I always liked the NUX better than the Vertex (over glorified cleanish boost IMO) from every demos I've seen. More gain range, more compression. Sounds much more useable to me.
I stand by my first choice: Boba Fett is still my favorite clone. I'm a Kiwi. I have no choice - if I don't choose Boba, then Jake the Muss will beat me up.
Johnathan, I have really enjoyed your videos since I have come across them. Your playing is clean and approachable. Your focus is, appropriately, content directed. You present the heart of the item you are evaluating in a way that covers most players questions. And, no needless words. Altogether, you do a useable evaluation, showing enough territory coverage from the device without being sucked into the extraneous “noise”. You are a godsend. Thank you and stay strong! JimR
yupppp. ive had SO many dumble style drives. but this one right here i think is the prize pig. one thing they all miss is the gain knob. theres always WAY too much but this ones just right. i set it like i would an amp and stack ODs with it (sometimes the wampler pinnacle 2 sometimes the nux horseman ((which is equally as rad as the steel singer)) ) and it does the tricks. cleans up real nice w your gtr's volume knob
Love the Mooer Blues Crab and the Joyo/Harley Benton Blue Rain. Both are on my boards along with my MP Royal Blue, Jackson Audio Golden Boy and Elektron Analog Drive.
I've been amazed by Caline Pure Sky for months now, really. It is now my go to 'dirty clean' sound. I use it without much gain, just for colouring and making any flat sounding platform or amp sound a little bit more alive. Nice eq also. It just works, especially with the klon type pedal in front. :)
Great stuff John..... When I finally escaped from this rabbit hole, I decided to just try and listen to me ears. Consequently I have (as mentioned by other commenters) a Caline Pure Sky, a Mooer Rumble Drive, a Mooer Pure Boost and a Joyo Sweet Baby along side my Keeley D&M, my Tech 21 Blonde (which I would love your opinion on) and my Mad Professor Royal Blue...... they all play nicely together. Happy days! Cheers Neil (Australia)
That's the way I feel about my joyo sweet baby.......I put it on my board 7 years ago and turned it on and have never played without it. It just makes my amp sound better period. I've experimented with position and settings but always go back to right after my compressor at the beginning of the chain. It loves Vox amps in a big way!
Is that based on the BJF "Honey Bee" design? (It's had a few incarnations but I am thinking of the old Bearfoot/BJF pedal - he did a few "Bee" drives). I know that Mad Professor is a lot of his stuff - but idk about the Joyo, if it's "inspired by" or a 1-1 clone.
@@mattgilbert7347 I think it's the clone of MP Sweet Honey. Quite unlike any other pedal that I have tried with Vox amps. I was just ok with the Deluxe but shines with the Vox. Not sure if it's a direct clone but certainly inspired by.
I am going to have to check this Nux pedal out. I really agree with what you said some time back about boost pedals giving modelers like the Line6 stuff (I have the PodGo) a nicer analog feel. I have been using the Xotic Clean Boost with mine with good results.
Btw. my favourite clone(s) are somewhat expensive.. one would be the Suncoast G2xl pedal preamp (almost a full clone of the Pearce G2x solid-state rack preamp from the guy that actually designed the PCBs of those rack preamps, best amp I've ever played for a variety of reasons) and the Kingsley Constable (basically a handwired 4 input Plexi preamp in a pedal with a secondary footswitchable master volume).. something considerably cheaper would be the first Danelectro Transparent Overdrive, this was my first "Timmy" pedal and I didn't even knew it until some months later.. it did cost me 30 bucks. Then I got the original because Paul is a great guy and designed a great pedal but I will try out this Nux Steel Singer for sure.
I had a Marshall Bluesbreaker on my board for the longest time. I bought it new in 1994 for £65 (they didn't sell that well initially). 15 years later, John Mayer played one, the prices went through the roof, and its been cloned dozens of times. In truth, its a very simple circuit, most certainly not without it's flaws, and there is little reason why a clone should cost more than about £45 these days. Real innovation needs have some protection against shameless cloning (to encourage it to continue), but there let's be honest, there are are plenty of pedals that are frankly overpriced rehashes of well worn circuits.
