And here's the timestamps for you people on phones and tablets, enjoy :) 00:00 Hello! 00:54 Introduction to the NUX Steel Singer and what we’re doing today 02:18 Today’s rig 02:48 Clean reference tones and turning on the Steel Singer 03:48 Upbeat poppy barre chords 04:35 Open string ringing chords 05:19 Bluesey southern rock riff 06:37 Edgy pop rock barre chords 07:21 Country picking lead riff 07:45 Groovy classic rock riff 09:08 Greta Van Fleet inspired classic rock riff 09:49 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff 10:39 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff 11:29 Indie rock barre chords 12:50 Fat indie rock rhythm chords 14:19 Indie droning chords 15:11 Indie rock octave chords riff 16:25 Hard rock riff 17:16 Classic hard rock riff 18:09 Glam rock riff 18:51 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff 19:43 Alternative rock riff 20:26 Green Day inspired punk rock riff 21:09 Pop punk melodic lead sound 21:57 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning) 22:43 Hardcore chugging riff (Drop D tuning) 23:28 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning) 24:16 Heavy lead sounds 24:56 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop with Steel Singer tonal tweaking 27:28 Fender Stratocaster indie loop with Steel Singer tonal tweaking 29:30 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop with Steel Singer tonal tweaking 31:33 My thoughts - sounds and versatility 33:14 My favorite guitar/pickups with the Steel Singer 34:05 Is the Steel Singer a clone? 35:57 Two things I don’t like about the Steel Singer 37:45 Final conclusion and goodbye
Thanks Federico, I'm really happy you enjoyed the video! The Steel Singer is an excellent pedal, and amazing value for money too. I love mine! And I hope you get to try one soon too, if you haven't already. All the best from Germany and rock on :)
I bought one of these after watching this video... And for the money it's great fun...I just need to pick up my electric guitar more often not my acoustic...Many thanks very satisfied with my little pedal....
Thanks Mark, very happy to hear that! I agree, for the money you absolutely can't go wrong with these NUX pedals. I've got a couple more that are also what we'd class as 'affordable' but they're just pure and simple fun to play. Enjoy your Steel Singer, and play as much guitar as you can, electric and acoustic :)
This pedal doesn't just preserve the character of the guitar your using it with, it actually intensifies it. A Strat & a LP will never sound more different from each other than when using them with the SS. They'll both sound good, just very different. I love using it for leads, it's always providing me with little "surprises". Just wish the (typically Nux) build quality was a bit better.
Yes, great comment! The Steel Singer is one of those pedals that actually gives you more of what you've already got, but better... and it accentuates the good stuff. It's a really nice pedal, and amazing for the price. Like you though, I wish it felt a little more solid! Thanks for watching and rock on :)
the nice tone on this pedal is volume at 1, drive around 3 and tone rolled off to 10 o'clock max on any guitar. best with bridge pups and on "clean" drive channel. this is a real fantastic lead tone, with very dense texture like you were "crissing" glass dust in your hand. really good despite a bit noisy with a compressor. I bought it last year and I still love it. on lower gain settings with tone after noon, it's a bit too harsh mid range even for a strat.
You're right, this one really needs dialing in well. And it responds very differently to the different guitar types too. I found I needed the volume a little higher than 1pm to get to unity gain. I love this pedal though, as it gives you such a thick mids-rich tone. It's definitely a different flavor to the other gain pedals I use, but another great affordable option to have on any pedalboard!
Yay, glad you got one and happy you're enjoying it! Mine is still working just as it did on Day 1... treat it nicely and it should be fine! Happy playing :)
Thanks a lot Mark, glad you enjoyed it! These pedals are so cheap I'd say take the plunge with one, see how you get on with it. And yes, I love my Tele... it's been my number one since I got it new in 2014 :) Keep on rocking!
Very Cool, Thankyou. I have one of these pedals arriving tomorrow and found this very informative, interesting and Entertaining. Useful information, thankyou. Cheers
I’m really wondering where the D-style marketing line is coming from…if the Nux is based on the free the tone, then this pedal is after a Fender Blackface sound. Is it just the font, because the name is obviously a play on the free the tone “string slinger”…
I reckon you've got it about right. It's more the looks than anything. Sound-wise, it's a slightly generic 'Fender with a Tubescreamer in front' type sound, at least to my ears, which is kind of what Dumble (and so many more) are... but then I've never actually heard a Dumble in person anyway ;) I doubt many have! But I guess at the end of the day, if you put 'Dumble' in the marketing blurb, people get interested! It certainly sounds expensive, after all.
pretty sure im going with the operation overlord but had to hear this nux again first, sounds real good, just not the dialability of the overlord, plus stereo option on overlord, but its 120$ used...
