Burlap and Blues, The Blues Blog

The next pedal that I will review, is a pedal that I owned and lent to someone and never got back. For me, the Boss BD-2 was a great introduction pedal into what a good overdrive can sound like into a tube amp if everything is set up right.

As it's name suggests, the Blues Driver can get a really bluesy tone coming from it when placed in front of a decent tube amp. With creamy overtones with the distortion set up, it can add some great harmonic overtones to your guitar tone. The biggest let down with this pedal is the lack of range with the tone control It is very hard to dial in a good tone, and when I purchased this pedal, it was suggested that I purchase a graphic EQ and place both of them in a switched loop to get the best tone. I did not purchase an EQ nor did I keep this through a loop which probably is why I lent this pedal to someone. I really do not care that this pedal is gone, because it is not really as good as it could be unmodified. I hear there are several good mods for this effect to make a better tone but sometimes it is not worth the work to get a pedal like this modded when better things are out there....

I would probably never purchase another Boss Blues Driver unless I found one with a mod that was pretty reasonable.