BOSS BD-2w Waza Craft Blues Driver Overdrive Pedal

£169.99

This is a New BOSS BD-2w Waza Craft Blues Driver Overdrive Pedal from Boss, listed in Overdrive Pedals on Just Pedals. Read More below.

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Boss have released the Waza Craft series of pedals, giving you boutique brilliance with all the modern perks of guitar effects! If you need a more flexible tone from your Boss BD-2 the Waza Craft model is the one for you. Retaining the same original tone, the BD-2w adds another dimension in a second mode, offering buffed up body and sustain.

The Japanese Boss manufacturers have developed a special breed of pedal that not only flawlessly reproduces all of that vintage, authentic tone of the older analogue circuitry, but also offers the razor-sharp benefits of modern technology, in one single enclosure.

Even the fussiest, most die-hard old-school fans can be happy with this one, as the circuitry used is all-analogue and therefore brings you gloriously rich, vintage sound and feel. Simply switch between the standard or Waza options to achieve your desired tone, whether that's warm, authentic analogue vibes, or super-crisp, responsive, modern attack. The BD-2W Blues Driver delivers every time!

Key Features

  • Special edition Waza Craft pedal delivers the ultimate BOSS tone experience
  • Premium sound based on the classic BD-2 Blues Driver
  • Newly revised, all-analog discrete amplifier circuit
  • Standard and Custom sound modes
  • Highly responsive to picking dynamics and volume changes
  • BOSS five-year warranty

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Brand

Boss

BOSS began in Osaka in 1973 as MEG Electronics, a company dedicated to effects. Its first BOSS-branded effect was the CE-1 Chorus Ensemble in 1976; the OD-1, SP-1 and PH-1 launched the compact-effects series in 1977. The JustPedals catalogue includes familiar overdrives and distortions such as the OD-3, SD-1, BD-2, DS-1 and MT-2 Metal Zone, as well as utility items such as the PCS-20A cable. BOSS now spans compact pedals, multi-effects, loopers, tuners and controllers. Manufacturing origin should be checked by model rather than inferred from the brand’s Japanese history.

Category

Overdrive Pedals

Overdrive uses soft or moderate clipping to add harmonics and compression while retaining more of the original note shape than heavy distortion. Some circuits emphasise the midrange and trim bass before clipping; others remain broad, transparent or amplifier-like. Gain, clipping arrangement, headroom and tone filtering decide whether it supplies a light edge, a saturated drive sound or extra push into another gain stage.

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Analogue

The signal is shaped by continuously varying electronic circuitry rather than being converted into a digital effect algorithm. Component choice, operating voltage and circuit tolerances influence headroom, noise, clipping texture and the small variations in response between designs.