The DS-1's been behind the guitar tones of millions of bands and guitarists, from Nirvana to Joe Satrianai to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Like all Boss pedals, the thing can take a beating. the layout is deceptively simple, with only three knobs, but there's a lot of range to be found in there. cranking the distortion knob and backing off the tone knob gets handy metal sounds, putting everything at the halfway point makes for a good all-around rock sound, and simply turning the level up and the distortion down gets a nice clean boost. There's a lot of mods that can be done on this pedal to alter...