Greetings from across the pond. I have to tell you. I LOVE pretty much everything you all do... Lee, Chap, Rabea, Pete (in no particular order). You all make my day. The fuzz video you did inspired me to buy a Swollen Pickle which should arrive today (provided USPS delivers as promised). Have a wonderful day/evening. Take care.
The harmonic nuances that come out of that rumble pedal make it just about the "most tone for your hard earned bones" that i am aware of. Set to became a classic for sure! " make way Boss we're all moving to the City!"
I have the Tone City Model M hooked up to the clean channel of a Mesa Mini Rectifier, effectively granting me two additional channels at the press of a button *and* a tone shift from "American" to "British". And all that for like... 70 quid? It's nothing short but amazing!
Big Rumble sounds fantastic. Quite possibly the Best "Bang for your Buck" Pedal $$$ currently available. I am so Impressed (and this time, it's not just Pete's incredible guitar playing) oNe LovE from NYC
21:10,hint, get someone who can play metal to use the Holy Aura , get THEM and not Lee or Pete to dial it in and play, and market it as an MXR 5150 pedal on the cheap, and watch them fly off the shelves. Or you can keep marketing them with blues players to blues guitarists (who can likely afford to spend much more on pedals and probably wont want a 5150 style amp in a box pedal)
I bought a Valeton GP-200 from you guys which I've done a couple of gigs with, I put my Wahwah pedal and a Tone City King of Blues through the front end of it. Sound is amazing and I think the Tone City overdrive adds a nice bit of fatness to the Valeton sound.
I’ve got about half a dozen tone City pedals, including the signatures from Rabea, Pete, & Greg Koch. Great to throw on a board to try out a sound :) These sound great, that Rumble gets some great tones out of it, wow!
I have the Golden Plexi with boost, so the bigger format pedal. i have had to store away my Boss OD pedals for this! There is no better OD pedal on the market at any price, for me at least! It adds "more" even with the OD rolled off! Love Tone City Pedals!
You guys are the best gear reviewers on TH-cam. Very good quality demonstrations on everything, and that's why we love you! ❤️ Lee you should expand to U.S.A. come on... If you build it... We will buy!
The Big Rumble at the beginning, reminded me of BFGs sound of tele into magnatone on Raw. Tempted to get one to swap out the Fulltone drive 3 on my board
On your product web page, it suggests the modulation on the Reverb side of the Heavenly Lake is indeed modified with the controls on the Delay side, even though the Modulation light is off.
Haven’t tried a TC drive pedal yet, but their mod/time pedals are stellar for the price. Amazing value. Thanks to Anderton’s for bringing Tone City to the market!
If Im not mistaken, having the clean blend control on the Big Rumble is very nearly like a Klon trait... The Klon thing is a simultaneous blend of your clean signal back into the driven signal, but the gain and clean blend are stacked and turn together under the gain knob. On the Big Rumble they're separate, giving you the option of that or not. Wow is right for the money! I'm getting a very mythical Dumble/Klon like vibe from the Big Rumble.
Finally bought one of these. Unbelievable. It is exactly what I was hoping it would be. It has a TON of transparent boost on tap and the OD side tightens up chords and thickens single notes like a Tube Screamer/SD-1 but doesn't get nasally like those do. Being able to mix the clean signal in is something every low-mid gain OD should have. The same OD setting can give you a great blues lead tone from a clean setting and then also take a crunch setting to a rock lead tone. Perfect for a 2 channel amp. If you have a Mesa rectifier and you are using a TS/SD1 to tighten it up, try something like this.
The question isn’t “how does Tone City do it so cheap?”… it’s how do other companies get away with charging so much. The handful of components that go into most pedals cost pennies. Tone City isn’t a miracle working company - they’ll still be making a profit (as will Andertons) from a bill of parts others could replicate. So what’s the trick? There’s isn’t one. The mass production boys are all pretty similar… aside from the pricing… and that depends on the perceived value rather than actual performance.
