Well, you still can, obviously. Instead of the bad monkey, you can buy another affordable pedal that sounds exactly the same.

@@mrcoatsworth429 I bought a Wish Klone for 34$ last month, and it is great!

​@@mrcoatsworth429 exactly, there are loads of good overdrive pedals out there. Most of them are identical circuits. But they're not boutique so gear snobs turn their nose up at them.

boss super overdrives are pretty cheap rn don't tell Josh :v

Frankly, as KDH points out, it’s really not flippers who are the origin of this problem. It’s stupid guitarists who chase the tone of people they respect through trying to acquire the exact same gear rather than, as Josh pointed out, “listening with their ears”. Without this guitarist stupidity there would be no market for flippers in the first place.

He knows what hes doing. When he releases limted run pedals they sell like hot cakes. People listening to him is wonderful for business. He might not be directly profiting from the bad monkey, it is proving how much he influences the sheep that havent spent decades hunting their own tone

@@Ottophil I don't think he wants the price hikes to be happening. I think he truly does want to show people awesome cheaper options. He would not have amassed the neurotic collection he did without a huge love for the hoby.

Agreed, the average person is either an ass, an idiot, or both.

I'm betting it's "Hey look this as good and its cheap don't spent stupid money on a klon!" And instead the price of the cheap one jumped for no reason. Also anyone crying about it there are other 2 and 3 band tube screamers.

@@russellg1473It’ll always be funny when people still don’t listen or pay attention when it’s obviously a joke

Hardwire series, yes! Tom Cram and team returning. yes X 1000!

Man, Digitech was such a godsend for hobbyist guitarists. I still use my Screamin' Blues and Grunge more than just about any other pedals. Honestly, the only multi-hundred-dollar pedals I drool over these days are from GameChanger Audio, and that's more for their gimmick being genuinely cool.

I like the Berhinger stuff as well, which is another budget brand. They do a tube screamer that’s fecking awesome and the Hell Babe wah pedal they make is pretty versatile.

I just hope they can produce some really affordable gear. I would LOVE to try out new things but the prices of physical gear is just so out of reach for me not working due to disability (long term). I've actually had to resort to using software that I haven't acquired legally.... Which is not only unethical, but it sounds WAY worse than real gear in my opinion. Depressing in more ways that one... I loved using digitech stuff back in the mid-2000s when I started. Wish I would've kept all my gear from back then.

​@@Acheron666 I use Behringer reverb and it fulfill my needs.

It really is a lot better than people give it credit for. A friedman, it is not, but it is still a great damn pedal and will give you a nice tone if you know how to work it right.

Phil X a big studio guitar guy says his secret weapon is an old amp called a tone master and a bad monkey.

@sukyumibowlz-fq7hx Clearly somebody doesn't own a Bad Monkey.

Same here. I've been collecting Digitech/DOD pedals since the early 90's since I didn't really have access to other brands. Still my favorite and is the most used pedal I have. I think it's superior to most OD pedals because it has low and high knobs and not just a tone knob.

Same

Oh, talking about your disease. What a... shame.less.plug.

@@wallacehoward2792 it seems I don't have that one?

​@@possiblyneil4978 Can you even survive?

@@johanneschristopherstahle3395 na, it's terminal. I might only have 50 years left

Oh but Rob will make it about himself. Introducing the Bad Chapper's Overhype pedal! Twice the noise at thrice the price! Coming soon to a Guitar Center near you!

Size comment

​@Duderama 67 Bad Chappers really tickled me haha

He’s really not that bad lol chill

​@@duderama6750 He has a lot of power. Don't forget!

Does this make Morley pedals perfect? Most of their stuff doesn’t have pots.

Well the thing is capacitors vary from their stated capacity, whether it be 1%, 5%, 10% or 20% tolerance. So unless in the factory where they make the pedals they measure the capacitance of each capacitor to make sure they are exactly the same, there will be some difference to the sound of the pedal.

