Hope you guys like this video, here are some useful timecodes, all links to products are in the description box ;-) Clean reference tone - 2:00 Ultimate Drive demo - 3:40 Ultimate Drive used as a boost - 6:27 Ultimate Drive with crunch amp - 9:00 Extreme Metal demo - 9:55 Extreme Metal plus boost - 13:30 Hacking the Extreme Metal boost - 13:51 Both pedals together - 14:42
Rob you are awesome just so you know.....been watching a long time....will be ordering a Rabea Sig Chapman Baritone....and question please.....I have an EVH LBXii 15 watt head and 1x12 EVH cab....dude I really need a Tubescreamer or no??? I have one, mini ibanez, but the amp has so much gain I figure I don't need it....sounds good but wondering your opinion on the "Use" for one considering the amount of gain in the amp?
Definitely going to pick up a Ultimate Drive. What I here is it’s an OCD clone. Metallica’s Garage Days was the first album of them I ever heard, and introduced me to palm muting. I had no idea a guitar could do that as a puck rock skateboard kid of the 1980’s. Ha! Cheer Rob!
Thanks Rob, I had this pedal years ago, didnt know what to do with it, this vid made me buy one again for solo lead tone, bought Saphue clone ( 18€s!)cause some of the Joyos have asymmetric clipping by mistake...still doesnt sound bad...😎😎
used to have this young for dark jazz, getting one again: some pedals arent simple, like my SIMBLE, returned 2 back in time, now i have 3 and its always on...!!!
Harley Benton is the house brand from Thomann, so the FJ-02 from Joyo Audio is now available as the ultimate drive from Harley Benton. This pedal sounds good, like a lot of other pedals from Joyo Audio. This is a cheap pedal in high quality and with useful sounds for blues and rock. I like distortion and overdrive pedals and I think this is the next in my collection...
I am consistently astounded by how great Harley Benton gear is. I have their Tele clone and that pedal power thing and both are so good for the price. Not sure how they do it tbh.
No r&d costs, clone someone elses product, mass produce in enormous quantities in China, let customers find the design flaws that r&d staff would've caught (witness the number of mk2/3 product revisions). Innovation takes expensive expertise, cloning someone else's is dirt cheap.
I'm convinced that in the world of affordable pedals and amps it's nearly impossible to beat Joyo. Their new R Series is really good. I've got their 10 band EQ and the UZI distortion and they both are great pedals that left me with cash in my pocket.
Hi Rob, I have the ultimate drive pedal and I agree for the money great sounding pedal.Only one thing happens now and again, I have a spinal tap moment picking up local radio on it, have you had this happen to you? Thanks for the great video.
HB Ultimate drive is a rebranded Joyo Ultimate drive which in turn is a Fulltone OCD clone if iam not mistaken. Rob check out the Joyo US dream it's a Suhr riot clone!
Very interest. These deep insights into the Chappers tonal are extremely helpful. Even if you don’t want to buy those pedals, the same thought process can be applied elsewhere
Harley Benton never ceases to amaze. They are offering stuff that's great for the consumer. While not top of the line gear, they are fairly decent products, but the main point here is that HB offer those decent products at price points significantly lower than similar quality gear.
Great demo! I have done three (!!) videos about the Extreme Metal pedal. For instance I tried to make it sound like a Boss HM-2. It failed completely. Mainly since it so scooped in it's voicing.
The ultimate drive got that "plexi bite" but also could be into Tube screamer-like if adjusted. The sounds of it is just awesome Rob. The xtreme metal got that "old-school 'ish Metallica tone.I appreciated hearing how you tweaked/cheated the eq to get as close as possible than their "tone". And you combined the both of "Ultimate drive" with Xtreme metal that sound damn good together. I myself have the "Fame Tube Steamer" (bought 15€). It's a bargain to me. Without talking about all those reissues pedals I have (Marshall drive master). Cherry on the cake? I have the Empress Heavy. All that comibned together and sent in Marshall DSL5c. I let you imagine what type of wide musical genres I can go from and end up to. COngrats for your shootout. You still rule Rob :) Cheers from Belgium. 🤟🤟
What do u think the lightest Chapman guitar is ? How much does it weigh ? Weight is prob the most Important factor to me. Anything over 7 lb’s i usually stay away from.
9:20 Every time i hear that White Dove riff, i always think back to the videos of yall recording Catalyst and Centered and One and the shenanigans that ensued. I want to say there's a video of you, Bea, and Dave doing the gang vocals for White Dove and something really funny happened (One of your GVs was "White Dave" or something like that), but i can't find it for the life of me
If it's the same as Joyo. Then would Joyo still continue making these pedals? Because it's pointless making 2 of the same pedals and brand them different.