Not a BAD OD pedal! But idk about all the hype surrounding Dumble amps! Just another variation in the hot rodded Fenders of the 70s, LIKE Gibson-Boogie, cough cough Mesa-Boogie! If you wanto to talk to pedal builders try Thorpie or Dan Steinhardt!
Yeah, good shouts. Both very learned guys. I'd like to talk to Paul Cochrane too, if I can. Not sure if he does interviews. But yeah, the Steel Singer was my first Dumble-type pedal, and I do like it a lot! We might, just might be able to get our hands on a real Dumble for the BluGuitar livestream sometime in the next few months. If so I'll let you know how it is, although I can already tell you it's not worth the $100,000 people are paying for them used these days ;)
@@RichWordsMusic Yeah, $100K+ for an amp? Pfft! Old Gibson & Fender guitars are worth more, and a lot MORE of them were made over the years! There was a pedal mob in the US, that modelled a Dumble ODS, and made a pedal that really WAS indistinguisable from the amp! CAN'T remember its name now tho! (WHETHER is was good or not, is like anything else in music, subjective!) I also made my Steinhardt suggestion with a bit of bias, seeing he is an Aussie!
@@DMSProduktions If I ever get that much money, rest assured it won't be going on an amp :) Are you by any chance referring to the Van Weelden Royal Overdrive? That's the super expensive one on my radar. Would love to try it... but it's like nearly €700 over here! My channel needs more Aussie content though! And I used to be a massive Biffy Clyro fan too, so maybe I can bond with Dan over that.
@@DMSProduktions True, we even talked about getting you in a video a few months ago! Maybe I should think about some topics for that. Check out the Van Weelden, it's madness!
It is a knockoff of the Vertex Steel String Clean Drive. It even looks like it . The casing and knobs are the same. NUX were not subtle about it. LOL I had the Vertex for a couple of years. From what I hear from your demo NUX has nailed the sound. NUX do the Plexi Crunch in this same line. I have one. It is one of 10 of my Plexi pedal collection and it holds its own against pedals I paid over $300.00 USD for.
NUX sent me the Plexi Crunch too! I've only really played that one for a couple of minutes to check it worked, but it sounds pretty sweet... more of a high gain drive though, right? I'm excited to try it now and put it up against my Bogner La Grange. See, we have different info on the Steel Singer and where it comes from. From what I understand, the NUX is a clone of the Free The Tone String Slinger, not the Vertex. And the Vertex does do a lot more clean boost stuff (I've tried it, although only briefly. I'll be borrowing one soon to do an A/B with the NUX!). I could ask NUX what they say, but I doubt they'll tell me where they got their inspiration ;)
@@RichWordsMusic The NUX Plexi knobs are as interactive as a real amp. It is so flexible that it is as easy to get a total crap sound as it is to get a great one. Actually it is the lower medium gain sounds that are really amp like. As it's name implies..'Crunch does not mean high gain. In fact the pedal pushed hard is crap. lol I found I could even knock out mid 60's Stones sounds on it. It is great on Tele's and Strats as it is transparent enough to not bury any chime.
@@Paul_Lenard_Ewing Sounds pretty promising! Think I'll get it out tonight and get to grips with it. Just need to work out how to dial it in, by the sounds of it! If it can do mid 60s Stones sounds I'll be incredibly happy with it.
It's a good pedal. I have it. But it's a clone of the Maxon TS-9. Which is a pretty good sounding pedal. I just want to point that. Because even when I like this pedal, IT'S NOT REMOTELY RELATED TO A "DUMBLE STYLE PEDAL"
I love your reviews but this is possibly one of your worst tbh. Filter was almost always cranked which produced a notoriously harsh sound. Even at around 25:54 where, at last, you turned the filter to the left you passed that in a flash to hastily return to the harsh zone. For me the best setting is filter around 1 o clock, the gain at around 3 o clock and then play with the guitar volume to get a variety of sounds, from cleanish to full distortion
Oh, I'm sorry to hear you didn't like this one as much Nicholas. It's funny, but I remember with this pedal I wished there was always more treble than I had! As you know, I do like a lot of top-end in my tone ;) It could be that the Dumble sound is not quite the right one for me, and I overcompensated. I am going to get the pedal out again this weekend and try it in more varied options, as you suggest! Cheers and rock on :)
@@RichWordsMusic Dear Rich, many thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. Looking forward to your thoughts on this pedal with varied options. For me, it has already gained a permanent place on my pedalboard with the settings that I described above.
