NUX: REISSUE SERIES - All Six Pedals
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.พ. 2021
- Australia: www.artistguitars.com.au
Global: www.nuxefx.com/reissue.html
Six tributes to classic tones at very reasonable prices. The NUX Reissue Series delivers and they're built to last. Can't ask for much more than that!
1:18 - Plexi Crunch
3:34 - Recto Distortion
5:29 - XTC OD
8:01 - Analog Delay
10:38 - Analog Chorus
13:11 - Steel Singer Drive
Today's tools:
Guitar: 2020 Fender Ultra Stratocaster HSS Cobra Blue
Amp: Bogner Shiva (clean channel) Model - Axe-FX III FW: 16b4
Cables: Providence
Power Supply: Eventide PowerMax by Cioks
Mic: Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro and Canon D60
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum & Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX III (guitar, mixing and bouncing).
Monitors: Blue Sky Media Desk 2.1
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
Software: Logic Pro X, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Compressor. - เพลง
The Plexi Crunch is a fire breathing Dragon. Outstanding
I like the first one
That plexi crunch sounds amazing
Nice one Brett an excellent quick really informative video of this range of pedals demonstrating all the features possible. Many thanks.
Cant understand why Brett you have not got to100,000 subcribers,one of the best youtubers out there heavy rock on from Scotland.
The perfect demo... tasteful blend of talking and playing while giving a comprehensive overview for players of all styles as to how these pedals may benefit them. I already own the the plexi crunch and will buy the rest based on what I heard here today. Thank you.
It's great a company like Nux are pumping out decent gear at competitive prices.i picked up there MG 300,and it's super fun to mess with.great review and run down Brett.thanks heaps.
You are a titan in the pedal demo game Burgs. All killer, no filler. Cheers mate!
wow really NUX nailed it on this distortions and OD super cool loved them all! you have pretty much all you need there...
Damn, that plexi crunch and xtc od are bangin! I bet those would sound amazing through my JC 40
Great pedals and demo! Thanks!
Good demos Brett, all my favourite signature sounds.
Loved them all. Just bought the Monterey vibe. Great brand of effects.
Love that clean tone!
I have to thank you for turning the pedal off when you switch pickups, reminding us of the clean tone. I really like that these pedals all look slightly different, well designed, and you made every one of them sing.
i got the nux mg 100 processorif you like t he pedals the processor is good for sure not a bad unit for the price its got some decent sounds and im gonna use it in the affects loop of one of my peavey heads on the clean channel
Thanks for making it hard to choose only one or two pedals! Love your vids!
Great video as usual!
I enjoyed the video as usual. I liked the “plexi” the best ...but they are all good!
Literally not a bad one in the batch. Top stuff.
Now this is how a demo should be! Thank you sir for the video.
Excelente review!
Just bought the plexi crunch and the xtc od after watching this,awesome cheers.
I just got my plexi crunch today and ran it though my marshall jubilee reissue wow killer tone
Dude you're really good! Rock on brother 🎸
wow the plexi tone is a sweet classic
Me encanta esta serie de pedales de nux
You always seem to get the best sounds out of everything ! lol luv da Rush more of that pls , and more Aerosmith sweeeeeeet...
and was that a bit of astronomy on the " phasey bit " ?
Great review mate one of the best on TH-cam I think of anything , can't wait for my crunch to arrive
I have the plexi crunch which i play through my voxAC10...sounds like a Marshall, classic tone and I love it!
All six pedals , all 2 multi effects pedals, and IR studio 's .....solids.i love it ...NUX ....
Ripper mate,
I just purchased the Steel Singer.
Seems pretty sweet to me.
Not bad for $50.
Thanks for your input here man.
Love your work as usual, Brett. I’ve got lots of Artist and Nu-X stuff after witnessing the way you make it all sound. To date, everything I’ve bought must be broken and does not sound as good. All jokes, obviously, as I’ve found most Nu-X and Artist gear to be amazing value and just plain awesome.
Great demo. Nice playing / guitar skills! I liked the OTC a lot, and I thought the "singer" had a real SRV vibe.
I've just bought my first pedal after 1 year playing (the xtc od) and it's just amazing
Thank you for demoing the analog delay with drive in front of it! It's so hard to find demos of delay pedals that do that.
Trying out new headphones. Disturbed, to Black Sabbath, to this...That Plexi Crunch is wicked (".)
Excellent value for the money. Especially for the beginner who can have some great sounding pedals for a fraction of the cost of what I've paid in the past. When you get sick of being ripped off and start learning how to build your own pedals you quickly learn how cheap they are to build, even the boutique expensive ones. Don't throw your money away, there's nothing wrong with these!
what about the thought that high end pedals have less "high end hizz, or more round warmer whatever" etc?
