JHS Made a high gain distortion pedal and NO! It's NOT A METAL ZONE! So what is it then? Get all the real info here: jhspedals.info Buy one at Sweetwater: sweetwater.sjv.io/rQ5V2Q The Guitar: sweetwater.sjv.io/KjMbYz
Ryan, out of all the guitar TH-camrs I sub to, you are my favorite non-metal guy to watch because you're not afraid to demo metal stuff anyway. In fact, you will often run metal-oriented stuff in ways that most of us don't, and come up with some really unique tones in the process. My band Dirus plays psychedelic black metal, and with all the different pedals we used on our recent debut, there has to be at least one or two Ryan Burke tricks buried in there. Keep it up with the killer videos, keep it weird, and keep it different! INSPECTOR GADGET OOOO OOOOOOOOOOO
Ryan's probably my favourite demo guy because he like, plays the sort of stuff you'd play trying out a new pedal instead of dipping into a noodly reportoire and never leaving it(or Surfy in Ryan's case). He does a good job of actually showing off what the pedal sounds like and it feels like you're chilling with a cool buddy trying out new gear.
Ryan pulls out the guitar, pulls out the pedal, dials some random settings and instantly gets a fantastic sound. You've made this pedal sound awesome mate!
Seems like its a versatile pedal, but still difficult to get bad sounds out of. Some people got it chugging, some got squishy stoner-sounds, some did bluesy/country lightgain-sounds, and you got epic shoegazer sounds. I might wait until someone tries to push it with an OD in front.... But sounds pretty killer thus far.
Love that grippy saturated tone with the delay at around 14:45, also some incredibly cool jamming thereafter. Fun yes, but also great that you tracked it. I love your high gain playing here, sounds musical, and not shitty, wanky, bs flash. I have been pretty underwhelmed by some of the ODs and Fuzz demos I have watched lately...maybe just badly gain staged but often fizzy and harsh. This sounds pretty phenomenal, and I still focus more on time based and modulation pedals, but this with the boosting and pretty bloody nice bunch of tone control options kind of seems like it has ended my search for my OCD, EHX little green muff, and maybe my Walrus Audio Voyager replacements, (Voyager has been my always on clean gain after compression pedal but with very limited tonal options). I suspect this JHS Distortion beast will be having a lot of players drooling for something like this. Sounds like JHS snuck a genuine masterpiece under your door. Screw the tonex one. Order cancelled. I don't need an untweakable on the fly IR emulation of the real thing, I need one OD that I can dial in my own tones my own way. Great demo❤️ JHS hit a Grand Slam with this. It sounds absolutely amazing...
The best demo of this pedal! All do only max gain, and sound awesome in lower gain settings too. Amazing pedal! Thanks Ryan I hope it works well with my Dream 65!
Ryan…thanks for the comprehensive demo! So many channels just seemed to hug at full gain. You really showed the flexibility of the pedal, which is always what I what from a drive. Plus, I am also running into clean Fendery tones, so 👍🎶🎸
You are a better guitarist than I am and maybe a lot of your audience. It is inspirational to see you get out of your comfort zone and try things that you are not great at yet. For myself, that is one of the key things that keeps me coming back. Keep trying odd ball stuff. Even if it is metal. Metal appears more legit when you blush because it could be that you are sooooooooo angry about something your face is red.
Awesome video! I really want one of these, since I only have room for one distortion/overdrive and I love the sound and love the mid freq here, adds so much versatility to the EQ.
Not just any vintage computer that’s an Osborn one, notable for being the first transportable PC and for putting themselves out of business by pre announcing the Osborn two before stocks or Osborne ones were sold out. My brother had one for work, weighed a ton. Great pedal, but I’m all multi effects units out ( gx700, ge200 and katana go) but I did just order an octave pedal a week ago! (you’re such a bad influence 🤪)
Starting @ 17:48 Ryan summons Shai-Halud to fight the Saudakar...... Lisan Al-Gaib! I got some very doomy vibes from that segment. Somewhere in that there is is a doomy space rock song that could be a 10 minute instrumental track. I'd probably listen to it on repeat
Ryan, Your video here is the first that I've watched for this pedal. Awesome job and it sounds AMAZING! : ) The St. V with the gold foils sound GLORIOUS! Thank you for the awesome review!
the great thing about this pedal is that even though everyone's gonna have one the mid sweep and general inter-activeness of it will mean we won't get a bunch of people sounding the same
The tone you have at 13:30 with the delay sounds EXACTLY like the lead preset that I created on my little Digitech RP-80 multi-effect when I was younger! I specifically remember the amp model setting was S8 for a "British Stack" and I added analog delay. I also may have put some hall reverb on there. That pedal into a 100w fender frontman 212 sounded so powerful to me at 15...
