NUX Horseman Overdrive Pedal | Two Klon Centaur circuits in one tiny box for $70?! Review & Demo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- This is the NUX Horseman OD overdrive pedal!
The Horseman is NUX’s take on the legendary Klon Centaur overdrive, originals of which have been played by the likes of John Mayer and Joe Bonamassa and catch fetch up to $5,000 (yes, you read that right - five thousand dollars!) on the used market. Well, for the price of one of those you could put together a stable of 70 Horsemen, if you so wished! It’s about €50 in Europe, and $70 in the USA.
Get the Horseman here: bit.ly/NUXHorsemanRWM
The reason so many guitar players love the Centaur/Horseman design is because it produces (cliché alert) transparent overdrive - in that it pushes our tone into overdrive without coloring the tonal characteristic of our guitar and amp. Lovely. That’s why so many companies make their own so-called Klone pedals.
The Horseman offers us two distinct sound modes - Gold and Silver, both of which are modeled after original Klon designs - in a mini pedal format. Small enough to fit on any board, and pretty rugged and solid feeling, the pedal has just three controls (Output, Gain, and Treble). You toggle between the Gold and Silver modes by holding down the footswitch for a second or so, with an LED to indicate which mode is engaged. The pedal also allegedly offers true bypass and buffered bypass modes (the original Klons feature a legendary buffer which is said to improve your tone even when the pedal is not switched on!) although I couldn’t get this feature to work, sadly.
In the playing part of the video, I test out the Horseman with three of my guitars - my Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster, and my Epiphone Les Paul - in a range of my favorite musical styles to see how it handles the different guitars and pickup types, and at the end, I do a nice little loop with each guitar where I tweak the pedal’s controls to show you all the extremes you can get with it.
Here’s the links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Hello!
00:38 Introduction to the NUX Horseman
01:36 Horsman controls and the Gold and Silver circuits
03:06 Today’s rig
03:45 Clean reference tones and turning on the Horseman
Pushed clean sounds
04:31 Poppy barre chords
05:18 Ringing open indie pop chords
05:58 Country lead sound
06:23 60s pop rhythm tone
Crunch sounds
06:55 Groovy classic rock riff
08:13 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
09:03 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
09:52 Greta Van Fleet inspired classic rock riff
10:30 Indie rock rhythm riff
11:19 Upbeat indie barre chords
11:48 Indie octave chords riff
13:11 Indie rhythm tone
Higher gain sounds
13:54 Classic hard rock riff
14:46 Hard rock riff
15:36 Glam rock riff
16:18 Hard rock palm muted riff
17:56 Green Day inspired pop punk riff
18:40 Pop punk melodic lead sound
19:29 Punk rock powerchords
20:13 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
21:04 Modern alternative rock riff
21:46 Chunky alt rock chords
23:05 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
23:51 Hardcore chugging riff (Drop D tuning)
24:36 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning)
Horseman pushing an already overdriving amp
25:22 Saturated hard rock riff
26:31 Hardcore chugging test (Drop D tuning)
27:37 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop
30:16 Fender Stratocaster indie loop
32:30 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop
34:57 My thoughts
35:28 This is a seriously good pedal!
36:26 Horseman with the Tele
37:26 Horseman with the Strat
37:53 Horseman with the Les Paul
38:40 The Gold and Silver modes
39:36 Switching between true bypass and buffered bypass?
40:21 Build quality and other NUX pedals
41:24 Final conclusions and goodbye
My setup was as follows: I ran the Horseman straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops.
Here’s some links to those bits of gear:
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H&K Black Spirit 200 head: bit.ly/HKBS200rwm
TC Electronic Ditto Looper: bit.ly/TCDittoRWM
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): bit.ly/rwmFR4i4
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Enjoy!
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Backing music from the TH-cam Audio Library: Duck In The Alley - TrackTribe.
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And here's the chapter timestamps for you people on phones and tablets:
00:00 Hello!
