He is a lovely guy but he knows nothing about actual Metal. He just kind of likes the sounds but NOT when it's actually getting into Death Metal, which is the interest of actual Metalheads.
Building in an "HM-2" setting makes a lot of sense sense there is a huge call for that sound in certain metal genres. It's just nice that it's not all the pedal does. I actually think you can do a lot more with an, HM-2 than what it gets used for.
Bea I have always enjoyed your playing but today after the video I learned everything you played note to note from 18:10 to 18:40 and in them 30 seconds I got the coolest feeling and grove I have ever felt playing My Guitar. Your style hands down is the best👊
“Chainsaw territory” is the sound of resonance occurring, much like when you turn the resonance knob on a synth filter all the way up. You’re hear it begin to self-oscillate and produce a tone. I think the specific “chainsaw” thing is because it’s such a high resonant frequency, and it’s also being clipped into a waveform with it’s own harmonics that are likely to be dissonant, since the resonance of the device is dependent on the filter circuits cutoff frequency.
Just watched a review of this pedal with bass before coming here. Pretty impressive that it handles bass and guitar so well. Love position 3 with the strat!
One of my favorite little bits of English culture is that the thumbs up means "thank you". Like if someone stops to let you cross the street you thumbs up them to say thanks. Here in the US it doesn't have a specific meaning like that, it's just a way of expressing general positivity.
Got my Eras yesterday and it is excellent. But as Rabea mentioned it is flubby with high output humbuckers. So I tried a SD-1 in front of it. While it solved the flubbiness it introduces a not so nice mid hump as expected. So I turned the SD-1 off again and added a very steep low cut filter at 50 Hertz to get rid of all the sub bass by simply using the EQ in the OX Box by adding a Butterworth-3 low cut. And all of a sudden it sounds phenomenal, brutal and tight. I guess it has a lot of sub bass for the bass players which needs to be filtered out for guitars. In a perfect world the pedal would have this built in as a switch.
@@grahamkelly8299 Just try it, might work for your guitars and amps anyway. Where it also shines are lead tones in mode 3. It sings and gives you great sustain. The low end problem can be fixed easily with an EQ. I had the Revv G3 pedal and liked it but l prefer the Eras for its rougher distortion. After getting the Revv G20 amp I sold the G3.
Debating on getting it. How do you run it because o always thought it would be too mid forward. The ages and warhorn are both somewhat it appears based on mid forward pedals. Klon and tubescreamer
@@kentonschroer2347 To be honest I just play with the knobs to adjust it to whichever guitar and amp I’m using at the moment. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s really easy to dial in a good tone fast.
I use mine by dialing in my perfect always drive sound on the Ages with a bit of clean and using the Warhorn for a Dirty Boost that’s still overdrive bordering on distortion. I plan on getting the Eras and the OBNE Haunt to round out my clean blended Drive section
A bright higher output humbucker or active pickup sounds like it would work great. It is always a guessing game of amp and pedal interaction to get a tight low end.
The chainsaw sound is one of the components (cannot remember if it's the resistors or diodes) being overloaded with voltage. Lots of pedals have a "bias" knob that can be used to mitigate or enhance this effect
Bias is for the transistor or op amp, FET etc. ( The amplifying component) Where the voltage being sent in is approaching equal to or greater than the 9 volt power supply. Bias changes this ratio.
Now this was demo on this pedal I was really waiting for! Agree with you completely on the using of lower output guitars with this pedal. Sounds much better to me. Would love to know more about your insane gigging experiences!
When the settings are cranked, it almost seems like a fuzz pedal. Maybe using a tube screamer to boost it with a humbucker would give it a bit more definition?
@@johncenteno3238 od3 is a "transparent" pedal and there is a lot of better options, like novels od, wamplers la belle and others, an od3 is just adding more noise and no taming the low end.
