Privacy
Guitar Processor Patch Programming Secrets (Boss ME-5)
The Boss ME-5 was a superb quality, pioneering guitar FX unit, with a very simple layout and, chiefly, analogue processing. It incorporat...
The Chorus Effect: Everything You Need To Know
Chorus. What is it? Where did it come from? And how does a musician make the best of it? The chorus effect progressed from being complete...
The Boss Dr. Rhythm DR-550 Drum Machine
Some technology companies of the 1980s were great at ensuring that when you bought from them, you’d never knowingly do so again. Others, m...
The Boss FT-2 Dynamic Filter
The Boss FT-2 Dynamic Filter with an old Boss Pocket Dictionary and a winter 1988 dealer price list. Note that both the FT-2 Dynamic Filte...
The Boss RV-2 Digital Reverb Pedal of 1987
Even if it was possible to pack a high quality digital reverb into a floor pedal before 1987, the product would have been prohibitively ex...
Boss Pedals: Owning the Market in 1988
There was never any doubt that Roland’s Boss effects pedals were greatly desirable. However, through the mid 1980s, neither had there been ...
The Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion in Retrospect
1987… “Okay guys, we got a new effect pedal. It takes the classic Boss distortion sound, and reduces unwanted noise whilst maintaining a...
The Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer
That the Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer has been in production for over a quarter of a century attests to the excellence of its design. ...
Boss PH-2 Super Phaser Pedal
One of the many things the 1970s bestowed upon the world of music was electronic phasing, or phase-shifting. Sonically, this special effec...
The Boss MZ-2 Digital Metalizer
Original UK ad for the Boss Digital Metalizer (early 1988). "Putting the Metal to the Pedal!". The late 1980s couldn’t be accuse...
Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal Pedal
There was a lot going on in the world of music technology in late 1983, but not everyone had been bitten by the new MIDI bug. Those who st...
Boss ME-8 Guitar Multiple Effects
What a box of tricks the Boss ME-8 was. On paper, this Japanese-made multi-FX box from latter 1995 blew the earlier (and historically imp...
Back in the Heyday of... Boss Pedals
I steadily started to discover Boss guitar pedals in 1985, having previously ruled them out of my price range and focused my attention on...
Classic Drive Stomp Boxes Shootout
A pretty tough contest, one might imagine, when three giants from overdrive/distortion history go head to head. Pro Co, Marshall and Boss...
Boss ME-5 Guitar Multi-Effects Unit
Whilst the Boss ME-5 guitar multi-effects unit has served me perfectly well since autumn 1988 when I acquired it brand new, I’ve built up...
The Boss DR-660 Drum Machine
Coming from a period before computers began to dominate the sphere of home recording, the Boss DR-660 serves as a great illustration of t...
Older Posts
Home
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
