Paul Cochrane Timmy vs Greer Lightspeed | The two best transparent overdrive pedals on the market?

I love transparent overdrive pedals, for my sins. My Paul Cochrane Timmy and my Greer Lightspeed Organic Overdrive are two of my very favorites – because they always seem to make me sound a bit better, no matter what I’m playing. And for that reason, at least one of them is almost always on whenever I pick up the guitar.

So today, I thought I’d pit these transparent titans against one another and see how similar – and how different – they actually are. Nothing scientific, nothing complicated, just a couple of loops where I tweak the pedals’ knobs so we can really hear what they sound like against one another – and stacked together.

Get the Greer Lightspeed here: https://bit.ly/GreerLightspeedRWM
Good luck finding a Timmy, as I explain in the video! But thankfully you can also you can get the MXR Timmy (designed with Paul Cochrane himself): https://bit.ly/MXRTimmyPedalRWM

So, have a listen and tell me which one you prefer! First we have an indie rock loop played on my Fender Telecaster’s bridge single coil pickup, and then a classic rock loop played on the bridge humbucker of my Epiphone Les Paul.

Here are some links to the various parts of the video:

00:00 Hello and all about the Timmy and the Lightspeed
00:57 Today’s rig and what we’re going to do
01:23 Timmy controls and features
02:26 Lightspeed controls and features

03:03 Loop 1: Fender Telecaster single coil bridge pickup
07:15 Loop 2: Epiphone Les Paul bridge humbucker

11:21 My thoughts and why I love these two pedals so much
12:05 Timmy pedals are hard to find!
13:00 Sounds discussion
14:50 Things I don’t like
16:25 What other transparent overdrives are out there?
17:28 Final conclusion and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the pedals 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. 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
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): https://redir.love/thoprod/467952?off...
-----

Enjoy!

-----
Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

#TimmyPedal #GreerLightspeed #GreerAmps #PaulCochrane #TransparentOverdrive #MXRTimmy

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!

‪@GreerAmpsInfo‬