Flubbyness is just referring to the low end response or bass not being tight (like a modern metal sound). Hope this helps even if it is a year later. 🤘
Hi Rabea! Hey, it seemed that your gain on the humbucker guitar dry tone was way higher before you used the pedal. And when I encounter flub, I correct by turning down the bass as opposed to turning up the treble. Just my amateur input. Much respect, regardless! - Cheers!
Shit man, I love the way it sounds. I hate most distortion pedals. Love my Boss Metal Zone H-2. And those are single coil pickups? I want one damnit!! ...I want one!! EDIT: Sounds great on your other guitar with the humbucker pickup. I definitely one one!!
Rabea, what distortion/ preamp is the best in your opinion for the best all around heavey metal tone. I was thinking of the rev purple or the red . or amptweaker tight metal pro or the ceres. Your input would be greatly appreciated as i value your opinion highly.
Of course I can't find it now but this digital Vox amp I had in my teen years had a Buzzsaw/Chainsaw distortion preset so I think you're on to something 🤣
Hey bea! Loved the video, I'm running a HSS Charvel DK24. Swapped the full shred out for a lower output bucker! More PAF style, do you think this would still be so flabby?? Even with your sig I reaaaaally liked the sound! Like you, I'll be using a crunchy/light gain British voiced amp. Cheers!
That’s why I buy all my gear second hand, if you look hard enough you can find some cracking deals if you’re willing to deal with some scratches to the paintwork and minor scuffs
Hmmm- I really liked their five-state overdrive, and really, really like their five-state fuzz (best fuzz pedal I've ever heard, imho)- but I don't care for this one. The differences between modes were pretty subtle and yet each mode felt like it was on the edge of blowout- accept mode 1. I like LED clipping and this mode didn't feel so washed out. But that's just one out of five- just not the pedal for me.
It'd be interesting to hear the difference between high output humbuckers and low output humbuckers in some of these demos. Of course, that'd add another segment and lengthen the video, so I'm not sure if that'd be something you'd want to do.
Dude, it'd be great if you could create a playlist of the videos where you just noodle and play stuff, just music. You're improvisational skills alone are off the chart!. Hell, you should put them tunes together and release it all as an album on Spotify, just like good ol' Ola Englund just did. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
55 custom shop strat. There’s a video of when he bought it. Il copy paste. Hopefully. You guys come back to see it. Chunky neck. He then dud a whole swapping out the pick ups. It was a whole series. Maybe 3-4 videos. ruclips.net/video/GBVDb3FuMns/видео.html
So if I want to start branching out into some prog metal and metal, and my main guitar is a low output tele and my second is a vintage paf les paul, would you say this pedal or the revv g3/4?
The G3 is such an amazing pedal. It can go from tiiiiiiight to pretty blown out if you put another OD in front of it. It is also a stellar OD on its own.
Airis Effects has a pedal called the Parallel Overdrive, which can go from colored boost to distortion and has a blend knob for a clean boost (I use it to turn a crunch into high gain)
Judging by the content that Walrus themselves are pushing, their idea wasn’t to create a tele/strat type of pedal… Most vids are chugging 7 strings and double bass drums…
Interesting hahaha. I mean I definitely didn’t get that impression with this pedal. Plugging a humbucker in, just felt woolly and non defined. For me this is absolutely a single coil high gain pedal. To be fair I feel like most pedal builders have a hard time getting heavy or proper metal and their sub genre tones. From my understanding it’s very difficult to do without getting lots of noise and feedback. But I can’t think of many pedals that produce a high gain tone for metal genres that I would choose to use over an amp. Any suggestions welcome!
I’m not Rabea. I’m not sure he can say but I can. The abasi for me a 6 string player. I bought it twice and sold it twice. It may be your thing. I just didn’t like it. It has more gain than the walrus stuff except this pedal rabea’s doing now. Then it’s just what you prefer. Idk man I’d pick a tidally efferent ideal myself. I’m a pedal addict and it’s very bad. You want high gain and tight go with rev. They were not fit me. I don’t like that stiff, tight feel if you want a nice distortion pedal similar to the abasi how about the Wampler Dracarys. There’s tons of pedals. I guess it can be overwhelming. Try where u can return if possible.
