Great video Ben! Killer playing as usual.. Love to see your uploads man.. hope you are keeping well and hopefully catch up soon 👊🏻

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

Thanks, mate! I'm doing some jams again, albeit sporadically. If things align, maybe I'll catch you at one of those. Cheers, Ben.

I think you mentioned it, the regular flyrig v2 has the pre/post boost option. (still regular red color). 2 different kind of drives, plexi/mesa(ish) and an fx loop, which would allow you to add rotary/vibrato/chorus after the drive. What I like about the regular flyrig is the sansamp cabinet emulation is independent of the "blonde" preamp section. Personally I like the omg drive, and love Ritchie's sound.

@BenFletcherGuitar

27 күн бұрын

Yes, I looked at the regular fly rig, but the thing that sold me on Richie's was the rotary. I think the OMG is good, it's just a bit too rock for me. I'm not that heavy a player. Richie gets a great sound and I really like what he does, I'm just not going for that. I think the regular pedal also has the sansamp as a foot-switchable option? Both great units. If I knew someone that could do it, I'd get my RK5 modded, so that I could foot-switch the leslie and not bother with the OMG. Cheers, Ben.

@petaralargic

12 күн бұрын

so torn if choosing rk5 v2 or fr5 v2...if RK just had defeatable cab sim I would buy it in an instance... that one small tweak in fr5 v2 gives it the ultimate simultaneous output to whatever backline amp (cabsim off) and to FOH(with cabsim through xlr).... But I like the inclusion of a fuzz and a comp in the RK... its hard to choose...sure I could add any fuzz before regular fr5 v2, but that kills the beauty of having only one simple unit that does it all(almost) Ahhh..hope that rk5 v3 will have cabsim defeat in its sansamp:)

@dscataglini

11 күн бұрын

@@petaralargic You could have someone modding it and add a switch for it ;)

All in One!Brilliance!🥰

100% agree with every change you suggest. I use a Noble OD instead of OMG. Mine has also stopped working at a few gigs and then started again. There service is excellent and they replaced it under warranty

Very tasty playing at the beginning of the video, reminiscent of JB 😎

@BenFletcherGuitar

13 күн бұрын

Thank you! That's a nice compliment, appreciated. Ben.

This must be the best review on this unit! I do like Tech 21 stuff, and this unit sounds good to my ears! Great review mate! And hope you’re well

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

Thanks, man! I must have missed with the scheduling as it's 12 hours early, I wasn't expecting any comments yet! Ha! It's a great pedal, I really wish the drive was slightly closer to the pedal I use all the time, but it's hard to beat for convenience and like you say, still sounds good.

@DerekPaulGuitar

11 ай бұрын

I find that with until pedals, there’s usually a compromise somewhere, but this one looks like a bit of a winner! I’ve done that too, released a video at midnight by mistake once and wondered why no-one watched it ha!

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

@@DerekPaulGuitar Exactly that, all in one things are great, so long as you like everything they offer. Unless of course it's some kind of programmable unit I guess, but I like the fact that this isn't one of those. I hope someone watches this one, it would be a bit of a shame given how long these things take to make!

@DerekPaulGuitar

11 ай бұрын

I hope so too mate! You put a lot of effort into the videos and your playing, filming and editing is always top notch! I’ll just keep commenting to get the algorithm to notice it haha

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

@@DerekPaulGuitar Ha! A foolproof plan, thanks man! I'm coming over to your page to check out your latest videos now.

Hi Ben thanks a lot for the tutorial its was amazing and also need your advise can i hook up this Rk into my analog pedal board as i be using the Rk amp minus the effect on board . Prefer to use my analog pedals , how can i get a good sound. Tq

I play this pedal each week live. I run this into my Strymon Big Sky with the Cab Filter on direct and it's dethroned ll my other direct solutions time and again.

