Robert Keeley's BD-2 Phat Mod is not simply a distortion pedal, but rather a transparent tool that supplements your guitar tone, supplying nice low-end response, crystal-clear highs, and great picking dynamics and detail. For those wanting to set their amp on fire but not change their overall tone, this is the answer. The Phat switch allows even more of your natural low end through for those times when you need a little more beef. Thanks to its tremendous volume output, the BD-2 Phat Mod can be used as a clean boost to drive your amp into natural-sounding overdrive.

The Boss BD-2 Blues Driver is an extremely popular overdrive pedal, set up as a competitor to the TS9 Tubescreamer. The Keeley Mod upgrades all the components.

Comments about Keeley Modded Boss BD-2 Phat Mod Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal: If you are searching for a pedal effect that gives you synthetic tube amp break-up, then the keeley blues driver will be your number one device. The tone you recieve when you play is very open (not compressed) and is very realistic to a fender tube driven sound. It also can be made to sound like a Marshall 'clean' tone if you are playing something very clear like a fender. It is nothing like a tube screamer. The Phat mod is a real difference also. Comments about Keeley Modded Boss BD-2 Phat Mod Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal: I have been using this pedal as a boost for a couple years now and LOVE how natural it sounds. The mod adds back the low and high freqs that it cuts out stock, while still giving you the mid hump you need to cut through the mix, all while retaining clarity and the sound of your guitar and amp and whatever you put into it.

To me, that's what an overdrive should do. Unfortunately, not many do that. This one just happens to excel at it. Props to Robert Keeley for a fantastic job making this pedal awesome!

Perfect Tube Tone in Front of any Amp Been chasing tone for years and Loving Every Minute of It. Played in many bands for years. Played through many amps over the years, some tube but more than lately I have been. Been chasing tone for years and Loving Every Minute of It. Played in many bands for years. Played through many amps over the years, some tube but more than lately I have been determined to make the switch to solid state modeling because it is becoming so good and the versatility is hard to beat.

Also tube amps are hard to move and I wanna keep them at home. See my reviews of Fender Mustang 3 and Peavey VIP 3. I use an A/B/Y splitter with these two amps.

It's really something to hear them together.The first pedal in my chain before the amp splitter is the Boss Blues Driver 2. I set gain at center, level at center, tone at low. This gives me a transparent TUBE sizzle. I leave it on all the time.

It makes these amps sparkle with tube presence and balanced harmonics. These amps already sound great but this added sparkle is the icing on the cake.

When running into a clean setting on the amps I set all knobs at center. It is perfect tube response. Every amp becomes a Tube like amp.

Tube amps are ultra expensive, they are moderately heavy and none sound as good as my setup as it is. I also run it in front of a Zoom G3 or a Zoom G1xon when recording and it adds that missing tube sparkle by thickening the sound. Recordings are flat out stellar. This pedal excels at clean settings but it can do great crunch.

I play Journey, Styx, Boston, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, Def Le lots of classic Rock since we are a flashback band. Now for Billy Idol Flesh For Fantasy, this pedal at center knobs straight into a distortion makes it a double gain stage that is transparent and lively.

It enhances, the lighter you play the more clearity stays defined and when you hit it hard both definition and crunch combine and make it sound like two guitars. This pedal by itself into an ultra clean amp sounds like a Fender twin or a Fender deluxe reverb. In my opinion the two best Clean amps out there, and I believe that the pedal actually enhances these amps as well.

This is my opinion of the perfect tube gain. It's a good pedal - some will find it 'great.' But I think you can do better for less. Pretty standard. Lack of tonal options limits this one.

It's a good pedal - some will find it 'great.' But I think you can do better for less. Pretty standard. Lack of tonal options limits this one quite a bit for me. Like most pedals with just a 'tone' knob, it will sound good with certain amps/guitars, and not so good with others. I'm not exactly with the consensus on this one. I figure there must be others like me out there, so I'll pass along my experience.

The BD-2 does not sound 'smooth' to my ears at all, though it's often described as such. I find it blistering, actually.

Pretty brittle. Harsh, ice-picky, fizzy (pick your adjective). I can't seem to get the tone back far enough to lessen that quality until it's back so far that the whole sound turns to mush (if that makes any sense?). Add to that some major compression - which prevents string separation and limits the pedal to being more useful for leads and chunky riffs - which is fine if that's what you need. But if you play rhythm and need chord clarity, you may want to check out the BOSS OD-3 instead.

Great at low gain and much more rhythm-favoring compression and tone. So many people never give that circuit a shot. It's popular now, pretty much an industry standard.

The price has been raised and, in my opinion, it's no longer such a great value. Especially with how limited the eq options are.

Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: Been chasing tone for years and Loving Every Minute of It. Played in many bands for years.

Played through many amps over the years, some tube but more than lately I have been determined to make the switch to solid state modeling because it is becoming so good and the versatility is hard to beat. Also tube amps are hard to move and I wanna keep them at home.

See my reviews of Fender Mustang 3 and Peavey VIP 3. I use an A/B/Y splitter with these two amps. It's really something to hear them together.The first pedal in my chain before the amp splitter is the Boss Blues Driver 2. I set gain at center, level at center, tone at low. This gives me a transparent TUBE sizzle. I leave it on all the time.

