I did this last week! I volunteer at the Big Brothers Bog Sisters for foster children. My thing is to teach the young boys and girls guitar. If they take to it and show genuine interest, I will give them a guitar and amp (you can get both for under $100) and a small pedal board with Behringer pedals. They cut the board, lay down the Velcro and the feet. Then I get them an overdrive/fuzz/distortion, delay, reverb and a chorus/phaser/flanger type modulation. It all depends on what is available. The local guitar shop sells them to me at their cost as part of their contribution. I let them experiment with the pedal order, so they learn what does what to each in the signal chain. I have this young boy right now who's dad was killed in Iraq and his mother died of a drug OD. He is 11 years old and has had a real shitty start to his life. He has found his savior with the guitar. I am so happy for him and we jam as much as I can get there. There is real healing with the gift of music. Sorry I went all sappy. I am so happy for him. Now, what were we talking about?...
Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd That is a truly amazing cause, cheers mate! Much love for people like you who help kids in need, especially with the gift of music.
lol i was cringing the whole time it showed him sawing and it when it switched clips before he got down to his thumb i was seriously expecting his thumb to b wrapped up in the nxt clip
I think multi fx would instantly win by default. Simply because of variety and well, having multiple effects rather than 4-5 pedals lol plus for 200 quid you can get some amazing quality multi fx pedals.
lee tore it up competition wise. I think if youre putting a cheap board together you are probably starting out pedal wise and will want some very practical useful pedals.
No disrespect intended , but Lee probably could have done credibly plugging straight into the Bluesbreaker , and using the factory reverb , and multiple gain stages .
That was a fun video and got me looking at a couple of those pedals. How about a pickup swap challenge? You both start with a shaffordable guitar and you buy pickups to replace the stock ones. Total budget maybe £350, which should be enough to buy a guitar and two pickups, and also gives you enough leeway (ha!) to choose between a very cheap guitar and expensive pickups, or a slightly dearer guitar and mid-priced pickups.
...and it would be good if you also got one or two of the other guys to join in (like Danish Pete), as they will have different playing styles and might choose different pickups.
also, do some blind tests as well (pre and post mod sound clips, played with the guitar largely out of the shot, to hide any obvious visual difference in the pickups), to see if the viewer can actually pick out the difference. This is the one mod that most think will make the biggest difference, so lets either confirm or dispel that myth!
A few months after watching this, I got some of my first pedals. three Tone City pedals and a Mooer looper. Having seen this video, I taped together two halves of a clipboard and blu-tacked them in place. hasn't let me down. Another win for the dream team.
Year old comment, but I can confirm as I am stupid enough. I've got over £1000 just on a reverb, delay and tremelo (Empress, Strymon Timeline, Chase Bliss Gravitas) - sounds baller though!
The Captain really does yeoman's work here. Its incredible to see how passionate he is to see that people at any price point are able to be informed and great tones. Stuff like this is really important to new players.
The captain for the win in my book. I love weird and inspiring pedals, but those ehx pedals were nails on a chalkboard. I'd have spent all my money on a zvex fuzz factory and have all the crazy sounds you could want.
I will tell you guys, I could watch these all day! You guys are so good! I have been playing acoustic guitar for over 25 years and never wanted to go electric until a few months ago..I have really enjoyed these videos.. I have learned so much about the whole electric guitar side of things with these videos.I'm from the US, (the south) and I just love the accents and the slang you guys use. SO interesting. These type videos are so good because you guys talk it out and as you do we learn. Thanks so much! Curtis
the SINGLE BRAND TOURNAMENT: get a few pedalboards made of a single brand of pedals each (all boss, all mxr, all ibanez, etc.), and compare them in twos, deciding which one is more useable each time, until one is declared winner of all! I bet it'll be Electro Harmonix, they seem to have the broadest range.
Rob, the reason why the Octavix does the "semi-fuzz" effect at lower volumes has to do with how it achieves the octave up. Most likely, it uses diodes to rectify the signal to create the effect. How it works is: diodes only let signals pass through them in one direction, and "block" it in the opposite direction. But, in order to let it pass the signal, it needs a bit of voltage (0.6v for silicon, 0.3v for germanium) and only after that it properly conducts the signal. That's the "low volume fuzz" part, because you're not feeding enough signal for the diodes to pass the signal, but since they're not perfect materials, they let a bit "leak" through them, very faintly. Now, for the octave-up! When a sine wave (let's say it looks like "un") passes through the diode, it only lets half of it pass (let's say it's the "n" part), creating a signal that looks like half-silence and half-bump (kinda like "_n"). That's what we call half-wave rectification. Now, if you have two diodes, each recieving the same signal BUT with inverted phases from each other (so one will be "un" and the other "nu"), they will each create a bump (let's say they're "_n" and "n_"), that when put together, will create two consecutive bumps (kinda like "nn"), with twice the frequency of the original signal, aka the first harmonic or an octave up! That's what we call full-wave rectification, since you have both halves of the signal going out, instead of "losing" half of it. So yeah, I know that's a lot to take in for a person who doesn't have any concepts of electronics, but I hope you kinda get how it basically works now. Cheers Chappy!
