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I purchased this pedal over 20 years ago and couldn’t stand the sound. Now Im getting all sorts of distorted goodness. This pedal is great when it’s used correctly. Thank you

I started playing in 78. I bought my DS-1 back in 1981I Still have the very same DS-1! I’m still jamming and this damn will probably out last me. Hell, I may pass it on down to my grand kids!

Keep that tone at 9 o'clock or under and you're golden. Stacking it with another dirt box is the way to make it work on an amp that won't get dirty.

Great Video Pat. You open my understanding about that padal.

Finally. A video that properly explain how to use it properly. I love my DS1

Great pedal talk, rock on!

VERY helpful info on how to use the Boss Distortion pedal. Like most players, I tried it on a clean amp and could not get a good tone. Even tried using the Boss EQ with it which didn't work either. Now I understand why. The pedal PUSHES the distortion already present in the amp. It doesn't provide it on it's own. Great video! Thumbs up!

Very informative Pat! Really helpful information, people need to know this stuff so they can use this pedal for it's intended purpose, good job man!

Very cool Pat!! I really like the pedal of this fantastic video!! 🤘🏻💪🏻

The DS-1 is a great pedal. I haven't used one in quite some time, but I played one on many gigs. Another tip about this pedal is that it really shines with the level on full. Sort of like the idea that an amp in the 70s needed to be turned up all the way for the best tone, this pedal works really well that way also. It actually makes for a really good overdrive with the level full and the gain between 9:00 and noon.

The video was great can't wait for more 😂

This was my first pedal!! I love it and it's awesome hahaha. Thanks for the video I loved it!!

Love your video Pat! this also helped me understand the mxr distortion + a lot better.

I actually use the ds-1 with a ts9 most of the time, and I think the two work so beautifully together to create a nice full sound!

Fantastic video about BOSS Distorsion

I found this video VERY HELPFUL. Now I know why this pedal - which I always called the chunk of cheese - never quite did it for me. Thank you!

Awesome video dude! And Boss ds 1 is my favorite pedal!

Hi Pat. Nice clean playing and spot on timing. At present I am looking for a DS-1 and if lucky get the 83 version I prefer the sound of. Watched many videos demonstrating it and many of them made the same justified point, to increase the gain on the amp before using the pedal. A booster so to speak. What is also worth mentioning is that in those days of heavy rock most amps were tube/valve amps, which have a sound character almost impossible to copy with electronics, though much more convenient. Like you will never forget the sound a Hammond organ with Leslie (rotary) speaker from that period. I was there and I know. You see, I am 73 years old and have played the guitar since I was ten and remains my main instrument, although I did also play the drum, both in bands and could always quickly learn to play simple stuff on most instruments, except the violin (horrendous noise). For three decades I have recorded at home on Cubase SX, recently upgraded to 10.5 I yet need to fully grasp. I have a Firefly SG and replaced the pick ups with Di Marzio's super distortion, new posts and switch and new machine heads that lock. My acoustic is my pride, a Atkin OM cutaway which over the years is sounding better and better and the real value to me. I love to make music and still record, posting a few tracks on Soundcloud under Bert. I am nothing special but can hold my own since my fingers have not slowed down (yet). Anyway, I got carried away because what I meant to say was that I enjoyed your demo because the manner in which you explained it was precise and to the point and I like the clarity you presented. NEVER give up playing. You will not find a nicer hobby but is a very tough profession. Wish you the best. Berthold, UK

Nice Video Pat!😁🤘

Might not sound the best, but it's definitely a legend! Awesome video as always 🤘🤘

Awesome video Pat 👍

DS-1 is my go-to pedal. I love it. I can understand why people might not like it, but I have always enjoyed using it when I play.

This was my second purchase after the Boss DD-3 I still have it originally tried to get the heavy tone back in 2014 started using it as just a overdrive pedal already with my metal muff and waza craft hm2-w so I appreciate the extra info! Super informative!

Just bought one, now I'm watching you to learn how to use it.

great video. with very minimal gain the DS1 adds the right amount of sizzle to a 2203 & retains bottom end that the SD1 / TS9 lose.🤘

Great video!

Great info on that pedal I don't have it but I see it everywhere. Makes me wonder what other pedals are misunderstood 🤔. 💪💪🤘

Love the vid man keep it up,like i said before you should try and review the metalzone boss pedal😈

Brilliant playing and demo. You sold me this pedal. I bought one years before and only tried it on clean settings of my amp. It really sucked as youve explained. Harsh and weak. Thanks to you I will give it one more chance. Mick and Dan in that pedal show made also more Light on this underrated but oversold pedal.

Awesome video man! thanks!

