That Electric Mistress sounds absolutely stunning. I have a reissue Maxon FL-301 that I have dearly loved for going on close to 20 years, but that EM is a cut above, no question.
Love that Dann Huff was mentioned. One of my favorite guitarists !! From his days in WhiteHeart and Giant, and his amazing work with so many artists. Thanks for another great episode guys !!!!
Dan's vamp at 39:00 is inspiring! Makes me want to pick up a guitar and play something. Gotta love that absurd board and I'm amazed at the sound and size of the mini boards.
I think the winner is both! I personally think the best board is some combination of the two. I really love the SL Drive and Angel Wing. Dan has the reverb and the delay covered on his side too. And the Kingsley
tuktuk I know, were there ones in the 70's or 80's that were about the same size as a DMM? I'm getting an image in my head of needlessly enormous Muff!
Friday mornings are becoming my favorite time of the week! This is the best show on youtube. Keep up the great work, and have a safe and happy Holiday Gents!
Mick & Dan thanks so much for creating this show. I tune in every week. What I would love to see is you guys demonstrating both your own pedal boards and amp setups.
Gents. Absolutely my favourite show of the year (YT or TV) . Transformed the way I understand and most importantly enjoy my board, amps and Pedal shelf. Have a great xmas. All the best. Phil
Dan, that was a beautiful song you played around 38 minutes in! Loved hearing the Royal Overdrive again. Also really wish I had an Electric Mistress now
Today I stumbled upon Vai's album "Passion & Warfare" and remembered the riff from That Pedal Show! Spent 2 hours looking for the right video haha! Cheers
I absolutely loved this, particularly the brief discussion of Dan's original inspiration for The Gig Rig. It is quite fortuitous, as well, as only yesterday I renewed work on my own invention-which I hope will find its way into one of Mick's Strats someday.
Classic call on the head out the sunroof "getting a bit of wind here, I need a windshield" - my laughter nearly woke the kids up.. :-) Also, as a fan down in Brisbane I've got to raise an honorary XXXX to Dan for getting the Queensland reference in there!! Merry Christmas lads!
There's so much midrange in there that it seems that the Amp got a floo and is talking nasaly. Love it. What i love about the Mistress (i have a Neo) is that the wave is much more musical than any other flangers and fits perfectly any tempo witouth having to match it. Merry christmas, guys, keep on going with the best show arround on the TH-cam.
Thats great! That CE-1 blows me away. It makes everything right with world again. I"m not into old stuff generally, but I really want one of those (and 57 les paul, ok I lied about the old the stuff thing).
Love the OD stacking section. Went out and bought a Spark and SL drive and love the combination. Added a Tumnus and have such an ensemble of tones and stacking capabilities! I run my SL at 18v. Thank you guys for all the professional insight!
You guys are the best. I was one of the guys requesting this video and you guys listened and that is just too cool. Thanks! The Hammond organ bit brings on a very good point- you guys should compare a real Leslie or Vibratone cabinet with a couple of Leslie emulation pedals, Univibe, and some other traditional stompboxes like phaser, chorus, flanger, and tremolo. Dial in the stompboxes to get as close to the Leslie sound as possible and compare individually and maybe make some conclusions about what combination of pedals might get you in the ballpark. I feel like the Leslie sound is really complex and each of the more traditional modulation stompboxes can emulate different aspects of the Leslie sound - the doppler effect, the phasing, the tremolo created by the spinning speaker, etc. I've even heard of people splitting their guitar signal to two amps, high passing one and applying phase or chorus and low passing the other and applying tremolo....
Sweet! Thanks! By the way, a great tremolo to check out for that clip is the Moog MF Tremolo. I use mine for pseudo-rotary effects with the "Tone" set just below noon and the "Shape" just above noon. Add an expression pedal to ramp the speed, and it gets a pretty cool rotary/trem effect.
Hmmm, I think part of the reason that Dan's board sounds better is cos he knows the pedals so well and has them really dialled in to perfection and can play them well. There's a lot of stuff on Dan's board that I'd only use for odd riffs so couldn't justify the crazy size!
You guys should do an updated version of the Budget/Tiny/Desert Island pedalboards! These were so fun to watch, and would like to see if your tastes have changed, with all the new, exceptional pedals coming out.
Try this setting on the dip switches in the sl drive.1 and 3 down.2 and 4 up.gain goes down and lot of usable tones there.esp when boosting it with nother pedal!!
