How Many Overdrive Pedals Do You Need? [Pedal Order & Gain Stacking Like A Pro] - That Pedal Show

[@timothylenaghan4892]

"Increased harmonic interest" is definitely going to be the explanation I give my wife every time I buy a new pedal from now on!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahahah

[@sparkyguitar0058]

I love it. Gonna use that from now on.

[@Whitewallsessions]

When “harmonic content” is no longer enough... 😅

[@BB-ft6nd]

Hold your fire. Keep that one in reserve. Don't burn that explanation unless its a must have pedal like a Hotcake, Tim V3 or King of Tone...

[@JoshClarkson]

I like the idea of a pallet as a pedalboard, especially as you could then move it with a forklift when it becomes too heavily laden.

[@sparkyguitar0058]

Do you think my church would complain if I bought my forklift pedalboard on Sunday? I'd have to literally take out a wall to get in but I could have 20 O D- distortion- fuzz pedals to choose from. Aah maybe I better think this through a little bit more. Now I'm using 3 at this time, but when I'm done watching this I could change my mind and my board.

[@Real-time22]

hmmm....good idea. I decided to also build a scmidt array pedal board for myself. it's 36" wide. and my next one will be 42".

[@kevinoconnor1396]

@@sparkyguitar0058 90% of attendees dunno what a pedal board is & the rest are like '6 OD's ... coooooool'

[@RobertNolan]

Bit of a double entendre of a word in this matter. Pallet in that we have all of our colors ready to paint our tone. Pallet in that we literally need a fork lift to carry it around when we think the pedalboard is proverbially "finished." 🤣

[@meonly6631]

@@Real-time22 5:03 5:03

[@spleefdowny]

My wife saw me watching TPS the other day and said, “watching the knob twiddlers again, huh?”. There’s your next t-shirt: Certified Knob Twiddler. You’re welcome.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Ha!

[@tattootone68hill78]

😂😂 excellent

[@blakebarrett4498]

Love to tweak some knobs

[@e.g.systems6146]

@@ThatPedalShow Please go for this one! I swear that if you just make sure there's an fx pedal on it, nobody can take offence in Tesco. Speaking of which, I recently walked through said shop in a T which read "First I see the candy, THEN I get in the van. I'm not stupid...." and you should have seen the smiles :O)

[@raimondo3178]

"Well, my dear, what about I twiddle your knob and you twiddle mine?"

[@philipbrister]

All you really need is a fuzz, buffer, compressor, a boost, distortion, hard clipping drive, soft clipping drive, EQ, and then another boost. That’s it, let’s not make this more complicated than it is. 😂

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahahaha!!!

[@wargo6263]

@@ThatPedalShow please make this a shirt guys lol. Instant buy.

[@wewewewa]

One fuzz? Lemme know how that works out

[@tritonmosquito9348]

I need three fuzz. The rest depends on the amp.

[@donkeydarko77]

I like your moxie.

[@tohstygohstygal]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate (don't care if you've done it before, do it again) just how wholesome this channel is? Seeing these great friends get to be in their happy place and getting to hang out and make each other laugh and smile with jokes, audio gear, etc is always nice to see. All coming to you from the remote mountain of guitar pedals these two live in. Amazing.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you kindly for this! Good vibes, good feelings. Thank you!

[@TheStrataminor]

In this world today, we need more of this too!!

[@AaronJones-go6gx]

Dan’s smile while he sat on the floor turning on 10 pedals at the same time was great. Looked like a kid on Christmas playing with the gift he wanted. Made me smile too.

[@paulmatulevich3623]

Love the differing philosophies between you two. Start swerving a bit and Mic hits the brakes, Dan tosses a brick on the gas and says "Don't worry, the wall will stop us if we spin out"😆

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahahah!!!

[@andymellor9056]

Always steer into the skid. Never brake.

[@devonfaulkner5458]

My favorite part of the entire episode was hearing Dan explore his new guitar. I love when you guys try new sounds/amps/pedals/guitars and explain and inform as you are exploring. The instructionally structured videos are certainly helpful but I miss the improvisation and pure passion in putting some new pedals down and seeing where you go with them. I appreciate all the hard work over the years!