Great video man👍🏼,eventhough i don't have any pedal,but i might consider to buy some

Great video 😎👍

the tone knob on the pedal plays a big role in how it sounds too, imo it starts sounding too thin past 12 oclock on the tone knob, sounds way better on lower settings

I’m another who bought my DS-1 in 1980 or 81. Partly because there was no such thing then as a ‘clean pedal platform’ I never used mine like that. I’ve always used it like you advise, and I still use it today. Built like a tank, but lasts longer.

Great vidéo thanks bro🤘🤘🤘

Nice review! I've had this pedal while, and left it to one side as it does not have that sound I am looking for...saying that, a great idea. Just plugged this back in, sounds great now.

Great video...especially for someone like myself just starting to acquire their first distortion pedal.

Great stuff!!! I use DS-1 to push a JCM 800 and definitely sounds awesome!!!!

Its a controvertial pedal for sure! Great video boss! I have almost the same shirt btw 😂😂

The video is super useful, thanks

Thank Pat! Now I can get true metal sounds out of a simple amp setting ! Cool !

I have 2 DS-1s... one is stock and the other I installed the Keely ultra seeing-eye mod. They both sound great if used like you describe! Mine go into a dirty Marshall with fantastic results. I also use a EQD Plumes overdrive (TS type circuit) and a Big Muff in the same way. They all need an amp tone with some dirt before the magic comes out... Also, stacking the DS-1 with Overdrives can work well too! Pair it with a Behringer TO800 and you have a powerful combination that cost you less than $60!

In love with pedals 🤘🤘

Really cool vidéo !

this is eye openind bro. ama trie this tomorrow

Bloody hell, someone who makes sense!

I just picked up a 1983 DS-1 off Reverb. Awesomeness! Thanks for the tip. I plan on stacking it with a Tumnus. Let's see what happens!

Bought it used, haven't tried it yet Thanks for the hints

Awesome!

The DS-1 was my first pedal ever, I still have it, and I still use it like 20+ years later.

Great help cheers

I own this pedal and the first time I used it, I loved then. Then, not so much. :D Thank you for this video.

I ve just bought the pedal and it really sounds good nice analog distorsion, you youst must have this pedal

Great guitar pedal so cool bro really nice video too rock on dude luv ya 😍

Thanks so much for this!

You had me at, "Black Sabbath rules!!"

Nice video

Just bought one for 34 at a local shop, haven’t plugged it yet can’t wait 🤟

Heeheee..that face you make while playing it towards the beginning of the vid....that's me most of the time with my pedals and cheap gear. Made me smile. Hello from Ohio, new subscriber. Cheers.

Continue pedal talk episodes pls 🤘🤘🤘

I use the DS-1 in combination with the built-in gain on my amp (1983 Fender Concert with an EV - all tubes). Works really well. I also use a Boss Turbo Overdrive just in front of the DS-1 when I want it to feed back. Boss pedals really are bullet proof. I'm still using the pedals I bought in the '90s. The only problem I've had with any of them is that a switch crapped out on one. Easy fix.

I purchased that pedal in 1982 and still use it to this day. Great video, well done!

That was really informative. So, what would be a good pedal that can take you from clean to metal tone?

So true. It can be the worst or best sounding distortion pedal, depending on many other things, primarily your amp., but lower output pickups can help too. Also keep in mind the pedal volume level effects tone. Too low and distortion high tends to not sound so great. Also, in my opinion anyway, the new Waza Craft version sounds good in the clean channel. Of course, it's not as beefy but it doesn't sound so thin and brittle like classic version. And of course, it sounds ULTRA beefy in the dirt channel.

I used to stack the Ds-1 with a Boss Digital Metallizer when I first started playing electric in the 90's, and it was always one of my favorite tones. Unfortunately, the Metallizer broke and Boss stopped making them. Still have my Ds-1 though. Great video BTW!

i might go out and get one today.

I bought this pedal used, as a part of a pedalboard with four pedals to build my secondary pedalboard. If I play the DS-1 on it's own, the amp is already pushed a bit. But I mostly stack the DS-1 into other distortions. I haven't yet tried putting another overdrive or distortion into the DS-1.

Thanks bro your good... So for me it's not enough Keep rockin

Dude! Thank you. Sooooo many wannabe-Slashes put this pedal in front of a clean Fender amp, in hopes of sounding like they’ve got balls. To make matters even WORSE, they dime the volume and scare away the whatever audience that came to their show. This pedal is very special in how it treats a crunchy amp: it’s not like a Tubescreamer, nor is it a transparent overdrive. I found that you could get some Viking metal sounds if you zero the distortion and use it to boost a fully driven amp.

