4 Boss DS-1 Style Pedals (Boss DS-1, Keeley Ultra Mod, Mooer Ultra Drive MkII, MXR '78 Distortion)

A thorough comparison of the classic 1978 Boss DS-1 Distortion pedal, one mod, and two clones of that mod. Boss DS-1 Distortion Arguably the most popular distortion pedal of all time, certainly Boss&best-selling pedal ever. Used by everyone you like from Kurt Cobain to Stevie Ray Vaughan. Keeley Seeing Eye + Ultra mods One of Robert Keeley&earliest and most famous pedal mods. Replaced many of the components with ones of higher quality, lowered the noise floor, and put the pedal&original red LED into a clipping circuit (you can see it clipping in the &under the Tone control). The Ultra mod (switching the toggle down) is designed to give that &of Marshall amplifiers&tone. MXR Custom Badass &Distortion Reportedly a copy of Keeley&DS-1 mods, and it certainly sounds identical (it even has a Keeley-ish blue LED for it&Crunch button). In it&&mode it&very similar to the Seeing Eye mod, and selecting &sounds very much like the Ultra mod. Mooer Ultra Drive MkII Three modes - &cloning the original DS-1, right down to its volume drop; &cloning the Keeley Ultra mod; and &which is something of Mooer&own devising, &high gain distortion&apparently. Gear: Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster (bridge pickup) Ammoon Stereo Looper Boss Katana 50w amp (Clean channel) mic&with a Sennheiser e609 into a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Recorded in GarageBand, edited in Final Cut Pro X