[@jacquesd5781]

The main takeaway from this video : The Boss BD-2 is fricking amazing and still criminally underrated. Damn it sounds good!

[@TheLambLive]

26:25 - Little Dan tending to his pedals with his hat and huge smile on his face is such a picture 🤣

[@lesjuly]

I've had a TON of pedals in my day. Once I bought a D&M Drive, I soon found that it covered every boost/overdrive/distortion tone I could ever want to have. Kudos to you guys & Robert Keeley for such a genius pedal.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yay! Thank you!

[@vincenttuckwood]

Well, it’s a MIGHTY hats off to Simon for this one!

[@LostPlanet2024]

A nod to the man behind the scenes Simon! Always a professional production!!

[@hedgehogstv2132]

That's like asking how many hats do you need? Dan is obviously a connoisseur of both.

[@dixonrooster5954]

I think he should loose the hat too

[@samuelxavier2473]

@@dixonrooster5954 Nah, he needs to stick with the fez.

[@dixonrooster5954]

@@samuelxavier2473 have shave and grow a viking beard

[@klapaucjusz1]

I like the hat.

[@lucasheidenreich7861]

So glad you mentioned Josh Scott’s Klon settings! I had started yelling at the screen and typing furiously in the comments.

[@daniels.2978]

Thank you Dan and Mick. You have helped me answer my wife's frequent question " why do you need so many pedals". You spell it out so much better than I can. Pedal gurus and marriage therapists. Peace, love, Rock & Roll.

[@immanuelgrau]

TPS on having all the mids ever: "It's a very different experience, playing with a nose on it like that" "And that's an extreme example, probably wouldn't use a sound like that". Brian May's entire career was based on that sound... and a lot of hair. Bless that mad lad, the earlier albums especially! It also makes me think of all the 70s fusion guys: that great, peculiar super middy clean-but-driven sound. Really fun show!

[@ThatPedalShow]

So true! Kicking on that Royal has made me Want Dumble again. Arrrrgghh. Mick here.

[@nedim_guitar]

17:45 I think that sacrilege should be using a pedal like the Klon as a clean boost. That circuit is so good, it needs to be pushed into overdrive to really shine!

[@dylanmcfarling2033]

Yes, it’s insane to me people are using it as a clean boost. The clipping sound I get out of it in my setup is addictive. There are certainly better options for clean boosts as well…

[@MattD86]

Do you guys put the Klon before ODs or after towards the end of your chain?

[@ZachLGrant]

I appreciate the increased annotations on bottom, very helpful

[@spacegoat77]

Man I love these shows!! Well put together. Well filmed. Other then educational on a topic I truly love, they’re just a good show to watch. Too many KZbin videos that have great info, but are just so sloppily put together making it awkward and sometimes frustrating to watch. Thanks again guys!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you Steve!

[@stratcat688]

All of us D&M drive owners need little hat stickers for the Dan side now.

[@andyk2370]

...also a facial hair add-on for Mick!

[@error8418]

D&M Drive MkII as an updated version?

[@RichardSeal]

@@error8418 But then I'll have to buy another one!

[@WhatsUpWhitey]

That’s hilarious and an awesome idea.

[@error8418]

@@andyk2370 What about a switch that adds "a little bit of hair". 😂 (Assuming that Mick's side is the cleaner one.)

[@klapaucjusz1]

Good show, thank you! I use 3 gain pedals on my board - TC Spark with mid boost for warm very slightly gainy cleans, a Hardwire CM2 (TS--Style) for mid-level OD, and MXR Super Badass Distortion. The CM2 stacks beautifully into the MXR, it's a great lead combination I've used for years. This gets me through my band setlist. More drives might be cool tone-wise, but whenever I've tried to expand that, I found it not practical live and it gave me option paralysis. The extra options didn't really serve the songs either. So through trial and error now I know how many drives I need.

[@JavierGonzalezBlueFalcon0651]

I still run my Klon style drive with the gain up high every once in a while. Also the production quality of the videos gets better and better.

[@Austin.Hunt.]

Thank you guys for the laughs. It makes the world brighter.

[@benmtz]

Happy days! Exactly the episode I was hoping for, thanks :)

[@GiantPinhead]

I love the "amp as a big distortion pedal" rather than the pedal as a miniature amplifier, but of course, this isn't That Amplifier Show. Great work!

