When Fairfield Circuitry introduced the Barbershop back around 2008-9 many players didn't know quite what to make of it. For a long time it was a sleeper, but in last few years it seems that the word is out. Nice to see Guillaume's concept finally getting the recognition it has long deserved. It's a secret weapon for many, a great "always on". Switch? Who needs a switch?
My board has three pedals and none are getting added anytime soon but I still love watching you gents have a great time, reminds me how much love for the guitar there is in this world. Cheers guys!
Great to see/hear the Fairfield Modèle b (Barbershop) in the lineup. If I was permitted but one pedal to take to a desert island, it’d be my Barbershop. It’s magic! I notice Kirk Fletcher now has one on his board. 😊
@@TheGBs1972 Nice! 👌 It really is an incredible pedal. Using mine with a Brownface Deluxe clone & Silverface Princeton in stereo. Great to hear you’re loving your Barbershop. 😉
Oh my god, that Origin DCX in overdrive mode immediately turned "Dan plays Tele" into "1969 recording of Dan playing Tele." A blessing and a curse to have a pedal company keep making things I've wanted somebody to make for years.
Super cool stuff this week. That Fairfield drive sounds massive! Also, a topically relevant episode to me as I've lately finished designing and building a boost with some filter tweakery. It's a genre of pedals I haven't explored much until recently. As you mentioned early on, even set (mostly) flat, it just gives a bit of sparkle that could absolutely work as an always-on, even without a massive volume boost. Spectacularly good sounds, guys, awesome!
For my clean sound boost, my Topanga Reverb has a really good boost in it, and when in trails mode it is always on, and the volume knob even works in bypass mode.
Wow those are all killer boosts! I just finished restoring and repairing a 1965 Vox Cambridge Reverb for a friend and, in order to keep the amp's transformers alive, I've been pushing him to use a boost to push it into overdrive, rather than diming the poor thing. I'm sending him this video to show him how much great tone you can get using these awesome boosts!
Amazing video. I play with a always on clean boost. It makes my clean so much dynamic and enhances all my drives with rich harmonics and a hair of gain. Everything sounds so much better.
Awesome episode gents 👏 I’ve recently converted to the DCX boost as my always on / control the output thing at the end of my drives… it loves fuzz. Was the king tone blues power before that. Another great boost-ish thing.
A buddy of mine built me a SHO boost. He insists I keep it at the end of my pedal chain. Loud and transparent! It's amazing through my 65 Princeton reissue. Love your show guys!
I love TPS boost episodes! You always make me want one more of those :-) I recently got a Mythos Luxury and it’s killer… you should probably check it out on the next boost episode 😀
U guys are the undefeated champions of tone! I just received the abybaby and thx to you guys hooked up the hdrx20 with greenbacks and a tweed bassman 4x10 in a wet/dry rig. The tone is so spacial and 3d I can’t believe it. Switching amp a or b off with just one amp running it is crazy how much „goodness“ gets lost! I will never ever want to go back to one amp, that’s the tone I was searching for a long time trying to get it out of a one amp setup. I guess I could have kept trying to chase that rabbit down the hole until the end of days and wouldn’t have found satisfaction. Just crazy leg-ends, just crazy!
The only thing that came up now is that all my pedals pop now when turning them on. I have a quartermaster as well and before hooking up both amps with the abybaby nothing ever popped. Any idea on how to remedy this?? Greatly appreciate any help…
I recently moved my MXR Duke of Tone to the front my gain stages, set to the boost mode (always ON) for exactly the reasons you talked about today. Some Gain, some character, gives life to all my guitars into a very clean tube amp!
Someone asked how I like the pedal... I was at work and couldn't reply.... I really like how it works with all my guitars (LP, an hss strat, asat special) and seems to sound good in any amp I use.... Not quite as harmonically rich as an actual KOT (a good friend has one for comparison) but the tones are there and of Pro quality. And it stacks with EVERYTHING!
This episode was perfectly timed for me. Recently I've been noticing that the sound I was looking for, wasn't in an Overdrive pedal, rather it was in a boost. Some glorious sounding stuff in this episode.
The full-sized TC Spark is a brilliant boost that can do everything from EP boost to a decent Tube Screamer imitation. Use it after a Big Muff to help it carve through a band mix.