The worst example of this is pedalboards! Their prices are absolutely ridiculous, I can not believe that anybody seriously pays that much for a simple metal/wood frame
Because most guitarists are foolish enough to fall for unjustified high prices, so many bitch about capitalism but they feed the worst part of it themselves 😂
in my experience the price range for the best price to performance ratio for pedals is between 30-80 bucks, maybe a hundred if you gas out but that should fit the needs for most guitar players who don`t want to compete with steve vai for the worlds best guitar tone. cheers 🎸🎸
After watching this video a few times. I went out and bought the rumble.. great pedal. Tone city is a very underatted pedal company, met the Captain briefly at the BBC mailbox. I am one of the site Electrical engineers. Respects to Danish Pete .
They really do seem to be a great value compared to other brands for sure. I really think they should have given the Heavenly Lake a way to control and/or remove the modulation. I just didn't like the sound of the modulation on the reverb at all. I don't like any modulation on delay either. Just my preference, it doesn't make it a bad pedal .
Based on my (admittedly limited) exposure to Tone City, their pedals are great! I have a King of Blues - (not a King of Tone clone, contrary to popular belief). It has all the lead tones I need in one box.
We have to see a full episode of Dan and Mick going over all the Tone City pedals that would be funny. With Bugera amps and squire guitar’s without switching to their expensive guitars, amps, and pedals that would be hilarious 😂.
I have to say the holy aura even makes Pete's face change.😂 It'll give anybody that guitar stink face! The other two are mild on the game and more for a rock jazz type feel. But the holy aura is on another level especially for the price!!!!!!🔥 Pete is starting to get the metal playing down a lot better. Now you can really demo some stuff. Good job as always.❤😊
I think the holy Aura is a amptweaker clone of sorts. You can that metallic chime on the chug, it doesn’t scoop like a Rectifier exactly, nor an SLO. I would say James Brown tones (fat or tight metal). Second guess would be a Friedman BEOD clone. Excellent and ai want one!
Greatest find outside of Pete that is ..Ha ! Really like the Chapman Thinline. Very affordable pedals ! Ricki Lake was a talk show host in the US...and did a couple of B movies.
Never understood why it is described as "tightening" the bass end up when what you are actually doing is removing low end. Is this to make low tuned 7 string users feel better about the fact that they try to get more low end and then end up removing it to sound better lol.
Could have been worse, you could have said 'Veronica Lake', my first thought of a heavenly lake! My 'King of Blues' sits happily on my pedalboard between two £200+ pedals and sounds awesome. Tone city are great.
You guys should create a Christmas Bundle 🎄 consisting of a Rock ⚡Blues kit of, Amp, Guitar, and Tone City pedals. Maybe a 💷 $1000.- Takes it home ! ! ! ! 🎄🎄🎄 how about a Classic Vibe '60s Custom Strat or Telecaster, Tone City trio presented and FENDER CHAMPION 20 amp and cables. maybe a soft gig bag if you work it out . Cheers guys, 🍺🍕
Damn it Lee and Pete, just give me the address so that I can just send you my frigging checkbook, thus eliminating the need for any delays in obtaining more T/C pedals than I already have! Good to know that between T/C and myself your retirement is assured! Sincerest thanks to all for both the laughs and the tears over the years! -E-
Isnt this the captains low key company as well. Dang near the only budget stuff that seems to get highlighted so often. Not talking bout behringer or TC.
these pedals sound great... but I was curious if Tone City fully or partially owned by Andertons? I haven't seen them in any stores in the US... or at least, any stores by me
Except that the copy says it’s modeled after an “American” high gain amp. So we’re talking Mesa, soldano, Friedman or Peavey/EVH. I personally think it sounds more Marshally, so I’m guessing Friedman. Especially with the tight knob. But who knows 🤷🏻♂️
completely off subject, but wanted to ask since the first time I watched one of their videos.. The sign behind them constantly changing numbers, is it for Decibel levels? number do seem to go higher when things get louder..and yes, its distracting.
