WILL IT CHUG? - VOX CUTTING EDGE

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WILL IT CHUG? - VOX CUTTING EDGE

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Күн бұрын

Trying out this Vox Cutting Edge distortion pedal. WILL IT CHUG? Lets find out!
Check out the pedal here(affiliated Amazon Link):
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Disclaimer: Vox did provide me this pedal for me to test, however it's not a sponsored video. The pedal gets returned to Vox after the demo has been done. I'm not receiving any compensation from Vox, they don't have any say in how I make or what I say in the video.
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Nutube
1:24 - Setup
1:47 - Clean Tone
1:54 - Will It Chug?
2:44 - It Chugs
3:24 - Pedal Overview
5:06 - Tweaking
8:35 - Standard Mode
9:03 - Cab Mode
10:20 - Closing Thoughts
11:09 - Outro
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@OlaEnglund Жыл бұрын

FIRST real demo after the summer vacation! FEELS GOOD!

@ihatedill2447 Жыл бұрын

@richmariano676 Жыл бұрын

So grateful for your content bro..I know it’s a lot of work we all don’t see or get..but you rock dude! …and if you wanna send me o e of your sunburst SC Solar, like the ene you played with your dad..I think that was a double cut tho….either one would be a literal….DREAM COME TRUE! Lol. Never owned a new guitar….always used, so so gear. Had a lot of good stuff over the years…but nothing BRAND NEW. One day Ola….one day…throw that pick!!

@thedarkolive Жыл бұрын

And sound good!

@eamonahern7495 Жыл бұрын

I'm listening from my tv speakers and my first impression was you could have stopped the clock after 1 second. It chugged straight away with everything in the 12 o'clock position. 😁

@saitenhexer Жыл бұрын

Just the right time 🤟🤟🤟

@theliberation9061 Жыл бұрын

I'm actually impressed. More "vintage" guitar companies + heavy distortion = usually bad, but damn this sounds good. I have plenty enough of drive pedals, but if I needed a straightforward metal pedal I'd seriously consider this for that price.

@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Жыл бұрын

Haven't Vox made a few decent sounding high gain amps and pedals over the past 20 years?

@alanerpington5698 Жыл бұрын

Vox almost seems sorta trapped in their brand IMO. They make a lot of good shit, but they're always thought of as The AC30 Company.

@MrSneakyPants Жыл бұрын

@@alanerpington5698 Definitely. The problem is that if they made a serious high gain monster at this point, who would care? Everyone is happy playing their modelers now... I hate that it's true but 🤷‍♂

@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Жыл бұрын

@@MrSneakyPants Isn't the AD50VT XL both?

@MrSneakyPants Жыл бұрын

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 I wouldn't consider that a dedicated "modeler". I mean Axe FX, Kemper, Helix, Quad Cortex, etc. The amp that you asked about is just a valve hybrid that has some modeling options. If you've ever used one of the modern modelers, you know what I mean.

@TheGuitarWorkout Жыл бұрын

Funny how the middle knob used to be turned down on a lot of amps/pedales in the 2000's. On this one it really brings the whole tone to life at 7:35. Love the tone, definitely chugs!

@MeOwOgai Жыл бұрын

Man, I have Ibanez Toneblaster 100H and I would say 0 mids is the only playable sound for me

@nicholastotoro7721 Жыл бұрын

I think a lot of that is the difference between passive EQ and active EQ (like this pedal has). The control at noon is the 0 setting where, with a passive EQ, all the way clockwise is 0 and everything else technically deducts from that frequency.

@robertritzenthaler3775 Жыл бұрын

I personally hate these modern, boxy, mid-range heavy tones. I always scoop my mids a bit. The guitar has an excess of midrange anyway. I find you blend into the mix a lot better without all those boxy middle frequencies.

@TheGuitarWorkout Жыл бұрын

@@robertritzenthaler3775 I don't know, the day I stopped scooping mids, my tone improved a lot, and the notes were a lot more defined, especially in dense mixes ! That said I use multi band compression side chained by the snare around 200-400kHz to avoid the muddyness

@nickcrane8329 Жыл бұрын

@@robertritzenthaler3775 Boxy sound comes from low mids, it all depends on the specific frequency the mid knob on what you are using is actually changing. That's why I like when gear has 2 mid knows, low and high mids. I honestly feel like that should be the standard by now

@stimpsonjcat26 Жыл бұрын

About time somebody gave this a proper try. These pedals are great. They are an actual type of tube btw.

