@@JEG69 I do see them do bass demos occasionally but you can always tell it’s a guitar player, trying to play bass. Hey, it’s better than nothing 🤷🏻♂️
I got to order the LVL early! I dig it so far, but I'm not sure I NEED it on my board Also bought the DRV back in 2020 when he first released the color series, and it went straight on the board. Love Matt, love Relient K, love the JHS Show for exposing this brand to more people
Super agree! I got the v1 of the DRV for a Timmy in 2019 and loved it ever since. Yeah it gets hate for the hype but if you spend enough time with the cut knob its pretty touch sensitive but it’s spectacular in the sweet spot I’m sure lvl will do the same and they sound great stacked
@ 17:22 @jhspedals you are so right. I was almost always using my KTR as a clean boost. Replaced it with the solo boost after all of my drives and it sounds amazing and takes up a much less space and money!!!
If you haven’t used the KTR as either a dirty boost before your other drives or as standalone overdrive/distortion, you’re selling it short. Especially if you use a Rat-based circuit, those two interact in a super special way. Setting a Rat to a nice light crunch then slamming the input of it with a Centaur-based circuit with gain turned up to like 1 o’clock is one of life’s great joys.
DRV is my favorite distortion circuit ever. It’s the only distortion pedal i own anymore (still kept my Rockman but that doesn’t count), sold the other two. Not sure if i need the LVL but thanks for the cool video.
1. Need a new overdrive like I need a hole in my head but man do I want this! 2. Has Josh been fired from his own company? Why is he always in his home?
Had to leave the live stream early because I had a fire going outside, and I couldn't watch what I was burning and the stream to, so thanks 4 uploading it.....jimi
On supporting a brand when you can't ever seem buy their pedals; I bought a t-shirt, a hat, a pick shaker box and other stuff from Tom Cram at Spiral Electric, long before I could save up and then wait to buy a pedal on a special release date. Now I have a pedal that is #20 of 20, that I will never sell - yes, I play it and it sounds killer - and I feel like I'm keeping the little guys in business.
Aaaaaah 😭such a missed opportunity for record time . There were SOOOO many great albums that came out in 1981 ! That this pedal could have been on .My picks for this style drive would have been Billy Squire :Don't say no /Rolling Stones Tattoo you. Here's some others ~I love Rock n Roll ,High n Dry ,Ghost in the machine ,Fair Warning ,Diary of a madman ,Moving Pictures ,Bella Donna ,Allied Forces ,Escape ,October ,Re-ac-tor ,Nature of the beast ,Killers ,Face dances ,abacab ,to fast for love , the mob rules those are just some of the one's that I actually still have on vinyl .Wait what ?Great now I probably need a 1981 LVL
Good lord those sound GREAT together. To me, the DRV sounds like the over achieving love child of a Rat and a Blues Driver. Is the LVL based on the Colorsound Overdriver? It definitely has it's own sound, but it kinda reminds me of the Colorsound in the same way that you can still hear a little of the Rat in the DRV. Either way it sounds great!
I tore my old pedal board apart so I could rebuild it with a GigRig G3, and the LVL sounds like it needs to be on the new board. Now I just need to decide if I go with twinsy aesthetics or change it up.
Yeah, the bass with the 1981 Overdriver sans the 1981 Rat was really, really nice, and the bass avec the 1981 Rat was really, really nice as well. It must be our basses, but I cannot, for the life of me, produce/record a good dirty/clean bass tone, full stop, but even more so, I really can't produce such a tone that also sits in a mix with drums, singer(s), rhythm guitar and lead guitar. Bass pedals are like 2x, 3x the cost of straight up guitar pedals, because... bass strings cost more? you need more wattage in your bass amp to push all that air? A bass is larger than a guitar? What, I don't know, is it just some stupid and exploitable paradigm? NEWAY, yeah I'm bitter, okay, I can't afford dedicated bass pedals (other than a couple low cost Chinese boxes that sound like crap balls) to get that sandy vag (no offense to sandy vags) bass tone. And every straight up guitar boost, compressor, overdrive, distortion, fuzz pedal that other people seem to be able to casually pop onto their bass and get killer grit tone just doesn't work for me, for whatever reason, maybe its my low quality basses, 25 year old bass head and 4x10 and 1x18 full stack, my bass strings from flat wounds, to titanium round wounds, to crunchy fender strings, from the light weights, to medium weights, to heavy weights, to my di's, my preamp's, my eq's and equing, my converters... my ears, my brain, my mind, my skill? I just pop on a straight up guitar overdrive that everyone else swears by, and it kills the bass tone, the low end is gone entirely, the high end shimmer/definition/punch is lost and the midranage farts all over the guitars... I'd get a Morning Glory if I could afford one... but then I know from experience that if I put it on the bass board, I would PINE for its tone on the guitar board, and every time I would faff about on the guitar board trying to get that clean and clear guitar tone with just that perfect amount of light breakup on the diggins... I'd cast barely restrained furtive glances at the bass board and it's centerpiece jewel, the coveted Morning Glory, and the thought that I could instantly get the guitar sound I'm ALWAYS looking for would loom ominously in my midbrain, repressed but itchingly omnipresent. I've been there before. I don't like being there. And if I can't afford one, I can't afford two. Alas, the human condition is to want and to never have, we continue on, vainly.