@@christisgod3354 Is it a guitar shop/music store or a studio associated with their store(they are owners of a music store, right?)? Perhaps its used to keep customers from getting to loud or for a the sound engineer to get a better idea of the levels during recording...either way they could just unplug the damn thing when they do the videos.
Mick and Dan are wrong for a simple reason: boost good in front of amp, and whether you admit it or not, an overdrive pedal on a board is basically an amp you want to kick. "Get breakup right and then make louder" makes no sense. The boost gets the breakup right. No amp or OD pedal ever does that well un-boosted (here the myth of plugging straight in bleeds into the myth of the tune screamer etc that has us all chasing overdrives; truth of it all is it mostly sounds great with a boost in front of it and kinda not otherwise). Boost always in front.
Greetings from across the pond. I have to tell you. I LOVE pretty much everything you all do... Lee, Chap, Rabea, Pete (in no particular order). You all make my day. The fuzz video you did inspired me to buy a Swollen Pickle which should arrive today (provided USPS delivers as promised). Have a wonderful day/evening. Take care.
I have several Tone City pedals and have been amazed at the quality for the price each time! Thank you Anderton's!
Amazing pedals and amazing Pete's performance! Another great video from Andertons
The harmonic nuances that come out of that rumble pedal make it just about the "most tone for your hard earned bones" that i am aware of. Set to became a classic for sure! " make way Boss we're all moving to the City!"
The heavenly lake and big rumble together sound absolutely insane!
I have the Tone City Model M hooked up to the clean channel of a Mesa Mini Rectifier, effectively granting me two additional channels at the press of a button *and* a tone shift from "American" to "British". And all that for like... 70 quid? It's nothing short but amazing!
What is a Mini Rectifier? I never even knew Mesa made such a thing. Sounds like just the thing I need!
@@officialWWM Check the Rectoverb 25 Amp = Killer Cleans & Brutal Overdrive
Big Rumble sounds fantastic. Quite possibly the Best "Bang for your Buck" Pedal $$$ currently available. I am so Impressed (and this time, it's not just Pete's incredible guitar playing) oNe LovE from NYC
It makes you realise how much you are getting ripped off by other makers . £300+ for most of these other 'brands'
Pete might have something to do how it sounds too.😂
and many features: CLEAN, ATTACK really making a difference...
I love Pete's "I'm playing a copyrighted riff" face.
Bloody great intro! Loving your videos, chaps. Thank you!
21:10,hint, get someone who can play metal to use the Holy Aura , get THEM and not Lee or Pete to dial it in and play, and market it as an MXR 5150 pedal on the cheap, and watch them fly off the shelves. Or you can keep marketing them with blues players to blues guitarists (who can likely afford to spend much more on pedals and probably wont want a 5150 style amp in a box pedal)
yes, these are amazing pedals. I have the Model M and the Model B since years and they never let me down.
I bought a Valeton GP-200 from you guys which I've done a couple of gigs with, I put my Wahwah pedal and a Tone City King of Blues through the front end of it. Sound is amazing and I think the Tone City overdrive adds a nice bit of fatness to the Valeton sound.
That intro playing, Pete. My goodness!
I’ve got about half a dozen tone City pedals, including the signatures from Rabea, Pete, & Greg Koch. Great to throw on a board to try out a sound :)
These sound great, that Rumble gets some great tones out of it, wow!
The last bit frightened my cat. I liked the heavenly lake
I have the Golden Plexi with boost, so the bigger format pedal. i have had to store away my Boss OD pedals for this! There is no better OD pedal on the market at any price, for me at least! It adds "more" even with the OD rolled off! Love Tone City Pedals!
You guys are the best gear reviewers on TH-cam.
Very good quality demonstrations on everything, and that's why we love you! ❤️
Lee you should expand to U.S.A. come on...
