BD-2W Waza Craft Blues Driver Pedal Review

Blues Driver

Back in 5he 80s, I had a rack mount B.K. Butler Blues Driver, and it sounded great. Fast forward 40 years, and this one I could afford. So far, I am happy with it. Good tones that are easily called up. Waza craft is the real deal. I will happily keep this one in the lineup here at Wino City

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Great

98 Hotrod deluxe,Les Paul Jr.,few twist of the knobs, OUTSTANDING!!

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Blues Driver Waza

I can't imagine anyone disliking this pedal,only negative is for me I didn't get one sooner.A lot of guitars,amps and effects are idol worship,who used it and on what.Honestly I have never owned the original blues driver,or ever played through one.Im not a huge fan of Boss distortion pedals.The original OD1 is killer,the SD1 and SD1W are great pedals,but always thought even the… read more Keeley mod DS1 and other Boss dirt boxes sounded awful.I recently bought a SD1W cause I miss my old OD1.Its not a bad pedal,it's pretty cool actually ,but won't do what this does which is multitask.You can get a lot of sounds with this,it's not what I would use for metal,but from a slight clean boost to all out raw nasty rock and roll sounds it's great.I was always under the impression this was Boss trying to make a Tube Screamer and it's not.It sorta has a similar eq curve,but is more aggressive,has more gain,is crunchier.It sorta reminds me of putting a 1970s Marshall JMP into a pedal,it gets all those 70s classic rock tones ,sounds very amplike.I have a handful of overdrive,distortions out of all of them my Earthquaker Plumes and this one I would buy again and again if I had to.I use it in custom mode,the standard mode sounds good but the custom mode is more amp like and has better sustain.You would probably be okay with a standard Blues Driver honestly but it's hard to switch it back to standard mode after hearing the difference in the custom mode.Fantastic pedal,love it!!!

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It's Basically Four Pedals in One. And It's Amazing.

This is an iconic pedal for a reason. You're basically getting four pedals in one: a clean boost (level up, gain down); an overdrive (gain noon-ish and below); a distortion (gain around 1-3ish); and a quasi-fuzz (gain almost maxed out). At every setting, the output sounds high fidelity to my ears. And it acts like a tube amplifier. I tend to use it as an overdrive most of the… read more time. Even when I set the gain around 1 o'clock, the pedal still responds to picking strength. Picked lightly, the tone remains fairly pristine/clean. Picked hard, the tone gets heavy and distorted. Add in that it has premium parts, it's analog, and it has the standard-custom switch--and it's even better. I cannot recommend this pedal enough. It is spectacular.

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Great pedal

Great pedal. Fast shipping. Codie was awesome. Gotta love sweetwater. But for real, the pedal gives a great bluesy overdriven tone. It's my go to these days for so much.

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