Boss ps-5 Super Shifter Demo

[spacepodmonkey]

Check out my video..im using PS-5 on Bass for some ambient + Delay riffs.. :)

[jackassqwe1]

no voice harmony

[krustaceae]

Amazing, the sound is good and smooth and it can act as Chorus, Vibrato, Whammy, Double Note, Harmony, Octave. I must steal it from the store.

[MegashadX]

Can you pull off standard Boston-esque harmonies with this pedal? That's all I wanna know :p

[Cl0udyDayz]

can this used as an octaver type? like when you press the pedal it goes an octave higher in pitch?..

[smashcityplastic]

ill tell you how to save like 300 bux... get a wammy bar!

[xlsublx]

@smashcityplastic I'm with you on that. Learn to play with a real tremolo bar, its a lot more fluid than simulating it with your foot.

[shaynemelvin1]

@xlsublx I agree, but I suppose it may be fun for some to use both the bar and the pedal....and out of the 90,000 people who try it, only 6 will get it right. lol

[AimmarCair]

@smashcityplastic I got one of these new for £80, that's about $128/165 New Zealand dollars. Trust me the harmony/detune effects make it so much more worth it (to a guitarist anyway, I use it for NOISE :D)

[madjamzboom]

pls check my site for crazy whammy playin using a boss super shifter!

[MultiScoffer]

what would be the setting for drop d tuning and what would be the setting for the guitar part in the song" Georgy Porgy" by the group called TOTO. i was also told that Andy Summers used the harmonizer in the song called"Behind My Camel" by the Police. hope you can help.

[laudennn]

you have so many annoying comments. <- here is another one

[MultiScoffer]

nice pedal. had it for a couple of days and then decided to return it for the boss oc3. this pedal in my opinion is good for those who like to add" cosmetics" to their tone and sound to suit their particular style. its not a "must have" for a pedal board set up. overall, a very nice, versatile pedal made by Boss.

[xangelinuyashax]

whats the difference between this and the BOSS HR-2?

[InspiringWear]

can you use this to droptune accurately?

[cromesurfer]

@InspiringWear Oh yeah it just the video editing.

[almightytreegod]

@InspiringWear Depends on what you mean by "droptune"... if you mean going from standard to a dropped tuning (only dropping one string, like drop-D), then no... if you're talking about lowering the tuning a few steps, then maybe, but it has limited settings, and the tone wouldn't be as good as if you just manually retuned your guitar.

[6Balf9]

can this be used like an octave pedal to make guitar sound like bass?

[flash19950]

lol standar

[Plocky241]

that chourusly effect soun, comes from the pedal or the effects on the amp? I'm just looking for a pedal that does harmonizing, like the discontinued BOSS HR-2 Harmonist... any suggestions???

[shittyfuck]

why are there 2 outputs and 2 inputs?

[cromesurfer]

@shittyfuck To simulate to guitars.

[shittyfuck]

@cromesurfer what ?

[colab4life]

@shittyfuck Its so u can run the pedal stereo!!

[dougjawers]

@shittyfuck ... I've read that the 2nd input is to send a dry signal into the pedal when you play with distortion. This way the tuning is made properly (as I read).

So I guess that you need a channel selector or something like that.

[Siriusblck3]

@shittyfuck In real is no 2 Inputs, one is a input for the guitar and the other is a input for a Expression Pedal (To use like the whammy pedal)

And the two outputs maybe is just to Stereo sounds

Sorry for the bad english

Cheers from Brasil

[smoss469]

@shittyfuck Stereo outs, the 2nd input is for an expression pedal. For use with things like the dive bomb function that he shows in the video. That way you aren't using the standard boss switch for all the work.

[andylovesindie]

@shittyfuck its because its a stereo pedal.

[peachpiemoose]

@shittyfuck actually cromesurfer is completely false in saying that. One input is for an expression pedal, which is used for things such as the whammy divebomb and such. The two outputs are for stereo sound, ie one output for left and one for right speakers. however you are able to use just one output for mono.

[ifightaliens]

@shittyfuck One input, one for an expression pedal, and stereo outs to send wet and dry signal to separate amps if you want.

[almightytreegod]

@shittyfuck The "EXP" input is for an expression pedal, so if you were using the "flutter" setting or a similar setting, you could use an external pedal instead of the PS-5 itself (so you can turn it on and off easier)...

The 2 outputs are for stereo (or in case you wanted to output to separate amps)...

[urworstnightmare22]

@shittyfuck thats wrong. It is not for two different guitars. There aren't two inputs. One is input and one is for an expression pedal to control this pedal. And for the two outputs its basically if you want to get creative with your pedalboard and have two different chains after this pedal. The super chorus has it too.

