Different BOSS Eras/Quality?

chaosMK · #1 07-10-2009, 01:29 PM

I hadn't really handled my flanger much until the other day when I was wiping down/cleaning stuff for potential sale. Compared to my other Boss pedals, this particular flanger is way lighter, has a loose power jack, rattles a little. It must have been MI-somewhere-crappy. I owned the same flanger years ago (like 2000-ish) and remember it feeling real solid.

warwick.hoy · #2 07-10-2009, 02:18 PM

My 27 year old, MIJ, loose power jack, sometimes wonky bypass switch OC-2 still sounds great.

chaosMK · #3 07-10-2009, 02:39 PM

This flanger sounds fine. I am just upset that I have the "cheap" one and not the "tank" version.

warwick.hoy · #4 07-10-2009, 02:43 PM

Just pointing out that my supposed "better quality" MIJ has the same issue as your supposed "cheaper quality" MIT.

Although the fact that that OC-2 will be 30 by the end of the Mayan calender says a little something about the MIJ's quality.

whoatherechunk · #5 07-10-2009, 04:21 PM

boss qualityyy has never disappointed me....although im praying my ps-3 doesnt break anytime soon.

groooooove · #6 07-10-2009, 05:23 PM

ive got a real old oc-2 thats alive and well. i'm waiting on an older boss flange from the classifieds right now.. i guess ill find out when i get it.

80's boss pedals seem to have a little bit of a mistique to them.. weather or not theyre better, i guess is up to you.

fRiGhTnIghT1971 · #7 07-10-2009, 05:30 PM

Yeah, the quality of pedals does change in a fairly predictable manner. (I think it's probably due to different materials, outsourcing of labor, etc.)