True. Some pedals can cost as much (and way, way more) than some amps! I have one or two 'boutique' pedals; but sold a lot and settled with some less expensive ones. VERY pleased with the Plexi Crunch, it cuts/shelves the bass so well (a bright pedal so I set the tone and presence fairly low). Just bought the XTC OD, which is completely different, and has a relatively full low end. The XTC also has a lot of highs, I keep the pedal tone low (despite it being quite a bassy pedal) and use the guitar tone to taste. My point of reference is my Fulltone OCD V1.4; the Plexi Crunch does what the OCD cannot (even with my Treble Boost pedal) - gets that tight Marshall sound. The XTC is quite versatile; min gain for clean boost, low gain for mild boost, mid gain comparable to the OCD, higher gain for even more harmonic content (and inevitable noise/fizz like other pedals at high gain). The XTC is not as smooth as the OCD, but by adjusting the pedal, guitar and amp settings it is a great pedal for the price. I picked up the XTC on offer for £20 new delivered...you would REALLY struggle to buy parts and build your own pedal for that...plus all the manhours!
@@gainonten4031 Not so easy to generalize. Probably depends on individual cases (e.g. which budget pedal Vs which high end pedal). I will conceed that my £20 NU-X XTC OD is not as smooth as my £120 Fulltone OCD. At 1/6th the price, the XTC is a bargain, but we have to accept that it might not be so durable/last so long as the premium pedal. On the other hand, the Plexi Crunch produces a sound that was illusive on my (expensive) journey through numerous Fulltone, Boss and Electro-Harmonix pedals. At around £33 delivered, it was well worth the risk in buying a product that did what I wanted at 1/3rd to 1/4 the price. Pays your money and takes your choice.
Better than many brands , in pedals of worlds .....sweet's
I got my XTC OD yesterday. Pretty good pedal. I have it sounding like Black Friday by Grinspoon
I have the Plexi Crunch and it sounds identical to the Nux High Gain Distortion which is a…Wampler Pinnacle (4 knob version) clone.
House of Pain... ❤. That plexi crunch pedal is a beast.
Limelight with the chorus is bang on.
Buy both the Plexi Crunch and the Recto Distortion and it's definitely the best of British and American sound. Highly recommend this pair of pedals, excellent sound at an excellent price. The only thing that would improve it would be the resistance of the potentiometers, especially the Recto Distortion because they are somewhat fragile, otherwise they are excellent.🤩
The steel Singer is a pedal I've had my eye on for while.
It sounds nothing like the Vertex SS. It sounds pretty much just like a low-gain TS.
@@AndrewLewisHowe just what I want, I have the Simble as my main pedal, others are just finetuning...the Vertex sounds too much for that, although the NUX ssinger also sounds overrated as by itself, pedal companies imitate each other....I have 5 overdrive pedals on my floor and none of em are of the same brand...IM SOO GLAD I have like 8 ZOOM G2s, so I dont have to worry bout reverb and delay pedals..............!!!!!!! btway, just bought KOKKO Amp Simulators, if I ever get to a gig/happening its great for dark jazz/gain more: thick middly MARHALL!..... with an S....
@@AndrewLewisHowe Many people chose not to buy the SS due to it being a Vertex....
I recently got the chorus and delay and they are amazing pared with a boss ds1
I had a DS-1 and liked it. Some folk dislike it, but with the tone around 10 o'clock it did what I wanted with humbuckers. Bought the NU-X Plexi Crunch; liked that even more, sold the DS-1. Just ordered the XTC OD to give that a try.
when you hit the steel singer I so could almost hear you start playing or wanting to hear Reeling in the years by steely dan
@Brett Kingman - Hey Brett, I picked up the XTC OD pedal, and I am using the clean channel on my Tech21 Trademark 60 (first generation) combo as the pedal platform. I find that if I set the controls to what the Tech21 manual calls "American Combo" which involves engaging the "bite" switch (basically seems like a bright input on a blackface with tightened up bass to me) engaging the XTC with the tone control ANYWHERE above 8 O'Clock sounds really really raspy, thin, and nasty..
Setting the clean channel up without that sparkle added by the bite control and trying to get highs back from the master high and low EQ kind of kills the "quack" I can get on my position 2 and 4 settings on my two Strats when the XTC is disengaged. However said fiddling with the amp and keeping the highs in check seems to make the pedal sound a bit more like your demo.
