Hey Rhett, I've been playing guitar for over 50yrs and learned a lot along the way. Often I watch your content and learn something new, other times I'm simply reminded of things I once learned but forgot. But always, I know that your content is golden. You're an outstanding communicator of the art.
I'm in that metal camp of players that just love using a TS9 or similar as a boost on a high-gain amp. Usually the mids are cut slightly on the amp controls so the TS mid-hump is not as noticeable.
I also find that the mid hump is not as extreme when you run the level/volume on a TS style circuit fairly high and run the tone knob above 12. It gets bright yes, but it helps clear the "nasal sound" up a bit.
I recently bought the Waza Craft Boss Metal zone pedal. And it's absolutely bloody amazing. It sounds so good. I instantly fell in love with it. I should have bought a metal zone a long time ago. But yeah I put my Robert Keeley tubescreamer before it and it is some of the best tone I've EVER gotten before in my 18 years of playing (the keeley tubescreamer is called the Red Dirt overdrive, but it's the exact same circuit as his old modded ibanez tubescreamers that he modded for people, and they were and still are considered to be the best version of a tubescreamer in the world, he just stopped modding pedals made by other companies, and started selling his modded versions of pedals as their own product these days, to avoid a lawsuit probably, but yeah my keeley red dirt pedal is my dream pedal, as a teen I always lusted after the idea of finally having enough money to buy a modded tubescreamer by Robert Keeley, but now I'm in my 30s and I finally own the keeley modded tubescreamer, it's just called the red dirt pedal now). I've never owned a high gain tube metal amp before. One day I'll probably buy an all tube Marshall combo or something. But yeah it means I've never been able to properly try this thing of stacking the overdrive and distortion together, by having the amp with the gain distortion turned up, but then plug in a tubescreamer before it to give it a boost. But now I finally own a metal zone I can replicate that. Using a tubescreamer before the metal zone is just absolutely gorgeous. It's ridiculous how good it is. I didn't believe it would be so instantly delicious. But yeah, it's so creamy. It's creamy distortion. It's great for chugging. It's absolutely brilliant for solos. The sustain lasts indefinitely. I'm even getting tones out of this combination of the 2 pedals that I never found useful before. Like if I was doing power chords I'd always use the bridge pickup, I thought the neck humbucker just never sounded at all any good with that level of gain for power chords. But the keeley tubescreamer going into the boss wazacraft metal zone makes every pickup position so useful. It somehow has an incredible amount of clarity, getting that strat-like glassy quality to it even though I'm playing my new Epiphone muse SG into it. It makes power chords on the neck humbucker sound so so so good. It just sounds so dark and yet so sharp and full of clarity. It just sounds evil. It's absolutely perfect for metal. And the Epiphone muse sg is a wonderful guitar, I loved it instantly when I was at the shop, I'd been looking at getting a metal guitar, a superstrat by ibanez or Jackson etc. Because I thought those are the guitars that are designed to make playing really fast much easier. But the Epiphone sg beat them all, it is just so incredibly easy to play. I spent like 7 years only playing an acoustic, my dad's old acoustic he bought in the 60s, and the neck in that is absolutely enormous, they don't make necks that thick these days. So I got used to it. And the Epiphone had a bigger neck, so maybe that's why it was so incredibly easy and smooth to play But yeah the Epiphone Muse SG (and every other guitar in the Muse line) has coil splitting for both pickups, plus another push pull knob that reverses the polarity of one of the pickups, or something. I don't really understand it. But it makes you get that fender-like in between "quack" tone, in the middle position. Especially if you have both humbuckers coil split while doing the reverse polarity thing, because then it sounds exactly like the middle position on a telecaster does. This Epiphone muse sg is the most versatile guitar I own, now. But when I mentioned the glassy strat-like clarity quality of the neck humbucker with the keeley TS and the metal zone both on, I was talking about the neck humbucker as a humbucker, not coil split. If sounds even more like the neck pickup of a strat or tele when you coil split it. But yeah even if you just have humbuckers, you can still get this tone, with this combination of pedals The wazacraft Metal Zone is just an absolutely wonderful pedal. It's so versatile too. You can get classic crunch overdrive with it if you put the gain at a low level. You can make it an overdrive itself. And still combine it with the tubescreamer at the same time, for a really great vintage tone, a lot of The Who on the album Who's Next, that classic Pete Townshend power chord tone. Both positions on the Waza Craft metal zone sound great. It's got the original metal zone circuit, but then also has a new one that updates it and makes it sound even better and fixes the problems people had with the original metal zone. But both positions can sound really great, you just have to know how to eq the pedal properly, which isn't difficult. But I definitely do play more on the new version of the metal zone that only comes with the Waza Craft version, not the original bog standard metal zone I only even bought the metal zone because I've been looking everywhere for a boss ds1. And they're nowhere to be found. Here in the UK, literally no online or physical guitar shop has even a single boss DS1. No exaggeration. They don't exist in the UK for now. Hopefully boss will send a few storage containers worth of DS1s so I can finally buy one. But I bought the metal zone Waza Craft as a stop gap, cos I always meant to buy a metal zone too anyway. I've put off buying a boss ds1 for 15+ years and when I finally try to buy one they're sold out everywhere. But boss should definitely do a Waza Craft DS1. For sure. Essentially mod it so it has the keeley DS1 mod on it or the AnalogMan DS1 mod. Along with the original DS1 circuit of course. It's still their best selling pedal. People would absolutely eat it up, a Waza Craft ds1. Even people who already have DS1s would buy a wazacraft version too
If you are trying to get the tone you want and have a lower wattage amp, I’d recommend getting a Boss GE7. You can dial in the EQ how you want it, then push the level to hit the front end of your amp to distort it.