When Josh picked up that bass, it looked like he was a normal sized human being holding a strat for a second. If u get tired of the the offset guitars, just get p-bass sized guitars made. Actually doesn’t buckethead have Gibson make him oversized Les Paul’s?
Okay, I ordered it! I have a white 1981 and love it, especially as a glassy cleanish deal, with the DRV on 8 o’clock! I wish I had two! Then I’d have clean and distortion love.
@@the-np4mrI owned the DRV and I sold it because I fell in love w the Zvex Distortron, I didn’t want to,because the DRV looks so cool, but yeah.. it’s good, but there’s a lot of great circuits out there
Oh look,...another $230 new pedal with only two knobs. Full-range marketing program in full-range effect! LOL. Literally every other guitar gear channel of note will have this same pedal featured for the next two weeks: TPS, Pete Thorn, Rhett Shull (and Shull & Mythos's Tone Lounge show), Tim Pierce, RJ Ronquillo, 60-Cycle Hum, etc... I'll stick with my limited edish gold 1981 DRV for now, thanks. Until the matching gold finish LVL comes out! LOL. Maybe win one in a giveaway? LOL.
Ì've said it before and I will say it again, 99% of boosts and drives sound the same to me. I just don't have the golden ears of the Gods to discern any difference. I think it applies to most pedals. It is only in the extreme sounds that a pedal can produce that I notice a worthwhile difference. And Josh has proven with the Bad Monkey that using the pedal's EQ you can make a cheap pedal sound like a $1000 dollar pedal. So get whatever feels right for you and make it work for you.
Honestly I feel the same, and I've started making pedals. I couldn't tell you the difference between germanium and silicon diodes besides the volume difference and the fact that the word germanium just sounds cooler
Just curious man. Do you hear more difference “in room?” I find the post production + what TH-cam does to audio does make a lot of drives sound the same. I almost have to imagine what the pedal would do in “real life” haha. Until I try them for myself. Then it becomes very apparent. Cheers
anyone else notice the overtone of crappy sounding distortion sort of underneath the main sound? It can be heard at 56 seconds. I hear this a lot recording direct with different things and I'd love to know what causes it.
I... kind of lost patience with Merch Central and cancelled my Lizard Queen limited merch order, hadn't shipped in over a month, even after they said the orders were going out I waited two weeks after that for an update and then got a burr in my shorts and cancelled it. Kind of wish I could still get Daniel's art, I bought a frame and everything. So you see, kids, don't lose patience with smaller vendors, just chillax.
I mean, TBF, there is a PCB Pedal board out there that you can build your own 1981. There are people that have made these and shoot them out side by side with the real thing, so instead of complaining you can't get one, why not build your own? Or otherwise, treat it like it was an Analogman KoT and get on a wait list. Or, you know, go buy a Rat.
(Trifecta Post) The bass with the 1981 Overdriver sans the 1981 Rat was really, really nice, and the bass avec the 1981 Rat was really, really nice as well. It must be our basses, but I cannot, for the life of me, produce/record a good dirty/clean bass tone, full stop, but even more so, I really can't produce such a tone that also sits in a mix with drums, singer(s), rhythm guitar and lead guitar. Bass pedals are like 2x, 3x the cost of straight up guitar pedals, because... bass strings cost more? you need more wattage in your bass amp to push all that air? A bass is larger than a guitar? What, I don't know, is it just some stupid and exploitable paradigm? NEWAY, yeah I'm bitter, okay, I can't afford dedicated bass pedals (other than a couple low cost Chinese boxes that sound like crap balls) to get that sandy vag (no offense to sandy vags) bass tone. And every straight up guitar boost, compressor, overdrive, distortion, fuzz pedal that other people seem to be able to casually pop onto their bass and get killer grit tone just doesn't work for me, for whatever reason, maybe its my low quality basses, 25 year old bass head and 4x10 and 1x18 full stack, my bass strings from flat wounds, to titanium round wounds, to crunchy fender strings, from the light weights, to medium weights, to heavy weights, to my di's, my preamp's, my eq's and equing, my converters... my ears, my brain, my mind, my skill? I just pop on a straight up guitar overdrive that everyone else swears by, and it kills the bass tone, the low end is gone entirely, the high end shimmer/definition/punch is lost and the midranage farts all over the guitars... I'd get a Morning Glory if I could afford one... but then I know from experience that if I put it on the bass board, I would PINE for its tone on the guitar board, and every time I would faff about on the guitar board trying to get that clean and clear guitar tone with just that perfect amount of light breakup on the diggins, or when I start crying... I'd cast barely restrained furtive glances at the bass board and it's centerpiece jewel, the coveted Morning Glory, and the thought that I could instantly get the guitar sound I'm ALWAYS looking for would loom ominously in my midbrain, repressed but itchingly omnipresent. I've been there before. I don't like being there. And if I can't afford one, I can't afford two. Alas, the human condition is to want and to never have, we continue on, vainly.