@@NicholasAmpazis That sounds promising. I will see what I can do... maybe I'll get the Steel Singer and couple more "Dumble-type" pedals and do a little comparison :) That could be fun!
@@RichWordsMusic 9:08 Greta van fleet inspired 🤣. Love the tunes but I can’t watch that hobbit sing it I don’t know what it is… I got the same thing with Alabama Shakes love her voice just can’t watch her sing??? It messes with my AV processors in a glitch in the matrix kinda way.
@@mikec6733 I guess it depends on what kind of drive sounds you're after... the Rat will be a lot wilder, with less low end. The Steel Singer is a much smoother and more polite style of overdrive, with more of a focus on the mid-range frequencies.
Ha ha, that's how the pedal sounds! I don't think it's worthless - I really like the tones you get from it. Each to their own though, and I know some people don't dig the Dumble sound.
And here's the timestamps for you people on phones and tablets, enjoy :)
00:00 Hello!
00:54 Introduction to the NUX Steel Singer and what we’re doing today
02:18 Today’s rig
02:48 Clean reference tones and turning on the Steel Singer
03:48 Upbeat poppy barre chords
04:35 Open string ringing chords
05:19 Bluesey southern rock riff
06:37 Edgy pop rock barre chords
07:21 Country picking lead riff
07:45 Groovy classic rock riff
09:08 Greta Van Fleet inspired classic rock riff
09:49 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
10:39 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
11:29 Indie rock barre chords
12:50 Fat indie rock rhythm chords
14:19 Indie droning chords
15:11 Indie rock octave chords riff
16:25 Hard rock riff
17:16 Classic hard rock riff
18:09 Glam rock riff
18:51 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
19:43 Alternative rock riff
20:26 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
21:09 Pop punk melodic lead sound
21:57 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
22:43 Hardcore chugging riff (Drop D tuning)
23:28 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning)
24:16 Heavy lead sounds
24:56 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop with Steel Singer tonal tweaking
27:28 Fender Stratocaster indie loop with Steel Singer tonal tweaking
29:30 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop with Steel Singer tonal tweaking
31:33 My thoughts - sounds and versatility
33:14 My favorite guitar/pickups with the Steel Singer
34:05 Is the Steel Singer a clone?
35:57 Two things I don’t like about the Steel Singer
37:45 Final conclusion and goodbye
Excellent! The best Steel Singer video in RUclips. Thank you very much! Greetings from Argentina!
Thanks Federico, I'm really happy you enjoyed the video! The Steel Singer is an excellent pedal, and amazing value for money too. I love mine! And I hope you get to try one soon too, if you haven't already. All the best from Germany and rock on :)
I bought one of these after watching this video... And for the money it's great fun...I just need to pick up my electric guitar more often not my acoustic...Many thanks very satisfied with my little pedal....
Thanks Mark, very happy to hear that! I agree, for the money you absolutely can't go wrong with these NUX pedals. I've got a couple more that are also what we'd class as 'affordable' but they're just pure and simple fun to play. Enjoy your Steel Singer, and play as much guitar as you can, electric and acoustic :)
Great tones with the tele Rich!
Cheers Max, nice to see you around here! I do love my Tele, it cuts through anything so well :)
Good job with all the tone options through the looper there in the end, that's really helpful!
Glad you found it useful! I always learn a lot about my own pedals doing that too :)
This pedal doesn't just preserve the character of the guitar your using it with, it actually intensifies it. A Strat & a LP will never sound more different from each other than when using them with the SS. They'll both sound good, just very different. I love using it for leads, it's always providing me with little "surprises". Just wish the (typically Nux) build quality was a bit better.
Yes, great comment! The Steel Singer is one of those pedals that actually gives you more of what you've already got, but better... and it accentuates the good stuff. It's a really nice pedal, and amazing for the price. Like you though, I wish it felt a little more solid! Thanks for watching and rock on :)
This video elaborates the device pretty well, buying one because of this video! Thanks, pal
Awesome, glad you found my video useful and I hope you enjoy the pedal too 😎 Cheers and rock on!
the nice tone on this pedal is volume at 1, drive around 3 and tone rolled off to 10 o'clock max on any guitar. best with bridge pups and on "clean" drive channel. this is a real fantastic lead tone, with very dense texture like you were "crissing" glass dust in your hand. really good despite a bit noisy with a compressor. I bought it last year and I still love it. on lower gain settings with tone after noon, it's a bit too harsh mid range even for a strat.