You’re reminding me of my precious RP-50! Which I used to make grungy metal tones and clean delays until I pressed on of the switches clean through the plastic box and didn’t have the know-how at the ripe age of 16 to fix it.
GREAT demo, hoss! A MILLION thanks for actually usin a CLEAN tone! I'm a dirt junky with 130+ pedals, and THIS could be my favorite drive sound so far! I'm known as The Budget King, but I just might HAVE to pay a NON-Budget price for this one!
Josh said the engineer worked on this pedal for eight years after Josh gave him a suggestion for a high gain pedal. Seems he really dialed it in quite well and it was time well-spent. Really nice demo; best one I've heard. I could watch metal guys demo it all day, but I'm not a metal player and this showed me a lot more of the versatility of this pedal. Shame it's $200, but pedals are getting expensive.
I’ve watched a couple of reviews of this pedal today and I just wasn’t feeling it. But I just watched your review and that thing smokes!! So much so I just bought it on Reverb. It’s kind of like Queens of the Stone Age and the Scorpions had a baby😂
Hey Ryan, that pedal reminds me of an HM2 Boss pedal. Very gnarly and full of chuggy goodness. I watched a few demos of this pedal and it screams nothing but pure awesome tone. Thanks for the demo, get naked, get your chugs on Ryan, and keep it bluesy.
Great playing and demo Ryan! I have to say, I’m not huge on this one. I really like the Marshall shredmaster+ the rat, which Josh compared it to, but something is missing. Maybe I need to play one for myself EDIT: I tried one in the store and loved it so much I walked out with it. It sounds just like a shredmaster but with actual usable controls. Incredible.
Not a MetalZone, but the sweepable mids are similar; I've heard that this one is based on the Ibanez SM-7 SmashBox which is a mix of 3 circuits; A Big Muff input stage, a Tube Screamer Overdrive stage, and an MXR Distortion Plus clipping stage, with the EQ stage coming after... However, JHS said that after working on the design for a long time, they scrapped it and "started over", so...
Gotta give Josh credit, look at the Bad Monkey, a great pedal not on anyone one other than real musicians radar, that use to cost 30 bucks used(i've owned more on and off than I can remember over the years, now they are not worth the price now lol), he hyped it up, brought the price to over a hundred bucks, and released his own 99 dollar version, the generic 80's white color scheme is pretty cool lol.
Much more than a MZ. Lots of HG sounds. Watched 2 vids so far on this. Not my target sounds, but it covers a lot of ground, might be going on my wish list
Although a bit surprising that the podcast isn't dropping today, it's kind of good to know that I can leave the house without fear of missing out on the premier. I have 70 cookies to take over to my dad.
Funny you said that. I have nothing but love & respect for JHS but when I heard that pedal, that's very much what it sounded like to me, a variation of the acidy as hell boss metal zone. I still have 2, from the 90's & they SUCK for metal distortion unless you like wooly acid....if so i recommend a Roland TB303 synth instead. They are more fun. ;)
We're gonna make a metalhead out of Ryan yet! The gain is a bit low, mot as chuggy as I might normally use, BUT it has some promise... I might have to slap a violent setting from an Attack/Decay pedal right after it, and maybe a noise gate, but I think there is some potential in that silly little box. AND, the graphic reminds me of a poduct that I was involved in, bitd early 1980's. Now THAT box chugged... the first AED. It could really kick ya in the chest.
Well I have not been running much at all in the way of drive, ever, but I am awaiting delivery of a PRS DGT50, and some way I think that four EL-34s pushing a meagre fifty RMS is gonna be daring the Pedals to go ahead and try something... with the equipments goading each other like a pack of stray dogs or something, maybe I should keep my shotgun handy.