Get a Boss LS2, put whatever you need for your clean bass in one loop, and whatever (possibly non-bass dedicated) dirt pedal(s) in the second loop. Use the LS2 as mixer. Saves your bass tone and low end while adding whatever distorion you like on top of it. Parallell mixing, I don't know what I was doing before I figured this out.
I watch a news channel that writes “breaking news” in every world language before it starts, someone complained so they just left “breaking news” in english for five minutes instead, i think something similar happened to the swanky well written intro theme music on these live JHS episodes :p
I like how in yesterday’s live he said something like that he was the crockpot of TH-camrs and liked for things to be out for a bit before he covered them, then covers a brand new pedal the very next day. 🤔😂
Your Morning Glory sounds great man. You switched to your supposed clean tone, and I was like DAMN that sounds great, thinking it was a fortuitous combination of a half divine guitar and half divine amp, producing a little touch of Heaven... but alas, it was a sneaky off screen Morning Glory just shining brightly upon your tone. No dis to 1981, I don't fly in first class, I don't even fly anymore unless it's on someone else's dime, but I'm not in that class of person that can afford such luxuries. 1981 sounded good, so good job to Matt. How much of either one of the 1981 pedals' end cost is attributable to marketing, aesthetics, exclusivity, vibe, whatever that ineffable thing is called, and how much of the end cost is attributable to r&d, circuit design, hardware/components, packaging, labour, shipping, overhead, and governmental taxation/regulation/permitting?
The circuit sounds beautiful. Every recording i’ve made for 3 years says so. 🤷♂️ people buy it because it sounds great. I’m not wealthy, but i sold some other stuff i don’t miss and i use the DRV every day. The cost is because it’s hand made with top quality components and it’s a tank, it’ll last forever. It’s not made by robots and/or underpaid folks in China or Indonesia or Mexico. It’s a guy in his shop putting together each circuit, from what I understand. If you think he pricing is off, you can try running your own business hand-making top quality electronics and see how much better your pricing is. 😉 I would wager if he computed his hourly rate he is probably making minimum wage. A lot of hand-built electronics people work long hours and don;t make that much per year, net.
So, their pedals are made in a workshop in the panhandle of Florida (used to be Nashville). There are 3 employees, Matt, his wife, and one other person, and they build them all by hand from blank boards using mostly through hole components. While through-hole isn’t necessarily *better*, it is more expensive because it takes more time and the parts are a bit pricier. And to be honest if they just used off-the-shelf knobs and Hammond enclosures instead of custom steel enclosures and aluminum knobs (the knobs alone probably cost them $4/ea), that would be like 10% of the cost of the pedal right there. Plus you’ve got the cost of renting/owning property in the US, local taxes, business insurance, and living wages for the three of them. If they were working with Disaster Area Mfg, Cusack, Boutique Amps Distribution, or Allpedal, and had their circuit boards made by machine with SMD, they probably could drop prices down to like $200 and $175 for their two products.
If you want to hurt somebody over the avocado poster, it's not really the poster, is it? And that $1500 could really help towards solving the underlying issues.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. Honestly, I skipped out on the last 3 or 4 minutes just because I did. I have that album, and I will happily destroy it for $1500.
10:08 One of the reasons I can't stand the "inclusivity/accommodation" push sometimes. Like; I'm never gonna go to the top of Mt . Everest. Its just a fact I have to accept and move on from.
Dude, I'm buying this pedal as soon as I sell the pedal I bought last week with the money from the pedal I sold the week before. Just hope I can sell this pedal to buy the one that comes out next week. Just sayin
I feel like they're all bummed with Addison taking off. Unless Nick is making an album or something. They put alot of work into the edited shows and I think they lost some energy when Addison left. He was the third Muskateer to Joshua's d'Artagnan.
