Do you really want to say that in class? Maybe save that for hanging I the crapper with your vaping buddies. (Note: you don't have to vape to hang in the crapper, you can text, order lunch, whatever)
@@brian91145 One: I refuse to grow up. I’ve seen people try it- not for me. Two: If you March into a class of eighty thousand and mention a passionate Plexi double header, you can expect tittering from at least ten thousand of us.
Larry - you have the nicest “way” with people! Organized but not bossy or rigid. Direct and clear, but kind and respectful of others feelings. Humorous without being silly. Confident but aware that we’re all limited. Thanks for the example.
While I don’t actually own a Klon, I do have a Jrockett Ikon I keep on my board as a clean boost that really fattens up my clean tone and sounds great with my strat. When I put it after my Timmy it’s amazing. My favorite overdrive tone after my cranked black face champ.
@@smelltheglove2038 thats the trick, I do think pafs into a klon is a bad combo as evidenced here. thats when you start getting those funky mids and the nasally thing
I love the Klon with teles, strats, 335s, Les Pauls and sgs played through ac30s, black faced fenders, tweed fenders, and plexis. To me its the best pedal ever made. I remember crying to Bill about the whopping $275 I paid for it. He told me to, “buy two”. I should’ve bought ten.
You have probably heard this 500 times already, but Tim Pierce said on his lates feed that he used to think Dan Huff was the best studio guitarist he had ever heard, then he heard you and now he thinks you are the best studio player he has ever heard. What ever you are, you are a guitar genius.
There is one huge upside (among many) to being separated. All my guitar work is done in heated and spacious comfort...and I can leave my guitar on the couch if I want. I have a workbench and a toolbox in one of my main floor rooms. The garage does not have the wife's car in anymore either. Lots of room for me.
The crazy train comment was VERY interesting to listen to with your comment in mind. It really did make the song feel like it had a blanket over it and wasn’t open at all
I bought an ODR mini about 3-4 mos ago to dip my toes into the Nobels water and really liked what I heard. But, like a hostage with Stockholm syndrome, I’ve keep my TS-9 (and even the JHS Bonsai which I super dig). The Nobels are the 2nd gain stage after my compressor, before the Bonsai and ending w/ a Boss GE-7 with high mids boosted along w/ level. Add to that an Xotic EP Booster and I’ve got all the gain I need - slamming the front end of the amp just right to make it sing a little. 🙏🎸🤘🎶 Thank you tone gods!
I love mine. My local shop had one around 4 years ago or so. I bought it for $400 figuring if I didn’t like it I’d return it. I never returned it. And it hasn’t left my board either:).
“I’d rather go to that party than this party” when you're were at the right party every just came alive, felt and sound right…glorious stuff. great lesson, learnt alot👍🏻
ONCE A MONTH, ONCE A MONTH, ONCE A MONTH...!! Thank you, Unc and all at Guitar Effects Pedals and XTS! This was stellar!! I would love to hear this once a month!🙏🙏🙏
Every time I watch your videos I study guitar for hours, you inspired my friends and me to play and practice every day, THANKS TOM. this channel is an immense legacy for the guitar world. warm regards from Argentina!
Tom saying “This kind of sounds like a Kemper” about the only digital pedal in the whole thing absolutely validates everything he’s ever said about digital
Any modeler that I've ever played, no matter the cost, sounds like the guitar tone is pressed up against a plate a glass along with a faint layer of fizzle over the top that you cannot dial out. That's the best way I can describe it.
@@bleepblabloop I hear it too. I can tell it’s fake. The only caveat is that I can really only tell if I’m hearing it live. On RUclips I cannot tell at all. It’s because of the digital compression of RUclips.
**WOW** I clicked on this video by mistake because I had watched it when it first came out. Uncle Larry you need to do this waaay more often. This was 10 times better the 2nd time around. Don't ask me why. Really cook and VERY fun video!!
Absolute gold dust for these comparisons to be administered by such experts, and via the medium of Uncle Larry's outstanding playing. Every Homeskoolin episode should be committed to the US library archives - as a national treasure never to be lost.
I not a guitar player at all, but I have not really ever seen a head to head test and comparison than this video. This was very very cool. It really entertaining!!! Thank you all involved. Great stuff!!!!!
