damn, I wish someone would think about making a replica of the polichorus which is difficult to find and too expensive rather than a replica of the small clone which is still available today
Another option is the Dandy Horse by Lectric FX. It’s a DIY build but there’s a few people in the community who will build you one, @baskah_official is my recommendation
If I didn't already have a Small Clone, I'd seriously be looking into this. The decade switch plus the extra control over depth and mix settings make this look really interesting.
Hey! Nice review. I love PastFX and the work they do, would love to get my hands on one of these myself. As someone who has poured many hours into research on EHX and their circuits, here’s what I can say: EHX used both the Reticon and Panasonic chips in the original 70s/80s Small Clones indiscriminately, likely ordered based on who had the best price back in the day. So much so that certain units have a circuit board that accepts either chip, although the SAD version is considerably more rare. The difference between the SAD and MN versions is very small and almost negligible IMO. I don’t have a link but there’s a great comparison video showing the two and honestly it’s really impossible to tell the difference. The sound of a circuit is really the sum of its parts rather than individual components themselves. To set this one up like Kurt’s here’s what I’d do: Stick with 70s mode - to my ear this is the closest in sound to the original small clones with the slightly more flange like sound. Engage the low cut - I’m sure you know this but the original Small Clones have a huge bass cut when engaged Keep the mix around 50/50 - this is how most original EHX pedals were setup For 91’ / 92 shows I’d keep the rate pretty much max and depth in position 8, for the later shows in 93’ and 94’ same depth but reduce the rate to around 3 o’clock Thanks for the review, might pick one up if I can find a good deal!
Another channel I follow has done a bunch of PastFX demos for pedals that sound like David Gilmour and I've been blown away at how good those ones sound so to see another channel take a look at one is also great, not surprised it also sounds killer and definitely reminiscent of a Small Clone but I do love that name though. That's great
It does sound spot on, but there's noticeably less low end when played clean. With distortion I hear no difference. This definitely is worth it though.
Trivial detail: Small Clone pedals weren't manufactured in the 1990s. I remember because I was trying desperately to find one around 1999 and only expensive originals were around on eBay. By the early 2000s there was enough demand for EHX to reissue them.
does the rate nill ? ( when you turn the rate knob all the way down does the unit STOP oscillating the lfo or is it still moving when you turn it all the way down - either way it sounds phenomenal - i owned a sad1024 small clone till it was fried by an ac/ac power supply .
It sounded 1:1. It even emulates the heart shaped box solo? That is so cool! Also sorry for this unrelated question but do you still have the original neck that krist signed?
@@NirvanaGuitars Yeah it sure is. i still cant believe that it sounded like the heart shaped box solo. i just closed my eyes and didnt even notice that the pedals changed. You are amazing Eric!
As always, a great video! It seems to me that the reticon chip has a more watery sound, like in the nevermind album, it creates a feeling of overlapping sound. By the way, for some reason they don't have this pedal on their website(
Wait thats actually sick, ive been wanting a small clone for a while, but i can never decide which era to go for, do you know about how much these will cost?
I don't know if you did a video on Kurt's picks but I just switched to those oranges too and it totally made a huge difference to my accuracy I'm sure you noticed the same thing
@@NirvanaGuitars thanks so much! Also i love your content, I've actually learnt how to play Nirvana riffs by literally watching your videos, it would be insanely awsome if you could make full on riff tutorials though, step by step on some songs like serve the servants which doesn't have really any good tutorial videos. Anyway stay awsome!
Great video! Although I still stand by the Small Clone being the right way to be truly Nirvana. Can you also please upload an updated tone creation for Live at the Paramount? 7:47 You somehow have Live and Loud uploaded but not that yet.
As a 14 year old who hasn't even gotten an electric guitar yet but is scouting out for the perfect equipment, this pedal is literally what I was looking for. I didn't wanna get an actual Small Clone or Polychorus considering the prices, so this is perfect. And it's 3 decades of chorus in one pedal. What more could one need? (In my case, an actual guitar, but whatever).
I was sent the pedal but I was not paid. This and all my reviews are real. I have been sent things to review that I did not like so I sent it back without making any videos with them. I only review products I genuinely enjoy
@@NirvanaGuitars that is nice i really appreciate your content and see a pedal to good to be true make me think sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't see the price on the site, its known? for me $250 to $350 is a good price paying more seems like a bit of a robbery to me is a clone at the end
It's good but many of these reissues don't seem to capture the darkness and fullness of the originals. I swear it's not a placebo; I really do notice a difference.
