Funny story: a few months before this pedal was announced, I had pretty much convinced myself that I was going to get both an Angry Charlie and a BD-2 at some point. Then all of a sudden, they announced the JB-2 and I suddenly ran out of excuses lol.
I run this thing thru a Fender tweed amp and a Jazzmaster custom fitted with two humbuckers and one of them being an invader in the bridge. Sounds fucking awesome.
When it came out in 2017 I listened to demos and didn’t like it st all. Then last year I demoed one and that was it, I was blown away. I grabbed one! It sounds awesome and it’s a great rhythm/solo device when using the remote food switch. Tasty licks in this video.
I have listened to about a half dozen demos of this pedal and while its certainly a nice and usable pedal - I don't believe for one second this is not a "compromised" Angry Charlie circuit, because it just does not sound quite the same as an actual JHS Angry Charlie - at least in my ears opinion. If it IS exactly the same, then whatever circuitry they are putting ahead of or behind the Angry Charlie circuit is IMHO changing it for the worse. All that said: Thanks for another great demo Andy!
Josh from JHS has said it’s a modified angry Charlie to fit within the three knob level tone drive format and to pair more nicerly with the blues driver :)
Played this at guitar center. Was completely blown away and I didn’t even know what it was. I thought holy shit I need to buy this then I looked at the price and thought hmmm maybe in a few months
Each sound on it's own is average at best but the combinations possible in Parallel mode are fantastic and very very inspiring and very playable! Notes really just jump right out of this pedal more than many others. I know the demos all sound a bit fizzy but the pedal is great in the long run!
The parallel mode on this thing is the dogs bollocks. At lowest gain settings you can get classic Clapton/Mayer type of fat overdrive tones. At high gain, you can go full 80's, 90's hard rock.
I think the Angry Charlie sounds too middy and muffled. I can see why some think it balances with the Blues Driver - I think it's just not a great sound.
I still don't really like the sound of it and I've watched all the demos. It's like that 'way too much' sound I get if I run to dirt pedals together by accident! It's a cool looking pedal tho with cool knobs.
The _ Hero It could be used as a boost, especially the Boss Blues Driver part of the circuit, but it’s designed to be much more than that. The JHS part of the circuit comes from the Angry Charlie pedal and that (and the lower gain Charlie Brown pedal) was really designed first and foremost to be an “amp in a box” style pedal, aiming for essentially Marshall style drive tones.
I never heard of JHS pedals. Funny they partnered with Boss anyway. Not a lot of tonal variation between the settings though. I still like Ibanez Tubescreamer. One sound. One setting. How many overdrives does the world need?
JHS have a great RUclips channel, where he goes over types of pedals, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of vintage pedals from the 60s, modern ones, everything in between. It's very good, he rarely mentions his own company's pedals, and he's not a complete snob like a lot of guitarists are when it comes to pedals. As in, if something sounds good, it's good, it's not about something can only be good if it's $200. He started his company like Robert Keeley, selling at first just mods of boss and other pedals, but he now makes his own original ones. But it's like Keeley teaming up with boss, think of it like that
They ran out of ideas long ago and the market for overdrives is beyond bloated. Now they are combining pedals which I have yet to hear any that it does not ruin the sound. Enough with the rotary knobs and switches. I set em and tape it still. If I have to get on the floor more than 2x the pedals ends up joining my other "display" pedals.
4000 heated debates on tone woods, $100+ cables, strings, speakers, painted pockets vs unpainted,bolt on vs set,type glue. $6-10 grand + CS and Master built all mean jack shit when you destroy the signal with a box of stuff designed to do just that. Ask tone wood if it makes sense.
You can. Quit whatever is making you so much money and play guitar with short irregular breaks for food and sleep. Rent a room out to a guitar teacher for quickest results.
Funny I replaced my SD-2 with this which was on my board for live gigs! The SD-2 when used with the remote is ideal. Lead and rhythm but the crunch is it’s weakness and I never got s great tone out of it, whereas the lead setting is fantastic. The JB-2 is a better unit. Try one if you haven’t, it’s hard to walk away from it!!!!
I'd like to hear more overdrives being tested into an already fairly overdriven or distorted tone, to kick in to almost "out of control" shreddy Satch-ish EVH-ish thing, where the volume is up on the amp so it's breathing, so you have to control the "good" feedback, and when you back down on your guitar volume it's got plenty of balls but it's more cleaned up & little bit clanky.