[@nickwilson9210]

Ok this is my show I must have over 50 can’t wait to watch

[@EddieOtool]

I just succeeded in stacking gains of 5 different pedals on my Multi FX unit (TS, Echoplex, some overdrive, Dist+, BigMuff), and I must admit that's the best I've ever sounded. I analyzed their characteristics beforehand (tone and drive), and combined them so to enhance their characteristics (combine muddy with overly crisp, and types of saturations, so to balance out what they lack and come with a vastly superior sound). I am very happy with my sound now, after lacklusting forever. I can't recommend enough going through this experiment.

[@jacobbartelt4480]

I freaking loved this episode!! Having shows like this, the fuzz/heat, & the Frankenstein delay board have been priceless. My wife straight away said “Don’t get any ideas” when she saw the beginning shot with all the OD pedals on the board 🤣😂

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahahaha!!!

[@razifraship]

19:12 and for 1 more time That Pedal Show has the best explanation for my confusion in stacking boosts/OD, it's how I use the ODs, not the BB style pedal into TS style pedal, vice versa or something like that.

[@markdarnborough316]

Haha, proper Mad Professor stuff from Dan, there. The pure glee was a joy to behold ‘o)

[@juandavidcortes6503]

Its so awesome that my you guys released this video the day that my D&M arrived!! I'm so happy :))

[@ThatPedalShow]

Thank you for buying one - hope you love it!

[@fraenkiboii]

17:37 Which is exactly why I don't understand that most people use a Klon as a booster. Using such a nicely engineered and designed topology as a boost is basically a waste of gain imho. Get a $60 treble booster and give the Klon to your bandmate who needs a nice overdrive. :)

[@andymellor9056]

F*'n love a cranked Klon

[@Xegesis11]

Love the pure joy on Dan's face while shredding on the Danocaster!

[@astewart9410]

Also: Here in Canada, I've also heard pallets called skids.

[@glennromano9053]

Easily the most beautiful board in TPS history. Epic!!!!

[@McSlobo]

I'd be delighted to see similar kind of video about amps. What are the primary sounds and styles, what amps fall in each category etc.

[@jhesbol]

I too have 5 on my pedal board. TS mini-->Archer Ikon-->Cornerstone Gladio-->Greer Lightspeed-->Origin Effects Revival Drive. Love the diversity of this board!

[@kodykindhart5644]

Woah Killer

[@Yamazaki1923]

Nobody sits down to color a picture and thinks, "I wish there were less colors in my crayon box." Nobody. That said, used crayons don't cost $180 apiece...

[@Matt-1d]

I actually preferred the box of 48 crayolas over the 96. I never used most of the ones in the larger box, and they’d just make it take longer to find the colors I did want. The 96-er did come with a built in sharpener though….🤔

[@sparkyguitar0058]

@Hmmm mmm Cheapest wax you can find. To lube things up. A quick swipe on your nut will help strings not get stuck and help tunings. Just 1 example.

[@JonathanGasper]

@@Matt-1d The 64 box was the happy medium, and still had a sharpener

[@lomoholga]

@Hmmm mmm they should. Crayons are great. Go colour man!

[@j79-p9u]

@@Matt-1d i like that analogy...i am gonna run with it and conclude that 96 is too many pedals...and 48 is about right :D

[@tweedfish89]

Thanks guys for this episode! Convinced me to ditch the EQ (EQD Tone Job) I was using as a mid/gain boost into my primary overdrive (JHS Superbolt) in favor of running the Superbolt into a Vertex Ultraphonix. Gain stacking wins over boosting into dirt. So it goes now for gain staging Golden fleece Fuzz - Superbolt - Ultraphonix - Ego Comp - boost at the end of the chain ala the Empress Buffer +

[@brian91145]

a Nobels ODR 1 is my favorite OD! Then a 90s RAT for my heavier needs. I am a happy camper !

[@davidtomkins4242]

As someone who learned guitar by playing along to ACDC tracks, this episode sounds GLORIOUS :) The Angus is strong with this one

[@robertshamansky1912]

This topic never gets old for me 👍 Thanks!

[@VictorMerryweather]

Ha!! The craziest board we’ve ever seen on TPS. Including the magnificent wet-dry-wet pedal shed rig. Great sounds!

