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<Risitas voice> So, we decided to make a BOSS multi-stomp pedal, and we made there be only 8 built-in effects, with most of them being ancient discontinued BOSS products nobody wants, plus an SD-1 and DS-1…
For €270!
(laughter)
And then… another of the effects is actually an OD-1! An SD-1 without a tone knob! Together with the SD-1! That's 2 of the 8 effects you can't remove!
(hysterical laughter)
And then… if you want any of the good shit like the CE-2 or OC-2, $10 extra! From Roland Cloud!
(incredibly hysterical laughter)
And there's only space for at most eight more $10 DLC effects on the device!
(at this point quite worryingly hysterical laughter)
And it relies on a mobile app, and Roland have a terrible track record on long-term support of digital products!
(the laughter, it is too intense)
And for €120 you could get a ZOOM MS-50G+ which has 100 excellent built-in effects!
(he's dying now. he's really starting to die)
And you can actually use several of those at once!
(he's dead. his life has ended from laughing too hard)
@hikari are these both all-digital DSP implementations?
@r yes. very rare to see a product like this that isn't
@hikari huhh, there seems to be a notable subculture of people learning traditional analog electronics because of pedals. is that a different niche?
@r we mean specifically "multi-effect" pedals are almost invariably digital, because an analogue
circuit isn't typically flexible enough to do 100 types of effects, let alone 6 of them simultaneously. analogue effects are still incredibly important in the guitar world, however, yes. the "normal" versions of the BOSS pedals that this new pedal emulates are of course all purely analogue devices. we own a DS-1 and an SD-1, and at least the latter of these is even a classic through-hole PCB (though that may have changed at some point in its production history)