man that sounds so full, forward, and punchy! Really great tone! I love how when you went from the clean to a boost it actually sounded like the original clean tone just with some distortion added to it as opposed to just being a completely different sound.
This is exactly what I have been wanting. A Bassman, Plexi, and Soldano in one compact pedal, with tube power. With my cab sim and pedalboard, I don’t need anything else now.
If it has cab emulation on xlr out, do you really need the cab m+ as well? Or do you prefer the option to choose preferred cab voice vs. whatever the revolt has?
@@glennw3909 The cab emulation on the Revolt, as with everything else on the unit, is analogue, and you're limited to that one simulation of a marshall 4 x 12. If it works for you then great, no need for the Cab M.
Everyone seems to be upset that they didn't include the Cab M in this device, but it would've driven the cost way, way up and for ppl who already have a Cab M- why should they need to buy it again? I think they were smart to make it where you could use any can sims you want- not just Two Notes stuff. And I also think it was wise not to run the price up twice as high as it already is- 350$ for an amp in a box pedal is pretty steep already.
Because of brand identity. When you buy something from Two Notes you naturally assume it conservatively has an IR loader. Also because a lot of digital pedal amps (Iridium, ACS1, the UA amp pedals) naturally have IR/Cab sim baked in. (Noting the difference between digital vs analog pedal amps) Without an IR loader they are really just competing with other analog preamp pedals like the line by Victory, not all-in-one pedal amp solutions. (Which have become entirely more popular than preamp pedals imo) I suppose we’ll see how receptive the market is to this long term.
@@brucesguitardemos8197 If that's the case then why would they release the Two Notes Captor X attenuator in a pedal format? That was the release before this one- they re-released their hottest product in a pedal format. Which totally makes the attenuator redundant. And how would including the cab sims in this release "date" them? That makes no sense whatsoever. If anything, it would make the captor X seem more up to date- it's included in a brand-new release Afterall.
Definitely! The total Amazon price for the preamp and cab sim is $570, which is totally a steal, but with the added bonus that my budget can enjoy the preamp while I'm waiting a month to save for the cab sim!
I’ve spent a day with this pedal, and have been impressed. Running it into the power section of the Terror Stamp, as well as in 4C mode with the Roland JC-40. It works very well with the effects from HX Stomp as well. Cab sims aren’t my thing. But, it’s nice to have the option. Can’t wait to rehearse and gig with this.
Can you explain the benefit of running this in 4CM with the JC-40? Is it to bypass the JC's preamp? I've struggled to get a sound I love with dirt pedals into the JC and wondered if this method would be the way to get that tube warmth I'm missing.
@@tomedwards81 I love the JC for cleans. But dirt is not its strength. So, using the revolt in 4CM, I can get a classic edge-of-breakup tone, as well as overdriven tones (and even my terrible version of high-gain that stays in my living room). The power amp of the JC is very clean, and interacts well with the Revolt. I’m my 25 years of playing, bouncing from Bugera to Hot Rod Deluxe to Dean Markley to Marshall Origin to OR15 to Victory Duchess, and JC40/22, this is by far my favorite setup.
What a wonderful piece of gear. Two Notes kicked ass with the Captor X, and now they're kicking ass once again with the Revolt. Holy cow. This & a CabM+ and you're good. Looking forward to the Revolt Bass demo even if I'm a guitar player in the first place. And yeah reaaaaally cool in depth review as usual with you guys. You rock, keep on going. Or rocking, that is. Cheers !
Been waiting for you guys to do this vid, I knew you would look at all the things I was keen on knowing and wasn't disappointed. Now to decide if I want to go down this route or stick to my Marshall and pedalboard haha
That sounds amazing, wow. I currently use an HX stomp with a line sent to front of house and another line with no amp/cab going to my amp. I'm considering dropping that and using one of these into the stomp running cab sim and wet effects
I have the Cab M+ (cab simulator) from Two Notes and use it for recording directly into an interface and I use a bunch of various pedals along with it and it sounds amazing. I've been looking for some kind of singular pedal/device with multiple amp models to cut down on the number of pedals in the chain that goes before the Cab M+ so it looks like I may be getting another Two Notes pedal soon!
Who remembers the Tubeman? :) DI out sounds really good, amp return too harsh for "my liking" but i'm not in the room or with a band, so probably translates differently there. But DI sounds REALLY good, just a hint on the "fuzz" side at higher gain? Interesting drive tone.
Analog is always used as a positive marketing term, but in terms of cab sim, digital is better. Especially Two Notes' own digital cab sim technology lol Sounds instantly better as soon as they use the 4CM.
I was looking at something like this for ages and ended up going with the Pod Go which I then sold and got a HX stomp which served me well for the last year and now I have just got the big helix.
I had their Le Crunch pedal for a while. The Cold and Hot Fusion mode was very awesome. I sold it after I got my Strymon Iridium (which I love very much) but wish I also kept the Le Crunch.
The fusion mode is excellent. And mid sweep also. I can not understand why they would remove these essential features. Tbh, I believe I will be returning the revolt and keeping my Le Lead. For reasons stated above, plus the mids are out of control on the Revolt, even when cut. And the treble is in the 16k frequency range, it really hurts. I cant get a nice tone without an EQ in the loop. I prefer the cleans on Le Lead too. I'll switch out the preamp tube and see if it's better but at this point, kinda disappointed.
good evening, I have a question to ask you, from the revolt-cab M+ connection go to the sound card and we listen to this, right? while you in the room how do you listen? what is the connection from the toredo cab m?
