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Hey Elmo I know this is an older video but glad I took a look. Those petals are awesome and I think the G3 is the one for me too. I really appreciate you paying for your stuff so people believe your reviews but if you ever change your mind I think we will believe you even if they’re given to you now. Whatever the case thanks for your good honest reviews.
I have the G3 and to be honest I dont like it infront of an amp. At least not my EVH and Marshall JCM 2000. BUT insane with a normal two note poweramp. Far better than my Kemper. Use it while tracking to save tubes before reamp. I have an Aurora a/d converter and im chocked how close it is to my amps. Its just as good as an amp and even cleaner with some Heavy EQ its just a different sound. Just my personal point of view but its worth a try. Love the channel!
For me unless I was going to the extreme ends of tone in either the G2 and G4, I could get the rest of the sounds in between with the G3. The switch is very powerful.
You showed a lot of enthusiasm for these. The folks at Revv should like this review. I don't think you mentioned their price. They each run about $230 (US). Thanks for the review.
I have the G3 and at the moment won’t be needing another distortion pedal anytime soon. Each nob on these pedals has probably more head room than needed? Great pedal and Great demo by an excellent guitarist musician teacher guy named Elmo.
Great demo! I was honestly expecting to like the G2 the most before watching this, but the G3 sounded best in this video. I can't afford any of them, so doesn't really matter I guess haha!
The Revv G3 is one of those "shockers". Not really a huge distortion fan, I prefer to cascade overdrives, but the G3 blew me away when I tried it. Yes, it does awesome modern high-gain tones, but it's also surprisingly good at lower and mid-gain levels. Primarily a strat player, but it can do the "Hendrix" thing, classic rock, and I've even used it on some country gigs. Revv doesn't make a bad-sounding product.
I use the metal zone through the effects loop and my G3 as the overdrive pedal. Put it in the off position and it has a mild distortion, but together it wales distortion of any sort
Wow fantastic playing and pedals! Even though I liked it, I sold the G4 awhile ago, regret it. But I was playing at low levels in my room at the time. Now I m in a band and looking for to get one again. The G2 sounded so smooth!
These all sound great but I like the sounds you get with the YJM and the Strymon Riverside more. The G2 would probably stack well with those though. It's an eq thang. Cool vid and killer playing per usual.
Couldn't click fast enough. I've never tried any of them, but what I've heard of them have been good. I would like to try their amps. Just started watching. I just bought a digitech RP6 from the 90s that a guy got as a gift from his brother but only used a couple times, then put in a closet and forgot he had it. It's like new and from 1996 I think he told me. I've played a few Digitech pedals and my brother owned an older digitech multi effects even older than the one I just purchased also made in the US and it was killer. They have analogue distortion, and some have great lexicon type reverbs and most have a cool whammy / pitch shifting. Only 40 slots for the RP6, but more than enough for me as 3 or 4 tones is all I use. The rest will be for fun experimenting stuff or particular songs that have effects I normally don't use. I liked the blue one best of all of these to my ears anyway I think. Anyway. Thanks for these videos sir and adding value to my life kind sir. Hope all is well in Finland!
I got the G3 and it’s wonderful. But Elmo, you need to try an overdrive called the Greer lightspeed organic OD. It responds like an amp instead of a pedal. I bet your plexi would love it.
I ordered the g4 without watching a comparison and I thought it would be the tightest for chunky down tuned chugs power. But from what I heard the g3 was a tightest out of the bunch and rhe g4 sounded kind of flabby. I think I want the g4 and the g3 lmao
They all sound great to me! It’s time to put the ol DS-1 on the shelf… now which one of these should I actually purchase? Time to make a decision, thanks Elmo! 🤟🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎🎸😊☮️❤️
Great demo. Was having a difficult time hearing a big difference between the 3 and 4 thinking depending on how one tweaks the EQ you can get good high gain tones out of both?
