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I hauled the Afford-a-Board all the way to Kansas City just so I could have it graded in person by 'Professor Pedal" himself Josh Scott. Josh seems to like every pedal hes ever tried but what is his expert opinion on what the affordaboard has to offer? tune in to find out.
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"Im just angry and cheap" "that makes you a philosopher"
Lol literally JUST about to comment the same thing. So funny 😆
Average American? Is that YOU?! I've missed you!!! 💝🎁
"You're like a tone philosopher."
"No, no. I like that pedal but it's not cheap enough."
im snorting me beer lol
That was very witty from Josh 👍
It's like one kid showing another his new Lego.
- "I'm just angry and cheap"
- "That makes you a philosopher"
So true.
This should be a T shirt
Well, we need to define our terms first. I'm not doing that unless I get paid.
Josh is one smart, witty, solid dude.
That’s classic
Josh is always talking so politely and respectful about cheap pedals, some day I have to return the favour and buy a JHS pedal :P
Hmmm, well maybe that uni vibe pedal, but no more.
Might I reccomend the Haunting Mids
I bought a Lucky Cat delay for the same reason.
I was thinking exactly the same rn
Bonsai Tube screamer is the tits!
Josh is such a great sport. He could be “yeah, it’s cute for it’s price.” Instead he’s like, “this is really cool I’m going to feature this on my show.”
The whole while his own business is potentially in direct competition. What a solid dude!
There's room for lowballers, and top tier in every industry.
@@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power right. Inexpensive doesn't always mean "cheap". As a player you will pay what you think a certain effect/sound is worth TO YOU. If you can afford a Klon get a Klon, if you can only afford a clone.... it's also a really good way to test drive stuff before you potentially commit a paycheck to something that you might not love.
@@daddyosink4413 I've been building my own "AffordABoard", and some of the pedals that I've bought, have been after watching Ryan (Mr. Hum) demo them. If you're on a budget and need to hear what something sounds like............(oaky Austrian voice) GIT YOOR AHS TO YOOTOOB!!!
being cool about competition is one thing the greatest only can do.
He's clearly not a snob :) and he is really analizing how the circuits sound, that's awesome :D
thats because he's a businessman. his only goal is to squeeze money out of you so he puts on the nice guy persona
'This episode sponsored by Tour Gear Design, makers of patch cables'. Ryan: 'these Hosa cables are my favourite' hehe! :)
Yeah, I was confused about that
Hosa cables SUCK! I’ve had ‘em go bad in less than 2 WEEKS!
@@edryba4867 Back in the day, people would laugh you out of the room if you used Hosa cables, and now I see everybody raving about them. The thing about being an old timer, you've seen all the gold turn to shit, and all the shit turn to gold...
So what is everything really made of?
Belief.
- Tone Filosofer.
@@edryba4867 aa
Yeah I generally don’t mess with Hosa unless desperate and the store has nothing else.
They make 1 gig midi cables but it got you through the gig until you unplugged it and the ground broke 😆. I think the patch cables may fair better and are easy to replace or potentially repair but I am spoiled now and don’t mind spending as much on two patch cables as a Chinese fuzz box.
"There's no reason not to own this." - - - This is going to get buried in the 400 other remarks, so whatevs. But ... These two guys (you two guys on the off chance either of you see this) & Henning are f#cking awesome for actually demoing these things - & also for not saying "for the money" everytime. Some of these things are just plain "great" regardless of the price. In the hundreds of thousands of AliBaba specials there's of course lots of garbage - but there's some real jems. I love having a 6-pedal board that sounds good that costs the same as a "regular" overdrive (which is of course cool too). Thanks for digging through the pile on our behalf.
Ha, that's a great observation, saying "for the money" every time ruins a lot of these videos...who wants to watch mediocre sounding gear reviews, right ? But some snobs are more concerned with protecting their boutique ears reputation before admitting to the talent behind some affordable products.
...and three years on the magic is still working. Last night I ordered three pedals based on Ryans videos.
"I've never been accused of not being bright enough". You've clearly not been reading the comments Ryan.
BOOM! ROASTED!
@@60CycleHumcast With Love tho ;)
@@60CycleHumcast Any chance you would be so kind as to describe what's on the bass afford-a-board?
