Index of pedals 0:36 The Level Set Buffer pedal 1:20 The Marine Layer Reverb 3:05 The Bends Compressor 4:11 The Mirror Image Delay 5:34 The Santa Ana Overdrive 9:58 The Pugilist Distortion
Stellar performance by Fender! Well thought out and beautiful builds. Also nice to see the pricing is based on complexity not an across the board price. Just goes to show why fender continues to do well as a company.
I’ve been running the Pugilist for a couple of weeks and can not recommend it enough. Great range of tones available, very well made, love the lights and the price is spot on.
I have the Pugilist: love the sounds. The distortion sounds have that refinement to them. I used to use the Digitech Legend 2 rackmount. Interesting it has that same Gold textured outer. Reminds me of those days.…Which were awesome times… good to be able to relive!
I bought the Pugilist around Christmas, and have to say its amazing value. I had a Diamond Cornerstone which I loved, but this blows it out the water. Amazing price too here in Canada. Highly recommended. Love the design/lights/flip battery etc etc, but the key is the versatility of sound. Respect is due.
I like the idea that it is unified look to a complete set of pedals and you know they all work together. I can imagine starting out with a strat and then just collecting the pedals until I had the set. It's kinda like a multi effects processor except you can buy it in parts and have access to the controls without all that menu faff.
This is by far and away one of the best TH-cam reviews I have ever seen. Beyond the useful content and knowledgeable review itself, your vocal audio and guitar audio are remarkably good, the video is well done, too. Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce such a well-done piece. I also liked your relaxed presentation and conversational delivery. I was a radio producer and production director in a former life and pretty much know the good stuff when I see it. Very nicely done.
i agree ZenBlazer - the Pedal Show was Apalling with those 2 guys who stole this pedal layout but yet never tried the pedals out before their Ridiculous Review
Thx for this review,I really like those.The overdrive will be next.They are beautifully made and nicely named. The pedal market today offers a wide palette of choices and these are eyecatching.Never enough.
I don't know how many of the pedals he has reviewed in the past have been for free. Even then, he is more excited for this one than the ones I've seen him reviewed before. I bet he would buy them and enjoy them as much.
Over two years later and these pedals are still relevant. Now I'd be interested on their take on modulation. Never thought I'd care for any pedal Fender ever produced but these are well done. The verb and delay actually competes w/ the "big boys" on the market.
It's six years later, and these remain my favorite pedal range. Now that the hype has cooled off a bit, I have snapped up nearly the entire range used.
When I first heard Fender was doing a line of new pedals, I was skeptical. Then I saw all the videos from NAMM and how well thought out they were. Then I heard the price point. Now I can't wait to try them out! With so many pedals on the market, it's a one stop shop to set up great pedal board without going crazy.
Fender did great with these pedals. All you really need and at a good price. You also did really good at showing us off those pedals. Thanks my friend.
Fender is doing great work. Recently i saw their video about making of these beauties and instantly i was blown off how their tech team works. Kudos to fender and thanks to you for making this video.
I just got the Santa Ana & Pugilist today and I'm extremely pleased. Your demo (and many others) help seal the deal for me. I've been through pretty much every distortion and overdrive out there and always found something lacking in each one at every price point. Yes, there are a million similar products out there but it's all in the sound each produces and how it relates to your own taste. These Fender pedals have the sound I've been hearing in my head for ages. I don't care what they look like or how large or blah, blah, blah, I just know they work for me. Well made, well conceived, I feel like I made the right decision. Only complaints are that they didn't come with a battery, the LED brightness varies from pedal to pedal and, for $200, I wish the boost on the Santa Ana worked independently from the gain stages. I think these will be around for a while and folks should at least try them out.
I think they sound really good .. especially the reverb pedal and the Santa Ana overdrive and I am impressed with how quiet the compressor is as well great review as usual Phil .
Just got the bends and it is an excellent compressor. It adds no noise at all to my signal. Now I have the bends and the marine layer reverb. The next one I’m getting is the pugilist. Great pedals from fender. ✌️❤️🎶=happiness
I got TREVERB , THE ENGAGER BOOST, AND THE PELT FUZZ. I want MIRROR IMAGE DELAY AND THE SANTA ANA OVERDRIVE to complete my fender collection pedalboard. Or even the FULL MOON DISTORTION SUPER QUALITY PEDALS and a great job by fender
As the others have stated, love the Hocus Pocus! Great review, looks like Fender took the time to get it right this time! Also love the extras like the light-up dials and the hinge door for the battery! Keep up the great work, Phil!
