The PLUS: the next gen overdrive/boost

[@DavidHerrell-l7u]

Just finished your course "Tools for the Creative Guitarist". Thank you for including the Performance tracks, Backing tracks and Charts (.pdf). Your approach to rhythm guitar is refreshing, and confirms to me that there is an unlimited sound palate on the fretboard between acoustic guitar strumming and electric guitar power chords. Your course unlocks how to find those sounds. PS - You and Brett Papa make a great team. Hope there will be more vids with you both.

[@FastCarsLoudGuitars]

I am still working through the course. It's a lot simpler to just think of everything in terms of intervals from the root of whatever you're playing than thinking with a framework of scale patterns. Really dig this approach as well

[@randonmabe9199]

Justin, your content is just next level. I've watched many of the different guitar channels for years, and yours is by far my favorite. Great sounds, and great playing as always. I love your jazzmaster, that guitar has to be the most versitile I've heard on your channel!

[@PeteLamont]

How happy you look throughout this video is incredibly infectious. Also, sounds great.

[@RICO_SUAVE21]

Barber is a really cool builder. They make some great stuff and the owner is really a great person to deal with, he takes time to answer all your questions.

[@Matthewtaylorn]

daaaaaang, brother. might just be the best youtube video tone i've ever heard.

[@gordonnewman9037]

Mine is in the mail. I can’t wait to use it. New pedal days are fun and spark creativity for me. 👍

[@seanzinger]

Your playing is mesmerizing dude. That LP is siiiick

[@MrNocaster]

Ordered the ET65 yesterday to throw in my 75 Deluxe Reverb. Thanks for leading me in the right direction. Thanks again for the course.

[@caleshtcincredibles]

Yeh man love how that pedal " colors " the amp tone . Very nice tones and very usable as well .

[@barefootnblues]

It takes a great player playing through a great pedal pushing a great amp. You got to have all 3. Thanks Justin!

[@cjyoung1994]

I really like how your lower-frequency strings don't get muddy - the tonal clarity is consistent across the fretboard. Not sure what the secret sauce is there - but it's working and sounds great!

[@charleswood2182]

Looks like a great pedal. I'll have to sleep on that. Which gets me to my real point; You know, from what I take in here, what I can take in here at my level. Well. I bought your course. So here's how I will approach the material. My criterion for setting the scope of playing in combo guitar, rock, country, that stuff. And this is spoken as dictum most generally then. With guitar, either bang it primarily following the drums, or, sing with it to augment or substitute in for the vocal melody. From those two principles, I hope to gain much from your course sir.

[@scottgarrison9191]

Great sounding pedal, can see it freeing up a lot of space on a more minimal live board. Thanks for the very solid demo.

[@josephhulsey7662]

Just got this pedal. Greasey , sticky, snarly, nice harmonic feedback when holding notes, snappy, clear and feels great under the fingers. Response to pick attack pleasurable. Break up is sweet. What’s not to like. Your vid sold it. I’m a happy neck wringer for it. Spanx!

[@JustinOstrander]

Great to hear!

[@tripledoubletroubful]

Have had an old Barber Direct Drive LG on my board for at least a decade now, it’s got just enough of everything

[@FastCarsLoudGuitars]

Mine arrives Monday. Been looking for an excuse to buy another Barber pedal. What's better than supporting David and Keith at the same time? I bet it is incredible in to the five watt BUSS

[@vicguitar1]

Loved your cording on the quite parts 👍

[@bryanh3057]

That tone!! 🤘

[@stratomess]

Just ordered one of these in the pimpy lookin' Silver finish. Of course, I get the feelin' you could make a '79 Converse hightop shoe retrieved from the dump sound great.

[@KenMoss-music]

Sounds awesome Justin

[@bottomkitchen250]

I seriously dig that custom.

[@markvigil8667]

Those tones🎵 belong on records!💯 I don't think that I have anything that good on my line 6 or kemper modelers. You play awesome guitar 👍🌟

[@Skyne_E_Vader]

@4:00 that was great... no kidding. Keep that one.

