I really feel the opposite of the person who said this video was too long, this is really in-depth and informative. I had no idea how nicely the OD-3 can shape the distortion pedals' sound. Also you play a lot nicer than a lot of people making these kinds of demos. Really cool! Thanks for making this!

Many people hate the DS2 because of the mids on mode 2. But in a context of a band playing or even with a backing track it makes the whole sense. The guitar sound easily find a place. When we play alone we have a completely different understanding of the sound that we are making. The same settings in most pedals are wonderful in case A and awful in case B. It's just a matter of patience and open ears.

That "trick" of putting the OD-3 after the Distortion is really eye-opening! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm just getting into pedals so this was very helpful to me. I liked how you went through the tones and showed how they sounded best.

I recently found your videos and love your playing and insights! I've been playing far more guitar than bass in the last few years, learning tricks here and there. I can't believe how much of a difference the overdrive makes following the distortions!

Hello, I am very late to this party but wanted to say thank you for this video it helped me a lot, lot, lot. Made my decision based on this. Od3 will be my very first choice of paddle. I want to put it in front of a high gain Wild Fro from Tonecity, which I got as a present. I recently decided to take up playing the guitar again. 36 now, used to play since i was 15. when I turned 30 i suddenly stopped cause of my occupation and the loss of passion and start of some depressed phases, to a point even, when the guitar could not cheer me up anymore and i just forgot about music. Turns have tabled and... Now I got myself a Marshall origin 20h with a 2x12 cab with v30s. Guitar a Jet Js 300 which has been amazingly modified and i cannot wait until i can start my holiday at the weekend with my first practice day again. Thank you!

This is a great comparative. Simple, clear and concise and very well explained. Great work! Greetings from Argentina.

Really like your comparison videos, Michael. Very informative and you make everything crystal clear. Thank you.

Fantastic video. Gotta be the best, most informative video on KZfaq when it comes to these pedals.

This is a sick demo! Great pacing, editing, and really got a feel for all the pedals! They all sound good (DS-1 was my first pedal) but tbh that Mega Distortion sounded sooo nice with that strat!

Excellent video, you’ve inspired me to pull out my old DS-1. Never could get it to do what I wanted, now I’ve got some ideas though. The side by side comparison here is fantastic. You really did a good job describing the different tones and representing what each pedal could do.

Just What i needed to see/hear. Thanks!

So late to your channel. These are really useful well thought out vids. Thank you.

I love it! Perfect comparison. Thank you for sharing

absolutely fantastic demo and video, this helped me choose the MD2, thank you man 🙏

Thank You for the video! It's very helpful, because i'm going to buy one of this pedals.I hope that number of subscribers of your channel will grow up soon, you really deserved it!

Nice move simultaneously switching one pedal off and two on :-)

I have an OD-3 and a DS-2. I found i could get some Brian May like tones from the turbo setting on the DS-2 , really cool. I often would use it like a clean boost after OCD into my AC30. Great Vid cool comparison.

I like all of the pedals, I have the MD-2 and set it to your settings is sounds great, thanks.

Thanks! It helped me decide which one to get... the DS-1 is just what I was looking for!

Really good video, clear and informative.

You've changed my mind! Thanks a lot

Great video. Your analysis of each pedal was very helpful.

This is great! I've just borrowed a DS-2 to compare with my DS-1; this has really helped to dial in the sweet spot of each as a starting point

Great review, thank you so much!

Great video comparing those three Bosses. Thinking about backing track riffs with Les Paul Black Beauty and having my eyes on MD-2 and thinking to buy it since a few days ago, this helps a lot. Thank you.

a very instructive video! thank you for sharing your thoughts!

Very nice video. I now combine a TS and a Boss DS-1. Thanks!

Nice job bud. Great vid, love the time you took to get into each!

This videos great man, helped out a bunch, im a big fan of the overdrive with the DS2

This is an excellent demo, some of these pedals were meant for styles that are different than the styles shown. This is in no way meant as dismissal of your playing, knowledge and expression. All of which are far beyond my own level and experience. Again a very well thought out video with a lot of useful information and mind changing facts and sounds. Thank you.

Thanks..very well laid out...I just purchased the MD-2 before hearing this...will probably purchase the DS-2 since it cus through a bit more......

Excellent review. Thank you!

I don't know why the ds2 turbo mode is só underrated. Thats my fav. I love that.