@Mark Seymour so thomann cant design their own pedals. They just became lazy and just copy an existing pedal and slap their brand because they wanted to. 😆😆😆. Yeah i totally get the point. 🤣🤣🤣
@Mark Seymour you just answered my question why would i then continue on to ask the same question. 😆 Ps. We all know thomann can do better than this. 😆
For heavy metal and its subgenres, extreme metal is better. Nevertheless, if you need a really great tug and for whom Extreme Metal has too much tug, you should reach for the Ultimate Drive. I have both.
Actually it can. I had one for a while, and it happily ran at 18v without any damage - was on my board at 18v for about a year before I replaced it - and gets all the expected headroom advantages from running at 18v. Incidentally, it's cloning v3 of the OCD, so it won't be quite the same as other versions.
@@achanonymous When you plug an 18v power supply and it smokes the insides on two in a row, I’d say that it can’t run on 18v. Both of mine were the Joyo brand. Idk if that makes a difference or not but the two I personally fried were because I tried running them on 18v. The third ran without issue on 9v before I replaced it with an EHX OD Glove (also an OCD clone), which has an internal 9v-18v switch inside that only requires the pedal to be powered with a 9v.
@@MathewsGuitarWorks mine was joyo. I guess I might have just got lucky and got one that had components within the right tolerance range for it to work at 18v. Let's change it to "it might work and sound great, but it might also kill it. Try it at your own risk"
Rob, you being the youtube celebrity that you are, you should reach out to someone who ones a guitar company and design a headless guitar with all its headless guitar functionality, but ask them to put a piece of wood before the first fret (lets call it a headstock) so you have a place to put a brand logo on.
Is it that ’kids’ nowadays have never experienced what true overdrive is, such that they would fold to distortion pedals, and stating that od is worse as the pedals sound worse. Od pedals are actually distortion pedals. I’m not hating on pedals, but u feel the drive should come from the tubes, but sure some signal shaping can take aplace pre preamp and in the loop, but ’just add tubes’ was the point. Just thoughts, great shit you sticking to your roots here on youtube, great content(knowing you a businessman nowadays also)
Headless guitar review don’t do it they remind me of Sh*t pop bands from the 80’s……….how about a Chapman guitar review demoing all the different styles of music you can get out of them at least you would be playing a decent guitar 😎
Hope you guys like this video, here are some useful timecodes, all links to products are in the description box ;-)
Clean reference tone - 2:00
Ultimate Drive demo - 3:40
Ultimate Drive used as a boost - 6:27
Ultimate Drive with crunch amp - 9:00
Extreme Metal demo - 9:55
Extreme Metal plus boost - 13:30
Hacking the Extreme Metal boost - 13:51
Both pedals together - 14:42
Rob you are awesome just so you know.....been watching a long time....will be ordering a Rabea Sig Chapman Baritone....and question please.....I have an EVH LBXii 15 watt head and 1x12 EVH cab....dude I really need a Tubescreamer or no??? I have one, mini ibanez, but the amp has so much gain I figure I don't need it....sounds good but wondering your opinion on the "Use" for one considering the amount of gain in the amp?
Definitely going to pick up a Ultimate Drive. What I here is it’s an OCD clone.
Metallica’s Garage Days was the first album of them I ever heard, and introduced me to palm muting. I had no idea a guitar could do that as a puck rock skateboard kid of the 1980’s. Ha!
Cheer Rob!
Thanks Rob, I had this pedal years ago, didnt know what to do with it, this vid made me buy one again for solo lead tone, bought Saphue clone ( 18€s!)cause some of the Joyos have asymmetric clipping by mistake...still doesnt sound bad...😎😎
seeing Chappers with a headless makes me wanna see a Chapman Headless
For a second i thought you meant rob and not one of his guitars 💀
@@omgdisfunny4852
Same lol
I read it as “seeing Chappers with a headless makes me wanna see Chapman Headless”
Next, get the identical pedals that they brand Joyo at the factory, and shoot them out against the HB versions
This was a swell and an uplifting video, thank you rob , i was feeling down.
Sorry to hear you were down bro, take it easy and thanks for watching :-)
YES DUDE! FINALLY SOMEONE STACKED AN OVERDRIVE PEDAL WITH THE CRUNCH CHANNEL ON A AMP!!! THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO GO!!! THANK YOU!
used to have this young for dark jazz, getting one again: some pedals arent simple, like my SIMBLE, returned 2 back in time, now i have 3 and its always on...!!!
Dude you are an amazing guitarist. Love your channel. ( I remember green hell very well)
Nice video. Had the Joyo UD for years ( same pedal as HB version) and no complaints.. 👍🤣
Harley Benton is the house brand from Thomann, so the FJ-02 from Joyo Audio is now available as the ultimate drive from Harley Benton. This pedal sounds good, like a lot of other pedals from Joyo Audio. This is a cheap pedal in high quality and with useful sounds for blues and rock. I like distortion and overdrive pedals and I think this is the next in my collection...
