Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Disterminator

This is a bent Boss DS-1 distortion. There is a toggle on either side of the unit, an on/off button on the top to the right and a potentiometer on the left. The pot clicks on and off but when it's off, it's sounds the same as it does all the way down. The toggle on the left sometimes kills the signal but it's fairly unpredictable. You can obviously engage it again by flipping the toggle back. I got rid of the stopper on the distortion knob that prevents it from being turned 360 degrees. This is so you can quickly jump from full distortion to minimal distortion without having to flip the knob all the way back around. It makes for quick changes and more cut-up sounds. The bends I did were pretty crazy so there is definitely an element of unpredictability with it's functionality. The pedal works and sounds different when off. The LED no longer works. I am robbing it of it's power with one of the bends I did. This pedal works it's best in a hot feedback loop, such as a headphone loop in a mixer, and it's not something you would run a low signal through (such as a guitar or voice). Tip: pressing the red button on the back rapidly makes some bad-ass chaotic shit happen.
Sound sample. (Updated!)

SOLD

No comments:

Post a Comment