric EQ’s are fantastic… in the right hands. But when accessible to those who don’t understand what they do, it can get real ugly in a hurry! Easily the worst bass tones I’ve ever heard in my live sound days were from players who had multiple EQs in their chain, which almost always included a parametric with the bass cranked, mids scooped, and the ‘frequency’ knobs all over the place. Definitely experiment with EQ in your practice space. Not on stage.
I heard a demo of the Super Distortion Feedbacker before it hit the shops over here when the Roland Roadshow landed in Liverpool back then. Stuck in my mind ever since and last year I bought one, the Super Feedbacker Distortion: I like it.
I love how affordable unknown pedals that I could find for $30-$75 on the used market jump to over $150, $200, and even $300 when they are featured on your show. Awesome! Liked and subscribed!
New subscriber here. Your channel is self evidently a labor of the love you have for our hobby, rather than a vehicle for shameless self promotion. I like you. I will eventually buy one of your pedals. I am sure i will get what i pay for.
Great demos. My kinda sound!! Great jams. Exactly the type of channel I have been looking for. I have been looking for a channel that shows how the pedals ROCK!! Thanks Josh!!
Boss needs to bring back the Parametric EQ - seriously, Waza needs to get on this. I played one after seeing it hanging out in the used section at a GC. They're perfect and a great way for modern players to "visualize" EQ. Mind you - I have several modded Boss GE7s though the fact that Boss gave up on the Para - I can't even begin to understand why.
I think furman had a problem with it being called pq4 like their parametric eq . And it didn’t sell good . I love mine . It’s a rare bird and a cool club we are in with this lil beast
@@techdeathhippie6319 Thank you for the info. That's a shame - change the name and keep it in business. I've learned to really use the GE7 so I've bought like several of them - on guitar and bass boards and "loosies". Though, in a perfect world, these would all be Parametric EQs. Maybe it'll make a comeback.
The ''fat" and "muscle" knobs on the PW-2 sounds like a nod to the Lamb series pedals from DOD, especially given it was released in '96. I've heard of the Dyna Drive. I've seen several demos of it, and I really want one.
PQ-4 user here. Essential part of the guitar rig. It's the "finisher" - after the octave, pitch shifter and fuzz, before the filter, chorus, reverb, final boost, and delay.
The FB-2 Feedbacker/Booster is the secret sauce pedal on my board: it can do hands free ebow/sustainer type sounds in edition to feedback and when you play new notes while it is feedbacking you can get some wild harmonic overtone type sounds. I put it before a fuzz pedal which makes all of the above even more convincing.
Oh man. Love your videos. There is something about your narrative delivery and your playing ability that really highlights the pedals you’re demo’ing. This particular video wants me to go out and get another Terra Echo and that Dyna Drive which I’ve never heard of. And kudos to Nick for his back beat.
I have a Combo Drive. And I love it. The comment I always hear from people who see it is "I've never seen that." So I've seen it, but I can confirm from experience that your assertion that almost no one has seen it is correct.
Started investing in BOSS and some of your (JHS) brand of pedals to set up several base and expansion rigs. You must be pretty good at influencing my purchasing. I saw this video shortly after buying a couple used BOSS pedals at the local GC store. Prior to that, I had purchased every Donner mini effect pedal from Amazon in the last couple years. There are 26 pedals on this first board, which got me acquainted with effects and developing a signal chain that I like to play through and be able to modify at a modest price. Your video provided some interesting info, and enjoyed the jam session, and put it in a bookmark for later. Afterward I fell in love with the BOSS pedals. They are really in a different league compared to the entry level mini pedals. So, I got more. (Now, it's not really your fault that I bought pretty much every current BOSS pedal [but not Waza] that is out now, but it kinda is...) Today, I got an OD-1X and a DN-2 today, and the FB-2 is enroute. I thought it was funny that I came across this video again looking to get some information about an SG-1 and the EH-2. When I looked at the list I realized I HAVE purchased almost every one of these "never heard of pedals" used on eBay or Reverb over the past few months without a plan to do so. So, from a real "Angry Charlie" (CB, that's my name -- the whole thing, like the cartoon character) to the inventor, I have to say, that is one AWESOME pedal. One of the last new pedals I got was the JB-2 Angry Driver for my preferred pedalboard, enabling me to have several pedal effects in one space and move the BD-2 to another board, and absolutely love it pushed through the clean channel on several different amps (Peavey Bandit 112, Vox AC30, Marshall DSL40, and a Fender HotRod Deluxe, or an acoustic G120DSP -- either with an attenuator), but I particularly love it through the Marshall. I have been so impressed with the BOSS brand as well as the JHS one, so much so that I have several other JHS pedals in shopping carts that I plan to purchase this year and create a JHS pedals only fly rig, since most of your pedals replace multiple others, or historic variations of them so I think I can get a lot of options in a small board/case. One of the FIRST used pedals used pedals I managed to get was a PQ-4, and it is my preferred EQ compared to the GE-7. I am trying to get my hands on a PW-2 (reasonably) to add to the chain after the PQ-4, just to see how it affects the tone on the acoustic (brand) amp, since it is pretty temperamental. I just had to laugh that I have bought almost every pedal on this list (that will fit on a regular pedal board), and find inspiration to jam based on how they interact with each other. You have gained another loyal customer...