[ROBOCOP603]

@shittyfuck

The second input is for if you have an expression pedal. You would have the guitar plugged into exp pedal and exp pedal plugged into exp jack. As for the second output, I'm not so sure.

[BenUriyahMay]

This sucks so much compared to the ps2...

[Rubensclapton]

playback !

[cbappa1]

this looks terrible. BOSS is shit

[HitaroX]

@cbappa1 it's THE shit, my friend, THE shit

[bluenotes001]

pedal sounds like SUPER "SHITER..." :)))

[BRADHblackdragon]

hi, is there a dry/wet option on this..so you can alter how much of the pitch shifted part of the signal is in the mix?.....thanks

[kyzrvlhlm1995]

Does It DO The Bagpipe Sound Ala Big Country?

[TacooGrill]

can you do two voices for a harmony? or only one?

[VonKutlery]

"Standar Harmony" - Lol.

[grungecohlic]

if i combine it with rocktron rampage can it have a good sound?

[ElectraOmega]

I bought this pedal today. I'm returning it tomorrow. Horrible. Listen closely and you'll hear what I mean.  Definitely not worth $150.

[xxmattyreynolds92xx]

this pedal is amazing! but in some ways not worth £125-150 :/

[arbist]

please answer me!

[cromesurfer]

They're just simple chords G,C,D.

[arbist]

the last song is???

[RoLv92]

can I use this in a bass?

[cromesurfer]

Yep!

[naits95]

@RoLv92 ha that would make my day ;D

[berklez]

not even playing. so fake.

[ThexMetalxWithin]

i laugh at your ignorance

[berklez]

i just acknowledge yours. im not a fucking psychopath.

[ThexMetalxWithin]

aha ur the one that, for no reason at all are saying he's not playing. you have nothing to base that on

[berklez]

these audio clips are from the boss website. the actual boss website! he didnt play these. not to mention the fact that when he clicks the pedal, it doesnt always match up with whats happening. i have this pedal and its part of my usual pedal board so i know a thing or two about how it works. your calling me ignorant was rude and unnecessary.

[towtruckn]

experimentation is where its at :) thats why we've got so much good material from Joe hes always pushing the boundaries to find what sounds good, and this pedal with the 12 string sounds sweet. Thanks Joe! a few more videos with these pedal would be great they are really instructional.

[pitch30320]

fuck it work as a expression pedal? when you push on the boss

[Foo3112]

Hilarious that you pretend that your playing this when its actually a demo off the bossus(dot)com website. Even more funnier is you placing your foot on the pedal pretending like your doing the actual playing. Too funny.

[jetfish777]

yea some guy used this 4 the song jordan by buckethead but i belived he replaced the wah with this

[posiedonpowertrio]

when i tried making a 12 string sound it sounds like my guitar and that i'm punching smurfs in the face

[rhysrox15]

is this a joke? the audio is copied straight from the BOSS website demo....

[KillswitchEngage42]

@rhysrox15 Are you serious? That's hilarious haha

[rhysrox15]

hahahahaha yeh:P watch when he does the tremolo bar pedal thing, you can hear the effect but the guy on this doesnt actually move his foot until he relise that he has to. verrryyyy cheesy video

[ssrrapper]

I found that when I tried to simulate a bass with it (pitch shifter selected / down one octave) it sounds terrible. Like it's out of tune with itself. Anyone else experience this?

[riderdude10]

@ssrrapper

ya same. this isnt the best octaver, it sounds to fake.

[Cucumberslice83]

Wait does this let you change the tuning to like drop c and stuff

[mastershredder93]

wat song is that detune song? or is it made up?

[itallicknot]

Yeah, I have heard before too.

[Lioanimals1977]

This is not an your demo, dude...

You have steal it from the BOSS official web site... It's not true?

[jimfacebinface]

yeh this is the BOSS site demo lol. like exactly the same tones..

[RocknCorruptrepublic]

so basically if my guitar has no whammy bar.. this, or the Digitech Whammy Pedal?

[TheRolfieboy]

THIS. The digitech wammy is a piece of cr*p, to be honest. PS. If you want the guitar to sing, get a tremolo arm or learn to make the sound yourself. Get this only if you want a so-called "dive bomb")

[RocknCorruptrepublic]

oh yeah i defo. want that, do you know if it would end up costing less to install a tremelo arm?

[TheRolfieboy]

For the guitar to sing, you should without a doubt repair the tremolo arm. The PS-5pedal is ONLY for dive-bombs. TIP: It's very good training for your guitar playing to bend yourself (it affects all of the playing you do, not just the bending)

[clokedbigman]

yes it it

[SpeakToMe73]

Whammy all the fuckin way. No question at all.

[WyldeKyle15]

maybe if you can cough up 600 or so for a used WH-1, but the new ones sound empty, especially in a live show.

