Billy Sheehan's complete guide to the EBS Billy Sheehan Signature Drive

Billy Sheehan give you a personal and complete introduction to the EBS Billy Sheehan Signature Drive! Learn all you ever wanted to know about the EBS Billy Sheehan Signature Drive - from how the concept developed to the final product, through the relation between compression and distortion (two key components in this pedal) to a guide to understand and use the controls and how to use the two included effects loops - illustrated by Billy's playing. This is THE ultimate guide to the Billy Sheehan drive. We recommend to take the time to watch it from start to finish, although we will later present the various "chapters" as separate videos too. Presented by www.ebssweden.com

[@rodoherty1]

I could listen to Billy talk all day.

[@warrenosborne6044]

Bass player for 56 years now. I was always a 4 finger left hand. I see so many of my hero's , Squire, Lee, that primarily three finger left, that I have never been able to understand. Billy, has a beautiful 4 finger left,, but really freaks me out is his 3 finger right hand. Like the elusive element on the periodic table "Unobtanium . Thanx man.

[@Metalbass1979]

I met Billy a few years back while my old band was doing some exhibition stuff for the NAMM show. I just shook his hand and briefly greeted him and thanked him for influencing me so greatly. The strange thing about that chance meeting with him was that the next time I picked up a bass, my sweeps, taps and speed improved exponentially. I'm not saying that Billy somehow had his ability transfer to me......but it does make you wonder. 🤔 Now, I must have this pedal.

[@LEO1WOLF]

In my eyes, a good Bassist has a way of really "layin' it down". However, with as well spoken as Mr. Sheehan is, he ALSO has a great way of layin' it down as a presenter of said product, but more importantly - - a TEACHER! Billy has a great way of connecting with US (his wanna'-be students), keeping things simple & throwing some "sciency" stuff in there to really make his point. I think I've GOT IT Billy: The basis of bass playing is by use of a Bassist's bass-line, while touching all the bases of basic bass playing (basically) ha-ha!

[@jean-lucbersou758]

Billy's voice has the best deep tone .! ...He plays wonderfuly and his knowledge and science about audio technologies combined with his extreme Musicianship is a rare and unique talent .

[@fotog04]

DAMN he's awesome! He certainly takes the bass to it's limits. Love the effects too. I'll be looking into these

[@SuperGeorge2112]

I was lucky enough to spend some time with Billy, he is a great guy laid back and so much knowledge about bass !!!! he can make sounds from a bass guitar no one else can.

[@SleepingSaturnIncorp]

Could listen to Billy all day. Paul Gilbert too. True musicians that constantly push and seek to learn more and to share. Love it.

[@LKDragos]

That's instructional and inspirational in the same time. Thanks Billy and thank you all extraordinary guys at the EBS. You are always with me on my live and recordin gear and you will always be!

[@HeartcoreBass]

He simply is THE MAN...great person!

[@richardcook585]

The bass beast...one of rocks greatest bassist......a true icon...

[@TommyJohnsen446]

his voice sound like it has two different loops, one mid and one super low end

[@5stringcowbass189]

I bought this pedal and I love it! ...the loop feature is SUPER cool, Love experimenting with certain pedals for just clean or distortions, etc. Awesome job Billy and EBS, you kick ass. EBS was very helpful when I couldn't find any of the special loop cables for purchase, they gave me a great deal on 2 and sent from Sweden fast.

[@hayman-lx2ze]

Have to love Billy. Such a great dude.

[@holdencaustic]

I'm interested-- Billy has always had the best distorted tone

[@kongandbasses8732]

Hmmm.... My good old GenzBenz GBE (a 750 and a 1200) have two channels, a tube and a solid state channel, you are able to mix for your taste. I overdrive the tube and roll off some of the low end, but dial in more low end and roll off some high end at the solid state channel. The tones I get from this are great. Even the reasonable priced Marshall MB 450 h, a real competitor to the Hartke LH 500 when the Amp was released, has a tube and a solid state channel - and a dedicated mix channel where you can mix the two channels with a blend knob. I bought one of those in 2000, when my SWR Redhead Combo died 2 hours before a gig, and I had to get me an amp - fast. I had to take what was in the shop, what made me a bit anxious. But only until the soundcheck started and I noticed, that the amp has really great tones. I still have the amp, its in the rehearsal room and still gets played. So the EBS Billy Sheehan pedal is a pedal for bass player with a single channel amp. I checked it out and found it great, not only for bass distortion, it is the effects loop in the pedal that help a lot. I mean, original signal plus adding distorted signal do a bunch of pedals this days, like the Darkglass stuff. But the effects loop is something special that I like a lot.

