Behringer BO100 Blues Overdrive

Easy.

I really like this pedal. I've had dozens of pedals, most of the ones I've kept have been higher end models that have been pro modded. This one is great for adding just a little smooth grit, ideal for blues or adding a little "extra" for fusion. Works quite well with single coils, transparent freq. response, no humps or cuts.

Why would you jump on a pedal? Do you drive your car into trees? This thing is made of pretty thick ABS plastic, same stuff they make cars out of. Come on..! Without intentional abuse I would expect this to last a reasonable length of time.

Great pedal for the price. I liked it enough that I bought a second one. Now they're hard to get, I expect they've been discontinued. Sounds better than a number of pricey "boutique" pedals I bought and then later sold.

3 KNOBS CAN YOU HANDEL IT.

Great for tube amps, Cheezy with some solid state amps. Its an overdrive not a distortion pedal. Its designed to juice up the input to your amp and adding an extra stage or overdring a tube preamp.
On a solid state box and it will cause nasty clipping in the preamp.
I garrantee you the bad reviews you read are from idiots using solid state amps. Suggest they get a Tube preamp like the cheap one Behringer sells, Run this overdrive into it and run the preamp into your amp. This will allow the tube to acieve saturation giving you the blues tone you wanted in the first place

I've owned a few of these Behringers for awhile. They are very sturdy for plastic. If you weigh 350 pounds and jump on it like an animal It may break. Chances are weighing that much you wont have anyone worthwile watching you play anyway, at least not any chicks.

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All of behringer stuff sounds great. I know what I'm buying and buy the right tool for the right job. Just buying a box that says Blues on it doesnt make you a blues player thank god. There are too many amatures out there with swolen heads. This box does a decent job as I described.

Very easy. Three knobs: Level, Tone and Gain. They do what you'd expect them to perfectly.

Yup, I like this one. I use this pedal to make my clean stuff sound a little dirty, with the Gain know almost set to zero, Tone halfway and level a bit over halfway. I never turn the Gain all the way, cause that doesn't sound very convincing.

Good sound for playing rock and blues licks, and grainy rythems on the more lofi and alternative side. It's also great combined with a Wah-pedal.

When you need a metal distortion, run to the store and buy a Metal Zone (That's what I use for the hard stuff).

Also, there is no noise. Just chain it correctly dudes! (Whammy and/or Wah first, then disto, then the rest)

Plastic, but I guess it's sturdy. Just don't drop it from a building.

Never dealt with them.

Good pedal, great value for money.

The only downside for me: the adapter-input is on the righthand side instead of at the top. also the battery compartment isn't very accesible (you have to use a ballpoint to take the lid off completely).

Getting a decent blues sound is fairly easy. Getting to the battery is a significant problem-you need a pen or something to release a spring loaded incredibly small button. This is one of the reasons I returned this pedal. It is possible to access but compared to other pedals out there this is lacking!

Im playing a modded washburn with gfs lil killers coil tapped on to get the stratish sound-through a vox 15w valvetronics amp using the clean botique setting (my favorite, especially when using pedals). This pedal sounded decent.

I was so skeptical about the reliability of this pedal that I went to ebay and found a guyatone od to replace it. I really liked the sound, but the workmanship, small design with low quality exterior parts resulted in a prompt return. If wrigleys can package their eclipse mints in a metal container for around a dollar, then Behringer could certainly upgrade their shell.

Back when I had my v-amp2 they responded to e-mail quickly and were helpful. Again the Vamp was traded due to the plastic factor. I am not totally opposed to plastic-danelectro did a great job with their fab series.

Decent sound-hopefully they will improve the shell and footswitch!

Despite the fairly useless "manual" ( a bit of folded paper telling you what the various knobs do), it's fairly easy to get a basic sound out of this. Like most pedals, it takes a bit longer to really dial in "The Sound", and I'd recommend marking your settings.

Three knobs, level, gain and tone. Tone sounds best at around 10 o'clock. With level below 12, the gain doesn't do much, just thins or muddies the sound. A bit of fiddling will get you a couple of very useable sounds. As with other Behringer pedals, it doesn't sound too good at extremes of setting - stay around the middle of the sweep and it sounds OK.

Two minor irritations - the fiddly way you have to get the sprung pedal off to change batteries - definitley not one to get into onstage - so use it with a mains power - which brings us to point two - the 9v. input is on the side, just below the audio output jack. I can imagine some interesting noise in the future as the contacts kludge up. It's also not best placed if you're using straight power input jacks - best to use a right-angled jack for space.

Used with a Strat and a Tele, this can sound pleasantly grunty. However, it won't give you what some people might term XTREME distortion - it's more of an overdrive - which is..er.. what it says on the box.

Perfectly good enough for o'd-ing the front end of a Fender. Stick another gain (compressor, pre-amp, another OD, a graphic eq)in front of it and you're damn close to that Grail SRV sound - yeah, I know, it's what every one says, but short of two TS's, Four fenders, two Marshalls and a Dumble, it's as close as most of us will get.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that getting close to that saturated SRV sound is fairly achievable for most of us these days; the good news is that the Behringer BO is not going to stop you getting it, unlike some of the more aggressive pedals

Well, I wouldn't give it a good kicking cos it's only made of 2 mm plastic, with a fiddly spring arrangement to get to the battery.

Mind you, I always laugh at these guys who stomp their pedals as if it was their worst enemy's face - ever get the feeling they could do with a big hug?

Dunno, sure they're as lovely a bunch of Bavarian thigh-slappers as you'd ever meet - did I mention Behringer were German?