Combo Drive had a lot of buzz when it was released. There was a few “Vox in a Box” releases at that time. This and the Tech 21 Sansamp “Liverpool” were the big two. I didn’t want to spend that much because it was only a stop gap until I got a Vox amp. I ended up buying a Harley-Benton/Joyo AC-Tone for 1/10 the price. It was actually an excellent pedal. Unbelievable range on tones in it. I bought a Vox AC15 a while after.
I tried all three pedals you mentioned, and I agree when it comes to the price. I was lucky to buy that SansAmp for ~50 bucks, and for that price it's amazing
It's not discussed enough but even the audible clack of a Boss pedal's foot flap being engaged in literally any way at all is so Boss... it's unreal. Boss is Boss.
My main amp is a Music Man RD 100 and it has some pretty unique circuitry in the gain staging, which made finding a drive pedal that complimented it very difficult. I had generally veered away from Boss in the past but my buddy was like, “Dude, I got this pedal that’s pretty unique and I think it might be what you’re after…” I had already tried so many others, I told him i’d give it a shot and he handed me a Dyna-Drive. In the moments that followed the tone gods looked down, smiled, and bestowed upon me a guitar sound that would make even the most chaste of souls blush.
Josh: Boss Micro-Rack series? Please tell me you’re familiar with these. I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, but RBF-10 and RPH-10 are things you need to know and experiment with. I’ll even tell you why if you wanna know why...
@cc c the flanger and phasor not only can cover any sound you want out of pretty much any other analog flanger or phasor (including 100% wet vibrato on the flanger) but they have a C/V jack to sync LFOs, blend two LFO rates, invert LFOs, drive with an external envelope control or even feed a C/V from a synth sequencer/arpeggiator. It’s ridiculously powerful and if I didn’t already have one of each, I would hate myself for letting this secret out.
I have a BC-2 and it’s superb for a digital modelling unit. It’s an AC30 simulator. Most of those pedals came out in the last decade to low fanfare. I remember each one. I was getting disappointed with Boss back then, but then the Waza came along. I also have the PW-2 and the XT-2 which both came out in 1996 and sank without trace! I’m to keen on the PW-2, it’s noisy. I also have a mint DN-2 with the box. It’s based on the BD-2 but more touch sensitive. Looks stunning. PQ-4 is rare, and 4 is an unlucky number in Japan. The XT-2 should have been in this video too!!!!
Great video guys, I have played through and sold most of these at the store I work at. I own the MO-2 and it's one of the best pedals I have ever owned, really unique and cool.
informative, humerous and entertaining. AND the guy understands circuits. Why he hasn't offered an effects class / course out of berkley school of music ( for those looking for their own special Guitar "Voice") is a wonder to me.
yay! I got five points! I was inspired by the Feedbacker/distortion- tried to buy one from a chap that had it listed locally but he was in the far stratosphere for asking price ($350) so I bought the Digitech Frequout pedal to emulate it (plus get some eBow sounds). Very happy with that. Seeing the Dyna Drive in action I wished I had paid more attention to that when they were available.
I have the BC-2 and it is a fantastic pedal. Stacking it with an eq really takes it to another level and i actually bought it over a nano muff pedal (eventually got) at a music store and never looked back. Pedal sounds amazing
I owned the FB-2, MO-2, and PQ-4 at various points of time in the past. Wish I still had the FB-2; it was AWESOME with my Orange head (don't have that anymore either, though). I thought the MO-2 would be one of those "forever" pedals but I found myself rarely using it to the point that I forgot I even had it, so off it went. My PQ-4 "walked away" from a gig, probably with help from an unscrupulous scalawag. I can also recall seeing the Power Driver available for stupid cheap through some retailers.
