That Pedal Show | Real Tube Overdrive Pedals [Current Faves Vs Thorpy Electric Lightning & CTC Space Charged] @ThatPedalShow | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Fancy some vacuum tubes in your overdrive pedal? Step this way…
Welcome to the show. There has been a resurgence in valve-equipped overdrive pedals in recent years. And we don’t mean dedicated preamps – we mean actual, pedalboard-friendly, into-the-front-of-the-amp overdrive pedals.
Regular viewers will know that Dan and I currently have such beasts on our own personal boards, and that a recent guest and dear friend – Mr Chris Buck - has one on his too. What better excuse then to fire up the heaters and start dissipating some voltage? Tube-y or not tube-y… erm, we’ve made that gag before.
Enjoy the show!
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
thegigrig.com/three2one
• Sonic Research Turbo Tuner 200
Australia: bit.ly/3AIinS5
• Ibanez Soundtank TS5 Tubescreamer
No longer made
• BK Butler Tube Driver
butleraudio.com/tubedriver.php
• Kingsley Harlot (links to V3)
kingsleyamplifiers.com/products/pedals/23
• Crazy Tube Circuits Space Charged V2
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Thorpy Electric Lightning
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3z75289
• Vahlbruch Kaluna Drive
vahlbruch-fx.com/en
• Diamond Memory Lane
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/45A02oK
• TheGigRig G3S
thegigrig.com/g3-s
Amps used in today’s show
• Benson Bellringer 1x12 combo with Benson Custom Ceramic 12-inch speaker
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/NkM6O1
• Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb with stock speaker
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/B0JXex
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UK & Europe: Andertons Music bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire bit.ly/2mWmJQf
Fancy some vacuum tubes in your overdrive pedal? Step this way…
Welcome to the show. There has been a resurgence in valve-equipped overdrive pedals in recent years. And we don’t mean dedicated preamps – we mean actual, pedalboard-friendly, into-the-front-of-the-amp overdrive pedals.
Regular viewers will know that Dan and I currently have such beasts on our own personal boards, and that a recent guest and dear friend – Mr Chris Buck - has one on his too. What better excuse then to fire up the heaters and start dissipating some voltage? Tube-y or not tube-y… erm, we’ve made that gag before.
Enjoy the show!
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
thegigrig.com/three2one
• Sonic Research Turbo Tuner 200
Australia: bit.ly/3AIinS5
• Ibanez Soundtank TS5 Tubescreamer
No longer made
• BK Butler Tube Driver
butleraudio.com/tubedriver.php
• Kingsley Harlot (links to V3)
kingsleyamplifiers.com/products/pedals/23
• Crazy Tube Circuits Space Charged V2
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Thorpy Electric Lightning
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3z75289
• Vahlbruch Kaluna Drive
vahlbruch-fx.com/en
• Diamond Memory Lane
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/45A02oK
• TheGigRig G3S
thegigrig.com/g3-s
Amps used in today’s show
• Benson Bellringer 1x12 combo with Benson Custom Ceramic 12-inch speaker
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/NkM6O1
• Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb with stock speaker
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/B0JXex
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
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![Real Tube Overdrive Pedals [Current Faves Vs Thorpy Electric Lightning & CTC Space Charged]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kFg42klIatE/hqdefault.jpg "Real Tube Overdrive Pedals [Current Faves Vs Thorpy Electric Lightning & CTC Space Charged]
Fancy some vacuum tubes in your overdrive pedal? Step this way…
Welcome to the show. There has been a resurgence in valve-equipped overdrive pedals in recent years. And we don’t mean dedicated preamps – we mean actual, pedalboard-friendly, into-the-front-of-the-amp overdrive pedals.
Regular viewers will know that Dan and I currently have such beasts on our own personal boards, and that a recent guest and dear friend – Mr Chris Buck - has one on his too. What better excuse then to fire up the heaters and start dissipating some voltage? Tube-y or not tube-y… erm, we’ve made that gag before.
Enjoy the show!
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
• TheGigRig Three2One
https://www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Sonic Research Turbo Tuner 200
Australia: https://bit.ly/3AIinS5
• Ibanez Soundtank TS5 Tubescreamer
No longer made
• BK Butler Tube Driver
https://butleraudio.com/tubedriver.php
• Kingsley Harlot (links to V3)
http://kingsleyamplifiers.com/products/pedals/23/
• Crazy Tube Circuits Space Charged V2
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Thorpy Electric Lightning
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3z75289
• Vahlbruch Kaluna Drive
https://www.vahlbruch-fx.com/en/
• Diamond Memory Lane
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/45A02oK
• TheGigRig G3S
https://www.thegigrig.com/g3-s
Amps used in today’s show
• Benson Bellringer 1x12 combo with Benson Custom Ceramic 12-inch speaker
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkM6O1
• Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb with stock speaker
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0JXex
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
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Please visit our preferred retailers!