I own 2 DS-1s! I grabbed them both up very cheap, used. Now I have a backup that I will probably never even need. It’s my only distortion pedal. I also have a few OD pedals as well. When I bought my first one, it was just for grins. I was at a pawnshop and it was too cheap to pass up. I didn’t like it at first because I didn’t set it up correctly, and (this is important) I “expected” it to sound terrible because that’s what (virtually) everyone said about it. Later, I pulled it back out to try again. This time I found some videos that adjusted it differently, and stacked it with OD and such. Now I find that I can get a lot of different, good tones out of it. From creamy sustain to amp on the verge of exploding tones, and yes even the can of bees sound it is famous for when everything is dimed and run into a nice clean amp. Once I learned “how” to use it I was amazed at how good it actually sounds. Understanding gain stages better help me, as did switching from a “clean pedal platform” to pushing an amp already set to the edge of breakup.

Nice video. Show us a little more bout pedals and skills. Thank you.

I use my ds-1 on a hot rod deluxe fender amp and a strat, no complaints ,so far,I,ve had my pedal since 95'

those extra harmonics from the ds1 are beautiful

OK , I have a dedicated overdrive called Kernom Rige I am a beginner should I connect my guitar to DS1 then Kernom Ridge or should the overdrive come first ?

I think this pedal is the best, I'm about to buy sooooooooo lots rock on

Running a ds1. Behind Ibanez jem distortion into a 100 watt handwired plexi. Absolutely amazing.

I love mine! I sometimes need to put a preamp pedal in front of it to choke the signal a bit on guitrs with hot pickups. I recently discovered that it can also saw if you dime everything.

your right. the first pedal i bought 35 years ago was a ds-1. plugged into a cheap solid state amp. hated it. but, now i wonder if it would sound good through my mesa single rec.

I’ve never had a Problem with the DS-1, nor it was a problem for my Les-Paul electric, I love that heavy sound so I use The Ds-1 with a UM-300 n never letted me Down ✌🏽🤘🏽

Have one and love it...

Got one right now!

I scoop these up used all the time I think I have four or five of them used and a couple of new ones. Once I learned what they can do they're my secret weapon.

Kreator T-Shirt🤘🔥

I've had this pedal for a long time. I know exactly what to expect from it. Love my DS-1

I run this pedal after my Boss Blues Driver, which I use on the clean channel of my Laney amp. I have the tone and the distortion set at 8 o'clock and the level just past 1 o'clock on the DS1, the Blues Driver has the level and gain set at 10 o'clock and the tone at 1 o'clock. My Schecter screams like crazy when I run both for leads. A slight subtle boost from the DS1 makes a huge difference. I hear people calling the DS1 a noisy pedal. It can be if you dial in too much distortion or gain. A little goes a long way with the DS1 😁🎸

*Use it to boost a tube amp! 🏆 The best on the market! Excellent demo!*

I think I've owned 4 DS-1's in my life both modded and standard, once I finally figured out how to use it I kept it. I also like to boost it with an SD-1 for solos, If you get a good overdrive going on your amp and turn the gain on the DS-1 all the way up it almost turns into a very controllable and useable fuzz which is awesome for stoner/desert rock and some doom metal type stuff (especially boosted with an overdrive).

hey man great video!! 🎸🤟🏻 could u tell me which amplifier are you using in this video?

It brought my Blues Jr. to life... Strat-Blues Jr.-DS-1... Done

I use my Ds-1 with my Marshall VS8100. The signal chain is: guitar ➡️ amp input ➡️ through the whole preamp ➡️ effect return ➡️ Ds-1 output ➡️ Ds-1 input ➡️ amp line out. It kinda works like a compressing limiter but also boost. My settings for the amp is gain:20 bass:3 mid:1,5 treble:9 contour:9 volume:5 on the OD2 channel. With the pedal settings being: tone:4ish level:6-7 dist:0. This works great and gives a really saturated and fat distortion. My main guitars use Dimarzio X2N or SD JB

I own it and still use it, primarily as a low gain OD and boost pedal in front of my 5150, both clean and crunch channels

I Still have one of this and still using

My first distortion pedal was a Gibson Maestro Fuzz- Tone (sadly long gone), still have my MIJ DS-1 though.

I've seen that pedal all over lol...but yeah, seems to be worth the money 😂

I was thinking in buy this pedal

While I have never bought this pedal, I recently got a katana mk2 that has a simulation(?) of this pedal built into it as one of the booster functions. I will try to use it in conjunction with the crunch setting. This did remind me of the trick of using metal zone in the FX loop though.

Cool

Keep the tone under 11 o'clock and this pedal is actually very good. I modded mine with the Seeing Eye Mod, exchanged some caps with silver mica cap, and swapped the clipping diodes for a pair of low power blue leds. It sounds wider, bigger, and clearer than stock with a slight fuzz character. Sadly, the new ones use surface mount components and cannot be easily modded like the older ones.

I got it for Christmas couple years ago along with the bd-2 and crybaby Wah zakk wylde signature i still got it