It is old school sounding but it nails it!!! I play Metal but I borrow sounds from every decade. It keeps my tunes fresh and in a 3 piece band without keys the audience will O-D if it is one sound all night.
Am I right in saying this is a type of distortion pedal that cuts the lows? Still trying to learn all the terms and lingo. I really like the sound when the bass knob gets cranked up.
I believe the bottom row of knobs are cut and boost, so if you crank up the bass knob it should get you there (sometimes these EQs are very dependent on the other knobs so you may have to adjust the mids and highs as well to dial it in.)
Ryan you rip way harder than any other channel. Someone could fight me on this. but, I actually have as much fun watching you as I know you have playing Which is unbeatable
JHS Made a high gain distortion pedal and NO! It's NOT A METAL ZONE! So what is it then?
Get all the real info here: jhspedals.info
Buy one at Sweetwater: sweetwater.sjv.io/rQ5V2Q
The Guitar: sweetwater.sjv.io/KjMbYz
Haunting Mids
JHS launches high-gain metal pedal.
Me: let me go right out and check all my favorite low gain guitar-tubers for a demo!
And Ola Englund doesn't even need to feature this on an episode of *Will it Chug?* because frankly, I already hear this pedal chugging.
@@dionr1168 But Ola should do it anyway ...
Tbf it's meant to be 90s alternative heavy which is much more Ryan's wheelhouse I think
Ryan, out of all the guitar TH-camrs I sub to, you are my favorite non-metal guy to watch because you're not afraid to demo metal stuff anyway. In fact, you will often run metal-oriented stuff in ways that most of us don't, and come up with some really unique tones in the process.
My band Dirus plays psychedelic black metal, and with all the different pedals we used on our recent debut, there has to be at least one or two Ryan Burke tricks buried in there.
Keep it up with the killer videos, keep it weird, and keep it different!
INSPECTOR GADGET
OOOO OOOOOOOOOOO
As someone who's a big fan of both psychedelic and black metal, I was very intrigued, and I'm not disappointed
Ryan's probably my favourite demo guy because he like, plays the sort of stuff you'd play trying out a new pedal instead of dipping into a noodly reportoire and never leaving it(or Surfy in Ryan's case). He does a good job of actually showing off what the pedal sounds like and it feels like you're chilling with a cool buddy trying out new gear.
@@tymime Awesome, thank you for checking us out! It means the world to us!
Psychedelic black metal you say ...
Been watching these demos all morning and this is easily the best one. Not surprising a surf master can get the riffs right
Ryan, yours is the truly the best demo of the JHS HARD DRIVE so far. Thoroughly explored as it should be...
agreed, this is the best yet.
Yes. I'm glad to hear how the dang thing actually sounds.
Also, Annie Clark called. She said to give me that guitar. Lol
From the first chord, great sounding chugg!... guess you don't need IRs and load boxes like eome of the other demo guys.😂
Ryan pulls out the guitar, pulls out the pedal, dials some random settings and instantly gets a fantastic sound. You've made this pedal sound awesome mate!
The only thing better than the name is that they released it in beige
Oh sweet memories of the original generic computer cover color ❤
Seems like its a versatile pedal, but still difficult to get bad sounds out of. Some people got it chugging, some got squishy stoner-sounds, some did bluesy/country lightgain-sounds, and you got epic shoegazer sounds. I might wait until someone tries to push it with an OD in front.... But sounds pretty killer thus far.
Kyle Bull boosted it with a Boss SD-1: th-cam.com/video/k3ynAT5SWKs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=97MN63vn8t3RyEiD
"Glass hive full of metal bees/ steel drum at the bottom of a well"
That is the most epic description of a distortion pedal EVER!!!!!
Thank you for showing that it's actually not a Metal Zone. Sweet review.
And then out came the Millions of Peaches Explorer and my ears were mashed into a fine cobbler.