I love these kind of videos, where the guys are prowling around Anderton's looking for gear in some kind of a budget challenge. I also especially enjoyed the Christmas blindfold challenge.
+Bill Rowse no I don't. If it's a more general video idea (not a question) it leaves room for Chappers to adapt it. For example, Marshall style pedals vs the amps they emulate. That's a way the idea could be adapted.
Y'know, Rob wouldn't have had to guess the pedal prices at the beginning of the video if you displayed them on the items. Does every customer have to bother the shop assistants to ask, "How much is this one?" and a minute later, "What about this other one?"
I feel like having half the stuff on the amp already made this pointless... how about a £300 challenge where you can only use the clean channel on the amp, and the pedal board has to do everything?
6 band eq, delay, distortion. Eq works as a boost, works as a rounder, works as a fuzz. Delay for echo, reverb like effect. Distortion to push you over the cliff when you need a 2nd boost or color.
Occasionally , but you have to search hard for one . Unless you place of work has a steady variety to pick from , spending $10 USD at local lumber store vs time , effort, and gas money searching for the perfect free scrap .
MyBoard: Korg pitchblack (100 $CAD) Joyo Digital delay (used, 35 $CAD) EHX LPB-1 (±90$ IIRC) Previously through a Randall RT503 half stack Now through a Traynor YSC90 combo I'll never need any more than that :) And Rob, your French is pretty good!
+John Smith can do tons of stuff with a decent eq pedal. Make it a clean Boost pedal or gainy boost, a cut pedal to clean up a dirty amp, TS drive pedal emulator with a mid hump, heavy metal sound taking out all the mids, making your guitar have unique sounds when you only keep the bass frequencies, etc.
***** An EQ can shape your amp in ways you could never imagine. I always run my mxr 2/3 octave Rackmountable EQ when i get the chance.Great for live performances because I can EQ to fit the area im in. Also, If theres an amp that you love, but there's that one "Thing" you dont quite like about the sound, you can dip out the frequency that sounds displeasing to you. An EQ is MUCH more powerful that anyone realizes.
Vlad Z just for the sake of this video saying you had 200 pouds (not U.S.D.) its actually something that you could go above and beyond with. I can make almost any of my amps sound near each other characteristically with my eq.
Lol, I just saw Rob twist his headstock tuner on a locking nut. Quickly corrected, but to see such an amazing musician do that gives a complete amateur such as myself such confidence.
the point in having a pedal board is having the ability to change your sound at stomp of a button. sure you can get a large variety of sounds from your amp/guitar but a pedal board is something completely different
King Exactly. Manipulating the controls on your guitar is great, but you're only getting different shades of the same colour. Pedals allow for more colours.
As you can see at 16:17, Lee is actually relicing his pedal board. It can be hard to differentiate this Custom Shop feature from a regular wooden board, but the splinters in your fingers is usually a good giveaway
I used to use a wooden pedalboard and I had absolutely no problems with it, other than my daisy chain sapping power when I'd use my distortion pedal. For those of you who are interested in looking at pedalboards that are way cheaper than pedaltrain and all the mainstream brands, look at the Behringer PB1000 and PB600, they're incredibly low priced and they have a built in isolated noiseless power supply that doesn't sap power like a daisy chain will!
Nice to see I'm not the only one. Got a bit of wood, painted it black and put that stick on velcro on the board and the other part of the velcro on the pedals and power supply. Sorted.