I just got one of these and hooked it directly in line to (nothing else hooked up) my Boss Katana but I can't get it to sound like anything other than muffled garbage. Clean channel, distortion channel, directly in to the power amp (there is no effects loop on mine). Is there something I'm missing or did I just get sold a piece of shit? My understanding was that being a preamp pedal it would work well through the power amp but it sounds like absolute garbage no matter what I do with the tone controls.
@@MrPolevaulter It is only the 50W version. Perhaps it's just not powerful enough to be used in conjunction with preamp pedals? I have heard that solid state amps don't take well to certain types of pedals also. The only other pedal I have is a Boss Metal Zone MT-2 and I can only get it to sound half decent (it is known to be a shit pedal anyway, lol) but it still sounds better than the Revv G4. Some day soon I'll become a real guitar player and get a high wattage tube amp with an effects loop and try it that way. If that doesn't work then the pedal has to be broken.
Thank you for the nice comparison. 😊 I was also wondering between 3 and 4 and it seems 3 will be more suited for my needs. I wish you could punch the drive on the red one to see what it is really capable of.
Hi Elmo great Demo - it seems that the G3 ist the allrounder for all. By the way, could you tell us about your thoughts about the TC electronics Zeus Drive? Thanks man. R
I’m forced to play fender amps at my school (twins, princetons, super reverbs etc.) but I want to play high gain shred stuff like petrucci, Gilbert, YJM, Guthrie etc. I guess everything from shreddy fusion all the way to technical death metal. I’m playing an ehx metal muff and it sounds terrible. Think I should go with the Revv G4??
- I saw a video of ticha' J using a humbucker (yeah I know they're from Nokialand, but spare with me m'kay, just follow the narrative) - Oh my god he is sick! The big C... you know, colitis.
I’ve got them all on my board, and they respond very well boosted with a TS - especially the G2 (which is the one I love), G3 is slightly on the harsh side - G4 with a TS is insane for lead tones from before. G2+TS - instant classic satch lead tones.
if that blue one had a bit more Low end Id love to get it but it just lacks the beef where the red one has it, yet isnt quite as articulate as the blue? my opinion. so Im really really tirn red or blue. Love them both but red seems to have more Girth ha
Great review. Thank you. I like G2 the most. If I choose two of the three, I would go for G2 and G4. G4 sounded more "processed" to me. G3 is more "amp-like". Therefore, I would go for G4 over G3, and if I want sound like G3, I would rather try some nice tube amps. This does not mean that G3 is not good. G4 is more "pedal-like" and I want pedal plus amp, not amp plus amp. These pedals are all great and it depends on personal taste.
I'd also pick the G3. Do you like it more than the JS AT+? That one also sounded great under your fingers. Just trying to decide. Great great channel. Just Subbed. Kudos!
my Boss metalzone crushed the g3 I just bough big time so it will be for sale. even tweeking both pedals for a good while with my cousin playing amazing riffs with my other cousin there listening. I got a perfect just perfect beefy smooth and tight distortion that just gives you eargasm they both felt the same way. the metalzone is just the best and soooo versatile too. to bad but the revv is crap and when I have time it's getting sold. just trying to help. I had the metalzone way back when but got into tube amps and mods but now I want both so the metalzone is back. glad they didnt triple in price lol they certainly could have because they are the best because the 6 buttons that drastictly changes the type of dist you get and that just amazing. smooth round gritty perfect distortion at least 5 types too boot. Why waste 4 times the money what used metalzone are cheap and 10 times better.
Sorry, but for me it would have been way more interesting in a clean amp, like a fender, difficult to judge pedals with a plexi sound ... in a plexi ! And the clean sound is not clean ... once more difficult to make an opinion. Did you compare the g3 with the Friedman BE-OD ?
