Brian May (the legend) uses 6 pence coins since they’re cheaper than buying an actual pick and he claims they are the best. He also plays on 8 gauge strings so I don’t know how he doesn’t snap every high string ever.
Honestly would of thought it would be harder to come by those coins than picks, I have never seen one and they have been out of circulation since what the 50s or something
@@Axiom_Link Brian May was in my studio back in 2010, and he used regular Dunlop Tortex Orange picks. Maybe he did use coins at some point early on when they were still a young broke band, but you can see him playing regular picks in many videos.
@@madkorovaI felt it so bad I'm now in the Bern Unit with third degree berns over 90% of my body. The doctors say I might not make it through the night 🥵
I love the fact that somewhere, somehow, somebody acquired a woolly mammoth tusk and figured the best thing to do with it is to turn it into guitar picks.
Not that far fetched... Tortoise shell picks have been around for a long time, but they require a permit if you carry them across borders. I imagine they make less sound when playing acoustics. I prefer my own fingernails :)
@@BeeTriggerBee No both are illegal because we don't want people promoting anything that ivory is used for. The demand for ivory will be filled with modern elephants in practice even if it claims to be ancient. There is some frozen tundra that is still being mined for mammoth tusks to make items but it's all happening in russia. The rest of the world doesn't want it.
I was reading that there have been many mammoth tusks that have been found in northern Russia with ice melting with global warming. There are people that "harvest" and sell them. Not sure what the legality of this is, but it sounds like they are less rare as of late.
That RAT tail looks like a cool way to prank your fellow bandmates on a jazz jam. Give it cranked to the guitar player and enjoy the show. Definitely practical!!!
makes me want to build a guitar with a p-bass style pickup (in addition to normal pickups) with separate output jack, switch (select high/off/low), and volume knob.
If I'm not mistaken, the barefoot switch caps were mostly created for player who like playing barefoot, without foot wear. They 're actually very practical when you want to noodle around in your home studio without having to put on shoes, lol.
This! I make my own out of bottle caps. Bough a bunch of the commercial toppers, but didn't like them as much. Bottle caps work great and look awesome.
@@chickenboyyyy7860 Glass beer bottles. I have a store nearby that sells craft beer from around the world, so I can usually find something to match the style of any pedal. Plus I get to try exotic beers. Win-win. I remove the plastic insert from the cap, then glue in a little piece of plastic pipe from the hardware store that fits perfectly over the foot switch. Done. Works great.
I bought a JHS pedal about a week ago, and when you mentioned a Gravity pick comes with each one, I went downstairs and pulled all of the packaging stuff out of the box, and sure enough a pick fell out! Not just a pick, but a pin too! If I hadn't watched this video, they probably would have stayed in the bottom of that box for an eternity.
@@stevescuba1978 He has the pin! fun fact. i was debating whether to get a Fender "pick pocket" cap. it's a black trucker cap with a small triangular "pocket" on the right side that a pick can fit into. when i found the pin in my first JHS pedal box, i bought the hat and put the pin on the left side, opposite the pocket. i, literally, bought an expensive piece of Fender merch just as a mounting device for a 25 cent JHS pin. 🤣
Barefoot Buttons are SUPER practical if used barefoot (or playing with socks). Here in Sweden (and a lot of Europe) we don’t wear shoes indoors, so they’re really useful here, as metal footswitches can actually be kind of sharp and a Barefoot Button solves all of that, as then you get a large and smooth surface to stomp. Hence, the name.
also for applying with hand, might be much more comfortablemm and even assist to a live performance regarding timing on/off,,, i cannot activae with palm
Headstock tuners are amazing for solo playing or with a relatively quiet band. I use a Korg one at home and I find it great, but when used with a drummer who can't stop hitting the snare while you tune (which means any drummer, basically) the vibration gets into the guitar body and these things are very sensitive to that so you can't tune well in that situation. But I think the problem is the drummer, not the tuner. I ended up getting a pedal tuner, Mooer like sized for situations that include drummers and I use the Korg for anything else.
I always have one clipped on... To tune backstage before going on stage (and not having to have a pedal + cable just to tune), for example. I use PolyTune Clips because they seem to be the best at picking up the 5th string on bass
Did you ever got the switch of your pedal stuck in your sock, between 2 toes, and your pedal not turned on ? I did. Never thought of these as a good idea, thx.
@@vastelvalentin1348 Maybe that's why they are called Barefoot and not Socks Buttons? LOL! 🙃🤭 I think it depends on how much room you have on your board maybe. I'm not putting them in the cart soon, but wasn't aware of the option. Thank you for your insight though!
I was so intrigued by barefoot buttons when I first learned about them. But then I found out they were so expensive, or incheap if you like, that I would have to consider a minimal pedalboard. Instead I bought Mooers plastic knockoffs that cost less even though they are not sold individually but in medium sized sacks. They look really neat. Like a bowl of candy.
I've gone back and forth on the topic of practical V.S. pointless gear, over the years. The conclusion I came to is, if it inspires you and keeps you motivated, that's all the practicality the item needs to justify it's self.
Agreed, and let's face it, we've heard much worse in top 40 recordings. I thought it was going to be just diodes like the black ice cube thingy that StewMac sells but this baby actually takes a battery. I'd love to find out what circuit it uses.
All else aside, Josh is an extremely inventive guitarist in his own right with a great collaborator on drums. If they came out with a collection of instrumental originals, I would surely buy it.
That submarine pick? Actually seems to have incredible potential. Fantastic composition to show it off as well. I'm genuinely interested in buying one now.
That's how you know you've crossed over from "son" to "father". Dad jokes are funny because of the dad, not because of the joke. In fact, the worse the joke, the better.
OMG the submarine thing sounds sooooo good! Also it would be a cool idea if someone invented a pedal that splits the frequencies and uses different set of effects (at least a combination of 3) for lower register than high register in a single pedal.
Gretsch made a guitar for Chet Atkins that split the top and bottom 3 strings in a stereo output. They made a reissue of it a few years ago. Very cool stuff.