Great video.Is that Ibanez RT series?Had one made in Japan and foolishly sold it 😞.. Anyway,thinking about getting this to go full ampless. Would I need DI box if I want to go flyrig >mixer>PA? I just need good enough tone, no casual listener notices anyway 😅 cheers

@BenFletcherGuitar

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! It is an RT, good spot. I've changed the pickups, but they're a sweet guitar for very little money. I think I paid 150 for mine, but it is the lowest spec one they ever did I think. The Fly Rig is great, but I'm not sure I'd be happy to use it as a full direct solution. I'm still using it (I used it tonight!) but the direct feature would just be an emergency for me. I use an Atomic Amplifirebox when going direct. Interestingly I use it through the Fly Rig for effects. That way I always have a backup with me, even when using a modelling pedal. The analogue cab sim on the Fly Rig is good, but it is fizzy. I had a bit more success using it through an IR loader. You're right, the audience absolutely won't notice the difference, but if you're like me you'll find that plastic sounding fizz off-putting when you play. They're really close with this tech, but not quite good enough for me to ditch an amp. Now its ability to change an amp I don't like in to one that I do...that they nailed!

Hey Ben, great account! When you play slide, which tuning do you preferred? I am beginner and need input. I've tried open tunings and am trying to play in standard tuning in the moment…🙈🎸😎🎼Thank you for the videos! Greetings from Düsseldorf 💥

@BenFletcherGuitar

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I play in standard tuning most of the time and very occasionally in open G. I think it's a useful skill to be able to play in standard, as that way you can just play slide whenever you feel like it in a gig, even in the middle of a song. I think open tuning gives you a particular sound, but I can't see much of an advantage for playing in all 12 keys with your guitar tuned to a chord. Obviously it can be done and it might work for you. This jam was definitely in standard, as that floating bridge doesn't enjoy being re-tuned! Thanks for the comment and hello from Weston Super Mare!

I will get rid of the on off switch for the reverb. I mean during a show you want that kind of effect either on or off without going back and forth, and i will use that switch on or off the leslie side if it. That way you can use the leslie and the delay together. By the way i use it with a double ts style od before the drive section and with a mini spark booster after it

@BenFletcherGuitar

4 ай бұрын

That's a neat idea and I agree it's rare that you turn off the verb in the middle of a song. I'm not sure the leslie could be used at the same time as the delay, because I think the internal components responsible for the delay are being used by the leslie, which is a shame. Seems like a lot of people are pairing this with their favourite drive. Maybe they should release an effects only version of this, that's a little shorter, but with foot switchable leslie? People could just do what you and I and many others are doing and just incorporate it in to a small board. I find the sans amp to be incredibly useful in some situations, so I'd definitely want that included too.

@87RedSpecial

4 ай бұрын

@@BenFletcherGuitar I've set up a mini board with a clean boost after the fly rig and a dual ts pedal before it so i can use the boost side of the omg section as a compressor and boost the omg with one of the two ts.

Hello Ben, first As always great playing. I have the Sans amp GT2 and I have always loved it into a tube amp. I’m not anything but a home guitarist and always promote Tech21. It is a bit pricey here in the states and I agree, if it was a bit cheaper I believe it would sell better. Alway enjoy you. Thank you and have a great day/evening. 🤓🤘

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, Timothy! I'm surprised it's pricey in the States. I assumed that we'd pay a premium here in the UK due to import charges etc (which are horrendous!) but being a New York company, I thought it would be cheaper for you. They are small though and manufacturing something as complex as this type of unit must be fairly costly, especially if it's done in the US. I like the fact they're making something really different, that's difficult in a saturated market. Thanks for the comment, as always it's much appreciated, Ben.

@timothy5974

11 ай бұрын

359$ here at Sweetwater.

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

@@timothy5974 Interesting! It's £359 here in the UK. Obviously the pound is worth more than the dollar, so at the current exchange rate we're paying $457, which is quite the chunk of cash.

