00:00on today's episode we're gonna answer
00:02the age-old question
00:04can a 50 pedal not suck
00:22k-line is a company that has always
00:24intrigued me i first saw them at the
00:26namm show way back in the day maybe 2014
00:29when they brought by one of their power
00:31supplies and said we can make this for
00:33you and put your name on it that's basic
00:36uh private label services you see that
00:38where x5 has a tuner
00:41but electro harmonix has the same tuner
00:43so that's a really common thing in the
00:46i've never done that but i don't see a
00:49that's where i first saw them and then i
00:51learned they kind of came onto the map
00:54there's a guy named gary they're there
00:56in shenzhen china he was an engineer got
00:59uh and then 2018 they brought on a guy
01:02a friend of mine over facebook his name
01:06now i had seen petals that i really
01:09i had one of these for my son to noodle
01:12around on guitar it's basically
01:14a power amp you can plug headphones into
01:17it it also has a rat
01:18and a delay pedal it has little speakers
01:20it was kind of cool and i
01:21enjoyed how it sounded i'm a big fan of
01:24this pegasus which is
01:26a clone replica you've seen this on a
01:28live show i did about clons
01:30and then you've also seen the big orange
01:32which is an orange amp style distortion
01:36they also have some other products and
01:37to be honest i wasn't
01:39a super fan of a lot of the old branding
01:41but they always sounded really good
01:43so when shane comes on in 2018 they kind
01:48and the pedals in my opinion get way
01:51and more palatable to what i like and so
01:54i'm going to go through those and then
01:56a lot of times i see people saying oh
01:59getting paid promotion on products no
02:03and especially today a lot of these
02:07and i've bought several of these for
02:08myself and just to reiterate
02:10i show what i like on the show i have no
02:14attachment to this brand
02:15and that's why this show is the way that
02:19i don't do reviews i don't do these
02:22type deals with companies uh in this
02:26yeah i'm just gonna show you some pedals
02:28that i like that they make
02:29i'm gonna be really honest about it and
02:32uh it's my opinion though
02:33so get your hands on them yourself and
02:36let's look at these these are basically
02:3850 or 40 dollar pedals i'm going to show
02:41and i like these so i'm going to play
02:45first up is the simon
02:48super delay again i like where they've
02:50gone with the look of these pedals and a
02:52lot of this is because
02:53shane coming on working from nashville
02:56kind of working with their fan base on
02:58facebook and things saying hey what do
03:00you want these to look like
03:01what direction should we go in and so
03:03it's a complete rebrand
03:05and i like how this looks it's quirky
03:06and fun it has an old-school vibe
03:09and the functions are really simple so
03:12mix and repeats and then you have a
03:15that is really straightforward digital
03:19analog delay and a tape delay sound now
03:21this is a fully digital pedal so when
03:24analog or tape it's a algorithm it's a
03:27simulation something like you'd see with
03:29strymond or with my 3 series or whatever
03:32there's dsp in here processing emulating
03:35those sounds and i think they're very
03:37this is currently sold out at the time
03:41and shane says they're actually going to
03:43put a couple of these back in stock
03:45so hopefully they're back in stock when
03:46this airs but yeah i'm going to demo
03:48i'm going to play a really simple lick
03:50and i'm just going to rotate through the
03:52sound so you can hear it
03:53digital is going to be a perfect
03:56echo echo it's exactly going to repeat
04:00when you go to analog you're going to
04:01hear a real lo-fi repeat happen
04:04a glitchiness happen so that's emulating
04:06a bucket brigade chipset
04:08think about a boss dm2 or a memory man
04:10vibe and when i go to tape
04:12you're going to hear a flatness you're
04:16uh it's funny to me i always think of
04:17tape as sounding gray
04:19i know that probably doesn't help you
04:21but it's a very flat
04:22dull gray tonal perspective of a repeat
04:27and there might be a faint little warble
05:07next up is the m fuzz i don't know what
05:11m stands for but it's like there's
05:14this is a big muff variation or replica
05:17or clone or something like that
05:19to me it has some differences in the
05:22that the tone control sweep
05:25is different and i really like it so
05:29from that perspective i know it's
05:30modified i haven't seen the schematic or
05:33this is a classic big muff with an
05:35altered tone stack is what i believe is
05:38and i like the look of this again it's
05:40got an old school vibe
05:41and it's 50 bucks like 50 dollars that's
05:44three coffees is that right
05:46three coffees yeah three coffees
06:18sometimes you just gotta drop d and play
06:20a bunch of bull crap that's what i just
06:22did there we're gonna swing it the other
06:24you know offset kind of huge guitar
06:29bullcrap drop d i'm gonna put on a fancy
06:33and uh we're gonna play through a dumble
06:36sound pedal here it is the enchanted
06:39tone highly prized overdrive
06:41the current prices on a dumbbell are
06:44somewhere around a hundred thousand
06:46something like that so if you buy a
06:48dumbbell head and cab
06:50100 grand or you buy this for 50.