There are quite a few digital pedals that allow you to split on frequency bands and process them separately. It's a little trickier on analogue pedals because you need to do a high-order low-pass and high-order hi-pass (and high-order bandpass if you want to have three freq bands) to avoid frequency amplification near the poles (the frequencies where rolloff begins). High-order filters aren't very musical as they can easily separate fundamental frequencies and their harmonics. They're also hard to implement without impacting the phase of the signal. Add to that the fact that if you run the split signal out into other effects, you can't guarantee the later pedals won't mess with the signal phase and cause weird phase interactions when the two signals eventually get recombined.
I had a Roland VGA-3 with an additional GK-2A digital pickup that you would mount permanently just one mm from the bridge. Then you could mix the digital with the normal sounds to create all sorts of effects. The digital signal was then processed by the amp so you could simulate any guitar type, from acoustic to Les Pauls to Teles, Strats, 12 strings, sitar, synths… great fun and versatility. I’ve seen demos on TH-cam of guitars without any pickups using only the digital output. The amp as such had like 12 different amp models. But I found the amp in general to be too “digital sounding” - it was early 2000s so technology for replicating tube amp sounds was at its infancy - and not warm enough so I changed to a valve amp.
Don't you wish you had one of these: In a very old guitar magazine I saw a tiny ad in the back for a guitar pick that was actually two picks stacked on top of each other with an eight of an inch spacer between them. You play your guitar with it and voila, you instantly sound like TWO guitar players!
If you want to know how that sounds, Samurai Guitarrist made a series of videos in which he tries weird guitar gadgets like these. In one of them he tries this thing, but I'll tell you now, it sounds bad.
I have one of those. I think the double pick was called the Lo Bello pick. The idea was to create a 12-string sound with the stacked picks but it didn't work that well. The first pick hitting the string would bend a lot so that the string would effectively contact both picks at the same time. The gap between the picks wasn't that large. If the gap between the picks was larger or the picks were stiffer it might have been a different story. Best bet: just buy a 12-string guitar.
I've got a couple of pedalboards ready to go all the time, combos, heads and cabs, I've even owned Helix and Kemper products. I caught myself doing the overwhelming majority of gigs with a combo amp and a clip on tuner. Purely from laziness. Never underestimate the power of laziness.
Funnily, the original E-bow units also came in a bag inside a box (I HAVE THE BOX). Sound Stone's marketing is hilarious as it tries to position itself as something new and revolutionary but really all they need to say is, "We're $30 cheaper than an E-bow!".
ok, let's go through these: 0:26 Stomp Switch Toppers: practical if you play in bare/sock feet, but kinda pointless outside of that 1:24 ProCo RAT Tail: kinda pointless, maybe a useful backup if your distortion pedal dies 4:11 Tuners: practical for sure, as long as it covers your needed range (eg some Snark tuners have issues picking up low B bass strings) 5:25 MXR Paperweight: pointless as all hell, but the fact it's a real thing and not just a joke (which I thought it was) is amazing... dumb, but amazing 6:21 Sound Stone: possibly practical? Hopefully it works better than the E-Bow 8:47 Pulstron & The Bright Switch: pointless, a simple volume pedal or a tremolo would work better than that thing 12:45 Picks: as a tool, practical; as far as worrying about how it affects your tone, pointless. Like the test at 16:19 showed, the difference from one to the next was practically negligible. It's basically the same point as your Bad Monkey video if swarms of butthurt guitarists didn't completely miss the point 17:16 The Submarine: depends on how you can utilise it, but I'm leaning really heavily towards practical 20:00 Pick Holders: as someone who loses picks, *a lot,* this is very practical, no question 21:30 "Open E" Capo: if I can see myself having fun with it & exploring its possibilities, then it's practical... and I'd definitely have fun with this 23:56 this video: practical 26:43 more ridiculous pick tests: yes 29:17 "Dot Warner; her nose is missing"
Until today I never realised the secret to perfect tone is an ancient wooley mammoth tusk or a Bernie Sanders figurine.Since I live in Australia I have a hard time buying Sanders merch I will spend the next few months digging up my yard in search of the perfect pick.
My favorite guitar accessory is a product called “Brake Pads.” They’re great For preventing you from accidentally moving your volume knob on your guitar.
@@CerealDust-nStuff remove the knob from either the guitar or pedal and place a rubber o ring over the shaft and put the knob back. They squish down between the bottom of the knob and the body adding extra friction to prevent accidental adjustments but still retain easy function.
that submarine pickup is actually pretty rad! i can think of a lot of crazy combinations you could do with that. I say practical. Gotta get me a soundstone soon
The switch toppers for pedals are very useful for me, I 3d print my own, a lot of times I am playing at my desk and switch them with my hands so I really like the larger button that is easier on the fingers. Also helps for my giant feet.
The Gravity pick was a big surprise. For 35 years i have used the edge, not the point of all picks for extra stability. The Gravity etching holds in my hand, has power and allows me to now play with the point. It was like having an extra 6 months of practice in a pick.
I like those partial Capos, acoustic & electric. It's breaking up the rules . New ideas for rhythm guitar but the scales for solo are the same. That's good. I like open tunings to play slide. This is something between and it opens your mind
I have a pick dispenser stuck between my tone and volume knobs. This way when I drop them, because I have sweaty hands (eew), I can just slide out another and barely miss a beat. Absolutely my favorite accessory that cost less than $5.00.
Fashion Nugget is one of my all-time favorite albums. Start to finish, the whole thing is amazing. Totally changed how I thought about guitar, honestly.
As someone who plays at home where in-home shoe wearing may be optional, the barefoot buttons are quite helpful. I have a gold/silver button on the proper sides of my double barrel. Looks rad!
Stomp switch toppers are essential for playing in your socks or barefoot! Boss (then Ibanez and Behringer copies) were on point with making the on switches those big plates.
