Revv Tilt | Is this the most versatile overdrive/boost pedal on the planet?! Review & Demo

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This is the Revv Tilt! A massively versatile dual overdrive and boost pedal, the Tilt is a signature stompbox for long-time Revv collaborator Shawn Tubbs.

Get the Tilt here:

You’ll all know Shawn Tubbs from his excellent YouTube channel, but out in the real world, he’s an in-demand session player. The idea behind the Tilt pedal was to make all those killer guitar tones Shawn needs for studio work available at the flick of a switch and the stomp of a switch.

As such, the Tilt is not based on any one amp exactly – it’s an amalgamation of all the best single-channel vintage tube amp sounds that Shawn has in his head at any one time. Think Fender Tweeds, a Marshall Plexi or JTM, and more. And all those ballpark tones should be in the Tilt. You access them by using the pedal’s two sides: Drive and Boost. The Drive side is a low to medium gain overdrive that you manipulate with four controls: Volume, Gain, Treble and Bass.

The Boost side of the pedal has a Boost knob – with gives you up to 12 dB of clean boost – and a Tilt EQ knob, alongside a Tight switch. The Tilt EQ knob helps you attenuate bass and boost treble, while the Tight switch allows you to independently control how aggressively the bass frequencies are cut.

All this said, we should have a wealth of awesome tones at our disposal here! In this video, then, I try the Tilt in as many different musical styles as I can, from the pushed cleans of country, folk, blues and indie to pop, rock, punk, metal and more. I use my Epiphone Les Paul for humbucker tones, with my Fender Telecaster taking single coil duties. Let’s do this!

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

00:00 Hello!
00:17 Introduction to the Revv Tilt
01:25 Pedal sides and controls
03:22 Today’s rig and plan

Humbucker sounds
04:32 Clean reference tones and turning on the Tilt
04:58 Pushed clean tones
06:21 Indie rock tones
07:50 Classic rock tones
09:31 Hard rock tones
10:36 Modern alternative rock tones
11:04 Punk rock tones
11:45 Progressive rock tones
12:41 Metal tones
14:07 Using the Tilt as a boost into a dirty amp

Single coil sounds
14:19 Clean reference tones and turning on the Tilt
14:47 Pushed clean tones
16:11 Indie rock tones
17:46 Classic rock tones
18:42 Hard rock tones
19:46 Alt rock tones
20:19 Punk rock tones
20:45 Progressive rock tones
21:41 Metal tones
22:43 Using the Tilt as a boost into a dirty amp

23:10 Epiphone Les Paul hard rock loop
27:30 Fender Telecaster rock loop

31:56 My thoughts
32:29 What I like about the pedal: build quality
32:48 Price
33:07 Tones
35:25 Works well with all my guitars/pickup types
36:03 What I don’t like so much
37:58 Why you should consider buying the Tilt, and what else is out there
39:15 Final conclusions and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the Tilt 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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