Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Guitar Effects Pedal

Boss pedals are the gold standard for a great tone and excellent build quality. This is the pedal I use to give some of my leads that overdrive edge without being too distorted. Its a great sound and the knobs are properly labeled and very easy to use. I'm a fan of boss and would definitely love to add more of their effects onto my board

I love this OD pedal. It's a must have effect, why not the Blues Driver? Easy to control. I use this as my first drive pedal followed by a tube screamer and Rat. The BD2 stacks well with either one.

Great sound - used it with my fender princeton to get a more country rock sound

I'm not José Satriani, but for me this pedal has an amazing balance between an overdrive and a non heavy distortion. Just for music which requires a wide spectrum... Not only for blues... the internet can provide amazing explanatory videos about usability and vs to others like tubescreamer and so on...

I use this pedal with a bassline synth and it adds a smooth but powerful driven flavor when the synth is self oscillating that yields a more threatening and sinister sound for acid and lasers. Essential kit for me now. I would buy it again or perhaps the Waza upgraded one.

Like the other reviews state, this is a FUN pedal! I have it connected to my massive pedal box so it simply plugged right in to my power array with no issues. It sounds clean and is very loud! The tone is nice. BUT I also own the Boss Heavy Metal pedal which is a fantastic pedal. I've used it for years so when I added the Blues Driver, I was deeply disappointed in how close it sounds to the Heavy Metal pedal. I have both pedals lined up and I switch them back and forth to test. Both sound a lot alike. It's not enough to really go 3-stars but I was really hoping for a more mellow blues sound and instead I got more of a ROCK sound. It's OK as I have the tone control adjusted in such a way that it's tweaked for a different sound and not a total loss but .. dynamically, it's not all that. The volume of the pedal is great. It really pushes the envelope, even more than the Heavy Metal. That said, it gets 4 stars as by itself, it is a kick-butt pedal. I currently have a slew of FX going through my iPad and into my pedal box (volume -> compressor -> FX -> delay -> amp) and this pedal certainly holds its own amongst the other FX pedals linked to it. I'm glad I own it but I am not sure the price warrants what you get. If you don't already own a Heavy Metal pedal, then it would be a fantastic addition to your stomp collection.

I was very pleased when I got my bd2, after about six months it finally broke on me. Before it did I found a couple of uses for it. 1: you can adjust the settings to your taste for the blues. 2: you can set the level to match the volume of the amp and turn the gain up to really get those harmonics to pop(i was using this setting for the intro to White Wedding). 3: you can turn the gain all the way down and the level all the way up and use it for a clean boost(i was having trouble whenever playing in a band to play over the drums). Needless to say i was missing it as soon as it broke. At first i thought it was the power outlet at my friends house(jimmy rigged extension cord with outlet attached), but when I got home and tested it the light came on for split second and went out. That's when I knew something was wrong. So I tried a different adaptor, then a 9v battery with no luck. So I figured it wasn't the power, but the switch. So i had a friend order a new one on Ebay. When I got it I replaced the faulty foot switch, and plugged it into the wall. It still did not work. Then scoured Youtube for a how to vid to no avail. Finally I downloaded the pdf file for the bd2 and after a few pages I found out that boss pedals have this neat feature where the input jack acts as an on/off switch. So after hooking up a cable to the input it worked just fine. This is my first Boss pedal and(even though it broke after a few months of use) I couldn't be happier with its effectiveness.

Great sounding blues pedal.

He probado muchos Overdrives y este es perfecto. Casi totalmente limpio al tocar despacio y fuerte y estridente al golpear con fuerza. Muy buen output y con la calidad de un Boss como siempre!

Great Pedal! This Pedal really opens up the sound of your amp. Beautiful top end sprinkle, and plenty enough gain. Not Metal gain, but great hard rock gain. Boss pedals are built to last, and are very consistent with great classic sound. For the price range, you don’t get better.

Premetto che la spedizione Amazon è eccellente come sempre: neanche 2 giorni ed è subito arrivato! Il Blues Driver è un Overdrive Full-Tone. Nel mio caso cercavo un Overdrive da abbinare al mio amplificatore Fender molto medioso ( ho subito scartato un Tube Screamer che è già molto orientato sulle medie) e al BOSS DS1; il tutto suonato con una Stratocaster G&L. Si tratta di un pedale eccezionale con 3 semplici controlli: level, tone, drive. Il range di gain ottenibile è spaventoso: al minimo già si sente sufficientemente definito, al massimo ha sonorità prossime ad un Fuzz. Quindi la gamma di suoni ottenibili è molto ampia, ci si può suonare veramente di tutto. Ovviamente il genere prediletto è il blues, ma credo che è tranquillamente utilizzabile anche per un hard rock più spinto. Per quanto riguarda la dinamica, anche qui c'è poco da dire: ineccepibile. Plettrando con morbidezza il pedale sembra quasi spento, plettrando con più forza esce fuori tutto il carattere del pedale. Unica "pecca": aumentando il gain aumenta notevolmente anche il volume, per cui va regolata accuratamente la relativa manopola. Costruttivamente ben fatto, sembra molto solido (del resto come tutti i pedali BOSS). Pagato 67€, prezzo più basso sul mercato dopo un'attenta analisi, anche qui eccezionale Amazon. Insomma a questo prezzo è un best buy, non ha nulla da invidiare a Overdrive ben più costosi, del resto si tratta di un pedale celebre e rimasto nella storia! Assolutamente consigliato.

Drive lässt sich wunderbar über das Volume-Poti der Gitarre regeln. Der Grundsound von Gitarre und Amp wird nicht verfälscht. Leider sind die neuen Geräte auf Grund der PCB-Boards nicht gut zum modifizieren geeignet. Aber ehrlich gesagt ist der Sound ab Werk so gut, dass es auch gar keine Mods benötigt.

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