I love the foot switch toppers! Especially when playing barefoot on stage, or even when I’m practicing in the living room with just socks on…. They work and I love them
My opinions: - Stomp switch topper: may improve looks, may help protect the knobs on the pedal, maybe.. - ProC Rat Tail: not for me, but maybe for others - Tuners: Pedal tuners ftw for live (mutes guitar when tuning, so you can leave the V-knob where it is) - Mxr Paperweight: wait..this is a real thing? Cool idea, but incredibly pointless - Sound Stone: meh, unique and useful are different things - Pulstron: maybe not useless, but rather pointless imo - brigth switch (incl light): OMG YES PLEASE - Picks: it's less about sound and more about feel/physical response and transient control..and durability - submarine: definetely a useful and most importantly versatile tool - pickholders: not for ON your board, but 100% for IN your guitarcase - capo: definetely super useful, but I rarely ever use mine
I'm glad the submarine pickup is in here, I own 2 of them and they're fantastic! I using it with my POG, B9 organ machine and DL4, sounds fantastic EDIT: I didn't realise you'd used an organ machine with it! That's so cool I tend to play in drop D with a capo on 5th fret on strings 1-5 leaving the low D to ring open, with the submarine under the lowest 2 strings :) Loved the video!
About the submarine pickup thing, I heard musician use something like this on acoustic guitar to send the two 2 low strings to an octaver to create kind of a bass overlay... just saying. On a more serious , I think Bernie sounded awesome.
Picks are so much fun to experiment with. I've finally decided upon one main pick now (I almost always play a Dunlop Sharp .73 now), but I love trying out new ones. I was really intrigued by some in the episode. I'd love to try the "magic door" or whatever it was.
I do the same thing, I mainly play 3 different sizes of Earnie Ball Everlasts but I also have some Bog Street picks with grip holes and different size blades on each size and some picks made of various woods and metals. It all depends on what song I'm playing, I use a different guitar/pick/amp for almost every song when I'm just jamming on my own at home. When I'm out playing I just bring 3 or 4 different picks, 3 of my guitars all tuned different and my Peavey 6505.
@@zakkmylde1712 I love that, man. I've got a new EVH 5150, and I do everything with it. Ironically, I mostly play worship music playing out, but I've done metal, jazz, and alternative with it regularly too.
@@Aaron-zh4kj I will eventually own a 5150, I absolutely love them but my 6505 does the trick for now. Technically it kinda is a 5151, it's almost identical to the old Peavey 5150s. When Eddie started the 5150 company Peavey renamed and slightly tweaked the design but it ripps just as hard for a fraction of the price not to mention mine is a mini 20 watt head so that shaved some more off. It was less than 800 for the head with a greenback loaded 12" cab.
@@zakkmylde1712 Gotcha. My roommate had one of those 6505 20 watts with a 1x12" greenback cab, and it was an absolutely killer amp for price and wattage. We'd jam all the time, him playing that and me playing the EVH through a V30 2x12. I love the EVH because the clean channel is fantastic, and the clean channel of the Peaveys are nothing special. For many metalheads, it's no issue, but with my variety of tastes, the clean channel is probably what I use most. That said, the versatility can't be beat.
Ref the Barefoot buttons, obviously we love them but probably not for the reasons you’d think. Firstly, like you they help me find the switch. Secondly different colours make the pedals standout more. Also the barefoot buttons are super high quality and won the NAMM guitar accessory award two years ago... but beyond all of that Brett and Susan are two of the most lovely people I’ve ever met, we like to support them because they are good people who saw a niche in the market and filled it! They are battling against cheap knockoffs of their product on a daily basis but they rise above it all and continue to create new things for us to “accessorise” our pedalboards with, Thorpy.
I like the PolyTune clip myself. I like a pedal tuner better than a clip on most of the time since they mute the signal when turned on, which is nice when unplugging the cable.
As someone coming from the production end of things and being more into the synth world I wonder why more guitarists don't use something like the Submarine more often. It's so cool to open up your options that way.
My now ex-wife got me a 'Pick Pocket' - a little leather thing with a snap that goes on your key chain and holds your picks. You always have your keys when you go to a gig (or to the music store or wherever), so you always have your preferred picks. Very handy
I like the MXR paperweight. Suggested upgrades: the jack holes could be pencil sharpeners and the knobs erasers... The sharpeners could even use an electric motor that works on a pedal power supply. The switch could also be some kind of hole puncher... and you know what? The lenght of an MXR pedal is the distance between regular paper holes!?!
I know at least one for acoustic instruments. Gamechanger audio's Plus pedal. It's like that pedal pianos have to let the strings ring freely. They make other weird stuff too, like the Plasma pedal.
Huge pumpkins fan and production nerd here. Yep, you're spot on. Ebow, MXR Phaser, op amp big muff, and a clean amp. That's everything you need for the old pumpkins sound.
I think he really is the mr. Rogers of the music world, a beautiful person and contributor to all things music. He's trying to be a geek but he's so much more than that.
The bare foot buttons are super fun for having pedals on my desk + I use different colored ones on my MIDI pedal to trigger media actions in DAW, like record (red button), stop and erase (gold), etc...great for recording productivity.
I am not Josh, I would say she is pointless and don't waste emotion over it! Plenty out there... Till I got married I didn't think relationships were real. Now its cheaper to keep her.
Aye man, she broke up with you? Then she doesn’t deserve what you have to offer :) take a lil while off try to focus on yourself and making yourself feel good, take care of your body, and mental health with exercise of some level, even just a daily walk outside, and women will flock to you, when you feel good about yourself your greatness shines through even more
Got rid of my Korg tuner a couple months ago, don't miss it at all with my korg clip on tuner. Don't have to look down constantly to tune, so it saves my neck a bit. I can also tune up before hoping on stage no problem, so I don't have to waste stage time tuning, trying to hurry because people are waiting, I'm already ready to go. By far the best part of using a clip on tuner though is... Extra room on your pedal board for an extra pedal!!!! It really is great.
The double capo trick is something I’ve been doing for years and years. I actually used to double capo, and flip one of them upside down so I could have an open E string. Then I found the half-capo and it done changed the game. Pretty cool for writing stuff when you’re stuck. If you’re ever in a inspiration-drought, it can be helpful to just throw your guitar into a weird tuning and get some new interesting sounds, and the half capo makes that a lot easier to do without needing to retune
I think the large stomp switch toppers are a good idea. When I go to my drummer's house for band practice I have to bring a pair of clean, indoor shoes. Why? Because the drummer wants us to remove our street shoes when we're in his house. Fair enough. But I can't stand stepping on stomp switches in my socked feet (hard to be accurate and it can hurt!) so I think these would be good for that. Josh, you mentioned having big feet. I'm the same, 6"5" with size 13 1/2 feet. I have a Boss MS-3 and the switches are too close together for my feet. So often in the heat of playing I would step on two switches at the the same time by accident.This would send the Boss into a bank change and then a trianwreck would ensue as I try to dance the switches to put me back to where I should be. I e-mailed Boss and told them of my situation, asking them if there was a way to disable the bank change when accidentally hitting two switches. Their response? Classic. "Dear Freddy, We are sorry that your feet are too big" !