@@koda1960 yeah, it’s common to have that happen. I know they make a mod to where it gets rid of the hiss if you want to get it installed, but I don’t think you really need to if all you do is play live shows because other equipment is already hissing to begin with.
@@koda1960 Get the XTS Midrange Graphic Modded GE-7 if you can. It’s a modded Boss pedal that fixes the noise problem and really hones in on more guitar-specific frequencies.
Looove the blessed mother. It’s a phenomenal pedal and has been glued on my pedalboard ever since I got it. That and the ODR-1 are the only two ODs I use now
Rhett, as always, spot on. My Blessed Mother stays on all the time. It's part of my "bucket brigade" approach to whatever preamp design I happen to be playing thru. Nice character and good flexibility. The general voicing of the eq section suits my blues/funk/rock fusion material really well.
Same. It IS my amp in an FRFR setup with a torpedo as my speaker and power amp emulation and IR’s from Celestion. Sounds amazing and no traditional amp needed.
Great video man! Another easy way to dial out the flub in a gainy amp without adding more saturation is an EQ pedal, like the Boss GE-7 or the MXR 6-band
I really like my Fulltone Full drive 2 . It has 3 settings a compressor , TS , Mossfet circuit over drive. And a separate boost channel with its own level control. I run thru a late 80’s Carvin X100B . For live shows I keep the clean amp channel Crystal clear , and add the TS for that slightly overdriven duo tone for blues , and such. And I use the 2nd amp channel on its first gain setting (heavy gain but not rip your head off ). For classic rock. And when I need SUPER sustain , I just hit the full drive ,and the lead boost. And hold a note 4-8 bars or longer. (Like for Santana’s Europa ) . This is my ONLY pedal besides an original Wah , and a Morley power wah. Another great video packed full of good info. 🤙
Hey Rhett, another solid treatment of a "vast and complex" topic! I play a hybrid Godin with humbucker and preamped piezos and mostly do solo shows. I have gotten deep into parallel mixing/processing, focusing the two signal paths on their strengths. The piezos have an IMMEDIATE attack that disintegrates with anything but clean gain, so I rely heavily on compression to produce the desired sustain and accentuate the percussiveness of my fingerstyle attack. Beyond that, the effects are minimal; switchable clean delay, boost and reverb. The humbucker path is my sonic playground, with EQ, filters, multiple modulations, delays, and only recently have I started adding overdrives; all of that feeds an Iridium set to the round/clean amp. Your video has me now considering a light to mid style OD, as other styles often do not blend in well with the ultraclean piezo path. The attack seems much tighter with the lighter gain ODs. Likewise, your suggestion of rolling off the lows seems like where I need to go. Any specific pedal recommendations to start with? Thanks again!
I can't even tell you how many floor toys I stomped through as a young teenager and then just tossed them in a box. I sure wish I had those classic toys now that I know how to fix them. Thanks for the lesson Rhett.
Using way too much gain is almost a right of passage. Unfortunately too many players I’ve come across never dial down the gain to let some of each guitar’s native tone come through and every song sounds muddy. Why don’t ALL pedals have a blend control? In my perfect world they would. Thanks for making this point!
Cool Video! I've always found that when it comes to tightening the low-end, Tube Screamers work better with Fender/6L6-type amps with single coils and the SD-1 works better with Marshall/EL34-type amps with humbuckers. Symmetrical vs. asymmetrical clipping.
I've been picking up a lot if fuzz and overdrive pedals. The Blessed Mother is pretty sweet. Developing the discipline to sit down with each of the pedals and see what they do, and where they come to life. I pretty much keep the Blue Sky and Iridium in the chain, and just swap out the fuzz pedals... keeps me entertained. Appreciate the insights and knowledge. Thanks, Rhett 🙏
Thanks for the tips Rhett. I was mucking around the other day and found that running the Bluesbreaker part of my Keeley DDR after my Big Muff Op-Amp into my Blues Jnr really helped shape and smooth the tone of the Big Muff.
Rhett's been feeding my OD and fuzz addiction going on 2 years now. Next shirt: OD Dealer - one hit will take you past the edge of breakup. That one's on me. No royalties needed.
I agree that the TS circuit works best with single coils, and for 30 years, in spite of having vintage Gibson's with Buckers, I was a Strat only kinda player. But in the last 10 years, I've started playing guitars with humbuckers a lot more often, so chasing sound got more interesting again. I love the Wampler Tumnus with every humbucker I've tried it with: T-tops, various Seymour Duncan buckers, R490/R498, off names... But dialing in reverb with overdrive... Rhett, I'd love to hear your take on that subject.
There are few humans on the planet that get as happy as you do when you find the sound you are looking for and are just taking a minute to enjoy it!!! This is my guitar happy fix for the day!!!
Great video, I am 100% aligned with this approach , I used to put a lot of gain of my pedals now I am moving in this direction and I will fine tuning using some tips and tricks here, hugs from Brazil and thanks a lot
I use my Origin 20C with it cranked using an attenuator. Adding an SD-1 as a CLEAN boost, I have that 70s rock sound I adore. In short, most of my tone comes from the cranked tubes 🌟
I remember you and Josh from JHS going through a pile of OD pedals and the one that struck me was the Reverend, most OD I have used were good on single coil or humbuckers.The Rev seemed to do either. Luv the channel 🎵.
I have the nobels odr mini that I bought used for 50$ and a Boss super overdrive also like 50$ and really they were great on their own. Now I'm stacking them with low drive on both with the super overdrive first ( I might switch them around) and just having fun with them looking for new tones. Looking into the Westwood by earthquaker as I saw a used one at my local shop.
