NUX Horseman Overdrive Pedal | Two Klon Centaur circuits in one tiny box for $70?! Review & Demo скачать в хорошем качестве

NUX Horseman Overdrive Pedal | Two Klon Centaur circuits in one tiny box for $70?! Review & Demo

This is the NUX Horseman OD overdrive pedal! The Horseman is NUX’s take on the legendary Klon Centaur overdrive, originals of which have been played by the likes of John Mayer and Joe Bonamassa and catch fetch up to $5,000 (yes, you read that right – five thousand dollars!) on the used market. Well, for the price of one of those you could put together a stable of 70 Horsemen, if you so wished! It’s about €50 in Europe, and $70 in the USA. Get the Horseman here: https://bit.ly/NUXHorsemanRWM The reason so many guitar players love the Centaur/Horseman design is because it produces (cliché alert) transparent overdrive – in that it pushes our tone into overdrive without coloring the tonal characteristic of our guitar and amp. Lovely. That’s why so many companies make their own so-called Klone pedals. The Horseman offers us two distinct sound modes – Gold and Silver, both of which are modeled after original Klon designs – in a mini pedal format. Small enough to fit on any board, and pretty rugged and solid feeling, the pedal has just three controls (Output, Gain, and Treble). You toggle between the Gold and Silver modes by holding down the footswitch for a second or so, with an LED to indicate which mode is engaged. The pedal also allegedly offers true bypass and buffered bypass modes (the original Klons feature a legendary buffer which is said to improve your tone even when the pedal is not switched on!) although I couldn’t get this feature to work, sadly. In the playing part of the video, I test out the Horseman with three of my guitars – my Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster, and my Epiphone Les Paul – in a range of my favorite musical styles to see how it handles the different guitars and pickup types, and at the end, I do a nice little loop with each guitar where I tweak the pedal’s controls to show you all the extremes you can get with it. Here’s the links to the various playing samples and info bits: 00:00 Hello! 00:38 Introduction to the NUX Horseman 01:36 Horsman controls and the Gold and Silver circuits 03:06 Today’s rig 03:45 Clean reference tones and turning on the Horseman Pushed clean sounds 04:31 Poppy barre chords 05:18 Ringing open indie pop chords 05:58 Country lead sound 06:23 60s pop rhythm tone Crunch sounds 06:55 Groovy classic rock riff 08:13 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff 09:03 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff 09:52 Greta Van Fleet inspired classic rock riff 10:30 Indie rock rhythm riff 11:19 Upbeat indie barre chords 11:48 Indie octave chords riff 13:11 Indie rhythm tone Higher gain sounds 13:54 Classic hard rock riff 14:46 Hard rock riff 15:36 Glam rock riff 16:18 Hard rock palm muted riff 17:56 Green Day inspired pop punk riff 18:40 Pop punk melodic lead sound 19:29 Punk rock powerchords 20:13 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff 21:04 Modern alternative rock riff 21:46 Chunky alt rock chords 23:05 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning) 23:51 Hardcore chugging riff (Drop D tuning) 24:36 Hardcore punk riff (Drop D tuning) Horseman pushing an already overdriving amp 25:22 Saturated hard rock riff 26:31 Hardcore chugging test (Drop D tuning) 27:37 Fender Telecaster indie rock loop 30:16 Fender Stratocaster indie loop 32:30 Epiphone Les Paul classic rock loop 34:57 My thoughts 35:28 This is a seriously good pedal! 36:26 Horseman with the Tele 37:26 Horseman with the Strat 37:53 Horseman with the Les Paul 38:40 The Gold and Silver modes 39:36 Switching between true bypass and buffered bypass? 40:21 Build quality and other NUX pedals 41:24 Final conclusions and goodbye My setup was as follows: I ran the Horseman 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 TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops. Here’s some links to those bits of gear: ----- H&K Black Spirit 200 head: https://bit.ly/HKBS200rwm TC Electronic Ditto Looper: https://bit.ly/TCDittoRWM Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): http://bit.ly/rwmFR4i4 ----- Enjoy! ----- Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe. #NUXPedals #KlonCentaur #TransparentOverdrive #OverdrivePedal Note: certain links in the description are affiliate links. If you click said links and purchase anything as a result, I will receive a small commission. This doesn’t cost you anything extra, but it does help to support the channel. So, if you do that, thank you very much!