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Boss RC-20XL Loop Station Pedal

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

This is the Boss RC-20XL Loop Station Pedal that I have recently acquired. I must say, so far I am pretty impressed with it.

Boss RC-20XLThe Boss RC20XL is a phrase looper.  Simply put, if you activate this guitar pedal, it will record a section of your guitar playing, whether this be a chord, a riff, a lick o
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The Behringer V-Amp

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Once you have been playing the guitar for a while you may decide that you would like to record some of your music. this may be to create a song or simply record a backing track to jam along with. This is where problems can begin for guitarists.

Being that your amplifier colours the overall sound of your tone, not to mention any effects pedals (more…)

DS-1 Robert Keeley Seeing Eye Mod Distorion Pedal

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

So who is Robert Keeley and why is his name with Boss guitar pedals? Well Basically this is someone who modifies existing guitar pedals to make them better. I happen to own the DS-1 distortion guitar pedal. As I have previously discussed there is a huge difference between the earlier Japanese models and the current DS-1 pedals made in Taiwan. (more…)

Boss CS-3 Compression Sustainer Pedal

Friday, June 29th, 2007

So you want to play guitar solos like Satriani or Van Halen and you play a note and hold it. Rather than the note beautifully sustaining it quickly goes dead. Well this was a major problem for me. Especially so with a < ahref="http://www.ollysguitar.com"> valve amp at low volumes. One possible answer to this is the Boss CS-3 - a compression sustainer pedal.

Basically, what it does is reduce (more…)

Boss DD-2 Digital Delay

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

The Boss digital delay pedal is one of the most important guitar pedals I own. I believe that any guitarist that wants to play any guitar solos can benefit from owning one of these delay pedals. The Boss DD-2 Pedal is an older version of the current Boss DD-3. The image below is in fact a DD-3 pedal but they do look the same. If you look back to my post regarding the Boss DS-1 (more…)