Key bits: Intro jam: 0:00 Thoughts/history/opinions: 1:40 What’s it sound like? 8:00

@Phoebedumplings

5 жыл бұрын

Buck And Evans Chris, you should string all these improv videos together and make an album, I would buy it, very relaxing stuff ,

@PieterJordaanWillem

5 жыл бұрын

Wow! What amp is being used? Reverb also sounds very rich. Incredible playing!

There are not many players I want to just sit and listen to solo, with my eyes closed, not paying any attention to the world around. This is beautiful.

@kenster865

6 күн бұрын

Chris is pretty durn good and quite listenable, no argument there! 😉

Sometimes I wanna just cry !! Wonderful playing !!!

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Sean Crow Haha. Thank you Sean ☺️

I heard Michael Jordan once saw Robben Ford going for a jog and was so inspired he invented Air Jordans. He stopped making them when the hype got silly but eventually Nike reissued them. Robben still wears em when he can't fly to shows.

@judgegroovyman

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Buddy! Yup. I was there and watched it all happen. Confirmed.

@user-dr5tw7jc3n

3 ай бұрын

Oh ok

Searched for "Hermida Zendrive"... ...stayed for the playing. Just keep doing more of it man. It's bloody hypnotic!!!

that you have the guts and skill to let people listen is fantastic. where others yell and "talk" with their axe, you are happy to have a conversation that is relaxed and intriguing. love your work

@AdamJohnSwenson

5 ай бұрын

exactly

This is expressive, tasteful, sophisticated playing. Who really cares what I think, but for what it's worth, I don't hand out compliments to other players just to be polite. Wonderful stuff.

I keep coming back to this video of this pedal. Man you do it justice

Just wonderful in every respect, you and the pedal.

Blooming excellent playing. 10/10.

I use my Zendrive with a 1958 Tweed Deluxe. Only turned up to three, I Get superb tone with the blue light glowing.

Amazing phrasing & dynamics......one of my favorite u-tubers for sure!

Very nice playing. I love the balance of moderation and good tone setup.

You make me happy!

Awesome playing, as always! I actually enjoyed your clean tone even more than with the Zen engaged. I recommend you to give the White Zen a try if you have the chance to. It's my favourite (I use it mostly clean to low-gain) of the numerous variations of the last few years at lovepedal.

Awesome playing and phrasing !

Such a great tone during the intro, wow 👍

beautifull playing you deserve the Bucks

I’ve owned a Zendrive (& a Zendrive 2) for about 10 years now. Collected them from Alf’s house while over there on holiday. He’s a great bloke. Let me try out the prototype Nuvalve that had been played and signed by Brad Paisley and Carlos Santana. Love the sounds it makes with my telecaster.

Fantastic playing brother..

I’d say that is a strong recommendation by the way you enjoyed that, same here. That was awesome Chris.

Time for a solo album if you doing just this kind of stuff, Chris. Love it.

Wow, awesome playing - great demo of a particular Zendrive setting that really sets off your rig (that 335 is so sweet!).

I love the sound of mine thru a twin reverb with my 335!

Wow, Chris your tone even without the Zen engaged is wonderful, what reverb or other pedals are you using ? I just received the Love Pedal version of the Zen and I was afraid that it might be to high gain but your settings at the open are really low and the tone is incredible. As always love your playing and video's !! greeting from Detroit (If you ever play here let us know). Thx

Nice 335. I don’t love the Zen Drive, but I stayed to hear Chris play through a lovely 335. 👍😁👍

Beautifully played and I think this is a fabulous pedal made by Hermida or Shawn of love pedal I could not tell the difference between them when tested for me it's an always-on pedal

Hey brother! Tasty AF playing! One little addition to your story from my memory, Alf actually made a pedal between hearing Roben’s recording & the Zendrive. Which was the ‘Mosferatu,’ from my understanding (I don’t remember the source, but I think it was on the Hermida website). The particular recording Alf was referencing, Roben was playing a higher gain rig than usual & that matches the Mosferatu. However he preferred a lower gain rig, which after feedback resulted in the ‘Zendrive.’ From there I believe the rest of your story is accurate. I actually own original handmade Hermida Zen 1, Zen 2, Mos, Dist, Tiki Drive. To my ears the Zen & Zen 2 are my favs, the mos is definitely geared to a higher gain & doesn’t quite have the dynamic range of the Zens. Hope that wasn’t too long winded, much appreciated for your video! All the best & great video :)

I have to agree with the previous comment. I'm new to this channel and everytime I watch your demos, I couldn't help but care less about the demo anymore because of that lovely guitar playing :'( so striking to the soul.

