what i liked about it aside from sound is availability. its easily replaceable unlike boutique pedals oorderin mo pa. i a/b'd it with ocd and gt500, i picked OD1x no bs. mas clear at mataba tunog at hindi compressed. totally another level compared to old od1. ds-1x otoh sounded close to ocd hi setting, can do 80s metal na. mas maganda na rin buffer nya.
i think it is really hard to break a boutique, or even dirt pedals in general ... so worrying about it "breaking" is just thinking too much. and the "cheesy" thing about boutique dirt pedals just being tweaked versions of classic pedals actually work to its advantage, that in the case of it being stolen or getting fried by something like a 48 volt power supply, you can just get a version of the pedal you are using.
i have something like 6 dirt pedals on my board, divided into 2 parts with a line selector. for my OD, i have a zim foxrox (channel A), an Xotic BB Preamp on the first channel, and a Lovepedal Eternity on the second channel. the reason i picked them is because they all sound alike - TS clones. well, not exactly-exactly ... they all have the same flavor. i think the Od1x plays in this region.
same thing thing goes with my distortions ... Lovepedal purple plexi 800 on the first channel and a zim foxrox rat clone on the 2nd channel. while they dont sound the same (rat clone and plexi clone for one), i can switch to both distortions without a noticeable change in sound ... that is the reason why i picked them, instead of getting 2 similar pedals. they have different flavors, but are within the same gain range. i think the Ds1x plays in this region too.
if those pedals get stolen, i have the option to look at the classifieds for plexi and TS clones, and my pedals would just be as readily replaced as if they were Boss pedals.
while i appreciate Boss pedals pushing the envelop and making their own original circuits... i would rather they make good circuits in the 7.5k php dirt pedal price point. but hey, given that those 2 pedals do the stuff i have in my pedal board, i just might consider them if my current pedals meet a disaster and i can get the Boss pedals cheaper. i wont pay 7.5k for them because experience has taught me not to trust Boss dirt pedals with that amount of money.
their last outing was a disaster, the Boss ST2 Powerstack, which was fizzy as hell while trying to play in the plexi, mid-gain subgenre of dirt pedals. i sold mine for 3K ... and for 3k, i can imagine people might just get BYOC crunchbox clones for something like 2k or less. im not even sure how much the ST2 costs brand new. and to think the Boss ST2 sounded great on the demos, which is a testament to how everything sounds good when you are using a good amp.