Thank u for your video test ! Now, G3 or G4 then, that's my existential question finally... ? P.S. : I play different kind of metal (thrash, death, doom, sludge, grindcore, black, indus...)
just wanted to say the Boss Metal zone detroys this pedal! I had my cousins over yesterday to watch the game, Canadiens beat Boston in overtime by the way, and I had just bought the revv a couple of weeks ago and had rebough the metal zone. I had one in the 80's. so I start with the revv got an ok distortion but found that I couldnt tweek it any better and that it did not satisfy me, just missing perfection you know? this is paired with the Boss equalizer by the way in a v shap. so then I decide to try the metal zone that I know is very heavy, so I start tweeking to him playing this very heavy riff non stop and found many different cruching sounds but at the end of maybe 5min I found heaven no words could really explain it except for perfection. and even had room. but this spot simply was IT! crushed the revv to bites. it's distortion at max and the two middle button facing each other top and bottom buttons. the first 2 at 9 oclock and the second two at 3 oclock. around there you will find pure eargasm. Its the same as in the 80's I remembered I had the first 2 at 8 and the second 2 at 4 oclock. very close depends who's playing and pick ups etc.. but still around the same thing. this is in front of the amp. this amp has no fx loop but I remember in does days I had a peavy that had an fxloop and it sounded great both ways. The revv will be put on sale. I also have the Sabbra Cadabra for the sabbath sound that I will keep for now. I just got the Swollen Pickle for fuzz that I will be trying out. In conclusion for good distortion and huge versitility I recommend the metal zone hands down :)
@@PyroShredder982 lol have you even tried one? go watch vids on it lol. I had both and sold the revv because it's a lesser distortion bub. I'm just trying to help others get a better distortion and not waste there money lol the metalzone is in fact 10 times better. way more versatile too. haha the six buttons drastictly changes the tone to get differents types of sounds and funny thing is they all sound fantastic. I had this as way back when and sold it just because we all went for tube amps or mods. but now I'm older have way more money so getting back to pedals for fun to have both and first thing was the metalzone because I loved it soooo much. all my friends are also getting it back and some even still had there's haha Look do what you want bud but I'm telling you the metalzone is still the best ever. it,s just a stupid rumor that it's bad hahaha fools.
for Blues style playing, DONT get the REVV g3, its not usable fro that, Its is someway "hard" to play ! and very scopped, and has some bass-noise in the background !
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I have all three (two G2 pedals, as I use one for clean/edge of breakup and the other for crunch). Great pedals for various sounds.
I bought them all for my REVV D20. Great little rig. Very versatile.
Great Review/Comparison Sir!
Thank you!
The G4 is for me..!!!
Hey Elmo I know this is an older video but glad I took a look. Those petals are awesome and I think the G3 is the one for me too. I really appreciate you paying for your stuff so people believe your reviews but if you ever change your mind I think we will believe you even if they’re given to you now. Whatever the case thanks for your good honest reviews.
The G2 has so much range. A dual channel version would absolutely rock.
I have the G3 and to be honest I dont like it infront of an amp. At least not my EVH and Marshall JCM 2000. BUT insane with a normal two note poweramp. Far better than my Kemper. Use it while tracking to save tubes before reamp. I have an Aurora a/d converter and im chocked how close it is to my amps. Its just as good as an amp and even cleaner with some Heavy EQ its just a different sound. Just my personal point of view but its worth a try. Love the channel!
Cheers!
Yet another video that helps me with one of my dillema's, thanks!
Cool bananas :)
Same
Newly subscribed. Great demo. Thank you so much!! I’ve owned the G3 for about a year. It’s phenomenal. Tons of fun!!
Cheers!
For me unless I was going to the extreme ends of tone in either the G2 and G4, I could get the rest of the sounds in between with the G3. The switch is very powerful.
This is excellent! Thanks a lot Elmo!
No problem 😊
You showed a lot of enthusiasm for these. The folks at Revv should like this review. I don't think you mentioned their price. They each run about $230 (US). Thanks for the review.
Thanks for the info!
G2 for me Thanks for the video
I have the G3 and at the moment won’t be needing another distortion pedal anytime soon. Each nob on these pedals has probably more head room than needed? Great pedal and Great demo by an excellent guitarist musician teacher guy named Elmo.
