I’ve had one of these for a month or so and have barely scratched the surface of what it can do. Great tone shaping drive, and exceptional value for money. Great demo, thank you!
Bill, kudos for demonstrating how many ways this pedal can shape your sound. I’m totally engrossed in the process… for a booster. You’re the professor of pedals.
I saw interview of Joe Barresi, the producer/mixer/engineer who did Weezer and Tool records and so forth, and he said for Pinkerton, he put room mic sound thru leftover LPB-1 he got from Eddie Martinez to distort the ambient sound of the room, I thought that was interesting use
There are so many fun ways to use pedals with mics. Especially if you have something like a JHS Colourbox or an Eventide Mixing Link (both will allow easy use of pedals with mic signals). I really love “transparent drive” pedals for this… anything trying to go for a Dumble sound is a good candidate. On the cheap end, the Joyo Taichi, on the slightly less cheap end, the Mojo Hand Dmbl, on the pricy side the Unobtanium. But lots of things will work, i have an old Rockman Distortion Generator which is great because it has EQ built in. Distortion with room mics on percussion is amazing!
I got the original many years too. I generally used it to play through my 80 watt amp late at night without anyone else hearing it. Amp set to near zero, and still got a nice killer tone.
The first in-line effect I ever bought was an LPB-1. No footswitch. just a sliding on/off switch and a level knob. I loved it. It actually gave my 5 watt Montgomery Wards amp a usable tone.
I built a clone of the LPB-1 a while ago and I love it! It adds such a magical element to the dynamics in the signal. I use it at the front of a fairly complicated home pedalboard running through a mixer in stereo, and have a Boss IR-2 as my ‘amp’. I’d be very interested to try this ‘steroided’ version… Much love to you Bill ❤
Love the idea of this pedal, also big fan of your ambient style and wealth of knowledge on the style. I am not horny for gear as so many others appear to be, but hey I also never thought I'd be into ambient guitar either. Rock on!
Wow. To begin: superb demo! Congratulations. I've never seen a boost/eq tool demonstrated this well before and I've been online for decades now. Informative and inspiring. Secondly: I kind of want one now... both for performance as an additional gain stage (possibly reducing the amount of dirt pedals I "need", de-cluttering the rig) and especially for recording - imagine layering guitars with a tool like this?! Just set a good base tone, then do a few takes with different EQ and boost settings and you're gold. You'd barely need to change guitars.
I'm in the early stages of building out the basics of my tone. When they announced this pedal last year, I knew I had to have it. It just adds that "something extra" to my tone. It's now a permanent part of my setup
Definitely a tool one should have in the box in some form. I would personally cover this with Boss GE7 plus overdrive of choice. I think the LPB-3 can cover a lot in one box plus it offers some extremes that can be interesting. It’s not one for me personally but I think you did a tremendous job of demonstrating how to approach shaping the front end of your tone. Thanks!
Love your “un-effected guitar tone.” (Beautiful expansive reverb and pronounced delay repeats ensue.) Perhaps I shouldn’t have assumed you didn’t mean unaffected by the EHX? 😂 Cheers, Daniel 🤙🏻
I'm always singing the praises of JHS Clover in the same way. It really CHANGES everything. Love it. "Un-effected" he says. Lol... I know it's not spelled that way. It's a pun yo!
I wonder what this would do with a hot amp. I'm guessing similar to what an eq pedal does, which is great. My only reference aside of this is Ace Frehley. He used the original on those live albums. A lot of pro's use 'line boosters' live. I've seen a Boss version in a black enclosure. These were kept backstage in a rig rundown I saw with one stadium act.
Wow indeed. Very good demo Bill, even though sponsored. You let the pedal do it's things and let sound speak for itself, while explaining what's going on. And cudos also for EHX. Sometimes they seem like a dormant vague relic from the 20th century, but every now and then they bring out an awesome pedal like this. Very wide range and very broad usable. Wouldn't call it sexy, but exciting is an understatement.
You got the Guitar sounding like a Flute toward the end. Love to hear it through a 1 vol 1 tone amp or even a single Volume 50s Champ, it would take off into space! I have the basic LP-1 and use it to get my Orange AD15 to really overdrive at very low volume for practice and jamming and recording but putting those nifty tone shapers in there was long overdue. Good for bass Guitar too. Boring looking but all good tools are.