Although I started this video hoping to learn something new about overdrive pedals, I was mostly inspired to break out my Les Paul and jam. Either way watching this video was a win for me. Thanks man.
Really glad that I found your channel. I see a lot of gear heads around here so maybe some of you got an recommendation for me. So I am basically playing without pedals ever (only a big Muff some times when riffing some stoner rock) but I am searching for maybe on thing that kinda fits all, some sort of all around decent overdrive for my rig. I play on a Marshall jvm210c on an Epi Les Paul with Pro Buckers, Eps Phoenix with a phat cat in the neck and a Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge (I really love this guitar btw, give it a look if you're searching for a new guitar), and an Esp Eclipse with Emgs. Song wise anything from Social Distortion, Motörhead, classic rock etc and on the Eclipse stuff like Parkway Drive and mostly down tuned kinda songs. So yeah, help a poor guy get into the overwhelming world of pedals.
It's great advice, and a helpful reminder, to really explore and become more familiar with effects. I need this from time to time, so glad you put this video up! I'm surprising myself with how little gain my RC Booster (SH) and my Timmy need, one or both, in order to give a good deal of satisfying overdrive tone into my tube head with low to moderate gain dialed up. Much to explore as the never-ending quest for tones continues 🙂
Another excellent job explaining the way the pedals can work with different setups. I always stumble around never quite being satisfied, now that sounds like my life, but you know what I mean. Don’t get me started with pedals and my basses!
Rhett, very very well done! I have been hoping someone would decode what do do with what kind of OD’s in different situations and you really helped me. Thanks
Rhett always has great tone, there's no doubt about that. I wonder though how one differentiates the pedals drive characteristics from the amps drive characteristics when you run a drive pedal into an amp that is already distorting. Any signal increase above what the guitar alone is outputting will push the amp even further into overdrive, making it tough to distinguish or isolate exactly what it is we're hearing. That's why I find it's always helpful to also hear an amp that is truly clean - clean with single coils, clean with humbuckers, turned up to proper levels with even more clean headroom to play with. Then you can get an idea of what the pedal is actually doing and go from there. Anyways just chiming in. Long time sub and love the videos Rhett thanks for all of these!
@@ImYourOverlord right. He even talks about running all the knobs from minimum to maximum so you can hear exactly what each parameter on the pedal is doing. A similar method could be applied to the amplifier before running drive pedals into it.
THIS is why I dislike most demos of overdrive pedals, because most reviewers do NOT set the power amp truly clean so we can hear what the pedal is doing. Instead we are treated to the breakup tone of their $5k amp and cabinet. Then when we get the pedal we wonder why we can't get it to sound like the review did. Rhett shows us his "clean" tone that is clearly already breaking up, and then hits the amp with a boosted level, so he is doing exactly what I detest. Sure, this is a nice way to use an OD pedal, but it covers up what the OD pedal is doing.
Great advice. Chase the tone in your head. Find your own thing. It seems most combinations of gear will have a sweet spot and then it's just whether you like it.
Bad Monkey thru a 'gig ready' Cyber Twin with 4 progressively heavier presets from Semi Clean, twd pre.. Had a Daddy O od and a wah, but with the little switch for effects and 4 switch set, i was set. Read so much about the Bad Monkey when it was new years ago, i didn't even demo it. $34.95. ha, it sat for weeks before i used it. Bored one Saturday, this thru the CT SC for a jam with ABB's Hootchie Cootchie Man. That was it. Back to pedals. I don't remember the last time i used the other presets i built, Monkey, BBII, DS-1, Dist +.
Imo this is the most versatile..most important component to tone and the interaction between your drives preamp and speaker Should be taken into consideration for When chasing that tone in your head..Also the interaction with other pedals in the chain is utmost important..imo..
I am using a Gigrig G3 setup with a Strat and an SG. Your video has given me some new ideas about setting up my presets for the guitar I am using. I started over from scratch using my distortion pedals setup differently in the presets and I am hearing better sounds. Thanks
I believe that everyone who is trying to have a nice tone always use much gain (in beginnig), because its nice to hear when you are playing alone, but in a mix the guitar just go away (as you said just add to many mud). We have just recorded the demo song of my Band and my guitar was sounding more open than the guitar of our vocalist. Listening again only the guitar tracks I found that he recorded with to much gain and instead of heavy it's strange and too mud in the mix. Thanks for your tips, they are great. Cheers from Brazil. 🤘🏽
Good stuff, as always! we agree on gain.. I have a Morning Glory into a Super Phat Mod both set to edge of breakup. I have a JHS Clover into my Quilter OD200 fx return to get some output saturation.
I appreciate your videos and agree with most of what you said here. You and others seem to get better results from a high headroom amp on edge of breakup than I do. I find I have to turn the volume down a bit , or the tone gets swampy.
I have an Analogman tube screamer and a Catalinbread BB Plus and I just don't seem to get a good sound. When I hear a overdrive on UA-cam it always sounds warm and great. Everything invariably sounds great on UA-cam
I did notice that I NEED to use my TS for my Tele( single coil)… but not so great on my LP style git( split coil humbuckers ).. I use a BigMuff sometimes…. but I’m still messing with the adjustments…
I like to use a cheap looper pedal whenever I’m twisting knobs and chasing tone. This way the process is continuous and doesn’t stop when I stop playing.
very instructive video, I really like this type of material from your channel. On the topic of the tube screamer hype, I think any piece of gear used by any very successful guitarist will become very very hyped.
Rhett, the blend control on the overdrive sounds very intriguing. How is adjusting the blend control different from adjusting the drive control? Is the difference significant? Thanks, I really enjoy your videos (and your playing, of course!).
