Blindfold overdrive pedal challenge with Carsten Stepanowicz at

Today I’m joined by my trusting friend – and all-round awesome guitar guy – Carsten Stepanowicz at 42 Gear Street Five for a blindfold overdrive pedal challenge featuring five of the very best J. Rockett Audio Designs drives: the Archer, the .45 Caliber, the El Hombre, the Dude, and the Hot Rubber Monkey!

Get the Archer here: https://thmn.to/thoprod/351954?offid=...
.45 Caliber: https://thmn.to/thoprod/381430?offid=...
El Hombre: https://thmn.to/thoprod/542545?offid=...
The Dude V2: https://thmn.to/thoprod/462813?offid=...
HRM/Hot Rubber Monkey: https://thmn.to/thoprod/571558?offid=...

Now, Carsten is very much a high-gain player, and he tends to get his grit from his amp itself (currently a Peavey 6505)… so he’s never really been much of a pedals guy. He also has no clue about J. Rockett – and these are two things I definitely wanted to change!

J. Rockett makes some fantastic drives, and some, like the Klon Centaur-esque Archer, have become iconic for their tonal excellence. While the Archer is famous for its transparent overdrive goodness, the .45 Caliber is basically Malcolm Young of AC/DC’s tone in a box – it’s a wonderful take on the Marshall Plexi/MIAB thing. The El Hombre, meanwhile, is a thick, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top-inspired overdrive, while The Dude and the HRM are Dumble style dirtboxes, with the Hot Rubber Monkey being one of the late, great Howard Dumble’s legendary amp mods.

So, for this video we got a blindfold on Carsten, handed him some choice guitars (with humbuckers, P90s and single coil pickups all covered!), and I tweak the pedals as he plays and tried to find the best J. Rockett drive for him. I have to admit, I was extremely surprised by the one he chose as his favorite!

Let us know which of the pedals you thought sounded best in the comments!

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

00:00 Hello
00:18 Introduction and what we’re doing today
01:05 Today’s rig
02:13 Clean reference tone with Revstar Standard
02:31 Archer tones and discussion
06:12 .45 Caliber Overdrive tones and discussion
09:32 El Hombre tones and discussion
11:57 The Dude tones and discussion
14:30 Carsten’s own amp and gain settings
15:14 HRM tones and discussion
16:08 Henning makes an appearance
17:50 Which was Carsten’s favorite pedal? Testing all five
18:49 The big reveal and more discussion
21:22 Stacking the pedals together
22:29 Single coil tones with the PJD York
24:17 Carsten’s own rig and lack of pedals
26:01 P90 tones with the PJD Woodford
28:02 Rich plays the PJD York
29:57 Conclusions

Be sure to check out Carsten’s channel here:    / @schorschharrison  

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We used three guitars in the video:

Yamaha Revstar Standard: https://thmn.to/thoprod/539446?offid=...
PJD Guitars York: https://www.pjdguitars.com/york
PJD Guitars Woodford: https://www.pjdguitars.com/the-woodfo...

And for the amp, we were on the Revv Generator’s venerable clean channel to entire time: https://thmn.to/thoprod/507665?offid=...
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Enjoy!

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress – Biz Baz Studio.

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