Thanks for demoing this pedal without the usual Iommi biased gear, because this is in an excellent booster/light overdrive. I am sure people like "band in a box" pedals, but this booster is much more than that! First off, kudos to Black Country Customs for trying to nail the Iommi thing with a completely different electronic approach. This is an op-amp based booster, mind you, no Ge or Si transistors, and if you dial that gain pot all the way, that crunch is coming from si diode symetrical clipping. Oh and the bass and treble controls are active eq, so they actually boost or cut frequencies, and if you leave them at 5 (there's a notch in the pot's rotation), the signal passing through is really unaffected by the Eq, that is - flat. And the mids switch is cool, lower position adds a bit of lower mids, maybe 600 to 800hz, and upper position adds a bit 2k I think, the center position is flat. If you want to use this pedal as an TS9 substitute, it's not that mid boost heavy, and generally, I even find the bass and treble controls almost non essential, as it sounds fantastic flat. And this demo also shows that extreme positions are not that extreme soundwise. I also like to dime the gain and then push the input of a similary crunchy amp to get into proper distortion territory. The gain maxed adds some dirtiness and filth with is pretty nice and adds character. If you want a clean boost, just lower the gain and crank the volume. This ain't a smooth pedal, it's raw and if you want to add some girth to your tone while retaining note definition, this pedal surely does that! An excellent buy, and please don't be put off by "Iommi boost" - it is not a one trick pony. Enjoy!
Thank you ever so much for sharing this great video. See being a fan I purchased this pedal to obtain that glorious Tony Iommi sound but little did I know, there's a catch of which this video helped me to see the light(or should that be, hear the glory??.) See before I purchased this pedal I had obtained the Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabbra pedal( and oh what a great load of fun that pedal is if you love Tony Iommi tone. ) However when I learned about this pedal well it became a no brainer. Hooray an actual Iommi endorsed pedal, what a treasure and a joy. However there is a caveat here fellow fans. Most players who enjoy the electric guitar are all too familiar with that frustrating call from neighbours and partners etc 'TURN IT DOWN!!!!!' so for that reason a lot of my playing is done on practice amps like the Roland Cube(oh and if anyone has one of the Laney Tony Iommi signature practice amps and wants to sell it, please let me know.) However when firing up the pedal instead of the Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabbra pedal I was extremely dissapointed to hear a wonderful sparkly treble sound but none of the famous heavy tone. It wasn't until I cranked the volume that I got some of that sonic glory, however it was still kind of... MEH!!! Then I plugged it into my Marshall DSL15C(a valve amp) on nothing but the clean channel with minimal gain and the volume half way up and oh corumba, suddenly the magic was there. So please note that the Iommi signature pedal is designed for a clean tube amp that's cranked at least half way, only then will you get joy with this effects pedal. With smaller transistor practice amps, your going to find you will have to crank them up a bit. Your standard practice volume will not give you that magic tone your looking for. So I think in this regard if you want that instant sound, the Catalinbread pedal is the better pedal for practicing etc, while for a live sound with more volume, the Iommi signature pedal is going to be the pedal to go for. The sound sparkles through the heavy crunch so amaziingly it will bring tears to your eyes, but you seriously have to have a decent amp to get it's full value(it's got me wanting for a Laney amp like you wouldn't believe as there's nothing like the genuine sound(Laney Tony Iommi Signature Pedal) versus a close copy replica(Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabbra Pedal.)
What they don't tell you is that the Iommi modified Range Master was tossed out years ago, this pedal is basically what they think it might have been. This concept is something similar to the AFD 100 by marshal, the original Marshall it is based on used for their first album disappeared long ago.
Thank you bro you sold me this pedal. Best demo of it with the one of brett kingsman. Just 2 comments : 1 you should have demoed it also with a cleaner dry signal. And 2 you should have demoed the switch for mid control with lower volume and drive settings, where its effect would have been more obvious. Sorry for my english i'm from France.
I have this pedal does require a little experimentation, but sounds great into a tube amp,if your slightly disappointed whack a boss distortion into it👌
if you gotta downtune that far you dont know metal cause tony did it in standard and made iron man recorded that way and if you csnt do that youre not metal
So was Vol 4_Sabbath bloody Sabbath. They didn't tune up to E standard again until Technical Exctshitty. Which happens to be their worst album. So NO, E standard is not more metal. C# is 3 times heavier. Nobody tunes to E anymore except pop rock,country, gay hair metal bands and some old school punk and hardcore bands. Class dismissed, my young grass smoker.............
