Hey guys, did you watch the show? Did the pedal sound as you intended it too? I may be a luddite when it comes to tweaking ghost notes and negative feedback but I'm stumped at how you've voiced this pedal....it wasn't that the gain structure or breakup was bad it was the overall treble and presence voicing of the EQ it sounded muffled and one dimensional.....given my OE compressor is the greatest pedal Ive ever owned am I wrong to have expected more? Is it possible there was a fault with the pedal?
Roy Thomas Bøe ok just did that and that sounded like an entirely different pedal!!! Also a very slick review vid production. I love TPS cause it’s the best indicator of how I might engage with a unit straight out of the box. It’s obviously a complex unit so I’ll def take the time to trial it in person to make sure I can drive the spaceship and get Jays tone variety w my setup tx man
I love classic cranked amps, but mot of the time I can't crank an amp. The thing the worries me about the Revival Drive is that the volume pot controls the gain, and there doesn't appear to be anything else to control the output level. Of course you have your amp controls, but I wonder how close the basic output is to unity? I know my Cali76 gives a large-ish volume boost with the output at 12 o'clock (with a Strat). I wonder if I'd be stuck with an amp volume so low its choked with a Revival Drive set to rock...perhaps Origin are happy to forego the world of moderate sound pressures? :-)
- Interesting bits and go-to sections… - Intro playing: 0:00 - Always playing that lick: 1:45 - What are we doing today?: 2:05 - Woo, that’s a lot of controls: 3:19 - How are we plugging in? 5:10 - Two channels - orange and grey: 6:15 - Valve and solid-state rectifiers? 6:55 - Mick has spent his whole life trying to get away from hairy-ass amp distortion: 7:46 - The Poo Pooer Of Hamelin: 8:45 - The Anyest Any Amp Of All: 9:25 - Let’s get going. Finally: 9:53 - The Re-Amp EQ mode switch: 10:35 - Preamp and Bright Cap Structure: 11:00 - All in the middle… let’s go! 12:42 (13:13) - Three different preamp settings: 14:14 - A sound Mick has been trying to get away from: 15:55 - EQ2 - eek! 17:20 - Let’s try some P90s: 18:16 - The Ghost control: 18:44 - The More/Presence control & negative feedback: 22:25 - Does Origin like P90s and humbuckers more than single coils? 27:11 - Into the front end or the effects loop of the HRD? And humbuckers… 29:40 - Let’s try the other channel: 32:11 - Mick still doesn’t like the hairy stuff: 36:10 - Dan’s sceptical about the Vox tones: 38:00 - Much better! The Revival Drive’s suggested settings: 41:20 - Clapton and Hendrix? 42:37 - Clapton: 42:54 - Hendrix: 43:54 - Less gain, for sure: 45:04 - Engaging the mid boost switch: 47:50 - Boosted with the D&M Drive: 48:40 - And a fuzz? 49:18 - Brian May? 51:16 - Kossoff? 52:25 - Mick’s philosophical tangent: 53:53 - Conclusions? 55:50
I’ve had the deluxe version of this pedal along with it’s separate footswitch for over a year now and I feel that I’m still discovering new tones from this pedal all the tine! I absolutely love it!
Great episode. I love that Origin care enough to take the chance on making something this complex. And unapologetically so! Fair play to them. I don't think it's for me but it's great that it's out there.
I luurve the concept of this pedal - the versatility, the fact it's 'supposed-to-sound-like-an-amp', the fact it's all accessible from knobs & switches, all analogue, no midi, no digital, getting in the way, not a deep dive menu in sight, all 'hairy-arsed-amp-tones' - excellent!! - perfect for a luddite, guitar-cable-amp simpleton like me! Yes! :-) Btw Mick - I'm English & not based in USA
The presets are where it starts to sound good. The Hendrix and the May tones were great (don't care how close to the artist tone they were, just sounded rad).
Hi guys. How about a show on different classic fender amps, i.e. super, blackface, tweed, deluxe, princeton etc Be really interesting to hear core differences, a nod to famous users and also how different pedals react to each (e.g for main gain pedal food groups, Ts klon ocd etc what works for each amp variant)
I don't get all any of the critiques, this show was well prepared, deep in explanations and what I like the most, it was honest. I feel more and more that this is not my cup of tea in terms of sound and I am glad that Mick is saying that too. But it definitely sounds great and simulates that sound very well.
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it. If people are unhappy with videos it’s usually because we’ve offered an opinion that differs with their own. Or we flat got something wrong. Nothing very wrong in this video I don’t think, but the world of guitar tone is extremely subjective. People are dying to know what we think of stuff.... unless we’re not glowing about it. And then they can feel offended. Which is why we don’t touch stuff we don’t like. No winners in that situation. But this, we like this for what it sets out to do. Cheers!
That Pedal Show I also really enjoyed this show, and I personally love when someone checking out a piece of gear has critical things to say about it. It’s one of the things I love about TPS. I know you guys will say (understandably in a nice way) “I don’t like this”, when something isn’t for you. Also, in regards to the Strymon reference, did you mean their Riverside (which is their “tube inspired drive sounds” pedal) rather than the Sunset (multiple overdrives in a pedal)?
The guitar gods shine upon me!! I asked for this video last night! Apparently you guys are weeks ahead of me. Cant wait to recieve mine! As always, stellar work!
Every friday I get the same thought. There should be an official "that pedal forum". I know there are plenty allready, but it would be a good place to talk further about the show, share stories and pictures of or gear. Each show springs new conversations that I often wish would go on a bit longer.
Hmmm. TPS is already an immense amount of work for us. A forum - full of hate, people arguing, being offensive etc etc etc (all forums have an element of this) - would totally do me in. Mick here. Sorry, but the few routinely spoil it for the many. Plenty of great, more established forums out there who have the mental fortitude to deal with it. I don’t. Cheers!
Nah. Just not our thing, sorry! For example, I can’t tell you the number of posts I’ve read on, let’s say, Marshall Plexis (but insert any gear you care to mention) where it’s absolutely obvious the writer has never owned or played one. And yet they’re quoting things and opinions they’ve read etc etc etc. It’s 90 per cent misinformation. Usually... among some absolutely stellar stuff I should say. We don’t have the stomach for the 90 per cent unfortunately. :0)
That Pedal Show. I get what you're saying. Wouldn't want your job to become that of moderating. Just trying to find ways of enjoying the community between shows. And furthering the subjects.
I can see your point, the internet breeds quite a bit of misinformation and rudeness, even when moderated, and I can see why you would not want to delve into that cesspool. Cheers :)
Random thought: Get Mark Letteri on the show! Or just check out his signature Melody OD pedal by J. Rockett. It's an overdrive with 6 slider EQ on it. So cool!
What Mick says at around 36:00 is so true. For a guitarist to cut through a mix, it's not about volume, it's about hitting the right frequencies so they pop out (or EQ'ing other things to make a space for it). So many players think that just being loud is enough. There are diminishing returns on this that kick in pretty quickly. Having an amp with good head room is great of course, but there's no point in dialling in something that is so loud that it overpowers everything else. And often times, the tone that sounds gnarly and rude by itself sounds awesome in a mix. The mix is the only important thing for me, unless you're a solo player of course.