I just wanted to be the very first person to wish you a Merry Xmas. You're both very special and Fridays wouldn't be the same without you. My missus thinks you have had a beneficial effect on me, so much so that I have now taken down the life-sized pictures I had of you in the secret room.
I'm not big on Chorus but this video and Anderton's Sounds Like Rush video really make me want to get an Angel Wing for my board! Sounds awesome to my ears.
This has to be the best YT channel yet, by far! Have you, in the past or will you in the future have a demo/review that includes your thoughts on the Rock Box Boiling Point and the J. Rockett Blue Note pedals?????? Many thanks and keep up the good work...I have learned much (technically, practically and musically) from watching TPS over the last year.
Another great episode! Love to see you guys address noise control - particularly with single coil hum. Don't hear a ton of it with your shows, but it's an ongoing issue with me and my Strat. Thanks!
+richab88 Cheers Rich. Good clean power to the pedals is all we do. Then it's just being on the volume pot and watching your physical position. Our single coil guitars hum with the best of them, but you can't hear it (much) when you're playing. As soon as you're not, volume down. Cheers and thanks for watching!
richab88 the ilitch (or something) backplate, which was sold by suhr earlier, has worked really well for me. Our practise place is in an industrial building and has very tricky electrics but that does a decent job when stacked or noiseless aren't an option. Just remeber to check that your middle pu is not rp or it won't work.
+Kari Abspoel Yep, well aware of it. We've tried pretty much everything and it seems that the good hum killing lord both giveth and taketh away. We like the hum. :0)
That Pedal Show actually, I meant it as a suggestion for the original comment (sorry for the lack of tags)... I have it on one strat, not on the tele for exactly the reason that it may compromise something however intangible but immeasurably important in the "tone" - 60 cycle hum is part of rock'n roll and I will accept it :)
Love the show guys! Instantly recognised that noise when the EH flanger was hit with the overdrive, i use a vintage small clone that makes a very similar noise when hit with too much overdrive. Always thought there was something wrong.
I've got a few Mooer pedals (Yellow Comp, Trelicopter, and Eleclady). I think they're pretty awesome. Maybe not as nice as the actual Electric Mistress, etc., but for my tastes, they definitely do the job!
+MA L that's exactly it Mal, it's whatever you need for the job, and if that job means I need a CE1 on my board, it's going to be there ;) thanks for watching
Great episode, as always! Got an idea for a future episode : best mods on "standard" pedals! I just got my old Boss OD2 modded, and it's absolutely killer :)
Pretty crazy that the Tone City pedals were in the ballpark of those old school pedals, like if you only used a phase or chorus once or twice a gig, they'd do a good job.
Go big or go home! Dan's board is a dream board. I would definitely have the Headroom reverb and Alter Ego delay. Unfortunately, I play on tiny stages where it wouldn't fit, even if I could track down those pedals. I have to make do with what I can fit on a Pedaltrain Junior :-)
Great video! Few times I've thought if I should get just a cheap Tone City for testing out some effects I don't use that much but here it was pretty clear how "restricted" the tone gets with those. Not like you couldn't probably do Zakk Wylde impression with Angel Wing but with different things it might be too "restricted". Well, the phaser is actually the weird sounding from Tone City. On the other hand, I'll buy that Golden Plexi. It's a one setting pedal but it does sound great. Even without the "for a cheap pedal" note. I hope Mick managed to satisfy people who ask cheaper pedals too!
Merry Christmas chaps, continuous delivery of the best guitar sounds on TH-cam. Never fails to amaze! That Tele! Could you guys review the Voodoo Labs Giggity and similar preamp style pedals?
Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays Dan & Mick and everyone. Have to pay the roadies a bit more to lug it from gig to gig :) But loads of good pedals in there :)
Hi guys from across the pond! Really liked how you have mainstream type pedals vs the boutique ones. Throw in the Blues junior next time in Micks rig as his board looks a lot like mine :)
I love how you can watch TPS for so long and still find things you haven't watched... Or maybe just in a state where you don't remember it 🤔 I had my main board and wanted a mini board for my acoustics then I thought to myself, "self, why don't you add a couple of drives?" I ended up with a very similar board (except my HOF is a mini). NICE! 😂
I'm so happy with my Alter Ego X4. Killer sounds. I was really surprised at the SL drive. Like Mick, I don't need then it rock sound a lot, so a small pedal like that would be just about right.
