Unsung Overdrive Pedals That We Love [Lovepedal, Analogman, Barber, J Rockett, Boss, Z-Vex]
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- There are SO many great overdrives out there - here are six of our unsung faves
Welcome to the show! At the last count, we had approximately N+1 overdrive pedals. N being equal to a number we don’t actually know. But it must be //at least// 200. How on Earth do you choose from that lot? And how do you choose what to buy in first place?
We have no idea. But here are six overdrive pedals that we would regard as somewhat unsung; perhaps not as popular as they ‘should’ have been. Some are still available new, and you can also pick ’em up used!
Happy hunting, and happy OD tones!
Please enjoy the show…
NOTE: The newer J Rockett HRM V2 is slightly different as it turns out… even more Dumbly! Can’t wait to get one!
Pedals & Stuff in this episode
• TheGigRig Three2One
www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Sonic Research Turbo Tuner ST-200
Australia: bit.ly/3AIinS5
• Lovepedal Purple Plexi
www.lovepedal.com/purple-plexi/
• Barber Electronics Tone Press EQ (custom order)
www.barberelectronics.com/
• Boss SD-2 - no longer made
• J Rockett Hot Rubber Monkey V1- Links to newest version (which is improved!)
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/75OEA3
• Analogman-mod Maxon OD-9 with Bad Bob Booster
www.buyanalogman.com/Maxon_OD...
• ZVEX ’59 Sound
www.zvex.com/guitar-pedals/59...
• Boss DM-101
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3s8xq6v
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/PyVeoq
• TheGigRig G3
www.thegigrig.com/g3
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing
2:40 What are we doing today?
4:09 Today’s six pedals
4:48 Lovepedal Purple Plexi intro
6:14 Today’s amps
7:45 Lovepedal Purple Plexi sounds
12:22 Maxon OD-9 With Bad Bob intro
14:45 Maxon OD-9 With Bad Bob sounds
21:22 Barber Tone Pump EQ intro
23:39 Barber Tone Pump EQ sounds
28:43 J Rockett HRM intro
30:32 J Rockett HRM sounds
37:05 Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive intro
38:45 Boss SD-2 Dual Overdrive sounds
45:30 ZVEX ’59 intro
47:02 ZVEX ’59 Sound sounds
54:30 All on!
Guitars in today’s episode
• 1965 Fender Telecaster - Dan’s video here: • Pimp Your Vintage Guit...
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop. Murphy Aged - no video yet
• Cutler Custom Guitars Panama Classic ((Dean Cutler came to a TPS Experience Day and left one of his builds with us. We’re ordering one to keep but being hopelessly slow about it)
/ cutler_custom_guitars
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: • Three New Strats For M...
• Gibson Memphis 1958 ES-335 - Mick’s video here: • Gibson Memphis 1958 ES...
• Gibson USA SG Standard ’61 Maestro Vibrola - no video yet
Amps in today
• 1979 Fender Bassman 70 & Zilla Custom 112 with WGS12L speaker
• Matchless C-30 & 212 ESD with one Celestion G12M Greenback and one Celestion G12H Anniversary
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Fridays aren't complete without you guys...thank you for your amazing work!
Our pleasure! 🤓🙏
Really appreciate Dan's love for LOVEPEDAL. Been using their overdrives exclusively for over a decade. Especially my trusty Eternity.
Anyone else can just sit and listen to these two play and talk about gear all day. Mick your guitar playing your low key amzing! Phenomenal guitar playing. Your not given enough credit. Really dig it guys! Have been watching ya'll from very beginning love the show.
Thanks so much 🤓🙏
I just love this show! I look forward to it every week and go back and watch older episodes. It’s my absolute favorite CZcams show. I really enjoy how you both work with the pedals and amps and describe what you are looking for them to do. It gets me to go back and tweak mine. Also, I think you do a better job demoing pedals than most videos the makers have on their sites. A lot of their demos are over produced. Carry on!
Thanks Scotty 🤓🙏
Barber Electronics is so underrated in general. Tone Press (lol) comp is awesome. The Small Fry Dumble style pedal, Direct Drive, and LTD are all amazing in their own right.
Fully agreed, David Barber deserves more recognition than he has had over the years. He basically brought NY-style parallel compression to the pedal world, and how many companies have copied that in the two decades since, it's pretty much everyone! Plus, his dirts are just fantastic. I LOVE the B-Custom ULTD he made me last year. Definitely getting another Barber this fall!
