Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion Pedal

Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion Demo

I bought this 2 years ago now, it's alright but I don't know, it sounds nowhere near as good as my DS-1 I like that ''Turbo'' switch which is basically a mid boost but, it's a good idea but honestly with my amp it sounds awful, heard it does from a few people actually so maybe not just me. Considering its basically a DS-1 it has abit of a different sound, its not quite so metallic sounding when you get past 12 o clock on the tone but it generally doesn't sound anywhere near as good as my DS-1. It is very loud though, very

Its a very good effect pedal, however it got its weak spots but its very useful and dirty anyways! I like playing it, the sounds harmonize with a lot of genres and its defiantly a masterpiece

Maybe I have a bad unit, or maybe my DS-1 is a unicorn pedal that just sounds amazing. But my DS-2 has never really impressed me. I tried it for months on my pedalboard, listening to others about how superior it is. But finally decided to try my DS-1 again and bang remember why I loved the DS-1 so much. This pedal is just so blah in comparison.

I used to have this on my teenager times. No w I got it again, it has that grunge particular sound from Nirvana I like. Easy to use a and a very decent range of distortion.

This is one of those pedals that should come with a "danger" warning stamp or something. It's a powerful, brutal, raw distortion pedal and if you like to plunge your music into heavy choruses, buy one. I use it for crunch and sound really fat.

Mode 1 is really good when you crank the distortion and tone past 1:00 and gets compressed and mid-rangey in the turbo mode. I use it as a boost for a little bit of grit. I would definitely recommend to anyone.

I'm using the DS2 as my high gain option. This orange stompbox caught my intention due to Dani California's (The Red Hot Chili Peppers) sound.

It is a very easy to use pedal, with a very responsive tone knob, you can get a really huge amount of different sounds, especially when you factor in the turbo mode. The turbo mode it's something else! It gives you a mid frequency boost, and it makes it super easy to get a very sharp tone. When paired with an high gain level it almost sounds like a fuzz. Going back to it's DS1 mode, it does pretty much just that... a standard THICK distortion. Keep in mind that in either mode we are talking DISTORTION here, this baby really packs a punch

The pedal looks great and it feels great.

On a personal note, I think that it does not respond all that well to OD boosting... and that kinda bugs me.

A great distortion pedal - if you have a good amp. This pedal is great if your amp is quality. For a few months it was operating fine, but then the battery part stopped working. I tried many different 9v batteries, and even different companies of 9v batteries, but it would not work (the whole pedal.) A friend also suffered this problem. Now I have it plugged into a 9v cord.

The only thing that isn't too great is that when running it through my Mesa Boogie Preamp, there's quite a large volume drop between the clean and distorted channels when I'm playing at high volumes.

This was my first pedal. I use this whenever I want to get a Kurt Cobain tone.

un perfetto distorsore con un suono pieno e bilanciato grazie ai potenziometri dei toni e della distorsione nonche il turbo distortion che mette ltteralmente il turbo alla distorsione. Ottimo per tutti i generi e molto dinamico.

testing my new Setup for my Fender Mustang

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The DS-2 features twin Turbo modes. Turbo Mode I produces warm and mellow distortion with flat frequency response. Turbo Mode II provides biting distortion with a mid-range boost that's great for leads.

i like how she creating a dirty distortion sound...

I basically stole my brother's after he stepped away from guitar and I've loved it since. The tone seems better than with my DS-1 and the extra knob really lets you turn it up to 11 and makes feedback control a little easier (which, for musicians such as myself, can be essential in playing certain songs)

its very good. you have two modes and both are very usefull

The added Turbo knob is really handy, because it gives you that little bit extra power.

The DS-2 Turbo Distortion Pedal features twin modes for an expanded range of distortion - taking users from blues-rock rhythms to searing leads at the press of a pedal or twist of a knob.to cater to players of all genre's, the Boss DS-2 Turbo incorporates 2 different fundamental types of distortion selectable by the player. The basis for these models comes from the classic Boss distortion tone engine.urbo mode 1 on the DS-2 produces a really warm, mellow sounding distortion coupled with a flat frequency response, perfect for a good distortion that wont mess with your EQ settings.Turbo mode 2 fires up the mid-range to deliver a biting lead tones for delivering huge solo's that will lift out of the mix.

A great pedal for solos. The tone with the right gear can be rounded up to sound rich and full. It is a bit noisy, but worth it.

Multitude of drives can be created with this Boss. You who have a Marshall, tried plugging the output in the Remote? Try it, please. You will be amazed.

Amazing distortion for good price. I really like this one.

i love this pedal..:D to make some unique distortion..(y)

GRRUNGEEE TONEZZZZZ -yeah a must have for anything Nirvana or Hole related, or even Red hot chilli peppers... good for fuzz when used with a distorted amp!

I use it to boost solos and to play grunge songs.

It has a very warm sound, you can use the knobs to get a overdrive and distortion and using the turbo 2 mode you can get a fuzz tone

Great distortion

TBH, I got this because I loved the sound Kurt Cobain got from it. But It's way underrated I feel. I think you can easily get get 'metal' tone out of it as well. So don't go buying a metal pedal. This one is more versatile.

I've had an ambiguous relationship with overdrive and distortion throughout my life. I'm basically a shoegazer at heart, and in the 1990s I shied away from it as it was associated in my mind with 'big hair' and metal acts. I now realise, of course, that all my favourite shoegazers were distortion freaks; the effect sounds very different when it's syphoned through oodles of reverb and echo and modulation.

We live in the era of the boutique overdrive/distortion pedal now, with brands like Earthquaker, Way Huge and Wampler being particularly highly-regarded in this field. The humble BOSS distortions - the DS-1 and similar - are seen as being a bit cheap and nasty these days, beginner's pedals. However, I was so impressed by the Boss SD-1 that I decided to give the DS-2 a try.

I really like it! I was looking for a fierce, crunchy, but clean and controllable distortion that WASN'T also a 'fuzz', as the EHX Little Big Muff pretty much gives me all the fuzz I could ever want. I tried - and really liked - the MXR Super Badass distortion, but alas, it was just too pricey for me (money is tight at the moment). I think this is a good pedal for half the price. And actually, thinking about it, those early 90s shoegaze bands just used BOSS distortions; that was all they had access to in the days before the internet and the boutique pedal explosion (not strictly true; there was the RAT, but not many shops stocked even EHX pedals back then, it was before the renaissance in EHX's catalogue). So, in many ways, if you are influenced by the sounds of The Cranes, Slowdive, Ride and Lush, this pedal will give you that early 90s distortion sound!

I used to have a handmade Crowther Hotcake, and admittedly it sounded better than this. But it broke down, alas. This fills the gap. If it was good enough for Kurt Cobain, Bernard Butler and Prince, it's good enough for me. It sounds good with my set-up, which is a good Telecaster into a Vox Valvestate amp. Some people say it's too bright, which may be true with their rigs. I suppose distortion comes down to personal taste, but I like this pedal.