Alex Lifeson's By-Tor Pedal Rocks! A dual Drive/Boost 2 in 1 pedal for any gig or recording...

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  • Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
  • Alex Lifeson and his "Lerxt" brand are creating some products based on his working rigs and the sounds and tones that he loves to hear and use. The By-Tor pedal is voiced to emulate the Lerxt Omega amp's tone and versatility, being able to go from a clean tight crunch to the legendary growl and guts that are a signature of the Alex Lifeson tone, brought to life and to us in the public space by the Lerxt Omega amp. I put together a demo based on how I would use this pedal, check it out and decide how you would use the By-Tor to create your own palette of tone!
    *** Correction: The studio was in Toronto, not Quebec, I was on tour and had been a in a bus for a while, it all runs together so memories fade a bit. Sorry!
    Check it out here:
    lerxstamps.com...
    Buy it here!
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Комментарии • 87

  • @Wishpool
    @Wishpool 8 месяцев назад +3

    Non-guitarist here, but lifelong music lover and fan of yours since 2005 with P-tree. Absolutely incredible tones! 🎸

  • @riveralph3687
    @riveralph3687 8 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you John. Great insightful descriptions and demo. Rush geeks united! 😄

  • @5150mario
    @5150mario 4 месяца назад +2

    I love love love my lerxst by tor. Thank you immensely for showing this pedals capabilities.

    • @5150mario
      @5150mario 4 месяца назад +1

      Just a little bummed I didn't get any cool stickers. Who doesn't like stickers yo!!! 😁

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  Месяц назад +1

      So good, having the two sides makes it so flexible!

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  Месяц назад

      No stickers in the box? What!!!

  • @jamiebradford11
    @jamiebradford11 8 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for making these videos. Very well done and informative. And I would've geeked out over the Rush stickers in the box as well!!

  • @jamesmarcin4787
    @jamesmarcin4787 8 месяцев назад +4

    Very cool.
    Loved your playing with Porcupine Tree live years ago. Your vocals on the live version of Fadeaway were fantastic. Thanks for the demo.👍

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you James, those were good years and great gigs back then. Appreciate you checking back in ... more to come!

  • @johnladdsmusic
    @johnladdsmusic 4 месяца назад +2

    That tone made me a subscriber…WOW!

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  Месяц назад

      Thank you! Yeah...I have to say all of the Lerxt gear I have tried so far leads to really cool tones... love it...

  • @blackcreekmusic783
    @blackcreekmusic783 8 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome stuff sir!!I can watch this kind of thing all day!

  • @swankmotee
    @swankmotee 8 месяцев назад +1

    Nice tones young Lad! Bringing the RAWK as always!🤘

  • @InnerDaze
    @InnerDaze 8 месяцев назад +4

    Not sure I understand the intro. Clockwork Angels was recorded in Toronto, long after The Studio in Quebec had closed. Either the location's wrong or the album title is.

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah... my mistake and the video was already up when I realized it. I was on a tour bus at the time and the memories are blurry. I blame "bus lag". You are absolutely correct, it was Toronto... not Quebec.

  • @thomasalderman2399
    @thomasalderman2399 8 месяцев назад +4

    If you are a Rush Geek? We will get along just fine. I'm all eyes and ears for your future shows. I subscribed right of the bat. Looking forward to them. I love Alex's playing. He is a big influence for me.

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah man... I may have been seen walking around with a Cherry Sunburst LP and the album version of A Farewell to Kings under my arm in my teens...

  • @jdpumpica4417
    @jdpumpica4417 8 месяцев назад +2

    *Lerxst. Love this video, and channel! Fantastic, keep it up!!

  • @chrissilverhand1
    @chrissilverhand1 8 месяцев назад +1

    I'm really enjoying these videos John, really helpful and insightful, thank you.

