BOSS Super SD-1 Overdrive vs BD-2 Blues Driver - Comparison | Better Music 

Always a pleasant surprise to hear an Aussie accent on these videos. Great that my countrymen are putting out quality videos like this. Great job!

Great comparison. I like the input you offer in addition to a straight up shoot out between these two pedals. I'm leaning towards the BD2

I listened to a lot of demos of both these pedals and played both at GC. Both do different things VERY WELL so instead of choosing one over the other I bought them both and I'm happy I did because when they're stacked together they give you an amazing tone and separately they're unique enough to make each worthwhile to purchase and use on their own! I love that little bit of flubbiness of the SD-1.

Two of my favorites. I use the SD-1 into my marshalls for 80’s and the bd-2 into my fender for blues rock.

I think you did a good job at demonstrating each of the pedals unique strengths ty

Really well done comparison thanks

Literally the video I’ve been looking for 🙌🏻

Great video! Beautiful LP, as well....

just what i needed thanks, i subbed

Thanks for this man it helped me a lot...

Yesterday I paired the Boss GT-1 with the SD-1, and they worked very well together! I kept the Level and Tone around 12 and put the Drive at 9. I use the JC-120 preamp model in the GT-1, and the SD-1 does a great job of pushing it - I was pleasantly surprised! Now I have to add the SD-1 to my board, haha! 🎸

Though I heard some "In the Meantime" nice demo sir!

Great demo and done with the right amp. I love both pedals. The Blues Driver has a generally smoother, creamier overdrive. It doesn't have the aggressive diode clipping like the SD-1. But both pedals can be used for hard rock and medal. It's just that the Blues Driver works better from a blues kind of tone.

The segment at 4:33 displaying the blues driver with settings is different to when the camera is panned down to the pedal at 4:55, I dare say the pan down is obviously correct

Get both and stack them together. They sound great paired.

Love Both overdrives!

was sceptical because of the amp sound, but great demo and explanation. thanks

My blues driver has been going strong for about 17-18 years. I'm still in the market for a gain pedal that's doesn't necessarily have that midrange push.

Have both of these and for quite a while they were next to each other on a large board. I tend to find the SD1 more usable across a wide range of sounds and the BD2 is more excitable if that makes senze, a little more brash but feels more powerful.

This is the best comparison

Nice burst.

They're so inexpensive, just get both. :)

Blues driver is more full range, while super overdrive is a mid push with bass cut. Super stacked into the Blues is a great useable tone.

Got the Sd1 on a great deal. Now getting the BD2... You only live once dudes.

What a nice comparison... I'm looking for that 80s Rock tone and a little fuzz for some of gilmours late 80s work... Plan to pair either of these with a mooer e-lady and an mxr carbon copy or TC flashback... So what would you recommend? I have money for either the BD2 or SD1

Should the SD-1 go before or after the BD-2 in my chain?

Well both sound absolutely amazing. Youboob is not allowing me to hear 'mid hump' difference, added bottom or add'l transp. My SD1 is amazing, and stacks amazing with DS-1 4a. I have tones way down and gain way down on DS-1. Works great with transp compression like ross (xotic sp), and high headroom boost of choice at end of chain before delay/reverb

The BOSS OD-1 was released in 1977 & the SD-1 in 1981.

can we please just stop and.... Appriciate that fn flame top!!!!! omg that is my dream top

I had the sd1 for years until I bought my tube works amp which had a nice tube preamp so I no longer needed the pedal, however I did notice it sounds amazing with my Morley wah so I wish I had kept it for that. I tried the DS 1 and to be honest I prefer the super Overdrive for a distortion sound. I use to yse it with a small marshall for solos, mixedwith the marshall distortion

Sd1. Sounds like all my classic rock albums.

I’m learning toward the overdrive because the blues driver doesn’t sound different enough to me

what's interesting is through your rig the BD2 sounds more natural at noon, whereas with my practice rig at home it's the opposite. the bd2 is definitely more level and gain, but the gain sounds artificially fuzzy to me through a black face. that marshall as your base tone is nice! and yeah, i find the bd2 is good for kicking in and boosting drive channels and other drive pedals to another level or givn a nice round boost to a clean (gain is down and drive is up on the pedal) and the sd is better for a channel 2 approach with the gain up to taste--i use it like a "green pedal" and prefer the boss sound to the green one in most instances....the sd definitely cleans up nice with volume knob roll downs....

I like them both. I find the BD2 has more of a volume boost. Booth are nice.

sd 1 gets a nice tight chug in front of the gain tone, whereas the bd really sings in front of the lead channel. When I see demos of things like the OD-200 and the ME-80 (which run through all the boss pedal sounds), the BD really stands out each time.

Helmet meantime. Nice

Demos Boss pedals, Wears Wampler shirt 😎

4:32 Helmet!

"much, much, much later" 😂✊ BD 2 forever 🤘🐙

Good comparison but a guitar with single coil pickups should've been included for a fuller picture. Also, the sounds they were made to produce are probably not what these pedals were primarily designed for, although, it proves their versatility! I have an SD-1 and a BD-2w and when playing a single coil Tele, I prefer the SD-1. Speaking as an "advanced beginner" :-) the SD-1 is just a lot more approachable. I was forever fiddling with the settings on the BD-2w but never was 100% happy. When I got the SD-1, everything just fell into place. It was all very simple and it was easy to dial in whatever sound I wanted. A pro might have a different take but for me, SD-1 all the way. With a Tele... ;-)

good pedal

BD2 if I had to pick one - it's also mods better and has a better Waza.

My brother uses a BD2 that he pushes with a TS9. It is one of the smoothest high gain lead tones I have heard. I would imagine that it would be similar stacking an SD1 into the BD2 as the SD1 is very screamerish.

SD-1 @1:26 BD-2 @1:42

Blues Driver has more range and has that low vintage vibe going while the SD-1 is for the poodle hair thrash 😎

The police used to use the SD1 Rover SD1, not Andy Summers

Why not use both on a clean channel and stack the SD1 INTO the BD2? Use the Blues Driver as your rhythm channel, and step in the SD1 for solos.

1:39 "Not Behd" 😂😂 Only Aussies will understand this 😂😂

BD-2 mixed with my amp sims of choice should make it chug, right?

Both are excellent pedals. Salt and pepper

Helmet😮😮😮 buen riff

SD-1 for me!

First look I thought he was Mike Morton. Nice pedal review though.

Blues driver is definitely good for shoegaze

BD-2 is good for faking a 2nd channel to a single channel amp where it doesn't take out your lows, where the SD-1 and its low cut/mid boost is good for solo boosting with the drive down and level up, With these 2 pedals and a TS-9 type pedal, your good to go.

i got a bd2 first THEN a ds1 ds 1 has noo volume compared to it. and honestly preffered the full gain bd2 more than a ds1 with half gain

I love boss but they have so many drive/metal pedals that sound more or less the same, I have the sd-1 but I’m sure I could have the bd sounding the same or very close. Extreme marketing.

6:11 - blue pedal drive on 10, level on 13, yellow pedal drive on 10, level on 16 oclock - comparison UNCORRECT.

Helmet unsung 💚

Behringer blues overdrive is brilliant but they don't make it any more

2.59 ooohhh that’s a stain yeah on your fuckin undies.

that guitar is on the edge of being untuned. tune closer next time please

Blues driver is garbage. Sd1 sometimes ok