Great video guys!!!! I will have to re-listen to it with high end headphones. Its crazy how the mini board sounds so good, but Dan's massive board just has more depth to the sound. As always I doubt the audience at a gig will tell the difference but us guitarists could ;)
+hollywoodactress Mick here. The whole 'can the audience tell' is a really interesting debate. They can't on one level - ie the specific sounds themselves - but if they're there to listen to your band (rather than just be entertained at a party or whatever), they will absolutely discern the difference between an average performance and one where you are genuinely inspired. In our opinion you have a better shot at the latter if you have the most inspiring sounds available to you. Cheers!
I have an sl drive and a ts mini and use a blues junior amp. I actually find I much prefer the tubescreamer going into the sl drive rather than the other way around. Also the sl drive sounds nicer to me with the voltage doubler. Great episode as always
+Daniel Giddens Hey Daniel, Mick here. It's a sweet sound boosting the SL with the TS. Too much gain for me though - I prefer to have the TS after so you get a massive volume boost for solos and such. Cheers!
Are you guys still taking video suggestions? Would enjoy you both talking about the 'backbone' of a pedalboard? Boards, Cables, Tuner(s), Switchers, Power Supplies etc Thanks!
Super cool, guys! I just realized I could out-bulk Dan if I put all my old EHX stuff (Mistress included!) on a board along with various Moogerfoogers. Not sure it would fit in my car, though. :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! This video convinced me again that how great mini pedals are... Instead of getting mega board like that, I would definitely go for Hot Rod Deville 60w 4x10, American Strat and Tube screamer. They will do cost still less and enough for the rest of my life hahaha!
If I watch anymore videos I'll be looking for a CE-1 and mistress. Damn they sound good. I couldn't be happier with the AEx4 at $150 US. Great pedal. Love the show! Your enthusiasm is infectious and dangerous.
Great idea making this comparison! I could live with the less dynamic crunch section but the mod stuff was below par, even through youtube compression... but I have to admit that tc makes very good bang-for-buck pedals as the delay and reverb were not that weak in comparison to the big board gear. Maybe the new mxr minis could do a better job in the modulation? Suggestion for a new a-b, even if there would be three: pls demo the three thorpy dirt pedals - peacemaker, warthog and gunshot - and stack them. No one has done that properly yet and having the gs has me hankering for more, but which? :)
how nice is it that my pedal board has 4 of Mick´s board? Sl Drive, Tube Screamer, Summer Orange and Hall of Fame. The only thing is I use regular Tube Screamer and Mini HOF. hehehe. I love the SL at low gain settings as an always on and use volume knob to clean it. Amazing for funk and easy to control everything while singing. The phaser being just a every once in a while pedal I think the SO does the job and I have a good sounding very portable pedalboard
lebroucke you should try the SL Drive at 18V for more headroom. You can also crank the volume n turn the gain off or barely on n tone to taste, that's a great sound
That royal overdrive is one of the best sounding pedals I have heard in your well recorded videos. How about looking at strings? Dont think you guys have done that? Would love that. Even go old school, acoustric strings on p90 guitar perhaps? Nickel, core, wound et al et all
+astrangecement We'd absolutely need guests. Dan and I aren't bass players. Interesting for sure, but I don't have a clue. Precision, SVT and 8x10 is everything I want to know about bass. ;0)
David Chamberlain: Nothing like a real Leslie. The only Pedal I'm aware of that separates top and bottom rotors correctly is Leslie's own Pedal. But I'm an organist so I'm picky lol.
Agreed. There are a bunch on the market and very few sound anything like a Leslie. Last I checked, most Hammond guys were using a Ventilator, when they couldn't have the real thing or a Motion Sound Pro3T. I like Alesis' Midiverb4, Leslie sim; you can actually hear the rotor glide to a stop, pointing in some random direction, LOL. but the downside is you can either switch slow/fast or brake, but never both without some kind of MIDI workaround. PSP's L'Otary is amazing, but it's software.
Great video! Especially useful as I start to travel more. One request: I'm gearing up to make a record, and I would love to hear how you guys treat pedals/effects differently if you're in the recording studio! When Mick mentions "I hope it comes through in the audio," I found myself thinking about this question.
+Rob Flax Hey Rob. It depends entirely on the individual situation, no guidelines really. What I'm referring to in the video is that there's always more sonic info/physical experience in the room than there ever is through the mics, and that goes for every guitar sound ever recorded. We try to make it as 'real' as possible for TPS, but no mic/recording system is as sophisticated as the sum of your senses in the room. We are hoping to do a video on how we record sounds, which might help you get some ideas about how you'd go about it. Best advice is find a great engineer/producer and seek their advice. It's a skill beyond me and Dan!