Bought one on backorder (yet to receive) - in order to make my Jackson have some defined treble. Those JS Series King V JS32 guitars are good but lack high end. And, it will be good to have an EQ handy so I look fwd. to getting it.
Ive had the sabbra cadabra and the ti boost pedal. Sold em both. In terms of that " sabbath sound " i wouldnt score either higher than 7 /10. Best thing ive bought is the gibson usa iommi pick ups. Not sure if they still make them. No distortion can kill them. I got mine form one of the epiphone iommi tributes that came out a few years ago and put em in a gibson sg.
I've got the Sabbra Cadabbra and it nails Tony's tone in certain conditions but this pedal is just the booster to go in front of a driving amp so probably more versatile, plus it's got Laney DNA so made, perhaps, by Tony's amp guys.
Micky 2112 Kinda thought this was for those bottom heavy Laney amps. I'm looking at this video because I have a Lionheart 212 that's pretty bassy and could use a mid boost. I don't want it for the drive, there are better pedals for that.
I have the Sabbra Cadabbra kicks ass! ya sure can dial in Tony Iommi settings - I have it in front of my 90's peavey 5150 60w combo. and just wow! no need for this pedal. get your self a Sabbra Cadabbra!
See it this way, this is more towards what Tony personally uses, it is more versatile but also it asks for all the components to get the sound right, the amp, the pickup, string gauge, tuning, the pedal, Sabbra Cadabra is sort of like a short cut to the Sabbath sound but also less versatile.
@@Donatello_h Guitar with HUMBUCKERS (high output). BOSS GT-1 settings: - FX1: compressor - OD: METAL DS or A-Dist (it will depend on the approach of the guitarist...) - PREAMP: 5150 DRV (gain minimal) And Reverb, delay...as you want to regulate. That's it.
You probably can get someone to build it in your guitar for you. But you would probably have to buy the pedal and take every apart and fitting it into your guitar
Lame demo...he keeps playing the same three major chords over and over which aren't even chords that Tony uses..he is playing through the clean channel of the amp the whole time...why?..he never gets the Sabbath sound!
Hmmm...I would've thought the basic idea behind a Tony Iommi signature pedal would be to get the Tony Iommi sound....perfect demo? If you say so...lol.
Blake Johnson the pedal is called a signature pedal because it is an attempt to recreate a modified Dallas Rangemaster that Iommi had in the 70's. It's a signature pedal because it is a recreation of a specialized piece of gear. The modified Rangemaster is no more "Iommi in a box" than the Fuzzface is "Jimi in a box."
A Fuzzface doesn't have Jimi Hendrix's signature on it. This pedal has Tony Iommi's signature on it because as you say yourself: "it is an attempt to recreate a modified Dallas Rangemaster that Iommi had in the 70's." This is a pedal that has been specially built to recreate the Iommi sound that only Tony was getting at the time because his Dallas Rangemaster had been specially modified to get the specific sound that Tony was after. Big difference between that and a standard Fuzzface. Any demo of a signature Tony Iommi pedal which does not demonstrate how the pedal can be used to get the Iommi sound is not a proper demo and is therefore lame...I rest my case.
Blake Johnson you mean like a Hendrix signature Fuzz Face? They make that. Google it. They also make a Joe Bonamassa signature Fuzz Face. Great pedal. Doesn't make you sound like Bonamassa. Nor does the Eric Johnson Fuzz Face make you sound just like EJ's Violin Tone. The Zakk Wilde overdrive only makes you sound like Zakk if you have a cranked up 2203 with 6550's and a Les Paul with high output humbuckers. None of those "signature" pedals are artists-on-your-board pedals. If you want to bash this demo and think it can be done better, then get a Supergroup, a P-90 equipped SG, and one of these pedals and make a better demo. Because that's how this pedal makes you sound like Iommi, and if you watch Anderson's review they use it through a cranked LA100BL and it sounds pretty close to Iommi.
Well that is also a use for it. But the laney amp Toni used is inherently clean until it is cranked, and he uses it for you says more gain Brain May and Eric clapton did the same with plexi's and ac30's :)
A lot of guys will use these with single channel amps. This is a great demo of a drive pedal. Most are either on way dirty channels already or on a perfectly clean channel. This is demonstrating the exact intent of the pedal's design.