@Poparad Жыл бұрын

As gimmicky as that oscilliscope might be, I've had the Mystic Edge pedal (the AC30 pedal) on my board for a while and having that has really saved me time troubleshooting when I'm not getting sound. I can 'see' if the pedal is getting any signal from before it, so it's helped me zero in on what the issue is (turn your guitar volume up, plug your guitar in, turn the amp on, duh...).

@rocketPower047 Жыл бұрын

It's ridiculous how many times I'm stumped about why it doesn't work and it's the damn guitar volume knob

@MoosicDude Жыл бұрын

Vox's amp sims have been pretty gnarly sounding for years. I used to practice at home with one of their metal amplugs into a small power amp and with a little playing around with the eq, you could get some very usable chuggin' metal tones.

@Soldano999 Жыл бұрын

The IR output sounded absolutely killer. This is one of the best affordable gear you demoed since your "Marshall DSL1" video.

@stevengoodman3498 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the demo of this cool new pedal O Mighty Swede! It chugs well with your playing style. Love the low end thump you had coming out of the amp. Awesome riffs as usual. Have a great rest of your week!

@pestilencekills Жыл бұрын

Normal valves require high voltages to really do anything distortion-wise, which most pedals don't bother with. Nutubes operate on the same principal, but can run on tiny voltages - not a gimmick at all. But yeah, the screen is nonsense.

@michaelangeloh.5383 Күн бұрын

Not really nonsense. It clearly shows what the signal is doing, how much it's getting clipped and compressed. That might not be the most useful thing ever, but it's interesting to actually see what it's doing. - But they might as well just make a little window in it to show off the nutube with a light that responds to the clipping or something, even though that doesn't show as much information.

@ZackSeifMusic Жыл бұрын

This is really up there for Vox. Glad to see pedals with multiple settings for multiple setups. Impressive.

@777shea1 Жыл бұрын

Awesome, I been wondering about this pedal. Thank you for your service.

@johnfrenette Жыл бұрын

“Birdie num num”… didn’t expect to get a Peter Sellers reference with my chugging. Awesome!

@nj1255 Жыл бұрын

Sounds kickass! Didn't know Vox could make something this metal. It's somewhat pricy, but considering how feature-rich and versatile it is, it's actually very decently priced. The Copperhead Drive - from the same series of pedals - also looks, and sounds great! If you buy all four of the pedals in the series you could create an awesome four-channel Fender/Vox/Marshall/Hi-gain hybrid pedalboard amp.

@Tomli1982 Жыл бұрын

They did back in 2007 when they made the ad50vt-xl.

@alanerpington5698 Жыл бұрын

For anyone who cares, there's four pedals in Vox's Valvenergy family. Silk Drive = Dumble/boutique Fender, Mystic Edge = AC30 (seems to be the most authentic sounding, not surprising as it's Vox), Copperhead = Marshall, Cutting Edge = Dual Rec.

@gingataff Жыл бұрын

To be fair, Vox is owned by Korg

@douglasdog1 Жыл бұрын

Ditto. Really I just wanted to comment because my initials are opposite yours.

@luken9263 Жыл бұрын

I've really missed these! One of my fav series on KZfaq by far.

@luken9263 Жыл бұрын

Those damn tight chugs man. Love it.

@circleprex Жыл бұрын

Thank you for another entertaining and useful review, didn't know about this pedal at all.

@idanshahar Жыл бұрын

Gotta say this video has one of the better guitar tones i've heard in your channel! Well done VOX (and Ola).

@TheMack Жыл бұрын

Agreed! True eargasm! So chuggy!

@joeyhallmusic Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being an integral part in reigniting my love for all things guitar and heavy metal.

@user-bj6jz3bf3z Жыл бұрын

Yaaay! Honestly, it's one of my favourite series on KZfaq. I'll wait for Vox Satchurator in this series!

@valerynorth Жыл бұрын

I got one of these a few weeks ago and have so much fun with it. Love the EQ knobs to really shape the sound I get from it. The oscilloscope is gimmicky, true, but I like it because it looks cool. I agree about putting some overdrive into it, played around with some of my other pedals on that score. Awesome to see Ola giving it the Will It Chug? treatment!