Hard disagree. This offers infinitely more control than a small clone does. 1 rate knob & 1 depth switch vs 3 way circuit switch, 8 way depth rotary, mix control, level/gain control and rate
@@NirvanaGuitars Part of the charm of the og is working with the limited controls. It's a set and forget pedal. Having all those features might be cool in a recording context I'll give you that.
I don't know why they called it Kurt anything or associated it with one band--- Do you Kurt-o-philes think he would do anything other than turn his nose up and stay as far away from this kind of thing as he could?? Of course he would-- he would hate this kind of maudlin hero worship nonsense
Is that what he told you? I wonder what he would turn his nose up for: a pedal or people who never met him going around thinking they know him well enough to say how he would feel about something
@@NirvanaGuitars because he was an artist and an iconoclast stupid- you don't need to know him to know that.. He would think a pedal like that ( and you) is (are) ridicuous
So he would think a fan and a pedal are ridiculous but someone who never knew him thinking they are the sole spokesperson and authority on his thoughts and feelings regarding something that happened 30 years after his death, is not. Go ahead and not like it and voice it for yourself, but feeling the need to tap in Kurt's ghost as reinforcement/validation for your view is strange. Do you not view your own opinion as being enough?
“Kurt’s cologne review” I hear it smells like teen spirit
You heard correctly 😉
I wrote my comment before I saw yours but I'm leaving it lol. Great minds think alike
@@krisfrederick5001 fair enough 😭
Damn it i was about to say that
😂😂😂
damn, I wish someone would think about making a replica of the polichorus which is difficult to find and too expensive rather than a replica of the small clone which is still available today
PastFX is currently working on an EchoFlanger clone
Another option is the Dandy Horse by Lectric FX. It’s a DIY build but there’s a few people in the community who will build you one, @baskah_official is my recommendation
YESSS HELL YEAHHH@@NirvanaGuitars
@@NirvanaGuitarswill you do a video on it?
@BeefMalPassado yeah, because it's going to be more reliable and sound better 💀
I love it that EHX had branded Nirvana with their small clone.
If I didn't already have a Small Clone, I'd seriously be looking into this. The decade switch plus the extra control over depth and mix settings make this look really interesting.
It’s a good day when you post
This is probably the best name for a chorus pedal
Dude, this is incredible, it came out on my birthday, I loved this video
Absolutely magnificent sounding pedal. Thank you! Great video showing what this pedal is capable of.
Dudee, that pedal is sick! I loved
Hey! Nice review. I love PastFX and the work they do, would love to get my hands on one of these myself.
As someone who has poured many hours into research on EHX and their circuits, here’s what I can say:
EHX used both the Reticon and Panasonic chips in the original 70s/80s Small Clones indiscriminately, likely ordered based on who had the best price back in the day. So much so that certain units have a circuit board that accepts either chip, although the SAD version is considerably more rare. The difference between the SAD and MN versions is very small and almost negligible IMO. I don’t have a link but there’s a great comparison video showing the two and honestly it’s really impossible to tell the difference. The sound of a circuit is really the sum of its parts rather than individual components themselves.
To set this one up like Kurt’s here’s what I’d do:
Stick with 70s mode - to my ear this is the closest in sound to the original small clones with the slightly more flange like sound.
Engage the low cut - I’m sure you know this but the original Small Clones have a huge bass cut when engaged
Keep the mix around 50/50 - this is how most original EHX pedals were setup
For 91’ / 92 shows I’d keep the rate pretty much max and depth in position 8, for the later shows in 93’ and 94’ same depth but reduce the rate to around 3 o’clock
Thanks for the review, might pick one up if I can find a good deal!
Nice vid dude the pedal looks so cool!
WOW.. in that Seattle center reference.. it's like you weren't even switching between the two pedals 😮😮
Nice video! That pedal sounds amazing 🤩
Giving me another reason to buy another chorus pedal lol
Another channel I follow has done a bunch of PastFX demos for pedals that sound like David Gilmour and I've been blown away at how good those ones sound so to see another channel take a look at one is also great, not surprised it also sounds killer and definitely reminiscent of a Small Clone but I do love that name though. That's great
Oh man, I HAVE to have this!
Ooooooh nice! Gonna need one of these! I’ve Been trying to get my hands on a small clone for ageeeees 😅
It does sound spot on, but there's noticeably less low end when played clean. With distortion I hear no difference. This definitely is worth it though.
Big time less low end
That pedal is so beautiful… like it just makes me so emotional just listening to the clean sounds makes on the clean demo.🥹🥹🥹
Yeah no when my CH-2 dies soon I'm so buying this. This is so cool!!!
Beatles has ably house and nirvana has nirvanaguitars! Both very great youtubers
Hey Eric, can you please compare the OG Small clone and the Neo clone??
