The Best Overdrive Pedal Of All Time - ThorpyFX Peacekeeper
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video I look at what I would consider to be the greatest Overdrive pedal of al time the ThorpyFX Peacekeeper.
The Thorpy Peacekeeper is a low gain overdrive that I feel works with any guitar. Many times Ive picked up a Les Paul after say a Stratocaster and have to completely change my amp settings. with this pedal everything sounds great.
Here's what Thorpy say about the Peacekeeper
The PEACEKEEPER is our take on a low gain overdrive designed to suit all guitars and all amps whilst delivering the sweetest on the edge to crunch tones you have ever heard. Hyperbole aside, this pedal has some very cunning tricks up its sleeve, by combining a post gain active Treble and Bass circuit with a pre-gain Mids/presence control you are able to tailor the overdrive character and tonality to your exacting needs. The pre-gain mids control allows you to move from a very smooth mid scooped gain type to a more pronounced mid humped gain with all the subtleties in between. Post gain the active treble and bass controls adapt that focussed gain stage to achieve the tonality you desire/need. Used as a subtle boost into your amp (ala Klon style) or as an "on the Edge" overdrive, the PEACEKEEPER will make you wonder how you sound so good!
Aside from achieving fantastic sonic credentials the PEACEKEEPER is built like a tank with physical features such as recessed knobs and top mounted jacks. Robust build does not have to come at the sacrifice of looks, the PEACEKEEPER uses a combination of a beautiful stainless steel laser etched centre console wrapped in a tough baseplate.
Internally the pedal is immaculately built using premium 1% metalfilm resistors, Wima and Panasonic capacitors, Neutrik jacks and a Burr-Brown Opamp. These are the crème de la crème of the electronics world and when coupled with a robust gold plated PCB and dust sealed potentiometers the recipe is as good as it can possibly be.
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Killer OD. Gives the sound a solid punch while still being able to hear the individual string responses...even full chords sound clear but driven to perfection.
Sounds great and Thorpy does make a great pedal. Love my Fallout Cloud (Fuzz) and totally agree regarding the LED brightness and legibility of the script.
I degreased the top plate and used a little acrylic paint over the script, wiped over leaving some in the impressions which helped, added a blob on the LED too which mellowed it out.
The Treble and Bass work around a fixed point, so with both at 1 o'clock you're applying a little mid cut, roll back to 9 O'clock and it would push the mids etc, it's a great feature which often gets overlooked or misunderstood.
Stumbled across this vid when looking for something else. I agree totally - best pedal I own. It stacks insanely well too because the EQ is so powerful. Love it.
Absolutely loving the tones you're getting with the Thorpy Peacekeeper!✌🏽
The versatile overdrive and parallel circuit really shine through.
I just got mine and I was blown away! It was everything I hoped for!!! Totally suits my playing! Forget TS and ODR circuits! This one just has magic! The presence control really makes a massive difference in setting things up
Good choice, it’s really good isn’t it.
@@TheStudioRatsI had that moment where I kicked myself and wished I bought it years ago :)
Wow, incredible sounds.
I have this pedal and the Keeley Oxblood and absolutely love them both
I have a personal preference for what I would describe as a creamy overdrive sound. On just about all previous reviews of Thorpy pedals I have heard I found them to be a little too aggressive and spikey for my liking BUT... this sounds so delicious. I'm delighted I found this clip as this seems a pedal well worth trying.
I am in the process of buying one on ebay :) sent an offer!!! fingers crossed!! I already own 2 thorpy pedals! best build quality out there :) I have actually met him once! before he became famous! he use to sell pedals on ebay! stuff he built in his spare time while he was in the army :) he dropped a pedal off to me, was in his uniform, nice guy! UPDATE: I won the pedal for 145 pounds in mint condition
I'd have to agree it sounds amazing. i have trouble getting on with fuzz, but from memory, Thorpy fuzz's really sounded amazing, because they had an over drive feel to the tone with the fuzz element.
Yet another great demonstration video Paul cant stop watching your channel 👍
The wife's going to kick off at this rate 😆 🤣
Cheers Warren, don’t upset the Missus.
Great video, thanks. I have a Peacekeeper and I absolutely agree. I used to have a Guv'nor too back in the day. Loved it. Now my Peacekeeper is rarely off and my Fat General and Team Medic give me more gain than a stockbroker's bank account...
Loved the review, thanks so much at looking at this pedal... massively appreciate it. p.s. apologies for the LED ;)
My eyes have never been the same since the first time that LED went on Adrian. 😀
@@TheStudioRats Btw, how do we get in touch?