Wow! Okay but I think to make it comparable you could've used the Small Stone Nano, or the Helix from TC or for chorus the corona is great and for analog stuff the small clone is really good to! I love my Hall Of Fame!
Do you think you guys could cover modeling pedals vs the actual amp? So something like the Mesa flux through an affordable amp against a legit boogie? Could be pretty interesting to compare
That's a great idea especially with more & more amp makers making pedals based on their own amps. Friedman do it, Mesa, Diezel, Bogner loads of companies have.
Over youtube how could you tell? Check out the Guthrie Govan interview with the Captain. How it feels is usually a big deal. How it sounds through youtube is irrelevant.
I used to love mini pedals (1590a), but now I just want giant things! Lol, got a bk butler tube driver, a tonebender clone in a big old school enclosure, and a ce-1 which dwarves all others lol. Had to get a 40"x18" board haha
Like all the comments show, your show is the end of level baddies of tone show (think commodore 64/pre streetfighter arcade console baddies). Proper all killer no filler tone-meister videos. Thats some serious board right there. Its broader than broadway
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like the way you high-light the active pedals so we can see what is going on. GREAT THANKS
That Electric Mistress sounds absolutely stunning. I have a reissue Maxon FL-301 that I have dearly loved for going on close to 20 years, but that EM is a cut above, no question.
Love that Dann Huff was mentioned. One of my favorite guitarists !! From his days in WhiteHeart and Giant, and his amazing work with so many artists. Thanks for another great episode guys !!!!
Dan’s Board: the rich guy who has the board that gets stolen at the end of the night
Mick’s Board: everyone else
Dan's vamp at 39:00 is inspiring! Makes me want to pick up a guitar and play something. Gotta love that absurd board and I'm amazed at the sound and size of the mini boards.
I think the winner is both! I personally think the best board is some combination of the two. I really love the SL Drive and Angel Wing. Dan has the reverb and the delay covered on his side too. And the Kingsley
I can't help but be amazed time and time again by how versatile Dan's tele is.
+Todesnuss Mick here. I've said this before, but I think it might be the best sounding guitar I can think of.
That Pedal Show have you heard danish Pete's Tele ?
The Big Muff is missing on the impractical pedalboard!
tuktuk I know, were there ones in the 70's or 80's that were about the same size as a DMM? I'm getting an image in my head of needlessly enormous Muff!
He was even wearing the shirt!
tuktuk
what iteration of the muff tho?
I would say the V7 Tall Font Green Russian Big Muff
yeah and the big muff is probably one of my favorite pedals a MUST HAVE!
Dan's Tele with the page and royal overdrive is an otherworldly god like guitar tone 😍😍😍
Friday mornings are becoming my favorite time of the week!
This is the best show on youtube. Keep up the great work, and have a safe and happy Holiday Gents!
First thing I do is check the length of the Friday videos. YES...50 minutes of That Pedal Show goodness!
Mick & Dan thanks so much for creating this show. I tune in every week. What I would love to see is you guys demonstrating both your own pedal boards and amp setups.
+Michael Watson cheers M, it's going to happen :)
Gents. Absolutely my favourite show of the year (YT or TV) . Transformed the way I understand and most importantly enjoy my board, amps and Pedal shelf. Have a great xmas. All the best. Phil
Dan, that was a beautiful song you played around 38 minutes in! Loved hearing the Royal Overdrive again. Also really wish I had an Electric Mistress now
Haven't watched this episode in a while, and yeah, the royal overdrive is still an awsome piece of gear!!
OMG! You guys f'n kill me! Where have you been all my life!!!??? These shows are great and thank you, thank you and thank you!!!!!!!
+gongqi67 ah, you're very welcome ;)
Hey! Mick rocking the Erotic Nightmares intro! Superb 😄
Today I stumbled upon Vai's album "Passion & Warfare" and remembered the riff from That Pedal Show! Spent 2 hours looking for the right video haha!
Cheers
I absolutely loved this, particularly the brief discussion of Dan's original inspiration for The Gig Rig. It is quite fortuitous, as well, as only yesterday I renewed work on my own invention-which I hope will find its way into one of Mick's Strats someday.
+Robstafarian that's awesome Rob, do it!!!!
Oh my god!!! Those were some AMAZING sounds, so special!