Really great review!! Subscribed 👍

The summary at 16:22 is good, and thankfully lines up with my choice (DS-1 is fine for classic rock). Good to see you also playing with single coil guitars 👍.

new subscribers here sir i love the way you demo the pedals im a fan of boss pedals too

Great Demo!!!

Cool tips. Very useful!

Thanks for the info about Overdrive.

Great demo!!

Absolutely useful mate

Thanks a lot for your informative videos, Ive got 2 Boss OD-3s and 2 Boss Blues Drivers to go after or solo: great buttersmooth lead tone... tempted to buy another Boss, but moneys running out and I already have a coupla distortions to try after the Jazzy OD-3! Thanks again, Kimmo 🤣

Great video. Good job!👍

Very informative, thank you.

Fantastic video. You do everything with demoing pedals that I wish every KZfaq channel will do. We can hear everything these pedals do and how they can be used, instead of noodling with settings they don't even show you like a lot of KZfaq "reviews" of pedals are like. You're really good at this. And you're a fellow Brit. So you've got a new subscriber mate. Now I'm gonna spend some hours going down the rabbit hole watching your other videos Oh yeah, I've just had a thought. Cos I rarely see people on KZfaq talking about this pedal, would you ever want to test the Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz? I could send it to you in the post and you make a video and then send it back or something. It's the first pedal that Seymour Duncan ever made and I bought it on a whim one day in a guitar shop in Luton. Little did I know it'd become my iconic sound with the band I was in. We played in Luton a lot, in the hat factory. Nice little club. The tweak fuzz is a weird pedal but it sounds amazing. It doesn't have a tone knob. It has volume and gain knobs, and then a "tweak" knob where it has 6 settings, and the knob doesn't turn smoothly in a gradient. It just clicks solid into one of six different types of fuzz. It's so simple that it's hard to get a bad tone out of it. When I was playing with that band I'd stick the tweak knob onto position 1 which is the least fuzzy of the 6 positions. And I played a bridge single coil pickup or a strat into it and it sounded AMAZING. Like usually the bridge pickup of a strat is unusable. But this pedal made it sound amazing It's just an idea, anyway. Because these Seymour Duncan tweak fuzz pedals weren't made for very long, and so now they're very rare apparently. Although not ludicrously expensive, yet. Maybe one day I'll sell it for hundreds of quid. So if you wanted to test out that pedal I could post it to you or something. Just an idea, anyway. It's probably not interesting enough for a video I suppose. I just like it cos it's the only pedal I have that's actually rare. So I go on about it a lot to people who don't really care 😂🤣 I'm just a guitar nerd

My OD-3 into DS-1 at the front end of the amp is my absolute favourite distortion. Endless violin sustain. It sings beautifully for lead and rhythm when all is dialled correctly.

Great video, gave me a clear idea of what I might want one for. I'm thinking DS1 for me, sounds Pagey with that overdrive on! Combined with a boost it might be able to go even further.

The adding if the OD-3 fattens everything up and shaves off any of the harshness. Really dig that.

I had an original DS-1 back in the 80's. I recently bought another one and man you can tell the difference right off the bat. But I always used my boss overdrive as a power booster with the DS-1. I have a couple of other overdrive pedals that I use the boss with as a power booster. I learned that trick years ago and it works great. Plus the sound is more clearer.

Tnx for the OD3 idea. I have my OD3 before my metal core. Will switch em to see the effect.

Very good video! Thanks

Great video! I like the idea of pushing the sound of the Distortions with the OD-3. They sounded more focused and thicker with the overdrive stacked.

Awesome, thanks!

Well done, thank you!

Good stuff, mate. You kindda convince me to get one of those mega distortion pedals. Cheers

You are the best my friend, thanks mate

Very useful content.

i find your video extremely useful ,,thank you very much

The OD and DS together really gave me that sound i was looking for when playing territorial pissings and breed by nirvana which i believe were done with plugging directly to the console

very nice demo. i like the md-2

Very cool Ty !! I owned all 3 pedals. Ended up dumping the ds2

GREAT channel, sonic brother! Excellent, authentic attitude - its important to me, coz I dont sub otherwise! And I have subscribed. All the best for '22 man

That opening riff with the DS-1 sounds spot on to the Jet song, I think you recreated the studio signal chain.

Damn, I've never been a fan of the DS1, but run into that overdrive it sounds awesome! In my mind the DS-2 is a classic, just because its been used on so many albums that I like. Most significantly the new Refused album "War Music" was largely recorded just running a Ds2 through a Twin Reverb. Everything from crisp, modern hardcore tones to smooth bluesy overdrive, amazing the milage they got out of such a simple rig.

