This is so much better than watching TV!

GREAT video series.... I love it when I can still learn stuff about pedals and feel like I had NO idea, even though I make pedal demos every day.... well... there are great pedal channels and then there is PETE THORN....

Thank you Pete! Finally i clearly understand the application and use of both od and distortion pedals. For many years i had no idea what i was trying to accomplish when tweaking my settings on my pedals and i just winged it. No more! I greatly appreciate you taking the time to provide us this information.

Your videos are always educational and very practical. I live and gig in the Philippines and I only bring my own amp when logistics allow so I'm always at the mercy of whatever amp the club I'm playing at has on stock. These tweaking/dialing in videos are greatly helpful!

Thank you Pete! Even for those of us with money and time, we seldom find all the boutique pedals we want to try under one roof, let alone finding a good amp with nobody around to annoy us and no noisy guitar-store-riffers. So this series is exceedingly helpful. Quality pedals in a studio environment with your great playing and experienced commentary brings out details we might otherwise miss. THANK YOU!

hard to beat AC/DC when trying to dial in a dist/overdrive sound, the guys set the standard. Nice job as always Pete!

Makes perfect sense to use a (distortion) point a reference to dial in a pedal. Saves a ton of time and energy! THANKS for sharing your wisdom.

Thanks, Pete, for taking the time to produce these two richly informative videos on OD/Distortion!

Your positive attitude toward your videos is very inspiring to me. Love hearing you talk shop about this stuff!

Thanks Pete, I very much appreciate both Part 1 & 2 of these videos. In depth tone secrets from musicians of your caliber are few and as such are so beneficial to the community of non professionals such as myself. Thank you very much!

Pete, your Tone Secrets are fantastic! You've really helped me learn how to think about effects. Thank you so much!

Awesome 2-part video! Please keep these tone orientated nuggets of wisdom coming our way! Thank you Pete (if I may be so bold to call you Pete!)👍🏻

I like these TS videos! Keep em coming Pete. Thanks!

FWIW, I definitely encourage you to make more such videos. Very insightful and helpful. Thanks.

Great series, so many good points and tips. The low single notes on the AC/DC riff reveal a lot of the nuance differences.

Great new series Pete...! Be nice to see how some of your favorite dirt pedals react with different amps. In the past I've been really happy with my pedal format and choice 'till I plug into a different amp and struggle to get a tone I'm happy with...sure you've been there. Cheers..!

I just discovered this series, and this channel. Really amazing stuff. I love the way you explain things. I can tell you are an absolute master of your craft, by how simply, thoroughly, and easily you are able to explain things. I just wish you were a metal player. Lol

Hey Pete These videos are great. Really intelligently done and at a level of detail that's valuable to us intermediate level players that have been playing for years and still enjoy learning new things.

Thanks a ton for these vids the last couple of weeks Pete. They have really been helping me dial in my tone.

great tone is in the ears of the beholder.. and not everyone has a "core sound" they can refer to for dialing in their pedals.. so that's in my opinion why your KZfaq video reviews are so helpful Pete.. you're an awesome player with tons of experience and a great set of ears.. thanks bro'! my TGP siggy: "the tone chase is never quite over.. but it does sound like you're closing in"

I always kept the volume lower here at home. Thinking now that I need to go back and tweak my gear. I definitely like what I'm hearing here. Pete, your videos are just killer. Thanks so much for posting this for us.

Love your video's - they are top notch quality with excellent content. I am an amateur musician and I really appreciate your professional insight. The video's with you and Tim P. are some of my favorite. This video made me laugh because I watched your OD #2 video first and you mentioned a gear page thread about the back-handed compliment you received at the Gear Page where you make pedals sound very good and you make the drive pedals sound the same. The smile came when you made your Atomic and Plexitone in this example sound very close to the PT-100 channel #2. They did sound AWESOME and they did sound the SAME. This made my morning with a smile when I heard this second video. We mere mortals are digging your sound - keep up the good work. I love the little nuances that you show in tuning various knobs (gain or treble) and these are helping me to achieve better sounds.

Dude your signature PT -100 amp is insane! Love it

Spot on, Pete! I've got a Port City Pearl 50w head. Wonderful cleans and a great pedal platform. My Atomic Overdrive definitely sounds better with the bright switch on. It's still good without it, but I get more punch/percussion on the attack when it's engaged. It's especially noticeable (to my ear) with the neck pickup. Increases the definition. Love it! Great video, Pete! Keep 'em comin'!

This is a great series. Especially liked this one showing how to dial in the sound of a pedal to match the sound of an amp. Great trick for when you're playing someplace where that amp might be too powerful and unable to turn up to its sweet spot without deafening the audience.