You did it! So happy to see the "impractically huge" board, and smart to pair it with a tiny board. Always look forward to Fridays, guys!
+Adam K cheers A, merry Xmas
Classic call on the head out the sunroof "getting a bit of wind here, I need a windshield" - my laughter nearly woke the kids up.. :-)
Also, as a fan down in Brisbane I've got to raise an honorary XXXX to Dan for getting the Queensland reference in there!! Merry Christmas lads!
Seriously, I fall more and more in love with the ce-1 every time you feature it
+MrBingping yep, sooooo special
Great vid guys as always!! Big board sounds mega especially the royal overdrive, but oh my, is that thing really £600? WHAT!!
+Danny Walker GMC yes, but what an amazing sound
That Pedal Show oh hell yeah it sounds amazing!!
Less than 30 seconds in to the video and I already dropped a like. Love you guys so much!
There's so much midrange in there that it seems that the Amp got a floo and is talking nasaly. Love it.
What i love about the Mistress (i have a Neo) is that the wave is much more musical than any other flangers and fits perfectly any tempo witouth having to match it.
Merry christmas, guys, keep on going with the best show arround on the TH-cam.
my favorite part of every week
Dan's pedal board is the Best thing i've ever heard... Sound immense!
+Thomas Rexen ;)
Thats great! That CE-1 blows me away. It makes everything right with world again. I"m not into old stuff generally, but I really want one of those (and 57 les paul, ok I lied about the old the stuff thing).
Thanks for making Fridays even better in 2016. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I love the challenges guys. Please keep doing these!
Merry Christmas Dan and Mick. Thanks for being one of the few good things about 2016!!
+Bill Sherrington cheers Bill, you 2 ;)
Love the OD stacking section. Went out and bought a Spark and SL drive and love the combination. Added a Tumnus and have such an ensemble of tones and stacking capabilities! I run my SL at 18v. Thank you guys for all the professional insight!
You guys are the best. I was one of the guys requesting this video and you guys listened and that is just too cool. Thanks!
The Hammond organ bit brings on a very good point- you guys should compare a real Leslie or Vibratone cabinet with a couple of Leslie emulation pedals, Univibe, and some other traditional stompboxes like phaser, chorus, flanger, and tremolo.
Dial in the stompboxes to get as close to the Leslie sound as possible and compare individually and maybe make some conclusions about what combination of pedals might get you in the ballpark. I feel like the Leslie sound is really complex and each of the more traditional modulation stompboxes can emulate different aspects of the Leslie sound - the doppler effect, the phasing, the tremolo created by the spinning speaker, etc. I've even heard of people splitting their guitar signal to two amps, high passing one and applying phase or chorus and low passing the other and applying tremolo....
+Jake Stewart Music yes Jake, we are definitely doing this in 2017 ;)
Sweet! Thanks! By the way, a great tremolo to check out for that clip is the Moog MF Tremolo. I use mine for pseudo-rotary effects with the "Tone" set just below noon and the "Shape" just above noon. Add an expression pedal to ramp the speed, and it gets a pretty cool rotary/trem effect.
Hmmm, I think part of the reason that Dan's board sounds better is cos he knows the pedals so well and has them really dialled in to perfection and can play them well. There's a lot of stuff on Dan's board that I'd only use for odd riffs so couldn't justify the crazy size!
Oooooh that Page into the Headroom.... best sound all video so far.
You guys should do an updated version of the Budget/Tiny/Desert Island pedalboards! These were so fun to watch, and would like to see if your tastes have changed, with all the new, exceptional pedals coming out.
Try this setting on the dip switches in the sl drive.1 and 3 down.2 and 4 up.gain goes down and lot of usable tones there.esp when boosting it with nother pedal!!
I just wanted to be the very first person to wish you a Merry Xmas. You're both very special and Fridays wouldn't be the same without you. My missus thinks you have had a beneficial effect on me, so much so that I have now taken down the life-sized pictures I had of you in the secret room.
I'm not big on Chorus but this video and Anderton's Sounds Like Rush video really make me want to get an Angel Wing for my board! Sounds awesome to my ears.
I've been waiting for this forever!!!
my fridays are always so cool because of you two!!!
Rock on !
+caesar09 cheers C :)
Get the 335 Mick... Do it.
This has to be the best YT channel yet, by far! Have you, in the past or will you in the future have a demo/review that includes your thoughts on the Rock Box Boiling Point and the J. Rockett Blue Note pedals?????? Many thanks and keep up the good work...I have learned much (technically, practically and musically) from watching TPS over the last year.