I am curious as to whether the Bogner Shiva patch you have in the Axe FX is more sedate than a bright input on a blackface amp? If you were to play funk rhythm on position 2 and 4 on your strat with that bogner patch straight without any pedals, would it sound right?
I currently do not have another full size combo to test the pedal with that has a more traditional tone stack than the Trademark 60, and I am wondering if maybe this particular XTC pedal came from a run with some bad components in it. All the other demos I have seen of the pedal sound fantastic around the 12 O'Clock range on the tone.
I just ordered the NUX Morning Star pedal to try that with the clean channel in full blackface mode and see if all drive pedals tend to sound too harsh and thin.
Thanks for your demos, and thank you for your reply to my past question, you are most kind and generous, and you are fantastic at what you do on this channel.
Cheers!
This is the first time I'd ever heard anyone else say you can use a chorus to get a Leslie speaker sound, I'd known it for years.
My guitarist replaced his blues driver with xtc od. Sounds unreal in the mix
finally a decent recording of nut pedals
Love all these pedals. I'm a chorus fanatic! I play a lot of Classic Rock, i.e., the Cure, the Outfield, Nirvana, Police, Def Leppard Hysteria that I use Chorus on. AC/DC, Sabbath, Beatles, Zep. that kind of music. Normally I have BOSS DC-2W Waza Dimension C. Pedal. Would you say that I could create a pedal board with just pedals? I don't use a lot of FUZZ. I would just need a Wah pedal. Thank you for posting this. Really very cool!
That Strat is so tasty.
Mate loving all your demos, and have watched every MIAB demo, with my fav being the Marvel Drive with the SG! Pure Back in Black goodness, wonder what is your favourite of the bunch? Marvel Drive or the Plexi Drive?
I Have a bogner shiva. Great pedal platform indeed.
XTC OD the Best.
Really love your demos and playing. Im on a budget. Which one for hard rock : xtc or carl martin Panama? Thanks à lot.
I want all the NUX ....products
Hi mate, can you run the plexi crunch and recto distortion together?? Just wondering if it may give the 2 amp blend sound?
And... he throws "House of Pain" in there. Nice!
i like brett kingman, he knows how to play : )
Is there a reason why... Nobody turns the WIDTH on FULL and turns the SPEED to SLOW when demo-ing the Chorus? This pedal sounds pretty damn good... but I can't find a DEMO that will set the Width high and the Speed low.
I recently purchased the Plexi Crunch pedal & used it at a local live gig, with my cover band. The first time that I punched it in, it sounded just fine. The next time I turned it on, the foot switch was noisy as hell & the pedal itself had a lot of noise/hiss. I ran it toward the front of a six-pedal chain. It was the only foot pedal that was on, at the time. All of my guitar cables/patch cords are perfectly fine, as is my guitar (Epiphone Muse with a Seymour Duncan "Custom Custom" in the bridge position), & my amp (Fender Excelsior turned up half-way, at the time...). I'm going to use some contact cleaner on the input/output jacks & try some different configurations. I hope this pedal isn't garbage...
This is how to do demos!
These drives sound every bit as good as their higher end counter parts really. Why we spend the money we do on these high end pedals I really don't know sometimes. Sometimes you get something that's worth it- the Tumnus Deluxe has been an extremely potent, versatile, well made pedal for me. The JHS AT+ is another really good one- it sounds just like the JCM800 and the boost on it is independent and works great with my other drives. But I have tons of other "high end" drives that turned out to be no better than the budget stuff I own. Some of them aren't even as good as the budget stuff I own.
I have the Nu-X Plexi Crunch and love it (once the sweet spot is dialled in). It replaced a Boss DS-1 that I had. Just seen what appears to be a great Billy G/ZZ pedal, but the cost is 6 times that of the Nu-X. I cannot justify that just yet.
@@SaxJockey I have it- it's a good drive. I also have several higher end, boutique Plexi style pedals like the JHS AT+ or the Alairex HALO Jr. - as far as the distorted tone goes, the NU-X hangs right in there with them. But- they are more versatile in that they both have really good clean tones as well, and a potent EQ on them. This is generally speaking the difference between these kinds of budget pedals and their higher end counter parts- the higher end stuff is usually more versatile and does more. The budget pedal will usually pick whatever is the main function of a higher end pedal and just imitate that.
@@stoneysdead689 Agreed. I have an OCD (V1.4) that is versatile (less drive). That is smooth but has too much low end for heavy rock (the V2.0 was even darker), hence the reason I bought the Nu-X Plexi Crunch. The El Hombre (Rockett) looks intriguing...and expensive.