Nothing against the other review videos, but when Walrus released this pedal, Rebea's review was the one I was waiting for. 🤘🏽
Agree on Rabea. See also Shawn Tubb's ace playing and demo.
He is a lovely guy but he knows nothing about actual Metal. He just kind of likes the sounds but NOT when it's actually getting into Death Metal, which is the interest of actual Metalheads.
@@AbeldeBetancourt Sure, man
8:04 That smile after the Black Shuck riff 😁 then right back to business 🤘
Rabea is a musician who reviews gear and a true professional! Great review on this pedal. Thanks for the video. 🔥🎸🔥😎🎸😎🔥🎸🔥
I really enjoy your demos. You add in so much knowledge. Thank you for what you do.
That’s the best looking Strat I’ve seen in a long time.
Building in an "HM-2" setting makes a lot of sense sense there is a huge call for that sound in certain metal genres. It's just nice that it's not all the pedal does.
I actually think you can do a lot more with an, HM-2 than what it gets used for.
Walrus artwork is just another level
Bea I have always enjoyed your playing but today after the video I learned everything you played note to note from 18:10 to 18:40 and in them 30 seconds I got the coolest feeling and grove I have ever felt playing My Guitar. Your style hands down is the best👊
I fully concur
“Chainsaw territory” is the sound of resonance occurring, much like when you turn the resonance knob on a synth filter all the way up. You’re hear it begin to self-oscillate and produce a tone. I think the specific “chainsaw” thing is because it’s such a high resonant frequency, and it’s also being clipped into a waveform with it’s own harmonics that are likely to be dissonant, since the resonance of the device is dependent on the filter circuits cutoff frequency.
affirmative this is exactly what Rabea was referring too.
Or not that at all ..
Just watched a review of this pedal with bass before coming here. Pretty impressive that it handles bass and guitar so well. Love position 3 with the strat!
Thanks Rabea!
This video helped me pull the trigger and i now have my board completed!!
i like how bea always gives us a thumbs up at the beginning of ever video
One of my favorite little bits of English culture is that the thumbs up means "thank you". Like if someone stops to let you cross the street you thumbs up them to say thanks. Here in the US it doesn't have a specific meaning like that, it's just a way of expressing general positivity.
Finally, the demo I was waiting for!
Got my Eras yesterday and it is excellent. But as Rabea mentioned it is flubby with high output humbuckers. So I tried a SD-1 in front of it. While it solved the flubbiness it introduces a not so nice mid hump as expected. So I turned the SD-1 off again and added a very steep low cut filter at 50 Hertz to get rid of all the sub bass by simply using the EQ in the OX Box by adding a Butterworth-3 low cut. And all of a sudden it sounds phenomenal, brutal and tight. I guess it has a lot of sub bass for the bass players which needs to be filtered out for guitars. In a perfect world the pedal would have this built in as a switch.
But there's a active bass control? Does this not help?
@@grahamkelly8299 It helps at very low settings but also removes some of the nice low mids.
@@sebastianhusche298 what a shame, I was gunna get one. It sounds killer!! Have you heard the rev pedals? If you want tight they deliver it!!
@@grahamkelly8299 Just try it, might work for your guitars and amps anyway. Where it also shines are lead tones in mode 3. It sings and gives you great sustain. The low end problem can be fixed easily with an EQ.
I had the Revv G3 pedal and liked it but l prefer the Eras for its rougher distortion. After getting the Revv G20 amp I sold the G3.
Rabea, Fluff, Tosin, and Jason Richardson are my favorites when it comes to dialing tone on RUclips.
Nice to hear a bit of totemist at 15:30 😁
Great vid, as usual. Wonderful to see you again, Bea. You make my lunch breaks more enjoyable.
I own the Ages and Warhorn dual pedal, which I love. Now they have to release this. Damn you Walrus!