I always knew at some point I’d try this pedal out, but I bought the Peacekeeper in the back of this quick review. Majorly surprised how much gain it had for a low gain pedal although the gain never really moves past 11 o’clock 🙌
You sold me on this pedal! I actually was researching the Scarlet Tunic, but this pedal is a lot more useful for my needs with the current band I am in. I like how it lets the personality of both the amp and the guitar to shine through. Thinking why do I have both various different types of guitars and amps, if the overdrive imprints its sound over them.
Still loving it four months later!
Wish I’d have known about this years ago. Have used a Klon, Bluesbreaker and either a Timmy or Lightspeed for quite some time , would be nice to just have an amalgamation of all along with the capacity to clean boost.
Great review Paul… trying to decide between the Dane and this one atm!
It's a good one to know about. I like it.
Great video. Thorpy do amazing pedals. Have you tried the origin fx revivaldrive?
That’s amazing.
Have you tried the Thorpy FX The Dane? It’s basically like the Peacekeeper with a boost channel added. It’s fantastic.
I haven’t but that sounds great.
Even better is running the Heavy Water into the Peacekeeper!
Fantastic sounding pedal, I love my Thorpy The Dane - never going to part with that. Have you tried one? I would be interested to hear your take on it, it even comes with a little card showing some different settings from Danish Pete to get you started.
the quality of sound can vary depending on what amp they are plugged into..✴
thanks for your content! you should definately try the nordland odr-c :)
I would have liked to hear it without the reverb. A guy named Matt Diggs in Michigan makes the MUSA Model 101 "FIREHOUSE" Distortion which is also top notch and sounds very similar. It's too bad we don't have a side by side comparison. Unfortunately, a Firehouse is hard to get.
Hey Paul. First of all love the channel - absolutely one of the best out there I'm recent times.
Hopefully you csn help, I'm stuck between this and the origin effects meq and knowing you've played boost. Is there much overlap and which would you say is the more unique/versatile. I want it to be an always on type of pedal to sweeten my amp tone with the option of going gainier.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Nath
Hi Nathan you’ll be happy with both, but as an always on pedal, in my opinion, the peace keeper is the one, while the MEQ drive is best for gain tones.
@The Studio Rats that's great thanks for the reply Paul!
merci pour cette video , j ai deux questions , est ce que cette pedale est un clone de Klon ? ou est ce que cette pedale est un concurent serieux de la marshall Guv nor ?
great video!🤙 is it possible to compare with the pedal greer amps lightspeed overdrive?
I don't know if it's the best OD but i love mine. Stack very well after a fuzz too (Thorpy Fallout Cloud or EHX green Muff.
I've had a tone of OD, and this one stays on my board (with my OE RevivalDrive Compat, Jam Rattler and Boss OD-3).
Hiya, great video Ta.
What version are you using and what is the difference between versions if you know?
Ian.
This was the first ones to come out.
If this is the best, what other drive pedals would round out your top five?
Would this work with a roland jc 40 just for bit of tuby clean boost light drive
Sounds very like an OD Glove!
Great video, thank you. Is this pedal still available? Or discontinued
yes from Thorpyfx
Did you Keep that Two -Rock amp ?
Wait...if you "can't even hear when it's on"...then what's the point of using a pedal. 🤷♂️ I understand that sometimes you feel compression more than hear it . But you can still tell that its on.
Without the boost it sounds common.
Greer lightspeed is another contender.
@Crux Of The Biscuit yes i've been pondering on it a long time. Thorpy makes bombproof stuff. Is it a bit more thicker sounding than the lightspeed?
The best come from Electro Harmonix and Fulltone
Whaaaaaaaat? I don’t see a Bad Cat in there! Uh oh
You sounded like Ac DC …Aussie connection ?
Me thinks the matchless amp plays a huge part in this tone.set up like an amp.and I fucking hate klons.and d-style pedals.hate them.
Yes, a good tube-driven clean tone with a little "personality" definitely helps OD petals sound better, but the vast majority of them with this same pairing still don't sound THIS good!
That’s like saying the UA Golden is the best reverb pedal of all time. Oh wait… you already did that :)
Nah
I'll tell you what im getting out of this an empty wallet.What really gets me about the Thorpy pedals i own is as you said to bright led and cant read whats what surely the amount of thought and brain power he puts into designing these it should be an obvious thing to address he must of had lots of complaints easy to remedy i would think.
No it’s not.
Every week someone's coming out with a new overdrive pedal, and theres not that much difference your just reinventing the wheel the components may be different but they all end up in the same place nothing new. These are made for people that like to collect pedals.
Wow, sounds incredible.
It’s a great pedal