Ha, gotta say, at 6:18 when you accidentally had amp channel 2 and the XTS distortion pedal on at the same time, it sounded pretty awesome to me!

Love this type of video and I can't wait for more! Thanks Pete!

This is what we need some pro advice on tone, thanks Pete , looking forward to more of this. Great video as always

I'm loving this "serie" on tone secrets. Really interesting and cool! keep it up Pete!

Thanks, Pete, I appreciate your efforts to show how things WORK, too many effect reviews just cycle through the settings and have the viewer listen. I can do that at home. You sort of give us a recipe for success in selecting what to pair with what else.

Thank you for making theses Pedal videos, really enjoying them!

Thanks for taking the time to make these videos! Really great stuff

Fab video Pete..all of your vids are so informative and interesting. Cheers from Australia.

This a great series Pete, thanks for doing this!

Thanks Pete. You've got a great ear and talent for communicating what works and why. I always learn a lot from videos, and enjoy your stellar playing.

great video! great to hear the fabulous AC/DC riff as well.

Great vid Pete, should help lots of newbies with there pedal setup, as usually first pedals are distortion/overdrive. Look forward to more vids like this - always informative! Cheers

Mr Thorn does it again. Awesome video as always!

the amp that you used for the demo channel 2 made me wanna buy the amp . great sound! another very entertaining demo thanks.

The best overdrive reviewer and guitarist, I admire you a lot man... ¡Keep rocking!

Great concept and execution! Thanks for making these.

Thanks Pete! I always enjoy what you share !!

Your videos are very informative and well thought out! Thanks!

Thank you for another super insightful video, Pete!

Great demonstration. Thnx Pete. you & Andy Timmons are the greatest tone guys around.

Thanks for the video, Pete! The two pedals are very good and close to the channel 2 but there's something so cool with the natural overdriven channel from a good amp like the PT100...

I have been playing guitar over 20 years but i still learn something from Pete's video's !

Very cool to hear your approach with dialing pedal tone. Thanks!

Great tips here. Never thought about when trying a new gain pedal to try both a darkened amp setting and a bright one, and dialing up the pedal the opposite to see which sound better! Will be doing this going forward for sure.

I have never really been able to get a tone I like from an overdrive or a distortion pedal. That being said, what I do is the "colored boost" move, and I use everything from a Love overdrive to a Tube Screamer (TS-808) or even a Super-D, but I always dial back the gain to just barely above minimum on the pedal. Combine that with a good tube amp at high volume, gain on the amp to taste, and it works for me. I was playing Mesa Dual Rects but that lacked versatility, and lately I've been pretty consistent with JCM-800's and occasionally a Vox AC-30. I have a lead tone I developed with that one specifically. Plexi's work sometimes too, but I prefer the more smooth harmonics on the JCM-800. Great video as always, Pete! You make me want to experiment more.

I think this video is a very good indication that while pedals have DEFINITELY come a long way, there is just something about a real amp opened up. It just has a compression and some frequencies that the pedals don't.

MONEY!! Great video, Pete! You have no idea how much this has helped me with floor pedals.

Great videos. I would love to see a video on your approach to time-based effects when using a plexi style amp. I always bounce around on various strategies when faced with that challenge.

great overview. I appreciate you showing the pedal settings.

Damn it Pete!!! I just bought another pedal because of one of your videos. Will get the Atomic Overdrive delivered next week.

Thank you....1st time I've seen one of your videos. Very informative...never thought to test out distortion/overdrive in that way 👍👍👍👍👍

Pete thanks so much for your videos! It's funny how you described your technique of AB ing a great tone and then trying to get that from a pedal. I totally agree and when I find a pedal that can do that I'm so happy. Then of course I run a modeled sound so I take my sound to a venue with a house PA and the crap shoot starts all over again. I use the RK5 as my reference tone because that thing sounds good through most set ups with minimal tweaking. I bought the RK5 after watching your video and it was the best. I'm trying to copy the sounds as you described using an AB and a zoom g5n. It's really close. We will see when I play live again. Thanks again for what you do Pete! Your passion is great! 🙏

Fuzz next, fuzz next!

Very helpful stuff Pete. Thanks for the wisdom

Great . You learn something new every day . Thank you

The Plexi Tone with the bright switch off is much closer of your amp's second channel than the XTS Atomic. I totally agree with the usefulness of having dirt pedals to achieve a reference sound we have on a distorded amp. My base sound is a Marshall plexi 50W clone with volume about 8, and to recreate this kind of sound on a clean amp, I found that the Zvex Distortron is the best pedal for that Marshall-style sound, more versatile than the Box of Rock because of the subs settings and high gain option. Awesome pedal. Thanks for the great demos Pete, keep on rockin' !

informative while being entertaining. your presentation is very appealing, keep it up.

awesome video Pete!

