A small tip: The Mooer Blues Crab is the best Blues Breaker type pedal I have ever tried. I'll even say the best overdrive pedal I have ever tried. It is really cheap and sounds better than most of the boutique clones. I highly recommend it to everyone.
I never realized how often I was hearing a blues breaker in tracks thinking it was something exotic. That sound is among rock and roll royalty. Great playing, great demo, my favorite UA-cam channel!
By brother bought me a bd-2w as a birthday gift at a time when I wasn’t doing so hot in terms of disposable income for fun things like guitar pedals. Nice gift and still my favorite overdrive pedal.
It didn't really matter which pedal Mick went through, that Les Paul sounded brilliant through all of them! Could be the playing too - hahaha. But this just convinced me to put the BD2 back on the board in low gain. cheers lads
JM actually used the bd2 (Keeley mod) during the trio era while he used the blues breaker during the continuum era. IMO they both work for that JM sound. (Most people probably already know that JM has used both)
I had both. Kept BB. The pedal is just fantastic. Chewy and cleans up really well. It brings the guitar in the mix really well. I am glad you put the gain well high. BB really shines on it. And it works great with both single coil or humbucker.
You guys never disappoint. What a great video. There's so many great products out there that even the classics get overlooked. I recently got a Barber Gain Changer (BB based, I believe) and cannot get enough of it!
Yes. BluesBreaker. This episode affirms everything I've ever thought about it and the pedals derived from it. It'll never make it on to my gigging board because I just don't find it cuts enough but I will never sell it. And I really needed this episode to make me confident about that decision. Still, it must be said: if, at gunpoint, I was told I could only use one pedal no matter how much music was left in my life, it'd be the BB. Thorpy Peacekeeper a close second. Thanks again, lads.
Love that you’re talking more about sound, feel , and eq than the actual circuit. The xotic bb preamp could be included with this comparison. Everyone wants to say it’s a tubescreamer
Good Morning to all my pedal family! I'm still hoping for Dans EP to come out and for Mick to make some TPS cd's and maybe a "Micks Blues" cd. Micks recording skills are the best and both can play the bejesus out of a guitar !!! Thanks for all the great shows !!!
The cool thing about old Boss pedals is they have a circuit board that is very easy to modify. You can find kits to mod your pedals. It's a lot of fun. Not sure about the newer generation though. If they're surface mount forget it.
I think that it is time for us all to accept the present before it becomes the past. We only need a microscope and proper tweezers, (my Haako says it is up to it) I reckon that it is time to meet the challenge. 😉
Just wanted to say I've been watching the show from my parent's TV for the last couple of weeks - where I'm not logged in. That means no premium and I wanted to recognise and thank you for not spamming the video with ads. I know I should expect as much from TPS, but I think it bears worth saying. A show idea for you: exploring the tone controls on some traditional overdrive pedals. (Especially now you have an actual Bluesbreaker) - watching the show today I think I rediscovered that I've been wrongfully assuming that the tone circuit on the pedal is the same as a guitar tone circuit. OBVIOUSLY thats not the case, especially where you've got 3 band EQ, but, what about singular tone knobs? And the same for amps! Think theres some serious education to be done there.
Hello gentlemen! I’ve been really into my Jackson GoldenBoy (bluesbreaker with several clipping options and 3 band eq) as a boost to my Marshall Jubilee. This is going to be a fun episode!
Great topic, and timely! My current Bluesbreaker pedal is The Broker by Matthews Effects, and I've been toying with the idea of getting a BD-2 as well. This gives me something to chew on. Thanks, mates!
I always thought that both Boss and Marshall should rebrand these pedals. With the blues you would want something fatter with more gain for sustaining leads, which the blues driver could arguably do better than the blues breaker. The blues breaker is more of a British flavored boost pedal that people use to just barely push their amps and add a bit of personality to their tone.