Agree on trading Comp for Pre/Post Boost. Re changing Fuzz/OMG to else...your demos show you running the OMG Drive above Noon...how is it with settings below Noon? Seems with Boost pushing it (OMG) gives you Fuzz (when running SansAmp) so i agree else could be used. Also very fond of pre-gain bass contour to better control amount and character of od/distortion

@BenFletcherGuitar

4 ай бұрын

I find the OMG speaks the best when the drive is about 2.00. I find lower gain settings to be a bit stucky sounding, not very fluid. I can get lower gain tones by cleaning up with the guitar, so tend to run my drives pretty hot. The exception here is the fuzz that just turns to mush when it's run too high. Somewhere around 11.00 is maybe the sweet spot for me on that, but I have to be honest I've never used it in a gig. Still using this pedal for my gigs by the way, despite the things I'd want to change, I find it to be very practical.

@Scooby743

4 ай бұрын

@@BenFletcherGuitar how would you characterize the Fuzz compared to Tone ender, FF, Muff? And does it have enough mids to cut playing live?

@BenFletcherGuitar

4 ай бұрын

@@Scooby743 A friend of mine has lent me one of those Analogman million pound fuzz's and it sounds...sort of the same, ha! Seriously though, it's in that ballpark, so some kind of Fuzz face I guess. It's pretty woolly and quite 'unstable', so has a tendency to make some extraneous noise. It's a bit unpredictable. I'm not really a fuzz guy to be honest and I saw Richie say in a video that he's never used it either! Ha! I think if you just wanted it occasionally it would do the job, but it is very dark.

@Scooby743

4 ай бұрын

@@BenFletcherGuitar I ordered it and should have it soon. I've had the original FR5 for years...running the SansAmp and Boost always ON, then using the Plexi as a Fuzztortion of sorts for stunt playing. I can always send the RK5 back if the Fuzz doesn't live up to my expectations. Thx for your time on this!

@BenFletcherGuitar

4 ай бұрын

@@Scooby743 Cool! No worries. Let me know how you get on with it. I never tried the original version, so I'd be interested to know if you felt the new one was a big improvement over the old. Ben

Nice playing. How much does that separate drive pedal cost? Dumble style pedal. Dude would be right up there. What makes your drive pedal preferable to the dude?

@BenFletcherGuitar

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! It's the Small Fry Burn Unit. I've tried the Dude, it's great! I got this one for 55 quid about 10 years ago. What makes it preferable? The fact that I already own it and can't afford a Dude, ha! Seriously, they're both fantastic, I'd be happy with either one.

I wish they would make a FR that used a pared down Q-Strip > 2 Channel PSA > Reverb > Delay (same as RK FR2)

@BenFletcherGuitar

4 ай бұрын

You know I thought about an effects only Fly Rig, delay, verb, rotary, tuner. You could just pair it with your favourite drive. I'd still want the Sans Amp though, I think that's a really useful thing when you get stuck with a bit of a crap amp. Interesting that I'm not necessarily alone in this thought.

You make alot of goof points after thinking about the lay out a bit , also that over drive you use is great

@BenFletcherGuitar

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeh, the Small Fry Burn Unit is a great smooth drive pedal. The Fly Rig and the SFBU are still my rig for every gig. For all the things I mention here I do find the form factor and features very useful.

I have one :-) it's a bit pricey but it's top

@BenFletcherGuitar

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I wish the price was a snip lower, although I got mine used so it was fairly reasonable. I'm still enjoying it.

Wow! twelve minutes is an epic or you. You must really like this Tech 21 thing.

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

I know right?! I think 15 minutes counts as feature length! I try to keep my videos under 10 minutes and only around 7, if I can make them succinct enough. Even though I turn them off, mid-roll ad's still appear in the longer videos. There was just a lot of ground to cover in this video...lots and lots of rambling...

What settings on your delay produce that ambient expansion effect without obvious repeats or echo?

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

Hi, I keep trying to reply to your comments but KZread won't show me them when I click the link, sorry about that! I'm not certain I know what you mean, but both the Carbon Copy and this delay have modulation. I feel like that sounds more immersive as the repeats are different to the initial note, kinda like they would be if they were reflected off multiple surfaces. I also record everything through two channels off an IR loader. That allows me to add stereo wideners to my guitar tracks, which as the name suggests, sound very wide! I also try to sync my delay with the speed of the track (not something I bother with live). When the delay is in time with the drums, you probably don't notice how much delay I have running, but it's a healthy amount. It's probably pretty deceptive how much of it there is. Hope that answers your question? Cheers, Ben.

