How To Dial In Overdrive Pedals Like A Pro
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- In today's video Paul from The Studio Rats is explaining how to dial in overdrive pedals.
The Gear I'm using today is
TWS 2864-S Amplifier
Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
Keeley Compressor Plus
Valiant Mercury Guitar
Gibson Les Paul
Fender Telecaster
Link to all the gear
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Link to Valiant guitars
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The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, drummer James Ivey and Dan Hawkins on bass. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
Brilliant video, thanks. I really like the way you get on with it, not telling us about your day, or going down rabbit holes. The explanations are really clear, better than just about any other channel I've looked at. I learn a lot in a short amount of time.
Paul's tutorials are tops.
Cheers Rummy
Paul you have such great technique. Clean and precise.
I love your gear reviews and set up advice but your playing is so impressive.
DEFINITELY like this sort of video. Thanks for posting, it was timely instruction for me. I recently started applying what you were doing with the amp - which is finding the inflection point on the slope of the gain-stage curve. Once I find the amp's curve, I will apply the technique to my gain pedals, which often have an S-curve in the sweep as well, which accentuates the effect. Please keep it coming!
Boss SD-1 is a sleeper pedal, so cheap everyone over looks it. But, it really competes with high dollar overdrives. And the best part, is that it is still on your pedal board when you take a break at the gig and come back to the stage, it doesn't walk off.
How is it overlooked? It's one of the most popular pedals of all time
@@Dixie-Normus-209 it's overlooked in the sense that the eleventy-bazillion copies of it and other classic ODs generally get a lot more hype these days. Overlooked in the sense that it was never built up to be "the ultimate overdrive EVAR" like the Klon or something.
@@DogSlobberGardens-i7f nah
Paul proves my point, All a great guitarist needs is a nice tube amp, nice guitar, and 1 to 4 basic pedals to get "the sound".
To be fair, I think he could get decent guitar tone out of a kazoo.
He also has a whole long playlist of videos proving you don't need a tube amp or any pedals at all to get "the sound." Just a Katana.
So there's that.
@@DogSlobberGardens-i7f I have heard the katana without post effects and there is a reason its under 500 bucks. A katana can never compete with a tube amp. If you think so, ya should make an appt with an ear doctor. This being said, if you can only afford a cheap non tube amp and it comes loaded with effects have it and have fun.
@@johnsmith-ug5tp can guitar nerds like us tell the difference? Yes. Does anyone else on the planet - meaning people who actually buy the overwhelming majority of tickets, albums, streams etc - notice the difference or care at all? Nope.
Especially not now, when the vast majority of recordings and even many live rigs are so heavily processed you might as well skip the amps entirely and plug straight into the board or DAW. Which a whole lot of people do.
@@DogSlobberGardens-i7f The girls are shaking their booties to the bass drum and listening to the singer. There rest of us are just there to help set up and tear down.
09:16 - the phrasing with the tele is choice. Bravo.
10:52 - Boss proving once again, they’re the boss.
I use those two pedals,and have taken your advice on how to set them up.I am more than happy with my tone using a box ac15 as my amp . Many thanks for sharing.
Anytime
I tried a Valiant Guitar over at Gruhn’s guitars in Nashville and it’s one of THE BEST instruments I’Ve ever tried
My brother tried to buy a Valiant guitar directly from their website. He paid the list price online. Then they left him waiting for months. Finally they contacted him and told him his guitar was almost finished - they were just waiting for some hardware to arrive from China, and it would soon be ready to ship. Then they told him there had been a small misunderstanding, and that the money he'd already sent them months before was not the full purchase price, but just a deposit, and he would need to send them an additional $2000.
Needless to say, he cancelled the order and filed a claim for fraud and got his money back. Eff Valiant Guitars.
Great video format/subject Paul, helpful for beginners and advanced players alike, your great tone is why people keep coming back to you.
Love the Keeley comp too… it’s my favourite.
I have a Peavey Windsor Studio combo with a power sponge. I’ll give it a spin. Nice way to set up an overdrive tone. Thanks.
Great stuff Paul. I always learn something when I watch your videos.
Glad to help
Love these kinds of “setup” vids from you.... you’ve helped me sooo much! thankyou!!
Happy to help!
I got the same pedal configuration. Keeley Compressor Plus into a Super Overdrive into a warmed up tube amp. Great taste!
Good choice!
If I may say dude you are one ridiculously solid player!
Thanks for these great demos, thoughts and breakdowns!
Cheers fella
Do more of these Paul! Great video! Thanks
I always turn to the studio rats to hear great tones. Thanks guys.