I thought I was “too good” for a BD2w (like a giant asshole) for decades to come to find it to be in the top 5% of the ….50? 100? OD’s I’ve tried. Definitely choose one over a BluesBreaker now.
as a long-time BluesBreaker fan, I am struck at just how fantastic the original pedal sounds with EVERY SINGLE different guitar. That's a very important aspect for me. When I switch guitars, mid-gig, I don't want to need to tweak my overdrive pedals to adjust. That original pedal just kills, no matter which guitar you're putting through it. Very well done test on this one, guys.
An original English Bluesbreaker was my "always on" pedal for years with a Strat into a Mesa Boogie Mk III. Cut a little of the zingy high end, gave a bit more lower mids and just a hair of breakup. Then I got a King of Tone and quickly realized that without the high gain option, setting the KoT to the "boost" setting pretty much matches the tones exactly and with more volume available if desired. Side note for Mick, if you haven't tried a Mk III in a while try to borrow one. I recently picked one up again and it compares very favorably to my TS-1 in a slightly brighter way and with more gain and volume available when needed. Plugged into a Two-Rock 2x12 it sounds even better with SO many sounds available thanks to it's powerful tone knobs and graphic EQ.
Waiting for an episode about new or more modern pedals.its been awhile since you've done a thorough episode focus on cool modulations, fuzzes and so on. Ahhh i now see u included the Keely Blues Disorder.. that counts as new modern pedal. Still more episodes that go deep into pedal comparisons are healthy for us gear nerds.
I have 2 Duke of tones now! Tiny!Sound awesome! I use one for boost, one for drive! The Keeleys are great, but I hate top mounted Jacks, you have to have special cables and sometimes the power jack has to be angled or straight depending on the closeness of the Jacks! Glad I bought the AT Overdrive, the red one, before they changed to this format. Get a Duke of tone on the show! So Dan can say " yeah, but there is something about my original King of tone" Lol
The hoboroadie has less than a half dozen amplifiers left on the necessity list, so that opens up the possibilities to include some more pedals, these are probably right up on the top of the list with the Klon.
I have a BD2 and it is one of those pedals that always go back to my board after i try some other fancier pedals. it works very well with my 5e3 deluxe (way less fizzy). super versatile pedal, go from clean boost to even a fuzz tone (tele middle position max gain guitar tone on 0)
Great video guys. Imo bd2 is great as a transparent boost, blues breaker for taking a broken up amp into the rich harmonics and feedback, hence the name, pairs well with an am beano boost, great for soloing. They’re all good, to me it’s all amp dependent. But with the bd2, I’d rather have a am modded tubescreamer or prince of tone and for the transparent boost thing OCD all day long.
Pretty sure you guys had an OG BB when you did your show on it comparing with KoT, Morning Glory, Pantheon, Snouse, etc. 🤔 Regardless, great show as always! BB is my all time favorite OD circuit
I have a BD2w and it is a great vertisale pedal . I even use it to get that 80's metal tone . I stack a BD-2w and a Prince of Tone through my signature Fillmore Boogie 50 (jk lol) , and it sounds Metallica'n circa 85-89 . Stacking pedals is a good way to create the tone you are looking for . But the key ingredient IMO is a Boss GE-7 in front . IMO OD/Dist are a snapshot . The EQ pedal gives you more control . IMO before you buy another OD/Dist pedal , buy a quality EQ pedal . The Boss GE-7 is great and affordable .
Just starting the video. I have an original year Blues Driver (didn't know that when I bought it and doesn't matter anyway) I use it as a clean/volume boost, on a clean channel then to push a drive channel to really overdrive/distortion.
Great video guys! As always. Have you seen the Marshall Jtm studio over there? I just got one and man it would be great in comparison to the deluxe reverb or a two small amp combo. It actually is clean for quite a while. And I have a deluxe reverb too. Maybe a good comparison on how to use it with pedals?
I was using a friend's Guvnor pedal back in the 90s , and a solid state Peavey Amp that some how I connected it to a Big Crate cabinet, and to us it sounded like Scott Ian's sound . By today's standards it probably sounded like Donkeys Doings .
