Chase Bliss Automatone Vs Best Of The Best [Klon, KOT, Fuzz Face & More] - That Pedal Show

[@duffdunlap6705]

Good morning from Portland Oregon. I have not commented in a while. Been a bit off with all that is happening in Portland and the fact the fact that I have not worked in a while. But I am back at work, day off today, and feeling good again. Your show had a huge part in getting me through the last 9 months and I wanted to let you know and to thank you. Keep up keeping us going.

[@vincet68]

Really like the cuts to VT here, guys - keeps the overall flow very nice.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thanks Vince, appreciate the feedback!

[@maynardmadsen8712]

It really adds to the show!

[@thoroliversenmusic]

What does VT stand for again? I guess it is those clips they do from home, but curious to know what VT is short for :-)

[@danbrazieruk]

Thor Oliversen video tape

[@andytsundoku1714]

@@ThatPedalShow Cutting to pre-recorded parts helps tremendously with the pacing and dynamics of a roughly 1 hour video. Also, Dan is an awesome repository of technical info when it comes to how guitar gear works, but explaining it off-the-cuff is not his forte. There's often awkward pauses as his cognitive gears grind trying to find words that the muggles will understand. Pre-recording gets around this beautifully. Banter, tangents, and demoing still needs to happen in the room though. That's what makes TPS what it is.

[@donaldg0613]

You guys rock!! Had my prostate taken out Monday and what better way to convalesce than binge watch TPS episodes again. Great continent that may not have been applicable to my tone situation several years ago. TPS is a treasure of knowledge. Keep up the great work.

[@ThatPedalShow]

We wish you a speedy recovery Donald - all the best sir!

[@boggeshzahim3713]

What does a prostate even do. I legit don't know

[@donaldg0613]

Boggesh Zahim Apparently it causes cancer.

[@shawnmcvey7789]

@@boggeshzahim3713 It helps make your loads thick and creamy. I'm serious.

[@garysmith2983]

Stay strong mate. Regards from the U.K.

[@heybuddy6794]

Analogman king of automatone coming soon, 2 of these bad boys stackable in one box, waiting list measured in generations.

[@flyjohnson711]

This pedal is interesting but it is just really a mini mixing console in a box with fuzz and EQ no? I mean it is cool looking and can get close to these overdrive pedals BUT it is hifi. Like a console preamp. If you already have a neve/api preamp in your recording chain it is redundant if you already have a TB/OD/Fuzz you dig. Further live, I do not think that hi fi sound will be easy to discern. It is nice, but I think if it only comes close to the real pedals, 800 bucks can be spent a lot smarter. The reality is that every damn kind of pedal that uses the same 15 or so FX has been over done to infinity so now we are turning pedals into mini mixing consoles to keep the interest up. I think we are entering into overkill land here.

[@drkevns]

Just stole all your settings for my 3rd bank. Now I can tell everyone I have a Klon, Fuzz Face, King of Tone, AND flying faders.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yay!

[@kristenrocksfrags8584]

Going to do the same thing lol! My Chase just came today 😊

[@daviddorrian5349]

Now the test, seeing this comment 2 years later. Are you still content and satisfied with the pedal and most importantly, still using it?

[@drkevns]

​@@daviddorrian5349 Good question. I actually sold it about a month ago lol. I was using an "ampless" setup and the CB Preamp was really important to shaping that sound. I've since switched my setup to a Prince of Tone going into a Blues Deluxe/Ox Box loaded with an Alnico Cream. I basically found "my" sound and no longer NEEDED the Preamp. I only sold it to fund other things; I still think it's one of the best I've owned. I will also confirm that it's a pretty noisy pedal. Side note: I have the CXM1978 and can't imagine not using it.

[@wjb5150]

This is like sitting with your friends on a Friday night , a few beers, Lots of laughs and great conversations. Wouldn’t miss it for the world. Simply the best channel on KZbin. I have learned so much. Brilliant!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you Walter!

[@noisecode5867]

We need a special run of TPS Tomato-tones in Tomato red!!

[@MrApprobatur]

Noise Code YES PLEASE!!

[@dashripkin]

This. So much this.

[@JC-fj7oo]

I like to hear the tomato tones in the mattress.