I'm happy to have an original plexitone. It really transforms your amp into a Marshall. Petes awesome video skills are just the icings on top

Awesome Pete, thank you for the lesson it is helpful.

Great video, thanks Pete!

That was great PT , those of us that use single channel amps with no master volume can learn from this ! thanks again!

Thanks Pete! These two videos were very informative. You unknowingly made an XTS Atomic commercial, because now I want one!! haha

Totally agree with different pedals for different amps, I found that it also works well when using different guitars on the same rig. When I would use several guitars in a live setting, I would have several OD pedals dialed to the different guitars’ response. Anyway great stuff. Been a long time follower of your work.

i really like these informative videos pete, awesome

At 6:20 when you had the red distortion pedal on channel 2 by accident, that was the BEST sound!

The setting on the plexi pedal is what I use on my TS9 into my JCM 800 - nice blend. stellar voicing

Pete, these videos are great.

I followed the overdrive video and gave it a try. Such great advice.

Freaking awesome bet you shut that troll up now! You the man keep on keeping on brother never had a problem or negative thing to say about any video you done!Rock on bro!🎸

Another great one. Thanks Pete!

Great video! Really help me understand the relationship of pedal effects and amps. Newbie here

loved your videos bro, and you got a great voice too. cheers

Hey man,. really liking your info , really interesting videos thanks !

ya gotta just dive in and fuck around and have fun! Great vids Pete!

I really enjoy these videos I didn't realize changing pedals around in front of each other made such a difference some of them I just wanted to throw out the window..I've always used a straight Marshall live. But I practice through a 50s Gibson clean amp having a rough time finding the right pedal .I dig the 2nd channel tone on your amp it's got that bright with full bottom sound. The pedals you use was kind close..any who ..2thumbs up thank you.

These are awesome videos, subscribed and I will be sure to check out as many of them as possible. Thanks!

Pete, I'm a huge fan of your tone! I have the Thornbucker in my two personal builds, with Seymour Duncan Triple shot rings and I can get so many tones from that one pickup. My question? Your PT-100 Tone is excellent, and I was wondering if you could recommend a smaller amp that might get someone in your territory of tone in the 15 to 25 watt range. I'm on a limited stage volume wise, but I'm itching for that channel two tone you are playing. As always, huge fan here! Thanks

Loved this video, some pedals sound better on a dirty amp, others a clean amp. And it matters what type of music you're playing. Rock & Metal are 2 different distortion levels, whether it's a layer of distortion over a clean amp or layers of distortion on dirty amp. It's really taken me too long to figure that out in this world.

I bought the Atomic Overdrive after viewing your ealier video. It is perfect for my blackface deluxe reverb and sounds great with both humbuckers and single coils. My favorite is my SG with P90's to get that early Santana tone.

Hi Pete, you made me buy the 5150 pedal and I want to thank you forever.

I have a PT100SE rig myself and theres just something about the clean channel that makes it work extremely well with OD and distortion pedals. That alone adds so much versatility to this already versatile amp!

Awesome video Pete!! Hey, I would love to see you do a video on kazrog thermionik amp models and new pedal models. I've been using them for the past few months and highly recommend them and I would like to hear your thoughts on them!

Great stuff, Pete and all very useful. Just a suggestion - Adding a compressor just before your distortion pedal on a clean channel will create a very close if not functionally exact sound as the naturally compressing high gain amp channel. So, if you don't have a high gain channel or amp, try this.

Great Sounds Pete thorn.

Great videos. You're an excellent teacher.

Pete you are just great! Love your videos! 👌 cheers,Flo

Let's Get It Up?! Wow, that's a relatively obscure AC/DC song... quite unexpected, love it!

Honestly, I was trying to figure out why my JHS Distortion wasn't doing it for me. But then you mentioned not running into even a slightly broken up amp and to pair it clean instead. Big help for understanding distortions.

You're awesome. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

Great video Pete!

You know I never experimented with my Maxon O/D pedal I set all the control knobs to 12o'clock like most guitarist do, I did find the video most helpful especially capturing the SRV tone who would have thought the gain gets turned down while the volume output gets boosted, great video Pete thank you for posting. P. S. would like to see you demo different delay pedals say the Boss DD-3 and the Carbon Copy since they seem to be the go to pedals.

Cool playing and great video.

Great player, great advice. Thank you Pete

By far my favorite channel now!!!! thanks dude