Both of these circuits sound fantastic into gained up amps, just a heads up. Oh, and keep the tone knob on the Blues Driver below 10:00, anyone struggling with the fizz.
Dan, re: the subscriber thing. It's worth mentioning that every now & then UA-cam kicks people off subscriptions. There's no rhyme or reason, they just cancel your subscription. It might be worth asking people who THINK they have subbed to check & confirm (I know this to be true 'cos it happened to me!).
@@ThatPedalShow I see now that you mention it in the description... Was a bit too much into the video. Glorious guitar and tones... I played my R7 through a small Marshall combo (5W) and a reissue BB and it was g-l-o-r-i-o-u-s. Now into more Zendrive-y stuff. Thanks!
love BB style pedals ...wampler pantheon, kasleder toxic twins and the New halcyon are my favorits😊 but the dry control in the halcyon is useless in my opinion because I hear and feel no difference! What's the point origin effects?😊
I mostly live under a rock, but a few years ago I was at a friend's show, and noticed that both he and the lead guitarist had Tims, Klons, and Blues Drivers on their boards. In my mind now, that is the core of a professional rig, and it seems like it has been proven.
It kinda bothers me when I see comparisons where they items are adjusted and tweaked to get them to sound as much alike as possible. Huh??? That really doesn't tell me much. What I want to have happen is that each item is dialed in to it's best (and maybe even worst) ability at whatever it is that it can do. I don't care how much this one can sound like that one..... Put all 10 runners on the track, and then stagger their starting position so they all run side by side to finish pretty much the same. 🙂 I want he hear what these things can do to impress me by what they can offer- the best they've got to give. That's a comparison experiment I can truly appreciate. Thanks, guys.
@@ThatPedalShow I did watch. I wasn't saying that you didn't give them a fair play. I was just saying that, when comparison videos do that make-everything-sound-the-same thing, it doesn't really work for me. And I do strongly agree with the comment about however many things a pedal might be great at, I'm just going to set it for what I want it to do its best, and I'll likely never touch the knobs again. If a pedal can do 4 different things, all that I really want, I'll end up with 4 of that pedal, each with the pots frozen in position after 10 years. 🙂 Sorry for the lack of clarity in my comment before.
Dan, please, since you're Australian, are you aware that the best rock band in the world today is an Australian band called Amyl and The Sniffers?! Amy Taylor is a force of nature. They should get more exposure on guitar and music channels! Ok, off to enjoy today's video now.
Listening to the Blues Breaker and seeing the settings reminds me of my Way Huge Pork Loin. Do any of you pedal wizards know if that is Jeorge’s take on the Blues Breaker circuit?
Did a quick look to see. Definitely doesn't appear to be the case. I found one schematic (not sure how authentic) that looked like it is essentially 2 signal paths in parallel. One is based on the tube screamer topology and the other is what appears to be a pair of neve preamp style circuits cascaded one after the other and blended at the end with the TS. I can't be certain how accurate that is...but I can say for sure its not like either the BB or the BD
Good to know! The clean side of the parallel path is said to be based on a Neve preamp, but the only thing I knew about the drive circuit is that it’s soft clipping. Thanks!
Curious what sets a Keeley modded BD apart from the BD2W? Thinking in relation to what Dan said at the end of the BD2 and BB section, especially given most of the section had the BD2W in the S mode (I may have missed some switching though!)
Should have been in S mode (standard) all the way. Keeley mods on older Blues Drivers, I think, was lower noise floor and great range of gain and tone? Maybe?