Thanks :)
The bite in the G3 is fantastic!
great demo man! loved your expressions!
Great demo! I was honestly expecting to like the G2 the most before watching this, but the G3 sounded best in this video. I can't afford any of them, so doesn't really matter I guess haha!
:D
Very helpful.
They're all awesome.
The Revv G3 is one of those "shockers". Not really a huge distortion fan, I prefer to cascade overdrives, but the G3 blew me away when I tried it. Yes, it does awesome modern high-gain tones, but it's also surprisingly good at lower and mid-gain levels. Primarily a strat player, but it can do the "Hendrix" thing, classic rock, and I've even used it on some country gigs.
Revv doesn't make a bad-sounding product.
Great playing! I subscribed
I use the metal zone through the effects loop and my G3 as the overdrive pedal. Put it in the off position and it has a mild distortion, but together it wales distortion of any sort
Yeah i like the red one, G4. Great demo, bro. 🤘😎👍🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
Cheers!
Thank you very much for this demo, Elmo 😉 The G4 sounds great but I am afraid it would be less versatile than the G3 (plus a boost eventually 😋)
Wow fantastic playing and pedals! Even though I liked it, I sold the G4 awhile ago, regret it. But I was playing at low levels in my room at the time.
Now I m in a band and looking for to get one again. The G2 sounded so smooth!
I own all 3 pedals. I love them all equally.
These all sound great but I like the sounds you get with the YJM and the Strymon Riverside more. The G2 would probably stack well with those though. It's an eq thang.
Cool vid and killer playing per usual.
Thanks :)
i like all of them especially the G2
great video! g3 sounds amazing.
Thanks!
The g2 and g3 would be an awesome combo of pedals
Couldn't click fast enough. I've never tried any of them, but what I've heard of them have been good.
I would like to try their amps.
Just started watching.
I just bought a digitech RP6 from the 90s that a guy got as a gift from his brother but only used a couple times, then put in a closet and forgot he had it. It's like new and from 1996 I think he told me.
I've played a few Digitech pedals and my brother owned an older digitech multi effects even older than the one I just purchased also made in the US and it was killer.
They have analogue distortion, and some have great lexicon type reverbs and most have a cool whammy / pitch shifting. Only 40 slots for the RP6, but more than enough for me as 3 or 4 tones is all I use. The rest will be for fun experimenting stuff or particular songs that have effects I normally don't use. I liked the blue one best of all of these to my ears anyway I think.
Anyway.
Thanks for these videos sir and adding value to my life kind sir.
Hope all is well in Finland!
Glad you enjoy these vids. And yeah, all is well. Hope you're good :)
@@MrPolevaulter Doing well sir. Thanks man..
I got the G3 and it’s wonderful. But Elmo, you need to try an overdrive called the Greer lightspeed organic OD. It responds like an amp instead of a pedal. I bet your plexi would love it.
Thanks for the tip.
Man. They all sound great, but the G3 is for me. The g3 sounded a little better with the 7 string at times, but the gain sounded est on the g3 to me.
Have you ever thought of starting a Reverb store for the gear you can’t or don’t want to keep? Great video as usual! 👍🏻
No, I sell it locally. Thanks :)
Be interesting to see how it stacks up to the jayo Dark flame.$80 to revv $375
I ordered the g4 without watching a comparison and I thought it would be the tightest for chunky down tuned chugs power. But from what I heard the g3 was a tightest out of the bunch and rhe g4 sounded kind of flabby. I think I want the g4 and the g3 lmao
They all sound great to me! It’s time to put the ol DS-1 on the shelf… now which one of these should I actually purchase? Time to make a decision, thanks Elmo! 🤟🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎🎸😊☮️❤️
Cheers :)
I like the Red one
Great demo. Was having a difficult time hearing a big difference between the 3 and 4 thinking depending on how one tweaks the EQ you can get good high gain tones out of both?