No one is doing this type of video with the range of quick comparison with high quality playing and range of pedals! It’s like Homeschoolers are entering a master class!
Just another reason why Uncle Larry is a legend and I'm a schlub playing in my spare bedroom. My ears couldn't pick out a tenth of the nuance in tone you can. Bravo!
One guy playing one type of pedal and over 700 comments. He doesn’t know how much the whole thing is eye candy to his fan base. He’s incredible and so personable. So entertaining.
You are so amazingly generous with us Uncle Larry. This is has been great....i am simply "green with envy" for a certain green pedal that isn't a TS. For sure i don't have your ears, but i can really hear that "amp" sound you talk about. What a blast this has been.
Love the show Tom! Been a big fan of yours and like your down to earth comments, ideas and overall Approach. Would have love to have visited Nashville, for sure. Kindest Regards Mick (UK). keep on Rockin man!😊🇬🇧🙏🎸
Tommy's got golden ears and immaculate touch...absolutely love this video! These time stamps are for my own edification...I hope they're useful to my fellow Uncle Larry devotees 10:56 Klon Centaur 12:18 Mostortion 13:06 Mostortion tweaked 13:27 Nobels 14:37 TS808 15:01 TS808 tweaked 15:41 Klon tweaked 16:17 KOT 16:51 Nobels tweaked 18:24 TS808 - Sad Sack 18:30 Klon - Sad Sack 18:42 Nobels standout 19:01 Mostortion standout 19:11 KOT standout 22:49 MXR Timmy 23:50 King Tone Heavy Hand 24:50 Heavy Hand treble tweaked 25:06 Pedaltrain Night Light 27:07 Night Light lower gain 27:52 Strymon Sunset 30:38 Browne Atom 38:47 Marshall Bluesbreaker 39:19 Roger Mayer Voodoo-1
For the next shootout, you ought to compare the Nobels clones. IE: Wampler "Belle", J.Rocket "Chicken Soup", "Shanks", etc. and use the original as the "baseline". The "Nordland - ODC" is made by the same guy that designed the original ODR-1 when he was with Nobels. I'd love to hear Larry's opinion on that one also.
I love the shanks but if hazard a guess Buk would find it wayyy to bassy out the gate, which it kind of is (not the worst with a tele) but you have to fine tune it for your rig
@@justinguitarcia This was kinda off-hand, but he made a board for his son Marshall in one of the recent episodes and it had the Shanks on it. To be fair it also had an EQD Plumes on it, which is a Tubescreamer variant, so I guess he just didn't like what a stock TS does to your frequencies.
I have been wondering about that great overdrive sound you always get. So great to see the Nobels ODR being compared between each other. Thanks Uncle Larry!
THANK BUK!!! This was such a fun episode. What a great idea for the show….as if HomeSkoolin class couldn’t get any better… Please do this with all the other types of pedals as you stated, such a great idea..
IF I had to grab one and walk away? Nobles for sure. My Nobles is the one pedal I have had the longest and would never consider getting rid of. Thanks Uncle Larry! Always an education.
Very cool UL, thanks! Also, thanks to the panel. Sold. I just ordered the XTS modded mini No-balls from the very shop you shot your hi-quality edu-tainment. Wish me luck.
Larry… this was absolutely one of the best pedal demos I’ve ever seen. Thank you for your immense help. I feel like I completely understand what each pedal would do, and it would certainly be reasonably repeatable on my end. Of course the organic side would differ but. Man, so awesome. Love your chops bro!!
And I thought the little sweet Danny Huff was my favorite video. There's so much garbage out there nowadays that you really can't find anything worth while .......they're out there but far and few. Thanks man for another solid one 🤙 Ps: this would be hugely helpful for your schoolers on a regular basis in my opinion. 🙏
Brutally honest? This video was like that....by far! Loved every minute. Thanks to all the guys who made this possible: Ryan, Brett, Barry and Greg. And kudos to Uncle Larry who is not too proud to like the little green one after all ;-) Can't wait to hear other pedal shootouts.
Tom, I’d love more of these style videos. Great idea & great execution by you, the XTS guys & pedal shop guys. Man! You’ve got a set of ears on you. Hope Marshall & Leo develop ones just like em. Thanks for sharing so many thoughts, ideas, and music with us.