It makes these amps sparkle with tube presence and balanced harmonics. These amps already sound great but this added sparkle is the icing on the cake. When running into a clean setting on the amps I set all knobs at center. It is perfect tube response. Every amp becomes a Tube like amp. Tube amps are ultra expensive, they are moderately heavy and none sound as good as my setup as it is. I also run it in front of a Zoom G3 or a Zoom G1xon when recording and it adds that missing tube sparkle by thickening the sound.

Recordings are flat out stellar. This pedal excels at clean settings but it can do great crunch. I play Journey, Styx, Boston, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, Def Le lots of classic Rock since we are a flashback band.

Now for Billy Idol Flesh For Fantasy, this pedal at center knobs straight into a distortion makes it a double gain stage that is transparent and lively. It enhances, the lighter you play the more clearity stays defined and when you hit it hard both definition and crunch combine and make it sound like two guitars. This pedal by itself into an ultra clean amp sounds like a Fender twin or a Fender deluxe reverb. In my opinion the two best Clean amps out there, and I believe that the pedal actually enhances these amps as well. This is my opinion of the perfect tube gain.

Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: this makes a Tube Screamer sound like a Behringer stomp box Even though this is a distortion/overdrive pedal.it really kind of isn't. It's not for hair metal, etc.it's for very subtle overdrive.which is how it should be used. With the gain turned way, way down.

It seems like any review I've read about this pedal complains about the distortion, or lack thereof. You're missing the whole point. There are hundreds of distortion pedals out there.that's not what this is all about. But if you need to be told that, then I'm wasting my breath. This pedal is also better than the T/S (which sounds like it's being played through a 6' speaker cab.waaaaay too boxey sounding and raspy. Use the Blues Driver with a Telecaster on the neck pup, or a Les Paul with both pups on, and you'll understand the point I'm trying to make.

Built like a tank well worth the money. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: The BD-2s is a fairly smooth sounding and extremely versatile overdrive (OD) that is capable of producing a wide range of OD effects that go from extremely subtle to quite hard. This pedal utilizes high-quality tantalum capacitors, which help preserve the subtle nuances and dynamics of your playing technique and results in a tone that cleans up well in response to light picking or ramping down your guitars volume knob. Also, though I described the sound as smooth, it is edgier and has a wider dynamic range than the classic Ibanez Tubescreamer or Boss SD-1 type circuit. The BD-2 features a bright sound with a scooped midrange tone similar to a classic Fender Blackface amplifier pushed into overdrive, but with a greatly increased amount of gain available.

Through a clean amp, with the BD-2s gain knob set below 9:00 oclock, you can totally nail Ed Kings rhythm tone on Lynyrd Skynyrds Sweet Home Alabama. With the gain knob dimed, you can get a heavy fuzz tone reminiscent of Led Zeppelins Whole Lotta Love.

Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: It's a good pedal - some will find it 'great.' But I think you can do better for less. Limewirewin 4 11 1 Pro Exercises more.

Pretty standard. Lack of tonal options limits this one quite a bit for me. Like most pedals with just a 'tone' knob, it will sound good with certain amps/guitars, and not so good with others. I'm not exactly with the consensus on this one.

I figure there must be others like me out there, so I'll pass along my experience. The BD-2 does not sound 'smooth' to my ears at all, though it's often described as such.

I find it blistering, actually. Pretty brittle. Harsh, ice-picky, fizzy (pick your adjective).

I can't seem to get the tone back far enough to lessen that quality until it's back so far that the whole sound turns to mush (if that makes any sense?). Add to that some major compression - which prevents string separation and limits the pedal to being more useful for leads and chunky riffs - which is fine if that's what you need. But if you play rhythm and need chord clarity, you may want to check out the BOSS OD-3 instead.

Great at low gain and much more rhythm-favoring compression and tone. So many people never give that circuit a shot. It's popular now, pretty much an industry standard. The price has been raised and, in my opinion, it's no longer such a great value. Especially with how limited the eq options are. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: I got this as a Christmas gift from my girlfriend this past year.

I've been thinking about getting this for a couple of years now, and thought it would be perfect for a Strat. I was right; This is a nice heavy duty pedal, with a nice warm tube sound with a little crunch. Perfect for my style of playing.

The only issue I have with this product is the battery. As soon as I opened the box and plugged it in; the light was very dim and died within hours. I bought a brand new pack of good brand name batteries about 5 days ago, and ALREADY the light is going dim. I wish I would've known about this before I decided I wanted it. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: I just purchased this pedal a few days ago. I used to own a Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive and loved it but a few years ago when I moved I lost it and never replaced it.

Tried out many different overdrive pedals and most of them had that 'mid hump' and I didn't want that. Then I found out someone was selling one of these. I talked to the guy and he said it was great and dosen't alter or distort your natural amp tone just adds to it and there's no 'mid hump' when you use it. I took a chance and bought it from the guy. Since then I'm glad I never replaced my SD-1 otherwise I would have never thought of getting this little blue badboy. It can do classice bluse, SRV style blues, hard rock like Zeppelin, AC/DC, Sabbath and if you use your amps overdrive and pump the gian on your amp a bit and boost it with this you can get some great modern metal tones as well as a great thrash metal tone. Speaking of tone, the tone nob on this pedal is extremely responsive and serves a purpose!

