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Underappreciated Overdrive Pedals - Empress, Xotic, Catalinbread, Crowther & Crazy Tube Circuits
Published 12 September 2025
Duration:
00:45:56
VIDEO IS GLITCHY FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES, THEN IS FINE. SORRY!
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Welcome to the show! Are these underappreciated? Well, if you know you know, and if you don’t… keep watching.
Dan and I assemble five overdrives that you can pick up for sensible prices (some new, some used) and have a blast. Old-school TPS, you might say.
Please enjoy the show, and let us know your own underappreciated overdrives!
Both amps are on all the time, straight dual mono - everything hitting both amps.
CHECK YOUR COGS! In your YouTube ‘cog’ settings options, there is a ‘stable volume’ option. If you want the audio to be the closest to what we recorded, turn ‘stable volume’ OFF. (Moan, grumble, etc.)
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 Intro playing & hello
1:25 What are we doing today?
2:05 Catalinbread DLS intro
3:00 Today’s amps
3:56 Little bit of reverb
4:12 Catalinbread DLS sounds
8:38 Empress Multidrive intro
10:58 Empress Multidrive sounds
16:30 A Multidrive sound for Dan
19:30 Xotic BB Preamp intro
20:30 Xotic BB Preamp sounds
25:38 Crazy Tube Circuits Killer V intro
26:22 Crazy Tube Circuits Killer V sounds
29:00 Killer V Vibrato sounds
33:05 Crowther Audio Hot Cake intro
35:25 Crowther Audio Hot Cake sounds
38:37 Treble booster into Hot Cake
41:45 Lost in a sea of gain
43:55 All on!
Pedals & stuff in today’s show
• TheGigRig Three2One
• Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner
• Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret
• Xotic BB Preamp
• Analog Man Beano Boost
• Crowther Audio Hot Cake
• Crazy Tube Circuits Killer V
• Empress Multidrive
• Boss RE-202 Space Echo
• TheGigRig G3
Amps & cabs
• Laney LA30BL & Laney LA212 cabinet with Celestion G12 Greenback speakers
• Marshall 1987x and Brown 2x12 with 1 x Celestion G12-65 and 1 x WGS ET65 speakers
Guitars in today’s video
• Fender Custom Shop ’62 Stratocaster - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOMHUQeHGRQ
• 1965 Fender Telecaster - Dan’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwBXaq72jQI
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop Murphy Aged - no specific video but it’s on the show a lot
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