Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

In yesterday's review I went over a few tones with the Analogman modified Boss DS-1. When I got this pedal I had an odd chance to see another guitar player who was feeding an OCD into the Analogman. He said the tone was sustain forever with harmonic overtones.

So I pulled out the OCD

and fed it into the Analogman

and away we went.

Follow up:

To refer back to yesterday, here was the clean tone from the Ibanez Jem into the rectifier clone

http://burlapandblues.com/bluesblog/analogman/clean.mp3

I started with a test run of the OCD at a medium level
http://burlapandblues.com/bluesblog/analogman/ocdmod.mp3

and then I turned the OCD up to 90% and gave it another test run
http://burlapandblues.com/bluesblog/analogman/ocdhigh.mp3

One thing to quickly notice, as the OCD gives creamy sustain, there is a lack of harmonic overtones.

So I cascaded the effects and made the first recording.
http://burlapandblues.com/bluesblog/analogman/bothmod.mp3

Definitely can hear harmonic overtones with a great and creamy not grainy sustain that has been produced. There is a little compression that is naturally created by the cascading of these pedals, but not to bad for a high gain set up.

I then went overboard..

I turned both of the pedals up to 95%

http://burlapandblues.com/bluesblog/analogman/bothexcess.mp3

That was not pleasant at all. Tons of sick sustain at the expense of something... like tone...

There was a point I discovered that the harmonics that were created by the Analogman disappeared. The Analogman is a sensitive pedal, but not one that I would call touchy, just has to be set right.

For more information about the Analogman, you can find it here
http://www.buyanalogman.com/Boss_DS_1_Pro_p/am-boss-ds-1-pro.htm
and here http://www.analogman.com/boss.htm#DS1

Great distortion pedal. The unanswered mod questions are how well do they stand up to gigging, do they all sound the same? I may never find out because I only have one of each. My Keeley has stood up to gigging quite well, we will see if the Analogman is the same.