Josh, I have either played, or seen all but 4 or 5 of those pedals. I've played the Super distortion feedbacker, maybe it would be better to mention the ones I haven't played, the Parametric EQ, the Dyna Drive, that big green modulation pedal, the silver feedbacker, and maybe one more, but I've been playing for 40 years, and started buying Boss pedals from a shop the had damn near all Boss pedals, and being trusted friends, they pushed me toward all things Boss. So, I may have run across them all at some point, but definitely all but the ones that I don't remember if I've played or not, but they had two full glass cases of Boss pedals, and Boss used to provide pamphlets that showed the pedals needed, and various settings for artists like EVH, and others, and I had 2 BCB 6 pedal boards that for the early 80s did great tone clones with those guides to whatever artist you chose to sound like!! Not as difficult as I thought it would be, but I'm sure those who didn't play in the '70s, and '80s wouldn't have seen most of those pedals. I liked this video a lot, so many tones. Peace, Keith in Richmond VA
I tried the Tera Echo at the local music store but i was like: "Nah that's not worth it" Then i bought the Boss DD-200 and ended up using the Tera Echo mode a lot, it's absolutely awesome
I'm so happy to see & hear the Tera Echo get some love here. I've own that pedal for eons now & it's the only pedal I will not swap out of my pedalboard, I will never depart from it (Holding back the tears..oh no one drop fell on my keyboard.) It's completely unique and Josh you're soo right, the effect will never get in the way of your notes & chords. You can't define the sound but I'll give it a try. It sounds like if King Kong threw a spaceship like a frisbee into a Olympic size pool filled with Jello....Okay I'm going to play my guitar now. ONE LOVE people \m/
Just got a brand new PW2, in the box ^^ I dont think it sounds too close to a big muff, but it's definitely going in "fuzz" territory. I'd say it's kinda like a HM2 that leans toward fuzz, while retaining the clarity and dynamics of a drive pedal.
I used to run the FB-2 as my boost when I first started playing and the feedback component was awesome! Loved being able to use it as an ebow type effect.
I bought a Slow Gear, its like a gated volume swell. I paid $50 because it was "blown out." Brought it home, replaced a diode they put in as a sort of fuse to blow so the pedal doesn't. I sold it about a year later for several hundred.
The Tera Echo effect is in the Boss GT-1 multi-effects. I use my GT-1 for only two things - as an acoustic pre-amp, and so I can run the tera echo sound in stereo to my amps.
Cool video I have seen some of these & tried them They weren’t quite what I was looking for, but they are cool Tera Echo Feedbacker/Booster (I have a Super Feedbacker & I have the box) Dyna Drive Multi Overtone The Multi Overtone is the one I came the closet to buying The rare Boss pedal I’d like the most is the DC-3 (the one with dials- not the DC 2 Dimension C) I saw a DC-3 once, didn’t buy it & never saw one again When they come up for sale they are asking for a lot
the tera acho never gets old or replaced on my board, everything from droney streched weirdness to some very disturbed psychobilly slapback stuff. its a great pedal for sure =) Love the vid =)=)=)
Proud to say the only one I didn’t know was the DB-5. Maybe it’s just because we’re isolated and desperate for new stuff, but down here in New Zealand there was quite a lot of hype about most of the pedals on this list. I loved the concept of the Dyna Drive but as a dumb kid I’d I couldn’t get it to work the way I wanted. And I always wanted a Combo Drive but couldn’t justify the expense as a dumb kid.
I"m on my way to getting a Dyna Drive.... Sounds fantastic. Unrelated... Just went down the rabbit hole and got my first JHS pedal... AT+ is where it's at!
These are definitely going on my wish list and then on my pedalboard. The combo drive is so nice. Even though I own the PW-2 and FB-2, Ps. I miss unorthodox knob setting names. Also, that Dyna drive and Multi Overtone jam was pretty sweet.
Over 30 years of playing guitar, and I never knew that the AC in Vox AC30 stood for Amplifier Combo.
I playing over 40 years and I didn’t know it!
what is a AC100 Head a abnormal combo 100
I’m gonna take a wild guess it’s 30 watts also?
I used to joke that it stood for "Air Conditioner" because the tones are...cool...
Me either and I’ve played through them for 20-years. 😂
That fact that you guys are showcasing a direct competitor's products for the sheer purpose of helping us all find more cool stuff, is just awesome. You guys are truly the best.