You're right, this one really needs dialing in well. And it responds very differently to the different guitar types too. I found I needed the volume a little higher than 1pm to get to unity gain. I love this pedal though, as it gives you such a thick mids-rich tone. It's definitely a different flavor to the other gain pedals I use, but another great affordable option to have on any pedalboard!
👍👍 I finally got around to getting one of these.
It's a cool addition especially for the price .
My only concern is will it last - we shall see ☺️
Yay, glad you got one and happy you're enjoying it! Mine is still working just as it did on Day 1... treat it nicely and it should be fine! Happy playing :)
Great demo.... I think I want one.... Love that Telecaster.... Thank you....
Thanks a lot Mark, glad you enjoyed it! These pedals are so cheap I'd say take the plunge with one, see how you get on with it. And yes, I love my Tele... it's been my number one since I got it new in 2014 :) Keep on rocking!
Very Cool, Thankyou. I have one of these pedals arriving tomorrow and found this very informative, interesting and Entertaining. Useful information, thankyou. Cheers
Great, glad you enjoyed it and I hope you are already loving your Steel Singer!
Just order ,nice review buddy 🤟
Me : Rich What's your favorite color ? Rich : Blue. Great demo ! I'm just bought one.
Ha ha, what can I say? Blue just sounds better! Hope you enjoy the pedal when it arrives!
I wonder what it sounds like with the tone rolled back a bit.
It sounds a bit muffled to my ears when you roll back too much... that said, I do like a lot of top end bite in my tone. Others might love that sound!
I’m really wondering where the D-style marketing line is coming from…if the Nux is based on the free the tone, then this pedal is after a Fender Blackface sound.
Is it just the font, because the name is obviously a play on the free the tone “string slinger”…
I reckon you've got it about right. It's more the looks than anything. Sound-wise, it's a slightly generic 'Fender with a Tubescreamer in front' type sound, at least to my ears, which is kind of what Dumble (and so many more) are... but then I've never actually heard a Dumble in person anyway ;) I doubt many have! But I guess at the end of the day, if you put 'Dumble' in the marketing blurb, people get interested! It certainly sounds expensive, after all.
pretty sure im going with the operation overlord but had to hear this nux again first, sounds real good, just not the dialability of the overlord, plus stereo option on overlord, but its 120$ used...
Yeah, it's quite a price difference. But hey, if you want stereo, maybe it's worth going for the Overlord. You might miss that with the NUX...
Not a BAD OD pedal! But idk about all the hype surrounding Dumble amps! Just another variation in the hot rodded Fenders of the 70s, LIKE Gibson-Boogie, cough cough Mesa-Boogie!
If you wanto to talk to pedal builders try Thorpie or Dan Steinhardt!
Yeah, good shouts. Both very learned guys. I'd like to talk to Paul Cochrane too, if I can. Not sure if he does interviews. But yeah, the Steel Singer was my first Dumble-type pedal, and I do like it a lot! We might, just might be able to get our hands on a real Dumble for the BluGuitar livestream sometime in the next few months. If so I'll let you know how it is, although I can already tell you it's not worth the $100,000 people are paying for them used these days ;)
@@RichWordsMusic Yeah, $100K+ for an amp? Pfft! Old Gibson & Fender guitars are worth more, and a lot MORE of them were made over the years!
There was a pedal mob in the US, that modelled a Dumble ODS, and made a pedal that really WAS indistinguisable from the amp! CAN'T remember its name now tho! (WHETHER is was good or not, is like anything else in music, subjective!)
I also made my Steinhardt suggestion with a bit of bias, seeing he is an Aussie!
@@DMSProduktions If I ever get that much money, rest assured it won't be going on an amp :)
Are you by any chance referring to the Van Weelden Royal Overdrive? That's the super expensive one on my radar. Would love to try it... but it's like nearly €700 over here!
My channel needs more Aussie content though! And I used to be a massive Biffy Clyro fan too, so maybe I can bond with Dan over that.
@@RichWordsMusic IDK about that pedal. I think you'll like Dan!
& of course I'm here as well!
@@DMSProduktions True, we even talked about getting you in a video a few months ago! Maybe I should think about some topics for that. Check out the Van Weelden, it's madness!
