Monday, March 10, 2025
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Don’t Buy This Pedal…There’s Something Better!


In this video I’ll explain why you SHOULD NOT consider buying a vintage Nobels ODR-1. The Keeley Noble Screamer is the best alternative on the market and I’ll compare the Noble Screamer to my vintage Nobels ODR-1!

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Timecodes
0:00 – Intro
2:17 – What is the Nobels Sound?
3:49 – Session Example
4:03- ODR-1 and Keeley Comparison
6:12 – Higher Gain Comparison
7:43 – Add TS Tone to ODR-1 Circuit
9:14 – Outro

#Dont #Buy #Pedal…Theres

Originally posted by UCY00_qWCatxDb6cdqYw6ybw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_qOKrOO_g

45 thoughts on “Don’t Buy This Pedal…There’s Something Better!

  • And now another option (and even better than those two imo)… the Nordland ODR-C "H/L". The Nordland was developed by Nobles ODR-1 creator, Kai Tachibana and has all the original sound and feel of the ODR-1, but is even more tweakable and versatile. High and low drive settings, more and better settings and feel specifically for low drive, presence, low-cut for a less 'muddy' sound, independent mid control in addition to the Spectrum knob, compression reduction in drive stage. It's everything I wanted after getting the ODR-1, and didn't quite get from the Keeley Noble Screamer…

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  • I usually favour more present drive and I have a feeling the Keely has a different filter on the top. I actually don't like the Tube screamer for that very reason. Only application of it that I like is as a filter with minute drive going into a super heavy amp distortion

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  • Yeah baby! I removed my original post. Once he adjusted that gain and tone, LOVE that Keeley pedal!

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  • It helps with all of this stuff to be able to make the guitar sound good with your hands before using pedals.

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  • Truetone VSXO is massively tweakable and one side of the pedal is based on the ODR-1.

    Also, on a budget, Tone City makes the Nobelman. I heard a comparison demo and it sounded nearly identical to the ODR-1 they had.

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  • Truetone also makes dual overdrives with their versions of the nobels, the vs-xo and the jeckyll &hyde which are respectively associated with a version of a tubescreamer and a version of shredmaster, I wonder what they're worth compared to those presented here?

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  • I bought an ODR-mini a few years back. I was convinced by all the YT videos that it was the BOMB. I had it on my board for a few gigs THEN I went back to my Fulltone Fulldrive 2… much better for my useage. I do regret selling my Marshall Bluesbreaker 20 years ago…. I should have stuck with it and would have saved my time and money. Chasing overdrive pedals is a worthless task…. only my opinion.

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  • Wampler Belle is my jam; Brian has great ears, and he's a breadboard wizard.

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  • just got my first odr mini for 50 at guitar summit from nobels boss himself. been avoiding em… its rerally pleasent. 18v makes a big feel difference. like between golden retriever and bernhardiner? it feels like thick heavey bright green rubber matress. a jam rattler set trebbly and lo gain helps A LOT opening up that woofiness. very bass heavy. but it makes single coils sound like proper pickups. i see why those tele plinkers dig it.

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  • I just bought a Nobels ODR-1 directly from Nobels and I am absolutly happy with it. Nobels introduced this weekend the next generation the ODR-1X at europes biggest guitar fair, the guitar summit. I am looking forward to the new version.

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  • There isn’t anything special about the odr-1, it’s literally just a dark flat sounding overdrive, Lots of modded tubescreamers and timmies blues breaker clones can do that

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  • The mini version of the Nobel’s is $150 …and it’s great. And these pedals are not thousands of dollars…the updated full size model is $120….bunch of lies here! They are some of the best transparent overdrives I’ve ever played through!

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  • I bought one, didn’t like it as it was too dark for me and my humbuckers, so I sent it back…

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  • Prefer the OCD meself for a distortion pedal. And its got way too much gain with the knob on zero to be an overdrive or boost for me. But hey its trendy!

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  • Buy the Nordland ODR-C better than both of these, just gotta be patient.

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  • I'm strapped for room wondering if belle mini and ts mini would be better tone wise than nobles screamer. I do love keeley pedals, have a halo and it's the only delay I'll ever need. But i already own a wampler belle

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  • Always preferred the sd1 to any screamer. The noble was showing up everywhere so I bought one. Nope , the boss SD1 still beats it. I don’t know why it’s so underrated, maybe because it’s cheap, but the sd1 is the king.

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  • The price of the original Nobels is so (SO) ridiculous.

    You buy 3 or 4 Vemuram that put Nobels in a slipper! ????

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  • Power jack is hangin' on by a thread? Oh NO! Better take it to a scientist for diagnosis.

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  • Funny how guitar guys are religious about pedals. They are all a bunch of 0.01$ simple parts. A  bit more mid, more bass, etc.
    Look into "where tone come from" serie on youtube to see the insanity of it.

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  • They are only hyped in Nashville and people that like that music. The world doesn’t know it

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  • I'm playing my Jr. with a single Reilander P90 more and more than my SSS Strat and LP lately. I think it's the perfect Pup for a wide range of music. Especially if you work the tone and jump from fingers to pick you can get tele tones to LP grit. I have the LTD Nobels that I leave on and then use an octonaut hyperdrive as a mid-boost for any gritty lead I need to do. Love your SG Jr. Corey.

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  • I had a silver Nobels ODR-1 from the 2000's and then suffered through a house fire and lost many things including that pedal. I was extremely dissapointed sad to see how outrageous the things are pricing. I just want my pedal back.

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  • imho, the orig Nobles way u got it set up sounds bigger than the Keely, i hear a bigger sonic pic w/orig n im sure the Keely could be dialed in to match 4 sure..

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  • Nobles pedal look like they should be $50 pedals and have like $10 worth of parts. Looks like a joyo or Behringer plastic job.
    Leave it to drama club guitar players to hype up something so much that they’d pay $2k – logic circuit not included. Get a soldering iron and build your own for $50 including the iron. Then make a klon and a king of tone and you just saved all kinds of money.

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