Man, just watched the first 40-50 seconds of the vid and whatever gear you use, it still sounds like you. Kudos! Hope to find my way there one day...

Clean and classic vibes and tone! Trying to decide what zendrive I should get for my Fender 68 CDR. Thinking black magic, but this one sounds awesome with that 335! Don’t know!

Man your playing is stellar and I really dig your playing

Saw you a few years back at the Newbridge Memo - the gig went up several large notches when you solo'd on that 335. Such a rich and powerful sound and a genuinely beautiful guitar in the hands of an incredible player.

I absolutely love my zendrive. I use it next to a king of tone and a tube screamer. When I want THAT lead sound...that sort of “$300,000 worth of ridiculous gear” Los Angeles lead sound, that’s what the zendrive does. The king of tone makes for a great “core” sound in any room, the ts boosts the entire planet and the zendrive makes for an expensive sounding lead tone...and there you go.

I've seen Robben Ford a few times, and yes, he used the Zendrive with the Dumble. I also have seen him in a video using it with a Fender amp. I'm also fortunate to have an original made by Alf. It's the one pedal I will always keep. Nice job on this demo by the way!

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Stan Esposito Cheers Stan. I actually spoke to Alfonso last night via email and he said that Robben has used it with his Dumble in the past. High praise indeed...

@marceloberestovoy7907

4 жыл бұрын

I saw RF last year at the Dallas Gtr show playing the Tele w a zendrive into a Fender amp- He sounded as he always does....amazing :-)

Super tasty playing and awesome tone bro. Refreshing to hear in today’s you tube guitar gymnastics.

Epic tones

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

David Morisset Cheers David 😊

sweet playing

Superb playing, my friend. Also rekindled my love of the Zendrive. I never quite used it correctly and felt like the Twimble was a better fit, but your video helped convince me to give it another go.

I've been watching for a while and was blown away when I just realized I wasn't subscribed. Don't worry I fixed that problem !!!

Damn, that’s some sweet playing!

Great tone and playing. Going to be honest; I'm trying to learn some of those licks. Are you in Eb tuning?

Love the little reference to "Rugged road".

Chris you are my god. You have the touch I would like💪😍the best

Thanks for the video; great sounds from the pedal! Is the one you used in the demo an original or a Lovepedal reissue?

I really enjoyed your playing and almost forgot about the pedal!!!!!! New Sub too!!

Yes. My 2010 Zendrive is by far the best piece of guitar equipment I’ve ever owned.

A nice intro with the nice red cherry couch back there ;-)

This is the first run of the Lovepedal manufactured version with SMT parts. You can tell because there’s no white washer at the base of the foot switch, and the led is blue when not lit up and it doesn’t have the black bezel around it. I just got an original Alfonso built Zendrive. It’s so good that I’m currently selling off other stuff to buy a backup since the originals are gooped, and basically can’t be easily repaired if something wears out😩. It’s the strongest and most immediate connection I’ve felt to an overdrive, or any kind of pedal for that matter.

Sold me, and great playing as usual.

Really really good ...so tell me ...whats are you influences ?

Awsome played man🤘🏻

Can you please do a video on the intro's you place before demoing a pedal. They all sound similar and beautiful! How do you do it?!

Just catching up on this one while binge watching ZenDrive vids post TPS Robben Ford. As usual your sublime playing makes me forget about the pedal/amp/tone reason for arriving. 🙏🏼💜✨

Just stumbled here and wanted to share some appreciation for your playing!! You are a tremendous player!! Nice job!!

warm tone, nice.

Here because I just tried the Dhyana drive in my HX effects and loved it so searched the pedal, funny old world innit?. Great playing!

I have an original 'gooped" Zendrive. I paid $70 for it about 4 years ago. I love it and doubt I'll ever part with it. My always on OD, is the Mad Professor Bluebird, which I sometimes stack with an Xotic Effects Soul Driven or the Zen.

Great playing. What pickups are installed on you guitar?? Super clean for HB...

This pedal is very touch sensitive. One of the best in that way. I like the black at a lower gain, you just get more push and balls.

