The Overdrive Guide // How to dial in your overdrives

In this video Brian goes into excruciating detail on how to dial in overdrives (both analog drives and in the digital domain) to get the most out of your driven tone.

If you struggle with setting up your overdrives, this is the video for you.

GEAR IN THIS VIDEO:
Board: Creation Music Co Aero series: https://creationmusiccompany.com/coll...

Pedals:
Dunlop Volume X (mini)
Foxpedal Refinery Compressor
Foxpedal Wrath
Foxpedal The City
Foxpedal Kingdom
Foxpedal Vixen (Learn more about these here: https://foxpedal.com)
Jet Pedals Revelation Reverb (V2): https://jetpedals.com/collections/rev...
BOSS RV-6
Line 6 HX Stomp XL
Strymon Zuma (power supply)

Guitar: MJT Thinline Tele
Pickups: Lambertones Blondies

Links referenced in this video:
Foxpedal Vixen Demo:    • Foxpedal Vixen Dimensional Drive Demo // W...  
Jet Revelation Reverb Demo:    • JET Pedals - Revelation Reverb (v2) demo /...  

Get our HX Stomp patches (I'm using a modified version of the '66 AC' patch in this video): https://worshiptutorials.com/hx-stomp/

Table of contents:
00:00 - Intro/Welcome
00:26 - This video applies to digital modeling as well
00:36 - Thank you to...
00:57 - Quick run-down of the pedals on the board (Can you get me that run-down, Jim?)
01:47 - Guitar I'm using in this video
01:54 - Aaaaaaand this is my clean tone
02:22 - Clean tone and gain staging - DO THIS FIRST
02:46 - Gain Staging - Compression and always-on pedals
02:53 - Compressor - Foxpedal Refinery
04:27 - More info on the overdrives
05:50 - What the typical controls on a drive pedal do, and how to get different sounds from them (Gain, Level, Tone)
05:55 - How I like to set up an 808 (Tube Screamer) type pedal
08:18 - Low gain with high level vs lower level with higher gain
09:54 - Tone/EQ
11:20 - Some general practices for dailing in EQ on drive pedals
11:48 - How I like to set up a Klon type pedal
12:40 - Changing gain and level controls on a klon type pedal
13:39 - Always-on drive for tone shaping (Foxpedal Vixen)
15:51 - Dailing in a Rat type circuit (distortion - Foxpedal Wrath)
17:16 - When to use a distortion (vs a drive)
18:37 - Stacking drives for bigger tones and more flavors of gain
19:08 - Playing sample of various stacking options - stacking low gain drives
19:56 - Comparing stacked drives to a single distortion
20:14 - Signal chain order
20:33 - Have you ever turned on a drive and nothing got louder? It's all about headroom
24:36 - Let's add some big verb and delay (Hello Jet Revelation Reverb)
25:17 - Ambient tones with low gain drive
26:18 - Ambient tones with bigger gain
26:51 - Dailing in an ambient lead (P&W Lead) tone
27:45 - Expensive overdrives are cool, but you don't need them
28:47 - Final thoughts and conclusion

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