Something huge about reading that Japanese: I just moved to Japan a month ago, and I've been learning Japanese since I was in high school. A huge life hack for reading technology-related Japanese is learning the katakana writing system. There are only 46 katakana characters, they only represent sounds, and katakana is used 99% of the time for words in Japanese that are newer from the past century or borrowed from another language. What this means is that nearly all of your words that are electric guitar related are just english words written in this Japanese script. Once you learn Katakana, you immediately know how to read hundreds, maybe thousands, of words written in Japanese, and these words are largely the kind that you read when it's related to electric guitar stuff (you just have to sound out the words). If you deal with Japanese guitar gear a lot, you're not wanting to commit to deeply learning the language, but you want to read Japanese labels for guitar gear better, that's an amazingly easy way to read labels on gear that doesn't take long at all.
There's kind of an art to reading Katakana though, because Japanese phonetics/phonology is different enough from English and sometimes the transliteration is surprising. Speaking of which, that probably explains the run of pedals with "Bazz" instead of "Buzz" he mentioned. Internally it was probably something like バッズ and then directly romanized. Still though, 100% agree that learning katakana is a low-ish effort to picking out some key words.
@@andrewlwatts as un PC as this is... if you read with an accent so to speak it helps... i noticed in an anime that the dub had kind of done the opposite... when listening to the original audio the heard a characters name pronounced kerarra and in the dub corrected it to ki'lalla thinking the R's were misprinounced L's... whoever did that got it wrong. Also i read a lot of Irvine Welsh and Terry Prattchett and they both write in heavy dialect so that would help i imagine. This is the first i had heard of this language(?) ABut im super intersted now.
Things I love about THE JOSH: 1) His love of pedal boxes. 2) His ability to not give a flaming poop about how people feel about his love of pedal boxes. 3) His gloriously subtle eyebrows.
I even kept the box from the HUGE reissue Fender volume pedal I bought 12ish years ago. I will never be the man to throw the box away. LONG LIVE THE BOX.
Earlier this year the power supply of my pedalboard stopped working. Thankfully it was still under warranty, so I got in touch with the shop I bought it from to get them to repair it. They said sure, no problem, just send it back in all the original packaging. Cue me spending the rest of the day hunting for it. When I finally find it, I sing at the top of my voice... 'HE HAS THE BOX'! Never change Josh, never change.
I want an entire episode of just boxes, manuals, and packaging in general. U broke my heart when u said u werent going to talk about the plastic and moved on to play the sustainer. in all seriousness i do find it interesting on all the old packaging and really enjoy it when u show off your boxes. I like to keep every box so that maybe one day in the future someone else can have that exciting moment where they have that old device and the box with its contents. I seriously really do want a box only episode
Last week I bought 3 Series Hall Reverb but the store only had the box/manual for the 3 Series Reverb. I emailed JHS who offered graciously to send me the right box/manual, it arrived today. It’s the box/manual for … the 3 Series Reverb.
Quality episode again gentlemen. "Try Not to Die" with the Crazy-Face/Sears Fuzz was my favorite jam . Nice demo with the vol pot roll off for that crystal clear fuzz face clean tone . Your quality content is highly appreciated . Keep up the good work & rock on !
If I didn't watch the show for the pedals I'd definately watch it for the jams...I so want your album on record time! Awesome trio. Guyatone, I had their Guyatone PS-013 Chorus Stereo when I was ateenager and really regret selling it ! Have not found a chorus pedal that can touch it (might just be my memory) , I know it is not a fuzz, but Guyatone are awesome! Thanks for the video.
Twine Winder played at the original Woodstock. Right after The Who, I think. GREAT show. And I LOVE the OCD ranting box adulation. And Nick's editorial work is impeccable. And Addison has that soulful presence. And pedal crime novels should be a thing. I LOVE your band. Big fan. Such a roll you guys are on.
I support the saving/ hording of boxes. I have all the boxes my pedals came in... Remember, even if you cannot read the Japanese documentation, make sure you still read it right to left, top to bottom. Love the show!
Josh, in around 1969 when I was 15, after being steeped in Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, I saved up enough money from mowing grass (the original catalog price says $16.95-I have pictures of the catalog descriptions of both the FF and wah pedal style fuzzes) and ordered this same circular shaped fuzz like in this video from the Sears catalog. Walked a good ways across the river over to the north side of town and picked it up when it came in. Got it home, plugged it in in the basement and let it rip. When my Mom who was upstairs heard it started screaming uncontrollably like she was being stabbed with a kitchen knife. She comes down stairs screaming at me, made me take it back to Sears. I had no choice but to do so. The next fuzz I bought my parents actually bought me because I was in a band and was the Rosac Nu Wa-Fuzz (fuzz-wah combo pedal). The pedal cracked and broke but the fuzz still works great and sounds glorious! The wah part of this pedal still works if you manipulate the pot by hand but it always sounded terrible even at a time when I didn’t know anything about this stuff. It is very thin sounding and after the pedal broke I got a Big Muff Pi and a real Cry Baby. Both of those are gone but I still have the Rosac. Can you do a video on the Rosac Nu-Fuzz or Nu Wa-Fuzz? Rosac has an interesting history. I have pics.