[@malconmtekeshe]

Loving this and reminds me i need to get electric soon. Been on acoustic only for too long😊

[@mikegrisafi541]

Boosters are such an underrated tool. I have a homemade jobbie which I took quite a while to design (pandemic project) that I absolutely have to have on all the time at the end of the chain where it can interface directly with the front end of the amp because it gives me some subtle EQ things I want. Feels naked without it. But this Barber pedal seems like it would be perfectly fine in its place.

[@buzzfretwear2906]

We appreciate your dedication to personal hygiene. And oh yeah, the great guitar content too 😄. Seriously though, that is some KILLER tone!

[@steveg219]

Cool pedal, great demo

[@danielj_music]

Intro jam when you start pushing the amp reminds me of the 90s song Fascinating New Thing. I know, I have weird associations. Sounds great though!

[@jeremymetzger7969]

foof, love the sound of that chord at 4:02 and ya just laugh

[@Grant_Ferstat]

Ordered. 🙂 Also. Remind me what pickups are in the Dano J Justin.? I think you've mentioned it before. Also. I wish they still made those amps. A store on the other side of Australia from me used to stock them but I didn't know what they were. I think they ended up selling their stock off discounted!

[@JustinOstrander]

Peter Leonard. I think his store is called pickup wizard

[@Grant_Ferstat]

@@JustinOstrander cheers!

[@joeriffanucci]

Sounds killer man. Great demonstration with cleanup via guitar volume.

[@ericskinner7355]

Organic...I like the way it breaks up.

[@frankgreco]

Hey Justin... great sounding pedal. I just noticed your link to the Gold Plus seems to be incorrect. It sends me to a Reverb page for the Barber BUSS Burn Unit Super Sport pedal.

[@JustinOstrander]

I think it sold out and the link redirects to something in stock.

[@frankgreco]

@@JustinOstrander Just checked again, and now it points correctly to the Gold Plus version. I take the only diff is the color.

[@frankgreco]

And now the Silver version is gone...

[@BrockDouglas99]

That is some excellent riffage! You're a bad mofo on the guitar, with plenty of mojo to spare. The pedal is cool. Nice circuit. Thanks for the review. Ordered a silver one 👍

[@tylerjewell7561]

Man - something special about playing after a shower. Extra fresh.

[@JustinOstrander]

What kind of conditioner do you use for the best tone?

[@tylerjewell7561]

@@JustinOstrander Pert Pluz

[@braddorman4709]

How much of that gain and harmonics is coming from how hard you’re hitting the front end vs gain that dan be dialed in the pedal? Sounds great!

[@JustinOstrander]

That’s the thing…they melt together in a way that you kinda can’t tell. My favorite kind of OD. If you listen to when it’s off, you can tell I have a tiny bit of hair on the amp.

[@Sonicblue1922]

Great demo! Justin random question-what pickups are in your Dano JM? Are you using 250k or 1 meg pots? That guitar sounds literally insane.

[@JustinOstrander]

Peter Leonard. The pots are whatever would be in an old JM. Dano builds them to vintage specs (except maybe the neck radius)

[@chr15tree]

Is this a play on the Buss pedal previously featured?

[@JustinOstrander]

More of a compliment. The BUSS is an OD/distortion; this is the boost that’s also kind of an OD to go with it.

[@MRxr400]

very lush harmonically full pedal. Transparent as some might say.

[@JustinOstrander]

Yeah I tend to shy away from the T word. That’s what everyone said about the Klon…I’m all, “then why are you paying $5k+ for one?” Haha

[@jeremylewis2171]

Sounds killer man. Trying to locate one of those Analog Outfitters amps is impossible man. What a great little amp.

[@JustinOstrander]

Yeah I guess they ran out of scrap Hammond parts to use for guitar amps, so they called it quits?

[@LennieDean]

Sounds similar to the Exotic BB maybe?

[@JustinOstrander]

I don’t think so, but it has been a very long time since I have played a BB

[@mikemalone9404]

I have to be honest, I don't care much for it. Too much going on around the note, but...to each his own.

[@JustinOstrander]

Man all that stuff around the note is what I live for. It does get pretty wooly with the gain cranked into the front of a low-headroom amp. I won’t be using that higher gain sound as much but wanted to show how well it cleans up. Almost behaves like a fuzz in that way.

[@toddneary]

@JustinOstrander - Nothing to do with the latest greatest. That all just sounds great 👍