Debating on getting it. How do you run it because o always thought it would be too mid forward. The ages and warhorn are both somewhat it appears based on mid forward pedals. Klon and tubescreamer
@@kentonschroer2347 To be honest I just play with the knobs to adjust it to whichever guitar and amp I’m using at the moment. I know that doesn’t help, but it’s really easy to dial in a good tone fast.
@@kentonschroer2347 The Ages is a Blues Breaker style circuit and the Warhorn is closest to a Timmy. Voyager is their klon type pedal
I use mine by dialing in my perfect always drive sound on the Ages with a bit of clean and using the Warhorn for a Dirty Boost that’s still overdrive bordering on distortion.
I plan on getting the Eras and the OBNE Haunt to round out my clean blended Drive section
The warhorn barely imo has gain so I use it to push my amp’s distortion.
A bright higher output humbucker or active pickup sounds like it would work great. It is always a guessing game of amp and pedal interaction to get a tight low end.
The chainsaw sound is one of the components (cannot remember if it's the resistors or diodes) being overloaded with voltage. Lots of pedals have a "bias" knob that can be used to mitigate or enhance this effect
Bias is for the transistor or op amp, FET etc. ( The amplifying component)
Where the voltage being sent in is approaching equal to or greater than the 9 volt power supply. Bias changes this ratio.
They should add a trim pot inside for high output humbucker users. Outside of that, this is a really nice gain pedal.
Now this was demo on this pedal I was really waiting for! Agree with you completely on the using of lower output guitars with this pedal. Sounds much better to me. Would love to know more about your insane gigging experiences!
Yas! Been waiting for this demo 🤩
Definitely better on single coils. The blend knob is great for keeping the chords clear.
Chainsaw Territory….love it
Just wanna say sick tee! I have a very similar tee myself, lateralus is my favourite tool record.
Another killer intro!!
With humbuckers guitars I prefer staying in modes 1 and 4. But I agree it sounds better on teles, I got mine today
A Tool t-shirt and playing The Darkness 😊 Would like the pedal for my tele but agree it’s not really built for humbuckers.
Great demo mate.
When the settings are cranked, it almost seems like a fuzz pedal. Maybe using a tube screamer to boost it with a humbucker would give it a bit more definition?
Use a OD1 before the Eras and you will get something very unique, use a noise suppressor pedal also :)
@@anzeal00 maybe 0D3 sounds better
@@johncenteno3238 od3 is a "transparent" pedal and there is a lot of better options, like novels od, wamplers la belle and others, an od3 is just adding more noise and no taming the low end.
Getting some "Grinding Gears" tones with this pedal and that down-tuned strat! Been listening to the GG stuff on Spotify lately, can't put it down :)
Thanks! Nice demo!
That Fender is Lit Rabeaa. Hopefully will get this pedal next month. Lets see how it goes with some big fat ass EMG humbuckers
Chainsaw territory lol, I like that, it works!
Great job on the demo Robea
Rebea ftw, Walrus ftw 💛
I was leaning towards getting this but I really want a more versatile distortion.. that said it sounded GOOD with your strat
Oh Yesss... YEEEEEES!
it's a bull with wings that's also red. that's all I'm saying here!
Can someone explain what he means by flubbyness? I'm still kinda new to guitar stuff and dont know all the terminology
Flubbyness is just referring to the low end response or bass not being tight (like a modern metal sound). Hope this helps even if it is a year later. 🤘
Mode IV works really well for the humbuckers I have
I need this artwork on a t-shirt bro!
sounds pretty damned good
Hi Rabea! Hey, it seemed that your gain on the humbucker guitar dry tone was way higher before you used the pedal. And when I encounter flub, I correct by turning down the bass as opposed to turning up the treble.
Just my amateur input.
Much respect, regardless! - Cheers!
9:52 That’s what she says when we are back home
Shit man, I love the way it sounds. I hate most distortion pedals. Love my Boss Metal Zone H-2. And those are single coil pickups? I want one damnit!! ...I want one!!
