they all do sound great, and I was trying to get a new N5+ started contacting in April three different ways, no replies... then I see a post on FB, they had discontinued it and in it's place they'd be making a new version. The 3D one here. I still want the one before the 3D, it's a different tone.
This version is a limited production, but they have a normal N5 drive on their site which is similar (and cheaper). They have done other limited productions in the past too.
@@SlimeyGuitarStrings They now have some insane new pedal that's like an N5++++++++ Ultra Mega Super.... Not sure if it's a limited run as well, but it has more knobs than a hardware store. I need to get my hands on one of these.
@@Xyrium I have the N5+ Gold and where I landed on it is that it's great if you want a more amp like high-gain drive into a small practice amp. But, I still prefer my Friedman amp if I can play loud. It's also really good into a cleaner amp. I wonder about the new Limited Edition one which is more Marshall based though.
Pete, you are a tone genius. I always love the tones you get from any equipment you ever use. I'd love to be able to take every piece of equipment I have to you and have you set them up. I know there are too many variables that change from location to location but you know what I mean. Thank you for all that you do.
This pedal has a nice sound. Nice clean tone with a good amount of distortion. Sounds like some massive bottom end or maybe the guitar is tuned down. Sounds great all in all. Love the Wall of Sound app. Also the song was great as usual. Thanks Pete.
Great demo Pete. I managed to snag myself one of the last of these pedals ever made, all the way over here in Australia. I found the original No.5 pedal used on marketplace so now I use both into the front of my Fender Blues Deluxe.
I bought a previous version of the no5 based on your videos, Pete. So many distortion and overdrive pedals sound like a pedal into an amp- which is a thing, but not always cool. That isn't the case with Sinvertek!! Starting with all knobs at 5 I'm able to very quickly get something that sounds and more importantly feels like the lead/crunch channel on a tube amp! Initially I thought the switches were too subtle, but once I dialed it in I found that they're perfectly tuned to make the distortion work with different clean channels. Thanks for reviewing their newest, great demo! I have one question- how do they make any money!? They're super affordable for what they are!! Thanks again and good luck with the Rock Show and COVID!
Pete, those glasses look sweet!! Great demo and playing as always. I was lucky enough to pick one of these up (titanium version) I was wanting something higher gain and different just like this!
Nice demo as always. Your playing and that pedal have a kind of Leslie West type feel about it. Took me a minute to figure who invented those sorts of tones. Cheers! You are the best.
Hey Pete! You think its hard-core made just for front end of amp or what ya think she sound like through a orange pedal baby? Has you or anyone tried? I'm just running high quality pedals thru pedal baby into 4x12 cab nowadays and sounds awesome
Hey Pete - how are you so darn tight with that black Modern T at 4:28? Do you have a noise gate in the signal? Would love to know how I can get there! :)
I honestly expected this to be stupidly overpriced like a lot of 'boutique' pedals are...it's a very fair price I feel for what you're getting...maybe this will help drive down some of those prices on boutique clones and glorified tube screamers
Good Morning Pete from the States (its 11am EST on 1/20/22)! I Just got The Sinvertek NO.5 + 3DGold version in the mail, mine is 79 of 99. Wanted to review your video, before hooking it up and I'm Glad i did -- you are a fountain of info! Right-On for being real!! Hey Man, loved that harmonic at the end of your song, How did you do that? I replayed that several times - I even slowed it down. Honestly, I have not tried it yet because I don't have a good guitar with a tremolo. Hmmm, those Suhrs you play look super nice but those are very pricey for me. Anyhow, I listened to the end of your Recent Live video from the UK on the ride home from work yesterday. Thank you for all the detailed info you give away. It's so helpful to us mere mortals!! LOL!! I will try to watch your next live video this Sunday. Pete, Thank you man!! Your Friend - Joey Steed ATL-Ga.
So Pete you mentioned its not really designed for the Power Amp section on an amp, what about running into say an Engl 2/60 or Fryette 2/90, both of which I have, also a Engl Powerball 100. I ask because both the power amps due have clean pre-amps so I was curious?
This distortion box is a little different. It's very rare that I tell people to check out a distortion pedal. This one is very different. Whatever it is - it's got it !
