How To Modify A BOSS Blues Drive BD-2 Overdrive Pedal - SHORT CIRCUIT Episode 14

[Music] [Applause] Oh yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat.

Heat. Heat. [Laughter] That is the Boss Blues Driver, which arguably does not need a modification, but it's important to remember that modifications aren't always to fix something. I think if there's any pedal that's pretty darn near perfect, it's the Blues Driver.

Um, there's a reason John Mayer had it on his board forever. There's a reason that Tamman Paula uses it. There's a reason that it's just like kind of good as it is and people have loved it for years and years. It's probably the best Boss Overdrive if you were going to argue versatility.

Um, yeah. So, why mod it? Well, it goes back to this is the pedal that got me into everything. I fixed a broken foot switch on my trusty old uh blues driver and I had a key modded one and so I went down this rabbit hole and I figured out what Robert was doing and then I like developed my own mod and this is a very early unit.

This is arguably it may be the oldest JHS pedal I have possession of. It was called the Blue Drive and it's just a monstrosity. I mean, everything's bad about this, but it's cool. It sounds great.

Um, let me plug it in. Who wants me to plug it in real quick in the chat? Vote for plugin. Yes or no?

I'm going to plug it in because I can. So, I actually don't know that it works. Let me let me see. I would have modded this in like ' 07.

Look at that old logo. Oh my gosh. JHS mods. I had no idea JHS pedals would exist.

Let's see. All right. So, um, there's that. I haven't played that in a long time.

So, this wasn't the mod that we offered called the Blue Drive. This wasn't exactly it. This was me learning. And um it's cool to have this.

So, I have it. Yay, everybody. Let's plug the other one back up here. Um what do we got going on in the comments over here?

Thanks to everyone who's logged in with us. I'll set this aside, but how cool is that, huh? I mean, for me, it's really cool. I printed this on Avery labels from Walmart.

I bought all these parts from RadioShack. Look at that horrible logo. ...