The Fender Pugelist is one of the best distortion pedals that I have heard.! I have have plans to purchase one of the Tone master amps along ith the Pugelist.
I’m stoked about these! You did a great demo, and from all the other videos I’ve seen I’m considering making a second board with just these pedals, possibly with the addition of a graphic EQ. I might be biased because I’m kind of a Fender fan boy.
Great review! Seeing lots of posts on these, but not as thorough on each. They are a little large in size, but there are a lot of knobs haha! LOVE that Strat too! Cheers!
They sound great ! saw Dan & Mick check them out at Namm and was impressed then but even more so now ! you just confirmed what I already thought great demo thank you.
The reverb sounds cool. A while back fender made a line of cheap pedals. Among them was the starcaster chorus, which is still my preferred chorus. It was awesome and only cost about 30 bucks.
I bought th Pugilist about a month ago. I run it in series with the A gain around 11 o'clock, and the B gain at 2 o'clock. Using a Boss compressor in front. It's awesome. Fender has for sure finally hit home runs with their pedals. Delay and reverb are next. Don't buy other pedals until you try these.
Thanks Phil. Been waiting for this review since NAMM. I think Fender has hit it out of the park this time. Would be cool to do a shootout between old and new Fender pedals. ie FRV 63 vs Marine ?
Bought The Bends and The Engager Boost. Nothing wrong with them, however tried out a Strymon Compadre. Returned the Fender pedals, and bought the Strymon. The difference is NIGHT AND DAY, and well worth the difference in price.
Speaking of Fender products. I am wondering if you could do a review or demo of the Fender Mustang 90 from the offset series. Thanks for all your wonderful videos!
Yeah pretty cool dry kill switch but you can still get ambient sounds without it. Hall in variation 1 mode with level and reverb time all the way up is one way. And special mode on variation 1 or 2 with level and reverb time cranked gets you ambience. I have the marine layer reverb and just got the bends compressor and I am impressed with both of them. The pugilist is next on my list. And I’m just playing these through a Boss Katana 100 MK2 amplifier and to my ears it sounds great. These pedals along with my Boss DM-2w, MXR Analog Chorus and CBM95 cry baby mini are working out great for me and the sounds I’m chasing. Can’t wait to add the Pugilist to my setup. ✌️❤️🎶=happiness
Good review. Although I haven't tried them I am mostly curious about the pugilist. Stacking and blending overdrive/distortion in a pedal is appealing to me.
I'm actually really interested in seeing how these will fair with visually impaired people with the parameters LED's. the fact that they sound good is a bonus.
Phiilip I'm a subscriber but this is an old video so I'm not sure you'll see it but I'm just getting into guitar pedals and its overwhelming. I am looking to get the Santa Ana but here you said the option to use the boost function as a volume boost or gain boost is only footswitchable but I don't own a footswitch and yet others have said the option is simply a switch on the top of the pedal so I'm a little confused. Also I purchased the Fender Engager pedal which is a clean boost pedal so in that respect I'd have no reason to set the Santa Ana's boost function as a level boost is that correct?
I've got the pugilist and the delay. It akes time to getr them diled in. They tend to work differently with different amps. On the pugilist, find your sweet spot (it will take some time because of the 2 stages) and don't adjust much after that. Once you find it, don't mess with it too much. The delay takes some getting used to. I found it works much better with my amp (Fender Mustrang 4 V2) by going into the front instead of the loop. Again, once you find the sweet spot with your amp, leave it alone.
Index of pedals
0:36 The Level Set Buffer pedal
1:20 The Marine Layer Reverb
3:05 The Bends Compressor
4:11 The Mirror Image Delay
5:34 The Santa Ana Overdrive
9:58 The Pugilist Distortion
Is there any reason you didnt include The Pelt pedal?
I have a vintage Fender starcaster distortion pedal for sale. It is blue and has 6 knobs.
Stellar performance by Fender! Well thought out and beautiful builds. Also nice to see the pricing is based on complexity not an across the board price. Just goes to show why fender continues to do well as a company.
Seriously. They are just killing it these days.
I just listened with headphones on and they sound fantastic, thanks for the preview.
Love that you played a bit of Hocus Pocus.
I really like the bubbler chorus they brought out, it’s is my go to chorus pedal atm
I’ve been running the Pugilist for a couple of weeks and can not recommend it enough. Great range of tones available, very well made, love the lights and the price is spot on.