HI GUYS! the tone/pedal combo of the day for me was Dan's tone on the PAGE-ROD-ALTER EGO-HEADROOM at 49:37.
Love that Landau tones at 48/49!
Another great episode! Love to see you guys address noise control - particularly with single coil hum. Don't hear a ton of it with your shows, but it's an ongoing issue with me and my Strat. Thanks!
+richab88 Cheers Rich. Good clean power to the pedals is all we do. Then it's just being on the volume pot and watching your physical position. Our single coil guitars hum with the best of them, but you can't hear it (much) when you're playing. As soon as you're not, volume down. Cheers and thanks for watching!
richab88 the ilitch (or something) backplate, which was sold by suhr earlier, has worked really well for me. Our practise place is in an industrial building and has very tricky electrics but that does a decent job when stacked or noiseless aren't an option. Just remeber to check that your middle pu is not rp or it won't work.
+Kari Abspoel Yep, well aware of it. We've tried pretty much everything and it seems that the good hum killing lord both giveth and taketh away. We like the hum. :0)
That Pedal Show actually, I meant it as a suggestion for the original comment (sorry for the lack of tags)... I have it on one strat, not on the tele for exactly the reason that it may compromise something however intangible but immeasurably important in the "tone" - 60 cycle hum is part of rock'n roll and I will accept it :)
+That Pedal Show another ace episode but most of all...Merry Christmas
Love the show guys! Instantly recognised that noise when the EH flanger was hit with the overdrive, i use a vintage small clone that makes a very similar noise when hit with too much overdrive. Always thought there was something wrong.
Would love Your opinion on the hotcake, surprised that one hasn't been covered at some point.
Great sound Mick! I use POT > @ > Spark for some of my best lead tones. I may have to play with switching them around! Happy Holidays guys!
I've got a few Mooer pedals (Yellow Comp, Trelicopter, and Eleclady). I think they're pretty awesome. Maybe not as nice as the actual Electric Mistress, etc., but for my tastes, they definitely do the job!
+MA L that's exactly it Mal, it's whatever you need for the job, and if that job means I need a CE1 on my board, it's going to be there ;) thanks for watching
Great episode, as always! Got an idea for a future episode : best mods on "standard" pedals! I just got my old Boss OD2 modded, and it's absolutely killer :)
Can you run the 'Name Drop Horn' through a compressor/limiter?
That would be good.
Yeah, it is totally NSFW. :P :D
You can really tell Mick's playing is at home when he pulls the strat out. Great vid guys. :)
+Andrew G yep, Mick - Strat, Dan - Tele :)
The electric mistress and the royal overdrive combo sounds glorious
+Nash Longkumer yep, crazy good
Pretty crazy that the Tone City pedals were in the ballpark of those old school pedals, like if you only used a phase or chorus once or twice a gig, they'd do a good job.
The Golden Plexi and Angel Wing are awesome!
I have an angel wing and a bad horse. The pedals are awesome if you dial them in right. Well worth the 40 ish pound price tags :)
The bigger pedals really shined in the drive/boost area; I'd rather travel with the minis but the Royal/Juggler combo was killer!
Great episode once again! Cheers guys & merry Christmas!!! 🎄
Go big or go home! Dan's board is a dream board. I would definitely have the Headroom reverb and Alter Ego delay. Unfortunately, I play on tiny stages where it wouldn't fit, even if I could track down those pedals. I have to make do with what I can fit on a Pedaltrain Junior :-)
Great video! Few times I've thought if I should get just a cheap Tone City for testing out some effects I don't use that much but here it was pretty clear how "restricted" the tone gets with those. Not like you couldn't probably do Zakk Wylde impression with Angel Wing but with different things it might be too "restricted". Well, the phaser is actually the weird sounding from Tone City. On the other hand, I'll buy that Golden Plexi. It's a one setting pedal but it does sound great. Even without the "for a cheap pedal" note. I hope Mick managed to satisfy people who ask cheaper pedals too!
Good gods! That Royal Overdrive!!! Amazing!!!!
+Brian OConnell yep, such a special pedal
Merry Christmas chaps, continuous delivery of the best guitar sounds on TH-cam. Never fails to amaze! That Tele! Could you guys review the Voodoo Labs Giggity and similar preamp style pedals?
Happy Christmas, Happy Holidays Dan & Mick and everyone.