Hola johnnathan, this is the 3ed video i have seen that makes justice to this pedal ordered mine last night. Can't wait to embelish my sound even more!! Got the joyo american sound & the tube man by nux on my board after many tries of different expensive gear i couldn't be more happier with these affordable pedals and this one is a must have!! Thank you for convinced me even more!! By the way have you seen the video where vertex is compares their steel stringer with this pedal?.. anyway happy new year! Your sound is kick ass!! 🇲🇽
Man that is some tasty playing! I always come for the demos and stay for the playing. You deserve so many more viewers man. I could listen to your compositions all day. Did you do the backing track yourself?
Hey Man, marvellous tasty playin, you finally got from neck pup to neck n mid, ha! I play my trusty Yamaha Pacifica 112V strats with neck and humbuck bridge for heavy leads..., my mid pup on the level with the pickguard..., have five of them Yam Pacs, and just "finished " finetuning the latest ones..., luckily I never changed pickups, theyre just for me...non-staggered! well balanced: AND/BUT the midlle pickups ( which I never use!)are supposd to be a "bit" stronger than the neck ones, .....but I think its subtle..., BESIDES the electric work of changing pickups for slight kOhm count ( like 6,2-6,4) is costly and probly futile tone/vol -wise, so I just think that Ive got 5 spare neck pickups in store...Ha!, one pedal ( the EHX HumDebugger btw makes my neck pup sound a bit more brighter/trebbier/cleaner? which is fine cause I tend to drift towards dark soft jazzy tone area...besides cutting single-coil hum, so theres "MY" neck/mid pup tone...Ha! no haha! just Haaw, now I get it...hmmm..., Cheers, K : )
There is a difference. I recently sold my Analogman Sunface🔴 to buy a car and still have the old school Dunlop red also with NKT275. The Sunface was without a doubt better than the Dunlop but I lean on my Fulltone Soul bender Mk1 with 3 NKT275 now. New tiny soul bender mk2 are Trash, as NKT275 are long out of production. Depends undergarment jokes aside... the secret is in the leakage. Analogman was testing and making matched sets with High Hfe to sound good ....while Dallas Arbiter and Dunlop just threw whatever in there without testing and matching. So in terms of sound my red circle is slightly muddier.
That Nux sounds sweet! I got a Mooer Blues Crab (Marshall Blues Breaker clone) in my pedalboard for more than one year, and with the gain at 10 adds a nice valve tone to any transistor amp or digital modeler. Also de Mosky XP Booster works pretty well as a Xotic EP Booster clone.
NUX makes an amazing pedals, i was impressed 10 years ago when i saw their ''force'' serial of pedals and they had color LCD's in 2011 wit a price a lot under 100$ which was wow. Tone core is also killer good and this analogue pedals old school reincarnations are uber cool.
Great demo mate. Great playing my only comment is why not show this using the bridge pickup as well. I see so many people on here demoing pedals like these and they NEVER use the bridge pickup maybe that is just that is where they 'live' on the guitar. Myself I mostly use the bridge pickup but that's just me but I personally would like to see both pickups used to get a better idea of what the pedal is like. Keep on postin though Bro.
Hey man, big fan of your playing/channel. What strat is that? I want to say it’s a Vintage but I can’t read the logo. Cheers man. Edit: nevermind it’s a K-line. Just figured it out 😂
You play very well , but that's the whole point , isn't it? To let everyone here how well you play. This isn't a demonstration of the steel singer ; in that case you have to do more than playing with other gear between the pedal and your amp and tell us nothing about the steel singer. There are far more and better demonstrations of this pedal. This is more a demonstration of yourself , and I must admitt : you play very well.
Also I have clones. I have a Tumnus which is obviously the best Klone. And I have a Keeley red dirt which is two clones in one. Btw you are getting some great sounds from the NUX.
@@johnnathancordy Yeah a tubescreamer. Keeley did many different mods for the TS and this has two via a switch. One more gainy than the other. So it kinda a clone of those two, I guess. I like it.
@@JemMusic. Keeley callled it a kind of "Keeley TS modification greatest hits pedal". I have the Red Dirt Studio Deluxe which is just ge/si Red Dirt and his Comp+. Nothing fancy, no dipswitches that I'm aware of - but I have an aversion to messing with DIPs so I haven't actually opened it up to check LOL
I came here to see what you thought about the pedal and stayed because of your tasteful, superbly smooth playing style.
