MXR M78 Custom Badass '78 Distortion VS Boss DS-1 Distortion

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Just got the MXR M78 home today, and thought I would shoot it out against the Boss DS-1. (Filmed with Samsung Galaxy S9)
Guitar - Epiphone Les Paul Custom Pro
(010-052 gauge, Bridge pickup)
Amp - Bugera V22 Infinium
(clean channel)
My thoughts:
I think the MXR M78 sounds somewhat like an improved DS-1.
The highs on the M78 are a bit smoother, its not as midscooped, and the gain range is better, since you can roll it off more, and get more av an overdrive sound at low gain-settings.
The crunch-button opens up the sound a bit, and bumps up the volume a bit.
Using a singelcoil on a strat, M78 with low gain and crunch-button on, it gives a nice kind of SRV-like sound, like an TS with better presence and more bite/edge.
This filming was done with my phone..
The quality of the recording is not impressive..
the phone somehow had the volume drop/rise at times.

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16 апр 2020

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Комментарии : 48

@christopherlackperth Год назад

BEST pedal demo on the internet. No BS. Stick it on a loop to make it fair and just show what they do. 👏

@chipsbarranco 3 года назад

Why can’t more pedal demos just be like this

@ChrilleMH86 3 года назад

Yeah, I've noticed that some guys who make pedal demos talk a lot, and try to show of some kind of salesman-skills or something before getting on to actually showing the pedal, hehe.

@mr.brownstone4634 2 года назад

Right . they talk too much

@TMoody 11 месяцев назад

This is the way you do a damn review right here. Outstanding!!!

@CJRamos-jv3pb 4 года назад

Great comparison. Thanks.

@chasdekes3830 4 года назад

Duly noted and thanks for the explanation.

@kriscarter1389 2 года назад

The MXR seems to have more clarity.

@JoeFic9997 2 года назад

Nice comparison. I have both and to be honest I like both. What usually wins with me is the lower noise but in this case they’re both a bit noisy.

@7387470 2 года назад

I got the Distortion 78 because it was cheap and Wow I was surprised that it's pretty good

@greyblooz 2 года назад

The DS-1 sounds smooth here! Brand new? I’d bet you can get the same mashed tone rolling off the tone a bit more on the MXR.

@donaandy5814 3 года назад

Smart compare 👍....but i love DS1....😀

@eddysal6163 3 года назад

So a looper pedal right before any other pedals can be used to record and loop guitar parts and then use that sample to tweak pedals in the chain?

@ChrilleMH86 3 года назад

Yeah, I did that so I could record with my phone, holding it in one hand. One benefit is that when I switch pedal, you will hear the exact same thing with the other pedal.

@sagarbantawarai672 2 года назад

K wann buy distortion and what you guys sujjest me to buy?

@Nightingale1887 3 года назад

The MXR has a big difference compared to the DS-1 in that it is a more simple circuit without the buffer. Here it gets the the buffered signal from the looper and DS-1 but irl you'd feel and notice a difference according to the pickups you use.

@ChrilleMH86 3 года назад

Yeah, if you plug the guitar directly into the Mxr and then straight into the amp, you can feel a little difference. Having a boss pedal in front of it that is turned off does not have a huge impact in my opinion, but some people will probably feel the subtle difference clearly. The biggest difference I notice is that the DS-1 sucks up more of the guitars natural harmonics when turned on, compared to the M78 when it is on with the blue crunch-button activated. The Dist-knob on a DS-1 does not go from 0-10, more like from 4-10, meaning you can't roll it off.. It's only useable if you want distortion. M78 has more like 0-11 in comparison, you can roll it off and get almost clean tones, or max it out and get a fairly saturated distortion.

@maxmisbach6035 3 года назад

Who win?

@FirdausIdros 3 года назад

That MXR is in my next pedal purchase - abit torn on this '78 Distortion or Custom Badass OD. The phone recording imo is one way to have an impression of guitar tonality, both solo and in the mix especially.

@ChrilleMH86 3 года назад

I hope you like it! I see, I was torn between The '78 Custom Badass and the Super Badass Distortion before I decided for the '78. Compared to a "typical Boss-pedal" the "78 has no high-cut filter, and can sound a bit thin/sharp EQ-wise, but that does at the same time give you a "un-manipulated" distortion that you can work more with if you have a EQ-pedal after it, wich I really like. Cut back a litte on 6,4kHz and bump up the low mids and you get a big sound

@FirdausIdros 3 года назад

@@ChrilleMH86 True - I own a fuzz pedal thus of my choices. To boost my fuzz for live mix is my current quest, but adding a straight forward stack-styled distortion into my pedal board wouldn't hurt either.

@ChrilleMH86 3 года назад

@@FirdausIdros I See! I baught a EHX Big Muff fuzz some time after making this video, (You can see it in my video how to get a late 70's Pink Floyd tone). First thing I noticed was that the bass was HUGE, but also tight att the same time. I noticed that setting a tubescreamer or super overdrive before it will help get some midrange-warmth through the bass/trebble that the Big Muff has plenty of. Normally I think a TS-type pedal as a booster for some distortions will suck away a lot of bass, and make solos kind of squealy and un-articulated. I was impressed with my compressor-superoverdrive-bigmuff-EQpedal-setup that gives a very nice 70's style rock tone, and the solos articulate very well there!

