Greer Amps Black Mountain Crunch Drive | Incredible Marshall (Stack) In A Box tones! Review & Demo

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This is the Greer Amps Black Mountain Crunch Drive pedal: a British-flavored overdrive pedal that gives you massive amounts of tasty vintage crunch tones!

Find out more about the Black Mountain Crunch Drive here:

Think Marshall stacks, basically – and Justin and Dan Hawkins! Greer say that the Black Mountain was developed based on one particular recording of a crunchy post-Plexi British amp, and their website also tells us that Permission To Land by The Darkness was on rotation while they came up with it… so it’s safe to say that that is the lofty tonal ballpark we’re in.

Permission To Land is an incredible record, and the guitars tones – which I hear as kind of a mix between Queen, AC/DC and Thin Lizzy – are spectacular throughout. On that record, it’s widely believed that Dan Hawkins used Marshall Super Lead amps, while Justin Hawkins used an old MESA/Boogie Dual Rectifier and Marshalls too.

The Black Mountain Crunch Drive aims to get us into that territory incredibly simply – you’ve got Volume, Gain and Tone knobs… and that’s it. You can run the pedal at 18v for more headroom, and it’s the usual made in the USA Greer quality, so it’ll cost you around the $199 mark.

I love Marshall tones, and I’ve been on something of a Plexi pedal pilgrimage recently – but the Black Mountain offers a step up in crunch, gain and oomph. What we’re going to do in this video is see how well it handles four of my favorite guitars and pickup types – my single coil-equipped Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster, my Yamaha Revstar with P90s and my humbucker-loaded Epiphone Les Paul – in as many different musical styles as possible! And we’ll throw in a few of my favorite The Darkness riffs too.

Here’s the links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:30 Introduction to the Black Mountain Crunch Drive
01:38 Black Mountain specs and features
02:38 Today’s rig and plan

Playing samples
03:36 Clean reference tones and turning on the Black Mountain Crunch Drive
04:48 60s rock rhythm tone
05:07 Poppy barre chords
06:04 Blues progression
06:49 Ascending droning indie chords
07:43 Fat indie rhythm chords
08:13 Southern rock arpeggios
08:32 Indie rock barre chords
08:56 Indie octave chords riff
09:21 Garage rock riff
09:49 Groovy classic rock riff
10:16 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
10:32 Airbourne inspired rock riff
11:17 AC/DC inspired inspired classic rock riff
11:45 The Darkness riff 1 – Black Shuck
12:15 The Darkness riff 2 – Givin’ Up
12:48 The Darkness riff 3 – I Believe In A Thing Called Love
13:26 Classic hard rock riff
13:43 80s rock rhythms
14:32 Hard rock riff
15:03 Glam rock riff
16:05 Hard rock melodic lead
16:51 Alternative rock riff
17:35 Pop punk riff
18:25 Green Day inspired punk rock riff
19:19 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
19:45 Modern rock palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
20:09 Metal chugging sounds
21:38 Classic metal/sludge riff
22:14 Classic rock riff into an overdrive amp

23:14 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop

26:09 My thoughts
26:37 Black Mountain sounds and versatility discussion
28:13 Does it do The Darkness tones?
28:58 Higher gain tones
30:10 Which of the guitars/pickups did I like the best with the pedal?
30:47 Anything I don’t like about the pedal?
31:17 My conclusions on the Black Mountain
32:36 Thanks and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the Black Mountain straight 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 I used my Boss RC-10R to play the loop.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
Boss RC-10R Rhythm Loop Station:
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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