The BOSS DS-1 Distortion: love it or loathe it That settles it but as far as what the alteration is, the question remains. I can’t tell you the alteration, though, that’s a secret!“. I’d get a slightly altered, vintage Boss DS-1. Satch answers this question: “ Well, I would use clean channel of the JFX.
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Update Feb 2012: in this awesome interview on. It seems that in more recent years, Satriani was using a Keeley version (like his pal Steve Vai) although I am not finding any hard evidence of it.
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There are great mods by Analogman, Robert Keeley, Monte Allum, etc. That said, a lot of pros use it and get great tones out of it and it has been in the BOSS catalog for over 30 years now! This controversial aspect of the DS-1 tone explains why it is one of the most modified pedals on the market. Also, it does not have 100 sounds but one so if you love it, you’re in luck, if you don’t, you will be tempted to throw it out of the window. Let me tell you that it is not the kind of pedal that will sound great through any rig, it works well with some guitars and amps but can sound horrible used with others. Some find it synthetic sounding or thin, etc. Now on the topic of the DS-1, it is loved by some and loathed by others. Although these amps are highly capable of providing lots of gain, he was obviously just using them clean and getting his distortion from the DS-1. This surprised me because it was not long after his own line of amplifiers (the Peavey JSX) had been released and there were quite a few behind him on stage. I went to his “Super Colossal” tour show in Paris in 2006 and I distinctly remember seeing him switching from clean to his signature lead tone by pressing on the little orange pedal in front of him. The BOSS DS-1 orange distortion was a very important part of his tone from the eighties all the way to about 2009 when his own VOX Satchurator distortion pedal was released.
He used (and still does) distortion pedals in front of a clean amp. In the eighties, unlike many other fellow metal or rock guitarists, Satriani often did not get his big distortion tone from a super cranked Marshall boosted by some overdrive pedal. The blocking tremolo system allows for much abuse and Satch is a great abuser, he can get the wildest effects out of it and still stay in tune. On the JS1000, the humbuckers can be split to sound like single coils, pretty versatile. The pickups were specially designed for this line of guitars and I must say I especially like the neck pickup which has a very “glassy” almost Stratocaster-like quality. The JS1000 that he uses the most has a bolt on neck, 2 Di Marzio custom humbuckers and a floyd rose type of blocking tremolo system with fine tuners.Īs such, it is very representative of 80s “guitar technology” after Eddie Van Halen took a Stratocaster-like guitar and put a humbucker and a floyd rose on it, making it a bit of a cross between a Fender and a Gibson.
There is a more affordable version named JS100 and more esoteric models like the newly released JS2400 with 24 frets or the JS1600 without tremolo. The “classic” workhorse model is the JS1000. His Ibanez signature JS family of guitars has not stopped growing. Photo by CodePoet taken on Variety Playhouse, Atlanta GuitarsĪlthough he played a Kramer Pacer on “Surfing with the Alien”, Satriani quickly became an Ibanez endorser in the late eighties and remains one today. 90% of the time, he uses the same recipe for his tone and the rest, as always, is in the fingers. Although his studio albums – especially since the late 90s – feature a lot of different pedals and textures, Satch has a simpler approach on stage.
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In this post we will look into his gear and learn how to recreate the same kind of lead tone using just a few common pedals that I will demo in a video. If you don’t know who Joe Satriani is and you play the electric guitar, you probably have been abducted by Aliens in the 70s only to be returned to earth last week (go get “ Surfing with the Alien” right now). After Robert Smith and Jeff Beck, I thought it was time for some virtuoso action with the almighty Joe Satriani.
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