I'm a boss pedal user since 1979 when I visited Osaka and had the opportunity to try the whole line of boss pedals. The problem that the company Roland has is that as a good Japanese company, they look for perfection in the sound and that is when they look for a pure sound, but the distortion is the opposite, that is, to make it dirty and distorted. I have never been convinced by the distorted sound of the Roland, and I have had some pedals. I have a Roland jazz chorus 200 amplifier and I use digitech pedal for distortion and it sounds great. It's my point of view.
that pedal sounds awful to me. Could it be a crappy amp or the way it's being mic'd? I have been debating on overdrive pedals for a month. I've decided to go with the Strymon Sunset dual channel OD. For $100 there is a world of difference and capability with the Strymon.
Such massive and varied amounts of gain in one pedal! I'm impressed with what I've heard so far, and this may replace my DS-1 before it's all said and done!
Mixed feelings about this pedal . . .sounds more like bad amp modeling from a Line 6 Pod HD 400 at times. A few tones were decent but overall . . . meh. Great playing from Andy, per usual, but I don't think he can save this pedal. Pass.
I have purchased this pedal and I don't have the additional foot switch as yet, (remember a lot of shops allow you to return if it isn't to your satisfaction within 2 weeks) I do have the BD2 already stock not modded and I have used AC before and this pedal has brought me a lot of satisfaction tonally using my AC15 and my HT5r. Sound is subjective so is your each persons idea of tone, music, instrument pref etc I have used a Epi Les Paul, Gibson Les Paul, American Elite strat and a PRS Custom CE24 and honestly I think it is really versatile and great, My honest advice would be find a store that is ok with returns and purchase it from there take it home use it on your rig if you like great if not refund.
Marketing.... "Angry Driver" sounds like a cool name and people dig that kind of stuff. People that buy boss pedals see "JHS" and and assume quality sound because they make expensive pedals. So they end up paying $200 for crap. It's kind of a no-brainer.
Sounds uninspiring. I have a Maxon OD808 at low gain/high volume into an Xotic BB Preamp. These two in this configuration cover all the OD territory I need and so much more crisp and dynamic than this pedal. This sounds fizzy, over compressed, and a bit like modeling. Not impressed. To be honest, I've heard both bd-2 and AC. They're both great sounds individually and I'll bet they'd sound amazing stacked as individual pedals. Something in the soul of both sounds is lost or compromised in this combination.
Regarding all these demos, it would really be nice to hear at least SOME of these pedals using a PICK as the attack is much different than skin and thumbnails. Just saying the tone will differ greatly. Both have their place, but I only get to hear demos WITHOUT a pick only.
A pick Nazi! What's even more important - what kind of amp is/would you be playing into? It's a part of an entire system. And if you don't like Andy's right hand technique then WTF are you doing here? And what about his left hand technique? You aren't Andy, don't use the same guitar, probably have a dissimilar amp, or play into a DAW - a review is only a glimpse of what's on offer; moaning about a lack of pick is...lacking perspective.
Funny story: a few months before this pedal was announced, I had pretty much convinced myself that I was going to get both an Angry Charlie and a BD-2 at some point. Then all of a sudden, they announced the JB-2 and I suddenly ran out of excuses lol.
I run this thing thru a Fender tweed amp and a Jazzmaster custom fitted with two humbuckers and one of them being an invader in the bridge. Sounds fucking awesome.
this guy Andy is a guitar playing machine. i never heard him do a shitty job of playing these riffs.
He's a lumberjack and he's ok he rocks all night and he plays all day. (with apologies to Monty Python)
The telecaster tone with this is amazing 🤩 this pedal must be mine
This guy could sold me a broken pedal... That's how good he is
True, very true
That part 🤘🏾🤣
Probably why Line 6 hires him!
When it came out in 2017 I listened to demos and didn’t like it st all. Then last year I demoed one and that was it, I was blown away. I grabbed one! It sounds awesome and it’s a great rhythm/solo device when using the remote food switch. Tasty licks in this video.
Remote FOOD switch? Too good to be true.
@@almightyEsquilax I'm confused. Does the switch make it sound like an EHX soul food?