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![Not A Notaklön [Dans DIY Approach To The Klon Centaur]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kSMwVYOJqKg/hqdefault.jpg "Not A Notaklön [Dans DIY Approach To The Klon Centaur]
Josh JHS Made A Modular Klon Centaur-alike… Can Dan Do The Same?
Welcome to the show! And very possibly the last Klon show we do. For a while anyway. Because the very, very, very clever people at JHS Pedals recently launched the Notaklön, a Centaur-type OD pedal in kit form. Genius idea, genius marketing.
The easy thing would have been to buy one and compare it to Mick’s Klon. But. But but but but but… this is That Pedal Show and we like to be a little more, erm, enquiring. Thusly, Dan has attempted to deconstruct a Klon circuit, using other pedals to try to explain what’s going on.
Can we do it? Why would we do it? Welcome to That Pedal Show.
Enjoy the episode!
The JHS Notaklön https://jhspedals.info/products/notaklon
Pedals and stuff used in this video…
• TheGigRig Three2One
https://www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Lazy Bear Custom Parallel Splitter
https://www.lazy-bear.co.uk
• MXR 10-Band EQ
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2Yx95Wz
USA: https://bit.ly/3EhAiPx
• Ross Distortion
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3LNWIxH
USA: https://bit.ly/3Q0bTX0
• Empress Para EQ
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3uP2MAj
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m5JNAD
• Boss GE-7
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3m5XYPe
USA: https://bit.ly/3NMbnYO
• JHS Summing Amp
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2DjEe7G
USA: https://bit.ly/3ddeatS
• TheGigRig Wetter Box
https://www.thegigrig.com/wetterbox
• Origin Effects DCX Boost
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/46aiCn6
USA: https://bit.ly/445aMcy
• Lazy Bear Custom Volume Pot
https://www.lazy-bear.co.uk
• Klon Centaur - head very gently to Reverb or eBay
• TheGigRig QMX4
https://www.thegigrig.com/quartermaster
• Crazy Tube Circuits White Whale
https://crazytubecircuits.com/white-whale
0:00 Intro playing
1:45 Why are we making this show?
3:40 Klon circuit brief explanation
4:58 Dansclaimer!
5:45 Today’s amp reasoning
7:44 Sounds Of The Klon Centaur
11:10 Three distinct signal paths
14:35 The Ross Distortion & hard clipping
16:45 Dual-gang gain pot
19:35 Why the DCX Boost?
20:21 Hear the Klon tone control
22:30 Sound 1: Low Gain Clean Boost
29:40 Still not quite getting the clean tone
33:00 Sound 2: Mid Gain Overdrive
36:05 Hear the DCX Boost
37:40 Sound 3: Higher Gain Overdrive
40:15 Reconstructing it backwards
42:22 Closing thoughts
Guitars in today’s show
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/WOMHUQeHGRQ?si=Sz4oEy4GzppoWbVs
• New-ish Gibson USA SG Standard with Maestro Vibrola - no video yet
• Gibson Memphis 1958 ES-335 - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/Ha82vk1wLyA?si MGExnobH_n-c56f
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Godtop. Murphy Aged - no video yet
Amps in today’s show
• 1979 Fender Bassman 70
• Mesa Boogie 212 vertical cab with EVM12L speakers
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
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![Steven Wilson & Niko Tsonev On Music & Guitar Solos [From Stevens Record The Harmony Codex]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kkFCxO1HBp4/hqdefault.jpg "Steven Wilson & Niko Tsonev On Music & Guitar Solos [From Stevens Record The Harmony Codex]
Solo sounds, construction and inspiration with a modern British leg-end!
Welcome to the show! Its our great pleasure to welcome back musician, composer, producer and all-round leg-end, Steven Wilson. Dan’s been doing Steven’s touring pedalboard for, ooh, ages, and so he’s dropped in with guitarist Niko Tsonev to tell us about new release, The Harmony Codex, alongside a chat around life, music and everything that goes with it.
Steven and Niko also play through five guitar solo sections from the new record to help us understand a little bit about the process that informs their creativity. Loads of great stuff here, including some fab advice around being a pro player. Enjoy the show!
