Boss has just released 3 new pedals to their incredibly popular line of compact effects. All three incorporate a custom DSP(Digital Signal Processing) chip that has, what their marketing team decided to call “Multi-Dimensional Processing”, or “MDP” for short. Supposedly this new technology somehow senses the incoming guitar signal and adjusts the output of the pedal so that the effect sounds equally good no matter where your playing on the neck or in what style.
The 3 pedals include the DA-2:Adaptive Distortion, TE-2:Tera Echo, and the MO-2:Multi Overtone. The DA-2 seems to be the spiritual successor to the ubiquitous DS-1, in that it’s a strait ahead distortion box, but with the added benefit of this new MDP technology for improved sound quality.
The TE-2 has Boss following the trend in delay pedals of adding additional effects like “freeze” and “shimmers”. It also is Boss’s 100th pedal in the compact line.
The MO-2 is a bit different, in that it doesn’t seem to fall into any traditional pedal category. It seems to be a mix of modulation and synth effects, divided into 3 different “modes”.
All three pedals are based on digital technology obviously, but there is some interesting sounds here. I’d like to hear a lot more samples, or get a hold of them to try myself before deciding if this MDP stuff is just marketing speak, or it is an actual improvement. The 3 sample videos below give you a taste of each pedals capabilities, but they are annoyingly, a bit over the top in their production.
