BOSS BD-2 Blues Driver 50th Anniversary
This anniversary edition of the legendary Blues Driver celebrates 50 years of BOSS changing the effect-pedal landscape with a beautiful eye-catching, metallic blue finish, and sporting the iconic BD-2 tone.
From the beginning, the BD-2 was conceived by BOSS engineers to reproduce the interactive gain and compression properties of a tube amplifier. To meet this goal, they developed a unique multi-stage clipping circuit inspired by actual amps. This innovative design delivers a very organic playing experience, with drive character and harmonic content that changes with your picking attack and sound that smoothly cleans up as you roll back the volume.
Don’t be boxed in by the name—the versatile sound of the Blues Driver circuit flows with any guitar style. Lower gain settings produce a mild breakup that’s ideal for defined chord work, arpeggio playing, and adding body to lead lines. The tone gets fatter and more saturated as you crank the gain, mimicking the behavior of a vintage tube amp. The BD-2’s transparent voice also excels as a full-range boost for pushing downstream drive pedals and high-gain amps into fierce distortion while maintaining definition and clarity.
The BD-2 is renowned for its sensitivity and expressive range, and many players use it as an “always-on“ pedal to shape their core sound. A soft touch is rewarded with a rich harmonic bloom around the notes, while a hard attack delivers sharp-yet-smooth tones that cut through the band. With just your playing touch and volume knob adjustments, there’s a universe of drive colors ready to explore.
Features
- Classic BOSS overdrive pedal, in continuous production since 1995
- Innovative amp-like gain circuit with organic tone and rich harmonic content
- Highly responsive to picking dynamics and guitar volume changes
- Wide gain range supports a variety of applications, from a transparent clean boost to aggressive overdrive
- Tone control for shaping the high-end response
- BOSS five-year warranty