I've had at least one Barber in my collection since I first saw em on @Gearmandude channel in 2008. Tone Press & Gain Changer are a couple of great ones, out of many. Burn Unit, UnLTD, 1/2 Gainer all good.
Watched this yesterday and haven't stopped thinking about those sounds Mick was getting with the 59 Sound... truly, truly epic.
Everything sounded good and then I heard the '59 and d*mn, that's THE sound.
YES! Barber Electronics is a brand I've had on the board for the last decade. The Gain Changer (original and SR) and Direct Drive are two of the best I've ever played. Thank you Dan and Mick, for giving Dave Barbers legendary overdrive designs the credit it deserves!
My Gain Changer SR is Going-to-the Grave with me. ( by far ) my Favorite OD for a Strat into a Princeton.
@@michael_caz_nyc yessir, mine too. And probably my direct drive as well. The Gain changer has been my main drive sound since I started gigging. The original and now the SR. Love it with a strat, tele, PRS, anything!
Fun, fun episode! Loved the interesting array of pedals chosen. Looks like they were the source of inspiration for some terrific guitar playing. Wow! Mick and Dan, y’all just keep getting better and better. I continue to be blown away by the harmonic complexity and richness of the music you create. Dan on the SG cascading through all of the pedals at the end of episode was psychedelically amazing. Thank you!
..and I thought it was only me that used to drool while practicing :) Great show guys. You should try the gain changer and direct drive from Barber - great pedals, incredible combo together.
Great job as always. You can never have too many drive pedals. I love having multiple brands on my board as I feel like it gives you the most variety as many companies have different approaches to gain pedals. Cheers. Have a great weekend.
SO stoked to see the Purple Plexi!! It's maybe my favorite of the type. It give so much of "that sound" in your head but retains the dynamics like few others. Cheers!!
SD2 was the first pedal I ever bought as a teenager, second hand in 1997. Still use it all the time. great pedal!
I love when Dan went for a loose scratchy style when playing the '59 Sound and Mick matched him! You guys just keep getting better and more adventurous. And the noise solo at the end!
Zvex '59 Sound is a BoR with some modified cap & resistor values. Same topology, killer tone. Zvex doesn't get as much love these days, but his pedals are classic.
A Bassman 70 was one of my first really good amps! Really nice to hear one again. If you guys ever run across a 15" cabinet, definitely try it with one -- I had 2x15s and it sounded HUGE.
Also pleased to finally see some Barber on here. If you guys ever do another "MIAB" shootout definitely grab the Direct Drive for that. I was truly blown away by that one when I had it.
The Zvex ‘59 sounds incredible. Rich and articulate…and the most natural and realistic amp gain of all the drives. Loved it…especially the playing that did it justice. Thx!
Wow, that SG takes Dan into serious AKA DAKA mode. Great show! Love the moded maxon and the 59! Thanks guys for inspiring tones.
Wow.. Friday has come around quickly this week. And what a treat. Cheers guys. Some very nice pedals. I have the purple plexi and is one of my go to pedals..always on my board. And when it's cranked to gig level.its glorious. What a way to start the weekend. A great video and a gig sat night.. life is glorious .
Such a fun episode on a great bunch of OD pedals, great playing but both of you and Mick you rule and drool 🎸🤤
Great show! Incredible playing and tones!!
Thought they all sounded fantastic, largely due to you both being able to dial in the tasty tones with the tasty playing 🙌
I think Dan and I had the same reaction when the Zvex was kicked in. Almost got whiplash turning my head back towards the screen! What a wicked sound. F'kin glorious.
That was fun guys! I loved Mick's look when Dan was playing those cool runs at about 41:25 mark! Also loved the sounds Mick got out of that '59 Sound with his strat! Wow what a tone! Thanks guys!
Cheers mate 🤓🙏
Some of the best playing I’ve heard on this channel and that is saying a lot!
I've had a myriad of OD's but honourable mentions must go to the J.Rockett Holdsworth drive & the Xotic Soul Driven Ltd AH. Amazing pedals which stack brilliantly. Great show BTW.
Always loved the big black Barber Tone Press compressor as an effect/ tone sculpturerer for bass on certain songs (live).
I had one for a couple of years until it got stolen at a gig (stupid me). The dry mix was just great! Loved it to bits!!