It’s great just got it. Have the v2n5 which is still great. But this is amazing. Have the MGA-T1 that’s the different Marshall’s. That’s great too. All can be used as a regular pedal.
Loved the pedal, it's not real muddy and has great clarity on bottom strings, what's the difference again between gold & silver or titanium? Loved seeing your home town, hope U and sis had ex. Visit
Titanium Version ( Limited 99pcs / USD209 ) Our chief designer-Wu will do the electronic test and final sound check himself to ensure you get a top standard Sinvertek product. Compared to Drive N5+, this version has a 20% improvement in tone detail and quality. Gold Version ( Limited 99pcs / USD299 ) This is not a normal product. It is an artwork and weapon Wu created to make his dream come true. Its competitors is an amp, and has enough power to start a war againest top amps. All work will be hand modified by Wu, mainly including selecting gain components, matching each gain stage and use rare find NOS FET which from his own private collection in the first gain stage. Also doing the electronic test, sound check and final assemble. Compared to the Titanium version, Gold version stands at a new level, the tone is extreme transparency and 3D feel. If you're used to playing with top amps, meanwhile don't trust other devices can do it, please try this version.
This sounds great, and the a/b comparisons are impressive, but as an acoustic guitarist I have a newbie question: Why? If you have to run this through the clean channel of a similar sounding amp, which has its own drive channel, is this intended to give you the Soldano drive channel sound with a cheaper amp / one with different characteristics? If do, then does it make sense to do the a/b testing with such an amp? Surely, if you already have a Soldano you don't need this... Also, the "experimental guitar fan" in me wants to know how it sounds direct, and also how it sounds into the drive channel. 😈
It essentially give you a 3D channel. Many songs have cleans and dirties, but the single dirty channel many be the best option for both the rhythms and leads. You may want to dial things in differently for each
The guy who designed it really intended it to be used the way that I demonstrated it. Which isn’t to say it couldn’t sound good another way but I opted to stick with his intended use. I decided to show the pedal the same way that he turned it in, into the clean channel of the SLO. Of course he did that so he could directly AB with the overdrive channel of the amplifier. Of course you’re not going to do that in practice, if you have the amp you’ll probably use the amp but I think the idea is that into a good/decent clean channel of whatever amp you have, you will be able to get quite a similar sound.
Gret video Pete! The pedal sounds awesome but,... WHAT IS WITH THAT RED SUHR T??? That guitar is legit! Is that a complete custom job from Suhr? More info please!
It’s actually one I’ve had for quite a long time but it is the first one that I ever did with mahogany body and mahogany neck and maple top. It’s had a few different sets of pick ups in it and currently I’ve got Fishman Fluence in there, With the intention of having a very quiet guitar for the studio. They are indeed quiet and sound cool! I am mainly a passive pick up guy, but for certain applications active can work well
More credence to the fact you make everything sound good Pete. I had the original No5 and it sounded nothing like this. It wasn’t amp like at all. Very distortion pedaly. Couldn’t sell it fast enough. 🤷🏻♂️
I'm done with Pete's reviews, everything this guy plays sounds amazing! Its not the gear, its the player.. he could make a Casio distortion sound amazing LOL
Playing a couple of those Chinese custom guitars there ? They sound pretty good and I’ve seen a player or two out there playing them … Daryl Hall’s guitar player had a strat style one … are they really quality instruments ?
I expected it to be wildly expensive. That's a lot of pedal. It's not expensive. There are fairly common BOSS pedals in the same range, but they aren't *this* good.
I explain the signal chain in the video, basically it’s the pedal into the amplifier, into a Suhr Reactive Load, into my UA Apollo recording interface. I record in logic for my DAW. On the channel in logic I’m using the Two Notes plugin with my signature IR package for speaker sim.
@@KarstenJohansson Reading through the web page it does mention NOS FETs, which is understandable - but the Titanium seems to be all readily obtainable. I actually dig the N5+ more, so huzzah for that ^
Got one. Couldn't stand it. Great for super high gain, but it totally fails at the low gain tones. A SLO set to cleaner cascading stages is a harmonic masterpiece. This thing is a crackle box.
