Boss BF-2 Flanger

4 knobs. i still dont know what the manual knob does tho...

im satisfied. if set right, sounds nice. set wrong, and its a little to twangy but then again, every pedal set wrong sounds like shit.

boss...

just a good pedal to have in your arsenal

4 knobs! simple

I bought a Guyatone fl-3 which sounds cool :) I was originally after the Boss but I heard such great reviews on the Guyatone. To be honest, I picked this up in near new conditon in a secondhand store for the weird price of 15 British pounds??! so I grabbed it! I must say, I think I prefer the sounds of this Flanger to the one Ive been using and now the Boss sites on the main board! to my ears it has a warm digital sound where the Guyatone has a more natural sound, if that makes sense? they both sound different, I like them both but the Boss fights in best with my playing. Anyway, you can hear the Boss on Blurs/Graham Coxon Albums, its used loads and thats when I first become more aware of it, check out Blurs Popscene track, the intro uses the Boss BF-2, with a high setting, its a great Flanger

Boss

This Pedal suits me great, I love its sound as found on Blur albums, its very warm. Ive plugged the Boss and the Guyatone Fl-3 in together, you can get some very warm, natural, digital, mixed up, cool sounds :)

anyway, if you dont like this pedal, please check out the Guyatone FL-3, it has its own Flang Sound, I love both pedals

It is more than adequate. Just dial it in and off we go. Get some some weird metallic tones, as any flexible flanger should do. Note: I origanlly bought this because I was unhppy with the various flange setting on my long-gone Boss ME-50- BIG IMPROVEMENT.

Mine was a Japanese model. You have just to know your flanging stuff.

Fender USA Lead 1/Ibanez Talman TC420->Boss autowah->Boss bass overdrive->Boss feedback/distortion->Yamaha Jap flanger->trem->MXR Phase 45->volume pedal->Boss EQ->Boss delay/sampler into a variety of different solid state and valve amps (mostly Fender Super 210 valve).

It's at least adequate, if not very good. I only just sold it in favour of an old Yamaha Japan flanger. No noise or distorting of existing tones, as you would expct from, especially Japanese Boss.

Boss...

Lame with customer support unless you've got a CE-1 or the first DS-1 ever made. At least they don't charge anymore for their 'manuals'.

We play indie pop and a decent flange is vital. I've been playing for 15 years. This was a good flanger- it is just that the Yamaha one (which, by the way, self-oscillates!!) suited my purposes. Excellent pedal.

It's super simple. Funny thing is that when I first got it over 10 years ago I never really tweaked crazy. I was doing the shoegaze/darkwave/cocteau-twins thing so I had it on one setting all the time. I never even knew it was analog until a few days ago.

Well, at the time it was good enough. Now I'm so used to it that other flangers sound too clean, unless they are old school analog flagers of course. It does sound very metallic and a bit harsh. Last night I opened it up just out of curiosity and tweaked the previously mentioned trim pots and *HOLY!* this pedal can sound pretty insane in da membrane! With the resonance tweak you can have awesome feedback effects, and of course controlled with the manual knob gives you super tweakability.
I will be using it with synths from now on.

I've had it for about 12 years and it still works. What else can I say...

If you sit down a few hours and really work out what each of the four knobs can do you will find loads of great sounds-everything is in there if you are patient. Manual is of limited help.

I have the MIJ version-but the MIT version is really close. It's analog so expect some noise in exchange for that rich, deep tone. The noise level is no worse than any other analog flanger. You can get everything from subtle sounds to really outrageous effects-the key is you have to work with this pedal a few hours to figure it out. It may not be quite as good as the older MXR,EH, or ADA pedals but do you really want to spend upwards of $200 for one of those when this Boss will give you what you need at a much more reasonable cost. Plus, the Boss is alot more reliable.

As the saying goes-"It's a Boss". Much more reliable than a vintage, or reissue, MXR or Electro-Harmonix.

This Boss pedal will do all the flanging sounds the majority of guitarists would ever want or need. Sure, you can say that the vintage MXRs, EH or ADA pedals give slightly better effects but do you feel like paying the outrageously high prices for those brands, and then having to worry that those pedals will work each gig. The BF-2 will do what you need, at a fraction of the cost, and is the most reliable brand around. All in all, you can't beat this flanger.

