mathias_teixeira

Well, I have to admit I purchased the DS1 because I am a huge fan of John Frusciante's playing, and the DS1 is a huge part of his sound on RHCP in quite a few songs. I must say, I haven't been able to make it sound "great" as I thought I would have, It sounds either too bright or too muffled, and I really dislike the clipping on it. Although I have to admit it is a great distortion to just play raw punk rock stuff on.

This is a good reliable piece of gear. It's there, it works, you plug it into your computer, plug a guitar or a mic into it, set the levels so there's no clipping, plug headphones or monitors to it, and there you go. There are a few cons to it though. First of all, there hasn't been a driver update in a while, so running it on Win 10 may be unstable, I tried it though, on FL Studio 11 and it worked. It DID give me trouble with USB 3.0, it seems to be incompatible, so if that's your only usb input you're fucked. Also, I would have loved for it to have a level indicator, like a bar kind of thing, it just turns on a green light when it detects a signal, and a red one when it clips, I would've liked one of those graphic indicators that go from green to red like I've seen on other interfaces. It is a good interface, and as I said before it's just one of those pieces of gear that just sits there and works once you have it set up correctly.

My first guitar, I LOVE IT, the freatboard feels the most natural to me after having played Fenders and PRS's but of course it's because I grew up with it haha. I am now playing a washburn as my main guitar. I can highly recommend it to ANY begginer, but it's not much more than that, an awesome starter guitar.

It's a cool Dual Channel Distortion/Overdrive Channel 1 goes from clean to hard rock, it's present on the mid range and it's more of an overdrive. Channel 2 Is a distortion, goes from clean to high gain metal. Only one channel can be on at a time. Both channels feature independent level controls and share a tone knob which adds or cuts highs. Also there's the ISF which lets you go from american voicing to british voicing and every place inbetween. It's an amazing pedal, it has a high quality buffer that really helps the fact that I have an unmoded vox wah in the chain. It is NOT true bypass (duh) It also has two high luminosity LED lights one green for channel 1 and one red for channel 2. Cool pedal, it's where all my dirty tones come from.

What else do you need? Well you need it to be silent and if there's some weird electric shit going on you need it to shut down. This thing does both, I honestly don't remember the spects, but I power a Vox Delaylab, a Digital Phaser, a Wah, an MXR Chorus, a OD/Distortion Pedal and an Analog delay and it does wonders. Zero Noise, Argentina Made, Inexpensive (well not that much, a bit over 100 dollars) Awesome.

It's a cool wah, I like it better than the Crybaby pedals, you can tweak the range same way as in a Crybaby, and in my opinion it's a bit nicer sounding when you're on the lower position (less high frequencies) It's a wah, what can I say?

This thing is Amazing, the quality of the repeats, the coloration on the sound. You can create incredible musical landscapes with this, and as I said, it has A MILLION SOUNDS inside. Plug it in, fuck around with the knobs, it can go anywhere to slapbacks to long psychedelic delays. It has modulation too, and it can go all the way from subtle musical, to unusable 8 bit sounding stuff, I love this pedal, it will stay in my board forever.

It sounds great, it's a super high quality effect... What can I say? But it gets boring, it only has one knob and it gets... well, boring. I like to mess around with stuff, and don't get me wrong, you can get all from shimmery choruses from the 80's, to come as you are, to some rotary speaker sounding stuff with this pedal, but it only has one knob. What you see is what you get, and what you get is a great sounding pedal with a cool range of sounds, but you won't get an original chorus sound with this.

Dual Channel (One Clean, One Dirty) 65 Watt, Solid State, Independent EQ on Each Channel, Spring Reverb, Celestion Speaker. The clean channel is really clean and transparent, responds REALLY nicely to pedals, I get all my overdrive/distortion sounds from a Blackstar LT Dual pedal and the clean channel responds great to it! It sounds good for those REALLY clean things, but don't expect it to break up, it doesn't. The Dirty Channel is alright, on low gain settings, it gets fizzy with the drive knob over 5, it's usable for cleans that are breaking a little, bluesy sounding stuff, for rock it may work, for metal it's too fizzy in my opinion. It's a nice gigging amp, it's LOUD, it's also good for practice, but the speaker starts sounding really nice with the volume around 3 or 4 which is not very Apartment Friendly, I use it with the volume on 1 on my apartment, and if it's late at night i'll back up the volume on my pedals, it is loud. If you can break this motherfucker, I'll buy you a beer, it's indestructible.