Something important to know... The low control wraps the low end w hair if you want clean roll more off, use the bright caps, lower vol and more output, you can dial in a vox, just have to master the controls to what you want
Wow, what a beautiful sounding pedal. To me, that artifacting, those blemishes, imperfections, whatever you want to call it, those are what make valve amp overdrive so magical. As Leonard Cohen said, there are cracks in everything; that’s how the light gets in. Valve amps pushed hard are beautiful because they become imperfect and that’s where their personalities and beauty comes through. :) The guitar should get a chance to show its character and so should the amp. Man I wish I could afford this pedal to get some crazy tones!
I so appreciate your demos, Chaps! You're both so cheerful and upbeat even when you're upset about something. TPS is always a pick me upon when I need it. Thanks, Mates!
This show has a very detrimental affect on my bank balance and my marriage. Damn! that is one amazing sounding piece of kit, I can only imagine how it must FEEL. As usual you did a great job explaining the overall concept and features. Nice one guys. I may have to see a marriage councilor after this one!
Fascinating show- and that’s an amazing bit of kit! Probably too much for me though, I’m still trying to get my tones out of a Morgan Amp on 3, Big Bob, and Analogman Sunface... and I’m very happy in that ballpark! Thanks boys!
I have this pedal and I must say it takes a little time to figure it out. But well worth the effort. This thing just blows most of my other OD pedals off my board and on to Reverb. The Tones are to die for. It so much fun to play. Don’t knock it until you try it. Totally worth the money. I love love love this pedal.
Great video guys, I think between this and Pete Thorn’s video - amazing. I’m using an OxBox with a Lonestar Special and run the Revival into the front end. For recording it is brilliant, can’t hear the difference between the JTM45 and the above when recorded. Agree with Dan’s comments in the AC30, play with EQ2 a bit more and it gets closer. Thanks for the video guys!!!!
It’s ironic that this TPS and JHS Pedals shows comes out the same week; and you mentioned the Strymon Sunset. My Origin Effects Cali76 Deluxe is an always on pedal (feeding the delay); and while watching the video my thoughts were... Nope! I rather use my Strymon Sunset; and then you go and mention the Sunset. The thing about the Sunset (with the favorite switch) is I can “set & forget” six great, useful, and different tones and that is why it will never leave my board just like the ‘76. Yes it is DSP. I don’t care, it is DSP done right! And is the poster child for the letter N in F.U.N. that Josh mentions. Keep up the great show, and continue to sprinkle in these “outside your wheelhouse” shows every once in a while.
Great video guys, I found that using the blend control into my clean channel amp sound opens up all the lower gain fat, more tube screamer like sounds. You use the clean channel of your amp to tam and smooth the gain of this pedal. Then hit the blend override button for face melting solos.
I like that a lot of the controls are different than other pedals - more like the 'advanced' options you get with some modelling units, though done all in analog. This could be an amazing recording tool.
Totally. If you don’t have the option of mic’ing an amp, this into an interface and some IRs..... interesting. How much better it’d be than straight Kemper or Helix type modelling would be interesting. Our replacements will make that video sometime in 2025. :0)
For some reason these two guys’ voices have a soothing effect on me. I usually listen to their shows early morning when I first wake up, before my afternoon nap or hitting the sack at night… I usually fall asleep within the first 10 minutes! As a result I have never quite finished watching any of the shows, LOL.😂
Must say that is very impressive. There was a moment doing the Hendrix thing where it was erupting very much like the real thing. Another moment I heard some old Joe Walsh solo music. Pretty amazing.
Hats off to Simon, I think he's created something unique on the market here. If you want that vintage amp sound and you're a gigging guitar player turning up to venues with a random backline this is a great option for an consistently awesome sounding fly rig. Great job Dan and Mick too for a proper in depth review from a player's standpoint.
It’s like the Mark V of over drive pedals... you could tweak this thing forever, keep getting good sounds but the thought of knowing there might be another sound in there that I like more would drive me nuts personally which means I’d turn knobs more than play. I like that there is a builder out there willing to throw it all in a single box though.
Interesting! And understandable. You’ve summed up why I can’t handle complex things... unless they have to be complex to function properly. Like a DAW or Photoshop. Mick here.
Kinda cool to have another feature of this direct on IRs. Shawn Tubbs has an excellent demo of this as well, but I'm interested on your thoughts when comparing it to the Kingsley preamps.
Just a few points: - - I appreciate your effort to make the pedal worths it 600 euros. - Zillion of knobs and no midi? This is sad - I understand the guys behind Origin put months (or years) to develop such a complex and modern ovedrive/preamp/distortion pedal and for that they have all my respect. - Have an opinion based only by a YT video is stupid, so I'm stupid Cheers guys, a long time follower from Italy.
It’s the wonderful thing about guitar tones Conor! Just different preferences and why there are no answers only better questions. Dan also remarked to me yesterday that it seemed to sound much better recorded than his experience on the day. Also, your enjoyment of a sound is - in my opinion - 70 per cent how it feels and 30 per cent how it sounds. The percentages aren’t much help in reality, just making the point that how it feels to play is really, really important. Both of us were struggling today. Cheers!
I've been watching your fantasic show for 3 years now and you to have taught me more in that time than in the last 25 bravo to both of you ... Did you know origin effects Revival drive is an anagram of afflicting Overdrive revise I rest my case
Origin Effects hi origin your pedal is a work of sonic and engineering art well done it's amazing. It's phenomenal what you can achieve when you remove the constrictions of what has come before x
Look I've said it before. This pedal is a pretty good over driving amp/pedal unit but it just lacks sufficient tonal variations and tweakability for mine. ***dies laughing, gasping for air**** Sounds pretty good. A great test would be to plug it into a straight out transistor amp I reckon. ;)
Hey Mick and Dan, another awesome show! Can’t thank you guys enough for all the knowledge you have imparted. If your show would have been around in the 90’s I can’t tell you how much money it would have saved me. Got rid of a lot of good gear simply because I didn’t know how to get the best out of it or use it in the right context. You have answered questions about tone I’ve been pondering for over 25 years! That being said, I do have this one search though that is still ongoing and it has baffled me. Maybe you can help. I don’t know if you familiar with Dwight Yoakam’s producer/ guitar player Pete Anderson or not, but there is a certain tone that he uses from time to time on Dwight’s recordings: It is subtle but unique, and I have never heard it on anything else. Some examples are: “Thousand Miles From Nowhere”, “ Things Change”, “Fast as You” , “ I don’t Need it Done” “Pocket of a Clown”.ect.There is reverb and definitely slap back but also has a sort of metallic tone to it. Since guys are really into echo and delay you might be able to spot it right off. It could be a certain type of reverb or echo instead of a special effect of some kind. I’ve tried all the conventional guitar effects that I know of with no success. Maybe you guys could do a show on some unusual guitar tones and how sometimes they are really not that unusual or some unknown crazy effect, but sometimes it’s just about knowing how to adjust what you already have in the right combinations. Anyway, Keep up the good work! Thanks, Alan Truckner
So interesting to hear Mick talk about headroom at about 36.30. I get that completely. I've only just realised that when I want to take the sound somewhere else it's a fuzz that I want, not a distortion.