[@trebleboost7]

Oh the ONEDERs of it all,

[@Saycheeseanddie84]

I live in LA and have been a party photographer for 13 years. Hollywood can hardly compete, you guys are the real celebrities in my eyes. Thank you for being kings of tone, your videos always bring me so much joy and inspiration. It’s things like this that make life worth living for so many-what a beautiful thing you guys are doing.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you Preston. We wish we could see what you see!

[@imonahorse]

Mine landed last week. I’m absolutely blown away by how good it is. Will be banking all these settings you’ve used!!

[@winnorulz]

Chase Bliss Audio totally need to release a run of the Automatone in tomato red

[@CitizenOfEverywhere]

When you spill beer on it, will it be a Fried Automatone?

[@RobBrownSTS]

Wow I am blown away! I preferred the sound of it for all except the rangemaster. That “bigness” gives you an impression of a more 3D sound. The price tag is starting to make way more sense now. It even seems like it would eliminate the need for stacking drives.

[@ReiCow]

My gosh, there were times I was unable to tell that you were switching devices, This thing is CRAZY! Moo

[@sph33_]

I sold my klon KTR and Jam Pedals fuzz phrase to help purchase this to be my only drive/fuzz pedal (aside from the deco at the end of the chain) and I couldn't be happier. A perfect pedal.

[@periloustemple8290]

Everything you figured out is completely amazing - but the fuzz face is just mind blowing. That Potatotone is the shizzle, my fizzle.

[@adamscottv]

I like the little cut scenes you do with Dan explaining the history of the pedals. Works really well. Good content, as usual.

[@justie1220]

I really enjoyed the cuts to you guys talking about the history of each pedal! Very informative, and like most TPS videos, highly entertaining! Cheers gentlemen!

[@LoKi6922]

That tomato tone is wondrous! I have to say there is something special about that KOT that really shines, through my headphones at least. The reality being that it's probably easier for me to find the Chase Bliss than a KOT these days! Thanks again, Gentlemen.

[@ToddTheJoker]

Hi Mick and Dan!..hope you guys are doing great!..thank you Mick for being one of the only guys(if not the only) I hear pronouncing "automatone" the proper way..good on ya! BTW the inserted short pedal vignettes are a classy touch.

[@MarcCoteMusic]

That Tomatotone is truly impressive. It's an expensive pedal, yes, but from what I've heard here it can capably replace any number of overdrive pedals. In a live setting, I suspect few people would ever know the difference. The fact that it has MIDI switching capability means you can essentially jump between each of your favourites or between gain and level settings for solos.

[@SomeKindOfMadman]

Thank you for the episode, guys. The best way to start off the weekend. Cheers!

[@plexidust5101]

You guys really have the best musical comedy routine going on you tube, its such a fabulous relationship , we really love you two dearly. A big Thanx !

[@jackgreenwood1817]

Wow, you've done a really good job at justifying this pedals eye watering price tag. I'm honestly staggered how well the tomatotone stood up against these classic circuits, and not only imitating but sometimes adding to their original sound. Coincidentally, I fell in love with my range master pedal today. First time back practicing with the band, using my new-to-me 1962 Jaguar. The Laney Black Country Customs TI Boost really brought out the character of the Jag, but added enough grit and balls to it to make it sound fat. And playing loud for the first time in months really put a smile on my face :) thanks for keeping me company through lockdown fellas, you do more good than you realise

[@gtmuse329A]

Best advantage (other than massive flexibility) is, “Hey, I love my Fuzz Face, but"........( too much mid, wrong mid, etc. etc. etc.)”, and you can tune it just the way you like it, hit save, and done. That, plus my Benson Preamp is already my favorite tone pedal. Awesome job! 🎸

[@TW-AZ]

This is the exact reason I plan to get one. I looked at a midi controller eq but having the gain in there as well is crucial since I run into a clean amp.

[@andytsundoku1714]

A lot of debate online about whether this episode was a shameless plug for the Automatone. Clearly not, but even if it was, this episode was hugely educational. It broke down what makes classic overdrives sound the way they do, and went on to use the Automatone as an educational tool to demonstrate how it all works. Similar to Dan's Frankenstein tape delay build. Outstanding effort.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thanks Andy. Re the shameless plug bit, the question would be, ‘why?’. What would be our motivation for shamelessly plugging something that we don’t sell, or get any financial compensation for selling... for example Sweetwater (whom we collect a small amount of affiliate revenue from) aren’t even a Chase Bliss dealer! I think it’s a reflection of people’s own stance on how they would do it. Most people just cannot understand that we do not get - and have never been - paid to feature any product. Thanks for the comment!

