The Jeff mod archer, good enough for Jeff Beck(god rest his soul) and John Mayer who both put them on their boards. The dude, the archer(all versions of it), and the 45 caliber just work. J Rockett and Mythos pedals are examples of pedals that are straight forward and easy to dial a usable tone with.
Awesome demo Henning. Got the Dude and Archer on my board. It’s a great sounding pedal. Looking forward to see the Majestic,HRM and Blue Note on the next round of the J.Rockett Pedals. Thank You!
To have a $5,000 pedal and not play it live would be a shame. Or having a $250,000 LP and not playing it live would be a missed opportunity. Greetings - J. Bonamassa
Henning, I must say that "sei proprio simpatico"! I watch your demos not only because you make a hell of a job in describing and comparing in a detailed and professional way stuff, but also because you are one of the very few who is letting mistakes in the language be part of your characteristic... So thumbs up for you!👍👍👍 P.S.: just bought a Jeff Archer... Amazing pedal, very well defined and super transpy😆
J Rockett is a personal friend of mine. I have a couple copper-encased pedals from him. His original "boost" and "afterburner". Not sure how many were made but they're s/n# 20 and below. I feel special!!!! Oh, and all I use are Rockett pedals. I have the ones on this video and plenty more. I feel the price point is just about right for boutique pedals that offer more tone than your usual Boss and MXR lines. And trust in Jeff Beck and John Mayer... Do yourself a favor and buy an Archer to start!!!
I have found often found that 'paying more for better tone' really equates to 'paying more for... better quality, less noise, solid button, longer durability, etc.
I have the Archer, but find myself almost always preferring the Tumnus Deluxe instead. The Dude is also a fun Dumble like sound, but I like the Ultra Phonix a little more.
Interesting. I'm partial to Rockett pedals but our front man finally bought an electric and when he tried buying the Archer at Guitar Center, it was out of stock so he ended up with the Tumnus. We're going to try it out tonight in fact - will tell him about your comment! He'll be happy!
Spot on with the Dude and singles coils. I actually play my single coils MORE with the Dude Pedal. It just thickens up the tone, and really responds to dynamics once you dial in the sweet spot. The .45 is on my list to get next. Rockett pedals are so good, it's like they just get that extra 10%-15% of detail that makes them stand out against similar pedals
Interesting video, I really enjoying using my J Rockets pedals, although the basic Archer and 45 Calibre are at the shoutier end of their range for my liking. I've got The Dude and its been at the end of my stacked gain pedal chain as a singing lead pedal, but its also gone weird and affects my amp, so I've replaced it with the Mark Lettieri Melody pedal, a combination of The Dude and The Blue Note pedals, but with an inclusive 6 band EQ. Likewise, I use the Steve Stevens Archer Rockaway pedal, at the front end of my pedal board, again with its 6 band EQ. Both pedals offer so much more tone and peak control. Regarding the Dude, the "Ratio" acts the gain control and the "Deep" is like moving from a 1x12 cab to a 2x12 and 4x12 set up, its expands the sound like no other pedal, and its better placed after other gain pedals. Get yourselves a J Rockett Broverdrive, check out the You Tubes
I've gone through a lot of distortion pedals and I keep looking for a certain sound. You're gonna laugh but I want the sound Pete Townsend got on the album "Live At Leeds". I'm an old timer and I love the sound he gets. I always enjoy your channel and since I'm watching this one about pedals, I thought I'd ask. Thank you for the work you do. Gene
You might try a Catalinbread WIIO on the used market. They don’t produce them anymore. The Catalinbread RAH does the Hiwatt sound too so they dropped the WIIO. Also, a P90 equipped guitar is essential. Other considerations, if you want to spend the money, are Fane speakers. The Ascension A90 or A60 are fantastic speakers for the Leeds tone.
Check out the Spanish pedal makers ACLAM. They have a pedal called Windmiller or something like that. It recreated the weird overdrive that Pete was using at LEEDS.
