Oh man, I’ve got the Copper and it’s the greatest thing ever. I’ve never heard another Vox in a box pedal that is as convincing, and I collect them. I’m definitely getting the Duchess next.
Lee did a tremendous job here demonstrating. You could see him getting more and more nervous as the kraken rolled around. Which is perfectly reasonable. But yeah, he did a great job taking us through these pedals with his playing. Obviously the high gain stuff is not for him, nor is it for most of us I dare say. Lol great video. I’ve had a few Thorpy pedals on my wantlist for quite some time. Just can’t afford them
Thorpe is such a nice bloke, I once rang him regarding some advice on the Morningstar midi controller. He really went out his way and and took the time going through the various modes and explaining it to me.
I don't mean to discredit these pedals or anything, but VOX actually has some interesting pedals that are similar, in that they're supposed to be like the sounds of well-known amplifiers, but in addition they also carry a "nutube", which is like a mini-tube that essentially does the same in terms of the interaction. - They have 4 of them, of which the Silk Drive is basically like The Duchess, the Mystic Edge is like The Copper (so the Vox-type), but then the Copperhead would be like The Sheriff , and the Cutting Edge would be more like The Kraken or perhaps covering what The Jack would do as well. - Just saying, if anyone finds this, if you want something similar, but good quality and at about 50 (or in Anderton's case 80) quid less. - There's also a video by Andertons on it, from two years before this one.
A really good manager knows when, how and who to call in when something needs doing. Victory and Thorpy working together makes perfect sense in a business and tech standpoint.
Great video. There are demo's all over the Tube, but only you guys have the Story of the pedals with the makers. How and why something is done is always more interesting to me than just that something has been done.
Thinking about these pedals as a range, if you had a few of them hooked up to a device that does emulation of various speaker types, that would make for a very handy board for feeding to a PA.
Maybe there could be a V2 version of the Kraken, the sheriff that have two button switches instead of the one i.e. the Kraken with two switches so you could get essentially both channels like you do in the amp
This is really interesting to read about. I bought all 5 and they're all great pedals. The Duchess, Copper and Kraken are just fantastic. They're now the main focus of my rig. Not being an AC30 guy, the Copper was for sure the surprise standout. Well done to Martin and Adrian. Sterling work. The Sheriff and Jack I sent back because they're more mid-focused than I like but that's just preference.
In the US the phrase "We met in 'nam" means something very different. Great pedals but the guy on the right from Victory- listening to him speak is like taking a sleeping pill man- he has that sort of slow, whisper, Sunday morning talk show on public radio voice.
So nice to hear Lee's touch sensitivity compared to Rob Chapman's brutish assault on the strings. Rob could make the best clean tones / low gain tones sound like absolute rubbish. No disrespect towards him, but damn he was hard to listen to. Now throw in some high gain and he's a beast!
While we’ve got you Victory guys, Please stop calling both the preamp pedal and the amp in a box a V4! Please call one a V3 or the other a V5 or a V4.5 or whatever, it’s an SEO nightmare, thanks!