@garycubby2572 Жыл бұрын

Ola at his best, chasing tone and metal magnificence!

@arthurpiccio7906 Жыл бұрын

I have the Mystic Edge version of this. The oscilloscope is actually very handy for board troubleshooting. If you're not getting a sound, you could quickly identify if you have a problem before or after the pedal in your signal chain.

@sendtodevnull1269 Жыл бұрын

I’ve had this pedal for a few months. I put it up there with the G3/G4 as the best metal distortion pedals for their price range.

@gandalf8216 Жыл бұрын

The mid of this one makes it appropriate for applying distortion to Western acoustic guitars. It has a nice range of treble, too, and is not too shabby as a preamp.

@duckyjp17 Жыл бұрын

Best series on the internet.

@TheScaredofsilence Жыл бұрын

Damn. Was not expecting that. Killer tone.

@Zwidawurzn Жыл бұрын

Sounds better than expected!

@Kostasucksatguitar Жыл бұрын

I actually stack the vox mystic edge with a boss super overdrive through a quilter od200. It sounds and feels amazing. I used it over the summer when my band went on tour. I had people looking at my rig and scratching their heads. You should pair the mystic edge with various overdrive pedals on one of your videos or when you have down time. The results definitely surprised me.

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Жыл бұрын

On a $156 pedal omitting the oscilloscope probably doesn't save that much. It's not in the bootweak price class of ridiculousness. And it kinda looks cool. Although I wonder how much of it you can still see when on a darkened stage with the light tech going crazy with the lights.

@jessehutchings Жыл бұрын

Crazy light shows is my most hated thing about current live shows .. like .. bruh, I'm trying to see my favorite rockers .. I don't want your lights blasting me in the face

@SanDimas234 Жыл бұрын

You should know by now these are not for live playing, they're for supplementing the other twenty pedals guy's buy trying to get their 100w 4 x 12 to sound good in their bedroom without the wife getting vexed.

@kstebor Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Korg uses those oscilloscope displays on their synths (for which they're genuinely useful) so I assume they have tons of them lying around and can add them to these pedals for little to no cost.

@alanerpington5698 Жыл бұрын

@@jessehutchings I don't mind the light shows on stage, but why the fuck do they gotta blind the audience?

@darklight4815 Жыл бұрын

@@alanerpington5698 that's why they call em crowd blinders

@metalsnake3557 Жыл бұрын

That pedal looks cool and its totally affordable. Thanks for putting it on the radar.

@youWoNtLikeMe04 Жыл бұрын

Love the "will it chug' series... Clicked immediately!!

@bobrutledge54 Жыл бұрын

Cool little oscilloscope sine wave thingy. Dunno what you would use it for but I'd stare at it like it was important. Watch your tone young man!

@oort8troo Жыл бұрын

Quite handy for seeing noise and clicks :)

@stormyandcold Жыл бұрын

Might be one of those features that in years to come you wish was on all your pedals.

@jerryhernandez2570 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@rebisjoshua Жыл бұрын

love ur videos olg ive learned so much from ur videos

@spaceexpireaudio666 Жыл бұрын

oscilliscope makes it look cool! like old sci-fi shows or something. And sounds cool surprisingly

@dryerofdoom Жыл бұрын

This pedal seems super versatile for many genres of metal

@Joshua-nf7mh Жыл бұрын

IMO, this sounds great for metal ! That KSR POWER AMP is very interesting too, gonna have to look into that more!

@SunshineHB Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen him run the Quad Cortex into the KSR live. I’m very interested as well.

@TroyNaumu808 2 ай бұрын

It chugs and it channels a bit of the spirit of Mesa-Boogie. It handles clean, crunch and brown equally well.

@claudevieaul1465 Жыл бұрын

I built a preamp with some russian mini-tube (type 1SH18b) some years ago, it ran on fairly low voltages but gave a great crunch to a clean signal! If you combine that with a regular overdrive circuit (diodes) then you can blend it any way you'd like. And I think that's what Vox tried here. Sounds great, to be honest!! But I would certainly prefer a version without the oscilloscope - cheaper and more roadproof.

@jsa2145 Жыл бұрын

sounded really good !