Looking forward for this one to arrive :D I was impressed with the demos that went around NAMM and had to preorder when I saw it on Andertons. I think it's actually the only guitar gear that I've ever thought about preordering.... The 4 cable method is absolutely amazing
Yeah I love it when I'm in my house and I'm switching cabinets you see that's because I'm putting the dishes and other pots and pans into the cabinets that I just took out of the dishwasher but think I need to utilize speaker cabinet variations when I am ripping on my axe just to go wow I never knew that existed just like when I find that extra space when I'm trying to stuff everything in the cabinets after everything has been cleaned and ready to go for the next cooking expose! I guess I have to figure out how to do this in my little mini studio
As a cab m owner, it's a fantastic product that I recommend to buy regardless. I'm a little bit disappointed not because they didn't offer the cab m technology built in but because there's no midi interaction between the Revolt and cab m.
@@FaberGT86 yes, that's true. I have the Boss-IR200 ...but a separate IR loader without midi it's not so cool. This is the reason why I use the UAFX Dream an the Ruby. Very easy to handle 😉 ...and the dream is a very good pedal platform. I wish UAFX also make a plexi amp pedal!
That's why I immediately lost interest because the platform itself doesn't support impulse responses. So either they are stupid or they just want you to buy more stuff from them.
I've been watching videos on this and the Simplifier, Quilter Superblock, etc. and so far this one sounds the best to me overall. But yes, a comparison video would be helpful.
2 Notes is great, they make great stuff. Price wise it's not too bad...wish they used noiseless foot switches though. Get with the times guys! I was doing some recording once, and I had to switch something, can't remember what it was now it's been so long, and that loud click actually got picked up on the recording. So I had to scratch the track and do it over with my pedals as far from any mics as possible. Noiseless switches would have made that a lot easier!
One of your better videos guys. I don't agree with you Anderton guys that the 4 cable method is the best way to use ReVolt with a high quality tube amp like a Soldano, Mesa or Marshall. As great as the ReVolt might be we shouldn't expect a $399 preamp pedal to compete with the tones from any of these amps. I certainly don't expect it too. So if you added it to your Mesa or Soldano preamps the drop in quality would be instant and you just wouldn't use it. 4 cable method is viable though used with an SS amp that has a loop.
Ross from Two notes here. There is one analogue Cab Sim in the unit, however we also include Wall of Sound software and a collection of 10 DynIRs so you can explore more tonal possibilities in a studio setting!
Great review! Are there Multichannel preamp Alternatives that you can run in 4CM that could compete with this unit soundwise!? Im looking to enhance my amp, any suggestions that would help me much, thx
On the channels: American Clean, and British Crunch, are self explanatory, but the Modern Lead channel is less so. AFAIK, the Lead channel is based on a Soldano, so this video has quite a bit of an inception vibe going on.
Hey lads, just wondered if you could do a video running this pedal using the 4 cable method into some amps? Amps like Fender Hot Rod Deluxe or any of the bog-standard Blackstar amps. Just a thought.
Assuming this would work directly into a power amp? Just got a fryette PS100 to use as an attenuator and DI with some louder heads… but am thinking a preamp like this or the victory V4s + the ps100 = awesomeness for both live rig and DI for the studio. Any reason this ‘revolt’ or the V4 preamps (not the new ones with the hybrid power section) wouldn’t work?
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I was so pumped once I saw (and heard!) the first few minutes, especially after the time it took for Two Notes to bring out an updated alternative to the Le Preamp series (I personally own the Le Crunch), that suits the need of the modern guitarist. I'm left quite disappointed, however, since the one thing they should've added was customizability of the DI OUT Sim, but they didn't. Why shouldn't we be able to pick an IR different than the one that's included in the analog box of the pedal stock? They already include 10 great free cab sims, why can't I just plug the ReVolt into my laptop and be able to select another cab for my gig that potentially suits me better and save it in. I get that they want you to buy the additional CAB M pedal and their other products, but holy hell, it's been so long and the feature that was most requested didn't make it once again. If the selling point is that you can choose different cabs for recording in the studio and have some flexibility there I then say, I'm sorry there are far better solutions out there (Neural DSP, Amplitube, STL Tones just to name a few) to recording straight in. This couldn've really attracted many customers who would love flexibility for their live sound just from that one box. Big L in my eyes, unfortunately...
Hi Chris, Ross from Two notes here. Our aim with ReVolt was to provide an all analog solution for a stellar foundation tone, all housed in a simple to use format. Adding DynIR into the fold would have resulted in not only a considerably larger unit, but we felt it would detract from the all-analog mission statement we set out with. There are plenty of IR loaders out there - including our C.A.B. M+ - and we feel the assortment of inputs and outputs makes this the perfect solution to integrate into any hardware configuration. If you have any questions, dont hesitate to reach out!
@@RossDaviesTwoNotes hey Ross! Totally appreciate your response! Yeah after I thought about it for some time I see that point from your side as product developers. Something in between would’ve been great though, maybe I’m still thinking a bit too much from the customer side. Of course I still need to hear the cab sim in person to decide for myself if I like it enough to live with it in all sounds or not. That’s just my initial reaction though, I hope you take it as constructive criticism and not in any negative way, sorry if it sounded a little emotional. Looking forward to seeing what you guys bring to the table next and hey, who knows, I might like it after all! Cheers!
@@chrisbistrishki Thanks for getting back to me. We LOVE feedback! Just wanted to give you our take on this. Rest assured any feedback we get, we collate and send to our development team! Let us know how you get on with your testing! :)
Can literally see the LED flickering behind the tube in the opening part (from the vid framerate) meaning it's not the tube glow, so guessing it's running at low voltage at least? Probs still really working and sounds fantastic!
That’s ‘flickering’ which is what happens with all light sources when you’re using high FPS (frames per second). The tube by human eye does not flicker and operates at 200v.
