Brand

Boss

BOSS began in Osaka in 1973 as MEG Electronics, a company dedicated to effects. Its first BOSS-branded effect was the CE-1 Chorus Ensemble in 1976; the OD-1, SP-1 and PH-1 launched the compact-effects series in 1977. The JustPedals catalogue includes familiar overdrives and distortions such as the OD-3, SD-1, BD-2, DS-1 and MT-2 Metal Zone, as well as utility items such as the PCS-20A cable. BOSS now spans compact pedals, multi-effects, loopers, tuners and controllers. Manufacturing origin should be checked by model rather than inferred from the brand’s Japanese history.

Category

Modulation Pedals

Modulation changes a signal through a continuously moving control source. This broad category covers effects that alter delay time, phase, pitch, amplitude or filtering to create rotation, movement and evolving texture when no narrower effect family is dominant. Waveform, rate, depth, stereo phase and control routing determine the shape and spatial behaviour of that movement.