Any Boss OD-2 love out there?

BIG FAN -- does tight '80s hard rock tones all day. It's like Steve Stevens in a box.

 

Just did a shoot out with one versus a SD-1, DS-1, OD-3, and BD-2 at GC (at a good volume) when I was looking for a main drive for my all-Boss board.

I went with the BD-2 for my tastes, but I appreciated the versatility of the OD-2. I could get the Blues Driver to sound more natural, the OD-2 has that weird Boss midrange that I find with most of their drives. For a higher gain application, I’d have probably gone for it. Sounded pretty good, but not quite there for me.

It could’ve gotten me through a gig for sure, just didn’t prefer it.

 

No love. Nope. Nadda.

 

I mainly use it in Turbo mode — it’s like a cranked JCM800. The Rat is a bit more nasal midrangy to me. Both good pedals though.

 

You can get a crazy metal sound into an only slightly crunchy amp. The midrange doesn't bother me because there is a 3 band eq. I can do the same thing with my Klon clone. The OD-2 kind of sounds better, well not really but they do sound a little different.

Don't use them anymore because I use the high gain channel without dirt pedals. I might use them in the future if I have something that needs more gain.

 

I really like my OD-2. Very versatile. Volume needs to be cranked.

 

Lotta love for it here... the normal mode does a better low gain than any Boss pedal, and the Turbo mode is a great crunchy sound, closest any Boss can come to a mid-gain RAT: both IMO of course, people posting above have already disagreed with me on both accounts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The main problem I had with it was that I preferred vastly different settings in each mode, so the remote function was useless to me. If it had concentric knobs like the SD-2 to allow different settings for each mode, it might have become my favorite dirt pedal. On the upside, they are so underrated that I probably paid less than 100 for the 2 I currently own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Great low gainer. Great high gainer. Hard to get both out of the pedal without twisting dials as @Junco Partner notes.

 

I think the model with the remote switch jack has more gain, I have the one without the extra jack

 

it's a good pedal for that purpose...the od-2 in normal mode is a SD-1 with about 50% less drive ...great as a (grid/colour) booster

the 2nd ch has more drive,is more compressed,softer and is more "sustainy"

 

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Don't overlook the other Boss sleeper, the SD-2. Put an Allums mod kit in it and WOW! I felt like the OD-2 was a bit heavy handed for what I needed.

 

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My understanding is that the OD-2r has more volume, rather than gain, although I've not tried one, so I stand to be corrected.

 

Same here. I tried both the OD-1 and OD-2 and preferred the BD-2. They’re all different and obviously many prefer the OD models but the Blues Driver is more versatile. It does the lower gain blues tones and can flat out rock as well.

 

Yes I believe they bumped the volume up so you could get unity volume earlier as well as adding the remote switch option.

 

Yeah I’m not saying it’s a dead ringer for the RAT, definitely less fuzzy, but at one point I had all my BOSS pedals out trying to see which one sounded closest and that was my choice. YMMV and what not. Now that I say that, I’m reminded that the HM-2 probably comes closer in texture, but I’ve never had a real deal BOSS, just the Behringer clone, so I hadn’t included it in the shootout. It’ll be interesting to try the Waza version.

I do really, really love the SD-2 lead mode too. Both pedals are sorely underrated.