Thank you Jon for this amazing video and the kind words about this pedal, I'm really happy you like it. The song and the tone are sick as usual. If any of you, viewers, have a technical question regarding the Cold Lands, feel free to ask below and I will try to answer them all.
What types of pass filters do you implement and how many orders are those filters? Is there any hum cancellation or noise filtering built in? Strongly considering buying one but I need to know these questions' answers.
@@nazgullinux6601 it seems that youtube didn't send me an alert for this comment, sorry for replying late. This pedal has a very simple circuit and does not have any hum cancelling or noise reduction circuit, it's just 3 gain stages in series. The EQ is a passive baxandall EQ, Bass & Treble are low and high shelf filter, 6db/oct, which is what you'll encounter most of the time (I don't think I ever seen anything different), but because of the gain stage following the EQ, you can have a boost/cut. The presence control boosts the very high frequencies only, and it's also a high shelf filter at 6db/oct. The Depth control is a low shelf filter, same 6db/oct, but because it's just after the first gain stage, it affects the gain structure of the pedal more than the EQ (but on high gain, if you crank the EQ high, it will also affects the gain structure). Hope it answers all of your questions !
This is one of the best pedals to use for lower tuned guitars I use mine witha solid state Sunn and it crushes! I like the versatility you can get with the low end tones. Highly recommend!!! If you want one do not wait. You will not be disappointed.
I use Sunless Effects pedals since years now ! Especially the Winter OD which has become my go to OD pedal for crunch tones and to tighten high gain amps ! Insane quality and worth every penny !
Pedal sounds really good. Your demo was excellent in clearly showing what each control did in real time. Maximum information in minimum time - I like it. Thanks 😎
I have this pedal. It BLOWS my mind, very dynamic, responsive as a tube amplifier. It’s the easiest way to turn my amp into a MONSTER. Besides, i can get some really really good Jimmy Page/Led Zepplin vintage tone by tweaking the Depth knob! Super useful and it has been on my board ever since I had it.
Oh my lord, Jon. Not only is the tone great, but these riffs are also next to none. Maybe in another universe, we met up in high school and started a doom metal band.
Cool! It reminds me the sound of the Acapulco Gold of EarthQuaker Device (based on Sunn Model T Amp). That one is a single-knob pedal, by the way, so this one seems to be more versatile
Sounds like it could do some Peter Steele fuzzy bass tones possibly . I came to this video after watching the shoot out video. I had to hear some more of this pedal . Sounds pretty cool.
Ah yes, the price can be high for some people, but compared to some of other boutique pedal builders I think it's priced fairly. My marging on the Cold Lands is actually fairly low, so I priced it as fairly as I could. If I can interest you in getting one : that pedal is more versatile than just a Doom machine, it does more than good Fuzz tones, I personnaly think it achieves low to mid-high gain tones pretty well. You can use it as a preamp and plug it directly into an audio interface for recording, it should be versatile enough to cover a wide ranges or tones.
i love my Kuro T120 Matamp preamp-in-a-box pedal. i actually run it into a Matamp GT120MV and a couple of OR120s, but it still sounds great as a “dirt channel” for single-channel amps run edge-of-breakup :D
the Sunless sounds very accurate to my GT120MV, to be honest; though on my GT120MV diming the bass will cause it to fuzz out and break up MASSIVELY in the low-end no matter what you do (and regardless of master volume.) “Bass-Boost” and “FAC” controls on Matamps are six-position high pass filters right after the first gain stage, followed by the second gain stage and EQ; so, while they’re not as effective at shaping the overall tone, they shape the gain character massively. on old Oranges, though, the FAC and EQ have their positions switched, so the EQ actually does more to shape the gain character than the FAC, and the FAC and HF Drive are more of your overall tone shaping options. on both styles of amp, though, every tone control affects how much dirt you’re getting in all sorts of places in your signal. none of them are totally “clean” to to speak. which is what i love about em :D
@@shealeffler6147 Everything you said is correct 👌 However I did not compare the Cold Lands with the GT120 but it's close of my idea of what it should sound like (and it's voiced similarly). If it's convincing to someone who has the amp, then I'm happy.
@@sunlesseffects you did a great job! It totally does "the thing", and best of all it does "the thing" with some of the less common, tighter, less fuzzbox settings. most people seem to think the GT120 is just a giant fuzzbox, but it can actually get super chunky, kinda tight, and even do some really great warm chimey tones for stuff like strats. in most cases your interpretation of the bass control will probably be more useful haha. I recently reamped some DIs w/ footage with the intent of doing an amp demo, I think Leon Todd will post that up on his channel at some time in the near future if you're interested in the amp itself.
I mean, there are some obvious discrepancies that you'll get from the Rockerverb power amp in this clip. But if the Cold Lands was an amp, I'd wanna buy it haha
@@shealeffler6147 Yeah, I also chose a different approach than most tube to jfet conversion circuits out there. The very first prototype was made very simple and it was too gainy and fizzy, because I simply did like everybody else and I hated that design. But I understand why most people decide to do it that way, it's simple and cheap, because it produces a lot of saturation for a low voltage. In the end, it turns out this kind of circuit starts to come alive at 24v using "better" jfet transistors, very few companies do that. As for the power amp, I haven't been able to make any convincing tube power amp simulation circuits using solid state components, if one day I do, I think I will add a DI out to the cold lands.
this sound really good, but i have no orange and no reactive load. maybe you can do a test how pedals sound in compare when the output go into the PC and use the torpedo wall of sound amp simulation.? the wall of sound can emulate diffrent power amps and you can load same impulse into it
I have some demos on soundcloud with the cold lands (green100 back then) direct into a scarlett 2i2. They're outdated so I think I might record new ones, I think the wall of sound plugin might be interesting to try next time.
@@SonicDriveStudio nice, looking forward to it! By the way, if you want to check out more stuff in the stoner/sludge area, definitely listen to High on Fire! They have some really awesome tones and riffs, and they're a bit more thrashy than most stoner and doom bands :)
@@mrcoatsworth429 OTUsqueeky made a demo of the Green100 in front of the amp. The main circuit didn't change much between the two versions, it's mostly the circuit that raise the voltage to 33v that has been improved. If you want to hear how it sounds straight into an audio interface I have some demo on soudcloud but they're outdated.
Now that I’ve played this pedal.. how do you get rid of the massive amounts of flub it has? I used the same pickup and settings as you but sounds nothing like it 😂 I’m using a JCM900 so maybe that’s why? I’ve adjusted this pedal like crazy but it is not tight at all, definitely not for palm muting. Rhythm strumming is good though.
the best results come from it being before a muff-style fuzz, with the depth set at 1, presence at 10, bass at 10, treble somewhere at 3 and the master set relatively low
