The Boss DS-1 Pedal has been around for decades and gives us a rather basic distortion tone for todays standards. most people will buy the pedal thinking they can pull off all there favorite bands distorted tones, however, after some tweaking the control knobs in time as our ear develops the pedal seems to sound a little thin and we notice its more like a one trick pony.
Now, this is not a bad thing the pedal does what its designed to do and back in the day that distorted tone was cutting edge. The Pedal is a good sound for what it is and we can't expect it to perform miracles. After all its an old design and sells for roughly $40 USD street price.
So, what do you when you have outgrown your DS-1 or have received a DS1 for a gift and like the general gist of the tone but wish it could be a little more on the bass side, more mid heavey or a little more modern. well.... you modify the circuitry & get what you want.
If you know how to use a soldering iron the battle is almost won, changing out parts/components is a simple task and can give you exactly what you want the revive the old DS-1 Distortion pedal.
I started this blog so that i could document the various changed My DS-1 pedal has gone through to keep track of exactly what i have done for future reference in case i need to change anything back. I also decided to do this as a blog so aspiring modders can learn from my mistakes & Success to keep an online reference on the various mods i find along the way.
In my next blog i'll provide a few links to other peoples mod pages so we can get started on our journey to modify a Boss DS-1 Distortion Pedal.
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