[@Smart-Alex]

My number finally came up on a KOT - 4 years later! An overdrive to rule them all? :)

[@thedude3364]

4 years!!?? Holy smokes! I knew they had a long waiting list but I had no idea it was that long.

[@stevethebeeline44]

2.5yrs on waiting list now. Looks like Xmas 2022 so! I think the demand warrants the hiring of one new pedal builder, no?

[@therangersinger]

3 years and 3 months for me.

[@donkeydarko77]

I got one on REVERB. Arrived at my house in 4 days.

[@mechanicalapple]

two down, two to go! :(

[@marksieber8140]

Thanks gents, great show, perfect timing. I'm working on a pedalboard with room for three gain stages for a gig. I recently acquired a Benson preamp which is great fun, but trying to work it in and get tones I need is a puzzle, and I would like to use the guitar volume for cleanup. You reminded me of several factors-especially not losing volume when adding a pedal. Fodder for my experiments!

[@DomSchu]

I got a BB Preamp over a decade ago and have not bought another overdrive since. I wish I could say the same about fuzz pedals...

[@mikeroadblock]

Timmy type for me.

[@samuelxavier2473]

Friday night, a few bottles of Duvel, TPS on YT, and all's right with the world. FWIW, this episode I sorely need. Having avoided dirt boxes for years, I'm now falling down the rabbit hole. Cheers, chaps, and keep up the good work.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hooray! Enjoy! Duvel is a brave person’s beer. Discerning.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

All I know is: "I had One, ( and was very-happy ) until I started watching NonStop . . . Dan & Mick" - Now I'm ( surprisingly & somehow ) even happier with ( 3 ). Barber Gain Changer > Fulltone OCD > Thorpy Fallout Cloud. Oh That Pedal Show !!!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yes! Nice one Michael!

[@michael_caz_nyc]

@@ThatPedalShow You 2 have probably Sold more Pedals, then: Boss, EHX and MXR - all combined. I went from a three pedal set-up, to a Ten-pedal 2 tier board . . . "But I can't stop watching"

[@arphod]

Just finished a medium-sized pedalboard, and the dirt is Browne Protein > Wampler Gearbox (2 into 1). HSS Suhr Classic S, Boogie Fillmore 50. It is something else. Couldn't have figured it all out without you guys; thanks for everything.

[@ThatPedalShow]

You’re most welcome mate 🙏

[@justinguitarcia]

my 2021 gain stages are effectrode red bottle (tube boost), Earthquaker Park Fuzz (tone bender), King of Tone and a Kingtone Soloist. Might be adding a Greer southland or Jam Rattler. Gain staging is so much fun

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yes! This works for us Justin. :0)

[@donkeydarko77]

Often, even if I'm enjoying a video, I forget to "like" it. That opening salvo of awesomeness instantly reminded me. FYI: Dan & Mick aren't rubbing your rhubarb - the D&M Drive is magnificent.

[@cpk313]

Mick's Tufnel moment "When everything's on 10 and really cooking and you step on your boost pedal and nothing happens" ........but this one goes to 11

[@peteubriaco7496]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@alexkatsaros6180]

Hello Dan and Mick, I started watching TPS about six months ago and I love it , maybe obsessively so. At the moment Iam up to 43 pedals most of which are overdrives and distortion pedals. I had to stop and think that maybe I need something dofferent like reverb, cjorus delay, tremolo etc. I am hooked I cannot stop. Boys, fuzz s not all I need, I need more! Thankyou for a great show which is informative and entertaining. AK

[@ThatPedalShow]

Cheers Alex, and welcome 🤗

[@danmist]

Nineteen overdrives and a Hiwatt? Hell yeah! This is why I watch TPS!

[@Sailor_Man_Music]

I love this channel!! Thank you both so very much for such wonderful content. I watch this show religiously I can’t praise these two enough. I have almost been playing guitar for a solid year and I have enjoyed myself immensely. I can’t think of two many days where I haven’t practiced and I am constantly improving. I am not a natural I doubt I will ever be be as good as you all, but I sure enjoy trying.

[@Billywagner22]

I've owned way too many drives to count. The Blues Driver is one of the best.

