Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Overdrive Shootout

Alright, I finally did the overdrive shootout. Check out the videos and let me know which one you think is the winner or winners, and which is the loser….or if you think they are all losers. hehe

The players:

Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face clone (homemade, but not by me)
Hermida Zendrive 1 (running on 12 volts)
Paul Cochrane Tim (running on 12 volts)
SIB Varidrive (with JJ ECC81 tube, on gain setting)
Menatone King of the Britains (newest version)
MI Audio Blue Boy Deluxe (running on 12 volts)
Keeley modded Blues Driver
Danelectro FAB Metal
Ibanez TS7 tubescreamer (modded to TS808 specs)

Baseline tone:

Prairiewood custom Les Paul with Dr. Vintage pickups (most sounds with bridge pickup)
–>
1 Loop-Master bypass box–>1 Loop-Master bypass box–>Diamond Memory Lane on at low setting–>Damage Control Timeline off (mostly)–>Diamond Memory Lane off
–>
Holland custom amp (EL84 tubes, AC30/bassman circuit)
–>65 Amps birch cab with Celestion Alnico Blue & Celestion G12H30

Recorded on the little camera mic, no actual recording.

All pedals in bypass loops.

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UCOLnIRJdk

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH_CTZ8oNVM

Forgive the playing, the poor recording quality, the fact that youtube compresses the files in such a way that it actually sounds like a volume drop when the overdrives are engaged, and my knee blocking half the pedals. Oh, ya, and the fact that blog.com won’t let me embed videos. *Sigh* Hopefully you can at least get an idea if you’re looking to try out one of these pedals.

Posted by Karl at 17:43:55
Comments

7 Responses to “Overdrive Shootout”

  1. alex mclean says:
    July 10, 2008 at 8:40 am

    Karl I will help you transfer this all over to Wordpress - just name the time. It’s “almost” as good as switching from Yingwe to U2…

  2. Anonymous says:
    July 11, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    haha Sounds good. We’ll have to work out a time. :-)

  3. alex mclean says:
    July 12, 2008 at 10:40 am

    Oh yeah and I actually watched the videos - nice work!

  4. Anonymous says:
    July 15, 2008 at 6:00 am

    Thanks, Alex. I did do it in the church though, when it was empty, and there’s a ton of reverb. You can even hear it on my voice. Oh, well. I need to work on getting those baffles up. :-)

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