The Lightspeed has been on my board for years and I don't think it'll ever come off. I remember the first chord I hit when I played it for the first time. All three knobs on 1 ó clock. When I heard that sound for the first time my jaw dropped and I just stared at my amp in awe. IN AWE!!! This pedal combined with an old Xotic RC Booster into a good amp set on the edge of break up..., that's it for me. ❤️
RC booster will never leave my board. I had to make a decision tonight to remove either lightspeed or RC booster. I also have a southland that is staying on. Pulled the lightspeed hoping I can cover some of that ground with southland and volume knob on Guit. Probably need a larger board.
Yes, it is that good... the Lightspeed and the Hudson Broadcast are my favorites from all the bunch I had over the years. Still have to try the Browne pedals...
Great demo on the Lightspeed. Subscribed and liked! Awesome pedal that I use in so many different ways and it’s just perfection! It works so well with other pedals, amps…and amp pedals! Keeps that pure tone and just adds something special that makes it even better.
One of my favourites. I have one on my studio recording board and another on my smaller gigging board... and yes - it SHINES when you put other drives in front of it... Welcome to the obsession 🤘
Here's the thing I realized about the lightspeed...at home it is a fine sounding pedal as are many others. But on stage it works so incredibly well that it has lasted the longest on my board, it seems to combine so well with every single other pedal I stack it with and on its own is a perfect low gain stage.
Owned probably 30 overdrives and Distortion pedals, all price ranges and I loved this pedal within seconds. Every thing sounded good no matter where you set the dials, Impressed? Yes undoubtedly.
I run Hudson Broadcast into Lightspeed into Browne Protein. Soooo many good stacking options - the Lightspeed is always on with gain set at 10 o’clock.
Wow! This pedal would be a nice companion to my Dude pedal. This has the other end of the spectrum of tone for the organic ,punchy,yet clear as day OD that the Dude offers.
Freq… in English is pronounced like freak. For the word frequency. Excellent video, I also do not have a lightspeed… but I definitely see one in my future. Cheers mate hope you’re well.
I still like my Timmy more but I do have a light speed as well. The light speed sounded great to me with a vox amp. Won’t ever sell it. But the Timmy is on my board currently as my stacking tool and I think the Timmy works with my fender amps I play more frequently a bit better
I completely agree with your experience. My Timmy kills with my Fender 79Deluxe, old Champ and ‘63 Vibroverb RI. The Lightspeed does nothing for me on Fender amps but kills on the Vox side of my 3rd power British Dream and is a great harmonic pushing “spice” pedal with a drive or Xotic Super Sweet in front on the Plexi side. It’s a great pedal that adds to amps with a mid range forward sound but it’s never a pedal that you stomp on for a solo by it’s self. I look at it more like a seasoning. That’s what makes it great with the right amp. Don’t know another pedal like it. Greer stuff is so great because they just go for a musical sound first instead of marketing and copycat stuff like Wampler and JHS. Check out an old Texas Voodoo if you can find one. A very unpretentious musical Fuzz.
Take a Timmy v.2 pedal. Pull out the 50k bass knob pot and hard wire that spot with a 15k cap. Change another cap and you have an instant Lightseed. But before you are done paint some of the parts black and then pour hot glue all over the board to hide much of the circuit. This way no one will think you are a rip artist instead of a pedal designer. WTF!!!! The name of the pedal is appropriate. It is how long it took Greer to design the pedal.
No doubt the Timmy is also derived from something else. How many ground-breaking unique overdrive designs can there be? They’re pretty much all derived from something that came before.
I just got one and the verdict is still out. It’s very colored - hardly what I’d call transparent. The tone control is a more like high mid and pushing a Marshall voiced amp can get a little harsh. It loves most of my guitars but gets a little muddy with my semi (a 335). It is indeed very dynamic. Giving it a couple of days - getting fresh ears on it tomorrow.
Good demo, this is how it sounds, I have one. I'm a little torn about it, I like the sound, but it tends to fight a bit with vocals in a mix due to the upper mids bump. Not a producer fave I would think. I like anything sus 2 in chords, probably reflects what I just wrote haha..