Really pleased someone finally did a truly in depth review of this pedal and it happens to be you guys. Well done chaps! As regards the pedal, it did not inspire me to part with £500.00. I can see a use for it as an alternative to amp modellers such as the helix and Amplifire if linked with a decent IR cab simulator though, especially in silent stage situations.
Hi Guys. Great episode. The trick to using an Les Paul through a cranked Vintage Marshall sound is to roll your volume down a little off max and even turn the tone down on your bridge pickup. The Beano sound is a mix of both LP pickups, with guitar’s volume down around 7 or 8 on the bridge, and less on the neck. Could you revisit the Revival Drive with your 1987x, AC30 and Super Reverb? To see what the Revival Drive is like at getting cranked or slightly cranked amp sounds through those amps at quieter than cranked volume levels
One thing about this pedal (I own one so I dare to say this).... if you find a setting too gainy, just roll down the volume - the response is perhaps the best in any pedal I have played. I mostly use 50s wirings, so that helps as well. Combine that with the blend option (footswitchable), and you get even more just by controlling your guitar controls. An absolute monster, this pedal.
Ah blimey. We tried that. And all the oomph went away. Sure, endless tweaking options mean that it’s infinitely tweakable. But getting any kind of headroom seemed very difficult. Cheers!
Always happy to see the jr’s make an appearance. Great sounding pedal. However, when it comes to guitars, amps or pedals I don’t have the mental capacity, patience, or dedication to play with more than 5-6 knobs. Anything more complicated than a non master volume amp is too much for me. God I’m so dumb.
"Okay, so the scariest pedal imaginable. Thanks. That's all you've got to say - scariest pedal imaginable....." :-). Gread vid and amazingly flexible pedal. Holy cow - there are options, then, there are OPTIONS! Amazing pedal. Thanks guys.
In a roundabout way, I kind of think the value of this may lie in the Strat positions 2 and 4 philosophy, while you’re on that bent. Way back when, there were 3 spots on that switch that did stuff, and then people went, hang on, if I become weirdly accurate at switching between them badly, this guitar can do other things that are awesome! I think that’s where this unit might go. Interesting to see what people do with it. Nice work lads!
It sounds rad, and I’m sure it’s going to make a lot of people very happy, but I’m not the guy that this is aimed at! Too many knobs, switches and dials. And in terms of tone, I probably lean towards a big headroom amp and pedals too, although I gigged an Orange Tiny Terror for years. Really interesting video chaps, thanks.
Interesting huh. Perhaps the take-away is the knowledge that those approaches yield different results and could be useful at different times. Maybe. Thanks for watching!
When I first heard about this I thought it would be pretty cool, and I contemplated purchasing it, but I admit it seemed very complicated, and I believe that stopped me from buying it. This video confirms that I was right, for me. For someone else this may be great, not for me.
I started watching this and was thinking, "I'm never going to watch this again because I'm not going to get a Revival Drive." At the 25 minute mark I'm thinking, "Sweet goodness... I need to watch this again to learn more about differences in amps." Whether intentional or not, you unloaded a ton of amp education that I to wrap my brain around."
I’ve been killing myself as to what amp I wanna get cause I’m soooo tired of the dull tone of my Blackstar HT Stage 60 and low and behold... it’s a pedal! Thank you so much guys! You also just saved me about $1500!
Curios to hear it through stereo studio monitors direct...?..nice sounds for sure ...i will say that you guys are the proper guys to demo this ...mick your licks very clean with good sting....👍👍👍...dan ditto to u to these videos only work with skills an chemistry...well done...
Same here. Was wondering if I could get a more adaptable version of my trusty Catalinbread SFT out of this, but I don't see how I could replicate my VT-40/VT-22 tones, which is surprising with the number of controls involved. The ideas behind it are great, but the sounds are very basic and stereotypical, there is no flexibility in tone aside from basic "UK vs US" sensibilities.
I find that (in my trifling experience as a duffer), what I hear when I'm playing, when I'm within the feedback loop of my hands on the instrument and the amp cooking, is entirely different than what I hear when I listen to playback. Often, I'm wholly surprised at the difference in the experience. This is speaking to the philosophical bit. In terms of the pedal, I think it's a little baffling to me, in terms of what I would want at this time. More complicated than I would be comfortable with. I tend to like the amp to have some margin of headroom, though having it pretty squishy does make it easier to play some things.
I enjoy everything you guys do! I don’t care if it’s tedious experiments or information, who else is gonna give us a genuine understanding at this schwang knowledge like y’all do? Lol do what you guys do, there will always be others benefiting from the effort you put into this show.
I could see this being a big win for artists that fly around and use backline amps as a way to quickly get "your" sound or for people who play in a bunch of different groups and need a different kind of drive per group but don't want to rebuild their board every gig.
Great episode as always, but this is the first time EVER that I’ve not wanted the pedal after you guys demo it. It’s probably a fantastic tool, but not for me.
Paul Farrior as an owner of the Revivaldrive, I felt that this episode didn’t do its voice justice. The approach was never “can I tweak this until I like what I get”- it was more, “let’s try to get it to do the thing it says it does; that thing we don’t like.”
Mr11oo aka Sir Pulp interesting. “Normal” is a funny word to use about gear. Do you mean, the price is too high for the players you know and relate to, or, it’s not a sound you can see using for yourself, or you don’t understand the appeal?
Many people here saying the pedal has too many knobs, but to me it has just the right amount of knobs to get you there. How many people complaining about the knobs have many pedals on their boards? If you think about the Revival Drive in sections, as you would in stacking overdrives, or using an overdrive with an EQ pedal, it becomes pretty straightforward.
My interpretation of it is that if you were on tour, and you got some amp that a blind man made in his garage rather than what's on your Rider, you could save your ass with this thing and get a usable amp tone.
I understand but if it’s gonna give me so many super authentic classic tones which would require many thousands of dollars and not to mention real-estate and man-power carrying around so many amps, I say it’s 110% worth it. Think about it... if you had all these different amps, you’d need to learn how to work them separately anyway. That’s just me though... bring on the manual!!
Ah, well, there are Les Pauls and there are Les Pauls. You know the old ones tended to sound pretty ‘thin’ and ‘airy’ compared with the 70s and beyond vision of this weird sledgehammer thing. A good 57 / 58 / 59 type has the most amazing articulacy. Niiiiice!
the best part is that it have so many knobs that i can tweak, with so many sounds and textures, great pedal for studio work. May god defend me from these one knob pedals, minus the small clone tho hahaha Cheers!