What I understand is most (if not all) pedal brands are friendly to one another since they assume most people play on multiple brands anyway.
@@jeremyryannoelMe with a board full of Boss pedals😂
I'm here to complain that a pedal I knew nothing about yesterday, just became too expensive for my pedal budget
The Combo Drive is absolutely incredible. Beatles in a box but with the ability to go full on treble booster fuzz
Would you say its a good AC30 alike?
@@dyangordon6151 definitely. It sounds very much like a Vox
combo drive and power driver are THE best Boss dirt pedals IMO
My very first pedal was the FB-2. I love it. It was really fun being able to get feedback from my tiny fender amp at age 13 without driving my parents nuts
Same!
The XT-2 Xtortion needs to be added to this list. Produced for less than a year, came out around the same time as the PW-2. Also the XT-2 has a red sparkle finish
Love the xt2 in front of a ts9dx on the hot setting. Sounds amazing
4 in japanese is close to the word 'death' in japanese, so makes sense that there is superstition around the number making it even weirder that this is the only boss pedal (according to josh) with the number
This applies to chinese too..
Parametric Death would be an awesome band name…
@@joermnyc truly haunting mids
Yeah, 士 (shi) "four" is a homophone of 死 (shi) "death", so it's avoided kinda like 13 is in the West. (Japanese people usually pronounce four as "yon" when it can't be avoided.)
4 no Uta - Babymetal
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the tones in this video really make me believe that you can get pretty much any sound you want with exclusively boss pedals.
Good conclusion.
Well they make hundreds of different ones. So yeah it seems that way.
as much as i wanted not to believe this i find myself constantly like damn i should’ve bought a boss
The super feedback distortion was the sound of the mid 90s Jacksonville, FL indie rock scene. Still got one.
This was my first BOSS pedal. Wish I still had it.
Sorry I missed that. Was there a good local music scene here then? Only been in Jax since 2007 and it’s been a while since I saw any actual local bands- long before covid.
It really was (from Tallahassee)
Love mine
@@naturaljoe759 the mid 90s to early 2000s was a really healthy time for jax indie/post hardcore. einstein a go go, the theory shop and stripmine records really were the glue around those times. there were also some really cool house venues. unfortunately, it ain't what it was but, there are some youngsters doing the dang thang these days.
The Dyna Drive actually makes for a good Bass drive pedal. Can be used for a clean boost or as a light drive that responds to how hard you play.
It's the one drive i didnt like on bass, all of the other ones he listed in here are a bit better imho
@@Crodon We all have different tastes. I should mention I was using it in parallel so that could easily be the difference. I actually don't have it on my pedal board. I use the Double Barrel. Right now I use the Morning Glory side as a clean drive always on and the Moonshine side for dirty drive.
Now I need to find a dyna drive to play like Cliff Burton on my bass.
I used a dyna drive as my always on pedal on bass for a very long time. Not on high settings in an alice cooper tribute band. Just did something to the overall sound that worked well.
The Tera Echo delay seemed really interesting and then I found it on the BOSS GT-1 and it’s a really fun and great effect.
That effect on the GT-1 is what made me get the TE-2 for my main board.
We need a semi-ironic bumper for every time Josh says, "I could care less" so we can do some kind of Pavlovian/aversion therapy to change the behavior.
The jams in this video BLEW ME AWAY!!! Josh you are an inspiring shoegazer. Holy cow the sounds that are possible. What would Mozart or Chopin have created if they had access to tone like this??
Probably just some pointless self-indulgent shit on TH-cam.
@@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888 sick burn!
The rarest Boss pedal is surely the flood damaged PS-2 that I salvaged from a studio and never managed to fix that lives dismantled in a sandwich bag in my projects box?
One of my favorite pedals from Boss was FZ-3 Fuzz from a few years ago. A good fuzz, and it didn’t care where in the signal chain it was.
If you think the fz3 was good you should look out for the fz2 from the early 90’s two different fuzz settings (mod/vintage) and it had a separate clean(ish) boost setting. Best pedal I ever owned.
@@spoke4N Not hugely comparable; the FZ-2 is an octave fuzz, which is a really love-or-hate-it sound. The FZ-3 is a plain ol' fuzz face, but which doesn't freak out with buffers or active pickups. Very different pedals and liking one doesn't mean someone will like the other.
I've owned a DN-2 for many years. I got it for $35 at a music store clearance. It's one of my favorite drive pedals. Glad to see it getting some love.
