4 Klon Style Pedals (Arc Effects Klone, EHX Soul Food, Mosky Golden Horse, Wampler Tumnus Deluxe) 

Dear every commenter on RU-vid: THIS is how you do nice comments.

The Pedal Bored Ain’t that the truth, brother!!

Exactly. The looper is the key.

Yep - dials don't have to be in exactly the same position - instead, compare where they have to be to get similar sounds (to show if it's possible to get similar sounds). And compare range of possible sounds by setting dials at extremes, one at a time. Play the same track through both pedals, switch back and forth... Good stuff.

Dear Every Confused Commenters: putting a cluttered multi-track snippet on a loop, removing any chance of dynamic interaction between the musician-instrument-effects, and ignoring the fact that the Klon is not a true bypass - yet putting it last in the chain - is not an optimal way of comparing the sonic attributes of these devices. It's lazy. If you want to know how well these devices perform, you have to go the full 9 yards and play a guitar with the device in the signal chain as they're intended to be used. Anything short of that is insufficient.

Thanks! I like to be pedantically fair to all the pedals! Even the naughty Chinese knockoffs.

I haven't put two guitars into the same amp since the early 80's, so this is as inaccurate as a comparison could be. The two guitars make up for a completely saturation. Not that I mind, but its not accurate or done correctly by any means

@Lars Thomsen I’m not actually putting two guitars into the same amp, I’m recording the same guitar into a looper twice. Saturation implies a signal that overloads a circuit but a looper doesn’t have a higher and higher load each time you add a new overdub into it. It’s much more like the difference between playing a single note and a chord. I totally appreciate that it doesn’t seem right to some people to demo a pedal with overdubs, and there’s a ton of channels out there that don’t, but for me it’s a trade off between demoing the sound accurately, and having something to listen to that is more interesting and complex - less boring more enjoyable 😀 I’d also note that all my demos are about *comparing* similar pedals, not demoing them individually in isolation, so as long as the input to each pedal is essentially the same, the comparison is valid.

@@Heatfarmer I'm not talking about putting two different guitars into one amp at all. I'm talking about playing into two different effects pedals side-by-side. If you play live into one pedal, and then play a second time into the other pedal as a comparison, it's likely that you're playing will vary from time-to-time. It's inevitable that a person will play differently each time, according to what they expect to happen, and therefore taint the comparison. My point is to do what the guy at Decibelics did, and use a single phrase into a looper pedal, and then run an ABY pedal to send the signal into each of the two pedals being compared. That way, the same exact playing speed, volume, pick dynamics, etc, goes into both pedals being compared.

I apologize if I'm wrong oh, but I don't think you understood what I was saying. I'm complimenting you on using a a looper pedal. I'm not talking about running to separate guitars into one amplifier. What I'm saying is, badly done comparisons are the norm, where a person will have two pedals, and play live into one pedal, and then play live a second time into the other pedal. Each time they play it is inevitable that they're playing will be different and they will play according to what they expect the pedal to do. Of course this variation in there playing will taint the outcome of the comparison. So the only proper way to do a pedal comparison is to play a single phrase, or set of phrases, into a single looper pedal, and then play that loop into each effect pedal that's being compared. It is absolutely the only way to do a fair and accurate comparison.

Thanks! I'm sure I stole the format from someone else though, so I can't really take the credit.

The Pedal Bored Well then, we wish more people would steal from the person you stole from then!

Agreed

Are you also knobs ?

@@schooldya. Knobs is his own special genius. I certainly stole something of the look of mine from him.

Thank you! Hopefully these new vaccines will help get the World back to normal and I can start making them again instead of being a teacher’s assistant to my children 😆

Jim Hutchison Thanks! And as an OCD pedal collector, I recommend you go look at my OCD pedal comparison.

I shall publish a textbook! But with Harry Potter-style pictures that move and play sounds.

I do try to make it not irritating to listen to for so long, so I'm glad you appreciated it.

No More Pedals Very glad to hear it!

Aw shucks.

Zeljko Mihalic That’s very nice, thank you

You just have to read a bunch of mindless prattle instead... :)

Thanks!

Robert Matthews Thanks! Nothing new coming at the moment, but once the world’s back to normal and my kids are back to school and I have a little more spare time...

Thanks! (Just so long as this isn't the first pedal demo you've ever seen.)

Ha! I'm glad to have finally given you what you wanted. Two more Klon-related videos in the pipeline too. You'll probably have Klon overload.

Richard Nemeth Thanks! Apologies for the real lack of content recently...

This is a great comment - straight to the point and much appreciated.

Thanks! 😁

I agree, those frusciante-like lazy cruisy tunes were very distractingly good. would love to jam with you! (Sydney)

Excellent RU-vid comments, exhibit A, see above.

Autumn Equinox No YOU are!

Thank you! It's on hiatus until my family's world is back to normal but fingers crossed for 2022...

Now that is too kind.

Thanks! I think I don't have loads of subscribers because I don't post videos often enough. It's such a chore... :)

dan b The comment after yours is ‘one of the best’ so I think you win.

Nice work from an early adopter.

The soul food is the secret sauce in my rig. I run it into my Friedman BE 100 or my Marshal 1987x Plexi and it sounds amazing. I have nearly a dozen high end over drives and none compare to the soul food. And at $80 it's a no brainer.

Bought mine when they came out as well, 45$ brand new with a power adapter, best gear purchase ever. Probably used it on every single guitar track I've recorded since, current favourite application is a Blues Driver into the Soul Food, both at around 9'clock gain, sometimes even lower.

It's very nice to be appreciated.

COINCIDENCE! I have a Tube Screamer video shot and lined up to edit! It's all versions of the TS808 though - an Ibanez, Mooer, EHX and the Dunes. Plus a separate TS808 / TS9 comparison. I just need to get round to editing them...

@@ThePedalBored Can't wait for that . I own a TS9 with a 1981 Serial number... I was given it 3rd hand from a friend around '89 . It's been around the block but sounds wicked , especially with a Strat. I've never bought another Tubescreamer ,so I have no idea if mine is any "better" or "worse" than a reissue or a Bad Monkey or a Joyo ..or any other Green pedals 😁👍

Thank you!

I'm doing nothing special with it - it's just a great little amp!

Thank you! I guess I need to go find me some solo Frusciante then. I'm not a big RHCP fan - but maybe his solo stuff will win me over.

Thanks!

Dude - THANKS.

I just bought one recently, very creamy when dialed in. If you don't like it at $20, you might not like the clones, except for the Tumnus, that one is tweakable to suit many needs.

@@Majik53 I'll have to buy it one day. Would you give me an example of a creamy tone you had in mind? Like a song with a similar tone, because I wouldn't really describe anything I've yet heard of the golden horse as creamy. Thanks

I think by "creamy" he means "warm". Or maybe "transparent". Or maybe "minatory", "uxorius" or "ostrobogulous". All great adjectives to describe sonic properties that we can all agree on.

@@interruptor - Warm works.

@@interruptor This made me laugh so hard... Oh my..

Thank you - I compose all the demo loops myself so it’s nice to hear that people like them!

@@ThePedalBored Your loops rock!

bought it too. great little pedal!!

Pleased to say my son convinced me to get one (what could I loose at the price!). Also pleased my son is playing again, but that’s another story...

Thanks - I really appreciate the nice comments!

Thanks!

It's definitely an EXCELLENT pedal.

Absolutely great comment!

Yeah, I bookmarked it so I can come back and just listen.

EHX make such good pedals at such good value.

The best kind of comment!