The Best Drive in Fractal? - The LEGENDARY Zendrive

Into the Fractal-verse with John Cordy on Thursdays!
@johnnathancordy explores the legendary Zendrive - a pedal designed to achieve Robben Ford's tones - that ended up being Robben Ford's pedal of choice!
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[@ksharpe10]

Now how did i know he was going to drop another Zen Drive Video. Got to Laugh. Well one thing for sure that pedal is a JNC Tone Carrot for sure. Outstanding demo.

[@musiccreation1198]

Thank you John.!! Just what I needed.

[@rolandmengedoth2191]

Great Sounding Pedal. Will try it out by myself😊

[@elianejoly5352]

Thank you John Cordy.👏🧑‍🎤

[@dieterhock327]

Sounds great 😎

[@markcarleton6647]

I have one of the “Old School Build” Love Pedal Zen Drives and compared it to the Zen Drive in my FM9. I was surprised by how similar they sounded. I haven’t played an original Zen Drive yet so don’t know how it compares.

[@MJ30ism]

Fantastic!

[@jsingerkc2014]

Very nice!

[@bobfarmer9120]

Sounds ace to me

[@MrSonicAlchemy]

Very Carlton kinda thing you got going on in that intro. Nice!

[@mattiakkanen7866]

I thought more like a faster version of Freedom by Robben Ford 😊 (the chord progression...)

[@MrSonicAlchemy]

@@mattiakkanen7866 it sounded similar to Steely Dan's "Peg" or Carlton's "Room 335" to me, but then I'm more familiar with Carlton's music than I am with Robben Ford's.

[@BillVerdon]

Instead of stacking drives, I have been messing with adding and controlling the boost via the amp's preamp settings.. has anyone else tried that? Great vid John.

[@chuckcostello5167]

Yes that’s how I run my FM3 mostly to save DSP. It’s quite effective and I like it much better than sorting through a bunch of drive blocks and settings.

[@russellcameronthomas2116]

I have experimented with the amp's pre-amp section, including drive. It is surprisingly versatile and effective. I don't know how good it is compared to separate drive block, but it's often my first option (to save CPU, if nothing else). Also started playing with it in combo with a drive block, to get subtle combination of effects.

[@shaharbar]

Nice, please teach out some of these sweet chords.

[@208414]

The 2290 in front of the amp does nothing because the out of phase stereo signal is summed to mono.

[@russellcameronthomas2116]

would you put it after the cab??

[@208414]

@@russellcameronthomas2116 Yes, that is where I would place it.