Quite a tricky one to get right, the range of effect is great, and you can really hear the flanging with the resonance all the way up, which completely overpowers everything, but sounds very cool. I have it set up on: meter 8 o'clock, depth 7.30, rate 5, resolution 8 and this gives me an almost chorus type sound, it gives it a very metallic reverb type of thing at the same time, and is very good for making your sound jump out at certain moments, like soloing.

I use an Ibanez RG custom with dimarzio evolutions at the moment through a boss cs-2 compression sustainer (which took me ages to work out how not to sound rubbish, but works really well now, is always on), an SD-1, a US Big Muff Pi, the flanger, then a Boss RV-3 (something everyone should own), into a Hiwatt DR103 and a standard 1960A. This pedal does add a slight hiss when you tread on it, but this is not really important. The effect is very strong and can be quite difficult to temper, it sticks out a lot if you're too over zealous with the depth and resonance. But if you like that, then it's cool.

Only anti-theft clamps would make it more dependable, for if it ever got nicked. I can't see it, or anything else made by Boss, ever breaking.

Bah, customer support?

I use it for heavy rock type of stuff, Isis, Mastodon, Tool, and I like it. I think it's a handy pedal for lighter stuff though, flanging is nice.

Easy to get a likeable sound.

I first bought this pedal to get a Tom Morello sound, which was easy enough. This was also the pedal Billy Corgan used on the song 'Love'. But I joined a funk/hard rock band and wanted to create my own sound with it.
This was harder than I thought, as I also have the Super Phaser and I found myself using it instead.
I was fannying around with the flanger one day and I maxed all the knobs except the Manual, which created a trippy, watery sound that perfectly suited my playing.
It may not be to everyone's tastes, but it is a big part of MY sound.

Boss.

never needed to.

it's the shizz.

This pedal took me a little bit of getting use to when I first got it 7 years ago but now I can't seem to get a bad sound out of it. Seriously you can set all the knobs at 12 o'clock and get a solid sound. Just start from there and come up with your own unique tone.

Awesome!!!! Let me just remind people one thing which is pretty obvious, great gear makes all the difference. When I first bought this pedal (was my first stomp box) I was using a crappy little Crate amp and a knockoff Strat and this pedal sound good. Now 7 years later I upgraded to a Gibson SG and a Peavey Classic 50 and let me tell you, THIS PEDAL JUST LIT UP!!!!! It's amazing how much range this pedal has and how classic it sounds. It especially goes great when I kick in a DS-1 before it for solos. I'm always rocking it on a sweet jet flanger setting. I've heard many people complain about how the pedal has a little bit of a volume boost but personally I like it. I want that flanger to stick out when I turn it on. I've tried many other flangers out before and they all have their own unique characteristics to them but this one just fits my style and looks great on my pedal board :)

Can I depend on it???? I seriously think Curt Schilling could throw this thing 95 MPH at a brick wall and it wouldn't break. Boss pedals are know for their dependability and all of mine have held up quite well to my abuse. I'm almost always play at least 3-4 gigs a month and I'm a big guy (250lbs, shut up!) and I've been jumping on them for years without any cracks or broken part. I would gig without a back up, I just don't think it'd need it. If it was lost or stolen I'd be all over a new one. 10 ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!

Never had to deal with them but I've heard good things.

Anyone looking for a classic flanger should check out this pedal. I play your general rock music (classic/hard rock), and this pedal fits in great. Sounds great all all sorts of guitars (single coil, humbuck, solid body, hollow, etc) and amps (tube and solid state). Even though it only has 4 knobs, once you get use to it the possibilities are endless. It is definatly worth checking out!!

The BF 2 is simple enough to use if you have ever used a flanger before. The knobs are common on most all brands of flangers. It took about an hour to tweak this pedal up to my setup. I use it for 2 different sounds so I bought 2 of them and never touch them now that I've set them up in their pedalboards. I have a manual which did help to setup this pedal at first. I use a Keeley Looper to turn a group of Boss pedals on and off together. 8/10 because without the manual some beginners will get frustrated and spend a lot of time tweaking until they find the sweet spot for them. A Manual for beginners is wonderful.

