So, Ii know I'm several years out on this thread...but I just ordered one to run through my solid state Orange 2x12. I love that this demo is on the Cube!. The stores don't have a lot of options, it's difficult to test, and everyone online uses over the top high end amps to demo products! This feels like the most honest demo I've seen in a long time! Thank you!
This sounds a lot better than the current DS-1. It's the type of tone that would usually require modding one. Perhaps BOSS made this in response to all of the DS-1 modders out there! As I type this, there's a friend of my dad's playing through an Ibanez DS-7 box for distortion. I love that thing! Glad I bought it over a DS-1 at the time (early 2000's)! The JRC4558 op amp makes a difference in the tone. No modding needed! I use it for heavier blues, rock and hard rock tones. Cleans up really well in low to mid gain settings, maybe up to 75% gain. I sometimes boost that with a Behringer Tube Overdrive, which also has the JRC op amp. As someone else said, it comes down to the player eventually.
You have to admit that John is really versatile. He's totally nails all styles. I thought he was just a Nashville guy doing country stuff but his rock thing is cool.
It looks like a Roland GX, not sure if the 20 or 80 model. I wouldn't doubt it if the sound is coming straight from it though. Reminds me of the video Rob Chappers did where he played out of a mystery amp and everyone thought it was some fancy boutique amp, only to reveal at the end that it was a Roland Cube!
***** Honestly i think when you're using words like "Marshamallowy" to describe the tonal difference between SS and Digital you are seriously reaching. We're talking clean tones here too, from the amp itself so there won't be much difference.
***** OK. You seem pretty unaware of how much modelling has come since the days of the POD2.0, or how much timbre can variate regardless of the technology used.
***** I was 14 in 2000 too! The Cubes, aside from the very early models, all digital modelling and it's newest gen modelling too. And there have been great sounding SS amps for a long time, some of them even sound very like tube amps.
"The DS1 has been through a lot of remodels". I don't think boss has changed the schematic since '78. People have modded the crap out of this thing but not boss, aside from cap materials...
I think he's referencing the Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion, Boss DF-2 Super Distortion Feedbacker, and Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion. Those were other orange Boss distortion pedals.
"So Boss went all in on this new line, this is not a limited edition, this is a special edition, they're bringing it to the next level." This means NOTHING. But in the pedal's defence, it does sound good here being used in conjunction with a $2000-$3000 guitar.
You people are shit talking everything pg does no matter what it is. The quality sounds fine, the amp sounds fine. The pedal, well ds pedals were never my thing, but you know what I'm saying.
Geez relax people! If you don't like it,don't buy it! Go spend $250 on a boutiqe pos that won't make you play any better,but man it sure does impress the other "guitar players!" Boss has been laying down bullet proof shit for years,& were the top of the heap back in the day..A great player can get tone from the shittiest gear,but a shit player can't get tone from top shelf gear..."So,lighten up,& find a groove!
I agree! Years ago, when I first heard King's X, I didn't know until much later that Ty Tabor was using one of the lesser USA made mid 80's Strats, and modified Gibson Lab Series amps to get his tone from that period! He had great tone then, and still does now. Even when he relied on Line 6 gear for much of it, he had great tone with that stuff. I think he's one a handful guitarists that was an early adopter of using amp sims in a professional setting. He has since gone old school, using tube amps. Maybe one day, he'll use one of those Kemper profiling amps!
So, Ii know I'm several years out on this thread...but I just ordered one to run through my solid state Orange 2x12. I love that this demo is on the Cube!. The stores don't have a lot of options, it's difficult to test, and everyone online uses over the top high end amps to demo products! This feels like the most honest demo I've seen in a long time! Thank you!
yeah so PRS+cube amp+boss distortion= crappiest sound you can get with 2k
Clever comment!
This sounds a lot better than the current DS-1. It's the type of tone that would usually require modding one. Perhaps BOSS made this in response to all of the DS-1 modders out there!