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Wonderful stuff! Reminds me of the old pedal shed episodes from the early days…..AND a classic all on to boot - chappo, team.
“Volume is tone.” - EVH.
I agree. Mick here.
Thanx for demo ing all these awesome pedals and providing all the links. I need to get some.
Cheers 👍
That ZVex 59 is absolutely fabulous. It absolutely stole the show for me. What a sound 🤤
Second favourite was then OD9 modded. It does all I like from overdrive. Add something more to your existing sound, instead of cutting it away and stomping all over it (what sadly the SD2 did there for my ears)
FINALLY! I wondered if I was the only oddball with a Boss SD-2 lol. I also ran in to the same feelings about the pedal sound wise as Mick is describing.. I found that I used the Crunch channel on very low gain as a sort of Blues Driver equivalent, and I had to roll the top end off the lead channel to get a creamy lead type sound out of it, but I was never quite in love with the pedal.. I always loved the concept of the pedal and how compact it was, having two completely independent analog drive sounds in it, and I was able to use it to decent effect with my slimmed down combo and a couple pedals thrown in the back of it club gig setup in the early 2000's. But it was never really what I hoped it would be for me.
This was a great episode, I love when you guys dip into the vault for stuff off the beaten path!
Mick rocking with the Purple Plexi blew my mind! Wonderful sounds!
Wonderful tones! 20 seconds into hearing Dan play the Purple Plexi I had to put Thin Lizzy "Jailbreak" on the HiFi and crank the volume, then I returned to the video. The ZVEX '59 Sound with the Strat had a tone I can't resist. Thanks for the inspiration and education. Peace and....Cheers
Outstandingly great episode, not to mention LovePedal Plexi was on the board, that and the Tchula are my favorite to use with my Telecasters
I’ve fallen in love with love pedals drives the past year or so. The zen drive and the Tchula I don’t think will ever leave my board. Both fantastic. Also been a fan of the Dover drive and the COT50 in the past. But Sean’s pedals are pretty killer. And if your in his email list when he has sales you can get them super cheap too!
My eyes dribbled at the outro! Glad to see you can still surprise each other.
Yes maaate! This lights up my Saturday morning, cheers!
Cheers chaps, lovely drives, lovely Butters, lovely Mick and Dan. Lovely.
Just received my first couple of tps t shirts! Wonderful packaging guys! I'll be back for more tps goodies.
The Tone Press is great. It was my first compressor pedal with a clean blend control. Great pedal and it was moderately priced.
Wow. Some of the best Tone I have heard on the Tube. Especially towards the end.
Best finish Eva! Nice 1 Dan!! Purple Plexi is awesome... Would be good to do a Plexi pedal show .. also a Tweed one ? .. looking forward
I have the SD-2 on my pedalboard since I was 16 (29 years ago) I ‘ve had a love and hate relationship with it but in the end it’s all love and stacks perfectly with my ts-9 tubescreamer ! Amazing pedal!
It is a good stacker. I wish I had known this in the late 90's. I probably would have kept it and saved the trouble of tracking one down. It took me years.
The ALL ON! outro is how everyone should start their Friday morning 🤘
00:00 - 02:35/52:29 - 53:52 Just plain wonderful. Thank you, Gents!
Dan,Barber overdrives are addicting.Prepare to want more.I totally recommend a Gain Changer SR.
You know you want one!
I remember staring up helplessly from my foxhole when my overdrive pedal reached down and pulled me up, slung me over it's back like an old acoustic and ran me through the maelstrom to safety! Cheers Dan and Mick!!
Time to dust off the SD-2 and give it another shake... Always likes the lead mode, but never got the crunch mode sounding that good! Bravo guys, great episode!
Thanks for the new video.
I'm still a bit surprised that the Greer Southland is not one of either Dan nor Mick's favourite. 😊
Just a few minutes in so far and the Bad Bob into the Bassman has stolen my heart.
You can kind of blend the channels on the sd-2, using an expression pedal you can get a yellow setting and that's one hell of a sound!
You guys need to show the REVV G2 some love. That thing is really versatile, including great low gain. Love the show btw.
Such nice playing in this one! I know this is mainly a channel for guitar, but I've just discovered how great my guitar overdrive pedals sound on lead synth! So far my favourites for this are the Big Muff and Rat! Just wish they were stereo 😊
Great Show! I for a tweed type of overdrive for a bit and ended up liking the Benson Preamp - which I know is not exactly a tweed type of OD. I Would be great to see it featured! Cheers!
