Someone requested this in the bass forum, and while a few comments have been made, a more thorough review has not been done. I own one and for the most part love it, but there are some minor things I don't like about it.
This is a multieffects pedal that covers every effect one could possibly need...comes with 80 settings, with 40 of them to remain factory presets, and the others to be customized as you wish. I think you can customize past 40, but to be honest I've not fiddled with it enough to know.
Features of the BP200:
*Fretless simulator: Get a reasonable reproduction of fretless sound on a fretted bass
*Wah: Play around with that wah sound
*Cabinet Modeling: Play as if you were playing through a different size cabinet than what you're using
*Amp modeling: Same as above, except you get tones based on different types of amps, rather than size
*Stompbox modeling: Several different types of distortion and overdrive settings
*Compression: I can't really explain compression much because I don't know much about it myself, but it does offer compression settings
*EQ: Play around with a three-band EQ on the pedal, in addition to your bass and amp settings
*Effects: Includes the following effects: Flanger, Phaser, Detune, Chorus, Octavider, SynthTalk, Whammy, Pitch Shift, Envelope Filter, Vibrato
*Delay: Several kinds of delay, with changable feedback and delay times
*Reverb: Several kinds of reverb, with changeable decay, level
*An expression pedal: Control those effects in real time, necessary for Wah and Whammy control.
The 40 presets are a nice thing, but I'll admit some of their settings seem to or make no sense...some of settings in the 20's region are all just slight variations of clean settings...and some of the earlier settings are slight varations of distortion settings. I highly recommend that you try all of them, and then go create your own settings, because there is so much potential with this thing it isn't funny...yet they were quite conservative I think in their settings in that they didn't do much with them...
I really love the sound of the Chorus on this thing...it's deep and warm, a very full sound. The Detune effect does a similar thing, but not quite as thick...the Whammy setting is fun if you want to do weird sounding things, and for the bassist who loves Tool (like me), you can get the correct setting for Disposition on this pedal...5th up/Octave up...
The distortion settings are cool to mess with, you can get this grungy kind of distortion, or heavier metal distortion, or thick fuzz...the delay is nice and the reverb is a great thing. The wah is fine, but I think you could probably get better wah sound from a real pedal...same goes with the fretless simulator...don't buy this pedal in hopes of never needing a real fretless bass. Phase and Flange are cool settings, but most people may never have a use for them...the only setting I don't really like is the Synth setting on here...it sounds weird, and not a good kind of weird. Digitech does make a Synth Wah pedal, however, and I've heard great things about it, so I think I'd pick up one of those one day too
I'd give this a four out of five star rating...so many choices, so many ways to find your unique sound. What it does well, it does really well in my opinion (Delay, Reverb, many of the effects)...the Synth is the only thing I don't like at all, and the fretless/wah could be a bit better. I've played live with this before, and improvised a long drawn out distortion filled solo...which was loved by many. The only other thing to watch out for is it's power supply...I had to have mine replaced because it stopped working...so be careful with it. The unit itself is quite solid, however.