I bought the Revival drive and returned it as it just did not do well with single coil pic -ups. It is fabulous with Hum-buckers and P 90's . They managed to get better sounds with a strat than i got. After watching this , I might have to give this pedal another try !!
I have to be honest here - for the most part I found the sounds today rather unpleasant. It started to sound really really good when you went to the factory recommendations. It just shows that the pedal is so complicated that even professionals like you have trouble to dial it in by ear. I find these many controls super confusing and counter intuitive. I don‘t quite get the concept. If one makes a pedal that complicated and that tweakable, I would have added MIDI control and presets so that people, after they are done fiddling, can get easy access to the nice sounds. In the way it is one is pretty much stuck with two sounds plus the mid boost. That might be enough for many, but one is underusing the pedal then.
Guys, just a quick comment... I do not have the pedal (yet), but a friend who does has pointed out that your demo of it has the Blend Override switch on the foot-switch engaged all the time. This defeats the Blend knob on the pedal, having it maxed out all the time, which explains why the pedal produces as much gain as it does - something Mick kept pointing out. It would appear that the blend knob is essential in order to get the pedal to really go into the lower gain stuff. Also, since this was mentioned by Dan, the EQ2 features are supposed to be able to get the pedal into more VOX-land by putting the mids and the top-end where they should be for these tones. I don't know if this is true or not, I'm just relaying the info, but this appears to be a very complicated device and getting your head around all the knobs and features seem quite daunting. But a couple of people who own the pedal have said that it really can get into the classic tones of amps like Tweeds, vintage Marshalls, Voxs and Blackfaces - a "many-amps-in-a-box" kind of pedal in other words - and that it is also very good at lower gain stuff once you really got the gist of it. It would have been very useful to have more suggested settings, particularly for "modeling" classic amps tones, in the manual as this pedal seems to be the perfect solution for people going for the "clean amp + amp-in-a-box pedals" formula.
Cheers Bleek. I should qualify it a bit. Mick here. A good AC30, JTm45, Tweed Deluxe etc... can be pure magic with the right guitar. To a point. But then it kinda goes over the top and becomes indistinct and gets nasty stuff. Also, it absolutely needs volume, and to get the power section breathing: it’s a physical experience as much as a sonic one. You take the physical bit away... just sounds scratchy to me.... until you get it in a mix and then it can potentially all change. I probably didn’t mean to be as binary as I sounded!
Binary? If that's binary, then so am I. Absolutely, I lose the clarity in chords and the leads don't seem to sing as much as fart out - or the character of the sound seems to suffer. I'm about to replace some Xotic Boosters, which I've used exclusively for years, because I didn't like the sound of them at higher gain settings. Replacing with the Vertex Clean Drive and Dynamic Distortion (Which was always a dirty word to me). Forever searching for ultimate clarity in very characterful sounds! Glad to know I'm not strictly alone ha!
Relevant to the discussion at the end, now that you guys have a new space, is there any chance you could bust out the ear plugs and do a show about pedals with NMV amps at high volume? I know it's not relevant to everyone, but some of us still play dinosaur era amps and I'd be real interested to hear you guys do the "stuff on the records" so to speak.
Most of our shows use traditional amps at something approaching gig volume, but yes, we’d be only too happy to do this because it’s the place where we’re most at home! However, if by ‘stuff on records’ you mean ‘can we sound like (insert player here’, that’s not something we’d do for a couple of reasons. 1) You can’t sound like (insert player here) ever because you’re not them. 2) Most of those classic tones we know and love were heavily EQ’d / compressed etc etc to the point that what’s coming out of the amp in the room was very different to what ended up on the records. Actually, maybe that is an interesting discussion in itself. Hmmmmmmmm. Cheers! Mick
I’m not sure extra time would give it the roundness and headroom that would make it usable for me personally. Mick here. Dan said he wanted to spend some more time with it, and I’d like to hear it in a direct recording scenario so maybe there’s something there. Cheers!
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We've been looking forward to this one. Go RevivalDRIVE!
I think you guys needed like 3 more knobs ;)
Hey guys, did you watch the show? Did the pedal sound as you intended it too? I may be a luddite when it comes to tweaking ghost notes and negative feedback but I'm stumped at how you've voiced this pedal....it wasn't that the gain structure or breakup was bad it was the overall treble and presence voicing of the EQ it sounded muffled and one dimensional.....given my OE compressor is the greatest pedal Ive ever owned am I wrong to have expected more? Is it possible there was a fault with the pedal?
Roy Thomas Bøe ok just did that and that sounded like an entirely different pedal!!! Also a very slick review vid production. I love TPS cause it’s the best indicator of how I might engage with a unit straight out of the box. It’s obviously a complex unit so I’ll def take the time to trial it in person to make sure I can drive the spaceship and get Jays tone variety w my setup tx man
I love classic cranked amps, but mot of the time I can't crank an amp. The thing the worries me about the Revival Drive is that the volume pot controls the gain, and there doesn't appear to be anything else to control the output level. Of course you have your amp controls, but I wonder how close the basic output is to unity? I know my Cali76 gives a large-ish volume boost with the output at 12 o'clock (with a Strat). I wonder if I'd be stuck with an amp volume so low its choked with a Revival Drive set to rock...perhaps Origin are happy to forego the world of moderate sound pressures? :-)
The output knob right below the volume knob is what controls your overall level.
- Interesting bits and go-to sections…
- Intro playing: 0:00
- Always playing that lick: 1:45
- What are we doing today?: 2:05
- Woo, that’s a lot of controls: 3:19
- How are we plugging in? 5:10
- Two channels - orange and grey: 6:15
- Valve and solid-state rectifiers? 6:55
- Mick has spent his whole life trying to get away from hairy-ass amp distortion: 7:46
- The Poo Pooer Of Hamelin: 8:45
- The Anyest Any Amp Of All: 9:25
- Let’s get going. Finally: 9:53
- The Re-Amp EQ mode switch: 10:35
- Preamp and Bright Cap Structure: 11:00
- All in the middle… let’s go! 12:42 (13:13)
- Three different preamp settings: 14:14
- A sound Mick has been trying to get away from: 15:55
- EQ2 - eek! 17:20
- Let’s try some P90s: 18:16
- The Ghost control: 18:44
- The More/Presence control & negative feedback: 22:25
- Does Origin like P90s and humbuckers more than single coils? 27:11
- Into the front end or the effects loop of the HRD? And humbuckers… 29:40
- Let’s try the other channel: 32:11
- Mick still doesn’t like the hairy stuff: 36:10
- Dan’s sceptical about the Vox tones: 38:00
- Much better! The Revival Drive’s suggested settings: 41:20
- Clapton and Hendrix? 42:37
- Clapton: 42:54
- Hendrix: 43:54
- Less gain, for sure: 45:04
- Engaging the mid boost switch: 47:50
- Boosted with the D&M Drive: 48:40
- And a fuzz? 49:18
- Brian May? 51:16
- Kossoff? 52:25
- Mick’s philosophical tangent: 53:53
- Conclusions? 55:50
It's like freaky Friday where Mick knows all about the pedal and Dan has all the questions.