I love the Tera Echo and the Multi Overtone. The Multi-Dimensional Processing line is pretty fantastic all around. The Adaptive Distortion is very worth checking out from that series. Thanks for another great episode!
Honorable mention for the OC-3. All of TH-cam acted like there was never a multi feature boss octave pedal when the OC-5 came out. Crazy.
When I was 18 (in 1993) I got a little Boss catalogue in English from a dealer. I studied it front to back and I asked constantly to my english teachers about the words I didn't know. Google Translate wasn't invented yet. Some of these pedals appeared on that catalogue and I remember seeing some of them in the store.
I became a pedal freak. I was more attracted to pedals and processors than the guitars or basses I played while they were playable, sounded good and stayed in tune..but man I have a drawer full of pedals and multifx... Including my first Boss DS1 bought in 1992.
BTW I know a store in Barcelona where you can find the Tera Echo and the Multi Overtone.
Love that you did DB-5 + MO-2! Two of my favorites. So good.
New title: "Boss pedals that have already doubled in price"
Ive had my Combo Drive for a couple of years and i really like it. Has a permanent spot on my pedalboard
Parametric EQ’s are fantastic… in the right hands. But when accessible to those who don’t understand what they do, it can get real ugly in a hurry!
Easily the worst bass tones I’ve ever heard in my live sound days were from players who had multiple EQs in their chain, which almost always included a parametric with the bass cranked, mids scooped, and the ‘frequency’ knobs all over the place.
Definitely experiment with EQ in your practice space. Not on stage.
Thanks for identifying my former bassist--he of the "cool looking V shape I can do on my amp! It looks so cool to the crowd, I bet!"
I heard a demo of the Super Distortion Feedbacker before it hit the shops over here when the Roland Roadshow landed in Liverpool back then. Stuck in my mind ever since and last year I bought one, the Super Feedbacker Distortion: I like it.
I love how affordable unknown pedals that I could find for $30-$75 on the used market jump to over $150, $200, and even $300 when they are featured on your show. Awesome! Liked and subscribed!
The Fat and Muscle controls on the PW-2 are pretty much at 100hz and 1khz, about 10db cut/boost at the extremes. Glad to see it getting some love.
New subscriber here. Your channel is self evidently a labor of the love you have for our hobby, rather than a vehicle for shameless self promotion. I like you. I will eventually buy one of your pedals. I am sure i will get what i pay for.
I love the dyna drive and combo drive. Really nice pedals. Nice video team JHS.
Great demos. My kinda sound!! Great jams. Exactly the type of channel I have been looking for. I have been looking for a channel that shows how the pedals ROCK!! Thanks Josh!!
Thx, u made my day nicer.
Boss needs to bring back the Parametric EQ - seriously, Waza needs to get on this. I played one after seeing it hanging out in the used section at a GC. They're perfect and a great way for modern players to "visualize" EQ. Mind you - I have several modded Boss GE7s though the fact that Boss gave up on the Para - I can't even begin to understand why.
I think furman had a problem with it being called pq4 like their parametric eq . And it didn’t sell good . I love mine . It’s a rare bird and a cool club we are in with this lil beast
@@techdeathhippie6319 Thank you for the info. That's a shame - change the name and keep it in business. I've learned to really use the GE7 so I've bought like several of them - on guitar and bass boards and "loosies". Though, in a perfect world, these would all be Parametric EQs. Maybe it'll make a comeback.
@@jinjxmusic I’m shocked they haven’t reissued it yet . It’s very popular for boosting still
The Wampler EQuator has a similar concept.
@@clintmarvin7754 love eq pedals . I’d love to try it
The ''fat" and "muscle" knobs on the PW-2 sounds like a nod to the Lamb series pedals from DOD, especially given it was released in '96.
I've heard of the Dyna Drive. I've seen several demos of it, and I really want one.
I have both the Tera Echo & Feedbacker Distortion. Fun pedals … the Tera Echo is pretty amazing actually.
PQ-4 user here. Essential part of the guitar rig. It's the "finisher" - after the octave, pitch shifter and fuzz, before the filter, chorus, reverb, final boost, and delay.
I was washing dishes while watching/listening to this whole video. So that line in record time was hilarious!
The FB-2 Feedbacker/Booster is the secret sauce pedal on my board: it can do hands free ebow/sustainer type sounds in edition to feedback and when you play new notes while it is feedbacking you can get some wild harmonic overtone type sounds.
