I would say that the emulaton is very accurate. I haven't A-B tested against the Fender amps like they did in the NAMM videos but I have tested against the Pod XT emulation and much prefer the FDR and FBM. I've tested a lot of COSM devices and these are the most accurate I've tried so far.
My opinion is that FBM-1 is very close to the real Bassmans Iīve tested, but the pedal has more dirt when cranked (not a bad thing). FDR-1 is also close but I think the reverb sucks a bit. When using these pedals itīs very important to use a clean amp with good headroom and quite a bit of volume. I think they sound better in tube amps, as the tubes warms up the digital stuff (or something...), but I have used them with solid states amps with good result. I like both of them very much and I suppose they are going to be very collectable in a couple of years, I have a suspicion/feeling that Fender will stop the collaboration after a while. No reason for this but I have a feeling....
I think that they will collaborate as long as sales stay robust. They come with a fairly high price tag, one that could make a fair down payment on a real fender twin for some one who doesn't have a tube amp already.
Guitar World and Guitar Player magazines both gave pretty positive reviews of both pedals over the last couple of months. Some good info in each review.
Boss Fender Pedals
Posted - 07/24/2007 : 14:54:09
