Post by grayn on Jul 8, 2024 18:34:13 GMT
My two amps are a Fender Blues Junior Mk4 and a Line6 Catalyst 60. The Junior is great for clean and just breaking up, distortion. The Catalyst also does clean and breaking up distortion, rather well and can do good, powerful distortion, suitable for classic rock and even metal. The sound neither can get, to my tastes, is that overdriven sound, somewhere between the other two distortions. A powerful crunch, that still lets minor, 6th and 7th chords stand out and articulates overdriven arpeggios.
I initially thought of a tube screamer, like a Maxon but then watched a few videos of the Boss Blues Driver and really liked what it could do. So I ordered the Waza version, the Boss BD-2w. It arrived today and I immediately plugged in my Les Paul Junior and tried it through both of my amps. I set both amps to that just breaking up sound and let the BD-2w do it's thing, with some tweaking from me. I'd taken note of some of the settings from the vids I had watched. So set it up with the Level full on, the Gain fully off and the Tone at it's mid point.
This worked well with the Blues Junior, accept I had to turn the Tone fully on. I was very pleased with the sound, pretty much just what I was looking for. Through the Catalyst, I used the same settings but had to turn the level down a tad and have the tone half way between mid point and full on. And yes, the Blues Driver has very much got the sound I was after. TBH, I slightly prefer it with the Catalyst
I have no idea how this Waza pedal compares to the basic Blues Driver. You do get an extra switch, that gives you the "Standard" sound or a "Custom" sound. I used the Custom. Over the years, I have bought a number of distortion pedals that really didn't give me what I wanted or hoped for. It's very satifying to get a pedal that does.
And as it says in the blurb, this pedal is very responsive to your playing technique. In a way, similar to valves. Cool.
I initially thought of a tube screamer, like a Maxon but then watched a few videos of the Boss Blues Driver and really liked what it could do. So I ordered the Waza version, the Boss BD-2w. It arrived today and I immediately plugged in my Les Paul Junior and tried it through both of my amps. I set both amps to that just breaking up sound and let the BD-2w do it's thing, with some tweaking from me. I'd taken note of some of the settings from the vids I had watched. So set it up with the Level full on, the Gain fully off and the Tone at it's mid point.
This worked well with the Blues Junior, accept I had to turn the Tone fully on. I was very pleased with the sound, pretty much just what I was looking for. Through the Catalyst, I used the same settings but had to turn the level down a tad and have the tone half way between mid point and full on. And yes, the Blues Driver has very much got the sound I was after. TBH, I slightly prefer it with the Catalyst
I have no idea how this Waza pedal compares to the basic Blues Driver. You do get an extra switch, that gives you the "Standard" sound or a "Custom" sound. I used the Custom. Over the years, I have bought a number of distortion pedals that really didn't give me what I wanted or hoped for. It's very satifying to get a pedal that does.
And as it says in the blurb, this pedal is very responsive to your playing technique. In a way, similar to valves. Cool.