JHS Hard Drive vs Boss Metal Zone vs ProCo Rat vs Revv G3 vs Joyo Uzi | High gain overdrive shootout

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Today we’re comparing the new JHS Hard Drive distortion pedal against four of my other favorite high gain drive: the ProCo Rat 2, the Revv G3, the Boss Metal Zone, and the Joyo Uzi!

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Get the JHS Hard Drive at Thomann (EU):
At Sweetwater (USA):
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The Hard Drive is JHS’s first modern-flavored high gain distortion, and it sounds so beefy and massive in the videos about it that I just had to try it for myself! In particular, I was impressed by the Hard Drive’s apparent ability to sound like many other high gain drives, while also having its own voice.

In their video, JHS compare it to a Marshall Shredmaster, a ProCo Rat, a Boss DS-1, an AmpTweaker Tight Metal, a Friedman BE-OD, and an Ibanez SM-7 Smash Box, and it nails them all. As it would, of course, being in the official JHS promo.

But in this video, I thought it’d be fun to try the same thing with a few of my own favorite high gain drives. And this is actually my first experience with the pedal too – I’d not even turned it on before filming this loop, so you’re really hearing me tweak it on the fly!

The other pedals I chose for this test are the legendary Boss Metal Zone – which some people say the Hard Drive is based on because of the similar control set – the ProCo Rat 2, the Revv G3, and the Joyo Uzi, which itself is an affordable Friedman BE-OD clone.

How will they all compare? And will I be able to get the Hard Drive to sound anything like the Metal Zone? Watch on to find out, and let me know which of the five pedals you think sounds best in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Intro and what we’re doing today
01:16 JHS Hard Drive specs and info
01:48 Boss Metal Zone specs and info
02:39 ProCo Rat 2 specs and info
03:01 Revv G3 specs and info
03:33 Joyo Uzi specs and info
03:52 Today’s rig and plan

04:51 Modern rock loop with my Epiphone Les Paul
06:59 JHS Hard Drive vs Joyo Uzi
08:42 Hard Drive vs Rat
10:05 Hard Drive vs Metal Zone
11:52 Hard Drive vs Revv G3
13:23 Pedal stacking action
14:49 ALL FIVE ON TOGETHER

My setup was as follows: I ran the pedals into the front end of my Hughes & Kettner AmpMan Classic pedal amp, then went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That’s it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my Boss RC-10R to record and play the loops. Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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AmpMan Classic at Thomann:
At Sweetwater:

Boss RC-10R at Thomann:
At Sweetwater:
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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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