I stopped smoking recently and needed to take up a new hobby / pastime that would occupy my hands and attention enough to take my mind of the dreaded weed, So a charity shop trip for a guitar and a few bits off amazon just in case I didn't enjoy it,so i wouldn't have spent a fortune. What package would you put together for a new comer to the elecric guitar ? Because i love it I really like the les gibson style and that sound, an amp ? board ? peddals ? other stuff i've never heard of. My budget would be what ever it needs to be as I would just save up, but I could probably get a decent sports bike for it ( £2500) I don't want to waste my money, i want as much value as i can get and I don't mind second hand if it works ok. you could put together 3 options as a challenge - all new , all second hand, a mixture of both
Gary Billington I should start with the basics things you need. Just a guitar, I like a stratocaster model, and an amp. Do you know the jimi hendrix meme? "You don't need more pedals, you need more practice"
depends on your preferences and so on but start off with a solid guitar like a mexican strat/tele or maybe a gibson in the 700 dollar range, then get an amp preferably a tube amp like a fender blues jr or Vox AC15 there not massive but there great for practicing and small gigs, for pedals go for an overdrive(Boss bluesdriver), or a distortion(boss ds1) or a fuzz(big muff) depending on your taste, Id say overdrive is most versitile though, thats really all you need to get a solid rig to start with but then you can add a delay (boss analog delay) and maybe a looper pedal so you can record rythm tracks to solo over(tc electronics dito) Strat 600 $ Blues jr ~600 $ Blues driver ~80$ delay ~120 $ Dito ~60$ Sum total 1460 dollars
Thanks for that mate nice one, i bought an epiphone studio and i got a line 6 amp with the bells and whistles off a guy on gumtree for 800 quid, really pleased and yes my fingertips are bolloxed, dont know how you guys play the way you do, even more respect for you now
Honestly I’ve never had much of a problem daisy chaining rigs with a one spot power supply... that doesn’t mean it’s good, but when I was first starting out there was no reason for an extremely costly power supply, and a daisy chain worked just fine. So for all of you starting your pedal journey, a daisy chain works fine for a you as long as you don’t turn on too many effects at once, specifically with high gain
It must depend on your region , but all the music gear I've ever seen at pawn shops started at retail list for used, and went up to ridiculous . Reverb dot com has multitudes of pedals , but keep an eye on shipping costs . Ideally find s seller with multiple items you're interested , and ship in one package .
Rob, Lee, listen close please. You asked for ideas for videos, so here goes. The best part of this video was when Rob slipped into his creative mode, even though the tone from the pedals sucked, that’s when my eyes lit up, I sat up in my chair, endorphins released… Then Lee stopped it because that went off topic. So what I would like very much to see is to do similar videos but without budget restraints. Be like kids in a toy store and let your creative juices flow. Then go and just be creative without so much talking. Show us how you get creative and let your freak fly.
Compressor(cheap one) ->Tone City tape machine ->Moer shimverb and probably some octave pedal. Well that's enough to play ambient music, except I need one more delay, and a different reverb, also volume pedal would be great, no board without modulation and I need all kinds of... Now it's finished!
Oh nice, didn't know there was a Boss Chromatic Tuner app. Thanks for the tip. Visually I like it better than other tuner apps. And the bluetack thing is actually quite clever. Removing velcro from a pedal leaves all this glue on the bottom that is difficult to remove. But bluetack is made to be easy to remove.
Here's a good cheap -o pedal board. Take a cardboard box, like a medium size packing box (the thicker the material the better). Fold it over on itself so there are 4 plys, take note of which sides touch, spray each touching face with a spray adhesive and fold it up on itself. Then take duct tape and wrap around the edges to seal them off (wrap the whole thing if you can) Mark out where the pedals go, get some long heavy zip ties, cut a spot or use a drill to punch through the board where they go. Zip the pedals down. Done. If nothing else, it's a good way to experiment with a layout before building from wood.
You guys are really amazing. The more I watch your channel (like from some others too such as Pete Thorne, Hp42 among others) the more I still have somethin to pick out of it. As well from basical things a new guitar player should know as with challenges you try to deal with, cuz they also involve the kind of material I would maybe use for my peadlboard. U both got a kickass sense of humor. Captain u damn rule, keep it up. Chappers, I love you man. U're the best with your stuff ;) Hands down, don't give up guys. Keep us as entertained as in the early days cuz u make it happen. Cheers from Belgium :)
I love this series. It's like Top Gear for music
Chelonia Mydas so true
That’s pretty dang accurate
Holy shit... you're right!
@@stankfanger1366 Lee makes me think of Jeremy Clarkson somehow
@@markgowans I'm hoping they've both punched Piers Morgan!
I did this last week! I volunteer at the Big Brothers Bog Sisters for foster children. My thing is to teach the young boys and girls guitar. If they take to it and show genuine interest, I will give them a guitar and amp (you can get both for under $100) and a small pedal board with Behringer pedals. They cut the board, lay down the Velcro and the feet. Then I get them an overdrive/fuzz/distortion, delay, reverb and a chorus/phaser/flanger type modulation. It all depends on what is available. The local guitar shop sells them to me at their cost as part of their contribution. I let them experiment with the pedal order, so they learn what does what to each in the signal chain. I have this young boy right now who's dad was killed in Iraq and his mother died of a drug OD. He is 11 years old and has had a real shitty start to his life. He has found his savior with the guitar. I am so happy for him and we jam as much as I can get there. There is real healing with the gift of music. Sorry I went all sappy. I am so happy for him. Now, what were we talking about?...
world needs more dudes like you foxtrot
Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd You're doing those kids something they will never forget, world needs more folks like you.
Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd that's awesome man, hope everything is going well there!
Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd That is a truly amazing cause, cheers mate! Much love for people like you who help kids in need, especially with the gift of music.
