I’ve had one of these for a month or so and have barely scratched the surface of what it can do. Great tone shaping drive, and exceptional value for money. Great demo, thank you!
I saw interview of Joe Barresi, the producer/mixer/engineer who did Weezer and Tool records and so forth, and he said for Pinkerton, he put room mic sound thru leftover LPB-1 he got from Eddie Martinez to distort the ambient sound of the room, I thought that was interesting use
There are so many fun ways to use pedals with mics. Especially if you have something like a JHS Colourbox or an Eventide Mixing Link (both will allow easy use of pedals with mic signals). I really love “transparent drive” pedals for this… anything trying to go for a Dumble sound is a good candidate. On the cheap end, the Joyo Taichi, on the slightly less cheap end, the Mojo Hand Dmbl, on the pricy side the Unobtanium. But lots of things will work, i have an old Rockman Distortion Generator which is great because it has EQ built in. Distortion with room mics on percussion is amazing!
Bill, kudos for demonstrating how many ways this pedal can shape your sound. I’m totally engrossed in the process… for a booster. You’re the professor of pedals.
I built a clone of the LPB-1 a while ago and I love it! It adds such a magical element to the dynamics in the signal. I use it at the front of a fairly complicated home pedalboard running through a mixer in stereo, and have a Boss IR-2 as my ‘amp’. I’d be very interested to try this ‘steroided’ version… Much love to you Bill ❤
I'm in the early stages of building out the basics of my tone. When they announced this pedal last year, I knew I had to have it. It just adds that "something extra" to my tone. It's now a permanent part of my setup
Love the idea of this pedal, also big fan of your ambient style and wealth of knowledge on the style. I am not horny for gear as so many others appear to be, but hey I also never thought I'd be into ambient guitar either. Rock on!
Definitely a tool one should have in the box in some form. I would personally cover this with Boss GE7 plus overdrive of choice. I think the LPB-3 can cover a lot in one box plus it offers some extremes that can be interesting. It’s not one for me personally but I think you did a tremendous job of demonstrating how to approach shaping the front end of your tone. Thanks!
Wow indeed. Very good demo Bill, even though sponsored. You let the pedal do it's things and let sound speak for itself, while explaining what's going on. And cudos also for EHX. Sometimes they seem like a dormant vague relic from the 20th century, but every now and then they bring out an awesome pedal like this. Very wide range and very broad usable. Wouldn't call it sexy, but exciting is an understatement.
I'm always singing the praises of JHS Clover in the same way. It really CHANGES everything. Love it. "Un-effected" he says. Lol... I know it's not spelled that way. It's a pun yo!
The overdrive pedal contains a distortion circuit, which creates the distorted tone regardless of how hard you hit the amp input. A boost pedal overdrives the amp preamp circuit itself to create the distortion, which has a different tonal quality. that being said, some overdrive pedals have enough gain to do the same type of thing.
@@chordsoforion I really love pedals like this one, that have a wide range, from “harmonic boost” up to distortion. (EHX make such great stuff!) We’re so lucky to have many great options (even cheap options like the Joyo Tornado or Taichi). Also enjoy the 1981 DRV, which i always use with gain on zero, which still has a harmonic clean boost in the signal. When you play really hard you get some of that RAT dirt tone, but it’s very touch responsive. (This is one reason so many folks love the DRV, it’s the preamp circuit) Beautiful sounds sir!
Love your “un-effected guitar tone.” (Beautiful expansive reverb and pronounced delay repeats ensue.) Perhaps I shouldn’t have assumed you didn’t mean unaffected by the EHX? 😂 Cheers, Daniel 🤙🏻
In principle this should be the pedal I always wanted it can potentially remove the need to ever change pickups again. I just cannot find the spec' for the frequency range of the mid freq control. If it goes up to at least 3kHz I will probably buy more than one, if it tops out at 2.5KHz I have no real use for it , it's that tight a decision and there's no data about it.
The manual for the LPB-3 (you can get it from the EHX website) says that the midrange frequency control goes from 240Hz to 3.3kHz. Treble affects 3.2kHz and above. Bass handles 240Hz and below. Hope that helps!
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I’ve had one of these for a month or so and have barely scratched the surface of what it can do. Great tone shaping drive, and exceptional value for money. Great demo, thank you!
3:30 "Let's recalibrate our ears"
Thanks, Bill. Everyone should do that much more often.
I saw interview of Joe Barresi, the producer/mixer/engineer who did Weezer and Tool records and so forth, and he said for Pinkerton, he put room mic sound thru leftover LPB-1 he got from Eddie Martinez to distort the ambient sound of the room, I thought that was interesting use
There are so many fun ways to use pedals with mics. Especially if you have something like a JHS Colourbox or an Eventide Mixing Link (both will allow easy use of pedals with mic signals). I really love “transparent drive” pedals for this… anything trying to go for a Dumble sound is a good candidate. On the cheap end, the Joyo Taichi, on the slightly less cheap end, the Mojo Hand Dmbl, on the pricy side the Unobtanium. But lots of things will work, i have an old Rockman Distortion Generator which is great because it has EQ built in. Distortion with room mics on percussion is amazing!