@@ThatPedalShow wasn’t that the goal of the BD2W though? Higher quality comments, slightly different circuit/tone, lower noise floor, etc. with the C mode also taming the high end etc. Genuine curiosity, just to understand what in Dan’s opinion meant the Keeley modded B2 is his preference to the BB and BD2W, with BD2W being the close 3rd. Doubt I’ll ever play a Keeley modded anything so I find this interesting 🙂
@@ThatPedalShow Feels like a missed opportunity, given you tried different modes on Keeley and Halcyon pedals. BD2w Custom mode please :) I got my BD2w for £100 secondhand and on balance prefer the Custom mode for low/mid gain and Standard mode for higher gain
The Roger Mayer Voodoo-1 of Michael Landau fame has the same style knobs as a BB and similarly low output. Anyone know if there’s any lineage in the circuits?
Why have a Boss Blues Driver when you can have the Boss OD3, which if I'm not mistaken, was their attempt at improving the Blues Driver... The OD3 must be one of the most underrated pedals of all time.
Yikes, I sold a UK BluesBreaker (and a UK made Guv'nor too) in 2013-ish for peanuts. Arg. But if I still had 'em .. I'd keep 'em! The BB sounded just magnificent in the hands of these top fellers ⭐⭐here.
They all bring something to the table. Depending on your amplification, you'd be hard pressed not to find a setting on any that works for you. The tendencies of your amplifier/driver choice would dictate more as to which you'd choose. Maybe more than the guitar of choice.
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I love these kind of shows because I then go back and play around with my setup to try new things. Many thanks!
A small tip: The Mooer Blues Crab is the best Blues Breaker type pedal I have ever tried. I'll even say the best overdrive pedal I have ever tried. It is really cheap and sounds better than most of the boutique clones. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Same for the blues mood (bd-2 clone), has the same fat mod, I prefer it to the bd2 or bd2w.
Morning friends across the pond. Hope all is well. Been watching for many years. Its great
I never realized how often I was hearing a blues breaker in tracks thinking it was something exotic. That sound is among rock and roll royalty. Great playing, great demo, my favorite UA-cam channel!
By brother bought me a bd-2w as a birthday gift at a time when I wasn’t doing so hot in terms of disposable income for fun things like guitar pedals. Nice gift and still my favorite overdrive pedal.
Always great to hear the horn for us TPS old timers.
@@andsoistopped I’ve been here since I was 14…25 now! Talk about a misspent youth 😂
I remember when it was That Horn Show 👴🏼
I’ve got the BD-2w and BluesBreaker reissue, nothing is better. Two of the very best pedals I’ve ever owned.
All hail king Boss in my opinion. So easy to pick up great boss pedals second hand for such good value.
Extremely adequate!
It didn't really matter which pedal Mick went through, that Les Paul sounded brilliant through all of them! Could be the playing too - hahaha. But this just convinced me to put the BD2 back on the board in low gain. cheers lads
JM actually used the bd2 (Keeley mod) during the trio era while he used the blues breaker during the continuum era. IMO they both work for that JM sound.
(Most people probably already know that JM has used both)
I had both. Kept BB. The pedal is just fantastic. Chewy and cleans up really well. It brings the guitar in the mix really well. I am glad you put the gain well high. BB really shines on it. And it works great with both single coil or humbucker.
Good to see the available and affordable pedals in the show (as they often are), the head of my finance department will thankyou
We don't actually have to buy every single pedal featured on this show. Sometimes you can wait until the market cools before you get it.
Ahh the better half
My brain read “the head of my fiancé department” …i guess that can be regarded as similar territory 😂😂😂
You guys never disappoint. What a great video. There's so many great products out there that even the classics get overlooked. I recently got a Barber Gain Changer (BB based, I believe) and cannot get enough of it!
Yes. BluesBreaker. This episode affirms everything I've ever thought about it and the pedals derived from it. It'll never make it on to my gigging board because I just don't find it cuts enough but I will never sell it. And I really needed this episode to make me confident about that decision. Still, it must be said: if, at gunpoint, I was told I could only use one pedal no matter how much music was left in my life, it'd be the BB. Thorpy Peacekeeper a close second. Thanks again, lads.
Love that you’re talking more about sound, feel , and eq than the actual circuit. The xotic bb preamp could be included with this comparison. Everyone wants to say it’s a tubescreamer
yep! I have the BB AND THE BB PLUS! Awesome!