@@Utube-g3g by lower gain SLO tones, I meant like Van Hagar... Far from clean. Multiple Cascading cleanish gain stages are how the SLO works... Even the lead channel. The Sinvertek sounds more like slamming the shit out of just a couple gain stages.
I think the idea is to get as closest possible to the preamp sound of that amplifier and then of course you’re gonna run that pedal into whatever clean channel that you’ve got. Hopefully it’s decent. This isn’t a pedal for somebody that already has that amp but dialing it in through that amp seems to make sense, because it’s a direct comparison to the distortion channel
So to make this pedal sound like an SLO you've got to run it into the clean channel of a Bogner Extacy or and SLO. And if you already have an SLO you don't need this pedal. Plus .... it's got x2 too many dials and switches. Not for me thanks :)
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Thats one MASSIVE sounding pedal. Really lovely, thick, saturated, with right amount of hair. Well done Sinvertek.
Dude the level of awesome that comes out of this guy on a daily basis can be seen from space.
Sounds amazing Pete. Great tones, probably one of the best distortions I have heard.
I have the 1st one, I believe. The "No. 5", into a clean 'Fender amp', it's very impressive! * also quiet! Love it.
they all do sound great, and I was trying to get a new N5+ started contacting in April three different ways, no replies... then I see a post on FB, they had discontinued it and in it's place they'd be making a new version. The 3D one here. I still want the one before the 3D, it's a different tone.
@@b.scottfarthingsworth The older ones pop up on ebay and Reverb pretty often....I want one too ;-)
@@wakjob961 they went new for almost $200 so once I see areal price I will go for it
Bloody hell Pete!
How do you keep writing crazy good demos?
Great stuff
You bloody Legend
I like it. It has what all drive boxes should have (tonal options.) This should not be a limited production item.
This version is a limited production, but they have a normal N5 drive on their site which is similar (and cheaper). They have done other limited productions in the past too.
@@SlimeyGuitarStrings They now have some insane new pedal that's like an N5++++++++ Ultra Mega Super....
Not sure if it's a limited run as well, but it has more knobs than a hardware store. I need to get my hands on one of these.
@@Xyrium I have the N5+ Gold and where I landed on it is that it's great if you want a more amp like high-gain drive into a small practice amp. But, I still prefer my Friedman amp if I can play loud. It's also really good into a cleaner amp. I wonder about the new Limited Edition one which is more Marshall based though.
@@SlimeyGuitarStringsThanks Davis....I hadn't realized he tweaked the resulting sound in the new version. That's good insight! Thank you!
Pete is an endless jukebox of melodic mastery!
That sounds amazing! I have several "boutique high gain amps" and yet I'm still ordering the pedal!
Pete, you are a tone genius. I always love the tones you get from any equipment you ever use. I'd love to be able to take every piece of equipment I have to you and have you set them up. I know there are too many variables that change from location to location but you know what I mean. Thank you for all that you do.
Great demo of what this baby can do. Pete never plays a bum note; great playing and instriumental. Sounds awesome!
Mine just landed - lots of tonal opportunities!
This pedal has a nice sound. Nice clean tone with a good amount of distortion. Sounds like some massive bottom end or maybe the guitar is tuned down. Sounds great all in all. Love the Wall of Sound app. Also the song was great as usual. Thanks Pete.
Pete, you are such an amazing player. And the joy with which you play just shows how good you are.
Great demo Pete. I managed to snag myself one of the last of these pedals ever made, all the way over here in Australia. I found the original No.5 pedal used on marketplace so now I use both into the front of my Fender Blues Deluxe.
Ooh! I love this, Pete - Heavy, light, in-your-face and mellowed out - tastefully done1
Damn, that red T stole the show! Beautiful guitar.
my god i was not ready when i lauch the video!!! that INTRO IS SO BADASS!!!!
Amazing work!!!
That part at 45 seconds leading to the heavy dramatic solo is rocking. Dig the heavier PT stuff.
I am buying one immediately after their site loads... The cost per knob is VERY cheap!!!