Trivial detail: Small Clone pedals weren't manufactured in the 1990s.
I remember because I was trying desperately to find one around 1999 and only expensive originals were around on eBay.
By the early 2000s there was enough demand for EHX to reissue them.
Yoooo love it I hope someday I will get that pedal I might get a Squier classic vibe 60s mustang 🤟🏽
I honestly thought this was a prank vid and you were just reviewing a cologne/scent that Kurt wore at some point
I think its referring to how Kathleen Hanna told Kurt he smells like Teen Spirit and Kurt didn't realize she was talking about a girls deodorant.
Just got my smallclone and I saw this vid
Past fx makes great pedals. I have their Brian May Foxx phaser
So cool!
Must have one❤
It's such a cool pedal!
@@NirvanaGuitars how much money does that particular pedal cost?
On Instagram PastFX has said that it'll be $299 AUD, which in USD should be around $195
Sounds identical wow
does the rate nill ? ( when you turn the rate knob all the way down does the unit STOP oscillating the lfo or is it still moving when you turn it all the way down - either way it sounds phenomenal - i owned a sad1024 small clone till it was fried by an ac/ac power supply .
yyyyyessssssss ANOTHER VIDEO!!!! :)
New video every week since 2022 😃
@@NirvanaGuitars I know! the videos are always good and i'll look into getting this pedal.
Are you running the chorus into the distortion or the distortion into the chorus?
Very cool
Kurt’s cologne “ smells like acne and cigarette burns with a hint of placenta”
🚬 👩
You should make a Kurt cobain inspired guitar and what you think he would have made if he was still with us
What's the signal chain here? Chorus into distortion or distortion into chorus?
It sounded 1:1. It even emulates the heart shaped box solo? That is so cool! Also sorry for this unrelated question but do you still have the original neck that krist signed?
I know right?! This pedal is a gamechanger! I still have that neck! It's the neck from my first guitar so I won't be parting with it
@@NirvanaGuitars Yeah it sure is. i still cant believe that it sounded like the heart shaped box solo. i just closed my eyes and didnt even notice that the pedals changed. You are amazing Eric!
Good thing about pedals, they all sound so unique
Hey eric any recommendations for squiers for kurt cobain builds
As always, a great video! It seems to me that the reticon chip has a more watery sound, like in the nevermind album, it creates a feeling of overlapping sound. By the way, for some reason they don't have this pedal on their website(
Wait thats actually sick, ive been wanting a small clone for a while, but i can never decide which era to go for, do you know about how much these will cost?
Hi eric can you recreate de tone at the Hollywood rock festival 93 👍🥶
Awesome
I don't know if you did a video on Kurt's picks but I just switched to those oranges too and it totally made a huge difference to my accuracy I'm sure you noticed the same thing
I just found out today that Kurt used 0.6 gray nylon picks until the 90s and only then orange ones
@@interpic interesting
@@interpic I only knew the orange ones it helped me get the strumming and picking timing better
@@NeuroJack Thin picks are really better suited to playing Nirvana or something in the same style. For the active strumming. I noticed it myself
I use those orange Tortex picks on my bass and they're my favorite, makes it easier to play fast
Nice one. Whats the t-shirt?
Clever name
I cant find it in the page? Someone can provide a link?
Edit : NEVERMIND, i just found it, its not available yet.
Can you do full endless nameless cover
Can somebody please start making a clone of the echo-flanger and Poly-chorus???? The only one I’ve seen is the Dandy horse DIY
I think apparently they are making one too?
Oh no I meant do regular mustang pick guards fit one a squirt mustang one
Do you think strings
can affect the sound?
Nice name as well, better than "Skull Crusher" these kind of pedals 😂
does your band post music anywhere I'd like to listen
What was the song you played during the clean demo?
It's probably his own version of old age
Are you planning to make Jason Everman's Telecaster?
Have you done anything on the makeshift intro song from the argentina 1992 live show, I'm pretty sure the song is nobody knows I'm new wave
“Kurt smells like Teen Spirit”
Always wonder what ever has been written with a high chorus rate
I can’t find this pedal anywhere, what’s the deal?
I believe they will be up soon on their site www.pastfx.com/index.php
How did you get one? What do they retail for?
I believe they will be up soon on their site www.pastfx.com/index.php
the creator said that it’ll probably take around 2-3 weeks until more of them are made
@@NirvanaGuitars thanks so much!
Also i love your content, I've actually learnt how to play Nirvana riffs by literally watching your videos, it would be insanely awsome if you could make full on riff tutorials though, step by step on some songs like serve the servants which doesn't have really any good tutorial videos.