@Neon Thunderbird I also had the El Hombre shortly after my last post; I also returned it. It didn't do much going into a high headroom amp (guess most demo's use a driven amp). Instead, I bought a used RAT2, which surprised me; great for rhythm. The RAT is known to cut some highs, but for a little extra umpth, the (bright) XTC set as a clean boost into the RAT is great. I bought the XTC new for a crazy low price, and with the used RAT2 cost less than half the El Hombre.
@neonthunderbird Guess I misunderstood some comments/analysis of the RAT. But yes, can be bright; I have the filter ('reverse' tone) around 1-2 o'clock to help tame that. The XTC is bright, I have the tone around 10 o'clock on that.
xtc od blues sound😘👍
I bought the plexi crunch last week, sounds great but it's a pity that the on/ off switch is so crap. Still worth the $60 though.
11:57 what's drive pedal you used?
All the super 's ....super ....
nux xtc has much more gain than bogner red 2 switch pedal which is good..haven't tried the bogner mini yet..
can you combine this 3 distortion (plexi crunch , recto , xtc od) with steel singer drive . i really want to know how the sound come out . tq brothers
Can't help, sorry. They were all sold the next day to someone who needed them.
True bypass 's are in .....winners 🏆
Good Video, as a follow up, could you compare these against multi fx pedals and say what is built into a Boss Katana.
So I guess all NUX needs to do is come up with an analog wah pedal, analog EQ, analog flanger and analog compressor and they have it all!
Brett it would be interesting to hear these pedals against the NUX MG300 ?
Sure. Can't help you though, Neil. Mine went to a young bloke up the street months ago.
PlexiCrunch should be renamed "Appetite for Distortion". Not much like a Plexi but perfect for GnR, Motley Crue, etc.
That is a great sounding pedal for every bit of $50? Does the Chorus drop in volume when you engage it?
I run it with a swart str and I'd say no, actually I'd say it adds a slight boost
What are you amp settings?
Plexi & XTC.....
Is the Plexi Crunch versatile?
for a second I thought it is Eric Clapton sitting here
Hey Burgs, what;s that funky chair you got there?
That'll be the Wavebone Voyager II™ Ergonomic Studio Chair. $600. Not cheap but better than what I had. 2.5K videos have taken their toll on my back.
@@BrettKingman cheers. I got one of those Aeron clones, kind of like a Klon Clone of Ergo chairs. Once you go mesh you can never sit on another chair again!
@@ShlomirBareket That's true, the mesh is the spesh! Which one did you go for? Do the arms fold back? Need that for twangin'.
@@BrettKingman Matt Blatt Aeron, the arms come off don't flip
We're can I get these pedals at
Thomann if you are in Europe !
Everything Dumble related will go up in price now that Dumble is dead (today). Grab the Steel Singer before it goes up.
How about noise
Nice pedals, but they should have named the Marshall one the “JCM900 High Gain”. Nothing Plexi about it.
I bought this series but there are better cheap clones with switchable options. These are one trick compared to the rebrand Ed clones with more tech.
Brzmienie dupy nie urywa...za to jestem pod wrażeniem lampy z twojego Marshalla i kolumny..
I had the Plexi Crunch, Recto and Xtc. the Plexi was ok, Recto and Xtc were bad imitations
Better than that vertex crap.
An entire board full of NUX Goodness for cheap.
1mn 27 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????
Fuckin eh !!
Sounds budget to me.
I'm not sure of the quality of the other NUX pedals but if the Plexi Crunch I just tossed in the trash is any indication I won't be buying any more NUX crap.
It's a plastic housing, circuit-mounted controls that move if you breath on them and it sounded like shit.
Oh, the caps on the Marshally-looking knobs fall off if you turn it upside down.
Total crap!
Nux take their old models and put different knobs on it with some tweak on the aesthetic but nothing to drastic... Pure commercial products, nothing new here!!
they are from china, straight rip offs and made with cheap components,watch the vertex video on the singer
Vertex being experts on rip-offs. 😉
With all due respect you are stating the bleedin' obvious. Does it matter though if the pedals work and sound good?
They're also $50, so what are you complaining about?
@@kevinjohnbetts yes, it matters, Done with China,sorry
@@src248 no complaints about pricing, but the more i learn about the products coming out of china the less I support , I think everyone should know how they rip off every company they want and get away with it, I cab go on and on but its just my opinion,I respect yours,
@@ShadeHope1969 It matters to you. Which is fine. It doesn't matter to me. Which is also fine. 😎