[@aaronglassonion]

Gotta say, really digging Mick’s facial hair. He almost looks like a Colonel from the American Civil War!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you! Now March!

[@pedrozee78]

After redundancy, this is a welcome friend. Top work guys. 👌

[@andreweasombentley4703]

I honestly don't think the Automatone price is unreasonable when you take everything into consideration. Whether you are prepared or able to pay for it is entirely annother question (sadly without a positive outcome in my case)

[@tobiaszwronka5920]

I just adore the way Dan says "tomato"

[@Scoots1994]

So, I can remove my classic Klon and the KOT and apparently most other OD and boost pedals from my wish list and just put "Tomato". That price is getting much more reasonable now ... cheap even.

[@MrNocaster]

My King of Tone has been shipped. 3 years in waiting. Thanks guys for introducing me to all the pedals, it's been great watching you week after week.

[@jordandangelo180]

3 years?!?! Wow. The Analogman workshop, not sure if it’s considered a store, is about 35 min from my house. I always wondered if I showed up there, they would have KOT’s for sale, but I highly highly doubt it lol I was lucky enough to be at Sam Ash selling some pedals and stumbled across a man selling his and I immediately said I’ll buy it! Sold a bunch of pedals I wasn’t using a walked out with the KOT. I commend your patience.

[@orryfishburne5326]

Nice man!!! I finally decided i was going to put myself on the waitlist. Ive always told myself i would never wait anywhere near that long for any product, but i finally gave in. Im not holding my breath, but i just want to hear it with my own ear balls someday, so i still have 3 years to wait. Lol. Congratulations on finally getting yours. Just realized ur comment was 1 year ago, but still, congratulations. Lol.

[@kentonschroer2347]

My biggest question... does it really need to sound like anything else? It sounds incredible. It can be it’s own thing and be amazing. Stupid good gents.

[@ThatPedalShow]

That is a great comment. Cheers!

[@aleksiheinila7435]

It doesn't, but it is a huge plus if one has a midi-controlled board and can recall all those sounds. I revised my midi board a few weeks ago because of the automatone and found out as well that the automatone can sound like a lot of the pedals I considered to be in that board with it. You can save the space for other sounds. Or f.ex. boost a Sweet Honey OD with automatone sounding like the Sweet Honey (or a Klon with a "Klon", a KOT with a "Klon" etc.) if you like :)

[@Jewdly]

Aleksi Heinilä or get two Automatone and boost it with it! ;)

[@aleksiheinila7435]

@@Jewdly Mind blown, I'm going to need a bigger board (once again) ;)

[@mcpribs]

Mr. Korte should give 10% to TPS on all Automatone sales, because you both just sold him a boatload. Great show, gentlemen!

[@bonneymaes2757]

Why not ‘sell the settings’. It’s almost like Kemper (oh gosh I said it...) where one could set the settings of Mick’s Klon and sell it to the masses...

[@67er_matze97]

i know that Mick has mentioned quite some times that he always kind of struggled a bit with LP guitars. But man, this one suited him pretty pretty well !!! :) ...great episode, boys !!

[@TraneFrancks]

That fuzz tone ... Wow. I christen that, "The Attack of the Killer Tomato". 🤯

[@ProbablyMick]

I'm seeing a lot of comments asking why should the guys try to make this sound like another pedal. For me, that's missing the point. I think the take away here is that if there's a sound you have in your head or are searching for, this pedal can probably nail it. Great video guys

[@ThatPedalShow]

Erm. Yah!

[@t3golf]

Me: No! No! No! Dan & Mick, I just had a baby. I do not need a $750 pedal. Also me: BUT I NEED IT.....

[@Amish_Trivedi]

Treat yo self! And congratulations!

[@wingo84]

Same boat

[@winstonsmith8236]

congratulations! i always recommend the album Riceboy Sleeps by Jonsi and Alex to help newborns get to bed.

