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zentropa
Gold Member
USA
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 Posted - 05/12/2008 : 08:48:55
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i thought the XT-2 did a sound that no other boss pedal can do. that being said, it didn't perform well at the low volumes i'm limited to so i sold it to laurie :)
i found another at a local pawn shop the other day for $40 but i didn't pick it up. might still grab it though.
i like to "archive" distortion pedals so that any tone i could think of wanting is available at my fingertips through any style of amp and ideally at any volume.
that means i have a lot of em:
DS-1 MIJ, DS-1 MIT SEM, DS-2 MIJ, OD-1, OD-2 MIJ, OD-3, SD-1 MIJ, SD-1 MIT 5star (pending arrival of germanium transistor), SD-2, HM-2 MIJ, HM-3, MT-2.
i tend to jettison anything that i don't think i'll want to use. last few distortion pedals i got rid of were my XT-2 and PW-2 for failing the low volume test and not really filling a role i felt necessary in my pedal lineup.
i have a bit of overlap going right now and might purge some as soon as i get to crank a few of them at my friend's house. i'm feeling like i have too many and could use the money instead heh.
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In terms of heavier distortion, I think you might be right - They have slightly over-saturated their range with "niche" effects, like the HM and MD/MT/MZ - These seem more like an attempt to find a market within more specialised musical genres. I'm not sure if this really suits Boss.
seems hit or miss a lot of the time. what i've learned over the years from boss is that they often fail to market their pedals correctly, especially in the era after the dod grunge came out with its "butt" "face" "loud" etc. control labels.
the MZ-2 was to battle the rise of the rack head and digital preamp (ADA, digitech, etc.). imo, all kind of sound pootastic if used with a guitar (neat sounds for keyboards though :P )
the HM-2 i felt was right on with metal circa 1979 but doesn't stack up to contemporary metal tones. the HM-3 seemed about 5 years too early or too late (it missed the 80's butt rock and missed the rise of numetal).
i felt the blues driver was targeted at a specific audience...
i guess i believe from a marketing standpoint they have to go after niche audiences in order to sell pedals to the angry 16 year olds. like calling a pedal the metal core... which i guess is supposed to sound like bands that call themselves metal core (a friend of mine was the guitarist in the biggest metal core band on the west coast, botch, from '98-'02 and he basically plugged a gibson into a cranked marshall). at least dunlop hasn't come out with a wah pedal called the "emo-core" that sounds like a crybaby :)
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