Boss FT-2 Dynamic Filter

Nice and fun pedal to use just keep twiddling the knobs to find your sounds. Bought used without a manual but you really don't need one for this pedal. I use it with bass and it is great for 'funking', there are three modes 1) down- which is quite good 2) up-well good and 3)Exp- for plugging in an expression pedal which I tried in an attempt to get some kind of wah thing going but to be honest this didn't really do it for me. It took a lot of tweaking to get any kind of wah wah effect and it sounded a bit lame, maybe it was to do with my own set up as everyones is different but I think this pedal sounds best just doing its filter thing to get real funky quack sounds. I have recently bought a Morley Dual Bass Wah (about to add delay to shutoff) which covers the Wah Wah very well so between the two pedals it's 'funk city'

I use this pedal with a few other Boss pedals an Ibanez phasertone and the Morley Dual Bass Wah. I utilise various Bass cabs and amps including Peavey, Smartlight and Joe Meek. The pedal doesn't seem to add any noise to the signal chain and the output remains constant whether the effect is on or off -something that as a bass player I like.

It is well used but has never faltered, it is a solid bit of kit.

I play many styles of music, obviously this pedal cannot be used in all musical arenas. If it were lost or stolen i would definatly try to replace it with the same again. I did not compare it to other products directly but read the reviews on Harmony Central and purchased on that basis.

Not immediately easy set-and-play stuff. This pedal wants you to tweak it and discover for yourself just how amazing it sounds. Mine came with box and manual and in amazing nick. Manual is not particularly informative, but it does have some blank template diagrams mirroring the control layout of the pedal. I use these (mark in pencil in case you want to modify them!) to record my fave settings. However, a little woodshedding with this pedal will eventually reward you with an intuitive feel for its sensitive controls.

I use a JJ blue special (all mahogany, h/bucker at bridge, P90 at neck) through an ampeg J12T with numerous effects pedals in between. The pedal adds no extraneous noise when off. It does darken the overall tone but in a good way IMHO. Really wonderful half-cocked wah sounds to almost whale-like noises and vowel-like weeping sounds too. It's all in there, but you have to look for them. On the way you'll discover all sorts of other colours. Have not tried the manual expression socket, but can't wait. I agree with a previous reviewer that it sounds strongest with a good mid-rangey pickup. However, yes, the FT2 is at its "quackiest" with the bridge humbucker on the JJ (custom-wound to be fairly hot) but the pedal is very sensitive to how hard the string is plucked and most of all the volume of the set-up. Do get some decent volume going if trying with single coils. Very synth-like sounds.

It's over twenty years old, and in brand new condition. This might outlast me. Would definitely gig without back-up.

Never dealt with Boss. Most people reviewing Boss gear seem to err on the disgruntled side. Does Boss ever take notice of this? I'm giving this section a low score in sympathy for all the boss owners out there whose cries for help have been all but spurned by this corporation.

A wonderful sounding and extremely underrated pedal judging by the ebay response to these. A week or so ago, one of these was on ebay with a bid price of &29.99 and there were absolutely no takers! I couldn't believe it. The only other filter I'd consider buying after the FT2 wold be either a mutron or a meatball. No other filter in its class comes close for the range and quality of sound and flexibility and sheer value for money (at time of writing). Grab one of these for a bargain if you see one!

Yes Verry easy to use it's verry simple you got your Sensivity knob a Cut-Off Frequency knob, EQ knob and your MODE. with 3 settings Dyanamic-DOWN, UP AND MANUAL/EXPRESSION PEDAL.

This pedal it's really great a BASS PLAYER MOST HAVE the sounds are amazing kind of like bubbles sounds I think oh and if your a GUITAR PLAYER man your in HEVEN this pedal it's verry fun and you'll never get board of it makes your brain go crazy with ideas this pedal has show me this I didn't know I could do. You all so got to remember that this pedal its about 15 to 20 years old so it got some really vintage sounds. In reguards to the expression pedal well I'm a bass pleyer and it dosen't bring out the HI Q's out. like the up mode dose THAT'S MY FAVORITE THE UP MODE REALY FUN especially if you have an active bass. I HAVE A IBANEZ TR-500 EXPRESSIONIS 4 STRING AND A FIVE STRING WASHBURN TAURUS T-25, with a C string

BUILD LIKE A TANK..............THAT'S WHAT MANY PEOPLE SAY :-) WELL IT'S TRUEE IT'S A BOSS !!!!!!!!!

PEOPLE AT BOSS ARE REALLY COOL I HAD A PROBLEM NOT WITH MY FT-2 BUT WITH ANOTHER PEDAL AND THEY REALLY HELP ME.