This video convinced me to get the Nobels mini. It arrived today. I'm taking a break after playing it through an old blackface Princeton Reverb and Les Paul Junior with a dash of EHX Memory Boy for the past three hours. I'm digging it a whole bunch. I had the original Nobels when they first came out and don't remember ever bonding with it like I am with this one. Thanks and praise to Uncle Larry!
Still digging it? I'm thinking of getting one, too. In the hearing test, it seemed that the DRIVE setting was kind of mild. Can you get a good modern lead tone out of it? I would want a little more distortion.
This was cool! I am not a Tube Screamer fan either and I actually bought a Tone City Nobleman(hope to someday get a Nobles) and besides it being bassy I just love it! Great little pedal! Really enjoying your channel Uncle Larry!
Hey Leland! Been missing all you guys over at Gristletime!! My schedule doesn't permit currently. But it's great to see you pop up here on ol' Uncle Larry's channel! Cheers mate!
Great vid as usual, and great to see the mini getting some love considering it was trashed by the cork sniffers when it came out. It would have been cool to mix in a Nordland ODR-C with that selection too.
The chances of me being able to witness what was on display here from Tom, Ryan, Brett, Barry & Greg, without this channel, are nil. I never take it for granted. Amazing stuff. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Tom. 😎
Wow. This was, and _will_ be for future ones, fantastic! Thank you guys for putting all this work in doing those comparisons. Goes to show that surface mount tiny stuff is not necessarily bad. Great one Tom!
The first guitar pedal I ever bought was a Nobels ODR-1 back in the mid nineties. Didn't have a clue what it was and was desperately disappointed that it didn't sound like Nirvana. Didn't even know you were allowed to try out pedals in the shops first. Came back to it in my mid twenties and found a lot of uses for it. Now in my forties... I've cashed in, sold it. As you've demonstrated the new ones sound the same. Made my self a clone with some mods (the original Nobels shop schematic is actually out there and easy enough to find, complete with the never-implemented "boost" switch). You should ask Nobels to make a signature version for you :)
This. Is. Awesome. So fun to watch- had a smile on my face the entire time. You are a grade-A dude my man, as well as the guys at the shop taking time to do this.
That store is a gem. I bought a Greer Tomahawk on a visit there a couple years back. The employees were helpful and obliging to let a nobody like myself try a few things out before making a purchase. Also, I think Uncle Larry’s greatest pearl of wisdom comes toward the end when he mentions the Nobels that he thought was killer with “this guitar and this amp” is one he’d never thought much of running it in his rig. It’s a testament to the benefit of testing a pedal on your own rig if/when you can instead of going by YT demos, reviews, etc.
That was awesome and a lot of fun. Hearing the reasons Tom liked and didn't like certain sounds was very insightful and helpful. Looking forward to more videos like this. Thanks
Rad!!! A big yes to more shootouts like this! Your commentary of what sounds bad is a great resource for ear training. Especially calling out the offending EQ ranges.
![What About The Nobels ODR-1? [vs TS9 & BD-2w into AC15 & Deluxe Reverb] That Pedal Show](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/WjCVnFLwP9k/mqdefault.jpg)
I had passionate sex with my wife twice last night to “Plexi Soul” Tom . She absolutely loved it ! If we end up having a kid I’m naming it Tom !
Do you really want to say that in class? Maybe save that for hanging I the crapper with your vaping buddies. (Note: you don't have to vape to hang in the crapper, you can text, order lunch, whatever)
@@dannyriccardo-kornpet4599 grow up Peter Pan
@@brian91145 One: I refuse to grow up. I’ve seen people try it- not for me. Two: If you March into a class of eighty thousand and mention a passionate Plexi double header, you can expect tittering from at least ten thousand of us.
Telling an artist you have sex to their song is crazy 💀
Good choice! I can confirm🫡
Homeskoolers are a lucky group, getting to go on these exciting video field trips. 🙂
Too bad the pedals took all my lunch money 😂
I was thinking the same thing! In my normal life I would never get a chance to be with a group like this. What a kick to be included...
Larry - you have the nicest “way” with people! Organized but not bossy or rigid. Direct and clear, but kind and respectful of others feelings. Humorous without being silly. Confident but aware that we’re all limited. Thanks for the example.
