Behringer BO100 Blues Overdrive

There is nothing special to any other pedal. You got three knobs like on any other pedal. Easy to use.

My standard setup are to MIM-Strats (one fat), an Epi ES335 Dot and and a low budget Tele-Copy. For Years I've been playing the TS7 (great!) with either an Blues Junior and an '65 Twin Reverb Reissue. The Music I play ist Blues and Blues Rock. From time to time I try another distortion pedal, for this is my most important effect. For British Sounds I sometimes take a Marshall Bluebreaker. I tried the Behringer because it's cheap but got very good rewiews eyerywhere. So I said to myself: if it's not worth beeing played, I could use the case, pots and anything inside for a DIY-pedal. How did it sound then? I was dissapointed! It changed the sound - took away some deep and transparency even, when it was not engaged. I Think there is no real bypass. That cannot be accepted! The sound in action is in my ears a little bit flat. Take Metal-Slided Tone to the 12th and let it sing...the This round, grouling dsitortion of the TS is not reached - far away. I will not use this one in real action. Sorry, I'm dissapointed. In Germany it is at 29 ???. The TS7 is at 60???. That is no difference if you think about a few years.

I opened it to look,if there is any chance to make it better or to take parts. I was astonished! It is not a simple chip with a few outer parts like most of the legendary effects. It uses a double-side charged plate on which all parts - inclusive the pots and the switch are assembled. I could not understand this cicuits. Whow....

I play Blues and Blues-Rock on a clean Fender Twin with pedals. The Guitars are Strats, ES 335 and a cheap Tele-copy. Usually I make it with a TS7 and an analog Delay only. The Behringer I dropped off after only a few moments of playing, because it changes the sound-charasteritics even if it is switched off! I did not find my sound. Distortion is cheap. Why should anyone take a pedal at 29 ??? that does not work, if you can get a lot of worthfull drivers up to 100 ???? You will get an acceptable sound but if you change between clean and pedal it is -in my opinion- not the same sound (only distortioned) any more. I say no!

I don't generally use pedals but there have been situations (broken stuff, playing through someone else's gear) where an overdrive or reverb pedal would have come in handy so I bought a Behringer Reverb and this BO100 overdrive. The BO100 is easy to use and sounds pretty good.

I've been playing for 40+ years but I don't have much experience with pedals. To me this isn't a bad overdrive with everything set at about 11 o'clock it doesn't color the amps sound much and provides a nice push on the front end of the amp. Without a pedal I generally run the amp hot and control "overdrive" from the guitar. With this pedal everything works about the same... turn the guitar down and it cleans up pretty well.

So far I haven't used it on a gig but I don't have any worries it seems pretty solid.

Haven't had any experience with Behringer but they have a nice website and a pretty good reputation.

I'm a blues player. I play four to six nights a month and have been playing for more than forty years. I have six amps from 14 to 50 watts and eight guitars. I try to match the amp to the room and with the volume police taking over in most places the 14 watter gets a lot of use. The BO100 is a good product for a poor man's price and I'd recommend it.

3 knobs is easy to use. A single 'tone' knob is minimal but this one seems to do it well and it's quick.

I've been looking for, what would it be now ..40 years?? for a pedal that leaves my guitar sounding like my guitar and my amp sounding like my amp and can add a little bit of distortion that sounds like it's coming from the amp - and this does it! I wouldn't know how it rates with the gain right up. This thing goes from clean to way more distortion than I want.
Yeah, there are heaps of pedals I haven't tried but lots I have, and this is the first I've found where I can leave my clean channel on the great sound it's making and bring in a little overdrive without it sounding like I just stood on a pedal. It does it well at home AND on stage - which is very rare. It ain't perfect but it's so close it makes me want to write praise about it. Funny, the best I've found should also be the cheapest. I play old Gretschs, because they have amazing personality, through Fender valve amps 'cause to my ears, few other amps can do those guitars justice .. so if this pedal fits in there so well, it's good.

wouldn't have a clue - no trouble yet.

no need

From reading other reviews, it's obviously not for everyone but I suspect the players who don't like it are looking for a whole different different animal from a blues overdrive.

Level, tone and gain. Simple

Oh my god. This is the box I've been looking for. Years. Years I tell you!
I shevled my TS9. It has all the gind of the TS9 without the stupid midrange hump. So, it sounds like your amp being driven. Changes depending on what amp your using. FANTASTIC!
I agree with the guy who said that this is for tube amps. You can't drive transistors with this thing to sound like tubes. duh!