Have to pay the roadies a bit more to lug it from gig to gig :) But loads of good pedals in there :)
Hi guys from across the pond! Really liked how you have mainstream type pedals vs the boutique ones. Throw in the Blues junior next time in Micks rig as his board looks a lot like mine :)
Great episode. Loved it. Well done.
Dan came to Japan without dropping by my pad for a beer? Awesome episode guys; tone + fun made my day!
Thanks to you both for all the great shows over the past year. Happy Christmas and health and happiness to you and yours for 2017.
+Roger The Shrubber ah, cheers Rog, and to you matey ;)
That is a ridiculously awesome lead tone in the first few seconds!
Great video as always...Happy holidays to you both!
that page is just incredible!
"dear santa"
+Miki Kleist yep, easily my best pedal of 2016
Dan left the planet at 38:40 😅. Amazing sound indeed.
I love how you can watch TPS for so long and still find things you haven't watched... Or maybe just in a state where you don't remember it 🤔
I had my main board and wanted a mini board for my acoustics then I thought to myself, "self, why don't you add a couple of drives?" I ended up with a very similar board (except my HOF is a mini). NICE! 😂
I'm so happy with my Alter Ego X4. Killer sounds. I was really surprised at the SL drive. Like Mick, I don't need then it rock sound a lot, so a small pedal like that would be just about right.
+Adam K AEx4 is amazing!!!
40:15 Dan still has hearing above 10K! Wow. ;-)
He has dog-like hearing.
Me too, and it's a pain sometimes.
T.C. Electronic never ceases to impress me. Mick you should have gone helix phaser and mini vortex and mini corona
Finally got that tortoiseshell guard!!! Go Mick!
Great video guys!!!! I will have to re-listen to it with high end headphones. Its crazy how the mini board sounds so good, but Dan's massive board just has more depth to the sound. As always I doubt the audience at a gig will tell the difference but us guitarists could ;)
+hollywoodactress Mick here. The whole 'can the audience tell' is a really interesting debate. They can't on one level - ie the specific sounds themselves - but if they're there to listen to your band (rather than just be entertained at a party or whatever), they will absolutely discern the difference between an average performance and one where you are genuinely inspired. In our opinion you have a better shot at the latter if you have the most inspiring sounds available to you. Cheers!
One thing the "Hall of Fame" cannot do that the "Headroom" can is the crazy sound when you kick it :)
Mick's Vai riff at 7:31 is everything right now.
+Andy Anderson Oops! Mick here. Sorry about that. It's a while since I've had that record on. No doubt all the notes are entirely wrong. :0)
I have an sl drive and a ts mini and use a blues junior amp. I actually find I much prefer the tubescreamer going into the sl drive rather than the other way around. Also the sl drive sounds nicer to me with the voltage doubler.
Great episode as always
+Daniel Giddens Hey Daniel, Mick here. It's a sweet sound boosting the SL with the TS. Too much gain for me though - I prefer to have the TS after so you get a massive volume boost for solos and such. Cheers!
Are you guys still taking video suggestions?
Would enjoy you both talking about the 'backbone' of a pedalboard? Boards, Cables, Tuner(s), Switchers, Power Supplies etc
Thanks!
+CharcoaI yes! Great idea
Super cool, guys! I just realized I could out-bulk Dan if I put all my old EHX stuff (Mistress included!) on a board along with various Moogerfoogers. Not sure it would fit in my car, though. :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! This video convinced me again that how great mini pedals are... Instead of getting mega board like that, I would definitely go for Hot Rod Deville 60w 4x10, American Strat and Tube screamer. They will do cost still less and enough for the rest of my life hahaha!
If I watch anymore videos I'll be looking for a CE-1 and mistress. Damn they sound good. I couldn't be happier with the AEx4 at $150 US. Great pedal. Love the show! Your enthusiasm is infectious and dangerous.
+Erik Dodd ah, cheers Eric :)) yep, I always come back to those two
I love y'all's videos where you're just muckin about
Great idea making this comparison! I could live with the less dynamic crunch section but the mod stuff was below par, even through youtube compression... but I have to admit that tc makes very good bang-for-buck pedals as the delay and reverb were not that weak in comparison to the big board gear. Maybe the new mxr minis could do a better job in the modulation?