Charlie Foxtrot The 3rd That is absolutely kickass man
16:42 - I feared for Lee's thumb
Couldn't take my eye off that saw,,,
IKR
how come no one picked me :(
Boss Metal Zone go away no one above the age of 16 wants you
Boss Metal Zone you're ahead of you're time there will be a day where you will be on every pedal board
Boss Metal Zone we need you+Line 6 spiders, and Squier guitars
Face the facts...
You suck
Gabriel Juan One of the best compliments ever to this one of a kind tone
I would literally watch a series of these videos where different musicians come in and build budget pedal boards.
[bald pawn shop guy voice] _best I can do is rob chapman_
@@juancarlossuarez7486 I would have spitted out my water if I had been drinking it while reading your comment🤣
Lee!! Ffs move your thumb when sawing. One slip and your bluesing days are over mate.
I was thinking the same thing lol
lol i was cringing the whole time it showed him sawing and it when it switched clips before he got down to his thumb i was seriously expecting his thumb to b wrapped up in the nxt clip
Thanks for heads up so I can skip that part. Can't stand watching an accident waiting to happen.
Me too! Cruel :D
I was squeezing my butt cheeks from anxiety when he was sawing that palete. I would like your comment but 69 seems like a nice place to leave it at.
The sound of all four of Lee's together was amazing :O
Something similar in the intro of Devin Townsend song called Deadhead...and that said Joe Satriani.
I rolled back the video a few times just to hear that again
sounds incredible!
Kurjistaja defo had a Devin vibe about it, yeah
What where they called? I'm lazy n want easy access
Needs more Miku pedal
I agree
I have a fever..... and the only cure is more miku
THEY BLEW IT. All they needed to do is get a modelling amp, and they would have had 200 pounds to take home.
Tom thx if your going tube modeling amps suck.
TheMusicfan189 but they sound so shitty... :(
at 8:14 rob makes a sound that discribes pedal shopping perfectly
Nate Emory also 34:54
EeeEeEEeEeeh
they should do a shootout between a £200 pedal board and a £200 multi effects box
GLITTERPRINCESS yes!
I don't see how any pedal board at that price point could win against a Zoom or Mooer box^^
sk
Did this ever happen?
I think multi fx would instantly win by default. Simply because of variety and well, having multiple effects rather than 4-5 pedals lol plus for 200 quid you can get some amazing quality multi fx pedals.
Rob's pedal board= if your mother tried buying your pedals for Christmas.
Hahaha
X'D
W
Haha! Well put!
its 100% garbage hahhaha
You should sell those pedal boards in Andertons.
You could call it " The Crapman ".
brilliant
The Signature Crapman
Haha
the crapman PB-1
James Brown The Crapman Guitars POS-1
Wadsmitter It means whatever you want it to mean.
For a moment there I thought Lee was going to saw his thumb off
So I'm not the only one. I kept looking at his thumb, the saw blade, and thinking "this isn't going to end well"
+thisdyingsoul76 but... he's the sensible one! ;) as a guitar player you really want to be extra careful
I was cringing watching it.
lol, I thought the same thing. Also half of Lee's fence is in black and white.
careful with that axe eugene...
for this one they actually needed a broke ass college student to build it. my broke ass has window shopped so much I would've crushed this
Spoken like a true working musician.
Fr
S0V23 that’s because he almost always is playing through fender amps best amps on the planet in my opinion
Honestly give me a TS mini, an HOF mini reverb, a looper, and a wah pedal and I’m set
@@davidwolfe6038 same here
lee tore it up competition wise. I think if youre putting a cheap board together you are probably starting out pedal wise and will want some very practical useful pedals.
No disrespect intended , but Lee probably could have done credibly plugging straight into the Bluesbreaker , and using the factory reverb , and multiple gain stages .
Why don't you do videos on building affordable pedal boards for specific genres, like metal, blues, rock, etc...? (excluding amp effects)
R:-"I´m really proud of it."
L:-"Good for you."
That was a fun video and got me looking at a couple of those pedals. How about a pickup swap challenge? You both start with a shaffordable guitar and you buy pickups to replace the stock ones. Total budget maybe £350, which should be enough to buy a guitar and two pickups, and also gives you enough leeway (ha!) to choose between a very cheap guitar and expensive pickups, or a slightly dearer guitar and mid-priced pickups.
...and it would be good if you also got one or two of the other guys to join in (like Danish Pete), as they will have different playing styles and might choose different pickups.
also, do some blind tests as well (pre and post mod sound clips, played with the guitar largely out of the shot, to hide any obvious visual difference in the pickups), to see if the viewer can actually pick out the difference.
This is the one mod that most think will make the biggest difference, so lets either confirm or dispel that myth!
This would be ACE!👍🏻
awesome idea
they did a pedalboard challenge previously as well. nothing wrong with revisiting as products change or come on the markets
A few months after watching this, I got some of my first pedals. three Tone City pedals and a Mooer looper.