I bought a previous version of the no5 based on your videos, Pete. So many distortion and overdrive pedals sound like a pedal into an amp- which is a thing, but not always cool. That isn't the case with Sinvertek!! Starting with all knobs at 5 I'm able to very quickly get something that sounds and more importantly feels like the lead/crunch channel on a tube amp! Initially I thought the switches were too subtle, but once I dialed it in I found that they're perfectly tuned to make the distortion work with different clean channels. Thanks for reviewing their newest, great demo! I have one question- how do they make any money!? They're super affordable for what they are!! Thanks again and good luck with the Rock Show and COVID!
Thanks for posting this awesome demo - mine just arrived today (13/99) and it has no documentation at all, so this was very helpful, lol
Excellent sound Pete... I just love chords that make sense!
Pete is that a new Suhr tele in red? Sounds killer!
Some Ian Thornley tones in this one Pete. Love it.
Man, thank you for keeping rock alive!
Wow dude. I'm listening to Ty Tabor and say this video pop up. Perfect segue! This pedal has some serious BAWLS!
Pete - Happy New Year!! As always you make the best, most informative and fun YT videos. Look forward to seeing you play live this year.
Pete, those glasses look sweet!! Great demo and playing as always.
I was lucky enough to pick one of these up (titanium version) I was wanting something higher gain and different just like this!
Nice demo as always. Your playing and that pedal have a kind of Leslie West type feel about it. Took me a minute to figure who invented those sorts of tones. Cheers! You are the best.
I like the pedal sound better than the actual amp channel
Yooo!! That riff is rockin!
Pete, that was f__kin killer!!!
Gold #84 arrived at my place a couple of hours ago
;^D
You do a grand job on demoing gear kid, thanks. 🥃🌟Respect and stay healthy all.
Hey Pete! You think its hard-core made just for front end of amp or what ya think she sound like through a orange pedal baby? Has you or anyone tried?
I'm just running high quality pedals thru pedal baby into 4x12 cab nowadays and sounds awesome
New Suhr T! Gorgeous.
Hey Pete - how are you so darn tight with that black Modern T at 4:28? Do you have a noise gate in the signal? Would love to know how I can get there! :)
Great tunes and lovely sounding pedal. Me likey.
I honestly expected this to be stupidly overpriced like a lot of 'boutique' pedals are...it's a very fair price I feel for what you're getting...maybe this will help drive down some of those prices on boutique clones and glorified tube screamers
There's one on Reverb now for $ 900 😆
Damn dude , i love your musical mind ! Just fantastic intro tune ...
And as always , great tone !!
That pedal sounds Great too ...
Good Morning Pete from the States (its 11am EST on 1/20/22)! I Just got The Sinvertek NO.5 + 3DGold version in the mail, mine is 79 of 99. Wanted to review your video, before hooking it up and I'm Glad i did -- you are a fountain of info! Right-On for being real!! Hey Man, loved that harmonic at the end of your song, How did you do that? I replayed that several times - I even slowed it down. Honestly, I have not tried it yet because I don't have a good guitar with a tremolo. Hmmm, those Suhrs you play look super nice but those are very pricey for me. Anyhow, I listened to the end of your Recent Live video from the UK on the ride home from work yesterday. Thank you for all the detailed info you give away. It's so helpful to us mere mortals!! LOL!! I will try to watch your next live video this Sunday. Pete, Thank you man!! Your Friend - Joey Steed ATL-Ga.
In the rhythm part around 5:35, do I hear the string(s) behind the nut? 🤔
Another great demo btw Pete!
Da fk is that mosrite? Killer playing as usual. Great job Mr, Thorn.
Great demo as always Pete! Thank you 🙏
So Pete you mentioned its not really designed for the Power Amp section on an amp, what about running into say an Engl 2/60 or Fryette 2/90, both of which I have, also a Engl Powerball 100.
I ask because both the power amps due have clean pre-amps so I was curious?
The Intro is Fire 🔥
This distortion box is a little different. It's very rare that I tell people to check out a distortion pedal. This one is very different. Whatever it is - it's got it !
It’s great just got it. Have the v2n5 which is still great. But this is amazing. Have the MGA-T1 that’s the different Marshall’s. That’s great too. All can be used as a regular pedal.
