Really good choice of using an inexpensive but excellent amplifier to run this pedal through. This is a setup a lot of players will actually have and really shows what the pedal might do in their own room.
@@TaylorDanley Seriously dude, I have the Mk2 artist combo and Im in a band with a second guitar player who uses a 5150. and im able to get a sound that sounds convincingly similar and also turn my combo into my amp head by being able to connect the amp to any external cab (8 or 16 ohm).
In 1992 Metal Hammer wrote a review of this new band called Fear Factory, they had just released Soul Of a New Machine. I was 4 days away from turning 16 and my Mother said for my birthday she would take me out after she finished work and get my Air Jordans id been dreaming of. On that night over McDee's, shoe box at my feet she gave me a card also with $20 to spend on something else. Well, the reviewer said that album had "the heaviest guitar tone he'd ever heard" As I was a couple of years into my metal guitar-playing journey at that time I was all about tone. If a band had a guitar tone that was brutal, i instantly loved that band! Right after eating, I dragged her to Real Groovy Records in Auckland Queen Street to find this album! I saw the title here and memories came flooding back of that week and of life in the early 90s. Thanks for the fantastic content, I have pointed my 16-year-old son to your channel as he too is now getting in to Gear, already being a wicked guitar player of 8 years now. Your channel has become a really cool Dad and Son discovery joint activity we enjoy watching together, then experimenting with a lot of kit you've reviewed. Many thanks from New Zealand !
Fear Factory the song Scum Grief has an absolute filthy guitar tone. I too heard that in my teens and was like WTF! and then the Self Titled Crowbar album came out in 92/93. Game changing brutal recordings. Before the whole 7 string movement, As a guitarist I used to call it tuning down to "Z" lol.
@andycornman783 😆 yeah , I remember tuning down to C Std first time around 17 and thought I'd just discovered thunder palming muting. It's crazy how ones perception changes over time of what's considered "low tuning" Today A is as low as I like. 8strings have never been my thing despite loving Meshuggah's Nothing album when it dropped.
I'm basically a Blues and Funk hobby guitarist, but I love coming over here and seeing what's up. Yup, this shit be heavy, sounds awesome! Great review/demo as usual.
I don't think be ever heard a more articulate tone with that much gain in my life... that's insane... I'm not into extreme metal like that BUT a tone with SOOO much gain being thrown at it and STILL being able to hear EVERY SINGLE STRING is absolutely insane and very impressive.. kudos!!!
This may be one of the quickest decisions I've made on a peice of gear..watched the video. Agreed with everything you said..Had a smoke..made the purchase. Hell I wasnt even really looking to pick up a new pedal/pre or amp.
Wtf this sounds like a blackened death metal shredders dream ! Ive been playing for over 20 years and havent wanted to get a pedal this bad in a Long Long time.
Those tones are absolutely crushing and evil. I hadnt gotten around to trying the purple nightmare sim on the STL Tonality Lasse Lammert suite until recently and it's so brutal. I'm a fan
@@TaylorDanley I’ve got the mk 11 version because it does the 5150 thing . If you use the software on the lead channel with a set of 11’s my choice btw anyway you can get John Petrucci boogie mark series vibes
Thanks for demoing the Vintage side for us old metal heads! This pedal sounds really good. I write a split of classic metal and some drop C standard more modern sounding stuff. This could work for me for a single pedal. I’m using two preamp pedals to do it now. JCM800 tube preamp and a Dual Rec tube preamp pedal from Arthur Sounds. I use an Axiom Effects PAE-1 inline to the fx return on my HiWatt Super Leeds 150 head to dial in the tube power amp emulation for the full amp sounds. I like his pedal’s sound. Decent price for all the features. If you get a chance, you should check out the new HiWatt Super Leeds 150 head. Solid state head with 2.5 channels - clean, vintage, and high gain with Contour knob. The Vintage channel is really Marshall JCM800 voiced and the modern hi gain with contour does more Dual Rec sounds. It was $374 brand new and quickly became a favorite for solid state sounds. I just use the tube preamps and PAE-1 for the true tube feel of the amps they are designed as. The HiWatt on its own is crazy good too though. The fx loop is great and real spring reverb tank in it. Thanks for the video. Definitely like the Heavy Hatchet pedal.