EDIT: Sounds great on your other guitar with the humbucker pickup. I definitely one one!!
Great demo with single coil. I think you should have dog more the bass know with humbuckers and maybe the amp eq. Great playing man!!
Wow! Love the pedal. Incredible playing as always! You've probably said it in past videos, but what pups do you have in that strat?!
If they're the same pickups that were in that guitar when he used it in the Ages pedal video, he said then that they're Bareknuckle Mother's Milk
Hey man! Wonderful video! Was just wondering, what pick ups are in this strat? Rock on!
Rabea, what distortion/ preamp is the best in your opinion for the best all around heavey metal tone. I was thinking of the rev purple or the red . or amptweaker tight metal pro or the ceres. Your input would be greatly appreciated as i value your opinion highly.
How long before a signature Bea BK single coil set?
yassss been waiting on Bea's review of this pedal.
Of course I can't find it now but this digital Vox amp I had in my teen years had a Buzzsaw/Chainsaw distortion preset so I think you're on to something 🤣
Very Saicy! :D
Hey bea! Loved the video, I'm running a HSS Charvel DK24. Swapped the full shred out for a lower output bucker! More PAF style, do you think this would still be so flabby?? Even with your sig I reaaaaally liked the sound! Like you, I'll be using a crunchy/light gain British voiced amp. Cheers!
Why is your sound allways better than any of the other pedal testers? Is it the IR?
Btw you sound great :D
What pickups are in you’re strat now !! I noticed you don’t have any hum on you’re bridge pickup ?
He did a bunch of videos swapping them. Look for them if you want. I lost track as to what he decided.
curious as o whether or not blending in some clean would have mitigated some of the "flubbiness" you experienced with the humbuckers
New sub
Love all your videos ! ... the new boutique pedals are great, but a bit too pricey for the average player.
That’s why I buy all my gear second hand, if you look hard enough you can find some cracking deals if you’re willing to deal with some scratches to the paintwork and minor scuffs
What do you guys think about an EMG 81 and 85? Would it be bright enough for this to work?
Hmmm- I really liked their five-state overdrive, and really, really like their five-state fuzz (best fuzz pedal I've ever heard, imho)- but I don't care for this one. The differences between modes were pretty subtle and yet each mode felt like it was on the edge of blowout- accept mode 1. I like LED clipping and this mode didn't feel so washed out. But that's just one out of five- just not the pedal for me.
250 bones...I need a used one then!!!
I'd be curious to hear what it sounds like into a clean amp.
Please release more of your music on cd! I've got a couple of your albums, but the newer stuff is on cd?
put it all at 2 o'clock
Sorr Bea but For me Chainsaw means Wes Borland in Break Stuff
What are your settings for the delay and reverb that lead tone is as always very lively sounding
What pedal would you recommend for a Schecter guitar or maybe a Jackson
c'mon man, we need to know how good is its Chainsaw character... :) please make a video about it
4:35 You know what time it is? It's rocknroll time ACDC style.
Should I buy this rn ? Pls respond
wish you woulda run one of thos synths though it
Not really related to your video but is there any chance that you will upload your music on TIDAL ?
what happen with humbucker, if you use the blend knob. to get thight and focused sound?
Would like to hear it with the audio ages before it
Is a red bull with wings....hidden sponsor? Jokes aside awesome pedal!
It'd be interesting to hear the difference between high output humbuckers and low output humbuckers in some of these demos. Of course, that'd add another segment and lengthen the video, so I'm not sure if that'd be something you'd want to do.
Dude, it'd be great if you could create a playlist of the videos where you just noodle and play stuff, just music. You're improvisational skills alone are off the chart!. Hell, you should put them tunes together and release it all as an album on Spotify, just like good ol' Ola Englund just did. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Check out Grinding Gears.
15"52 tuning please? Can't find by ear
Is it a custom shop Fender strat? Which are the pickups on there? Looks and sounds killer.