Love that grippy saturated tone with the delay at around 14:45, also some incredibly cool jamming thereafter. Fun yes, but also great that you tracked it. I love your high gain playing here, sounds musical, and not shitty, wanky, bs flash. I have been pretty underwhelmed by some of the ODs and Fuzz demos I have watched lately...maybe just badly gain staged but often fizzy and harsh. This sounds pretty phenomenal, and I still focus more on time based and modulation pedals, but this with the boosting and pretty bloody nice bunch of tone control options kind of seems like it has ended my search for my OCD, EHX little green muff, and maybe my Walrus Audio Voyager replacements, (Voyager has been my always on clean gain after compression pedal but with very limited tonal options). I suspect this JHS Distortion beast will be having a lot of players drooling for something like this. Sounds like JHS snuck a genuine masterpiece under your door. Screw the tonex one. Order cancelled. I don't need an untweakable on the fly IR emulation of the real thing, I need one OD that I can dial in my own tones my own way. Great demo❤️ JHS hit a Grand Slam with this. It sounds absolutely amazing...
Annie Clarke from St. Vincent blasts some nasty tones out on her St. V, so, this guitar is ready for it.
This was the heaviest out of all of the demos in my subscriptions. I liked it. :)
This pedal is sick! I’ll get mine tomorrow and can’t wait to play with it.
Yowza! Oh the feedback....glorious feedback! Great pedal and GREAT demo, sir!
Best background set in the gear demo world. Like all the quirky gear and the nicely lit blue gradient wall.
The best demo of this pedal! All do only max gain, and sound awesome in lower gain settings too. Amazing pedal! Thanks Ryan I hope it works well with my Dream 65!
I think you did a better job of showcasing this pedal than JHS themselves did!
Ryan…thanks for the comprehensive demo! So many channels just seemed to hug at full gain. You really showed the flexibility of the pedal, which is always what I what from a drive. Plus, I am also running into clean Fendery tones, so 👍🎶🎸
This would work for a lot of 90s rock. Veruca Salt tones. Weezer. That sort of thing.
Best review I have seen so far. Liked seeing what it can do with the gain fully maxed out.
You are a better guitarist than I am and maybe a lot of your audience. It is inspirational to see you get out of your comfort zone and try things that you are not great at yet. For myself, that is one of the key things that keeps me coming back. Keep trying odd ball stuff. Even if it is metal. Metal appears more legit when you blush because it could be that you are sooooooooo angry about something your face is red.
Awesome video! I really want one of these, since I only have room for one distortion/overdrive and I love the sound and love the mid freq here, adds so much versatility to the EQ.
Not just any vintage computer that’s an Osborn one, notable for being the first transportable PC and for putting themselves out of business by pre announcing the Osborn two before stocks or Osborne ones were sold out. My brother had one for work, weighed a ton.
Great pedal, but I’m all multi effects units out ( gx700, ge200 and katana go) but I did just order an octave pedal a week ago! (you’re such a bad influence 🤪)
Good eye. I was thinking that it didn't quite look like my Compaq.
Starting @ 17:48 Ryan summons Shai-Halud to fight the Saudakar...... Lisan Al-Gaib! I got some very doomy vibes from that segment. Somewhere in that there is is a doomy space rock song that could be a 10 minute instrumental track. I'd probably listen to it on repeat
I'm not a high gain player. But, I agree with you that this pedal sounds great! Very usable tones that seem really easy to dial in.
Ryan, Your video here is the first that I've watched for this pedal. Awesome job and it sounds AMAZING! : ) The St. V with the gold foils sound GLORIOUS! Thank you for the awesome review!
Excellent demo here and playing...I like that Sterling St.Vincent too !
the great thing about this pedal is that even though everyone's gonna have one the mid sweep and general inter-activeness of it will mean we won't get a bunch of people sounding the same
Pedal sounded awesome, right out of the box, all controls at noon. Rad.
The tone you have at 13:30 with the delay sounds EXACTLY like the lead preset that I created on my little Digitech RP-80 multi-effect when I was younger! I specifically remember the amp model setting was S8 for a "British Stack" and I added analog delay. I also may have put some hall reverb on there. That pedal into a 100w fender frontman 212 sounded so powerful to me at 15...
You’re reminding me of my precious RP-50! Which I used to make grungy metal tones and clean delays until I pressed on of the switches clean through the plastic box and didn’t have the know-how at the ripe age of 16 to fix it.
GREAT demo, hoss! A MILLION thanks for actually usin a CLEAN tone! I'm a dirt junky with 130+ pedals, and THIS could be my favorite drive sound so far! I'm known as The Budget King, but I just might HAVE to pay a NON-Budget price for this one!
