Boss compact pedals release chronology

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by moo cow » Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:18 pm

laurie wrote:
Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:47 pm
moo cow wrote:
Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:40 pm
Great resource! Thanks. I like to display mine via release date as well and this helps tons!
Hello moo cow, and welcome!

How many pedals do you have in your collection?
Thanks for the welcome! I'm around 60ish at the moment.

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by moo cow » Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:20 pm

fernieite wrote:
Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:01 pm
moo cow wrote:
Fri Jan 29, 2021 2:40 pm
Great resource! Thanks. I like to display mine via release date as well and this helps tons!
Welcome to one of the best little forums on the interwebs man! I figured you'd fit right in. :D

This place evolved from the old Bossarea forum to the Stompboxzone to Bossarea Forum again. It's probably THE best place to discuss Boss related things; unofficially of course...
Yes! Thanks for the heads up Fernieite!

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by Pepe » Fri Jan 29, 2021 4:28 pm

Welcome, moo cow! What are your treasures and personal favourites in your collection? :D
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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by moo cow » Fri Apr 02, 2021 6:00 pm

Hi Band Flanger HF-2 and OC-2 Octave come to mind. Loving the Fender trilogy as well.
Just capped off the DD collection. Satisfying!

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by vicix » Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:20 pm

hello boss guys
Here is another chronological list of all pedal models 130, in case it helps you.
If you found any mistakes, it would be nice to comment on it to rectify.
http://www.homofreaky.com/boss/d/data.html
A greeting and thanks to the whole forum.

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by Pepe » Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:22 pm

What a cool page! Thank you! :D
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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by Old_Iron » Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:39 pm

vicix wrote:
Sun Apr 11, 2021 12:20 pm
hello boss guys
Here is another chronological list of all pedal models 130, in case it helps you.
If you found any mistakes, it would be nice to comment on it to rectify.
http://www.homofreaky.com/boss/d/data.html
A greeting and thanks to the whole forum.
Did an update to the list, added the 40 years box, the TU-3s and the new releases.
Plus the commemorative ones.

That web page have some good info and pictures of the variants, thanks vicix.

More of it: http://homofreaky.com/boss/pci2.htm

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by sebastien32 » Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:41 pm

Old_Iron wrote:
Sun Jan 24, 2021 10:10 pm
I like to display my collection in order of model release date, and before I had the Boss book I took an old Boss web page as reference.

Now that I have the book, I decided to use it as the reference, so I did a list based in information from the book and cross-reference with another sources, as follow:

- The Boss Book
- https://www.stompboxzone.com/decoder/
- https://www.boss.info/us/promos/40th_an ... ct_pedals/ (scroll down the page to find the release sequence)
- https://bossarea.com/
- https://gitaargast.nl/bossarea.php
- My collection https://i.postimg.cc/bJHQcRcs/20210922-104219.jpg

There are conflicts of information (*), so if you guys spot anything wrong or if you have something to add, please do it posting below and I will do the correction.

I hope this can be useful to new collectors.

Cheers.


Boss compact pedals release chronology and batch numbers based on The Boss Book:

SP-1 NOV 1977 6400
OD-1 NOV 1977 6400
PH-1 NOV 1977 6400
GE-6 JAN 1978 6600
DS-1 JUN 1978 7100
CS-1 JUL 1978 7200
TW-1 JUL 1978 7200
NF-1 FEB 1979 7900
SG-1 MAY 1979 8200
CE-2 OCT 1979 8700
BF-2 JUN 1980 9500
PH-1r OCT 1980 9900
SD-1 FEB 1981 0300
DM-2 JUN 1981 070000
GE-7 JUL 1981 080000
CS-2 DEC 1981 130000
VB-2 APR 1982 170000 * (mine is MAR 1982 160200)
OC-2 APR 1982 170000
PSM-5 JAN 1983 260000 * (mine is JUL 1982 202000)
CE-3 OCT 1982 230000
HM-2 OCT 1983 350000
DD-2 DEC 1983 370000
DM-3 MAY 1984 420000
DF-2 SEP 1984 460000
PH-2 SEP 1984 460000
DSD-2 APR 1985 530000
OD-2 AUG 1985 570000
HF-2 OCT 1985 590000
DC-2 DEC 1985 610000
DSD-3 AUG 1986 690000
CS-3 SEP 1986 700000 * (mine is AUG 1986 691400)
DD-3 AUG 1986 690000
FT-2 OCT 1986 710000
CE-2B FEB 1987 750000
BF-2B FEB 1987 750000
GE-7B FEB 1987 750000
LM-2 MAR 1987 760000
RV-2 AUG 1987 810000
NS-2 SEP 1987 820000
PS-2 OCT 1987 830000
DS-2 DEC 1987 850000
MZ-2 DEC 1987 850000
DC-3 MAR 1988 880000

End of Made in Japan.
Begin of Made in Taiwan.