I've got the Golden Archer and The Dude and like them both a lot. I have multiple pedal boards and one is sorta my more "all purpose" pedals and then one I sorta think of as a "blues rock" board and that's the one I keep my Archer and Dude on with a Tube Screamer, Rotosphere, Boss WazaCraft Tone Bender, and Pedal Pawn Texan Twang. I use an AC30 and I really like the Archer with my Jimmy Page Mirror Tele the most. I also like to stack it with The Dude.
The Dude is seriously one of the best dirt pedals on the market. I defintiely think it's strong point is going into a clean amp and acting as the lead channel.
I have gone through hundreds of OD and distortion pedals over the years....after all those pedals, I have a .45 Caliber, Dude and both Archers in my arsenal LOL. Amazing pedals...can't say enough good things about J. Rockett.
I have the .45 Caliber and wanted to know if it sounds different than The Dude? Have interest in that one and I saw someone say the dude is a higher gain version of the .45 even though one’s a miab and the other does the dumble thing.
i found myself buying klon clone after klon clone...then one day I thought about how much I spent on pedals trying to get the Klon sound and realized I'd be better off just buying an actual Klon. Bought a Klon KTR 2 weeks ago, (believe it not, I found a brand new one in the box off the shelf at a small music store in a small village in Hawaii) for $600. It was played one time and been sitting on the shelf for sale since 2015. Mission Accomplished! Did the same thing for the King of Tone V4 w/ High Gain option...
I had The Dude, it was ok. I have the Silver Archer that one I won't sell because that pedal is awesome not just ok! I like to run the Archer before another drive pedal and oh my, it's so awesome.
@James Williams I've got a video on my Shorts channel of me using the Touch to play Tush and that's probably the best Billy Gibbons sounding pedal I've ever heard!
i think the word ur looking for (between standard n jeff beck) is the jb has more "headroom" than the standard.. and thus clearer and more articulate... i have both so just wanted to add my own 2 cents
My favorite from J. Rockett is the GTO, so underrated! Wonderfully dynamic and versatile. Yes I know it’s a variation on a ODR-1 but the changes made to the topology are so good!
Be interesting to see the JB vs. Std. Archer output on a sound frequency analyzer. Could be the JB is a little more mid-forward. Regardless that's one sweet guitar 😘🎸
The Dude pedal seems to be unstable and is oscillating in certain settings causing internal clipping. The designer might need to bring the circuit back to the drawing board.
Yeah, the JB does seem to have more presence to me- like you said, a little clearer not as mushed together. And if I were cutting some album or something where ppl would be scrutinizing my playing down to the minute nuances of my tone- I'd see the point. But not for live performance- i guarantee you once you run that through a PA and get it loud enough everyone can hear it, crank up the rest of the band- and ppl get a couple drinks in them- they will not be able to tell a difference, and neither would you. Besides, 90% of your audience doesn't gig, they play at home- and most of them do so alone, to backing tracks and stuff. It's laughable to think they need to spend 100 bucks to get a tiny bit more clarity or presence. If they want to- fine, but they don't "need" to. That said, I don't "need" about half the gear I own and use so- I'm guilty of it to. I would say if you have it, want to spend it- go for it- but if you can't do it- don't sweat it man, you'll have just as much fun with a cheaper pedal- I promise. I do- it's something I've noticed recently- that I'm enjoying my 25-dollar Pure Sky or Silver horse just as much as my Tumnus Deluxe or AT+.
Archers seem difference is the tone pot sweep. At full tone they sounded the same. Bump the tone up slightly on the regular archer and no difference in a mix. (IMO) Edit: tone = treble knob
9:12 I thought you said "It has my aged pee on it" at first, I remembered who I was watching and got very concerned. Then I realized I'm just a deaf moron lol.