[@lucaszembrzuski]

Great pedal for shoegaze people, they can have just one drive pedal, and populate the rest of the pedalboard with delays and reverbs :D

[@GGRetroRally]

I have to say, Dans got an amazing ear. always astounds me when he gets a pedal or combination of pedals to sound like something else. Well done Dan

[@MrApprobatur]

Andy Lord Yeah, Mick’s not bad either but Dan... he can hear it!!

[@tgunmusicchannel1973]

Yeah it’s incredible

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Agree. Love em both, but Dan can: "Really-Dial em in" - probably many years . . . fiddling with his Flanger : )

[@jordandangelo180]

He hears everything and dialed in the Automatone extremely well and fast.

[@haymez]

The takeaway: Joel is a genius.

[@henryosborne4881]

And Chris :)

[@jordandangelo180]

That was also my takeaway as well. After playing the CXM I purchased I realized something different and wonderful was going on in that brain of his. That pedal is better than any other pedal I’ve ever played in the Reverb, Modulation realm. Nothing is really close imho. I own a King of Tone, a TS-10, 808 and 9, I have a Klon and a Ceriatone Centura ( basically the same exact thing ) and a Fuzz Face. I also now have a Chase Bliss Pre Amp MK II on the way and should be arriving in the next week or so. This is the first time I’ve ever considered selling my King of Tone but I don’t even on on if I heard a difference between the Pre-Amp and the KOT. The Tube Screamer tone wasn’t as close, but it was pretty close after some tweaking. A good Tube Screamer is hard to beat. A Cali 76, a Dyna-ssoR and a TS-10 or the Keeley 808 with or without a Klon boost is my singing sustained blues tone and would be happy with just that and some amp reverb. But at the end the day, Joel from Chase Bliss, with the help of Benson, managed to put all of those pedal tones in that one pedal somehow and I’m still awestruck by how close it is. And why limit when the pedal world is exploding. Besides the Tube Screamer, to me, they were all there. But for me, the Automatone’s fuzz tone and options ( germanium, silicon, gated, open ) is one of the best fuzz tones I’ve ever heard minus vintage Tone Bender’s and Fuzz Faces. The sky rocking of prices in Chase Bliss pedals on Reverb I think is a reaction to people reacting to just how good the CXM 1978 Reverb and the Pre Amp Automatone’s and how they really are that good.

[@charliewesley94]

Anyone else going through this video and saving all these settings into their Automatone as a starting point?

[@grosebud4554]

Yeah this sold me. It’s worth the 760 -800 - it’s like 10 plus pedals in one.

[@frankmchale2877]

Seriously thinking of flipping my KOT for a profit and investing in a Auto Motorhome thingy ma-jig 🤔

[@porfiry]

I love the show and listening to you guys play, and I’ve learned a lot about pedals watching, but I think you kind of missed the boat on how revolutionary this pedal really is... it’s great that you can make it sound relatively close to all those classic pedals, but what this thing does is truly amazing, when you get MIDI involved. All those sliders can be sequenced/modulated via control messages to *animate* them while you’re playing, so all manner of swell, envelope filter and tremolo stuff is possible on top of the raw tones. I know that stuff can be a bit harrowing when you don’t come from synth-world like I do, but it just seems to me that this device is a lot more mind-blowing than simply looking at it as a classic pedal emulator with presets.

[@IamMusicNerd]

I’m getting to the point where I might just have an Automatone and an Eventide H90, and that’s my whole board.

[@GeoversePR]

Add hx stomp and midi controller mc6 pro

[@mythcrab6047]

Keep coming back to this video. The Automatone is powerful.

[@konrid22]

Holly Molly, you really nailed those sounds!!! ;o Insane flexibility from Tomatotone and world class tweaking from you, guys!

[@AaronRusch]

Thanks for the video, excellent as always. I love the comparisons... they give much-needed context.

[@adonendersbymusic6953]

Mick you played that LP like you've had it all your life. It's probably the best sounding humbucking geetar you've had on the show!

[@ThatPedalShow]

No arguments here. :0)

[@SlingShot830201]

I can’t wait to see Nev on the show. There’s an old video of Mick and Nev showcasing LP custom shop R9 (“The Dutch” or something like that) which has some tasty tasty playing by them both.