I just got one of these and hooked it directly in line to (nothing else hooked up) my Boss Katana but I can't get it to sound like anything other than muffled garbage. Clean channel, distortion channel, directly in to the power amp (there is no effects loop on mine). Is there something I'm missing or did I just get sold a piece of shit? My understanding was that being a preamp pedal it would work well through the power amp but it sounds like absolute garbage no matter what I do with the tone controls.
That's really strange. Maybe it's broken?
@@MrPolevaulter It is only the 50W version. Perhaps it's just not powerful enough to be used in conjunction with preamp pedals? I have heard that solid state amps don't take well to certain types of pedals also. The only other pedal I have is a Boss Metal Zone MT-2 and I can only get it to sound half decent (it is known to be a shit pedal anyway, lol) but it still sounds better than the Revv G4. Some day soon I'll become a real guitar player and get a high wattage tube amp with an effects loop and try it that way. If that doesn't work then the pedal has to be broken.
I don’t have much luck with pedals on my katana 100 …. The amps ok. But I kinda regret that purchase.
Thank you for the nice comparison. 😊 I was also wondering between 3 and 4 and it seems 3 will be more suited for my needs. I wish you could punch the drive on the red one to see what it is really capable of.
Thanks :)
Yes, that REVV 3 is just striking, sounds very organic, and balanced.
Cool pedals 👌🤘
Hi Elmo great Demo - it seems that the G3 ist the allrounder for all. By the way, could you tell us about your thoughts about the TC electronics Zeus Drive? Thanks man. R
Sorry, haven't tried it.
I’m forced to play fender amps at my school (twins, princetons, super reverbs etc.) but I want to play high gain shred stuff like petrucci, Gilbert, YJM, Guthrie etc. I guess everything from shreddy fusion all the way to technical death metal. I’m playing an ehx metal muff and it sounds terrible. Think I should go with the Revv G4??
Not sure. That or the G3.
I hit subscribe the second I heard the Simpsons theme. Great video they all sound awesome
Thanks 😊
g4 is a monster of bass, for sludgey sounds that i search is my favorite.
Wich is better for a Fender style Amp like Princeton or Deluxe Reverb ? G3 or g4 ?
What's the difference between a $29 kokko distortion or the nux brownie distortion
Dunno.
You made them all sound great but in the Classic Rock circles I run in the G2 would probably serve me best.
- I saw a video of ticha' J using a humbucker (yeah I know they're from Nokialand, but spare with me m'kay, just follow the narrative)
- Oh my god he is sick! The big C... you know, colitis.
Revv is good quality stuff but I've spent too much this year as it is. Maybe next.
Sure is :)
I’ve got them all on my board, and they respond very well boosted with a TS - especially the G2 (which is the one I love), G3 is slightly on the harsh side - G4 with a TS is insane for lead tones from before.
G2+TS - instant classic satch lead tones.
That mark III head looks like 4 channels of tube heaven
I’ve got a G3 and it’s fuckin phenomenal.
if that blue one had a bit more Low end Id love to get it but it just lacks the beef where the red one has it, yet isnt quite as articulate as the blue? my opinion. so Im really really tirn red or blue. Love them both but red seems to have more Girth ha
Great review. Thank you. I like G2 the most. If I choose two of the three, I would go for G2 and G4. G4 sounded more "processed" to me. G3 is more "amp-like". Therefore, I would go for G4 over G3, and if I want sound like G3, I would rather try some nice tube amps. This does not mean that G3 is not good. G4 is more "pedal-like" and I want pedal plus amp, not amp plus amp. These pedals are all great and it depends on personal taste.
All of them are right for me.
G2, G3, G4 )) All of them
Looks like it is possible to mod G4, to get also G3 and G2 out of it....
For me that is best solution, all 3 in one box.
I'd also pick the G3. Do you like it more than the JS AT+? That one also sounded great under your fingers. Just trying to decide. Great great channel. Just Subbed. Kudos!
Cheers!
Did you have them in front of the amp or through the FX loop?
Where's the Gev Ree3 pedal Elmo? Haha
As usual another excellent video mate :)
:D
Ok. Have to hear thru headphones. The g3 did sound great thru headphones.
