Alex Lifeson's By-Tor Pedal Rocks! A dual Drive/Boost 2 in 1 pedal for any gig or recording...

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John Wesley - The Journeyman Guitarist

5 ай бұрын

Alex Lifeson and his "Lerxt" brand are creating some products based on his working rigs and the sounds and tones that he loves to hear and use. The By-Tor pedal is voiced to emulate the Lerxt Omega amp's tone and versatility, being able to go from a clean tight crunch to the legendary growl and guts that are a signature of the Alex Lifeson tone, brought to life and to us in the public space by the Lerxt Omega amp. I put together a demo based on how I would use this pedal, check it out and decide how you would use the By-Tor to create your own palette of tone!
*** Correction: The studio was in Toronto, not Quebec, I was on tour and had been a in a bus for a while, it all runs together so memories fade a bit. Sorry!
Check it out here:
lerxstamps.com/by-tor-pedal/
Buy it here!
www.mojotone.com/Lerxst-By-To...

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@Wishpool 5 ай бұрын

Non-guitarist here, but lifelong music lover and fan of yours since 2005 with P-tree. Absolutely incredible tones! 🎸

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Love it! So happy you are enjoying it all!

@5150mario Ай бұрын

I love love love my lerxst by tor. Thank you immensely for showing this pedals capabilities.

@5150mario Ай бұрын

Just a little bummed I didn't get any cool stickers. Who doesn't like stickers yo!!! 😁

@riveralph3687 5 ай бұрын

Thank you John. Great insightful descriptions and demo. Rush geeks united! 😄

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@johnladdsmusic Ай бұрын

That tone made me a subscriber…WOW!

@swankmotee 5 ай бұрын

Nice tones young Lad! Bringing the RAWK as always!🤘

@thomasalderman2399 5 ай бұрын

If you are a Rush Geek? We will get along just fine. I'm all eyes and ears for your future shows. I subscribed right of the bat. Looking forward to them. I love Alex's playing. He is a big influence for me.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Yeah man... I may have been seen walking around with a Cherry Sunburst LP and the album version of A Farewell to Kings under my arm in my teens...

@chrissilverhand1 5 ай бұрын

I'm really enjoying these videos John, really helpful and insightful, thank you.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Chris!

@blackcreekmusic783 5 ай бұрын

Awesome stuff sir!!I can watch this kind of thing all day!

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jamiebradford11 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for making these videos. Very well done and informative. And I would've geeked out over the Rush stickers in the box as well!!

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

I mean the pedal is cool but...the stickers... yeah man!

@jamesmarcin4787 5 ай бұрын

Very cool. Loved your playing with Porcupine Tree live years ago. Your vocals on the live version of Fadeaway were fantastic. Thanks for the demo.👍

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you James, those were good years and great gigs back then. Appreciate you checking back in ... more to come!

@wait---who----me 5 ай бұрын

Mr. Wesley...love to here the story on how you got together with Wilson and Porqupine Tree....Love your playing....

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

I will most certainly get into that at some point in future vids... thanks man...

@angusorvid8840 5 ай бұрын

What a great sounding pedal! Very organic, chewy, warm. My kind of pedal.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Very accurate description...

@SirenBandUS 5 ай бұрын

Very cool. Love these demos. Ed

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you brother!

@jdpumpica4417 5 ай бұрын

*Lerxst. Love this video, and channel! Fantastic, keep it up!!

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Thanks man...more to come for sure...

@steveodonnell6533 5 ай бұрын

👍 Awesome Wes

@tomosborne5949 5 ай бұрын

Very good, brings in alot of punch.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Agreed...

@michaelgallegos8811 5 ай бұрын

Thanks man great video I just saw you! Just subscribed that pedal looks and sounds great 👍 ❤.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Yeah man... it really does a lot, really enhances the amp.

@MGBOMAR 5 ай бұрын

Aarrrgh!!! Something else I can’t afford 😂 Great vid Wes 🤟🏻👌🏻

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

You and me both!

@gravl1 5 ай бұрын

The pickup is a Bill Lawrence L500. You can still get them.

@brianbokor4229 5 ай бұрын

10k views, Bro!!! Keep up the great work, Wes...

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 4 ай бұрын

So close!

@walth9092 4 ай бұрын

I like the SnowDog! Good sound.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 3 ай бұрын

Yeah man...both pedals are very good!

@GMHG777 5 ай бұрын

Dude, you really are trying to drain my bank account aren't you Wes 🤣😂🤣

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Yeah...it's a thing...!

@colinburroughs9871 5 ай бұрын

There's lot's Alex's- ism's in the tone box. Pretty cool

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Agreed...

