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Ok, so my friend catches me with a YELLOW Boss SD-1 last night and can't understand what I use it for. I came to find out that no one there knew what it's for.

To me, there is one 1 known use for it.

For 1000 points and control of the boards, does anyone know what the preferable use is for this pedal in question>? (all stock, no mods)

lol HURRY-HURRY, Step right up.. win a cupie doll if you answer correctly. (not really)

Anyone?

Isn't that the super overdrive?

J-HALEY wrote:Isn't that the super overdrive?

Mine makes a fine paper weight.

I Can't Quit You Baby

I win!

lol Yes it's a distortion unit. Most everyone I know hate em and I would too if I didn't figure out how it's valuable.

HINT: It's not very adjustable and it doesn't do much unless it's used in a specific manner.

There is one very specific situation where it rocks the mfing house.
When do you use it and for what?

Answer in 24 hours..if no one gets it.

Chief Engineer Scott wrote:lol Yes it's a distortion unit. Most everyone I know hate em and I would too if I didn't figure out how it's valuable.

HINT: It's not very adjustable and it doesn't do much unless it's used in a specific manner.

There is one very specific situation where it rocks the mfing house.
When do you use it and for what?

Answer in 24 hours..if no one gets it.

I used mine to get a good blues sound. I would use it with the clean channel on my amp with the strat and I would get a good SRV sound?

RGMixProject wrote:I Can't Quit You Baby

I win!

Hey this is cool the spaceman has me on ignore.

Amen.

I was gonna say flanger.. I was the proud owner of A boss yellow Flanger pedal way back when I used to to scout pawn shops

If the POS is good for anything I'd sure like to know what it is.

Guess I'll have to wait.

RGM I DO NOT HAVE YOU ON IGNORE..the last time I heard your music I liked it. How could I have you ignore? no-no-no-no and no. lol



Ok enough of this..

The Boss SD-1 is the yellow super overdrive and that is the only pedal I am talking about at this time.

If you ever had one you will notice it is a PUSS.
It's barely adjustable, sounds like mud and really doesn't do much in general. That should tell you something right there.

I got invited to a jam session a while ago. I was in over my head, but that's a different story. The point is, while I was there I noticed a guy using a Marshall 2203 head with the boss sd-1.

His tone was really good. I asked him at the end, what the story was and he imparted a little wisdom on me.

"If you use that pedal which in conjunction with an overly loud or uncontrollable amp, you get a situation where you can better color the sound to something akin to a brown sound without going deaf".

It will still be loud as balls, but you can get a better tone using this pedal in conjunction with your loud ass amp and overall it just plain sounds better.

If you take that same amp and try to use a more conventional distortion unit, it becomes overkill and not preferable.

And you have to try this to believe what you get out of it.

Take any amp you consider "too loud" and use this pedal with it.
Marshall heads in general love this pedal and to date I haven't seen a pedal that even comes close. (retch)(sad isn't it?)

I have no idea if this extends to newer Marshall gear but I would be inclined to guess this is not the case.

It's a very simple way to get a classic rock tone, simply and a good one at that !

I used those for 20 years and I really liked them. I actually owned 3 of them one after the other! Never any complaints. Now I own a BB preamp made by Xotic effects and a 78 Badass distortion! Oh and I still have a Boss super overdrive. Just not using it now. If I had room on my board you can bet it would be on there!

I suppose I'll have to try it on my CLASS 5

Sure why not, give it a whirl..

It's really only helped me on 1 problem amp, but the change it made was worth the trip.

Chief Engineer Scott wrote:Sure why not, give it a whirl..

It's really only helped me on 1 problem amp, but the change it made was worth the trip.

Are you kidding me? Cap'n WTF?

Try it, you might like it.

It really only good for an amp that has no master volume and has issues with tone vs volume.

If you have one, you know what I mean.

If you don't, you won't.

The 2203 has a master volume, but it does something a little bit different for that head. More than that, you'll have to experiment a little should you have one lying around collecting dust.

I should add, it's a CLASSIC ROCK tone.