Out of all the pedals I’ve owned, I’ve found the boost pedal is probably the most quintessential to helping get the tone your looking for. I feel just like finding that one guitar, finding that one boost pedal is a lovely but maddening quest. Once you find one that works you really develop a type of special relationship with it. Right now I’m pretty happy with my LAA custom and am scared to try others because I feel like I’m getting the tone out of it I’m looking for but I got my eye on a couple including an analogman 😂
Mick is not alone. Here in Rockford, Illinois every summer gets at least a week of 38c and many years a few days in the summer at 40c. But we still complain at 30c if the humidity is above 70%. We can can't all live in the land of the short thermometer (San Deigo) where they are starting looking to get their taxes back from the government if it gets colder than 20c as a high in winter or (heaven forbid) hotter than 25c in the summer. [Lived there 10 years and will always miss it]
I am one of the (almost) "always on" Fairfield Barbershop users, I have mine at the very end of the chain and find it gives a little lovely breakup and lot of organic warmth, I use a modeling amp set almost fully clean so those are very welcome qualities. I only ever turn it off if I really need a clean tone.
I've said this before but: TC-Electronic Spark boost into a Boss HM-2, echorec style delay into a HiWatt. Oh . A clean boost into a complex pedal chain can just be the special sauce to restore some of the lost sparkle.
My fave gain-related topic by far! This is gonna be a real blast. Already I can hear the ideas at play in the opening. That big chord you finished on, Dan, was balls-to-the-wall amazing. Like Townsend thrashing out open chords on his LP & HiWatts back in the late 70s. I am sitting in my office and I let out a "Phwoar! Ohh Dan do that again!" I'm placing office, company money on the bet he's gonna do it again. Let's GOOOOO I've been running two MI Audio Boost and Buff pedals at the start and finish of my pedal chain for years, with an RC Booster and an MXR FET sandwiched in there according to function and changing needs, tastes. Those MIs just make my rig sing, the trick being to use one Version 2 at the start which has an always-on, high-quality buffer, and a V5 (pr 4) at the end with the buffer turned off. Boost set to treble (gain pot turned to around 3 o'clock) on the first one, Full (toggle) on the second. Magic. Oz magic from Sydney!
Too bad my favorite late night show is in summer break until autumn. But TPS takes no break, they crank out great content so i can watch something this weekend. Thank you guys!
I have a linear chain through my board full of toys. I use a boost between my dirt section and everything after. Benson boost. It's my gate keeper. If the sound I want from my dirt section cranks things up too much, I can use my boost as an attenuator before it feeds into everything else. If the sound I want from the dirt section is lower, the boost at the end turns it to the appropriate volume before hitting everything else. Basically I turn it up as high as I can with these restraints. No reason to knock down the signal unless you have to, yeah? Then I have another at the end, (fender energiser boost) with an EQ to make adjustments and set how much goes to the amp. If I don't feel a need to adjust the EQ at the end, I frequently leave the second one off. The Benson is always on, even at unity. The signal just sounds better passing through it than not passing through it.
Awesome! I want them all! Lol. A cheap ($50 cdn) alternative, if you need it, is the Joyo Sweet Baby. Clean, some drive and a focus control. Based off the Mad Professor Sweet Honey. Often, that Joyo is all I need to get sweet (see what I did there) tones!
My favorite boost right now is my EQD Special Cranker with the More knob low. One of my favorite drive sounds right now is the Special Cranker with the More knob up. So now I have two Special Crankers.
I'm a TC Electronic mini Spark guy. Put it on at all times after a od then to fuzz and have volume on guitar at 6 and its great. And then crank it to get nasty!!!
Great show. I do boost into boost in my setups. I think you can really shape your tone that way by finding the sweet spot in the boost pedal or setting OD pedals as boosts.
Another great, well produced, informative and entertaining video. You guys are the best. Awesome playing and of course your friendly banter makes for a great channel. Please keep up the good work!
I love Coppersound Pedals but they never get much attention. Their Polaris chorus/vibe is my favorite chorus by far and I also love the Foxcatcher 2-in-1 boost and OD.
Boost pedals are so great, I have two of them on my pedalboard, but only one overdrive. There are so many great boost and boost/overdrive pedals out there that's it's hard to choose among them. The REVV Tilt overdrive and Tilt boost both sound great, as do both the new Origin DCX pedals. Right now, what's on my main guitar board is a tc electronic Spark mini into a DSM & Humboldt Silver Linings Drive Engine. The Silver Linings is a dual pedal, drive plus a boost that can simultaneously boost pre and post drive. I use the SL boost post-drive exclusively, and the Spark mini handles the pre-drive boost function. The Silver Linings also has a pre-drive EQ function that works similarly to the REVV Tilt feature. I have two Spark minis, two full-size Sparks, and a One Control BJFe Granith Grey Booster (which I have specifically for my One Control BJFe drive pedals, currently using them on bass). I was very glad to see the Coppersound Gravity Bomb in this lineup, because I've been thinking about some of the Coppersound offerings as possibilities. I really want their Telegraph stutter pedal.
