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Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay

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Josh Klinghoffer

In the third photo in this Twitter post, by Dot Hacker, Josh Klinghoffer's Boss PS-3 can be seen.
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Legowelt

"This thing is really freaky"
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Kurt Ballou

Assuming by the color it is rather PS-3 than PS-2.
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Peter Holmström

One can see a Boss PS-3 at 2:59 in [this video](http://intothewoods.tv/learning-curve/episode-6) of Peter showing "how he uses guitar pedals to create the sounds of his solo self-titled debut album."
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Dave Knudson

In this pedalboard photo posted by Knudson on his official Instagram profile, the Boss PS-3 can be seen.
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Fennesz

"I experiment and am always changing things in the studio, but when I play live or begin recording I use the same signal path. I start with a Fender guitar—a Stratocaster or a Jazzmaster, into a Boss FDR-1 Fender Deluxe Reverb pedal, which is a cheap preamp. It goes into a Boss PS-3 Digital Pitch Shifter/Delay pedal. From there the signal goes into my custom distortion box, and then directly into the laptop through an Apogee Duet (in the studio I use the Apogee Ensemble). On the laptop I have the Max/MSP patch, which is like a modeler/sampler/synthesizer thing. From the laptop, I go into a Mackie mixer, which sends a mono signal to an amp and a stereo signal to the house." From an article describe a collaboration between Ian Bellamy and Thomas Strønen.
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Dan Briggs

Briggs took a more svelte approach for his pedalboard on the Coma Ecliptic tour. His stomp station includes a Boss TU-2 tuner, a Wamper Faux Tape Echo (used for a constant warbling tone), an Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synth (ideal for “Tom Sawyer”-ish bass-synth washiness), a Boss DD-3 Digital Delay, Boss TR-2 Tremolo, Boss PS-3 Digital Pitch Shifter/Delay (Briggs’ favorite pedal, which he currently uses as a chorus), and a Darkglass Electronics Duality Fuzz (which replaced a Keeley-modded Ibanez Tube Screamer because the Duality has a mix knob that allows Briggs to keep a more natural tone of low-end fury)
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Stephen Brodsky

> I’m having this love affair with the Boss PS-3 Super Shifter. One thing about playing with a whammy bar is that I really can’t stand constantly going out of tune. For a singer, it’s just about the absolute worst thing you could have to deal with. Those pedals are great because I can avoid using a whammy-equipped guitar. But they are also a rad creative tool.
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Brendan Ekstrom

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Ekstrom used the Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter pedal.
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Amir Derakh

Amir uses a Boss PS-3 pedal, as shown in Guitar Geek's rig diagram](http://www.guitargeek.com/amir-derakh-orgy-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-2000/).
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Dave Depper

In this video, the Boss Pitch Shifter and delay is visible.
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Denver Dalley

A Boss PS-3 can be seen in this video from this point onwards.
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David Hartley

Dave says he uses one in Bassplayer.
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Aaron Hemphill

A Boss PS-3 can be seen in this Instagram photo.
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Miguel Fonseca

" astroflexagram @astroflexagram #pedalboardfreak #shoegaze #guitarporn #spaceecho #electroharmonix #deluxememoryman #bigmuff #mxr #phase90 #dittolooper #bossps3 #smallstone #ravishsitar #twintube #tech21 #sansamp #pulsar #greenmachine #aramateffects #bossdd5 #bosstu #guitareffects #guitarfx #seymourduncan #1spot #geartalk #pedalboard #alienspacebuttons #drugs #toys Foto: @renconde"
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Greg Kubacki

> As far as effects I always have a** Boss PS3** as my first pedal going into a few Lexicon effects processors. I also use the effects in the AxeFX.
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Nik Colk Void

Boss Digital shifter / Delay PS-2, Boss Digital pitch shifter / delay PS-3, Boss Super Feedbacker & Distortion, Boss Digital Delay DD-3m, Boss Equaliser GE-7 As used by: Nik Colk Void
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Mutoid Man