If you build it...
We will buy!
The Big Rumble at the beginning, reminded me of BFGs sound of tele into magnatone on Raw. Tempted to get one to swap out the Fulltone drive 3 on my board
Big Rumble had me thinking of the tones of Mr Gibbons during the Rhythmeen phase.
On your product web page, it suggests the modulation on the Reverb side of the Heavenly Lake is indeed modified with the controls on the Delay side, even though the Modulation light is off.
Haven’t tried a TC drive pedal yet, but their mod/time pedals are stellar for the price. Amazing value.
Thanks to Anderton’s for bringing Tone City to the market!
Omg, love the tone of the Big Rumble. I see a purchase in my near future 😂
That Big Rumble is sensational and fits my playing perfectly. Looks like Andertons has convinced me to spend money... again...
If Im not mistaken, having the clean blend control on the Big Rumble is very nearly like a Klon trait... The Klon thing is a simultaneous blend of your clean signal back into the driven signal, but the gain and clean blend are stacked and turn together under the gain knob. On the Big Rumble they're separate, giving you the option of that or not. Wow is right for the money! I'm getting a very mythical Dumble/Klon like vibe from the Big Rumble.
Finally bought one of these. Unbelievable. It is exactly what I was hoping it would be. It has a TON of transparent boost on tap and the OD side tightens up chords and thickens single notes like a Tube Screamer/SD-1 but doesn't get nasally like those do. Being able to mix the clean signal in is something every low-mid gain OD should have. The same OD setting can give you a great blues lead tone from a clean setting and then also take a crunch setting to a rock lead tone. Perfect for a 2 channel amp. If you have a Mesa rectifier and you are using a TS/SD1 to tighten it up, try something like this.
The rumble sounds great!
I love the Big Rumble and at such a great price
The question isn’t “how does Tone City do it so cheap?”… it’s how do other companies get away with charging so much. The handful of components that go into most pedals cost pennies. Tone City isn’t a miracle working company - they’ll still be making a profit (as will Andertons) from a bill of parts others could replicate. So what’s the trick? There’s isn’t one. The mass production boys are all pretty similar… aside from the pricing… and that depends on the perceived value rather than actual performance.
Unless some audience member is pedal geek . No one else will notice the difference between 100 and a 300 buck pedal.
The worst example of this is pedalboards! Their prices are absolutely ridiculous, I can not believe that anybody seriously pays that much for a simple metal/wood frame
@@joshball8674 this
Because most guitarists are foolish enough to fall for unjustified high prices, so many bitch about capitalism but they feed the worst part of it themselves 😂
@@williambartholomew5680 yep!! it's nice to have one or two expensive pedals, but cheap ones do the trick if you know what you're doing
in my experience the price range for the best price to performance ratio for pedals is between 30-80 bucks, maybe a hundred if you gas out but that should fit the needs for most guitar players who don`t want to compete with steve vai for the worlds best guitar tone. cheers 🎸🎸
After watching this video a few times. I went out and bought the rumble.. great pedal. Tone city is a very underatted pedal company, met the Captain briefly at the BBC mailbox. I am one of the site Electrical engineers.
Respects to Danish Pete .
Just ordered one from watching your video. Greetings from California!
They really do seem to be a great value compared to other brands for sure. I really think they should have given the Heavenly Lake a way to control and/or remove the modulation. I just didn't like the sound of the modulation on the reverb at all. I don't like any modulation on delay either. Just my preference, it doesn't make it a bad pedal .
All jokes aside, hearing the texture of the big rumble I wanted to hear a Nobel before it with that clean blend.
Pete you went ham this vid. Cheers.
Based on my (admittedly limited) exposure to Tone City, their pedals are great! I have a King of Blues - (not a King of Tone clone, contrary to popular belief). It has all the lead tones I need in one box.
