Marshall blues breaker , bb2 or original ? What's the difference ??!

riffpowers

ive been well impressed with what I've heard of the Marshall bb2 with pretty much any Marshall amp.

They seem pretty keenly priced and easy to get hold of. I know they did a big box version but I've never heard one .

does anyone know what the differences are ?? Tone ? Quality ? Features ??

Jeremiah

Personally didn't like the bb2 at all, it has a really raspy ragged distortion that is very "all or nothing" and won't do a subtle breakup.

Never tried the original Bluesbreaker, but I have a Mooer Blues Crab which is allegedly a clone of it and it's a million times better than the bb2.

crunchman

Had an original one, and made the mistake of selling it.  Bought a BB2 and it was rubbish.  Don't know what the circuit changes are but it does not sound the same.

johnhe

I owned a BB2 and I'm afraid I thought it was absolutely terrible. I agree that it seems to sound like a totally different pedal to the original circuit.

ThePrettyDamned

BB2 isn't the same. I had useful sounds out of it, but unlike the rest of the range, it's largely arse. The GV2 and th jackhammer (and the reflector and mods... Actually, the entire range) has awesome sounds for not a lot of money so I don't know what they did with the BB2. 

Voxman

Yup, I too was very disappointed with the BB2.  It's very muddy and doesn't really feel or sound like a jtm45.  However, put a 7 band stomp EQ pedal after it and it becomes much livelier and more useful.  And a tubescreamer before it gives a huge improvement too.

ICBM

riffpowers said:

does anyone know what the differences are ?? Tone ? Quality ? Features ??

Two different varieties of meh.

The old one has crap jacks. Both have crap switches.

The new one has an extra meh boost mode.

frank1985

Yeah stay away from the new one. It's basically just a cash in on the popularity of the v1

57Deluxe

The original nearly always, was set everything at Max and was this inability to offer more tonal choices that lead to it being passed on for more variable modern equivalents. Hindsight is a bummer....

riffpowers

So I may well be better off sticking  with trusty old   ts9 or sd1 !!

HAL9000

BB2 owner here. Bought it years ago when I didn't know any better. Sterile sounding raspy fizzy thing. Just to make things even worse, the position markers on the knobs are all but impossible to see even in bright daylight.

A Behringer TO-800 (which is under £20) is a far better pedal.