I just realized how perfect Ryan would be on a 90’s sitcom. Look at that funny turn and face the camera while the intro plays. Look! what’s that in his hands? Haha it’s more guitars! Oh Ryan! Lol gosh
I think he was in a bunch .Get a life, every one loves Raymond, The king of Queens, The Nanny, The naked truth .Oh wait,my bad.
His smile is so cute lol
Ryan: “only two of these exist”
Josh: *you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention*
5:50
Both looking tired, yet doing a great job chatting about things you both care about. Always appreciate Josh's take on other peoples pedals.
Makes you want to hug these dudes and thank them for their guidance and good humour...
I'm always amazed on Josh's capacity to pull just the right chords/riffs ideas to showcase pedals!!
He is at his best when he has the box!
well you know he personally has designed and built pedals, so...
Josh is so cool and supportive. And Honest. He never trashes on stuff he feels is good. Its why I trust and support him completely
In the UK, the first Harry Potter movie is called the Philosophers Stone. This afford-a-board video is the Philosophers Tone!! Lol! 🤣🤣
Josh is a pedal manufacturer, but also a pedal lover.
It’s nice to hear his attitude toward affordable pedals as appreciating how nice this is for guitarists instead of how terrible it is to have to compete with them on price.
“Just the same dumb noodling thing that doesn’t mean anything and has no origin.” That’s my rut too 😞
Seriously, this should be re-titled - "Watch Josh Scott explain how tone works." Great video!
That's cute. The only thing better than playing with my pedals is watching as my friend is going with the flow of my pedalboard... It's priceless.
Bilt: hey Josh, how many pickup you want on this custom Jaguar style guitar
Josh: yes
Well, if you're in the business of testing pedals, a guitar with every pup type is kinda logical. Trouble is, _I_ want one, thanks to Josh.
@@johnvcougar i was just thinking that ... my last guitar to get by type is a short scale with as much going on as possible as i dont have room for more ... this will be guitar #30 and ive still got shit i waaaant
All of them
"Let me know if im boring you to death"
Every guitarist says these words once in their life
Usually to a woman sitting alone on a bed while the rockstar she expected to hook up with plays with the knobs on his affordaboard "I can't believe I use to pay prostitutes to reside while listen to me jam, girlfriends rock"
@@mytorment this is hilarious, i haven’t yet been able to play in front of a special someone. but it’s still relatable, they have that posture set like their waiting to leave. 😂
I have that reverb. It’s kept a few far more expensive options off my board when I’ve tried them. Absolutely awesome little pedal.
Haha so true 😂 The mosky Reverb is still on my board and the Earthquaker devices Ghost Echo had to go.. Sad but true story
I GUARANTEE that less then 5 minutes after ending the taping here, Josh pulled the back off that Donner to plumb it's mysteries!
That's typical Josh... Hell, if it was me, I would've done the same thing.
I’m glad Josh said it here, “if it works, you can use it” *Ode to Joy plays at 120dB* yes yes yes. We don’t all need the exact same gear and there’s no shame if you get the sounds you want and get to make music w your friends.
I got to say I love seeing you two guys together. The perfect duo for guitar pedal introspection.
Anyone who calls it "New X" is a cop
Seriously
All my pedals are "affordaboard" candidates, some of which I got after watching Ryan. My fav is the Cuvave Fuzz, but I love all the small format pedals. It's not only the price, it's the flexibility that you just cannot get from an all-in-one.
Space-bathroom reverbs are awesome.
Josh that was a classy thing to do, to share your experience and point folks towards good cheap gear. Good on you!
Road case series sponsored by tour gear design cables. Spends several minutes raving about Hosa cables. This just goes to show that Ryan don't give a damn about being a slave to sponsors!
I get he's making a living but it cheapens the whole thing. It's less entertainment and more advertising.
Where’s the Harmony Guitars? Oh wait, he NEVER plays it.
“I would have loved doing that!” That’s what I said about the reverse... referring to moist of my life after I gave up guitar. Man! So glad to be playing again-Thank you both.
The Mosky reverb sounds awesome
Dude! I've been watching your videos for a while (well, like a year-ish) and love JHS! How have I never seen this?!?!
You're great too, of course! Very cool!
“Every step of a good guitar tone has destroyed the signal in some way”. Truer words have never been spoken.
Alternately stated: The history of electric guitar is the history of *really bad* audio engineering.
