PC-2

I've thrown everything through this. Seriously. From a Korg Mini Pops 3 to a 606 to a Waldorf Q to my Solina organ. Contrary to some opinions this thing doesn't just make bleeps and bloops although it seems that way when you first start playing with it. It can make so much more but I didn't realize it until I downloaded the manual. It can make killer bass drums, wood block sounds, bells, whatever. The manual shows exactly how to set it for a variety of sounds and it also showed that it is a very sensitive machine. Turning the knobs the slightest can completely transform the sound. It can be noisy or very clear. And warm. The analog noise is wonderful and only enhances your basslines and bass synths. It's noise is better and warmer than most of the noise generators on my other synths. If you have the sensitivity up really high with a loud signal going through it creates crazy feedback and loops. Also with the sensitivity high you can just rub the pad to get really quivvering sounds. I rub it lightly with a pencil or battery to get some really trippy ghostly sounds going.

It's like every other Boss pedal. Built like a bomb shelter. I haven't physically abused this but I've thrown a lot of my gear through at screaming volumes and tempos and it's held up just fine. Can be angelic or demonic.

This called the "percussion synthesizer" it is a sexy black with sky blue pad and orange knobs. You can hit the pad rhythmically so you could put it on your drum kit. You can also throw any instrument through it. Very easy to use like any other pedal. It has 6 knobs. Sensitivity is a gate of sorts. And an attack too. Can be adjustable to let the loudest or softest of sounds in through the input. If you are just using the pad it depends how hard you hit it. I keep it cranked all the way and if I blow on it hard it or rub a pencil eraser on it, it will make a sound. It has an adjustable LFO (knobs for rate and depth,) sweep up or down, pitch control and decay. When the decay is at it's lowest it triggers the noise. It isn't labelled but by the jacks there is a switch for switching between square and saw LFOs.

You can download the manual online just like any other Boss pedal or Roland synth.

This is the exact same thing as and Amdek PCK-100. The Amdeks were sold as kits that you can build. The Boss PC-2 was marketed looking like a slightly wider pedal than the others. I love this thing. It might have to do with the $30 Canadian I paid at a pawn shop as opposed to the $300 US it now fetches the rare occasion that it makes it to Ebay. But price aside it's pretty awesome. It's like having a mini mini modular so 3 bills isn't too far fetched. It makes all those clangy and whooshy and dirty sounds that gigantic modulars make. It seems to be very rare as I see many more people looking for it online than selling it and reviewing it. This pedal (synth) is a dirty little acid secret for a lot of people. Green Velvet used one for Percolator and many other tracks. This is analog made in 1982. No modelling imitations here. Has never been reissued. It is quite popular in the noise scene with Aube, Merzbow and Yoshihide using it as well. Aube in fact just made an album entirely of sounds going through one of these. It growls and zips and shreds your ears off. It does not process signals. Signals trigger it. It is capable of handling very fast envelopes and rhythms. So you can throw your drum machine through it and it will keep up just fine. Would I pay $300 for just a pedal if I lost it? Maybe if I'm super famous one day and din't care about cash I would. People are buying up to $1000 for monophonic analog synths so why not? And this one is touch sensitive and sounds much much better than the later SYB-3 and SYB-5 pedals.