You're seriously lacking in knowledge of electronic circuits. The Bad Monkey is just a TS with bass and treble controls, and, like a TS is a soft clipper, with the clipping diodes in the op-amp's feedback loop. The Klon circuit is a hard clipper, with the clipping diodes on the op-amp's output, and in that regard is more like a DOD 250 than a TS. Furthermore, it has several unique attributes- a charge pump chip that boosts the power supply voltage for more headroom, and a dual gang gain pot, with dual parallel circuit paths that keeps a fixed ratio of clean tone mixed in with the dirt tone, so, as you increase the gain, you are also increasing the parallel clean signal by the same amount. The Klon also has a unique buffer circuit on-board, and I'm pretty sure the Bd Monkey is un-buffered, with a true bypass design. Go back to school before you open your mouth next time.

you made that up

A Klon is not worth $5000. The same hype that's surrounding the Bad Monkey and TS10 applies to the Klon.

I mean its fun to play with. I used one into a peavey combo as my main distortion in the 90’s

That pedal legit got me through a fair few black metal gigs while I was at uni. Sounded terrible, perma dined gain, ton of noise… I loved it.

But the Digitech Death metal is THE god tier pedal. Lol.

I use it on my bass solos. It's amazing with a chorus pedal.

​@@wilky1189 fucking hell, I can't even begin to imagine...

The Digitech Distortion Factory went back to reasonable prices around a month after JHS did the video on that pedal and the Expression and Chorus Factories. I picked one up for $230.00 + $12.00 delivery

😂😂😂

@@DerSilvano He isn't. Guitar players got the wrong idea from the message that Josh was trying to send.

It's got to do with herd mentality and this situation puts that into context, specifically "influencers" (self-labeled or not). Musicians are a superstitious bunch. Before YT & modern social media, you had set consensus in a community on a forum, IRC, etc... before that, newsgroups & physical magazines along with bands and people naturally socializing. Jim Lill along with some others are doing some serious organic consensus cracking via empirical testing. I suppose JHS tried but it brought out the collector & scalper types it appears. People need to be told what is great, what sounds good instead of discovering it for themselves instead of worrying about writing interesting music. The ease of use of social media and the internet has us able to crack many old consensuses or it can help reinforce old ones & create new ones. Best general advice: as it was used to be said "shut up and play your guitar!" (but record, share, learn, etc)

I had that one and I remember I also loved the "B1" :D Memories.. Also Boss' Micro Br had insanely cool effects too. (The one BR-80).

I have it!!!!! The Zoom 50511??

Same here I have a zoom g1n from a while ago and it sounds pretty much no different than any "real" pedals.

Nine Inch Nails' iconic "Broken" EP used Zoom effects. JHS should do a history lesson on those and all the hypebeasts will suddenly decide those crappy-but-awesome Zoom effects are essential classics worth thousands of dollars.

@@LukeChaos Tom Morello used the Zoom step/auto arpeggio effect at the end of the solo on "Show Me How to Live." I bought a Zoom 505 damn near 25 years ago and yeah, gear snobs looked down on it. But with some tweaking it could make incredible sounds regardless of the price.

I prefer working with a drum machine, that way I only have to punch the rhythm in once.

you must be a drummer, "Hangout" is a place "Hang out" is what musicians do.

Hey watch it buddy' 🥁

@@stereoroid hit the drummer hard enough and achieve the same result 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@stereoroid so true. Machines dont complain

I had forgotten where I heard it so often. Every single Phil X video for Fretted Americana back in the day used the Bad Monkey, it was his favourite pedal at the time and sounded amazing.

Imho the point is not, that the Bad Monkey is underrated, but that the other pedals are overrated.