I put it before a fuzz pedal which makes all of the above even more convincing.
My favourite TH-cam channel ! Thank you 🙏
Oh man. Love your videos. There is something about your narrative delivery and your playing ability that really highlights the pedals you’re demo’ing. This particular video wants me to go out and get another Terra Echo and that Dyna Drive which I’ve never heard of. And kudos to Nick for his back beat.
I have a Combo Drive. And I love it. The comment I always hear from people who see it is "I've never seen that." So I've seen it, but I can confirm from experience that your assertion that almost no one has seen it is correct.
"Be You, don't be them" or even better: "MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE!" 'cause that's what its all about. Burning it down lately Josh. I like it.
Bought a te-2 a few months ago. Love it. Getting a little of that buckethead sound that's been eluding me. Sounds good clean or dirty.
Really cool vid and presentation, jamz :) The Combo Drive was the only one I haven't seen..
Started investing in BOSS and some of your (JHS) brand of pedals to set up several base and expansion rigs. You must be pretty good at influencing my purchasing. I saw this video shortly after buying a couple used BOSS pedals at the local GC store. Prior to that, I had purchased every Donner mini effect pedal from Amazon in the last couple years. There are 26 pedals on this first board, which got me acquainted with effects and developing a signal chain that I like to play through and be able to modify at a modest price. Your video provided some interesting info, and enjoyed the jam session, and put it in a bookmark for later. Afterward I fell in love with the BOSS pedals. They are really in a different league compared to the entry level mini pedals. So, I got more. (Now, it's not really your fault that I bought pretty much every current BOSS pedal [but not Waza] that is out now, but it kinda is...) Today, I got an OD-1X and a DN-2 today, and the FB-2 is enroute. I thought it was funny that I came across this video again looking to get some information about an SG-1 and the EH-2. When I looked at the list I realized I HAVE purchased almost every one of these "never heard of pedals" used on eBay or Reverb over the past few months without a plan to do so. So, from a real "Angry Charlie" (CB, that's my name -- the whole thing, like the cartoon character) to the inventor, I have to say, that is one AWESOME pedal. One of the last new pedals I got was the JB-2 Angry Driver for my preferred pedalboard, enabling me to have several pedal effects in one space and move the BD-2 to another board, and absolutely love it pushed through the clean channel on several different amps (Peavey Bandit 112, Vox AC30, Marshall DSL40, and a Fender HotRod Deluxe, or an acoustic G120DSP -- either with an attenuator), but I particularly love it through the Marshall. I have been so impressed with the BOSS brand as well as the JHS one, so much so that I have several other JHS pedals in shopping carts that I plan to purchase this year and create a JHS pedals only fly rig, since most of your pedals replace multiple others, or historic variations of them so I think I can get a lot of options in a small board/case. One of the FIRST used pedals used pedals I managed to get was a PQ-4, and it is my preferred EQ compared to the GE-7. I am trying to get my hands on a PW-2 (reasonably) to add to the chain after the PQ-4, just to see how it affects the tone on the acoustic (brand) amp, since it is pretty temperamental. I just had to laugh that I have bought almost every pedal on this list (that will fit on a regular pedal board), and find inspiration to jam based on how they interact with each other. You have gained another loyal customer...
Update. Except for the JHS amp and DB-5, I now have all of these on my pedal board. Love them.
Feedback jam was awesome!! Instant feedback!! BOSS 🤘🙏🤘🙏
I own and use a Feedbacker FB-2 in my pedalboard, and it's an amazing pedal.
Roland had the FP4 digital piano for a long time which I was very surprised about as well.
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Josh Scott : "Angry Driver"
Combo Drive had a lot of buzz when it was released. There was a few “Vox in a Box” releases at that time. This and the Tech 21 Sansamp “Liverpool” were the big two. I didn’t want to spend that much because it was only a stop gap until I got a Vox amp. I ended up buying a Harley-Benton/Joyo AC-Tone for 1/10 the price. It was actually an excellent pedal. Unbelievable range on tones in it. I bought a Vox AC15 a while after.
I tried all three pedals you mentioned, and I agree when it comes to the price. I was lucky to buy that SansAmp for ~50 bucks, and for that price it's amazing
It's not discussed enough but even the audible clack of a Boss pedal's foot flap being engaged in literally any way at all is so Boss... it's unreal. Boss is Boss.
