EYEHATEGOD Jimmy Bower Signature Pedal - Bower Power Overdrive

Limited Batch of the New Jimmy Bower Signature Bower Power Overdrive Available Now at www.doesitdoom...
Designed in collaboration with Nick Williams of Dunwich Amplification.
From the infamous crucible of the New Orleans underworld, channeling the raw anguish and scathing fury that defined a genre…
For the first time harness the quintessential sound of southern suffering with the all-new Jimmy Bower Signature Overdrive.
Take As Needed for Gain…
The Bower Power Overdrive is the combination of a classic op-amp overdrive and a solid state power amp boost. The pedal has a wide range of gain from edge of break-up, clean-ish boost to aggressive overdrive.
Drive levels for both the op-amp overdrive and the power amp boost are controlled independently using two gain controls: “Suffering” sets the gain of the op-amp overdrive, “Abuse” sets the gain of the power amp boost.
The power amp boost is designed to enhance low end, compensating for the typical low-end cut that is shaped early in the op-amp overdrive circuit. Additional EQ adjustment is achieved with an active tilt tone control that can further emphasize low end, darkening the overall sound or boosting upper-mids and treble.
The output signal level of the pedal is controlled with a master volume which is loud enough to further overdrive the input of other pedals or amp.
For the most authentic grief-stricken Jimmy Bower tone, be sure to play on your bridge pickup with your guitar’s volume knob at max and tone knob rolled all the way off.
The Power of the Riff Compels You!
Controls
Suffering: Adjusts the gain of the op-amp overdrive.
Abuse: Adjust the gain of the solid state power amp boost.
Volume: Adjusts the overall output level of the pedal.
Tone: Active tilt EQ to boost bass or upper mid / treble frequencies.
Power
Use only a standard 9v DC power supply with a 2.1mm negative-center barrel. An isolated power supply is recommended. Power supply not included.
#eyehategod #sludge #sludgemetal

[@DoesItDoom]

Limited Batch of the New Jimmy Bower Signature Bower Power Overdrive Available Now at www.doesitdoom.com/product/bowerpower

[@simonpsychosis2812]

I saw Jimmy play, once. As Crowbar's DRUMMER. KILLER, is an understatement.

[@DoesItDoom]

Amazing!

[@Mattrj1975]

Wish these were signed, but Eyehategod plays around 600 shows a year, so it'll be easy to have him autograph one.

[@maurobelarde8527]

🤣🤣🤣

[@maurobelarde8527]

Love that tone! It sounds very fat and agressive without losing definition. Great design job! Greetings from Mendoza, Argentina. 🖤🖤🖤

[@DoesItDoom]

Thanks! Pedal rips!!

[@maurobelarde8527]

@@DoesItDoom 🖤🖤🖤

[@poolepaul4158]

Im friends with Jimmy from a while ago and this is HIS tone. Love the guys from EHG. Brilliant people!

[@DoesItDoom]

Great dudes! Amazing band.

[@poolepaul4158]

@@DoesItDoomOne time Gary and myself partook in a joint before a gig. There were loads of things that happened that day. Hungout with Church of Misery guys, and Jimmy guestlisted my mates and me. Mike was super cool as usual. Cooked a meal for the EHG boys and Jimmy said my cooking was excellent! True story.Best day ever.

[@xeverettx2564]

If it sounds this close to Jimmy when I plug it in then I’m sold. Bower Power Disciple!!!!

[@DoesItDoom]

It does. Enjoy!

[@Dan-O-mite]

The NOLA album got me into the whole New Orleans scene. EHG especially caught my ear. Been a fan of Jimmy's for many years. Killer job on the pedal, Steve. You totally did justice to his tone. The graphics are killer. Power of the riff compels me!

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

My dad had a black Sonex just like that … He bought-it in ‘82 brand-new & played it for about a year.

[@DoesItDoom]

Love the Sonex!!