@@Liko81DJ Why doesn't TH-cam have a LOVE reaction!?!?!? *bows reverently*
Watching Josh being so calm and not as hyperactive as he usually is like this is hella weird
i noticed this too
Caline is my favorite affordable pedal company
OK Josh asks "are these oxygen free cables?" You said "Is your cable cool?" If you do an entire video on the patch cables, I would be interested.
Ryan, your Affordaboard series has been amazing to see evolve. Perfect branding on your part. You may want to 'retire' this board and then start with "Affordaboard 21" where you start again with the shootouts on currently (2021) available pedals. Then at the end of the year compare A-20 vs A-21 boards.
Wow, I picked up the ISET Flanger because of this video for $26.08 free shipping! It arrived in around 3 days if I recall, and it sounds great! Everything is solid and the switch is quiet through the amp and no white noise that I noticed in my setup. Thanks! I also have the Island on it's way to arrive this Friday.
I had repeated vibes of Ryan turning in his Afford-a-Board project in at JHS University. Professor Scott seemed to approve.
This was really enjoyable. The playing and creativity throughout was inspiring. I play through loads of those pedal parameters and sounds and think wtf am I doing. Then I hear this. My children are getting flangers every Christmas from now on.
Sometimes I feel bad for the plug n play guys cause pedal tweaking and collecting is such a fun and personal experience.
of course, I can't help thinking "so, this is what you get when you pass a $3,000 guitar through a $30 pedal into a $$$$ amp?"
You’re missing about 4 steps of post production, usually to try to calibrate recorded tone closer to the room, then factor in compression of exported audio, TH-cam’s own compression, then it goes through the codex of your own pc/mobile, then your choice of speakers.
We literally never hear what they hear, and no I didn’t need Mick from TPS to explain all this but I’m glad he did for the folks flexing that they ‘hear a little fizziness in the top end”.
On the one hand, Josh is a real enthusiast, with all the demands that entails....but he's also a deeply honest man who's always researching and thinking things through....and who therefore has no reason to belittle other people's products, because all he thinks about is making 'his ideal' in fact....And his first instinct is to recognise the work of others.
His products are excellent, so he knows he has nothing to fear.
He's a great guy. A man of the future for me.
I spy with my little eye... Atari 2600 cartridges.
Yep, can spot them from a distance anywhere!
Sorry to spoil the mystery, guys, but "Cuvávé" is defined as - A swarthy lady, whom has one leg which is at least 3 or more inches longer than the other.
America’s answer to That Pedal Show
@Dave Carpenter i think he just meant two white guys talking pedals, nothing to do with the gear itself
@@Ottophil exactly! 😂🤣. What if you had Keenan Ivory and Damon Wayans reprising their “Mo Money” characters reviewing pedals from the back of a delivery truck 🙃
@Dave Carpenter they have done afforda-board style videos already nice try tho
It's Donner, short "o" and double-n, like the reindeer. The word means "thunder". The European (Turkish actually) meat dish is a Döner (Doener), one n, long "o", pronounced the same as one who makes a contribution to a cause. And now that's something you know.
Great vid, I'll be buying some pedals in the near future. 👍👍👍😃😃😃
Such a great concept to have Josh weigh in on the afford-a-board!! Nice work Ryan! 🎸
Btw got my Iset Flanger and Cuvave Fuzz in the mail today 🙌
Dammit, Ryan, you have the best intro on the whole webbernet.
Cheers me up every time I see it,
and I think I am spending more time watching Ryan's videos playing guitar with pedals than I am spending learning how to play my guitar with pedals......
When your whole board costs less than the average JHS pedal. 👌🏻
I’m not knocking them (I actually have a JHS Sweet Tea v3 and a couple of others), but it’s also true that they’re very highly priced for what they are. The vast majority of JHS pedals are copies of existing designs, so the argument that “cheap pedals don’t have to do any R&D (whilst we do)” doesn’t fully stack up here.
I love the the Mosky Reverb - it sounds like the oid reverb on a Peavy Bandit. Also, per Overdrive - the sub $50 Caline Mellow drive is keeping every other OD pedal off my board.
I absolutely love having a pedal guru like Josh commenting on these affordable pedals. Thanks!