As I type this, there's a friend of my dad's playing through an Ibanez DS-7 box for distortion. I love that thing! Glad I bought it over a DS-1 at the time (early 2000's)! The JRC4558 op amp makes a difference in the tone. No modding needed! I use it for heavier blues, rock and hard rock tones. Cleans up really well in low to mid gain settings, maybe up to 75% gain. I sometimes boost that with a Behringer Tube Overdrive, which also has the JRC op amp. As someone else said, it comes down to the player eventually.
I'd like to hear one of these into a nice tube amp.
You have to admit that John is really versatile. He's totally nails all styles. I thought he was just a Nashville guy doing country stuff but his rock thing is cool.
I didn’t know John was in the Misfits
Model prs?!!
Did you use the recording-out on the cube? What model is it? Souds great for a solidstate amp!
It looks like a Roland GX, not sure if the 20 or 80 model. I wouldn't doubt it if the sound is coming straight from it though. Reminds me of the video Rob Chappers did where he played out of a mystery amp and everyone thought it was some fancy boutique amp, only to reveal at the end that it was a Roland Cube!
Is the cube one if the better digital amps?
***** Honestly i think when you're using words like "Marshamallowy" to describe the tonal difference between SS and Digital you are seriously reaching. We're talking clean tones here too, from the amp itself so there won't be much difference.
***** OK. You seem pretty unaware of how much modelling has come since the days of the POD2.0, or how much timbre can variate regardless of the technology used.
***** I was 14 in 2000 too! The Cubes, aside from the very early models, all digital modelling and it's newest gen modelling too. And there have been great sounding SS amps for a long time, some of them even sound very like tube amps.
"The DS1 has been through a lot of remodels". I don't think boss has changed the schematic since '78. People have modded the crap out of this thing but not boss, aside from cap materials...
I think he's referencing the Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion, Boss DF-2 Super Distortion Feedbacker, and Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion. Those were other orange Boss distortion pedals.
The op-amp has changed several times since the original design. I believe the current DS-1 is the fifth revision of this circuit.
If this is their example of going "all in"... Then, I think some bad news is waiting for boss! -___-
Johnny beans the man!
Who is this pedal for? Seriously.
You can tell BOSS has some serious clout ($$$$$)... when's the last time John's complimented the knobs on any other pedal?
"So Boss went all in on this new line, this is not a limited edition, this is a special edition, they're bringing it to the next level."
This means NOTHING. But in the pedal's defence, it does sound good here being used in conjunction with a $2000-$3000 guitar.
And a crappy amp so it's pretty balanced ^^
what has price of guitar got to do with it? a guitar doesn't have to cost 3 grand to sound good.
mantovannni Agree !
John you should go tryout for Supernatural tv series
The dynamic range is not that much...
You people are shit talking everything pg does no matter what it is. The quality sounds fine, the amp sounds fine. The pedal, well ds pedals were never my thing, but you know what I'm saying.
Geez relax people! If you don't like it,don't buy it! Go spend $250 on a boutiqe pos that won't make you play any better,but man it sure does impress the other "guitar players!" Boss has been laying down bullet proof shit for years,& were the top of the heap back in the day..A great player can get tone from the shittiest gear,but a shit player can't get tone from top shelf gear..."So,lighten up,& find a groove!
I agree! Years ago, when I first heard King's X, I didn't know until much later that Ty Tabor was using one of the lesser USA made mid 80's Strats, and modified Gibson Lab Series amps to get his tone from that period! He had great tone then, and still does now. Even when he relied on Line 6 gear for much of it, he had great tone with that stuff. I think he's one a handful guitarists that was an early adopter of using amp sims in a professional setting. He has since gone old school, using tube amps. Maybe one day, he'll use one of those Kemper profiling amps!
John can rip, that is sick. But man, it sounds digital and crap... And through a solid state amp? Really? He can shred face tho!
The pedal and the amp sound pretty good. You’re just a snob that’s hearing what he wants to hear
It still sounds like a crappy Boss distortion from the 80's.
That half volume sound isn't very good... and please..please use a real guitar amp next time.
All latest pedals from boss are just digital shit. Won't buy anything, never.
Almost any dirty channel of an amp sounds better than this... Years of research for this? Too bad... :|