Sparkle drive for clean boosting, and cm 2 for stand alone dirt box into a clean amp. Andrew is gets kicked off the key west police force for attacking the husband of his lover with a vacuum. The st 2 and the bad monkey have the bass control to compensate for low volume. The bd 2 has much less of a mid humpmore wide open and not real tight on the bass. Advice between a bad monkey, boss ds1, and keeley bd2. The blues driver is a fantastic pedal, but od3 really sounds like the tubes are getting hot and bursting with tone. I think, a bd 2 sounds best with guitars that are equipped with humbuckers. A bad boss is the one who believes that he knows everything and his employees know nothing. Its organic, rich, lush, and all the rest of those descriptions people hate. The bd2super can get a very pure clean boost sound after our mod, more transparent than a tube screamer due to less midrange boost, compression, and distortion. Boss bd 2 is probably more comparable to the tube screamer type circuit from what i recall, but ive never owned one. I have never been able to connect with my bd2 but my sd1 is like a best friend. But comparing the bad monkey with the ts9, i guess the bm is more worth it, as its about a third of the price, and oes basically the same. The tube screamer style has a distinct mid hump, and personally i like it a lot.
While the digital xseries offered by digitech hot rod, tone driver, distortion factory, etc is somewhat of a mixed bag, digitech does offer a number of excellent analog pedals, such as the hot head, bad monkey, and screamin blues, which are basically modified versions of the boss ds1, ibanez ts9, and boss bd 2, respectively. Boss bd2 blues driver fender stratocaster guitar forum. This popular pedal provides instant access to the kind of warm overdrive and emotive distortion usually reserved for 30yearold tube amps. The boss bd 2 blues driver is one of the bestsounding overdrive pedals ever made, and modifications to it are entirely unnecessary gilding of the lily. It cleans up nearly all the way when the gain knob.
Your touting that the bd2 and ocd are alike by anymeans even drew out bad monkey to say the contrarynot the ts clone, one of our own forum members here. Ive heard a lot about the digitech bad monkey for a tubescreamerlike over drive, but if youre looking for. This is a very versatile pedal offered at a great price. Its hard to peg the book s genre with any sense of confidence. The boss di1 is an analog direct input box that has a lot of different features for a direct box. Phil gates takes you on a guided tour of the bd 2 blues driver. Keeley mod i was looking to buy a boss bd2 with the keeley mod but noticed that boss recently released their waza edition. The shootout used a made in mexico fender stratocaster thru.
It doesnt sound like it did on the sound clips from they didnt have one avalable to try out so i thought with a 30 day return policy what do i have to. They are both good pedals, but between the two, i would lean toward the bad monkey. Can also be used for warm distortion with a higher level of responsiveness than most distortion boxes. The bd2 is arguably one of the best boss pedals right out of the box, and with a few precision adjustments from the fromel laboratory, this pedal can rival the best boutique stomp boxes on the market. Boss bd 2, akai trimode, bad monkey, joyo hot plexi and roll boost all sound great. I just sold my blues driver after playing and purchasing the boss os 2 overdrivedistortion.
Boss od3 vs sd1 video comparison telecaster guitar forum. Most dirt pedals are analog, in my experience, and the bd 2 is no exception. This rugged pedal produces the smooth natural character of an. David vs goliath boss bd 2 vs bd 2w waza craft youtube. Which boss bd 2 mod is for you regular bd 2 mod hi and thanx for the interest in my mods.
Id say the boss blues driver hands down between those two. Nothing wrong with a bad monkey i think it would be a great inexpensive alternative to the bd 2. Sd1 vs od3 vs bd2 effects and processors harmony central. Sd1 seems a little better at first, but the bad monkey really tears it up once you use the low and high knobs to shape the tone. A bad monkey is a tube screamer style with more options. The bd2s distortion may be a little abrasive to some ears unless you shell out extra for the keeley phat mod. I have a bad monkey but am not really liking it so was looking to get a blues driver. Dr i prefer the od3 and bad monkey over the tube screamer. It has a slew of 14 connections including for input, parallel output, balanced output and then it has a few switches for power and an attenuator.
There are very few overdrives i would choose other than a bd2, but none of them are better. Im sure you will too i a bd the blues driver with the screamin blues. The bad monkey, as already mentioned, has more mids and better tone shaping it has a bass control. I sold too many ts style pedals to count after doing a great big shootout with all of them. The bd 2 pairs well with a dirty amp, and gets kinda raspy at higher gain settings, and has quite a flat and transparent voicing for an overdrive pedal. Chesterton novel the man who was thursday and the film the matrix, noting that bad monkeys contained so many ingenious fakeout layers that readers will find their heads spinning with awed delight by the book s frenetic climax. Digitech bad monkey distortion guitar effect pedal for sale online. Fulltone ocd vs boss blues driver discussion in the effect effect started by rockerxdx, dec 22, 20. Though hes anything but eager to follow monroe county sheriff sonny summers bidding and drive the arm to miami to see if it belonged to some local stiff, the encounter andrew yancy has with miami assistant medical examiner rosa campesino, which ends with him taking the arm back home and. The boss od3 overdrive pedal gives you one of the most versatile overdrives on the planet. The author of bad monkey is carl hiaasen and this is the first of his books that ive read.
