Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BEL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert BEL to another file type
To convert BEL Effect files to another format, you need Boss Tone Studio or other Settings software.
Convert a file to BEL
To convert other file formats to the "Effect Library Preset" file type, you need software like Boss Tone Studio or a similar tool.
About BEL files
The .BEL file extension primarily represents a Boss Effect Library file. It is used by Boss Tone Studio to store and transfer effects pedal presets. Users download or create custom guitar tones and save them as .BEL files. Additionally, .BEL files act as character damage definition scripts in the Techland Chrome Engine, or as tournament data files for iBelote software. The primary disadvantage of the Boss .BEL format is its proprietary nature. It is heavily tied to specific Boss guitar pedals and the Tone Studio software. If you do not own the hardware, opening the file to see the preset parameters is difficult. It requires a specific hardware connection to utilize. Techland script files are similarly locked to a specific game engine developer environment. To inspect the preset values without the Boss hardware, converting or renaming the file to JSON or TXT is the best workaround. This allows you to read the raw parameter values. Because these are specialized settings and scripts, standard converters fail to process them. They are not standard documents. However, just drag and drop your file to convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Our analysis will detect the underlying JSON or plain text format, allowing you to view the internal content and extract the raw preset data.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BEL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TSL, JSN, MAFILE and DB files.
FAQ
If you want to convert BEL file to DB, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT or SQL, you can use Boss Tone Studio or similar software from the "Effects Pedal Preset File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to BEL, try Boss Tone Studio or another comparable tool in the "Effects Pedal Preset File" category.
The BEL Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BEL converter.