Anyone else can just sit and listen to these two play and talk about gear all day. Mick your guitar playing your low key amzing! Phenomenal guitar playing. Your not given enough credit. Really dig it guys! Have been watching ya'll from very beginning love the show.
YES! Barber Electronics is a brand I've had on the board for the last decade. The Gain Changer (original and SR) and Direct Drive are two of the best I've ever played. Thank you Dan and Mick, for giving Dave Barbers legendary overdrive designs the credit it deserves!
@@michael_caz_nyc yessir, mine too. And probably my direct drive as well. The Gain changer has been my main drive sound since I started gigging. The original and now the SR. Love it with a strat, tele, PRS, anything!
I just love this show! I look forward to it every week and go back and watch older episodes. It’s my absolute favorite RU-vid show. I really enjoy how you both work with the pedals and amps and describe what you are looking for them to do. It gets me to go back and tweak mine. Also, I think you do a better job demoing pedals than most videos the makers have on their sites. A lot of their demos are over produced. Carry on!
Barber Electronics is so underrated in general. Tone Press (lol) comp is awesome. The Small Fry Dumble style pedal, Direct Drive, and LTD are all amazing in their own right.
Fully agreed, David Barber deserves more recognition than he has had over the years. He basically brought NY-style parallel compression to the pedal world, and how many companies have copied that in the two decades since, it's pretty much everyone! Plus, his dirts are just fantastic. I LOVE the B-Custom ULTD he made me last year. Definitely getting another Barber this fall!
I've had at least one Barber in my collection since I first saw em on @Gearmandude channel in 2008. Tone Press & Gain Changer are a couple of great ones, out of many. Burn Unit, UnLTD, 1/2 Gainer all good.
..and I thought it was only me that used to drool while practicing :) Great show guys. You should try the gain changer and direct drive from Barber - great pedals, incredible combo together.
Zvex '59 Sound is a BoR with some modified cap & resistor values. Same topology, killer tone. Zvex doesn't get as much love these days, but his pedals are classic.
I think Dan and I had the same reaction when the Zvex was kicked in. Almost got whiplash turning my head back towards the screen! What a wicked sound. F'kin glorious.
I love when Dan went for a loose scratchy style when playing the '59 Sound and Mick matched him! You guys just keep getting better and more adventurous. And the noise solo at the end!
Team Dribble here! 😊 But it’s true! Sometimes you get so lost in the playing, in trance mode, and your jaw gets slack and you forget to breathe properly. Your head is down, and you dribble.
That ZVex 59 is absolutely fabulous. It absolutely stole the show for me. What a sound 🤤 Second favourite was then OD9 modded. It does all I like from overdrive. Add something more to your existing sound, instead of cutting it away and stomping all over it (what sadly the SD2 did there for my ears)
I have the SD-2 on my pedalboard since I was 16 (29 years ago) I ‘ve had a love and hate relationship with it but in the end it’s all love and stacks perfectly with my ts-9 tubescreamer ! Amazing pedal!
It is a good stacker. I wish I had known this in the late 90's. I probably would have kept it and saved the trouble of tracking one down. It took me years.
The Zvex ‘59 sounds incredible. Rich and articulate…and the most natural and realistic amp gain of all the drives. Loved it…especially the playing that did it justice. Thx!
SO stoked to see the Purple Plexi!! It's maybe my favorite of the type. It give so much of "that sound" in your head but retains the dynamics like few others. Cheers!!
FINALLY! I wondered if I was the only oddball with a Boss SD-2 lol. I also ran in to the same feelings about the pedal sound wise as Mick is describing.. I found that I used the Crunch channel on very low gain as a sort of Blues Driver equivalent, and I had to roll the top end off the lead channel to get a creamy lead type sound out of it, but I was never quite in love with the pedal.. I always loved the concept of the pedal and how compact it was, having two completely independent analog drive sounds in it, and I was able to use it to decent effect with my slimmed down combo and a couple pedals thrown in the back of it club gig setup in the early 2000's. But it was never really what I hoped it would be for me. This was a great episode, I love when you guys dip into the vault for stuff off the beaten path!
I remember staring up helplessly from my foxhole when my overdrive pedal reached down and pulled me up, slung me over it's back like an old acoustic and ran me through the maelstrom to safety! Cheers Dan and Mick!!
I've had a myriad of OD's but honourable mentions must go to the J.Rockett Holdsworth drive & the Xotic Soul Driven Ltd AH. Amazing pedals which stack brilliantly. Great show BTW.
Great job as always. You can never have too many drive pedals. I love having multiple brands on my board as I feel like it gives you the most variety as many companies have different approaches to gain pedals. Cheers. Have a great weekend.
A Bassman 70 was one of my first really good amps! Really nice to hear one again. If you guys ever run across a 15" cabinet, definitely try it with one -- I had 2x15s and it sounded HUGE. Also pleased to finally see some Barber on here. If you guys ever do another "MIAB" shootout definitely grab the Direct Drive for that. I was truly blown away by that one when I had it.
That was fun guys! I loved Mick's look when Dan was playing those cool runs at about 41:25 mark! Also loved the sounds Mick got out of that '59 Sound with his strat! Wow what a tone! Thanks guys!