Mick, I'm sure the comments are full of recommendations, but since you liked the Barber, I really encourage a look at his Gain Changer SR. It's kind of an OD, kind of a boost, and kind of an EQ sculptor; it maxes out at a loooovely thick soupy medium drive ... and then with the gain switch set High, but the gain knob nearly off, it's the single most "transparent" pedal I've ever heard. Almost eerily so. It's the single best thing I've ever found for boosting into a pedal or amp for "same but more!," and it's also incredible serving as a pre-EQ for pedal/amp combinations that struggle otherwise. Anything that makes a Big Muff sound glorious into an AC15 is an object of religious significance. (And I think you in particular would love his Burn Unit drive too: it's squarely in the Dumble/Mark I Boogie ballpark, but it retains an astonishing amount of clarity and dynamics. Personally I think David Barber is the best gain pedal designer on Earth.)
Nice little nod to the Badloves there Dan on the Plexi demo 😊
Ah, perfect timing, I pick my AnalogMan OD-9 with BB in just over a week! Likely just as you're wrapping up VCQs I would imagine... standing there in the flesh with Mike and gang! To say I'm excited is an understatement...
Thanks for the video. The Boss pedal is stackable with the foot switch which can be really interesting and bring top end to the lead channel.
The Dumble HRM (Hot Rodded Marshall) is a Dumble design which includes a Marshall-voiced, post-gain tone stack (via a trio of internal trim pots) for the overdrive channel.
Thrilled you finally have a Barber on the show!
You're madmen! Both of you, amazing rock playing today.
i have an analogman od9 silver mod with bad bob. important to know that though it is in an od9 enclosure his mods turn it into a 808. whether it is the silver or standard mod, it's an 808 circuit. the silver mod is amazing. all the mids of a TS but doesn't shelve off the highs and lows so much
Lovely tones in here this week
Absolutely loved Dan’s craziness at the end!!😂
Such a great episode! Love the ending lol.
Delays, phasers, flangers even compressers I can, in time, make my choices. However, OD pedals for me are infinitely bewildering, largely because they are fundamental to the accent of the sound you're trying to express yourself with. It's a when-you- know-you-know thing that can take years and ....years ....and etc 💥
I love this show! Would be lovely to have an update on your boards, what do you have on now?
More is more! Long live That Pedal Show !
MaxOn, MaxOff... Brilliant 😂
Who of the crew is making the thumbnails nowadays? They're just killer. I really like the mood they convey and they look so pleasant. Makes me want to click every time (as if I hadn't before).
Thanks Yuppi, that would be Micky Magic 🪄
@@ThatPedalShow they just pop up in the feed, impossible to miss and you always know which channel it is. Eye for aesthetics definitely not wasted.
I have an OD-9 with BB as well, opted not to get the OD-9 part modded which sort of makes it more versatile - classic mid hump TS while the Bob does sparkly boost. Definitely a pedal you could bring on its own to a jam.
Fantastic. After so many years (7, 8 years?) doing what you do, you made a HUGE database of information to us. But now you reached that kind of crossroads: What to show next? What to test from now on? Still, I am always keep waiting for the fridays. Keep going on, mates...
Do you accept a suggestion? There are some amplifiers similar to the Bassman/JTM45 unsung, like Laney,, etc...How about compare some of them? Just a humble suggestion...
You know it's a good ep when it ends with Mick's fingers in his ears!
It’s been a hard road having you guys out the last two Mondays.
It will be interesting to see if you guys spike the Barber prices (or as Dan says Bah Bah 🐑). I think the Tone Pump EQ is the dual version of the Tone Pump and the one you have is simply the Tone Pump.
Hope to see you Monday!
Every Time you do a show - and from the start til now - I think it's the best Friday ever! I am a hopeless new romantic, so I get it. I love you and I am always more happy with your playing than my own! If you both know what a New Romantic is, that's enough for me. LOL. Thank you for being so creative and finding new ways to make life and music awesome! Love!!!!!
So glad to see the DM-101 on the board😊
Thank you so much for all the wonderful content from TPS! I’ve been a fan for years and your knowledge and expertise have been an inspiration for me. But it still bothers me that the MIGHTY GIBSON FLYING V has never made an appearance whatsoever in your show. What??? BTW, I’ve bought your merch!😁🤘🏻
The HRM into Klon side of the Imperium is my favourite high gain lead sound of all my pedals. I can never keep it off for long
I had an SD-2 in the mid 90's. I sold it to get something else but missed it sooooo much.