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Can I get a whole 30 minute episode of just you using random objects as picks. It’s really important.
Brian May (the legend) uses 6 pence coins since they’re cheaper than buying an actual pick and he claims they are the best. He also plays on 8 gauge strings so I don’t know how he doesn’t snap every high string ever.
Doritos work well.
Honestly would of thought it would be harder to come by those coins than picks, I have never seen one and they have been out of circulation since what the 50s or something
@@Axiom_Link thinner gauges snap less actually cause theres less tension when doing big bends
@@Axiom_Link Brian May was in my studio back in 2010, and he used regular Dunlop Tortex Orange picks.
Maybe he did use coins at some point early on when they were still a young broke band, but you can see him playing regular picks in many videos.
Gravity picks
con: they're expensive as hell.
pro: they come with a free pedal .
Today my first JHS pedal arrived and I'm inlove with the pick and it's now my favorite.
thanks to jhs a dont play anthing else anymore
They are all I play with now.
Love the size and the thickness.
It's actually why JHS pedals are expensive.
i lost mine so i had to go and buy a couple more jhs pedals so i could get a back up.
So I'm disabled and switch all my pedals on and off with my hands. I think those switch toppers would be really helpful for me!
Mooer shrooms. Perfect for using hands or bare feet.
We’re only limited by our imagination and funding lol.
Me, too.
i use a tabletop looper, and use a couple of pedals with it. The Barefoot Buttons are great for slapping those switches w/my palms.
Practical
Things I learned from this:
1. I want that organ pedal
2.
Things I learned: gotta get a Bernie Sanders figure.
Yes! Love those EH organ pedals. But which one is most useful?
@@TheJonRuth23 oh yeah, i think strumming with Bernie definitely sounds better. it adds a certain je ne sais quois to it, a Bern, can you feel it?
I have the b9. My favorite pedal by far. Both are awesome, especially with some overdrive.
@@madkorovaI felt it so bad I'm now in the Bern Unit with third degree berns over 90% of my body. The doctors say I might not make it through the night 🥵
I love the fact that somewhere, somehow, somebody acquired a woolly mammoth tusk and figured the best thing to do with it is to turn it into guitar picks.
Not that far fetched... Tortoise shell picks have been around for a long time, but they require a permit if you carry them across borders. I imagine they make less sound when playing acoustics.
I prefer my own fingernails :)
What are the rules for it tho? I know (modern?) ivory is illegal to trade with but i guess since mammoths are long gone so its a-ok?
@@BeeTriggerBee No both are illegal because we don't want people promoting anything that ivory is used for. The demand for ivory will be filled with modern elephants in practice even if it claims to be ancient. There is some frozen tundra that is still being mined for mammoth tusks to make items but it's all happening in russia. The rest of the world doesn't want it.
I was reading that there have been many mammoth tusks that have been found in northern Russia with ice melting with global warming. There are people that "harvest" and sell them. Not sure what the legality of this is, but it sounds like they are less rare as of late.
Its just a chunk of cow horn. TORTEX is just celluloid.
That RAT tail looks like a cool way to prank your fellow bandmates on a jazz jam. Give it cranked to the guitar player and enjoy the show. Definitely practical!!!
Great way to think about it! Perfect idea!
wait a minute, isn't all jazz a jam?
its also great for faking amp distortion on a youtbe channel or something like that,
Has a fuzz vibe
Never mind the guitar player... Give it to the bass player.
That Submarine pickup is actually kind of amazing
I think josh's ability to find such a good use for it is amazing.
I just found the Red October.
makes me want to build a guitar with a p-bass style pickup (in addition to normal pickups) with separate output jack, switch (select high/off/low), and volume knob.
The Pick Test is the best guitar review I have ever seen. The subtlety, the sarcasm, the smirk....
I need more framed PICtures
I gotta get me a Bernie pick, all that sustain, also the cost of those boxes and that particular clamp are gonna skyrocket
@@AtimusXanthI heard Bernie used mammoth tusk when he invented music. 🤘
If I'm not mistaken, the barefoot switch caps were mostly created for player who like playing barefoot, without foot wear. They 're actually very practical when you want to noodle around in your home studio without having to put on shoes, lol.
This! I make my own out of bottle caps. Bough a bunch of the commercial toppers, but didn't like them as much. Bottle caps work great and look awesome.
@@Dad................. what type? Plastic bottles or glass?
@@chickenboyyyy7860 Glass beer bottles. I have a store nearby that sells craft beer from around the world, so I can usually find something to match the style of any pedal. Plus I get to try exotic beers. Win-win.
I remove the plastic insert from the cap, then glue in a little piece of plastic pipe from the hardware store that fits perfectly over the foot switch. Done. Works great.
@@Dad................. nice!
@@Dad................. Thanks dad.
I bought a JHS pedal about a week ago, and when you mentioned a Gravity pick comes with each one, I went downstairs and pulled all of the packaging stuff out of the box, and sure enough a pick fell out! Not just a pick, but a pin too! If I hadn't watched this video, they probably would have stayed in the bottom of that box for an eternity.
He has the pick!
@@stevescuba1978 He has the pin!
fun fact. i was debating whether to get a Fender "pick pocket" cap. it's a black trucker cap with a small triangular "pocket" on the right side that a pick can fit into. when i found the pin in my first JHS pedal box, i bought the hat and put the pin on the left side, opposite the pocket.
i, literally, bought an expensive piece of Fender merch just as a mounting device for a 25 cent JHS pin.