[@dereksmallsuk]

wow. great pedal and such a great bass player.

[@rorymccallum7578]

Wow, amazing pedal.

[@1976oswald]

Awesome, great sound and performance

[@claudio7103]

best demonstration ever !!

[@tutubeos]

Very interesting comparison between compression and distortion

[@pensnut08]

I remember the seeing him in theTalas days and that Pearce Preamp..

[@TomAxl22]

Awesome pedal...awesome Billy!👍😊

[@RandyLott]

This is actually quite hard to do. Anyone can make a distortion pedal, but getting it to mix properly with the clean signal is a challenge.

[@idolbass]

cool pedal, those loops are handy

[@ronniemwagner]

Just ordered one!

[@turbinexman]

Awesome drive pedal!! Does it have a high pass filter, that lets in frequencies 80 Hz and above, while keeping the frequencies below 80 Hz clean? Is that frequency adjustable? Thanks, and great playing!!

[@EBSSweden]

Hi. There is no high-pass filter, but it splits the incoming signal in two paths, one goes through the drive section with the tone control, and the other goes clean keeping the entire range. Then you set each paths volume with the Level and Clean Level knobs. If you want to separate and send everything above 80 Hz through the Drive channel only, and everything below 80 Hz through the Clean channel only, you can do so by using an external crossover filter before the pedal, and then use the Clean Loop jack as an input for the lows, and connecting the highs into the pedals standard input. Then you will have the lows go clean through the pedal while the highs will be affected by the Drive circuit. Both signals will still be mixed together at the end and you can use the built-in compressor to melt them together, as Billy mentions in the video.

[@kiwibass6207]

I initially thought that Billy was advocating for people with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). I think a bit of late onset dyslexia might be creeping in.

[@davidhedden9066]

How does it work with active basses?

[@jml19221]

I have it. I wouldve gladly paid more for the abilty to save and recall presets with my foot.

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

Such a bad ass bass player…

[@tomtrold2884]

How to not love this guy

[@tjcabrera1]

I just bought one and it sounds nothing like the samples on this video and the other one reviewing this pedal. Maybe my settings are not correct, but I have tried all the setting changes that are on the videos, I keep getting a tin can sound. Anyone have any suggestions?

[@trance9158]

What amp and effects are you using? What bass are you using with what pick ups?

[@WoutervanTiel]

Do you have the purple one or the orange one? The older one (purple) needs a phase correction. There is a post of this topic somewhere online. The newer one has phase correction built in.

[@bvesco]

Is he sitting on that console?

[@babayaga1767]

does Xenu use one?

[@xmav0065]

But the Line 6 Helix has a model of his Pearce Preamp..... Hmmmm

[@Muppio]

Leave it to EBS to make some really cool shit.

[@jaredbauer3267]

I love Billy Sheehan. He's definitely one of the best bass players that ever lived but the way he sucks his teeth before every sentence has always annoyed the living shit out of me.

[@vtxrider1800r]

+Jared Bauer Dam you for noticing that. Now I hear it.

[@peter9314]

I've never noticed that. Now i hear it.😁

[@geofftatler5811]

Jared Bauer don't you know why?

[@michaelwolf8245]

It can never be un-heard. How could you do this to me.

[@mrgskye]

We can’t all be perfect. However I’m going to cry in a really low end, compressed and slightly distorted tone. Feel free to join me brothers

[@maxyboy9648]

billy makes les claypool look like a joke

[@bvesco]

***** I think Billy and Les would both agree it's not a competition.

[@kielmccarthy7233]

+Maxspawn Billy is constantly trying to improve his playing and always practicing and trying to find new ways to play his bass and get different sounds.

[@Apemopo]

why would anyone compare those two? completely different bassist. dummy.

[@TuTosRARE]

Completely different animals