I didn't really like the crunch mode much in my original run with it but loved the lead circuit. I was using solid state Peavey amps back then.
I bought another about 20 years later, roughly 2017 and now, with tube amps I love the crunch. I also learned about stacking pedals around this time and the crunch mode stacks well with everything I have tried.
That J. Rockett HRM sounds just great!!
Whether you'll see this or not, but I hope Dan does. The SD-2 can have both channels on at the same time, and i think it ends up being in parallel, not series, so a very cool sound. You have to put an expression pedal in the remote socket, not a volume (although i've never tried with a volume as i've never owned one...). The light turns an orangey yellow - both LEDs on at the same time. I'm in the process of making a switch box that can switch between Crunch / Lead / Both. There's a guy on youtube who shows the signal chain for it, just search "SD-2 secret Yellow Channel". A super cool pedal, glad to see it getting some love!
Awesome! Thanks so much 🤓👍
If I remember right, you use an expression pedal or a stereo volume pedal or something and it allows you to blend the tones.
Tons of great Rock & Blues Tones, equally Epic. Thx
i use a Barber LTD a lot . one favorite pedal that i've never seen on your show is the Reverend Drivetrain version 1 .
Loved my Turbo Overdrive. Lasted me ages. Oh those simple days before wet/dry and 76 drives and boosts on the shelf. Blissful ignorance. Now happy GASing.
Love this episode! The sounds you all got were fantastic.
I have a convoluted idea for a show that you may or may not have already done: Marshall amp with a cranked Fender style pedal vs. Fender amp with a cranked Marshall style pedal. Which setup would you rather have?
Weird, but interesting....
I have that Analogman silver mod with the Bad Bob. It’s easily the most-used pedal I have. It takes up one spot and sounds great with everything.
I have the TV mod and BB. Sometimes I wish I tried the Silver mod to get a bit more sparkle in the upper mids. I tend to have to run the tone higher with some amps not to have it lose high end.
@@scottcurry4116 Maybe I need to look into a similarly modded SD-1. Love it but it just isn't anywhere near as loud as my other ODs on its own. With a SHO after it, it's great. Maybe a Bad Bob would work similarly?
Man, at the end, i was hoping we were gonna get a bit of that Barber and Purple Plexi together 😮. That sounded for a moment, glorious
I’ve had a couple of SD-2s for quite a. I did mod one of them a bit with some help from the old Wampler book. Hope we get a chance to see what you get out of it. I can’t remember how mine did. Guess I’ll check
Incredible conclusion to this episode
My personal hero is the TC Nova Drive. While not super old, I still think it was ahead of its time: Analog TS style and Rat style circuits in one box with A > B, B > A and parallel routing options, clean blend on the TS side, fully programmable with presets and MIDI capabilities.
Yeah, it’s pretty great 👍
Sold mine, it was very noisy.
Great to see Barber getting some more love!
I have the Lovepedal Englishman 15/30 which is supposed to emulate a Vox on the edge of breakup. It is just an incredible pedal. Some great pedals from Lovepedal.
I run Fjord Berserk, Waza Fuzz, Superconductor, Barber Gain Changer then Studio Daydream silver klon and will say the two fuzz that clean up covers whichever tone guitar you have. The EQs of Barber and Klon assist in any other situation
Wow, Dan. Mad insane epic finish!
Team Dribble here! 😊
But it’s true! Sometimes you get so lost in the playing, in trance mode, and your jaw gets slack and you forget to breathe properly. Your head is down, and you dribble.
That Barber Tone Pump sounds brilliant! And here I was thinking I don’t need any more pedals for the time being … ahh who am I kidding 😂!
12:22 oh thank the gods. I was gettin’ a little wigged out with Mick’s guitar choices for a minute. 😅
I believe Purple Plexi as a phrase came from George Lynch's main solo amp from his Dokken/Early Lynch Mob days. It was a hot rodded plexi with a purple skin on it!
Bethel CT you say? Thats so cool, I live 70miles east of Bethel in a small town called Norwich. Lots of History here Thanks to you lot, ever hear of Benedict Arnold? His homestead once stood at the foot of the hill I live on. MAn, hope you enjoyed your stay here in the Nutmeg state. Cheers.
Those notes were just singing in that intro,man that sounded great