@Chords of Orion; Killer box, yes it’s 🤯, & THX for demoing it. I’ll get one for my Odes of Hael. I have a Q? to ask you. I’ve been reading about Strymon Iridiums being horridly noisy, engineered w/out a grounding circuit at all. Per Strymon themselves. Unless plugged into a amp, that’s got it’s grounding to share. Any experience of yours? THX very much.
The overdrive pedal contains a distortion circuit, which creates the distorted tone regardless of how hard you hit the amp input. A boost pedal overdrives the amp preamp circuit itself to create the distortion, which has a different tonal quality. that being said, some overdrive pedals have enough gain to do the same type of thing.
@@chordsoforion I really love pedals like this one, that have a wide range, from “harmonic boost” up to distortion. (EHX make such great stuff!) We’re so lucky to have many great options (even cheap options like the Joyo Tornado or Taichi). Also enjoy the 1981 DRV, which i always use with gain on zero, which still has a harmonic clean boost in the signal. When you play really hard you get some of that RAT dirt tone, but it’s very touch responsive. (This is one reason so many folks love the DRV, it’s the preamp circuit) Beautiful sounds sir!
It may be, however, I note the the Code 50 has digital preamps. Might be worth contacting Marshall and asking them how the preamp section would respond to the LPB-3.
I would recommend trying both before and after to see what sounds better, however, I like to start with placing the distortion pedal into the boost pedal then into the amp.
In principle this should be the pedal I always wanted it can potentially remove the need to ever change pickups again. I just cannot find the spec' for the frequency range of the mid freq control. If it goes up to at least 3kHz I will probably buy more than one, if it tops out at 2.5KHz I have no real use for it , it's that tight a decision and there's no data about it.
The manual for the LPB-3 (you can get it from the EHX website) says that the midrange frequency control goes from 240Hz to 3.3kHz. Treble affects 3.2kHz and above. Bass handles 240Hz and below. Hope that helps!
3:30 "Let's recalibrate our ears"
Thanks, Bill. Everyone should do that much more often.
I’ve had one of these for a month or so and have barely scratched the surface of what it can do. Great tone shaping drive, and exceptional value for money. Great demo, thank you!
Bill, kudos for demonstrating how many ways this pedal can shape your sound. I’m totally engrossed in the process… for a booster. You’re the professor of pedals.
I saw interview of Joe Barresi, the producer/mixer/engineer who did Weezer and Tool records and so forth, and he said for Pinkerton, he put room mic sound thru leftover LPB-1 he got from Eddie Martinez to distort the ambient sound of the room, I thought that was interesting use
There are so many fun ways to use pedals with mics. Especially if you have something like a JHS Colourbox or an Eventide Mixing Link (both will allow easy use of pedals with mic signals). I really love “transparent drive” pedals for this… anything trying to go for a Dumble sound is a good candidate. On the cheap end, the Joyo Taichi, on the slightly less cheap end, the Mojo Hand Dmbl, on the pricy side the Unobtanium. But lots of things will work, i have an old Rockman Distortion Generator which is great because it has EQ built in. Distortion with room mics on percussion is amazing!
Joe is the man
I got the original many years too. I generally used it to play through my 80 watt amp late at night without anyone else hearing it. Amp set to near zero, and still got a nice killer tone.
Thanks!
Thanks very much for the support!!
The first in-line effect I ever bought was an LPB-1. No footswitch. just a sliding on/off switch and a level knob. I loved it. It actually gave my 5 watt Montgomery Wards amp a usable tone.
I built a clone of the LPB-1 a while ago and I love it! It adds such a magical element to the dynamics in the signal. I use it at the front of a fairly complicated home pedalboard running through a mixer in stereo, and have a Boss IR-2 as my ‘amp’. I’d be very interested to try this ‘steroided’ version… Much love to you Bill ❤
It's a very interesting pedal for tone shaping. Thank you for this video!
Love the idea of this pedal, also big fan of your ambient style and wealth of knowledge on the style. I am not horny for gear as so many others appear to be, but hey I also never thought I'd be into ambient guitar either. Rock on!
Wow, that's an amazing sounding drive. Thanks for making me aware of this.