$16.95 and tax and shipping, that'd be a fair amount of NC mowing cash back in 1969. Pete brought his broke down mower to mow a big hilly lawn and wanted five bucks. Maybe he got the cash? That was in the mid 70's. I can only imagine how much less one earned mowing a lawn in NC in 1969
@@brandonlesko3126 I don’t know that it took me all summer. I only mowed our yard which gave me what was called an “allowance” (in case you’re real young) back then plus went to Franklin, Pa. in the back of a pickup truck to deliver grocery store ad papers for a dollar or two got (2 + hours of walking all over town) at the most plus a few candy bars. Plus, inflation calculators say $16.95 is $133.53 in todays money without even adding tax. A dollar in 1969 in today’s money is worth $7.88. My Big Muff Pi I bought in 1971 was $49.95 (equivalent to $356.57 without .06% sales tax) at a Mom and Pop shop that charged list price in our small town. As far as the weeks, it’s hard to remember now but I’d say it might’ve at least been a month. If you could share pics on TH-cam comment sections, I’d share the catalog pictures and descriptions with the prices. What did take me the whole summer was working on the farm of a machine shop owner for a buck an hour the whole summer long to get a transistor Carvin amp head and cabinet for I think $300, but I may have sold a trail bike that supplemented that amp. I still have the cabinet but not the head. Those early ‘70s Carvin amps were not good quality. Plus, the speakers were cheap CTS and wouldn’t handle the power and I blew two sets of raw frame speakers. 😥😳
@@scooter5005 Yea! I ordered it from Sears so I assume shipping got eaten by someone. Haha. Things were different back then-the good old days. I still wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’m 67 born in December 30, 1954. Things were much more simple. Minimum wage was $1.30 in ‘69, $1.45 in ‘70 and $1.60 in ‘71.
Scott, fellow Scott here. I recently had my father's amp for the bass speakers from his Heathkit hi-fi console with floor to ceiling electro-static speakers (long since dead and gone) converted to use as a guitar amp. I can't imagine how much all that cost back in the 60s in "real" money. I can tell you the amp sounds great, it's a single ended tube amp that sounds to me like a much sweeter Champ.
I would love to see an episode on Japanese Distortions! There were some serious beasts coming out, but my favourite will always be the Akai Shred-O-Graphic, from what I can tell it’s an earlier model of the Akai G-Drive under a different name, absolutely wild distortion
holy shit just was googling that one, that thing looks sick. love the concept of marker points for specific diff tones called out on the pedal. def grabbing one of these before josh does that show and they’re 2000 not 200 on reverb hahaha
@@rede13rooster super worth it if you love weird fuzz/distortion sounds, you can definitely get more traditional stuff but the weirdness is where it shines
These shows are so above the content of ANYTHING on television Josh should have his own primetime, major network, television show. Comedy, Drama, Excitement. Some NBC executive should show up at his door and say "We want to be in the JHS Episode business." Well done. Because of you I saved the box my Boss Tone Bender came in.
I agree. I'm not a huge fan of most fuzzes but that one I'd grab in a second if it was affordable. A bout halfway through he plays another I liked that had a bit of a saxophone vibe to it. Rich and warm and not fizzy at all.
It's okay, Josh. You're not the only one. There are other's. We once were unified, but during the pedal wars of the 21st century we found ourselves scattered. Many boxes were lost as we scrambled amidst the chaos in a search for sanctuary. In the panic we found ourselves seperated. Exodus turned to exile as we found ourselves forced into hiding in solitude. Each of us questioning, "Am I the last of our kind?". The isolation and fear would've driven us mad. If not for our boxes.
Thanks to your informative and entertaining video I've learned that the very first pedal I ever bought, the Sears Fuzz, is considered cool. I've had it since about 1973 and vaguely remember a slight sense of shame for buying off brand but a young teen back then only had so much cash. Still have it and it still works and now I'll have to respect it more.
Josh, I love you for your boxes. Loved this show. I have a few Guyatone pedals, with boxes. The intro to 'Sonic Hex' is brilliant; and was good to the end. Way to go Josh.
You've such a great thing going on this channel. The fun, the knowledge. The production.the gear...the endless stupid high end gear. The jokes. The jams... The friendships... Fuck I wish I had just some of that. I hope you guys realize how blessed you are
Don’t let the haters get to you, Josh. I also collect pedals in their original boxes, and it’s even better when they have instruction manuals, warranty cards, ads, etc. I’m super jealous of your collection.