I have a Keeley Oxblood that does heavier gain and light gain boost really well, but the mid-gain sounds are kind of muddy. I may have to sell it to get the JB Archer, which overall sounds better and has a great buffer. One question though, are these temperature sensitive because of the germanium diodes?
A little, but not worth worrying about as if it's an early fuzz pedal or the like. Germanium *transistors* are typically susceptible to heat change, specifically the Ge transistor's biasing tends to go awry. While Ge diodes ARE heat-sensitive, it takes a lot more heat to produce a significant effect on the sound.
@@shaft9000 Thanks. I first noticed it happen on one of my GE fuzzes, but just a slight change in sound. I saw the TPS episode where they lost all sound and that's made me avoid germanium since. Even just the slight change on my fuzz is kind of annoying at times. It makes sense that the diodes aren't as sensitive as the transistors since I've seen so many people use Tube Screamers in the hot sun quite a bit now that I think about that.
If i didnt already have a RYRA The Klone i would try the Archer, but I definitely dont need another Klon circuit. I am very interested in J Rockett's Clockworks delay though. Its a stereo Memory Man designed or collaborated with Howard Davis the original designer of the Memory Man and its fantastic if u like Analog Bucket Brigade delays
Call me a party-pooper, but ime j rockett might be the most overrated pedal maker around. The buffer issues here didn't help the cause, either. I have a clockwork that the mod section has failed in, (with a sub-optimal design for user-maintenance and troubleshooting) and an ikon that's fine but nothing special vs. the byoc silver pony 2 that I built a few years ago.
Demoing pedals with a guitar like this is a 100% homerun. I have almost every iteration of the Archer, and they are just great. With a guitar like this....man I have to wonder if my most beloved guitars will sound as good.
Whenever I hear someone play the Dude it sounds amazing. When I play it not so much. I had version 1, sold it again. Then I tried version 2. Same thing. Idk what I'm doing wrong. You probably need to be anointed by the holy ... mayer.
If you haven't yet : put the centaur at the **end** of your drive chain, keep the gain under half, and leave it on. Bill Finnegan designed it specifically to run his other pedals into _in order to get the break-up characteristics of a Twin at lower volume._ It isn't a 'dirt' pedal you kick in so much as a conditioner; everything going through it gets a light coat of it's "sauce".
Bills selling klone bids on eBay during the lockdown and I kept losing so he emailed me I hadhim make me a KTL size put it in a klons small box it’s OK
I find it outrageous but cool that people will spend five times the money to own NOT a KLO N Centaur, NOT a 1962 Stratocaster, but there’s some fiddly bits and specs to upsell it to super bucks pricing. As always, we think something’s better because it costs more and not everyone can have one. Well, it sure won’t necessarily sound better. People with talent are rocking out on boss petals that cost less than dinner.
I have never laughed at a RU-vid video as much as I did at this one! 1st the Comparison between the Archers is so negligible that no one include Jeff won't hear it in a mix and you can ask him! but then the Comparison between the 45 and the "plexi" amp, and the difference are massive!!!! and he say that no one would hear it live or in the mix... and of course the Resurrection of jeff...
hi bro i have dude overdrive and it is great pedal! What happens to you does not happen to me, I must say that this edition of the dude is old, perhaps they hit him, be careful with your demonstrations, even so, your channel is good😊
I don’t like the sound of any of these pedals. I find them all abrasive and non pleasant. It’s funny 80s shlock rock guitar sounds is not even a thing in music these days. But I guess the pedal industry consumer is the bedroom player or the home studio boy. There are so few good rock bands now so who needs all these damn pedals?
I was surprised about the degree to which I not only intensely disliked but outright disdained the sound of all of these pedals. I'm also from Brooklyn, funny enough. Hah, maybe Brooklyn people just don't like this sound. It makes me picture some guys rocking out in a barn on the worst type of 70s Ted Nugent crap with a confederate flag flying in the manure breeze and burnt out trucks and crushed up cans of Busch Lite scattered around the yard. That's what those pedals sound like.