I love my Lightspeed. I tried the Southland, and although it has more gain, I didn't love the low end on it when stacked with other drives, so I sold it. I recently got an EQD Plumes and it pairs very well with the Lightspeed or my other drive pedals. Highly recommend the Plumes.
really curious what your recording setup is, im guessing you use IRs (hence the headphones), would love to know what kind etc, or maybe its something else all together
Anette Benning said in The Grifters.."I've kissed a lot of frogs and...." When I played this I knew what she meant. this is simply a great pedal. At any price. the only one I've played that is this good might be the Origin Magma57, which is something a player should check out.
this is becoming the pedal of nashville.... this should be on every pedal board... by itself or to stack.... this is one of the best organic overdrives ever made....hands down
I had the Lightspeed and the Carbon from Browne, just to check which one would suit me more. They both sound pretty good, but I went with the Carbon, since it can be brighter. Playing a Milkman and a Starcaster can sound dark, so the opportunity to add more highs when needed made the decision. If I remeber correctly, the Lighspeed has more gain...but they are both fantastic!!!
the"big deal" pour moi is the clipping, It has the best "clean amp on the edge of breakup" tone i have ever heard . The tone stack is rather shite, i find it a bit too dark for my taste, but it stays on my board because of the dirt- i just tap the high end on my 10 band eq a few degrees to compensate.
Lightspeed is flat with a tiny 2K bump, the BF is scoped in EQ, hence your feelings. I liked the Lightspeed into my Twin as it didn’t add mids, it was just a low gain version of whatever amp it’s in.
@@electricj5 I‘m not sure about the flat eq of the Lightspeed. I think it’s got a slight scoop and a tiny hump on higher mids (2k sounds about right). I could do a pretty good emulation of the Lightspeed with my Timmy though. So there’s no reason to have both. The Timmy is more versatile and cheaper, too…
What is the big deal most boring pedal ever.its a very over priced Special Cranker.which sounds better. I have a box by recovery fx.the electric.Both are better choices
What’s your favourite chord?
D major 9 with both E strings open. Try it! 5th fret D, 4th fret F#, 5th fret C#, 5th fret E.
The secret one that David played.. ;)
on "instant pro" I've just fell off my chair....but you're right G is there everytime you need that "chord confort"
@@SbluesyS Chord Comfort will be my new mantra
Love a minor 9 chord arpeggiated
The Lightspeed has been on my board for years and I don't think it'll ever come off. I remember the first chord I hit when I played it for the first time. All three knobs on 1 ó clock. When I heard that sound for the first time my jaw dropped and I just stared at my amp in awe. IN AWE!!!
This pedal combined with an old Xotic RC Booster into a good amp set on the edge of break up..., that's it for me. ❤️
RC booster will never leave my board. I had to make a decision tonight to remove either lightspeed or RC booster. I also have a southland that is staying on. Pulled the lightspeed hoping I can cover some of that ground with southland and volume knob on Guit. Probably need a larger board.
Nick is one of the best. Everyone should have a Lightspeed, if only to experience that first smile once. Lovely playing sir.
I guess I wasn’t the only one new to the party. Nick and the lightspeed are GEMS!
A year later and now the Buddy Blues house with the permission of Watson has been rebuilt with lightspeeds!
Yes, it is that good... the Lightspeed and the Hudson Broadcast are my favorites from all the bunch I had over the years. Still have to try the Browne pedals...
You know it’s good when you have a smile on your face from the first strum.
Great demo, great playing 🤙 I haven't turned my lightspeed off since I got it (to my ears sounds best last in a drive section)
My favourite overdrive pedal of all time. Will always be on my board!
Great demo on the Lightspeed. Subscribed and liked! Awesome pedal that I use in so many different ways and it’s just perfection! It works so well with other pedals, amps…and amp pedals! Keeps that pure tone and just adds something special that makes it even better.
Man you always gets the best tones...great demo
One of my favourites. I have one on my studio recording board and another on my smaller gigging board... and yes - it SHINES when you put other drives in front of it... Welcome to the obsession 🤘
It’s never coming off my board. It is the best drive pedal at the end of a drive chain
I have it first....do you like after higher gains??
@@danielallen2510 anything going into a Lightspeed is better for it
@@hovikmekhjian2464 well shoot. I’m gonna have to do some rearranging now
well done again, sir! you are appreciated so much, thank you!
Here's the thing I realized about the lightspeed...at home it is a fine sounding pedal as are many others. But on stage it works so incredibly well that it has lasted the longest on my board, it seems to combine so well with every single other pedal I stack it with and on its own is a perfect low gain stage.