It's their full-time job. They make them in their house. They have a waiting list. If you don't want to pay what they're charging, that's fine. But they're not "overpriced." And you have no right to demand that they make things for you at a price of your choosing.
@@sagittated no need to feel agitated fanboy, i'm not asking them to make them at a certain price for me like you've mentioned. In my comment, i'm simply saying that i find them overpriced, it's called an "opinion"... And yes 250$ for a Rat clone is overpriced.
Why should anyone care about a company that puts out one pedal every decade especially when it's just more of the same crap that's been available forever
I own exactly one distortion pedal and it’s the 1981 DRV. I use it for everything from subtle clean boost to heavy distortion. On guitar, keyboards, drums, anything really. I use only one distortion pedal because it sounds absolutely marvelous. That circuit just hits me right. I grew up listening to shoegaze and smashing pumpkins so the tone makes me smile.
Is it a flex? Haven't thought about it like that but yes one big reason I am anti hyped pedals is that I already have too many, and once you have a certain amount not much sounds actually new, it's just tiny variations of the same circuits. Bragging about what you're going to buy is worse I think, that's just boring consumerism.
@@skylerfelix7609 If you find trends interesting maybe. Hype usually has little to do with the actual product and much more to do with marketing + luck (what's gonna go viral on the internet is seldom predictable).
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Hoopes I did it again.
Love Relient K
Thnx for the bass special! Well performed and much appreciated!
Man that bass tone is UNBELIEVABLE.
Thx JHS team for great content. Loved the pedals.
Dude thank you so much for doing a BASS demo. Never forget us. It’s much appreciated.
they dont care about bass players lol all their jhs shit is guitar
@@JEG69 I do see them do bass demos occasionally but you can always tell it’s a guitar player, trying to play bass. Hey, it’s better than nothing 🤷🏻♂️
Josh, your playing is really nice. Great channel! Thanks for sharing the goods!
I got to order the LVL early! I dig it so far, but I'm not sure I NEED it on my board
Also bought the DRV back in 2020 when he first released the color series, and it went straight on the board.
Love Matt, love Relient K, love the JHS Show for exposing this brand to more people
Super agree! I got the v1 of the DRV for a Timmy in 2019 and loved it ever since. Yeah it gets hate for the hype but if you spend enough time with the cut knob its pretty touch sensitive but it’s spectacular in the sweet spot I’m sure lvl will do the same and they sound great stacked
Damn you and your video for making me buy this pedal! I'm a bassist, and your review stopped me from putting off buying a 1981 pedal any longer!
I’m gonna have to get both of these now. Great video sir!
If this was the pedal that essentially was Forget and Not Slow Down I must own it, as I have that title tattooed on my body.
The 1981 inventions dude has only made two more pedals than me. He needs to pick up the pace
😂
Josh says "nobody cares" and theres literally hundreds of people watching that really do care lol im a sucker for the nerdy stuff!
come on, the production is great. It makes people watch. Not only that, but still…
@ 17:22 @jhspedals you are so right. I was almost always using my KTR as a clean boost. Replaced it with the solo boost after all of my drives and it sounds amazing and takes up a much less space and money!!!
If you haven’t used the KTR as either a dirty boost before your other drives or as standalone overdrive/distortion, you’re selling it short. Especially if you use a Rat-based circuit, those two interact in a super special way. Setting a Rat to a nice light crunch then slamming the input of it with a Centaur-based circuit with gain turned up to like 1 o’clock is one of life’s great joys.
The bass sound is insane damn 🙌
no its not
DRV is my favorite distortion circuit ever. It’s the only distortion pedal i own anymore (still kept my Rockman but that doesn’t count), sold the other two. Not sure if i need the LVL but thanks for the cool video.
1. Need a new overdrive like I need a hole in my head but man do I want this!
2. Has Josh been fired from his own company? Why is he always in his home?
That drumbeat in the beginning is THE drums from "must have been love" by roxette 👍
Stacked is the way to go on these! Sounds awesome!
Had to leave the live stream early because I had a fire going outside, and I couldn't watch what I was burning and the stream to, so thanks 4 uploading it.....jimi
Josh was on fire on that first jam
Nice Job Matt! Gota get a 1981 pedal on my board soon.
OMG you are really painting some landscapes here. Your playing is so inspiring
This kinda sounds like the “Clean Rat” on the ProCo Deucetone pedal. But of course, without the filter knob
Another great pedal I'll never be able to afford now!
holy guacamole that stacking at 18.35 sounds so good
On supporting a brand when you can't ever seem buy their pedals; I bought a t-shirt, a hat, a pick shaker box and other stuff from Tom Cram at Spiral Electric, long before I could save up and then wait to buy a pedal on a special release date. Now I have a pedal that is #20 of 20, that I will never sell - yes, I play it and it sounds killer - and I feel like I'm keeping the little guys in business.