🤣
Barefoot Buttons are SUPER practical if used barefoot (or playing with socks). Here in Sweden (and a lot of Europe) we don’t wear shoes indoors, so they’re really useful here, as metal footswitches can actually be kind of sharp and a Barefoot Button solves all of that, as then you get a large and smooth surface to stomp. Hence, the name.
yeah, stepping on a switch barefoot sucks!
also for applying with hand, might be much more comfortablemm and even assist to a live performance regarding timing on/off,,, i cannot activae with palm
@@johnnyguitar7921 Try playing it slower ;D
Ja!
Shoot, even with shoes they help out. I love having pedal button toppers!
The address of the Las Vegas company is a house. They have a corner lot and a pool, so I can only assume the company is wildly successful.
It also backs up to a storage unit, so...
I was never able to get the barefoot switch covers to stay on my boss pedals.
gaff tape is the answer! haha
Krazy Glue!
🤣🤘💜
There's a screw on the side right? Was it only Boss pedals? Did you try loctite? I'm not yelling I promise.
Your sarcasm was well played Sir!
This JHS guy really knows what he is talking about. He should make pedals. Just a thought.
@Shinobi Wan Kenobi says the guy named “Shinobi Wan Kenobi”
@Gupster 23 well it’s not good either
@Gupster 23 k
No way. If he made his own pedals, he wouldn’t be able to promote all the other pedal brands anymore.
Nah, his pedals would probably suck. 😉😆
Headstock tuners are amazing for solo playing or with a relatively quiet band. I use a Korg one at home and I find it great, but when used with a drummer who can't stop hitting the snare while you tune (which means any drummer, basically) the vibration gets into the guitar body and these things are very sensitive to that so you can't tune well in that situation. But I think the problem is the drummer, not the tuner. I ended up getting a pedal tuner, Mooer like sized for situations that include drummers and I use the Korg for anything else.
Very interesting, 👍l think l just learned something!
I always have one clipped on... To tune backstage before going on stage (and not having to have a pedal + cable just to tune), for example. I use PolyTune Clips because they seem to be the best at picking up the 5th string on bass
most drummers i worked with bore a striking resemblance to Animal from the Muppet Show.
I dunno if I'll ever go through the trouble of rigging it up, but that submarine hack sounded awesome!
It’s actually a great idea... maybe someone should build that into a guitar.
Honestly, I love barefoot buttons. They are practical for me to use as I only play at home, these days, with no shoes on.
Did you ever got the switch of your pedal stuck in your sock, between 2 toes, and your pedal not turned on ? I did. Never thought of these as a good idea, thx.
@@vastelvalentin1348 Maybe that's why they are called Barefoot and not Socks Buttons? LOL! 🙃🤭 I think it depends on how much room you have on your board maybe. I'm not putting them in the cart soon, but wasn't aware of the option. Thank you for your insight though!
I was so intrigued by barefoot buttons when I first learned about them. But then I found out they were so expensive, or incheap if you like, that I would have to consider a minimal pedalboard. Instead I bought Mooers plastic knockoffs that cost less even though they are not sold individually but in medium sized sacks. They look really neat. Like a bowl of candy.
Barebutt futons is a great bandname, by the way.
@@hrlarson But would you pay $1,000 for a Chase Bliss pedal or even $5,000 for a Klon?
“Submarine Gorilla” very shoegazey- really loved that clip.
Agree! I have a C9 too, tempting!
That sounded legit awesome
Best song until now
That one, along with ''High school sucks'' are some of his best riffage.
It sounds very King Crimson esque
I love how happy/sarcastic nick is with his responses
I've gone back and forth on the topic of practical V.S. pointless gear, over the years. The conclusion I came to is, if it inspires you and keeps you motivated, that's all the practicality the item needs to justify it's self.
We all have drawers full of "practical " gear.🤫
Greatest compliment I can give you is that you actually made the rat tail sound ok...
Agreed, and let's face it, we've heard much worse in top 40 recordings.
I thought it was going to be just diodes like the black ice cube thingy that StewMac sells but this baby actually takes a battery.
I'd love to find out what circuit it uses.
All else aside, Josh is an extremely inventive guitarist in his own right with a great collaborator on drums. If they came out with a collection of instrumental originals, I would surely buy it.
RAT Tail seems like a great idea for those gigs where you're headlining and the opening act shows up and asks if they can use your gear as backline :)
That submarine pick? Actually seems to have incredible potential. Fantastic composition to show it off as well. I'm genuinely interested in buying one now.
_"The box the mammoth pick came in had a great sound to it !"_ 😂🎸
Josh's jokes are so unfunny but his delivery makes them absolutely hilarious.
He is so awkward, and that awkwardness is what is so hilarious.
I think that happens once you have kids lol
That's how you know you've crossed over from "son" to "father". Dad jokes are funny because of the dad, not because of the joke. In fact, the worse the joke, the better.
You just described how dad jokes work
I feel this way about his playing. I feel like if saw the tab for these jams I wouldn't be impressed, but I love listening to Josh play
I was about to weigh in on the practicality of pick holders, but there was no jam so I remain undecided.
OMG the submarine thing sounds sooooo good! Also it would be a cool idea if someone invented a pedal that splits the frequencies and uses different set of effects (at least a combination of 3) for lower register than high register in a single pedal.
Ok I'm glad I'm not the only one that actually was digging on the submarine!
That's possible with any good multi effect. Submarine is different because it's just those 3.
Gretsch made a guitar for Chet Atkins that split the top and bottom 3 strings in a stereo output. They made a reissue of it a few years ago. Very cool stuff.
There are quite a few digital pedals that allow you to split on frequency bands and process them separately.
It's a little trickier on analogue pedals because you need to do a high-order low-pass and high-order hi-pass (and high-order bandpass if you want to have three freq bands) to avoid frequency amplification near the poles (the frequencies where rolloff begins). High-order filters aren't very musical as they can easily separate fundamental frequencies and their harmonics. They're also hard to implement without impacting the phase of the signal. Add to that the fact that if you run the split signal out into other effects, you can't guarantee the later pedals won't mess with the signal phase and cause weird phase interactions when the two signals eventually get recombined.
I had a Roland VGA-3 with an additional GK-2A digital pickup that you would mount permanently just one mm from the bridge. Then you could mix the digital with the normal sounds to create all sorts of effects. The digital signal was then processed by the amp so you could simulate any guitar type, from acoustic to Les Pauls to Teles, Strats, 12 strings, sitar, synths… great fun and versatility. I’ve seen demos on TH-cam of guitars without any pickups using only the digital output.
