Thought I’d do a quick post on my current favorite pedal, the Boss Blues Driver. I play at home at pretty low volume, mostly on my Tele through a Fender Princeton amp. Sometimes I like just a tad of that blues dirt, and the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver delivers that Black Keys sound I dig. I’ve loved Boss pedals ever since I got a DS1 back in the mid-80s. They are bombproof. More pics after the jump.
New pedal from Boss! They took my favorite pedal (the Blues Driver) and made it even more versatile. First time they have collaborated with another pedal company. Check out the Boss video below and the demo after the jump!
Man, I’ve been slacking! Here’s another Red Hot Chili Peppers lesson from Marty to hold you over for a bit. But I just got a Boss BD-2 and will have a review up on that shortly.
I woke up last Saturday wanting a looping pedal. Probably had something to do with the Bill Frisell video and the El Ten Eleven video. As it turned out, I had to give my girlfriend a ride downtown, so I stopped by Guitar Center on the way home. I had only done the most minimal amount of research beforehand: basically I looked at the Digitech and Ditto loopers but decided I’d probably go with the Boss because: 1. I already own a few Boss pedals 2. the others don’t take batteries and 3. I didn’t know how much I was gonna like it, so it didn’t seem like I should spend more.
The guys at Guitar Center didn’t do a whole lot to dissuade me. They did show me the Digitech JML2 JamMan but it seemed huge (not to mention it’s $250). They also showed me the little Ditto, which looked very cool and appealed to my minimalist sensibilities. But again, no battery–which kind of ruins the minimalist thing. Also, I was starting to like the sound of some of the Boss’s features. Let’s talk about them more in depth after the jump!
Cool article dredged up by Guitar World in honor of the release of the 20th anniversary edition of Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’–The Definitive Kurt Cobain Gear Guide. I started playing guitar (again) a year or so before Bleach came out, and really, that’s what you bought back then if you were a punk rocker kid–cause they were cheap and crunchy sounding–a Mustang, a DS-1 and a crappy solid state amp. Well, that’s what I bought anyway.
I always wanted a Boss Heavy Metal pedal but never got one until recently. Boss stopped making these a while ago so I had to pick it up on eBay (I think I paid around $40). It sounds amazing with everything turned to the max. My brother tells me this is the “Swedish sound” you can hear on early Entombed records. Definitely nice and crunchy.