  • @SirenBandUS
    @SirenBandUS 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very cool. Love these demos. Ed

  • @wait---who----me
    @wait---who----me 8 месяцев назад +4

    Mr. Wesley...love to here the story on how you got together with Wilson and Porqupine Tree....Love your playing....

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад

      I will most certainly get into that at some point in future vids... thanks man...

  • @angusorvid8840
    @angusorvid8840 8 месяцев назад

    What a great sounding pedal! Very organic, chewy, warm. My kind of pedal.

  • @paschalmccafferty2107
    @paschalmccafferty2107 7 месяцев назад +1

    So did Fender make a prototype of the hentor which Alex decided not to go with?
    Also the pickup selector in the middle position, does that activate all three pickups?
    Great review, can’t wait to get my hands on one of these pedals!

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  7 месяцев назад

      Great question, when Mojotone was developing the pickup assembly, they needed to house it in a Strat to check it out at the different stages. When it was finished they sent the prototype housed in a USA Fender Strat down to me so I could do a demo video of it. I liked it so much I ordered an assembly for myself and just released a video of it being dropped into a Beck Strat... thanks man!

  • @tomosborne5949
    @tomosborne5949 8 месяцев назад +2

    Very good, brings in alot of punch.

  • @MGBOMAR
    @MGBOMAR 8 месяцев назад +1

    Aarrrgh!!! Something else I can’t afford 😂 Great vid Wes 🤟🏻👌🏻

  • @gravl1
    @gravl1 8 месяцев назад +1

    The pickup is a Bill Lawrence L500. You can still get them.

  • @colinburroughs9871
    @colinburroughs9871 8 месяцев назад +2

    There's lot's Alex's- ism's in the tone box. Pretty cool

  • @tgorycki6825
    @tgorycki6825 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great video! The Lerxst amp is based on a Marshall 2550 Silver Jubilee.

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  7 месяцев назад +1

      It is... I had a 2550 loaned to me for a while and the Lerxst does it justice!

  • @brianbokor4229
    @brianbokor4229 7 месяцев назад +1

    10k views, Bro!!! Keep up the great work, Wes...

  • @michaelgallegos8811
    @michaelgallegos8811 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks man great video I just saw you! Just subscribed that pedal looks and sounds great 👍 ❤.

  • @steveodonnell6533
    @steveodonnell6533 8 месяцев назад +1

    👍 Awesome Wes

  • @walth9092
    @walth9092 7 месяцев назад +1

    I like the SnowDog! Good sound.

  • @GregYock
    @GregYock 8 месяцев назад +1

    amazing. What gauge strings are you using?!?

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  7 месяцев назад

      Greg, I am using the GHS .010 Nickel Rockers...love them. They sound like the strings I used as a young player... thanks man!

  • @thedude-jb7wx
    @thedude-jb7wx 3 месяца назад +1

    does itr give you the 70s or that grace under pressure tone???

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  Месяц назад +1

      You can certainly dial that tone in... having the right guitar set up for that tone helps... he was using a few different guitars in that time period. But I love this pedal...

    • @thedude-jb7wx
      @thedude-jb7wx Месяц назад

      @@TheJourneymanGuitarist I wouldn't know how to dial any tone in lol. Whenever some days that have a tone of someone I'm usually saying nope doesn't sound like it to me. The gup tone might be the chorus with light flanger in what I hear. I thought he was using and mxr gain pedal too. Yes dial in close enough to play the song but I want more. I'm moving away from playing at my age to production Think I'm going to need to go to school for this.

  • @rogercardenas111
    @rogercardenas111 8 месяцев назад +2

    Thats a nice Hentor Strat guitar 🎸🎸.

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +2

      Hi Roger, this was the prototype built on a fender body with the Hentor Electronics, the actual new Hentor is made by Godin but Mojotone will sell the electronics as a drop in for any Strat style guitar, I got hooked when I tried this one out.