Hi Ron, the difference is huge. Imagine having 2 cables from your guitar to 2 amps. one carries your clean guitar signal. You can hear the pick attack and the fullness of that clean signal. The other has the compressed distortion which is typically tighter and less full . You can blend between these two so you can still hear the details and pick attack and fullness of an uncompressed signal and also have the crunchy distortion kind of on top of. The blend adjusts how much of each you're hearing.
I have a 68 fender custom vibrolux reverb, 35 watts, it's all headroom and have tried many OD pedals. When I first hook up a pedal it works then quits, pedals are good, used them with other amps. Good clean amp otherwise.
I see that these Revival drives are meant to replace an amp right? Can you also use them as a pedal into an amp? Will they still sound their best using it to play into an amp? I wanted to get one but I always use an amp. So I am not sure about it.
Nice - good subject. I cannot find a distortion i like. I admittedly like clean mostly- ( miss my roland 120) but like you sometimes i want some color other than modulation. Ive got a danelctro pedal that has a switching range for adding difff distortion values. Im gonna give it another try and think about those attributes you mentioned
I like to run my over drive straight from the guitar into a metal zone (not in the effects loop) into a line 6 spyder 2 with everything dimed. Nothing sounds cleaner.
Thanks for the video. Would love to see a part 2 to this where you use it in the context of a mix or even live. In a lot of your videos you talk about the edge of break up tone and playing softly to keep it clean. To me it sounds like loght od. I would love to see how that’s executed live or on a track. I’ve struggled with that for so long because I like my “clean” amps but the edge of breakup accepts ods better it seems
You can set your amps to a edge of breakup and roll your guitar’s volume down to clean it, or if you use humbuckers coil splitting them. Hope it helps!
Ever run a drive pedal into your effects return? Takes the preamp tubes completely out of the equation. Works well with modeling pedals. I'm more of a set it and forget it type of player because I hate stomping pedals on and off. I run the gain how I want my leads and turn the volume on the guitar down to clean up my sound. I noticed you're always full on or full off on yours in this video. You're missing out on so many different sounds!
Enjoyed the video. I've been playing for 36 years and have always gravitated to Fender guitars and amps. I can't always play at volumes that allow me to get the gain I want out of the amp and have used various pedals to get the right sound. One of my favorite approaches is using a mildly driven amp in a box type pedal. Back in my gigging days I would put a fuzz face in front of it to give me extra hair and get some real distortion. I would love to hear your thoughts on what kind of fuzz pedal would pair nicely with a Joyo American Sound, which is based on a tech 21 blond. I haven't used a fuzz in a long time and don't know the newer models, but I've been itching for one.
I’ll be honest I’ve chased gear at a level more than necessary considering I’ve only been playing guitar for 5 months (bass and bass vi for 2 years and 1 year respectively beforehand tho) but I love dialing in my boss blues driver waza to have a maxed out gain knob and low level so that my guitar/amp sounds overdriven even though it’s at a quiet volume
I am torn between 3 od and find I prefer dual drives. Duellist ( maybe my fav), D&M and VS-XO which is currently on my board and will be tried out this Sat.
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Hey Rhett, I've been playing guitar for over 50yrs and learned a lot along the way. Often I watch your content and learn something new, other times I'm simply reminded of things I once learned but forgot. But always, I know that your content is golden. You're an outstanding communicator of the art.
What Gino said.
@@jstnxprsn they said they did
I'm in that metal camp of players that just love using a TS9 or similar as a boost on a high-gain amp. Usually the mids are cut slightly on the amp controls so the TS mid-hump is not as noticeable.
When I'm in a bluesy pentatonic mood,I'll use the ts9 as my overdrive!👍
I also find that the mid hump is not as extreme when you run the level/volume on a TS style circuit fairly high and run the tone knob above 12. It gets bright yes, but it helps clear the "nasal sound" up a bit.
I recently bought the Waza Craft Boss Metal zone pedal. And it's absolutely bloody amazing. It sounds so good. I instantly fell in love with it. I should have bought a metal zone a long time ago. But yeah I put my Robert Keeley tubescreamer before it and it is some of the best tone I've EVER gotten before in my 18 years of playing (the keeley tubescreamer is called the Red Dirt overdrive, but it's the exact same circuit as his old modded ibanez tubescreamers that he modded for people, and they were and still are considered to be the best version of a tubescreamer in the world, he just stopped modding pedals made by other companies, and started selling his modded versions of pedals as their own product these days, to avoid a lawsuit probably, but yeah my keeley red dirt pedal is my dream pedal, as a teen I always lusted after the idea of finally having enough money to buy a modded tubescreamer by Robert Keeley, but now I'm in my 30s and I finally own the keeley modded tubescreamer, it's just called the red dirt pedal now).
I've never owned a high gain tube metal amp before. One day I'll probably buy an all tube Marshall combo or something. But yeah it means I've never been able to properly try this thing of stacking the overdrive and distortion together, by having the amp with the gain distortion turned up, but then plug in a tubescreamer before it to give it a boost. But now I finally own a metal zone I can replicate that. Using a tubescreamer before the metal zone is just absolutely gorgeous. It's ridiculous how good it is. I didn't believe it would be so instantly delicious. But yeah, it's so creamy. It's creamy distortion. It's great for chugging. It's absolutely brilliant for solos. The sustain lasts indefinitely. I'm even getting tones out of this combination of the 2 pedals that I never found useful before. Like if I was doing power chords I'd always use the bridge pickup, I thought the neck humbucker just never sounded at all any good with that level of gain for power chords. But the keeley tubescreamer going into the boss wazacraft metal zone makes every pickup position so useful. It somehow has an incredible amount of clarity, getting that strat-like glassy quality to it even though I'm playing my new Epiphone muse SG into it. It makes power chords on the neck humbucker sound so so so good. It just sounds so dark and yet so sharp and full of clarity. It just sounds evil. It's absolutely perfect for metal.
