I remember talking to a friend about the late Chuck Schuldiner's employment of his BOSS DS1 (Distortion) & he went: That's a weak distortion, what the heck was he doing with that?!Of course, Mr. Schuldiner used it to kick his Marshall into distortion submission, he wasn't relying on it as a primary distortion source as it is indeed a mild sounding unit. It seems that Schuldiner was actually the one who prompted me to use a mild drive/distortion unit to cascade it into another drive/distortion source (need not be another pedal). I was thinking about it lately, was trying to figure out what/who got me into this whole use-2-instead-of-1 thing. Before reading about Chuck, it didn't occur to me that 2 drive/distortion pedals could work wonders especially when we have to deal with the unbearable, backgound hissing.
Thank you, Mr. Schuldiner, sir. RIP...