Exactly like your best bud
❤ I TRIED to express that just today- perfectly stated by you here
Well said
The clean sound through the Princeton was absolutely amazing
TUBES RULE PERIOD!!! (of course when set up to the holy Grail s specs of Fender, Vox, Marshall, etc., etc.!)
Uncle Larry’s knee-jerk disgust at the first sound of the $6k Klon should be posted as mandatory disclaimer on all original Klon listings as a PSA.
While I don’t actually own a Klon, I do have a Jrockett Ikon I keep on my board as a clean boost that really fattens up my clean tone and sounds great with my strat. When I put it after my Timmy it’s amazing. My favorite overdrive tone after my cranked black face champ.
@@smelltheglove2038 thats the trick, I do think pafs into a klon is a bad combo as evidenced here. thats when you start getting those funky mids and the nasally thing
@@smelltheglove2038 thanks. I like to hear. Best combo s I never tried Timmy at all And which Timmy. Thanks
Absolutely!!
I love the Klon with teles, strats, 335s, Les Pauls and sgs played through ac30s, black faced fenders, tweed fenders, and plexis. To me its the best pedal ever made. I remember crying to Bill about the whopping $275 I paid for it. He told me to, “buy two”. I should’ve bought ten.
You have probably heard this 500 times already, but Tim Pierce said on his lates feed that he used to think Dan Huff was the best studio guitarist he had ever heard, then he heard you and now he thinks you are the best studio player he has ever heard. What ever you are, you are a guitar genius.
😊q
This is WAY better than when I do this kind of stuff by myself in my cold-ass garage
Took the words out my mouth.
There is one huge upside (among many) to being separated. All my guitar work is done in heated and spacious comfort...and I can leave my guitar on the couch if I want. I have a workbench and a toolbox in one of my main floor rooms. The garage does not have the wife's car in anymore either. Lots of room for me.
The crazy train comment was VERY interesting to listen to with your comment in mind. It really did make the song feel like it had a blanket over it and wasn’t open at all
That mini no balls stole the show, devastating episode Tom, excellent camera work…
No balls minis going for 500$ next week. Better jump job it boys 😂
He hated it at first too
@@SSStinger6 Not quite dialed in.
I bought an ODR mini about 3-4 mos ago to dip my toes into the Nobels water and really liked what I heard. But, like a hostage with Stockholm syndrome, I’ve keep my TS-9 (and even the JHS Bonsai which I super dig). The Nobels are the 2nd gain stage after my compressor, before the Bonsai and ending w/ a Boss GE-7 with high mids boosted along w/ level. Add to that an Xotic EP Booster and I’ve got all the gain I need - slamming the front end of the amp just right to make it sing a little.
🙏🎸🤘🎶 Thank you tone gods!
This should be a monthly thing!!
Tom makes everything sound good !!
I’m gonna need another 10 years of Homeskollin to pass this class today. Great class. But truly love every class. Thanks Uncle Larry
Man I could watch this shit all day every day. What a treat.
After all the pedal comparison videos I've been subjected to in the algorithm - this is the only one I've ever really WANTED to see. What a treat.
Outstanding episode. Exactly why the KOT has a long waiting list and why mine has never left my board.
I love mine. My local shop had one around 4 years ago or so. I bought it for $400 figuring if I didn’t like it I’d return it.
I never returned it. And it hasn’t left my board either:).
I’ve been on the waiting list 3 1/2 years so far.
“I’d rather go to that party than this party” when you're were at the right party every just came alive, felt and sound right…glorious stuff. great lesson, learnt alot👍🏻
It's amazing how good your ear is. The speed at which you identified those vintage pedals was impressive.
ONCE A MONTH, ONCE A MONTH, ONCE A MONTH...!! Thank you, Unc and all at Guitar Effects Pedals and XTS! This was stellar!! I would love to hear this once a month!🙏🙏🙏
Every time I watch your videos I study guitar for hours, you inspired my friends and me to play and practice every day, THANKS TOM. this channel is an immense legacy for the guitar world. warm regards from Argentina!
