At 42 Gear Street Six, Sweetwater Sound put together a pedalboard of 2024’s best, most fun – and, quite frankly, oddest – FX pedals for guitar and bass for me and the awesome Krenar Cilku to try out!On the board are the EHX Lizard King Bass Octave & Fuzz, the JHS Hard Drive, the Source Audio Artifakt Lo-fi Elements, the EarthQuaker Devices Time Shadows II Multi-Delay, and – holding everything together – the ever-reliable Walrus Audio Canvas Tuner.
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These pedals (apart from the tuner) all came out in Summer 2024, so they were all totally fresh for me and Krenar – well, apart from the JHS Hard Drive for me. This was, therefore, the perfect chance for us to go on a journey of tonal discovery!
The Electro Harmonix Lizard King Bass Octave Fuzz is a brother to 2023’s Lizard Queen Octave Fuzz. A vintage-style octave fuzz that’s optimized for bass but sounds MASSIVE on guitar too, it’s a top choice for anyone looking to add some high and low-end rumble to their tones.
I’ve been lucky enough to own the JHS Hard Drive pretty much since it came out, and I’ve already made a video on it where I shoot it out against my other favorite high gain distortions like the Boss Metal Zone, the ProCo Rat, and the Revv G3 (here: ). But it was new for Krenar, and I was excited to hear his bluesey riffs through it!
The other two pedals are the real oddballs in the selection, though. First up is the Source Audio Artifakt, a lo-fi pedal with seven different modes and a huge amount of tonal options… there’s crackle, modulation, saturation, drive, compression, bit crushing, sample reduction, filtering, random glitches, and more in this beast.
Then came the Time Shadows Multi Delay, which is a collaboration between EarthQuaker Devices and Death By Audio. Billed as a “subharmonic multi-delay resonator pedal”, the Time Shadows is an experimental pedal that doesn’t feature too many knobs, but, like many other EQD pedals, it’s chock full of beautiful and mad sounds in equal measure.
To keep all of this quirkiness in check, you need a decent tuner, and the Walrus Audio Canvas Tuner was on the board for exactly that reason! The rest of our rig was comprised of an Ibanez AZES31 ( ), a Valiant Soothsayer (), and the stunning Tube Workshop 2864-S ().
So, enjoy the tones as you watch Krenar and me discovering these pedals live and on the fly, and let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Hello
00:21 Introduction and what we’re doing today
01:23 The pedals we’re playing today
02:11 Today’s guitars and amp
03:05 EHX Lizard King tones and discussion
08:20 JHS Hard Drive tones and discussion
13:22 Lizard King and Hard Drive stacked
14:19 Henning joins us!
17:08 More tones with the Hard Drive
18:26 A wall of noise
19:33 Source Audio Artifakt tones and discussion
19:50 Artifakt Radio Mode
23:21 Artifakt Vinyl Mode
25:06 Artifakt Tape Mode
27:23 Artifakt Ladder Mode
29:03 EQD/Death By Audio Time Shadows tones and discussion
33:18 Amazing synthy organ sci-fi tones
34:30 The six presets in the Time Shadows
35:31 One final wall of noise!
36:36 Our conclusions on these pedals
38:20 Thank you for watching and goodbye
Be sure to check out Krenar’s channel here:
Enjoy!
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.
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