Bill, kudos for demonstrating how many ways this pedal can shape your sound. I’m totally engrossed in the process… for a booster. You’re the professor of pedals.
I built a clone of the LPB-1 a while ago and I love it! It adds such a magical element to the dynamics in the signal. I use it at the front of a fairly complicated home pedalboard running through a mixer in stereo, and have a Boss IR-2 as my ‘amp’. I’d be very interested to try this ‘steroided’ version… Much love to you Bill ❤
It's a very interesting pedal for tone shaping. Thank you for this video!
I'm in the early stages of building out the basics of my tone. When they announced this pedal last year, I knew I had to have it. It just adds that "something extra" to my tone. It's now a permanent part of my setup
Great breakdown; I would not have thought it was so versatile.
Electro Harmonix are no joke. They’ve rarely released a bad pedal
Love the idea of this pedal, also big fan of your ambient style and wealth of knowledge on the style. I am not horny for gear as so many others appear to be, but hey I also never thought I'd be into ambient guitar either. Rock on!
Wow, that's an amazing sounding drive. Thanks for making me aware of this.
Wow! You've played a very compelling case for this pedal.
That’s a tone shaping beast!
Yea baby, sounds pretty rad. Has a EHX "sound" if I might say. Love EHX.
Definitely a tool one should have in the box in some form. I would personally cover this with Boss GE7 plus overdrive of choice. I think the LPB-3 can cover a lot in one box plus it offers some extremes that can be interesting. It’s not one for me personally but I think you did a tremendous job of demonstrating how to approach shaping the front end of your tone. Thanks!
Wow! That pedal really brought out the guitar power on my laptop speakers! 😵 Impressive!
Wow indeed. Very good demo Bill, even though sponsored. You let the pedal do it's things and let sound speak for itself, while explaining what's going on.
And cudos also for EHX. Sometimes they seem like a dormant vague relic from the 20th century, but every now and then they bring out an awesome pedal like this. Very wide range and very broad usable. Wouldn't call it sexy, but exciting is an understatement.
Wow that Strat has wonder tone.
I'm always singing the praises of JHS Clover in the same way. It really CHANGES everything. Love it.
"Un-effected" he says. Lol... I know it's not spelled that way. It's a pun yo!
I’m using a Rory Gallagher/Hawk booster for the same thing, but this does more. I’ll keep it in mind, thanks 😊
Good morning Bill. How is this different from just using an overdrive pedal?
I'm guessing it's because of the EQ tone shaping that most OD pedals don't have.
The overdrive pedal contains a distortion circuit, which creates the distorted tone regardless of how hard you hit the amp input. A boost pedal overdrives the amp preamp circuit itself to create the distortion, which has a different tonal quality. that being said, some overdrive pedals have enough gain to do the same type of thing.
@@chordsoforion I really love pedals like this one, that have a wide range, from “harmonic boost” up to distortion. (EHX make such great stuff!)
We’re so lucky to have many great options (even cheap options like the Joyo Tornado or Taichi).
Also enjoy the 1981 DRV, which i always use with gain on zero, which still has a harmonic clean boost in the signal. When you play really hard you get some of that RAT dirt tone, but it’s very touch responsive. (This is one reason so many folks love the DRV, it’s the preamp circuit)
Beautiful sounds sir!
@chordsoforion Thanks for clearing that up. ✌😊
33db in a Solid state digital anything is not good! Should be pushing a tube amp.
This, or the Friedman Buxom boost? Any thoughts?
Love your “un-effected guitar tone.” (Beautiful expansive reverb and pronounced delay repeats ensue.) Perhaps I shouldn’t have assumed you didn’t mean unaffected by the EHX? 😂
Cheers,
Daniel 🤙🏻
Exactly!! :-)
I want an Thinline Strat so bad. Where did u find it? Is it a Partscaster u built, or a Fender Custom Shop?
Isn’t it the Eric Johnson thinline model? I think so…
It's a Fender Eric Johnson Thinline Strat. Looks like there are several for sale on Reverb right now.
@ awesome! Thank you! It sounds glorious!
“Let me play you my unaffected guitar tone…”
(Delay and reverb get to stay.)
Will this pedal make my guitar playing terribly sexy or will it still be just terrible?
I read “sexist guitar pedal” 😅
2024 mind
With a title like this… I had to click
I don't know ... I don't see no miniskirt ...
I SOLD the original LPB-1's brand new ...
As for looks the TCE Combo Deluxe '65 and Supro 1305 Drive are my fetish pedals 😅
In principle this should be the pedal I always wanted it can potentially remove the need to ever change pickups again. I just cannot find the spec' for the frequency range of the mid freq control. If it goes up to at least 3kHz I will probably buy more than one, if it tops out at 2.5KHz I have no real use for it , it's that tight a decision and there's no data about it.
The manual for the LPB-3 (you can get it from the EHX website) says that the midrange frequency control goes from 240Hz to 3.3kHz. Treble affects 3.2kHz and above. Bass handles 240Hz and below. Hope that helps!
That's great news! Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know.
Nice beard