Stock Boss DS-1 vs Keeley SEM vs Analogman Pro Mod

This video goes with a post on www.guitartoneoverload.com about the Boss DS1 and its various mods.

Three DS1 were used: stock, keeley SE mod and Amalogman Pro Mod.

Basic tone is 1974 fender champ with a Boss DD-3 delay and a BOSS RV-3 reverb, settings as follow:

RV-3 settings: Mode 9 (ROOM2), R.TIME 12 o'clock, TONE 9 o'clock, Balance 11 o'clock

DD-3 settings, mode 800ms, D.TIME 11 o'clock, E.LEVEL 11 o'clock, Feedback 10 o'clock.

The DS-1 were plugged before the delay and the reverb. The reverb was last in chain.

The guitar used is a Gibson SG 61 Reissue with stock pickups. Only the bridge pickup was used in this video.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Boss
• DS-1
• Keeley
• Analogman
• Gibson
• SG
• 61
• reissue
• Fender
• Champ
• DD-3
• RV-3

[TheRealRayJ]

@rbigeard: First off, thanks for your vids. They're very consistent which helps a lot. I was wondering how little gain the Analogman DS-1/Pro can produce with a Strat with the 'DIST' knob on 0? Is it in OD-3 land or is it already pretty heavy? Thanks!

[rbigeard]

@TheRealRayJ With the dist know on 0, it is in overdrive territory i.e. not so heavy. It's a pretty good "blues" sound

[THEGUYD0WNTHESTREET]

The keeley mod sounds clearer and for some reason the stock seems compressed but real dirty.

[rbigeard]

@THEGUYD0WNTHESTREET That's right, the mods tend to clean up the tone which might not be what you want.

[ChickenFaeces]

@rbigeard

haha, yeah, thanks for reading my long ass post. But, yeah, if you could shed some light then I'd be really grateful.

[rbigeard]

@ChickenFaeces Hi, no I don't recall the tones on incesticide. I will give it a listen!

[ChickenFaeces]

@rbigeard

I dunno if you've ever listened to the Incesticide album, and I understand that it seems pretty stupid to be talking about tone chasing in terms of Nirvana, but there's a sound that Cobain gets on a few of those tracks that I love. I've never heard guitar tone described this way before, but if I think of it as human voice, it seems like most basic distorted tones come from the back of the mouth. On a few tracks, it sounds like Cobain gets more "front of the mouth" tones. How?

[rbigeard]

@Preludiumi Well it goes to show you that tastes differ and that to some people the stock version sounds better. Personally my favorite is the Analogman.