Always loved the big black Barber Tone Press compressor as an effect/ tone sculpturerer for bass on certain songs (live). I had one for a couple of years until it got stolen at a gig (stupid me). The dry mix was just great! Loved it to bits!! 🖖
My personal hero is the TC Nova Drive. While not super old, I still think it was ahead of its time: Analog TS style and Rat style circuits in one box with A > B, B > A and parallel routing options, clean blend on the TS side, fully programmable with presets and MIDI capabilities.
Wow.. Friday has come around quickly this week. And what a treat. Cheers guys. Some very nice pedals. I have the purple plexi and is one of my go to pedals..always on my board. And when it's cranked to gig level.its glorious. What a way to start the weekend. A great video and a gig sat night.. life is glorious .
Fun, fun episode! Loved the interesting array of pedals chosen. Looks like they were the source of inspiration for some terrific guitar playing. Wow! Mick and Dan, y’all just keep getting better and better. I continue to be blown away by the harmonic complexity and richness of the music you create. Dan on the SG cascading through all of the pedals at the end of episode was psychedelically amazing. Thank you!
Whether you'll see this or not, but I hope Dan does. The SD-2 can have both channels on at the same time, and i think it ends up being in parallel, not series, so a very cool sound. You have to put an expression pedal in the remote socket, not a volume (although i've never tried with a volume as i've never owned one...). The light turns an orangey yellow - both LEDs on at the same time. I'm in the process of making a switch box that can switch between Crunch / Lead / Both. There's a guy on youtube who shows the signal chain for it, just search "SD-2 secret Yellow Channel". A super cool pedal, glad to see it getting some love!
Loved my Turbo Overdrive. Lasted me ages. Oh those simple days before wet/dry and 76 drives and boosts on the shelf. Blissful ignorance. Now happy GASing.
I believe Purple Plexi as a phrase came from George Lynch's main solo amp from his Dokken/Early Lynch Mob days. It was a hot rodded plexi with a purple skin on it!
Mick, I'm sure the comments are full of recommendations, but since you liked the Barber, I really encourage a look at his Gain Changer SR. It's kind of an OD, kind of a boost, and kind of an EQ sculptor; it maxes out at a loooovely thick soupy medium drive ... and then with the gain switch set High, but the gain knob nearly off, it's the single most "transparent" pedal I've ever heard. Almost eerily so. It's the single best thing I've ever found for boosting into a pedal or amp for "same but more!," and it's also incredible serving as a pre-EQ for pedal/amp combinations that struggle otherwise. Anything that makes a Big Muff sound glorious into an AC15 is an object of religious significance. (And I think you in particular would love his Burn Unit drive too: it's squarely in the Dumble/Mark I Boogie ballpark, but it retains an astonishing amount of clarity and dynamics. Personally I think David Barber is the best gain pedal designer on Earth.)
i have an analogman od9 silver mod with bad bob. important to know that though it is in an od9 enclosure his mods turn it into a 808. whether it is the silver or standard mod, it's an 808 circuit. the silver mod is amazing. all the mids of a TS but doesn't shelve off the highs and lows so much
I have the TV mod and BB. Sometimes I wish I tried the Silver mod to get a bit more sparkle in the upper mids. I tend to have to run the tone higher with some amps not to have it lose high end.
@@scottcurry4116 Maybe I need to look into a similarly modded SD-1. Love it but it just isn't anywhere near as loud as my other ODs on its own. With a SHO after it, it's great. Maybe a Bad Bob would work similarly?
I’ve fallen in love with love pedals drives the past year or so. The zen drive and the Tchula I don’t think will ever leave my board. Both fantastic. Also been a fan of the Dover drive and the COT50 in the past. But Sean’s pedals are pretty killer. And if your in his email list when he has sales you can get them super cheap too!
Wonderful tones! 20 seconds into hearing Dan play the Purple Plexi I had to put Thin Lizzy "Jailbreak" on the HiFi and crank the volume, then I returned to the video. The ZVEX '59 Sound with the Strat had a tone I can't resist. Thanks for the inspiration and education. Peace and....Cheers
The Dumble HRM (Hot Rodded Marshall) is a Dumble design which includes a Marshall-voiced, post-gain tone stack (via a trio of internal trim pots) for the overdrive channel.
I run Fjord Berserk, Waza Fuzz, Superconductor, Barber Gain Changer then Studio Daydream silver klon and will say the two fuzz that clean up covers whichever tone guitar you have. The EQs of Barber and Klon assist in any other situation
Bethel CT you say? Thats so cool, I live 70miles east of Bethel in a small town called Norwich. Lots of History here Thanks to you lot, ever hear of Benedict Arnold? His homestead once stood at the foot of the hill I live on. MAn, hope you enjoyed your stay here in the Nutmeg state. Cheers.
Who of the crew is making the thumbnails nowadays? They're just killer. I really like the mood they convey and they look so pleasant. Makes me want to click every time (as if I hadn't before).
Ah, perfect timing, I pick my AnalogMan OD-9 with BB in just over a week! Likely just as you're wrapping up VCQs I would imagine... standing there in the flesh with Mike and gang! To say I'm excited is an understatement...
Hope you guys see this. The OD tones reminded me . I would LOVE to see @DaganWilkin as a guest. Without a doubt every time I see him I go pick up a guitar he’s so much FUN.
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