I love my Wild Fro pedal :) great value and build on these… funny as f*** when that pedal took its own life off the shelf 😂 peace out x
This is good to see, as a young guitarist trying to build a pedalboard! Nice to know I might end up with some money left over at the end of all this 😆
I have a tone city "angel wing" chorus pedal. Like it
wow these sound so good!
good lord that big Rumble sounds incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Pete, like your Casio g shock dw5900 its one of the best old school legendary G’s…. Oh yeah, cool playing as well.
We have to see a full episode of Dan and Mick going over all the Tone City pedals that would be funny. With Bugera amps and squire guitar’s without switching to their expensive guitars, amps, and pedals that would be hilarious 😂.
the Model M is one of my favorite MIAB pedals all time. fantastic MIAB pedal. sounds amazing
Guitar pedals are to the music industry as what perfume is to the beauty industry
My Fuxx Fuzz rocks so these are particularly tempting…damn you Anderton’s! 😂
🤘😆🤘
i’m in love with my golden plexi… absolutely beast..
I have to say the holy aura even makes Pete's face change.😂 It'll give anybody that guitar stink face! The other two are mild on the game and more for a rock jazz type feel. But the holy aura is on another level especially for the price!!!!!!🔥
Pete is starting to get the metal playing down a lot better. Now you can really demo some stuff. Good job as always.❤😊
The Holy Aura must be a Friedman BE-100 imho. Tbe Tight swich can be found on the amp as well. Just saying.
Great video as usual guys ! ❤❤❤
It doesn't sound like a BE. It's got the Peavey Invective / EVH 5153 vibe. Just saying.
What is the Wild Fire based on? Because it sounds like it with additional knobs
@@quiksilver78 Suhr Riot
Why don't you guys use the boost??? Would love to hear what that's doing....
Pete is definitely "a Find", definitely, Always a pleasure.
I dunno about the pedals but that guitar is killer!
I think the holy Aura is a amptweaker clone of sorts. You can that metallic chime on the chug, it doesn’t scoop like a Rectifier exactly, nor an SLO. I would say James Brown tones (fat or tight metal). Second guess would be a Friedman BEOD clone. Excellent and ai want one!
The RIcki Lake reference wasn't lost on me Lee, I got it
Bro you could plug into a box of cocoa puffs and make it sing!
I like the tonecity pedals.
Durple just arrived great pedal thanks you said international plug is delivered when your not in UK well I didn't get one I just got an UK one
Greatest find outside of Pete that is ..Ha ! Really like the Chapman Thinline. Very affordable pedals ! Ricki Lake was a talk show host in the US...and did a couple of B movies.
Not just B movies, she was also in the excellent Cry Baby!
Glad you enjoyed her acting skills... @@henriesnijders8799
I want a big rumble!
Ok Pete stop teasing with that Chapman! You had me at hello, ML3...hello!?
Think that new Chapman is very nice too
The echo/delay: Big Sky/Valhalla?
Hahaha throwing boost shade. I love it. Big Rumble is on my Xmas list!
Never understood why it is described as "tightening" the bass end up when what you are actually doing is removing low end. Is this to make low tuned 7 string users feel better about the fact that they try to get more low end and then end up removing it to sound better lol.
I think Riki Lake was in the Blues Brothers.
Could have been worse, you could have said 'Veronica Lake', my first thought of a heavenly lake! My 'King of Blues' sits happily on my pedalboard between two £200+ pedals and sounds awesome. Tone city are great.
loved the holy aura pedal boys, specially through the gibo
thank you.
You should more people on at the same time so more people can talk at the same time😂😂😂 Love the vids!
You guys should create a Christmas Bundle 🎄 consisting of a Rock ⚡Blues kit of, Amp, Guitar, and Tone City pedals. Maybe a 💷 $1000.- Takes it home ! ! ! ! 🎄🎄🎄 how about a Classic Vibe '60s Custom Strat or Telecaster, Tone City trio presented and
FENDER CHAMPION 20 amp and cables. maybe a soft gig bag if you work it out . Cheers guys, 🍺🍕
What is the manufacturer of Tonecity? Reminds me of some other Chinese dual pedals
Damn it Lee and Pete, just give me the address so that I can just send you my frigging checkbook, thus eliminating the need for any delays in obtaining more T/C pedals than I already have!