Thanks for listening
Compression is key for low volume playing. New to the channel and I'm digging it
Cheers
Hi Paul, great video. Building on it... can you please do a video showing how to dial-in AMP/IR pedals, such as the Boss IR-2, and overdrive pedals so that they work well together?
Noted!
Hi Paul - thanks a lot -as a newbie this was exactly what I was looking for !!
Glad it was helpful!
Great info, thanks Paul. Love the Paul Kossoff tone.
Thanks Mite! Happy Holidays.
Excellent video Paul. Succinct and comprehensive. Thanks 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Another fantastic tutorial/demo from Paul.
Great video very clear and informative. Excellent playing for sure.
Thank you kindly!
The SD-1 is also pretty fantastic in front of a high gain amp. It'll slam the front end and give more top end presence to the tone than a TS does, and give you that flub saving bass roll off. I have both the SD1 and Keeley Red Dirt Mini and like them for different amps/guitars. I don't think I've ever tried it with the gain above 0 or 1 😂 ...it sounded really good!
Woah - what a nice sound! Funny, that's exactly the same setting, that I use with my Keeley Compressor.
I love your approach and this simple and yet versatile setup. Speaking from my own experience: The TWS 2864 is a monster 😝
Glad you like it!
Would also love to see how to use two tube screamers together, like SRV …. Supposed to give different od push…
Nice demo! Would like to hear anything as your recommendations for a Clean , crunch and lead amp channels. Including Amps that can be direct without anything and then reproduce it with pedals
Usefull video. I have a revv a d25 and a telecaster and use a qc for the effects. I dont know how to set the knobs. I always fiddle around and learn from it.
Browne Protein (Nobles+Bluesbreaker) into anything sounds amazing.
I'm using a cheat code, i bought a Nobels ODR 1 30th Anniversary and no matter what i do, it sounds good.
The gold one? Me too. Its brill!
@christianwalsh7082 yes, the gold one.
Is it bass bottom heavy / thick .. needing eq ?
@@bobbyarthurmagic yes and no, you have a pot to cut the bass. I can use it with my LP and my Strat with gorgeous results.
@@bobbyarthurmagicno the 30th Anniversary Gold version has a bass roll off knob….which other than the colour is what makes it different
The opening bend on the Tele , very nice
Cheets
Thanks Paul had no idea what a compressor did. Your channel has been a godsend
Love the vids on the gx100s.
Ever done a video on controlling levels accross.patches. im about mth in with the gx100 into poweramp of a katana 100..specific.patches with this setup would be great. Assuming alot of hobbyists globally have the katana and gx100 combo.
Also if youve any pull with Boss could you ask them to put a 432hz frequency on the gx100 tuner. Check out 432 if you havent already
thanks for the tight trick with the compressor!
If you are going to buy a Boss SD-1 check out the later version SD-3 as well. Great pedal
You should do a tutorial for the melodic licks of the intro video, it's so good!
Great video Paul. I really have to try that "Compressor-Trick"!
Keeley 4in1 serie have a killer pedals of overdvives dist and fuzz stockings and not expensives .
I did learn something here, please do more!
This guy can make a $20 distortion pedal sound great. That is great recordings. Then when u get it home and put it in a amplifier. U will be greatly disappointed. They all do it. Just as a thumbs up
I was using multeffect pedals last 10 years alway try setup something😅try find better tone.Last week i bought marshall jvm😊😊😊😊😊boss sd1 in front game over😊😊😊😊😊😊😊so happy now
Great tones!
Love that Valiant Merc!
Just added this compressor to my board. I love it. Thanks for the video.
Glad you like it!
Brilliant Paul. Thank you.
Ur overdrive has such fast attack we need a new term:jump. Real fast attack is jump. great pairing of the dist and comp.comp into dist. U even make a katana wallop! Thanks again rock on!
Very good uncomplicated tips here, thank you . 👍
Nice video, always liked the sd1 . Never liked the sd1 with my fender amps though. Always worked better with marshall style amps. How about doing the same with a clean amp instead of breakup.
Such an invaluable video. Thank you!
Great advise 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Ok. That's sounds so fnckn good. Thanks 👍👍👍👍👍
I would love to see if you do this with the GT1000. The whole pre amp distortion as well as the opening up with the power amp. Is that something that is even possible?
great video Paul!!! thank you
Another fantastic video Paul! I play through a solid state amp; orange super crush 100. Would the strategy to dial in an overdrive pedal vary? I struggle a bit with using overdrives with a SS amp.