My girl and I are often on the edge of breakup, and that's when we're at our best.
Aaaaaah 😭such a missed opportunity for record time . There were SOOOO many great albums that came out in 1981 ! That this pedal could have been on .My picks for this style drive would have been Billy Squire :Don't say no /Rolling Stones Tattoo you.
Here's some others ~I love Rock n Roll ,High n Dry ,Ghost in the machine ,Fair Warning ,Diary of a madman ,Moving Pictures ,Bella Donna ,Allied Forces ,Escape ,October ,Re-ac-tor ,Nature of the beast ,Killers ,Face dances ,abacab ,to fast for love , the mob rules
those are just some of the one's that I actually still have on vinyl .Wait what ?Great now I probably need a 1981 LVL
Hyped pedal = every pedal makers dream lol. Plus +1 1982 pedal.
Good lord those sound GREAT together. To me, the DRV sounds like the over achieving love child of a Rat and a Blues Driver. Is the LVL based on the Colorsound Overdriver? It definitely has it's own sound, but it kinda reminds me of the Colorsound in the same way that you can still hear a little of the Rat in the DRV. Either way it sounds great!
nice Incubus tone at 20:40 !
Massive sound - excellent
“And you can just not complain.” Amen
These tones have a nice, saturated crunch. Kind of like Cracklin Out Bran. Don't scoff, it's a sleeper hit cereal.
Leave the tone of me cracklin' out bran outta this!
I prefer Cap'n Crunchtones...
@@iggymcgeek730 😂
Now I want some Cracklin Oat Bran, a cereal I have thought about for 30 years
@@LukePayneMusic My grandparents introduced me to it when I was a kid. An old people best kept secret, it's totally tasty and fulfilling.
I tore my old pedal board apart so I could rebuild it with a GigRig G3, and the LVL sounds like it needs to be on the new board. Now I just need to decide if I go with twinsy aesthetics or change it up.
Did New Order start making pedals?
i was very much anticipating this pedal because it was basically a 70’s style two-knob overdrive but the better than a rat clone
Seems like kind of a simplified Timmy. I do love my 1981 drv
Hey josh, how are you getting on with the Jhs Rockman?
that bass tone.... omg...
tries to replicate with D&M drive
Yeah, the bass with the 1981 Overdriver sans the 1981 Rat was really, really nice, and the bass avec the 1981 Rat was really, really nice as well. It must be our basses, but I cannot, for the life of me, produce/record a good dirty/clean bass tone, full stop, but even more so, I really can't produce such a tone that also sits in a mix with drums, singer(s), rhythm guitar and lead guitar.
Bass pedals are like 2x, 3x the cost of straight up guitar pedals, because... bass strings cost more? you need more wattage in your bass amp to push all that air? A bass is larger than a guitar? What, I don't know, is it just some stupid and exploitable paradigm?
NEWAY, yeah I'm bitter, okay, I can't afford dedicated bass pedals (other than a couple low cost Chinese boxes that sound like crap balls) to get that sandy vag (no offense to sandy vags) bass tone. And every straight up guitar boost, compressor, overdrive, distortion, fuzz pedal that other people seem to be able to casually pop onto their bass and get killer grit tone just doesn't work for me, for whatever reason, maybe its my low quality basses, 25 year old bass head and 4x10 and 1x18 full stack, my bass strings from flat wounds, to titanium round wounds, to crunchy fender strings, from the light weights, to medium weights, to heavy weights, to my di's, my preamp's, my eq's and equing, my converters... my ears, my brain, my mind, my skill?
I just pop on a straight up guitar overdrive that everyone else swears by, and it kills the bass tone, the low end is gone entirely, the high end shimmer/definition/punch is lost and the midranage farts all over the guitars...
I'd get a Morning Glory if I could afford one... but then I know from experience that if I put it on the bass board, I would PINE for its tone on the guitar board, and every time I would faff about on the guitar board trying to get that clean and clear guitar tone with just that perfect amount of light breakup on the diggins... I'd cast barely restrained furtive glances at the bass board and it's centerpiece jewel, the coveted Morning Glory, and the thought that I could instantly get the guitar sound I'm ALWAYS looking for would loom ominously in my midbrain, repressed but itchingly omnipresent. I've been there before. I don't like being there. And if I can't afford one, I can't afford two.
Alas, the human condition is to want and to never have, we continue on, vainly.