I finally bought this pedal, I'm not into metal music, and it sounds really amazing. Parametric mids and a fully usable gain range in all positions.
Best demo of this pedal. And you gave the people what they wanted (Metal Zone vs. Hard Drive)
Best demo of this pedal by far !! Keep it coming Ryan ! 🤘🏼❤️ I’m buying this pedal cause of this demo
You and the pedal are sounding great. This video was fun to watch and Thanks for the cool video sir.
Dude, this is the best I've heard you play. Do this more, I'm begging you! 🤘
I had a Commodore SX64 back in the day
Tuning while the Two Princetons plays so we don't get Tun'r Time. BOOOO
Solid demo, especially when going over the mid controlls.
Great & thorough demo 👍
Josh said the engineer worked on this pedal for eight years after Josh gave him a suggestion for a high gain pedal. Seems he really dialed it in quite well and it was time well-spent. Really nice demo; best one I've heard. I could watch metal guys demo it all day, but I'm not a metal player and this showed me a lot more of the versatility of this pedal. Shame it's $200, but pedals are getting expensive.
I’ve watched a couple of reviews of this pedal today and I just wasn’t feeling it. But I just watched your review and that thing smokes!! So much so I just bought it on Reverb. It’s kind of like Queens of the Stone Age and the Scorpions had a baby😂
Fantastic demo, super fun to watch you get creative with it thank you!!
Surf is just metal with no distortion. This is gonna be great
I always like to see what you do with high gain and this pedal sounds great
I liked the vibes. Good stuff man.
Hey Ryan, that pedal reminds me of an HM2 Boss pedal. Very gnarly and full of chuggy goodness. I watched a few demos of this pedal and it screams nothing but pure awesome tone. Thanks for the demo, get naked, get your chugs on Ryan, and keep it bluesy.
Compared to the Metal Zone this thing sound more amp like/natural, or as natural as a distortion pedal can sound.
Great playing and demo Ryan! I have to say, I’m not huge on this one. I really like the Marshall shredmaster+ the rat, which Josh compared it to, but something is missing. Maybe I need to play one for myself
EDIT: I tried one in the store and loved it so much I walked out with it. It sounds just like a shredmaster but with actual usable controls. Incredible.
I'm guessing with the mid frequency knob you can replicate the sounds of many other distortions and overdrives.
Holy carp, that looper jam was amazing. I need to learn how to use a looper ...
Not a MetalZone, but the sweepable mids are similar; I've heard that this one is based on the Ibanez SM-7 SmashBox which is a mix of 3 circuits; A Big Muff input stage, a Tube Screamer Overdrive stage, and an MXR Distortion Plus clipping stage, with the EQ stage coming after... However, JHS said that after working on the design for a long time, they scrapped it and "started over", so...
For some reason I am yearning for a computer with a 5" green screen.
Ryan wrote some ambient death metal.
is this the new guitar they sell on reddit. I only comment on the titles
That appears to be a very versatile pedal. I don't do high gain at all, but that could be useful just for low-gain stuff.
Love the St Vincent! Totally sold me before you played inspector G the first time lol!
You should turn the bass down some when using higher gain and midrange up a lot. Tightens and smooths. Pedal seems to sound very good!
0:58 It looks like an old analog industrial ultrasonic machine 😃
Some sweet metal riffs. I just got the Friedman BE-OD and I do love it.
The Friedman is another league. It rips this jhs in pieces
Anything with the Osbourne O2 as it's graphics has to be real cheese...
Thank you.
Gotta give Josh credit, look at the Bad Monkey, a great pedal not on anyone one other than real musicians radar, that use to cost 30 bucks used(i've owned more on and off than I can remember over the years, now they are not worth the price now lol), he hyped it up, brought the price to over a hundred bucks, and released his own 99 dollar version, the generic 80's white color scheme is pretty cool lol.
Haha that riff on the peech it sounded like some Ministry... thats pretty metal..didn't see that coming. Nice one!
That looper jam was the bee's knees. 24:30
I have an Elektron Analog Drive and I swear the distortions sound exactly the same. I'm curious if they have the same schematic.
I’m not a high gainer either but it sounded good, your playing with the ambient feedback was awesome!
