The Vemuram Butter Machine - So Expensive - But It Sounds GOOD

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Do not believe this man. He can make "any pedal sound amazing" ( through any amp ). He is not your average player. JNC can play thru a broom with 1 string into a tuna can and sound Killer !!!

[@denssession644]

The tone is rich and the sustain is incredible🤙. Michael Landau's signature sound really shines through. Thanks for showcasing this beast of a pedal!

[@KelvinPit-n6u]

John, that was some beautiful playing really cool note choices and I think that pedal sounds amazing real amp like and very dynamic I'am definitely going to check out this one.anyway thanks for the cool video!!!

[@sonicsaviouryouwillnotgetm6678]

All the vemuram pedals I have heard sound amazing, but the prizes are really outrageous for electronics this simple

[@kimmolingonheimo]

Yep. Guitar pedals have become a fashion hype thingy...crazy.....( my abs fab ped is the Mad Prof SIMBLE! 200€...

[@peterfoord3406]

Good demonstration. Thanks for it.

[@johnnathancordy]

A lovely pedal!! For similar vibes, an Ibanez/Mazon SD9 is definitely worth a look

[@RicoGoodvibes]

Love this pedal so damn much!! 😍

[@-LSTR-]

The pedal sounds great, so subtle. Its like Japanese single malt.

[@rockstarjazzcat]

Lovely intro John. I went with the SD-9, because, well, yeeeah... He didn't have one in 1990, so... Cheers, Daniel

[@frederickklinge2885]

As an alternative to the Butter Machine, I highly recommend checking out the TWA SH9. It's also an SD9 variant - this is Scott Henderson's signature pedal and he's been an SD-9 user for years. Great distortion pedal, much more usable tone knob function. A relative bargain at $300

[@alexzaytsevguitar]

I think TWA SH9 is more interesting than Butter Machine

[@Deep_Jimpact]

As an alternative to the butter, I use a plant based pedal

[@brain21]

@@Deep_Jimpact Please, someone clone this and call it the Margarine Machine!

[@jimsalman7257]

Or… call it the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!” Machine.

[@frankgreco]

@@alexzaytsevguitar I think Dan and Mick did a detailed comparison recently. Both are quality, expensive pedals

[@JoelCalebOfficial]

should be interesting to capture this pedal for Quad cortex. specially landau's settings

[@mattduffy1454]

Beautiful playing, sir!

[@Deep_Jimpact]

Well, that’s a churn up for the books

[@tonystartup3817]

Butter come up with some better puns than that

[@Deep_Jimpact]

@@tonystartup3817 please leave this to the professionals. There’s only a small margarine of error for this

[@tonystartup3817]

​@@Deep_Jimpactoh stop milking it!

[@Deep_Jimpact]

@@tonystartup3817 I’ve warned you already. This is like de ja Moo.

[@tonystartup3817]

​@@Deep_Jimpact I guess the advice to come up with better puns went pasturized

[@onenotesolo256]

Sounds a bit fizzy here, even with your amazing playing. I’ve found it best to crank the volume on the pedal a bit, gain and treble around 11, and do the guitar volume roll off and play with left and right hand dynamics (i.e. softly). One of those pedals that sounds better in the room with a tube amp than IR’d / sim’d and even then, it likes a darker amp with a bit more sag - for my gear and dubious skills anyway. Has been a nice change from the usual ODs that I play and it lives well in a mix.

[@jackjohn3035]

I hear some very harsh overtones in this demo. similar to when you raise a single coil pickup to high and the magnetic pulls make wolfey overtones. Your playing is fantastic btw!

[@hawkhead418]

You always play the sickest licks when you’re off camera demoing pedals!!

[@jamesbennettmusic2154]

It’s actually Rick Astley doing the demos. He just doesn’t want to be known for his lead guitar playing, so this arrangement works out for both him and Jon.

[@rodrigod2917]

I love Vemuram: I have the Janray and Budi and soon to get Butter Machine and Shanks - full tone palette there in that mix

[@maximilianlun]

@john nathan cordy Can i simulate Steve Lukathers Sound with this one?

[@noelhoekstra6852]

I had the Vemuram Jan Ray. Brilliant pedal but sold it. I think these Vemuram pedals have some kind of harshness on top of the tone that I dont like. Compare it with new nickelwound strings on an acoustic guitar. Besides that they are really touch sensitive and the tone is responsive, something worth the money!

[@brain21]

It seems to me that if you're perfectly satisfied with your SD-9 or variant, there might not be any reason to buy this. If you like your SD-9 or variant, but find the EQ options lacking, and possibly it just doesn't sound "3D" enough for you, then the Butter Machine might just be the ticket. I'm wondering if an SD-9 into an EQ pedal could get a lot of the tones of the BM? I'd be interested to hear an SD-9 / SH-9 / BM shoot out.

[@staurostrucking8967]

Yes to Vemuram

[@DutchGuitarDude]

Great video John Nathan! Thx for commenting on mine!

