Benson Amps Preamp Overdrive/Distortion | Reverb Tone Report
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2018
- Benson Amps new Preamp Overdrive/Distortion is a do-it-all dirt box that adds premium grit to your rig. Built with a circuit based on Benson's much-loved Chimera 30W amp, the Preamp earned a spot on the boards of players like Ryan Adams for its effortless ability to dial in pristine boost, bluesy overdrive, and even toe the line of throwback fuzz and distortion. Watch as Andy takes it out for a test drive.
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Andy's Set-Up:
Gear in Video
Amp: Fender ‘65 Deluxe Reverb RI
Guitars: Redtail Goldtop and Custom T, Reverend Airwave 12-String, Gibson Custom CME Les Paul
Interface: UA Apollo 8 QUAD
Mics: Royer R-121, Sennheiser E609
Strings: Ernie Ball Cobalt - Розваги
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What I love about Andy's demo's is that he shows the settings.
I would also add that Andy plays really well, chooses cool tunes, and never makes a gross sex face while rocking out. Wish I could take those for granted!
We played this awesome machine the Entire NAMM show. Either way we set it up, it pushed the amp or the pedals just right. 👍🏽
Robert Keeley lol - is that really you?
Robert Keeley how does this compare to the JHS Clover? Perhaps you can help us understand the similarities/difference
@@russianvideovlogguy Yes that's him.
This pedal is a masterpiece.
AND THE TOMATO TONE WAS BORN
Andy, you keep the dream alive for all of us bedroom guitarists. Keep doing what you’re doing and much love and many views from Brooklyn, NY
Destined to be a classic . Impressed and it may be on Andys top ten for 2018👍🏻
Never had any interest in playing exclusively with my fingers instead of a pick until I watched Andy's videos. Legend.
likewise. lance keltner is another compelling example.
@@liv2praz Jeff Beck as well.
Mark Knopfler.
@@khiemvu8667 john fahey
Neil Young
I got mine yesterday and I'll keep it! It's one of the best pedals on my board.
This is a great demo. Thank you so much for showing how it sounds with chimey, jangly music (which is what I mainly play), rather than just standard (blues) rock riffs.
Same
That has to be one of the most musical petals I've ever heard. Basically you put it in your signal chain and now you have 2 amps both boutique if you like. You can just tell that there is no bad settings in that thing.
Ahaha great way to show ease of use! Always good to watch.
Amazing sound and playing!
Beautiful playing!
Andy can make any pedal sound good, but if you watch enough of these videos you’ll notice that his face gives away whether he actually likes the pedal or not. His reactions in this one tell me he loves this pedal.
Don't say that.He'll start working a poker face...
If you see a slight smile he loves the pedal
It's likely that he figured you guys out years ago and he just does that to sell pedals lol
He said he likes fuzz pedals best
Killer beginning!
5:38 - That is the creamy fuzz tone i have been searching for!!!
The Gold Top sounds awesome!
I love that you are trying out the Benson pedal while wearing a JHS SweetTea shirt!
Caleb Mitchell It’s a comfortable shirt ;)
I just bought this off the strength of this demo. Thanks, Andy!
2 years later, well???
Do you still own it
Yup!
@@richosburn well, that's saying something lol. Lots of people go through pedals like crazy
My buddy works for them and this ting rocks
Andy is "The invisible pick" man! 😎
Great chugg
This and the Hudson Broadcast, - Marshall or Fender, take your pick, - are the two key Pre's that make any tube amp sound it's best.They would be the first picks every time when using a lower wattage amp.
Dunno what that opener was, but I kept hearing the Avengers theme underneath it. lololol
Yea same😂
Nice!
Was that a lick/solo from track 2 on Love’s Forever Changes...I had a recall moment. Cool, I so love that album. “A House is not a Motel”...
It most definitely was! :)
Chris Catalano @
Wow. I just discovered a great old song from your comment. Thanks!
This dude is a pretty silky player. Really makes the product shine.
“This dude”?? Bro. That’s Andy. He’s a living legend and a national treasure. Put some respek on his name!
Does the volume also affect the gain/tone?
Will it work as a clean D.I. or is it always driving? Nice sound here
Any good for bass guitar?
Tc electronic Ebow next pls!
I wonder how well this would work with the benson fuzz pedal?
As a fuzz it is really interesting!
