you are the only guitar guy on UA-cam who has the exact tone and touch I like! with all respect I'll never be able to understand how and why everyone else keeps shaping their sound until it is missing the that Sasha warmth and grid and girth............. for me the sound is missing it's own soul ........ even when it's pro and great .........
I would totally buy this. I can't justify getting the protein since i already have 2 similar pedals, Toxic Twins and The Duellist, but i dont have a Nobels ODR-1 circuit in my collection and i really love Browne's take on it. Great demo as usual Sasha!
The clean tone on that beautiful P90 guitar is fantastic. Your tone is always great, btw, so yes, I think it is fair to judge how great that P90 guitar sounds.
@@BrowneAmplification I think I should add that you had a pretty large hand in that too. If I need to prove it I've got some real clankers (those are bad pedasls in my world) here that would fail in anyones hands.
Thanks a lot man! No, it’s just really dim compared to my lighting. Which is a good thing. You’ll see it’s on under normal conditions and not be blinded by it on a dark stage as is the case with most pedals.
Indeed, sold off the Nordland, not getting along with the amount of compression (and noise). But that is part of the charm of the circuit I guess. I feel this is an OD/compressor in one, nice for weak guitars like strats.
@@LLVG83 You didn't find the ODC knob helpful with that? My Nordland is what bumped the Protein off my board. I found I was able to fine-tune it more to what I wanted.
Love my protein but still find the green side too dark. I would have made the whole eq of the green side brighter by some margin. I leave the tone dial at max all the time whereas on the blue side I change it as needed.
Already own the carbon, carbon x, and gritador. So this is obviously also needed to pair with my single carbon. I mean theres no limit to pedals is there so 🤷♂️
I dunno what's giving this half-chub. ..is it Sashas playing, the Panucci '59..the Atom or the KT-66 combo?! Fudge man, could maybe be a bit of them all?
Totally depends on what you're after. They're really different pedals. If you want classic overdrive go with the Atom, if you want neutral amp like drive go with the Lightspeed.
That's because it's not really a clone... its halfway between an ODR-1 and a tubescreamer. It's not for everyone, especially if you are really digging the OG ODR-1 vibe
your question about why we did a side by side (which I cant find anymore)... because we knew people would want to compare it to the ODR - so we wanted to do a comparison, we did our best to acknowledge that the OG ODR-1 is a brilliant pedal, just not quite what we wanted out of a pedal. So much of what we like is nuance anyway... some people love the ODR some people have trouble with it. some people are going to love the ATOM, some people wont. I totally get someone loving the ODR and not liking the ATOM because they are different approaches to the circuit.
It costs 30% of the price of this pedal to build Nobel ODR clone with mods that sounds as good if not better than Atom (as they like to call this clone of ODR/Tube Screamer...). Clones of clones of clones...and we pay crazy money because they added or swapped one or two condensers/resistors in the original layout...
Well no. It costs money to train and employ people, to design, to develop adaptations, variations and improvements to a circuit, to do the final product design to enable production at scale, build, market the product, cover the warranty, etc, rent your workshop, pay your lawyer, your accountant, your taxes, your cleaner, etc, ship, and do all this while retaining very high quality control. Building a pedal for yourself is just not comparable to the costs of commercial production. Browne are doing great work. Sure you can buy similar pedals for less - go ahead.
@@edwardjons8684 But on the other end there is just me who has to spend 160 hours per month at work to make money for buying this "state of the art circuit" with two more condensers or resistors added to the original circuit. I also have to calculate cost/affect ratio. And I do it in a way which allows me to create balance between what is good for guitar pedals producers and what is good for sound of my music. I am still of the opinion that guitar pedals prices are exaggerrated. The cost of parts and labor is 40%, the rest is just mere greed.
@@Dzika_Astronomia I wish our parts and labor and costs was only 40%! That would be great! The hard thing I don't think people realize is that when you see a price tag on a pedal from say, a dealer in your area, well they take a cut (its actually sometimes more than we make on the pedal ourselves), so now we aren't talking about 100% going to the pedal maker at all. Then we have overhead, insurance, biz costs, all smashed into the small amount we make inbetween the hard cost of the pedal and the amount we have to sell it to resellers for. I have spoken to very reputable builders who will tell you what I am about to tell you - if you want to buy a pedal from a "boutique" company, you're just not going to be able to get it for much less than $200 anymore. I would love to be able to say that we are riding the gravy train down to Elon Musk station, but it just isn't true and honestly, the assumption that we are just greedy companies is more than a little insulting. It costs money, and to make something well, doing it over and over and then stand by the product when issues arise costs money. You absolutely can build the pedal yourself cheaper - but thats cause you aren't charging yourself for your time, insurance, supply sourcing, design, manufacturing... theres a reason you see pedal companies disappear after a few years. It's way harder to do than you realize and then you deal with the same comment EVERY release - its too expensive, pedal makers are greedy, I could build it myself for $40 - which I say to that, if you can, you should. If I could build a house myself, I would. If I could build my own car for less, I would. But my time is my greatest asset, so the fact that I am replying to you should tell you that I care about our reputation enough to say - hey, I get it, Ive heard the same comment over and over but your assumptions are wrong.
