NUX Fireman Distortion | Turn your clean amp into a hot-rodded Marshall on a budget! Review & Demo

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This is the NUX Fireman, a two-channel overdrive/distortion pedal that aims to turn your clean amp into a fire-breathing hot-rodded Marshall!

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Inspired by the Friedman BE-OD and BE-OD Deluxe pedals (which themselves are based on the Friedman BE-100, Dave Friedman’s legendary modded Marshall flagship), the Fireman is billed by NUX as being a “Dual Channel Brown Sound In A Box”, and offers up a wide variety of medium and high gain drive sounds.

Find out more about the Fireman here:

As with more Marshall In A Box (MIAB) pedals, the Fireman has plenty of gain on tap – and in this case, you have two independent channels to switch between. They’re both the same in terms of tonality and the amount of drive they offer, but you have a Volume and Gain control for each, meaning you can set one as a lower gain rhythm sound, and another with more dirt for lead sounds or more crushing riffs.

Meanwhile, the two channels share Bass, Treble, Presence and Tight controls to help you sculp your tones to your liking. Presence controls the upper high frequencies, while Tight tightens up your low end by removing unwanted bass frequencies as you up your gain levels. Via two switches on the top, the Fireman also lets you choose between True or Buffered Bypass, or 9 or 18-volt operation.

With all these controls, I was expecting a wealth of tones from the Fireman, and that’s exactly what I put to the test in this video! Using my Fender Telecaster for single coil tones, and my humbucker-equipped Epiphone Les Paul, I try the Fireman at all my favorite genres, from classic rock and indie through to hard rock, punk, alternative rock, and even a bit of metal!

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

00:00 Hello!
00:14 Introduction to the NUX Fireman
01:27 Specs and features
02:23 Today’s rig and plan

03:14 Clean reference tones and turning on the Fireman
03:58 Classic rock riff
04:15 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
04:33 Airbourne inspired classic rock riff
04:54 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
05:11 Groovy classic rock riff
05:36 70s classic rock riff
05:49 Indie rock rhythm chords
06:17 Indie rock octave chords
06:42 Garage rock riff
06:58 Indie rock barre chords
07:21 Kings Of Leon inspired indie riff
07:36 Indie octave chords riff
08:04 Hard rock melodic lead sound
08:20 Classic hard rock riff
08:38 Classic hard rock rhythm sound
09:06 Hard rock riff
09:23 Glam rock riff
09:36 Hair metal riff
09:57 Alt rock riff
10:22 Pop punk riff
10:48 Pop punk melodic lead riff
11:04 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
11:32 Punk rock power chords
11:46 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)
12:02 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
12:35 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
13:00 Metal chugging riff (Drop D)
13:32 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang (Drop D)
13:56 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D)
14:12 Rammstein inspired industrial metal riff (Drop D)
14:26 Classic heavy metal/sludge riff (Drop D)

15:00 Epiphone Les Paul hard rock loop
18:44 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop

21:50 My thoughts on the Fireman
22:14 What I like: the tones
24:19 Does the Fireman do metal?
24:47 Build quality and price
25:17 What I would change: independent EQ controls
26:32 Difference between 9 and 18-volt modes
26:56 Why you should consider buying the Fireman
28:40 Final conclusions and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the Fireman into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. The amp 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.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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