Keeley BD-2 Blues Driver Mod - A Review

In accession to his own band of abundantly toneful and superior furnishings pedals, Robert Keeley has fabricated a name for himself as a first-tier "modder" of furnishings pedals, abnormally Boss Pedals. What abounding humans don't apperceive is that Keeley in fact has the absolution of Boss to adapt their pedals, so you apperceive his modifications accept to be aboriginal rate. Perhaps the a lot of accepted pedal that Keeley modifies is the Boss BD-2 Blue Driver. His rework of the BD-2 is aswell accepted as the "Phat Mod," and it is the one that Keeley himself recommends for anyone absent to try his furnishings pedals.
First things first. The banal BD-2 is hardly a bad pedal in its banal form. As Keeley himself notes, a pedal is alone account modifying if it already has a good, basal tone, which the Boss BD-2 absolutely does. However, the Keeley modifications add a abundant accord of musicality as able-bodied as functionality to the banal Blues Driver.
For starters, with the Keeley mods, the tonal ambit is far added expansive, with abrasive lows and bright clear highs. You will apprehension that the adapted pedal now has a toggle about-face beneath the accretion control. In the "off" position, the pedal is added like its banal form, just college all-embracing quality. With the "Phat" about-face engaged, the pedal goes into, well, overdrive, with ample added low-end punch.
With the Keeley additions, the pedal is aswell abundant added acknowledging and, for abridgement of a bigger phrase, "tube-like." The accretion ambit is aswell improved, which makes the pedal able for every appearance of music from country to harder rock. The adapted BD-2 aswell makes authoritative the ambit of sounds from your guitar's aggregate bulge abundant easier.
Aside from its accessible action as an overdrive pedal, the Keeley adapted BD-2 is aswell a superior apple-pie boost, which can be acclimated to advance a superior tube amp into a accustomed aural overdrive.
Perhaps the a lot of acute affection of the Keeley adapted BD-2 is its adaptability. Not alone is its complete abundantly versatile, it aswell responds able-bodied to aces dynamics and absolutely lets the player's accustomed accent flash through.
What abounding humans don't apperceive is that the BD-2 aswell works abundant for bass guitar, due to the pedal's added tonal range, as able-bodied as an amp simulator! The versatility of this little pedal is artlessly unmatched. It is a have to buy pedal for anyone who requires a advanced ambit of sounds.
By swapping out banal locations for college superior capacitors and diodes, the adapted BD-2 is even quieter than the banal pedal, admitting its added gain. All in all, the Keeley Blues Driver Phat Mod is a pedal that may actual able-bodied acquire a abiding atom on your pedalboard.