@ihatedill2447 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing brother Ola . Love you! Greetings from Türkiye

@scottcampbell8841 Жыл бұрын

Birdy num-num. Birdy num-num... Pete Sellers in The Party. One of my favourites when i was younger🤣

@AverageDaveVideos Жыл бұрын

Love 'The Party' reference, such a classic :)

@RyanWreckcrow Жыл бұрын

Laney Cub-Supertop! I'm suggesting it for a will it chug in every video until it happens, much love!

@Praeterita1976 Жыл бұрын

I got this pedal after Ryan from Plaguescythestudios recommended it and I found it 2nd hand. It's a really good pedal and keeps up with the KSR Ceres. It also takes boosts very well. I paired it with the blackstar Dept 10 boost and it sounds better than most tube amps I tried (Laney Ironheart, Line 6 DT25, Marshall DSL, Orange Dark terror)

@benjaminnevins5211 Жыл бұрын

Welcome back!

@danielvought1802 Жыл бұрын

not just metal, you help the punks and hardcore ppl too lol, thank you for that

@chriscam23041 Жыл бұрын

Sounds great. Impressive for Vox

@viniciusr.sartorguitartech8085 Жыл бұрын

🙌 finalmente!!

@Iambgoodwin Жыл бұрын

i love that you riffed all against all

@masaiwhite5933 Жыл бұрын

sounds great.

@jeffmccrady9456 Жыл бұрын

great to see you ola again!! from the USA!! home of the warpigs!! ozzy wrote that song about our resthome leaders! lmfao!!!

@MetalZoned Жыл бұрын

I bought one of these when they came out. Wasn't too thrilled with it and returned it.

@Goku16053 Жыл бұрын

Ohh!! That's awesome pedal!! 🤟🤟🤟🤟

@realeyesrealizereallies1176 Жыл бұрын

Hi Ola, nice demo as usual. Thanks for checking out all kind of stuff for us. Could you do a demo about the good old DOD FX 56 B? Its a close HM2 call. USA versus Japan 😀. Preferably the four knobs version. Theres also a threeknobs. Btw its a 10 volt stompbox. Works on 9v but designed for 10v.

@christopherblair6636 Жыл бұрын

nice demo !

@blaeden Жыл бұрын

Instead of buying new preamp tubes I'm just getting one of these. Thanks for the review!

@chickenboyyyy7860 Жыл бұрын

At this point i dont care about you content. Im just watching for the entertainment

@gorf101 Жыл бұрын

That pedal is Badass!! I likey!

@Sancires 2 ай бұрын

That cab mode has the perfect 2000s metalcore sound

@gab_ale Жыл бұрын

The Nutube is a vacuum tube based on a vacuum fluorescent display. I have built a few circuits with it and they sound "ok". They are very low gain and don't really break up as smooth as a more conventional valve. The good thing about them is that they use very low power and voltage, but, they are expensive.

@randymiles904 Жыл бұрын

I like the sound a lot. I had a couple of the old vox modeling amps, and they were really good. I would have assumed they could do pedals as well. I may have to get one, AFTER I get my solar x shape. 😉

@peterlizewskie5764 Жыл бұрын

I love The Party! Peter Sellers was a genius! The demo kicks ass too but then again you can make any pos pedal sound awesome.

@bradly373 Жыл бұрын

Pedal surprisingly sounds really good

@dutchdykefinger Жыл бұрын

i have 2 of those little vox practice amps with amp modeling, and they're pretty nice for what they are at 130 bucks, very good gain models with a very natural sounding tone on most amp modeling settings, so i'm expecting something here.

@Yo-sl3yx Жыл бұрын

Hey, you should try one of those Hartke amplifiers. Although theyre for bass they chug more than most budget amps out there

@alxbikelife Жыл бұрын

amazing!!!

@peachmelba1000 Жыл бұрын

Sounds very good.

@okaight7248 Жыл бұрын

Sounds really impressive

@Dlokey4315 Жыл бұрын

Hey! Thanks for the review on this. I recently picked up Vox 2x12 valvetronix amp like bran new for $150.00 ,what a steal! I was looking at this on line but after your review it sounds like what's built into my cab so I'm going to pass on it. Live long and die oblong. ✌️😁🧡 🤘💀🤘

@theorc9098 Жыл бұрын

This was getting an upvote anyway, but please accept an extra one for the totally surprising Peter Sellers reference! Party on!