It is a knockoff of the Vertex Steel String Clean Drive. It even looks like it . The casing and knobs are the same. NUX were not subtle about it. LOL I had the Vertex for a couple of years. From what I hear from your demo NUX has nailed the sound. NUX do the Plexi Crunch in this same line. I have one. It is one of 10 of my Plexi pedal collection and it holds its own against pedals I paid over $300.00 USD for.
Hey Paul hope your doing well.
NUX sent me the Plexi Crunch too! I've only really played that one for a couple of minutes to check it worked, but it sounds pretty sweet... more of a high gain drive though, right? I'm excited to try it now and put it up against my Bogner La Grange.
See, we have different info on the Steel Singer and where it comes from. From what I understand, the NUX is a clone of the Free The Tone String Slinger, not the Vertex. And the Vertex does do a lot more clean boost stuff (I've tried it, although only briefly. I'll be borrowing one soon to do an A/B with the NUX!). I could ask NUX what they say, but I doubt they'll tell me where they got their inspiration ;)
@@RichWordsMusic The NUX Plexi knobs are as interactive as a real amp. It is so flexible that it is as easy to get a total crap sound as it is to get a great one. Actually it is the lower medium gain sounds that are really amp like. As it's name implies..'Crunch does not mean high gain. In fact the pedal pushed hard is crap. lol I found I could even knock out mid 60's Stones sounds on it. It is great on Tele's and Strats as it is transparent enough to not bury any chime.
@@Paul_Lenard_Ewing Sounds pretty promising! Think I'll get it out tonight and get to grips with it. Just need to work out how to dial it in, by the sounds of it! If it can do mid 60s Stones sounds I'll be incredibly happy with it.
It's a good pedal. I have it. But it's a clone of the Maxon TS-9. Which is a pretty good sounding pedal.
I just want to point that. Because even when I like this pedal, IT'S NOT REMOTELY RELATED TO A "DUMBLE STYLE PEDAL"
SD9?
@@cobowe No. I was wrong. It's a tubescreamer. My mistake.
I love your reviews but this is possibly one of your worst tbh. Filter was almost always cranked which produced a notoriously harsh sound. Even at around 25:54 where, at last, you turned the filter to the left you
passed that in a flash to hastily return to the harsh zone. For me the best setting is filter around 1 o clock, the gain at around 3 o clock and then play with the guitar volume to get a variety of sounds, from cleanish to full distortion
Oh, I'm sorry to hear you didn't like this one as much Nicholas. It's funny, but I remember with this pedal I wished there was always more treble than I had! As you know, I do like a lot of top-end in my tone ;) It could be that the Dumble sound is not quite the right one for me, and I overcompensated. I am going to get the pedal out again this weekend and try it in more varied options, as you suggest! Cheers and rock on :)
@@RichWordsMusic Dear Rich, many thanks for your reply, I appreciate it. Looking forward to your thoughts on this pedal with varied options. For me, it has already gained a permanent place on my pedalboard with the settings that I described above.
@@NicholasAmpazis That sounds promising. I will see what I can do... maybe I'll get the Steel Singer and couple more "Dumble-type" pedals and do a little comparison :) That could be fun!
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Thank you sir, glad you enjoyed!
@@RichWordsMusic Always!
3rd! Wait what?
You're absolutely right, 1st just hasn't got here yet ;) He'll be along shortly, I'm sure.
@@RichWordsMusic Here I am 😂 ;-)
@@marcmadler454hey Marc I tried to hold a seat for you.
She was flattered but I had to let go her boyfriend was not so cool about it.
@@PooNinja 😂
@@RichWordsMusic 9:08 Greta van fleet inspired 🤣. Love the tunes but I can’t watch that hobbit sing it I don’t know what it is… I got the same thing with Alabama Shakes love her voice just can’t watch her sing??? It messes with my AV processors in a glitch in the matrix kinda way.
I like the Les Paul sounds better by quite a bit.
The Les Paul certainly has a lot of extra fatness, which I think this pedal accentuates, and it does work really well!
@@RichWordsMusic
Maybe I should go this way, instead of pulling the trigger on a Pro Co Rat.
@@mikec6733 I guess it depends on what kind of drive sounds you're after... the Rat will be a lot wilder, with less low end. The Steel Singer is a much smoother and more polite style of overdrive, with more of a focus on the mid-range frequencies.
it all sounds the same 👍worthless
Ha ha, that's how the pedal sounds! I don't think it's worthless - I really like the tones you get from it. Each to their own though, and I know some people don't dig the Dumble sound.