Tell that to Tony Iommi who has in the past used a treble booster on a dirty amp,and his Iommi signature amp which has a pre boost function on two dirty channels,nothing clean.Very POOR demo
Thanks for demoing this pedal without the usual Iommi biased gear, because this is in an excellent booster/light overdrive. I am sure people like "band in a box" pedals, but this booster is much more than that! First off, kudos to Black Country Customs for trying to nail the Iommi thing with a completely different electronic approach. This is an op-amp based booster, mind you, no Ge or Si transistors, and if you dial that gain pot all the way, that crunch is coming from si diode symetrical clipping. Oh and the bass and treble controls are active eq, so they actually boost or cut frequencies, and if you leave them at 5 (there's a notch in the pot's rotation), the signal passing through is really unaffected by the Eq, that is - flat. And the mids switch is cool, lower position adds a bit of lower mids, maybe 600 to 800hz, and upper position adds a bit 2k I think, the center position is flat. If you want to use this pedal as an TS9 substitute, it's not that mid boost heavy, and generally, I even find the bass and treble controls almost non essential, as it sounds fantastic flat. And this demo also shows that extreme positions are not that extreme soundwise. I also like to dime the gain and then push the input of a similary crunchy amp to get into proper distortion territory. The gain maxed adds some dirtiness and filth with is pretty nice and adds character. If you want a clean boost, just lower the gain and crank the volume. This ain't a smooth pedal, it's raw and if you want to add some girth to your tone while retaining note definition, this pedal surely does that! An excellent buy, and please don't be put off by "Iommi boost" - it is not a one trick pony. Enjoy!
How would you say this pedal does at cloning the "base model" Rangemaster Treble Booster?
9.07: Now that is a sweet tone.
When setup properly this pedal can nail Tony's modded Rangemaster tone from the 70's as well as the stock Rangemaster tone from Sabbath's debut album.
Thank you ever so much for sharing this great video. See being a fan I purchased this pedal to obtain that glorious Tony Iommi sound but little did I know, there's a catch of which this video helped me to see the light(or should that be, hear the glory??.) See before I purchased this pedal I had obtained the Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabbra pedal( and oh what a great load of fun that pedal is if you love Tony Iommi tone. ) However when I learned about this pedal well it became a no brainer. Hooray an actual Iommi endorsed pedal, what a treasure and a joy. However there is a caveat here fellow fans. Most players who enjoy the electric guitar are all too familiar with that frustrating call from neighbours and partners etc 'TURN IT DOWN!!!!!' so for that reason a lot of my playing is done on practice amps like the Roland Cube(oh and if anyone has one of the Laney Tony Iommi signature practice amps and wants to sell it, please let me know.) However when firing up the pedal instead of the Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabbra pedal I was extremely dissapointed to hear a wonderful sparkly treble sound but none of the famous heavy tone. It wasn't until I cranked the volume that I got some of that sonic glory, however it was still kind of... MEH!!! Then I plugged it into my Marshall DSL15C(a valve amp) on nothing but the clean channel with minimal gain and the volume half way up and oh corumba, suddenly the magic was there. So please note that the Iommi signature pedal is designed for a clean tube amp that's cranked at least half way, only then will you get joy with this effects pedal. With smaller transistor practice amps, your going to find you will have to crank them up a bit. Your standard practice volume will not give you that magic tone your looking for. So I think in this regard if you want that instant sound, the Catalinbread pedal is the better pedal for practicing etc, while for a live sound with more volume, the Iommi signature pedal is going to be the pedal to go for. The sound sparkles through the heavy crunch so amaziingly it will bring tears to your eyes, but you seriously have to have a decent amp to get it's full value(it's got me wanting for a Laney amp like you wouldn't believe as there's nothing like the genuine sound(Laney Tony Iommi Signature Pedal) versus a close copy replica(Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabbra Pedal.)
This pedal has, through public demand, since been released for general sale so ask your local music store to get some in . . .
Suitable for metal ?
He stated only 50 units of this pedal globally they are still on sale today Aug 2020
Still for sale in 2024, almost 2025 ahahahha
It's truly amazing. best sounding gain box I've ever bought. and it sure is Tony in a box.
Does it sound good on a Fender amp?
What they don't tell you is that the Iommi modified Range Master was tossed out years ago, this pedal is basically what they think it might have been. This concept is something similar to the AFD 100 by marshal, the original Marshall it is based on used for their first album disappeared long ago.
