Wednesday, September 21, 2011

BOSS: Feedback booster

Together with the Combo Drive, the Feedback Booster is one of the fresh offerings by BOSS at this time of the year. It has a dual function, a clean boost as well as what the label promises- a feedback enhancer. The objective is to promote that signature guitar-amp interaction squeal when the former is angled by the player in a certain position so as to enhance that feedback which is arguably made popular by the U2's With or Without You.

After reading the debut article for the FB-2, I could have sworn I'd seen this pedal before but in a different manifestation but my gray cells just couldn't recall what it was until late yesterday. I suddenly registered the original incarnation was of a different chassis colour & true enough, as seen above, the DF-2 was orange. The other difference was that the DF-2 doubled as a distortion unit unlike the clean offering of the FB-2. So the idea is entirely fresh, yes?

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