Is that pink guitar in the background an hm strat?
reminds me of an old EM drive
Good call, I was thinking I recognize that tone. I have a pink EM, I use it and can’t believe I didn’t put it together.
The year I was born! Ohhhh let’s shake hands!
What does it sound like to boost INTO the lvl? We need to know!
we need a +1 sticker for the 1982 crowd
Kind of sounds like the Jhs Superbolt V2, based off the video sound
I knew it. I could tell the amp sounded different on this one. Had to be the real amp.
When Josh picked up that bass, it looked like he was a normal sized human being holding a strat for a second. If u get tired of the the offset guitars, just get p-bass sized guitars made. Actually doesn’t buckethead have Gibson make him oversized Les Paul’s?
omg is that a beatbuddy you using!?!
I love how a Fender P bass looks like a guitar on Josh
Okay, I ordered it! I have a white 1981 and love it, especially as a glassy cleanish deal, with the DRV on 8 o’clock! I wish I had two! Then I’d have clean and distortion love.
Get a rat lol
@@the-np4mrI owned the DRV and I sold it because I fell in love w the Zvex Distortron, I didn’t want to,because the DRV looks so cool, but yeah.. it’s good, but there’s a lot of great circuits out there
Before I even start watching idk if I am being trolled anymore. The bat sim messed me up!
Great sound! Can you compare it to the Bad Monkey?😊
Ah dammit! that doe's sound really good, like reeeally good.
Oh look,...another $230 new pedal with only two knobs. Full-range marketing program in full-range effect! LOL. Literally every other guitar gear channel of note will have this same pedal featured for the next two weeks: TPS, Pete Thorn, Rhett Shull (and Shull & Mythos's Tone Lounge show), Tim Pierce, RJ Ronquillo, 60-Cycle Hum, etc...
I'll stick with my limited edish gold 1981 DRV for now, thanks. Until the matching gold finish LVL comes out! LOL. Maybe win one in a giveaway? LOL.
Ì've said it before and I will say it again, 99% of boosts and drives sound the same to me. I just don't have the golden ears of the Gods to discern any difference. I think it applies to most pedals. It is only in the extreme sounds that a pedal can produce that I notice a worthwhile difference. And Josh has proven with the Bad Monkey that using the pedal's EQ you can make a cheap pedal sound like a $1000 dollar pedal. So get whatever feels right for you and make it work for you.
Honestly I feel the same, and I've started making pedals. I couldn't tell you the difference between germanium and silicon diodes besides the volume difference and the fact that the word germanium just sounds cooler
Just curious man. Do you hear more difference “in room?” I find the post production + what TH-cam does to audio does make a lot of drives sound the same. I almost have to imagine what the pedal would do in “real life” haha. Until I try them for myself. Then it becomes very apparent. Cheers
I have to ask a rude question: was the guitar signal digitally clipping throughout the whole video?
Not on my system
@@sub-jec-tiv See an Audiologist ASAP.
More Josh on bass more often.
anyone else notice the overtone of crappy sounding distortion sort of underneath the main sound? It can be heard at 56 seconds. I hear this a lot recording direct with different things and I'd love to know what causes it.
Sounds like LED-clipping.
18:39 1982 reInventions
I... kind of lost patience with Merch Central and cancelled my Lizard Queen limited merch order, hadn't shipped in over a month, even after they said the orders were going out I waited two weeks after that for an update and then got a burr in my shorts and cancelled it. Kind of wish I could still get Daniel's art, I bought a frame and everything. So you see, kids, don't lose patience with smaller vendors, just chillax.
Great thanks Josh - Now I not only need to buy a new pedal but I also have to buy a bass guitar!! 😁
It’s hype. Just like your germanium limited edition boost was.
I mean, TBF, there is a PCB Pedal board out there that you can build your own 1981. There are people that have made these and shoot them out side by side with the real thing, so instead of complaining you can't get one, why not build your own? Or otherwise, treat it like it was an Analogman KoT and get on a wait list. Or, you know, go buy a Rat.
1981 in a box?
(Trifecta Post) The bass with the 1981 Overdriver sans the 1981 Rat was really, really nice, and the bass avec the 1981 Rat was really, really nice as well. It must be our basses, but I cannot, for the life of me, produce/record a good dirty/clean bass tone, full stop, but even more so, I really can't produce such a tone that also sits in a mix with drums, singer(s), rhythm guitar and lead guitar.
Bass pedals are like 2x, 3x the cost of straight up guitar pedals, because... bass strings cost more? you need more wattage in your bass amp to push all that air? A bass is larger than a guitar? What, I don't know, is it just some stupid and exploitable paradigm?