@chasdekes3830 4 года назад

Is the DS-1 slow to pick up the signal? Sound like a lot lower volume on the switch over between the two. The MXR picks up the signal without any volume decrease.

@ChrilleMH86 4 года назад

No, I was recording with my phone. I was actually playing up the sound at low level, and the recording-software in my phone probably has some kind of compressor-function, that increased the volume when it was quite, reacted to the "loud" klick dampened the volume, and then increased it again. Next time I make a video I will try using my canon dslr with an extern RÖD condensor-mic and see if I can get rid of the volumechanges, hehe

@Theflamers08 3 года назад

The DS-1 as a very old circuit made for amps of the time. Back then the output you needed wasn`t much. It's in fact so simple that it is similar to early fuzzes (the first dirt pedals ever)

@greyblooz 2 года назад

@@Theflamers08 you mean the op amp is like the second transistor in a fuzz face? And the tone control is like the tone control in a fuzz face? And the buffers are like the buffers in a fuzz face?

@chrisclayton584 6 месяцев назад

The right way to compare pedals ....and unlike other videos you play a rock riff instead of play blues runs.

@nicholashusenn285 2 года назад

for nirvana, which one would u prefer?

@stdorion 11 месяцев назад

Neither, pick the boss ds2 for that

@Riffmaster227 4 месяца назад

DS-1 or DS-2 mode I they’re what Kurt actually used

@lostgroovemusic8494 4 года назад

Which one would you pick out of the two

@ChrilleMH86 4 года назад

The MXR M78, since it has the larger gain-range, and lets a little more natural harmonics come through the distortion. For someone who uses a high gain-setting, and is not so picky with details, I'd say the DS-1 since its much cheaper, The Mxr is almost twice the price new

@lostgroovemusic8494 4 года назад

ChrilleMH86 which one would you say good for blues for solos to stand out blues rock tones

@ChrilleMH86 4 года назад

@@lostgroovemusic8494 The Mxr, you can turn down the gain much more, and get a more overdrive-like "on the edge of breakup"-tone. The DS-1 goes from distortion to more distortion. It's somewhat like a gainrange that goes from 4 to 10, whilst the Mxr goes from 0-10

@lostgroovemusic8494 4 года назад

ChrilleMH86 thanks a lot that made my decision I know someone selling one second hand and it’s good price does it work on the 9 volts like a boss pedal so you can use it like a tube screamer blues amp clean sound

@ChrilleMH86 4 года назад

@@lostgroovemusic8494 Yeah, the Mxr is just like a boss, it has a 9V DC intake, and it takes a 9V Battery as well. On a Boss you open the top, on a MXR you open the bottom plate with 4 screws, to acess the batterycompartment

@Rutigliano 3 года назад

I´m a BOSS fan, but in this case MXR sounded much more organic, realist than the DS-1. Sorry, BOSS! MXR won!

@ChrilleMH86 3 года назад

Yeah, it's basically the "same type" of distortion as the Boss DS-1, but more refined. The blue crunch-button lets more nautural harmonics shine through the distortion. I also enjoy the larger gain-range, wich goes from clean to quite saturated.

@liborsionko 2 года назад

Newbie - how does a ProCo Rat compare with these?

@ChrilleMH86 Год назад

I have not tried the ProCo Rat, but of what i've seen its kind of similar to these, being an "early type of simple distorition, evolved from the fuzzpedals" but with a somewhat fatter sound. Personally I think these type of distorition-pedals sound thin/harsh when used as the single source of gain. Using them at lower gainlevels as gainboosters on a amp or pre-amp (having the gain somewhat up on them) you can actually get a decent "80's rock/metal"-tone

@Riffmaster227 4 месяца назад

Gotta go with the OG DS-1

@FreeUrMindz 4 месяца назад

'78 distortion sounds so much tighter. MXR wins this battle.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 8 месяцев назад

MXR sounds like it adds effect but does not take away. Boss always bleeds away natural guitar tone.

@Riffmaster227 4 месяца назад

Mxr sounds muddier to me, not bad but I prefer the ds-1s fuzz like tone

@josephliptak Год назад

MXR sounds more realistic of 70s rock

@ChrilleMH86 Год назад

Yeah, especially since it has a larger gain-range, allowing you to back the gain all the way down to clean. The gain also gets smoother the more you back it off, and more of a hard edge the more you turn it upp. You could say it acts somewhat more like tubes, compare it to the DS-1. Around the mid-gain area (and with the crunch-button on the MRX off) they sound very close. The DS-1's clipping does not smooth out at low gain-levels, or saturate as well as the MXR on the highest gain-levels, making it kind of a "one trick pony". So yeah, I would agree that the MXR is more useful if your into 70's rock

@Riffmaster227 4 месяца назад

Impossible since the DS-1 was actually designed in the 70s and debuted in 78. It’s more authentic in that regard.