I always liked the NUX better than the Vertex (over glorified cleanish boost IMO) from every demos I've seen. More gain range, more compression. Sounds much more useable to me.
I stand by my first choice:
Boba Fett is still my favorite clone.
I'm a Kiwi. I have no choice - if I don't choose Boba, then Jake the Muss will beat me up.
Johnathan, I have really enjoyed your videos since I have come across them. Your playing is clean and approachable. Your focus is, appropriately, content directed. You present the heart of the item you are evaluating in a way that covers most players questions. And, no needless words. Altogether, you do a useable evaluation, showing enough territory coverage from the device without being sucked into the extraneous “noise”. You are a godsend. Thank you and stay strong! JimR
yupppp. ive had SO many dumble style drives. but this one right here i think is the prize pig. one thing they all miss is the gain knob. theres always WAY too much but this ones just right. i set it like i would an amp and stack ODs with it (sometimes the wampler pinnacle 2 sometimes the nux horseman ((which is equally as rad as the steel singer)) ) and it does the tricks. cleans up real nice w your gtr's volume knob
Love the Mooer Blues Crab and the Joyo/Harley Benton Blue Rain. Both are on my boards along with my MP Royal Blue, Jackson Audio Golden Boy and Elektron Analog Drive.
The pedal is nice, the playing is superb. Thank You
I've been amazed by Caline Pure Sky for months now, really. It is now my go to 'dirty clean' sound. I use it without much gain, just for colouring and making any flat sounding platform or amp sound a little bit more alive. Nice eq also. It just works, especially with the klon type pedal in front. :)
That pedal is ****** amazing. I bought two.
Great stuff John.....
When I finally escaped from this rabbit hole, I decided to just try and listen to me ears. Consequently I have (as mentioned by other commenters) a Caline Pure Sky, a Mooer Rumble Drive, a Mooer Pure Boost and a Joyo Sweet Baby along side my Keeley D&M, my Tech 21 Blonde (which I would love your opinion on) and my Mad Professor Royal Blue...... they all play nicely together. Happy days!
Cheers Neil (Australia)
That's the way I feel about my joyo sweet baby.......I put it on my board 7 years ago and turned it on and have never played without it. It just makes my amp sound better period. I've experimented with position and settings but always go back to right after my compressor at the beginning of the chain. It loves Vox amps in a big way!
I had one of those aaaaages ago - unfortunately the switch broke....but I was digging it
Is that based on the BJF "Honey Bee" design? (It's had a few incarnations but I am thinking of the old Bearfoot/BJF pedal - he did a few "Bee" drives). I know that Mad Professor is a lot of his stuff - but idk about the Joyo, if it's "inspired by" or a 1-1 clone.
@@mattgilbert7347 I think it's the clone of MP Sweet Honey. Quite unlike any other pedal that I have tried with Vox amps. I was just ok with the Deluxe but shines with the Vox.
Not sure if it's a direct clone but certainly inspired by.
@@mattgilbert7347 I believe it's based on the Mad Professor Sweet Honey?
I played a caline pure sky and loved it. Eventually I got a Tim pedal, love it too. Now this sounds pretty good. Might give it a try.
The only downside to this thing is if you get the bug the real thing will be £300 sigh
the sound is so amazing , well playing and a sound from heaven
I am going to have to check this Nux pedal out. I really agree with what you said some time back about boost pedals giving modelers like the Line6 stuff (I have the PodGo) a nicer analog feel. I have been using the Xotic Clean Boost with mine with good results.
Btw. my favourite clone(s) are somewhat expensive.. one would be the Suncoast G2xl pedal preamp (almost a full clone of the Pearce G2x solid-state rack preamp from the guy that actually designed the PCBs of those rack preamps, best amp I've ever played for a variety of reasons) and the Kingsley Constable (basically a handwired 4 input Plexi preamp in a pedal with a secondary footswitchable master volume).. something considerably cheaper would be the first Danelectro Transparent Overdrive, this was my first "Timmy" pedal and I didn't even knew it until some months later.. it did cost me 30 bucks. Then I got the original because Paul is a great guy and designed a great pedal but I will try out this Nux Steel Singer for sure.
Nice playing. Good use of the NUX as well.