@@lueyteledeluxe7457 spot on... and it has a shimmer of something much more $$$$$
Those on/off lamp is way to bright on these pedals.
Looking at buying one this week. I don’t have another distortion pedal that sounds that big and angry!
I have the Pugilist: love the sounds. The distortion sounds have that refinement to them. I used to use the Digitech Legend 2 rackmount. Interesting it has that same Gold textured outer. Reminds me of those days.…Which were awesome times… good to be able to relive!
tried out the "The Bends" compressor and it was very groovy and musically expressive.
I bought the Pugilist around Christmas, and have to say its amazing value. I had a Diamond Cornerstone which I loved, but this blows it out the water. Amazing price too here in Canada. Highly recommended. Love the design/lights/flip battery etc etc, but the key is the versatility of sound. Respect is due.
I’ve ordered a pugilist, can’t wait to get it on my board. A really inciteful and useful post, thank you.
I've been using the marine layer reverb for a few months now and it is killer! This pedal made my bandmate sell his HOF, great value for money!
I like the idea that it is unified look to a complete set of pedals and you know they all work together. I can imagine starting out with a strat and then just collecting the pedals until I had the set. It's kinda like a multi effects processor except you can buy it in parts and have access to the controls without all that menu faff.
This is by far and away one of the best TH-cam reviews I have ever seen. Beyond the useful content and knowledgeable review itself, your vocal audio and guitar audio are remarkably good, the video is well done, too. Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce such a well-done piece. I also liked your relaxed presentation and conversational delivery. I was a radio producer and production director in a former life and pretty much know the good stuff when I see it. Very nicely done.
i agree ZenBlazer - the Pedal Show was Apalling with those 2 guys who stole this pedal layout but yet never tried the pedals out before their Ridiculous Review
They sound good and the price overall seems fair especially for the feature sets.. thanks for the demo Phil !
If you're going to enter an overcrowded market, this seems like a good way to do it.
This has been my favorite channel for the past couple of months. Keep up the great work Phil!!
This send all of the other demos I’ve watched this week are impressive. Fenders got a good product here.
Thx for this review,I really like those.The overdrive will be next.They are beautifully made and nicely named.
The pedal market today offers a wide palette of choices and these are eyecatching.Never enough.
Those pedals really sound great. Nice dialing work, Phil! Got some killer sounds, my friend! And Kudos to Fender 🤘🏼 Rock on!
-the Black Leather Bird
Fender has made a home run with these pedals! These are near perfection! Good demo! Well said on everything!👍😎🎸
Oh man... you look so happy. More than the review and the demo, is your enthusiasm that is going to help this pedals sell even more!
I don't know how many of the pedals he has reviewed in the past have been for free. Even then, he is more excited for this one than the ones I've seen him reviewed before.
I bet he would buy them and enjoy them as much.
I had the Santa Anna and it is very good but ultimately kept the strymon sunset
Over two years later and these pedals are still relevant. Now I'd be interested on their take on modulation. Never thought I'd care for any pedal Fender ever produced but these are well done. The verb and delay actually competes w/ the "big boys" on the market.
It's six years later, and these remain my favorite pedal range. Now that the hype has cooled off a bit, I have snapped up nearly the entire range used.
When I first heard Fender was doing a line of new pedals, I was skeptical. Then I saw all the videos from NAMM and how well thought out they were. Then I heard the price point. Now I can't wait to try them out! With so many pedals on the market, it's a one stop shop to set up great pedal board without going crazy.
Fender did great with these pedals. All you really need and at a good price. You also did really good at showing us off those pedals. Thanks my friend.
Fender is doing great work. Recently i saw their video about making of these beauties and instantly i was blown off how their tech team works. Kudos to fender and thanks to you for making this video.
I just got the Santa Ana & Pugilist today and I'm extremely pleased. Your demo (and many others) help seal the deal for me. I've been through pretty much every distortion and overdrive out there and always found something lacking in each one at every price point. Yes, there are a million similar products out there but it's all in the sound each produces and how it relates to your own taste. These Fender pedals have the sound I've been hearing in my head for ages. I don't care what they look like or how large or blah, blah, blah, I just know they work for me. Well made, well conceived, I feel like I made the right decision. Only complaints are that they didn't come with a battery, the LED brightness varies from pedal to pedal and, for $200, I wish the boost on the Santa Ana worked independently from the gain stages. I think these will be around for a while and folks should at least try them out.