Paul, when I do that exactly how you have just 2 pedals, the gain becomes too noisy from the compressor. Yet if I use it in the quad it’s quiet. Plus, there’s a noise suppressor. Even without the noise suppressor. But I want to use it with my amp. So I end up just playing clean with the compressor. So idk what to do. I can live with it. I’m just wondering if you have a suppressor in there? Anyway, you’ve always been a great teache as well as a great guitarist. I was rewatching your GuitarGuitar visit and now I think that first PRS was the one you should have gotten. And that goldfinger. Can you go back and get them? It’s only been a few yrs do you think they’re still there? 😮😉 oh maybe I’m using too much of everything with the real pedals and maybe they can’t take it.
Hi I don’t use noise suppression, I don’t like it affecting the roll off on a guitar tone. I live with the noise. I don’t think those guitars will still be there😀
@@TheStudioRats😂
Wonderfull explanation !!!!!
Love your reviews all the content is great!
Glad you like them!
Boss OD-3 is also a hidden gem
Twist the knobs around until you feel like you would be willing to punch anyone who moved them from where they are now. Now you're a pro.
I marked by Big Muff with strips of gaffer tape. Kept it there for years. One day I nudged them all out or whack. Sounded better. Put them back where I had them, sounded good but not as nice. Took the tape off.
@@Dreynothat’s your ears, not the muff
@@Dave79-be7ld That’s the point. You think you’ve found the perfect setting but what’s “perfect” is always changing.
@@Dreyno and what’s good to me isn’t to others. Ahhh tone wars 😂😂
Rooms/ spaces change you settings as much as speakers, guitar and amps.
Awesome video Paul have a wonderful weekend also I have lost my voice from a cold ❤😢👃🤧😥
Oh no!
Nice one Paul...
Holy shit, that intro tone
liked to video always like these learning videos
Nice video. Do you set the level on the pedal to unity gain, even though amp is using an attenuator?
Is that a modified Boss over drive? I notice a lot less hiss than the typical case.
Paul, amazing playing and tone as always.
What cabinet and mics do you use in this video?
Cheers, I was going into a twonotes torpedo studio
keeley comp plus can add booster to boss sd1
Paul is one of those people who could stop by your band practice and have everyone sounding *awesome* in an hour. With the gear you've already got.
But then he'd leave and your singer would screw up the board completely again and your lead guitarist would crank up the gain on everything they have again and the bass player would insist on more more more low end again... and you'd be right back where you started. 🤣
God I love the sd-1
Overdrive petals are a ginormous frustration creator. I try to get just a little dirt and it never works. Guess that's why, I'm a clean old man ...
What about the radial trimode, very versitile bigger size pedal?
Hello Paul!
Does this principle apply to a boss gt1000?
Yes exactly the same.
Tubeworks made amps? I remember the Blue Tube/Real Tube pedals they made
@@bobowrathsovine. tube work shop
My Boss Super Overdrive did not sound like that which is why i got rid of it 🤔🤔🤔.
Sounds good to me
I don’t play much at home. I usually suss tone out at every gig. It’s ok sitting in your room and analysing your tone, but real performers will know that acoustics vary from stage to stage! Yous cannae jus have one setting. Just saying. Nice tone though. I love compressors. Mainly Boss CS3 and MXR Dyna comp deluxe.
Will this technique work with everything modeled, say within a spark amp?
Try it and see...
More or less, but the spark amp has very little dynamics
I’ve heard there’s a firmware update that addresses the issue on the low-end. Haven’t tried it yet
I have the Boss super overdrive on my board and its the worse sounding pedal i have ever heard..How in the world do you make yours sound so good Paul?..And i have an array of very nice amps..My Tumnus deluxe,Revv g3 and EVH overdrives all sound great But the SOD sounds weak and thin..Maybe its my ears..lol..Will watch this again to see if i can pick up anything..
Is your amp set to breakup
@@TheStudioRats No..My main amps are a HRD ML and Blackstar Artist 30..Would have to turn them up super loud since there so clean...Will try my Princetons or Deluxe..Thanks Guys
When you realise that settings on his keely comp are identical to mine... #ontherightpath
I was thinking the LP sounded great (I don't like LPs!) then you switched to the Tele. Aaaaah yeah that's better.
Just god awful tone. Amazing what people think is good guitar tone these days .... Laughable
That was not helpfull. In the last 40 years - which I am playing electric guitar, classic guitar I studied before - I bended not a single note. You are obviously the super bender. Not your fault. All depends on the aim and reason. ps An original AC30 has no master volume.
Problem with the SD-1 is they have a severe bass roll off. This is OK for lead stuff but terrible for rhythm.
For Rhythm-Stuff, I really like a Boss Blues Driver...
I love an SD-1 or similar OD’s with bass roll off for rhythm. Let’s me play love power chords without getting in the way of the bass.
@@tubeworkshop great pedal
I’m not criticizing here, but you need an attenuator in order to do this…