Hey, DAN AND MICK! Can you guys have somebody cook you up another head-to-head challenge where you both make music videos after selecting each other's pedals? That episode was my favorite of all time.
Idk if you already covered it on the show but the PettyJohn Shift boost pedal is a pretty nifty one. It is a fairly standard boost but it has some pretty nifty nuances
As a boost junkie, I currently have the Tilt, Monty’s More (the original one with screws instead of knobs), Boomster and DCX in the collection, and the latter two went straight onto my two boards. DCX is in front of my fave drive (with a Crazy Tube Circuits Supercpnductor after the drive). and the Boomster is after the same drive on the other board (and a Thorpy Fat General in front of the drive pedal). Boomster has the best sounding buffer that my ears have ever enjoyed, and the EXP volume out is v handy too. The DCX is super versatile - I have it in drive mode + pushing a Shanks with a strat, and the same order but in boost mode with a Les Paul. I would also recommend classics like the numerous the preamp clones, RC Booster and of course Thorpy’s other boost circuits (Heavy Water and one side of the Dane etc). Browne Amplification also have the Fixer (a buffer + two boosts), which - like the Jam Boomster - really reminds you what your guitar would sound like plugged straight into the amp.
Hahahahaha! I still laugh every time I see it. Mick here. And it took me about four hours to make. Because I was learning some software. And I STILL laugh. HahHh
That's why we got them to do the Harmonious Monk. Everything they make is awesome, and they are genuinely one of the last handful of makers doing really great through-hole stuff. We love them!
@@ThatPedalShow which is simply wonderful. Im trying to figure out what the equivalent for Leg-ends is for jam! Something to do with preserves….Tone’s top tip to watch out for is Phil from Bleak District Electric. He has just opened orders for the Tapescape which is an analogue delay that sounds incredible and is feature tastic. He is absolutely worth getting on the show as he is a top guy and has a great range of analogue pedals that have that little bit extra. He is going to play his Antistatic fuzz which has a micro looper on it on one of the tracks on album three. Which is rather exciting.
I tried my EP Booster in the effect loop of my modified Yamaha T100C to see if I could get a volume jump. Didn't get the volume, but a really nice, warm overdrive came out of it.
I shoulda bought another Fairfield pedal when I had money!... BTW the Accountant compressor of theirs is one of my favorite pedals of any kind. Gets used ALOT
A topic you discussed in the last VCQ... Stereo guitar, one output per pickup? Look no further than godlike bassist CHRIS SQUIRE, who kept his Rickenbacker's bridge pickup dry - its signal entered the pedalboard after fuzz. Since his fuzz flavour was the Maestro Fuzz-Tone, you can imagine how awful the Rick's skinny bridge pickup would have sounded. Thought you might like to remember this wonderfully loud man's pioneering work! Oh, and Chris Squire also used a Wet-Dry pair of amps - a Marshall Plexi and a clean Ampeg.
Wow hit my feed within 24hrs. That's a first. Usually it takes 4 days by YT algor, more often, I have to go look for it. And Mick, there a good number of us that wilt a bit more easily. Light skin, Upper Northern Hemisphere, short shoulder seasons and snow for half the year. Especially at altitude. Heat comes from fire . . . and you can walk away from that.
Gents, you must invite Ian Thornley from Big Wreck on the show. He is an amazing guitar player, and has an interesting pedal board for his live rig. Cheers!
I'd love if you did a similar episode to this, but with boosts in front of a heavily driven amp. I currently use a Tumnus in front of a Mesa Tremoverb, but would love to hear various other types of cool boosts in that setting.
JAM Boomster sounds fantastic and it has really really useful features. If I hadn't spent a small fortune on a Lehle volume pedal recently I would be swapping my always on TI Boost for the Boomster for sure. I loved the practical demonstration of the buffer and the strat, it's a common oversight that I know Mick has demonstrated many times on this show but yet a lot of people still miss the magic of a good buffer playing nicely with your volume control. Great video.
Thank you Jack. One correction on the Boomster which I got wrong. The up position actually attenuates high end, not boosts it. Apols all round! Mick here.