And the pedal works really well with your guitars voloum control. Overall great pedal and it's gonna be my main overdrive from now on. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: Sorry, but this is not a great pedal. The treble is so high dogs ears bleed at the sound the only sound NEAR usable is (treble at 9 o'clock, volume to taste, drive at 9 o'clock). Any variation outside of this is a horrible mess! I am not a BOSS hater, I am not a boutique snob, just 'joe average' guitar player, gig regularly, play rock music.

I have a brand new MXR calssic distortion that lives on my board. (OCD - FULLDRIVE LOVE THEM TOO!). Save you pennies kids, you get more out of some of BOSS's other pedals, The 'Blues Driver' was a sad failure. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: I play mostly for fun and like many people, I love the sound of a tube amp. But the kind of tube amps I like tend to be rather expensive and I really can't justify the cost.

So I heard about this Blues Driver pedal and I checked out reviews, opinions, blogs and comparison demos on YouTube and decided to buy one and am I ever glad I did! My amp is a solid-state Ibanez Tone Blaster and and it's about as basic an amp as you can get. The stock distortion is either 'On' or 'Off' no matter what the volume or attack but the Blues Driver changed all that. It makes my amp sound so much like a tube amp that I wonder that if I had the money, would I even buy a real one? The pedal is versatile and I can go from just a tiny bit of dirt to all-out crunch. It's also very sensitive to playing style and volume in that with a light touch or low volume, I can get a very slight breakup and when I strike the strings harder or go up a bit in volume, the sound breaks up just like a tube amp.

The Blues Driver also enhances my sustain as well as my bass notes so that a 'Blues in E' really sounds like it's supposed to when comping or when I throw in quick chords in a solo. I may one day get that tube amp but in the meantime, this pedal will do just fine! Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: I say it every time I write a review, but the pedal is a personal choice. You really just have to use YOUR ears and go play one.

I love this pedal. I've had it for years and it has never let me down.

One thing for beginners, or those who don't know their effects that well yet, is that this is an overdrive pedal and NOT a distortion pedal. If you want a distortion pedal don't even bother with this.

If you're looking for that nice Stevie Ray Vaughan style drive check this out. If you don't like it, there are 1 million other overdrive pedals to choose from.

This one does it for me and it will probably never leave my board. It's a quality overdrive pedal that's worth giving a chance. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: This has been my favorite distortion pedal for a few years.

Its able to get a perfect blues sound and can also get slight uncompressed and heavier sounding. I use to be in a cover band and this would be the only distortion I'd use and it could do pretty much anything. I'd normally set the distortion around 3 o'clock and tone around 2 and let the knobs on my guitar do the rest. It works VERY good with tones and volume controls from you guitar and is very responsive. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: I use this pedal with a Fender tweed blues deluxe.

I run my Strat, Tele, and a couple of LP copies through that setup and it's easy to dial up a nice vintage blues, or classic rock tone. I set my amp clean and dirty channels the way I want them and kick on the BD2 for solos. I was able to dial in the exact tone from the pedal that my amp already has. The pedal simply livens it up and boosts the signal a bit for solos. It's got a nice transparentness to it that I really like. You can dial up some nice gain as well, but it's by no means a metal pedal.

I run mine with the tone set at about 10 o'clock and the gain at about 11 o'clock. Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: This is the only overdrive pedal I have so don't have a point of comparison. I chose this over the Tube Screamer for my Telecaster based on YouTube sound comparisons, and certainly don't regret it.

While I bought it to use with a Blues Junior, which is currently on backorder from MF, I've been using it on a Champion 40 modeling amp. Through the clean channel, you get a range of overdrive sounds, from crunch, though British into super distorted metal, particularly with the guitar volume cranked up. Switching from clean to modeling channels shows this pedal generates a smooth balanced overdrive sound that you just cannot reproduce with the amp's gain and voice options, which sound thin and tinny. The only minor negative is the power supply - expect to replace the 9v battery immediately, and understand that whenever an input cable is connected the unit is on. I noticed the power light had dimmed from leaving a cable plugged in for a day, even though everything else was off.

Can't wait to hear this through a tube amp! Comments about Boss BD-2 Blues Driver Pedal: It is a shame that the various years/models of Tube Screamers get all the glory when the Boss Blues Driver is actually superior (in my opinion). The BD has a wider frequency range than the boxey-sounding TS, and it has quite a bit more hair when you put full gain to it.

It also delivers a great not-quite-clean bite with the gain down and the tone turned up a bit. The electronics are responsive to changes in your guitar's volume/tone settings making it a nice tone shaper whether you set it with less or more gain. This thing is versatile, too. It can be subtle, or it can really scream. It can be creamy, or it can really bite.

Korg Pa50 Oriental Styles Download Adobe. You just can't go wrong with the Blues Driver for achieving a great classic rock, blues, or even country tone that makes your guitar come alive.