G2 for me!
Green not enough and the red to much the blue perfect. But blue sounds the same as the jayo Dark flame for $80 to revv g3 $375 to 400
my Boss metalzone crushed the g3 I just bough big time so it will be for sale. even tweeking both pedals for a good while with my cousin playing amazing riffs with my other cousin there listening. I got a perfect just perfect beefy smooth and tight distortion that just gives you eargasm they both felt the same way. the metalzone is just the best and soooo versatile too. to bad but the revv is crap and when I have time it's getting sold. just trying to help. I had the metalzone way back when but got into tube amps and mods but now I want both so the metalzone is back. glad they didnt triple in price lol they certainly could have because they are the best because the 6 buttons that drastictly changes the type of dist you get and that just amazing. smooth round gritty perfect distortion at least 5 types too boot. Why waste 4 times the money what used metalzone are cheap and 10 times better.
Sorry, but for me it would have been way more interesting in a clean amp, like a fender, difficult to judge pedals with a plexi sound ... in a plexi ! And the clean sound is not clean ... once more difficult to make an opinion. Did you compare the g3 with the Friedman BE-OD ?
Never did as I didn't have them at the same time.
What delay are you using?
Strymon Timeline.
@@MrPolevaulter Thanks. It sounds really, really good.
Thank u for your video test ! Now, G3 or G4 then, that's my existential question finally... ? P.S. : I play different kind of metal (thrash, death, doom, sludge, grindcore, black, indus...)
G4
Revvin Townsend
All 3 are right for me lol
G3 is the best !!!
just wanted to say the Boss Metal zone detroys this pedal! I had my cousins over yesterday to watch the game, Canadiens beat Boston in overtime by the way, and I had just bought the revv a couple of weeks ago and had rebough the metal zone. I had one in the 80's. so I start with the revv got an ok distortion but found that I couldnt tweek it any better and that it did not satisfy me, just missing perfection you know? this is paired with the Boss equalizer by the way in a v shap. so then I decide to try the metal zone that I know is very heavy, so I start tweeking to him playing this very heavy riff non stop and found many different cruching sounds but at the end of maybe 5min I found heaven no words could really explain it except for perfection. and even had room. but this spot simply was IT! crushed the revv to bites. it's distortion at max and the two middle button facing each other top and bottom buttons. the first 2 at 9 oclock and the second two at 3 oclock. around there you will find pure eargasm. Its the same as in the 80's I remembered I had the first 2 at 8 and the second 2 at 4 oclock. very close depends who's playing and pick ups etc.. but still around the same thing. this is in front of the amp. this amp has no fx loop but I remember in does days I had a peavy that had an fxloop and it sounded great both ways. The revv will be put on sale. I also have the Sabbra Cadabra for the sabbath sound that I will keep for now. I just got the Swollen Pickle for fuzz that I will be trying out. In conclusion for good distortion and huge versitility I recommend the metal zone hands down :)
Haha are you serious? The metal zone is widely considered one of the worst distortion pedals and one of the worst guitar pedals in general
@@PyroShredder982 lol have you even tried one? go watch vids on it lol. I had both and sold the revv because it's a lesser distortion bub. I'm just trying to help others get a better distortion and not waste there money lol the metalzone is in fact 10 times better. way more versatile too. haha the six buttons drastictly changes the tone to get differents types of sounds and funny thing is they all sound fantastic. I had this as way back when and sold it just because we all went for tube amps or mods. but now I'm older have way more money so getting back to pedals for fun to have both and first thing was the metalzone because I loved it soooo much. all my friends are also getting it back and some even still had there's haha Look do what you want bud but I'm telling you the metalzone is still the best ever. it,s just a stupid rumor that it's bad hahaha fools.
G4 for rhytem
G3 for lead
For me g4 and g3
for Blues style playing, DONT get the REVV g3, its not usable fro that, Its is someway "hard" to play ! and very scopped, and has some bass-noise in the background !