Well the goodies have arrived the CS-1 box is much better in person than it looked in the pic my review of the CS-1 however...unusable! the thing just sounds to compressed no matter where you set it, of course I had no intentions of it being on my board anyway it is purely for my collection. It's not bad with distortion but clean it's just not workable for me. The CS-3 sounds better and I have never tried the CS-2 so no opinion there. The PH-1 is pretty cool but not gonna have SS pedals on my board for daily use. I haven't tried the DSD-2 but I have the DSD-3 and they are supposed to be exactly the same I wouldn't think they would be much use other than a delay pedal with only 8/10ths of a sec sample time bout the only thing you could loop would be one quick chord strike or something not sure how useful that would be
on the DSD-2 you can grab whatever is being delayed and turn it into the sample by turning the mode knob quickly while the delay is playing. From there you can repeat that note/spike/chord whatever you want.. it's the kind of pedal you want at arm's length, not on the floor.
Sten: I paid a high 'market' price for the PH-1r, but I'm happy with it. I've backed myself into a corner somewhat (actually, massively so) in that I only buy new stuff. With pedals, that puts me in the position of buying NOS 'collectors' items when what I want is just a pedal to play. In any case, I paid less for a gem mint silver screw (which I will promptly change out) unplayed PH-1r than many of the current twins go for. Not so bad from that point of view. Boxes are hard to keep in great shape.
Fair enough, certainly if your limiting yourself to only new examples of 30+ year old pedals its not going to be cheap.
I on the other hand usually can't resist, from the minty fresh to the barely recognisable gig rash specials.
Got GAS?
Posted - 04/23/2009 : 22:17:09
