What's up everyone? And welcome to Ola Testing Sh*t.
Today I'm trying out the AllPedal Jeff Loomis signature pedal
called the Devil's Triad.
Jeff Loomis and AllPedal have worked together now
to create this pedal
that would cater to Jeff Loomis' live needs.
What they've designed here is basically an all-in-one type of pedal
that you would need if you're, you know...
a lead guitar player for a very big band called Arch Enemy, maybe.
It has 3 functions, OK?
It has an overdrive.
It has a boost.
20 dB boost.
And you also have the 20 dB boost on the overdrive.
So, 40 dB boost in total.
Also, you have a reverb an delay.
You know, the problem with having reverb, delay, and distortion in one and the same pedal
is that if you would go with a cable to the pedal
and from the pedal out to an amplifier,
the problem would be that you would have distortion,
delay, and then if you want to have distortion on the amplifier,
you would distort the delay.
Which, you know, doesn't make sense.
That's why most guitar players use reverb and delay in an FX loop of an amplifier.
You know, time-based stuff, you put that in the FX loop.
So it goes after the distortion,
or overdrive, or drive, or whatever you have in your amplifier.
But AllPedal and Jeff Loomis have now designed this pedal
which is a 4-cable-method type of pedal.
What does that mean?
Well, basically it means that
you have a section of the pedal that works in front of the amplifier, in this case.
Into the preamp of the amplifier, OK?
And then you have the time-based effects going into the FX loop.
So that's why you have 4 cables going from this pedal.
It's called the 4-cable method.
Very common when you use an amplifier with a big effects modeler
like Axe FX, or Line6 Pod, or whatever.
It's basically to keep full control of what happens before the amplifier
and in the loop of the amplifier.
So, the drive and the boost goes into the front of the amplifier.
So I get to use that in front of the amplifier, and then I have distortion on the amplifier.
The delay and the reverb goes into the FX loop of the amplifier, OK?
Is that clear?
With the overdrive section, Jeff wanted something to push an amplifier
to get a sick-ass rhythm tone, OK?
So, most old amplifiers like a Rectifier,
they need a little bigger push.
That's what the overdrive's for.
I'm using a Mesa Badlander, which sounds like this.
Without anything engaged.
And then you engage the overdrive and you get...
And you get that little extra push that a Rectifier needs.
And then you have the boost.
That's for leads.
So, basically giving a 20 dB boost just to, you know...
Push the amplifier even more.
And make it a little simpler to play leads.
Right?
And then you have the delay and reverb.
That goes in the FX loop of the amplifier.
Pretty cool, huh?
So, Jeff wanted all of these features into one single pedal.
So, there it is.
Let's turn back the wheel a little bit
and just start with trying out the overdrive a little bit.
And pretty straight forward, right?
You have a level, tone, and a drive.
Pretty common
for an overdrive, so if you wanna push it a little bit more.
You can really get that little--
djenty stuff, if you go for that.
That's enough, man.
Check this out, without.
Oh, I need gain, man.
That's nice.
Alright, and then the boost.
It's not even maxed out at this point, so...
It really helps with the alternate picking.
Sounds like I'm actually good at guitar, you know?
And then the delay.
And also, the delay has a level to it
so you can turn off either the reverb or the delay
if you want just one of each.
So here's the delay only.
The delay and reverb are analog circuits.
But the repeats are digital, OK?
OK, cool, huh?
But also with this amount of gain,
if you're a little sloppy,
people are gonna hear and notice, OK?
Nice.
But if you nail it, it's really an enabling pedal.
Again, let's try the overdrive.
That's a really nice boost right there, man.
Shit.
Crank some gain on the amplifier.
Ah, this makes me happy, man.
There you go, man.
And you know what I really like about it? It's just very simple.
I mean, most guitar players out there, at least like me, for instance,
the only effects that I'm using is probably, you know...
I'm using an amplifier, I'm using an overdrive,
probably a boost for solos, and delay.
These are the effects, or the setup that I'm using live when I'm playing with The Haunted.
And usually I get that with like a Quad Cortex or a Fractal FM3, obviously.
But if you wanna use an amplifier and keep it sort of analog,
and just simple, and probably a lot cheaper too,
Because a Quad Cortex is really expensive.
No, I have no idea what this is gonna cost,
but I don't imagine it being super duper extra super expensive.
We'll just have to see about that.
Yeah, I don't know, it's been very easy to demo this pedal.
Because it sounds good, it works as it should...
I was a little bit worried about it having noise,
when you engage all this shit.
Obviously, there is noise.
OK? You can hear the noise.
There's more noise as soon as you engage the stuff,
but at the same time you have to understand that you're boosting an amplifier
with a lot of gain.
In that sense, I thought it was a pretty quiet pedal.
That's also a thing with the 4-cable method, is that...
Getting the right levels in a 4-cable method is kinda hard
and it often introduces noise.
And bullshit in the background.
I'm not getting that from this.
Obviously, it makes sense.
Because they designed this pedal with the 4-cable method in mind.
That's how Jeff is gonna use it, so that's how it works.
So that's the Devil's Triad pedal
for you right there, Jeff Loomis' signature pedal.
A very nice addition to your simple rig, I would say.
If you wanna keep it small and simple,
this is the way to go, man.
Just saying.
Anyways.
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