I have an Original Zendrive. Having had one for over 10 years now, here's my .02c: The Hype - much of this has to do with the fact that Alfonso Hermida was hand-making these (with maybe 1 assistant), so if you ordered one, you might wait a couple weeks or many months to actually get one in your hands, depending on Al's workload at the time. This meant that prices would get a little silly. I think they originally went for $150 (Al refused to raise his price despite high demand), and then people were selling them for $250-300. This created somewhat of a buzz and may have led to some exaggeration as to what this pedal can do... The actual sound: When I first tried my friend's I immediately fell in love with it. It has a refined grain that is relatively unique. It's transparent and you can almost hear your original clean tone somewhere in there, and when you switch it on, if you have the level set right, you would seamlessly go from your clean tone to dirty, with no pops and no massive change in timbre other than more saturation It's extremely touch sensitive and you clean up your tone with just picking intensity and nuance. It's very responsive and will pretty much accurately give you back whatever you throw at it. One huge thing I discovered with it, is that if you have a guitar with a treble bleed, you can actually clean up the tone of the Zendrive by backing off your volume, whereas without treble bleed the difference was kind of marginal..

I dont usually like the Zendrive but gosh, you made it sound really nice

Nice playing! What amp are you using? What setup are you using to record guitar in this video?

great video!

I love your playing and the tone here is great. However, does this pedal only work well with a clean tone? I've seen a lot of videos of this pedal and am yet to see someone use this on an already overdriven sound. I was just wondering how this works in that situation.

That's a keeper, suscribed!

That is one beautiful guitar and delicious pedal. Cool video, very jealous here haha

Sounds great! What amp are you going through?

I've met Robin Ford a handful of times through a dear friend of mine that passed about 7 years ago named Steve Bishop. Steve was from Washington DC where I had the privilege of meeting Danny Gatton , via Los Angeles via Seattle where I met him and Robin and was privileged to see them do a show here in Seattle at the Paramount Theater. He ended up in nashville where he got really plugged into the music scene down there doing shows and recording as a side man. Sadly nobody here will know Steve Bishop but I'm here to tell you that he was a phenomenaly gifted player that could easily hold his own with Robin Ford and his good friend Danny Gatton. Steve was the kind of guy that he could pick up anything with strings on it, didn't matter what the instrument was and he could just make it talk, make it sing like nobody I've ever heard before including Robin ford, no disrespect to Robin or Danny Gatton. Steve Bishop was on a list of the 10 best unknown guitar players put out by vintage guitar magazine maybe 15 years ago. There used to be videos of Steve up on KZread but after his passing I think that his family must have taken those videos down. I'm only able to find one or two of his videos but they're not the best example of Steve's playing. I wish the world could have heard Steve because he was that good and I was witness to how his playing affected those around him listening to him. We were all mesmerized. I miss him dearly. He was only 54 or 55 when he died of spinal cord cancer and towards the end he couldn't even hold his guitar and play which just seemed cruel.

@m.vonhollen6673

Ай бұрын

Sorry to hear about your friend, Steve Bishop. May he rest in eternal peace!

@richietownsend6737

3 күн бұрын

💙💙

I don't recall you mentioning what amp you're plugged into. Great tones with or without the pedal.

I think it sounds great as an overdrive man you should post like on the side of your techniqes because man your style is like captivating

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

aaron _2don Cheers Aaron!

@TheBlackzat

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, you are awesome Chris!

I have an original Zendrive 2 and either my 68 original twin or Fuchs ODS 30. And I get pretty close to Robben Ford tone, Particularly his tone on Sahara Moon, Peace on My Mind live version. Love your videos and Guitar work too, thanks

What was the amp? It sounds amazing with out the pedal on!!!!!!!!!!! The pedal just made it more boss.

Robben does use it with his Dumble. Saw them at his Guitar Dojo in August. Can’t get my jaw off the floor.

So with new Helix update this pedal “Dhyanna Drive” sounds way better, really digging it now

Man, fantastic playing and great tone! Who should I listen to if I want to cop a style like this? Mayer is an obvious first answer, but anybody else? Also, that was an excellent review of the pedal. Subscribed!

@eldricarpilleda

5 жыл бұрын

John McElroy robben ford, srv, hendrix, mateus asato, matt schofield, josh smith, allen hinds, eric gales, tomo fujita, kirk fletcher, etc...

@Love_Noise

3 жыл бұрын

North Mississippi allstars. Marcus king. moe.