The amp as such had like 12 different amp models.
But I found the amp in general to be too “digital sounding” - it was early 2000s so technology for replicating tube amp sounds was at its infancy - and not warm enough so I changed to a valve amp.
Don't you wish you had one of these: In a very old guitar magazine I saw a tiny ad in the back for a guitar pick that was actually two picks stacked on top of each other with an eight of an inch spacer between them. You play your guitar with it and voila, you instantly sound like TWO guitar players!
If you want to know how that sounds, Samurai Guitarrist made a series of videos in which he tries weird guitar gadgets like these. In one of them he tries this thing, but I'll tell you now, it sounds bad.
truly analog delay
They should still make those
@@druffner omg what an underappreciated comment. This is guitar comedy at it's finest.
I have one of those. I think the double pick was called the Lo Bello pick. The idea was to create a 12-string sound with the stacked picks but it didn't work that well. The first pick hitting the string would bend a lot so that the string would effectively contact both picks at the same time. The gap between the picks wasn't that large. If the gap between the picks was larger or the picks were stiffer it might have been a different story. Best bet: just buy a 12-string guitar.
This dude is seriously hilarious, I laughed at least 15 times during this video.
& the deadpan style kills
Yeah, I always laugh at him, too. Especially when he recommends JHS PEDALS!
Josh is our dad
I've got a couple of pedalboards ready to go all the time, combos, heads and cabs, I've even owned Helix and Kemper products. I caught myself doing the overwhelming majority of gigs with a combo amp and a clip on tuner. Purely from laziness. Never underestimate the power of laziness.
Words to live by.
Funnily, the original E-bow units also came in a bag inside a box (I HAVE THE BOX). Sound Stone's marketing is hilarious as it tries to position itself as something new and revolutionary but really all they need to say is, "We're $30 cheaper than an E-bow!".
4:40 Was wondering if there's ever a guy who will use the words "recent" and "1998" in the same sentence. Thank you brother.
I guess many of us just blinked somewhere in 2007, woke up in 2021 and still trying to comprehend that
@@ppunkk same here. Blame the too many zeros.
ok, let's go through these:
0:26 Stomp Switch Toppers: practical if you play in bare/sock feet, but kinda pointless outside of that
1:24 ProCo RAT Tail: kinda pointless, maybe a useful backup if your distortion pedal dies
4:11 Tuners: practical for sure, as long as it covers your needed range (eg some Snark tuners have issues picking up low B bass strings)
5:25 MXR Paperweight: pointless as all hell, but the fact it's a real thing and not just a joke (which I thought it was) is amazing... dumb, but amazing
6:21 Sound Stone: possibly practical? Hopefully it works better than the E-Bow
8:47 Pulstron & The Bright Switch: pointless, a simple volume pedal or a tremolo would work better than that thing
12:45 Picks: as a tool, practical; as far as worrying about how it affects your tone, pointless. Like the test at 16:19 showed, the difference from one to the next was practically negligible. It's basically the same point as your Bad Monkey video if swarms of butthurt guitarists didn't completely miss the point
17:16 The Submarine: depends on how you can utilise it, but I'm leaning really heavily towards practical
20:00 Pick Holders: as someone who loses picks, *a lot,* this is very practical, no question
21:30 "Open E" Capo: if I can see myself having fun with it & exploring its possibilities, then it's practical... and I'd definitely have fun with this
23:56 this video: practical
26:43 more ridiculous pick tests: yes
29:17 "Dot Warner; her nose is missing"
Until today I never realised the secret to perfect tone is an ancient wooley mammoth tusk or a Bernie Sanders figurine.Since I live in Australia I have a hard time buying Sanders merch I will spend the next few months digging up my yard in search of the perfect pick.
My favorite guitar accessory is a product called “Brake Pads.” They’re great For preventing you from accidentally moving your volume knob on your guitar.
Dude, had no idea. THANK YOU.
@@iansclone - You're welcome! Right o! I'm glad someone saw this!!😃👍
O rings under the knobs are what Paul Gilbert uses
@@cafesociety8525 - Not enough information
@@CerealDust-nStuff remove the knob from either the guitar or pedal and place a rubber o ring over the shaft and put the knob back. They squish down between the bottom of the knob and the body adding extra friction to prevent accidental adjustments but still retain easy function.
that submarine pickup is actually pretty rad! i can think of a lot of crazy combinations you could do with that. I say practical. Gotta get me a soundstone soon
Best cake song: "Sticks shifts and safety belts". Looooove the guitar on that song.
The switch toppers for pedals are very useful for me, I 3d print my own, a lot of times I am playing at my desk and switch them with my hands so I really like the larger button that is easier on the fingers. Also helps for my giant feet.
I dont know about a cable with a built in RAT, But a cable with built in buffer seems like a good idea
The Gravity pick was a big surprise. For 35 years i have used the edge, not the point of all picks for extra stability. The Gravity etching holds in my hand, has power and allows me to now play with the point. It was like having an extra 6 months of practice in a pick.
Does it have gravitas ?
Eagle screech sounds like something Godspeed you! Black Emperor would do
Regardless if they practical or pointless we are not surprised that Josh owns them.
A true bypass cable :) that's awesome, can't quite wrap my head around that.
I like those partial Capos, acoustic & electric. It's breaking up the rules . New ideas for rhythm guitar but the scales for solo are the same. That's good.
I like open tunings to play slide.
This is something between and it opens your mind
God bless the Strum Test.
The part with the picks was the greatest, most provocative piece of investigative science I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Bravo
I don’t have this accessory, am I gonna survive... I just have to have that gimmick. Great vid too:)
I have a pick dispenser stuck between my tone and volume knobs. This way when I drop them, because I have sweaty hands (eew), I can just slide out another and barely miss a beat. Absolutely my favorite accessory that cost less than $5.00.
Fashion Nugget is one of my all-time favorite albums. Start to finish, the whole thing is amazing. Totally changed how I thought about guitar, honestly.