That’s a tone shaping beast!
Great breakdown; I would not have thought it was so versatile.
Electro Harmonix are no joke. They’ve rarely released a bad pedal
Wow. To begin: superb demo! Congratulations. I've never seen a boost/eq tool demonstrated this well before and I've been online for decades now. Informative and inspiring.
Secondly: I kind of want one now... both for performance as an additional gain stage (possibly reducing the amount of dirt pedals I "need", de-cluttering the rig) and especially for recording - imagine layering guitars with a tool like this?! Just set a good base tone, then do a few takes with different EQ and boost settings and you're gold. You'd barely need to change guitars.
Very nice demo. Like your tones and your style!
Wow! You've played a very compelling case for this pedal.
Totally agree-like i needed more GAS!
I'm in the early stages of building out the basics of my tone. When they announced this pedal last year, I knew I had to have it. It just adds that "something extra" to my tone. It's now a permanent part of my setup
Sold me at the back to back comparison/ "let's re-calibrate our ears" 👂 Nicely done. Sweet tones
Great demo. EHX makes great pedals.
Nice pedal, that mid control is super sexy
I get a similar sound plugging into my coffee machine.
Definitely a tool one should have in the box in some form. I would personally cover this with Boss GE7 plus overdrive of choice. I think the LPB-3 can cover a lot in one box plus it offers some extremes that can be interesting. It’s not one for me personally but I think you did a tremendous job of demonstrating how to approach shaping the front end of your tone. Thanks!
Holy midtones! That EQ boost trick alone is great, but the toneshaping possibilities seem a lot wider than that. Oooh - suit you, sir!
Yea baby, sounds pretty rad. Has a EHX "sound" if I might say. Love EHX.
Wow! That pedal really brought out the guitar power on my laptop speakers! 😵 Impressive!
Wow that Strat has wonder tone.
Methinks it’s the Eric….*
Y’know, that Cliffs of Dover guy.
Love your “un-effected guitar tone.” (Beautiful expansive reverb and pronounced delay repeats ensue.) Perhaps I shouldn’t have assumed you didn’t mean unaffected by the EHX? 😂
Cheers,
Daniel 🤙🏻
Exactly!! :-)
I'm always singing the praises of JHS Clover in the same way. It really CHANGES everything. Love it.
"Un-effected" he says. Lol... I know it's not spelled that way. It's a pun yo!
I wonder what this would do with a hot amp. I'm guessing similar to what an eq pedal does, which is great. My only reference aside of this is Ace Frehley. He used the original on those live albums. A lot of pro's use 'line boosters' live. I've seen a Boss version in a black enclosure. These were kept backstage in a rig rundown I saw with one stadium act.
I think a lot of the pros were using line boosters even back in the 70s when they all said they plugged straight in.
Wow indeed. Very good demo Bill, even though sponsored. You let the pedal do it's things and let sound speak for itself, while explaining what's going on.
And cudos also for EHX. Sometimes they seem like a dormant vague relic from the 20th century, but every now and then they bring out an awesome pedal like this. Very wide range and very broad usable. Wouldn't call it sexy, but exciting is an understatement.
Very cool..if looking for your own sound across the board. Fine fine demo…thanks🎶🎸🙏
You got the Guitar sounding like a Flute toward the end. Love to hear it through a 1 vol 1 tone amp or even a single Volume 50s Champ, it would take off into space! I have the basic LP-1 and use it to get my Orange AD15 to really overdrive at very low volume for practice and jamming and recording but putting those nifty tone shapers in there was long overdue. Good for bass Guitar too. Boring looking but all good tools are.
I like this pedal its a boost with some fuzz but not crazy fuzz
i also had the original, and the Dan Armstrong version
I’m using a Rory Gallagher/Hawk booster for the same thing, but this does more. I’ll keep it in mind, thanks 😊
Wow, that is some pedal!
What would it do for a classical nylon string Takamine?
Best wishes:-}
I don't think it would be very effective on a classical guitar with a pickup. More designed for increasing gain into a guitar amp.
@Chords of Orion;
Killer box, yes it’s 🤯, & THX for demoing it.
I’ll get one for my Odes of Hael.
I have a Q? to ask you.
I’ve been reading about Strymon Iridiums being horridly noisy, engineered w/out a grounding circuit at all.