I am consistently astounded by how great Harley Benton gear is. I have their Tele clone and that pedal power thing and both are so good for the price. Not sure how they do it tbh.
No r&d costs, clone someone elses product, mass produce in enormous quantities in China, let customers find the design flaws that r&d staff would've caught (witness the number of mk2/3 product revisions). Innovation takes expensive expertise, cloning someone else's is dirt cheap.
Have been looking at the headless from Harley Benton for a while, am now currently hovering over the add to basket button, thanks Rob
That creeping death riff🤟
I need more chappers reviews in my life again.
Always glad to see a gear demo from Rob!
I got one of those Ultimate Drives for a friend, and it's actually pretty impressive.
I'm convinced that in the world of affordable pedals and amps it's nearly impossible to beat Joyo. Their new R Series is really good. I've got their 10 band EQ and the UZI distortion and they both are great pedals that left me with cash in my pocket.
May have been said already but the Ultimate OD is a Joyo pedal. I have had this for years. HB could have at least changed the graphics..🤣👍🇦🇺
Hi Rob, I have the ultimate drive pedal and I agree for the money great sounding pedal.Only one thing happens now and again, I have a spinal tap moment picking up local radio on it, have you had this happen to you?
Thanks for the great video.
Abomination, Metal Pedal and a Headless Guitar. There has to be a song or horror movie in there. Great review Rob. Cheers.
HB Ultimate drive is a rebranded Joyo Ultimate drive which in turn is a Fulltone OCD clone if iam not mistaken. Rob check out the Joyo US dream it's a Suhr riot clone!
Just got myself one of those in pink! I really like it, even thou i did not think that headless would be my thing
It really is a JOYO to see you demo these pedals. Wink Wink
I have the same black/red looking pedal by joyo. Dont know if its the same one ^^
Never thought I'd be saying this about a Harley Benton but it looks like great fun!
RE: The Ultimate Drive peddle - it’s small change for a pretty good sounding backup unit. 👍👍👍
Very interest. These deep insights into the Chappers tonal are extremely helpful. Even if you don’t want to buy those pedals, the same thought process can be applied elsewhere
I'm a big fan of Joyo pedals, they all sound good.
I KIND OF LIKE BOTH OF THEM
Harley Benton never ceases to amaze. They are offering stuff that's great for the consumer. While not top of the line gear, they are fairly decent products, but the main point here is that HB offer those decent products at price points significantly lower than similar quality gear.
Great demo! I have done three (!!) videos about the Extreme Metal pedal. For instance I tried to make it sound like a Boss HM-2. It failed completely. Mainly since it so scooped in it's voicing.
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Greetings o, please Link up where to get the Bad Cat AMP. Thanks a lot!
Thanks dude, you can buy Bad Cat amps direct from Bad Cat and they’ll ship to you as soon as it’s ready :-)
@@RobChappers thank you!
The ultimate drive got that "plexi bite" but also could be into Tube screamer-like if adjusted. The sounds of it is just awesome Rob. The xtreme metal got that "old-school 'ish Metallica tone.I appreciated hearing how you tweaked/cheated the eq to get as close as possible than their "tone". And you combined the both of "Ultimate drive" with Xtreme metal that sound damn good together. I myself have the "Fame Tube Steamer" (bought 15€). It's a bargain to me. Without talking about all those reissues pedals I have (Marshall drive master). Cherry on the cake? I have the Empress Heavy. All that comibned together and sent in Marshall DSL5c. I let you imagine what type of wide musical genres I can go from and end up to. COngrats for your shootout. You still rule Rob :) Cheers from Belgium. 🤟🤟
Is extreme metal a preamp? or just a distortion pedal Im really confused.
The most interesting bit is that MY Ultimate Drive is branded Joyo. I wonder if HB have improved it.
Really good demo. I like the extreme better.
What do u think the lightest Chapman guitar is ? How much does it weigh ? Weight is prob the most Important factor to me. Anything over 7 lb’s i usually stay away from.
Man if that guitar had a headstock i would really dig it!!
Always love a good pedal shootout
9:20 Every time i hear that White Dove riff, i always think back to the videos of yall recording Catalyst and Centered and One and the shenanigans that ensued. I want to say there's a video of you, Bea, and Dave doing the gang vocals for White Dove and something really funny happened (One of your GVs was "White Dave" or something like that), but i can't find it for the life of me
Was there a suggestion that headless could provide tuning stability?
Awesome Rob. We are the same age so I definitely know Green Hell. Graaiin hellll!
Isn't it joyo extreme metal?
That drive looks a lot like the JOYO one that Dan Patlansky uses.
It is. The Ultimate Dr is simply an Fulltone OCD clone that can’t be run at 18v. The EHX OD Glove is a better OCD imo.