@@JustinBryantdotcom Tube glow doesn't flicker cos it's a steady light unlike LED or florescent that actually does you just can't see it. Look it up :)
@@JustinBryantdotcom yea I know we can't see it, that's not what I'm saying. Just saying the glow is from an LED not the tube itself and obvious when the camera frame rate plays with the pulsing light.
There is indeed a led behind the tube, lighting up in amber when the pedal is on , and off when the pedal is in bypass. it also changes color when the boost is engaged. That has nothing to do with the tube not being fed the correct voltage. Tubes require 6,3v to "light up" (heater voltage) a the heater glow is not even noticeable except in complete darkness. In that unit the tube is running at 200v plate voltage
Ok guys, I've been admiring the blue Strat (w tortise pickguard?) that's in the rack behind The Captain's rt shoulder? Is it a keeper? I'm in Pasadena, Ca. Talk to me?
Dang, I still don’t understand these rigs. I’m gonna stick with amp, cable and guitar. They seem to be made to simplify things, but then you need an amp, more cables, cab sim, DI box and XLR cables and…the pre-amp unit also. To each their own I say. If it’s your thing rock on! They sound good all said and done.
I'm totally overwhelmed and confused by all the new tech BUT I'm still looking at videos and trying to figure at least SOME of it out. Because my goal is to eventually find a good portable amp that I can also record with. But until that time, I'm sticking with my solid state amps and pedals. Gotta say that at least this one sounds good - many of the DSP digital products that people seem to love sound awful to me.
Ross from Two notes here! Our intention with ReVolt was to provide a core analogue basis for foundation tone. With the FX loop and Line outs, we feel we have given plenty of options to add your own FX into the ReVolt architecture - we also made sure we tested it with as many pedals as possible so the resultant sound is top notch! :)
That was my first thought too because the Quilter Superblocks have reverb. But...with these types of devices it is impossible to get everything one would want, plus so far this is the best-sounding device of it's type that I've heard. I've been checking different ones out through these videos.
Just to be clear, I'm not a "tube purist" and will probably try this pedal as an ampless solution. But just to confirm what is the role of the tube in this pedal
@@JustinBryantdotcom Well yes, because of the tube, but the DSM Humboldt is also 100% analog and sounds just as good imao. But I guess it's a matter preference and choice.
Can you guys demo the bass version too? Jfc, two-notes own demo was useless, they really uploaded one for the sake of it. I'd rather have players demo it. This product is something I've been looking for a while now. But it's not available in my country for me to demo it.
Seems like an interesting product, but it's mono only, which is a dealbreaker for me. I've played a stereo rig for 33 years, and I won't be switching to mono. My current pedalboard uses the DSM & Humboldt Electronics Simplifer, and it does everything I require.
I own LeClean, and it's a wonderful clean guitar sounds maker. It sounds terrific. I made an ampless rig (pedalboard) based on that. But... how about a tube driven channel? Bying LeCrunch, LeLead? That would be cool all-purpose machine! But now - we have one pedal, that does the major things of the three Le() preamps. Beautiful! Now I ask - what are all the all-in-one digitall guitar processors sayin "Citrus", "Treadplate" on its screens? Are all the names that important? Isn't it all abot the sound? allAll the best amp guitar sounds are here!
Thanks for the video! I have a TN Torpedo - which I love - but his time I am somewhat underwhelmed - don't like the mid response I heard. Might have been the guitar though... Never liked the sound of PRS's.
So what seems to benthe advantage of this unit vs mic ing an amp cab? If you're going to play live and send the signal to the board and play the amp on stage.... even in the studio you can just mic the cab to record. I kinda get using this unit to replace an amp on stage going trough a PA but there are modelers that are more versitile especially with Cab IR uploads. I'm thinking of Valeton GP200 for example. $500 and $350 for the GP200LT which has the same options except no XLR out and expression pedal and quick amp control knobs.
@@stevenarseneault1972 Ross from Two notes here! The main advantage is you would negate the need for setting up mics and cabs - essentially allowing you to run a silent state or a fuss-free recording session. Our thought process with the ReVolt Series was to provide a simple interface to dial in a great tone in a snap. In terms of the saturation, which channel are you referring to?
@@RossDaviesTwoNotes Channel 2 and 3 or crunch and distortion tend to compress the tips of the waves when trying to get an agressive tone. I get the limitations in a single preamp tube configuration. To me, and this can be subjective, the available headroom on a distorted signal is quite important. I've notice that the low end is not as present as a high gain amp. Perhaps an EQ pedal can help but it would be best coming from the unit. It works good. To me, if it's trying ro replace an amp it needs to be both flexible and somewhat accurate to accomodate each player as they tend to chose a few tones and stick with them. IR cabs in floor units is popular for this reason. Perhaps something for a future revision? Build in uploadable cab IR electronics. I do see potential in your unit. You'll probably do well however, I was trying to understand how your unit would do better than most emulator floorboards as it seems to sound best plugged in the return line of an effects loop on an actual amp. But them again, that is the job of a pre-amp on that same amp. I did use a microphone pre-amp with a single tube in it in the effect return of my amp and I could drive the tube and add gain with the controls. The only reason I did that is because my amp does not have a clean channel and it gave me access to have a clean channel on demand that worked beautifully.