@@JS_Guitar09😂.. Foot switch. No, the illustrious food switch summons a butler who'll hand you a silver platter of southern bbq ribs
@@unknown6390 That sounds pretty good. I'll buy the food switch!
I have listened to about a half dozen demos of this pedal and while its certainly a nice and usable pedal - I don't believe for one second this is not a "compromised" Angry Charlie circuit, because it just does not sound quite the same as an actual JHS Angry Charlie - at least in my ears opinion. If it IS exactly the same, then whatever circuitry they are putting ahead of or behind the Angry Charlie circuit is IMHO changing it for the worse. All that said: Thanks for another great demo Andy!
Josh from JHS has said it’s a modified angry Charlie to fit within the three knob level tone drive format and to pair more nicerly with the blues driver :)
@@baronloweryi gonna hold your beer if you can tell which is which in a blindfold challange sir...
it sounds exactly what i thought it would sound like
Mike Hart yep, crap
*Andy is the real superstar for RUclips pedal demos.*
He’s been for more than 10 years now
The new contender is Mike Hermans
enrc vcnt - *You had better show some respeck.*
Andy is the real MVP.
Lo unico malo esq al tocar con los dedos la respuesta es algo diferente
Played this at guitar center. Was completely blown away and I didn’t even know what it was. I thought holy shit I need to buy this then I looked at the price and thought hmmm maybe in a few months
Only Andy could totally pull off "we are road raging with the Angry Driver"
holy fuck, that thing sounds good. properly meaty and full of harmonics.
Each sound on it's own is average at best but the combinations possible in Parallel mode are fantastic and very very inspiring and very playable! Notes really just jump right out of this pedal more than many others. I know the demos all sound a bit fizzy but the pedal is great in the long run!
The parallel mode on this thing is the dogs bollocks. At lowest gain settings you can get classic Clapton/Mayer type of fat overdrive tones. At high gain, you can go full 80's, 90's hard rock.
That is one SEXY overdrive pedal... or should I say pedals?!
the only Rig Rundown we need is Andy's
his got the skills and the voice.
is this like a marshell in a box and how is it compaired to a mxr fod
Dam it sounds sweet!
This is something I could use as always on in low drive and push my EHX Overlord J-Fet, Rat and Big Muff!
When playing the J->B mode he only plays the neck pickup.
looks like he's playing the bridge pickup at 6:30-6:56 to me.
Cool beans 😎
Third song
I think the Angry Charlie sounds too middy and muffled. I can see why some think it balances with the Blues Driver - I think it's just not a great sound.
What was that first guitar he was playing? Looked Les Paul-ish, but the bridge looked different, couldn't see the headstock.
MDK2323 it's a Hagstrom. Super Swede, I think they're called.
MDK2323 Hagstrom
blues charlie.
so i was thinking of that name.
Angry Driver sounds more amusing as a name. 🤷🏼♂️
what is the red guitar in the outro card?
A Gibson les Paul standard 1922
Ow yeahhhhh... babe!
I still don't really like the sound of it and I've watched all the demos. It's like that 'way too much' sound I get if I run to dirt pedals together by accident! It's a cool looking pedal tho with cool knobs.
that "way too much" sound is awesome
This pedal is a boost ?
No it's an multieffect drive/distortion pedal with a boss blues driver, and Jhs Angry Charlie (I think either V1 or V2)
The _ Hero It could be used as a boost, especially the Boss Blues Driver part of the circuit, but it’s designed to be much more than that. The JHS part of the circuit comes from the Angry Charlie pedal and that (and the lower gain Charlie Brown pedal) was really designed first and foremost to be an “amp in a box” style pedal, aiming for essentially Marshall style drive tones.
Sounds a bit fizzy
Would this pedal be great for playing any Mayhem stuff
what amp you used here?
this or nu tubescreamer :o?
I’d argue that they’re designed to do quite different things, so it really depends on how you intend to use it and what sound you’re after.
I have the Boss BD-2 Dual Overdrive pedal; it sounds either the same or better than this ... sorry. :)
Are you talking about the SD-2?
I'll stick with my Boss Metal zone
I never heard of JHS pedals. Funny they partnered with Boss anyway. Not a lot of tonal variation between the settings though. I still like Ibanez Tubescreamer. One sound. One setting. How many overdrives does the world need?