Having seen this video, I taped together two halves of a clipboard and blu-tacked them in place. hasn't let me down.
Another win for the dream team.
FrankyBabes how much was the Mooer looper?
I favor the Captain's configuration. 10/10 I could use that as is.
£1000 pedal board challenge just to see how extravagant it can get.
Or better yet an unlimited budget pedalboard.
+cocktailzombie every type of pedal from every brand
+cocktailzombie I like this actually, like when Rabea and the other guy do the "by busting the bank" thing
you could spend a grand on pedals and still need pedals if youre stupid enough
Year old comment, but I can confirm as I am stupid enough. I've got over £1000 just on a reverb, delay and tremelo (Empress, Strymon Timeline, Chase Bliss Gravitas) - sounds baller though!
The normal gear reviews are brilliant, but these challenge videos are always a real treat!
the captain's tone was just superb. A very useable good sounding cheap pedalboard for classic rock. you don't need anything more!
The Captain really does yeoman's work here. Its incredible to see how passionate he is to see that people at any price point are able to be informed and great tones. Stuff like this is really important to new players.
If you turn your volume up really high at 34:53 you can hear rob whisper something incredibly funny under his breath
😂😂😂
lyesryes That's just evil 😂😂😂
Hahahaha
can't hear it mayt
Warning ⚠️ may include high-pitched sounds
Cap' won this challenge by a mile :P
truth
great sounding board and it looks fantastic too
yeah probably
A mile or 50
Agreed
OCTAVIX.
+FragileHeroes what happened?
+FragileHeroes VIX means nothing in Roman numerals, there needs to be a space between the VI and X, then its 5 and 9... 610 is DX.
+titmusspaultpaul5 sorry, 5 and 9 or 6 and 10, depending on the space
610 is actually DCX :)
FragileHeroes I think you're giving EHX wayyy too much credit
The captain for the win in my book. I love weird and inspiring pedals, but those ehx pedals were nails on a chalkboard. I'd have spent all my money on a zvex fuzz factory and have all the crazy sounds you could want.
"If I owned a company"
But Rob, you do...
I will tell you guys, I could watch these all day! You guys are so good! I have been playing acoustic guitar for over 25 years and never wanted to go electric until a few months ago..I have really enjoyed these videos.. I have learned so much about the whole electric guitar side of things with these videos.I'm from the US, (the south) and I just love the accents and the slang you guys use. SO interesting. These type videos are so good because you guys talk it out and as you do we learn. Thanks so much! Curtis
Lee's sound was epic, he won :)
the SINGLE BRAND TOURNAMENT: get a few pedalboards made of a single brand of pedals each (all boss, all mxr, all ibanez, etc.), and compare them in twos, deciding which one is more useable each time, until one is declared winner of all! I bet it'll be Electro Harmonix, they seem to have the broadest range.
I dunno man, it'd be super expensive, but the JHS range covers everything and those things are killer.
MXR Carbon Copy, MXR super badass, MXR Reverb, MXR Fullborne Metal. :)
If you're going MXR, I'd say Cry Baby Mini, Custom Badass Modified OD, Distortion Plus, Phase 90, Analog Chorus, Carbon Copy, Reverb
+JKGuitar100 micro amp as well
Catalinbread
Rob, the reason why the Octavix does the "semi-fuzz" effect at lower volumes has to do with how it achieves the octave up. Most likely, it uses diodes to rectify the signal to create the effect.
How it works is: diodes only let signals pass through them in one direction, and "block" it in the opposite direction. But, in order to let it pass the signal, it needs a bit of voltage (0.6v for silicon, 0.3v for germanium) and only after that it properly conducts the signal.
That's the "low volume fuzz" part, because you're not feeding enough signal for the diodes to pass the signal, but since they're not perfect materials, they let a bit "leak" through them, very faintly.
Now, for the octave-up!
When a sine wave (let's say it looks like "un") passes through the diode, it only lets half of it pass (let's say it's the "n" part), creating a signal that looks like half-silence and half-bump (kinda like "_n").
That's what we call half-wave rectification.
Now, if you have two diodes, each recieving the same signal BUT with inverted phases from each other (so one will be "un" and the other "nu"), they will each create a bump (let's say they're "_n" and "n_"), that when put together, will create two consecutive bumps (kinda like "nn"), with twice the frequency of the original signal, aka the first harmonic or an octave up!
That's what we call full-wave rectification, since you have both halves of the signal going out, instead of "losing" half of it.
So yeah, I know that's a lot to take in for a person who doesn't have any concepts of electronics, but I hope you kinda get how it basically works now.
Cheers Chappy!
Underrated comment!
