Every time in tune into you guys I'm like: "I dont really care about this topic" And ten minutes in I'm totally immersed and greatly entertained. Much love from Germany.
I just want to say I’m a huge fan of how the questionable zoom camera and sound makes the guy in the other room just look even more crazy. He’s like the guy you meet in a dark alley to buy some tone from.
When I was in high school, I saw one of those for sale, at a local shop, for $30. I was super poor though. I had enough to get the sheet music to “axis bold as love” OR that pedal. I need a time machine, must be what I’m saying…
When Daniel says: “I wasn’t expecting it to be mine but then it suddenly was”… yeah that happens to me with every pedal I bought 😂 nice to know I can tell my wife that I’m not alone 🤙🏻
Thank you Josh and crew for having fun with pedals and letting us be entertained. My favorite fuzz pedal is the FZ-1/FZ-1A. Very unpopular choice, but i don't care. Bosstone would be second and then all Tone Benders. I have never played any of these except a Bosstone clone (EHX Satisfaction with diodes & cap).
I owned one of those first fuzz pedals. It was intended for bass! I used it with my bass. They even sold a bass with one built in. I also had a Brassmaster, the three button Oberheim phase shifter, the ring modulator, and I had borrowed that guitar synth multi effects thing. Oh and some filter pedal with sample and hold and multi tone booster.
You guys were talking about minimalism and when its done right. Its exactly the reason why I love my blonde Noventa Telecaster so much. Its design is so clean and minimalistic. It just begs to be played every time I look at it.
Man, I forgot about those Maestro pedals with huge knobs in the middle. The whole pedal is the switch. I gotta sit down, having flashbacks. The name for that "minimalist" style in the old pedals is " Mid-Century Modern." It rocks too.
Should definitely make some obnoxious “retro” pedals with big late Jon Pertwee/ early Tom Baker era Doctor Who click switches and rotary dials (potentiometer knobs) on ‘em…..😎🤘🏻
I bought the earth chorus few weeks and here is my thought : - Really in the caricatural Gibson spirit : too heavy, not super well made, looks good, probably too expensive regarding the build quality - the switch is absolutely awful for the price, - not really the kinda of "shiny" chorus that I originally buy it for, but still sounds good. - depth all the way up and speed all the way down makes gainy sounds really dark but absolutely awesome for doom/stoner stuff.
Such a cool episode full of interesting information, so glad maestro has made a come back and love the new products. How did they come to make the vibrato on the SG back in 61??
And I shook hands with Robert Moog (rhymes with go) in the late 80's at Converse College at a seminar he gave on his synthesizers. Wouldn't trade that experience for the world, and very nice man. Love your channel. Makes me appreciate my 10 pedal homemade board even more.
I must say, I love Josh and Nick and everything you guys do, but in all seriousness the best thing you ever did was hire Addison. Friendly dude, great bass player with amazing tone. Kudos. The only critique is that I'm not digging the Tom Selleck vibe. 🤣 But I love you all!
Wowing! I think Addison is pure class, totally agree with you dude. Josh you have some dang cool creative vibes going on. And, hey Drummie those drums are one wicked and slick.
I find it humorous how Daniel talks about the aesthetics of these pedals and how they are “too busy” compared to the originals because that was my exact thought when I saw the release video (I’m all about aesthetics of pedals as well lol) glad I wasn’t the only one haha
Daniel! Will you start your own gear channel at any point? I'd love to hear you talk about pedals and see your collection. Or even to see you post more about gear on insta
Nice. I like the Maestro stuff. I’m fascinated with the gate in the distortion. I too would have liked to see a phaser pedal, but I think they were pushing out more the type of stuff the haven’t done yet. I think if the best were pushed out first, it would have been anti climactic for the second round.
I think this lineup is just their way of kicking off a new generation for the brand. The unobtantium stuff will likely come later, this seems like a more logical first step to reviving the brand because it's easier to sell to the layperson.
I’ve read somewhere that they were doing a custom shop range as well so maybe we’ll see the replicas of the old ones for a premium price and this current line will be the affordable basic pedals for the players who don’t really care about the old ones?