Awesome content bro

Totally agree you have to have a speaker you like. I was so brainwashed into the G12 GB that I hated using my Phase 90 & a lot of other pedals that I avoided using them. Once I changed speakers I started using the pedals & it sounded right.

Much better with OD on before Distortion - brings out the low mids. Makes the distortion sound more full.

thanks for helping me decide wich pedal is better for me

Great video, you get a sub! DS-1 is still one of my all time favorite pedals.. (just never ever move the tone knob past 12 or it sucks lol)

This was done very through. Good job . I have a DS1, ONE OF 1O MILLION!

Having the OD-3 in there made a difference. I own the OS-2 with Distortion and Overdrive combined which is a very nice pedal. The downside it you don't have the ability to simply switch off the overdrive and quickly put it back later mid song. A separate pedal is very useful. I like the detail in this video. It's not too long.

OD-3 affer a DS-1(W) is beautiful. Thanks for the tip!

I am a big fan of the DS-1. Easy to mod and sounds great too.

Good review.

谢谢！非常有效~~ 幸好没有卖我的MD2

Great video!

Well I just liked and subscribed. This is a great guitar channel. The thing with the DS-1 is there was a slight circuit change in 94 that gave it a bit of a scooped eq compared to earlier units which had a little flatter EQ. It wasn’t a super massive change, and current ones still can sound great, but that slight mids scoop in the new ones can make them harder to match with certain amps. Thankfully, if you have a DS-1 made between 94 and 2016 (of which there are hundreds of thousands floating around, I’m sure), you can easily swap out a few components on the circuit board and give it a better eq curve while still keeping all the good stuff a DS-1 brings to the table. After 2016, Boss switched to surface mount components, which makes them substantially harder to mod.

Great stuff, especially with the OD stacking! I think I like the SD-1 best, with the OD on before it.

Cool video! Now I gotta get an OD-3. 😎

Thank you 🙏 Awesome

I love my shredder stuff, I can just imagine the od going into the mega... I bet it's amazing

Amazingly detailed video! I’m going to try the ds1 with my sd1 when it arrives tomorrow :) your guitar is beautiful 😻 what’s it called?

Thank you

Thanks!

Very useful and argumented

I went with the DS1 after watching this video. Thank you

This video made me realize that my MD 2 is perfectly fine i just need an overdrive pedal LOL Thanks man

I like the DS-2 because I have a Boss DS-2 and I've been trying different sounds with it and with the Level at noon and the Tone and Distortion maxed out you get the sound of a Fuzz pedal and if you hook the input and remote jacks of the Boss DS-2 up to a Reverb pedal and A wah pedal it sounds even more like a fuzz pedal

I love my MD-2.. especially with bass guitar!

great video! i liked the ds1 on its own the best

I really liked the mode 2 of the ds-2, I love a sharp mid

Just stumbled across your channel for the first time today. Your format for these comparisons is really good. I appreciate being able to actually A/B/C the sounds, and your playing, audio/video quality, and thoughtful commentary are top-notch. I know it's a lot of work to put videos like these together, but it's much appreciated. Cheers!

I love the MD-2 as a bass distortion. It really doesn't seem to filter out any low end. Also for a guitar pedal, the two band eq is amazing

Boss overdrive and distortion pedals are good. It's all about the different tweak options. Each pedal has a distinctive sound suited for different genres of rock guitar sound. 🎸 Buy them all. You can never go wrong with Boss pedals.

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The overdrive and distorsion Ds1 are absolute classics, the best you can get from boss. For the other two (big modern saturations) other brands offers really better pedals.

I have the MD-2 and love it but it is kinda bottom heavy. I run it right after a Morley Bad Horsie wah and the ultra bright Horsie is, uh, "tamed" nicely but still adds a bit of extra high end to the MD-2 for a really sizzling tone. (Using a Gibson Les Paul Special with P-90's into an Orange Micro Dark into a Celestion-loaded 1x12 cab.)

The MD-2 comes across as a BD-2 on steroids. I like it a lot, but the idea of a fourth nob is just more than my slightly underpowered brain can tolerate. As such, if I couldn't have the BD-2, the DS-1 would get the nod. You do splendid work. Keep it up.

DS-2 mode II is great when you want to pretend you are Randy Rhoads. It was the first pedal I got in !989 or something. Fond memories. Very informative video. I was quite surprised how much stacking the distortion pedals with an OD-3 at zero gain changed the sounds.