I'm wondering as well, is there any info on that guitar? And great demo/playing Rabea
@@BasilHayden He did several videos where he tried several sets of pickups in this guitar.
55 custom shop strat. There’s a video of when he bought it. Il copy paste. Hopefully. You guys come back to see it. Chunky neck. He then dud a whole swapping out the pick ups. It was a whole series. Maybe 3-4 videos. ruclips.net/video/GBVDb3FuMns/видео.html
Rabea, how can I get in touch with you, so you could make some concerts in Portugal? (I tried on instagram, facebook and linkedin)
Did i hear a kings X tone around min 13 ... ?
Wait, more Totemist!?! FNA Hommes!
So if I want to start branching out into some prog metal and metal, and my main guitar is a low output tele and my second is a vintage paf les paul, would you say this pedal or the revv g3/4?
Definitely the revv
The G3 is such an amazing pedal. It can go from tiiiiiiight to pretty blown out if you put another OD in front of it. It is also a stellar OD on its own.
I agree with James, if you're looking for metal sounds the Revv will serve you much better than Walrus.
Thanks for the advice, guys! 🤘 Looking out for a Revv. Might save up for a G20, tbh.
@@CoenBijpost That G20 is a modern classic for today's guitarists.
The blend knob - I really wish more pedals for boosting/overdrive included a mix/blend. Anyone know of any out there now?
I'd get a loop pedal/splitter to mix in any pedal!
@@HenritheHorse that's a great idea. Thank you!
@@matthewenglund3502 Sooner or later you"ll damn me, because you have 3 amps and pedalboards for wet/dry/wet rig...
Technically the Klon always lets some dry signal bleed into the wet signal
Airis Effects has a pedal called the Parallel Overdrive, which can go from colored boost to distortion and has a blend knob for a clean boost (I use it to turn a crunch into high gain)
Before switching guitars this pedal sounds a lot like AC/DC to me.
Yheaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Sur quel amplificateur joue t'il ???
What pick ups does that guitar have
Videos on it that he did. Look for them. There’s 3 or 4.
Judging by the content that Walrus themselves are pushing, their idea wasn’t to create a tele/strat type of pedal… Most vids are chugging 7 strings and double bass drums…
Interesting hahaha. I mean I definitely didn’t get that impression with this pedal. Plugging a humbucker in, just felt woolly and non defined. For me this is absolutely a single coil high gain pedal.
To be fair I feel like most pedal builders have a hard time getting heavy or proper metal and their sub genre tones.
From my understanding it’s very difficult to do without getting lots of noise and feedback.
But I can’t think of many pedals that produce a high gain tone for metal genres that I would choose to use over an amp.
Any suggestions welcome!
Walrus or Abasi?
I’m not Rabea. I’m not sure he can say but I can. The abasi for me a 6 string player. I bought it twice and sold it twice. It may be your thing. I just didn’t like it. It has more gain than the walrus stuff except this pedal rabea’s doing now. Then it’s just what you prefer. Idk man I’d pick a tidally efferent ideal myself. I’m a pedal addict and it’s very bad. You want high gain and tight go with rev. They were not fit me. I don’t like that stiff, tight feel if you want a nice distortion pedal similar to the abasi how about the Wampler Dracarys. There’s tons of pedals. I guess it can be overwhelming. Try where u can return if possible.
Now... What's the chance of you capture your 5 modes and firing them on the QC... 🥺🥺🥺
Why does it seem laborious moving dials on a pedal nowadays....oh. Because. We don't have to. 🤣
Bea, brother, are you going to do a collab with Mark Holcomb? It would be fucking epiccc
"that dog don't give a fuuuu uck"
D standard sounds an AWFUL lot like Eb standard on this video.
So glad someone said something, I thought I was going crazy
If you do more product promotion than those actually interesting videos, you were caught into that nasty bane where there is no way out. Good luck.
Please 5look at the
Gah.