I've also just invested on a Lehle volume pedal which incorporates various levels of boost in some settings so I'm now using this instead of my recently sold Xotic clean boost👍
@@billsherrington5996 yes the mini one, same one I went for. Bit of a bitter pill to swallow spending that much, but nice to know that it will last a life time
Did you notice that some Boosters increased the 100Hz hum? Hummm. 🤔. First time I heard that hum so pronunciated. But those tests are so valuable to us, normal mortals. Kudos...
Mick here, Hello! Austrian OC18 mics on the cabs. Into Meris 440 mic preamps. Into an analogue desk with a //tiny// bit of EQ. Also a pair of AKGC414 as a stereo pair at the back of the room. After the desk they hit UA Apollo 8p interface, recording in Logic. I mix the mics and have a little bit of stereo parallel bus compression with an SSL The Bus+ No plugins. That’s it! Voices are an entirely different matter. Cheers!
Hilarious to see Mick go for 2 o-clock. No matter.what. 😂 Helpful video though. The Origin pedal seems really useful. Those two amps make a very present sound. No muddy.
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it can not be overstated what a pleasant addition Noel’s Knobs has been
Boost pedals, delay interspersed, and opening with Red in Dan’s hands…. Ahh…..All is right in the world.
You found the Modele B! Love that thing.
When Fairfield Circuitry introduced the Barbershop back around 2008-9 many players didn't know quite what to make of it. For a long time it was a sleeper, but in last few years it seems that the word is out. Nice to see Guillaume's concept finally getting the recognition it has long deserved. It's a secret weapon for many, a great "always on". Switch? Who needs a switch?
I love it.
Thanks for checking out the DCX BOOST!
It's really bloomin good! Cheers!
One of the very best Pedal Shows - discussions of subtle gain staging, wide frequency EQ and high headroom always make me think. Great content!
The fairfield in the loop of the Monty’s… job done!! 🤘
My board has three pedals and none are getting added anytime soon but I still love watching you gents have a great time, reminds me how much love for the guitar there is in this world. Cheers guys!
Thank you guys for making my Friday nights so much better.
Also, BLUES EXPLOSION!
Great to see/hear the Fairfield Modèle b (Barbershop) in the lineup. If I was permitted but one pedal to take to a desert island, it’d be my Barbershop. It’s magic! I notice Kirk Fletcher now has one on his board. 😊
@@TheGBs1972 Nice! 👌 It really is an incredible pedal. Using mine with a Brownface Deluxe clone & Silverface Princeton in stereo. Great to hear you’re loving your Barbershop. 😉
Oh my god, that Origin DCX in overdrive mode immediately turned "Dan plays Tele" into "1969 recording of Dan playing Tele." A blessing and a curse to have a pedal company keep making things I've wanted somebody to make for years.
Origin makes great stuff, but you may need a small loan to buy any of it.
Super cool stuff this week. That Fairfield drive sounds massive! Also, a topically relevant episode to me as I've lately finished designing and building a boost with some filter tweakery. It's a genre of pedals I haven't explored much until recently. As you mentioned early on, even set (mostly) flat, it just gives a bit of sparkle that could absolutely work as an always-on, even without a massive volume boost. Spectacularly good sounds, guys, awesome!
I’ve been watching since almost the start of this show.
“Knobs for Noel” is perhaps the greatest thing ever.
Loving Dan tightening Micks bottom end with just one flick of the thumb on the tilt.. thumbs up!
In the words of Dr Frasier Crane, “if less is more, imagine how much more MORE will be!” 😂👍🏽
You damn right lol. EP Boost, Super Duper Boost and Angry Troll Boost. The Crunchy Frog and the AC Plus have Boost pedals with the distortion pedals.
For my clean sound boost, my Topanga Reverb has a really good boost in it, and when in trails mode it is always on, and the volume knob even works in bypass mode.
Yah good shout!
I have one of those, I never knew it could do that.
@@jakelindseymusic It's a very cool feature, and I love the boost by itself if I am bypassing the reverb.
Wow those are all killer boosts!
I just finished restoring and repairing a 1965 Vox Cambridge Reverb for a friend and, in order to keep the amp's transformers alive, I've been pushing him to use a boost to push it into overdrive, rather than diming the poor thing. I'm sending him this video to show him how much great tone you can get using these awesome boosts!
I like that red guitar Dan played. Looks like one of those new PRS body shapes.
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😂👍🏽
Hahahahaha!
Amazing video. I play with a always on clean boost. It makes my clean so much dynamic and enhances all my drives with rich harmonics and a hair of gain. Everything sounds so much better.
