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11. Pro Tone Pedals Demo with Dennis Mollan
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Pro Tone Pedals Demo with Dennis Mollan
So first up, we're gonna take a look at the dead Horse Deluxe Overdrive. It's very cool A take on the classic that you all know One love But we put Cem protons spin on it gave it mawr bottom in Gave it morgaine giving more volume just made it overall much cooler than anything you may have played in the past. So, uh, Doc, if you want to crank it there so essentially the dead horse deluxe it basically, it's got an option toe. Add some of that mid boost that used to have in the early days of the green box that we've all played with and done all sorts of delicious things with but also part of the dead horses. I didn't really care for that mid bump that that, you know it had. So I pulled it out of there. But with the attacks, which it adds it both in there. So you've got the option. Have that mid boost or a nice fat round bottom opening up about 150. We talked about that earlier. You were saying you actually chose the name dead horse because everybody makes it to everybody. Beats this dead ...
horse of a circuit. Um, yeah, I told you this story, you know, long a short of it. Dead horse circuits sell really well and we're in the music way business. So originally when you first conceived of the pedal, did you have that That optional mid boost? Their know the mid boost was not there. That was added just a few years ago. Actually, about two years ago, I started working with a lot of the gent movement stuff. Misha Mansoor said, Hey, let's you know, let's had something that's kind of flashy. I use a lot of mid range stuff that's added in there. So we added it. And on the switch, it's amazing. I love it. Misha signature pedal has it on a foot. Swells just got it on a foot switch. So it's almost like the difference with selecting your pickups. The the absence of base gives you a slight volume dropped, but it really focuses in on that mid range and the upper mids. So Nisha's pedal, essentially a dead horse with the foot switch, Or is there any other tunnels? He's got a little bit more output. I've got a little bit more output. You crank all of the knobs on missions and let you you will scream, but it'll feedback itself because it's so hot. But yeah, that's the big difference is that his is on a foot switch, which adds a degree of usability that the dead horse with the toggle doesn't have. So you want to play a little bit more. You check it out on the Clean Channel, getting yeah way really right. That's just a flat, full base, and then go ahead and play drops out and it focuses in on the mids and things. So right now, let's go ahead and give a little more tongue. Here is the diets, which dialled changes it from asymmetrical too symmetrical clipping shape. You can't really hear the difference so much as you can feel it. Now that only comes into play if you're using with Dr. If using it is a clean boost like a lot of the modern guys do these days, you're not gonna hear anything because that only comes into play, Which is why, on missions original signature pedal. We didn't know that because I never never used the drive. But for full I mean you heard how much gain Eyes is the game crank on it. Games, games. Game begins right now. Check it out on channel. Of course you can like that. I would just open up the volume, opened up the tone and just let it go. Let it rip Very nice. It was tasty. So yeah, there's there's a lot of flexibility in there. Like when we initially released it. We added MAWR distortion to it because I was really focusing on using it as a and all around, kind of like a Swiss army knife, Not necessarily an overdrive where you'd never use your you know, you'd never use your drive. One of guys be able to cover the whole spectrum, like in a cover project. You know where you may need to go from a cleaner to a dirtier, all in the same set. You don't want to have a whole bunch. So if you went with just the dead horse, he can really crank it or ease it back whenever you need to dio and cover a lot of sonic ground with that. So you know, it's just ah, you know, except it's just the army knife. Swiss Army knife of over drives at this point with those toggle switches on there. So what else? That s so the next thing we've got is just a straight clean boost now, Like I said before, a lot of folks are using the dead horse line militias Keith Marrow's signature as just a clean boost. Now it does offer some tone sweeping, Absolutely. But for those that don't use that, like if you're playing into offender, that gets really glassy when you drive that hard anyway, just the overall full spectrum boost go ahead and give us some rocking waken. Yeah, sure, it's good there way, really driving that front and back harder. Not really bringing up any of the spectrum in particular, just adding everything. And that's just boosting the volume and allowing you get more gain out of exactly you just hitting the ample a bit harder. Just slamming the front end harder. No tone shaping. No boys just slamming it. Um, yeah. I can't really milk that one any longer. Eyes the CQ designed to be very transparent or is there like a specific color that gives you this one is just flat, flat frequency signal response on it cool. So let's move on to our delay, which has actually been on the whole time. But we didn't wait. We're not in the loop yet. So, personally, I like to use delays and times time based effects through the loop. Doc, Doc agrees. He likes it in the loop. And we actually had it in front. Didn't like it as much through through the loop. And, uh, go ahead s. So what we've got here is your standard for knobs started. Three. So it's this model called in. This is just our the proton delay. I try to keep it simple, you know, confidently. Way did a lot of market research. OK, you know, Facebook post what you guys think I'm trying to get rid of a lot of the silly names that really became just silly, you know, beating a dead horse. Yeah, exactly. But the dead or you can't That's such an obvious name. I mean, come on now. So, anyway, it's just the proton delay. Three knobs are the same that you're gonna find on every delay. It's gonna be your mix. You're delaying your repeats. But what this one offers is a volume and that's gonna be your overall boost. So go ahead and play, dog, and I'm gonna wait on that. If you want to take a solo that uses a little more, you know, exactly exactly. Because that's not you know, I mean, obviously, you heard the delay getting louder. But that's not the mixing up the mix shops over here that's taking the clean 70 bowl drive signal in the wet suit on boosting them together. Exactly. Exactly. Now we can we can play with the mix of its way. Okay, so you could use this absolutely good way. You know, what we were talking about was how you know there's a mixed knob on here and a volume knob so you could actually use this pedal as a lead boost because, you know, you could you could set your dry signal toe wet signal ratio with mixed knob. But, you know, if you if you're you have this pedal in your loop and you want to throw it on for a lead when you need the vine, boost their you know, the vine knob actually gets louder than the unity signal. Yes, having how many decibels of abuse they have about 12. So it's It's a nice It's a nice, uh, thickener, you know, without getting too overbearing. So and then, uh, and then besides that you have your delay, and you can tweak it and play with it and have all sorts of runaway noises and everything else couldn't play and see if we can dial it way. Check it out on the social. Yes, that's actually where is that? So let's hear this on. Do you wanna go? Three. Let's go, red. So when you have the volume knob set all the way to the left at seven, there is that just even volume Unity, Gates. Okay. And then all the way, the right, You're gonna get a pretty good side. So let's let's check out the how extreme we could make the volume booth. It doesn't job. My apologies to whoever's working the soundboard there, but so I could actually see having two of these in the loop, one for just your average delay and then one as a solo boost. Yeah, if you want to spend $500 to do that, I'm cool with that. But I will gladly send you that invoice. But if all you want is that clean channel boost. Go with clean boost. It's a little easier. Okay, it's a little easier. I like it. But, uh, Doc, how do you feel? Dig the delay a lot. I think, you know, we get so involved. I think with these digital applications and in the box like that, I'm still kind of old school. I like getting on their messing with. I think there's a distinctive sound. I had the old boss just dd five, I think for 10 or 12 years there was something about that that sounds a pedal through the through the head, and I think that's cool about that. Pedal is it seems you can get a lot of different kind of sounds, a bit of a slap back thing happening there and get a bit wider and kind of analog sounding as well. So all these air out of what was a proton proton pedals dot com? Yeah, and you can go ah slash dead horse slash delay slash boost. But dad proton pedals dot com for all your guitar pedal needs