@@stevenarseneault1972 Thanks for getting back to me and expanding on this! This may be a factor of the nefarious CZcams video compression you are hearing as we have worked hard to retain the dynamics of the signal as a faithful recreation of the amps our channels are inspired by. Please note that by its very nature, drive and distortion effectively clip a given signal so there will always be some squaring of the waves. In terms of the EQ, there is a 3-band EQ available for Channel 3 on the unit to bump up the lows but you can for sure add another EQ pedal to the mix. In terms of IR / DynIR integration, our thought process with ReVolt was to provide an all-analog (bar MIDI) signal chain to build a stellar foundation tone. Adding IR / DynIR into the mix would have stood against this unfortunately and we have a great solution with our C.A.B. M+ if users want to add this functionality to their ReVolt. Regardless, your feedback is massively important to us and I have relayed this to the team now for their consideration! Thanks so much for this!
@@RossDaviesTwoNotes while we are here,when you’ll build the “revolt 2” make the knobs midi assignable so that we can build eq presets with a midi device such as an hx effects or a simple midi pedalboard 😜❤️
"Amp in a box" is a term used for pedals that can be used as pre-amps, usually simulating an amplifier, but they don't have a power section, hence they are not "Amps".
@@brunodefreitas So an amp in a box is an amp sim or a pre-amp unless it is an amp in a box like a Blackstar Amped 1, which is an amp... in a box. All clear now!
You could also pair it with something like a Horizon Apex so you can have everything for clean to Djent on the one pedalboard.. Seriously, Ive ordered these two pedals and am looking for something like a Marshall valvestate poweramp to power everything as we know the preamp part of the amp is what gives the 'tube' sound anyway. I've sold my tube amps, and won't be buying any more!
Once again, Andertons, ( a Retail Outlet and fine purveyor of all things musical) leaves out what they used to to power up the pedals? (and no, the quick passing of the word Fender does not count as advertisement of their power brick, as it wasn't shown nor talked about in the video. Probably not a very good power supply not to get a mention then huh? ;)
man that sounds so full, forward, and punchy! Really great tone! I love how when you went from the clean to a boost it actually sounded like the original clean tone just with some distortion added to it as opposed to just being a completely different sound.
This is exactly what I have been wanting. A Bassman, Plexi, and Soldano in one compact pedal, with tube power. With my cab sim and pedalboard, I don’t need anything else now.
To be perfect... It would be bassman, plexi and brown sound!!!
My Revolt arrived yesterday, and managed to rehearse with it last night. Coupled with my Torpedo Cab M+, it's a big improvement on my Fractal AX-8.
If it has cab emulation on xlr out, do you really need the cab m+ as well? Or do you prefer the option to choose preferred cab voice vs. whatever the revolt has?
@@glennw3909 The cab emulation on the Revolt, as with everything else on the unit, is analogue, and you're limited to that one simulation of a marshall 4 x 12. If it works for you then great, no need for the Cab M.
Everyone seems to be upset that they didn't include the Cab M in this device, but it would've driven the cost way, way up and for ppl who already have a Cab M- why should they need to buy it again? I think they were smart to make it where you could use any can sims you want- not just Two Notes stuff. And I also think it was wise not to run the price up twice as high as it already is- 350$ for an amp in a box pedal is pretty steep already.
Because of brand identity. When you buy something from Two Notes you naturally assume it conservatively has an IR loader. Also because a lot of digital pedal amps (Iridium, ACS1, the UA amp pedals) naturally have IR/Cab sim baked in. (Noting the difference between digital vs analog pedal amps)
Without an IR loader they are really just competing with other analog preamp pedals like the line by Victory, not all-in-one pedal amp solutions. (Which have become entirely more popular than preamp pedals imo) I suppose we’ll see how receptive the market is to this long term.
They just dont want to make there other products dated and redundant
@@brucesguitardemos8197 If that's the case then why would they release the Two Notes Captor X attenuator in a pedal format? That was the release before this one- they re-released their hottest product in a pedal format. Which totally makes the attenuator redundant. And how would including the cab sims in this release "date" them? That makes no sense whatsoever. If anything, it would make the captor X seem more up to date- it's included in a brand-new release Afterall.
Definitely! The total Amazon price for the preamp and cab sim is $570, which is totally a steal, but with the added bonus that my budget can enjoy the preamp while I'm waiting a month to save for the cab sim!
Hilarious, Lee's face at Pete's tap at 7:52 🤣
Sounds stellar lads. I honestly liked the xlr output with the emulated output 🤘🥰❤️🎸 sounded killer, fat, punchy and articulate.
I’ve spent a day with this pedal, and have been impressed. Running it into the power section of the Terror Stamp, as well as in 4C mode with the Roland JC-40. It works very well with the effects from HX Stomp as well. Cab sims aren’t my thing. But, it’s nice to have the option. Can’t wait to rehearse and gig with this.
Can you explain the benefit of running this in 4CM with the JC-40? Is it to bypass the JC's preamp? I've struggled to get a sound I love with dirt pedals into the JC and wondered if this method would be the way to get that tube warmth I'm missing.
@@tomedwards81 I love the JC for cleans. But dirt is not its strength. So, using the revolt in 4CM, I can get a classic edge-of-breakup tone, as well as overdriven tones (and even my terrible version of high-gain that stays in my living room). The power amp of the JC is very clean, and interacts well with the Revolt. I’m my 25 years of playing, bouncing from Bugera to Hot Rod Deluxe to Dean Markley to Marshall Origin to OR15 to Victory Duchess, and JC40/22, this is by far my favorite setup.
What a wonderful piece of gear. Two Notes kicked ass with the Captor X, and now they're kicking ass once again with the Revolt. Holy cow. This & a CabM+ and you're good. Looking forward to the Revolt Bass demo even if I'm a guitar player in the first place.
And yeah reaaaaally cool in depth review as usual with you guys. You rock, keep on going. Or rocking, that is. Cheers !
Pete's an awesome guitar player
No he's not. He's a fantastically awesome guitar player!!!!