Loved this. I got a Waza Bluesdriver a year or two ago and it’s still on my board. Just an incredible and affordable unit 😎👍
Good Morning to all my pedal family! I'm still hoping for Dans EP to come out and for Mick to make some TPS cd's and maybe a "Micks Blues" cd. Micks recording skills are the best and both can play the bejesus out of a guitar !!! Thanks for all the great shows !!!
Thanks Richard! Dan’s EP is imminent I believe, and I MIGHT do some recording next year. Minimum blues however. Thanks for the kind words!
@@ThatPedalShowas The Who said, Maximum R&B! Looking forward to hearing recordings from you both 😊
Running the OCD through the BB tone stack sounds amazing! Keeley is on to something really cool with this line of pedals
Blues Driver boosting Blues Breaker. Best pairing ever. Done
The cool thing about old Boss pedals is they have a circuit board that is very easy to modify. You can find kits to mod your pedals. It's a lot of fun. Not sure about the newer generation though. If they're surface mount forget it.
Indeed they are!
I think that it is time for us all to accept the present before it becomes the past. We only need a microscope and proper tweezers, (my Haako says it is up to it) I reckon that it is time to meet the challenge. 😉
This reminds me of the one pedalboard I have that is made of strictly blue pedals… love it!
Just wanted to say I've been watching the show from my parent's TV for the last couple of weeks - where I'm not logged in. That means no premium and I wanted to recognise and thank you for not spamming the video with ads. I know I should expect as much from TPS, but I think it bears worth saying.
A show idea for you: exploring the tone controls on some traditional overdrive pedals. (Especially now you have an actual Bluesbreaker) - watching the show today I think I rediscovered that I've been wrongfully assuming that the tone circuit on the pedal is the same as a guitar tone circuit. OBVIOUSLY thats not the case, especially where you've got 3 band EQ, but, what about singular tone knobs? And the same for amps! Think theres some serious education to be done there.
I have this Bluesbraker. I love how transparent it is, amazing pedal
52:30 surely you mean analog-orrhea (hyphen essential), a condition for which no atonement needed. Great show!
Hello gentlemen! I’ve been really into my Jackson GoldenBoy (bluesbreaker with several clipping options and 3 band eq) as a boost to my Marshall Jubilee. This is going to be a fun episode!
Great topic, and timely! My current Bluesbreaker pedal is The Broker by Matthews Effects, and I've been toying with the idea of getting a BD-2 as well. This gives me something to chew on. Thanks, mates!
I always thought that both Boss and Marshall should rebrand these pedals. With the blues you would want something fatter with more gain for sustaining leads, which the blues driver could arguably do better than the blues breaker. The blues breaker is more of a British flavored boost pedal that people use to just barely push their amps and add a bit of personality to their tone.
I thought I was “too good” for a BD2w (like a giant asshole) for decades to come to find it to be in the top 5% of the ….50? 100? OD’s I’ve tried. Definitely choose one over a BluesBreaker now.
A blue day in an orange place.
as a long-time BluesBreaker fan, I am struck at just how fantastic the original pedal sounds with EVERY SINGLE different guitar. That's a very important aspect for me. When I switch guitars, mid-gig, I don't want to need to tweak my overdrive pedals to adjust. That original pedal just kills, no matter which guitar you're putting through it. Very well done test on this one, guys.
An original English Bluesbreaker was my "always on" pedal for years with a Strat into a Mesa Boogie Mk III. Cut a little of the zingy high end, gave a bit more lower mids and just a hair of breakup. Then I got a King of Tone and quickly realized that without the high gain option, setting the KoT to the "boost" setting pretty much matches the tones exactly and with more volume available if desired.
Side note for Mick, if you haven't tried a Mk III in a while try to borrow one. I recently picked one up again and it compares very favorably to my TS-1 in a slightly brighter way and with more gain and volume available when needed. Plugged into a Two-Rock 2x12 it sounds even better with SO many sounds available thanks to it's powerful tone knobs and graphic EQ.
