Members Karma1 Posted March 18, 2012 Members Share Posted March 18, 2012 I watched some demos on youtube and it looks pretty cool. One of my guitars has a Sustainiac and I love getting the feedback effect without having to stand in front of a cranked amp, but would like to be able to get that with my other guitars as well. Anybody here using one and have anything they can share about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members co-pilot Posted March 18, 2012 Members Share Posted March 18, 2012 I like it. I used it at a show tonight to push two cranked heads into a nice high gain sound (via a Stereo Polychorus). I've never really played guitar like that before, I've always preferred to get all my gain from the amp's dirty channel or a distortion pedal. This band doesn't need a clean sound. The feedback function is quite cool, you can hold it down, move around the neck, bend notes and change pitch by moving the guitar around, but obviously you can't start walking around the stage. It sounds like natural feedback - which I believe it technically is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Operator Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 It looks like one of the more expressive, interesting pedals Boss has released in years. I'll bet there's a ton of cool accentual stuff you can do with it. I would love to try one out. Straight up anyone that wants to get rid of theirs for a PS-5, holla at ya boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members albertus Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 Be ringer makes a good sounding copy if you just want to test it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim gueguen Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 Behringer makes a copy of the old DF2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion from the '80s. The FB2 is too new for them to have made a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lotlizard Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 Is it real feedback or some type of COSM'd sim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members albertus Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 the boss pedal predates cosm (i'm fairly certain). It's not real feedback but it can react closely enough. If you're playing loud it can get very close (and it might induce real feedback but I never used it at very loud volumes so I don't know). The cool thing about the feedback is it copies whatever note you were playing when you hit the pedal and it holds it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Villano Dude Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 the boss pedal predates cosm (i'm fairly certain). It's not real feedback but it can react closely enough. If you're playing loud it can get very close (and it might induce real feedback but I never used it at very loud volumes so I don't know). Which boss pedal? I thought the FB-2 was a relatively recent release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members albertus Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 oh sorry, everything I posted was in regards to the old pedal. wow, the new pedal sounds a lot more realistic than the old one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Villano Dude Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 Gotcha. Oh, and completely ignorant question but, what is the point of this pedal as opposed to getting a compressor/sustainer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members albertus Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 I think the new one is like the old one in that it takes the pitch of your note and generates a tone that sounds like feedback based on that note. a compressor won't sound like feedback and it's not going to be infinite like the feedbackers will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 It looks like one of the more expressive, interesting pedals Boss has released in years. I'll bet there's a ton of cool accentual stuff you can do with it. I would love to try one out. This - all of it. I have not tried one, but the clips are extremely interesting to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 oh sorry, everything I posted was in regards to the old pedal.wow, the new pedal sounds a lot more realistic than the old one. Agreed. The old one was pretty "static" and unchanging, which made it very unrealistic sounding to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Texas Noise Factory Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 I've got the original one. The new one interests me a lot. The original one was only interesting when you retriggered the hold often because it would 'grab' interesting harmonics of whatever you were playing. However, it sucked because what it would grab would then be static. I'm very interested in the realism that people speak of when they describe the new one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 19, 2012 Share Posted March 19, 2012 I've got the original one. The new one interests me a lot. The original one was only interesting when you retriggered the hold often because it would 'grab' interesting harmonics of whatever you were playing. I never thought of that - clever! However, it sucked because what it would grab would then be static. I'm very interested in the realism that people speak of when they describe the new one! Check this out: [video=youtube;JkCV609wrG4] IMO, that's quite a bit more "realistic" sounding than the old DF-2 - which was quite a pedal in its time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members V Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 Gonna try one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members co-pilot Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 IMO, that's quite a bit more "realistic" sounding than the old DF-2 - which was quite a pedal in its time. The DF-2 was the first pedal I ever bought as a teenager. I loved that thing running into my 10w practice amp, but the new one is definitely far superior in terms of the feedback function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gigant0r Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 I've got one. It's easily one of the best pedals I've tried in a long time. I love feedback and this thing can make it happen at any volume level. It sounds scary close to the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members co-pilot Posted March 19, 2012 Members Share Posted March 19, 2012 It sounds scary close to the real thing. Running through two amps yesterday I managed to get harmonised feedback using it - good fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Karma1 Posted March 22, 2012 Author Members Share Posted March 22, 2012 Thanks for all the replies - much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I've got one. It's easily one of the best pedals I've tried in a long time. I love feedback and this thing can make it happen at any volume level. It sounds scary close to the real thing. Awesome - thanks for that report - and for fueling my GAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gigant0r Posted March 22, 2012 Members Share Posted March 22, 2012 ^ glad I could help but seriously, you won't be disappointed. It's a very fun toy to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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