I run a Silk Drive on "Preamp" through my fx loop because my amp's pre is cutting in and out. Bad solder or something, IDK it's an old amp and I'll figure it out when I have time. I suggest everyone get a pre that you can plug into an fx loop in a pinch, same thing happened with my Bass amp's pre while playing out. I just plugged a SansAmp BDDI into the bass amp's FX loop and it actually slapped harder. Anyways I digress. I am super happy with the Silk Drive. The tone, responsiveness, and variation of tone you can get w/ the knobs is all 10/10. There's oodles of headroom too. If you want to go Dick Dale on it, just stay under noon and it will stay clean no matter how hard you pick. I personally like it around 3 o'clock, which breaks up when you go hard but stays pristine when you pick softly. It also takes my MXR Fullbore metal and TC Nova Drive pedals well so you can rock out just fine. Just remember you're bypassing your amp's reverb channel as well if you go guitar->pedal->FX loop, so make sure to put a nice spring reverb pedal between your dirt and the FX loop. I thought my tone was weak until I realized this, even if you "don't use reverb" that tiny bit that you don't even notice creates the tone that you're used to. I'm considering getting the Copperhead Drive but I wish it had more clean headroom. It seems like Copperhead clips even with the gain knob all the way down, while the Silk Drive is clean up until around 1-2 o'clock. Am I the only one who likes the clean Marshall sound?
My lead is running the new solar pedal and I'm rythem using an MXR super badass and I'm caught between the copperhead drive or the cutting edge to pair with the MXR
Korg owns the Vox brand, and Korg has the same little display on their Prologue, Minilogue and Monologue synthesizers. The point of the display is the same for all: to have a cool visual cue on the panel.
When fed with a low-noise guitar signal and clean, isolated power, does the Copperhead pedal retain a quiet hiss/hum background noise-floor when the Gain knob is maxed?
Considering getting the Silk Drive. I absolutely hate the oscilloscope display though. So gimmicky in my opinion, but thinking about getting one to add a tube character to my JC40. I have a tube amp (Egnater Tweaker 40 Combo) but i prefer my JC40. I LOVE playing clean and the JC40 is the nicest clean tone i personally have ever heard and absolutely love it, but it would be nice to add some edge of breakup tones to its disposal instead of using an ABY switcher to switch to my Egnater for that type of tone.
Wait a minute, you did a gain check on every one of those EXCEPT the one every one is gonna want to hear the gain check on which is the Cutting Edge, not sure why you did that, major fail IMO.
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Wow. The timbres are really cool, the sounds are well incorporated and robust.
not as good as a real tube pedal that Vox made
@@phenixreturns ok
@@phenixreturns huh?
@@phenixreturns which pedal models do You mean?
12:44 it's distorted even before turning on the pedal when going into the Fx loop? It did sound good though
i really like the silk drive. there is an almost acoustic-like jangliness to it. the other pedals sound great, too.
I run a Silk Drive on "Preamp" through my fx loop because my amp's pre is cutting in and out. Bad solder or something, IDK it's an old amp and I'll figure it out when I have time. I suggest everyone get a pre that you can plug into an fx loop in a pinch, same thing happened with my Bass amp's pre while playing out. I just plugged a SansAmp BDDI into the bass amp's FX loop and it actually slapped harder.
Anyways I digress. I am super happy with the Silk Drive. The tone, responsiveness, and variation of tone you can get w/ the knobs is all 10/10. There's oodles of headroom too. If you want to go Dick Dale on it, just stay under noon and it will stay clean no matter how hard you pick. I personally like it around 3 o'clock, which breaks up when you go hard but stays pristine when you pick softly. It also takes my MXR Fullbore metal and TC Nova Drive pedals well so you can rock out just fine. Just remember you're bypassing your amp's reverb channel as well if you go guitar->pedal->FX loop, so make sure to put a nice spring reverb pedal between your dirt and the FX loop. I thought my tone was weak until I realized this, even if you "don't use reverb" that tiny bit that you don't even notice creates the tone that you're used to.
I'm considering getting the Copperhead Drive but I wish it had more clean headroom. It seems like Copperhead clips even with the gain knob all the way down, while the Silk Drive is clean up until around 1-2 o'clock. Am I the only one who likes the clean Marshall sound?
if you like clean Marshall sound, check out Joyo JaCkMan II. It's a small two channel hybrid amp head mimicking JCM, but can be used as a preamp.
Will these work for Bass??
My lead is running the new solar pedal and I'm rythem using an MXR super badass and I'm caught between the copperhead drive or the cutting edge to pair with the MXR
i like the sound and look.... but what's the point of the waveform display?
It can be turned off it’s just a look thing
cuz it looks cool 😎
@@anthonysclafani3963 looks a bit gimmicky to me
No one. Not even shoegazers. Are going to look at that tiny screen.
Korg owns the Vox brand, and Korg has the same little display on their Prologue, Minilogue and Monologue synthesizers. The point of the display is the same for all: to have a cool visual cue on the panel.
When fed with a low-noise guitar signal and clean, isolated power, does the Copperhead pedal retain a quiet hiss/hum background noise-floor when the Gain knob is maxed?
Almost every high gain pedal will have background noise/hum if the gain is all the way up.
Masterful demo! Thanks.
hello... the mystic edge is only used with single coil guitars?
Good but why no lead playing or humbuckers (on Mystic)?
Considering getting the Silk Drive. I absolutely hate the oscilloscope display though. So gimmicky in my opinion, but thinking about getting one to add a tube character to my JC40. I have a tube amp (Egnater Tweaker 40 Combo) but i prefer my JC40. I LOVE playing clean and the JC40 is the nicest clean tone i personally have ever heard and absolutely love it, but it would be nice to add some edge of breakup tones to its disposal instead of using an ABY switcher to switch to my Egnater for that type of tone.
you can disable the oscilloscope display it's not your thing. instructions are in the manual for how to turn it off.
Great help, thank you.
Nice what is that song?
Vox should make a fuzz type pedal from this!
not as good as a real tube pedal that Vox made
@@phenixreturns ok
Nice Tone, but the screen is for ?
Try not to complain about the display challenge (Impossible)
Wait a minute, you did a gain check on every one of those EXCEPT the one every one is gonna want to hear the gain check on which is the Cutting Edge, not sure why you did that, major fail IMO.
not as good as a real tube pedal that Vox made
I have a cutting edge and the gain is good.
@@phenixreturns It is a real tube. It is a vacuum sealed triode that is basically a miniature lower power tube.
on vs off... first
I like the look but it sounds plastic
not as good as a real tube pedal
ok
Yes they are. About as good as a real tube amp
It is a tube and IMO sounds pretty good.
it sounds very bad vs the cooltron series