[Music] heat heat [Music] heat up here [Applause] [Music] heat up here [Applause] [Music] [Music] ladies and gentlemen two great companies namely Analog Man known for their awesome uh vintage inspired old school killer tone pedals probably the most popular of which is the legendary king of tone and chase bliss known for great sounding pedals with very forwardthinking design where there’s lots of programmability and uh ability to control things via expression pedal but while rooted in great good old school guitar tone they’ve gotten together and had a baby it’s the brothers AM so this is kind of putting the best of what Analog Man is known for and the best of what Chase Bliss is known for all together in one pedal you of course heard it on all the guitar parts on the song at the beginning of the video now this pedal is based tonally at least on the King of Tone i’ve had one for years awesome sounding pedal mine is the one that has like a high gain side and then a normal side cuz you could kind of custom order them the way you wanted them my favorite sound in that pedal is the kind of clean boost buffered sound that it does on the cleaner side so anyways King of Tone that’s the inspiration for this pedal and you can get all those great sounds that that pedal is known for in the Brothers AM much like the original King of Tone you got two sides two different channels but on this pedal you can actually configure those sides via a switch here on each channel uh to be either like a boost an overdrive soft clipped or a hard clipped distortion easily configurable via three-way switch on each side each side gets a tone control volume control and gain control and now here’s where things get interesting there’s actually something extra in this pedal that the original King of Tone doesn’t even have and that is a treble booster that you can switch between two different voicings the treble booster is tied to channel one so when you turn on channel one you can choose to use the treble booster or you can deactivate it so in other words you can make the pedal operate if you want to much like an old school King of Tone but if you want to layer that extra treble booster in with channel one you can do that just via this switch right here so you get three positions on the switch treble booster off treble booster like an old school rangemaster or a more modern kind of more aggressive version of the treble boosted sound i’m a huge fan of treble boosters i love them cuz I like those tones of Brian May and Tony Iomi and all that great old school you know snarly mid stuff so you heard me use that a lot in the song at the beginning of the video the lead tones um I was using the treble booster on all of those lead guitar parts and I used both voicings both the old school range master mode as well as the uh the kind of brighter more cutting one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now those of you that know treble boosters will know that part of the range master sound is that thing that happens when the guitar is kind of connected directly to the device and they are seeing one another from an impedance perspective so old school treble boosters really want to see that high impedance signal from traditional guitar pickups and then they interact with the guitar controls in such a cool way where when you roll down the volume you get all this clean up and it sounds really amazing but the problem is that old school treble boosters don’t like buffers so if you use active pickups or if you’ve got a buffered pedal board and you want to run the pedal after the buffer you got problems it won’t sound good the range master will just go crazy so Chase Bliss and Analog Man have come up with a way to make the treble booster actually work with a buffered signal so on the inside of the pedal if you take the back off there’s a trim pot that allows you to actually raise the impedance so that if you’ve got a buffer before this pedal before you hit that treble booster signal in the pedal the impedance gets raised and the pedal will behave much better so it’s a really nice option if you like that treble booster sound but you use a wireless system or you’ve got a buffered pedal board whatever the case it just opens up some options all the sounds in my video I was running the pedal first so right out of my guitar straight into the Brothers AM so I didn’t get into playing with that control but um it’s nice to know it’s there and if I was using a wireless or something that I could get a cool respectable treble boosted signal out of this pedal there’s a couple other trim pots on the inside you can get into and mess with like the output of the treble booster things like that i didn’t do that in this video but if you want to play with that you can take the back off and there’s a few trim pots in there so one of the other things about Chase Bliss as I was saying earlier is that there’s ability to control effect parameters via expression that’s really cool great thing MIDI as well to control some parameters i didn’t get into that in this video cuz as I usually do in my videos I just made it about music and tones but if you want to be able to do things like sweep the you know volume controls or the gain controls via an expression pedal you can do that the pedal also has the ability to store some presets so that’s really nice this little switch right here has three different settings in the middle it’s knobs mode so basically whatever the pedal is set at here that’s what it sounds like when you turn on and off the two channels flip the switch over to the right and now you get a couple of presets that you can store on here where all the switch and knob settings are stored flip the switch over to the left same deal you get two more presets like one for each side hopefully that makes sense so if you got a channel one and two set up for your blues rock gig and you like that and say store it over to the left and then if you got a channel one and two sound with different knob and switch settings that you like for your hard rock gig flip the switch over to the right and you can have two other presets one for each channel okay last but not least and then we’ll get to some sound examples i promise you’ve got a bunch of switches here you’ve probably seen these on other Chase Bless pedals don’t get intimidated basically what they let you do is select what you would like to control if you hook up an expression