Hey,
After having them both for few week now, Can you tell what are the differences (mainly in tone)? Are you still happy with them?
I think they sound really good .. especially the reverb pedal and the Santa Ana overdrive and I am impressed with how quiet the compressor is as well great review as usual Phil .
Just got the bends and it is an excellent compressor. It adds no noise at all to my signal. Now I have the bends and the marine layer reverb. The next one I’m getting is the pugilist. Great pedals from fender.
✌️❤️🎶=happiness
Credit card coming out of wallet, been looking for a new reverb pedal and was waiting for this review. Thanks Phil
I got TREVERB , THE ENGAGER BOOST, AND THE PELT FUZZ. I want MIRROR IMAGE DELAY AND THE SANTA ANA OVERDRIVE to complete my fender collection pedalboard. Or even the FULL MOON DISTORTION
SUPER QUALITY PEDALS and a great job by fender
Breaking almost into Hocus Pocus at 12:15 Phillip, nice choice!
Love it Phil. It's like hanging out with a buddy as into gear as i am!
I love the light up knob indicators... nice touch
Glad everyone is checking out these Fender pedals. They seem like a great product!
Yeah man these pedals are pretty good, in fact bought the marine layer reverb last night
Thanks Pk, so much more convenient than 6 individual pedal review vids like the others. Much appreciated. Time to dust off my Focus riff now.
As the others have stated, love the Hocus Pocus! Great review, looks like Fender took the time to get it right this time! Also love the extras like the light-up dials and the hinge door for the battery! Keep up the great work, Phil!
Too much 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!! I love the review and what fender has done with these awesome pedals and features . Thanks Phil :-)
Great pedals! Tried and tested on tour and they are rugged! Fender is doing big things here.
The overdrive one sounded fantastic. I might have to pick one up. Great review as always, Phil.
I am really interested in the reverb. Great performance with settings I found useful plus has a great design
The Pedals are great.I have the Full Moon Distortion and I am very Happy with it.Easy to work with and a wonderful Sound.
OMG... I love this channel so much! Thank you Phill
Phil great review. I really love the Pugelix and the Reverb.
The Fender Pugelist is one of the best distortion pedals that I have heard.! I have have plans to purchase one of the Tone master amps along ith the Pugelist.
Impressive pedals all around! Great prices too. Excellent demo, well done \m/
LOVE these pedals! Extremely impressed! Thanks Phil!
Amazing video again. You deserve a lot more subs!
I’m stoked about these! You did a great demo, and from all the other videos I’ve seen I’m considering making a second board with just these pedals, possibly with the addition of a graphic EQ. I might be biased because I’m kind of a Fender fan boy.
Great review! Seeing lots of posts on these, but not as thorough on each. They are a little large in size, but there are a lot of knobs haha! LOVE that Strat too! Cheers!
They sound really nice. Looks similar to Strymon pedals. Great video Phil!
They sound great ! saw Dan & Mick check them out at Namm and was impressed then but even more so now ! you just confirmed what I already thought great demo thank you.
Great review as always, really interested in the Pugilist but will wait till I hear more of the Danelectro Cash Cow I think.
Great Review Phill, And They Sound Awesome Pedals
The reverb sounds cool. A while back fender made a line of cheap pedals. Among them was the starcaster chorus, which is still my preferred chorus. It was awesome and only cost about 30 bucks.
That sound with the stacked gains through the delay 😋
I'm definitely digging what your lay in down dwag. The pedal line up sounds great.
I bought th Pugilist about a month ago. I run it in series with the A gain around 11 o'clock, and the B gain at 2 o'clock. Using a Boss compressor in front. It's awesome. Fender has for sure finally hit home runs with their pedals. Delay and reverb are next. Don't buy other pedals until you try these.
I am sold! I just purchased the Mirror Image Delay
Karin Thomas no tap tempo. No good :(
Was expecting the dirt pedal case colors to be the same as the MxR modified Distortion (red) and OD (gold) - I was wrong. Awesome stuff Phil.
They look and sound very good. Thanks for the great review!
very nice pedals, I hope they continue to fill out the line up.
Thumbs up before I even watch it. This is one I've been waiting for!
The distortion sounds real good, should have been in copper as the strat... Looks like a good set of pedals
they're def well thought out and sound good. excellent review.
