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Boss SD-1
The SD-1 Super Overdrive is the second overdrive pedal made by the Boss Corporation. Released in 1981, and produced continuously since, the SD-1 was an update to the brand's groundbreaking List of distortion pedals#Boss OD-1 Overdrive, OD-1 Overdrive, adding a tone control and refining its predecessor's circuit for slightly more gain and aggression in its voicing. The changes made the SD-1 especially popular within the growing hard rock and Heavy metal music, heavy metal subgenres upon its release, with guitarists frequently using it to boost already-overdriven amplifiers like the Marshall JCM800 into even higher-gain sounds. The SD-1's design has remained unchanged since its debut, and it remains a Guitar pedalboard, pedalboard staple among both amateur and professional players. History Following the releases of the MXR Distortion+ and List of distortion pedals#DOD Overdrive 250 Preamp, DOD Overdrive 250 Preamp, both of which combined newly-available op amps with hard-clippin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boss Corporation
Boss is a manufacturer of Effects unit, effects pedals for electric guitar and bass guitar. It is a division of the Roland Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer that specializes in musical equipment and accessories. For many years Boss has manufactured a wide range of products related to effects processing for guitars, including "compact" and "twin" effects pedals, multi-effect pedals, electronic tuners and Guitar pedalboard, pedal boards. In more recent times, Boss expanded their product range by including digital studios, rhythm machines, Sampler (musical instrument), samplers and other electronic music equipment. From the mid-2010's, Boss has also made digital signal processing (DSP)-based amplifier modeling, modeling amplifiers and speaker heads such as the Waza and the Boss Katana, Katana. These digital products also feature multi-effects units emulating classic Boss effects pedals. History The earliest Boss product was called ''B-100 The Boss'', released in 1974. This cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