And the Epiphone muse sg is a wonderful guitar, I loved it instantly when I was at the shop, I'd been looking at getting a metal guitar, a superstrat by ibanez or Jackson etc. Because I thought those are the guitars that are designed to make playing really fast much easier. But the Epiphone sg beat them all, it is just so incredibly easy to play. I spent like 7 years only playing an acoustic, my dad's old acoustic he bought in the 60s, and the neck in that is absolutely enormous, they don't make necks that thick these days. So I got used to it. And the Epiphone had a bigger neck, so maybe that's why it was so incredibly easy and smooth to play
But yeah the Epiphone Muse SG (and every other guitar in the Muse line) has coil splitting for both pickups, plus another push pull knob that reverses the polarity of one of the pickups, or something. I don't really understand it. But it makes you get that fender-like in between "quack" tone, in the middle position. Especially if you have both humbuckers coil split while doing the reverse polarity thing, because then it sounds exactly like the middle position on a telecaster does. This Epiphone muse sg is the most versatile guitar I own, now. But when I mentioned the glassy strat-like clarity quality of the neck humbucker with the keeley TS and the metal zone both on, I was talking about the neck humbucker as a humbucker, not coil split. If sounds even more like the neck pickup of a strat or tele when you coil split it. But yeah even if you just have humbuckers, you can still get this tone, with this combination of pedals
The wazacraft Metal Zone is just an absolutely wonderful pedal. It's so versatile too. You can get classic crunch overdrive with it if you put the gain at a low level. You can make it an overdrive itself. And still combine it with the tubescreamer at the same time, for a really great vintage tone, a lot of The Who on the album Who's Next, that classic Pete Townshend power chord tone.
Both positions on the Waza Craft metal zone sound great. It's got the original metal zone circuit, but then also has a new one that updates it and makes it sound even better and fixes the problems people had with the original metal zone. But both positions can sound really great, you just have to know how to eq the pedal properly, which isn't difficult. But I definitely do play more on the new version of the metal zone that only comes with the Waza Craft version, not the original bog standard metal zone
I only even bought the metal zone because I've been looking everywhere for a boss ds1. And they're nowhere to be found. Here in the UK, literally no online or physical guitar shop has even a single boss DS1. No exaggeration. They don't exist in the UK for now. Hopefully boss will send a few storage containers worth of DS1s so I can finally buy one. But I bought the metal zone Waza Craft as a stop gap, cos I always meant to buy a metal zone too anyway. I've put off buying a boss ds1 for 15+ years and when I finally try to buy one they're sold out everywhere.
But boss should definitely do a Waza Craft DS1. For sure. Essentially mod it so it has the keeley DS1 mod on it or the AnalogMan DS1 mod. Along with the original DS1 circuit of course. It's still their best selling pedal. People would absolutely eat it up, a Waza Craft ds1. Even people who already have DS1s would buy a wazacraft version too
If you are trying to get the tone you want and have a lower wattage amp, I’d recommend getting a Boss GE7. You can dial in the EQ how you want it, then push the level to hit the front end of your amp to distort it.
Yes, the GE-7 is a huge blessing in the chain of effects! Super versatile. It's a Swiss Army pedal 😉
@@ImYourOverlord yeah I bought one and it just opened up my Ac15 and made it sound incredible
My GE7 always introduced a hiss as soon as any band was moved off "0". Anyone else have this problem?
@@koda1960 yeah, it’s common to have that happen. I know they make a mod to where it gets rid of the hiss if you want to get it installed, but I don’t think you really need to if all you do is play live shows because other equipment is already hissing to begin with.
@@koda1960 Get the XTS Midrange Graphic Modded GE-7 if you can. It’s a modded Boss pedal that fixes the noise problem and really hones in on more guitar-specific frequencies.
your clean is overdriven
Man there is nothing like a Les Paul through a Plexi, especially that low E chord. I got shivers!
"Edge of Breakup" featuring Boomer Bends. Next band name/frontman. :)
We could get our tour sponsored by AARP
@@RhettShull and feel GOOD about it!
@@RhettShull Paging Mr Beato. Mr. Beato….
“Boomer and the bends” … and it’s only eagles and early Radiohead covers.
@@adamlazzara5372 eagles and Skynyrd
Looove the blessed mother. It’s a phenomenal pedal and has been glued on my pedalboard ever since I got it. That and the ODR-1 are the only two ODs I use now
Rhett, as always, spot on. My Blessed Mother stays on all the time. It's part of my "bucket brigade" approach to whatever preamp design I happen to be playing thru. Nice character and good flexibility. The general voicing of the eq section suits my blues/funk/rock fusion material really well.
The Orange OR15 is my gain sound. The TC Spark mini is my boost / overdrive. I’m good on gain pedals.
The Spark is a great boost. I have the full-sized one. The mini wasn't out yet when I bought mine.
For me the revivaldrive compact and the revivaldrive hotrod custom does everything i want and needed. Sold Every drive and distortion. Love them
Same. It IS my amp in an FRFR setup with a torpedo as my speaker and power amp emulation and IR’s from Celestion. Sounds amazing and no traditional amp needed.
