Sure Shot Loud Clipping Boost by Greer Amps with the Strymon Iridium

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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here with a sure shot, loud clipping boost. Um, it is, as you can see a mini pedal and I believe it’s Greer’s first mini pedal. So if you wanted agree. Didn’t have the space. You have no excuses. This will fit on your board. Most certainly it’s a boost.

[00:00:26] It’s a clipping business. If you’re wondering what the heck is a clipping boost, it’s new unique take on a boost. It uses some clipping diodes. There are plenty. Of resources on the website to help you kind of better understand what that means. This kind of teeters on the edge of an overdrive. This will drive your aunt into dirty territory really quickly, but you can still get some spunks.

[00:00:54] It’s basically everything from spunky to heavy, uh, in 180 bitty little container, I’m running it, uh, starting with my red star here. Some P 90 action for ya into my striving already on I’m using the thin, uh, the kind of fender sound they have. That’s the round setting I’m using the B cab that it comes with.

[00:01:17] Uh, let’s see if there’s anything else I particularly wants to explain to you before I get started. Um, it’s gonna get dirty. It’s gonna get nasty and maybe I’ll bring out some kind of special, special thing, special effects. Not in post production. Of course I never do that.

[00:01:58] I want to start at about three o’clock because I find that swear, like other lower than that, it’s kind of.

[00:02:36] I mean, you could say that’s just adding some spunk. It’s also adding drive. It’s very clearly adding a little bit of dirt, but not a lot.

[00:05:33] Oops.

[00:06:03] so that’s just a noon. This is obviously not like, uh, some other boosts that have come out this year that are more high headroom that are cleaning. That would just give you like that, that are slower into getting you into that dirty territory. So if that’s what you want to really break up, your amp with your boost is going to get you there pretty much immediately.

[00:06:26] That’s a key, move it on. Move it.

[00:08:03] you ever started saying a word so many times where like looking at it or writing it? I’m a CA I’m a professional writer. I I’m a copywriter by trade. Sometimes I’ll write a word or a sentence. So many times I look at that word I’m like, does that word make sense? So there’s going to play a riff over and over.

[00:08:19] I second, guess myself. And that’s how

[00:10:47] So that was it across the entire spectrum of the round setting on the Iridium. Now I’m going to try it on the Vox setting, just every, all the game. The game was at noon on the Iridium. I do think I forgot to mention that

[00:11:08] my nails are getting too long.

[00:12:49] and now to the Marshall center.

[00:14:57] move that back to the fender sound. You know, I think it is important to talk about why it sounds so much like an overdrive as you increase the loud control, the sure shot will push your amp into overdrive. Well, it also pushes a pair of M a 8 56 clipping diodes, and that’s how it produces that layered dry.

[00:15:18] Effect because the amp and the pedal are both beginning to drive. So there you go. Speaking of overdrives, I have a special friend and you’re going to see it and

[00:15:35] all right. Yes, there it is. This is you’re like, what is this? And if you look right there, this is. An old school Greer pedal that I bought up at the guitar store in port Townsend. When I was up there this summer during a heat wave, it’s called the gold nuggets. It’s a drive and a boost and I am going to, uh, play the sure.

[00:16:00] Shot into it. All right. And I’m going to turn the, keep the boost on as well.

[00:22:26] There, you have it. Those look at the sure. Shot by Greer answered is allowed clipping boost. If you’re looking for a boost that will get your amp into a gritty territory right away, this is it. This is definitely it. Uh, I have had a lot of fun with it, man, when I put it into that gold nugget and I imagined that other overdrive pedals, other distortion pedals, other boosts will do similar funds stuff that takes it from being a dual layered, uh, clipping mechanism into like multi, multi multi-layered.

[00:23:06] So I, man, this was. Really a ton of fun. Uh, I love the footprint. I love the a synthetic. I love the sound. Um, check it out. It’s available. Um, big, thanks to Greer in mass distro for sending it to me, uh, for review. I hope you liked what you heard. Uh, please like comment and subscribe. Uh, check us on patrion.com/get offset.

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