AFD was recorded with a Tim Caswell modified Marshall Tremolo owned by Studio Instrument Rentals Hollywood amp #39
Thank you bro you sold me this pedal. Best demo of it with the one of brett kingsman. Just 2 comments : 1 you should have demoed it also with a cleaner dry signal. And 2 you should have demoed the switch for mid control with lower volume and drive settings, where its effect would have been more obvious. Sorry for my english i'm from France.
I love this guys bending and lead style. Lots of slither
Slither is good
Sounds great on a clean channel as well.
That's a sick sounding pedal man. Brilliant addition to the market
_I’m planning another demo of this cuz I feel it thrives making old school death metal. 🎶🤘🎃🎥 Great demo! I feel this makes guitars all come alive!_
Lovely tones
I have this pedal does require a little experimentation, but sounds great into a tube amp,if your slightly disappointed whack a boss distortion into it👌
lead tone at 9.14 EPIC
How would this sound with an AC30? Has anyone tried that yet? I love Sabbath, so it would be cool to possibly incorporate some of that into my rig
@guitar interactive magazine, pls tell what pickups you use on this guitar
I quite like the intense singing quality of this pedal.
SOLD!!!
Dang. I haven’t read so many whining in a comment section in a long time. Geez
Geezer*. Geezer Butler.
gotta tune to c# and see then
C0nnie o
And get a guitar that has P90s in it.
if you gotta downtune that far you dont know metal cause tony did it in standard and made iron man recorded that way and if you csnt do that youre not metal
Drew Sifur master of reality - sabotage were in c#
So was Vol 4_Sabbath bloody Sabbath. They didn't tune up to E standard again until Technical Exctshitty. Which happens to be their worst album. So NO, E standard is not more metal. C# is 3 times heavier. Nobody tunes to E anymore except pop rock,country, gay hair metal bands and some old school punk and hardcore bands. Class dismissed, my young grass smoker.............
Purchased it to get smthg closer than my mxr mc 401 to à treble booster. I needed an eq ctrl.
Bought one on backorder (yet to receive) - in order to make my Jackson have some defined treble. Those JS Series King V JS32 guitars are good but lack high end. And, it will be good to have an EQ handy so I look fwd. to getting it.
Can't find a price for this pedal?
$129 on Ebay
$189.99
Ive had the sabbra cadabra and the ti boost pedal. Sold em both. In terms of that " sabbath sound " i wouldnt score either higher than 7 /10. Best thing ive bought is the gibson usa iommi pick ups. Not sure if they still make them. No distortion can kill them. I got mine form one of the epiphone iommi tributes that came out a few years ago and put em in a gibson sg.
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This video 5 years old. Only made 200+ of these limited worldwide? Meanwhile I looked online whole bunch on sale in 2023.
If you want the Tony Iommi sound get the Sabbra Cadabra - Catalinbread .
I've got the Sabbra Cadabbra and it nails Tony's tone in certain conditions but this pedal is just the booster to go in front of a driving amp so probably more versatile, plus it's got Laney DNA so made, perhaps, by Tony's amp guys.
You've nailed it Micky!
Micky 2112
Kinda thought this was for those bottom heavy Laney amps. I'm looking at this video because I have a Lionheart 212 that's pretty bassy and could use a mid boost. I don't want it for the drive, there are better pedals for that.
I have the Sabbra Cadabbra kicks ass! ya sure can dial in Tony Iommi settings - I have it in front of my 90's peavey 5150 60w combo. and just wow! no need for this pedal. get your self a Sabbra Cadabbra!
See it this way, this is more towards what Tony personally uses, it is more versatile but also it asks for all the components to get the sound right, the amp, the pickup, string gauge, tuning, the pedal, Sabbra Cadabra is sort of like a short cut to the Sabbath sound but also less versatile.
Great pedal but what really impressed me was the lead tone..
Cool guitar. What is it?
PRS SE
Urban legend has it that the first 50 units shipped with 'A Bit Of Finger' included in the box... Can this be confirmed?
I do plan on getting this and i do have tony's backstage amp and have the Ironheart head so it should sound sweet....
Angel, how do you like your ironheart head? does it give you some good metal sounds?
James Bailes it's absolutely badass I love it
That sounds nice!
Thanks! It is a silicon or germanium TB?
Silicon, and that’s why I’m here honestly because I use buffers
With a BOSS GT-1 i get THAT sound ;.... Easy!