​@@hitsonacousticguitar exactly. Complete idiots spend 5 grand on klon centaurs and yet can't tell the difference between them and a regular budget behringer or digitech pedal in a blind audio test. You can't even tell the difference when it's just the guitar on its own, let alone when it's in the mix. Also too many guitar players create their perfect tone over years and years, and then finally use them in a band situation and they sound completely shite in that context. Because what's good guitar tone for the mix is a completely different thing to good guitar tone on its own. The best tones ever, if you isolate the guitar and mute everything else, generally sound awful. But they sound amazing in the mix. Like, I normally dislike his whole channel really, but Music Is Win did do a good video about this where he played Randy Rhodes' tone on its own, isolated, on his songs with Ozzy, and the tone sounded like absolute dog shit. This is the same tone that's in every "top 10 guitar tones" list. So spending years trying to perfect your guitar tone by just playing on your own, is a waste of time. You've gotta get good at creating a tone within the context of a band. Make a drum track, record bass and guitar parts on it, mix them all together, and get better and better at mixing them over time. Then you'll be saving yourself a lot of hassle.

Yeah, I've had my Bad Monkey for over10 years. I bought it after listening to Phil X rave about it way back in his Fretted Americana videos.. I think it cost me 38 quid back then... I still use it today.. Imho it is indeed a great little pedal and certainly holds it own against the boutique stuff..

To be fair, back then you could have a popular KZfaq video on a bit of gear and it wouldn't cause a price spike. Now anyone selling the gear is looking for these kind of viral videos. All it takes is for a few people to inflate the price and suddenly they are all "worth" whatever the new price is.

The problem is they really do think they like the sound, but due to preconceived bias. You could put two exact same circuits into different boxes, one being a Klon for example, and they would swear that one sounds better. It happens all the time with pedals, pickups, strings etc etc. Its human nature unfortunately and marketing companies play off it with many different products.

That's what I try to do, buy what works for me. We get caught up though in the hype of the "next big thing" or the new reissue that has new features, etc. It's a real rabbit hole sometimes. What I stay away from though, are over complicated pedals - those, I don't care how much hype is behind them, I'm not interested because I don't want to spend loads of time trying to figure out how to use it.

as a guy who shits his pants often, i agree with you!

@@evenstephen9337 Lol

@@noggintube No two pedals are going to sound exactly the same either, electronics components aren't perfect and they have tolerances.

Yep, used BOSS ME-70 is all the most would ever need

no ur literally a child im looking at u rn

@@evenstephen9337 we got a comment section detective, keep up the good work

Josh quite often points out that there is very little that can make a `new' pedal stand out in the crowd. I've got a few joyo and nux pedals based simply on availability ,performance and ultimately price. I can play any 1 or a combination of my various overdrive pedals and get a satisfying result. I have the voodoo fuzz but didn't really find a use for it,the octave wasn't particularly obvious but I still have it

Same same! He showed me that circuits are in fact just that CIRCUITS! and that a board loaded with Strymon pedals won't make you sound any better!

I’m not an Josh fan but I probably have 25 ODs and my favorite is the Joyo American Sound into ‘60 Deluxe.

Thanks to Ryan from 60CycleHum I discovered the beauty of cheap pedals and, in the same way, how of an asshole can people be around a certain brand or model, how toxic is that way of thinking, instead of acknowledging the fact that those are gateway pedals that serve for experimentation and whatnot... Also the HotOne Dent, nice pedal.

@@cedarbay3994 joyo American is pride of place on my boards also. The most useful pedal purchases ( several) I have made,seems a little silly to some to put a fender voice to a fender but yes I run it with overdrive in front and delay/ reverb after the American,into both valve and solid state . Bought the California as well and I'm sure in context it would be as useful but the voice and gain range on the American pedal covers everything I need .$69 aus, what's not to like.

Well spotted.

Good one. Actually, Harvard isn’t smart, it’s gone Woke.

Janitors don’t need to apply. Sorry, mate, only joking, but I couldn’t resist!