Awesome episode gents 👏
I’ve recently converted to the DCX boost as my always on / control the output thing at the end of my drives… it loves fuzz.
Was the king tone blues power before that. Another great boost-ish thing.
3 boosts. That’s what every board needs. I found a great fuzz tone doing this.
A buddy of mine built me a SHO boost. He insists I keep it at the end of my pedal chain. Loud and transparent! It's amazing through my 65 Princeton reissue. Love your show guys!
I love TPS boost episodes! You always make me want one more of those :-) I recently got a Mythos Luxury and it’s killer… you should probably check it out on the next boost episode 😀
U guys are the undefeated champions of tone! I just received the abybaby and thx to you guys hooked up the hdrx20 with greenbacks and a tweed bassman 4x10 in a wet/dry rig. The tone is so spacial and 3d I can’t believe it. Switching amp a or b off with just one amp running it is crazy how much „goodness“ gets lost! I will never ever want to go back to one amp, that’s the tone I was searching for a long time trying to get it out of a one amp setup. I guess I could have kept trying to chase that rabbit down the hole until the end of days and wouldn’t have found satisfaction. Just crazy leg-ends, just crazy!
Hooray! Congrats on your arrival. Thanks for the kind words!
The only thing that came up now is that all my pedals pop now when turning them on. I have a quartermaster as well and before hooking up both amps with the abybaby nothing ever popped. Any idea on how to remedy this?? Greatly appreciate any help…
I recently moved my MXR Duke of Tone to the front my gain stages, set to the boost mode (always ON) for exactly the reasons you talked about today. Some Gain, some character, gives life to all my guitars into a very clean tube amp!
Someone asked how I like the pedal... I was at work and couldn't reply.... I really like how it works with all my guitars (LP, an hss strat, asat special) and seems to sound good in any amp I use.... Not quite as harmonically rich as an actual KOT (a good friend has one for comparison) but the tones are there and of Pro quality. And it stacks with EVERYTHING!
Thanks Gentlemen! Wonderful video and wonderful playing!!!!!!!
Just added the Tilt Boost to my pedalboard, fantastic boost pedal! Love the way you can sculpt the bottom end with the tight switch.
The boosts I’ve had the longest are the Analogman Bad Bob and the NRG Humper-4558. Can’t seem to do without them
This episode was perfectly timed for me. Recently I've been noticing that the sound I was looking for, wasn't in an Overdrive pedal, rather it was in a boost. Some glorious sounding stuff in this episode.
I never used a boost before but recently picked up a tc spark for €25 used. It’s extremely useful 😀
The full-sized TC Spark is a brilliant boost that can do everything from EP boost to a decent Tube Screamer imitation. Use it after a Big Muff to help it carve through a band mix.
I love getting home from work on a Friday and getting my TPS fix.
Please, sir, I want some more! Cheers Dan and Mick!!
More!?
That Fairfield circuitry pedal sounds so good ! The best sound of the day was all pedals on 🤘🏻
I’m regularly surprised at how good Fairfield pedals are, in their unsuspecting little unfinished grey boxes & rough punched lettering.
Every episode now I look for noel's knobs. thanks lads, never stop.
Out of all the pedals I’ve owned, I’ve found the boost pedal is probably the most quintessential to helping get the tone your looking for. I feel just like finding that one guitar, finding that one boost pedal is a lovely but maddening quest. Once you find one that works you really develop a type of special relationship with it. Right now I’m pretty happy with my LAA custom and am scared to try others because I feel like I’m getting the tone out of it I’m looking for but I got my eye on a couple including an analogman 😂
Oh man, that is a serious pedal. Carlo makes brilliant stuff.
I tend to gravitate more and more to clean boosts or overdrives with the drive very low. It always seems to bring out the best tone.
The clean chord after the all-on 👌🏼
Mick is not alone. Here in Rockford, Illinois every summer gets at least a week of 38c and many years a few days in the summer at 40c. But we still complain at 30c if the humidity is above 70%. We can can't all live in the land of the short thermometer (San Deigo) where they are starting looking to get their taxes back from the government if it gets colder than 20c as a high in winter or (heaven forbid) hotter than 25c in the summer.
[Lived there 10 years and will always miss it]
I am one of the (almost) "always on" Fairfield Barbershop users, I have mine at the very end of the chain and find it gives a little lovely breakup and lot of organic warmth, I use a modeling amp set almost fully clean so those are very welcome qualities. I only ever turn it off if I really need a clean tone.
I've said this before but: TC-Electronic Spark boost into a Boss HM-2, echorec style delay into a HiWatt. Oh .