Parallel universe. :0)
exactly what I was thinking! :)
I’ve had the deluxe version of this pedal along with it’s separate footswitch for over a year now and I feel that I’m still discovering new tones from this pedal all the tine! I absolutely love it!
Great episode. I love that Origin care enough to take the chance on making something this complex. And unapologetically so! Fair play to them. I don't think it's for me but it's great that it's out there.
I luurve the concept of this pedal - the versatility, the fact it's 'supposed-to-sound-like-an-amp', the fact it's all accessible from knobs & switches, all analogue, no midi, no digital, getting in the way, not a deep dive menu in sight, all 'hairy-arsed-amp-tones' - excellent!! - perfect for a luddite, guitar-cable-amp simpleton like me! Yes! :-) Btw Mick - I'm English & not based in USA
The presets are where it starts to sound good. The Hendrix and the May tones were great (don't care how close to the artist tone they were, just sounded rad).
Hi guys. How about a show on different classic fender amps, i.e. super, blackface, tweed, deluxe, princeton etc Be really interesting to hear core differences, a nod to famous users and also how different pedals react to each (e.g for main gain pedal food groups, Ts klon ocd etc what works for each amp variant)
Really really want to do this. We’d discusssd getting some amps from Fender and then summer happened. Soon! :0)
Yes and it would also raise the quintessential question I would love to see discussed: Master Volume: with or without you?
That Pedal Show you should definitely do the fender amp thing so that you’d know almost all Fender amplifiers are tube rectified.
+1
I love suggestions that sound like really, really long shows :D
Flipping heck! Knobby McKnobface or what!! It’s the king of twiddles!
Nah. Try a ”Simplifier ” DLX…:-)
I don't get all any of the critiques, this show was well prepared, deep in explanations and what I like the most, it was honest. I feel more and more that this is not my cup of tea in terms of sound and I am glad that Mick is saying that too. But it definitely sounds great and simulates that sound very well.
Thank you - glad you enjoyed it. If people are unhappy with videos it’s usually because we’ve offered an opinion that differs with their own. Or we flat got something wrong. Nothing very wrong in this video I don’t think, but the world of guitar tone is extremely subjective. People are dying to know what we think of stuff.... unless we’re not glowing about it. And then they can feel offended. Which is why we don’t touch stuff we don’t like. No winners in that situation. But this, we like this for what it sets out to do. Cheers!
That Pedal Show I also really enjoyed this show, and I personally love when someone checking out a piece of gear has critical things to say about it. It’s one of the things I love about TPS. I know you guys will say (understandably in a nice way) “I don’t like this”, when something isn’t for you. Also, in regards to the Strymon reference, did you mean their Riverside (which is their “tube inspired drive sounds” pedal) rather than the Sunset (multiple overdrives in a pedal)?
The guitar gods shine upon me!! I asked for this video last night! Apparently you guys are weeks ahead of me. Cant wait to recieve mine! As always, stellar work!
I love that they put out something different than a 3-knob overdrive! The inside of this pedal has to look like a NASA control center. Sounds great!
Every friday I get the same thought. There should be an official "that pedal forum". I know there are plenty allready, but it would be a good place to talk further about the show, share stories and pictures of or gear. Each show springs new conversations that I often wish would go on a bit longer.
Hmmm. TPS is already an immense amount of work for us. A forum - full of hate, people arguing, being offensive etc etc etc (all forums have an element of this) - would totally do me in. Mick here. Sorry, but the few routinely spoil it for the many. Plenty of great, more established forums out there who have the mental fortitude to deal with it. I don’t. Cheers!
Maybe a subreddit? I'm pretty sure there would be people willing to be moderators.
Nah. Just not our thing, sorry! For example, I can’t tell you the number of posts I’ve read on, let’s say, Marshall Plexis (but insert any gear you care to mention) where it’s absolutely obvious the writer has never owned or played one. And yet they’re quoting things and opinions they’ve read etc etc etc. It’s 90 per cent misinformation. Usually... among some absolutely stellar stuff I should say. We don’t have the stomach for the 90 per cent unfortunately. :0)
That Pedal Show. I get what you're saying. Wouldn't want your job to become that of moderating. Just trying to find ways of enjoying the community between shows. And furthering the subjects.
I can see your point, the internet breeds quite a bit of misinformation and rudeness, even when moderated, and I can see why you would not want to delve into that cesspool. Cheers :)
Random thought: Get Mark Letteri on the show! Or just check out his signature Melody OD pedal by J. Rockett. It's an overdrive with 6 slider EQ on it. So cool!
We’ve done the Melody. Or at least it’s been on the show already. Mark would be welcome any time night or day!
I really enjoyed the much deeper dive that you took with this episode. I learned more from this episode than I have from any episode in a while.
Excellent, thanks Eric - glad you enjoyed it!
What Mick says at around 36:00 is so true. For a guitarist to cut through a mix, it's not about volume, it's about hitting the right frequencies so they pop out (or EQ'ing other things to make a space for it). So many players think that just being loud is enough. There are diminishing returns on this that kick in pretty quickly. Having an amp with good head room is great of course, but there's no point in dialling in something that is so loud that it overpowers everything else. And often times, the tone that sounds gnarly and rude by itself sounds awesome in a mix. The mix is the only important thing for me, unless you're a solo player of course.
Also, I recently purchased a Super Reverb, and you two are more than vaguely culpable. It's marvelous, by the way. Worth every bit of the cost.
Something important to know... The low control wraps the low end w hair if you want clean roll more off, use the bright caps, lower vol and more output, you can dial in a vox, just have to master the controls to what you want
@ 20.16 - I love when Dan whispers - "that's very clever!" I need to cut a clip of that!!
Wow, what a beautiful sounding pedal. To me, that artifacting, those blemishes, imperfections, whatever you want to call it, those are what make valve amp overdrive so magical. As Leonard Cohen said, there are cracks in everything; that’s how the light gets in. Valve amps pushed hard are beautiful because they become imperfect and that’s where their personalities and beauty comes through. :) The guitar should get a chance to show its character and so should the amp. Man I wish I could afford this pedal to get some crazy tones!
I so appreciate your demos, Chaps! You're both so cheerful and upbeat even when you're upset about something. TPS is always a pick me upon when I need it. Thanks, Mates!
This show has a very detrimental affect on my bank balance and my marriage. Damn! that is one amazing sounding piece of kit, I can only imagine how it must FEEL. As usual you did a great job explaining the overall concept and features. Nice one guys. I may have to see a marriage councilor after this one!
The only channel I thumbs up before I watch.
Yep. First thing I do before watching. I don't understand why it has any dislikes. Who are these people?
@@colaboytje People who watch the entire video and don't like the approach to the demo. Who are the people who like something before they try it?
Fascinating show- and that’s an amazing bit of kit!