Hi Chris I bought the Klon clone Velvet Minataur from John in Greece. Stacked with a Turbo Rat first is nutz. Always loved the original Zen. I had ordered one from him in Florida in the USA years ago, but he went out of business and returned my deposit. I know Robben Ford uses one among others. Opinion please if you have time?

Fantastic clean tone man, really beautiful.

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Craig Martin Cheers Craig 😊

The only overdrive that never gets taken off my board.

2nd pedal i bought after Friday Fretworks. Supro harmonic trem being the other.

Spot on info about the pedal history and in general. I came here cause Alfonso him self sent me the video link, so...

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Hector Papo Camacho PopTweaker Cheers Hector! Give Alfonso my best; everything of his that I own is incredible! 👌🏻

I have the lovepedal version of this. Works well with all my electric guitars. SG with P"90"s Les Paul, Tele and my Strat.

I need to check out more Robben Ford. From the 80’s to the 2000’s I listened to mostly blues but didn’t listen to him and I don’t know why. You mentioned him, and just yesterday I found a video of him talking about his tele, his main blues guitar he said. Chance upon a name 2 or more times in one day and you should go do it on purpose. I haven’t seen one of your videos in a month or so Chris I enjoyed this one thank you!

yes, worth every cent!

Demo the 335 more pleeeez :) do you have a les Paul as well? Love hearing your edgy / almost clean style on a Gibson style instrument

Alexander Dumble designed and built the first very famous (and expensive) Dumble Overdrive amp also inspired by Robben Ford. Robben owns what I believe is the Dumble Overdrive #2.

Seriously great playing! Plan on jamming with my 335/Zen/Deluxe Reverb after hearing this!! Also, would love to hear your insight on Guitar Rig 5!

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

DFojas Thank you man! GR demo coming, I promise 😊

@DFojas

6 жыл бұрын

Sweet! Looking forward to it :D

I would definitely want to adabt your style

Aaaaaand, sold.

From what i`ve seen on line Robben uses a Dumkuko now. Apparently the Dumkudo has more clarity in the od and cleans up better when dialing back the vol on guitar. It also doesn`t have the slight mid-hump. I think Larry Carlton uses the Zenkudo. The Zendrive appears to have a nice thick tone, perhaps a touch too thick for H-Buckers..? Anyhow.. thanks for the great demo dude..!

nice playing man..good demo as well

Sounds awesome..........what amp are you using ??

I'll tell you flat-out what the "Fender sound" is or should be IMHO: The relatively recent ' '64 Custom Hand-Wired' Deluxe Reverb. I had a real-deal '66 Deluxe Reverb when a young teen in the mid-late 60's. While my old '66 was hand-wired, of course, it NEVER sounded as good as the recent hand-wired version. They are VERY pricey at ~$3200 new. However, I found a mint used one at a great price and grabbed it. The things are awesome and worth every penny!

Chris, would love to see you and Danish Pete cook a vid up together at some point in the future, would be epic.

well i use the nux steel singer as a dumble pedal and is amazing, and costs almost nothing and is very nicely sounding. i try to use cheap or used pedals to get the sound, safes a lot of money and getting the sound i need orn my tube amps (marshall, blackstar, orange, laney)

Your guitar rig 5 setting is like The Stig of the guitar world. Identity never to be revealed unless it gets offered a lucrative book deal ? I have tried this Zendrive incarnation along with the Red and Black Magic. My favourite is my White one though, which I was quite chuffed to just notice has the exact same settings as you used when the drive was at 1 ‘o’clock.

@ChrisBuckGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Sharp Haha! That’s brilliant 😂 No mystery Jonathan; I’ll be doing a video about it as soon as my recording setup is a little more permanent. It won’t be long ☺️

sweet guitar.............

Nice guitar!

Hey mate I just have to say you do excellent demos. You don't just play one 3 note phrase and then repeat the exact phrase on different settings which I hate. THIS is a good demo. Chords, licks, high notes, low notes, playing hard, playing soft, bridge pickup, neck pickup.. then different settings on the pedal. Also your clean tone is a really good well rounded tone unlike many horrible demos which immediately destroy the sound of the pedal by using thin crappy sounding cleans. Great job! subscribed. Love your playing also. Cheers.

Love Pedals was owned by 2 partners that had a falling out and the Zendrive has informally ceased to be in the Love Pedal catalog. In Dec. 2019 Pogo brought ot the Zen Ray. It sounds like the Zen Drive though whether it is a part for part replication is a mystery.