A clean boost into a complex pedal chain can just be the special sauce to restore some of the lost sparkle.
47:29 - Thus little progression is magic! Cha-ppo, Sir. 👏🏻
My fave gain-related topic by far! This is gonna be a real blast.
Already I can hear the ideas at play in the opening. That big chord you finished on, Dan, was balls-to-the-wall amazing. Like Townsend thrashing out open chords on his LP & HiWatts back in the late 70s. I am sitting in my office and I let out a "Phwoar! Ohh Dan do that again!"
I'm placing office, company money on the bet he's gonna do it again. Let's GOOOOO
I've been running two MI Audio Boost and Buff pedals at the start and finish of my pedal chain for years, with an RC Booster and an MXR FET sandwiched in there according to function and changing needs, tastes. Those MIs just make my rig sing, the trick being to use one Version 2 at the start which has an always-on, high-quality buffer, and a V5 (pr 4) at the end with the buffer turned off. Boost set to treble (gain pot turned to around 3 o'clock) on the first one, Full (toggle) on the second.
Magic. Oz magic from Sydney!
Nice! Great to hear from you Matt, hope all is great mate!
Well is as well can be :)
Cheers
Too bad my favorite late night show is in summer break until autumn. But TPS takes no break, they crank out great content so i can watch something this weekend. Thank you guys!
I have a linear chain through my board full of toys. I use a boost between my dirt section and everything after. Benson boost. It's my gate keeper. If the sound I want from my dirt section cranks things up too much, I can use my boost as an attenuator before it feeds into everything else. If the sound I want from the dirt section is lower, the boost at the end turns it to the appropriate volume before hitting everything else. Basically I turn it up as high as I can with these restraints. No reason to knock down the signal unless you have to, yeah?
Then I have another at the end, (fender energiser boost) with an EQ to make adjustments and set how much goes to the amp. If I don't feel a need to adjust the EQ at the end, I frequently leave the second one off. The Benson is always on, even at unity. The signal just sounds better passing through it than not passing through it.
Dang six boosts for a fuzz sound......nice to know lol the dcx and the maestro boost sounded awesome.
Awesome! I want them all! Lol. A cheap ($50 cdn) alternative, if you need it, is the Joyo Sweet Baby. Clean, some drive and a focus control. Based off the Mad Professor Sweet Honey. Often, that Joyo is all I need to get sweet (see what I did there) tones!
Fairfield Modèle b ftw.. I bought mine on Denmark st in the pre pandemic days. Wonderful instrument ! Cheers guys
My favorite boost right now is my EQD Special Cranker with the More knob low. One of my favorite drive sounds right now is the Special Cranker with the More knob up. So now I have two Special Crankers.
Awesome! We did it on a show some months back and we both loved it!
Great episode and well time as I'm looking for a new boost. Mick, when and why did you change the pickups on the 335? Will there be a vlog about it?
Just need to share how much I enjoy watching these, thanks :-)
Thank you! And thanks for being here!
I'm a TC Electronic mini Spark guy. Put it on at all times after a od then to fuzz and have volume on guitar at 6 and its great. And then crank it to get nasty!!!
Thanks Dan, that was a lovely intro. 👌👌👌
Great show. I do boost into boost in my setups. I think you can really shape your tone that way by finding the sweet spot in the boost pedal or setting OD pedals as boosts.
Another excellent ep., gentlemen. Could you please explain the difference between sizzle and fizz?
Another great, well produced, informative and entertaining video. You guys are the best. Awesome playing and of course your friendly banter makes for a great channel. Please keep up the good work!
Get it, Dan! Great playing in the intro
Thanks Craig 🙏
I love Coppersound Pedals but they never get much attention. Their Polaris chorus/vibe is my favorite chorus by far and I also love the Foxcatcher 2-in-1 boost and OD.
Here, here. Foxcatcher is my number one drive.
Awesome, they sent us some stuff so we'll get a few more on. Cheers!
Boost pedals are so great, I have two of them on my pedalboard, but only one overdrive. There are so many great boost and boost/overdrive pedals out there that's it's hard to choose among them. The REVV Tilt overdrive and Tilt boost both sound great, as do both the new Origin DCX pedals. Right now, what's on my main guitar board is a tc electronic Spark mini into a DSM & Humboldt Silver Linings Drive Engine. The Silver Linings is a dual pedal, drive plus a boost that can simultaneously boost pre and post drive. I use the SL boost post-drive exclusively, and the Spark mini handles the pre-drive boost function. The Silver Linings also has a pre-drive EQ function that works similarly to the REVV Tilt feature. I have two Spark minis, two full-size Sparks, and a One Control BJFe Granith Grey Booster (which I have specifically for my One Control BJFe drive pedals, currently using them on bass).