JHS have a great RUclips channel, where he goes over types of pedals, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of vintage pedals from the 60s, modern ones, everything in between. It's very good, he rarely mentions his own company's pedals, and he's not a complete snob like a lot of guitarists are when it comes to pedals. As in, if something sounds good, it's good, it's not about something can only be good if it's $200. He started his company like Robert Keeley, selling at first just mods of boss and other pedals, but he now makes his own original ones. But it's like Keeley teaming up with boss, think of it like that
And not everyone likes tubescreamers by the way. They do colour the tone a lot. I love them, but then that's cos I'm a big SRV fan
Not sure I’m going to take the opinion on pedals very seriously of someone who hasn’t even heard of JHS!! 🤦🏼♂️
I stopped reading when he said he doesn't know JHS.
As a guitarist who has 40 years of pedal addiction I would rather have two pedals than one. I hope this isn't the start of a trend.
Yeah imagine? What's next, a whole bunch of different effects in one?
😜
too complicated make it double size and with logical buttons
I prefer the Jhs
They ran out of ideas long ago and the market for overdrives is beyond bloated. Now they are combining pedals which I have yet to hear any that it does not ruin the sound. Enough with the rotary knobs and switches. I set em and tape it still. If I have to get on the floor more than 2x the pedals ends up joining my other "display" pedals.
JIMJAMSC
JIMJAMSC question to an answer not asked
4000 heated debates on tone woods, $100+ cables, strings, speakers, painted pockets vs unpainted,bolt on vs set,type glue. $6-10 grand + CS and Master built all mean jack shit when you destroy the signal with a box of stuff designed to do just that. Ask tone wood if it makes sense.
This has a footswitch pedal to change the modes, you know...
@@JIMJAMSC I don't want it to be the case, but tonewood on an electric guitar is straight bullshit marketing.
All the angry drivers out in force on here ha ha.this costs $400 in NZ average weekly pay for many is $500~$600
Amazon does not have it
CrimsonScythe I don’t think it has been released yet.
Zzounds.com has it for sale
Paid $200 bucks for this pedal. Way too much, but it’s not bad. Great for versatility.
If I didn't know any better, I would've thought this video was shot back in 1983. Terrible advert vid. Playing was good though.
Liv Life If they threw a couple memes in it would fee like at least a 2015 vid bruh
Lacks clarity. Mud. I can't stand it.
You'd be better off with a ds1
Meh.... don’t like it. It eats tone up.
I wish I could buy Andy’s talent! The pedal sounds great too!
You can. Quit whatever is making you so much money and play guitar with short irregular breaks for food and sleep. Rent a room out to a guitar teacher for quickest results.
Road raging with the angry driver made me laugh way harder than it should have
Ah haha, Angry Driver, I get it! (I’m a dumbass)
Lo único malo de él haciendo demos esq al tocar con los dedos la respuesta es diferente a la de una pua
Very Satchesque rhythm tone.
Nice pedal but it is not better than the discontinued Dual Overdrive
I like my Dual Overdrive much better than the sound of this JB2.
it's a BOSS Sd-2 concept, still a nice pedal anyway. love my DUAL OVERDRIVE Sd-2.
OD3 is one of my favorites in the Boss drive pedals
Boss od-2r is my weapon of choice
Funny I replaced my SD-2 with this which was on my board for live gigs! The SD-2 when used with the remote is ideal. Lead and rhythm but the crunch is it’s weakness and I never got s great tone out of it, whereas the lead setting is fantastic. The JB-2 is a better unit. Try one if you haven’t, it’s hard to walk away from it!!!!
My type of OD pedal.
Andy Driver
Lame
I'd like to hear more overdrives being tested into an already fairly overdriven or distorted tone, to kick in to almost "out of control" shreddy Satch-ish EVH-ish thing, where the volume is up on the amp so it's breathing, so you have to control the "good" feedback, and when you back down on your guitar volume it's got plenty of balls but it's more cleaned up & little bit clanky.
What's the world's most popular amplifier? It doesn't do that.
I'm a boss pedal user since 1979 when I visited Osaka and had the opportunity to try the whole line of boss pedals. The problem that the company Roland has is that as a good Japanese company, they look for perfection in the sound and that is when they look for a pure sound, but the distortion is the opposite, that is, to make it dirty and distorted. I have never been convinced by the distorted sound of the Roland, and I have had some pedals. I have a Roland jazz chorus 200 amplifier and I use digitech pedal for distortion and it sounds great. It's my point of view.
that pedal sounds awful to me. Could it be a crappy amp or the way it's being mic'd? I have been debating on overdrive pedals for a month. I've decided to go with the Strymon Sunset dual channel OD. For $100 there is a world of difference and capability with the Strymon.