Probably too much for me though, I’m still trying to get my tones out of a Morgan Amp on 3, Big Bob, and Analogman Sunface... and I’m very happy in that ballpark!
Thanks boys!
I have this pedal and I must say it takes a little time to figure it out. But well worth the effort. This thing just blows most of my other OD pedals off my board and on to Reverb. The Tones are to die for. It so much fun to play. Don’t knock it until you try it. Totally worth the money. I love love love this pedal.
Intense, in-depth and important discussion. Well done Gents!
Great video guys, I think between this and Pete Thorn’s video - amazing. I’m using an OxBox with a Lonestar Special and run the Revival into the front end. For recording it is brilliant, can’t hear the difference between the JTM45 and the above when recorded. Agree with Dan’s comments in the AC30, play with EQ2 a bit more and it gets closer. Thanks for the video guys!!!!
Guys. Watching since the beginning. You’re my guys.
Proper respect to J Leonard J. Honk placement was deliberate. You guys are the best!
We love J. He’s a fantastic human and crazy talented musician. Awesome.
It cost a bit but well worth it. Truly a remarkable pedal. The best overdrive ever.
It’s ironic that this TPS and JHS Pedals shows comes out the same week; and you mentioned the Strymon Sunset. My Origin Effects Cali76 Deluxe is an always on pedal (feeding the delay); and while watching the video my thoughts were... Nope! I rather use my Strymon Sunset; and then you go and mention the Sunset. The thing about the Sunset (with the favorite switch) is I can “set & forget” six great, useful, and different tones and that is why it will never leave my board just like the ‘76. Yes it is DSP. I don’t care, it is DSP done right! And is the poster child for the letter N in F.U.N. that Josh mentions. Keep up the great show, and continue to sprinkle in these “outside your wheelhouse” shows every once in a while.
Great video guys, I found that using the blend control into my clean channel amp sound opens up all the lower gain fat, more tube screamer like sounds. You use the clean channel of your amp to tam and smooth the gain of this pedal. Then hit the blend override button for face melting solos.
I like that a lot of the controls are different than other pedals - more like the 'advanced' options you get with some modelling units, though done all in analog. This could be an amazing recording tool.
Totally. If you don’t have the option of mic’ing an amp, this into an interface and some IRs..... interesting. How much better it’d be than straight Kemper or Helix type modelling would be interesting. Our replacements will make that video sometime in 2025. :0)
Okay, I'll put that in my calendar.
When Dan strummed butters before plugging in... Holy cow that guitar sounds good all round!
For some reason these two guys’ voices have a soothing effect on me. I usually listen to their shows early morning when I first wake up, before my afternoon nap or hitting the sack at night… I usually fall asleep within the first 10 minutes! As a result I have never quite finished watching any of the shows, LOL.😂
Hahaha! Awesome!
Thanks for helping me understand this complicated pedal guys! Love the show!!
Ugh. I love when Mick takes charge ;)
That's what she said! I'm sorry...
Mick. I'm proud. I don't know much about how amps work and this was so informative. Well done and thanks for learning and sharing!
You’re welcome! Thank you for the kind words!
Must say that is very impressive. There was a moment doing the Hendrix thing where it was erupting very much like the real thing. Another moment I heard some old Joe Walsh solo music. Pretty amazing.
Hats off to Simon, I think he's created something unique on the market here. If you want that vintage amp sound and you're a gigging guitar player turning up to venues with a random backline this is a great option for an consistently awesome sounding fly rig. Great job Dan and Mick too for a proper in depth review from a player's standpoint.
Philosophical Tangent....
"Aurally Assaulted" is the phrase that I think you were looking for Mick. 😁
Interesting pedal and episode.
Stephen
It’s like the Mark V of over drive pedals... you could tweak this thing forever, keep getting good sounds but the thought of knowing there might be another sound in there that I like more would drive me nuts personally which means I’d turn knobs more than play.
I like that there is a builder out there willing to throw it all in a single box though.
Interesting! And understandable. You’ve summed up why I can’t handle complex things... unless they have to be complex to function properly. Like a DAW or Photoshop. Mick here.
dan wasnt stoked
No he was not.
Kinda cool to have another feature of this direct on IRs. Shawn Tubbs has an excellent demo of this as well, but I'm interested on your thoughts when comparing it to the Kingsley preamps.
This thing sounds freakin’ unbelievable. Gosh
I have plugged a silicon rectifier into my '58 bassman for many decades. Groove Tubes made a module that just plugs into the tube socket.
Just a few points:
- - I appreciate your effort to make the pedal worths it 600 euros.
- Zillion of knobs and no midi? This is sad
- I understand the guys behind Origin put months (or years) to develop such a complex and modern ovedrive/preamp/distortion pedal and for that they have all my respect.
- Have an opinion based only by a YT video is stupid, so I'm stupid
Cheers guys, a long time follower from Italy.
Wow, that's a great machine, well worth the challenge it poses. You've got your resolution back, Yeahh!
I feel like I'm going a bit mad. These guitar sounds are incredible. Some of my favourites ever. They seem so underwhelmed.
It’s the wonderful thing about guitar tones Conor! Just different preferences and why there are no answers only better questions.
Dan also remarked to me yesterday that it seemed to sound much better recorded than his experience on the day. Also, your enjoyment of a sound is - in my opinion - 70 per cent how it feels and 30 per cent how it sounds. The percentages aren’t much help in reality, just making the point that how it feels to play is really, really important. Both of us were struggling today. Cheers!
Cheers for replying - very kind of you. To be clear then, might you say this is definitely one to try in the shop before forking out for it?
Dan here, I’d say that about every bit of gear wherever possible
The Clapton setting was instant Gary Moore 😂
I've been watching your fantasic show for 3 years now and you to have taught me more in that time than in the last 25 bravo to both of you ... Did you know origin effects Revival drive is an anagram of afflicting Overdrive revise I rest my case
Hahahah!!! Excellent. And thank you for the kind words. :0)
That's great, Colin! I wish that we had discovered that first as we could have stuck that on the front page of the manual!
Origin Effects hi origin your pedal is a work of sonic and engineering art well done it's amazing. It's phenomenal what you can achieve when you remove the constrictions of what has come before x
Look I've said it before. This pedal is a pretty good over driving amp/pedal unit but it just lacks sufficient tonal variations and tweakability for mine. ***dies laughing, gasping for air**** Sounds pretty good. A great test would be to plug it into a straight out transistor amp I reckon. ;)
Hey Mick and Dan, another awesome show! Can’t thank you guys enough for all the knowledge you have imparted.
If your show would have been around in the 90’s I can’t tell you how much money it would have saved me. Got rid of
a lot of good gear simply because I didn’t know how to get the best out of it or use it in the right context. You have
answered questions about tone I’ve been pondering for over 25 years!