@@duncaninglis3806 you're right about that one
Revolution 👉 to revolt 👉 to not stand idle and be complacent ! 👉 Revolution , yes ! 😎👍✌
These sound great and will be the core of my new guitar rig!
Good joke 🤣
You guys are always great! Thanks for the great demos and context.
Been waiting for you guys to do this vid, I knew you would look at all the things I was keen on knowing and wasn't disappointed. Now to decide if I want to go down this route or stick to my Marshall and pedalboard haha
Lee's face at 0:11 😂. Funniest thing I've seen all Christmas 😅.
This is the SHIZZLE --- + a multi-fx and some IR's >> happy days forever >> viva la revolution !
That sounds amazing, wow. I currently use an HX stomp with a line sent to front of house and another line with no amp/cab going to my amp. I'm considering dropping that and using one of these into the stomp running cab sim and wet effects
That's actually an interesting idea.
I have the Cab M+ (cab simulator) from Two Notes and use it for recording directly into an interface and I use a bunch of various pedals along with it and it sounds amazing. I've been looking for some kind of singular pedal/device with multiple amp models to cut down on the number of pedals in the chain that goes before the Cab M+ so it looks like I may be getting another Two Notes pedal soon!
Amazing to hear! We're sure you wont be disappointed! :)
Who remembers the Tubeman? :) DI out sounds really good, amp return too harsh for "my liking" but i'm not in the room or with a band, so probably translates differently there. But DI sounds REALLY good, just a hint on the "fuzz" side at higher gain? Interesting drive tone.
It would be great if you compare all Amp In a Box pedals, all the way from RevivalDRIVE, UAFX Dream 65, TwoNotes, Iridium, etc.
I'm sorry, can we all just talk about Pete giving us a Mastodon riff?! Definitely caught me by surprise there lol.
Analog is always used as a positive marketing term, but in terms of cab sim, digital is better. Especially Two Notes' own digital cab sim technology lol Sounds instantly better as soon as they use the 4CM.
You guys should compare it to something like the HXStomp, it sound a bit lacking a distinguishable character imo
French taste of REVOLUTION 😁 you made my day Captain !!
I was looking at something like this for ages and ended up going with the Pod Go which I then sold and got a HX stomp which served me well for the last year and now I have just got the big helix.
I had their Le Crunch pedal for a while. The Cold and Hot Fusion mode was very awesome. I sold it after I got my Strymon Iridium (which I love very much) but wish I also kept the Le Crunch.
The fusion mode is excellent. And mid sweep also. I can not understand why they would remove these essential features. Tbh, I believe I will be returning the revolt and keeping my Le Lead.
For reasons stated above, plus the mids are out of control on the Revolt, even when cut. And the treble is in the 16k frequency range, it really hurts. I cant get a nice tone without an EQ in the loop. I prefer the cleans on Le Lead too.
I'll switch out the preamp tube and see if it's better but at this point, kinda disappointed.
Now you have to do a comparison between the Soldano drive and the Revolt preamp drive since it sounded so so close :)
I hope your bass buddies @Andertons can test the bass version as well!?
I'm not sure I'll need all that in my living room 🤣🤣🤣
good evening, I have a question to ask you, from the revolt-cab M+ connection go to the sound card and we listen to this, right? while you in the room how do you listen? what is the connection from the toredo cab m?
Looking forward for this one to arrive :D I was impressed with the demos that went around NAMM and had to preorder when I saw it on Andertons. I think it's actually the only guitar gear that I've ever thought about preordering.... The 4 cable method is absolutely amazing
Damn it sounds good at 15:14 with the cabinets and reverb, nice!
Yeah I love it when I'm in my house and I'm switching cabinets you see that's because I'm putting the dishes and other pots and pans into the cabinets that I just took out of the dishwasher but think I need to utilize speaker cabinet variations when I am ripping on my axe just to go wow I never knew that existed just like when I find that extra space when I'm trying to stuff everything in the cabinets after everything has been cleaned and ready to go for the next cooking expose! I guess I have to figure out how to do this in my little mini studio
I would have bought this but they should have the cab m technology built in at this point
Agree, at least that you could load one cab sim per channel but I guess they need to encourage buying their other products
yes! ...on it's own I see it more as a preamp...but that's ok if you want a preamp pedal 😉
As a cab m owner, it's a fantastic product that I recommend to buy regardless. I'm a little bit disappointed not because they didn't offer the cab m technology built in but because there's no midi interaction between the Revolt and cab m.
@@FaberGT86 yes, that's true. I have the Boss-IR200 ...but a separate IR loader without midi it's not so cool. This is the reason why I use the UAFX Dream an the Ruby. Very easy to handle 😉 ...and the dream is a very good pedal platform. I wish UAFX also make a plexi amp pedal!
That's why I immediately lost interest because the platform itself doesn't support impulse responses. So either they are stupid or they just want you to buy more stuff from them.
Pete’s kicks are 🔥
Captain oh Captan why didn't you use a telly or a strat on the clean side 😥
That thing sounds killer.
I'd be curious to see a shootout between this and the DSM simplifier, and maybe other products in roughly the same price range.
I'm just waiting for this to make my choice between both products !
I've been watching videos on this and the Simplifier, Quilter Superblock, etc. and so far this one sounds the best to me overall. But yes, a comparison video would be helpful.
@Nauthizful did you make a choice?
Mastodon riff. Nice.
Sounds very raspy with the built in cab emulator
2 Notes is great, they make great stuff. Price wise it's not too bad...wish they used noiseless foot switches though. Get with the times guys! I was doing some recording once, and I had to switch something, can't remember what it was now it's been so long, and that loud click actually got picked up on the recording. So I had to scratch the track and do it over with my pedals as far from any mics as possible. Noiseless switches would have made that a lot easier!
