Recommend a mediocre overdrive pedal

[formula73]

Boss OD-2r. I have NEVER had occasion to use the amp channel switching feature on it, so to me, it's pretty useless. Nevertheless, I needed an OD in Bahrain, I found it, bought it, and it worked. Since then, I've used it to boost the front of an already dirty amp and it does that function fairly well: tightens the bass and boosts some high mids.

[Inkstained]

SirJack, so do I.

It's like a Fender-amp-trying-to-be-a-Marshall-amp-all-in-one-box.

You and I are the last two guitarists on the planet with a stock BD-2.

[Jessie's ghost]

SirJack, so do I.

It's like a Fender-amp-trying-to-be-a-Marshall-amp-all-in-one-box.

You and I are the last two guitarists on the planet with a stock BD-2.

I have a stock BD-2. I don't always play through a BD-2, but when I do, I play it unmodified. Stay mediocre, my friends.

[Jessie's ghost]

I'd say the Boss DS-1 is mediocre. I dumped it after about a year and got the MT-2 Metal Zone which is a much better OD pedal IMO. The DS-1 is usable, but it's not great.

So in what frame of reference is a Metal Zone an overdrive pedal?

[hareek]

So in what frame of reference is a Metal Zone an overdrive pedal?

I guess I'm just comparing it to the DS-1 and the general Boss Line up as I don't have much experience with other manufacturers. I don't differentiate between overdrive and distortion. In my book, they're just names given to pedals with different degrees of a distorted signal. The Metal Zone is much more dynamic than the DS-1, and sounds less fuzzy. I've just never had any success getting the DS-1 to sound good. That's why it impresses me that Cobain was able to so well. Maybe I just didn't have the right gear at the time. I still was using the stock single coils in my strat, but now that I have SD humbuckers it might sound better......that is if I ever feel like digging out of the closet and using it again.

EDIT: I'll add overdrive is a cause, distortion is an effect of that cause. The names on the pedals are just names to describe the type or degree of distortion being produced.

[That90'sGuy]

I have a stock BD-2. I don't always play through a BD-2, but when I do, I play it unmodified. Stay mediocre, my friends.

[Edgecrusher]

So in what frame of reference is a Metal Zone an overdrive pedal?

Actually if you put the drive on 0 and fiddle with the EQ you can get pretty decent over drive sounds out of one. You can use the semi parametric EQ on it to give a nice boost. Wont say that its better than any other OD but it can surprise you if you fiddle with it.

[tonechaser]

"X" Drive

[Jessie's ghost]

I guess I'm just comparing it to the DS-1 and the general Boss Line up as I don't have much experience with other manufacturers. I don't differentiate between overdrive and distortion. In my book, they're just names given to pedals with different degrees of a distorted signal. The Metal Zone is much more dynamic than the DS-1, and sounds less fuzzy. I've just never had any success getting the DS-1 to sound good. That's why it impresses me that Cobain was able to so well. Maybe I just didn't have the right gear at the time. I still was using the stock single coils in my strat, but now that I have SD humbuckers it might sound better......that is if I ever feel like digging out of the closet and using it again.

EDIT: I'll add overdrive is a cause, distortion is an effect of that cause. The names on the pedals are just names to describe the type or degree of distortion being produced.

Actually if you put the drive on 0 and fiddle with the EQ you can get pretty decent over drive sounds out of one. You can use the semi parametric EQ on it to give a nice boost. Wont say that its better than any other OD but it can surprise you if you fiddle with it.

QED.

[FuseG4]

Why does everyone hate the Blues Driver? Did it run off with their girlfriend or something?

I don't hate it. I'm one of the guys who likes it, but I don't like the modded ones because they seem to all want to change it into some kind of ds-1 or TS808 thing...

The Blues Driver and my DRRI, with my Strat. That's my "go-to" gear.

But I guess I was saying that a lot of people, at least on the internet, get really polarized about it. They love it or hate it. And I feel like the BD-2 has some drawbacks that sort of make it mediocre. Like it could some tweaks to the tone knob (to take out some of the harsher frequencies, or add a little mids), or to increase the amount of volume boost. And you know that people on the internet believe that everything that's buffered is mediocre.

[Filipe Marquez]

My life is a mediocre overdrive pedal.

[FuseG4]

My life is a mediocre overdrive pedal.

then mod it

[Filipe Marquez]

LOL, will do!

[SirJackdeFuzz]

SirJack, so do I.

It's like a Fender-amp-trying-to-be-a-Marshall-amp-all-in-one-box.

You and I are the last two guitarists on the planet with a stock BD-2.

I have a stock BD-2. I don't always play through a BD-2, but when I do, I play it unmodified. Stay mediocre, my friends.

. . . good one guys