My main amp is a Music Man RD 100 and it has some pretty unique circuitry in the gain staging, which made finding a drive pedal that complimented it very difficult. I had generally veered away from Boss in the past but my buddy was like, “Dude, I got this pedal that’s pretty unique and I think it might be what you’re after…” I had already tried so many others, I told him i’d give it a shot and he handed me a Dyna-Drive. In the moments that followed the tone gods looked down, smiled, and bestowed upon me a guitar sound that would make even the most chaste of souls blush.
Josh: Boss Micro-Rack series? Please tell me you’re familiar with these. I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, but RBF-10 and RPH-10 are things you need to know and experiment with. I’ll even tell you why if you wanna know why...
@cc c the flanger and phasor not only can cover any sound you want out of pretty much any other analog flanger or phasor (including 100% wet vibrato on the flanger) but they have a C/V jack to sync LFOs, blend two LFO rates, invert LFOs, drive with an external envelope control or even feed a C/V from a synth sequencer/arpeggiator. It’s ridiculously powerful and if I didn’t already have one of each, I would hate myself for letting this secret out.
I have a BC-2 and it’s superb for a digital modelling unit. It’s an AC30 simulator. Most of those pedals came out in the last decade to low fanfare. I remember each one. I was getting disappointed with Boss back then, but then the Waza came along. I also have the PW-2 and the XT-2 which both came out in 1996 and sank without trace! I’m to keen on the PW-2, it’s noisy. I also have a mint DN-2 with the box. It’s based on the BD-2 but more touch sensitive. Looks stunning. PQ-4 is rare, and 4 is an unlucky number in Japan.
The XT-2 should have been in this video too!!!!
Great video guys, I have played through and sold most of these at the store I work at. I own the MO-2 and it's one of the best pedals I have ever owned, really unique and cool.
Those words of wisdom at the end really kicked in
informative, humerous and entertaining. AND the guy understands circuits. Why he hasn't offered an effects class / course out of berkley school of music ( for those looking for their own special Guitar "Voice") is a wonder to me.
I appreciated your Jonny Greenwood Josh. Thank you 😊
I personally would just like to say thank you, for the knowledge you've given. 🤘
yay! I got five points! I was inspired by the Feedbacker/distortion- tried to buy one from a chap that had it listed locally but he was in the far stratosphere for asking price ($350) so I bought the Digitech Frequout pedal to emulate it (plus get some eBow sounds). Very happy with that. Seeing the Dyna Drive in action I wished I had paid more attention to that when they were available.
I have the BC-2 and it is a fantastic pedal. Stacking it with an eq really takes it to another level and i actually bought it over a nano muff pedal (eventually got) at a music store and never looked back. Pedal sounds amazing
16:47 Such a killer groove
I owned the FB-2, MO-2, and PQ-4 at various points of time in the past. Wish I still had the FB-2; it was AWESOME with my Orange head (don't have that anymore either, though). I thought the MO-2 would be one of those "forever" pedals but I found myself rarely using it to the point that I forgot I even had it, so off it went. My PQ-4 "walked away" from a gig, probably with help from an unscrupulous scalawag. I can also recall seeing the Power Driver available for stupid cheap through some retailers.
I was getting 'War'- era Edge from your first jam. That last DB-5 pedal and your jam sounded am-az-ing.
Josh, I have either played, or seen all but 4 or 5 of those pedals. I've played the Super distortion feedbacker, maybe it would be better to mention the ones I haven't played, the Parametric EQ, the Dyna Drive, that big green modulation pedal, the silver feedbacker, and maybe one more, but I've been playing for 40 years, and started buying Boss pedals from a shop the had damn near all Boss pedals, and being trusted friends, they pushed me toward all things Boss. So, I may have run across them all at some point, but definitely all but the ones that I don't remember if I've played or not, but they had two full glass cases of Boss pedals, and Boss used to provide pamphlets that showed the pedals needed, and various settings for artists like EVH, and others, and I had 2 BCB 6 pedal boards that for the early 80s did great tone clones with those guides to whatever artist you chose to sound like!! Not as difficult as I thought it would be, but I'm sure those who didn't play in the '70s, and '80s wouldn't have seen most of those pedals. I liked this video a lot, so many tones.
Peace, Keith in Richmond VA
You are like the best fucking show host. Really, I mean that. Something about you is so absolutely genuine that it is refreshing.
Oh my god that dyna drive was amazing!!
I tried the Tera Echo at the local music store but i was like: "Nah that's not worth it"
Then i bought the Boss DD-200 and ended up using the Tera Echo mode a lot, it's absolutely awesome
The Combo Drive has been on my board for years! Love it.
