Aug 012010
Boss OS-2 OverDrive And Distortion
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 List Price: $125.50 Sale Price: $64.98 Availability: unspecified 
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Product Description
Effect Pedal. Made by Boss.
The OS-2 gives you a choice of overdrive or distortion or lets you combine both -- all in a single compact pedal. This integration gives you more options than using serially connected units, and provides hard distortion that maintains the subtle nuances of single-coil guitar pickups.
Details
- Flexible distortion pedal capable of producing blended overdrive/distortion sounds
- Provides both over-the-top distortion sounds and less extreme overdrive tones for rhythm playing
- Input Impedance - 1 M ohms
- Output Impedance - 10 k ohms or greater
- Equivalent Input Noise Level - -100 dBu or less (IHF-A, Typ.)
Rating
I play guitar in a kind of punk band, this pedal is good for those who plays in a band, dont want a lot of pedals, but want them with analog signal, so here you have a nice pedal who combines both overdrive and distortion. The sound when you combine both is very good and dynamic, you can use the color knob to get cool sounds; but when it comes to one effect is not that good. The overdrive has a better sound than the distorion, but when you use the overdrive with low drive the volume of the effect is very poor. As you use the distortion you put the highest pick up of the guitar and put the highest tone on the pedal and the sound is still dark. But at the end is a very good pedal for beginers.
Rating
I first used this pedal when my green screemer died. A friend had and os-2 on hand and let me use it. I had used Boss’s metal zone before and it produced too nasal of a tone for my liking. So I plug into the OS-2 and I was pleasently impressed with the range of distortion and overdrive the OS-2 pedal produced. I play through a ’59 fender bassman and the mix of those tubes with this pedal produce some very sweet tones. I have also played this pedal through a solid state amp and I am still impressed. I have spent years searching for a pedal that could produce a nice tight churnch with a warm and low bottom end, my search ended with this pedal. I highly recomend this pedal to any rock, blues, metal, country, or punk guitar player.
Rating
This pedal was the mainstay of my effects for a few years. It really does have a ton of range, although it only does one effect at a time, so you’d have to reach down and change the knobs mid-show in order to get the other variations. My most commonly used setting was with the overdrive-distortion mix knob at about 2 o’clock, which produces a very professional sounding Grunge-type effect. If you want any of those 90′s sounds, excluding the heavier metal sounds, this pedal will definitely get you there.
Rating
Great product! Everything it said it would live up to.
Shipping was as said, also! Couldn’t ask for more.