Boss bd2 vs ocd vs fulldrive2 fender stratocaster guitar forum. Another brilliantly inventive book by matt ruff, bad monkeys follows the story of jane charlotte, a daring and deceptive agent of a secret societys assassination group the eponymous bad monkeys department. Using the unit safely and important notes separate sheet. The bd 2 is designed to be more of an overdrive pedal.
And brock, i just noticed that far from here is selling a keeley bd 2 and a digitech bad monkey. In fairness though, this is a very good looking, solidly built pedal thatll last you a lifetime, and probably outlast the joyo by a long way. I played it stock til all the way up til the beginning of last year. The boss bd 2 blues driver pedal gives you the classic, bluesy sound of an overdriven vintage tube amp in a compact pedal. Compared to the rat, the bad angel has more low end and more of that tube amplike. If youve ever tried a bd 2 with single coils, it doesnt beat a ts. The bd 2 blues driver delivers the creamy, yet crunchy sound associated with great blues guitar. It has a slight mid hump and the gain has a little more of a fuzztype quality as you push the gain up. That pedal show tube screamer, blues driver, king of. Bad money, bad monkey mod, badder monkey, digitec bad monkey, distortion, modding pedals, pedal mods, stomp box, tube distortion, tube overdrive. I think you should jump on both of those for the price hes selling them for.
Is the boss bd2 blues driver an analog or digital pedal. The digitech bad monkey, screaming blues, and hot head distortion. For me i only use a pedal on the crunch channel to add a little gain and sustain. David vs goliath boss bd2 vs bd2w waza craft youtube. Ive been jamming with a new band for the past four or so months and in this time ive been working on building my pedal board. It does a great job in combining both and has more bite for sure. The boss bd2 blues driver is one of the bestsounding overdrive pedals ever made, and modifications to it are entirely unnecessary gilding of the lily. I heard a guy using a bd 2 with a flying v type non gibson guitar at a blues jam and his tone was awsome.
Theres a knockoff of the boss bd 2 called the screamin blues pedal by digitech. Bad monkeys received a 2008 washington state book award for. There are very few overdrives i would choose other than a bd 2, but none of them are better. I have a bd 2 that i like as a cleanslightly dirty volume boost.
Well, more like over 200 so far, and hopefully well find more to add to the list of effect pedal clones. I like sound clips of the bm more than i have the bd. Im learning the blues and this seems the obvious choice and the demos show it up good but are there alternatives worth checking out. A severed arm that a visiting angler hooks off key west kicks off hiaasens th criminal comedy.
This popular pedal provides instant access to the kind of warm overdrive and. Like boss blues driver but loads more gain with better eq options. Advice between a bad monkey, boss ds1, and keeley bd 2 which two would provide the most versatile configuration for a crunchboost setup. Oct 10, 2016 lastly, the boss blues driver bd2 just sits up that bit higher than the joyo, so is a tad more wobbly on a pedalboard if not fastened down properly. Unusual for a boss overdrive, the colour of the bd2 is blue. It gives a great, warm bluesy tone with single coils with the blues driver, i keep the gain very low, maybe 9oclock, no more than 11oclock, and the. Sep 23, 2009 sd1 seems a little better at first, but the bad monkey really tears it up once you use the low and high knobs to shape the tone. Jun 14, 20 bad monkey by carl hiaasen life recently appears to outhorrify hollywood disaster films as devastating tornadoes roam thousands of miles of the midwest, coastal citydestroying hurricanes displace entire communities, and forest fires drive people from the mountains, not to mention the bloodshed in foreign countries. It is not quite as transparent as my h2o or blues stack plus mods. I started looking into this after doing some makeovers to a couple of joyo pedals i had. Blues driver discussion in the effect effect started by kevin8122006, mar 11, 2009. The boss bd2 blues driver, whos got one, is it all its cracked up to be.
This mod opens up the tone so your guitars natural tone remains pure and articulate. The sd1 has a nasty midhump to it, and kills all your bass. You could try using the sd1 with no gain but the level well up. When it comes to boss overdrive, the bd2 is my first and only choice. Bad monkey going into a screamin blues is a fantastic combination. Capable of producing anything from clean boost to near fuzz, the bd2 is an. Like the digitech bad monkey, the two eqs are interactive with the gain and allows the unit. The bd 2 also has the natural sounding compression which i dont hear from the sd1, which is more airy.