Omg that intro man...😳🎸😳
I loved the silver guitar tone big time.
Great work Mr. Thorne. How is the A2 Thornbucker coming? Suggestions for a single coil to pair with a HSH using Thornbuckers? Love your work sir!
Anyway... that SLO sounds KILLER!!
Loved the pedal, it's not real muddy and has great clarity on bottom strings, what's the difference again between gold & silver or titanium?
Loved seeing your home town, hope U and sis had ex. Visit
Titanium Version ( Limited 99pcs / USD209 )
Our chief designer-Wu will do the electronic test and final sound check himself to ensure you get
a top standard Sinvertek product. Compared to Drive N5+, this version has a 20% improvement
in tone detail and quality.
Gold Version ( Limited 99pcs / USD299 )
This is not a normal product. It is an artwork and weapon Wu created to make his dream come
true. Its competitors is an amp, and has enough power to start a war againest top amps. All
work will be hand modified by Wu, mainly including selecting gain components, matching each
gain stage and use rare find NOS FET which from his own private collection in the first gain stage.
Also doing the electronic test, sound check and final assemble. Compared to the Titanium version,
Gold version stands at a new level, the tone is extreme transparency and 3D feel. If you're used
to playing with top amps, meanwhile don't trust other devices can do it, please try this version.
I've never seen this red Suhr T-Style.... A new futur signature model ?
This sounds great, and the a/b comparisons are impressive, but as an acoustic guitarist I have a newbie question: Why?
If you have to run this through the clean channel of a similar sounding amp, which has its own drive channel, is this intended to give you the Soldano drive channel sound with a cheaper amp / one with different characteristics? If do, then does it make sense to do the a/b testing with such an amp? Surely, if you already have a Soldano you don't need this...
Also, the "experimental guitar fan" in me wants to know how it sounds direct, and also how it sounds into the drive channel. 😈
It essentially give you a 3D channel. Many songs have cleans and dirties, but the single dirty channel many be the best option for both the rhythms and leads. You may want to dial things in differently for each
The guy who designed it really intended it to be used the way that I demonstrated it. Which isn’t to say it couldn’t sound good another way but I opted to stick with his intended use. I decided to show the pedal the same way that he turned it in, into the clean channel of the SLO. Of course he did that so he could directly AB with the overdrive channel of the amplifier.
Of course you’re not going to do that in practice, if you have the amp you’ll probably use the amp but I think the idea is that into a good/decent clean channel of whatever amp you have, you will be able to get quite a similar sound.
It could do with a few more switches!
great demo Pete. Can I ask - what is that red Suhr Tele you are using? Is it a Tele version of the PT Signature?
Brill way 2 track that Peter, Great sounding pedal and sick demo
I'd like to try one of those!! I dig it!!
Hey Pete! Bet you're glad to be back home..nice to see fam but damn 30 below is absurd..lol.. cool pedal nice work..
Great Demo wondering what EMGs are in the silver Suhr
Gret video Pete! The pedal sounds awesome but,... WHAT IS WITH THAT RED SUHR T??? That guitar is legit! Is that a complete custom job from Suhr? More info please!
Can you use this this with a Line 6 Helix? In front of the unit manipulating a clean aml?
I’ve got #55 of 99 ( titanium )and I’m still figuring it out. lol
For my tastes the clean channel of my SLO is just the perfect platform for all my pedals, especially the dirts..!!😉
Great playing Pete. Always so melodic. Did you play with Chris Cornell on the Euphoria Morning tour?
Pete could plug into a potato and make it sound awesome. Such a great player.
Pete Thorn is a monster !!!!!
🙏
Bloody great intro track. You are not helping with my GAS for a tremolo equipped tele.
What’s up with that Burgundy Suhr T-Type HH? Looks like a PT Sig in a Tele Style. Bitchin’! 🤘🏼
Great job as always!! Are those different pickups in the Suhr T? Thats your original one that John Shanks had for a while right?
Yes that’s right! John borrowed it. It now has fluence pu’s Which are pretty cool! Very quiet, you can hear in the video, The breaks between chords
@@PeteThorn thanks! Any idea which models? I noticed the EMG strat was definitely quieter, but really dug the tone of those Fluence’s..