pedal so like volume one volume two gain one gain two there’s just these little dip switches when you turn on that switch and you hook up an expression pedal it’ll activate you know that expression pedal to be able to sweep that particular control and then there’s a second set of switches here that basically lets you tailor sort of both functions and voicings so for instance there’s a high gain mode for each channel that just adds 25% more gain on top if you flip these dip switches on here for either high gain one or high gain two you’ll get that gain added sound a few other things you can change here like for instance you could make the switches momentary if you want to either or both so when would you want to do that well let’s say your main sound is channel two and that’s your overdrive sound then you want to have a really crazy boosted sound on channel one just for select licks you could make channel one be a momentary switch so just when you hit that crazy big note at the end of the solo step on it and it’ll activate channel one release it and that sound goes back to just being channel 2 okay so let’s get on to some sound examples here the tones I was able to discover and find in my video plus some more playing all that good stuff here we go so I just cut my first part in the song at the beginning of the video and I wanted to use this little part to just illustrate the difference between the boost the overdrive and the distortion modes there’s a lot of crossover there it’s not like when you flip one of these switches to go between the modes you’re going from like a micro amp to a tube screamer to a metal zone or something it’s not like that there’s a lot more crossover than that between the modes essentially what you’re doing is you’re adding a little bit more clipping in each mode and the sound changes a little bit now I chose to use in the song right when I turn on the pedal at the beginning the overdrive mode so I’m going to show you what that sounds like this is without the pedal switching it on in the overdrive mode okay so you can just hear that it’s buffering the signal a little bit gets a little bit louder gets a little gnarier clearer everything gets fatter [Music] [Applause] that was a sound that I always loved you know in the original King of Tone whether you know I was kind of using the overdrive or or you know more of a clean boost voicing it just got bigger and just made everything like sound better okay so let’s flip this switch now uh on channel 2 between the overdrive i’m going to go to the clean boost mode now and then I’ll go over to the distortion mode [Music] [Applause] right you probably didn’t hear a ton of difference between the modes clean boost mode gets a little bit louder with a little more headroom and then the distortion mode or hard clip mode gets a little quieter a little more saturated but like you can see there’s a lot of crossover there and now let’s turn up the gain about 3/4 of the way up and we’ll do the same thing that’s probably where you heard the most difference in between the modes right there when I’ve got the gain up a little bit higher cuz I guess you’re hearing the clipping circuits a little more but anyways this is just to illustrate that there’s a lot of crossover between clean boost overdrive and distortion modes now let’s look at the tone control on channel 2 i’m playing a single coil guitar right now so it’s a little bit brighter and for the tone at the beginning of the video let’s get back to that sound um I wanted you know the neck pickup to be real clear and [Music] punchy right um but I just noticed when I was on the bridge pickup it’s maybe a hair bright this tone tone control has a ton of range so if you want to warm up the tone you can absolutely [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] lots of range there on the tone control to dial it in whether you’re using humuckers single coils whatever you got i did a real basic rhythm part um using the pedal in kind of the the clean boost mode and this was always I think my favorite just personally my favorite sound on my original King of Tone um the way that it woke the amp up and just made everything sound better so it sounds like this without the [Music] pedal and when I turn it on [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I don’t know i just always love that sound the way it kind of broadened the sound made everything bigger kicked the front end of the amp without adding like a ton of grit but definitely buffering and a little bit of overdrive [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right so I just did a lead and for this I’m stacking both sides into one another so here’s the sound with no pedal now I’m going to turn on channel two and for this I got a a crunch overdrive [Applause] going that sounds really cool and turning on channel one full-on treble booster into overdrive [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] so somewhere between shred and psychedelic cuz anytime you get a a treble booster involved you get this ‘ 60s kind of you know ‘ 60s7s uh proto metal psychedelia thing that that happens but I love it it’s real smooth you know it’s not a fuzz it’s its own thing but it’s got something in common with fuzz and it’s got something in modern with high excuse me something in common with modern high gain that’s what I’m trying to [Applause] say [Applause] [Applause] heat heat [Music] thanks you guys for watching my video on the Brothers AM terrific collaboration between two of my favorite pedal makers Analog Man and Chase Bliss i was really excited about this one cuz I’m a big King of Tone fan and also just a fan of the forwardthinking stuff that Chase Bliss comes up with they’re always trying to push pedals into the future and hopefully this pedal makes the King of Tones sound and functionality and all that good stuff available even easier to lot you out there because I know it’s been a difficult pedal to get you generally got to get on the waiting list for one of the original versions yeah this is just a great addition to what’s available out there for guitar players in the pedal market check it out further the link down there in the video description below it’ll take you to all the info about the Brothers AM thanks you guys for watching please come back and see me real soon for more videos i’m Pete Thorne take care [Music] heat
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