Every Boss Pedal You Have!

[Dote]

Welcome!

Thank you Laurie!

Merry Christmas to everyone already!

[Pepe]

A Rhodes Mark I from 1975. Wish I could play better (I am a guitar player) but I love the sound.

Here it is just the opposite. I'm definitely better on keyboards, but that doesn't keep me from hitting the strings.

I think I ran across your Kleinanzeigen account and was tempted to buy the DF2 but had already bought one with the funny noise. I also really would love to get my hands on a FT 2 but these are also rare and costly.

So your model does also have the noise. A Taiwanese model, I suppose? I really don't know why it wasn't noticed by BOSS back then. But gladly the noise vanishes with another buffered pedal in the signal path.

The FT-2 has always been expensive. I received mine from Britain about 13 or 14 years ago and it was over 100 EUR already, but mint in box. I won't give it away! It always sounds a bit muffled in comparison to other lowpass filters, but the sound is impeccable.

I had an impulse buy today and now am looking forward to a EH-2 (mainly for the Rhodes).

That could result in good sounds! The rare and old BOSS SP-1 is said to having been very popular with rhodes players in the '70s to freshen up the sound. In my SP-1 demo video I included examples with my KORG D1 stage piano. The EH-2 could lead to similar results.

I have a PH-3 and I only really like it for the UP and DOWN modes that can sound great with string sounds on a keyboard. The other modes aren't too convincing or spectacular, especially the 4-stage mode, which I would consider as the most important mode. Our dear Laurie has always said that the PH-1 was the best compact BOSS phaser and since I received an own model I have to agree. The PH-1R is lacking something - the PH-2 with its 10-stage and 12-stage phasing is a totally different beast and it doesn't offer subtle sounds.

Phasers that I really love with Fender Rhodes sounds are the '80s KORG KPH-401 module and the '70s KORG FK-2 Mr. Multi, which is my go-to phaser for the stage when playing piano.

The small board in the picture with all the Choruses is the testboard for finding the Chorus version I like best. Interestingly the CE2 lost against the CE5.

This is indeed interesting. I really like the CE-2, but I prefer the bass model CE-2B, because of the effect volume knob and overall it has the same sound to me. I have never had a CE-5, but hearing this I might like to hunt one down to confirm your statement.

[The_Doc]

Welcome Dote and great to have you here. That’s a good looking collection.

A very Happy Christmas to you too.

I’m also a guitar player who likes to play a keyboard occasionally. I’ve never played a Rhodes but I do have a few old synths kicking around to satisfy that urge !

[Dote]

Welcome Dote and great to have you here. That’s a good looking collection.

A very Happy Christmas to you too.

I’m also a guitar player who likes to play a keyboard occasionally. I’ve never played a Rhodes but I do have a few old synths kicking around to satisfy that urge !

Thank you Doc!

[BearBoy]

I have not updated my list in over a year but have only bought one new pedal since then: an FZ-3

AC-2
BF-3
BP-1w
CE-2w
CH-1
DA-2
DC-2w
DC-3
DD-3
DD-7
DM-101
DM-2w
DS-1
DS-1w
EH-2
FRV-1 (x2)
FS-5L
FS-5U
FS-6
FS-7
FV-500L
FZ-1w
FZ-2
FZ-3
HF-2
HM-2
HM-3
IR-2
JB-2
LM-2
MD-200
OD-2r
PW-10
PW-2
RC-3
RE-202
RV-6
SD-2
SL-2

[chromandre]

I have not updated my list in over a year but have only bought one new pedal since then: an FZ-3

nice! Would you say theres any overlap between FZ-3 & FZ-1w?

[BearBoy]

I'd say there's definitely a bit of overlap between the two, and you can get pretty close to replicating some tones across both, but there are also a lot of differences. The FZ-1w is a lot more "articulate" (I hate trying to describe sounds ) and can really clean up. You can get really nice mild overdrivey sounds at the lower gain settings. The FZ-3 is definitely more aggressive, although the overall volume is a bit lower, and can get those really compressed fuzz tones and more spluttery sounds more easily.

I'd say the FZ-1w is a bit more refined, although whether "refined" is what you want in a fuzz is obviously a different matter

I think they are closer to each other than either are to the FZ-2 though.

Suspect a lot probably depends on your pickups (most of my guitars have fairly standard output single coils) as they both seem pretty reactive to the levels you put into them.

In summary you need both

[Pepe]

Thank you! The FZ-1W has been on my search list for a while - and now it will stay on it for sure. This might very well be the first Waza Craft pedal that I'm going to purchase. Used, that is.

[BearBoy]

Whilst looking for PX-1 videos, I stumbled across this YouTube channel by a couple of Aussie guys. They've done a good comparison video between the FZ-1w, FZ-2 and FZ-3:

[Franzoni]

I have a FZ-3 as well …someone gave it to me years ago but I never really used it much as I lean more to overdrive pedals that distortion or fuzz..

I must dig it out and give it another go……do you have to keep this one in the fridge before use like they used to do with fuzzfaces in the studio …..