@@BrowneAmplification My opinion is based on my personal experience. Every month I buy one guitar pedal from smale boutiqe company. It never costs me more than 125 $ plus I get personalised graphics, mods and very high quality components. And somehow this company still makes profits and has been present on the market for more than ten years. Maybe it is possible because they distribute their products through their own store or maybe because they don't hire "pedal pushers" from YT who discover a new guitar pedal that "completely changed their sound (and life)" every two weeks?
You know it's a good pedal when both Buddy and Sasha have sick intro jams for their reviews.
Who's Buddy!?
Oh, nevermind, now I found a channel called 'Buddy Blues' 🤘
@@Thr3-Words he is our blues buddy, Buddy Blues...he is on the RIGHT side of the blues 😉
That intro jam sound was so much like Derek Trucks’ sound it was almost weird not to hear a slide. Amazing playing as always.
That is a GORGEOUS guitar!
you are the only guitar guy on UA-cam who has the exact tone and touch I like! with all respect I'll never be able to understand how and why everyone else keeps shaping their sound until it is missing the that Sasha warmth and grid and girth............. for me the sound is missing it's own soul ........ even when it's pro and great .........
Thanks so much for the kind words man!! Means a lot!
I would totally buy this. I can't justify getting the protein since i already have 2 similar pedals, Toxic Twins and The Duellist, but i dont have a Nobels ODR-1 circuit in my collection and i really love Browne's take on it. Great demo as usual Sasha!
Thanks - Sasha makes it sound like a dream!
I’m very impressed. Not a bad sound outta that pedal. Awesome playing as well Sasha.
Sasha makes everything sound amazing
dam Sasha, every since I started watching.. you've been playing with some much emotion, love it dude!
he does right??
The clean tone on that beautiful P90 guitar is fantastic. Your tone is always great, btw, so yes, I think it is fair to judge how great that P90 guitar sounds.
great video, awesome playing as always!
I loved all the sounds but I thought it really stood out with the tele. Just gorgeous with that guitar.
Both the Atom and Carbon are so good, that the Protein is now on my board to stay.
My type of overdrive. Love it. ❤️
thank you!!
@@BrowneAmplification ; You’re welcome! 😊
Love your videos, brother!!!
Sounds great, looks great, great company-easy decision for me.
well we appreciate that
Love my Protein!! Green side is my favorite side 🎸
It's the player that makes it good.
I dont disagree with that...
@@BrowneAmplification I think I should add that you had a pretty large hand in that too. If I need to prove it I've got some real clankers (those are bad pedasls in my world) here that would fail in anyones hands.
Yanno, I should have said send me one and I'll make a video that just sounds awful!
Oh well. . . 🤪
@@I.M.Guitar-Nerd haha. but seriously, tone is in the fingers and he does know how to make it sound brilliant
Hey Sasha, great playing, you made that pedal sing with all 3 guitars!
One thing though - is it just me or was the LED off for the whole demo?
Thanks a lot man! No, it’s just really dim compared to my lighting. Which is a good thing. You’ll see it’s on under normal conditions and not be blinded by it on a dark stage as is the case with most pedals.
he's right - we wanted to keep the LED a little more muted, that way it's not so intense on a dark stage
It would be cool to see a comparison between the ATOM and the Nordland ODR-C
It would be!
Indeed, sold off the Nordland, not getting along with the amount of compression (and noise). But that is part of the charm of the circuit I guess. I feel this is an OD/compressor in one, nice for weak guitars like strats.
@@LLVG83 You didn't find the ODC knob helpful with that? My Nordland is what bumped the Protein off my board. I found I was able to fine-tune it more to what I wanted.
Love my protein but still find the green side too dark. I would have made the whole eq of the green side brighter by some margin. I leave the tone dial at max all the time whereas on the blue side I change it as needed.
