Product: Korg DST-1
Price Paid: borrowed
Submitted
02/11/2006
at
03:38am
by
PoisonChef
Email: poisonchef at yahoo<dot>com
Ease of Use
:
10
3 knobs easy to use, the click button is small but its really all you need
Sound Quality
:
10
This is one of the first hard distortion pedals ive tried and i dont own it anymore nor was it ever mine but my brothers friends and he let us borrow it for a few months and i remember i loved this thing, the distortion was an exact crunch that i thought any kind of metalist would need and i used it for nirvana grunge stuff and i cant even remember the amp or guitar i tried it through but i wish i still had this pedal to try it out now but all the distortion pedals ive got now i compare to this thing that i owned back in the day, currently im using a metal zone and ubermetal
Reliability
:
10
done well on batterys i remember this thing was metal and sturdy
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
10
i dont know of the price on this thing nor do i even know if this thing still sounds good now that ive been playing for 10 years now and have tried and owned other types of distortion on amps and pedals but i tried this pedal when i was first getting into guitar and i remember i loved it so im not gonna lie and say its the best distortion pedal out there but i remember i loved it is all...
(if anyone owns this pedal maybe they can let me know if sucks or not compared to other pedals so i wont try looking for it)
Product: Korg DST-1
Price Paid: N/A used
Submitted
11/21/2004
at
01:44pm
by
Dick Palme
Ease of Use
:
10
Well, three knobs...
Out level, tone and distortion.
Sound Quality
:
8
Just some brief comments. I've had a bunch of distortion/overdrive pedals for a long time and yesterday I made a little comparison. Among different pedals such as Boss DS-1, Boss Super Overdrive, Ibanez TS-5.
In spite of the name, Distortion - DST-1, this Korg had a smoother sound and also at a decent gain.
Playing chords through this pedal sounded quite good (less intermodulated) which proves that the clipping is soft.
Principally, a clipping circuitry can sound smoother if the treble is lifted somewhat before clipping and then equally lowered after the clipping, fixedly and internally, apart from any additional tone control as on this one.
This way of clip shaping softens the overdrive tonal contour/body, while keeping the sound unchanged, at lower levels - under the clipping threshold. Ie, it can actually sound more tube like. There are others
tricks to simulate tube saturation but that's another cake ;-)
The DS-1 had a quite transparent but a little too rough distortion for me. I more like softer distortion (=overdrive). The Super Overdrive sounded tonally thin and the Ibanez TS-5 didn't seem to have enough gain capability.
Reliability
:
10
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Haven't needed any.
Overall Rating
:
9
You know, Boss and Ibanez dominate the pedal market but that doesn't mean these are always best right? That's a bit strange how people
focus at the name rather than performance. So if you find this one you'd probably get hands on it for less money than a Boss pedal.
If you use overdrive, try this one out.
