4 Blues Breaker Style Pedals Shootout (JHS, Mooer, Snouse, Wampler) 

I've gotten some of my guitar player buds on this channel too man, simply the best pedal demo's on the internet.

I prefer 'hands up'.

Awesome songs and no bullshit!

No kidding eh!?!

It would be great if you would star a channel just playing these tunes so we could see the hands and learn them tunes!!!

Thanks! It's partly why it takes me about a month to do each of them...

Great playing. Using the looper is a great idea. I just used one to try and dial in a venuram shanks ods-1 and figure out which pedal should be first. I was using a Kingsley page 2 and the venuram shanks ods-1. Decided with my rig shanks into page into analogman ardx20 delay or strymon volante work best. Now I just need to find the right reverb and tremolo. Suggestions?

Thank you! I spend ages coming up with loops for these things, and inevitably feel like they're not good enough after I've shot the demo and it's too late, so it's nice to read comments like this.

Exactly! I have a fairly new American Professional II jazzmaster and have been wondering which overdrive pedal would suit my guitar and playing style and this demo helped a lot!

Agreed, the Morning Glory surprised me. Sounded awesome.

Yup. JHS makes good tone.

Yep, same. That little boost in the upper mids -- *chef's kiss*

It's super bright, so a lot of people "Pepsi Challenge" the situation and pick the brighter option as better. We like bright sounds and loud sounds, at a quick listen. As a tone shaper, though, it's hard to get the same EQ as an original Blues Breaker with the brightness in the tone stack though. Never quite sounds the same, and on some setups can be very harsh for a permanent sound. Good pedal, but it's essentially a Blues Breaker With More High End.

Thanks!

I liked the Wampler a lot - it's more my kind of thing, I think.

Me to, I like it the most

This video is why I bought the pantheon over the morning glory.

@@dookieeater Same!

No you are not. Generally, I seem to really like wampler dirt pedals. Both the pantheon and the tumnus since you mention them and also the velvet fuzz. I definitelly prefered the pantheon out of those 4

Andrea Palin This is perfectly explained - thank you!

Thanks! I hope to be able to make more soon…

Excellent.

It’s not ended! Just on pandemic hiatus :(

I stack mine with a Plimsoul and it's awesome, such an underrated pedal

That's the way to do it. Tubscreamer or some other mid-focused OD, and it rips. Nothing wrong with it (if there was, that would mean there's something wrong with the OG Bluesbreaker as the Mooer is almost identical in tone).

same here + TS for the greatness- however after some experimentation i found that blues crab into mini TS rips more .I also dial back the volume a little on the mini TS and no gain at all - perfection although a little noise with P90- noise gate takes care of it though..

I also have the Tomsline "Bluesy". I am thinking of trying a Nux Morning Star that is supposedly a clone of the JHS morning glory

waiting list for a pedal, gee ….he will get his pedal sound ripp off from another cie at that rate.That’s the way it works nowadays, and some people will take advantage off it by reselling them at a higher price….

This progression is sweet, sounds like an album closer. Really well done

Thanks!

I used to really like the pedals with the 35 options of knobs, now simplicity wins the day. In an emergency we want to be able to tweek stuff very fast This is why I kind of hate my Mesa amp too many knobs to tweek .

andy biondi Exactly! Drive, tone, volume are perfect- nothin more! I like a ton of knobs and switches on my jaguars/jazzmasters but the pedals can stay simple

@@andybiondi195 Yeah I agree with that. I find clipping switches to generally give me a level of control I can quite do without. But I have come to appreciate bass knobs in flatter eq pedals in addition to the traditional treble "tone" knob. I have a Timmy and an ODR-1 clone with the added bass knob, and in both it really helps shape the pedal to the room and the context.

Pablo Moll Thanks! All down to the Boss Katana and my lovely Jazzmaster

Good point! That's an extra purchase though, and doesn't change the sounds the pedal can make, which is why I didn't include it.

You could run 2 of the Mooer-type clones for less $ than a JHS w "red remote" (what a cash grab - should be included)

shaps6 Glad to help!

Thank you! This is very nice to read. Yes, I need to get back into comparing modulation pedals I think. Univibes, phasers, flangers...

No, super thank YOU!

Took the words right out my mouth. Blues crab gets the job done BUT if money were no object I'd definitely take a black box.

SPEND MONEY SPEND MONEY SPEND MONEY

The Pedal Board is an EVIL EVIL EVIL PERSON! Do you suffer from GAS? Call 1800-GAS-HELP for professional counseling. (Bloody hell, I hope that number doesn't exist, might be a sex line or something..).

Check out the Keeley 1962x and Tapestry Audio Fab Suisse. Two of the best that arent included here, presumably because the Pedal Board isn't omniscient and omnipotent.

@@mattgilbert7347 I know about those. Dig'em, but I prefer the two I mentioned. Thanks for the tip, though. Cheers

@@mattgilbert7347 Or assistance for people with inflated bowels.