Ite true! Ive been playing bass for nearly 3 years and im being constantly harassed by Ivy League schools! Ive even had my family kidnapped before so I could be forced to go to one !

​@lidbass Beat me to it by 1-hour.

The funniest part of this is a bassist getting a job

Innit? I give my old gear for free to newbie friends/friends who want to start playing guitar or charity, what surprises me is that people are THIS upset over a pedal going from 50 to 200 USD like... if you sold it a week ago and the price jumped like this, and you're THIS bitthurt over it... defo need to think your life over if 150 dollars causes this much ass hurt (unless you're like a teenager, then I understand)

If anything, your having donated it is the one of the best results, because who likes the school's kit? It's laaaaaaaame. But now, some kid will be like "Wait... isn't that on the storeroom shelf at school!?" ... and probably steal it, but they'll definitely USE it ;)

And then sell his budget range for 99. He's playing chess 😂

@@Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55 4-D giga-Chad brain chess

@@Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55 Idk, I'm not paying $100 for some chinese clones.

Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer for best tone !

@@lucbos7516 amplifier OD is all I go with nowadays. And if I need more gain, a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster pedal :)

@@lucbos7516 The bad monkey is a literal ts clone.

it is a god tier bass overdrive, cuz it has a dry output so it also works great as a split-point for a wet/dry or bright/thump rig.

It's insane to realize how quickly shit got out of hand. I used to buy smokes in high school in the 90's for $1.25 to $2.25 ...if you had extra lunch money for Marlboro or Camels. Now... kids need to budget their lunch money multiple days to enjoy the social standing of a smoker! It's total BULLSH!T!

When driving my amp, I could almost get identical results with an EQ vs. my TS 10. There's often more than one solution for a given problem. 👍

You can make some guitars in records sound more distorted using the player eq. I do it sometimes boosting the high frequencies. If I can do it with a recorded song, i can do it with an amp.

True about the EQ pedal. I had a Switchblade tube amp years ago that sounded like a boring Marshall, but I loved the onboard effects feature and presets. Ran a Boss GE7 through the loop and BAM totally different amp.

Most importantly: most overdrive circuits are extremely simple and thus you can manufacture them at very low costs, especially when you make large volumes of them, like a lot of the cheaper brands do. Also manufacturing costs are not what determines prices of pedals (or most things, really), but at where the seller thinks they can get the most profit (supply/demand etc).

Are you saying that if I buy a good eq pedal and put it after my ts808 I can manage to get it to keep from coloring the sound of my amp? I don’t really believe that. It’s a good pedal for certain uses if you want to add color but if you just want a little past breakup and it diminishes the sound of the amp you need an overdrive made exactly with that in mind

After watching the JHS video, I went digging through my pedals and found I still have mine Bad Monkey (American version) that I picked up for $20 years ago with the box. I was also amused and was tempted to see what the prices immediately jumped.

Or.... it means buying tons of stuff to try to duplicate an always changing "perfect tone" that is in your head, but probably changes in your head from year to year anyway. My "perfect tone" sort of adapted to that of my favorite guitar through most overdriven amps, and I guess I got lucky. But this mystical "quest for tone" seems to hit even the big gun guitar players. Look at Eddie Van Halen. He had the tone that guys still try to reproduce, decades later, that he got on VH1, yet he kept changing his guitars and gear afterwards in the "quest for tone". That's why I really admire Malcolm Young. Very little changes in equipment. He had his guitar altered a few times, but it usually was the same Gretsch bridge pickup into a Marshall Super Bass or Super Lead -- same basic amp configuration from 1974 when AC/DC started until his last tour with them in 2010. He knew what he wanted, got it, stuck with it.

This pedal was like $75 until pretty recently

I just remember it (Bad Monkey)being $29.95 new last time I checked. Must have been right before they got discontinued. Time flies.

