What's up everyone? And welcome to 'Will It Chug?'
the video series where I try out a guitar-related piece of gear
and I make sure that it's chugging.
It's a service for the metal community
and the metal guitar player.
And you know, this is the first time in like 2 months
that I record anything in this video s--
Oh, are all the cameras on? Is the microphone on? I just--
I don't remember how to record videos anymore.
Anyways, in today's Will It Chug we're trying out the new Vox Cutting Edge distortion pedal.
Or preamp, might I add.
It's a new distortion pedal from Vox.
It's a part of a series that I don't remember the name of
but they have several of these pedals that contain a valve
or something called Nutube.
Nutube?
Gimmick much, maybe?
I thought this trend kinda died off a little bit
where you know, you said that you were using a tube
in a distortion pedal, or something called asstube
or pretube, or prelube tube, or whatever.
In a distortion, basically...
You know, trying to make it legit analog.
Nutube--
What is that, even? Maybe I have to read.
But at the same time I don't really care
if it's a nutube, a lubetube, a pootube, or a...
...a YouTube.
YouTube.
As long as it sounds good,
as long as it sounds real, I don't care. OK?
So, is this Vox Cutting Edge pedal gonna chug?
We're gonna find out today.
I'm using this KSR Poweramp right here.
50-watt poweramp, that's a tube poweramp, going into this Hesu cabinet.
This is a Celestion T75 speaker, hello?
This is a Neumann TLM-102 microphone,
and I also have a stereo microphone over there, and I'm gonna mix and match a little bit.
So it sounds great.
Alright, I'm gonna start by putting everything on 12 o'clock.
This is the clean tone right here.
Great.
Will It Chug? Start the clock.
Does it chug?
It does... why did I throw away my guitar pick? I need that.
See? I've been recording too many SWOLAs lately.
I keep throwing my guitar pick all over the place.
You can't do that in a guitar demo.
I need that guitar pick.
So yeah, it's chugging, man.
Can we crank it a little bit? Is that OK, Ola?
OK, so--
Just to explain a little bit.
I'm running this in a preamp mode.
There's 3 different modes in this.
There's a standard mode,
which is where you would put this
if you would go into the front of an amplifier.
Then you have Pre mode, which is going as a preamp into a poweramp section like this.
Or if you go to a computer with some impulse responses,
that's when you wanna use that.
And then you have a Cab section.
So it has an impulse response built into it.
I'm gonna try that later, OK?
It also has a Link output right here,
so you can link more than one of these pedals going.
Why you want that, I don't know, but...
Who cares, man?
It's cool.
What do we have? We have volume...
Tight, and gain, OK.
And then an active EQ, bass, middle, and treble.
And look at this.
There's an oscillator in there.
With an oled showing my tone.
Look at my tone.
It looks very jagged, does it work in clean?
It does, OK.
Birdy Nam Nam. Birdy Nam Nam.
Great movie, by the way.
Anyways, so you can watch your tone.
My question straight away.
Why do you have that?
That's just for show, more than anything.
Doesn't that just bring up the cost of the pedal?
I'd just rather have something that sounds like this
And you know, I don't need that gimmick right there.
Just saying.
It sounds good though, I must say.
OK, we have Tight on max, let's back down Tight.
And play around a little with the gain.
Still pretty tight with the Tight at zero.
It cleans out the low end basically.
But I like that low end that's there.
Oh, I don't even know how to play my own songs anymore.
That's how long it's been.
OK, gain.
That's a lot of gain.
But if you play lead, you wanna back down that tightness right there
so you get a little bit of that low end there.
It's been so long I have no idea what I'm doing.
That's nice, that's a lot of bass.
OK.
That's a nasty mid range right there.
I would probably keep it around 12 o'clock.
There's treble there if you need it, OK?
OK, I'm gonna switch to standard mode, just to see how it sounds.
Alright, it's dialed down a little bit,
so you don't have that loudness
that you have in the pre section.
Obviously because if you use it in standard mode,
it's supposed to go into a guitar amplifier input
and then you have the EQ on the guitar amplifier, OK?
That makes sense.
But let's try the cabinet out section.
I have no idea how this is gonna sound.
But let's see, I'm switching it over to the Cab.
And then I'm gonna play,
and then I'm just gonna pretend that I hear.
But we'll be able to hear afterwards, because it's still recording this.
It's just that I can't hear while I'm playing, OK?
That sounds good, huh?
I have no idea how that sounds, but OK.
I must say it has a really good chug to it.
It's a little bit generic, maybe.
But it's working really well.
If you would couple this with other pedals,
maybe like an overdrive,
you can probably shape this to sound even more killer than this, you know?
It's probably a pretty good starting point, I would say.
That's a nice chug, right?
So there you go.
Did it chug?
Yes, it did.
What does it cost?
OK, I have to check.
Vox Cutting Edge price.
It's 150 bucks to get.
I think that's pretty OK in terms of pricing.
It's made in Vietnam.
Yeah, it comes with a battery compartment and--
It's rattling a little bit.
But that's OK.
I think it gave a pretty good chug, man.
I must say, I'm really impressed by this.
This is Vox.
You know, Vox, it creates these...
vintage amplifiers.
The AC15 and all of that, you know?
So it's cool, man, it's cool.
I'm liking it, I'm impressed.
Call me impressed.
But this--
This, this thing.
I'd rather not have that.
And maybe the pedal could be like 120 bucks.
How about that?
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And I'll see you next time.
I'm happy to be back, guys.
It feels great.
Thank you for watching, goodbye.