{"id":23,"date":"2026-08-03T23:51:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-08-05T00:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:19:02","slug":"boss-ds-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/boss-ds-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Boss DS-1 Emo Mod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This is the personal Mod I am working on (EMO MOD).<\/strong><br>What I wanted to achieve is a DS-1 capable of function as a single channel preamp ranging from clean to usual high gain. I didn&#8217;t removed the R9 resistance due to that reason.. I added a 1k Pot to adjust pregain level. 10 k is over kill. I might try 2.2k before final assembly, but currently 1k good enough. The tone stack is currently very useful 47nf is too bassy for me so I went with 22 nF, I had the inspiration from numero6 and other resources as well.<br>For clipping alternatives I go with Reverb\u2019s transistor clip and Wampler JCM 800 mod.<br>I found out that Red LED combinations compresses too much and reintroduces fizzyness I want to get rid off. Green emphasises mids. Yellow a more high mid. Blue LED\u2019s is the best for tube like clipping.<br>My main 2 clipping mods will be no diodes and IRF530 mod I experimented. For the third one I will make 1N4148 and 1N4001 in series combination. I have to check out LEDs in low gain setting if there is a meaningful clipping otherwise I will have one no diodes position in the switch.<br>UPDATE: One position will be No Diodes and for the Third one I find a rather interesting solution. 4X 1N60 in PARALLEL for D4 and 4X1N4001 in PARALLEL in D5 position.<br>Serial Connection is for Marshall and Vox Lo vers,<br>For Modern Hi Gain I found Parallel is the Key, and LED s clip too much especially RED LED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DS-1 EMO MOD\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zf8VpKgIEUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DS-1 Test Song\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9-LOcOcAKoQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the personal Mod I am working on (EMO MOD).What I wanted to achieve is a DS-1 capable of function as a single channel preamp ranging from clean to usual high gain. I didn&#8217;t removed the R9 resistance due to that reason.. I added a 1k Pot to adjust pregain level. 10 k is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karalama.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}