OD-200 Hybrid Drive Guitar Pedal (OD-200)

This makes it so easy to add drives to your pedalboard. I keep a couple of discrete drives on the board to feed into the OD-200, and then I have a handful of presets ready to go, giving me over 16 possible combinations with very little tap dancing. The Centaur and BD-2 are excellent, the Tube Screamer is more "808" than "TS-9", which I prefer, and the high gain options are searing! You can mix and match the boost types, and access all your presets with a footswitch. One of my favorite enhancements is that all of the drives have 3-band EQ, which isn't true for the actual pedals, many of which have only a tone control. There is plenty of range on the EQ knobs, and it's easy to match levels and store presets. Great option if you need "all the drives" and still want a reasonably-sized pedal board. Power requirements are reasonable, and the interface is easy to understand. Legendary BOSS quality, and MIDI addressable.

Best distortion pedal I've ever owned, & I'm a 40 yr old, professional musician. People don't understand how this pedal works tho. So there are multiple analog circuits in here, that are basically modelled after the pedals that are being mimicked here... well they're all BOSS circuitry, so I guess it's not mimicry. The only digital voodoo is happening in the three patches that BOSS tells you are digital. That digital circuit does do some modelling, but it's scant, & you're getting 80% analog, w/20% digital (on only a few presets) & that is the best you can get. A little digital is good on your board. That said, this thing screams, & the combos & new audio tapestries you can craft are startlingly good. I play at least an hour a day, more than I used to. I'm very happy with it, if you couldn't tell.

Dude this pedal rocks so much! The system menu to get stuff programmed to your exact liking takes time to figure out but easy after. I use midi with the HX FX to recall presets for both pedals and to turn on the booster. Soo cool! I swear I can build more presets! Great series of pedals.

The sound is great: it is truly high gain heaven in many, many flavors. Replaces numerous drive pedals and a noise gate. I'm generally a huge Boss fan (I also own the DD500), but there's a big difference in terms of what can be programmed and how MIDI is implemented. The main problem is the terrible 3.5mm MIDI cables. These don't play nice with other gear. You need to buy the special cables, and since there are 2 kinds of 5 pin-to-3.5 mm cables, you might end up with the wrong ones. MIDI not being the simplest thing in the world, there's plenty of frustration in store if this goes wrong. It feels like an effort to push me to buy the other 200 series pedals, which I don't appreciate. Then there's the update procedure. As an Eventide H9 owner, the Boss update software and procedure is a complete embarrassment. The instructions are poor, the support matches the instructions, and if this goes wrong the pedal becomes a doorstop. Boss makes you sign a disclaimer that this is the user's fault when downloading the update software. All in all I am going to put up with this pedal because of the great sounds it gets out of my amp... but this product disappoints in a few key ways.

Best Boss distortion pedal. Very happy.

why Boss have the reputation they have and why they're as commercial as they are ..... they're great! I saw a bunch of YouTube reviews on this pedal and some of them weren't that favourable. They basically implied that the sounds weren't that authentic but honestly it's down to laziness in my opinion. If you spend a little time and effort into dialing them in properly as one would am amp, the pedal is capable of any OD or Dist sound you care to mention. For what it is, this pedal is capable of being the one OD/Dist pedal one would ever need. -Seal.

Was able to get the Mission Expressionator and pedal to work, using it right now as a level control for distortion, I love the modes on here, and the ability to have midi enables you to switch the presets without having to use the control 1/2 jack, and I can roll with the Mission Expression. Absolutely invaluable to really any setup, different flavors of ODs and distortions.

I bought this thing to replace by Boss BD-2 and a centaur-like OD pedal and it does the job and then some. If you’re playing with single coils, it may sound a bit tin-y right out the box. Turn the treble down and the mids up and it will sing. The Boost function isn’t super intuitive at first, but w found the sweet spot to be dialing down the volume boost and turning up the gain. If you’re on the fence due to it being an analog/digital hybrid, I had a friend randomly switch between my stand-alone Blues Driver and the OD-200 on “Blues” with light breakup and I could not for the life of me tell the difference. This thing rules.

grande pedale che ti permette di avere tante distorsioni in un unico stomp box che grazie al tasto write è possibile salvare e richiamare il suono desiderato ci sono 4 quattro memorie ma grazie al collegamento al pc si possono aumentare da 1 a 127 presets in oltre il pedale ha anche un attacco midi che ti permette tramite foot controller es 8 o qualsiasi altro controller di gestire il tutto pedale molto versatile e neanche troppo ingombrante

コンパクトエフェクターのオーバードライヴやディストーションが集約している優れものではありますが、当方はあまり複数の歪を使用しません。電池が単三電池を３本使用。コンパクトエフェクターと違い、高額な９V電池ではないので助かります。

Mehr als ein Dutzend BOSS Stomp Boxes in einer, selbst die Presets klingen schon richtig gut und dazu noch ein Top Noise Gate an Board. Klare Kaufempfehlung, Preis/Leistung unschlagbar gut.

Le son comme les couleurs, s'est subjectif. Je me permet de laisser quand même un avis sur cette pedale qui est juste la meilleure de sa catégorie pour les raison suivante : 1- Peux convenir à tout les styles : Plusieurs choix disto 2- 4 emplacement à programmer + Midi +++ 3- Un Booster à placer avant comme apres la disto , ce qui peux servir comme compresseur avant ou booster volume apres. 4- Facile à utiliser pour Mr et mme tout le monde, et pour les plus habitués pas mal de réglages très interessant mais il faut bidouiller juste un peux ( Pas simple mais très loins d être compliqué ) 5- Un Noise Gate à régler à la perfection avec chaque emplacement ( 4 emplacement ) et chaque disto que vous choisissez !!! juste wouawou !!. Une pedale qui m a tellement convaincu que j'en ai acheté 2 !! une pour mon petit pédalier avec un line 6 HX STOMPE , et une autre qui me sert comme module disto principale sur mon pédalier A coté du fractal AXE FX 3. Je n'aime ni Line 6 ni boss mais la franchement c du lourd !! Achetez la les yeux fermés !!

I was initially skeptical of this as it’s a do it all overdrive, but I needed an overdrive pedal that could give me good distortion sounds as well as nice bluesy sounds on my strat and didn’t want to have loads of pedals on my board. I’ve got to say, it’s probably the best pedal I’ve ever played through. I’ve been playing for 20 years, and I much preferred it to my jhs angry Charlie which wasn’t cheap. That plus my tube screamer have been replaced by this. It sounds amazing. If you need a wide range of tones just buy this, it sounds great. I’ve bought this for gigging and sounds good when the amp is cranked too. Doesn’t sound digital at all to me, very authentic tones from it. Very happy indeed