As someone who plays at home where in-home shoe wearing may be optional, the barefoot buttons are quite helpful. I have a gold/silver button on the proper sides of my double barrel. Looks rad!
The RAT tail is pointless. Nobody could find a good use for it.
Tom Morello: I'll take two!
Before I put a pick tin on my board, I need to know if they're true bypass or not.
Not only are they true bypass, they're analog as well & made of 100% tone tin.
The picks go into the tin and pass through and disappear with no resistance at all, so yeah, true bypass.
@@Fidtz I don't want my picks to disappear!
the sound you made with the submarine pickup was unreal - loved that
That submarine pickup jam really sold me. You guys got a massive sound outta that organ pedal and it played so nicely with the clean signal!
Stomp switch toppers are essential for playing in your socks or barefoot! Boss (then Ibanez and Behringer copies) were on point with making the on switches those big plates.
That thing that's a pickup for a couple of strings actually gave me some ideas
JHS should put those mini-hands with their orders like Sweetwater puts in candy.
YES!
Cosigned
I sign as well
I second this.
Josh will have to run it by the board of directors.
I love the foot switch toppers! Especially when playing barefoot on stage, or even when I’m practicing in the living room with just socks on…. They work and I love them
My opinions:
- Stomp switch topper: may improve looks, may help protect the knobs on the pedal, maybe..
- ProC Rat Tail: not for me, but maybe for others
- Tuners: Pedal tuners ftw for live (mutes guitar when tuning, so you can leave the V-knob where it is)
- Mxr Paperweight: wait..this is a real thing? Cool idea, but incredibly pointless
- Sound Stone: meh, unique and useful are different things
- Pulstron: maybe not useless, but rather pointless imo
- brigth switch (incl light): OMG YES PLEASE
- Picks: it's less about sound and more about feel/physical response and transient control..and durability
- submarine: definetely a useful and most importantly versatile tool
- pickholders: not for ON your board, but 100% for IN your guitarcase
- capo: definetely super useful, but I rarely ever use mine
I really like pedal switch toppers / buttons - “practical” for me at least!
Fashion Nugget... Literally every song is a banger
I'm glad the submarine pickup is in here, I own 2 of them and they're fantastic! I using it with my POG, B9 organ machine and DL4, sounds fantastic
EDIT: I didn't realise you'd used an organ machine with it! That's so cool
I tend to play in drop D with a capo on 5th fret on strings 1-5 leaving the low D to ring open, with the submarine under the lowest 2 strings :)
Loved the video!
Do you have any examples of your playing with the submarine? I'd like to hear that!
@@JohnHorneGuitar I haven't posted any videos anywhere yet but I'll upload a quick thing soon!
I like the stompbox topper for pedals u have to keep held down such as an EHX freeze
About the submarine pickup thing, I heard musician use something like this on acoustic guitar to send the two 2 low strings to an octaver to create kind of a bass overlay... just saying. On a more serious , I think Bernie sounded awesome.
Record Time: "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" was my wife and my song for wedding intro. Cake rocks.
Am I the only person who has tons of different "favorite" picks, and switches between them all the time?
Picks are so much fun to experiment with. I've finally decided upon one main pick now (I almost always play a Dunlop Sharp .73 now), but I love trying out new ones. I was really intrigued by some in the episode. I'd love to try the "magic door" or whatever it was.
I do the same thing, I mainly play 3 different sizes of Earnie Ball Everlasts but I also have some Bog Street picks with grip holes and different size blades on each size and some picks made of various woods and metals. It all depends on what song I'm playing, I use a different guitar/pick/amp for almost every song when I'm just jamming on my own at home. When I'm out playing I just bring 3 or 4 different picks, 3 of my guitars all tuned different and my Peavey 6505.
@@zakkmylde1712 I love that, man. I've got a new EVH 5150, and I do everything with it. Ironically, I mostly play worship music playing out, but I've done metal, jazz, and alternative with it regularly too.
@@Aaron-zh4kj I will eventually own a 5150, I absolutely love them but my 6505 does the trick for now. Technically it kinda is a 5151, it's almost identical to the old Peavey 5150s. When Eddie started the 5150 company Peavey renamed and slightly tweaked the design but it ripps just as hard for a fraction of the price not to mention mine is a mini 20 watt head so that shaved some more off. It was less than 800 for the head with a greenback loaded 12" cab.
@@zakkmylde1712 Gotcha. My roommate had one of those 6505 20 watts with a 1x12" greenback cab, and it was an absolutely killer amp for price and wattage. We'd jam all the time, him playing that and me playing the EVH through a V30 2x12. I love the EVH because the clean channel is fantastic, and the clean channel of the Peaveys are nothing special. For many metalheads, it's no issue, but with my variety of tastes, the clean channel is probably what I use most. That said, the versatility can't be beat.
Kudos to Nick on those edits. "Sweet grungy overdrive". I lol'd.
Hey I have that same red Gravity JHS pick. It came with my JHS Charlie Brown pedal I got a million years ago
Ref the Barefoot buttons, obviously we love them but probably not for the reasons you’d think. Firstly, like you they help me find the switch. Secondly different colours make the pedals standout more. Also the barefoot buttons are super high quality and won the NAMM guitar accessory award two years ago... but beyond all of that Brett and Susan are two of the most lovely people I’ve ever met, we like to support them because they are good people who saw a niche in the market and filled it! They are battling against cheap knockoffs of their product on a daily basis but they rise above it all and continue to create new things for us to “accessorise” our pedalboards with, Thorpy.
On the tuners, I would say I prefer a Snark over a pedal. More room on the board, frees up a power cable, keeps my signal chain just a bit shorter.
Tuners don't belong clipped onto a guitar. Please keep them off
Capo plus tuner. Life changer.
I like the PolyTune clip myself. I like a pedal tuner better than a clip on most of the time since they mute the signal when turned on, which is nice when unplugging the cable.
I have a Snark pedal tuner, which is excellent, but doesn't actually help with any of the things you listed.
Snarks leave marks on the finish over time. I just switched to a micro D'Addario tuner after my Snark died.
this art shall forever be a part of my memories ...... the bernie strum created a giggle inside my body that escaped
This video is an invaluable public resource and Josh a national treasure!