NEWAY, yeah I'm bitter, okay, I can't afford dedicated bass pedals (other than a couple low cost Chinese boxes that sound like crap balls) to get that sandy vag (no offense to sandy vags) bass tone. And every straight up guitar boost, compressor, overdrive, distortion, fuzz pedal that other people seem to be able to casually pop onto their bass and get killer grit tone just doesn't work for me, for whatever reason, maybe its my low quality basses, 25 year old bass head and 4x10 and 1x18 full stack, my bass strings from flat wounds, to titanium round wounds, to crunchy fender strings, from the light weights, to medium weights, to heavy weights, to my di's, my preamp's, my eq's and equing, my converters... my ears, my brain, my mind, my skill?
I just pop on a straight up guitar overdrive that everyone else swears by, and it kills the bass tone, the low end is gone entirely, the high end shimmer/definition/punch is lost and the midranage farts all over the guitars...
I'd get a Morning Glory if I could afford one... but then I know from experience that if I put it on the bass board, I would PINE for its tone on the guitar board, and every time I would faff about on the guitar board trying to get that clean and clear guitar tone with just that perfect amount of light breakup on the diggins, or when I start crying... I'd cast barely restrained furtive glances at the bass board and it's centerpiece jewel, the coveted Morning Glory, and the thought that I could instantly get the guitar sound I'm ALWAYS looking for would loom ominously in my midbrain, repressed but itchingly omnipresent. I've been there before. I don't like being there. And if I can't afford one, I can't afford two.
Alas, the human condition is to want and to never have, we continue on, vainly.
Get a Boss LS2, put whatever you need for your clean bass in one loop, and whatever (possibly non-bass dedicated) dirt pedal(s) in the second loop. Use the LS2 as mixer. Saves your bass tone and low end while adding whatever distorion you like on top of it. Parallell mixing, I don't know what I was doing before I figured this out.
there is a setting on your JHS rat pedal that sounds like the 1981 its quit unreal
Dayum, did he get that iPhone and phone plan from Boost Mobile?
Oh my god Josh you play Bass like me😮 Josh let me play that bass please😅
sound like proco rat. cool!
1982'oclock
This sounds better than some RAT pedals
((( you need a little more green in your man-cave )))
No need to pay £5K+ for a Klon when you could just learn to set up your tone properly, that's what I say 😆
I watch a news channel that writes “breaking news” in every world language before it starts, someone complained so they just left “breaking news” in english for five minutes instead, i think something similar happened to the swanky well written intro theme music on these live JHS episodes :p
1981 , fuzzrocious are litterly mum n pap shops
You know Josh could dial in a bad monkey to coo these sounds too 🤪
I like how in yesterday’s live he said something like that he was the crockpot of TH-camrs and liked for things to be out for a bit before he covered them, then covers a brand new pedal the very next day. 🤔😂
Nike man month.
Your Morning Glory sounds great man. You switched to your supposed clean tone, and I was like DAMN that sounds great, thinking it was a fortuitous combination of a half divine guitar and half divine amp, producing a little touch of Heaven... but alas, it was a sneaky off screen Morning Glory just shining brightly upon your tone. No dis to 1981, I don't fly in first class, I don't even fly anymore unless it's on someone else's dime, but I'm not in that class of person that can afford such luxuries. 1981 sounded good, so good job to Matt.
How much of either one of the 1981 pedals' end cost is attributable to marketing, aesthetics, exclusivity, vibe, whatever that ineffable thing is called, and how much of the end cost is attributable to r&d, circuit design, hardware/components, packaging, labour, shipping, overhead, and governmental taxation/regulation/permitting?
The circuit sounds beautiful. Every recording i’ve made for 3 years says so. 🤷♂️ people buy it because it sounds great. I’m not wealthy, but i sold some other stuff i don’t miss and i use the DRV every day. The cost is because it’s hand made with top quality components and it’s a tank, it’ll last forever. It’s not made by robots and/or underpaid folks in China or Indonesia or Mexico. It’s a guy in his shop putting together each circuit, from what I understand. If you think he pricing is off, you can try running your own business hand-making top quality electronics and see how much better your pricing is. 😉 I would wager if he computed his hourly rate he is probably making minimum wage. A lot of hand-built electronics people work long hours and don;t make that much per year, net.
So, their pedals are made in a workshop in the panhandle of Florida (used to be Nashville). There are 3 employees, Matt, his wife, and one other person, and they build them all by hand from blank boards using mostly through hole components. While through-hole isn’t necessarily *better*, it is more expensive because it takes more time and the parts are a bit pricier. And to be honest if they just used off-the-shelf knobs and Hammond enclosures instead of custom steel enclosures and aluminum knobs (the knobs alone probably cost them $4/ea), that would be like 10% of the cost of the pedal right there. Plus you’ve got the cost of renting/owning property in the US, local taxes, business insurance, and living wages for the three of them.