Bought the Cuvave fuzz after Ryan's video from a year or so ago. It's great. I stack drive pedals into it. Sounds massive and the gate works perfectly. Bought another for a friend but the gate was totally different (did not fully silence) and sounded Muffier.
I bought one couple of months ago, at first it had gate then it disappeared
Maybe component died or something
"Im just angry and cheap" "that makes you a philosopher"
As a guy who studied philosophy in university, I resemble this remark.
The entire Afford-A-Board series is fantastic, but this video is sooo academic in the right ways. Easy to understand and follow, even for newbie like myself. Great content!
My thoughts to the T
Josh’s a great guitar player! Like his style
Man, there's a big handful of great people sharing information right now.
The Donner delay is really sweet, but they just added a dual tape echo that is just bazonkers. Unbelievably good and if you're a stereo guy, you're gonna flip.
I get the allure of the cuvave fuzz but I just couldn't get it to do what I wanted so I gave it to the other guitar player in my band lol
Are we just glossing over the “Space Bathroom” reverb? I need THAT pedal ASAP.
I have several reverb pedals...but the sound of that little reverb pedal is awesome, and is my favorite out of them.
I found this channel through that jhs “does it drip” live show. Great channel. Great humor from this guy. Sorry I don’t know his name, I’m new here.
The fun thing about this - was watching two tone nerds, get nerdy with it - thanks dudes
Josh Scott being given a brief tutorial on how to find cheap pedals on Amazon, is priceless...much unlike the affordaboard. The look on Josh's face was hilarious!
Put the Snake Bite Reverb back on the board, with the controls and your ear for verb you can do what Josh was saying.
I have so much respect for Josh. He designs, manufactures and sells pedals for a living and yet he doesn't diss pedals by other brands. Remarkable character. I am going to buy me a JHS Series 3 pedal even though I'm try to build my own affordaboard.
In this day and age it's not worth it bashing other brands publically, he would get called out on it too much and it wouldn't be worth the hassle
Love the Atari 2600 cartridges in the background
Fun fact: after Josh has said that Dolamo sounds kinda like the Klon, the pedal immediately went out of stock everywhere, and the price skyrocketed.
Funniiy enough it didn't. I think guitar 'buyers' just became crazier in the past couple of years. Luckily most normal people put the blame on them rather than Josh.
I like how Josh makes the Dolarmo OD sounds at 18:00.
I’m starting to think it’s the player that plays the pedals and not the pedal that plays the player... anyways Josh can make a turd sound good, and sell it to... that’s not a put down on JHS at all... they’re great pedals... I need to stop typing, to much coffee.
I have Hosa Cables too. So far so good. They are very small cables too.. like the wire is pretty thin and flexible. But they've totally held up in terms of quality and reliability.
My buddy recently got back into playing and needed a new board so I showed him your channel and he's been working on his own Affordaboard based on your recommendations. His name is also Ryan haha
So awesome to see people in the same room again
“I’m angry and cheep”
Josh: “That makes you a philosopher.”
I love when Josh plays Lightning Crashes
Two of the very best fun pedal savants on TH-cam together. I hope this becomes a regular feature. That Afford-A-Board makes me want to buy every pedal on it even though I purchased an HX Stomp so I wouldn't need to buy separate pedals any more. What an awesome video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. You guys had me laughing out loud as well. 😎😂
Great video guys!!! Thank You for posting this!!! I love the afford-o-board!!! Very cool of you guys to experiment with these awesome affordable pedals!, sounds great as always!!! Take care and be well!!!
great video to watch, seeing Josh process the innards as he listens to the tones. This series motivated me to build a affordaboard. So far it consists of Soniccake Fazy Cream(Fuzz), Outlaw effects Deputy Marshall(Distortion),Mimidi(OD), Donner Evolution(Mod square),Ammoon Pockecho(Delay and Looper), Soniccake Twiggy blues.(4 in 1)About $320 canadian.
Josh's Dennis the Menace hair is hysterical.
I absolutely love having a pedal guru like Josh commenting on these affordable pedals. Thanks!
This is the best video. Maybe my favorite you've done!
Gee it only took two week and some of these already jacked up the prices. The Donner is now $70(makes you want to eat people) . The Cuvave jumped $15 these others are still around the same
As this unit has 2 ins & 2 outs. Maybe the outs can be split for the reverse function. One output being "Wet" and the other is "dry", So you could Isolate the dry channel and only hear / record only the wet output, (reverse effect) ???? Unfortunately at this time (221129) it's no longer available from Donner.
