SG-1 Slow Gear

It is rather murky and dull sounding. It screws up your tone on or off. Honestly I'd rather use the volume knob on my guitar or a volume pedal because they both do a better job of violin and reverse sounds. You find this in amazing vintage condition often. The reason is simple. They sound bad and are pretty useless. Again I must tell you honestly the guyatone slow volume is a much better pedal. It is also a pain but it's not nearly this bad.

This is a very touchy pedal. I agee with the other review that suggests using a compressor. That does help. I would recommend the guyatone slow volume over this pedal if you're looking for something to play as opposed to collect.

For the prices these trade at it's a complete 1. They aren't even that rare either. At any time i could locate 5-10 of them online. Much better sounding and rarer boss pedals trade for way less. Don't get me wrong I'm not one of those people who bullocks this POS because they don't understand it. I completely "get it", but "it" is pointless.

An unbeleivably unusual effect from the very early days of BOSS. The effect takes the attack of the note and swells slowly to volume - like a violin type effect.  As with all the classic BOSS analog effects it adds a character all of its own - if you think you could get the same effect by use of a volume pedal or by violining the vol controls on the guitar you would be very wrong.  This sounds like you are playing backwards guitar - only you are doing it in real time with the music - and able to constuct phrases.  Anyone who uses the back talk or the reverse feature on delay pedals is lying if they say they can not only get the phrase to come out as they intended and in time to tempo !! Really amazing and unique sound - as I say like backward violined guitars, but in real time playing.  If you want to entertain your own ears, or those listening this is totally nice pedal.  Add some reverb to this and it is wonderful.

BOSS = 10 - it is one of those fundamental rules of physics.

Two knobs - how hard can it be ?? Actually not that easy !! It will require a fair amount of patience to set the two knobs to the right level for the effect to work to it's max potential - and this will need resetting for different guitars or pickups.  Also you have to use a particular picking technique too - it works sort of like an auto wah based on picking strength to trigger the effect. It may take time to get the best out of this machine, but if you do the results are simply stunning.

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Takes some time to get used to using, and time taken to set it up with different guitars etc - but a really exciting effect.  Paid a lot for this from a vintage pedal site, and wanted it for collectors reasons, but was gobsmaked by the majesty of the effect.  Compared to the effect which as resurfaced on BOSS multi effects (GT and the GK2A type stuff) - no comparison at all - I just hope that people do not dismiss this effect based on how it sounds on these. It must be an analog thing.