Pedal Shootout Is Coming…..
On Saturday, I stopped by Rainbow Music in State College where I confiscated ever single overdrive and distortion pedal in the store. The only things I left there were pedals that were obviously designed for metal or grunge. Everything else was fair game.
I then set up 3 different backing tracks to play along with. I then created 3 categories, “Clean Boost”, “Partial Gain”, and “Full Gain”. I put two backing tracks into each group for a total of 6 minutes of backing music.
For the next 4 hours that night, and for 5 hours the next day, I went through 17 pedals, recording each one at 3 different settings matching the groups above. Each pedal was played over the exact same backing tracks with the exact same recording setup.
By the time I was done, my fingers hurt so bad I that it hurt to type. My ears were complely worn out and I think I’ll never want to hear those tracks again.
So to sum up, my weekend was spent like this: 17 commonly available distortion/overdrive pedals recorded the exact same way, over 6 minutes of the exact same backing tracks for a total of 1.7 hours of audio for your evaluation. I think I’ll name this pedal shootout “Play through the pain” 
I’ll be posting the recordings here sometime in the next week or two after I get them mixed down.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
The BOSS GT-10 has a fantastic blues setting. You can just dial-in what you want. You can even use a Fender amp model to round it all off. Very easy to use. Having said that though, Anthony has done a fantastic job getting it all recorded and mixed.
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November 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hhhhmmm how come my commets didn’t get publised then
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November 6th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I’ve seen a couple modded TS808′s on Ebay.
Are you planning on reviewing popular modded pedals as well?
Anyway, I’ve greatly enjoyed your videos and lessons ever since I originally found them on Youtube. Keep up the good work!
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November 6th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Oh, the waiting! Could you at least tease us with a list of the pedals in the meantime? Years of reading guitar magazines and I’ve never seen a no-kidding comparison test of anything. They refuse to say anything untoward about their advertisers’ products. If only the music mags were more like auto mags in that respect.
I can’t wait to see your new vid having seen how cool the BJ one was.
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November 5th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Anxiously awaiting to hear your finds and opinions on the pedals you tested !
I just have a Maxon OD-9 and my mate has a Ibaniz TS-808 but they sure could use some help
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