That might be a pink guitar but it looks dead white on video.
im thinking the same thing
It’s an incredibly subtle pink, not in your face
I can just about tell a difference between the white script on your shirt and the guitar.
@@PlasticAssasin8 the new Harley Benton explorer guitar comes in this Off white pinkish finish as well
@@RobChappers Whats wrong with pink being in your face?
i want a review of that guitar.
Looks pearl.pink like hardly pink more white and a lil pink hugh
How long until there's a headless Chapman guitar?
Something interesting!
I do like my Harley Benton stuff, it's unusual to have good quality and good prices.
Try it in the loop Rob!
I have a pedal just like the HB extreme metal but instead it has JOYO on it. Odd
I'm still waiting on a review of this guitar
If I had a headless I'd stick a pumpkin head on it or dangling off it haha
If it's the same as Joyo. Then would Joyo still continue making these pedals? Because it's pointless making 2 of the same pedals and brand them different.
Caline also makes the same pedals. I guess they're all manufactured in the same place and branded differently
@@j_laf9575 branded differently but same looks and function. 😆
@Mark Seymour so thomann cant design their own pedals. They just became lazy and just copy an existing pedal and slap their brand because they wanted to. 😆😆😆. Yeah i totally get the point. 🤣🤣🤣
@Mark Seymour you just answered my question why would i then continue on to ask the same question. 😆
Ps. We all know thomann can do better than this. 😆
You'll never see me playing a headless guitar though
Hey...I feel that you have 2 aliens watching you..Ufos are around your home each night after midnight.
Chappers has already lost his head 😆
For heavy metal and its subgenres, extreme metal is better. Nevertheless, if you need a really great tug and for whom Extreme Metal has too much tug, you should reach for the Ultimate Drive. I have both.
Which Badcat amp is it?
Cub 40R
Good one
Greenhell, B Side original Metallica track
What?
What? so no head?
Your beard turning grey, bro. Gotta get some beard dye, my brotherman. Ha Ha Cheers!
Ultimate Drive (Harley Benton, JOYO) = Fulltone OCD. The HB/JOYO can’t be run at 18v so be ware.
Actually it can. I had one for a while, and it happily ran at 18v without any damage - was on my board at 18v for about a year before I replaced it - and gets all the expected headroom advantages from running at 18v.
Incidentally, it's cloning v3 of the OCD, so it won't be quite the same as other versions.
@@achanonymous When you plug an 18v power supply and it smokes the insides on two in a row, I’d say that it can’t run on 18v. Both of mine were the Joyo brand. Idk if that makes a difference or not but the two I personally fried were because I tried running them on 18v. The third ran without issue on 9v before I replaced it with an EHX OD Glove (also an OCD clone), which has an internal 9v-18v switch inside that only requires the pedal to be powered with a 9v.
@@MathewsGuitarWorks mine was joyo. I guess I might have just got lucky and got one that had components within the right tolerance range for it to work at 18v.
Let's change it to "it might work and sound great, but it might also kill it. Try it at your own risk"
@@MathewsGuitarWorks kinda glad I still have mine that works at 18v kicking around now!
Bad Cat makes sexy amplifiers. Period. Cheers!
Rob, you being the youtube celebrity that you are, you should reach out to someone who ones a guitar company and design a headless guitar with all its headless guitar functionality, but ask them to put a piece of wood before the first fret (lets call it a headstock) so you have a place to put a brand logo on.
He could call it a ghost head.
And something for a hanger to hang on
BC Rich already did this
The guitar looks white… I thought you were fucking with us but I realize it was the lighting that Was fucking with me.
What happened ? Chapper's vids used to be funny, entertaining & educational. I get bored quarter way through any more. Wish he was still in the UK .
🤘🎸💗
I'm 56 for god sakes of course i remember da!!!!!!!
With no headstock how do u know what brand it is smh lol 😂
Don't really understand the point of comparing a overdrive to a distortion
These pedals are pretty extreme lol
Is it that ’kids’ nowadays have never experienced what true overdrive is, such that they would fold to distortion pedals, and stating that od is worse as the pedals sound worse. Od pedals are actually distortion pedals. I’m not hating on pedals, but u feel the drive should come from the tubes, but sure some signal shaping can take aplace pre preamp and in the loop, but ’just add tubes’ was the point. Just thoughts, great shit you sticking to your roots here on youtube, great content(knowing you a businessman nowadays also)
HAH! You can't reverse the headstock on a headless guitar! Touche' Senor El Chapman.
That graphics on the drive tho :/
Always good to hear from one of the greatest guitarists to ever play
Something interesting.
1st comment. Yay
Too clangy
Headless guitar review don’t do it they remind me of Sh*t pop bands from the 80’s……….how about a Chapman guitar review demoing all the different styles of music you can get out of them at least you would be playing a decent guitar 😎
Something interesting.