[@89ji76]

I love the SD9 sound but I sold mine a while back when stripping down to the bare essentials. I’m curious how close of a sound you could get out of the Boss Angry Driver compared to this Vemuram or the original SD9 (Since the Angry Driver is the only overdrive I own now)

[@musiccreation1198]

I've never regretted buying Vemuram pedals. I seriously doubt the Butter Machine would be the exception.

[@Deep_Jimpact]

You can’t believe it’s not better?

[@musiccreation1198]

@@Deep_Jimpact I think you meant "butter", not "better".

[@Deep_Jimpact]

@@musiccreation1198 no, it’s subverting expectations

[@gordonnewman9037]

@@Deep_Jimpact🤔🧈😂

[@Dor_Cohen1]

What amp are you using here? Sounds amazing

[@TCMx3]

yeah... I have two of their pedals on my board. The ODS-1 in particular Im really a big fan of the sound. Ideas about "best" are silly, but it is the overdrive I like the most, so if I had to buy it again I would. Which I hate. The price, the marketing, the not so subtle borrowing of other folks' circuits and then going on about R&D, ugh. Real bummer, I'd prefer they just sucked so I could ignore them.

[@simonedimarzio2557]

500 euro for a single pedal is insane, I paid my HX Stomp just 80 euro more...

[@willgoodfellow3144]

Ive been looking forward to this since i saw Jake had bought one.

[@tonystartup3817]

It's the same one

[@willgoodfellow3144]

@@tonystartup3817 I know.

[@tonystartup3817]

​@@willgoodfellow3144 DOH!

[@stryguy]

"bought" lol

[@mattscott1083]

Do you think they'll allow you to spread the cost?

[@pierrederesistance]

Maybe if you buy direct, otherwise the dealers have to cream a bit off the top..

[@mattscott1083]

i fear this could be a slippery slope @@pierrederesistance

[@barukpj6020]

geordious pedal

[@TheBemontsOfficial]

Any chance of a Cortex capture or this?

[@plefevre]

Really didn't like those lower drive sounds when you bit down on the strings. Really fizzy sounding. Sounder better at higher gain settings.

[@jimmcdougall9973]

Sounds nice. I think it pairs well with a Strat style guitar, but I’m struggling to imagine it with humbuckers.

[@Deep_Jimpact]

It’s like white wine and fish, it’s ok you can have red if you want, don’t listen to societal pressures

[@jimmcdougall9973]

@@Deep_Jimpact especially if the fish and the wine bottle have Nike printed on it.

[@mattgilbert7347]

​@@Deep_Jimpact "I don't know whether to have the white wine or the red wine with the chicken or fish!" "Who cares, a**hole - they're dead!" -Robin Williams

[@Deep_Jimpact]

@@mattgilbert7347 @johnnathancordy a Robin quote for every occasion

[@onenotesolo256]

@jimmcdougall9973 it’s great with humbuckers. It’s a pedal that works best (for me) with everything on 11, roll off guitar volume, and play with dynamics. Quite nice to have something that isn’t a mid-hump pedal, and I had to remind myself that it’s very much a distortion at full gas, or an OD pedal. IIRC, Corey Congilio has a short playing a Lester with one, and of course Landau uses dual HB strats a lot. The Butter Machine is also quite sensitive to different amps - works a treat with a Blackface type amp, arguably less so with a really crisp high headroom amp and speaker (in my case a Little Walter 50).

[@mattgilbert7347]

One of your smoothest intros

[@mariodriessen9740]

This is by far the best demo of the Butter Machine I’ve seen so far, but it’s still probably my least favorite Vemuram pedal yet. I like the solo sounds on some settings, but I really don’t like the sound of… well, basically anything else. I’ve tried. I really tried. For once I feel lucky enough not to want it. 😊

[@SweetSpotSC]

Having played both an SD-9 and a Nobels ODR-1, would you say the Nobels could get similar sounds to this?

[@Deep_Jimpact]

As my gran used to say “only if you could stuff it with marbles”

[@DomMcsweeney-DoomPlugs]

Please NAM this =)

[@staurostrucking8967]

No for SD9

[@Crabfather]

What's this member's comments business? There's only a couple of comments from people who arent paying customers now?

[@wavewithus4081]

Majority of comments are obviously by non members. And yeah there's membership options on youtube too. Apparently they get their own comment 'section'. Whats your point?

[@DavidPhillipsMusic]

🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@ToneDeth.]

You know I complain about PRS and the birds all the time, but Horsemeat was the best pedal name in a long time. Butter machine is also a great name.

[@jakollee]

If only they would make a Horsemeat in a smaller enclosure, like a Ponymeat.

[@ToneDeth.]

@@jakollee genius. Now that's the best pedal name ever

[@thebigsmooth99]

Good video, meh pedal. Spending that much on a tube screamer? 🙄

[@onenotesolo256]

Good thing it’s nothing like a Tubescreamer then. Not cheap though.

[@keithbrown1087]

Sounds Harsh & Brittle to me, should have named it Sour Cream

[@Deep_Jimpact]

Harsh and Brittle, they did the working men’s club circuit in the 70’s I think

[@peteyoung7665]

Horrible!Turn the tone/treble down to zero and it might sound good.

[@johnnathancordy]

Err