Blues Breaker Clone Shootout: Xotic BB-Preamp vs BB-Preamp Andy Timmons vs Mythos Daedalus
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2018
- Seth compares three popular Blues Breaker-inspired pedals: The Xotic BBP, The Xotic BBP-AT and the Mythos Daedalus.
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The OG BB is not a BluesBreaker, but it is my favorite pedal here. I love the way those pronounced upper-mids cut through a mix.
Good information my bb preamp and jhs morning glory are my favorite mid gain pedals.. now I know I should try a blues breaker
Thank you so much for the video! Told me exactly what I wanted to know. My local guitar shop has a sale on, the AT bb less than half price (£210 down to £99!) and the orginal is full price. I think I'm going to go for the AT purely on the price plus I think it sounds a little better but very very similar.
The big advance of the Xotic BB preamp and the Xotic boosters is the Baxandall active tone circuit. These are the only od pedals that use that kind of circuit. A great feature.
I build all kind of od pedals so I can dream the schematics. lol
Wampler does.
I feel like the original B.B. preamp has a bit more upper mids. All the pedals sound sick though! Great vid!
From what I understand the AT is based on the OG Xotic BB preamp which was more compressed. The BB Comp has the original, newer, and a flat compression settings. So basically both pedals in one with an added flat compression. I recently bought the newer non-AT version BB preamp and still prefer my BB+. That’s the one to get IMO. But I’m keeping, using both for different reasons.
As noted, the Xotics are tubescreamer based. Great pedals tho.
No it's not.. completely different sound
I was talking to an Xotic sales guy and the guy who created it said he built it off the blues breaker.
congratulations for the video .. a curiosity .. but both bb preamps are so noisy when they are active?

Right off the bat, the original BB sounded way better than the new one. I can never understand when pedal companies come out with new versions of their old pedals and they make them sound worse than the originals. I've heard quite a few of them do this.
BB actually stands for Big British, a “bigger and beefier” preamp sound than the AC Boost and RC Boost.
is there a diffference between the BB Pre Amp and the Boss Blues Driver?
The blues driver is it's own unique circuit. The BB preamp is a tube screamer with a baxandall tone stack.
To me the mythos pedal sounds the most like a bluesbreaker which is the same thing as a jtm 45 just in a combo amp instead of head and cab
You're right that those two amps are the same, however the Marshall BluesBreaker pedal does not actually sound like the amp it's named after (though I'm sure that was the idea).
ALDER IS AN UPGRADE FROM ASH????HMMMM
Alder (I have like 6 and I base it on my own feelings) is a bit more balanced and compressed to my ears. Always nice and even, not offensive in any range. Ash has that nice snappy bounce to the notes (apologies for the poor description) bass and treble are accentuated. Both very good tone wood but very different. Swamp ash is more rare now a days though, but I would still generally prefer alder on Strats and ash on telecasters.
Nice demo, but the xotics BB"s have both nothing to do with a Marshall bluesbreaker. Complete different circuit.
Maybe Xotic meant more like the Bluesbreaker AMP as opposed to the Bluesbreaker pedal itself? Dunno just guessing lol
That could be right. But when it is ment as a amp emulator I can not hear a Marshall Bluesbreaker in it. Although this is a great sounding pedal and that is what counts.
Xotic have said that BB stands for Bluesbreaker and that their pedal is indeed based in the Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal circuit.
Edit. Xotic did publish that their pedal name was based on the Bluesbreaker. But I’ve since found out that the circuit is definitely not based on the Bluesbreaker circuit. Apologies - I was totally wrong in my above post.
Oke, I have a schematic of the BB preamp and the Marshall bluesbreaker in front of me and nothing shows that they are the same or similar. Total different electronic circuit !
@@hegartyj1 Wrong. If you look at the Xotic Schematic its a Tubescreamer based with Baxandall tone circuit. nothing like the soft clipped Bluesbreaker circuit.
Love your videos but the BB stands for Big British, meant to boost British amps over the top like a tubescreamer, just with less of a mid emphasis. Definitely not a bluesbreaker
Pretty sure the BB stands for blues breaker, but not the amp, rather the old Marshall blues breaker pedal everyone is starting to clone nowadays
The AT is not the orriginal
Dude you're like "Oh I have a Nash I love these guitars"...What???? It's a fuckin' Telecaster, I don't care how you cut it it's a Telecaster...it's weird because you're acting like you have this never before seen or heard mythical guitar but it's not...Don't get me wrong I love Teles especially mine but it's a Tele...You Americans are so caught up on brands. Take a VW Beetle and give it a boutique name, put a 150 thousand buck price tag on it and everybody in the US will want one. Sheeeesh...and Canadians are the same.
You seem to be reading too much into the words, "I really like these guitars."
umm.....wut?
The BB preamp is not a Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal clone. The Bluesbreaker is a soft clipper and the BB preamp is a transistor style overdrive, Amp in a box style.