I don’t have one of these pedals but I would assume freq. stands for frequency. Very good demo. I really want this pedal now!!
Lightspeed is the best transparent overdrive I've played in 30 years. Absolutely lifts my tone.
Love everything about this channel ! Tops !
Thanks for all your great reviews....very tastfull playing and not one of those endless sensless shredders
Was thinking the same thing right before you busted out the Tele. I love it even more with single coils.
I don’t have one either Mr. Greer. 😉
Gonna need to get me one of these! Great video!
Owned probably 30 overdrives and Distortion pedals, all price ranges and I loved this pedal within seconds. Every thing sounded good no matter where you set the dials, Impressed? Yes undoubtedly.
Really Great Video Man ❤
Have one…after dozen light OD . And love it so much ! Works with my another OD boutique et and my Fuzz pedal ! Awesome demo for an awesome pedal 👍😉
I wouldnt be without it !! Stacks so well with my KOT or Dumbloid ...
The light speed is the best transparent overdrive to me. It’s open, not compressed, and really organic like the name says.
That telly sounds gorgeous
I enjoyed the playing!
I run Hudson Broadcast into Lightspeed into Browne Protein. Soooo many good stacking options - the Lightspeed is always on with gain set at 10 o’clock.
Wow! This pedal would be a nice companion to my Dude pedal. This has the other end of the spectrum of tone for the organic ,punchy,yet clear as day OD that the Dude offers.
Man, I love your demos.
Freq… in English is pronounced like freak. For the word frequency. Excellent video, I also do not have a lightspeed… but I definitely see one in my future. Cheers mate hope you’re well.
Yeah I know it’s frequency. I just like saying freq 🤣 thanks man! Go get one!
I love the A chord but this is a really good demo of this pedal!
I secretly love the A more than the G
I still like my Timmy more but I do have a light speed as well. The light speed sounded great to me with a vox amp. Won’t ever sell it. But the Timmy is on my board currently as my stacking tool and I think the Timmy works with my fender amps I play more frequently a bit better
I completely agree with your experience. My Timmy kills with my Fender 79Deluxe, old Champ and ‘63 Vibroverb RI. The Lightspeed does nothing for me on Fender amps but kills on the Vox side of my 3rd power British Dream and is a great harmonic pushing “spice” pedal with a drive or Xotic Super Sweet in front on the Plexi side. It’s a great pedal that adds to amps with a mid range forward sound but it’s never a pedal that you stomp on for a solo by it’s self. I look at it more like a seasoning. That’s what makes it great with the right amp. Don’t know another pedal like it. Greer stuff is so great because they just go for a musical sound first instead of marketing and copycat stuff like Wampler and JHS. Check out an old Texas Voodoo if you can find one. A very unpretentious musical Fuzz.
Take a Timmy v.2 pedal. Pull out the 50k bass knob pot and hard wire that spot with a 15k cap. Change another cap and you have an instant Lightseed. But before you are done paint some of the parts black and then pour hot glue all over the board to hide much of the circuit. This way no one will think you are a rip artist instead of a pedal designer. WTF!!!! The name of the pedal is appropriate. It is how long it took Greer to design the pedal.
No doubt the Timmy is also derived from something else. How many ground-breaking unique overdrive designs can there be? They’re pretty much all derived from something that came before.
It's not a rip off if it's different. Took you a full paragraph to name the differences between this and a Timmy....
I like this a lot 🎉
I just got one and the verdict is still out. It’s very colored - hardly what I’d call transparent. The tone control is a more like high mid and pushing a Marshall voiced amp can get a little harsh. It loves most of my guitars but gets a little muddy with my semi (a 335). It is indeed very dynamic. Giving it a couple of days - getting fresh ears on it tomorrow.
Reverse chord fider says: C#m7, C#m7/G#, E6/A. Lightspped is seriously good. Subbed.
I have one and it is divine
What amp did you use for this? You said ‘Silltone’ or something?
Silktone
One of the best od ever
Wow! You made that sound good.
Good demo, this is how it sounds, I have one. I'm a little torn about it, I like the sound, but it tends to fight a bit with vocals in a mix due to the upper mids bump. Not a producer fave I would think. I like anything sus 2 in chords, probably reflects what I just wrote haha..