@@zerosoma33 That would have been such a great buy! I remember wanting to get one when they were at a decent price. Kinda funny - STL Tones Amphub (which is an amp sim that's updated monthly) just got an update that added a Bad Monkey pedal for free! I had to laugh at them capitalizing on the hype of the Bad Monkey. That said - they also have a Seymour Duncan 805 Drive which is a Tubescreamer with Bass, Treble & Mids knobs, so it basically takes the Bad Monkey a step further.

DF is still wild

@@hiroprotagonitis I'm seeing a couple for $130 on Reverb. Doesn't seem that crazy.

Maybe JM played too many different drives. If it was for the money, I should have sold my TS 10 a few years ago when they sold for 300+. Bought it for about 30 DM (15 EUR) more than 20 years ago. I swear it didn't sound as good back then as it does now though. It aged pretty well. Maybe my ears betray me, but I'm sure my TS 9 always sounded way smoother then the TS 10. Now I like both of them equally.

​@@aldersmoke1 But a couple months before that video I bought two Distortion Factory pedals in mint condition with box (one of them was sealed NOS even) for about $60 each (including shipping and tax). So, yeah, $130 for a pedal isn't absurd, but it is 2x what it used to cost. Same with the CF-7, was around $50, now settling around $100. When Josh hypes these out-of-production budget (sub $75 price point) pedals they usually spike hard (upwards of $200) but then come back down and then eventually seem to settle around $100-$125- which depending on how cheap it was before is anywhere between a 33%-100% increase. You can see these trends among several pedals such as the DF-7, CF-7, and Boss BC-2 just off the top of my head but I'm sure there are more. I think KDH is probably right in that it will go back down to a "reasonable" level eventually, just not as cheap as it was a week and a half ago (about $125 after a few weeks and then maybe hovering around $100-$115 after about 6-8 months).

I think it was Eric Valentine who spoilered this. Josh usually does not want to reveal his secrets. He's still practicing the lost art of keeping a secret. Maybe I'm wrong, not sure.

Tone is in the fingers first, speakers second, pedals third, amp forth, and guitar 5th.

​@@nobodynoone2500 lol no it isn't. This is just one of those guitar things guitarists say. "Tone is in the fingers" "Bro the Tone wood" Just no. It's the gear. It doesn't have to be super fancy gear, just good sounding gear. I'm terms of amps and speakers. Speakers primarily. This isn't up for debate. It's literally an objective fact.

@@kitten-whisperer Objective fact that I nor anyone else needs to practice? Neat, I guess.

@PaulieMcCoy if you can record a video of you changing the tone of a guitar with your fingers I will send you all of my guitars. I will pay for a notary to finalize a contract saying that I have to actually give you them. Let's see an objective and tangible display of "tone fingers" lol.

@@kitten-whisperer You misunderstood what the OP was saying, I reckon. You're hung up on the semantics of the adage "tone is in the fingers" - this is not to be taken literally. It's just that practice and expertise allows one to transcend the particular ergonomic failings of a given instrument. Many great recordings were done on instruments (guitars) that... weren't that good or had particular problems. I believe ergonomics and feel are more important for me most of the time for guitar moreso than all the things guitar fudds have been sperging about for decades. There is also a psychological element to it. "The vibe" as children are saying these days. Feels like it sucks will be discouraging and a self-fulfilling prophecy. Unless you record all your practice sessions for posterity and to be able to analyze at any given time. Which is not a bad idea. Did you really think "tone is in the fingers first, speaker second..." was the OP saying that the actual physical composition of some people's hands are magic? It's about manipulation of the instrument for the desired result. Jim Lill and others have been demonstrating this, in the process killing the false myths the marketing industry has been planting into the minds of people for quite some time. Maybe we can finally get some good music as a result?

You just brought back SO many memories of Fretted Americana 🥹 goood times

I wanted to say exactly that. Your memories are even more detailed!

Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer for best tone !

