The best demo of these pedals on RU-vid! Hands down. I love how you explained and showed how these pedals work in connection to your amplifier. Awesome job! I’m buying both
Finally, a guy that knows how to use an overdrive pedal! Uses the volume knob to push the tubes and then shapes it with the other knobs. The Southland has more compression and pushes more. It basically takes off where the Lightspeed left off. Very nice video and tones!
Great tones and info thanks Jason. Have you tried the Greer Special Request D-Style FET Preamp pedal ? I'm using the Southland (on only 8 o'clock gain) with my J Rocket Rockaway EQ/OD (barely any gain, but great EQ flavour) and the Special Request before both. For a different drive flavour I've also got the wonderfully chewy J Rockett Broverdrive boosted by the same 2 pedals, then a Dude at the end of the chain for singing solos.
Awesome! The only pedal I ever found that did that too - no change in the amo sound at all - is the TC Electronic Spark booster (not the mini). It's a big deal. Glad I found this!
I’m a big TC Spark mini user. The momentary function is such a fantastic feature and yeah, it’s transparent with TONS of headroom. That’s my go to lead boost.
I'm also into transparent clean boost and overdrive without the midrange hump. Have you tried swapping the order of these pedals to have the Lightspeed push the input of the Southland? You might find it a bit more versatile as it will quickly give you two more distinct flavors of gain on the Southland.
You think the way I do when using a boost and overdrive. Dial in great natural guitar / amp tone, then use the pedals for subtle enhancement, never losing the natural guitar / amp tone. Too many players at the club level botch this up badly. I'm currently using the Lightspeed, JHS Morning Glory, J Rockette Archer interchangeably. All 3 work well as as a boost OR drive.
ya if you dont follow that it wont matter what amp or guitar or pedal or cables you use you just get a flat compression tone oddly enough that works for classic covers but i dont like only having 1 tone i use a page for a great clean sound and the overhive for medium gain and a germanium fuzz for heavy and so versatile that gives three distinctivley different sounds plus combos although i prefer not to stack drive pedals im gonna subscribe just because of his description of pedal based distortion!
Great video. Should I put the Lightspeed closer to the guitar or the amp or vice versa for the Southland? Which should be closer to the guitar, or closer to the Amp? Thanks for any help.
I preferred the sound with the Southland on the guitar side. There’s no right or wrong or wrong way. I leave the Lightspeed on all the time set for just a little edge and kick on Southland when extra gain is needed. Experiment and see which way sounds best to your ears.
Any experience with Barber Gain Changer? Gain Changer 'SR' actually seems more readily available, about the same price as these, and supposed to be similar yet more versatile. Useful ggod demo by the way, appreciated. I am most interested in using an overdrive with MİAB type low gain pedals. Tube screamer used to work fine, when I had one, but looking for stg better maybe?
My thing is how does it sound on a lead channel of like say blue channel evh 5153 or Marshall dsl red channel like a tubescreamer is like volume all the way up tone about middle and drive down
Would this work with a Fender Deluxe Reverb to keep the same tone and fullness, but add some overdrive? The Wampler Tunmus works well, but may like the Lightspeed overdrive sound better. Any thoughts on this?
@@JasonGutierrez Was debating adding a 100th pedal to collection, but after watching the Reverb demo and rave reviews, had to try it! Also ordered Black Tweed box, cool amp in box pedal!
Just wow, man! Your playing is beautifully raunchy. I was already digging the LS, but maybe I need to add the Southland and run P90's like you just did. Can't play like that though.. but a boy can dream!
the lightspeed is a bit like a treble booster i have an ephelion and its great! its a low to mid gain mix cutter i find it lacking bass maybe even low mids for a certain amp it will be the best ever! and other amps not so much but that goes for all gear right ! they should make pedals for specific amp guitar combos if it sounds good on everything then great on nothing
Interesting. Part of the whole point of this was showing how the Lightspeed is transparent and doesn't add or cut any frequency in the spectrum when set to unity gain, and beyond that it adds harmonic content, cutting nothing, so I'm not sure why it sounds like a treble booster to you when it is a transparent gain/harmonic booster with all of the multiple amps I own.
John Von D I think sometimes the words “focused mids” are used in place of “scooped”. It’s marketing spin. Definitely less mids as you increase volume and gain with Southland. Not with Lightspeed.
A boost / treble boost and a mild overdrive , any bb style , klone clone or TS do exactly the same but if you want to spend 500 bucks in a fancy drive and not use the drive knob to cross the flat line then do what this guy does , light speed can do great drives and southland crunch but you won't get it and the unity level if you get the volume up and lower the gain it works the other way around and ad more volume from your amp
Wrong. Klon or TS add mids, TS cuts low end. I’ve experimented with MANY versions of those pedals. I don’t want a pedal that adds stuff I don’t want to hear or takes away stuff I do want to hear. Greer stuff doesn’t change your basic EQ, that’s what TRANSPARENT is all about. And it didn’t cost me $500 for the two pedals. However, I recently replaced the Southland with the Black Mountain Crunch Drive and it’s Plexi Crunch perfection.
@JasonGutierrez a ts style pedal like most people when used as a boost , no gain , tone 9 o clock volume noon bingo a clean boost that adds some dirt but by cutting the tone you bring down mids too for the past 40th years people is been doing that no rocket science if you go like most flat you gonna have mids , the magic on a drive pedals happens when you push the gain , specially with this "transparent drives that add the clean signal to the distorded signal , it works like the OP and soft clipping drives , yes ts and klones are full of mid-range but none cuts low frequency specially the new clones tumnus has great lows better that the original circuit , keeley oxblood , jhs moonshine , duellist (has both ts and bb) all have the toggle to add bass , hyped names and beautiful enclosures in a 10 dollar circuit just like the klon and the irony , the one who paid the one who believes its magic
@@popchanpop970 you’re not paying attention. I use gain pedals like channels on my amp. I leave the Lightspeed on 90% of the time and the inherent sound and feel of any amp I plug it in to (I have many amps) is maintained and improved, and I’m able to get more overdrive or edge of breakup sounds without being cranked up to ear ringing levels. I fully understand how people use Tube Screamers and Klons. I’ve used them. I’ve been in this game since 1986. And I said the TS loses low end NOT the Klon. I’ve almost never paid full price for a pedal. I’ve built several pedals myself. The Greer stuff works, there’s no bias here, the proof is in the pudding. My buddy has an expensive King of Tone and I hate it when compared to my pedals. I also have an Analog Man Sun Face I custom ordered and paid too much for cause my Dunlop Shrine series Fuzz Face is right on par with it and cost a 3rd of the price. I don’t judge anything by the price, I judge it by the sound, but I am willing to pay a bit more if I know what I’m getting. I can coax a good sound out of almost anything at this stage of the game. Most of my guitars are not expensive. I have very few guitars that cost over $1000 and the same with my collection of amps, though they are worth more now. Stop hating and trolling and go play your guitar. ✌️
If you don’t want to color your sound why not just use a boost like the katana that gives you 30 dB and doesn’t color your tone. I had to Greer petals and didn’t like either of them but the southland sounds better than all of them. Nice vid
Cinnemax77 Why would I use an overdrive if I didn’t want to color my sound? Obviously I want to color my sound with OVERDRIVE but I want to maintain the basic EQ curve, tone and feel of my guitar & amplifier. The Lightspeed actually is better than the Southland but together they are a great combo for higher gain. I already have a great clean boost pedal for solos.
The best demo of these pedals on RU-vid! Hands down. I love how you explained and showed how these pedals work in connection to your amplifier. Awesome job! I’m buying both
