This pedal is very good, It gives you the range of mellow jus' jammin' to i hate the world anger that i was amazed by. There is some fiddling about with the knobs getting the sound you want but once its there you will be happy. A good pedal at a good price.

I play with a yamaha rbx260 and my set up is bass-dunlop wah-boss overdrive-boss flanger. The sound is great. It mixes great with the wah.You can play alot of different stuff

I've played on several distortion pedals on the bass including the DOD Bass Grunge, Boss DS-1, Boss FZ-3 Boss BD-2, Big Muff, the Rat, and the ODB-3. The ODB-3 can have anything from a mild, barely there drive to full blown sizzle. It can have tight highs and/ or perfect lows. The only other thing I've played that even comes close is the tube overdrive on the Digitech BP-8.

Feature:
i gave this a seven , not because the onboard features deserve it, they are great! just wish it cme with an ac adapter.it eats up batteries fast enough to warrant one. why should i have to pay $20 for something that should come standard? WTF?!

Quality:
it's a boss, what more can be said? you could pobably beat the s#*) out of this thing with a sledgehammer and then bring it to a gig

Value:
i searched for a long tim for a pedal that would give me the sound i wanted for under $100. this is the only one i could find. definitely worth every penny.

Desirability:
not that pretty, taxicb yellow and all, but i still can't imagine playing hat i play without it

Sound:
i play sludge/doom/powergroove, and so far this pedal has given me the bonecrunching filthy sound that i have ben looking for. sure it does feedback at high gai, but i have found that if you position yourself and the pedala few extra feet away from your amp , then no problem.( and what is wrong with alittle feedback anyway?)i play both an ibanez soudgear 5 str. and a washburn fretless, tuned to b they both resonate excellently through this pedal.

Ease of Use:
plug it in,dial it in,stomp and destroy the audience!!!!!! it even comes with a few suggested setting in case you need some help, or if you are just learning. just about every tone is coverd in the owners manual.

Support:
don't know; never needed to use them(refer to the quality comments)

Overall:
i don't think i will ever need another pedal.this one fits me like socks on a rooster!!if it was ever stolen, i would run out and get another that day.

this is the best pedal 4 the money, it has such a wide variety of distortion settings, perfect for punk rock, metal, u name it,,,,

Feature:
the ability to create high pitched distortion, low pitched distortion, overtaking distortion, or background distortion is a great part of this distortion pedal

Quality:
awesome

Value:
the best distortion pedal for the money

Desirability:
It looks pretty cool, but that doesnt really matter

Sound:
I love this distortion, it is great for all metal

Ease of Use:
Wicked easy like all distortion pedals, set and step

Support:
it unfortunately costs an extra $20 for the adapter and $20 for support... WTF???

Overall:
tremendous overall, except for the support

I try and shy away from these 'reviews'...but, I gotta comment on this one. I have a lot of boutique pedals, (Fulltone, zvex, Lovetone...lots),
and have tried the fulltone bass drive...the boss eats it up, really. This is a great little pedal...tough as a tank, (dropped SEVERAL times from different heights, and still performs like a champ)...doesn't color your tone when switched off....and the tone is fantastic. If you like a distorted flavor...there isn't one better, to my knowledge....recorded with it and had people in high class studio's popping their heads in to hear what was making that sound. It is not a subtle machine...performs well with other pedals...love it with a EH bass micro synth.
Don't let the 'boss' tag fool you 'boutiquers' out there...it did me, this is a fantastic unit for what it does. Keeps all the freq. intact..very full, harmonically. Insane.

Feature:
Not enough tone shaping or miximg down the level effect. Dissapointing.

Quality:
I am sure you could drop it off a 2-story building and it wouldn't break. The ugly yellow color is the first indication that "you couldn't kill it if you tried."

Value:
If you need cheap, I repeat, CHEAP DISTORTION. Buy it. You want distortion that is very muddy, unrefined, and full of feedback, run out now and buy this pedal!

Desirability:
This product has no "sex appeal." The screeching at low volume levels didn't even turn the cats on. The yellow reminds you of jaundice-which this pedal seems to suffer from.

Sound:
Not one of those "versatility from fuzz to crunch" type distortion pedals. Reminds me of those Tube screamers from the "crappy years."

Ease of Use:
Sure its easy to use because it doesn't do that much.

Support:
Boss' other pedals like the chorus and the flanger are pretty good. I felt no need to call their support line to say that "versatile" was not in the pedal.

Overall:
Buy it if you are bored!

Feature:
Not very versitile for loud playing becouse of problems mentioned above. Sounds awesome if your amp isn't up very loud. Not good enough for me. It think boss tried to cover too many spectrums jamming too much into this pedal making the nobs too touchy. Great for a light fuzz. Why doesn't boss make a Metal Zone for bass concentraiting more on the hardcore type of distortion and modify a new overdive for bass concetrating on industrial, grunge, and rock instead of trying to jam it all into one pedal? The result would surley be better.

Quality:
Looks heavy duty, but it's a gamble. That's why it's cheap. Nice look exept it's a retarded yellow, but why the hell do looks matter? If I had bass distortion pedal that was hot pink with polka dots but it sounded great I could go get some black paint. Something went wrong with it's sound after about seven months of using it.I didn't drop it or nothing. Now I use it for a vintage fuzz box with my guitar! Not at all what I payed for. Even though a lot of the people on this web site like it, they're not mentioning the down sides of this product, and BELIEVE ME there are PLENTY. I hope somebody who likes my kind of bass sound doesn't have bad luck with this after buying it because of all of it's positive reviews. There's only a handfull of negative reviews about this thing, but they all list the same problems so this prove that they are all made the same like eggs out of a chicken's but.

Value:
Yes, considering it doesn't cost too much to replace because it's cheap.

Desirability:
I hurt my sound a bit after it went bad and I had to remove it from my setup. I miss having bass distorion and will look elswhere for something more controlable and better sounding.

Sound:
I play a Fender just bass and an Avlarez six string with EMG HZ pickups through an Ampeg SVT-350. When I purchased this thing I was dumb enough to buy it brand new without a warranty thinking it's a reliable pedal. This pedal is noisy through any bass amp when either the gain or the level just a little too much and the amp is up at the level it takes to practice or gig it feed backs terrible. I could only turn up the gain and level a quarter of the way up while playing loud before it threatened my speaker cabinets with screetching feedback. When playing metal you might need a gate/ attack envelope pedal if you play loud with a decent amount of gain and level. Boss also makes one of those. You shouldn't have to buy a pedal just for another pedal to work optimally, but with this pedal you do. Sounds scratchy yet crunchy. Split your signals into two and have one be clean so you have all of the tone and low end with out loosing any of your setup's qualities, but you don't have too if you're stubborn. It just sounds way better that way.

Support:
Ha! Ha! Maybe if you near California, Austrailia, South Africa, or Europe! It costs more to fix the thing than it is to replace it! That is, unless you've got a buddy at Tri Point Audio or somewhere else I am not aware of.

Overall:
As much as I play bass, I need something more reliable than this. Unless I replace it every so many months, but that would be dumb.