What's up everyone? And welcome to Mystery Rig.
This is our 3rd video that we're doing.
And uh... incredible success of this video series.
Uh...
We're--
Basically you sit and watch me guess wrong.
That's what it's all about.
But we've noticed that you guys like...
...when you get to see me suffer.
I think that's the content you guys want, unfortunately.
What the f***, you guys? I don't understand.
In today's episode of Mystery Rig...
- Joel, explain what's happening. - Yeah.
[Joel] Today we're gonna try out some overdrive pedals.
[Ola] Yay.
[Joel] Through the same amp.
And through the same cab.
Can you tell them apart? I don't know.
[Ola] I don't know either, I mean, that's what we're gonna find out today, so...
Obviously, the Dual Rectifier...
Classic amplifier to use with boost.
The thing about using an overdrive is that you squash the input of the amplifier, and...
A lot of people say that when you squash the input of an amplifier...
That you make every amplifier sound the same.
More like, you know, that quackity-quack mid punch.
[Joel] Yeah...
[Ola] So... I don't know.
[Joel] I'm just gonna tell you what we got here.
Of course, I'm not gonna play left to right for you.
Because you've seen how these are set up, so...
- Yes. - I'm gonna play one at a time.
- And then we can go back to them. - OK.
[Joel] Trying to compare... so, we got the classic 'Tub' screamer...
We got the Super 'Ooverdrive'
from 'Booss'.
- We got the pr-- - What are you doing?
[Joel] Precision Drive from Horizon Devices.
We got the 'Savash' Drive from Airis Effects.
And we got the classic 'Grind'.
From Fortin.
[Ola] Why are you trying to confuse the audience?
[Joel] I don't know.
My English is not that good, man.
[Ola] OK, I can't see shit.
Should I demonstrate how the amplifier sounds without an overdrive?
[Joel] Go ahead, man.
[Ola] Awesome Rectifier sound and tone.
[Joel] Right, OK.
Should we go through the first overdrive?
[Ola] Whatever, man.
Let's go.
- Is it on? - It's on now.
[Ola] Well, I didn't even hear a click.
All I know is that it sounds great.
- You know? - It does.
[Ola] OK, can you shut it off?
[Joel] I will.
[Ola] Ha! I gotcha.
You know why?
This has to be a Boss pedal.
Because there's not a switch on it.
It's one of those silent switches.
That's just my guess right there, so...
Unless you switched everything out...
That was the Boss Super Overdrive right there.
Just saying, OK.
That was pedal number 1.
- Yeah. - OK.
- Let's go to the second one. - Yes.
Uh...
I think this might be...
If we're talking the same pedals as before, then this is the Fortin Grind.
- You wanna hear without? - Yes.
[Ola] That's definitely the Fortin Grind, or something in particular.
Yes.
Next.
[Joel] Goddamn it.
Ah! OK.
- Can I ask you to do stuff? - Yeah, sure.
[Ola] OK.
OK, I'm not gonna say... if this pedal has a tone...
Can you pull it up to max?
Or like mid?
I can't see what I'm playing by the way, did you notice?
- Uhm... - It's impossible to play.
[Ola] Hang on.
I might have jinxed myself.
Can you turn it off?
You know, I'm almost...
90% sure that this is the Ibanez TS-9.
Like 90%.
- Right? - OK.
[Joel] Yeah, sure.
I need to disguise the click here.
- OK... - What?
[Ola] Uh... you know, I remember... I can't see.
That's why I can't play.
Just a little side-note, OK, hang on.
OK, for me this is a little too pushy
to be one of the classic overdrives, so...
You know, I think I've already guessed that the last overdrive was the Ibanez TS-9.
This might be the...
I don't know, the Savage Drive, maybe?
Uh... I...
I don't even remember the 5th pedal now.
We had the Fortin Grind...
The Boss Super Distortion, right?
Ibanez TS-9...
Savage, and what was the last one again?
- Uh... Horizon Zero Dawn. - Horizon Devices.
This is the Horizon Devices Precision Drive.
- OK. - Yes.
- Right. - I'm gonna tell you why.
- Why? - In a bit.
[Ola] Listen to this.
Right now the volume is at max.
There's a gate happening.
[Joel] Right.
[Ola] Sorry.
I guess I thought that this might have been...
Uh... the Savage Drive, I think this is the Precision Drive.
And if it is the Precision Drive...
...I think out of these 5 pedals that you picked
the Precision Drive is the most tweakable.
In the sense that you can make it sound like a classic overdrive
but you can also make it sound very modern.
Just a little side-note.
Ola Englund the Swede, hello.
[Joel] Right, but I mean, there's no fun if we're not gonna play the last one.
- So... let's get going. - Yes, let's go.
[Ola] Can you shut it off again?
And then on.
So I guess this is the Savage Drive, if anything.
But I feel very nervous.
I have my guesses, OK, I'm done, I'm done.
- You're done. - No shame, no shame.
What have you done?
- There's one more overdrive I wanted to test. - OK.
- Are you ready? - Oh, hello.
[Ola] Thank you.
Can you please turn it on again?
Alright, thank you.
- Alright, you can take off your blindfold now. - OK.
[Joel] So...
Congratulations, Ola, you got everything right.
- Holy shit, everything right? - Everything right, man.
[Joel] I was...
I didn't expect you to get everything f***ing right.
[Ola] Like, these 5 overdrives that you picked...
They do actually sound very different from each other.
If you only did this and this...
- That would be hard. - That would be really hard.
[Joel] Yeah.
[Ola] And... or, if you did like a TS-808...
Ibanez or like a Maxon OD-808, and these...
It would've been impossible for me to figure out which one was which.
But you did actually take...
Uh... very different-sounding overdrives and...
I think that made it easy for me.
But uh...
F*** yeah.
Holy shit, that was fun though.
And goddamn, it sounds so f***ing good, man.
- Right. - Uh...
- I think the Grind pedal sounds the best. - Yeah.
- Should we play that a little bit? - Yeah.
[Ola] The Grind pedal is f***ing made for Dual Rectifiers.
Also the same as, you know, the Fortin 33.
- Yeah. - It's like, it's perfect for Rectifiers.
Oh shit.
[Joel] I think it sounds the best around this area here.
[Ola] Yeah, you don't wanna force it too much, it becomes more...
Which one was your favorite out of these?
The Ibanez TS-9 is a classic favorite of mine.
I used that on the Starzinger guitar tone.
Together with the Mesa Badlander.
It's like a-a-a...
It just works really well with a lot of amplifiers.
This, the grind...
...it's a little bit more...
It's closing in, it's making the sound a little bit too modern.
If you an amplifier that you just wanna push a slight slight bit...
An Ibanez Tube Screamer is just... spot-on.
But I really liked the Boss Super Overdrive as well, it sounded really good.
Awesome, well done, Joel, thank you.
And of course thank you to me.
You know...
I guessed all of them right.
Ha! A little bit of redemption
since last time where I guessed everything wrong.
[Joel] That's a first time though.
- Jackpot, man. - Everything can happen in Mystery Rig.
[Ola] So, if you liked this video, maybe consider subscribing to this channel.
And thank you so much to Joel.
And hope to see you next time.
Thank you, goodbye.