IMO Driftwood amps sound like what you would get if you aimed for the German Amp stereotype (hi-fi, wall of sound) by just combining the accentuation of a Mesa Triple Crown or Bandlander (aka slightly less scooped Rectifier, but more aggressive upper mids, lots of extreme low end thump and high end attack) with an Orange Rockerverb (lots of low mids, slightly scooped true mids, very clear and balanced upper mids and treble without being overly harsh). In general, I've always felt like "German Voicing" is essentially just British Voicing and American Voicing averaged together, to give a more Hi-Fi, balanced sound.
Doesn't change the fact there are no isolated experience solutions, which everyone desperately needs. It's way easier to just punish loud players, and it's a source of income. Kinda makes one not want to go to NAMM... Why would you go if you can't do the one thing you absolutely need to do?
Maybe that's the case. But there's way better ways to deal with it than ticketing vendors that paid thousands of dollars to be there and are trying to showcase their gear, which is why they paid to be there. Also, their sensitivity is ridiculous, I was doing a demo at a booth and couldn't even hear myself of the backing track because they had to turn it down so low. It was a shit show.
Have you try the JHS Hard Drive? It's been popping out quite a lot recently just wonder how it sounds for player who plays Metal a certain way. Crazy playing as usual.
A driftwood purple nightmare has been my bucket list amp since I first saw Ola demo one a few years back. This would be great except I just dropped a bunch of$ on a quad cortex ( which is f***ing amazing). I’ll have to search and see if anyone has put up any neural captures of a purple nightmare. Great demo!
The vintage voice sounded like a SLO.... pretty awesome. The modern voice is flat out sickness!! ... and I just bought 3 new metal pedals... how can I justify one more 🤣🤘
I know its not the topic of this video (the driftwood pedal sounded insanely tight) - but would you recommend the boss katana for this type of setup? (someone looking for a good baseline amp but can use pedals like the Heavy Hatchet to mold it into something fairly different)
WELL, I’m gonna be sharing a office space with Simon (cultfx) starting next week, and he carries driftwood for US distribution now, SO MAYBE WE WILL SEE THAT COMPARISON CHAMP 💪
just for shits and giggles, how does it sound as distortion infront of the katana clean channel?`i have the katana mini and wonder if this would sound good :D ( yes i know this is double the price of the mini :D )
Hey bro, Line 6 come up with new Line 6 Pod Express pedal that looks very handy for home headphone plug and play on guitar, can you review it and give an honest opinion? Thanks, watching your channel for years... Cheers!
Dang, I don’t understand people putting these pedals in the effects loop. Idk anyone who actually use these pedals like that. Anyway, that intro track was so good!
Thanks dude! I'm not using it in the fx loop exactly, the way it's ran is guitar>boost/noisegate>heavy hatchet>fx loop return. When you do it this way you only get the power amp section of the amplifier, so the tone you are hearing is from the preamp pedal and not a combination of the preamp pedal and the preamp section of an amplifier. Hope that makes sense!
@@TaylorDanley It makes sense. I just wish you would've gone into the preamp of the amp. I know a lot of youtube guys love demoing pedals this way but it's much different than running through the front of the amp. which is how I run my pedals. I'm sure most people run their distortion pedals through the front of the amp.
When pushing this pedal through this setup, did you notice any changes in the sound of this pedal at lower volumes? I value your opinion on this because you seem like a true metalhead, unlike most RU-vid metal guitarists🤘🏻🤘🏻
It technically is a combo, it has 2 (4invh maybe?) speakers. But IMO it’s a better form factor. I love that you can take it to practice, leave your cab in the rehearsal space, then take the head home for bedroom jams. It’s so sick.
Dood....if the folks don't get what you're saying about articulation in the dissonance/caos,then they might wanna move on. Playing with "muddy fingers" through a high gain(perhaps even dense) structure can kill a vibe very quickly. It's an art and science kinda deal. Great video,great pedal,great playing and I always enjoy your personality shining through....and knowledge.
Thank you! Yeah man, there’s something about unbridled aggression that gets sterilized when you play perfectly. I intentionally play sloppy sometimes because it sounds better 🤷♂️ or more “authentically violent” I would say 😂