Anyway stay awsome!
Hi! ur amazing :)
You are too! 🙏
Just a quick qeustion does regular mustangs Pickford fit on a squier one
I don’t know, that’s a question for Pickford
70s 😮
And is there a cheaper version for a sans amp and an echo flanger ?
th-cam.com/video/e6Toiz6uV64/w-d-xo.html
Yeeah and I can't see how much it went for on the website 🤦♂️
Hey man can u do a you know you're right cover it would sound sick
Another great small clone pedal would be the Jellyfish by Drunk Beaver Pedals.
i donot even need to hear it i want it
Use it with some reasoning, not to odd with. Namastè.
Honestly, it has less low end than the original small clones. Still it sounds SO extremely similar that i think its almost negligible.
interesting.
If it is possible can you pls do Jason everman video pls if possible
Great video! Although I still stand by the Small Clone being the right way to be truly Nirvana. Can you also please upload an updated tone creation for Live at the Paramount? 7:47 You somehow have Live and Loud uploaded but not that yet.
Edit: 9:31 That's BS!!! NOTHING beats the real thing no matter what!!!
Day 2 of asking for another bleach recreation now you have a Randall and proper ds1
As a 14 year old who hasn't even gotten an electric guitar yet but is scouting out for the perfect equipment, this pedal is literally what I was looking for. I didn't wanna get an actual Small Clone or Polychorus considering the prices, so this is perfect. And it's 3 decades of chorus in one pedal. What more could one need? (In my case, an actual guitar, but whatever).
Kurt's Cologne Smells Like Teen Spirit, or it's a Scentless Apprentice
Thought this was a Cologne review
interesting
Can you recreate you know your right
I think itll be 300 dallars
if you can say it they pay you for doing this video or is a real review?
I was sent the pedal but I was not paid. This and all my reviews are real. I have been sent things to review that I did not like so I sent it back without making any videos with them. I only review products I genuinely enjoy
@@NirvanaGuitars that is nice i really appreciate your content and see a pedal to good to be true make me think sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't see the price on the site, its known? for me $250 to $350 is a good price paying more seems like a bit of a robbery to me is a clone at the end
Thank you for watching, no need to apologize! On Instagram PastFX has said that it'll be $299 AUD, which in USD should be around $195
Too much Kurt's cologne and I'm gonna have an aneurysm
If it ain't broke don't fix it " I'll just stay with my 90's Small Clone . 😋
I couldn't find it on the market which is a little disappointing
😂😂😂😂 good name
a clone of a clone ironic
First
sorry but you were actually 4th
wow, this is a bait, now buying this pedal you will immediately buy your glory
*clicks on a review video, sees that it is positive*
“Wow this is a bait”
@@NirvanaGuitars how much do I need to pay now for this positive
$0. If you make a genuinely great product that is worth sharing, I will share it
creepy name
It's good but many of these reissues don't seem to capture the darkness and fullness of the originals. I swear it's not a placebo; I really do notice a difference.
Not worth 300€ I guess
Pretty pointless imo. Just buy a regular Small Clone.
Hard disagree. This offers infinitely more control than a small clone does. 1 rate knob & 1 depth switch vs 3 way circuit switch, 8 way depth rotary, mix control, level/gain control and rate
@@NirvanaGuitars Part of the charm of the og is working with the limited controls. It's a set and forget pedal. Having all those features might be cool in a recording context I'll give you that.
and also, I think it's more for those people who would maybe mod their small clones to add controls. like extra knobs for mix and depth and such.
these are 100% going to be cheaper than vintage unit, so that kinda destroys anything against it imo
I have never once seen the argument of "I prefer to have less control and options on my pedals" but to each their own
Probably surface mount
I don't know why they called it Kurt anything or associated it with one band--- Do you Kurt-o-philes think he would do anything other than turn his nose up and stay as far away from this kind of thing as he could?? Of course he would-- he would hate this kind of maudlin hero worship nonsense
Is that what he told you? I wonder what he would turn his nose up for: a pedal or people who never met him going around thinking they know him well enough to say how he would feel about something
@@NirvanaGuitars because he was an artist and an iconoclast stupid- you don't need to know him to know that.. He would think a pedal like that ( and you) is (are) ridicuous
So he would think a fan and a pedal are ridiculous but someone who never knew him thinking they are the sole spokesperson and authority on his thoughts and feelings regarding something that happened 30 years after his death, is not.
Go ahead and not like it and voice it for yourself, but feeling the need to tap in Kurt's ghost as reinforcement/validation for your view is strange. Do you not view your own opinion as being enough?