@InnerDaze 5 ай бұрын

Not sure I understand the intro. Clockwork Angels was recorded in Toronto, long after The Studio in Quebec had closed. Either the location's wrong or the album title is.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Yeah... my mistake and the video was already up when I realized it. I was on a tour bus at the time and the memories are blurry. I blame "bus lag". You are absolutely correct, it was Toronto... not Quebec.

@tgorycki6825 4 ай бұрын

Great video! The Lerxst amp is based on a Marshall 2550 Silver Jubilee.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 4 ай бұрын

It is... I had a 2550 loaned to me for a while and the Lerxst does it justice!

@paschalmccafferty2107 5 ай бұрын

So did Fender make a prototype of the hentor which Alex decided not to go with? Also the pickup selector in the middle position, does that activate all three pickups? Great review, can’t wait to get my hands on one of these pedals!

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 4 ай бұрын

Great question, when Mojotone was developing the pickup assembly, they needed to house it in a Strat to check it out at the different stages. When it was finished they sent the prototype housed in a USA Fender Strat down to me so I could do a demo video of it. I liked it so much I ordered an assembly for myself and just released a video of it being dropped into a Beck Strat... thanks man!

@rogercardenas111 5 ай бұрын

Thats a nice Hentor Strat guitar 🎸🎸.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Hi Roger, this was the prototype built on a fender body with the Hentor Electronics, the actual new Hentor is made by Godin but Mojotone will sell the electronics as a drop in for any Strat style guitar, I got hooked when I tried this one out.

@rogercardenas111 5 ай бұрын

@@TheJourneymanGuitarist thanks for the response, enjoyed watching the video. Rush on man 🤘🍻🍺🎼👏👍🎸🎸

@thedude-jb7wx 17 күн бұрын

does itr give you the 70s or that grace under pressure tone???

@pythonflying 5 ай бұрын

Very nice! I suppose it would be presumptuous to assume a Snow Dog pedal is in the works.

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

It would be the natural progression...

@astewart9410 5 ай бұрын

I have the D&M Drive, also a boost/drive, so this is interesting

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Yeah...so this is a tough one. I have the D&M drive as well. Really love it. Similar concept. Both superb quality, but voiced differently. It's a matter of taste and as each of us hear things differently, I could not tell you which one you would prefer. My take is the By-Tor is more aggressive. But it's easy to tame and could do any gig with it... could be fun to have both...but... ya know...economics and stuff...

@astewart9410 5 ай бұрын

@@TheJourneymanGuitarist And here I thought the D&M was aggressive! Lol thanks for the vid.

@GregYock 5 ай бұрын

amazing. What gauge strings are you using?!?

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 4 ай бұрын

Greg, I am using the GHS .010 Nickel Rockers...love them. They sound like the strings I used as a young player... thanks man!

@musicmann1967 5 ай бұрын

I've been looking at this pedal for a while now and they haven't really been available. I don't know if production stopped, but unless you catch a used one on Reverb, I don't think you can get them.

@notmyrealhandle 5 ай бұрын

They're just going into full production. Should be available now

@musicmann1967 5 ай бұрын

@@notmyrealhandle Amazing! I just went to the website, and you're right! Thank you!

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

@@musicmann1967 yeah they are out now, I timed the video to release day...

@musicmann1967 5 ай бұрын

@@TheJourneymanGuitarist Nice! I'm glad I saw this. Thanks!

@brucek2946 5 ай бұрын

Did you use any of it in the Bubba Bash ?

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

I didn't as I didn't have the pedal yet, the prototype Lerxt pickup assembly was in a Strat that I was not comfortable with, so I went with my main PRS, the parts were tough and that guitar is so comfortable to me and always sounds good... Billy did have a Quad Cortex and that was the basis for the guitar tones at Bubba Bash.

@brucek2946 5 ай бұрын

@@TheJourneymanGuitarist well you still sounded Incredibly Great .. I still watch and listen to that Video Repeatedly and Often !!

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

@@brucek2946 Thank you!!!

@guitarmainiac80 5 ай бұрын

Cool vids brother. We should do a vid together sometime. Rock! Johnny Chromatic 🤘😁👍🎸

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely !

@BernieZazz 5 ай бұрын

What brand is the Strat ?

@TheJourneymanGuitarist 5 ай бұрын

The Strat I am playing there was an American Fender they used to put the prototype Lerxt Pickup assembly into, the actual new Lerxt Guitar is made by Godin. godinguitars.com/?s=lerxst&post_type=product.

@BernieZazz 5 ай бұрын

@@TheJourneymanGuitaristthank you!