Blumes vs Plumes
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- A comparison of the Earthquaker Devices Blumes and Plumes pedals.
0:00 - Title card
0:02 - Rhythm guitar into clean amp
0:42 - Rhythm guitar into dirty amp 1
1:14 - Rhythm guitar into dirty amp 2
1:48 - Lead guitar into dirty amp
2:17 - Drop tuned guitar into clean amp
3:03 - Drop tuned guitar into high gain amp
3:31 - Bass into clean amp
Guitars:
- Steinberger clone with Kiesel Allan Holdsworth bridge pickup
- Kiesel ZM8 Zeus 8-string multiscale with Kiesel Beryllium bridge pickup
- Kiesel ZM6 Zeus 6-string multiscale bass with Kiesel soapbar pickups (neck pickup used in video)
Fractal FM9 used for amps:
- Clean guitar: Deluxe Reverb, Deluxe Reverb dynacab IR
- Dirty guitar: Marshall JTM45, 4x12 1960TV dynacab IR
- Clean drop tuned: Fender 5F8 Tweed Bright, Deluxe Reverb -dynacab IR
- Dirty drop tuned: Marshall JTM45, 4x12 1960TV dynacab IR
- Heavy drop tuned: FAS 6160, OTTO M35A OS 800 IR
- Bass: FAS Bass, York Audio AMPG 410 HS Mix 07 IR
we need a hybrid called the PuBes
I bet it'll sound really hairy
I have both pedals now. The Plumes has some low end loss when used on bass, Blumes has not. But the gain of the Blumes is definitely fuzzier, it has a different character.
was actually looking for this kinda video, so massive thanks!
Very cool. ALWAYS glad to see a post from you Sir!!!
Always good to hear from you, James!
Cool vid. Thanks for sharing. I was thinking about looking for a comparison video earlier today.
The low end is much improved on the blumes! Nice.
Love the Plumes for guitar, don't have a Blumes but it does sound killer with a bass from what I have heard. I have never been even a little bit disappointed with Earthquaker Devices. Every one that I have or have taste tested sounds great! Thank you Jamie and everyone at EqD!
Awesome video been wondering what the difference between different instruments sound like respectively on each of them in an a,b test.
Regards 🙏
Blumes all day
Very good man. I want the Blumes now. It appears it will work well with low guitar tunings and bass 🎉
Having both seems beneficial. One complement each other. Plumes will add some brightness to the Blumes, and the Blumes will give a bit of dark tone to the Plumes. 💥
I was wondering how they would stack.I was also thinking that the Plumes would stack well with the White Light.
I like how they improved the low end, but I don't see why they needed to increase the gain. But, I don't see many Blumes demos with the gain set low, so it's hard to get a sense of if the Blumes can do the same nice lower gain sounds as the Plumes.
I'm pretty sure the only difference in the Blumes circuit is the input capacitor is a different value that cuts less bass. When you have a bassier signal entering a distortion circuit, you get more distortion. It's inevitable. From my playing around with the pedal, it does clean up just as well as the Plumes. It just saturates faster as you turn up the gain knob and the highest setting sounds more distorted.
@@Poparad Maybe? Earthquaker's marketing says something about the gain being doubled. I don't know if that means "the Blumes has double the gain of the Plumes" or "Both the Blumes and Plumes have double the gain of the original TS".
Having gone back through the website and through the manuals, they definitely say that the Blumes has increased gain from the Plumes.
Blooms is mid scooped and more fuzzy. I much prefer the Plumes!
On guitar, I think I’d agree for most typical applications. It definitely seems Blumes has a gain structure designed with bass in mind, and it actually seems to compliment Plumes on guitar well, as they each carve out room for each other on their respective instruments in the mix.
I play mostly baritone and dropped tunings, so I was curious about this comparison.There are a lot of clipping circuits that aren't spectacular with guitar, but are excellent for full bass .As much as I like the regular Plumes, I don't hear the Blumes as an improvement for baritone ranges, - but I'm not looking for scoops, or mud, or high gain application.Seems,- okay ,-for standard bass, - but I think you could do better, and probably within the EQD long line of current and discontinued releases.
Wish there would be more knob twisting and settings changing on bass.. Nobody else has done it on YT yet, can you believe it? Everybody just singing praises to blumes but i don't buy it...I believe it when i hear it in comparisson.
the Blumes sounds more fuzzy to my ear!
I read your user name in the voice of Sagat from Street Fighter.
Out of curiosity what amp is used during the “drop tuned guitar into dirty amp” section?
Thanks for your time and your video!
Here are what all of the amps and guitars were:
Steinberger clone with Kiesel Allan Holdsworth bridge pickup
Kiesel ZM8 Zeus 8-string multiscale with Kiesel Beryllium bridge pickup
Kiesel ZM6 Zeus 6-string multiscale bass with Kiesel soapbar pickups (neck pickup used in video)
Fractal FM9 used for amps:
Clean guitar: Deluxe Reverb, Deluxe Reverb dynacab IR
Dirty guitar: Marshall JTM45, 4x12 1960TV dynacab IR
Clean drop tuned: Fender 5F8 Tweed Bright, Deluxe Reverb dynacab IR
Dirty drop tuned: Marshall JTM45, 4x12 1960TV dynacab IR
Heavy drop tuned: FAS 6160, OTTO M35A OS 800 IR
Bass: FAS Bass, York Audio AMPG 410 HS Mix 07 IR
Blumes, is it for real?
Plumes still
forget the pedals, what are these riffs??
Haha, just something I improvised when recording the video.
Blumes is more fuzzly