There the only reason I'd buy any of these pedals 'cos sound-wise they're nothing to write home about. But yeah, the way those trumpets light up. I think I'm going to have to invest in just one of them. Probably the fuzz, just because...
for a moment i thought the maestro t-shirt was a pair of like those big goth shorts but with the maestro trumpets on the sides and now i feel like i want that to exist
the metal song with the pizza pie pedal was the best thing i've ever heard on this show. and i iove everything you guys do. more metal pizza pie please
My first thought was “GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!!!!” And I WAS a ‘70s synth player! Incidentally, I don’t know how many tape loops I replaced back in the early - to mid - ‘70s in Echoplexes, along with Roland Space Echoes and Chorus Echoes, always using Ampex 456 Mastering Tape. The back side of the tape is impregnated with graphite, a very effective lubricant, and I never had to fix a replacement loop! There are a number of them that are out there somewhere, still echoing like new. Maestro made a thing that brass and woodwind players used in the early days - a Frequency Multiplier/Divider. And that Octave Box came later! By the way, JHS Pedals are.OVERPRICED BY AT LEAST 98%
Sorry Josh and to the other kids I write always in the wrong place, I want to express my love to your music which is Fantastic, I play my self guitars and keyboards, and I compose music in Greece. I am 60 years old, I worked in many radio stations, so I thing I ca say a thing or two about music. YOY ARE FANTASTIC! I wonder how you manage everything!. I made pedals also from my 11. I learned my self, starting from radio transistors, I found out if I connect input on pot I can get ovedriven small Amp. That's was my beginning. So I can appreciate Josh job.... Love you all
Re: design, I think the knob field should be the large singular shapes like the originals. Name of pedal in bottom of field above the footswitch. Move footswitch and led-lit logo to the right to center them in the lower band.
I really dig into this New show of your's meaning plural..plenty full of information and I hadn't thought of ' i have the box ' It wasn't shipped in that box " OMG, I LEARNED something today!
2 things. More Daniel Danger (and full JHS crew) episodes plleeeaasse. Also we need a petition for the JHS band album, like what Daniel mentioned EHX did.
@@DanielDangerTME literally can't wait. btw I agree about the design busy-ness. it would have been cool if they just stretched the horns across the bottom footswitch area, and kept the little logos for the box, or side/back of the pedal housing.
what does your guitar do? is that custom made for you by bilt? i love the pup configuration, just curious what the things do on the horn of the guitar that look kinda like a jazmaster switch and other ones?
Late to this party, but I had a great friend named John Coachmen that had one of these and it made me fall in love with Echo. The tape was hard to come by back then, but damn it sounded awesome.
Godlyke's TWA Hand Built line has been promising to ship the Krytical Mass for over a year now, and they say it's based on the Bass Brassmaster. Unrelated, its controls are named akin to the video game Space Team.
Hey Josh and Daniel..........You forgot to mention the other Maestro genius...........Richard Mintz from ATD (All-Test Devices Corp.) located in New York. I designed and manufactured the Maestro Multiplier, Super Fuzz FZ-1S, Envelope Modifier, Octave Box, Boomerang Model BG-2 wah/volume pedal, Sustainer and full line of Maestro Acoustic Transducers and preamps. Daniel, I sent you an email a few weeks ago. I wonder why the people at the new Maestro didn't reach out to me?
I had one of those Maestro foot-roller fuzz pedals when I was a kid in the 70's!! I traded it for a Fender Blender because I didn't have a Gibson and I though a Fender pedal would sound better with my 71 Hardtail strat because they were both Fender... so, you know, they'd "match" better.... damned 13-year old me!!
Can we take a moment to appreciate the nuances of the English language? "Silence your phone and hush your babies" is somehow far less insidious than "hush your phone and silence your babies". Okay now back to the video.
I keep seeing these on the pedal demo shelf at guitar center and I never take the time to try them. Next time I’m definitely going to give them a spin!
That chorus was pretty awesome, I’m pleasantly surprised by this line I was expecting just remakes of sounds every brand has just in a new enclosure but there is unique qualities to them
Any episode with Daniel on it I'm down to watch usually the live episodes are too long for me but with his extra cool gear to throw in and knowledge makes it more exciting.daniel you should do demos for all the cool stuff you got like the ehx reverb you got that's super rare
@@NewFalconerRecords theyre just really really generic. I personally don't really care if something is vintage accurate or not but man, these are just boring Chinese circuits with a cool paint job
@@AppaBoy True. The chorus wasn't too bad. But man, the way those trumpets light up. I'm so torn. The pedals are nothing special at all, but they look sooo nice.
