Greer Lightspeed Overdrive | Loads of tones and 6 reasons it's my go-to drive pedal | Review & Demo

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The Greer Lightspeed overdrive pedal has quietly become the first overdrive pedal I turn to in any situation. Greer Amps call it the Lightspeed Organic Overdrive, but many other people call it a transparent overdrive… which is kind of a buzzword, but it basically means this drive doesn’t alter the base tone of your guitar and amp too much.

Get the Greer Lightspeed here:

I love the fact that the Lightspeed is so simple and yet so versatile, and it sounds great with any guitar, amp or other FX pedal I throw at it. So, here’s my review and demo of it!

I ran the Lightspeed through my 2014 Epiphone Les Paul Traditional Pro guitar on humbucker and split coil mode, and I also threw together two loops where I tweak the three controls on the Lightspeed to really show you the full extent of the tones on offer.

Here’s the links to the various chapters and parts of the video:

00:00 Hello!
00:16 Intro and why the Lightspeed?
00:56 Today’s rig!

Single coil/split coil mode
01:28 Turning on the Lightspeed!
01:51 Drive off for clean boost
02:20 Drive control sweep from off to nearly full
03:10 Classic rock sounds
03:43 Indie sounds
04:11 Guitar volume and tone knob roll off tests
05:14 Frequency control test
05:56 Pop rock sounds
06:34 Classic rock sounds
07:36 Indie rock riff
08:03 Kings Of Leon-inspired riff
08:18 Hard rock riff
08:34 Pop punk and punk sounds
09:00 Alt-rock riff

Full humbucker mode
09:28 Turning on the Lightspeed!
09:52 Low gain sounds – dirty clean boost
10:18 Slowly turning the Drive control up
11:00 Gain on full!
11:26 Indie sounds
11:54 Guitar volume and tone knob roll off tests
12:46 Classic rock sounds with different Drive and Frequency levels
13:33 Hard rock riff
13:41 Everything (very briefly!) on 10!
13:57 Classic pop rock tones on all three pickup settings
14:26 Indie rock riff
14:57 Going from clean boost to full-on crunch – Hendrix classic rock chords
15:58 Pop punk sounds
16:36 Alt-rock sounds
17:20 One last classic rock riff
17:36 Using the Lightspeed as a boost with a dirty amp

18:36 Single coil loop – here I loop an indie riff and tweak the Lightspeed’s Loudness, Drive and Frequency controls to show you all the sounds the pedal can achieve.

21:49 Humbucker loop – and here it’s a classic rock loop which I tweak to show you all the different tones you can get.

24:18 My thoughts and the 6 reasons why I love the Lightspeed
24:53 Reason 1: the sounds!
25:39 Reason 2: transparency and base guitar tones
26:33 Reason 3: works with any amp
27:03 Reason 4: works with any kind of guitar pickups
27:35 Reason 5: plays geat with other FX
28:10 Reason 6: so simple… yet so versatile
29:12 Bad things about the Lightspeed
30:29 Final conclusion and goodbye!


My setup was as follows: I ran the Epiphone Les Paul into the Lightspeed pedal, into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That 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 for the loop part, I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper.

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!):
TC Electronic Ditto Looper:
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Enjoy!



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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Then A Left Turn - Jeremy Korpas.

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