Get an all Behringer pedal rig, very affordable, and you might be able to receive Russian radio :D
LOL
I thought i was the only one
Or donner
Behringer pedals are a disaster waiting to happen. Boss, TC Electronic and Electro Harmonix are all I use, so quite a mid-range price.
Omg I realized this recently as well lmao
I love these kind of videos, where the guys are prowling around Anderton's looking for gear in some kind of a budget challenge. I also especially enjoyed the Christmas blindfold challenge.
I'd like to see a video contrasting amp vs pedal distortion. Which is actually better?
That's a VERY general question. You need to be a lot more specific.
+Bill Rowse no I don't. If it's a more general video idea (not a question) it leaves room for Chappers to adapt it.
For example, Marshall style pedals vs the amps they emulate. That's a way the idea could be adapted.
Yes please!
+Bruce Hewat you know what now you explained it that would be VERY VERY COOL! Seriously that sounds awesome
+Bill Rowse thanks. 👍🏻
How about a challenge but with only 2 pedals but no limit on the budget? and you have to be on clean setting on your amp at all times
JHS Andy Timmons and a H9 Max. I challenge you to find a sound that you can't make with that.
Anything that needs two separate algorhytms at the same time? :P
+RoverSonjasonn didn't they just announce that specific progress?!
+Christian petersen Took them long enough. :D
+RoverSonjasonn they have 5 or 6 "algorithms" that are actually multiple sounds at once. Have had em for a while.
should have called it the Shaffordable Pedal Board challenge
The Captain's rig & board sounds great. Great video.
Sweet Cream for the win!!! Just ordered one for me own homemade pedalboard, super stoked to play with it :)
Y'know, Rob wouldn't have had to guess the pedal prices at the beginning of the video if you displayed them on the items. Does every customer have to bother the shop assistants to ask, "How much is this one?" and a minute later, "What about this other one?"
Two-Dog James I hate that! if I have to ask, ill buy it elsewhere.
They all have prices on them.
Thumbed up for Rob's French!
what was he saying ?
"Enveloppe. I like croissants. I believe you're the most beautiful woman in the world."
+POKker1996 😂😂
'Le end de bell' was glorious as well
I feel like having half the stuff on the amp already made this pointless... how about a £300 challenge where you can only use the clean channel on the amp, and the pedal board has to do everything?
We need more top gear videos like this one.
It was entertaining to watch Robs descent into madness. From a delay and a reverb to the mess he ended up with.
When Lee was sawing I was like, "Oh God! He's going to cut his thumb!"
the look of defeat on robs face at 28:18.... priceless 😂 love you guys! keep up the awesome vids!
Lee wins big here man, Rob's board almost made me forget why anyone should even buy pedals! Haha.. Awesome video as usual though
6 band eq, delay, distortion. Eq works as a boost, works as a rounder, works as a fuzz. Delay for echo, reverb like effect. Distortion to push you over the cliff when you need a 2nd boost or color.
Lee's knowledge of product, tone, and roots made for one great pedal board. Well done
What about a video where you each have to build a guitar out of parts
I've never seen a pallet that clean, and I work in a giant warehouse
Occasionally , but you have to search hard for one . Unless you place of work has a steady variety to pick from , spending $10 USD at local lumber store vs time , effort, and gas money searching for the perfect free scrap .
That jumped out at me, too!
My vote would be TC Dark Matter, MXR Phase 90, Tone City Tape Machine
MyBoard:
Korg pitchblack (100 $CAD)
Joyo Digital delay (used, 35 $CAD)
EHX LPB-1 (±90$ IIRC)
Previously through a Randall RT503 half stack
Now through a Traynor YSC90 combo
I'll never need any more than that :)
And Rob, your French is pretty good!
absolutely love these challenge videos, such a shame this sort of content isn't made anymore.
16:22 lee looks so defeated when rob rejects his pedal board hahaha
I may have to go Team Cap on this one.
13:20 the irony of rob saying that his RP is better and then mispronouncing pronunciation
You guys are Great!!! You deserve a TV space. Love learning about pedals, guitar compares and new stuff with a bit a fun and quirkiness👍
Just love the "BLAH!" at the end of the dive bomb from Rob right out the gate
Instead of limiting yourself with a budget, why not compete to see who can put together the best sounding cheapest rig?
Because that's like saying let's see who can win a race while taking the longest.
They did that
they did that a while ago, it was the first ever pedalboard challenge
Personally, would've gone Ibanez Tube Mini, MXR 10band EQ, and some cheap delay pedal
If I were on a budget I'd probably just skip the EQ and save some money, although it's a really cool pedal.
+John Smith can do tons of stuff with a decent eq pedal. Make it a clean Boost pedal or gainy boost, a cut pedal to clean up a dirty amp, TS drive pedal emulator with a mid hump, heavy metal sound taking out all the mids, making your guitar have unique sounds when you only keep the bass frequencies, etc.
yeatzee7786 no doubt, but when you're tight on cash, most of it can be achieved with the amps and guitars EQ.
