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Now I have it dialled in it is superb! I love the sound of my amp and have been looking for ages for a pedal that will give me the sound of my amp on steroids and this does it! I don’t like to use a huge amount of pedals and like simple single channel amps and this pedal blends in perfectly with that and allows me to adjust everything from the guitar and hit my boost pedal for solos.
I use a DV Mark Micro 50 solid state head as a backup amp but have always struggled with it as a pedal platform as I find it very dark and so was always having to radically adjust my pedal settings when I used it but with the revival drive I just flick the switch to EQ2 and it works brilliantly, feels wonderful to play and responds to changes in my guitar volume just like it does when I’m playing into my valve amp.
I don’t believe there is a ‘best’ overdrive pedal but for what I need, into my rig, for how I like to play, this is the perfect drive pedal for me!
Here's how I decided.
I got my full-fat RD last year as an amp sim for my recording setup (a job it does stupendously well) but have never spent much time with it into an actual amp.
This morning I set up my main gigging amp (Matchless Lightning Reverb) and pedalboard, with drive pedals in this order:
- ThorpyFX Peacemaker (before compressor)
- Wampler Paisley Drive
- tbc
I lined up my Strat, LP, and Tele Deluxe, and staged a shoot-out for the no.3 position:- Digitech Hardwire Valve Distortion - kind of in Boss DS1 territory, but with more body, and altogether more amp-like
- Xotic Effects SL Drive - only recently bumped off my board for the purposes of experimentation
- Crowther Hotcake - a keeper, but not on this board
- Revival Drive - I set up the silicon rectifier side for a Marshall-type sound, shooting for a Mick Ronson vibe
The RD urinated copiously over all the others, and stacked brilliantly with pedals 1 and 2, so my order has been placed. It's a bit spendy, but I don't mind paying for quality. Look out for some of the other contenders on the FX £ page!
Looking at the work Origin have put into the compact RD, I bet it sounds incredible and is much easier to set. However, now that I have learnt how to set my Custom EQ, I will happily keep the big version.
Also, there are now some good instructional videos out there, which weren’t available immediately at the time of release. That wasn’t ideal.
And looking at the manual for the full-size RD, they could do with coming up
with a cheat sheet. One page with an illustration of the front of the pedal with arrows coming from each of the knobs/buttons giving a brief explanation of what each one does and where the flat/zero position is.
And then of course there was the That Pedal Show video where the guys didn’t seem to have gotten a handle on what the pedal could do; I watched it and I have to say it put me off the RD - too complicated and a little underwhelming. I can understand the guys on the show wanting to give their honest first reactions, but it didn’t really work out. Though I’m sure that style of review would be a lot more appropriate for the compact version
Trust me, to my ears the youtube videos don't do this pedal any justice at all.
Here's what I did yesterday and it still could do with some simplification:
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/148284/revival-drive-custom-how-to-tune-your-eq2#latest
They should do something like the illustration at the beginning of this review. Even that the guy marks the Blend/Override footswitch as Kill Dry makes a lot of sense
Anyway here is a link to a crappy iPhone video of us last night from which you can draw no useful conclusion as to how the revival drive sounds........I’m on the far right
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ecccp37sfhis0v/VIDEO-2019-08-25-12-17-24.mp4?dl=0
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Its a Top Hat Emplexador which is basically a 50w Plexi with a master volume and a switch to switch out the bright cap at lower volume