Yeah tried 3 of them the other day, glad I’m not the only one. Couldn’t get one solid tone after knob fiddling them for an hour. They really do fucking blow.
1:40:23 i liked this jam but you missed an opotunity to let Daniel play with the oscilation of his cool tape echo unit over this. i bet nobody would notice the lag...
A utility belt delay could be called a “Waist of Time.”
So can this video!
Hahahaha
Every time in tune into you guys I'm like: "I dont really care about this topic" And ten minutes in I'm totally immersed and greatly entertained. Much love from Germany.
I just want to say I’m a huge fan of how the questionable zoom camera and sound makes the guy in the other room just look even more crazy. He’s like the guy you meet in a dark alley to buy some tone from.
I am crazy
@@DanielDangerTME ha ha..
Totally, it's not Zoom, it's a portal into a darker, blurrier reality of obsession.
Buy some “tone”, or “stone”?
Hey kids, you like Electro Harmonix?
I like that the prototype Echoplex is in the hands of a super fan instead of some dusty museum.
It's worth mentioning that the wedge phaser has a knob labeled "Balls"
When I was in high school, I saw one of those for sale, at a local shop, for $30. I was super poor though. I had enough to get the sheet music to “axis bold as love” OR that pedal. I need a time machine, must be what I’m saying…
Daniel must have a vintage electro harmonix router for his internet
ha ha. .
When Daniel says: “I wasn’t expecting it to be mine but then it suddenly was”… yeah that happens to me with every pedal I bought 😂 nice to know I can tell my wife that I’m not alone 🤙🏻
😂😂😂
It's a painful lifestyle, man. I have got to stop watching this channel (but I never will) 😂
The million dollar question... Why no Phase Shifter? Maestro's PS-1a was one of the greatest phase shifters ever.
I believe that was the phaser used by Anthony Jackson on For The Love Of Money
Proofed
I'm sure they'll release a series 2 run of these. Makes sense to sell a bunch off the initial hype/return, THEN debut the phaser.
Maybe some of the other pedals will be coming out in a phase two release. Still plenty of time.
I like how you called it a Phase Shifter. It sounds much cooler then Phaser haha. 🌀
Love all this cool Maestro history im learning here, and totally agree that y'all are past due for a company jam album...
Thank you Josh and crew for having fun with pedals and letting us be entertained. My favorite fuzz pedal is the FZ-1/FZ-1A. Very unpopular choice, but i don't care. Bosstone would be second and then all Tone Benders. I have never played any of these except a Bosstone clone (EHX Satisfaction with diodes & cap).
0:52 I agree Josh, that intro is killer. Needs to be turned into a complete song 💯
The foot knob controlled fuzz makes total sense. Having everything foot adjustable on a parametric filter is insane (18:34).
I get how pumped he is to own an Echoplex… I love that he lets other people experience it too. That’s why it ended up in his plans
Great Grandpa Echoplex can live in my retirement community rent free
"I like minimalism." - the guy sitting in a room surrounded by 10,000 guitar pedals. ☺️
I'm a man of contradictions
lol
Calling that thing a Chorus almost seems like a disservice, that thing sounds amazing!
Best live drum sound on youtube.
First echo I ever owned, in 1970, was a tape echo. A WEM Copicat. Gave it away in 1980 or something like. Gave a lot of old stuff away. Heigh ho!
I owned one of those first fuzz pedals. It was intended for bass! I used it with my bass. They even sold a bass with one built in. I also had a Brassmaster, the three button Oberheim phase shifter, the ring modulator, and I had borrowed that guitar synth multi effects thing. Oh and some filter pedal with sample and hold and multi tone booster.
The TONE TREE 🌲 is an amazing idea. I hope it comes to fruition 🍎
You guys were talking about minimalism and when its done right. Its exactly the reason why I love my blonde Noventa Telecaster so much. Its design is so clean and minimalistic. It just begs to be played every time I look at it.