Tom saying “This kind of sounds like a Kemper” about the only digital pedal in the whole thing absolutely validates everything he’s ever said about digital
not to mention picking out the same flaws in the ATOM blind this time that he found the other day
Any modeler that I've ever played, no matter the cost, sounds like the guitar tone is pressed up against a plate a glass along with a faint layer of fizzle over the top that you cannot dial out. That's the best way I can describe it.
Yes, especially those higher gain sounds are so much flatter and mushier and non inspiring compared to a real head in a real cab
Modeling amps are in the same boat in my mind as pickups on acoustic guitars....still got a LONG way to go
@@bleepblabloop I hear it too. I can tell it’s fake. The only caveat is that I can really only tell if I’m hearing it live. On RUclips I cannot tell at all. It’s because of the digital compression of RUclips.
We need more episodes like this, Tom. Very interesting.
**WOW** I clicked on this video by mistake because I had watched it when it first came out. Uncle Larry you need to do this waaay more often. This was 10 times better the 2nd time around. Don't ask me why. Really cook and VERY fun video!!
Absolute gold dust for these comparisons to be administered by such experts, and via the medium of Uncle Larry's outstanding playing. Every Homeskoolin episode should be committed to the US library archives - as a national treasure never to be lost.
That was just great. Thank you for all the effort. I love amplifiers and tone. It's the only thing that turns me on nowadays.
Man, that was awesome! Thanks to all the guys for pitching in. It takes a village… 👍
I not a guitar player at all, but I have not really ever seen a head to head test and comparison than this video. This was very very cool. It really entertaining!!! Thank you all involved. Great stuff!!!!!
I can describe your videos as honest and real intense passion... Today there is so rare!
Wonderful insights into the ear of the session man, the Princeton and the fun in friendship. Loved every second
Amazing! I really hope this does become a series. Uncle Larry’s ears are golden
Enjoyed seeing the charisma coming out of Uncle Larry from this angle!
Barry and the guys at XTS are the BEST. Great video . Thanks guys.
The best thing is that you are doing this with you friends! It’s even more fun when you play with or for other people!
The best hour on RUclips! Thx Larry and all the guys in this episode! Loved it.
No one is doing this type of video with the range of quick comparison with high quality playing and range of pedals! It’s like Homeschoolers are entering a master class!
What a fun video! And man that SG really intonates well for being vintage.
EVERY guitar should always be intonated from the very start, instead of figuring that out 20 years down the road, or never!!!
Just another reason why Uncle Larry is a legend and I'm a schlub playing in my spare bedroom. My ears couldn't pick out a tenth of the nuance in tone you can. Bravo!
What an awesome episode !
One guy playing one type of pedal and over 700 comments. He doesn’t know how much the whole thing is eye candy to his fan base. He’s incredible and so personable. So entertaining.
I love Ryan Nixon. Seriously I’ve done lots of buying and trading there. Super awesome place and people.
OMG That was so much fun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so amazingly generous with us Uncle Larry. This is has been great....i am simply "green with envy" for a certain green pedal that isn't a TS. For sure i don't have your ears, but i can really hear that "amp" sound you talk about. What a blast this has been.
Love the show Tom! Been a big fan of yours and like your down to earth comments, ideas and overall Approach. Would have love to have visited Nashville, for sure. Kindest Regards Mick (UK). keep on Rockin man!😊🇬🇧🙏🎸
Awesome...never thought I'd stay with it the full hour but couldn't stop watching. Thank you
Tommy's got golden ears and immaculate touch...absolutely love this video! These time stamps are for my own edification...I hope they're useful to my fellow Uncle Larry devotees
10:56 Klon Centaur
12:18 Mostortion
13:06 Mostortion tweaked
13:27 Nobels
14:37 TS808
15:01 TS808 tweaked
15:41 Klon tweaked
16:17 KOT
16:51 Nobels tweaked
18:24 TS808 - Sad Sack
18:30 Klon - Sad Sack
18:42 Nobels standout
19:01 Mostortion standout
19:11 KOT standout
22:49 MXR Timmy
23:50 King Tone Heavy Hand
24:50 Heavy Hand treble tweaked
25:06 Pedaltrain Night Light
27:07 Night Light lower gain
27:52 Strymon Sunset
30:38 Browne Atom
38:47 Marshall Bluesbreaker
39:19 Roger Mayer Voodoo-1
For the next shootout, you ought to compare the Nobels clones. IE: Wampler "Belle", J.Rocket "Chicken Soup", "Shanks", etc. and use the original as the "baseline". The "Nordland - ODC" is made by the same guy that designed the original ODR-1 when he was with Nobels. I'd love to hear Larry's opinion on that one also.