It is noiseless footswitches on this unit.
@@teogeorget7425 Didn't sound like it when they pressed them, they were quite loud. How could you not hear the click?
Like on Electro-Harmonix? That absurd click? lol.
I do wonder if the tiny tube is there just to persuade tube purists to buy it also. I mean is that little thing really ging to make a difference?
Well, it is the same tube like in the preamps of like every single amp. So. I think it should sound better than a digital emulation of a preamp.
Changing the tube does make a différence. ;) Also the entire product runs on high voltage which brings something even for the solid state part of it.
yes
Tube purists who use solid state pedals are posers anyway. They should use this.
One of your better videos guys. I don't agree with you Anderton guys that the 4 cable method is the best way to use ReVolt with a high quality tube amp like a Soldano, Mesa or Marshall. As great as the ReVolt might be we shouldn't expect a $399 preamp pedal to compete with the tones from any of these amps. I certainly don't expect it too. So if you added it to your Mesa or Soldano preamps the drop in quality would be instant and you just wouldn't use it. 4 cable method is viable though used with an SS amp that has a loop.
so how many cab sims are available in this unit? would be a good idea in use with a distortion pedal like a Diezel Vh4?
Ross from Two notes here. There is one analogue Cab Sim in the unit, however we also include Wall of Sound software and a collection of 10 DynIRs so you can explore more tonal possibilities in a studio setting!
Great review! Are there Multichannel preamp Alternatives that you can run in 4CM that could compete with this unit soundwise!? Im looking to enhance my amp, any suggestions that would help me much, thx
if i got this pedal.. would you advise getting a cab sim pedal as well.....?? I'm new to all this,,,
Hi! do you know if we can we use it to reamp our dry DI signals?
That tone is uuuumphhh.
@OfficialAndertonsMusicCo Lol this scam is old school. Come up with new stuff. Everyone knows about it.
On the channels: American Clean, and British Crunch, are self explanatory, but the Modern Lead channel is less so.
AFAIK, the Lead channel is based on a Soldano, so this video has quite a bit of an inception vibe going on.
Hey lads, just wondered if you could do a video running this pedal using the 4 cable method into some amps? Amps like Fender Hot Rod Deluxe or any of the bog-standard Blackstar amps. Just a thought.
THIS THING SOUNDS KILLER!
Pete killin' it.
this thing sounds juicy but i think in some few instances It sounds a bit thin and flubby but veeery few instances
It does have a warmer sound in general than similar devices. It's not perfect but I like the warmer (tube) tones.
Assuming this would work directly into a power amp? Just got a fryette PS100 to use as an attenuator and DI with some louder heads… but am thinking a preamp like this or the victory V4s + the ps100 = awesomeness for both live rig and DI for the studio. Any reason this ‘revolt’ or the V4 preamps (not the new ones with the hybrid power section) wouldn’t work?
I believe the word Revolution means to come full circle.
1 of the definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary. More than I thought as I'd have agreed despite hearing it both ways.
1. A complete overthrow of the established government in any country or state by those who were previously subject to it; a forcible substitution of a new ruler or form of government.
@@rexrathtar3893 yeah I think we all want counting out of that one. Hopefully anyway!
@@AvACyberSecurity Well I didn't want to come across all Anarchist. Besides I knew someone would further the definition, thanks Rev.
@@fongy200 No worries mate. Happy to be the Anarchist now and again 🤣. To be fair there were about 30 definitions listed.
@@AvACyberSecurity 🤣
I was so pumped once I saw (and heard!) the first few minutes, especially after the time it took for Two Notes to bring out an updated alternative to the Le Preamp series (I personally own the Le Crunch), that suits the need of the modern guitarist. I'm left quite disappointed, however, since the one thing they should've added was customizability of the DI OUT Sim, but they didn't. Why shouldn't we be able to pick an IR different than the one that's included in the analog box of the pedal stock? They already include 10 great free cab sims, why can't I just plug the ReVolt into my laptop and be able to select another cab for my gig that potentially suits me better and save it in. I get that they want you to buy the additional CAB M pedal and their other products, but holy hell, it's been so long and the feature that was most requested didn't make it once again. If the selling point is that you can choose different cabs for recording in the studio and have some flexibility there I then say, I'm sorry there are far better solutions out there (Neural DSP, Amplitube, STL Tones just to name a few) to recording straight in. This couldn've really attracted many customers who would love flexibility for their live sound just from that one box. Big L in my eyes, unfortunately...
Hi Chris, Ross from Two notes here. Our aim with ReVolt was to provide an all analog solution for a stellar foundation tone, all housed in a simple to use format. Adding DynIR into the fold would have resulted in not only a considerably larger unit, but we felt it would detract from the all-analog mission statement we set out with. There are plenty of IR loaders out there - including our C.A.B. M+ - and we feel the assortment of inputs and outputs makes this the perfect solution to integrate into any hardware configuration. If you have any questions, dont hesitate to reach out!
@@RossDaviesTwoNotes hey Ross! Totally appreciate your response! Yeah after I thought about it for some time I see that point from your side as product developers. Something in between would’ve been great though, maybe I’m still thinking a bit too much from the customer side. Of course I still need to hear the cab sim in person to decide for myself if I like it enough to live with it in all sounds or not. That’s just my initial reaction though, I hope you take it as constructive criticism and not in any negative way, sorry if it sounded a little emotional. Looking forward to seeing what you guys bring to the table next and hey, who knows, I might like it after all! Cheers!