If they were working with Disaster Area Mfg, Cusack, Boutique Amps Distribution, or Allpedal, and had their circuit boards made by machine with SMD, they probably could drop prices down to like $200 and $175 for their two products.
@@sub-jec-tivthanks for this.
I'll pay you $1,500 to take down that infernal avocado poster in the background. I love you man, but that poster makes me want to hurt people, badly.
If you want to hurt somebody over the avocado poster, it's not really the poster, is it? And that $1500 could really help towards solving the underlying issues.
That's a Pearl Jam poster. You know not what you ask.
This same guy made two snide comments on one video. Get some therapy my friend
If you don't like it, don't watch it. Honestly, I skipped out on the last 3 or 4 minutes just because I did. I have that album, and I will happily destroy it for $1500.
If Josh won't do it, give me 1500 bucks, and I'll drive to Kansas and tell Josh that I'll leave it up if he gives me 1600 bucks.
First and foremost, I love those shiny, beautiful knobs.
10:08 One of the reasons I can't stand the "inclusivity/accommodation" push sometimes. Like; I'm never gonna go to the top of Mt . Everest. Its just a fact I have to accept and move on from.
Again with the film reference. When does the analog camera channel start. Really you shoot film? Analog is better!
Guitar riffs are suitably 80 ‘s themed
Pay-2-Play is now called "helping out".
Dude, I'm buying this pedal as soon as I sell the pedal I bought last week with the money from the pedal I sold the week before. Just hope I can sell this pedal to buy the one that comes out next week. Just sayin
I was born in 1971 so i don't give a tish about clinical DRV tones.
Why is the JHS show only with Josh lately? Where’s the rest of the gang? The show has lost much of its luster. ☹️
I feel like they're all bummed with Addison taking off. Unless Nick is making an album or something. They put alot of work into the edited shows and I think they lost some energy when Addison left. He was the third Muskateer to Joshua's d'Artagnan.
These lives are “extra” :-) We aired the normal format last week 🤓
@@jhspedalsstill digging thru old shows and digging the tunes.
You need another Bass player.
Demo pedals one at a time...pop the delays on for leads.
The black 1981, sounds awful and harsh. The gray one sounds better.
Aesthetic is not pronounced ass-tett-ick.
damn josh, please never play bass again
All hype, just another pedal that does what it does
Personally not a fan of their pedals. They sound good but nothing that justifies their overpriced pedals for me.
people that love reliant k will happily pay that price. Dude was the guitarist of a lot of peoples childhood
It's their full-time job. They make them in their house. They have a waiting list. If you don't want to pay what they're charging, that's fine. But they're not "overpriced." And you have no right to demand that they make things for you at a price of your choosing.
@@sagittated perhaps they need to take in some transfer students form Chiii-na :)
Bruh it's the same price as a morning glory....
@@sagittated no need to feel agitated fanboy, i'm not asking them to make them at a certain price for me like you've mentioned. In my comment, i'm simply saying that i find them overpriced, it's called an "opinion"... And yes 250$ for a Rat clone is overpriced.
That beautiful aesthetic, ruined by side loading instead of top loading cables, so it can’t sit flush with its big brother / sister…
Why should anyone care about a company that puts out one pedal every decade especially when it's just more of the same crap that's been available forever
It's okay for things to exist that don't interest you.
I own exactly one distortion pedal and it’s the 1981 DRV. I use it for everything from subtle clean boost to heavy distortion. On guitar, keyboards, drums, anything really. I use only one distortion pedal because it sounds absolutely marvelous. That circuit just hits me right. I grew up listening to shoegaze and smashing pumpkins so the tone makes me smile.
@@sagittated bit shilly brother
@@the-np4mr good! May I always "shill" for people's right to get paid for their work.
@@sagittated "work" LMFAO. Sure buddy, whatever makes you feel better
"Inventions". Yeah sure. I'm gonna go ahead and continue ignoring this company.
Declaring you're not buying something is such a weird flex.
Is it a flex? Haven't thought about it like that but yes one big reason I am anti hyped pedals is that I already have too many, and once you have a certain amount not much sounds actually new, it's just tiny variations of the same circuits. Bragging about what you're going to buy is worse I think, that's just boring consumerism.
@@tungtobakIsn’t having a hyped pedal a good thing? Don’t you mean “overhyped”???
@@skylerfelix7609 If you find trends interesting maybe. Hype usually has little to do with the actual product and much more to do with marketing + luck (what's gonna go viral on the internet is seldom predictable).