That SG just looks so good on Dan
Waiting for an episode about new or more modern pedals.its been awhile since you've done a thorough episode focus on cool modulations, fuzzes and so on. Ahhh i now see u included the Keely Blues Disorder.. that counts as new modern pedal. Still more episodes that go deep into pedal comparisons are healthy for us gear nerds.
I’ve had a regular Blues Driver on my board for over 20 years. It’s great pedal.
I love my Browne Carbon (BB style pedal) together with my Vox AC15!!!
I have 2 Duke of tones now! Tiny!Sound awesome! I use one for boost, one for drive! The Keeleys are great, but I hate top mounted Jacks, you have to have special cables and sometimes the power jack has to be angled or straight depending on the closeness of the Jacks! Glad I bought the AT Overdrive, the red one, before they changed to this format. Get a Duke of tone on the show! So Dan can say " yeah, but there is something about my original King of tone" Lol
The hoboroadie has less than a half dozen amplifiers left on the necessity list, so that opens up the possibilities to include some more pedals, these are probably right up on the top of the list with the Klon.
I have a BD2 and it is one of those pedals that always go back to my board after i try some other fancier pedals. it works very well with my 5e3 deluxe (way less fizzy). super versatile pedal, go from clean boost to even a fuzz tone (tele middle position max gain guitar tone on 0)
Great video guys. Imo bd2 is great as a transparent boost, blues breaker for taking a broken up amp into the rich harmonics and feedback, hence the name, pairs well with an am beano boost, great for soloing. They’re all good, to me it’s all amp dependent. But with the bd2, I’d rather have a am modded tubescreamer or prince of tone and for the transparent boost thing OCD all day long.
39:00 I love that smooth buzzsaw tone with these pedals.
I love love love my BD-2w!
I love my Wazacraft Blues Driver. My Strats into my Deluxe Reverb through it make me very happy!
I'm sticking with the D&M Drive!
That's a coincidence, I just got a blues breaker yesterday😊🎉
Pretty sure you guys had an OG BB when you did your show on it comparing with KoT, Morning Glory, Pantheon, Snouse, etc. 🤔 Regardless, great show as always! BB is my all time favorite OD circuit
Great show, as always. Nomination for Colin at the Guitaristas as a guest please, fantastic chap
The Blues drive and the blue disorder for me thank you.
I have a BD2w and it is a great vertisale pedal . I even use it to get that 80's metal tone . I stack a BD-2w and a Prince of Tone through my signature Fillmore Boogie 50 (jk lol) , and it sounds Metallica'n circa 85-89 . Stacking pedals is a good way to create the tone you are looking for . But the key ingredient IMO is a Boss GE-7 in front . IMO OD/Dist are a snapshot . The EQ pedal gives you more control . IMO before you buy another OD/Dist pedal , buy a quality EQ pedal . The Boss GE-7 is great and affordable .
Just starting the video. I have an original year Blues Driver (didn't know that when I bought it and doesn't matter anyway) I use it as a clean/volume boost, on a clean channel then to push a drive channel to really overdrive/distortion.
Great video guys! As always. Have you seen the Marshall Jtm studio over there? I just got one and man it would be great in comparison to the deluxe reverb or a two small amp combo. It actually is clean for quite a while. And I have a deluxe reverb too. Maybe a good comparison on how to use it with pedals?
Thanks dudes! That Bluesbreaker is nasty!
BD-2 has been my favorite drive pedal for several years. Let's see if you can change my mind.
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Thanks for this. I wanted to know this stuff.
Great episode! How about the Browne Carbon as a modern “blue” pedal?
thank fuzz it's friday!
Ok I need that on a T-shirt now
I was using a friend's Guvnor pedal back in the 90s , and a solid state Peavey Amp that some how I connected it to a Big Crate cabinet, and to us it sounded like Scott Ian's sound . By today's standards it probably sounded like Donkeys Doings .