[ShimmySystem]

Well, this might be one of the best pedals I've ever seen. So many effects into just 1 pedal.

[strife2xlr8]

What was the last song played, it sounds familiar.

[nova0052]

For anyone wondering, the PS-5 can go up or down. The OC-3 goes down only, but can play your original signal plus one and two octaves down simultaneously, and has optional built in distortion.

[dem466]

ah, just read underneath me. can you actually?

[dem466]

can you go up the octave as well as down it for harmonies?

[ErGeR00]

Just great....I want one^^

[NikkoPanther]

Can this pedal drop the tone one octave down?

[PraiseDog]

Same question I am wondering. Would be nice, so as not to have to get OC-3. Maybe you respond if you found answer, or I will,here.

[amarr1]

sure can.

[guitarkingalfie]

yup

[101piesaregood]

best...demo...ever

[100roberthenry]

toys toys toys...toys r us...ha ha...

[Harrysblues]

Would this be a good effect to use on every song? Could you use it on everything you play? How about connect two of them together?

[hooliganSKATE]

can you get good sound playing any type of notes or just major kind of stuff??? would it sound good playing minor scales???

[ShootaFodder]

Yes, you can set it to harmonize in minor keys. :)

[UndergroundHits]

there is a setting to change to major and minor an such

[Robtarded]

i dont know guitar theory, and im great.. dick 4

[thekillers1293]

Cromesurfer, is it true that to use this pedal you must know a lot about guitar theory becuase i want to get this pedal but i don't know guitar theory????????

[cromesurfer]

You have to learn theory just to play the guitar itself,not just to be able to play an effect!.

[thekillers1293]

oh......: \

[cromesurfer]

What I'm try to say is,that the effect give to the guitar a texture to your sound,but if you can play your instrument good but you don't know theory I don't think is not a limit for you to use this pedal or any other kind of pedal effect at all,but sometime and extra knowledge it won't hurt anybody.

[thekillers1293]

yeah true. i'm looking at this pedal because i want to get a 12 string sound.

[Awwa1]

I'm really fond of the Boss Harmonist pedal, which this sort of replaced. I haven't gotten used to the difference yet. I suppose this pedal does more, but I'm not sure if it does what the harmonist did as well as that older pedal.

I have played with the Pitch Shifter enough to have found what you call the Dive Bomber, LOL! That effect is really a lot of fun! I use it on a couple of pieces I posted here on YouTube. "Arizona" is probably the better one. Nice demo, thanks!

Peace,

\A/

[Udyns]

hey can u tell mi ps-5 have a distortion?? cos malmsteen use it so maybe u can tell mi . . . thx

[cromesurfer]

Sure!,if you're talking about harmony,yes you can,this pedal make your guitar sound like two guitars playing at the same time.

[GuiTaRn3rd55]

almost like a whammy bar?

[wsdasda]

i have this pedal i could make it almost sound like bass guitar

[TheHorrorInside]

can you use it to play lower tunings ?

so i can use to tune to D for example ?

[cromesurfer]

I believe so,I haven't try it like that yet.

[tucumalo]

really nice

[mad0elga]

whammy by digitech is way better

[jozh90]

It can't track chords. It depends what you want it for?

[danielatha4]

I got a question about running this pedal as stereo. If you run out of both outputs can you simply use an adapter to convert it back to one cable? would it still be stereo?

Also, I have 6 boss pedals, 3 of which can be run as stereo. I assume running the first as stereo wouldn't be messed up by running the second or third as stereo? or by running through a mono afterward?

[D5RKN3ZZ]

what is the song at 1:10 i like that :D

[mongobongoman]

can this pedal be used to tune down a half step? without tuning down

[adirl17]

No,but you can play one octave below your feturing octave:)

[jbguitarplayer15]

i wanna no is this pedal worth buying

[cromesurfer]

O Yes,I didn't need two amp for this pedal what I done was I used two regular cables in output A and B,but at the end of them I have a spliter like a V shape two female-ends and one male-end.

[FireSiokenStudios]

I have a question about the pedal, can you make your guitar sound go up an octave in pitch? like say youre playin a note. can you make it (the note) go higher with the pedal without plaing a higher fret? If so, then tell me cuz i need a pitch shifter to play surfacing

[danielatha4]

yes, you can go as high as 2 octaves, and as low as 2 octaves

You can use one interval func. (i cant remember the name of) to do non-diatonic intervals such as 1,2,5,7,12 and 24 semitones higher or lower. and then the other option gives you diatonic intervals in a selected key. the intervals for that setting are, lower or higher, 3rds, 4ths, 5ths, 6ths, 1 oct and 2 oct.

[ShimmySystem]

what's the point of the oc-3 if you can use this to go down and up octaves?