Good to know that between T/C and myself your retirement is assured!
Sincerest thanks to all for both the laughs and the tears over the years!
-E-
What is the guitar?
how long before Vertex rebox these and make out he created them
Waiting fornthe shredders of the channel to demo the holy aura more in dept!
Petes not afraid to cross the streams
I'll quote EVH, if it sounds good, it is good.
post production can make anything sound great
When and why did Chapman guitars abandon the upside down headstock? Is it just certain models?
Short answer, Yes!
Yeah it's called the reverse reverse headstock on some models.
Should played the big rumble then hit the boost switch on the holy pedal see what happens haha
I didn't know I was watching "Will It Chug?"😂.
Obviously, just put the D&M drive before the Old Rumble. Boom.
Way better new intro with the Logo.
Isnt this the captains low key company as well. Dang near the only budget stuff that seems to get highlighted so often.
Not talking bout behringer or TC.
Big Rumble also reminds me of Earthquake
Give me more of the Holy Aura please. Proper chunky heavy. Yes.
Why is it that everytime you watch one of these videos you reach for the credit card?
I'm not complaining, as I've just done exactley that
Tone city , keeping Pete in G Shocks for a decade 😂
these pedals sound great... but I was curious if Tone City fully or partially owned by Andertons? I haven't seen them in any stores in the US... or at least, any stores by me
Because its just capacitors fuses and wires the don't rip off their customers like some companies
The reverb looks sweeeeeet
Pete's just shattered the prestige of being a Porshe owner. "Mid priced car".
RIP that pedal in the background. Kudos to the camera/editing 😂
How do they sound on Bass?
If some pedal is named “ Big Rumble” , i would expect some kind of Bass pedal ….
I do like the idea of a reverb and delay in the same pedal 🤔
Holy Aura- Bogner Ecstacy?
Except that the copy says it’s modeled after an “American” high gain amp. So we’re talking Mesa, soldano, Friedman or Peavey/EVH. I personally think it sounds more Marshally, so I’m guessing Friedman. Especially with the tight knob. But who knows 🤷🏻♂️
Danish Pete is still there? I thought he leaved andertons!
Big Rumble makes me think of King of Tone with the purple/gold finish and layout.
Presence and depth! Oooer missus...
Pete gonna release a single based on the blues he played in the start. Named : Came home late this night without pants, now my lady throwed me out.
completely off subject, but wanted to ask since the first time I watched one of their videos..
The sign behind them constantly changing numbers, is it for Decibel levels? number do seem to go higher when things get louder..and yes, its distracting.
I was told it is a decibel meter. It is kind of distracting, isn't it.
@@christisgod3354 Is it a guitar shop/music store or a studio associated with their store(they are owners of a music store, right?)?
Perhaps its used to keep customers from getting to loud or for a the sound engineer to get a better idea of the levels during recording...either way they could just unplug the damn thing when they do the videos.
@@alexsmart5452 I'm with you on that.
@@christisgod3354 BTW love your name..and yes he is.
@@alexsmart5452 Amen to that.
The Jazz and Rock mode sound almost the same. I didn't hear any Jazz tone at all
Mick and Dan are wrong for a simple reason: boost good in front of amp, and whether you admit it or not, an overdrive pedal on a board is basically an amp you want to kick. "Get breakup right and then make louder" makes no sense. The boost gets the breakup right. No amp or OD pedal ever does that well un-boosted (here the myth of plugging straight in bleeds into the myth of the tune screamer etc that has us all chasing overdrives; truth of it all is it mostly sounds great with a boost in front of it and kinda not otherwise). Boost always in front.
aslways love to see a new tone city pedal