Keeley BD2 all day. Strat and semi-hollow body w / Humbuckers
9:57 Is the reason a blues breaker style pedal is a always on pedal on strats for me. It's such a big difference in sound, especially hearing it live.
I might be ever so slightly biased, but I'd choose the Couch Electronics Baker's Dozen.
Literally got bb and bd clones in the mail today. Spooky 🎃
Personally I’d go get a boss angry driver and have a blues driver and a distortion lol
As a lover of low gain, the way to go is the bluesbreaker, with boost pedals either side…. Oh, that’s a KOT 😂
Both of these circuits sound fantastic into gained up amps, just a heads up. Oh, and keep the tone knob on the Blues Driver below 10:00, anyone struggling with the fizz.
BD-2 is fizzy. Maybe the BD-2w custom setting fixes that? Asking for a friend.
Nope, it’s fizzy. I mean the Waza version. I have it and don’t use it because it’s too fizzy.
But check out the Keely super phat mod pedal - it’s like the BD2 without the fuzz. I have that pedal too.
Dan, re: the subscriber thing. It's worth mentioning that every now & then UA-cam kicks people off subscriptions. There's no rhyme or reason, they just cancel your subscription. It might be worth asking people who THINK they have subbed to check & confirm (I know this to be true 'cos it happened to me!).
This is amazing, Informacion, thank you so much, mate. I will do.
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May I ask please? What's the Lester? Standard or R7 or something else? Thanks!
Dan’s is a Custom Shop R8, not exactly sure what designation. Mine is a CS True Historic 57 Goldtop, Murphy Aged (pre Murphy Lab). Cheers!
@@ThatPedalShow I see now that you mention it in the description... Was a bit too much into the video. Glorious guitar and tones... I played my R7 through a small Marshall combo (5W) and a reissue BB and it was g-l-o-r-i-o-u-s. Now into more Zendrive-y stuff. Thanks!
love BB style pedals ...wampler pantheon, kasleder toxic twins and the New halcyon are my favorits😊
but the dry control in the halcyon is useless in my opinion because I hear and feel no difference! What's the point origin effects?😊
I had a Blues Driver and numerous other drive pedals. I got a Snouse Blue Line Pro and have never looked back…
Afternoon gents!
Always been a bluesbreaker man but curious to know if I should add a BD-2 additionally to the collection!
I mostly live under a rock, but a few years ago I was at a friend's show, and noticed that both he and the lead guitarist had Tims, Klons, and Blues Drivers on their boards.
In my mind now, that is the core of a professional rig, and it seems like it has been proven.
@@hoboroadie4623 they’re industry standards for a reason! BB - TS10 is always instant win for me sometimes with a katana thrown in for good measure!
BOSS has started making the Waza Craft line in Taiwan!!! Be careful when buying if you care about that.
It kinda bothers me when I see comparisons where they items are adjusted and tweaked to get them to sound as much alike as possible. Huh??? That really doesn't tell me much. What I want to have happen is that each item is dialed in to it's best (and maybe even worst) ability at whatever it is that it can do.
I don't care how much this one can sound like that one.....
Put all 10 runners on the track, and then stagger their starting position so they all run side by side to finish pretty much the same. 🙂
I want he hear what these things can do to impress me by what they can offer- the best they've got to give.
That's a comparison experiment I can truly appreciate.
Thanks, guys.
All the pedals get a thorough run through, keep watching.
@@ThatPedalShow
I did watch.
I wasn't saying that you didn't give them a fair play.
I was just saying that, when comparison videos do that make-everything-sound-the-same thing, it doesn't really work for me.
And I do strongly agree with the comment about however many things a pedal might be great at, I'm just going to set it for what I want it to do its best, and I'll likely never touch the knobs again.
If a pedal can do 4 different things, all that I really want, I'll end up with 4 of that pedal, each with the pots frozen in position after 10 years. 🙂
Sorry for the lack of clarity in my comment before.
