Behringer TO800 Vintage Tube Overdrive 

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Yea where he did the power chords sound like America idiot by green day

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Metal with this pedal? Lol no, not if your amp is on clean. You crank this pedal you get a nice Green Day/Stevie Ray Vaughan type distortion, not metal. This is not a metal pedal

​​@@leob4403 Obviously you put it in front of an amp that's already got some drive. Like most Marshalls don't have enough gain for metal. JCM 800 is one of the more used metal amps and unless cranked to max it really doesn't habe very much distortion. Also Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi ran a tube screamer and treble booster straight into his Laney and that was his sound. Iron Maiden used them too. Zakk Wylde uses OD-1 which is basically Boss' version of the TS9 with a bit more gain into a JCM 800. First time I played that amp I was confused, barely any more drive than a Plexi. Well it needs something like this. Unless of course Black Sabbath, Ozzy and Maiden don't count as metal.... Yes if you want death metal sounds you need a solid state distortion pedal like the black one by Boss. I forget the name but many use that.

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l I get what you're saying, but shouldn't a pedal always be labeled according to what it does on a clean channel though? I'm actually curious about this. Otherwise couldn't pretty much any pedal be called a metal pedal? Like you have this nice gentle reverb pedal or whatever and you put it on an amp with cranked distortion and call it a metal pedal?

@@leob4403 Not at all. And yes any pedal can well be used for metal, Adrian Smith used a tubescreamer, as did Iommi etc... in front of a dirty amp which is how most use it. Of course you can put it in front of a clean amp for blues etc... some are labeled because they are specifically designed for a purpose like the MT-2 or BD-2 and that's whete they would shine the most. But the BD2 is just an overdrive you can use it for metal and I have for years. So most stuff isn't really designed for a particular style and putting pedals in front of a fully clean amp is aomething that wasn't that common back in the day. These days people have huge pedal boards and use a clean amp as just an amp, to make it louder but the tone is all in the pedals. While in the 70s/80s you would generally have one or two pedals like an OD an EQ and maybe a delay and most of the tone came from the amp. And you wouldn't call a reverb pedal a metal pedal since it doesn't interact with the gain and in pedal speak metal just means very high gain. So anything that provides gain can be used for metal. Yngwie Malmsteen has an old-school DOD 250 overdrive into a Plexi and that's his sound. Most metal players don't use something specifically just made for metal like the black Boss pedal, MT2 I think. But plenty do, for the more trash/death metal type of sound, while classic metal is more a classic rock sound with some more gain. Really it's up to you and what your ears like best. If metal than I am more into Maiden, Sabbath or Priest and that sound is made with overdrive + 1959SLP or JCM800 type amps, themselves not metal at all. But responsible for some of the most iconic metal soubds out there. Appetite for Destruction was recorded with a Plexi. Later Slash went to JCM800 but still that amp with no pedals is very clean. Even fully cranked it's not a lot of gain for metal standards.

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Thanks for watching, Zach! I’ve got to try a Bluesbreaker style pedal sometime! I don’t think I’ve played one yet

Heck yeah! There are so many great affordable tube screamer type pedals today 👍👍

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Glad you like it! Thanks for watching!

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Sounds pretty great on bass (but your bass demos always sound great). Behringer make a specific bass overdrive with active bass and treble eq controls

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That would have been a good idea!

Hahaha, I know you like the Behringer stuff! Stay tuned bc I’ve got more coming!! Thanks so much. For watching Chris!

I’ve found that stacking drives & boosts into the super fuzz can make a little difference but it’s very subtle. My theory is that the super fuzz circuit is such a drastic design that there’s not much that changes the sound when stacking pedals into it

Yep, you nailed it. Some sort of d’addario flats set I think. Can’t remember the exact gauges

So glad to hear you liked the video! Haven’t tried running any pedal into the TO800 but I’ll have to do that!

Your setup may be starving power from the fuzz? That’s the only thing I can think of. If it’s not getting enough power, you can get a starved fuzz sound which may be what you’re describing. How are you powering your pedals when using the fuzz with other ones?

@@EricMerrow Thanks! That's almost for sure the case (how could i miss that...?) I supply power to my pedals with a 9v power supply/transformer from where I made some kind of "homemade" extension to bring power to 4 pedals at once. Indeed I get strange sounds and noises when I use 4 pedals at once and mostly from the last pedal from the chain. And also more often from the fuzz pedal somehow, when it is not in front... anyway, I guess I will have to invest in some "normal" power supply instead of trying some broken DIY :)

Great application!!

Same. It sounds so badass.

pretty good, right?!

Definitely kinda has that vibe!

Definitely!

Hi! Iommi used a treble booster into a laney amp. I would check out the Walpurgis from @doesitdoom It is a pedal meant to emulate that specific sound! 🤘🤘

I’m pretty sure it was just standard tuning

Whether the pedal is worth it is really up to you to decide and can be determined on a few different factors. Ya'know.. if you want a "tube screamer" in that classic green box then you'll want to go the Ibanez route. If you're on a major budget, this behringer absolutely does the trick and sounds fantastic! If you're hesitant of the behringer, but still want to be budget conscious, there are many different options with a higher build quality for not much more money. The first that comes to my mind is the Blue Skreamer from Sonicake. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching!

@@EricMerrow sir thank you so much for the meaningful information