56:13 The new record is called The Harmony Codex, not Economies Of Scale. Sorry!
- Steven’s website - https://stevenwilsonhq.com/
- New record, The Harmony Codex - https://stevenwilson.lnk.to/theharmonycodex
Pedals & stuff in this episode
Steven’s board
• Dunlop Cry Baby
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2HUY0nX
USA: https://bit.ly/3GLoSnN
• TC Electronic Polytune
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2GiHjRc
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQYVAq
• Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Deluxe
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2rPSRWo
USA: https://bit.ly/323rheM
• Source Audio EQ2
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3r2y70Z
USA: https://bit.ly/3spyUHh
• Analog Man Prince of Tone
http://www.buyanalogman.com
• Electro Harmonix Nano POG
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia; https://bit.ly/3oEElmk
USA: https://bit.ly/3EiFS3p
• Option 5 Destination Rotation
Erm, no longer available?
• Diamond Vibrato
Not currently available
• Red Panda Tensor
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2URKYlb
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/EKR0DP
• Red Panda Particle
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/48fnDMy
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKRWxj
• Strymon Timeline
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2pSEFKm
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/k0J46z
• Moog Minifooger MF Trem
No longer available
• Strymon Big Sky
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2x0GSdY
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qy2YDA
• TheGigRig ABY BABY
https://www.thegigrig.com/aby-baby
• TheGigRig G3
https://www.thegigrig.com/g3
Niko’s board
• Dunlop Volume X Pedal
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/464UX6T
USA: https://bit.ly/3sQwUu2
• Digitech Freqout
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3lxXnJd
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Vm2OM3
• Source Audio ZIO
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/40Y7Eyv
USA: https://bit.ly/3oBzuiE
• Bogner Harlow
No longer made
• Bogner Wessex
No longer made
• Source Audio Ultra Wave
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKRW7d
• Chase Bliss Automatone Preamp MkII
https://www.chasebliss.com/preamp-mkii
• Eventide H90
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/40Yl3qC
USA: https://bit.ly/40RnYB7
• Eventide Rose
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/48bUf9K
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/751XYQ
• Morningstar MC6
Australia: https://bit.ly/46a4edM
• Dunlop DVP4
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/45P6OGj
USA: https://bit.ly/3m424bk
• Lehle P-Split
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3PByU2n
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQJE73
Interesting bits & go-to sections
0:00 Intro & welcome
1:50 Impossible to pigeonhole?
4:00 Hello Niko!
5:28 Steven’s needs for a guitar player
9:30 Great pop melodies
11:40 Demos as final takes
16:45 Solo 1 - Time Is Running Out background
18:53 Solo 1 performance
21:24 Recording apart, directing from afar
22:49 Solo 2 - Rock Bottom background
26:28 Solo 2 performance
29:40 Dry signal, or effected?
31:28 Solo 3 - What Life Brings background
34:03 Solo 3 performance
37:15 HK Tubemeister 5
39:25 Solo 4 - Staircase background
40:15 Solo 4 performance
44:48 Solo 5 - Actual Brutal Facts background
46:23 Solo 5 performance
50:00 Advice for budding pro guitar players
Guitars today
• Gibson SG Special
• Fender Stratocaster [bitsacaster that Niko put together]
• PRS Single Cut Trem
• Squier 40th Anniversary Jazzmaster
Amps today
• Hughes & Kettner Puertone and HK Vintage 212 with 2 x Celestion G12M Greenback Speakers
• Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister 5
• Matchless C-30 & 212 ESD with one Celestion G12M Greenback and one Celestion G12H Anniversary
Please subscribe to our channel.
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![Jocelyn Gould Talks Jazz Guitar Playing & Tone [Plus Benedetto & Two-Rock Tonal Bliss!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lBAHIYZB8QY/hqdefault.jpg "Jocelyn Gould Talks Jazz Guitar Playing & Tone [Plus Benedetto & Two-Rock Tonal Bliss!]
We get schooled in the art of true dedication to music, tone and jaw-dropping guitar playing
Welcome to the show! It is our great pleasure to welcome Juno-award-winner, music professor, stellar guitar player, captivating singer and all-round awesome human, Jocelyn Gould to That Pedal Show.
Jocelyn was in Europe doing some live dates, during which she dropped in to see us. What followed was a masterclass in learning and dedication to the instrument, a whole heap of inspiring advice and, of course, some utterly wonderful playing and singing.