IDK

Behringer will look into your problems via email. They even have test units of all their "stuff" in the call center, and they will mess around with it to help you answer any questions you might have. Pretty good in my book.

I play ****. I don't use this peddle for Nu metal or anything like that. I use it for making a clean or lightly distorted tube amp more distorted. (to play more distorted ****)
I'm old and have been playing for a long time. I have GAS really bad and have alot of stuff. Far too much for someone that never gets to play out anymore.
Anyway, the BO100 does exactly what it was designed to do. Bless Behringer's little german hearts!
I'm giving this box a 10, to offset the retards that gave it a **** rating for making their ass-tone amps sound like fuzier ***. (did that make any sense?)

Simple. Volume, tone and drive level.

I love this box. Every other box I have ever used colors your sound. I suppose the idea is to take a crappy amp, and try to give it tone. I usually wind up getting rid of my ass-tone amps after I one day realize that they suck. so the amps that I keep, I really don't want to change the tone of when I stomp on the pedal. This is alot like a tube screamer, without the mid hump. It makes distortion without changing the amp tone. yea, it does some compression and distortion, but no color. really, really nice OD. Much better than my TS9 IMHO.
I use this thing in front of my Marshall, my V18, my Mig50H and my VJ head. Not noisy. Just OD that sounds pretty much like the amp your are playing it through. Not a boost, unless you want it to be. It's more like a boost, without raising the sound level of your amp output.

IDK

Have emailed behringer before. They replied within 24 hours with feeback based on testing the product I asked about. Nice of them, I would say.

I play my own stuff. Progressive rock, I suppose. (cop out genre) Been playing forever. Have a TS9, a vintage tube OD 999, a TO800 (sound just like my TS9), an EH big muff pi, etc. a bunch of pedals that I don't use a whole lot.
I've been looking for this OD for years. I love it.

I was on the verge of sending my TS9 to be modded to get it to sound more like this pedal. Glad I took a chance and bought this one.

It has the basic 3 knobs: Level (more or less output), Tone and Gain (the drive itself). Just mess around with the three and you can find a great variety of sounds for a so called blues pedal.

I have a SX SST62 strat, and also a Aria Pro II, but I use it mostly with the SX. My amp is a crappy 20w solid state, but i can't have anything louder by now or I'll start a war with my neighbors. The thing the impresses me the most is the wide variety of tones this pedal can get for a blues pedal. It goes from a bb king light-saturation tone to an unbelievable classic rock sounding with everything on max, passing trough peter green, clapton, SRV, etc. It really does. AWESOME.

Not that this is really crucial, but in a world where there are things like Boss, this one looks really fragile. But remember, this thing is so cheap that if it broke 3 months after you buy it, it would still worth the price.

I don't even know if there is one. Again, in case of trouble buying a new one seems to be much simpler.

I play the Blues, and sometimes classic and hard rock.

Guitar world is a weird one... Actually I went to the store to buy the highly acclaimed TO-800 Vintage Tube Overdrive... but then the seller suggested me to test this one... and I was AMAZINGLY SURPRISED! I tested it on several amps (all solid state, but i don't have a tube anyway) and I can't help but thinking this thing basically does everything TO800 does and FAR MORE. At lower gain levels, it's pretty much the same as TO800, as well as the Holy Grail (which I tested too). But when you put all the drive in, it gets a nice classic, hard rock distortion, even too heavy for playing blues. I think this pedal is awesome not just for blues, but classic rock as well. Wish i could run it trough a tube amp and see how better it could get.

Oh, almost forgotten: If it was stolen, guess I would by more 3, just in case. :)

Straight forward

The BO 100 is basicly a volume level pedal with not much crunch. I don't notice much breakup from the pedal it's self. I can use it to drive my tube amp harder and in essence cause my preamp tubes to break up sooner. However my compresser sustainer pedal also has a level adjustment and it will do the same thing. I just bought a slew of Behringer gear. 5 Pedals, V Amp Pro, and direct box's. The BO 100 has the least amount of drive and distortion of all my OD/Dist pedals. For the price it is definitely good enough for a beginner to intermediate player. People complain about Behringer pedals coloring there sound in stand by mode. If it's being tainted in standby mode I can't tell. I'm playing a Hamer Artist USA and Fender Strat USA through 7 pedals into a Peavey Classic 100W tube head and it sounds decent to me.