Thanks for the BOSS Trivia - Dig the Angry Driver by the way!
I'm a drummer myself, which of course is far more important than guitar, but I enjoyed learning about these stupid little pedal things.
I've had a feedbacker booster for years great pedal.
Man, this is good stuff. Interesting, informative, weird (in a GOOD way) and funny. Thank you so much. Love it!
I love the FB-2! I always have it on my board and even figured out how to get away with using it while playing at church.
Awesome pedal!
Thank you! Very entertaining and informative. I love this channel.
6:39 that was my first pedal, so so cool 🤘🏽 I miss it 😢
I'm so happy to see & hear the Tera Echo get some love here. I've own that pedal for eons now & it's the only pedal I will not swap out of my pedalboard, I will never depart from it (Holding back the tears..oh no one drop fell on my keyboard.)
It's completely unique and Josh you're soo right, the effect will never get in the way of your notes & chords.
You can't define the sound but I'll give it a try. It sounds like if King Kong threw a spaceship like a frisbee into a Olympic size pool filled with Jello....Okay I'm going to play my guitar now. ONE LOVE people \m/
Just got a brand new PW2, in the box ^^ I dont think it sounds too close to a big muff, but it's definitely going in "fuzz" territory. I'd say it's kinda like a HM2 that leans toward fuzz, while retaining the clarity and dynamics of a drive pedal.
The PQ-4 is a 4 band parametric EQ which is why they named it with a 4 😉👍you're welcome. Huge BOSS fan! I own all these pedals except the PQ
"Stereo is dumb" I using that quote from now on.
The FB-2 was one of my favorite "why not purchases". I was wanting a boost with adjustable EQing but the feedback ft was what stole the show for me.
I used to run the FB-2 as my boost when I first started playing and the feedback component was awesome! Loved being able to use it as an ebow type effect.
I bought a Slow Gear, its like a gated volume swell. I paid $50 because it was "blown out." Brought it home, replaced a diode they put in as a sort of fuse to blow so the pedal doesn't. I sold it about a year later for several hundred.
OH. "Can't Do Much" is a great Waxahatchee song... people should take a listen to that one.
The Tera Echo effect is in the Boss GT-1 multi-effects. I use my GT-1 for only two things - as an acoustic pre-amp, and so I can run the tera echo sound in stereo to my amps.
This guy genuinely puts a smile on my face
The Multi Overtone is amazing on bass
I have the DF2. Got it new in the 80's. Sounds very good
13:52 The Word Salad Begins 🤣
"He has the box!" ... luv it! :)
Killer riff at 8:40 !
I love my Boss MO-2 Multi Overtone!!
Cool video
I have seen some of these & tried them
They weren’t quite what I was looking for, but they are cool
Tera Echo
Feedbacker/Booster
(I have a Super Feedbacker & I have the box)
Dyna Drive
Multi Overtone
The Multi Overtone is the one I came the closet to buying
The rare Boss pedal I’d like the most is the DC-3 (the one with dials- not the DC 2 Dimension C)
I saw a DC-3 once, didn’t buy it & never saw one again
When they come up for sale they are asking for a lot
the tera acho never gets old or replaced on my board, everything from droney streched weirdness to some very disturbed psychobilly slapback stuff. its a great pedal for sure =) Love the vid =)=)=)
Proud to say the only one I didn’t know was the DB-5. Maybe it’s just because we’re isolated and desperate for new stuff, but down here in New Zealand there was quite a lot of hype about most of the pedals on this list. I loved the concept of the Dyna Drive but as a dumb kid I’d I couldn’t get it to work the way I wanted. And I always wanted a Combo Drive but couldn’t justify the expense as a dumb kid.
I’ve had the tera echo for years. It’s my favorite
I"m on my way to getting a Dyna Drive.... Sounds fantastic.
Unrelated... Just went down the rabbit hole and got my first JHS pedal... AT+ is where it's at!
The pq4 is probably a tongue in cheek nod to the Furman pq4 rack mount parametric eq.
I love my tera echo, and indeed the sell of my PQ4 (and 84 HM2) bought me a eventide space
That slide part did sound incredible
The Combo Drive is my go to pedal.
These are definitely going on my wish list and then on my pedalboard.
The combo drive is so nice.
Even though I own the PW-2 and FB-2,
Ps. I miss unorthodox knob setting names.
Also, that Dyna drive and Multi Overtone jam was pretty sweet.