Dan, please, since you're Australian, are you aware that the best rock band in the world today is an Australian band called Amyl and The Sniffers?! Amy Taylor is a force of nature. They should get more exposure on guitar and music channels! Ok, off to enjoy today's video now.
I would pick a Thorpyfx Peacekeeper over these pedals anyday
every single guitar player should own a blues driver ... such a versatile and life saver pedal
Listening to the Blues Breaker and seeing the settings reminds me of my Way Huge Pork Loin. Do any of you pedal wizards know if that is Jeorge’s take on the Blues Breaker circuit?
Did a quick look to see. Definitely doesn't appear to be the case. I found one schematic (not sure how authentic) that looked like it is essentially 2 signal paths in parallel. One is based on the tube screamer topology and the other is what appears to be a pair of neve preamp style circuits cascaded one after the other and blended at the end with the TS. I can't be certain how accurate that is...but I can say for sure its not like either the BB or the BD
Good to know! The clean side of the parallel path is said to be based on a Neve preamp, but the only thing I knew about the drive circuit is that it’s soft clipping. Thanks!
For a modern matchup
King of tone vs carbon x
Curious what sets a Keeley modded BD apart from the BD2W? Thinking in relation to what Dan said at the end of the BD2 and BB section, especially given most of the section had the BD2W in the S mode (I may have missed some switching though!)
Should have been in S mode (standard) all the way. Keeley mods on older Blues Drivers, I think, was lower noise floor and great range of gain and tone? Maybe?
@@ThatPedalShow wasn’t that the goal of the BD2W though? Higher quality comments, slightly different circuit/tone, lower noise floor, etc. with the C mode also taming the high end etc.
Genuine curiosity, just to understand what in Dan’s opinion meant the Keeley modded B2 is his preference to the BB and BD2W, with BD2W being the close 3rd.
Doubt I’ll ever play a Keeley modded anything so I find this interesting 🙂
Yah, could be. Maybe he’ll chime in. I think because he spent 10 years with, it holds a special place. :0)
@@ThatPedalShow it’d be interesting for sure!
@@ThatPedalShow Feels like a missed opportunity, given you tried different modes on Keeley and Halcyon pedals. BD2w Custom mode please :) I got my BD2w for £100 secondhand and on balance prefer the Custom mode for low/mid gain and Standard mode for higher gain
The Roger Mayer Voodoo-1 of Michael Landau fame has the same style knobs as a BB and similarly low output. Anyone know if there’s any lineage in the circuits?
BD-2 all day every day always ON pedal
Why have a Boss Blues Driver when you can have the Boss OD3, which if I'm not mistaken, was their attempt at improving the Blues Driver... The OD3 must be one of the most underrated pedals of all time.
blues driver is such a sleeper pedal ... just cuz i doesnt do anything crazy i think ppl feel its a bit dull ...but its NOT
Sometimes I run through Bass amplifiers because of the less knobs.
Love my blues driver but I prefer my Kelley phat mod
Dan and Mick's chops have been improving recently 🎸
The Keeley all the way.
Yikes, I sold a UK BluesBreaker (and a UK made Guv'nor too) in 2013-ish for peanuts. Arg.
But if I still had 'em .. I'd keep 'em!
The BB sounded just magnificent in the hands of these top fellers ⭐⭐here.
I sold my original BB pedal for a small profit when they were on the rise about 6 years ago and it funded my KoT. So, can't complain.
38:38 = new host names
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the Breaker ain't a virgin no more
“Idiots for Tone”, “Gain Idiots”. Need a shirt or two. Stat.
Blues driver.
If you know how to use them, there good > 😂
Witch are cheaper 😂
Wizard are less cheaper?
No Snouse???
First!
It would be useful and informative to add Mooer Blues Mood and Blues Crab.
They all bring something to the table. Depending on your amplification, you'd be hard pressed not to find a setting on any that works for you. The tendencies of your amplifier/driver choice would dictate more as to which you'd choose. Maybe more than the guitar of choice.