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Boss Distortion DS-1

  • 02-06-2009 07:46PM
    #1
    dream brother
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭


    have this pedal years, recently gave it to a mate who kindly dropped his guitar on it!


    <b>Its not working</b>


    Changed the battery in it hopefully that it might have been that, but alas!!

    Repairable!! Any one know how??


Comments

  • #2
    Fingers Mcginty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,607 ✭✭✭Fingers Mcginty


    Is the LED working?


  • #3
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    boss pedals dont break so give it a shake

    that ryhmes so it must work


  • #4
    dream brother
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭dream brother


    -=al=- wrote: »
    boss pedals dont break so give it a shake

    Thats some funny stuff :)

    Yeah the LED is lit when i plug in the two guitar leads!!


  • #5
    A7X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭A7X


    Is there anything noticably different about it?


  • #6
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    -=al=- wrote: »
    boss pedals dont break

    That's what I always assumed.


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  • #7
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    actually now that i think of it ive a boss harmonizer downstairs with the led on it permanently on

    hmm


  • #8
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Is it the HR-2 Harmonizer ?


  • #9
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    tis... old school eh!?


  • #10
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    Yeah, don't think you see many of them around. Always fancied trying one actually.

    I don't know where in Dublin you'd get effects pedal repairs. Doubt any of the guitar shops would . That Aladdin's Amp fella might be able to help.


  • #11
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,325 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    yeah out of production a few years the boss ps-5 replaced them, ive both, and the hr-2 isnt even in my chain anymore so cant be bothered really! but theres far more superior harmonists/pitch shifters out there


    this one is the bees knees

    http://ftp.eventide.com/ljdl/www/PitchFactorDemo.html


    the digitech harmonyman is cool also


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  • #12
    rcaz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭rcaz


    -=al=- wrote: »
    this one is the bees knees

    http://ftp.eventide.com/ljdl/www/PitchFactorDemo.html

    I saw a video for that a while ago, I had to pick my jaw up off the floor afterwards :eek:


  • #13
    dream brother
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭dream brother


    sugarman wrote: »
    Try a psu, i had an OC2 that got thrown around alot and eventually stopped running on batteries but the LED came on like yours.

    Cool, i'll try that and see!! Cheers!


  • #14
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    The DS-1 sounds horrible out of the box. If it needs repairing you should have it modded while you're at it. Improves the sound no end.

    I know someone who does it. PM me if interested.


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