Huge thanks to Jocelyn for taking the time, and also to our good friend Michael Watts for helping glue it all together.
Enjoy the show!
Jocelyn on the web - https://www.jocelyngould.com/
Gear in this episode…
• Benedetto 16-B https://www.benedettoguitars.com/product/16-b/
• Two-Rock Joey Landreth Signature https://www.two-rock.com/amps/joey-landreth-signature/
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing and hello!
2:58 Late starter on guitar?
6:00 Turning a 180 into jazz guitar
7:25 Understanding melody and harmony
8:50 How to move on from blues changes
12:30 Don’t need theory to play?
16:13 Everything affects tone
17:40 Jocelyn’s Benedetto 16-B
20:25 Jocelyn plays ‘Jingles’ by Wes Montgomery
23:00 Jazz tone?
28:50 Angle of your pick
33:35 Jocelyn plays for us
36:20 Strings?
38:45 Good places to start learning jazz
40:38 More on II-V-I
44:40 Where to start?!
47:40 What to listen to
50:15 A mic on the guitar too?
52:57 I Haven’t Managed To Forget You, by Jocelyn Gould
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
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![Mikey Demus Of Skindred Visits TPS [Manson Guitars, Redbeard Effects, Left-Handedness & More!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lGPVp4MplDo/hqdefault.jpg "Mikey Demus Of Skindred Visits TPS [Manson Guitars, Redbeard Effects, Left-Handedness & More!]
Riffmeister, songwriter, cultivator of epic beard – Mikey drops in with the rock!
Welcome to the show! We are delighted to welcome our lovely friend Mikey Demus to Schwangri-La. Guitarist and songwriter in rock-metal-reggae-electronica titans, Skindred, Mikey’s full-on riffing and experimental sound sculpting form a huge part of the band’s energetic assault on ears and eyes.
At the time of filming this, Mikey was mid-tour so his main guitar rig and board were in the back of a lorry somewhere. What better excuse to bring in Ye Olde Bag O’ Pedals from which Dan can concoct a board to spur a general chat on tone, playing and everything that goes with it?
Enjoy the episode!
• Skindred on t’internet - https://skindred.net/
• Redbeard Effects - https://redbeardeffects.com/
Pedals & stuff in this show
• Digitech Whammy 1 -no longer made, links to latest version
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/40jjuSF
USA: https://bit.ly/3oDUaqB
• Redbeard Effects Angry Rhubarb
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3GqAwHY
• Redbeard Effects Red Mist
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3uKipZD
• Redbeard Effects Honey Badger
Australia: https://bit.ly/3cqHls1
• Redbeard Effects Hairy Squid
https://redbeardeffects.com/products/hairy-squid-3-mode-fuzz
• Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man - no longer made
• Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer - no longer made, links to latest version
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zN5Oje
• Line 6 FM4 - no longer made
• Line 6 DL4 - no longer made, links to latest MkII version
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3KI2flT
Australia: https://bit.ly/3X7AgEd
USA: https://bit.ly/3vSSKMD
Interesting bits & go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing
1:47 Hello and welcome!
3:20 Putting Mikey’s board together
7:30 Skindred’s Smile in the UK album chart
9:55 Redbeard FX?
14:12 Why no Orange amps?!
15:40 Regular scale, down to C?
16:40 The core tone today
17:30 …with Angry Rhubarb
18:35 Not too much gain
20:40 Hearing the Redbeard Red Mist
23:25 Angry Rhubarb & Red Mist stacked
25:24 Left-handed? Not left-handed?
31:20 Played a 1961 guitar? You have now…
33:37 Mikey’s first Skindred guitars
35:48 Line 6 FM4
40:13 Electro-Harmonix Micro Synth
43:00 Sounds to inspire songs
46:08 So many people are riflfless
53:35 A Tom Morello tangent
54:25 Digitech Whammy 1!
1:02:05 Redbeard Honey Badger
1:05:45 Redbeard Hairy Squid
1:08:15 A different register
1:09:18 Mikey’s signature guitars
1:15:25 Bridge pickup comparison
Guitars in today’s episode
• Manson Guitar Works MD-2 Mikey Demus Signature
• Manson Guitar Works Unreleased Mikey Demus Signature
Amps in today’s episode
• 1969 Laney Super Group / Marshall 1960AX 412 with Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
• Marshall 1987X Plexi / Zilla Custom 2x12 with Celestion Alnico Ruby speakers
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
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Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf")
