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I know you've stated you'd be doing less pedal reviews. Im glad this one made it through, I love your previous reviews of inexpensive Asian made pedals and go to them often for reference when shopping the bargain bin.
Always loved the format of your channel. Haven't visited your channel in a while , I find your playing has gotten a lot better. Maybe it's that beautifull strat...
I did a review on some of these pedals a while ago on my channel, I thought the delay was just fine, but the Plexi crunch was a whole lot of fun for the money!
Cool track. NuX seems to be coming out with some pretty great stuff. Gott'a say... I've had a belly full of $350 pedals that are here today and gone tomorrow.
Nice video I'll have to check out the line. The dumble pedal is actually based on an amp that was not the overdrive special. It was called the "steel string singer".
I believe all of these pedals are also available as the Amazon basics pedals now. They may even be cheaper through Amazon than wherever else you would buy the NUX brand.
when you get down in the 50 and under range, it can be tricky to judge how good or average they'll be. pedals are one of the most sought after electronics, but the downside is there are so many on the market. the main two im most familiar with is Boss, the Ibanez tube screamer, and MXR. when i started getting into pedals, those are the two i got most familiar with. MXR are usually known for good quality, same with Boss, but then you try others. TC Electronic, they make some decent stuff. the Spark Booster is a really good, i also have the Flashback mini delay. those are the two that worked out ok for me, sadly some of there other stuff didn't work out so well for me. on top of that they can get a little expensive. but this range of pedals has me curious.
I picked up a Steel Singer. It's good, but man, it sounds just like all my tubescreamers. With a variety of amps and a variety of guitars with a variety of pickups, it sounded like a TS. *Maybe* mine has a tiny bit more overhead, but that could just be component variance (it also could be the clipping diodes chosen). Basically it is nothing like the typical four knob dumble pedals out there (e.g. Zendrive). Those tend to be wide frequency range with a wide, shallow 'hump' for the frequencies they 'push' (the center of this hump is usually controlled by the 'voice' knob). In fact, they can pretty well be used as amp emulators, or to replace your amp's pre-amp section via the send return jack, because the freq range is so wide. Cheap examples of the typical d-style pedals would be the Joyo Tai-Chi, or one of the many mini pedals named 'Dumbler' (Tomsline, CNZ, etc). I have a Tai-Chi and love it to death. Nice and warm if you want, to cutting through the mix if you want. Same goes for my Tomsline Dumbler. But the Steel Singer, like the tubescreamer, has a sharp mid-hump, and a big cut in the low end. No real warmth. Only good for cutting through a mix. If you have a TS, you won't need the Steel Singer. Maybe the Steel Singer is emulating one setting on one Dumble amp, with the eq set to sound just like a tubescreamer. I dunno. But it's not what you'd expect from a 'dumble' pedal.
Andrew Howe I’d be interested in a more in depth review of your experience of the Tai-Chi if that’s not a problem Andrew. I didn’t know that one was a Dumblesque style OD.
@@JPMonstie First, to clarify, I'm speaking of the R-Series Tai-Chi with four knobs and 'underglow' lights, not their early three-knob Tai Chi which is kind of a 'blues distortion' pedal. Well, the R-series one is full frequency. You don't lose lows or highs. In fact, you can use to to replace the pre-amp section in your amp via the send-return jack. And it'll do well as an amp modeler if you wan to run it to a DAW or PA. It's warm. Keeps all the low mids. It's smooth. Not a crunch style OD. It's flexible. The voice knob lets you hone in on the frequencies you want emphasized. It's got more of a Fender Bassman tone to it than a Marshall or some 'high gain' style shred-amp, which makes sense. It feels 'natural' basically. In something of the same way an Xotic EP Booster feels like a natural full-range OD. Because it doesn't cut the low freqs, it may not be well suited for really boomy / loose amps, and it may be the best choice to live solos in certain band situations. Depends on the sonic space the rest of the band has left you to fill (and how you make use of the voice knob). But it really excels as a drive for just playing solo, because of the wide freq response. I've not played a real "Honey Bee" OD, but I do have the Joyo Sweet Baby clone, and their are similarities between the two. But the Tai-Chi is warmer, smoother and has a tone control.
How about using the plexi as a low drive, just to color the amp sound, and to Overdrive it with some other tube screamer I mean to use the plexi crunch always on, and manage the volume potenciometer
Nice video Shane, good showcase of the NUX cheaper range, the Plexi crunch sounded great and for the money is are bargain compared to many other expensive brands that are at least 4 x the price. I already have 3 NUX pedals, the Komp core deluxe, Mod core deluxe & Tape core deluxe and all are excellent pedals, I especially love my Tape core deluxe closely followed by the Mod core, in my opinion a very good brand of pedals. Cheers
Great review! Shane, did you change the pickups in your Trampas Green PRS SE? Sounded great; what pickups are they? EDIT: Nevermind, in your 'All of My Electric Guitars (2021) video you talk about it; Missing Link Audio pickups / MLA Peacock Set :)
I wonder if this is why there's a new wave of no name clones (e.g. Amazon Basics) with Nux internals? New circuits for the new releases and then OEM the old circuits out to make a few extra bucks.
Great demo Shane. I myself have purchased the delay pedal which I love (& I typically don’t like delay pedals) as well as the XTC OD, which thanks for the tip on shaping the sound, will try that out, but I find it has lots of gain on tap too
Awesome pedal line! and that track was funky rocky groovy man! I tried working with the NUX guys but they don't seem interested as they haven't responded but that Steel Singer is very intriguing! Awesome stuff! Cheers!
Speaking of cheap pedals Behringer has just dropped the price of a lot of their pedals to $29 and, while they don’t have the same build quality, many are direct clones of Boss equivalents.
Picked up Superfuzz today sounds awesome for the price, didn’t realise it had 3 channels lots of fun. $29 in Australia might have to add more to my collection .
The Vibrato, Tube Screamer and Superfuzz are the exact same circuits. At least that was true before. I haven’t seen anyone do a video checking these ones that have appeared on Amazon. Until I see anyone pull them apart, I’m not trusting Amazon, as they’ve been selling repackaged Caline and NUX pedals as a new brand recently. Still can’t believe people will pay so much for a Boss Vibe, when there are probably 50 better Vibrato pedals out there for less, and most are also analog choruses, or phasers.
"I got a Nu-X Recto" "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't know you'd been in the hospital, how's the new "recto"?" "Smart arse!" "Really!!?? Amazing what they can do with medical science these days. Does it do your taxes and whatnot?" I could do this all day.