JHS Utility Belt -- Noise Supprssor, Tuner, Buffer, Switcher,, Power Supply multipedal
STRATMAN 2nds this (please can it also be yellow ; )
Man, I forgot about those Maestro pedals with huge knobs in the middle. The whole pedal is the switch. I gotta sit down, having flashbacks.
The name for that "minimalist" style in the old pedals is " Mid-Century Modern." It rocks too.
Should definitely make some obnoxious “retro” pedals with big late Jon Pertwee/ early Tom Baker era Doctor Who click switches and rotary dials (potentiometer knobs) on ‘em…..😎🤘🏻
Oh yeah
It’s not a tradition fuzz sound, but when the maestro fz-m is set with all knobs to noon, you can perfectly mimic the Satisfaction riff sound.
I bought the earth chorus few weeks and here is my thought :
- Really in the caricatural Gibson spirit : too heavy, not super well made, looks good, probably too expensive regarding the build quality
- the switch is absolutely awful for the price,
- not really the kinda of "shiny" chorus that I originally buy it for, but still sounds good.
- depth all the way up and speed all the way down makes gainy sounds really dark but absolutely awesome for doom/stoner stuff.
And just like that, the last point sold me.
Watching from just outside Lincoln, Nebraksa. Sick burn! :(
Such a cool episode full of interesting information, so glad maestro has made a come back and love the new products.
How did they come to make the vibrato on the SG back in 61??
And I shook hands with Robert Moog (rhymes with go) in the late 80's at Converse College at a seminar he gave on his synthesizers.
Wouldn't trade that experience for the world, and very nice man. Love your channel. Makes me appreciate my 10 pedal homemade board even more.
Wow. This must be the first time I'm gasing for a chorus.
The Maestro footswitch jam. Pure gold!
I must say, I love Josh and Nick and everything you guys do, but in all seriousness the best thing you ever did was hire Addison. Friendly dude, great bass player with amazing tone. Kudos. The only critique is that I'm not digging the Tom Selleck vibe. 🤣 But I love you all!
He elevates the whole room
@@DanielDangerTME definitely does. Josh made himself a great little mini band. I'm still waiting for the first album!!! 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻
Or a WW1 captain zapped into the future in Doc’s DeLorean and has discovered the glorious road to bass tone 😆
A Tom Selleck vib is never a negative thing.
Wowing! I think Addison is pure class, totally agree with you dude. Josh you have some dang cool creative vibes going on. And, hey Drummie those drums are one wicked and slick.
I find it humorous how Daniel talks about the aesthetics of these pedals and how they are “too busy” compared to the originals because that was my exact thought when I saw the release video (I’m all about aesthetics of pedals as well lol) glad I wasn’t the only one haha
There's that wonderful snare sound!!!!
Love that Jam with the Chorus it sounds incredible heavy too great for a Solo
Daniel! Will you start your own gear channel at any point? I'd love to hear you talk about pedals and see your collection. Or even to see you post more about gear on insta
Nice. I like the Maestro stuff. I’m fascinated with the gate in the distortion. I too would have liked to see a phaser pedal, but I think they were pushing out more the type of stuff the haven’t done yet. I think if the best were pushed out first, it would have been anti climactic for the second round.
That Parametric Filter borrowed the aesthetic of a 70s washing machine control surface.
Talk about clean tone!
Also, I'm digging the blue Hagstrom.
Trivia: Will Lee of The World's Most Dangerous Band was the bass player in The Electro-Harmonix Work Band.
I think this lineup is just their way of kicking off a new generation for the brand. The unobtantium stuff will likely come later, this seems like a more logical first step to reviving the brand because it's easier to sell to the layperson.
I’ve read somewhere that they were doing a custom shop range as well so maybe we’ll see the replicas of the old ones for a premium price and this current line will be the affordable basic pedals for the players who don’t really care about the old ones?
Wow! What a ride! the Maestro pedals, Daniel Danger and Addison’s new bass sound all in one show!
Those pedal enclosures look cool AF I want one or some.
There the only reason I'd buy any of these pedals 'cos sound-wise they're nothing to write home about. But yeah, the way those trumpets light up. I think I'm going to have to invest in just one of them. Probably the fuzz, just because...