Great video man! Another easy way to dial out the flub in a gainy amp without adding more saturation is an EQ pedal, like the Boss GE-7 or the MXR 6-band
This! And much cheaper than a $400 double overdrive pedal
I really like my Fulltone Full drive 2 . It has 3 settings a compressor , TS , Mossfet circuit over drive. And a separate boost channel with its own level control. I run thru a late 80’s Carvin X100B . For live shows I keep the clean amp channel Crystal clear , and add the TS for that slightly overdriven duo tone for blues , and such. And I use the 2nd amp channel on its first gain setting (heavy gain but not rip your head off ). For classic rock. And when I need SUPER sustain , I just hit the full drive ,and the lead boost. And hold a note 4-8 bars or longer. (Like for Santana’s Europa ) . This is my ONLY pedal besides an original Wah , and a Morley power wah.
Another great video packed full of good info. 🤙
Hey Rhett, another solid treatment of a "vast and complex" topic! I play a hybrid Godin with humbucker and preamped piezos and mostly do solo shows. I have gotten deep into parallel mixing/processing, focusing the two signal paths on their strengths.
The piezos have an IMMEDIATE attack that disintegrates with anything but clean gain, so I rely heavily on compression to produce the desired sustain and accentuate the percussiveness of my fingerstyle attack. Beyond that, the effects are minimal; switchable clean delay, boost and reverb.
The humbucker path is my sonic playground, with EQ, filters, multiple modulations, delays, and only recently have I started adding overdrives; all of that feeds an Iridium set to the round/clean amp. Your video has me now considering a light to mid style OD, as other styles often do not blend in well with the ultraclean piezo path. The attack seems much tighter with the lighter gain ODs. Likewise, your suggestion of rolling off the lows seems like where I need to go. Any specific pedal recommendations to start with? Thanks again!
I can't even tell you how many floor toys I stomped through as a young teenager and then just tossed them in a box. I sure wish I had those classic toys now that I know how to fix them. Thanks for the lesson Rhett.
As a noob, this video helped me to finally begin to understand how to use my few OD pedals …I think … your talk thru made sense to me … thank you
Using way too much gain is almost a right of passage. Unfortunately too many players I’ve come across never dial down the gain to let some of each guitar’s native tone come through and every song sounds muddy. Why don’t ALL pedals have a blend control? In my perfect world they would. Thanks for making this point!
Totally agree on this one! And as an example, this is the reason why I love the Gladio SC. That clean blend really does wonders
Cool Video! I've always found that when it comes to tightening the low-end, Tube Screamers work better with Fender/6L6-type amps with single coils and the SD-1 works better with Marshall/EL34-type amps with humbuckers. Symmetrical vs. asymmetrical clipping.
I love the TK Imperial. Great amp
I've been picking up a lot if fuzz and overdrive pedals. The Blessed Mother is pretty sweet.
Developing the discipline to sit down with each of the pedals and see what they do, and where they come to life.
I pretty much keep the Blue Sky and Iridium in the chain, and just swap out the fuzz pedals... keeps me entertained.
Appreciate the insights and knowledge.
Thanks, Rhett 🙏
Thanks for the tips Rhett. I was mucking around the other day and found that running the Bluesbreaker part of my Keeley DDR after my Big Muff Op-Amp into my Blues Jnr really helped shape and smooth the tone of the Big Muff.
Rhett's been feeding my OD and fuzz addiction going on 2 years now. Next shirt: OD Dealer - one hit will take you past the edge of breakup. That one's on me. No royalties needed.
EHX Hot Wax is a dual overdrive that I think people don't pay much attention and it is very good!!
I agree that the TS circuit works best with single coils, and for 30 years, in spite of having vintage Gibson's with Buckers, I was a Strat only kinda player. But in the last 10 years, I've started playing guitars with humbuckers a lot more often, so chasing sound got more interesting again. I love the Wampler Tumnus with every humbucker I've tried it with: T-tops, various Seymour Duncan buckers, R490/R498, off names...
But dialing in reverb with overdrive... Rhett, I'd love to hear your take on that subject.
There are few humans on the planet that get as happy as you do when you find the sound you are looking for and are just taking a minute to enjoy it!!! This is my guitar happy fix for the day!!!
great video Rhett! killed it yet again!
Great video, I am 100% aligned with this approach , I used to put a lot of gain of my pedals now I am moving in this direction and I will fine tuning using some tips and tricks here, hugs from Brazil and thanks a lot
I really appreciate this kind of content. It helps me chase that sound in my head
I use my Origin 20C with it cranked using an attenuator. Adding an SD-1 as a CLEAN boost, I have that 70s rock sound I adore. In short, most of my tone comes from the cranked tubes 🌟
I remember you and Josh from JHS going through a pile of OD pedals and the one that struck me was the Reverend, most OD I have used were good on single coil or humbuckers.The Rev seemed to do either. Luv the channel 🎵.
I’d love for you to do a video on the ERAS distortion by walrus audio, it has a killer blend knob and other EQ’s 😎
I have the nobels odr mini that I bought used for 50$ and a Boss super overdrive also like 50$ and really they were great on their own. Now I'm stacking them with low drive on both with the super overdrive first ( I might switch them around) and just having fun with them looking for new tones. Looking into the Westwood by earthquaker as I saw a used one at my local shop.
Sd1 into nobles is the jam!!!
Although I started this video hoping to learn something new about overdrive pedals, I was mostly inspired to break out my Les Paul and jam. Either way watching this video was a win for me. Thanks man.
Excellent video Rhett- very useful and enjoyable for us guitarists!
Great video. Another great overdrive with clean blend is the T-Rex Möller 2
God Bless that immaculated guitar tone🙏
Those "same riff" videos are gold.
I wish you could give some tips for completely clean amps like the Roland jazz chorus lineup.