Brodsky’s pedalboard has maintained a similar look throughout his career consisting of mainly Boss pedals, here's a photo we could identify a Boss PS-3.
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Leo Abrahams

"a Boss PS-3 for reverse delays"
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Jeff Caxide

Visible on the talkbass pedalboard pic also, but the label is far more readable on this one
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Matt Hogan

The Boss PS-3 can just about be seen to the left of the Dyna Comp
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Toshiji Mikawa

A Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay can be seen in this gear photo
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An updated version of the PS-2, with more modes and improved DSP. The PS-3 contains both a pitch-shifter and a delay. There is seven pitch shift modes, and three delay modes as well as an expression mode. The pitch shift level is selectable in 26 steps – 24 chromatic steps over a +/- 1 octave range plus 2-octave up-down capability. The delay is up to a maximum of 2000 ms just like the DD-5.

3 Boss PS-3 Pitch Shifter/Delay Reviews

bradflora

358

Sounds like sleeping at the bottom of the ocean

This is a quirky pedal. It has a some nice digital delays and then several pitch shifted delays that get progressively weirder with each preset you try. Weird....and beautiful. Preset 7 is the famous one, a kind of pitch-shifted reverse reverb that sounds incredible when set fully "wet" and detuned one octave. I ran a chord progression out of my Ditto Looper into it...and when I closed my eyes I imagines I was floating just off the bottom of the ocean looking up at the surface. Dark and shifty.

One of the higher presets is either the effect used on the lead part in Radiohead's "My Iron Lung" or dead close to it. Really great pedal.

One quirk, the wet sound is slightly delayed off the dry. This bugs me a bit.

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moogbadger

1733

Crying out for a reissue

If ever there was a BOSS compact pedal crying out for a reissue, it's this beast!

In 1994, as a callow 20 year-old, I blew my student loan on a four track. I has just enough dosh left for one pedal. First I tried the reverb, the RV-3, which was nice. I was about to get that when the bloke in the shop said, 'I think you should try this too.'

I was immediately gobsmacked by it. BOSS had somehow managed to fit a sophisticated rack-mounted 24 bit DSP engine into a guitar pedal. As I skipped through the 11 modes on offer, I realised that it was something of a Swiss Army Knife for the bedroom musician. Three modes gave you standard digital delay, and eight more gave you what were, at the time, groundbreakingly weird pitch and delay effects. It split the signal into two voices, each of which could be shifted independently; so you could do so much stuff with it. Debussy whole-tone cascading fairy ascending motifs; octaver effects; harmonist effects; bass imitations; robotic shimmery electronic noises; reverse delay, useful as a psuedo reverb; chorus-like detunes. And I never even got round to exploring the expression input. If I had, I'd have discovered that it can also be a whammy pedal.

There was so much it could - and still can - do. The only thing I missed was that changing the delay time didn't change the pitch, like on the DD-3. So, you can't do that spiralling feedback thing with it; you'll just get nasty clicks when you change the delay time as the clock gets reset.

But apart from that, this pedal was a masterpiece. It was discontinued in 1999. If there's one pedal I'd like to see BOSS reissue one day, it's this one. I put everything through it! Guitar, drum machine, synth. It made everything sound interesting - almost like a Rainbow Machine before there was a Rainbow Machine. Highly recommended for experimentalists.

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over 1 year ago
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engels

238

Unique and weird

I've got this pedal on my board since the late 90's. It does many interesting things, combining delay and pitch shift. When I go on tour and arrange a minimal pedalboard to saveweight and space it is the only modulation pedal I take. It has a straight ahead digital delay, a digital chorus (detune) and with an expression pedal it can do Whammy too. The most unique mode is # 7 and it combines reverse delay with pitch shift. The resulting shimmering voice is pretty unique and it's the more I use the most. Very versatile and sturdy box, if you like strange noises and weird things - go get it.

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almost 2 years ago
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