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

@@DoesItDoom They aged well. The weird logo on the headstock is worth the price of one.

[@kevincarlson5894]

just got mine at the E.H.G show on 6/25/24 in York Pennsylvania signed. I can't wait to use it. I have always admired Eyehategod's guitar tone. so stoked to jam with it.

[@DoesItDoom]

Killer! It rules.

[@primaldad_eb]

Take as needed for pain summer of 94 was my EHG intro and seen them live multiple times in the mid to late 90s…

[@GothicXlightning]

I Will always relate in your fine taste for DOOMY Locking Guitars my good Sir and some of your cool Riffs of course ;)

[@leventekabai2600]

That tone is definitive, Steve! Great job! Love Eyehategod.

[@obsequious_obsolescence]

Really cool pedal and insights on the pedal as well, oh how I need this thing! EHG and Jimmy are legendary!

[@gregorymonahan9121]

I became an instant Eyehategod fan after hearing Take as Needed for Pain in 94, specifically Sister Fucker pt. 1 and 30$ bag. Can't wait to get the Bower Power pedal and plug it into the Sonex deluxe!!

[@rawknbearbell7032]

Very cool. I remember hearing Nola in college and I was blown away. I was a Trouble fan at the time, So you can imagine how excited I was to hear this new music. Mystic Krewe of clearlight CD is in my truck CD player right now!

[@BP9000]

Just brutal. So glad to see Eyehategod getting some love

[@chestermahogany2155]

the clip of Jimmy giving the thumbs up of approval, so awesome!

[@ndeep5753]

Nice you got the Sonex that jimmy uses. Just have to remove those last two strings 😂.

[@DoesItDoom]

I should have done that for this video. Total miss. lol.

[@OrthodoxReview]

Congratulations! I, too, fell into the Down II doom hole back in the day. Bowers, to me, has THE sound.

[@DoesItDoom]

Thanks, man. Was so much fun collaboration with Jimmy on this pedal!

[@gimmenames9039]

1:07... whoa!! I like when you play fast Steve!

[@DoesItDoom]

That’s the fast riff from Depress, the opening track from In the Name of Suffering. The riffs I play before and after that one are from the same tune. Highly underrated EHG song.

[@duderinoification]

"are you telling me for a couple hundred bucks i can sound just like my favorite band?!?!?!" It's a cool concept and all, from a business persepective, exploiting hangerons and novices. BUT (WE) experienced musicians all know people use and make do with what's available to them and that along with arrangement, mixing, technique, etc is what REALLY makes the tone happen. Imitating someone else is kinda lame but i'm sure collectors will love it.

[@peacock6804]

I agree but if a certain tone inspires someone else to have more fun, joy, and hopefully create their own art. Then whats the issue? Sure folks are making money off of re-creation pedals but more power to em. Folks who love the music and culture are making effects for fans and legends in the scene and culture. I feel thats the best way it can be. Everyone has the same passion for heavy ass riffs and hope to make their own. I can either drop a few bones on an old Hyper Fuzz that may give out on me or just buy a new FU-2 that will last me twice as long, regardless im spending money and either way im satisfied. Folks will do what they will if it makes them happy so let em live bro. Props on being frugal and resourceful, more power to ya.

[@duderinoification]

@@peacock6804 I agree with you 100%. However, it's not even about pedals anymore. There's modelers, dsp, and impulse response based stuff that can do crazy things. I feel like collecting pedals is like collecting comic books now. They have value, but you can read the comic digitally and then keep the hard copy wrapped in plastic as an investment. I also feel like people get too caught up in "tone" while neglecting the basics like songwriting or arrangement. Or project management in general. It's a trap i fell into as well. The people who's tones some of these pedals are based on did not fall into that trap, mostly. Unless it's the sleep thing with the green amps most of the tones these pedals are imitating are the result of "happy accidents".

