Hi all, I purchased a blues driver bd-2 last year, and pretty sure I mailed warranty. anyways, looked on Roland corp. site to find out how to get repaired, with no luck. The pedal will work, then after a couple of minutes it will just stop. I tried a couple of new batteries, but same thing happens. Does anyone have a clue, or know how I can get this pedal repaired under their 5-year warranty? thanks in advance, dutch.

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Go see Wolf Ginandes at Berklee's tech repair depot...he'll check it out for you.

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Fortunately I have never had any problems with any of my Boss products or my blues driver so im not entirely sure how their warranty service as I never had to use it. You may want to try a local tech……….I would try to email them although I could not find an address on the sight just a place to only a link that you need to register for their backstage pass thing….I might would try that.

http://www.bossus.com/backstage/login.php

http://backstage.rolandus.com/login.php

Good luck Dutchy.....

Bill

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This is the first pedal I've bought, fortunately I've never had any problems with it. Not much help to the OP, it's a great pedal, hope you get it fixed Dutch.

bad capacitor somewhere in the circuit maybe? i say that only because it happened to me once. the pedal would die at random. if you tapped hard on it or strummed the guitar real loud it sometimes would spark back to life. one day i went rooting around inside and after some investigating i discovered that there was this one capacitor that if i touched it, the pedal came back to life. i was probably very fortunate to discover that, because i know diagnosing whole circuits can be tough. i think i was just lucky enough to somehow stumble across that. if you're curious, it was one of the caps on the board for the level knob.

i'll be honest though, i've done some self-modding to the pedal and the cap that went bad wasn't boss-provided stock, but one lying around in the garage. my father has a bunch of caps and diodes and junk from electronics school in the 70's, so my guess is it was probably a very old cap but i suppose that there is no guarantee that the stock parts couldn't just fart out this soon.

anyway, my method for you would be to just plug in your rig, and turn the pedal and amp on. then literally just brush your finger around the board and touch different components and solder joints. (though you should probably avoid touching anything related to the power supply, especially if using AC. you should be fine anywhere else, i was! haha) i suppose place focus on the caps. what this would do is serve as an electric charge for a shoddy cap and basically revive it temporarily, because your body conducts electricity. my finger probably served as a bridge across the bad cap or something like that. i honestly dont have a good explanation for it.

i know this sounds farfetched, but it worked for me, so it has to be legit...somewhat.

or you could just get free warranty coverage if it still applies. it didnt for me, so i had no choice.

thanks guys. I'm gonna try e-mailing them first since its under warranty. If not, I'll try another suggestion listed above. as always, I appreciate your help, and replies. Glad I joined this forum. Thanks again, dutch.

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2012 American Vintage Telecaster 1958
09 Fender american deluxe strat.
97 Gibson les paul special P90's double-cut
65 Princeton reverb re-issue
2010 Guild Gad-F40e