Boss Products Catalog 2005 Vol.1
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BOSS PRODUCTS CATALOG 2005 VOL.1 FORGING THE FUTURE BOSS Product Parade 2005 3-8 9-10 11 12 13 - 16 17-20 21 22 23-26 27-28 COMPACT TWIN PEDAL TU SERIES AD SERIES GT-PRO GT SERIES ME SERIES GS-10 BR SERIES DR & DB SERIES SERIES SERIES The World’s Best-Selling The Luxury Twin-Effects The Gold Standard Unlock the Potential of Twin COSM® Engines in a Advanced Multi-Effects Multi-Effects with Intuitive Next-Generation Hybrid Pro-Quality Studios with Small But Powerful Compact Effects Line in Tuning Acoustic Guitars Single Rack Processors Operation Effects System Built-in Burners Timekeeping Tools With over eight million sold, BOSS With the Twin Pedal Series, BOSS BOSS Tuners are world famous for Effects aren’t just for electric With dual-processing power and When it comes to multi-effects, Floor-based multi-effects Powered by BOSS’s most advanced From concept to completion, Inject serious style into your compact pedals are the premier takes its compact pedal design to their reliability and accuracy. guitars. Plug a piezo-equipped an expansive I/O section, the new BOSS offers the best floor-based processors built with the simplicity COSM modeling technology, the these award-winning portable musicmaking with the world’s portable effect devices. They’re new heights. Extra functionality Whether you play guitar, bass, or acoustic into an AD-series GT-PRO is a lethal front-end for solutions for bass and guitar of a stompbox. Dialing in your GS-10 is your gateway to an studios have all the features you most powerful rhythm famous for their great sound, and a small footprint place these French horn, there’s a BOSS tuner processor and take control over driving a wall of powered players, powered by COSM amp tone is easy, thanks to dedicated extraordinary range of vintage need to produce great music — programmer. Make practice fun user-friendliness, and road-tough two-punch pedals beyond the for you. body sound. Shape your overall cabinets or for direct, pro-grade models and pro-grade, ultra- knobs for each effect section, and modern effects. There is also including built-in effects, an ultra- and effective with the reliability. standard stompbox. tone and add rich, crystal-clear recording applications. flexible effects. three footswitches, and a built-in a convenient feature for direct- realistic rhythm machine, and CD feature-packed DB-series ambience. expression pedal. recording to computer. burning. metronomes. FORGING THE FUTURE Innovation For Creative Inspiration BOSS forges into 2005 with an awe-inspiring lineup of effects, digital studios, and accessories. Award-winning technology and road-tough construction make BOSS products the most respected and sought-after tone tools, recorders, and musical accessories in the world. When you want the best of best, choose BOSS — the brand that symbolizes quality, reliability, and innovation. FORGING THE THE BOSS FUTURE COMPACT EFFECTS STORY Eight Million Pedals Strong At BOSS, we’ve been making the world’s most popular compact guitar pedals and accessories for over 25 years. From classic effects, such as our Philosophy Originality Bassists Welcome legendary chorus and delays, to the latest cutting-edge tools for modern music making....When you’re serious about sound, choose BOSS. From the beginning, BOSS has built the Beyond standard effects, BOSS is famous Not just for guitarists, BOSS has a range of best pedals by adhering to these key for its unique and unusual stompboxes, effects built specifically for bass players. So principles: ➀ Reliable aluminum die cast such as the SG-1 Slow Gear, VB-2 Vibrato, plug in, and anchor your music with solid, bodies. ➁ Pedal switches that withstand and, most recently, the SYB-5 analog- high-impact effects that are custom- the 100,000-repetition durability test. modeling bass synthesizer pedal. tailored for low frequencies. ➂ FET switches to eliminate the clicking noise of conventional mechanical switches. ➃ Non-slip rubber bases. ➄ Easy-to-install Pro Quality battery compartments. ➅ LED indicators. Only the very best components and ➆ Battery and AC power. ODB-3 GEB-7 CEB-3 3 circuitry are used in BOSS pedals. No 4 corners are cut, no COMPACT SERIES COMPACT COMPACT SERIES COMPACT compromises are Imagination made — these Where will you take your tone? From pedals are built to subtle sweetening to complete audio sound great and transformation, BOSS provides more tone- take a pounding. shaping options than any other compact- Legend effects manufacturer in industry. The history of BOSS reads like the history Colorful Lineup of guitar effects. The famous compact BOSS offers an incredibly wide variety of pedal line-up began in 1977 with the effects that can take your sound to places classic OD-1 Overdrive, it has never been before. Whether you which established the need subtle polish or full, sonic