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What Boss Pedals Are In Your Setup?

#125
BBE Mind Bender Chorus is outstanding and dead simple to use - built like a tank. Their Benchpress compressor is great also but is a bit noisy with tube amps when not playing (volume knob work solves this easily)

Best stuff I've acquired recently are TC Electronics MoJo-MoJo Overdrive & Vortex flanger. All their tone-print pedals are so dead simple for even a newb can get a great tone without thinking.

And don't forget the most important thing on your footboard - a good volume pedal! Can make a noisy compressor or modulation effect easy to tame down on the fly. The Ernie Ball VP JR. is outstanding!
 
#129
my OC-2 (MIJ) got taken off because I got an Octron, but still like the OC-2 because the signal is stronger for the pure first octave than the Octron.

Been using the LS-2 extensively on my Main board and just added an RV-3, which is really good. I had an RV-5 but never liked it, however, the RV-3 blend is better, IMO.

On my secondary board, I use a CEB-3 and TU-3.

Those are the 5 boss pedals I think are worth mentioning.
 
#133
I have the ODB-3. It's not an "every down" pedal (to use football terms), but every once in a while, I pull it out and love it. It is pretty harsh in the highs, but it sounds decent with the right EQ. Also, I hear you can modify it so the highs bite less, which I'll do with my next paycheck. As for the others, I haven't tried them so I don't know.
 
#134
Stampy said:
My friend who plays guitar has his pedal board set up with all Boss pedals and he swears by them. I am looking to buy a few of them pretty soon myself. I am just wondering what Boss pedals are you guys currently using. I am looking into the SYB-5, ODB-3, GEB-7, CEB-3, and TU-2. What do you all think of these pedals?
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What Boss do well, they tend to do very well.

TU-2 is cool- love it! solid/useful.
I've only used the SYB-3. Let's put it this way... I'm selling it and have no qualms about doing so.

The others I've never used and not really so tempted by; I highly recommend the LS-2, OC-2, PS-3 and DM-2 or 3.

I'm using a whole bunch of LS-2s... Blending and mixing sounds as I need (especially in the fuzzy/octaver end of town). Well worth a look IMO if you want more control on certain aspects of your signal chain. :bassist:
 
#137
Boss rc300! Ive seen Victor Wooten play on the old one and ive seen many vids on YouTube that inspired me to buy one. Check this out!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Htzmxg0ms&feature=youtube_gdata_player



So much fun, amazing looper and multi effects pedal, by far the best 500 ive spent in a while! Ive made so much music on it, and im glad ive held onto my instruments over them years, I purchased a shure Mic to put some drums and acoustic into the loops. Its great for getting the external sound of your playing too when you put the Mic right in front of your hands. Its got aux and USB inputs, so ive been able to take sections of songs that I love or backing tracks and loop them over to remix them or play with them. Pretty sure you can then put the recordings onto a USB, then onto a comp to save them, just haven't figured it out yet. Awesome pedal!!!!!
 

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