That being said, I do have this one search though that is still ongoing and it has baffled me. Maybe you can help. I don’t know if you familiar with Dwight Yoakam’s producer/ guitar player Pete Anderson or not, but there is a certain tone that he uses from time to time on Dwight’s recordings: It is subtle but unique, and I have never heard it on anything else. Some examples are: “Thousand Miles From Nowhere”, “ Things Change”, “Fast as You” , “ I don’t Need it Done” “Pocket of a Clown”.ect.There is reverb and definitely slap back but also has a sort of metallic tone to it. Since guys are really into echo and delay you might be able to spot it right off. It could be a certain type of reverb or echo instead of a special effect of some kind. I’ve tried all the conventional guitar effects that I know of with no success.
Maybe you guys could do a show on some unusual guitar tones and how sometimes they are really not that unusual or some unknown crazy effect, but sometimes it’s just about knowing how to adjust what you already have in the right combinations.
Anyway, Keep up the good work!
Thanks, Alan Truckner
So far this is reminding me of that film when the two characters swap bodies 😂.
Faces, y'mean? Face Off?
Nothing as manly as that. Freaky Friday :-)
Kieren Moore - I'd love to see TPS with more slow-motion doves.
Yeah, M:i2-style ...
The sixth day ? 😂
You know what, the "All you need is Fuzz" design would make a great holiday sweater!
Wow! Lots of interesting information. Many times I rewound to really catch something. Good job, guys!
Mick Taylor on fire. Very, very tasteful fire.
Thank you sir. :0)
So interesting to hear Mick talk about headroom at about 36.30. I get that completely. I've only just realised that when I want to take the sound somewhere else it's a fuzz that I want, not a distortion.
Why is there an episode on a single pe... oh.
Really pleased someone finally did a truly in depth review of this pedal and it happens to be you guys. Well done chaps!
As regards the pedal, it did not inspire me to part with £500.00. I can see a use for it as an alternative to amp modellers such as the helix and Amplifire if linked with a decent IR cab simulator though, especially in silent stage situations.
Hi Guys. Great episode. The trick to using an Les Paul through a cranked Vintage Marshall sound is to roll your volume down a little off max and even turn the tone down on your bridge pickup. The Beano sound is a mix of both LP pickups, with guitar’s volume down around 7 or 8 on the bridge, and less on the neck. Could you revisit the Revival Drive with your 1987x, AC30 and Super Reverb? To see what the Revival Drive is like at getting cranked or slightly cranked amp sounds through those amps at quieter than cranked volume levels
One thing about this pedal (I own one so I dare to say this).... if you find a setting too gainy, just roll down the volume - the response is perhaps the best in any pedal I have played. I mostly use 50s wirings, so that helps as well. Combine that with the blend option (footswitchable), and you get even more just by controlling your guitar controls. An absolute monster, this pedal.
Ah blimey. We tried that. And all the oomph went away. Sure, endless tweaking options mean that it’s infinitely tweakable. But getting any kind of headroom seemed very difficult. Cheers!
Always happy to see the jr’s make an appearance. Great sounding pedal. However, when it comes to guitars, amps or pedals I don’t have the mental capacity, patience, or dedication to play with more than 5-6 knobs. Anything more complicated than a non master volume amp is too much for me. God I’m so dumb.
"Okay, so the scariest pedal imaginable. Thanks. That's all you've got to say - scariest pedal imaginable....." :-). Gread vid and amazingly flexible pedal. Holy cow - there are options, then, there are OPTIONS! Amazing pedal. Thanks guys.
In a roundabout way, I kind of think the value of this may lie in the Strat positions 2 and 4 philosophy, while you’re on that bent. Way back when, there were 3 spots on that switch that did stuff, and then people went, hang on, if I become weirdly accurate at switching between them badly, this guitar can do other things that are awesome! I think that’s where this unit might go. Interesting to see what people do with it. Nice work lads!
Nice analogy!
if you're doing Nashville type stuff, and recording at home using IR's, this pedal is a must have.
It sounds rad, and I’m sure it’s going to make a lot of people very happy, but I’m not the guy that this is aimed at! Too many knobs, switches and dials. And in terms of tone, I probably lean towards a big headroom amp and pedals too, although I gigged an Orange Tiny Terror for years. Really interesting video chaps, thanks.
Interesting huh. Perhaps the take-away is the knowledge that those approaches yield different results and could be useful at different times. Maybe. Thanks for watching!
When I first heard about this I thought it would be pretty cool, and I contemplated purchasing it, but I admit it seemed very complicated, and I believe that stopped me from buying it. This video confirms that I was right, for me. For someone else this may be great, not for me.
I started watching this and was thinking, "I'm never going to watch this again because I'm not going to get a Revival Drive." At the 25 minute mark I'm thinking, "Sweet goodness... I need to watch this again to learn more about differences in amps." Whether intentional or not, you unloaded a ton of amp education that I to wrap my brain around."
Awesome, thanks Kyle! Everything is connected with guitar tones. Cheers!
A Test with a PA-System would be very interesting - and "clean sounds" too : ))
Very interesting. Thanks for giving this such good treatment.
I’ve been killing myself as to what amp I wanna get cause I’m soooo tired of the dull tone of my Blackstar HT Stage 60 and low and behold... it’s a pedal! Thank you so much guys! You also just saved me about $1500!
Curios to hear it through stereo studio monitors direct...?..nice sounds for sure ...i will say that you guys are the proper guys to demo this ...mick your licks very clean with good sting....👍👍👍...dan ditto to u to these videos only work with skills an chemistry...well done...
Monster playing as always.
Love my slide rig, but no interest in this.It just doesn’t sound anything special. Many different shades of beige.
Same here. Was wondering if I could get a more adaptable version of my trusty Catalinbread SFT out of this, but I don't see how I could replicate my VT-40/VT-22 tones, which is surprising with the number of controls involved. The ideas behind it are great, but the sounds are very basic and stereotypical, there is no flexibility in tone aside from basic "UK vs US" sensibilities.
"Come for the guitar tones, stay for the philosophy." - Every activist singer/songwriter everywhere. 😂
I find that (in my trifling experience as a duffer), what I hear when I'm playing, when I'm within the feedback loop of my hands on the instrument and the amp cooking, is entirely different than what I hear when I listen to playback. Often, I'm wholly surprised at the difference in the experience. This is speaking to the philosophical bit. In terms of the pedal, I think it's a little baffling to me, in terms of what I would want at this time. More complicated than I would be comfortable with. I tend to like the amp to have some margin of headroom, though having it pretty squishy does make it easier to play some things.
I laughed really hard at the "sensual/philisophocal" conversation!
It’s a life changing unit in our Jimi tone chase
I enjoy everything you guys do! I don’t care if it’s tedious experiments or information, who else is gonna give us a genuine understanding at this schwang knowledge like y’all do? Lol do what you guys do, there will always be others benefiting from the effort you put into this show.
impressive tech but not a single tone I liked on this episode with this pedal, a TS808, OCD and good fuzz are more than enough.
I could see this being a big win for artists that fly around and use backline amps as a way to quickly get "your" sound or for people who play in a bunch of different groups and need a different kind of drive per group but don't want to rebuild their board every gig.