As someone coming from the production end of things and being more into the synth world I wonder why more guitarists don't use something like the Submarine more often. It's so cool to open up your options that way.
I have a BIG-ass Pederson Strobe Tuner that I absolutely LOVE! I definitely for home/studio use only and NOT for shows but it's incredibly accurate
I need to know where to get a Bernie Sanders! That tone was so angry!
I am once again asking you for less vocals in the monitors
"They have like a yard sale tent." Best yard sale I've ever been to.
The most practical things in the video: the rubber strap blocks Josh uses on his guitars😊
Drink a Grolsch, get a strap button.
My now ex-wife got me a 'Pick Pocket' - a little leather thing with a snap that goes on your key chain and holds your picks. You always have your keys when you go to a gig (or to the music store or wherever), so you always have your preferred picks. Very handy
I like the MXR paperweight. Suggested upgrades: the jack holes could be pencil sharpeners and the knobs erasers... The sharpeners could even use an electric motor that works on a pedal power supply. The switch could also be some kind of hole puncher... and you know what? The lenght of an MXR pedal is the distance between regular paper holes!?!
Don't buy an inferior paperweight, nothing compares to the MXR. That stack of cash lying around might be lost unless you buy the best.
First like (yay!) Distortion cable that needs some niche battery? Wow. (Gaffer tape is arguably the best accessory in this video) 😄
first like on your comment!
Some dude said it would be a good gag to mess with a bandmate by changing out his cable without him knowing. But for actual use, I agree with you.
After watching this, I feel the need to get a guitar and learn to play. In my earlier life, I played the tuba, and we had zero options available.
The tuba effects gear market is seriously under explored by pedal makers imo
I know at least one for acoustic instruments. Gamechanger audio's Plus pedal. It's like that pedal pianos have to let the strings ring freely.
They make other weird stuff too, like the Plasma pedal.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME THAT SUBMARINE PICKUP IS THE GREATEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD OF THANK YOU JOSH
It's like an EQD pedal. That's what it reminds me off.
I know this video is old, but it's my first time seeing it. I just ordered the rat tail because I thought it was funny!
There is something special about the Klon as a pick! That tone is out of this world.
I’m currently at the point where he’s about to show the different picks and there better be a huge ass rubber one.
I'm afraid it's family friendly.
We'll never know what pedal the Pussy Melter is a clone of.
BERNIA SANDERS LMFAOOOOO
Guys. I just got two words: capo tuner.
Life altering.
practical and pointless .I want one so bad now. F-ing hilarious dude.
Actually not a bad idea. I keep a capo on my acoustic's headstock all the time, would be perfect if it had a tuner.
After hearing "eagle screech" i now know how Billy Corgan got his solo tone from Soma
Huge pumpkins fan and production nerd here. Yep, you're spot on. Ebow, MXR Phaser, op amp big muff, and a clean amp. That's everything you need for the old pumpkins sound.
I think he really is the mr. Rogers of the music world, a beautiful person and contributor to all things music. He's trying to be a geek but he's so much more than that.
The bare foot buttons are super fun for having pedals on my desk + I use different colored ones on my MIDI pedal to trigger media actions in DAW, like record (red button), stop and erase (gold), etc...great for recording productivity.
Hey Josh, your collab with Tyler from Music Is Win is legendary. Did he really buy your Klon though?? :o
My girlfriend just broke up with me. Makes me wonder, Josh. Are relationships pointless or practical...?
Buy a new guitar.. You'll be fine.
I am not Josh, I would say she is pointless and don't waste emotion over it! Plenty out there... Till I got married I didn't think relationships were real. Now its cheaper to keep her.
@@doomgoon2755 Actually, if it happens every month, buy a pedal.
If it's every few days with Tinder, maybe rather start collecting picks.
Aye man, she broke up with you? Then she doesn’t deserve what you have to offer :) take a lil while off try to focus on yourself and making yourself feel good, take care of your body, and mental health with exercise of some level, even just a daily walk outside, and women will flock to you, when you feel good about yourself your greatness shines through even more
@@tanguydelooz2881 Just swipe left bro... But I have to admit the Earnie Ball Black Picks are my favorites!
The sound stone makes a good slide too
Eagle Screech? ...more like Mosque Music
Got rid of my Korg tuner a couple months ago, don't miss it at all with my korg clip on tuner. Don't have to look down constantly to tune, so it saves my neck a bit. I can also tune up before hoping on stage no problem, so I don't have to waste stage time tuning, trying to hurry because people are waiting, I'm already ready to go. By far the best part of using a clip on tuner though is... Extra room on your pedal board for an extra pedal!!!! It really is great.
The double capo trick is something I’ve been doing for years and years. I actually used to double capo, and flip one of them upside down so I could have an open E string. Then I found the half-capo and it done changed the game. Pretty cool for writing stuff when you’re stuck. If you’re ever in a inspiration-drought, it can be helpful to just throw your guitar into a weird tuning and get some new interesting sounds, and the half capo makes that a lot easier to do without needing to retune
Can we take a second to acknowledge what an outstanding guitar player Josh is?
"If you're insane and you're okay with yourself, that's fine." - Josh Heath Scott
Abe Lincoln is the definition of Haunting Mids.
I think the large stomp switch toppers are a good idea. When I go to my drummer's house for band practice I have to bring a pair of clean, indoor shoes. Why? Because the drummer wants us to remove our street shoes when we're in his house. Fair enough. But I can't stand stepping on stomp switches in my socked feet (hard to be accurate and it can hurt!) so I think these would be good for that.
Josh, you mentioned having big feet. I'm the same, 6"5" with size 13 1/2 feet. I have a Boss MS-3 and the switches are too close together for my feet. So often in the heat of playing I would step on two switches at the the same time by accident.This would send the Boss into a bank change and then a trianwreck would ensue as I try to dance the switches to put me back to where I should be. I e-mailed Boss and told them of my situation, asking them if there was a way to disable the bank change when accidentally hitting two switches. Their response? Classic.
"Dear Freddy, We are sorry that your feet are too big" !
Partial capos ROCK. 2nd and 4th fret, VERY usable. On the 4th fret, you can do basically one-finger chords. Verdict: PRACTICAL