I've been loving my KCFX Mohair
Much more than a MZ. Lots of HG sounds. Watched 2 vids so far on this. Not my target sounds, but it covers a lot of ground, might be going on my wish list
It's not for me, but I had a lot of fun seeing you have fun, nice melodies by the way!
Love JHS but came away from this wanting Two Princetons
Hell even if I had one I’d be happy lol
Mark Johnston is one TH-camr that I see regularly playing a St Vincent Goldie. Been GASing hard for one of those for like a year now 😭
Best demo yet of this pedal... ;)
I hope to get one of those guitars someday.
I have to tell you that I'm only 5 minutes into the video and I want one lmao
Great review. Great sounding pedal. Can I just say that I with JHS had put a bit more though into their design. Not a big fan of the esthetics.
😂 and here I was thinking this is their best graphic design yet. 😂
So it's a line 6 ubermetal without the noise gate or gain select switches
Although a bit surprising that the podcast isn't dropping today, it's kind of good to know that I can leave the house without fear of missing out on the premier. I have 70 cookies to take over to my dad.
I love that this pedal inspired you to play Inspector Gadget
Does it come with a COVID Chip schematic?
That dimed mid sweep sold me on the pedal. Raspy, nasty, and spitty high gain distortion rules. The more digital, the better. Love it.
What delay pedal were you using with it? Some cool tones!
Funny you said that. I have nothing but love & respect for JHS but when I heard that pedal, that's very much what it sounded like to me, a variation of the acidy as hell boss metal zone. I still have 2, from the 90's & they SUCK for metal distortion unless you like wooly acid....if so i recommend a Roland TB303 synth instead. They are more fun. ;)
The xmen theme !!! You are the greatest.... and then you sabbath it alll hahha
I saw the email and didnt realize what harddrive implies until Ryan said it.
Instant rock God machine 🤘💀🤘
Sounds like a METAL FUZZ
You're greatly debunk that it was not a BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone clone and it started to floating around right now. You're ahead of the time. ✊🏽
You had way too much fun with Josh’s new pedal. Your demo is the best and longest demo I’ve heard so far. Maybe Josh will let you keep the pedal. 👍😎👍🎸
Oh I’m keeping it (and the box)
@@60CycleHumcast 😂
We're gonna make a metalhead out of Ryan yet!
The gain is a bit low, mot as chuggy as I might normally use,
BUT it has some promise... I might have to slap a violent setting from an Attack/Decay pedal right after it, and maybe a noise gate,
but I think there is some potential in that silly little box.
AND, the graphic reminds me of a poduct that I was involved in, bitd early 1980's.
Now THAT box chugged... the first AED. It could really kick ya in the chest.
Well I have not been running much at all in the way of drive, ever, but I am awaiting delivery of a PRS DGT50, and some way I think that four EL-34s pushing a meagre fifty RMS is gonna be daring the Pedals to go ahead and try something... with the equipments goading each other like a pack of stray dogs or something, maybe I should keep my shotgun handy.
It is old school sounding but it nails it!!! I play Metal but I borrow sounds from every decade. It keeps my tunes fresh and in a 3 piece band without keys the audience will O-D if it is one sound all night.
Ryan bruce fluff used a les Paul although its not what you use but close enough
It sounds thousand times better in this video than in the one from JHS 😂 👍🏻
Wow, this sounds amazing!
Am I right in saying this is a type of distortion pedal that cuts the lows? Still trying to learn all the terms and lingo. I really like the sound when the bass knob gets cranked up.
I believe the bottom row of knobs are cut and boost, so if you crank up the bass knob it should get you there (sometimes these EQs are very dependent on the other knobs so you may have to adjust the mids and highs as well to dial it in.)
Ryan said it is Baxandall topology. Baxandalls are always cut and boost without affecting other frequencies.
@@Eugensson right, I was thinking of EQD Zoar, the eq knobs are very dependent on each other on that one.
@@joermnyc most traditional tonestacks are (Fendor, Jackson, Vox, Marshall etc). Baxandall is usually used in active basses.
So its a metalzone without the built-in 80 hertz boost and without the built-in mid boost. Got it.
Nothing screams high gain like "indie pop queen guitar"
go go gadget riff
Ryan you rip way harder than any other channel. Someone could fight me on this. but, I actually have as much fun watching you as I know you have playing
Which is unbeatable