[@bechela1]

Blues driver was the first pedal I ever bought 20 years ago and is still on my board and i use it all the time. Just a really great sounding pedal, and for a good price too

[@thinkthirsty1305]

My favorite OD, probably

[@christopherburnett1745]

Les Paul > Blues Driver > Mick side of D&M is my current favorite OD sound. I can get about 90% of the sounds I want with that and my volume knobs.

[@spikevelvet7867]

@Neon Thunderbird I don't find the Blues Driver to be noisy at all........

[@mattelder9147]

Seriously, I’ve had a drink or two, but another idea. There and back again. Finding out that your initial intuitions were right for you, even though you had a instructional education on what isn’t your tone. Finding that home was great and so was the journey.

[@anthonydratnal1870]

I'm frankly impressed That Tangent Show got through all these pedals in just an hour! 😉 Please do a showcase on Wide Range Humbuckers now that Dan has that amazing Longbottom guitar!

[@Paul_Lenard_Ewing]

This has got to be one of my fave shows! Thanx

[@RobertFisher1969]

It’s fun to just take a gain pedal & put EQ pedals before & after it. I like to reverse the in-EQ & the out-EQ to boost the less distorted frequencies & cut the more distorted ones.

[@jrchanning]

Such a fun episode, I've ordered a truck load of pallets to put all my OD/Distortion/Fuzz/boost pedals on !! ;) :p

[@goodknight37]

Great episode👍 personally, I stack my fuzz into a fuzz, just before the last 2 fuzzes. Sometimes if I need a little more, I’ll add a fuzz up front.

[@mikeroadblock]

Yes. Yes and yes my kind sir.

[@onefatstratcat]

OMG I had one of those Ross distortions back in the day!! It was Fuzzariffic!!!

[@Liko81DJ]

Q: How many overdrives do you need? A: Yes. Very interested in the Gearbox. My current gain stack is Klon->Boost->MIAB (bookended by a fuzz and a RAT that I don't tend to stack much), so the new Wampler is two thirds of that in an enclosure the size of my RYRA, with a "loop" to stick my Spark Mini in between to goose the Pinnacle. The Morning Glory is also on my "really nice to have" list.

[@chipsterb4946]

This is a fantastic show. I got the one-too-many OD pedal a few weeks ago. Ended up auditioning all 4 and was really surprised by which one failed to make the grade. Trying to sell the Tubescreamer clone now but half hoping sale fails. (3 does NOT include fuzz or dirt boxes). After auditions, I set the 3 ODs on a chair and messed around with order until I found an order I liked and seemed most flexible. (Don’t have that awesome switcher thing) 7 seven is too many at once 😝 I have no idea why turning the gain up on a Klon-type is sacrilege. On my Tumnus Deluxe, going above 2:00 on the gain seems to cross a threshold and yields a really nice sound. However, it is a wonderful clean-ish boost as well. What’s working for me ATM is Tumnus => bluesbreaker type => Timmy. Sort of boost/more gain/2nd boost. And the Timmy is great as a boost before dirt boxes that follow - some compression but fairly “transparent”. And good tone controls.

[@VictorMerryweather]

Also. Always felt the minimum were a fuzz. A mid hump. A flat EQ crunch. And a boost.

[@gordonrankin3995]

Great show guys! My wood or fitter workers always tell me I have no fit. Ok really metal and woodwork are not my thing. Really shows what the G2/G3 can do with re-arranging the pedals in an order to make X sound.

[@humbucker1414]

TPS: "We've got so many pedals we need a pallet!" The Edge: "Dallas, go warm up the forklift..."

[@Yupppi]

That Plank Board Btw if you never read the literal description of the episode, you're bound to miss a lot of enjoyable linguistics. Perhaps it isn't a coincidence Mick used to work in magazines for a long time. I'd watch an hour or two of you guys just get on crazy tangents and tomfoolery. Nice to see Dan sink back to the 80's with that weirdo guitar. What you also will notice about Mark series amps with the V-shape eq is that you almost have to do it to tone down the midrange of those amps to reasonable levels. It took me years of thinking "why would a guitarist ever use that kind of an eq shape for the amp" until I was shown that it's a reaction to the amp, not a pre-planned setup.

