Earthquaker Devices Westwood Guitar and Bass Demo and Review

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Earthquaker Devices Westwood Guitar and Bass Demo and Review

Hey, I’m Emily from get offset. And today I’m here with the Westwood by Earthquaker devices. It’s a transparent overdrive that’s supposedly goes from clean boost to soaring leads. and apparently that sounds good and base. So the manual which I read, and it’s a very lovely manual with lots of beautiful twin peaks references.

[00:00:25] You mentioned that, It’s good with a single coils and humbuckers so I just put split coil, single coils and Lawler Imperials into this, Squire supersonic from the paranormal series. So I’m going to use this guitar day to, to kind of see the differences of the sounds when it start with humbuckers and then I’m going to go to a single coils us.

[00:00:48] So yeah, let let’s get to it. Strymon Iridium round B. No, no drive turned up on that.

[00:01:20] Obviously, no drive nothing.

[00:02:31] what’s really cool. Is it seems to just click into place in the middle. I really liked that honestly shows you what your baseline really is.

[00:03:20] Let’s get to the fun stuff. Right?

[00:04:10] Yeah.

[00:06:51] yeah, I should have had coffee before filming this demo. Apparently.

[00:08:38] Let’s take the game back down and try it with single coils.

[00:09:06] Yeah, that sounds pretty transparent. Still.

[00:10:50] alright. That sounds like a pretty good spot for the tone. So I’m just gonna leave it there. I do feel like it takes away some of the brittleness of the thing that kind of happens sometimes that little sharp edge. so let’s just play with the drive.

[00:14:46] Oh, right. Well, that’s a, the Westwood, about 15 minutes of it. I didn’t think I was going to be able to play. I didn’t think I was going to be able play an overdrive for that long, but, I, this is a great sounding overdrive there. It really is. It does seem to be more transparent than a lot of the other like transparent drives I’ve played and it just sounded good.

[00:15:08] Good. It sounded articulate and clear. I felt like it really enabled me to both clean up the humbuckers and mellow back. The single coils. Is it extremely versatile overdrive? And, just another, another success from the team at Earthquaker devices. I am also going to demo this on base. So please stick around from that.

[00:15:35] I’ll see you in a second. Welcome back. It’s me from the first half of the video. I’m back with the Westwood and here’s my clean signal.

[00:15:50] Alright. Let’s get everything back in the middle.

[00:16:58]Okay. So that’s pretty cool. It’s not a compressor, but it’s sort of mellowing the attack on the base a little bit like a compressor would. So let’s just add in some drive and, see what else.

[00:20:53] All right, please. Excuse my lack. Luster based planning. I am not a bassist. I think you get the gist. what’s what sounds good on bass? That’s my verdict. I don’t, I don’t have a ton of base overdrives to compare it to, I have the downtown express from fender, which is not really a comparable pedal because it also has a boost and a cup as a compressor in ETU, in tandem with the overdrive.

[00:21:23] So that’s just a different beast. Like. That’s like, that’s an all in one pedal, this is just something and they overdrive or a clean boost or a little tone control to add to your, to your bass rig. So, those are just different, different puddles for different needs. I like it. I think the prices very, I think these are under $200, so, pretty good for, an Earthquaker pedal that seems to do so much.

[00:21:49] And you know, I just love Earthquaker devices. I feel like they’re great supporters. I did get this pedal in exchange for the demo. So disclosure there. Yeah. but yeah, I think I wanted to keep it around. I like it a lot, so, well, thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding. Please like comment, subscribe the lo check out the podcast, check out the link to buy this pedal in the description.

[00:22:11] If you buy through our affiliate link, it helps out the channel. Or you could just subscribe like and comment and support us that way. I’m not picky. All right. Well, and so next time, once again, I’m Emily. goodbye.