420th like. Ha! Nice! Dork! What a great pedal, beat my Klone for always on cleanish boost. This box has phenomenal "feel"-all your strings feel tight and healthy in your fingers.
Can it add a lot of volume to a smallish amp head?
LOVE it. Also AXE - ANIHAM. Haha, like my pun?
Or I meant Ahinam. The riff is from Axe- Ahinam Take II, which they got from the band Love.
Are you running this in the effects loop like a preamp or using it in front of the amp?
What song is Andy playing on the Tele? The progression is like Hell Is Chrome from Wilco...
Have you already found this song?
It's well worn road that Andy is a guitar player's player, but the real question: Where does he get all of those cool flannels?!
betterinsodapop They grow on trees here in Portland.
Clearance rack at American Eagle and anywhere else pretty much
That tee is pretty sweet too
ha ha i see what you did there.
I’d be shocked if they weren't Pendleton’s considering he’s from Portland.
Hello Andy! For neil young tones would you prefer this over a formula 55?
This sounds killer! They call it a preamp, but how is it different from an overdrive pedal?
Mark Johnston has a video where he uses it as a preamp. It actually... sounds even better. I got this pedal recently and am just absolutely in love. Completely revoices my AC30 at lower gain settings, incredibly smooth OD on higher settings. More than worth every cent
Technically this is a transistor based overdrive pedal based on the Chimera amp. Basically think of this pedal as an amp in a box where the amp has tubes, the pedal has fet transistors to create the saturation. I think the mother of this type of pedal is the Boss BD-2. Why is it called a preamp? Because thats what it's emulating. It's not really doing overdrive if the drive/gain pot is dialed back. In contrast with say a soft clipper overdrive like a tube screamer, even if you dial the drive knob back, you are still getting some grit, because it (tube screamer) was designed to emulate the sound of an overdriven amp not go clean to dirty like an actual amp (although with utilities it is achievable to do so...not getting into that) Not on this pedal. This pedal is designed to sound like an amp (not just an overdriven one). When turning the drive/gain (going from clean to dirty to fuzz territory) is like walking up to the Chimera amp and turning the level up. Thats one of the differences when you are thinking to yourself "it's called a preamp but it looks like an overdrive pedal." Many overdrive pedals reveal themselves as pedals at some point along the fret board. A quality amp in a box like this one is very tough to reveal itself as a pedal.
Transistor based overdrives, amp-in-a-box and pre amp ...it does get a little confusing. Here is a good example: I own the Carl Martin Plexi Tone. Imo probable the best Marshall Plexi in a box, however you cannot get a clean tone out of it. Why would I want to?...I don't. But if it's a pedal emulating the pre amp of a Marshall Plexi, I should be able to get the clean tone of a Marshall Plexi (I'd rather have the clean tone of a Hiwatt), but the Plexi Tone is not technically a pre amp, it is a dual dirty channel amp in box emulating the crunch and high gain of the Plexi. Again, if a pedal is properly emulating the pre amp of a certain amplifier, you should be able to produce clean tones. "We'll I use the Tube Screamer as a clean boost." That tone may be louder than prior to it being engaged but it certainly isn't clean and isn't overdriven or distorted but it is very very colored with midrange treats.
Check out the Flamma Preamp. It's purple and emulates the clean and dirty channels of 7 different amplifiers. Now compare this pedal to the Xotic BB Preamp and just see how they differ even though they are both called Preamp. It becomes clearer as you examine each of these two pedals specifically. The BB is just an overdrive (a friggin legendary one). Most gear heads are victims of overthinking the term preamp. It's just a boost from instrument to line level. What happens during that transition from instrument to line is unique to each amp and besides your fingers the part that is most to determine your tone or at least facilitates it the most in your rig. A buffer helps preserve what your preamp does if you really have GAS.
You know how Sierra Nevada a couple years ago opened a brewery on the east coast? This pedal feels like that, if EHX opened a factory on the west coast. Yes, the pin stripe.
Gone in 2 hrs?
Would love to see a shootout of this pedal vs the Boss Bd-2. To my ear, I can hit these tones with my BD-2 but maybe I am missing something here?
No, - I'd say that the BD 2 lives in that similar area like few other drives do.At higher gain levels, you start to hear the essential difference between vintage Marshall and vintage Fender break up; the Benson is smoother, and thus, more Marshall like.I think the BD2 straddles a interesting line , getting some of that Fender grind and bite at higher gain, while still retaining Marshall warmth.It's a great pedal, and between it and the SD 1, most other Drives are unnecessary.