I was very glad to see the Coppersound Gravity Bomb in this lineup, because I've been thinking about some of the Coppersound offerings as possibilities. I really want their Telegraph stutter pedal.
Hey, DAN AND MICK! Can you guys have somebody cook you up another head-to-head challenge where you both make music videos after selecting each other's pedals? That episode was my favorite of all time.
Love it- great show, as always guys! Mick- what are those shoes???
Ha! They’re Vans slip ons with a multi-coloured/patterned checkerboard. Cheers!
Idk if you already covered it on the show but the PettyJohn Shift boost pedal is a pretty nifty one. It is a fairly standard boost but it has some pretty nifty nuances
As a boost junkie, I currently have the Tilt, Monty’s More (the original one with screws instead of knobs), Boomster and DCX in the collection, and the latter two went straight onto my two boards. DCX is in front of my fave drive (with a Crazy Tube Circuits Supercpnductor after the drive). and the Boomster is after the same drive on the other board (and a Thorpy Fat General in front of the drive pedal). Boomster has the best sounding buffer that my ears have ever enjoyed, and the EXP volume out is v handy too. The DCX is super versatile - I have it in drive mode + pushing a Shanks with a strat, and the same order but in boost mode with a Les Paul.
I would also recommend classics like the numerous the preamp clones, RC Booster and of course Thorpy’s other boost circuits (Heavy Water and one side of the Dane etc). Browne Amplification also have the Fixer (a buffer + two boosts), which - like the Jam Boomster - really reminds you what your guitar would sound like plugged straight into the amp.
Nice nice nice! We really love the DCX too.
@ThatPedalShow please have Dan explore Fairfield’s Shallow Water. It’s one of the most unique pedals out there.
Seconded, plus their Meet Maude delay!
I know this isnt boost related, but I cant wait until u guys try out the new Boss DM-101 Delay Machine. Such a cool pedal
We’re filming with it on Tuesday…
The 750HZ boost on The Bomb was pretty unpleasant in isolation, but I bet it's killer cutting through a band mix
After NG giving your viewership a boost why not do a boost show? Makes perfect sense.
Boosts are my favorite overdrives 🙃
Great video guys. I think on the jam pedal the upper position on the switch is high cut and not treble boost. Cheers:)
It is, thank you!
The TC Spark mini boost is my preferred “loud button.” ☝️😄
I was surprised to not see any of my boosts until I realized that this wasn't all about *treble* boost! :)
I love the “Noel’s Knobs” feature, but I really feel you missed an opportunity for a better name by simply dropping the K: Noel’s Nobs! 😆
"Knobs for Noel" may be my favorite part of my favorite TH-cam channel going forward. Cheers mates.
Hahahahaha! I still laugh every time I see it. Mick here. And it took me about four hours to make. Because I was learning some software. And I STILL laugh. HahHh
@@ThatPedalShow That is 4 hours that are totally worth it. Great job Mick!
In a shock revelation Dan and Mick love a Jam pedal. 😂😂😂😂😂😘
That's why we got them to do the Harmonious Monk. Everything they make is awesome, and they are genuinely one of the last handful of makers doing really great through-hole stuff. We love them!
@@ThatPedalShow which is simply wonderful. Im trying to figure out what the equivalent for Leg-ends is for jam! Something to do with preserves….Tone’s top tip to watch out for is Phil from Bleak District Electric. He has just opened orders for the Tapescape which is an analogue delay that sounds incredible and is feature tastic. He is absolutely worth getting on the show as he is a top guy and has a great range of analogue pedals that have that little bit extra. He is going to play his Antistatic fuzz which has a micro looper on it on one of the tracks on album three. Which is rather exciting.
I tried my EP Booster in the effect loop of my modified Yamaha T100C to see if I could get a volume jump. Didn't get the volume, but a really nice, warm overdrive came out of it.
Excellent episode gents!!!
The first time I tried a Fulltone 2, I did not get why the boost was not after the drive. After 30 seconds of playing I got it. SOLD!
What pedalboard are you using and can you do a video of the different pedalboards you have and the pros and cons of them?