I'm from Nebraska and I don't even feel attacked by that Lincoln, NE comment. You right
for a moment i thought the maestro t-shirt was a pair of like those big goth shorts but with the maestro trumpets on the sides and now i feel like i want that to exist
Logan's Run.
Fish, plankton, sea greens, and protein from the sea.
38:44 Yes! Maestro, give us the Brassmaster!
The Fuzztain remains the vintage pedal I am most likely to buy or find a clone that resurrects it.
My favorite stinger to date. “A rat ate the box!”
the metal song with the pizza pie pedal was the best thing i've ever heard on this show. and i iove everything you guys do. more metal pizza pie please
18:00 - My favorite phaser ever looks exactly like that fuzz!!
My first thought was “GET ON WITH IT ALREADY!!!!” And I WAS a ‘70s synth player! Incidentally, I don’t know how many tape loops I replaced back in the early - to mid - ‘70s in Echoplexes, along with Roland Space Echoes and Chorus Echoes, always using Ampex 456 Mastering Tape. The back side of the tape is impregnated with graphite, a very effective lubricant, and I never had to fix a replacement loop! There are a number of them that are out there somewhere, still echoing like new. Maestro made a thing that brass and woodwind players used in the early days - a Frequency Multiplier/Divider. And that Octave Box came later! By the way, JHS Pedals are.OVERPRICED BY AT LEAST 98%
absolute re-jumbled thought/word/sound chaos with much pregnant hesitation all throughout. THERE IS HOPE !!! God Bless D&D forever.
Sorry Josh and to the other kids I write always in the wrong place, I want to express my love to your music which is Fantastic, I play my self guitars and keyboards, and I compose music in Greece.
I am 60 years old, I worked in many radio stations, so I thing I ca say a thing or two about music.
YOY ARE FANTASTIC!
I wonder how you manage everything!.
I made pedals also from my 11. I learned my self, starting from radio transistors, I found out if I connect input on pot I can get ovedriven small Amp. That's was my beginning.
So I can appreciate Josh job....
Love you all
That snare sound is delish
Re: design, I think the knob field should be the large singular shapes like the originals. Name of pedal in bottom of field above the footswitch. Move footswitch and led-lit logo to the right to center them in the lower band.
LOGAN'S RUN, Daniel. Released June of 1976
Addison's bass playing (and Nick's drumming) is killer... Josh you sound pretty good too ;-)
Totally agree! And Adissons överdrived bass tone is fantastic. What’s your signal chain Addison?
The irony of a Maestro collector not being able to pronounce the word "maestro" is delicious!
I think I may have to pick up the chorus and over drive. Sounded great.
4 out of 5 mustaches can’t be all bad
I really dig into this New show of your's meaning plural..plenty full of information and I hadn't thought of
' i have the box '
It wasn't shipped in that box " OMG, I LEARNED something today!
2 things. More Daniel Danger (and full JHS crew) episodes plleeeaasse. Also we need a petition for the JHS band album, like what Daniel mentioned EHX did.
the greatest episode ever of the JHS show is coming... its going to win best picture at the oscars.
@@DanielDangerTME literally can't wait. btw I agree about the design busy-ness. it would have been cool if they just stretched the horns across the bottom footswitch area, and kept the little logos for the box, or side/back of the pedal housing.
This channel is worse than my meth addiction. And when you combine the two it’s the greatest high ever! Just may cost me my marriage.
what does your guitar do? is that custom made for you by bilt? i love the pup configuration, just curious what the things do on the horn of the guitar that look kinda like a jazmaster switch and other ones?
Late to this party, but I had a great friend named John Coachmen that had one of these and it made me fall in love with Echo. The tape was hard to come by back then, but damn it sounded awesome.
@ 1:17:36 "SPECULATING JOSH" = Great emo band name
Fun episode. Thanks, team.
Great episode. Really want the weird stuff from Maestro. Give us the rocker tabs!