He didn't like the Browne Atom, which is supposed to be an ODR-1 clone.
@@TheRealJanKafka This is true.
I love the shanks but if hazard a guess Buk would find it wayyy to bassy out the gate, which it kind of is (not the worst with a tele) but you have to fine tune it for your rig
@@justinguitarcia lucky Shanks had them give you the bass trim and gain trim to adjust per situation.
@@justinguitarcia This was kinda off-hand, but he made a board for his son Marshall in one of the recent episodes and it had the Shanks on it. To be fair it also had an EQD Plumes on it, which is a Tubescreamer variant, so I guess he just didn't like what a stock TS does to your frequencies.
That Princeton is killer, as is basically everything. Great playing as usual
Great video Tom… informative and entertaining…two thumbs up.
I have been wondering about that great overdrive sound you always get. So great to see the Nobels ODR being compared between each other. Thanks Uncle Larry!
What an amazing ear and talent Tom is. He has fine tuned his craft to levels most will never attain. Love hearing Tom, Uncle Larry, play.
Very informative. And self-critical). Thanks, Tom. We look forward to continuing.
THANK BUK!!! This was such a fun episode. What a great idea for the show….as if HomeSkoolin class couldn’t get any better… Please do this with all the other types of pedals as you stated, such a great idea..
Thanks Uncle Larry!! That was an awesome educational vid!!
I am sure I didnt have as much fun watching as you had making this but man I was cracked up a bit.
What I learned from this... I need to get a Princeton. Such a great amp on it's own or with pedals.
Ford Thurston - a Tone Savant. Name keeps coming up! Plus he wails. Loved this video so much.
So fun to hear Ford's name come up more than once! And he's been dropping new vids the last couple of days!
IF I had to grab one and walk away? Nobles for sure. My Nobles is the one pedal I have had the longest and would never consider getting rid of. Thanks Uncle Larry! Always an education.
Thank you to Uncle Larry, and to the in-house pedal gurus. Fascinating!
"It's like solid ground that I can stand on"
"Oh, come on - don't give me that guitar stuff!"😂😂😂
A true master at work, that flew by!
i came here thinking i´d last 3 minutes on this video of nerding around on pedals... watched through the whole thing - no regrets ! amazing
This is class. Loved it. I’m a big fan of the Nobels I have a few of them. Killer!!
Very cool UL, thanks! Also, thanks to the panel.
Sold. I just ordered the XTS modded mini No-balls from the very shop you shot your hi-quality edu-tainment. Wish me luck.
This was amazing! So fun to watch.
Larry… this was absolutely one of the best pedal demos I’ve ever seen. Thank you for your immense help. I feel like I completely understand what each pedal would do, and it would certainly be reasonably repeatable on my end. Of course the organic side would differ but. Man, so awesome. Love your chops bro!!
Wish I could like this 1000 times!! Thanks UL & XTS!!
And I thought the little sweet Danny Huff was my favorite video.
There's so much garbage out there nowadays that you really can't find anything worth while .......they're out there but far and few.
Thanks man for another solid one 🤙
Ps: this would be hugely helpful for your schoolers on a regular basis in my opinion. 🙏
This a REAL PEDAL SHOW! Can not wait for the next upload!!!!!
Love this kind of testing/comparison!
The first truly entertaining pedal video I ever saw :)
Thanks uncle Larry for this episode. I ordered a nobles pedal after seeing this! As always, you are the man 🎸
you made all those pedals sound great,now I've gotta decide which to pickup first! seriously great video, thanks!
My man Ryan. Wired up my board years ago and it's still rollin' along
Damn, he was right on! it's like candles though, after you smell too many back to back, it can alter your guess. Awesome job Unc!
Brutally honest? This video was like that....by far! Loved every minute. Thanks to all the guys who made this possible: Ryan, Brett, Barry and Greg. And kudos to Uncle Larry who is not too proud to like the little green one after all ;-)
Can't wait to hear other pedal shootouts.