Josh Muz There are MORE switches?!

The Pedal Bored hahahaha oh man I just realised what your saying, my bad I didn’t notice that one your using had external dip switches. Sorry. Haha

Hey, thanks for the nice comments. Re: tube amps - I get this question/suggestion a lot, so here's my thoughts: Firstly, both those 'budget level' amps are three or four times the price I paid for my Katana. Secondly, A LOT of people have digital/transistor/modelling/solid state amps now, many, many more than have tube amps, so there's definitely some validity in showing how these pedals work with an amp part-time players are more likely to have. (And not just part-time ones - there are plenty of high-end modelling amps these days, like the Kemper, used by professionals, and many musicians prefer solid state over tube: Robert Smith from The Cure has long used the Roland Jazz Chorus, for example.) Thirdly, these pedals - the Blues Breaker, the Tube Screamer, the Klon - were specifically designed to REPLICATE the sound of pushing a tube amp into breakup. The Blues Breaker is supposed to sound like Clapton's Marshall amp with everything on 10. The pedals are designed to make tube amp sounds, not to push tube amps. And fourthly, what sounds best is totally up to you. It's individual preference. There's no right and wrong with these things, just what you like. I like my Katana :)

The Pedal Bored this is why you’re my favorite pedal channel. You don’t just cater to upper crust folks who can afford expensive gear. Lot of times, us solid state users are talked down to by others who insist you NEED a tube amp. It’s simple economics for me. I have a family. I can’t justify spending a lot of money on gear. $800 might be reasonable for a tube amp (E.G. Hot Rod Deluxe or Marshall DSL) but in real dollars for a family of 8 like mine, that’s a LOT of money. The Katana 50 cost $230 and that was stretching it. My wife was kind enough to get it for me for my birthday/Christmas last year. And it works good. It takes pedals well and even has a great sounding overdrive in the brown channel. I’d love a Corvette but can barely swing a Camry. It oftentimes comes down to what we can afford.

Sheesh I never thought of my $600 brand new Blues Junior as a budget amp!

@@ThePedalBored Tube amps are great but I prefer solid state. And the katana is also an awesome amp. I have a katana and an orange crush 65 as my main amps. And I own a couple of tube amps, a carvin and a blackstar, but I like the solid state. Oh I also have a Vox hybrid that also sounds good, with pedals. The internal effects aren't good.

Ha! Not my intention, but thanks!

@@ThePedalBored Same. Damn that's good! What are you playing exactly?

@@Stoffendous something I composed myself. It’s kind of in a Noel Gallagher / Oasis style I reckon, which turns out to be appropriate given the name of the JHS pedal 😀

It is bluesbreaker style?

The point of the looper is that the signal going into the pedals is identical though. So it's technically a perfect a/b comparison. The pick attack you're missing from live playing would also come with subtle playing differences which tend to make the a/b comparison done that way not quite as accurate.

Perfect!

what did you end up with?

Thank you!

228560smur Oops

Simon Allaway Ha! Excellent. Glad to help.

shredgd5 well you can always dial it back

In this case, yes.

Ironically, that feature is what has made the Tumnus so popular compared to other klones. In this demo, it's rolled off at one point to sound almost identical to the MG.

I know your comment is years old, but perhaps the Wampler pedals account for low tunings and baritones? Maybe even bass? Makes it way more versatile. 😊

Soon…ish.

I have a list of about 15-20 demos I've got planned to get through first, but I'll make a note!

@@ThePedalBored no hurry, I love your content! :)

krisofnh Link To the pedal? Not sure I know it...

Ooh I wish I'd known about the Fab Suisse beforehand - would have been perfect in this lineup!

@@ThePedalBoredKiller pedal. Iwant a Keeley 1962x to stack with it, but the store that had the last 2 in Australia are sold out. There are a few cheap-ish 1962s around, but idk. I wonder what the drive in the new DDR is based on? Sounds Bluesbreaker-ish.

Matt Gilbert DDR drive is one half 1962x, one half Red Dirt

@@ThePedalBored And one half ManBearPig

On your Mark Gattiss?

I read about it and by all accounts it's a completely different circuit to the original, whereas these pedals are all clones or tweaked versions.

The Pedal Bored whoa I never knew that before. Thanks! Always loved the way you compare pedals in the channel, real easy to digest for my rather low attention span lol

I had a BB II for a little while, and never really connected with it. It always sounded a little sterile to me.

I Have the BB2 and Its completely different of the original BB. I have also a Tomsline Bluesy and this one yes, sound like the original BB.

The Snouce Smokes out the Marshall Blues Breaker !

The input Z is 1 Meg so passive or active shouldn't matter. Its probably just the hyper trebly Jag p ups, and they're in parallel. If you don't have a problem w EMGs, than other p up should be ok too.