Nice review. My nephew purchased the verb pedal and it is trancenental
Impressed with the pedals. Great overview
Thanks Phil. Been waiting for this review since NAMM. I think Fender has hit it out of the park this time. Would be cool to do a shootout between old and new Fender pedals. ie FRV 63 vs Marine ?
If the compressor is as good as people are saying then it’s great value and I intend checking it out.
They are impressive the reverb also has a nice shimmer effect
I got a Fender Reflecting Pool pedal. It's the delay and reverb in one. Picked it up for 200 bucks. Score!
My mind was made up yesterday after I heard the Pugilist. I'm selling my old pedals for the Pugilist and the Marine Layer Reverb
Just ordered the delay! Thanks for the demo.
Bought The Bends and The Engager Boost. Nothing wrong with them, however tried out a Strymon Compadre. Returned the Fender pedals, and bought the Strymon. The difference is NIGHT AND DAY, and well worth the difference in price.
Great video quality improvement recently!
Speaking of Fender products. I am wondering if you could do a review or demo of the Fender Mustang 90 from the offset series. Thanks for all your wonderful videos!
You missed the cool effect on the reverb that kills the guitars tone leaving only the reverb effect on for a really cool ambient kind sound
He got it mixed up. We'll give him a Mulligan on that.
what makes you say that?
Yeah pretty cool dry kill switch but you can still get ambient sounds without it. Hall in variation 1 mode with level and reverb time all the way up is one way. And special mode on variation 1 or 2 with level and reverb time cranked gets you ambience. I have the marine layer reverb and just got the bends compressor and I am impressed with both of them. The pugilist is next on my list. And I’m just playing these through a Boss Katana 100 MK2 amplifier and to my ears it sounds great. These pedals along with my Boss DM-2w, MXR Analog Chorus and CBM95 cry baby mini are working out great for me and the sounds I’m chasing. Can’t wait to add the Pugilist to my setup.
✌️❤️🎶=happiness
Good review. Although I haven't tried them I am mostly curious about the pugilist. Stacking and blending overdrive/distortion in a pedal is appealing to me.
That whole rig sounds really good.
I played the mirror delay today and it was top notch. i wanted a dd7 and now im wavering.
Can you do an updated version of this ?
great review and great sounds from all pedals. Would the poster do a review on latest Fender tuners?
I'm actually really interested in seeing how these will fair with visually impaired people with the parameters LED's. the fact that they sound good is a bonus.
that pugilist dist seems super awsome, need it!
I have the pugilist and I love it! I run it through a Marshall Code 50 and 100 is a beast!!
great line; Santa Ana is amazing, but all makes sense. GREAT design, besides great sound.
They look good, and the price seems right. I believe it´s a good step forward.
Great review. Good to see they did a good Job.
Seems cool based on your demo. I'd have to try them out myself to really get a feel for them.
Fender already has its name on two of my favorite pedals. The 63 Reverb and the 65 Deluxe Reverb. The catch is they are Boss pedals
Great video Phil!
Glad you enjoyed it
Hello Phillip,
Great video and review!
Which one you like/recommend better and why? The Pugilist or the Santa Ana?
Thanks so much!
You didn't show the shimmer special 2 on the marine layer, wich imo is the best shimmer sound ever,
Im a rock, metal player and i want that delay.
Phiilip I'm a subscriber but this is an old video so I'm not sure you'll see it but I'm just getting into guitar pedals and its overwhelming. I am looking to get the Santa Ana but here you said the option to use the boost function as a volume boost or gain boost is only footswitchable but I don't own a footswitch and yet others have said the option is simply a switch on the top of the pedal so I'm a little confused. Also I purchased the Fender Engager pedal which is a clean boost pedal so in that respect I'd have no reason to set the Santa Ana's boost function as a level boost is that correct?
I got the pugilist for £40 used and love it. One of my main distortions. That and the DS2
I've got the pugilist and the delay. It akes time to getr them diled in. They tend to work differently with different amps. On the pugilist, find your sweet spot (it will take some time because of the 2 stages) and don't adjust much after that. Once you find it, don't mess with it too much. The delay takes some getting used to. I found it works much better with my amp (Fender Mustrang 4 V2) by going into the front instead of the loop. Again, once you find the sweet spot with your amp, leave it alone.
The best feature of the Vox Satchurator was the More button imo
can you use a standard Fender Strat with 3 Single-Coiled pickups for demo? (instead of a modified 2 humbuckers version)