06:53wait 50 000 whatever
07:00i guess that's your choice so i'm gonna
07:02play my fancy boy guitar
07:03through this and i'm gonna bullcrap some
07:07stuff that i don't know how to play but
07:09i'm gonna be pretty confident in how i'm
07:11trying to play it and then you can also
07:13be the judge in the comments on how bad
07:15but then be the comments on if this
07:17sucks i don't think it sucks that's why
07:19but really it's up to you because what i
07:21say doesn't matter if you think it sucks
07:24if you think i suck i guess i suck here
08:04this next petal is one of those that's
08:06sold out and really its origins date
08:08back to the 1860s when lewis carroll
08:10wrote through the looking glass
08:12a nice little book and then walt disney
08:14i believe turned that into a cartoon
08:17that was before pixar you don't know
08:20it's called the wonderland there's a
08:21rabbit on it and it says ambient reverb
08:24curiouser and curiouser but there's
08:26another link it's in the 70s
08:28it's brian eno he created the sound of
08:31for pianos and keyboards and then it
08:35records like the unforgettable fire by
08:37u2 because he produced that record and
08:40yeah this is basically
08:41you know a 50 pedal that takes you back
09:41i'm a big fan of that shimmer sound and
09:43that does it really well
09:45uh next up is a distortion pedal it's
09:48black with three knobs
09:50it is a tribute to a very famous late
09:5270s distortion pedal
09:54and i know what you're thinking oh it's
09:56a rat no it's a ds1 and a very good
09:59take on the ds1 notably again in the
10:01tone control section
10:03a ds1 when you dime the tone control it
10:08your skin falls off and you can't
10:10breathe but with this one
10:12you turn it up and it stays smooth it's
10:14not harsh or brittle
10:15the osmium osmium one of those it's an
10:19element element 76 apparently
10:21i'm trying to tie the name together and
10:25well the boss compact series didn't drop
10:28till 77 the ds-1 is later than that
10:32i don't know it's a cool name i get the
10:34idea it's a chemical element
10:39i don't know here we go
11:25next is a fifty dollar pedal that has
11:28seven sounds i like this one because
11:32it is a multi-effect and it's a really
11:35that is good for any pedal board this
11:38could be a catch-all
11:40extra so you have a space on your board
11:43i kind of want some different options
11:45here for different songs or to noodle
11:47so it's called the multi-mod and it's a
11:49modulation multi-tool
11:51so i'm going to go through these effects
11:54chorus flanger phaser doubler vibrato
11:58really basic modulation sounds and you
12:02or speed depending on what the effect
12:04algorithm you switch
12:05to and then you have a kind of a depth
12:09i like this for fifty dollars it's wild
12:12it's a perfect pedal
12:13to put after your drives before your
12:15delays and just have some fun sounds and
12:17did i mention it's fifty dollars
12:20that's seven divided into 50 is like
12:23this is free i think the sounds are free
13:49the last of this series within their
13:52brand i want to play and show you is
13:54after this i'm going to honorably
13:56mention a bunch of other stuff really
13:59but this is called the jaguar it is
14:01classic high gain distortion
14:03this is a marshall brown
14:06sound in a box so this is a vintage
14:10completely modified high gain sound
14:14at the edge of what it can do and so a
14:16good example is eddie van halen's tone
14:19i can't play like van halen i don't even
14:23but i do kind of know that you really
14:25got me progression so i'm gonna butcher
14:29and then noodle around and make you