Love my Lightspeed! Debating whether to get a Southland or another lightspeed for slightly more drive. It will definitely be another Greer!
I love my Lightspeed. I tried the Southland, and although it has more gain, I didn't love the low end on it when stacked with other drives, so I sold it. I recently got an EQD Plumes and it pairs very well with the Lightspeed or my other drive pedals. Highly recommend the Plumes.
I was debating about getting another Lightspeed for a medium overdrive
Or a 2nd hand old Xotic RC Booster. No brainer.
Tell me more about that Tele? Just a Custom Shop?
Panucci Guitars!
Great pedal, one that flies under the radar is the Kingdom v2 by Fox pedals...very good klon on steroids.
Doesn't take long to know how good it is. when you make it sound this good.
really curious what your recording setup is, im guessing you use IRs (hence the headphones), would love to know what kind etc, or maybe its something else all together
The amp goes into a TAE and that goes to interface.
Anette Benning said in The Grifters.."I've kissed a lot of frogs and...." When I played this I knew what she meant. this is simply a great pedal. At any price. the only one I've played that is this good might be the Origin Magma57, which is something a player should check out.
Lightspeed/eureka?
this is becoming the pedal of nashville.... this should be on every pedal board... by itself or to stack.... this is one of the best organic overdrives ever made....hands down
I had the Lightspeed and the Carbon from Browne, just to check which one would suit me more. They both sound pretty good, but I went with the Carbon, since it can be brighter. Playing a Milkman and a Starcaster can sound dark, so the opportunity to add more highs when needed made the decision. If I remeber correctly, the Lighspeed has more gain...but they are both fantastic!!!
What the Fraq! ❤it! ENGAGE! Like Jean-Luc Picard! ✨
Thinking about selling my Tumnus Deluxe and getting the lightspeed. Does anybody have both and feel that one is far superior in tone than the other?
That's my board. Lightspeed into the Tumnus. They stack perfectly! You need both!
Well, my Protein arrived yesterday and my Lightspeed arrives today ... thanks for making me spend all my money on pedals.
You’re welcome ❤️
@neonthunderbird Oh, I love both of them!! Kept both of them. They make a great pairing.
ok, got one.
bought the Lightspeed. Wasn't blown away. Just another Overdrive in my opinion. I'll stick with my KTR.
yep it's that good
Freq = Frequency = Tone. Anyway, it sounds great.
the"big deal" pour moi is the clipping, It has the best "clean amp on the edge of breakup" tone i have ever heard . The tone stack is rather shite, i find it a bit too dark for my taste, but it stays on my board because of the dirt- i just tap the high end on my 10 band eq a few degrees to compensate.
I don't get it. Lightspeed is brighter than most of my dirtboxes.
Seems to react like the Boss Dyna Drive
Boss Blues Driver
Have you had a chance to compare the Blues Driver to the Lightspeed?
Had the Lightspeed, prefer the Timmy - had the Broadcast, didn‘t use it at all. For a Strat / Blackface player the Lightspeed is too scooped.
Lightspeed is flat with a tiny 2K bump, the BF is scoped in EQ, hence your feelings. I liked the Lightspeed into my Twin as it didn’t add mids, it was just a low gain version of whatever amp it’s in.
@@electricj5 I‘m not sure about the flat eq of the Lightspeed. I think it’s got a slight scoop and a tiny hump on higher mids (2k sounds about right). I could do a pretty good emulation of the Lightspeed with my Timmy though. So there’s no reason to have both. The Timmy is more versatile and cheaper, too…
Who's Nick?
Nick Greer
The Lightspeed is not my sound! The player is though. Keep it up.
Thank you ❤️
Luckily I DO have an Atom and a Lightspeed.
I was thinking about the Atom or getting a second Lightspeed
I sold mine, it took to much mids.
Freq as in frequency
It's not a tubescreamer
I've read it is just variation of the Timmy circuit. 1 op amp and 5 diods. If the price was more sensible I would buy the new one, but it is not...
Freq=Frequency
freq.......or frequency
FREQQQQQ
How is that a thing lol
No money to buy one
d*mnit now I just ordered one. Your fault!!!
Sorry
@@SashaIvantic dankjewel voor je fijne demo's
What is the big deal most boring pedal ever.its a very over priced Special Cranker.which sounds better. I have a box by recovery fx.the electric.Both are better choices