Suggestion for a new a-b, even if there would be three: pls demo the three thorpy dirt pedals - peacemaker, warthog and gunshot - and stack them. No one has done that properly yet and having the gs has me hankering for more, but which? :)
how nice is it that my pedal board has 4 of Mick´s board? Sl Drive, Tube Screamer, Summer Orange and Hall of Fame. The only thing is I use regular Tube Screamer and Mini HOF. hehehe. I love the SL at low gain settings as an always on and use volume knob to clean it. Amazing for funk and easy to control everything while singing. The phaser being just a every once in a while pedal I think the SO does the job and I have a good sounding very portable pedalboard
+lebroucke Excellent! Nothing wrong with any of that! I have a lot of love for the SL in particular. Very cool. Thanks for watching!
lebroucke you should try the SL Drive at 18V for more headroom. You can also crank the volume n turn the gain off or barely on n tone to taste, that's a great sound
That royal overdrive is one of the best sounding pedals I have heard in your well recorded videos.
How about looking at strings? Dont think you guys have done that? Would love that. Even go old school, acoustric strings on p90 guitar perhaps? Nickel, core, wound et al et all
Is there anything to be said for an episode of "That Bass Pedal Show"? Could even involve a guest or two if needs be.
Cheers, guys. Love the show.
+astrangecement We'd absolutely need guests. Dan and I aren't bass players. Interesting for sure, but I don't have a clue. Precision, SVT and 8x10 is everything I want to know about bass. ;0)
I feel like you need to do an episode on Leslies and leslie sims
David Chamberlain: Nothing like a real Leslie. The only Pedal I'm aware of that separates top and bottom rotors correctly is Leslie's own Pedal. But I'm an organist so I'm picky lol.
the dls rotosim separates them aswell i believe :)
Agreed. There are a bunch on the market and very few sound anything like a Leslie. Last I checked, most Hammond guys were using a Ventilator, when they couldn't have the real thing or a Motion Sound Pro3T. I like Alesis' Midiverb4, Leslie sim; you can actually hear the rotor glide to a stop, pointing in some random direction, LOL. but the downside is you can either switch slow/fast or brake, but never both without some kind of MIDI workaround. PSP's L'Otary is amazing, but it's software.
I really like the neo ventilator... sounds pretty close, to my ears.
Your wish came true!
That Alter Ego into the Headroom does sound pretty sweet. I think I'll have to try out the Alter Ego soon.
I love your show guys!! Keep them coming!!
Dan you should try some pedals from deep trip here from Brazil, they are pretty high quality and good sounding
This should be titled 'The studio board versus the TSA board'
I bought a Spark booster cus they were $50, and I love it. You guys rule. Happy Holidays.
loved hearing that little Steve vai jam
Great video! Especially useful as I start to travel more. One request: I'm gearing up to make a record, and I would love to hear how you guys treat pedals/effects differently if you're in the recording studio! When Mick mentions "I hope it comes through in the audio," I found myself thinking about this question.
+Rob Flax Hey Rob. It depends entirely on the individual situation, no guidelines really. What I'm referring to in the video is that there's always more sonic info/physical experience in the room than there ever is through the mics, and that goes for every guitar sound ever recorded. We try to make it as 'real' as possible for TPS, but no mic/recording system is as sophisticated as the sum of your senses in the room.
We are hoping to do a video on how we record sounds, which might help you get some ideas about how you'd go about it. Best advice is find a great engineer/producer and seek their advice. It's a skill beyond me and Dan!
That was awesome! Merry christmas guys!
Wow! Okay but I think to make it comparable you could've used the Small Stone Nano, or the Helix from TC or for chorus the corona is great and for analog stuff the small clone is really good to! I love my Hall Of Fame!
I guess in this case bigger is better. Great show guys!
Do you think you guys could cover modeling pedals vs the actual amp? So something like the Mesa flux through an affordable amp against a legit boogie? Could be pretty interesting to compare
That's a great idea especially with more & more amp makers making pedals based on their own amps. Friedman do it, Mesa, Diezel, Bogner loads of companies have.
Don't forget all the Tone City stuff!
Over youtube how could you tell? Check out the Guthrie Govan interview with the Captain. How it feels is usually a big deal. How it sounds through youtube is irrelevant.
I used to love mini pedals (1590a), but now I just want giant things! Lol, got a bk butler tube driver, a tonebender clone in a big old school enclosure, and a ce-1 which dwarves all others lol. Had to get a 40"x18" board haha
Like all the comments show, your show is the end of level baddies of tone show (think commodore 64/pre streetfighter arcade console baddies). Proper all killer no filler tone-meister videos. Thats some serious board right there. Its broader than broadway
+bpdarragh hahaha, "WE FIGHT NOW!"