0:03 Mick looks at Dan and wonders if Dan will ever love him more than Old Red 😂
I've been desperate for you to try the barbershop! My favourite OD/Boost for high headtoom amps, THE DYNAMICS AND BREAKUP.... Man nothing like it
I shoulda bought another Fairfield pedal when I had money!... BTW the Accountant compressor of theirs is one of my favorite pedals of any kind. Gets used ALOT
This makes me want to go back to using my compressor as a treble boost for my guitar rather than a limiter for my bass.
All very interesting stuff. However, I'll stick with my Ve2 OCD pedal at 18v, Low Peak (with a Strat) and set to minimum drive.
A topic you discussed in the last VCQ... Stereo guitar, one output per pickup? Look no further than godlike bassist CHRIS SQUIRE, who kept his Rickenbacker's bridge pickup dry - its signal entered the pedalboard after fuzz. Since his fuzz flavour was the Maestro Fuzz-Tone, you can imagine how awful the Rick's skinny bridge pickup would have sounded. Thought you might like to remember this wonderfully loud man's pioneering work!
Oh, and Chris Squire also used a Wet-Dry pair of amps - a Marshall Plexi and a clean Ampeg.
My favorite front of od boost is a klon or the beano boost. Post od would probably be something in the jfet land. Currently it's a 2 knob bad bob.
Wow hit my feed within 24hrs. That's a first. Usually it takes 4 days by YT algor, more often, I have to go look for it. And Mick, there a good number of us that wilt a bit more easily. Light skin, Upper Northern Hemisphere, short shoulder seasons and snow for half the year. Especially at altitude. Heat comes from fire . . . and you can walk away from that.
Ha! Yeah man, I definitely have some North/Viking ancestry. We’re way better in the cold. Hahaha!
Man, these sounded great.
Gents, you must invite Ian Thornley from Big Wreck on the show. He is an amazing guitar player, and has an interesting pedal board for his live rig. Cheers!
Hi Robbie, question: how much does it cost for your gong n where did you buy it ?? Thanks bro.
I'd love if you did a similar episode to this, but with boosts in front of a heavily driven amp. I currently use a Tumnus in front of a Mesa Tremoverb, but would love to hear various other types of cool boosts in that setting.
Love the tremoverb.
Cool demo
JAM Boomster sounds fantastic and it has really really useful features.
If I hadn't spent a small fortune on a Lehle volume pedal recently I would be swapping my always on TI Boost for the Boomster for sure.
I loved the practical demonstration of the buffer and the strat, it's a common oversight that I know Mick has demonstrated many times on this show but yet a lot of people still miss the magic of a good buffer playing nicely with your volume control.
Great video.
Thank you Jack. One correction on the Boomster which I got wrong. The up position actually attenuates high end, not boosts it. Apols all round! Mick here.
I've also just invested on a Lehle volume pedal which incorporates various levels of boost in some settings so I'm now using this instead of my recently sold Xotic clean boost👍
@@billsherrington5996 yes the mini one, same one I went for. Bit of a bitter pill to swallow spending that much, but nice to know that it will last a life time
I never knew I wanted a boost till I got an LPD Sixty Eight....I leave the boost on almost all the time.
A mild flat boost from a Strymon Compadre works wonders with my Strat.
Knobs for noel MUST be a permanent part of the show now. Maybe make a jingle for it?
Lovely episode. Electro Harmonix LPB. I will die on this hill.
i like boosts into boost. gave up on distortion. big surprise, boost into boss katana. sounds great. didn't expect that.
Niiiiice!
Did you notice that some Boosters increased the 100Hz hum? Hummm. 🤔. First time I heard that hum so pronunciated. But those tests are so valuable to us, normal mortals. Kudos...
Yay! Finally Mick Ronson gets a name check. Cheers, chaps!
Hey Guys. Love the show!
What is your current recording setup! Love the tones you're getting!
Mick here, Hello! Austrian OC18 mics on the cabs. Into Meris 440 mic preamps. Into an analogue desk with a //tiny// bit of EQ.
Also a pair of AKGC414 as a stereo pair at the back of the room.
After the desk they hit UA Apollo 8p interface, recording in Logic. I mix the mics and have a little bit of stereo parallel bus compression with an SSL The Bus+
No plugins.
That’s it!
Voices are an entirely different matter. Cheers!
Erm, sometimes I will use FabFilter Pro EQ plug-in if I’ve got the mic placement slightly off. A flat tilt EQ by 1-2db fixes that. Cheers!
Hilarious to see Mick go for 2 o-clock. No matter.what. 😂 Helpful video though. The Origin pedal seems really useful. Those two amps make a very present sound. No muddy.