I STILL THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE CUSTOMER SUPPORT ON THEIR WEB LIKE UPDATING SOUND CLIPS OF PEDALS AND MANUALS OF PRODUCTS BUT THAT'S JUST ME. BUT THEN THEIR THE NUMBER ONE ON THE MARKET, WITH ALL THAT MONEY $$$$ THEIR MAKING THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE SUPPORT ON THE WEB THAT IS. :-)

Like I say this is a VERRY COOL pedal a must have for Bass players. so hurry up and get a hold of one because their getting more popular and more $$$$$$$. and verry rare too this pedal was produce for like 3 years only. here it's a page were you can hear this baby do what it dose best. http://www.tonefrenzy.com/2/boss_dynamic_filter_ft2.htm
All right dude rock on or funk it up like Mr. David Duarte say's :-)

Getting the perfect sound can take awhile, especially for the touch wah - it's very dependent on the tone and volume coming out of your guitar. It will sound perfect and then you touch one knob and your great sound is not so great anymore. Lots of possibilities though, an up and down touch wah, and then with a controller footpedal it can be a regular wah as well!

If you have other pedals or effects, you have to try different arrangements to see which order sounds the best. I haven't been able to get it to sound right with a POD, but going into an amp it sounds GREAT!

The best wah effect comes thru with the guitar on a bridge or punchy humbucking pickup, one with a strong midrange.

If you tweak the knobs way past the touch wah response point you can get a nasty gnarly obnoxious midrange sound that's really amusing.

I've kicked it around for years and it's still sounds perfect!

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It's great for funk, soul, reggae, hippie jam, metal, blues, comedy,

mines in good shape but dont have manual etc. Very easy to use, it's all there before your eyes.

sounds GREAT, better than normal Wah really... alot more smooth and nice on the ears, definitelty more unique than Bosses other Auto Wah pedals etc. I use it with a Marshall JCM 9200. Even cranked way up it's got a good cool filter sound. I really freaked out when I tried this in the shop and bought it on the spot.

u know about Boss. I will spare the cliched tank comment!!!

Boss have reputed bad support, but their products are so reliable.
AOL on the other hand have VERY GOOD customer support.

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I paid a fair amount for this considering it is so rare & in good condition, and I feel this was worth it. Maybe I could have got it a LITTLE cheaper but they dont come by every day.
Lets face it, its much more cool to have a pedal called a 'Dynamic Filter' than plain old wah, both in terms of the name AND the sound!!! A unique one, which i cant figure out why they discontinued it. Maybe it was TOO unique and most kidies want a standard sorta deal. if u find one and are original id say buy it, you will enjoy it. and get any cheap volume pedal stick it in the EXP> jack and have fun using it as a unique alternative to wah.

if u want a more standard tried and tested sound, just get a crybaby , AW-3 or whatever.

Compared to a lot of Boss pedals (and pedals with generally simple layouts), it is harder to dial in the exact sound that you want with the FT-2. However, it is very easy to dial in a sound that is "good." In fact, the pedal sounds great at any setting whatsoever, it's just that you might not have a practical use for all those settings. It takes about 10-15 minutes to dial in a very good sound, and you can always tweak afterwards to achieve perfection.

I bought the pedal used (although in brand new condition) off eBay and didn't get a manual. However, I don't think a manual is really all that necessary. Once you play around with the pedal for a bit, you get the idea of exactly what it does.

This is the only envelope filter that I've ever tried, and I've stuck with it because it sounds so awesome. I tried the Boss AW-2 and the latest AW-3. I hated them both, but that's basically because I simply don't like the idea of an "auto wah" where you just set the rate and it keeps wah-ing for infinity. It's very counter-intuitive for me and it seems quite silly to have to worry about adjusting the rate of a wah-wah with anything other than your foot. An envelope filter, on the other hand, seems so much more intuitive and cooler, and this is what the Boss FT-2 is.

I'm using a Fender Jazzmaster as my guitar and a Roland JC-120 as the amp, and I generally use the pedal for pseudo wah-wah applications. Even though it doesn't exactly sound like a wah-wah in the "up" mode, it does a decent job of sounding like a wah, and an excellent job of sounding unique and cool. I personally prefer this over the wah-wah sound simply because the wah has been used to death. But the thing is, even if I do want to use wah, I can get very good, traditional wah-wah sounds from this pedal by plugging in an expression pedal!

I have to say that the pedal is ABSOLUTELY SILENT, and I really don't see why anyone would find it noisy, unless of course one has bad cables and the like.

