A Final Change

In a sea of modded pedals and the introduction of Blue L.E.D's its seems as though every man, dog and small child has fitted a bright Blue L.E.D to there modded & boutique effects pedals.

I'm also to blame for this, as i have many pedals with blues L.E.D's, I even took a soldering iron my old car's dashboard lights and 'Blued it up'.

Seeming the DS1 is famous for being the 'Orange Pedal' I decided on replacing the check indicator to an orange light. lately with my pedals iv been changing the L.E.D to the same colour as the pedal just for a little more streamline look.

Boss DS1 (LED indicator Mod)

The Very First thing i did to my DS1, was to change the Colour of the Status LED. its not really a Mod per say because it does not affect the sound of the pedal in any way, shape or form. However, if we're going the mod this thing we may as well change it and make the pedal a bit more unique.

from the pic below you can see that the original LED is a 3mm Red LED which is fitted to almost all Boss compact pedal. they are cheap and readily available so for a company that produces thousands of pedals per year every penny you can save counts.

I opted to go for a defused 5mm Blue LED that would stand out from the crowd of average DS1's and also stand out on my pedal-board. to get it to fit properly you will have to drill out the original hole with a 5mm drill bit, which is pretty easy to do then you will have to resize the LED stand post to the correct length so that the LED sits in the hole at the right height. once you open up your DS1 it will become clear to what you have to do & this mod only talks about 20 minutes of your time.

As you can see the LED i installed looked like its factory fitted, no need for a holder or Chrome bezel and the result is luminosity of Blue.