[DamageIncM]

Well, I guess that depends on how of the features you would actually use.

Myself, there is no way I'll pay the full price for it since I wouldn't even use half the features of this thing.

Besides, I wouldn't want to keep setting the pedal to another feature every time.

If you use all of it, the price might be worth it, still many of these pedals are quite overpriced though.

If it's worth getting at all as in quality and such... well, it's Boss.

It's good quality even if not perfect overall.

[ToaJoe]

It's the credit crunch, man, what do you expect? It's getting harder and harder to afford these things.

[DamageIncM]

They were already overpriced years ago though.

But that issue doesn't help the pricing today either.

The prices kinda just persist throughout the years, at least in musical equipment.

Which is annoying since this way we can't wait for this stuff to "become cheaper", like with anything else.

Then I still don't understand it, since most stuff does drop massively in price, even more so today.

[AdamDallas]

The only half decent sounding thing on this pedal is the detune sound... the harmony settings are damn awful

[Cutlass253]

Only if you put it before distortion. Otherwise its half decent.

[ozzy9691]

MINE!!!!

[detroidxl]

with the detune mode..

can you like..

detune to like drop C.B.A

and stuff?

[benrox26]

na its just like the detune mode on the digtech whammy, basically just a chorus

[Homieg89]

the tracking is not bad

[742512345689]

i just got this for christmas and whenever i go into to overdrive on my amp it sounds like shit??? do i need a distorition pedal to make that sound good???

[cromesurfer]

Try them at guitar center,they have all the boss pedals in a setup which you can try each of them on any combination with different stomp box you know,distortions,delays,Etc..

or go to boss web site and you can do the same kind of combination with 'em.Thanks.

[benrox26]

hi, im getting this and i wondering where you run this in your chain, after or before distortion??

[Bissmarkpl]

before distortion

[Cutlass253]

No way, you want distortion first, put this thing in the loop after your distortion pedals, otherwise you might as well play both notes on your guitar. You need it to take your distorted signal and shift it from there.

[DaniBcn92]

Cutlass253 all kind of harmonizers, etc.. go before distortion. They need the guitar signal to be as clean as possible.

[basslord777]

most effects go before distortions

[Cutlass253]

no, you can put compressors and wah before distortion, but flange, phase, delay, reverb and any other modulation effect goes after distortion. The last thing you want is to "distort" your effect, what you want is to "effect" your distortion, because your distortion is your base tone.

[basslord777]

srry thats before i knew the daisy chain, my bad, your right

[muzik313]

use a decimator pedal

[IF930]

i am having the exact same problem, so if you find a solution let me know

[spawnofwheezedog]

if your amp has an effects loop run it through there.

[comosdedos]

my question is: Can I use it like a whammy? (I mean, a whammy without the expression pedal)

[cromesurfer]

yes you can as long as you have the expretion pedal for it.

[4darin5]

Thanks a bunch for this video. A lot of other PS-5 videos never really explored the features too well. Especially the bending. This video answered many questions, such as, "What does a cricket sound like?" :)

I just bought one on ebay for $115 (total) and I can't wait to use it.

[shaamjuice]

can this pedal give me the note I am playing on my bass an octave higher? if it cannot, which boss pedal does that effect? to bad the octaver can only go in the lower octaves^^

[cromesurfer]

Yes it does,this pedal is one the best octave and harmonizer out there.

[yadhiebusra]

yeah..i started to learn to U how to set the effect like your as along myself i'm not to often to use stombox effect.

Nice sound i hear. Great U Vinny.

[cromesurfer]

WOW!

My great good friend Yahdie Busra!

Welcome back,I probably send my setup to you by Express mail! LOL xD

Rock On!\m/

[pierrelebatteur]

it's very good sound, the sound comes from the official website BOSS

[cromesurfer]

That is correct! :^D

[pierrelebatteur]

I know all the website as my pocket

[cromesurfer]

So Do I! ;^D

[sanquilo]

Haha so do I lol... but even that, you pulled it out really nice :D

[AlexSongDoesCovers]

Were there any other pedals on at the time? It kinda sounded like it had some chorus effect added on, or is that just the sound it tends to make?

[cromesurfer]

There's not any other pedal effect add to it,The sound and affect are from the pedal itself.

[guitarspark]

u just took the audio from the boss site and filmed urself mukin around with the pedal but with no sound

[cromesurfer]

yeah,you are right,because didn't take me an hour or two to make the video,in just 10 minutes,but I could done it myself,the point was,for the people have an idea how it sound and how to use it on the difference presets.thanks for your comment.

[carlosdlguerra]

First coment:P

yeah its pretty cool what you can do with this little box specialy if you dont have a good bridge to do that dive bomb sound

[cromesurfer]

Thanks!:^D