Such massive and varied amounts of gain in one pedal! I'm impressed with what I've heard so far, and this may replace my DS-1 before it's all said and done!
Doesn't make me want to put my Electro Harmonix hot wax duel overdrive pedal away...
Mixed feelings about this pedal . . .sounds more like bad amp modeling from a Line 6 Pod HD 400 at times. A few tones were decent but overall . . . meh. Great playing from Andy, per usual, but I don't think he can save this pedal. Pass.
He's not even dialing it in well to be honest... This is a great pedal
Alex Murphy Agreed. I was shocked by how great of a pedal this playing it and hearing it. Andy didn’t seem to capture this one and bring out its best.
Ok Russ, you listen to the riff in the beginning and tell this again...
Andrew W. Don't forget... It's a lot harder to capture what you hear and what you lay down mic'd.
nice
I have purchased this pedal and I don't have the additional foot switch as yet, (remember a lot of shops allow you to return if it isn't to your satisfaction within 2 weeks) I do have the BD2 already stock not modded and I have used AC before and this pedal has brought me a lot of satisfaction tonally using my AC15 and my HT5r. Sound is subjective so is your each persons idea of tone, music, instrument pref etc I have used a Epi Les Paul, Gibson Les Paul, American Elite strat and a PRS Custom CE24 and honestly I think it is really versatile and great, My honest advice would be find a store that is ok with returns and purchase it from there take it home use it on your rig if you like great if not refund.
Sounds good, looks clean (vs. silly graphics like mermaids painted on the case) and easy to change settings.
I prefer mermen
@@lucaswood7602 I heard Boss will produce a new overdrive called UnGay Charlie for 2020 :-p
Zvex makes those pedals for all your hippie artwork needs: hand painted by kindergarteners or some Berkeley hippie collective.
Badass. Sounds like fun
Remember not to swear in the comments 🙃
what the F***
Pingy
Remotes? Blues Driver has a crappy clean boost. JHS has a crappy driven sound. IDK what boss is even doing anymore...
Jim I think you are getting confused with Strymon: Mobius; Timeline; and Big Sky blows the doors off the Roland gear.
Marketing....
"Angry Driver" sounds like a cool name and people dig that kind of stuff. People that buy boss pedals see "JHS" and and assume quality sound because they make expensive pedals. So they end up paying $200 for crap. It's kind of a no-brainer.
What are Boss doing?
Counting the cash.
They're a business - that's what a business does.
pd4165
Unless that business is Gibson.
Boss Justin Bieber
its like Bad Queens of the stone age sound.... meh!!
Sounds uninspiring. I have a Maxon OD808 at low gain/high volume into an Xotic BB Preamp. These two in this configuration cover all the OD territory I need and so much more crisp and dynamic than this pedal. This sounds fizzy, over compressed, and a bit like modeling. Not impressed. To be honest, I've heard both bd-2 and AC. They're both great sounds individually and I'll bet they'd sound amazing stacked as individual pedals. Something in the soul of both sounds is lost or compromised in this combination.
lmao okay blues dad
Let me guess, you use that combo to play Stevie Vai Gibbons and achieve maximum tone
Regarding all these demos, it would really be nice to hear at least SOME of these pedals using a PICK as the attack is much different than skin and thumbnails. Just saying the tone will differ greatly. Both have their place, but I only get to hear demos WITHOUT a pick only.
A pick Nazi!
What's even more important - what kind of amp is/would you be playing into? It's a part of an entire system.
And if you don't like Andy's right hand technique then WTF are you doing here?
And what about his left hand technique?
You aren't Andy, don't use the same guitar, probably have a dissimilar amp, or play into a DAW - a review is only a glimpse of what's on offer; moaning about a lack of pick is...lacking perspective.
How about go try one instead of flaming Andy on RUclips...
some one please get andy and jeff beck a fualking plectrum,,,
Sounds and looks cheap
Why do I fee like Boss losing focus with this pedal?
PLEASE, GET A PICK.
Why? because he plays better then you without one? or because he doesn't have that annoying pick sound?