What preset, could you please tell me ?
@@Donatello_h Guitar with HUMBUCKERS (high output).
BOSS GT-1 settings:
- FX1: compressor
- OD: METAL DS or A-Dist (it will depend on the approach of the guitarist...)
- PREAMP: 5150 DRV (gain minimal)
And Reverb, delay...as you want to regulate.
That's it.
@@alexreis3615 Thank you so much !
Signal chain? Amp? Come On , Guitar interactive pickups string brand gauge get on it and be interactive . FAQ
The story need sg special monkee treble booster
Whats cool about something i cant own lol and even if i could ,cant afford
Awesome
Why couldn't the Man himself showcase this??
because he is basically in retirement age and really couldn't be bothered to spent his time with retail, maybe?
The weirdly bitter trolls born 6 months ago which always infest anything music gear-related make me die laughing. 🤣
Honestly, it’s usually the older ones that are the worse 😂
nahh i don't need it.. lol but it looks cool..
Why not build that into a guitar and get rid of all the other switches and knobs?
You probably can get someone to build it in your guitar for you. But you would probably have to buy the pedal and take every apart and fitting it into your guitar
Go watch Burgs video on this pedal. This demo sounds nothing like Sabbath. Every setting sounds the same. Horrible.
whay a shit guitar mate.... you should place a video on London Fashion week. 😂
Makes no effort to play anything remotely sabbathy. Fail.
you have the exact same amp as same pedal company sounds like youre just turning up the volume and sounds really dull and boring
TOO MUCH TALK> Get over yourself and play the damn pedal!
Brett Huhn lol
Lame demo...he keeps playing the same three major chords over and over which aren't even chords that Tony uses..he is playing through the clean channel of the amp the whole time...why?..he never gets the Sabbath sound!
Hmmm...I would've thought the basic idea behind a Tony Iommi signature pedal would be to get the Tony Iommi sound....perfect demo? If you say so...lol.
Blake Johnson the pedal is called a signature pedal because it is an attempt to recreate a modified Dallas Rangemaster that Iommi had in the 70's. It's a signature pedal because it is a recreation of a specialized piece of gear. The modified Rangemaster is no more "Iommi in a box" than the Fuzzface is "Jimi in a box."
A Fuzzface doesn't have Jimi Hendrix's signature on it. This pedal has Tony Iommi's signature on it because as you say yourself: "it is an attempt to recreate a modified Dallas Rangemaster that Iommi had in the 70's." This is a pedal that has been specially built to recreate the Iommi sound that only Tony was getting at the time because his Dallas Rangemaster had been specially modified to get the specific sound that Tony was after. Big difference between that and a standard Fuzzface. Any demo of a signature Tony Iommi pedal which does not demonstrate how the pedal can be used to get the Iommi sound is not a proper demo and is therefore lame...I rest my case.
Blake Johnson you mean like a Hendrix signature Fuzz Face? They make that. Google it. They also make a Joe Bonamassa signature Fuzz Face. Great pedal. Doesn't make you sound like Bonamassa. Nor does the Eric Johnson Fuzz Face make you sound just like EJ's Violin Tone. The Zakk Wilde overdrive only makes you sound like Zakk if you have a cranked up 2203 with 6550's and a Les Paul with high output humbuckers. None of those "signature" pedals are artists-on-your-board pedals. If you want to bash this demo and think it can be done better, then get a Supergroup, a P-90 equipped SG, and one of these pedals and make a better demo. Because that's how this pedal makes you sound like Iommi, and if you watch Anderson's review they use it through a cranked LA100BL and it sounds pretty close to Iommi.
Why would you guys crank a clean channel? Then boost it. Pointless, and a very poor demo
That is probably because, that is the way he used the boost, and how a treble booster is mostly used :)
On an amps clean channel? Most guitarists including myself use it on the dirty channel for MORE gain.
Well that is also a use for it.
But the laney amp Toni used is inherently clean until it is cranked, and he uses it for you says more gain Brain May and Eric clapton did the same with plexi's and ac30's :)
A lot of guys will use these with single channel amps. This is a great demo of a drive pedal. Most are either on way dirty channels already or on a perfectly clean channel. This is demonstrating the exact intent of the pedal's design.
Tell that to Tony Iommi who has in the past used a treble booster on a dirty amp,and his Iommi signature amp which has a pre boost function on two dirty channels,nothing clean.Very POOR demo
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