    • @rogercardenas111
      @rogercardenas111 8 месяцев назад

      @@TheJourneymanGuitarist thanks for the response, enjoyed watching the video. Rush on man 🤘🍻🍺🎼👏👍🎸🎸

  • @GMHG777
    @GMHG777 8 месяцев назад +1

    Dude, you really are trying to drain my bank account aren't you Wes 🤣😂🤣

  • @brucek2946
    @brucek2946 8 месяцев назад +2

    Did you use any of it in the Bubba Bash ?

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +1

      I didn't as I didn't have the pedal yet, the prototype Lerxt pickup assembly was in a Strat that I was not comfortable with, so I went with my main PRS, the parts were tough and that guitar is so comfortable to me and always sounds good... Billy did have a Quad Cortex and that was the basis for the guitar tones at Bubba Bash.

    • @brucek2946
      @brucek2946 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheJourneymanGuitarist well you still sounded Incredibly Great .. I still watch and listen to that Video Repeatedly and Often !!

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад

      @@brucek2946 Thank you!!!

  • @pythonflying
    @pythonflying 8 месяцев назад

    Very nice! I suppose it would be presumptuous to assume a Snow Dog pedal is in the works.

  • @astewart9410
    @astewart9410 8 месяцев назад +1

    I have the D&M Drive, also a boost/drive, so this is interesting

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah...so this is a tough one. I have the D&M drive as well. Really love it. Similar concept. Both superb quality, but voiced differently. It's a matter of taste and as each of us hear things differently, I could not tell you which one you would prefer. My take is the By-Tor is more aggressive. But it's easy to tame and could do any gig with it... could be fun to have both...but... ya know...economics and stuff...

    • @astewart9410
      @astewart9410 8 месяцев назад

      @@TheJourneymanGuitarist And here I thought the D&M was aggressive! Lol thanks for the vid.

  • @musicmann1967
    @musicmann1967 8 месяцев назад

    I've been looking at this pedal for a while now and they haven't really been available. I don't know if production stopped, but unless you catch a used one on Reverb, I don't think you can get them.

    • @notmyrealhandle
      @notmyrealhandle 8 месяцев назад +2

      They're just going into full production. Should be available now

    • @musicmann1967
      @musicmann1967 8 месяцев назад

      @@notmyrealhandle Amazing! I just went to the website, and you're right! Thank you!

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +1

      @@musicmann1967 yeah they are out now, I timed the video to release day...

    • @musicmann1967
      @musicmann1967 8 месяцев назад

      @@TheJourneymanGuitarist Nice! I'm glad I saw this. Thanks!

  • @BernieZazz
    @BernieZazz 8 месяцев назад

    What brand is the Strat ?

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +2

      The Strat I am playing there was an American Fender they used to put the prototype Lerxt Pickup assembly into, the actual new Lerxt Guitar is made by Godin. godinguitars.com/?s=lerxst&post_type=product.

    • @BernieZazz
      @BernieZazz 8 месяцев назад

      @@TheJourneymanGuitaristthank you!

  • @guitarmainiac80
    @guitarmainiac80 8 месяцев назад +1

    Cool vids brother. We should do a vid together sometime. Rock!
    Johnny Chromatic 🤘😁👍🎸

  • @eoinjennings519
    @eoinjennings519 8 месяцев назад +6

    This isn’t helping my gas

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +2

      Right????!!!

    • @eoinjennings519
      @eoinjennings519 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@TheJourneymanGuitarist I need all the gear but have none of the talent - love your playing and your solo albums are great too

    • @TheJourneymanGuitarist
      @TheJourneymanGuitarist  8 месяцев назад +1

      @@eoinjennings519 Thank you...that is greatly appreciated...

    • @marlinshanklin-ww7em
      @marlinshanklin-ww7em 8 месяцев назад +1

      There's no cure.

  • @michaeljensen8211
    @michaeljensen8211 8 месяцев назад

    Absolut not for DEATH METAL ☝️