New Boss Pedals Options

[Mertay]

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[Adam]

Glad you liked it, I often read rave reviews of it but never really tried at home. At store I felt it has a bit of a tubescreamer thing going on where until you plug-in to the amp you can't be sure what to expect, seems I was right based on your experience.

I can second each one of these hyper-positive reviews! I have a tubescreamer and to be honest I hate it but OD3 seems a more refined pedal, at least for me!

The OD3 is a classic pedal imho It always seemed to have more of a deep punch to it than tube screamer type pedals. It didn't seem to cut the lows out of the signal like tube screamer type pedals do. This isn't good or bad by itself, just different. Tube screamer type pedals are often used as a "high pass filter" to let the "high frequencies pass through" and trim off some of the bass so that the tone can stay "tight" and not get boomy when using a high gain amp in real life or in simulation. The OD3 doesn't cut the lows like that so for low/mid gain sounds it carries a LOT more beef/oomph! Glad you like it

I like it much more than my TS808! I mean, I wouldn't even put them on a similar tier. The way you put it may be the reason. I like to keep the bass and it's LOUD. Only DS-1 Keeley modded of all my pedals has a similar volume range, others are very quiet in comparison. And it's quiet too, no need for a noise gate at all! You'll hear it a lot in my future videos.

As Todd alludes to the OD3 has a flatter EQ contour. Mids and bass stay pretty much the same. Some will say there's too much bass. That all depends on your amp. *The original TS (Maxon/Ibanez) pedals were tuned towards Fender amps of the time (late 70s, early 80s) which have lower mids by design. It's one of the elements that give them a great clean and 'sparkly' tone. The TS pushed the mids for better cut through on a lead.
The OD3 has less overall drive than the DS1 and SD1 and more than a BD2. Because of it's flatter EQ it works really good as a clean boost.
It, like so many Boss and Ibanez pedals, makes a great 'mod' platform.

This makes a lot of sense. It also makes sense why I dislike tubescreamers so much, I don't use Fender amps or strats which would probably benefit from it. I like OD3's transparency a lot. It's really nice as a clean boost but it also sounds great as an Overdrive unit. To me, it's perfect as it is and I don't see any need to modding this one

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