California-based BMF Effects has become a bit of a go-to pedal pusher for the likes of some pretty damn good blues players… like Marc Ford and the guys in The Steepwater Band. While the Purple Nurple looks to be the company’s flagship, we were keen to get our hands on another, perhaps lesser known, BMF offering… thus we were hard pressed to say no when our friend Phil Vickman from Fat Tone Guitars offered to send us a BMF Great Wide Open distortion stomp for review. We were curious to see if this one-knob dirt box was a bolt from the blue, or an overdrive without a clue?