Because of this video I picked up a Nobel's mini pedal and I love it!
Barry did a great job modding my eq pedal!
Awesome ! Guys, thanx a lot, please do more ! 👍👏💪
Tom, I’d love more of these style videos. Great idea & great execution by you, the XTS guys & pedal shop guys. Man! You’ve got a set of ears on you. Hope Marshall & Leo develop ones just like em. Thanks for sharing so many thoughts, ideas, and music with us.
Awesome vid guys, this series could go on for a long while and we are all learning something.
This video convinced me to get the Nobels mini. It arrived today. I'm taking a break after playing it through an old blackface Princeton Reverb and Les Paul Junior with a dash of EHX Memory Boy for the past three hours. I'm digging it a whole bunch. I had the original Nobels when they first came out and don't remember ever bonding with it like I am with this one. Thanks and praise to Uncle Larry!
Still digging it? I'm thinking of getting one, too. In the hearing test, it seemed that the DRIVE setting was kind of mild. Can you get a good modern lead tone out of it? I would want a little more distortion.
Great store. Done biz there twice.❤
This was cool! I am not a Tube Screamer fan either and I actually bought a Tone City Nobleman(hope to someday get a Nobles) and besides it being bassy I just love it! Great little pedal! Really enjoying your channel Uncle Larry!
Best pedal comparison/experiment I've seen. Very nice.
I got such a kick out of this. Great premise. Keep it up.
Hey Leland! Been missing all you guys over at Gristletime!! My schedule doesn't permit currently. But it's great to see you pop up here on ol' Uncle Larry's channel! Cheers mate!
Crazy how he immediately picked out the digital strymon with one strum. World class ears man.
I cannot thank you enough for posting this right when I had to do laundry. ❤ So amped.
Great vid as usual, and great to see the mini getting some love considering it was trashed by the cork sniffers when it came out. It would have been cool to mix in a Nordland ODR-C with that selection too.
Such a fun episode!
The chances of me being able to witness what was on display here from Tom, Ryan, Brett, Barry & Greg, without this channel, are nil. I never take it for granted. Amazing stuff. Thanks, guys. Thanks, Tom. 😎
One of your best. I watched and listened intently. And learned. Thank you.
Wow. This was, and _will_ be for future ones, fantastic! Thank you guys for putting all this work in doing those comparisons. Goes to show that surface mount tiny stuff is not necessarily bad. Great one Tom!
Barry and Greg at Xact Tone are the coolest peeps!
The first guitar pedal I ever bought was a Nobels ODR-1 back in the mid nineties. Didn't have a clue what it was and was desperately disappointed that it didn't sound like Nirvana. Didn't even know you were allowed to try out pedals in the shops first. Came back to it in my mid twenties and found a lot of uses for it. Now in my forties... I've cashed in, sold it. As you've demonstrated the new ones sound the same. Made my self a clone with some mods (the original Nobels shop schematic is actually out there and easy enough to find, complete with the never-implemented "boost" switch).
You should ask Nobels to make a signature version for you :)
So fun. Love the point about using your ears. Nice seeing you at the guitar last weekend in Franklin. Made my day. Thanks for all you do.
This. Is. Awesome.
So fun to watch- had a smile on my face the entire time. You are a grade-A dude my man, as well as the guys at the shop taking time to do this.
That store is a gem. I bought a Greer Tomahawk on a visit there a couple years back. The employees were helpful and obliging to let a nobody like myself try a few things out before making a purchase.
Also, I think Uncle Larry’s greatest pearl of wisdom comes toward the end when he mentions the Nobels that he thought was killer with “this guitar and this amp” is one he’d never thought much of running it in his rig. It’s a testament to the benefit of testing a pedal on your own rig if/when you can instead of going by YT demos, reviews, etc.
That was awesome and a lot of fun. Hearing the reasons Tom liked and didn't like certain sounds was very insightful and helpful. Looking forward to more videos like this. Thanks
Super cool! What a fun exercise! Looking forward to the next one.
Amazing episodes, so interesting to hear all those awesome pedals 😄
beer in a guitar shop... heaven on earth.
Rad!!! A big yes to more shootouts like this! Your commentary of what sounds bad is a great resource for ear training. Especially calling out the offending EQ ranges.