Really glad that I found your channel. I see a lot of gear heads around here so maybe some of you got an recommendation for me. So I am basically playing without pedals ever (only a big Muff some times when riffing some stoner rock) but I am searching for maybe on thing that kinda fits all, some sort of all around decent overdrive for my rig. I play on a Marshall jvm210c on an Epi Les Paul with Pro Buckers, Eps Phoenix with a phat cat in the neck and a Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge (I really love this guitar btw, give it a look if you're searching for a new guitar), and an Esp Eclipse with Emgs. Song wise anything from Social Distortion, Motörhead, classic rock etc and on the Eclipse stuff like Parkway Drive and mostly down tuned kinda songs. So yeah, help a poor guy get into the overwhelming world of pedals.
Good video as always. Amp-in-a-box vs. Overdrive/boosts is quite an important distinction.
It's great advice, and a helpful reminder, to really explore and become more familiar with effects. I need this from time to time, so glad you put this video up! I'm surprising myself with how little gain my RC Booster (SH) and my Timmy need, one or both, in order to give a good deal of satisfying overdrive tone into my tube head with low to moderate gain dialed up. Much to explore as the never-ending quest for tones continues 🙂
Now that's sounding better with that Tele and the pedal
Another excellent job explaining the way the pedals can work with different setups. I always stumble around never quite being satisfied, now that sounds like my life, but you know what I mean. Don’t get me started with pedals and my basses!
That Tone King Imperial sounds soooo good.
Yes! The TB Drive makes an appearance on the channel 🙂
Rhett, very very well done! I have been hoping someone would decode what do do with what kind of OD’s in different situations and you really helped me. Thanks
Hey Rhett, I noticed you haven't made a video about what makes a good pedal platform amp. Any plans for such a video? Thanks
Rhett always has great tone, there's no doubt about that. I wonder though how one differentiates the pedals drive characteristics from the amps drive characteristics when you run a drive pedal into an amp that is already distorting. Any signal increase above what the guitar alone is outputting will push the amp even further into overdrive, making it tough to distinguish or isolate exactly what it is we're hearing. That's why I find it's always helpful to also hear an amp that is truly clean - clean with single coils, clean with humbuckers, turned up to proper levels with even more clean headroom to play with. Then you can get an idea of what the pedal is actually doing and go from there. Anyways just chiming in. Long time sub and love the videos Rhett thanks for all of these!
Ears. It takes a while to notice the differences and remember which is which.
@@ImYourOverlord right. He even talks about running all the knobs from minimum to maximum so you can hear exactly what each parameter on the pedal is doing. A similar method could be applied to the amplifier before running drive pedals into it.
THIS is why I dislike most demos of overdrive pedals, because most reviewers do NOT set the power amp truly clean so we can hear what the pedal is doing. Instead we are treated to the breakup tone of their $5k amp and cabinet. Then when we get the pedal we wonder why we can't get it to sound like the review did. Rhett shows us his "clean" tone that is clearly already breaking up, and then hits the amp with a boosted level, so he is doing exactly what I detest. Sure, this is a nice way to use an OD pedal, but it covers up what the OD pedal is doing.
Great advice. Chase the tone in your head. Find your own thing.
It seems most combinations of gear will have a sweet spot and then it's just whether you like it.
Bad Monkey thru a 'gig ready' Cyber Twin with 4 progressively heavier presets from Semi Clean, twd pre.. Had a Daddy O od and a wah, but with the little switch for effects and 4 switch set, i was set.
Read so much about the Bad Monkey when it was new years ago, i didn't even demo it. $34.95. ha, it sat for weeks before i used it.
Bored one Saturday, this thru the CT SC for a jam with ABB's Hootchie Cootchie Man.
That was it. Back to pedals. I don't remember the last time i used the other presets i built, Monkey, BBII, DS-1, Dist +.
Always a GREAT Show.. thanks for your impressive knowledge
Imo this is the most versatile..most important component to tone and the interaction between your drives preamp and speaker Should be taken into consideration for When chasing that tone in your head..Also the interaction with other pedals in the chain is utmost important..imo..
Thats a pretty clean yer dinamic tone. Keep rocking Rhett.
I am using a Gigrig G3 setup with a Strat and an SG. Your video has given me some new ideas about setting up my presets for the guitar I am using. I started over from scratch using my distortion pedals setup differently in the presets and I am hearing better sounds. Thanks
7:25 GLORIOUS!
I believe that everyone who is trying to have a nice tone always use much gain (in beginnig), because its nice to hear when you are playing alone, but in a mix the guitar just go away (as you said just add to many mud). We have just recorded the demo song of my Band and my guitar was sounding more open than the guitar of our vocalist. Listening again only the guitar tracks I found that he recorded with to much gain and instead of heavy it's strange and too mud in the mix. Thanks for your tips, they are great. Cheers from Brazil. 🤘🏽
Good stuff, as always! we agree on gain.. I have a Morning Glory into a Super Phat Mod both set to edge of breakup. I have a JHS Clover into my Quilter OD200 fx return to get some output saturation.
I appreciate your videos and agree with most of what you said here. You and others seem to get better results from a high headroom amp on edge of breakup than I do. I find I have to turn the volume down a bit , or the tone gets swampy.
I have an Analogman tube screamer and a Catalinbread BB Plus and I just don't seem to get a good sound. When I hear a overdrive on UA-cam it always sounds warm and great. Everything invariably sounds great on UA-cam
GREAT video we all need to tweek ,this is how to do it.
I did notice that I NEED to use my TS for my Tele( single coil)… but not so great on my LP style git( split coil humbuckers )..
I use a BigMuff sometimes…. but I’m still messing with the adjustments…
Nailed it, what I call the amps sweet spot.