[@58deluxe8]

Quite liked this episode. Lately I've been turning off after the first few minutes if it's something I'm not specifically interested in. In this one I liked the little asides where Dan or MIck explained one particular pedal. It held my interest much more. Really like the show and hope you can keep making it fresh..

[@drebatista]

I feel a great disturbance in the Force...

[@maxirvin]

Like millions of souls across the universe looking for the perfect set of boutique and rare pedals suddenly screemed out in pain...

[@mikeroadblock]

Hahahaha

[@xtculater3213]

I feel that the Automatone got closer to the pedal sounds than most of their budget replicas.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Ha! Yeah, just a bit!

[@stephengaren2219]

You say, "Automatone." I say, "Tomatotone." Tow-may-toe. Tow-mah-toh. Poe-tay-toh. Poe-tah-toe. Can't help but think that...and that the Automatone would probably be a nice piece of outboard recording studio gear. Interesting.

[@tonybrooks476]

That fuzz face moment. Wow.

[@MrApprobatur]

You guys SLAYED it!! Love ya😘

[@peterjessop1878]

The Tomato tone definitely has its own thing going on, but the question is: is it a fruity tone or vegetable tone?

[@TheWelhaven]

Reminds me of Chug Berry’s signaturesound.

[@stanislavmigra]

tomato have seeds, its a fruit 😁😁😁

[@jamestaylor4703]

Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad...

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

stanislavmigra - And it starts from a flower. It is the fruit of the flower, you could say.

[@user-oy7gz5bf2h]

AAAahh finally I get to say it: It can be BOTH!!!

[@daneboy82]

The automatone costs £750, for the money I would hope it sounds as good as all these comparisons but surely the real question is how does it compare to the "insane" mode on a Line 6 spider amplifier? and obviously, does it Djent? Great video and love the content

[@Estoril_Blau]

So glad you guys went to the trouble of “profiling” the more popular drive/fuzz options. It definitely requires a fair bit of ingenuity to hold the viewers attention beyond the initial novelty features of a pedal like this. That said, in an attempt to further bolster my own confirmation bias and make the financial argument a bit more palatable, I’ll say this - For my needs it was absolutely worth the pair of Keeley Workstations I’d sold off to afford it and I’d bet there are others that if given the choice might very well be able to justify the MKII under similar circumstances.

[@philippgrunert8776]

Probably the best Demo the "Tomato-Tone" could get. Incredibly Close.

[@orryfishburne5326]

Us pedal nerds are so blessed to have access to That Pedal Show and The JHS Show!! I could watch both channels forever. Im going to throw into the mix Vertex Effects channel for teaching us pedalboard build basics as well. 3 honks. 😁

[@johndcoffee632]

4 minutes ago? *pours coffee* Great way to start the day.

[@keithmanning7521]

I’m imagining it stacked with a Stone Deaf PDF giving you just about any sound you want!

[@BV_Beve]

Au🍅ne brilliant design and build achievement ! High price but understandable given the amount of time in R&D and the build quality as well as the soundssss..... maybe the blood red tom version will appear sooner than everyone expects .... 🍅🙂

[@RedRose4711]

Some are virtually identical. What a great unit. Want one, I always did like tomato soup!

[@tgunmusicchannel1973]

That tomato is awesome.

[@Louis_Rain]

Love it Dan, "Turn it all up!"

[@LeonTodd]

Surely the T808 v KoT v Klon as a boost for a Dual Rec video has to happen now :D

[@colinfreeman7461]

Hi fellas, Great show but you missed a great opportunity, after spending so much time dialing in replica sounds to each pedal, and saving it. You could have ended by switching between the presets, and seeing the faders move and hearing the sound change accordingly. Very enjoyable as usual though. Thanks.

[@justinguitarcia]

Here I am with a RYRA Klone, Analogman KOT and Kingtone Fuzz, putting together a new mini board. I'd love an Automatone for an all purpose recording tool but when feeling inspired and in the moment its fun to hit a bunch of pedals, makes me feel like I'm doing more EDIT just finished the video, that thing is bonkers

[@peterp7363]

The TomatoTron from Outer Space has landed, somewhere near Swindon (or wherever TPS HQ is)... Pedalboards and wallets around the globe cower in fear... Great show guys. The show comes out evening time here in Hong Kong, just what is needed at the end of the week. Always entertaining and educational, wish I could say the same about my online teaching! Many thanks 😊

[@deanjohnston104]

Hi. It's 1am here and I need to go to bed. I'll look at the rest, post 'treble booster,' tomorrow. But so far, it's been quite astounding how close it gets. Peace.