[@peacock6804]

@@duderinoification Very true brother. I agree modelers and all that are insane. They work but it isnt quite as true or "raw" if you will. Like you said some of the best records, "tones", and sounds that inspire people were "Happy Accidents" (Bob Ross is the man) but some folks like myself make music for me and no one else but none the less it makes me happy and fills a certain void i have with pure happiness. So no i or many others may not focus on the acspect of pure songwriting and arrangement i can still slap something together that i can hear and makes me happy and im sure thats the same for many others. As much as i wish for myself or others to put something into the void to maybe touch somebody, it brings me peace to make sounds i enjoy even if it is just feedback and a few riffs off the top. I agree that all the new tech can snuff genuine creativity and pure emotion but it still brings peace and joy to the user whoever decides to buy. I dont even know what im getting at to be honest ive had a puff and a few beers to many. Im just spewing into the void of the internet. Peace and love bro. What gear you working with? And i will say im still sucked in by the persuit of tone. I think its like heroin for gear nerds like myself. You keep chasing the dragon imstead of working on the craft. Trying to break the cycle but i literally bought a new baritone guitar like 5 hours ago 🤦

[@duderinoification]

@@peacock6804 I used to have a sizeable collection of amps, marshalls, fenders, electric amp co green, sunn, mesa. Just became too much to manage, maintain and store. I don't play live anymore, just doing in the box recording, so i'm running an axefx2...that i bought in 2012, through a UA preamp into a UA interface. Only downside is some of the pedal emulations aren't that good so i keep a box of them...bunch of muffs, tonebender, carbon copy, space echo, etc. Still have a fender champ and 59' plexi clones i built myself, but i rarely use them. Haven't bought any gear in maybe ten years, but my guitars all need a refret lol! if it aint broke dont fix it.

[@robabq8733]

Just ordered mine, cant wait!

[@IIIVIIVIII_amplifiers]

1:16 Ooouuh! *Kirk's voice* :D

[@devilsown5892]

Got mine on order!!! Looking forward for some drop tuned grind!

[@Intaminator]

Badass. Hey Steve, could you maybe do a lesson on trills? It's something I've struggled with, and it's such a great little flourish you can find in a ton of doom songs.

[@DoesItDoom]

Sure. What seems to be your sticking point?

[@Wurmt0ngue]

Sounds sick and great playing.

[@DoesItDoom]

Thanks! EHG riffs are so much fun to play.

[@SevenTrine]

Released just when I've been exploring more of a NOLA tone. Curious how my SE 277 would interact with it. Definitely one on my wish list!

[@jat2319]

Great work. Love the sound

[@DoesItDoom]

Thanks! It rips!

[@sanjinadum1661]

Could we have a bass demo, pleeeeease?

[@omarshaheen807]

make a signature geezer butler fuzz wah to mimick the tone he got on the intro riff of nib that would be a killer idea geezer butler is one of the cornerstones of doom metal so it is an obvious idea to make a pedal in his honor and you have built dozens of distortions and fuzzes try to get out of your comfort zone alittle bit and try to make a wah that would sell like hot cakes and anyways people buy whatever you sell so plzzzzzzz go for it man a does it doom fuzz wah pedal lets goooo

[@omarshaheen807]

oh and great job with this pedal i love the idea behind it and it sounds awesome but how do you get it to feedback like the typical sludge feedback.

[@DoesItDoom]

@@omarshaheen807 Turn your amp up and stand near it. Works every time.

[@drpibisback7680]

​@@DoesItDoom There really is no substitute for volume - it just doesn't resonate those low frequencies unless you really crank it.

[@omarshaheen807]

@@DoesItDoom Thanx alot steve

[@CTripodi1965]

Another beast of a pedal. You just keep them coming. Love the tone.

[@mikerauter1859]

Perfect with the sonex180! Superjoint forever!

[@timetraveler8777]

Great work!

[@DoesItDoom]

Thanks!