If they do a waza craft od3, my head might explode. With that said, i have no idea which would go better with a bad monkey, but alone, the bd 2 is worlds better than the sd1 tonewise. Fulltone ocd vs boss blues driver page 2 fender stratocaster. I use all 3 mij sd1, od3, bd 2 to boost my tubefactor kinda bassheavy, and only the sd1, od3 and a modded ts9 tighten things really up, while the bd 2 retains a big sound. The bd 2 is voiced with a fuller eq spectrum, and while it has a mild mid jump, its not as pronounced as the sd1. I have to go with the boss yellow pedal i cant remember what it is called but i thought it was super over drive. Boss ds1 vs boss sd1, whats your views sign in to follow this. Boss sd1 boss od 2 discontinued one digitech bad monkey thanks. Read online bad monkey pdf by carl hiaasen for free. Mar 04, 2020 the bd2 was been a success from it first went on sale and its still one of the best selling boss pedals today. The sd1 is great for boosting amps or other drives, and as you know, so is the bd 2. Feb 15, 2016 danish pete engages yet another david vs goliath pedal challenge where an a very affordable goes up against a more expensive pedal.
Another thing is how much the boss bd 2 buffer kind of tone sucks, when compared to the ts9 buffer which hardly affects the fuzz face and plays nice the bd 2 buffer muffles the fuzz face even when off or by itself going into a fuzz face without the ts9 in the chain at all. Was wondering if anyone had a recommendation on which way to go with this one and if one is better than the other. When i play my bad monkey at stage volume, i have to turn the bass back, because it gives alot of it. May 25, 2017 bad monkey business is a delightful childrens tale with lively animal personalities converging upon an old woman in the middle of a bad rainstorm. Boss ds1 vs boss sd1, whats your views effects and. The boss bd 2 blues driver is a relatively inexpensive overdrive pedal featuring high quality boss construction.
Someone said this pedal isnt good for boosting, but i think its not bad for that. The bd 2 gives you all the textures you need to scream, sing, or cry. Im running the boss sd1 super overdrive up against a digitech bad monkey overdrive. That pedal show four tube screamers compared, plus klon. If youre more into arena rock, then the bd 2 as a boost might be a better choice. The bd 2 might be too bright and fullsounding, when used as a boost.
Oct, 2008 there are two of these types of gain stages in the bd 2, controlled by a dual gang 250k pot wired as a variable resistor. The bd2 blues driver delivers the creamy, yet crunchy sound associated with great blues guitar. The bd 2 delivers the creamy, slightly crunchy sound associated with great blues guitar. The bad monkey tube overdrive gives your guitar amp a boost just when you need it. The hardwire cm 2 is the refined version of the bm. A bad boss will never share his experience with other team members. Nov 14, 2004 page 1 of 2 boss bd2 posted in effects, amps and their settings. I have an od3, bd 2, and the bd 2wif i had to choose one, itd be the od3. Lows 12oclock, highs 12oclock, gain is at about 12 also.
I havent played it, but ive read a bunch about it because i own the bad monkey which is in the same pedal lineup and its basically a bd 2 with separate bass and treble knobs instead of a single tone knob. This epiphany led her to write her witty and engaging new book, what shamu taught me about life, love, and marriage. Oct 01, 2007 keeley has proposed to take a standard boss blues driver bd 2 and upgrade several of its components, change its clipping saturation simulation characteristics, and widen its frequency range to be more transparent. I agree with axis29, the amount of tone control made this my choice. Its just between the bad monkey and the blues driver. We started selling ehx pedals so when theyve reissued a classic well link that too. This pair will also help set the gain, though they are fixed values in the bd 2. Digitech bad monkey vs ibanez tube screamer ts9 overdrive. Boss od2 vs boss sd1 vs digitech bad monkey ultimate guitar. It is much tamer than its orange cousin the ds1, but it can put out a fair amount of distortion with the gain knob cranked up.
The gain doesnt have the grit turned up 100% that the keeley bd 2 has at 75%. The monkey is great for that, and then i generally use the bd 2 as a transparent boost. It is between these two, because im getting one or the other in trade. A lot of guys only swear by them with the keeley mod though. Boss bd2 blues driver modifications fromel electronics. This is a feature taken to the extreme with the dn2 dyna drive. Discussion in the tone zone started by pedecamp, jun 2, 2016. When it comes to boss overdrive, the bd 2 is my first and only choice. In praise of the humble, underrated boss blues driver. Written by the local arizona childrens authorillustrator, michael hale, you will be delighted with the antics of this determined lil monkey in this funny, rhyming story for children and. I bought the sd1 and returned it the next day got the bd 2 instead. Both are very good pedals, and they sound good through most amps. The od3 seems to be a better blend at low and higher volumes. Your touting that the bd2 and ocd are alike by anymeans even drew out bad monkey to say the.