NA, It's a China product if it breaks through it away and buy another one.

Behringer has a web site with all there products. I think manuals are down loadable. However the manuals don't tell you anything the knobs don't already say.

The manual says it draws 30 mA. This pedal and all my other pedals draw less than 6 mA each. Except my digital delay and it draws 75 mA. I'm using an external power supply on all my pedals. My pedals are Ibanez Compressor/Sus, Behringer BO 100 Blues Overdrive, Behringer TO 100 Tube Overdrive, Behringer TO 800 Vintage Tube Overdrive, Behringer OD 100 Overdrive Distortion, DOD FX 68 Chorus, Behringer DD 400 Digital Delay. Pedals are not rocket science. Most are a simple OP Amp operation. The only thing I don't like is the plastic housing and the Made in China sticker. If you can get over that, my Behringer pedal line up is pretty decent!

Three knobs, level, tone and gain. On/off switch and a horrible system for changing batteries..

Well, this is best sounding overdrive, and yes, I do own tons off stuff included the holy grail. The level can be set that high that my Vintage tube Princeton sings at any level. With the tone knob at 7 o'clock it sings. with the gain low, half or full throttle it gets me any sound I want, and yes, a bit of prehistory metal can be made with the tone full open. With any guitar! I play mostly single coil, Tele, Strat, Dearmond 100k, Jaguar or Höfner, it sings.. Never had it better

I can depend on it, although it's a plastic case. No need for a backup..

Didn't have to deal with the support with this thing. My experience with Behringer is perfect..

I don't think there can be a better effect for an overdrive. The other Behringer overdrives are not that good. I own tons of gear, but this one is the best.
The price is not to believe.

3 knobs; output, tone and gain, very easy to use. Changing the batteries requieres a little attention though.

First off: It's a BLUES-driver and I use it for playing blues and rock. I use it on my Marshall VS100 pretube stack with my Gibson SG Special or Fender John Mayer Strat (hell of a difference, I know).

It's an overdrive, not a distiortion. It's great for adding a little extra to your sound, or cracking up your output level for bluesy solo's.

Don't expect a distortion, I prefer using my amp OD channel when playing power chords or so.

Be gentle with your gear, don't jump on it, don't throw with it. In case you do, go play drums (no offence). It's reliable, though not as solid as Boss stompboxes, works just fine in case you use it right. No backup needed.

Since I'm Dutch, and Behringer hasn't got offices in The Netherlands, I haven't used it. I haven't needed it yet though, and I will probably never need it. Manual is included though very basic.

Great for adding a little extra to your sound.

I often hear complaints about the quality of Behringer stompboxes, that's why I haven't bought them myself. This was a birthday present and I was very pleased by the sound. I used an Boss ME-50 before but prefer using stompboxes. Boss' BD stompbox (Blues-driver) is better, but not significantly. Behringer is a lot cheaper and has got a reasonable sound. Go check out by yourself!

very easy, three knobs: level, tone, gain

The sound quality depends on your amp and on your pickups. It works very much like a preamp, it is really sensible to the pickups you are using and your amp. For example, on my VOX Pathfinder 10 it pushes the clean channel into a very similar tone like the overdrive channel; on my VOX AD100VT, when using teh AC30 setting, it works similar to the gain control of the amp, so as a conclusion, it is very good if you have a good amp and want to drive it. If you don't like how your amp sounds when driven, look for another pedal, or an amp modeler...

Well, it's plastic, with a piece of metal at the bottom, but when playing live it might slip, or might crack if pushed really hard, but I don't know how many blues players act like crazy on stage... Anyway, I would recommend this pedal for home use, and mostly for players who want to experiment with a different sound, but don't necessarely want to gig with this. If you are really into blues, I think there are lots of pedals (boss, digitech, e.t.c.) you can buy for some additional money... So don't rush, wait till you buy the perfect thing for you!

Never dealt with them.

I play metal (not with this pedal), but I use this pedal to play some ocasional blues at home.
I play electric for 3.5 years, have an ESP-LTD EX-351 with EMG HZ H1 pickups, but I am using this pedal mostly with my Squier Strat, which is heavily modified: SSL4 and HotRails in the bridge and CoolRails and SSL1 in the neck, all Seymour Duncan, the guitar looks like a two humbucker guitar, but with four single coil sized pickups.

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

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?