[@Airfire21]

How well timed! My partner (an amateur guitarist who just plinks around on their Tele occasionally) genuinely turned around to me just as we were about to get into bed last night and said "Why are there so many types of Overdrive, why can't there just be one that does it all". I think Carl Longbottom may have been able to hear my head explode all the way in Geordie-land. Safe to say there was then another half an hour of me explaining the different types of gain and why digital overdrive isn't where I would like it to be for it to be in my sound (and most of the guitarists that I look up to sound - Dave Simpson being a very clear example of one of the ones using digital OD) - I think they may have regretted saying anything at all...!

[@karllongbottomguitars9192]

It made me laugh, although I'm not as far north as you

[@timscarrow9151]

I've done digital processors, But the old designs really take me to what my heros used in my case anyway.I'm so jealous that I can't share it more.

[@peterjessop1878]

Very interesting guys! I’ve just reduced the number of gain stages on my board from 5 to 3. My main distortion is now a Magnetic effects White Atom fuzz which has a good eq and other gain stages are a Chase Bliss Condor, which adds further drive and eq plus midi control and an original Hudson broadcast. Huge number of sounds especially if you use the guitar volume and tone knobs.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Nice!

[@mikeroadblock]

Superfuzz,PDF-1X, Timmy.

[@NolanDerosia]

"if you've got any more than 19 overdrive pedals you need a psychiatrist, not That Pedal Show" …I feel attacked.

[@obsoletecd-rom]

I think they meant 19 overdrive pedals on a single board at once, like they’re doing for purposes of demonstration. Don’t feel attacked my friend. Owning 19 overdrive pedals is like having 19 flavors of ice cream. They’re all technically ice cream, but think of all the delicious options and flavor combinations.

[@arceneaux777]

My band mates thought I was mad when I recently added a 3rd OD to my board...now they love it

[@kristenrocksfrags8584]

I’m thinking about getting the Chase Bliss Automatone and combining it with the Kernom Ridge. I haven’t seen that done yet! Lots of options!

[@Blackcruiser1309]

Exactly what I was thinking, but my bank account says no

[@jvborehed]

"50 Shades of Gain" got to be your next t-shirt!! 😍 I will buy at least two ✌️

[@AlbusBand]

Too much? To own ? The answer is a hearty “as many as you want”, cause there’s always a flavor you may want. On a board? Whatever’s working best for you (I tend to stack a max of three gains…most often two). I love you glorious lads and I hope you’re well; see you Monday.

[@agriff4795]

50 shades of gain= Fulltone Soulbender 2 V2, the volume control on my guitar, into an amp at the threshold of clip or more, goes from clean to totally fuzzed out depending on the volume level on the guitar combined with playing dynamics!! Cheers, guys, great show as always!!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yeah nice!

[@jhut5150]

Thanks for this video, guys. I sometimes get self conscious about having a fuzz, treble booster, and 4 overdrives on one board, but this makes me feel ok about it. Did I mention that two of the drives are dual drives…so maybe I am crazy….or maybe…..I need MORE!?

[@eaglerayrob]

I love you two and this show. I've found my tribe. Great work! I've picked up 11 OD type pedals since I started watching TPS a year ago. 3 of those, Gladio, Dualist and D&M drive are dual OD pedals. Then there's the MK II preamp with its many OD offerings. Always room for 1 more. Thanks and....cheers!

[@kmcsounds25]

Ugh I just love the BD-2. Sounds so amazing even on its own.

[@jamescourt2842]

I've had mine since I was 18 just recently decided to have Keeley mod (30 now) done to it my god what a pedal is all I can say. Your volume on guitar rolls off perfectly an it cleans up brilliantly. That stacked with TS9 is just utter perfection 🤙.

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

I have five over drives three boosts and one fuzz. And continue to stack them in different positions to get different sounds and tones. Amongst the other pedals and pedal boards. It just never ends…😬 Thank you guys

[@wolfnstrings]

That was quite a tone pallet you showed there.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Yay!

[@topografer]

This deserves more like

[@leemerrell4923]

That was epic! Thank you so much for the knowledge about stacking. That may be very useful!

[@ja2306]

omg that first shot of the pedal board is hilarious.

[@thespann100]

I have 6 OD’s on my board and love them all. I usually stack between 2 & 3 together. You should do a poll on this.