14:30think i know what i'm doing but i don't
14:33and then you can in the comments judge
14:36i am going to reach down and mess with
14:37this bias control it's cool because the
14:40bias is all about the voltage
14:42and on the old marshals they used a
14:43variac and they would
14:45vary the voltage of the marshall head
14:47that's part of the brown sound
14:50fifty dollars forty what is this one
15:32hi i'm here to talk about mistakes like
15:34the one josh just made while he was
15:37sometimes we make mistakes and we just
15:38gotta commit to them you know when
15:40when you're demo when you're done when
15:50i really like these 50 or less
15:53in this particular stage of the line the
15:57some honorable mentions i'm gonna
15:59mention a lot of things honorably
16:02and we're gonna edit the crap out of
16:03this so it's quicker you ready
16:05here we go there's the queen bee it's a
16:07different flavor and then you have the
16:09reverb i really like the old school
16:11reverb it has church hall and room
16:14and kind of a quirky playing music in an
16:17modulation the marina modulated reverbs
16:21so it's not modulation it's actually
16:23reverbs and modulation
16:25and it has tons of cool sounds i wanted
16:28to demo this but i don't have all day
16:29next the wave machine this is a play on
16:33boss chorus stack attack this is a
16:37and you can kick on compression then
16:40there's a bunch of two-in-ones
16:42and these are really cool but they need
16:45to be covered at another time or you
16:46just need to go buy them because they're
16:48really cheap as well
16:49they are called the dcp series
16:53so like look at this this has overdrive
16:55voice overdrive so three foot switches
16:58you have two gain stages really cool you
17:01have the easy driver
17:02eq distortion the artemis compressor
17:07sundance special i played this on a live
17:10fantastic overdrive with like a micro
17:14what's not to like here stellar eq
17:17compressor i think this is a bass
17:18player's dream personally acoustic
17:21and electric guitar not only could you
17:23put this in front of your drives and hit
17:26any drive and carve it into something
17:28else you could use it by itself this
17:30usable pedal in their whole line is it
17:34probably not is it what you need
17:37the brutus are brutus it depends on
17:40i see this all over instagram it's a
17:42distortion and overdrive with the voice
17:45it's a nice color purple as well look at
17:48you don't see that shade of purple that
17:51alone is worth the purchase
17:52am i right nightwolf great name
17:55fuzz voice overdrive so you have an
17:57overdrive and a fuzz face
17:59just buy these the andes andes
18:03andes are those is it like the andes
18:06mints i love those mints this has a bird
18:08on it though so it has nothing to do
18:09with mints i don't know overdrive voice
18:11look at the form factor this is nice i
18:13do wear a size 14. let me show you
18:15these are some of those giant horrible
18:19and these are size 14 so they're really
18:21giant and horrible so there's a problem
18:23here for people like me
18:24but here's the thing not all of you have
18:28big feet so buy these the key west
18:31overdrive compressor come on the devil
18:35delay chorus this is one i really wanted
18:39i don't have all day tiger shark it's a
18:42with a gate and honestly the tigers kind
18:45it reminds me of that golfer what's his
18:49mick nicholson tiger there's a tiger
18:53anybody here play golf you got it keep
18:55trying rhett plays goth
18:57ask rhett shull i don't know i'm a
18:59working man i play basketball
19:01and ride a bike he plays golf whatever
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