[@SSvebor]

What...a...wonderful...contraption...that Tomato thing is.

[@diegoos5202]

Cool video, now I need a tomatotone to use this presets.

[@onenotesolo256]

Just finished the video and some exactly that with my tomatotone. Very useful!

[@billgreen3629]

One thing that wasn’t mentioned is the expression pedal. I think you can map it to any or all sliders, giving you a lot of additional control on the fly.

[@julianmatthews2668]

I have one and an expression pedal and you can automate any of the sliders - so it is really easy to get that "volume clean up" using an expression pedal.

[@shariffcote]

Now try the same thing but with a MXR Classic 108 Fuzz, Benson preamp/any nice OD and Boss EQ-200 (pre and post the OD) instead of the Automatone. My guess is that EQ pedals are way more important than any magic diode or transistor.

[@mattmcculloch7300]

Such a great episode! A quick question: would you say the mkii also replicates the “feel” of each pedal you compared it to, or does it have its own feel that remains constant through its various settings? Thanks!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Great question. I think it always feels like it has more dynamic and headroom. Feels bigger than everything which is either desirable or not so much. I like it much. Mick here.

[@rafsbio]

This pedal is definitely not for me. Maybe for recording, sure. But live, I need two or three sounds that work, and usually guitar into amp is one of them. I totally get who uses a different approach though.

[@MiguelLumberto]

Yeah, but can it copy the Miku Stomp?

[@BOTiTTE]

asking the real questions!

[@billgreen3629]

You might need the expression pedal for that.

[@joetoe9207]

I actually believe you two would do far above chance but an interesting angle would be to have one of you blinded to which pedal was on, although I'm guessing you'd detect the one by many things besides the specific tones. Thank you both for putting on Such Great Entertaining content! You two and the topic are so fun and informative to watch!

[@FlavioCastro81]

Is this really an expensive pedal if it can do everything other pedals do?

[@KozmykJ]

So, one Could sell all one's boutique pedals and get the Tomato. Maybe even recoup a little cash £/$ BUT the ability to stack them in mid gained multiples would be a difficult if not impossible emulation task. Q. @The Chaps - Did you manage to replicate the D & M Drive sounds I wonder ?

[@mikeroadblock]

Touché kind sir.

[@redcomn]

What i get from all of this. I'mma but that dirty mac and slap it inside my guitar.

[@stevekirby7333]

Fidelity. I get it. The most telling was the LP into the Klon. In comparison the Automatone sounded more transparent and amp like. The Klon had this artificial, slightly boxy sound that I remembered from my old s/n 64 unless the amp was really cranked, which probably masked it. When I had the Klon I was mostly playing an '86 335, so similar effect. It would be really interesting to use that setting on an Automatone stacked with other pedals in the same way Mick uses the Klon. Would you get more transparency and headroom? Chase Bliss should release that fuzz circuit with the eq on it. No need for the automation. It would rule the fuzz market.

[@DRChevalier]

Thank you as always gentlemen. The tomatotone is just over $1000 in Canada. So the question comes to mind if one is warranted if one already owns some of the pedals you were able to get through tweaking the tomatotone. Given that I cannot get into fuzz or tube screamers and have a Ceriatone “klon” and a Frost Giant tube screamer the only missing would be a King of Tone and I am on the waitlist for one. It appeared to take a lot of fiddling to get the tones you sought but you got there. I was more aligned with Mick’s earlier “not me sunshine” from a prior episode but now am wondering. Thanks as always, be well

[@dangayle]

I really wish your amp was set truly clean for the test

[@emmalukeeric]

I have one and worth every penny! Replaced 3 drive pedals for me! Paid for itself!

[@billphillipstube]

In my mind's eye, I conceptualize this as basically three pedals in one unit: a fuzz, an amp in the box, and a graphic EQ. I see this as an an endorsement to the idea that a graphic EQ is the most important pedal on the board.