Precisely! That’s like the entire point of his channel. If people are mad, they should be directing their fury at the sellers - or complaining to online sites like Reverb that they should be building safeguards into their site to prevent price manipulation and sudden massive jumps where they are not warranted. I can understand prices skyrocketing when an artist passes and their gear is only available in limited quantities. To allow sellers to outright price gouge old stuff that is abundantly available (and nobody famous has even died, so to speak) is within a site’s ability to make rules and systems that’ll prevent that sort of thing - where if enough people do it, it’ll like freeze the ability for those items to sell at those prices and trigger a human supervisor to review the situation. Same goes for new gear releases that people are trying to flip above the list price immediately after they sell out. There should be safeguards in place to prevent that from happening for x amount of time after it’s release - and to make sure there’s a slow rise in value and not a massive jump over time unless it’s truly something warranted like a major artist passing the the item being in limited supply - not when there’s bazillions of those items existing and for sale out in the wild. If enough guitarists complain to Reverb, eBay, and other sites, maybe they’ll actually do something to build these safeguards and policies into their sites. Because it’s not in their best interest to have hundreds of these Monkey pedals sittings on their site not selling and making them a profit because people won’t buy them for that insane amount of money. Better to have lots of them selling at fair values than a few selling to the stupid idiots dumb enough to buy into the hype and pay hundreds for it.

Yep, right alongside that comic book where (gasp) superman dies!

I can't remember a single video of Josh, where pedals sound good for my taste though. Literally everything turns into an awful fuzz in his hands.

Is there any particular source for this magic of basic electronics and not paying a lot of money for soldiering few basic components? :o

@@pacman_pol_pl_polska circuit analysis on elecrosmash. I literally sold and designed original pedals off very little knowledge. You don't really require it for drive pedals, since they are using components 'wrong' to produce distortion. If it was some digital-controlled thing, or more utilitarian function then you might need some electronic knowledge to design them. Ditto i use 3 homemade things, but i have bought tube/transformer drive pedals because i consider that they are probably worth the extra components/clever design.

The absolute number 1 best fuzz pedal I've ever owned, is a cheap £25 behringer super fuzz. I have some very very expensive fuzz pedals, I spent years buying all the highest recommended ones, EHX ones, Fuzz Face ones, etc. None of them were good enough, or at least close enough to what I heard in my head that I wanted. But the behringer fuzz had it. It sounds absolutely glorious. The mode on it I use is the 60s style fuzz and that just sounds so much better at that than every other 60s style fuzz I've tried. Although apparently most people buy the behringer one for the other mode, which is a 90s fuzz, it's an exact clone of the discontinued Boss Hyper Fuzz, basically. I don't like the sound of that mode at all but others say it's the best pedal for doing that. Similarly I spent years buying different tubescreamers. Eventually I bought a Robert Keeley one which I'd wanted for decades (he's the guy who started off as a pedal modder, much like JHS did, and he modded DS1s for Steve Vai and people like that, and his modded tubescreamer was said to be the best sounding one, and these days he doesn't mod anymore but he just has his own tubescreamer called the Red Dirt overdrive, that has the mod built in). The red dirt does sound incredible, and I do love it. But I eventually found my old behringer tubescreamer pedal I'd bought 10-15 years previously, and completely forgot that I even owned it. So I hooked both of them up, the behringer and the Keeley, and guess what? They sound identical. It's a bit ludicrous. That really opened my eyes to how much pedals are just snake oil. Guitar pedals are the musician form of something like psychic mediums, you have to be a gullible fool to fall for it. And I was a fool. I still am, I'm sure. But I at least have stopped salivating over the idea of saving up and buying stupidly expensive pedals. I have behringers that I've owned and used pretty much daily for well over a decade, now, and they've never broken, despite being plastic. Although TC electronics have the same exact pedals, just in metal enclosures, for an extra £10, because they bought behringer and so use all their circuits. I probably sound like a behringer shill lol, and I kinda am one 😂 but for free, voluntarily. Cos I love them. And I wanna tell every young guitar player to stop worrying about what equipment they have and to worry about practicing instead, cos that more than anything else (by a long long way) is what will make you sound good.