They just don't make bad pedals !! I now have 3 on the board and this when I can get one will be the 4th !!
I have a Joyo Taichi and CNZ Dumble Drive. I think they are the same circuit. Love them both.
Pretty much a nice sounding quieterTS.
with out any clean signal mixed in.
I had a Marshall Bluesbreaker on my board for the longest time. I bought it new in 1994 for £65 (they didn't sell that well initially). 15 years later, John Mayer played one, the prices went through the roof, and its been cloned dozens of times. In truth, its a very simple circuit, most certainly not without it's flaws, and there is little reason why a clone should cost more than about £45 these days. Real innovation needs have some protection against shameless cloning (to encourage it to continue), but there let's be honest, there are are plenty of pedals that are frankly overpriced rehashes of well worn circuits.
You still got the original or no?
@@johnnathancordy Yup, still got the Bluesbreaker, and the Drive Master (which I always thought was the better pedal).
@@Citizen-1a very nice! My friend has a shred master, that completes the trifecta right?
@@johnnathancordy Yup, Shred Master was the third one.
Great demo man and really great feel. Could you do a John mayer or SRV demo/settings for this pedal.
Since the first video you posted with this NUX, I'm in deep love...aha ! It really sounds so good
Wow. We have the same guitar but damn you're smooth. Extremely tasteful playing. Inspires me to improve!
Fricken nice 👍 love how it adds a lil ummph to the stomp 🔥🔥🔥
The Ceriatone Klon is pretty sweet! This sounds great too, and made me a subscriber.
Hola johnnathan, this is the 3ed video i have seen that makes justice to this pedal ordered mine last night. Can't wait to embelish my sound even more!! Got the joyo american sound & the tube man by nux on my board after many tries of different expensive gear i couldn't be more happier with these affordable pedals and this one is a must have!! Thank you for convinced me even more!! By the way have you seen the video where vertex is compares their steel stringer with this pedal?.. anyway happy new year! Your sound is kick ass!! 🇲🇽
Of course I've seen it - I made two response videos to it haha!
Man that is some tasty playing! I always come for the demos and stay for the playing. You deserve so many more viewers man. I could listen to your compositions all day. Did you do the backing track yourself?
👍👍 very nice.
Great demo, not to over the top 👍👍
Really nice tone and tasteful playing sir
Very sweet playing & feel!
Hey Man, marvellous tasty playin, you finally got from neck pup to neck n mid, ha! I play my trusty Yamaha Pacifica 112V strats with neck and humbuck bridge for heavy leads..., my mid pup on the level with the pickguard..., have five of them Yam Pacs, and just "finished " finetuning the latest ones..., luckily I never changed pickups, theyre just for me...non-staggered! well balanced: AND/BUT the midlle pickups ( which I never use!)are supposd to be a "bit" stronger than the neck ones, .....but I think its subtle..., BESIDES the electric work of changing pickups for slight kOhm count ( like 6,2-6,4) is costly and probly futile tone/vol -wise, so I just think that Ive got 5 spare neck pickups in store...Ha!, one pedal ( the EHX HumDebugger btw makes my neck pup sound a bit more brighter/trebbier/cleaner? which is fine cause I tend to drift towards dark soft jazzy tone area...besides cutting single-coil hum, so theres "MY" neck/mid pup tone...Ha! no haha! just Haaw, now I get it...hmmm..., Cheers, K : )
You’ve got the “Chris Buck Flare” down…at least that’s what I decided to call it 😂 - legit playing man! Wish I knew the scales like you!
Next pedal to put on the post-Christmas wish list. Still looking for the talent block.
I have an AnalogMan Sunface NKT 🔴, which is a clone of a Fuzzface, never played an OG Fuzzface with Germaniums, but that Sunface is sick!! ❤️
There is a difference. I recently sold my Analogman Sunface🔴 to buy a car and still have the old school Dunlop red also with NKT275. The Sunface was without a doubt better than the Dunlop but I lean on my Fulltone Soul bender Mk1 with 3 NKT275 now. New tiny soul bender mk2 are Trash, as NKT275 are long out of production.
Depends undergarment jokes aside... the secret is in the leakage. Analogman was testing and making matched sets with High Hfe to sound good ....while Dallas Arbiter and Dunlop just threw whatever in there without testing and matching. So in terms of sound my red circle is slightly muddier.