Nevermind, Open Cores got it!
Is that a new sig Suhr prototype, T style? I might have been living under a rock for a while and missed something… :)
It’s actually one I’ve had for quite a long time but it is the first one that I ever did with mahogany body and mahogany neck and maple top. It’s had a few different sets of pick ups in it and currently I’ve got Fishman Fluence in there, With the intention of having a very quiet guitar for the studio. They are indeed quiet and sound cool! I am mainly a passive pick up guy, but for certain applications active can work well
@@PeteThorn thank you so much for the kind and informative reply! Nice sounding guitar indeed. Have a great start of the year!
Pete Thorn, you are a Badass.
--Captain Obvious
Thanks! :)
Bogdano in a box? Su-weet!
Smoking...never get tired of those dive bombs.
More credence to the fact you make everything sound good Pete. I had the original No5 and it sounded nothing like this. It wasn’t amp like at all. Very distortion pedaly. Couldn’t sell it fast enough. 🤷🏻♂️
Hot damn! 🤟🏻
I'm done with Pete's reviews, everything this guy plays sounds amazing! Its not the gear, its the player.. he could make a Casio distortion sound amazing LOL
What model is that sunburst baritone?
It’s from Danelectro!
@@PeteThorn thank you Pete! It's a beauty!
Playing a couple of those Chinese custom guitars there ? They sound pretty good and I’ve seen a player or two out there playing them … Daryl Hall’s guitar player had a strat style one … are they really quality instruments ?
"Silver Suhr fer"
I expected it to be wildly expensive. That's a lot of pedal. It's not expensive. There are fairly common BOSS pedals in the same range, but they aren't *this* good.
Cool pedal, but pricing information is unavailable. I'm out.
Does he ever explain how he records these?
I explain the signal chain in the video, basically it’s the pedal into the amplifier, into a Suhr Reactive Load, into my UA Apollo recording interface. I record in logic for my DAW. On the channel in logic I’m using the Two Notes plugin with my signature IR package for speaker sim.
@@PeteThorn thanks so much! Now I just need to figure out why my Pete thorn Suhr came with a gotoh rather than the Wilkinson
Limited =/ Honestly, as good as that is, why make it limited?
Some of the parts in the Gold are not easy to come by. Dunno about the other one, though.
@@KarstenJohansson Reading through the web page it does mention NOS FETs, which is understandable - but the Titanium seems to be all readily obtainable.
I actually dig the N5+ more, so huzzah for that ^
@@MercutioUK2006 Well, they keep stressing that Wu built it. So there is that. 😁
@@KarstenJohansson 😃
Thick and chewy tone goodness....
Best finger pedal ever?
Got one. Couldn't stand it. Great for super high gain, but it totally fails at the low gain tones. A SLO set to cleaner cascading stages is a harmonic masterpiece. This thing is a crackle box.
Got the gold one?
You don’t know what you’re buying if you buy a high gain pedal for cleans. It actually does do cleans. It’s not anywhere near a crackle box.
@@Utube-g3g by lower gain SLO tones, I meant like Van Hagar... Far from clean. Multiple Cascading cleanish gain stages are how the SLO works... Even the lead channel. The Sinvertek sounds more like slamming the shit out of just a couple gain stages.
@@allakazoo6267no, i had the gray one. What I'm looking for is boosted crunch channel tones. Every emulator & pedal does the lead channel.
Wait, so if I have an SLO, I can get the sound of the dirty channel on the clean channel? Why wouldn't I just use the dirty channel?
I think the idea is to get as closest possible to the preamp sound of that amplifier and then of course you’re gonna run that pedal into whatever clean channel that you’ve got. Hopefully it’s decent. This isn’t a pedal for somebody that already has that amp but dialing it in through that amp seems to make sense, because it’s a direct comparison to the distortion channel
Way too complicated for me.
I am the first thumb.
So to make this pedal sound like an SLO you've got to run it into the clean channel of a Bogner Extacy or and SLO. And if you already have an SLO you don't need this pedal. Plus .... it's got x2 too many dials and switches. Not for me thanks :)
it needs more knobs for me to have any real interest in it. I hate simplicity