CH-1 MAY 1989
EH-2 APR 1990
LM-2B APR 1990
PN-2 MAY 1990
OS-2 MAY 1990
MT-2 MAR 1991
PQ-4 MAR 1991
PQ-3B MAR 1991
AW-2 NOV 1991
CE-5 NOV 1991
LS-2 NOV 1991
FZ-2 APR 1993
SD-2 APR 1993
HM-3 APR 1993
RV-3 MAR 1994
PS-3 MAR 1994
ODB-3 OCT 1994
OD-2r NOV 1994
HR-2 DEC 1994
CEB-3 FEB 1995
LMB-3 FEB 1995
GEB-7 FEB 1995
BD-2 MAR 1995
DD-5 MAR 1995
PW-2 AUG 1996
SYB-3 AUG 1996
XT-2 AUG 1996
FZ-3 FEB 1997
AC-2 FEB 1997
TR-2 FEB 1997
OD-3 AUG 1997
TU-2 OCT 1998
PS-5 OCT 1999
PH-3 OCT 2000
AW-3 OCT 2000

End of The Boss Book reference.
Begin of old Boss web page, gitaargast.nl and bossarea.com references.

MD-2 SEP 2001
BF-3 FEB 2002
DD-6 JUL 2002
RV-5 JUL 2002
OC-3 AUG 2003
SYB-5 JUL 2004
AC-3 ??? 2005 * (gitaargast.nl JAN 2006)
RC-2 JUL 2006
ML-2 JAN 2007
FZ-5 JAN 2007
DN-2 JAN 2007
FBM-1 JAN 2007
FDR-1 JAN 2007
DD-7 MAR 2008
TU-3 ??? 2009
FRV-1 ??? 2009
PS-6 ??? 2010
ST-2 ??? 2010
RC-3 ??? 2011
BC-2 ??? 2011
FB-2 ??? 2011
TE-2 ??? 2013
DA-2 ??? 2013
MO-2 ??? 2013
OD-1X ??? 2014
DS-1X ??? 2014
BD-2W ??? 2014
SD-1W ??? 2014
RC-1 ??? 2014
DM-2W ??? 2015
BB-1X ??? 2015
RV-6 ??? 2015
VO-1 ??? 2016
VB-2W ??? 2016
BC-1X ??? 2016
TU-3s ??? 2016
TU-3W ??? 2016
CE-2W ??? 2016
AD-2 ??? 2016
CP-1X ??? 2016
DS-1(bk) ??? 2016
40 Years Box MAY 2017 (3 pedals)
DS-1(4A)??? 2017
JB-2 ??? 2017

End of old Boss web page, gitaargast.nl and bossarea.com references.
Begin of my own reference, sequence may be wrong.

RC-1(bk) JAN 2018
DC-2W ??? 2019
MT-2W ??? 2019
SY-1 JUL 2019
DD-8 ??? 2020
DD-3T ??? 2020
OC-5 ??? 2020
RC-5 JAN 2021
TB-2W APR 2021
SD-1(4A) MAY 2021
MT-2(3A) MAY 2021
HM-2W AUG 2021

The unobtainable ones.

DS-1 6 million
MT-2 8 million
BD-2 10 million
SD-1 bull's eye Ishibashi Music
CH-1 bull's eye Ishibashi Music

141 different models
I just noticed that my DC-3 is 2 months younger that what you listed. mine is from jan 1988 (serial #862511).

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by Old_Iron » Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:57 pm

sebastien32 wrote:
Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:41 pm
I just noticed that my DC-3 is 2 months younger that what you listed. mine is from jan 1988 (serial #862511).
Yep, another inconsistency of the Boss book.

There are many, unfortunately.

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Re: Boss compact pedals release chronology

Post by mjd78 » Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:15 pm

This list is interesting because it comes straight from the BOSS book. This video inspired my boss collection wall mount, but I noticed a lot of the pedals are in different order. I don't think in the video that they took into account the month of the release date, rather, they just displayed them by year (ex: 1981 pedals all displayed in line but no real order. I used your list to display mine, so thank you very much for doing this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npPMlgjeEnA&t=8s

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