Godlyke's TWA Hand Built line has been promising to ship the Krytical Mass for over a year now, and they say it's based on the Bass Brassmaster. Unrelated, its controls are named akin to the video game Space Team.
silent running is one of the best sci fi movies of all time
Hey Josh and Daniel..........You forgot to mention the other Maestro genius...........Richard Mintz from ATD (All-Test Devices Corp.) located in New York. I designed and manufactured the Maestro Multiplier, Super Fuzz FZ-1S, Envelope Modifier, Octave Box, Boomerang Model BG-2 wah/volume pedal, Sustainer and full line of Maestro Acoustic Transducers and preamps. Daniel, I sent you an email a few weeks ago. I wonder why the people at the new Maestro didn't reach out to me?
Is the phase sound he demoed from the super big unit what they used on Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World”?? Definitely has “that sound”….😁😁😁
Josh is bringing the Alabama thunder! Whatever that happens to be, reporting from Etowah County, AL.
I had one of those Maestro foot-roller fuzz pedals when I was a kid in the 70's!! I traded it for a Fender Blender because I didn't have a Gibson and I though a Fender pedal would sound better with my 71 Hardtail strat because they were both Fender... so, you know, they'd "match" better.... damned 13-year old me!!
Can we take a moment to appreciate the nuances of the English language? "Silence your phone and hush your babies" is somehow far less insidious than "hush your phone and silence your babies". Okay now back to the video.
i THINK the color of the Maestro Ranger Overdrive is CYAN. It is a true primary color found in printer inks.
I like this "DANIEL" guy 👍
yeah, us too
Daniel wins “I’ve got the box”
I keep seeing these on the pedal demo shelf at guitar center and I never take the time to try them. Next time I’m definitely going to give them a spin!
You should check out sn album called "Maestro" by Kaizers Orchestra. Really cool album, and its relevant because of the name, obviously
I felt in love with the distortion… a perfect disto
That chorus was pretty awesome, I’m pleasantly surprised by this line I was expecting just remakes of sounds every brand has just in a new enclosure but there is unique qualities to them
The invader distortion jam is 🔥
If anyone wants to check out the Rhythm Sound in action listen to Joe Gore play it on PJ Harvey's bside "Maniac'
Love the delay.
"Utility belt" would make sense for the name of a multi effect
Adison's "pee oh hargh enn" name is "Mashley Adison" LOL! I love your bass tone btw. Keep up the great work guys. :)
line 6 just updated the hx stomp , and hx line with some of the legacy effects including the bronze master, a bass brass master effect.
Any episode with Daniel on it I'm down to watch usually the live episodes are too long for me but with his extra cool gear to throw in and knowledge makes it more exciting.daniel you should do demos for all the cool stuff you got like the ehx reverb you got that's super rare
I will, I'm slowly learning this new fancy video tech.
God I wish you could send video thru comments , I have the perfect jingle for “speculating Josh”.
alright, I’ll say it: these pedals blow.
I take it that you mean the new ones and not those vintage ones. If so then I agree with you.
@@NewFalconerRecords theyre just really really generic. I personally don't really care if something is vintage accurate or not but man, these are just boring Chinese circuits with a cool paint job
@@AppaBoy True. The chorus wasn't too bad. But man, the way those trumpets light up. I'm so torn. The pedals are nothing special at all, but they look sooo nice.
Yeah tried 3 of them the other day, glad I’m not the only one. Couldn’t get one solid tone after knob fiddling them for an hour. They really do fucking blow.
Gibson strikes (out : ) again !
1:43 "I like the taste of dirt and trees in my mouth Josh. That's why I drink tea.", says Addison
distortions are not for everyone... i have that distortion on my board and i love it... my favorite by far....
Daniel Danger is one of my favourite artists/illustrators. Fun to see him in this context. He should design some pedal graphics for you.
19:09 jamming to this on the Ibanez 747
I'm commenting days later but man! Addison's sound is crushingly ripping!
26:44 I guess you could say the fuzz has.. Complex Harmonics™ 🤔
1:40:23 i liked this jam but you missed an opotunity to let Daniel play with the oscilation of his cool tape echo unit over this. i bet nobody would notice the lag...
Oop, sorry, wrong song 🥴 I meant Duran Duran “Come Undone”.
I had a PS-1a. I didn't like it. But just plugging it in front of a Marshall nailed the "working man" by Rush tone
Wow that tape Echo reminds me of the reggae from the 80s that's probably what they used because the oscillation sounds identical
Its VERY dubby