@kristoferberkley5311 Жыл бұрын

The Nutube is a replacement for the 12ax7 by Korg. They made a tubescreamer and different amps (big and small). Id be interested to see the big nutube 200 amp vs the new blackstar st james or even the hughes and kettner black spirit. Weight vs features etc.

@garyblohm838 Жыл бұрын

Another great Chug !!

@menatchi Жыл бұрын

That’s a pretty cool pedal. I agree they should’ve added another foot switch (Lead/Rhythm) that strips the tight function back as well as the gain for better leads that way you can switch back and forth more easily. You could also make it multi-function so when it’s in the clean function you can get 2 different clean tones. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@elitejams Жыл бұрын

the reference to "the party" made me laugh...Ola, you are the Peter Sellers of metal

@RandyTheSavage5150 Жыл бұрын

Damn! I was surprised how well the Vox sounded

@klauswhitedreamer Жыл бұрын

This pedal sounds really very good ! 🙏😽♥️

@wickeddubz Жыл бұрын

I’m making DIY version of Rat just for fun, and it’s always nice no get additional motivation from your videos. And from chug of course.

@ScienceofLogicTV Жыл бұрын

Wow, instantly a great tone :0

@goddokken Жыл бұрын

Ola du ær kungen 🤘😁🤘

@batastrophic9762 Жыл бұрын

Oh shit, the cab sim's actually pretty sweet!

@dylanromansky7228 Жыл бұрын

The nutube tech kind of impresses me tbh. Definitely worth reading up on how it works

@socialmediaisamistake7041 Жыл бұрын

Man, I really miss this series 😭👍

@Will.r6 Жыл бұрын

Almost a mix between an engl and evh sound! Sounds great!

@alanerpington5698 Жыл бұрын

It's actually intended to be a Dual Rectifier sound.

@natetheriffer Жыл бұрын

Damn son! That sounds good 👌

@chrisact9601 Жыл бұрын

Nice Peter Sellers reference. I wonder how many of your regular subscribers would even get it. Damn that pedal sounds good too.

@slimsshady78 Жыл бұрын

Absolute classic movie

@daveydohrman2241 Жыл бұрын

I’ve got an old bogan challenger tube pa head that I use as a power amp.... it sounds great & clean as a pedal platform .... I’d love to try this thing in front as a preamp

@michaelangeloh.5383 Күн бұрын

Um, no, the Nutube-tech isn't a gimmick. It's also not "pretend legit", it IS a legitimate analog circuit that has elements of a vacuum tube. - However, it was invented for, or at least expected to be used for, hi-fi stuff, a long time ago as well, but it made its way into designs for guitar-equipment. That's all there's to it, and for all I care it helps the sound. - I think the oscillator thing can also be useful in terms of showing how much it clips and compressed, which it does show. Though, yea, it's one of things you could just use your ears for, but it's interesting to see what it does at least. - They might as well just make a little window to show off the nutube component with a little light-glow and perhaps implement a clipping-light to show the activity of the gain or whatever. They do that in headphone-amplifiers and such as well. But the cost would probably stay pretty much the same. I also don't know if it would even reduce it by 30 bucks if they'd leave out the screen.

@christopheranderson2158 Жыл бұрын

Sounds VERY GOOD for a more classic ‘80’s thrash tone. Has a Marshall-y bite that I like! 🤘🤘

@alanerpington5698 Жыл бұрын

You might prefer the Vox Copperhead from the same series, as that's the one that's actually intended to be a Marshall-like tone.

@SujeetGT Жыл бұрын

This is modelled to sound more like a Mesa Boogie amps I guess

@jimbailey1122 Жыл бұрын

@@SujeetGT Sure does very well with my MiniRec25 clean channel. Sold my Metal Zone to a teenager lol

@Woody103 Жыл бұрын

This pedal is awesome.. boost before really tighten it up.. better than the 5150od I like it better than the rev g3 I have as well

@landersm223 Жыл бұрын

That pedal reminds me of the, "Game Changer" Plasma Pedal that uses a vacuum tube with plasma flowing through it, looks really cool but it's super crackly like lightening because well.. it is electricity.