I like to use a cheap looper pedal whenever I’m twisting knobs and chasing tone. This way the process is continuous and doesn’t stop when I stop playing.
I do the same thing. It lets you dial and listen at the same time. Your attention is listening rather than playing.
very instructive video, I really like this type of material from your channel.
On the topic of the tube screamer hype, I think any piece of gear used by any very successful guitarist will become very very hyped.
The part about “hearing” the guitar is what I thought would be important; it sometimes is hard to unlock it .
Great video . Fifty years of guitar playing
Rhett would you ever do a video on underground/smaller pedal brands ?
Great video, Rhett!
Rhett, the blend control on the overdrive sounds very intriguing. How is adjusting the blend control different from adjusting the drive control? Is the difference significant? Thanks, I really enjoy your videos (and your playing, of course!).
Hi Ron, the difference is huge. Imagine having 2 cables from your guitar to 2 amps. one carries your clean guitar signal. You can hear the pick attack and the fullness of that clean signal. The other has the compressed distortion which is typically tighter and less full . You can blend between these two so you can still hear the details and pick attack and fullness of an uncompressed signal and also have the crunchy distortion kind of on top of. The blend adjusts how much of each you're hearing.
I like that you are discussing why too much gain can be a bad thing. Great content as always !
I have a 68 fender custom vibrolux reverb, 35 watts, it's all headroom and have tried many OD pedals. When I first hook up a pedal it works then quits, pedals are good, used them with other amps. Good clean amp otherwise.
I have the protein, but I think my amp (Fender Tonemaster) is way to clean to make it useable. I’m really digging that Revival drive!
Surely you can crank it and then down the volume at the back?
@@OscarRichardson - I can, but it sounds like shyte.
That "Blessed Mother" pedal w/ Immaculator setting seems so blasphemous. I can't believe it even exists, but sounds great!
Nobels ODR-1.
I’ve not really found a tone I dislike on this pedal. Thing just sounds great.
Great stuff! And great tones!
Great video...what is the name for device that allows you to record rytham and solo over it?
I remember when you bought that ac30. But haven't seen it yet in your demos
I'm a bass player by profession but I still love your videos. Big fan. Would love to work with you some day 🙂
Same
I use it to help my guitarists 🤣
I see that these Revival drives are meant to replace an amp right? Can you also use them as a pedal into an amp? Will they still sound their best using it to play into an amp? I wanted to get one but I always use an amp. So I am not sure about it.
Cool now do a vid for people with solid state amps and affordable pedals.
Now this was a masterclass , thanks
Nice - good subject. I cannot find a distortion i like. I admittedly like clean mostly- ( miss my roland 120) but like you sometimes i want some color other than modulation. Ive got a danelctro pedal that has a switching range for adding difff distortion values. Im gonna give it another try and think about those attributes you mentioned
You mentioned at the end to follow link in description for 35% off tone course. I'm not seeing any discount applied though.
I like to run my over drive straight from the guitar into a metal zone (not in the effects loop) into a line 6 spyder 2 with everything dimed. Nothing sounds cleaner.
would sound even better if you ran a ring modulator before and after the metalzone
Transparent overdrive it's my fav type. Gives 120% tone of you amp =)
I absolutely love this channel, so much tonal knowledge 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Very helpful!
Thanks for the video. Would love to see a part 2 to this where you use it in the context of a mix or even live. In a lot of your videos you talk about the edge of break up tone and playing softly to keep it clean. To me it sounds like loght od. I would love to see how that’s executed live or on a track. I’ve struggled with that for so long because I like my “clean” amps but the edge of breakup accepts ods better it seems
You can set your amps to a edge of breakup and roll your guitar’s volume down to clean it, or if you use humbuckers coil splitting them.
Hope it helps!
I like Rhett’s “tied one on last night” look ;)
This is so helpful. Thank you
Rhett, really enjoy your videos. I'm curious about your desk with the keyboard slide out shelf. Do you have a link to that desk?
This geezer rookie had no idea that there was such a universe of overdrives. The playground just got bigger!
I had no idea, Noah Guthrie new album came out; your playing is amazing on it.
Sick R2D2 coffee mug!
Need to do one on the Colourbox as a pre-amp.
Ever run a drive pedal into your effects return? Takes the preamp tubes completely out of the equation. Works well with modeling pedals. I'm more of a set it and forget it type of player because I hate stomping pedals on and off. I run the gain how I want my leads and turn the volume on the guitar down to clean up my sound. I noticed you're always full on or full off on yours in this video. You're missing out on so many different sounds!
Enjoyed the video. I've been playing for 36 years and have always gravitated to Fender guitars and amps. I can't always play at volumes that allow me to get the gain I want out of the amp and have used various pedals to get the right sound. One of my favorite approaches is using a mildly driven amp in a box type pedal. Back in my gigging days I would put a fuzz face in front of it to give me extra hair and get some real distortion. I would love to hear your thoughts on what kind of fuzz pedal would pair nicely with a Joyo American Sound, which is based on a tech 21 blond. I haven't used a fuzz in a long time and don't know the newer models, but I've been itching for one.
I’ll be honest I’ve chased gear at a level more than necessary considering I’ve only been playing guitar for 5 months (bass and bass vi for 2 years and 1 year respectively beforehand tho) but I love dialing in my boss blues driver waza to have a maxed out gain knob and low level so that my guitar/amp sounds overdriven even though it’s at a quiet volume
I am torn between 3 od and find I prefer dual drives. Duellist ( maybe my fav), D&M and VS-XO which is currently on my board and will be tried out this Sat.
The vs-xo is one of my favorite pedals. Don't think I'll ever sell mine.
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Very good information - thanks!