[@HaggardBacon]

Def hear more wooliness without turning to mush. Good stuff

[@MarkDaniels2787]

Can't wait to get mine. Does jimmy still run everything cranked while using this? We need a better rig rundown with jimmy cuz his rig sounds fucking massive live🐌

[@LeonardoPinto]

Sick tone, congrats!!!🤘😎

[@DoesItDoom]

Thanks Leo!

[@Dwightpower88]

Sounds great! I recently just heard EYE AM, Kirk Windstein, Todd Strange, Kenny and Johnny from Type O! It's fucking great!

[@danielcarter3928]

hell yeah

[@dylanmcfadden1229]

That sounds sick dude I want this one

[@vannmagruder9038]

Superjoint was amazing

[@alexxxanderparpar123]

So much fuck yes going on here.

[@watcherzero000]

Yeah Jimmy Bower and Kirk Fisher from Buzzov-en are my two big influences to how I play.

[@endlessgrind6951]

"I let myself go!"

[@atomcatz69]

Hope I can get one of these eventually, You gotta do more eyehategod guitar lessons man I need more 🥺

[@DoesItDoom]

Would love to. Let me know what songs you’d like to learn.

[@drunkenbugsuck]

@@DoesItDoommy vote goes to serving time in the middle of nowhere

[@drunkenbugsuck]

@@DoesItDoomunrelated but you should do more melvin’s covers. also check out the boss ODB-1 for a video. think you’ll get some real nice sludge tones out of it

[@atomcatz69]

​@@DoesItDoom Children of God, man is too ignorant to exist, or anxiety hangover would be the dream! Those are my favorite 🖤

[@erictallant4965]

It fucking growls!!!

[@hellf.o]

This one splash me into the bayou😮

[@DoesItDoom]

⚜️

[@JockeLundgrenTV]

Awesome!! 🏴‍☠️💨

[@Mattrj1975]

Love it.

[@danielemella1758]

Grande ❤😇!!!!!Power Power🧙!!!!😂 Saluti dall'Italia.... Saluti DAI DI'AUL 🦇🐐😈❤

[@non_brewed_condiment]

sheeeeesh this one's a heater

[@totalbender420]

Sounds spot on, are you closing your tone knob as well like bowers or is this all the sound of the pedal simulating that? I really wish more companies would mess with the sd-1 like this.

[@DoesItDoom]

Bridge pickup, volume knob at 10, tone knob at 0.

[@totalbender420]

@@DoesItDoom perfection haha

[@tacopepe2019]

I feel like an idiot because I have to ask but what’s the song that you play at 2:53? I know that I know it just can’t pin down the name. Also, fuck yeah. EHG is probably one of the best live bands I’ve seen, definitely top 3. I saw em open for black label society, and they blew them out of the water. Super loud and groove like no other👏

[@DoesItDoom]

New Orleans is the New Vietnam

[@mbrighton1802]

Confederacy is the best. Love the sonix

[@DoesItDoom]

That album was a killer way to get into the band for sure.

[@mbrighton1802]

@@DoesItDoomplease make Kirk a modified metal zone

[@hart8363]

can someone tell me the name of the songs? i always loved sludge metal, but never really knew a lot of bands (always was a fan of Sabbath, Acid Bath. Soundgarden have some pretty sludgy songs too.) I met EHG by a few weeks now, so I dont know many songs and the riffs he played on the video really got my ears.

[@AcidBathX_YOLO]

I must know the song at 5:17 I fr need to listen to more eyehategod

[@alcrapone1131]

"blank" or "blank/shoplift"

[@zoltarwizdom6708]

I'm currently rocking an OR-15 & a Mesa Mark Five:25 for bedroom jams. I know he uses the solid state stuff, so not sure how this would pair with those. Is this a circuit emulation so I can run this through an FX loop so it sounds like an RG80 with an SD-1 in front, or is this more of a beefed up SD-1 with added bass and more drive?

