PW-2 Power Driver

make sure your playing into a CLEAN amp. this isn't a booster and it ain't no tubescreamer; it's a big muff. the tone reminds me of some of the early 70's big muffs. Think of it like a a big muff that lets you sculpt the tonal character. pretty sweet muff style fuzz, great for stoner rock, smashing pumpkins, dinosaur junior, sonic youth, stooges type stuff. soaring leads and heavy power chords are go. very saturated and dripping with harmonics. a metric pluck ton of gain; already sounds heavy with the drive at zero so don't be afraid to keep the drive set low.

pretty straight forward. lots of tonal variation between the "fat" and "muscle" controls. i would have named these controls "body" instead of "fat" and "spectrum" instead of "muscle". once you get the hang of it it's easy to get just the right balance for each guitar/amp combo.

this is a pretty killer pedal in reality and also a very unique and musical one. i would recommend this for pro level players looking for a creamy muff style fuzz tone. if your looking for an overdrive or classic distortion sound this will only frustrate you.

As far as sound quality it beats all the rest of my dist. pedals. And I have alot of em. I have a Ibanez DS7, a Boss Metal Zone, A boss Hyper Metal, a Electro Harmonix Dual Muff, and a few home made distortion pedals I have built my self.....which are kinda lacking due to bad schematics. But yeah. Out of all of my distortion pedals, it is my favorite one. I can dial in a number of sounds like Queens of the Stone Age's Burn The Witch to Black Sabbath's Never Say Die to Edger Winters Frankenstein. The Setup I am usually using is an Gibson Explorer, Fender Roadhouse Strat through a Boss GE-7 EQ, a Boss OC-2 Octave, a Ibanez PH-7 Phaser, a Ibanez CF-7 Chorus/Flanger(2nd output to Peavy Rage for high end), a BBE Noise Supresser, a Dunlop Standerd Wha, a Boss PW-2 Power Driver, a Ibanez DS-7 Distorion, a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone, a Morley ABY Switch running stereo through my Marshall G215R and Alamo Amps Model Number 3. Although with out the noise supression it does get kinda noisy with the Modulation effects active, But remeber they are all run pre distortion for extra "creamy-ness". And yes. They all sound up to par every time I use them. No wiring issues or anything. Just pure tone. Oh yeah. I dont use the Dual Muff so much cus it is really similar to the Boss Power Driver.

Boss builds Mini-Tanks. Period.

Very easy to use. Although, yes the muscle and fat knobs are really midrange and bass. But yes Very easy to use.

I have never modified it. Ever. And like I sead before. Boss builds fricken MINI-TANKS! I got it from a freind of a freind who gave me a crate of cables and a "few" pedals cus he was moving and was "done" with music. One of which was my Lovley Boss Power Driver. I have never parted with it ever since. It is a HUGE part of my tone.

My overall rating is a danm 10. In my book, in which I play Classic Rock, Blues, Industrial, Electronic Music, R&B, and "sigh" metal, It is one of the few Perfect Distortion Pedals I have tried. I have been using this thing for almost 8 years now and love every second of it. If I had ever lost it, I would a danm heart attack. I can never find anyone selling one online anywhere. Never. I want a spare one. Badly. This thing is a part of my soul.

Not an overdrive. If you are looking for an overdrive this pedal will surely disapoint you. I can only compare this to one other pedal and that is a triangle era big muff. Very close in sound. If you like that sound, you will like this pedal. I came to this pedal with no expectation at all. I had no idea what it would sound like. Overall I think this a pretty good effort from boss. I think the word driver is what puts people off. They think they are going to get a really powerfull overdrive sound and they get a fuzz/distortion instead. Someone said this is digital, um...that would surprise me very much. I'm pretty sure it's analog. You can get some david gilmour tones with this. Smashing pumpkins, mudhoney etc... Not a revolutionary sound, you've heard it before, but not from a boss size pedal. I prefer this to the NYC and Russian big muffs because it sounds more like the vintage triangle muff meaning little more clear and less saturated than the later muffs.

Kinda tricky with the tone controls. They are very active and effect the distorion character.

A nice pedal from boss. Not mind blowing but better than some people give it credit for.