Don't understand the slaggy reviews this has got...sure it's not a Klon or a Crowther, but it's 5-10% of the cost and don't sound half bad

Now for a bit of heresy...I've used loads of pedals over the years and still possess an original TS808 (which I wouldn't take out of the house, even though I think it's over-rated). Given that the Behringer cost #15, and the TS would cost around #250-300 today, I'm prepared to say that the Behringer is far better value. The BO 100 sounds about 90% as good, and doesn't have the bass-lite, nasally TS mid-tone which some people like (but I don't as much as I used to).

Now a TS will sound great with a cooking Marshall stack - it helps to focus the sound - but with a small Fender (which is what many of us will use), it just seems to cut the chunk out of your bottom two strings (which might explain why there were two 15" speakers in Stevie's gargantuan rig).

Nah, buy the Behringer, put the TS on a velvet cushion under glass and throw sugar at it.

PS - in the UK, BO means body odour.

Easy to use. But impossible to get a good sound from it.
Manual ? Chinese manual !!!

* Hand made Stratocaster style, ash-maple, with vintage 59 pickups
* Fender Hot Rod
A friend of mine gave it to me like a present for my birthday. Knows that I play the blues.

Plastic

I dont think that original project was wrong. But if you use cheap components many things may go wrong. (Try to put on fender amps Svetlana and/or Sovtek tubes and a good alnico Jensen cone.... Sounds better no ?) But it costs more $ to produce it.
To this pedal, ALL went wrong !

Blues, R&B, Some rock.
I don't want to ruin our friendship but I'll ask to my friend to change it.
I realy don't know what this pedal costs. I hope it's an economic one..
Terrible sound. Even my "practice" 505 does better !!!
I ordered now a hand made Tube screamer from a guy who make them here in Italy. A student. I pay more. But i just love "MADE by hand" things!! (Hot Rod modification sheduled !!)
Forgive my bad english

It's impossible to get a good sound out of this. Editing is simple enough, but you have to turn all knobs all the way up to hear anything. The "manual" is a piece of cheap paper with only the most essential information.

I use it with a Samick guitar and a VOX amp. The BO-100 is not noisy, but there are some clicks and pops which I don't think should be there. Generally, the effect is WEAK in every way. No overdrive at even the most brutal settings. I wonder if it's deffect? I can't get any sound that is worth using. It bad, bad, bad...

It's plastic, but seems sturdy enough.

I play blues and blues rock. The BO-100 is a TERRIBLE match! I've been playing for over 10 years, and thought that maybe this little thing would be good value. It's not! I also have a BOSS DF-2, and that is so much better. I absolutely hate the sound of this little thing. I considered buying a BOSS BD-2, but could not afford it, so I wasted my money on the BO-100 instead. Bad descision. I wished it sounded more like the BD-2. Don't buy it - don't buy it - don't buy it - DON'T BUY IT!

Easy to use, typical controls like other overdrive pedals.

The sound is OK. I have a strat with somewhat hot pickups. Any gain over 5 (1/2 on the dial) and it starts clicking and popping unless I put the guitar volume down to 3. I have another Behringer pedal and it does not do that - does this one have a problem?

When the gains are down it does have a nice blues sound.

I haven't had it long. It is plastic - not a concern for home use or practice. No opinion yet.

Haven't had to have any support from Behringer.

For home use and practice I rate it an 8 based on the very competitive price for the features. If it cost $100, I would rate it a lot lower because of the plastic and somewhat cheap sound. For $19 - what can one say?

Easy to use unless you are an idiot. Hardest part is putting in the battery. Impossible to get a GOOD sound out of it. It just is not capable of good blues tone, PERIOD! Chainsaw on metal, yes, good blues tone, no.

Sucks. There are no other words to describe the sound. Only on full gain with the tone full down does it get near a useable sound. Outside of that it is a nasty, edgy CHEAP sounding box.
I am using a Fender Custom Shop Telecaster, with humbuckers through a Crate VFX5112. By themselves they sound great, add the Behringer Blues Overdrive and you are a teenage moron making noise. Pure and simple. There are no good sounds in this box.

It has all surface mount electronics and the case is thermocast polyethylene, it would hold up. The pots inside are high quality as are the connectors. Really good components all mil spec.

Beats me. Everytime I contact them, they tell me their stuff is great. My band uses Behringer equipment in our PA and have never had a problem at all.

I play Alternative Country/ Country Rock. I need a good TUBE sounding, smooth overdrive sound for whe I play slide. Well, this box aint it. Love the cheap price. Hate the terrible sound. If it were stolen I would NOT buy another, in fact this one is going in the trash. I compared it to my Nady Tube Overdrive and the Nady is smooth and full, the Behringer is metallic, edgy, nasty, gritty and really annoying. If you want to drive your audience away, just use this pedal, it will do it.
I bought it through a catalog, before hearing it. THAT was a mistake.
PLEASE listen to your effects before you buy them, don't make the mistake I did. Even my wife laughed at it "that thing is purple"!
I have no idea what Behringer was attempting to do, but this pedal was a big mistake. Maybe they should listen to a blues player, like Stevie Ray, and go for that Marshall Overdrive sound, instead of what one of their designers THINK a blues overdrive sounds like. I just cannot imagine anyone at Behringer listened to this pedal before making and selling it.

This is a follow-up.
I noticed something strange when in bypass mode, my clean sound gets like some slight chorus effect. I heard some folks claiming modulation issues with these behringer pedals, and so far I didn't notice this problem (I own ble100, od100, ud100, eq700 and beq700.

It is no big issue for me since this modulation stays at very slight levels, in fact it is not unrewarding at all for clean tone.

I end using the pedal to boost (gain 10o', level&tone at noon) my overdrive channel for lead play.
Amp is a roland cube 30, model metal stack(5150-like) with gain at min.
Currently axe strat with twin blades p-u^s