[@danielcarter3928]

what pickups come in that gibson? that thing is badass as hell

[@DoesItDoom]

It’s a stock 1980 Sonex Deluxe. The pickups just say “Sonex-180 DELUXE” on the bottom.

[@sextonelcid87]

@@DoesItDoom i think they are Bill Lawrence

[@charokos]

3:15 what song?

[@DoesItDoom]

Eyehategod - New Orleans is the New Vietnam

[@mirkohirsch422]

That's an incredible tone. May i ask what cab sim/ir you're using here?

[@DoesItDoom]

One of the Two Notes Mesa rectifier cabs, same cab Jimmy uses.

[@totalbender420]

Hey dude! Was this pedal designed to compress your signal around the same amount as an sd-1 or is it a little more open?

[@DoesItDoom]

Similar, but as you introduce the power amp boost you add additional low end and distortion.

[@carnage77]

"power amp boost" - is it using a power amp ic or a discreet topology? Sounds epic.

[@DoesItDoom]

Power amp IC. Glad you dig it.

[@mykneeshurt8393]

sick

[@vitekpribyla4179]

im thinking about using it on bass with the strong low end, what do u think?

[@DoesItDoom]

It’s a killer bass OD

[@SlearBlaneheart]

Have you ever tried an Overlord? Im getting a sick tone with one through a non master JMP. Not too different than this pedals sound.

[@critz4bigdmg]

Hey Steve! Found a BOSS FZ-5 at the pawn shop I work and was wondering if you think it’d be a good fuzz pedal for doom. New fuzzes can be expensive and I’m looking at a green Russian big muff rn, is the FZ-5 nearly as good?

[@DoesItDoom]

I’ve never played one and don’t know much about it, so I can’t give you a true opinion, unfortunately.

[@critz4bigdmg]

@@DoesItDoom bought one and it sounded good on the amp the shop I work at used to test guitars, so should sound good when I can get an actual half stack

[@clugokillscluco]

What song is that at 02:52

[@JuneTurner-rn8ui]

Does this work well with bass?

[@6789drummerdude]

How much mAh does it draw? Just wondering if it will fit in the confines of my current power supply.

[@JWurzy]

All the people talking about Down: you know he plays drums in that band right?!

[@RickIngram-iw2ep]

❤ EHG❤

[@StacyArangael-cz1jr]

Hey Steve What head are you running the pedal with my good man?

[@DoesItDoom]

Randall RG80.

[@StacyArangael-cz1jr]

@@DoesItDoom Thank You Brother

[@Anthoniexg]

Damn

[@alexalzouri1603]

Hello Steve, can you please tell which song you played at 1:07? Thanks for a cool video, pedal sounds killer !

[@DoesItDoom]

Eyehategod - Depress

[@rodbarrett1581]

Does this pedal work well with bass?

[@stixzadinia8584]

BOWER FKING POWER

[@KENNA25]

What's a cassette? 😅

[@krysvalkyrion8252]

Funny

[@DoesItDoom]

At the time a portable CD player / discman was more common tbh, but I ended up getting those EHG tapes along with Sabbath S/T, MOR and Vol4 and so I wore those out through that whole summer.

[@januszjankes6423]

🤘👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹🤘 w 💯 ogień zajebisty świetny super

[@FlyingMachete]

Ya. A disto fuzz. Kthksby I got a swollen pickle. 😘

[@drpibisback7680]

More of an overdrive - Bower plays with his amp's gain cranked all the way up before any drive, the pedal is just pushing the low-end and giving it more attack.

[@joebonior5783]

Whats the song he's playing at 4:00 ???

[@DoesItDoom]

EHG - Jackass in the Will of God

[@joebonior5783]

@@DoesItDoom Thank you !

[@leftofzeroofficial]

God that thing sounds absolutely disgusting. And i mean that in the nicest possible way.

[@rogues1370]

Holy shit that pedal is perfection!!!!