I think this pedal is wonderful. It would be the perfect pedal for funk, but I've been able to make use of it in rock/alternative applications, which stands as proof of the versatility of the pedal. The only "downside," if you can call it that, is that there's a very slight drop in volume with distortion/overdrive. This is quite possibly because of the fact that overdrive compresses the signal from the FT-2, making it somewhat quieter by taking away the loud highs and swirly lows. In fact, when played clean (instant funk!), the FT-2 actually sounds more prominent and louder than a regular clean guitar sound. So, I guess there really isn't a volume/output issue here. Besides, the "drop" in volume isn't really a drop--it's more like a slight thinning out of the tone because of the constant fluctuations between low and high frequencies.

I seem to keep hearing about how people find it hard to get a really deep "wah" sound out of this pedal, and that the only sound that they can get is a sort of "scatty/bubbly" filtered sound. I really have to disagree with that. Obviously, this pedal has very sensitive controls that one needs to tweak for quite some time in order to get the desired sound. I have found that I can simulate anything from wah-wah (albeit a bit too "squawky") to funk to traditional envelope filter sounds with this pedal. In fact, it is easy to get a Jimi Hendrixesque sound with a lot of overdrive/distortion after the pedal, and *that* is very rewarding.

The most important thing, however, is that this pedal sounds absolutely *beautiful* and one should keep it if one likes great and unique sounds from an effect pedal that doesn't really try to follow down the path of countless other pedals and, instead, defines its own spectrum.

I give it a 9 only because of the all but negligible volume "problem," and the fact that it cannot completely simulate a deep. sweeping wah sound in the "up" mode (even though it *can* do that in the "manual" mode).

I have at least 8-9 Boss pedals, the earliest of them proably about 9 years old, and they have always worked fine. They're the sturdiest pedals made.

I've never dealt with Boss.

I don't understand why Boss had to discontinue this pedal. It is quite possibly the best envelope filter they've ever made. There is apparently a huge demand for the "vintage" T-Wah, but frankly, the controls on the FT-2 give you so much more dynamic range and possibilities that even by looking at the two pedals, it should be pretty obvious which one is the better. The other Boss auto wah pedals aren't really envelope filters. Well, the new AW-3 supposedly has envelope filter capabilites; however, it sounds very generic and uninspiring, and consists of way too many bells and whistles for me to take it seriously.

I play in what one could call a "melodic post-punk" band influenced by post-punk and early alternative bands such as The Cure, Joy Division, The Smiths, Depeche Mode and My Bloody Valentine. Even though I don't use the FT-2 that often (this is just because in the kind of music I make, an effect such as this isn't called for most of the time), I always have it on my pedalboard just because it can make such beautiful sounds. For the kind of prices that it sometimes goes for on eBay, this pedal is truly a keeper and a joy.

very easy to use spend 5 minutes and you get the idea

its sad to say that this pedal could sound better than an actual wah at least better than the junk they have in the market today,dial it right and you are hocked for life

it a boss..

never delt with them

this thing is awsome,i heard a mutron ,i dont know what all the hype about ,but thats my openion,if anything happens to this pedal,ill go back to prozac ,...buy it now if you find it

I think you can dial the sound you want within 15 minutes.

I'm using Marshall tubeamp and Strat. The pedal sounds really, really good. So FREAKIN' FUNKY! you can get different sound swithcing the "up"-"down"-"manual" button. Manual means that you can put besbeco volumepedal, or any other volume pedal in the extra jack and your FT-2 turns into a Wah-pedal! I've fallen love...

it's boss. 10 points

i have never dealt with them.

I play rock and heavy music. If it be stolen i would start looking for another but that's hard because this is really rare bird on the pedal market.

Auto wahs are one of the more difficult effects to dial in a good sound with if you aren't that familiar with them. Take your time and you will be rewarded.

WOW!!!! THE best auto wah I have heard next to a Mutron!!! I also have the BOSS AW-2, and T-Wah, but this one blows those 2 out of the water. Excellent versatility, and beautiful sounds!!! Get an up sweep, a down sweep, or use an expression pedal for a traditional pedal wah vibe. Good sounds CAN be dialed in using the expression pedal option (I use an Ernie Ball volume pedal which works fine as the expression pedal)... you can actually get some good old time VOX/Cry Baby sounds if you take your time & experiment. There is a real wah circuit in the pedal... inductor and all. So pretty much any auto wah or pedal wah sound you want can be achieved with this pedal.

it's a BOSS

HA HA HA!!!

I got lucky and found this RARE pedal for a steal of a price!!! If you find one, GET IT... you won't be sorry.

You must practice to find the greatest sounds.

Very cool ! It's very quit. You have very much possibilities : Filter, Tremelo or wah-wah effects and space sound. But cutting trebles are disadvantageous for modern sounds, like a real wah effect.

BOSS !

Don't have, but i thing that it must be good.

Better than all auto-wah's ! But it's very heavy to get this rare effect like a boss PN-2 or VB-2 !