Great episode as always, but this is the first time EVER that I’ve not wanted the pedal after you guys demo it. It’s probably a fantastic tool, but not for me.
Paul Farrior as an owner of the Revivaldrive, I felt that this episode didn’t do its voice justice. The approach was never “can I tweak this until I like what I get”- it was more, “let’s try to get it to do the thing it says it does; that thing we don’t like.”
This pedal makes no sence for the most normal Player
Mr11oo aka Sir Pulp interesting. “Normal” is a funny word to use about gear. Do you mean, the price is too high for the players you know and relate to, or, it’s not a sound you can see using for yourself, or you don’t understand the appeal?
The price makes me not want to even watch the episode.
Holy brigade buckets, that's a pricy pedal, super cool though.
Many people here saying the pedal has too many knobs, but to me it has just the right amount of knobs to get you there. How many people complaining about the knobs have many pedals on their boards? If you think about the Revival Drive in sections, as you would in stacking overdrives, or using an overdrive with an EQ pedal, it becomes pretty straightforward.
Option paralysis ! Nice demo guys sounds great but, I don't want a pedal that I have to study a manual to use and too many freakin' knobs !
Some people do. Different strokes. :0)
Agreed ! :-)
My interpretation of it is that if you were on tour, and you got some amp that a blind man made in his garage rather than what's on your Rider, you could save your ass with this thing and get a usable amp tone.
Origin Effects will make a compact version with half the size soon - 2019 here.
I understand but if it’s gonna give me so many super authentic classic tones which would require many thousands of dollars and not to mention real-estate and man-power carrying around so many amps, I say it’s 110% worth it. Think about it... if you had all these different amps, you’d need to learn how to work them separately anyway. That’s just me though... bring on the manual!!
I don’t know about the room. But sounds great mic’d and sent through RUclips.
I am absolutely more a Strat / Singlecoil Fan but man, Dans Les Paul sounds so freaking awesome!
Ah, well, there are Les Pauls and there are Les Pauls. You know the old ones tended to sound pretty ‘thin’ and ‘airy’ compared with the 70s and beyond vision of this weird sledgehammer thing. A good 57 / 58 / 59 type has the most amazing articulacy. Niiiiice!
I swear I could hear the Drive It Home riff from Cry Of Love in Dan’s playing at 21:19
The Revival drive Hot Rod compact is absolutely the cat's meow!!
Jesus christ that strat sound so damn good
Which one? Thanks!
I love their comp.
the best part is that it have so many knobs that i can tweak, with so many sounds and textures, great pedal for studio work. May god defend me from these one knob pedals, minus the small clone tho hahaha Cheers!
I bought the Revival drive and returned it as it just did not do well with single coil pic -ups. It is fabulous with Hum-buckers and P 90's . They managed to get better sounds with a strat than i got. After watching this , I might have to give this pedal another try !!
"When all else fails read the manual" ;-) The pedal sounds great and $500 is a lot cheaper than buying a Marshall Plexi
I read the manual for three hours before we started!
I have to be honest here - for the most part I found the sounds today rather unpleasant. It started to sound really really good when you went to the factory recommendations. It just shows that the pedal is so complicated that even professionals like you have trouble to dial it in by ear. I find these many controls super confusing and counter intuitive. I don‘t quite get the concept. If one makes a pedal that complicated and that tweakable, I would have added MIDI control and presets so that people, after they are done fiddling, can get easy access to the nice sounds. In the way it is one is pretty much stuck with two sounds plus the mid boost. That might be enough for many, but one is underusing the pedal then.
Guys, just a quick comment... I do not have the pedal (yet), but a friend who does has pointed out that your demo of it has the Blend Override switch on the foot-switch engaged all the time. This defeats the Blend knob on the pedal, having it maxed out all the time, which explains why the pedal produces as much gain as it does - something Mick kept pointing out. It would appear that the blend knob is essential in order to get the pedal to really go into the lower gain stuff. Also, since this was mentioned by Dan, the EQ2 features are supposed to be able to get the pedal into more VOX-land by putting the mids and the top-end where they should be for these tones. I don't know if this is true or not, I'm just relaying the info, but this appears to be a very complicated device and getting your head around all the knobs and features seem quite daunting. But a couple of people who own the pedal have said that it really can get into the classic tones of amps like Tweeds, vintage Marshalls, Voxs and Blackfaces - a "many-amps-in-a-box" kind of pedal in other words - and that it is also very good at lower gain stuff once you really got the gist of it. It would have been very useful to have more suggested settings, particularly for "modeling" classic amps tones, in the manual as this pedal seems to be the perfect solution for people going for the "clean amp + amp-in-a-box pedals" formula.
Please read the manual. It’s available on the Origin site. Cheers!
So pleased to hear you both say what I think whenever anybody talks about cranked amp overdrive..."I don't like it". - Always a pleasure Gents.
Cheers Bleek. I should qualify it a bit. Mick here. A good AC30, JTm45, Tweed Deluxe etc... can be pure magic with the right guitar. To a point. But then it kinda goes over the top and becomes indistinct and gets nasty stuff. Also, it absolutely needs volume, and to get the power section breathing: it’s a physical experience as much as a sonic one. You take the physical bit away... just sounds scratchy to me.... until you get it in a mix and then it can potentially all change. I probably didn’t mean to be as binary as I sounded!
Binary? If that's binary, then so am I. Absolutely, I lose the clarity in chords and the leads don't seem to sing as much as fart out - or the character of the sound seems to suffer. I'm about to replace some Xotic Boosters, which I've used exclusively for years, because I didn't like the sound of them at higher gain settings. Replacing with the Vertex Clean Drive and Dynamic Distortion (Which was always a dirty word to me). Forever searching for ultimate clarity in very characterful sounds! Glad to know I'm not strictly alone ha!
Relevant to the discussion at the end, now that you guys have a new space, is there any chance you could bust out the ear plugs and do a show about pedals with NMV amps at high volume? I know it's not relevant to everyone, but some of us still play dinosaur era amps and I'd be real interested to hear you guys do the "stuff on the records" so to speak.
Most of our shows use traditional amps at something approaching gig volume, but yes, we’d be only too happy to do this because it’s the place where we’re most at home!
However, if by ‘stuff on records’ you mean ‘can we sound like (insert player here’, that’s not something we’d do for a couple of reasons. 1) You can’t sound like (insert player here) ever because you’re not them.
2) Most of those classic tones we know and love were heavily EQ’d / compressed etc etc to the point that what’s coming out of the amp in the room was very different to what ended up on the records. Actually, maybe that is an interesting discussion in itself. Hmmmmmmmm. Cheers! Mick
1 hour later: It's complicated.
I'd be interested in a part two for this one. I'd like to hear what is said after a bit of time with it. More people may feel the same, I hope...
I’m not sure extra time would give it the roundness and headroom that would make it usable for me personally. Mick here. Dan said he wanted to spend some more time with it, and I’d like to hear it in a direct recording scenario so maybe there’s something there. Cheers!