@@chrisbistrishki Thanks for getting back to me. We LOVE feedback! Just wanted to give you our take on this. Rest assured any feedback we get, we collate and send to our development team! Let us know how you get on with your testing! :)
Can literally see the LED flickering behind the tube in the opening part (from the vid framerate) meaning it's not the tube glow, so guessing it's running at low voltage at least? Probs still really working and sounds fantastic!
That’s ‘flickering’ which is what happens with all light sources when you’re using high FPS (frames per second). The tube by human eye does not flicker and operates at 200v.
@@JustinBryantdotcom Tube glow doesn't flicker cos it's a steady light unlike LED or florescent that actually does you just can't see it. Look it up :)
@@clintwhite3021 if you see one of these with the human eye - there is no flicker
@@JustinBryantdotcom yea I know we can't see it, that's not what I'm saying. Just saying the glow is from an LED not the tube itself and obvious when the camera frame rate plays with the pulsing light.
There is indeed a led behind the tube, lighting up in amber when the pedal is on , and off when the pedal is in bypass. it also changes color when the boost is engaged.
That has nothing to do with the tube not being fed the correct voltage.
Tubes require 6,3v to "light up" (heater voltage) a the heater glow is not even noticeable except in complete darkness.
In that unit the tube is running at 200v plate voltage
Ok guys, I've been admiring the blue Strat (w tortise pickguard?) that's in the rack behind The Captain's rt shoulder? Is it a keeper? I'm in Pasadena, Ca. Talk to me?
Is it possible to incorporate 4CM and CAB M simultaneously
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Sounds really good.
The preamp sounds really good. I was stunned that Two Notes is a french company. Amazing. French Clean, French Crunch and French Lead comes to mind.
Ross from Two notes here! We are indeed French! Glad you like the tone of our all-new ReVolt Guitar!
How does it take drive pedals?
Dang, I still don’t understand these rigs. I’m gonna stick with amp, cable and guitar. They seem to be made to simplify things, but then you need an amp, more cables, cab sim, DI box and XLR cables and…the pre-amp unit also. To each their own I say. If it’s your thing rock on! They sound good all said and done.
I'm totally overwhelmed and confused by all the new tech BUT I'm still looking at videos and trying to figure at least SOME of it out. Because my goal is to eventually find a good portable amp that I can also record with. But until that time, I'm sticking with my solid state amps and pedals. Gotta say that at least this one sounds good - many of the DSP digital products that people seem to love sound awful to me.
Am I seeing that right? Is that the 30 watt Soldano head hitting 100 db? What am I missing here?
How does the bass one sound ,your six stringers can’t have all the fun
Can the Revolt be used with the Torpedo Captor X?
Everytime I see something like this I have to ask, Why this and not a hx stomp?
I cannot believe they didn’t include even a basic reverb in the unit.
Ross from Two notes here! Our intention with ReVolt was to provide a core analogue basis for foundation tone. With the FX loop and Line outs, we feel we have given plenty of options to add your own FX into the ReVolt architecture - we also made sure we tested it with as many pedals as possible so the resultant sound is top notch! :)
That was my first thought too because the Quilter Superblocks have reverb. But...with these types of devices it is impossible to get everything one would want, plus so far this is the best-sounding device of it's type that I've heard. I've been checking different ones out through these videos.
@@mr.d.572 Thanks so much for the kind words! Really appreciate it!
Captain patch cable and twinkle fingers conjure up a storm. 😂👍👍👍🥃Respect to you fellas.
Is this really 100% pure tube path? It's unlikely that just one tube would be capable of producing soldano level of distortion
Just to be clear, I'm not a "tube purist" and will probably try this pedal as an ampless solution. But just to confirm what is the role of the tube in this pedal
I wouldn't even count on that tube receiving full voltage to begin with... It's likely all good old transistors
@@dieg000n it's a preamp, it likely has asymmetrical diode clipping after the tube.
@@krastolff The two notes website says they are sending 200 watts of power into that tube. 🤷♂️
@@Fitzpa14 its 200V (not watts) and the entire product runs on that voltage. :)
ney guys, nice setup for 4CM But the output of the strymon flint where to go?
Uping the licks game from the usual blues.
Many competitors offer stereo ins/outs without compromising the sound for the same price.
It's 100% an analog tube preamp- none are stereo,
@@JustinBryantdotcom Well yes, because of the tube, but the DSM Humboldt is also 100% analog and sounds just as good imao. But I guess it's a matter preference and choice.
I want to win that victory preamp! I am subbed!
Can you guys demo the bass version too? Jfc, two-notes own demo was useless, they really uploaded one for the sake of it. I'd rather have players demo it. This product is something I've been looking for a while now. But it's not available in my country for me to demo it.
please do a shootsout with the sansamp gt2 - seems like a similar set of amer/brit/MB tones on tap
A flyrig would also compete with this.
I had the predecessor (le crunch preamp) and didnt like it at all. Strymon Iridium was more my thing for home recording
Seems like an interesting product, but it's mono only, which is a dealbreaker for me. I've played a stereo rig for 33 years, and I won't be switching to mono. My current pedalboard uses the DSM & Humboldt Electronics Simplifer, and it does everything I require.
I own LeClean, and it's a wonderful clean guitar sounds maker. It sounds terrific. I made an ampless rig (pedalboard) based on that. But... how about a tube driven channel? Bying LeCrunch, LeLead? That would be cool all-purpose machine! But now - we have one pedal, that does the major things of the three Le() preamps. Beautiful! Now I ask - what are all the all-in-one digitall guitar processors sayin "Citrus", "Treadplate" on its screens? Are all the names that important? Isn't it all abot the sound? allAll the best amp guitar sounds are here!