immersion, masterful design BOSS effects will do the job reliably and principle for all other 8 Million & Growing professionally. BOSS effects pedals that followed. It’s no accident that BOSS has become the world’s leading effects manufacturer. With over eight million pedals sold, BOSS has Breakthrough built its reputation by connecting with the community. We listen and react to what BOSS has laid claim to many “world firsts” players demand, during its illustrious history. Among the while also pushing many BOSS highlights have been bringing the envelope into to market the first-ever chorus, overdrive, new, unexplored digital delay, realms. reverb, and pitch-shifter pedals. DD-6 RV-5 PS-5 COMPACT SERIES Explore Your Inner Rock Star SUPER OverDrive OverDrive Warm, fatten, bake, or burn — BOSS overdrive and distortion Warm, Tube Drive Natural Overdrive pedals are world famous for their rich, aggressive, and expressive Sounds with Endless Sustain! sound. With nine compact pedals in this category, guitarists have Uses BOSS’s asymmetric Classic BOSS overdrive, overdrive circuitry for warm, based on a dual-stage an expansive range of power-tone tools to choose from. smooth overdrive sounds design for bigger, fuller that respond to your picking sounds. Variable Drive and style just like a tube amp. Tone controls create Includes a Tone control to overdriven sounds from dial in just the right sound. mild to extreme with almost endless sustain. OverDrive/ Blues Driver® Distortion The Perfect Distortion Distortion and Overdrive for Blues Together At Last! Get the tone of a bluesy, A flexible pedal capable of vintage tube amp in a producing overdrive, compact pedal capable of distortion, or a combination anything from warm of both. Get “in your face” overdriven sounds to full-on distortion while maintaining distortion. Leaves the subtle the subtle nuances of nuances of your playing single-coil guitar pickups. intact. Distortion TURBO Distortion AGGRESSION OBSESSION Used by Pros Two Distortions Everywhere for the Price of One A classic! Add some Features twin modes for an hard-edged distortion while expanded range of preserving the subtle distortion — taking you nuances of your playing from blues-rock rhythms to dynamics. A Tone control is searing leads at the press of 5 provided for easy sound a pedal or twist of a knob. 6 COMPACT SERIES COMPACT COMPACT SERIES COMPACT shaping. Mega Distortion Metal Zone® Nu-School Distortion BOSS’s Most with Massive Low End Popular Pedal! This pedal’s dual Distortion Features dual-gain and Gain Boost circuits take circuitry for thick, tube thick, heavy distortion stack distortion with heavy sounds to a whole new mids and lows and level. Special Gain Boost long-lasting sustain. and Bottom controls let you A 3-band EQ with semi- shape your tone for parametric mids takes your maximum volume and sound to the extreme. low-end punch. Bass OverDrive Crunchy Overdrive Effects for Bass An overdrive effect designed to cover the entire frequency range of bass guitars, including 5-string basses. Overdriven sounds Info Bytes can be blended with dry bass signal for maximum clarity and punch. Benchmark Overdrive & Distortion New-Breed Overdrive BOSS’s original overdrive, the OD-1, was Adding to the legacy of great BOSS overdrives famous for its rich, warm, and detailed sound. (such as the OD and DS series), the BD-2 and That legacy carried forward to the popular MD-2 represent the new standard in SD-1 and OD-3, and now to the BD-series — overdrive/distortion effects. Try them soon! the new standard in Overdrive processing. BD-2: The BD-2 responds expressively to Likewise, BOSS’s acclaimed DS-1 distortion performance dynamics, including factors such pedal evolved to the DS-2, which paved the as the guitarist’s picking attack, touch, and way for today’s benchmark distortion effect, volume/tone settings. the MD-2. MD-2: The MD-2 can be extremely distorted with fat and deep characteristics, while not obliterating the original guitar tone. COMPACT SERIES Compression FOOT PEDALS Sustainer Phase Shifter Digital Delay Digital Delay Improves Your Modern Phasing with Pro-Quality Delay in Up to 5,200ms of Overall Tone Tap Tempo Sync a Compact Pedal Delay! Compresses louder signals Vintage BOSS phasing effects A powerful delay pedal with The DD-6 Digital Delay is while boosting lower signals including 4-, 8-, 10-, and 12- three distinct modes. A variable BOSS’s flagship compact delay for smooth sustain without stage phasers, plus new “Rise” Delay Time control creates pedal — with up to 5,200ms of degrading the original sound and “Fall” effects for delays from 12.5ms to 800ms, delay, sound-on-sound quality. Onboard EQ provides unidirectional phasing. Tap tempo while a Hold function is capable recording, tap tempo, plus precise tonal control; low-noise sync or realtime control of rate of producing repeats from here unique Reverse and Warp design for super-quiet operation.