That Nux sounds sweet! I got a Mooer Blues Crab (Marshall Blues Breaker clone) in my pedalboard for more than one year, and with the gain at 10 adds a nice valve tone to any transistor amp or digital modeler. Also de Mosky XP Booster works pretty well as a Xotic EP Booster clone.
You're damn good man! I'm definitely stealing the lick from 0:55 - 1:02 :D
Wow great Sound. Please which amp and cabinet is used inside the
Line 6 stomp ?
Rex, formerly designated CT-7567 is the best clone. don't @ me nerds.
I ordered one. I hope I can make it sound half as good as you make yours sound.
Very tasteful playing.
Beautiful tone!
What delay type are you using here and what are your settings?
NUX makes an amazing pedals, i was impressed 10 years ago when i saw their ''force'' serial of pedals and they had color LCD's in 2011 wit a price a lot under 100$ which was wow. Tone core is also killer good and this analogue pedals old school reincarnations are uber cool.
What is this supposed to be a 'clone' of? I have one, & it seems to be a tube screamer w/ a fet in the input?
My tech told me re-case-d pedals always "SOUND BETTER".
What devices are in the signal chain? Wonderful tone!
Great demo mate. Great playing my only comment is why not show this using the bridge pickup as well. I see so many people on here demoing pedals like these and they NEVER use the bridge pickup maybe that is just that is where they 'live' on the guitar. Myself I mostly use the bridge pickup but that's just me but I personally would like to see both pickups used to get a better idea of what the pedal is like. Keep on postin though Bro.
great playing!
I have this pedal too, I love it
The title made me chuckle.
It's my favourite for a couple reasons now lol
@@johnnathancordy I just ordered one. #AttackOftheClones
1 reason is to tease vertex? lol.
An curious what strat is that?
How did you set your knobs on the nux?
Do you have this “base” sound in your POD Go presets? Man, sounded amazing...
Sure do it's ODSclean
is this pedal a transparent od? how does it compare to a blues driver?
If you’re Australian, it has to be Molly the sheep 😬
Hey man, big fan of your playing/channel. What strat is that? I want to say it’s a Vintage but I can’t read the logo. Cheers man.
Edit: nevermind it’s a K-line. Just figured it out 😂
have the DUDE, sold the HRM, getting this!
but this is tube screamer
What guitar?
I went from the Mosky Klone to a Ryra Klone. Not about to go to the original there...
What are the best cheap affordable brands for pedals ?
Nux
Mooer
Kokko
Behringer
Joyo
👋💣
I want to but it now 🙄🙄
Sounds more like a Tube screamer to me
Well ur right bro this one is modified version of their old product...its not vertex clone
@@kimhwang3610 I'll like to open it to see the circuit just to confirm, I was excited about this but it's sad to see that is another tube screamer
Isn't the HX stomp a digital clone of pedals, amps, cabs, mics...
You play very well , but that's the whole point , isn't it?
To let everyone here how well you play.
This isn't a demonstration of the steel singer ; in that case you have to do more than playing with other gear between the pedal and your amp and tell us nothing about the steel singer.
There are far more and better demonstrations of this pedal.
This is more a demonstration of yourself , and I must admitt : you play very well.
First. How cool an I? That's right not cool at all.
Yeh - it's not too tricky to be first on my videos ha! Hope you're having a good Sunday - just setting up for the livestream..
Also I have clones. I have a Tumnus which is obviously the best Klone. And I have a Keeley red dirt which is two clones in one. Btw you are getting some great sounds from the NUX.
@@JemMusic. wait what is the red dirt also a clone of?
Like it's a tubescreamer and then with some mod switches - what else?
@@johnnathancordy Yeah a tubescreamer. Keeley did many different mods for the TS and this has two via a switch. One more gainy than the other. So it kinda a clone of those two, I guess. I like it.
@@JemMusic. Keeley callled it a kind of "Keeley TS modification greatest hits pedal".
I have the Red Dirt Studio Deluxe which is just ge/si Red Dirt and his Comp+. Nothing fancy, no dipswitches that I'm aware of - but I have an aversion to messing with DIPs so I haven't actually opened it up to check LOL
I'd like to ask you some questions. that your guitar pickup Each position has a good output value k. Thank you.