Good cork sniffing guess on the Cuvave, JHS. It has a Muff style tone stack but the fuzz design is not a Muff.
yeah it's only got 2 transistors. i don't know what it is and i'd like to trace the circuit, but i've got enough fuzzes and it's not that different from a muff to be fair (also it's $40 now, not 20).
@@calinguga Fuzz Face perhaps?
turns out it's a zvex woolly mammoth (look for bushidov on tdpri)
I like the Landlord FX Whiskey Chaser Distortion Pedal. It's also around $20.
Oh, cuvave means [REDACTED]
I love your channel dude. I watch everything you do. Your knowledge and your whit keep me entertained the entire time. Thank you. I have purchased many pedals because of your thoughts. Your awesome dude. Keep up the great work!
First cuvave fuzz I got was glorious. I tried to buy a second as a backup and it sounded “fixed”. No bias gate shit. Booooo! Bought five more trying to find another. No dice. Dude... tell them to make them the old way! I was able to sell the ones I bought on reverb thankfully customers were happy with them.
Good to know, now I don’t need one 😆
This video made me buy a Donner Island delay. It is a great pedal, however, it really needs a clean, isolated power supply or else it whistles and hums. But with a clean power supply (not a daisy chain) it sounds just like the video.
Crazy how my 1st take on some of those sounds was "well that's useless" but then Josh effortlessly throws together something so cool with it.
Great content here.
Josh gets the best sound out of any pedal in milliseconds!
Great comments from between 39.00 and 40.00, including the remark that by modern standards iconic pedals became that way, due to their availability at the time, and circumstance. This is great argument for using what you have, and not getting too hung up on perfection. I mean, there's a whole lot of signature guitars hanging on CEO'S walls that have never been played, and probably never will be.
There's an affordable fuzz I found that I like. I think it's also a Big Muff. It's by Caline. It's called a Fuzzy Face. I bought it because I wanted a Fuzz Face. But it's not a Fuzz Face. It's much more Big Muffy to me. But it's cool. It has a switch that cuts the mids and a button that makes it sound like an octave fuzz. Of all the fuzz + octave fuzzes I've played this one does it pretty well. It sounds like an octave fuzz. So it's pretty versatile.
Every time I see an affordable mini flanger with the 1 big knob, 2 small knobs and the mini toggle, I assume it's the same as Mooer e-lady. The one here does sound pretty much identical.
Was a video ever made that showed the bass afford-a-board???
The roadcase theme song gets me everytime. It's the audio equivalent of a really bad dad pun
The hell is going on with Josh's hair?
Ok...I'm not an afforaboard kinda guy and I'll tell you why.
Here's the thing...sure chips and circuits can be pretty cheap, especially when produced en masse in China. But, I don't support that.
What happens is (& I've seen in in the audio gear world), is the smaller/boutique players get squeezed out as they can't compete and you end up being left with only the larger corporates or the Chinese clones (basically). It doesn't happen overnight, but it will happen as I'm watching more cheap Chinese clones begin to swamp the market & get support from some of the more popular channels such as Ryan's.
I subscribe to 60 cyclehum (and Ryan is great in all his dorkiness), but affordaboard isn't my thing.
I get it, we don't all have the cash to splash. But, I'd prefer to save and support people such as Josh, rather than Chinese mass produced products with nigh on slave labour.
That's just me...and I won't by Chinese guitars either.
I'm hearing everybody now...but what about your phone..what about this or that...well...I've drawn the line here.
Some things are unavoidable others there are clear choices. I want passionate folk like Josh to flourish, not some faceless copycats.
It's just horrible when years of R&D, passion and so on, just get buried by what's basically theft and nobody can do sh!t. So, yeah, I care!
Right....back to the video I'm not quite half way through.
Cheers fellas. 🎸🎸🎸
the affordaboard pedal board would definitely just be a backpack with the pedals all connected together (so you dont forget how they go!) and tangled up
Ryan: "I've never been accused of not being bright enough."
25:38 Josh's pants: "Hold my beer."
Looks like the Donner Vintaverb is the multi-function reverb you seem to be seeking to go alongside the Island delay.