***** An EQ can shape your amp in ways you could never imagine. I always run my mxr 2/3 octave Rackmountable EQ when i get the chance.Great for live performances because I can EQ to fit the area im in. Also, If theres an amp that you love, but there's that one "Thing" you dont quite like about the sound, you can dip out the frequency that sounds displeasing to you. An EQ is MUCH more powerful that anyone realizes.
Vlad Z just for the sake of this video saying you had 200 pouds (not U.S.D.) its actually something that you could go above and beyond with. I can make almost any of my amps sound near each other characteristically with my eq.
Rob's board sounds like a polar bear shitting razor blades
That’s pretty metal maaan
Lol, I just saw Rob twist his headstock tuner on a locking nut. Quickly corrected, but to see such an amazing musician do that gives a complete amateur such as myself such confidence.
Lee sounds like a mix between Cat Stevens and Damon Albarn when he speaks.
The easiest way to get the cheapest pedal board ever: plug straight in to your amp and use your tone and volume controls ;p
Needs more Miku tho
Ah yes, I'll just manipulate my tone and volume controls until I make it flange.
the point in having a pedal board is having the ability to change your sound at stomp of a button. sure you can get a large variety of sounds from your amp/guitar but a pedal board is something completely different
King Exactly. Manipulating the controls on your guitar is great, but you're only getting different shades of the same colour. Pedals allow for more colours.
yep exactly, someone had to say it :)
Hello rob
Hello :-)
+Rob Chapman hi
+Josh Pilkington Hello fellow maiden fan!
hello other maiden fan!
"hello boys n girls!"
quote from Nicko McBrian
But how's the TONE on those wooden pedal boards???
Samurai Studios jesus christ you're a genius
As you can see at 16:17, Lee is actually relicing his pedal board. It can be hard to differentiate this Custom Shop feature from a regular wooden board, but the splinters in your fingers is usually a good giveaway
I used to use a wooden pedalboard and I had absolutely no problems with it, other than my daisy chain sapping power when I'd use my distortion pedal. For those of you who are interested in looking at pedalboards that are way cheaper than pedaltrain and all the mainstream brands, look at the Behringer PB1000 and PB600, they're incredibly low priced and they have a built in isolated noiseless power supply that doesn't sap power like a daisy chain will!
Nice to see I'm not the only one. Got a bit of wood, painted it black and put that stick on velcro on the board and the other part of the velcro on the pedals and power supply. Sorted.
it says octavix, it is not a reflection
"Would you like gain with your fries?"
"Yes, please."
👌👌👌👌👌
I stopped smoking recently and needed to take up a new hobby / pastime that would occupy my hands and attention enough to take my mind of the dreaded weed, So a charity shop trip for a guitar and a few bits off amazon just in case I didn't enjoy it,so i wouldn't have spent a fortune.
What package would you put together for a new comer to the elecric guitar ? Because i love it
I really like the les gibson style and that sound, an amp ? board ? peddals ? other stuff i've never heard of.
My budget would be what ever it needs to be as I would just save up, but I could probably get a decent sports bike for it ( £2500)
I don't want to waste my money, i want as much value as i can get and I don't mind second hand if it works ok.
you could put together 3 options as a challenge - all new , all second hand, a mixture of both
Gary Billington I think that you should just get a guitar and amp to start out with. Maybe a looper pedal too.
Gary Billington I should start with the basics things you need. Just a guitar, I like a stratocaster model, and an amp. Do you know the jimi hendrix meme? "You don't need more pedals, you need more practice"
depends on your preferences and so on but start off with a solid guitar like a mexican strat/tele or maybe a gibson in the 700 dollar range, then get an amp preferably a tube amp like a fender blues jr or Vox AC15 there not massive but there great for practicing and small gigs, for pedals go for an overdrive(Boss bluesdriver), or a distortion(boss ds1) or a fuzz(big muff) depending on your taste, Id say overdrive is most versitile though, thats really all you need to get a solid rig to start with but then you can add a delay (boss analog delay) and maybe a looper pedal so you can record rythm tracks to solo over(tc electronics dito)
Strat 600 $
Blues jr ~600 $
Blues driver ~80$
delay ~120 $
Dito ~60$
Sum total 1460 dollars
Thanks for that mate nice one, i bought an epiphone studio and i got a line 6 amp with the bells and whistles off a guy on gumtree for 800 quid, really pleased and yes my fingertips are bolloxed, dont know how you guys play the way you do, even more respect for you now
cheers mate thanks
Made my pedal board with a decking board from B&Q for £3. painted it black and put rubber feet so I can connect power block underneath. Job done.
you guys need to do more in store challenge video's. Super entertaining. Cheers Rob & Lee
"Can i interrupt you?"