[@PartyChicken407]

My boss EQ-200 gets a TON of work and sounds clean doing it. Heck, even my old EQ-20 sounded clean and made a world of difference in my rig. The EQ-200 just opens up more possibilities with the fact it's 2 x foot-switchable mono EQ's if you wish it to be. It's glorious.

[@JasonClute]

The likes are at 666 right now and I don't want to be the one to move it! How can I not like it though. Here goes nothing...667!

[@FutureOmega]

This pedal is more than just your typical pedal. I have gotten Fender SR amp quality sounds from this. Breakup where every you want. EQ EVERYTHING. Was going over the roll off fuzz you were trying to do - Mick for your FF. If you ill the Fuzz on the pedal you can rollin just the transistor and bam - you are there - that wonderful glassy FF roll off - but w. more..... Fidelity! Rock on guys~

[@tomking4013]

Now, do I buy an Automatone just so I can get Mick’s fuzz tone... yes, yes I should...

[@matthewjordaan5023]

Dude, what a great video... Keep it up guys

[@sampopkin]

Wow mick sounds glorious with that Les Paul! I had a question about Mick’s King of Tone: is it the low gain or high gain version?

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hello Sam, explained in the text. It’s totally standard, non high gain. Cheers!

[@sampopkin]

That Pedal Show thanks mick :)

[@SeanPierceJohnson]

I tried the Automatone as the "most excessive Tube Screamer" in my demo...i thought it was great! but hot danggit, this pedal is just FIRE

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yeah baby! Great to hear from you Sean. Hope you and the missus are all good! X

[@SeanPierceJohnson]

@@ThatPedalShow Cheers gents! Always happy to see your videos pop up every Friday. We're both doing our best to stay healthy and maybe even get healthier! We should catch up sometime, despite VAST time zone differences. When you have some free time, let me know. Would be awesome to have you on my weekly livestream.

[@Yupppi]

Cool episode, really liked the pedal introduction bits. I think it was worth mentioning that your tubescreamer is also modded for more bass I believe? I found that with king of tone tomato struggled to create that distortion characteristic (perhaps low frequencies were more saturated but cut from the output?). It seems like the tomato gets really close, as close as you could hope, and in a single pedal, but falls short on not having excess of controls over frequencies. To be able to decide throughout the whole spectrum how you push the frequencies into clipping but also being able to cut them in the output. And to do that with surgeon precision, even with just neighbouring frequencies. Perhaps compression controls as well? With only three eq parameters and one q control, plus the button features, it's shocking how close it can get to all of them. Like to a level where you wouldn't be concerned that it's off, just the nuances you love possibly not being there. And to be fair to the product's purpose, it's a single pedal that is very tweakable to almost anything, and not a exact copy of specific things. To sum it up, not my pedal, but for someone who gigs with plenty of sounds yet doesn't want to go to a single modelling amp unit, a brilliant device.

[@eanroad]

Scrolling through the comments...Seems like the Automatone is like the "Silver Sky" of the pedal world. Good, meh or bad, the people are expressing their opinions!

[@drkevns]

I haven’t seen many bad reviews from those who own it!

[@kebbinator]

The only criticism I have heard from anybody about the Automatone is the price.

[@kere92]

Man, I don't know if I want to listen to it while I work or save it for when I can watch it fully. Not remotely interested in the Automatone but its definitely a glimpse into the future of pedals.

[@hamzaderkaoui9558]

So essentially with a midi a switcher it becomes all the overdrives... Nice show guys!

[@bigknuckle9689]

I wonder if they can make a Vox AC30 sound as good as a Matchless DC30 with it.

[@rbrwr]

Not bad for a Tomato! I can see how, if you were thinking of dropping silly money on a Klon or a boutique klone and spending 3 years on the KoT waiting list, and were searching for your perfect TS and FF, and had G2 for the M1-D1, then being able to do all that and more with the Tomato would be well worth the £750. It's still a bit rich for me, though. Second show in a row in which Dan has stayed welded to the '65. In three months time Mick will still have the long rack of guitars next to him and Dan will have one guitar stand to put the '65 down on if he absolutely has to.

[@ahsistermojo]

Thank you so much for doing.. now I definitely need to have one to run through my G3 😀

[@jimbeaux4988]

Studio only, but the versatility is amazing.