Behringer BO100 Blues Overdrive

Claims to be based on the Boss BD2. Easy to use - level, tone, gain.

So far I have used this with a Fender fat strat texas special into a Reverend Kingsnake amp with a clean US blackface setting. This unit is not noisy at all. Doesn't lose bass or accent the mids like my TS7. Sounds best with the tone set at 10:00. Nice clean blues tone with low gain using the neck single coil, good screaming bluesey tone with the gain up using either the neck single or bridge humbucker. For this I would give it a 10. However, anything lower than 10:00 on the tone knob sounds muddy with no definition, and higher especially after 12:00 sounds absolutely horrid. Way to much treble. So it gets a 7 for the few good tones I can get out of it (which I am very satisfied with).

Cheap plastic, switch works well. I have it on a pedal board so it should be OK. Have only had it about a month.

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Been playing about 30 years in and out of bands (blues, classic rock) mostly for fun. Play out sometimes. This is a great pedal for the price. I bought this on a whim instead of a Boss BD2 for about 1/4 the price to complement my marshall guv'nor GV2 (which i use for marshall tones) and my TS-7 tubescreamer. It serves its purpose and I would buy it again.

Easy.
3 knobs... level, tone, and gain

no manual needed
no firmware

If u don't know how to use 3 knobs and an on/off switch, u need to quit playing guitar.

i have yamaha pacifica and many other brands but i tested this unit on 2 different models of yamaha which has very nice fenderish clear pickups and one with high gain humbuckers through Crate G60 Clean channel.

No noise. Very quiet.

Ok... i own V-Amp2 and few other Behringer products like the mixers, and Virtualizer Pro and a EQ pedal and GMX110. I have to say that their digital modeling amp like V-Amp2 sound very good and much better then their analog modeling amps like the GMX series. But this pedal takes the cake when it comes to being totally useless. The pedal's true distortion is a horrible rattling effect that you can hear almost separate from the clean. Even the trailing distortion at the end cuts off noticeably where it is very annoying. You can't get the slight breaking overdrive, nor can you get a nice moderate distortion. Even the highest gain setting is muddy. It's all because the distortion emulation is terrible. No matter what gain setting you have it or shape the tone, the distortion is just rattly and not crunchy or clean. It's the most useless piece of musical hardware i now own and i would be happy to just get $10 for it from someone for it. It doesn't even sound unique enough to use it for some odd occasion. It JUST SOUNDS BAD. I don't know what the hell the people below are talking about. Either they have never heard a good tone in their life or they are already playing through Behringer GMX and that's all they have ever heard or they are deaf

never use it and will never worry about realiability. but i will mention that the plastic feels very cheap and the joins on the pedal are plastic.

Never needed to call.

I play everything from acoustic to metal for 20+ yrs off and on. Trust me, don't listen to these deaf ppl below. If they gave a review like i did, which is the honest one, i would have never bought this junk. If you want a much better deal, get the Danelectro FAB pedals. They are only $15, even cheaper then Behringer and sounds very good. It blows this junk away. I recommend getting all three of the new FAB pedals. At $15 bucks the 3 Dano pedals will give you everything from slight overdrive to metal and everything in between and excellent tone. It's an incredible deal at $15 bucks, and i don't mean because it's cheap. It actually sounds very good and better then some solid state amps and most if not all modeling amp distortions.

Silent switching, clean bypass sound, effective controls.
Works well with rechargeable 8,4volt/210ma battery.
Drive control go from fully clean to healthy overdrive, and level is a serious ass kicker (good to push your tube amp over the top).
Tone is effective too, nothing too harsh, nice cut.
Very easy so far

Not noisy at all on its own, like other Behringer pedals I happen to own.
The tone is on the fat side, solid overdrive. Above noon you get a tight healthy overdrive, almost a smooth distortion.
No bass cut like tubescreamers and such, with this you have a manly attitude.
I have the to100, quite the opposite(airy, fresh, subtle).
I have the od100, some settings quite close but looser.
I have the ud100, almost same tone on some settings but different mids.

A good pedal, this bo100, given it suits your needs

I wouldn't rate it too bad, it is cleverly put together.
The knobs have a skirt which doesn't allow them to sink when stepped onto.
The battery case seems ok, but beware of the spring: it is loose.
A footswitch socket would be the best suggestion here, and one can install it without hassle.

And there it comes: this pedal doesn't suit my needs, as my tube amp is already fat it gets fatter with the bo100 and it's too much now.

It is not that smooth, I prefer the od100 by far (way more nuances).

That is for my taste/equipment of course.
With a fender blues junior this pedal could be the right one.
Given its serious clean boost, you can use it with anything with good results so I can recomment this pedal to everyone.
The price of other production pedals (crap boss) is to be justified, given the fact that electronic components cost near to zero nowadays...
A fantastic value!

Easy as anything, its an effects pedal so it dosent get any simpler. If youve used a Boss or Digitech, same thing really

I backed to backed this with the Boss Blues driver (#69) and the Digitech Screamin blues (#47) and frankly I couldnt tell the difference, and given the price of these pedals (#15) thats just amazing. When off sound was clean, turned on you got the whole spectrum of blues drive.

Underneath the plastic case its very solid but the case will break eventually , especially if you jump on it like a nutter, but a this price who cares!! buy another brand new one, and again and again, and its still costing you less than the Boss!!!

No dealings with Behringer, although they are easy to get in the UK, lots of stockists.

At this price you cant go wrong, not much more than a decent set of strings or two. Sound is way above expectation, I would have no hesitation using one live or recording. Impossible to fault really.

It's a Boss BD-2 copy, so if you can adjust three knobs, more power to you, as that's as easy as this pedal is to use. No manual for it, because it's just completely uncalled for.

It's can do everything from a clean boost (With a fair amount of gain at that too) with is pedal as well as a really awesome sounding clean ovedrive, just like a tube amp, and a really really great sounding 'soaring' type overdrive. When I was playing a tele and had it going through a crate powerblock direct into a PA via the XLR output, I thought I was John Frusciante from the Live at Slane Castle DVD. I bought two of these pedals, one for a less gainy, cleaner blues type overdrive and the second one was set with a hgiher gain setting. For $20-$30, it's gonna be hard to beat these pedals, until boss sues them. They can really sell themselves. I also tried out the TO100 overdrive, but it was a little fuzzy for me and lacked the definition of the Blues Overdrive and the versatility of the Blues, in my opinion.

It is a plastic enclosure, so it WILL break, but the thing is that they're so bloody cheap, you can just buy a new one, but even if they are plastic, they seem relatively tough considering they're beaten on every night.

I've met the Northwestern Behringer Rep and he is a very nice guy. I've never had anyone complain about Behringers service, only that the products break, but they're cheap anyways, what do you expect?

I really like them, they sound great, they're inexpensive and they really deliver. I hate plastic enclosures, but you know, what do you expect for like $30 a pedal?