00:38 Introduction to the NUX Horseman
01:36 Horsman controls and the Gold and Silver circuits
03:06 Today’s rig
03:45 Clean reference tones and turning on the Horseman
Pushed clean sounds
04:31 Poppy barre chords
05:18 Ringing open indie pop chords
05:58 Country lead sound
06:23 60s pop rhythm tone
Crunch sounds
06:55 Groovy classic rock riff
08:13 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
09:03 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
09:52 Greta Van Fleet inspired classic rock riff
10:30 Indie rock rhythm riff
11:19 Upbeat indie barre chords
11:48 Indie octave chords riff
13:11 Indie rhythm tone
Higher gain sounds
13:54 Classic hard rock riff
14:46 Hard rock riff
15:36 Glam rock riff
16:18 Hard rock palm muted riff
17:56 Green Day inspired pop punk riff
18:40 Pop punk melodic lead sound
19:29 Punk rock powerchords
20:13 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
21:04 Modern alternative rock riff
21:46 Chunky alt rock chords
23:05 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
23:51 Hardcore chugging riff (Drop D tuning)
24:36 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning)
Horseman pushing an already overdriving amp
25:22 Saturated hard rock riff
26:31 Hardcore chugging test (Drop D tuning)
27:37 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop
30:16 Fender Stratocaster indie loop
32:30 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop
34:57 My thoughts
35:28 This is a seriously good pedal!
36:26 Horseman with the Tele
37:26 Horseman with the Strat
37:53 Horseman with the Les Paul
38:40 The Gold and Silver modes
39:36 Switching between true bypass and buffered bypass?
40:21 Build quality and other NUX pedals
41:24 Final conclusions and goodbye
Enjoy!
As for me, this is an exhaustive video. Personally, I have no questions left. Thank you and good luck! 🙏🏼
Thanks a lot! That's my goal with these videos - leave no question unanswered for the viewers ;) Glad it worked! Cheers and rock on :)
Best reviews on yt, love your channel, dude
Aw, thanks so much! It makes my day to get comments like that, really :)
Another great review. Expecting this channel to blow up soon!
Thanks so much Peter! More people are starting to watch my videos now, so it's happening slowly but surely... more like a balloon being slowly inflated than blowing up, but I'll take that too ;)
Execellent and thorough review. Thanks
Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoying your channel so far, man. I dig how detailed this review is. I’m more of a Tele/LP guy, but I thought the pedal really worked its magic best with the Strat, particularly the bridge pickup. Interesting.
NUX are doing some interesting stuff. I recently picked up their acoustic sim pedal, and found it surprisingly useful thus far.
Thanks a lot, I'm really happy you're enjoying it still! I do like to go into detail in these videos. Leave no question unanswered, that's my motto ;) I actually agree about the Strat (and I'm a Tele/LP guy too!)... it really loves this pedal. There are a few more NUX pedals I'd like to try, actually - they seem to be making some really cool (and also original!) designs.
I have this pedal and steel singer and they are bloody excellent. Hey from the Uk
Hey from Germany! Yep, I have and really like the Steel Singer too. Great performing pedals at a pretty amazing price, they are. They actually have a couple of new double overdrive pedals out which I'd really like to try too - the Fireman and the Ace Of Tone...
Just got this pedal today and I absolutely love it.
It's sitting before my Tube Screamer TS9 and I'm considering getting a second one to use solely in Silver Mode, gain up higher, having three "stages" of drive between these two and my TS9.
Happy new pedal day! I love the Horseman, and it does stack amazingly with Tube Screamers (and all my other drives!). At this price, it could definitely be worth getting a second one too - the Gold and Silver modes are significantly different enough to justify that for sure! That'll be a mighty triple gain stage you have there too!
Switching between true bypass and buffered bypass, work for me. Just hold (don't release) the switch, then power up. Buffer mode light green, true bypass light red. Each time you repeat the operation, it changes alternately from green to red and red to green.
Hmm, I've tried it the way you've said it and it just doesn't do anything. I'm in True Bypass mode all the time. So it might not be me... maybe this one pedal just won't do the switching?
Possible video suggestion: what I would like to see is maybe comparison with some other boost/overdrive pedals you own, to showcase what is it that makes this a "Klon" clone. As a total and absolute pedal noob I don't really understand differences between overdrive/boost/pedals in general, let a lone what differentiates a "Klon" effect from a Tube Screamer or Boss Blues Driver BD-2.
That's an excellent idea. You know, sometimes I kind of forget that there might be people watching who aren't 100% familiar with all the terms and gear types I talk about! That would be a really interesting video to make, so I'll get to planning something. In the meantime, let me offer you this - JHS have done a really nice video on pretty much that topic, and I'd really recommend it: th-cam.com/video/8wVShbGe4pk/w-d-xo.html
👍🏻👍🏻 Sounds good to me, Rich! $99AUD in Downunderland.