"AbsoluteLEE ... " 😂
It says OCTAVIX, 3 years of art class payed off :D
The Rigogepreproflfsorspsfpleplips and the high bipass filter together sound like something John Frusciante would do.
omg what the tone city overdrive is actually so aesthetically pleasing and sounds so nice omg I need one rn and it's so cheap wtf 😍😍
Honestly I’ve never had much of a problem daisy chaining rigs with a one spot power supply... that doesn’t mean it’s good, but when I was first starting out there was no reason for an extremely costly power supply, and a daisy chain worked just fine. So for all of you starting your pedal journey, a daisy chain works fine for a you as long as you don’t turn on too many effects at once, specifically with high gain
If you're on a budget, you buy used on Craigslist...
Geoffrey Carter or Guitar Center, Pawn Shops, etc
no guitar center in the UK. and pawn shops can be slim pickings. its ali express time
It must depend on your region , but all the music gear I've ever seen at pawn shops started at retail list for used, and went up to ridiculous .
Reverb dot com has multitudes of pedals , but keep an eye on shipping costs . Ideally find s seller with multiple items you're interested , and ship in one package .
Rob, Lee, listen close please. You asked for ideas for videos, so here goes. The best part of this video was when Rob slipped into his creative mode, even though the tone from the pedals sucked, that’s when my eyes lit up, I sat up in my chair, endorphins released… Then Lee stopped it because that went off topic. So what I would like very much to see is to do similar videos but without budget restraints. Be like kids in a toy store and let your creative juices flow. Then go and just be creative without so much talking. Show us how you get creative and let your freak fly.
It would just be fun to see what hey could do with no budget and pure tone.
Where do you see yourselves in 20 years? Will Rob and Lee be sitting in rocking chairs doing the same shit with gray hair?
+Nor'easter Playa I hope so!
Should've bought loads of behringer pedals
andertons don't stock behringer
Compressor(cheap one) ->Tone City tape machine ->Moer shimverb and probably some octave pedal. Well that's enough to play ambient music, except I need one more delay, and a different reverb, also volume pedal would be great, no board without modulation and I need all kinds of... Now it's finished!
Oh nice, didn't know there was a Boss Chromatic Tuner app. Thanks for the tip. Visually I like it better than other tuner apps.
And the bluetack thing is actually quite clever. Removing velcro from a pedal leaves all this glue on the bottom that is difficult to remove. But bluetack is made to be easy to remove.
- Joyo
- Biyang
- Danelectro
guitar center is your enemy.
RhythmGrizz ...correction bro,
Danelectro
James Garcia oh snap
It's called cheap pedal board challenge. Sad story is that I can barely afford a cheap pedal.
i make my own pedals, its the board i cant afford :)
+martin “Mooseteets” ives I can't afford none of them lol
i know what it's like
The magic words are: get used gear ;-)
+Miloš Milohanović thanks man :)
Made me so sad to see Rob try and drop tune only to realise his Floyd
kek
I absolutely cannot live without my MXR Fullbore Metal... PLUS it has a noise gate built in. NICE!
Like the sign on the pallet,... and Lee's sawing technique, thought we were going to have an, what to do when you cut your thumb off video...
21:17 that's like some tom Morello shit
Behringer all the way for this
Agreed. They make some killer pedals for cheap
Maxon...Tubescreamer clone...got me triggered :D
Here's a good cheap -o pedal board. Take a cardboard box, like a medium size packing box (the thicker the material the better). Fold it over on itself so there are 4 plys, take note of which sides touch, spray each touching face with a spray adhesive and fold it up on itself. Then take duct tape and wrap around the edges to seal them off (wrap the whole thing if you can) Mark out where the pedals go, get some long heavy zip ties, cut a spot or use a drill to punch through the board where they go. Zip the pedals down. Done.
If nothing else, it's a good way to experiment with a layout before building from wood.
Might be my favorite UA-cam Guitar video, "Learned" nothing but loved every Gearporn minute
Tbh octavix isn't really that difficult to read
Jimbo4000 they are old
thats because they told you it said octavix before you saw it
Not if you're used to reading black metal band names. xD
Funny Chappers keeps on trying to justify his choices and secretly is like damn I made shocking choices 😄
Just get a multi effects unit?????
it was not a compition anymore haha this became into more of a social experimental thing. this was awesome
You guys are really amazing. The more I watch your channel (like from some others too such as Pete Thorne, Hp42 among others) the more I still have somethin to pick out of it. As well from basical things a new guitar player should know as with challenges you try to deal with, cuz they also involve the kind of material I would maybe use for my peadlboard.
U both got a kickass sense of humor. Captain u damn rule, keep it up.
Chappers, I love you man. U're the best with your stuff ;)
Hands down, don't give up guys. Keep us as entertained as in the early days cuz u make it happen.
Cheers from Belgium :)