@@duffman18 In my experience, Behringer pedals are some of the best value pedals on the market. If you wanted to build a board comprising of a distortion, overdrive, chorus, delay, noise gate and an EQ, I would immediately recommend looking at Behringer. Admittedly, it’s not fun getting a battery inside one but it could be worse. With their cheap price, if one gets stolen or broken, it’s not a big deal. I think too much money gets spent on fancy pedals for the sake of it, when a pedal 1/3 of the price would probably do the same job

​@@duffman18I'll see your Superfuzz and raise you a Fazy Cream. I recently bought a new les paul and and a 5 watt tube amp after years of going acoustic. When it came to effects, I decided to take a chance with cheap Amazon pedals and stumbled upon the Sonic Cake "Fazy Cream" $35 miniature big muff clone. That little black box is a gain beast. So glad now that I didn't shell out a bill for the real thing. Laughing all the way to the bank!

WTF are you smoking? It's analog, not digital, and is simply a TS with bass and treble controls. It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

was going to say Phil really loved that pedal and it did sound good Miss those vids..

​@@ibanezcollectorloved those videos, but cant help but be happy for getting his big break with von jovi. He was always repping bad monkey for how cheap and great it was. Sounded so good into the ac30 /tonemaster

@@ibanezcollector I do too, it represents a bygone era in my mind. I was so unbelievably psyched when he got the gig in Bon Jovi and I must say I'm pleasantly surprised to see that he's still there to this day.

Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer for best tone !

Small world man, I believe I bought mine around the same time as you did. It was actually my first ever pedal, and I still have it on my pedalboard to this day.

Its like people who buy a 2k guitar and say it sounds shit.... when they just can't play. Like me I would never spend over £500 on a guitar unless I severely progressed... not worth it!

Build a man a fire, he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.

@@TheBanana93 what irks me is that some people I see online say someone devalued their vintage guitar because they changed some parts on it. Like bro, some guitars needs to get its potentiometers changed because it's crackling like crazy and is not sounding good. Same with pickups, you rewind/replace it when it is not working as it should. People, it's an old guitar, it needs repairs. Modding for better playability/experience is bound to happen at some point. Also, being old doesn't mean it is great, that's just vintage guitar corksniffers wanting to believe their collection is worth something when their playing is not worth paying for.

The Frankenstrat was a piece of shit (if you really want to get down to it), but Eddie made it work and did great things with it.

I tried a similar pedal a couple years ago -- sounded awful in my setup. Put it up for sale. Buyer came in with a different amp (Fender Deville), plugged in, sounded great. EQ makes a difference.

Sell it to me then 😂

The point is "you don't need to splurge 5 grand on a pedal, use what you have and you'll sound great." Whatever difference there is, you won't hear it in a mix. Use an EQ to shape whatever drive you have and you're golden.

you disappoint me son, I expected more of you.(/s) But you are more gear related so hey why not!

We truly are a stupid bunch.

This video is a derivative work of a Henning P video featuring a highly adjustable tube screamer copy. Which is stupid for most people to buy unless they don’t have a tube screamer.

Now's a good time to sell.

two resistors clipped off job. Whoo i bought one for ten pounds and a decade later sold it for fifty, after the mods though.

"The heavier version sound better due to more matter of the enclosure that effects the overall tone through better grounding" "it's out of a solid chunk of metal, not some aluminium" 🤣

Yes, but ultimately also the answer is "good enough".

Good point. A great speaker with some nice warm tubes behind it is magic at the flip of a switch. I have a nice DOD IceBox Chorus that I have learned to start off with 'and its not for sale' before people hear it because its just a great pedal. I got it with a few other pedals have about $20 in it

If he was using speakers at all? He pretty well just uses Kemper these days. It sits behind Addison.