Boss Blues Driver: BD-2 Waza Craft vs. Keeley Phat Mod

Welcome to Perky&Analog Gear Demos. Please subscribe for more demos of vintage & rare effects pedals! The humble Boss BD-2 Blues Driver - a very underrated workhorse pedal. But in they stock configuration, they shelve off a load of low end and have a tendency to be quite noisy. Over the years, various people have &the BD-2 to fix these issues - the main one being Robert Keeley. Keeley modded Blues Drivers are used by many great players all over the world (if you&ever watched That Pedal Show, you&know how much they love theirs!) Because of the way it cleans up with the guitar&volume control, many players (Andy Timmons, most notably) use it to shape their clean tone. Keeley upgrade components in the stock BD-2 to increase dynamics, lower the noise floor, bring back the low end & change the clipping structure slightly. They also do an additional &mod (as in the pedal here) with an extra switch to add even more low end. However, in 2014 Boss themselves announced the Waza Craft range - and they listened to the various criticisms of the stock BD-2. The BD-2w is essentially a Keeley modded Blues Driver, and the &mode is the Phat mod. Plenty of people on forums & on YouTube have discussed how the stock BD-2 compares to both the Keeley mod & the Waza. But as far as I&aware, no videos exist comparing the two modded pedals directly. Many have speculated on forums...but here is the proof, once and for all! To my ears, the Waza has less low end in Standard mode than the...