I know what it sounds like, but I'm still watching this!
thank you for your service
Already own the carbon, carbon x, and gritador. So this is obviously also needed to pair with my single carbon. I mean theres no limit to pedals is there so 🤷♂️
Gotta catch em all
I dunno what's giving this half-chub. ..is it Sashas playing, the Panucci '59..the Atom or the KT-66 combo?! Fudge man, could maybe be a bit of them all?
first....
love you bro.
Can the low-drive setting in Atom produce the same sound as Carbon? Sound similar?
This or the Greer lightspeed?
Totally depends on what you're after. They're really different pedals. If you want classic overdrive go with the Atom, if you want neutral amp like drive go with the Lightspeed.
I don't need it. I don't need it. I don't need it.
Liar
you might need it
I keep saying this my damn self 🤤
Sorry, I watched 😄
I found the green side of the protein to be one of my least favourite ODR clones.
That's because it's not really a clone... its halfway between an ODR-1 and a tubescreamer. It's not for everyone, especially if you are really digging the OG ODR-1 vibe
your question about why we did a side by side (which I cant find anymore)... because we knew people would want to compare it to the ODR - so we wanted to do a comparison, we did our best to acknowledge that the OG ODR-1 is a brilliant pedal, just not quite what we wanted out of a pedal. So much of what we like is nuance anyway... some people love the ODR some people have trouble with it. some people are going to love the ATOM, some people wont. I totally get someone loving the ODR and not liking the ATOM because they are different approaches to the circuit.
It costs 30% of the price of this pedal to build Nobel ODR clone with mods that sounds as good if not better than Atom (as they like to call this clone of ODR/Tube Screamer...). Clones of clones of clones...and we pay crazy money because they added or swapped one or two condensers/resistors in the original layout...
Im just here for the free popcorn
Well no. It costs money to train and employ people, to design, to develop adaptations, variations and improvements to a circuit, to do the final product design to enable production at scale, build, market the product, cover the warranty, etc, rent your workshop, pay your lawyer, your accountant, your taxes, your cleaner, etc, ship, and do all this while retaining very high quality control. Building a pedal for yourself is just not comparable to the costs of commercial production. Browne are doing great work. Sure you can buy similar pedals for less - go ahead.
@@edwardjons8684 But on the other end there is just me who has to spend 160 hours per month at work to make money for buying this "state of the art circuit" with two more condensers or resistors added to the original circuit. I also have to calculate cost/affect ratio. And I do it in a way which allows me to create balance between what is good for guitar pedals producers and what is good for sound of my music. I am still of the opinion that guitar pedals prices are exaggerrated. The cost of parts and labor is 40%, the rest is just mere greed.
@@Dzika_Astronomia I wish our parts and labor and costs was only 40%! That would be great! The hard thing I don't think people realize is that when you see a price tag on a pedal from say, a dealer in your area, well they take a cut (its actually sometimes more than we make on the pedal ourselves), so now we aren't talking about 100% going to the pedal maker at all. Then we have overhead, insurance, biz costs, all smashed into the small amount we make inbetween the hard cost of the pedal and the amount we have to sell it to resellers for. I have spoken to very reputable builders who will tell you what I am about to tell you - if you want to buy a pedal from a "boutique" company, you're just not going to be able to get it for much less than $200 anymore. I would love to be able to say that we are riding the gravy train down to Elon Musk station, but it just isn't true and honestly, the assumption that we are just greedy companies is more than a little insulting. It costs money, and to make something well, doing it over and over and then stand by the product when issues arise costs money. You absolutely can build the pedal yourself cheaper - but thats cause you aren't charging yourself for your time, insurance, supply sourcing, design, manufacturing... theres a reason you see pedal companies disappear after a few years. It's way harder to do than you realize and then you deal with the same comment EVERY release - its too expensive, pedal makers are greedy, I could build it myself for $40 - which I say to that, if you can, you should. If I could build a house myself, I would. If I could build my own car for less, I would. But my time is my greatest asset, so the fact that I am replying to you should tell you that I care about our reputation enough to say - hey, I get it, Ive heard the same comment over and over but your assumptions are wrong.
@@BrowneAmplification My opinion is based on my personal experience. Every month I buy one guitar pedal from smale boutiqe company. It never costs me more than 125 $ plus I get personalised graphics, mods and very high quality components. And somehow this company still makes profits and has been present on the market for more than ten years. Maybe it is possible because they distribute their products through their own store or maybe because they don't hire "pedal pushers" from YT who discover a new guitar pedal that "completely changed their sound (and life)" every two weeks?