I was looking for a good flanger sound for David Gilmour and some 80's type tones and tried several brands and this Boss model gave me a light flanger sound without that harsh metalic grading sound like a lot of brands give you. I bought one MIJ and the other is a MIT. Unless you really listen really really close you can't tell one from the other. I had the insides checked out by a pedal guru and he said one piece was all that was different and it was on the output stage. So a lot of this MIJ vs MIT is hype. Check it out for yourself.
I use a '62 reissue Strat or a Les Paul sometimes a Tele Plus thru a Fender 2ch The Twin amp or a Soldano SLO head thru Boogie 2x12 EV12L loaded cabints. I use several other pedals in the chain: CE 2>EH 2>DM 2>RV 2>OD 1>OD 2>OS 2r>the BF 2>Klon Centaur into the amp. I use a simular setup for the second pedalboard.
I had to set the other pedals differently around the BF 2 because of the volume gain when it is on but that is normal with all Boss pedals, you just have to work with them in a chain. 10/10 because as far as flangers go this one is light and clean.

It is a Boss so it is built like a tank as most everyone agrees on.
I have two so I always have a backup.
10/10 because Boss doesn't build unreliable gear, ever!

Boss is very easy to get help with. I called and was sent to a rep. I gave the rep a message and in 3 working days I got a return email. I was told where to ship the pedal and in about a month I rec'd a new pedal. It wasn't this BF 2 but another model bought new with a switch problem but the back their products. Over 25 years of making pedals shows you they have to backup what they sell and they do.
10/10 because Boss stands behind their products and out of all 100 or so I own only one pedal needed to be replaced. All still work and some after 23 years of stomping on.

I play my own music mostly but do play some Pink Floyd and other classic rock stuff. I play a lot of jamband music. Like Gov't Mule, Widespread Panic Allman Bros. But I have been playing for over 30 years I guess so I have been thru everything from INXS to Led Zep and everything in between now. I love Blues and I love rock of all kinds. I really like classic rock guitarist like David Gilmour Jimmy Page those guys are masters at their style. If it were slolen I would replace it with the same model. I compaired it to about everything out there. I bought and sold over 12 flangers until I settled on this BF 2, remember I bought 2 of them. If does make my music better sounding. I found that this model is a light flanger in tone. It doesn't color your guitar sound. The harder you play the more it is in front of the sound. Using the volume and tone knob on your guitar really effects the way the pedal responds. The place it is put in the chain matters what sound you get so it took about an hour for each pedalboard to get it in the right place and the settings of each pedal to work well with each other. I record 99% of the time so hearing these pedals as true as I can make them is important to me. No use to record sloppy or unclean tones when all it takes is a little time and patience to work the tone out. If you use a lot of other pedals as I do each pedal reacts differently around other pedals so time is what you will need to setup everything to suit you. If you play live try to not use it with overdrives after it. If you record with it use it before the overdrives so you can control the amount of flanging going into the OD's. Live playing you should use a looper or a A/B or a A/B/C box and use 2 different effects loops not to mix the different types of effects. I am just use to running them in a chain and have spent enough time tweaking everything since all I have is time. These BF 2's sound great ao enjoy them and stop believing all this hyoe about MIJ vs MIT. It's in your guitar and hands anyway not in a Boss Taiwaneze pedal. Believe me if made in Taiwan was not up to par Boss would not have sold over 7 million pedals in a little over 25 years. MIJ stuff is over with, get over it and rock on! 9/10 because over all it is one of the best flangers for the value, it does cost a little more new than some of the other new models but for the money buy a Boss.
I am happy with both BF 2's I own, both setups sound better because the Boss BF 2 is in them. Thanks and I hope this helps you young beginners out there, for the players that don't need my opinion or don't agree it's like a ***hole, we all have one! Rock On and Peace to you all! missinmikey!

Extremely easy to use. Four knobs and it's not too hard to get at least 3 or 4 cracking sounds out of it. Didn't have a manual but you don't really need one, just plug in a get going. Excellent stuff!

Great quality. Sounds brilliant through distortion, clean, reverb, delay and chorus and alongside any other effects you want to slip in. The occassional wobble in the sound quality if you just don't have it set quite right but surely down to the ineptitude of the musician and the human error in setup.

Solid as a rock, it is a BOSS!

Never needed a thing. It's a BOSS!!

Along the Jim Dunlop Cry-Baby Wah this is the best pedal ever made. John Squire certainly agrees, check the huitar on any classic Roses tune circa-1989. Myself I cannot gig without it after initially buying it only out of curiosity following listening to the Stone Roses. Listen out for it!! - www.CensoredOnline.com

It is a highly useful great sounding pedal and an another element to any guitarist style. Although don't be tempted to overuse, you will just sound shit. If put to good use i'm sure everyone would agree this is a truly exceptional pedal!!