Per Strymon themselves.
Unless plugged into a amp, that’s got it’s grounding to share.
Any experience of yours?
THX very much.
The Iridium is my favorite amp modeler pedal. Sounds fabulous and no grounding issues for me.
I do have to wonder what it would do for a nylon string guitar and bringing up the highs ala Santana
Good morning Bill. How is this different from just using an overdrive pedal?
I'm guessing it's because of the EQ tone shaping that most OD pedals don't have.
The overdrive pedal contains a distortion circuit, which creates the distorted tone regardless of how hard you hit the amp input. A boost pedal overdrives the amp preamp circuit itself to create the distortion, which has a different tonal quality. that being said, some overdrive pedals have enough gain to do the same type of thing.
@@chordsoforion I really love pedals like this one, that have a wide range, from “harmonic boost” up to distortion. (EHX make such great stuff!)
We’re so lucky to have many great options (even cheap options like the Joyo Tornado or Taichi).
Also enjoy the 1981 DRV, which i always use with gain on zero, which still has a harmonic clean boost in the signal. When you play really hard you get some of that RAT dirt tone, but it’s very touch responsive. (This is one reason so many folks love the DRV, it’s the preamp circuit)
Beautiful sounds sir!
@chordsoforion Thanks for clearing that up. ✌😊
Thank you for a very informative video. I have a Marshall Code 50 that I use without any other pedals. Will the LPB-3 be useful added to it?
It may be, however, I note the the Code 50 has digital preamps. Might be worth contacting Marshall and asking them how the preamp section would respond to the LPB-3.
“Let me play you my unaffected guitar tone…”
(Delay and reverb get to stay.)
It seems a good boost pedal but.........Why you add big delay (and chorus? phaser?)??? Why you don't use the clean sound?
So if you already have a distortion and overdrive pedal in your pedalboard chain, where would this pedal go? Before, after ????
I would recommend trying both before and after to see what sounds better, however, I like to start with placing the distortion pedal into the boost pedal then into the amp.
Lindsey Buckingham essentially used an LPB-1 for his signature tone. It wasn't an LPB per se but the same theory
I want an Thinline Strat so bad. Where did u find it? Is it a Partscaster u built, or a Fender Custom Shop?
Isn’t it the Eric Johnson thinline model? I think so…
It's a Fender Eric Johnson Thinline Strat. Looks like there are several for sale on Reverb right now.
@ awesome! Thank you! It sounds glorious!
Will this pedal make my guitar playing terribly sexy or will it still be just terrible?
Hee-hee! :-)
This, or the Friedman Buxom boost? Any thoughts?
I've not used the Friedman, however, the LPB-3 has a more configurable mid-range, so I am thinking that it will be more versatile.
As for looks the TCE Combo Deluxe '65 and Supro 1305 Drive are my fetish pedals 😅
With a title like this… I had to click
+33dB is nice and farty. Almost gets the tone of Joey The Canary by Legendary Pink Dots, or Psycho 9 by Tear Garden - two of the best lead tones ever.
I don't know ... I don't see no miniskirt ...
33db in a Solid state digital anything is not good! Should be pushing a tube amp.
Not if I’m playing my Odes of Hael, bro.
Beautiful !
In principle this should be the pedal I always wanted it can potentially remove the need to ever change pickups again. I just cannot find the spec' for the frequency range of the mid freq control. If it goes up to at least 3kHz I will probably buy more than one, if it tops out at 2.5KHz I have no real use for it , it's that tight a decision and there's no data about it.
The manual for the LPB-3 (you can get it from the EHX website) says that the midrange frequency control goes from 240Hz to 3.3kHz. Treble affects 3.2kHz and above. Bass handles 240Hz and below. Hope that helps!
That's great news! Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know.
I read “sexist guitar pedal” 😅
2024 mind
Nice beard
I SOLD the original LPB-1's brand new ...
Delay,...& What else? Not from that pedal.
sorry but all I can hear is guitar fx......delay and chorus or phaser.....I can't hear what this pedal does at all.....
@BigD. Here's my dry signal... Gobs of chorus and echo that goes on to infinity spills out. Yeah, ridiculous pedal review.
Horrible demo of this pedal...the delay is super annoying.