What’s the goldtop Andy is playing at the first of the video?
Total noob question but does the pre-amp stop the buzz noise or is it just my amp?
No this won’t help with amp noise. The noise could be coming from the guitar with single coil pickups like a strat. Or the noise could be a bad cable. Or the amp just could be noisy, if it’s a tube amp you could easily have it looked at to see if it can be fixed.
Buzz could be from cables, pickups,on your guitar, the amp itself, the wiring in your house, nearby radio towers. You could try a few things to rule out some of these to figure out where the buzz is coming from.
Try more than 1 guitar to see if it is guitar issue. Especially try a guitar with humbucker pickups.
try the amp in another location, like in someone else’s house. If buzz goes away, could be your house’s wiring or a nearby radio tower or other similar interruption.
If the buzz from your amp goes away when you turn the guitar volume down, that could indicate it is your guitar causing the issue.
Single coil pickups are especially prone to this and not actually considered “broken: if they do. It is just their nature. If the buzz is still there with your guitar volume off, it is probably not the pickups.
Another culprit could be other radio noise. For example Imused to practice close to an AM radio station tower me it would cause a lot of noise from my amp.
That Redtail is badass! Didn't Andy's dad build that?
More redtail guitar pics here: www.redtailguitars.com
Andy, or anyone for that matter... have you tried it straight into the power section of amp or into a power amp? Or even straight into a cab/power amp IR? How does it perform with drive pedals into the Benson Preamp? I'm looking for a preamp pedal that could be the centerpiece of an ampless rig. Pedal board > Preamp > IR > PA.
Have you found a solution? I'm looking at going down this road as well
Likewise
@@AlexPriceMusician I have a Hotone Binary AMP running into a NU>X Solid Studio. Wet fx post-AMP, before the Solid Studio. That Hotone is surprisingly good and can be used without IR (but I prefer to do so). It also has an FX loop. BUT it doesn't have that organic quality we're hearing in this demo. It sounds like...well, like it's modeling preamps. But it's decent for the $
The Solid Studio is phenomenal. NU>X are often sneered at as being "Chinese crap". This is just BS, it's gonna be my go-to DI solution for the foreseeable future.
I'd love this Benson, tho. I know Andy had one on his board when he went on TPS (using the same Fuzz as me, the MI Effects Neo :) ) and Dan also has one on his board atm, he said he runs it after his Sunface.
A surprising pedal that's great for going DI is the Joyo American Sound pedal I plugged my LP into it straight to the PA and it sounded killer Not sure about the IR and whatnot but am sure you could find out Great price point as well
which do you prefer, this or the hudson broadcast?
hudson for sure luv it.
yooo what guitar was the LP style one???
How does this compare to a Boss blues driver
What's the opening song?
I wish he had used it as a preamp.
Andy rules screw the O’Doyle’s
Creamyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
How is this unlike a blues driver?
Where this should stay on a pedalboard chain?
Paul & Ligia Opris - Sirca was wondering the same thing. I would assume that you would place at the end of your drive section. Tough call.
Bypass the front end of your amp and plug it into the fx return for a preamp (revoicing your amp to a benson chimera) or run it as a drive in front. (I know it's late but I answered for any future inquiry lol)
@@MrDonc78 No, it's not voiced to replace a real preamp. This is a glorified and frankly mislabeled "amp in a box" type overdrive pedal.
It's not quite a real Pre like the Broadcast, but at the end of the Drive chain works best.Personally, I've never found much use for the loop . I'd still treat it like a Pre, and see how close you can get it to the end of the entire signal chain.
sweetly divers
Yummy
love this pedal but it's not a preamp. It's an overdrive. can't nail a good tone if used with power amp and cab sim.
yo andy you got old man
Giuliano JZ you will too 😁
Shoot, maybe you should rock even more! Seriously though, great review and sound. You're always a pleasure to watch.
Wait, that came out weird.
MXR is hard to beat this is good tho
I’ll keep my Big Muff.
it´s not made for you sorry, really, this is special for country music. and all fender stuff that you don ´t play so you don ´t know how to demo it
wut
@@trahnettilhcs sorry i ´m too rude, it is because i saw a guy demoing this on a telecaster who played like an animal. in music all is difficult, this pre-amp shines on fender ´s Country style