Thanks for the video! I have a TN Torpedo - which I love - but his time I am somewhat underwhelmed - don't like the mid response I heard. Might have been the guitar though... Never liked the sound of PRS's.
So what seems to benthe advantage of this unit vs mic ing an amp cab? If you're going to play live and send the signal to the board and play the amp on stage.... even in the studio you can just mic the cab to record. I kinda get using this unit to replace an amp on stage going trough a PA but there are modelers that are more versitile especially with Cab IR uploads. I'm thinking of Valeton GP200 for example. $500 and $350 for the GP200LT which has the same options except no XLR out and expression pedal and quick amp control knobs.
Also, the Revolt saturates too easilly compressing the distorted signal.
@@stevenarseneault1972 Ross from Two notes here! The main advantage is you would negate the need for setting up mics and cabs - essentially allowing you to run a silent state or a fuss-free recording session. Our thought process with the ReVolt Series was to provide a simple interface to dial in a great tone in a snap. In terms of the saturation, which channel are you referring to?
@@RossDaviesTwoNotes Channel 2 and 3 or crunch and distortion tend to compress the tips of the waves when trying to get an agressive tone. I get the limitations in a single preamp tube configuration. To me, and this can be subjective, the available headroom on a distorted signal is quite important. I've notice that the low end is not as present as a high gain amp. Perhaps an EQ pedal can help but it would be best coming from the unit. It works good. To me, if it's trying ro replace an amp it needs to be both flexible and somewhat accurate to accomodate each player as they tend to chose a few tones and stick with them. IR cabs in floor units is popular for this reason. Perhaps something for a future revision? Build in uploadable cab IR electronics. I do see potential in your unit. You'll probably do well however, I was trying to understand how your unit would do better than most emulator floorboards as it seems to sound best plugged in the return line of an effects loop on an actual amp. But them again, that is the job of a pre-amp on that same amp. I did use a microphone pre-amp with a single tube in it in the effect return of my amp and I could drive the tube and add gain with the controls. The only reason I did that is because my amp does not have a clean channel and it gave me access to have a clean channel on demand that worked beautifully.
@@stevenarseneault1972 Thanks for getting back to me and expanding on this! This may be a factor of the nefarious CZcams video compression you are hearing as we have worked hard to retain the dynamics of the signal as a faithful recreation of the amps our channels are inspired by. Please note that by its very nature, drive and distortion effectively clip a given signal so there will always be some squaring of the waves. In terms of the EQ, there is a 3-band EQ available for Channel 3 on the unit to bump up the lows but you can for sure add another EQ pedal to the mix.
In terms of IR / DynIR integration, our thought process with ReVolt was to provide an all-analog (bar MIDI) signal chain to build a stellar foundation tone. Adding IR / DynIR into the mix would have stood against this unfortunately and we have a great solution with our C.A.B. M+ if users want to add this functionality to their ReVolt.
Regardless, your feedback is massively important to us and I have relayed this to the team now for their consideration! Thanks so much for this!
Pete likes it!
Revolt does control other midi pedals. There's a video where each channel controls an H9
Ross from Two notes here! It can indeed - we have comprehensive MIDI mapping functionality available in both the Guitar and Bass variants!
That sounds AMAZING! What did you say this thing costs (in $USD)?
Ross from Two notes here - our US MAP is 399.99!
Pete doing eruption is worth the whole video 😂
Ross from Two notes here. We agree 100% - EPIC!
@@RossDaviesTwoNotes while we are here,when you’ll build the “revolt 2” make the knobs midi assignable so that we can build eq presets with a midi device such as an hx effects or a simple midi pedalboard 😜❤️
@@christianpucciarelli Thanks so much for the feedback! Consider this fed back to our development team for consideration!
@@RossDaviesTwoNotes thank you for your consideration 🙏
@@christianpucciarelli You are most welcome! :)
M1D1 rides again!
When you do a comparison, please, include the Simplifier.
Sounds bloody good to me.
It looks like the cab simulator in ReVolt doesn't have enough dynamic range.
The video title calls it an amp in a box but at 8:14 Lee states categorically that it isn't an amp. Very confusing.
"Amp in a box" is a term used for pedals that can be used as pre-amps, usually simulating an amplifier, but they don't have a power section, hence they are not "Amps".
@@brunodefreitas So an amp in a box is an amp sim or a pre-amp unless it is an amp in a box like a Blackstar Amped 1, which is an amp... in a box. All clear now!
Be realistic. You don't need a drive tone from the clean channel, if you have crunch and lead channnels.
Durn, yer website is not working :(
PLEASE DO THE BASS VERSION (thanks)
All the pedals seem to be more than and or not just a amp in a box. Real question is, when are we going to get just an amp in a box?....
You could also pair it with something like a Horizon Apex so you can have everything for clean to Djent on the one pedalboard.. Seriously, Ive ordered these two pedals and am looking for something like a Marshall valvestate poweramp to power everything as we know the preamp part of the amp is what gives the 'tube' sound anyway. I've sold my tube amps, and won't be buying any more!
Once again, Andertons, ( a Retail Outlet and fine purveyor of all things musical) leaves out what they used to to power up the pedals? (and no, the quick passing of the word Fender does not count as advertisement of their power brick, as it wasn't shown nor talked about in the video. Probably not a very good power supply not to get a mention then huh? ;)
I hate the week of Xmas cause all the CZcamsrs take vacation. Welcome back.
nothing is better than the original "Thomas Blug" Amp1 and at the end of 2023 comes AmpX
Why no reverb!!?? 😢
Need some paras
Crunch sound was a little spitty
Good one word description. I didn’t like the sound much. I went with ‘brittle’.