[@dwaynejessome1728]

how attain that elusive "lonely squeaky swing set in abandoned park" sound - plug Tele into ten overdrive pedals and rock the volume knob on Tele.

[@thenwyeti7270]

Whomever did the pedal masking (or what it’s called) gets MVP for this episode. Learned a bunch on this one, gents. Thank you.

[@ThatPedalShow]

We offer thanks to Simon, god of masking.

[@SumoRabbitOfDoom]

I'm now looking at the dozen drive pedals that aren't on my board right now... I'm going to need a bigger power supply... and a pallet!

[@kjphoto]

I don’t like going to work on Fridays. But I do like GOING to work on Fridays because I get to watch the latest episode of TPS. Cheers from the Big Apple.

[@jaakkokunnas]

How about a "50 shades of gain" T-shirt? I'd buy it.

[@erniesfo]

Yes, how you use the pedal, and what you're trying to achieve. These types of shows always remind me of the same two things: 1) a database I've built over the years that contains recordings and samples of hundreds and hundreds of overdrive pedals. Yes, I said hundreds and hundreds; 2) That said, I only own two (2) pedals that I consider my "overdrive" pedals: Blackstone Appliances Mosfet Overdrive (aka the BAMO), and the Hudson Broadcast. That's it. I've been able to achieve everything I've ever needed with these two live or in a studio recording environment. Given the relative plasticity of terms as they are used here, I would further add that I have only 1 pedal that self-identifies as specifically a "Fuzz" pedal. It has a "shit-ton" of head room and variac functionality. So a possible total of 3 pedals then....

[@ClaudioMartella]

dont stack overdrives serially but in parallel! i can't say that enough. serially you ll get mostly the sound of the last one, in parallel both are well represented, without adding gain (with some mixers you can mix even three overdrives!). Plus you can still put an overdrive after your parallel mixer, if you really need to serially stack them, or you can stack two overdrives serially in the loops you mix in parallel!

[@huffazilla]

And how do you recommend running them in parallel?

[@hervelaunay2078]

@@huffazilla Boss LS-2 (A+B selection)

[@BT_Canonz]

Honestly I like the sound of the klon being the overdrive and the blues as boost. It sounded better than the other way around.

[@tituschalk]

The OD couple! :) Lovely tones today chaps, wishing you both very well.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahaha! Nice!

[@stephendouglas9423]

These Guys will go down in History as The Grand Masters of The Golden Age of Guitar Pedals!

[@WhatsUpWhitey]

I’d like to see you guys put all your pedals into a randomizer and see what you would come up with from those selected. May have to do it by category, but who knows!

[@WhatsUpWhitey]

Or you could do a “Try my rig” feature. Where people send in what they use and we get to see what kind of sounds you can get out of it.

[@andymellor9056]

@@WhatsUpWhitey and @That Pedal Show - can we not encourage people to do a max 5 minute rig demo for the Facebook 'That Pedal Show Fans' group?

[@marco89lcdm]

Ok the palet as a pedalboard is absolutely fitting the theme of this episode spot on! 😂 Thx to this episode, I placed my gain stages like this: green big muff-NRG poker -Okko Diablo plus, using the treble booster to lift the fuzz for solos, and before the overdrive to heavy rythme, then the “+ “ side of the Diablo is lifting everything again when needed. Thx again guys!! 👍🏻 cheers!

[@ThatPedalShow]

Sweeet! Nice one Marco!

[@m3r0t0]

Josh Scott is totally going to make a "50 Shades Of Gain" musical now, isn't he?

[@ThatPedalShow]

Ha! Probably.

[@locationbacklinepianos7312]

@@ThatPedalShow but first he will kill you for using the Klone as a boost :-) :-) :-)

[@donkeydarko77]

@@locationbacklinepianos7312 The Klon (klone) does it's best work as a colored boost/always on, IMO. Its more saturated OD aspects are covered about as well by other pedals that are much cheaper. But the tone enhancement it adds to an amps' cleans...unmatched.

[@mrblablablabla]

@@donkeydarko77 best delete that comment, or Josh will be coming for you too!

[@sparkyguitar0058]

But does he "Have the box"?

[@tattootone68hill78]

Another great, educational show… loved it when you added them on Dan’s you could hear the individual drives impact on tone & volume. Interesting…