Oh yeah, it's really good, this one. And $99AUD isn't half bad either!
I’m going to have to check these out. Vlad seems really likes the NUX stuff too. This lil clipper sounds like a good addition to my board 🤘🏽
Yep, it was actually Vlad who tipped me off on NUX. They're really good value for money and the Horseman is proper solid and durable too, so well worth a try! Stick it into the G3 and see what happens...
@@RichWordsMusic maybe a NUX shoot out with the horsemen vs the Fireman?
@@PooNinja Oh yes, I'd love to try the Fireman if I can. But which man is better... Fire or Horse?! I hope we get the chance to find out soon. The new Ace Of Tone also looks fantastic.
… FireHorse …. Ok now that sounds badass.
Firehorse distortion it’s a stampede from Hell straight into your preamp (☄️🔥 lots of explosions in the hellscape that morphs and flows down to a quarter inch TS cable with sparks and fire shooting out of it) FIREHORSE!!!!
I’m picturing a dimebag tie in cowboys from hell tones or something like that??? IDK
@@PooNinja I'd take a FireHorse any day of the week! In fact, I think I'm copyrighting that. HorseFire you can have, that's more a horror film in a stompbox vibe.
Strat, strat, strat, whatever the pedal!! great demo man! It's a good alternative to a TS on blues. gold version is better for me but the pedal provides a really wide range of tones. Yes, it's planned to join soon my pedalboard.
Ha ha, I'm still very much a newbie on the Strat. I need to play mine more as it's a great guitar, but a challenge! This pedal works really well, I agree, and it's super flexible too. I also prefer the Gold mode but there's some uses for the Silver as well I guess. Hope you really enjoy the pedal when you get yours!
LesPaul players use it mainly always on, on gold version at a reasonable crunchy level and play vith volume pot. Really responsive and cleaning well.
@@christopherebeyrol4553 That's definitely something for me to try - great tip! Normally I have my guitar volume on full all the time, so I need to learn this :)
I have not tried horseman, but I can share my experience with Wampler Tumnus deluxe. It did magic with either humbucker or P90 or star with a mid-scoppish Bugera V22 that I had. It, however was a bit muffled on a Laney Lionheart that has quite a bit of mids, and on Peavey Classic for the same reason: mids
Klon and clones of it have a mid hump, wampler tumnus did wonders with mid-scoopish amps, but choked a bit with with middy amps
That's a really interesting comment, so thanks for sharing that. I've been really interested to try a Tumnus Deluxe because it has the 3-band EQ, so I was wondering how you could tailor it to different sounding amps and setups. I generally have a fair bit of mids in my amp sound though, so maybe it's not quite going to be ideal? It's definitely something I would love the chance to try out!
@@RichWordsMusic depends on the amp I guess. Deluxe lets you cut the mids a bit but, for me, It was a perfect match to Bugera v22 -- beautiful sounds they had together. it did well after a big muff as well on that Bugera. On laney lionheart, I could use others pedals with sounds more pleasing to me
I think Klon has a humb around 800-1000 hz, but I may be mistaken
@@brucemarie3059 I think you may be right. I also need to take your advice and run a fuzz together with the Horseman - I've heard from others that that's going to sound massive!
What an impressive review! 43 minutes of turning, switching and playing the hell out of it - seems, you do it like Henning... ;-)) Could you please take that Pedal with you to Thomas Blug's place, when you are with him on his "AoT"-Channel? Would love to hear some tones of the Horseman with Amp1...
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Yes, I guess I do it the way Henning does ;) Covering everything possible! And sure, I will take the Horseman next time I'm on AoT and we'll hear how it sounds when Thomas does his thing through it!
@@RichWordsMusic Thank you, Rich. I'm looking foreward to that... ;-))
@@Hardy-One Me too! Thomas uses pedals and amps so differently to me that'll be a fun comparison for sure...
1 of the MOST over hyped pedals in guitar history!
You know it! And it's worthy of the hype, sure, but not $5,000 worthy ;)
@@RichWordsMusic no definitely not that much. There are many good clones, some with added functionality like Wampler's, Those who pay 1000s for a pedal, probably look at as invetsment
@@RichWordsMusic I don't think ANY of them are Rich!
@@brucemarie3059 OR feeding their narcissim!
First I guess😂
Third 🤘🏽?
@@PooNinja Second!