@philliphanford2792

11 ай бұрын

@@BenFletcherGuitar You had mentioned once that you do not use delay like most that you use it as an ambient effect. And that is what I hear. So how many repeats are there that I don't hear, maybe 7? It is so smooth and doesn't come back on you moving to other notes. Do not know how you do that.

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

@@philliphanford2792 I do like to use delay on sustained clean chords, they just seem to hold on there a little longer. In terms of lead of playing, it's just a simple delay with maybe 3 or 4 repeats I reckon, somewhere around the 400ms mark. I will say that playing with a slide a lot is going to dramatically reduce the transient and so the delay won't seem so extreme. If you were to really lay in to the note with a sharp attack you'd probably hear a fair bit more of it. Also, some of the notes I play, I tend to violin them, but not all the way off. I have the guitar volume backed off a bit and gradually bring it up as the note decays. I think all of these things combined gives me quite a swelling sort of sound that people have commented on at gigs before. In general though I really do think the delay vanishes in the mix if it's in sync with the track. You get the effect of the size it's producing but the repeats aren't so prominent. Since I don't tap tempo my delays on gigs, I would think they're a bit more noticeable live...particularly when I make a mistake, because you'll hear it three times! Ha!

@philliphanford2792

11 ай бұрын

@@BenFletcherGuitar 😂Thanks, I will give it a try.

Ben, you're such a tasty player man! Love binging on your videos. I'm not huge on "shready-styled," guitars, but man...that Ibanez looks and sounds unreal! Any way I could ask what the rundown on that beast is? Like pickups and such? Where did you manage that insane pickguard too btw?

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

Too kind, thanks man! Like you, I'm not much in to the shred style of things either, that Ibanez was an attempt they made in the early 90's to try and make a more 'vintage' RG. It's called an RT 240. It has a bigger neck than an RG and a two point trem instead of a floyd. The scratchplate is a beauty isn't it?! Attractively ugly! It came with the guitar and is one of the things that caught my eye on eBay. I got the guitar completely stock for I think 120 quid, probably about 16 years ago. The only mods are the pickups and wiring. It's got a Gibson 498T in the bridge and a Dimarzio Crusier in the neck now. The wiring is a modified Gibson 50's wiring, but the tone only works for the bridge. Since it's only got one tone and I always back it off in bridge position but never turn the tone down on the neck, I just thought it would make it easier to flick between the two. I ripped out the middle pickup and blocked it off with a lid from a tub of car body filler. They still go for peanuts used, bit of a sleeper maybe. Cheers, Ben.

@joshbabbitt9243

11 ай бұрын

​@BenFletcherGuitar heck yeah man! I definitely looked into them and started to remember these slightly. They were a good run tbh. Definitely like the Ibanez AZ line yeeeears beforehand, lol. Now, I'm definitely going to keep my eyes peeled for one of these! Good deals to be had! A good platform to modify like you did. I was immediately intrigued 😂.

@joshbabbitt9243

11 ай бұрын

I'm going to try to keep my eyes peeled for one to pop up, for sure! Surely them being a better bargain must attribute to none of em being for sale atm 😂

@BenFletcherGuitar

11 ай бұрын

@@joshbabbitt9243 Absolutely, they're pretty rare. I'm not sure where you're based, but the 240 I have was a European version only, HSS. I believe the American issued lowest spec was the 250, which was HSH. Definitely a modding platform. The stock pickups were a bit thin and wiry sounding for my taste. Usable, but probably something you'd switch out. That said I've never tried the 650 which was the higher end version. To be honest I just like the fact you're highly unlikely to run in to someone with the same guitar. Ibanez make some great stuff. I have a couple of their basses too, the one I use most is the SR700 fretless. Great gear for the money, new or used.

@joshbabbitt9243

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'm in the US. I've been watching and looking for one of these to pop up since we spoke here and no dice, lol. At least not yet anyhow 😂