The Guyatone shirt is champion. I got a 130t for $39 at a Gibson's dept store, Jackson, Ms, in the late '60's. My brother played it on the 'Coffee With Judy' show ,along with Bob Saxton around '71. I got the Univox superfuzz in '75, and have been looking for a Guyatone fuzz or amp forever.
Sears Fuzz? So THAT's the housing that Roy Goode used to make my FF clone back in the early Aughts! I always loved the look as much as the sound of that thing. Loving this show, very educational and fun!
The Jams are just so good!! Always are and (I think) getting even better! The music is better than most stuff I’ve been downloading on apple music. Keep it up boys and screw the haters. I could listen to Josh talk about packaging all day. 😊
I purchased JHS Lucky Cat, Muffuletta, and Pulp N Peel today..... I love the Lucky Cat and Pulp N Peal but I am having a bit of trouble making the Muffuletta work the way I want it to sound with my board. I have a series setup: First in is Pulp N Peel then Muffuletta, then Lucky Cat, then Mobius (Strymon) and then Big Sky (Strymon) going into a Fender Twin Blonde or can switch to a Line 6 Firehawk 1500.
Guys!... Josh!!! That Jam, "Try Not to Die"... Ohhh My! That was absolute ACE!!! And the little Sears Fuzz thingy? In the plastic tote? I get it. I'm like that. Over the many decades dudes and friends have given me their guitars that were "injured." I felt it. I gather them to my like little chicks. They never see them again. They go away. And slowly, I find just the right Luthier with just the right interviewed Vibe. Then no matter the work or cost, eventually they are resurrected to glory... restored to what they should be. I know... it's OK. Most of my guitars were once Orphans.
I love Guyatone pedals and the pedals you featured were already at unobtainable prices, except for the torrid fuzz. I guess I won't get my chance to own that one now. Is "My brother is a fish" about a family member's prison experience? It reminds me of a modern "Meters" song. I love it.
They rolled the intro.... .....but rather than becoming lost in the curiosity of what devices would make this supposedly contrary cut, I instead enjoyed a deep ease in knowing that the pedals included would have received a keen degree of consideration... Don't presume to read my mind, JOSH!
I dig the boxes and the paper work! Sometimes; yes, sometimes the box, papers and artwork are better than the pedal. I said it, and it’s true. Now, can we see Josh in a giant JHS box? With an even more ultimate massive explosive beyond contestation “He’s in the Box” stinger?
I like the purple fuzz box that sounded like a synth. Beautiful man make party with wonderful bandmates playing rock music . Beautiful pedals in the box.
RECORD TIME SUGGESTION: HUM’s “You’d Prefer An Astronaut” Please check it out if you haven’t. This album takes “shoegaze” and smashes it with walls of trippy driven guitars, backed by unique, jaw dropping, drums. It a perfect use of the “shades of colors” sound, and “beautiful quiet to heavy” formula. It blows me away, thinking that, after 20 something years of listening to this album, Im still hearing these new little sound and textures. To this day, they’re still so influential to me and countless others.. Pleasssssssssse!!!!
People hating on the "he has the box" jingle...smh. I love all the stingers. They always make me chuckle. My favorite is, "I don't have this pedal. Am I gonna survive?"
I’m really worried about some of these boxes and manuals, shouldn’t they be in humidity and temperature controlled environments away from light and only handled with white gloves?!!
I love that he has the box stinger. Every time I hear it I sing along and it brings a smile to my face. Forget about the haters Josh rock on you crazy diamond
I am a 5 time cancer survivor when methboy I don't even want to say his name developed the intro to your videos when I hear them soothe help me through my cancer now hes leaving you and andI just don't think it's right Because with all things I know my cancer will come back I will die but I will remember the old JHS videos
There is a music video by Yura Yura Teikoku called “Tsumetai Gift”. Basically it’s just fuzz pedal galore as they line up all their fuzz pedals in their collection from the studio in the vid. That kickstarted my interest in electric guitar.
I watch JHS every Saturday morning, sometimes Friday night if my wife goes to bed early. She's a musician but doesn't geek out over gear as much as I do. Anyway, I just want to say I love the" He Has the Box" stinger.
So stoked you're talking about Guyatone. I discovered them through their WAH ROCKER the Mighty Micro WRM5, the older one with the bar - which I think is the BEST and unique version of this effect EVER. Please talk about that pedal when you do your show on them!! I think they make the best wah rocker ever. I saw SLOWDIVE back in the '90's and spoke with Rachel for a while and my heart is still hurting.
A lot of pedals come in cool boxes, but since I’m not a collector I don’t care so much about them the way some people do. Still, I keep all boxes for them stored away carefully, along with all the original included materials, manual, stickers, etc., so that if I ever sell one I can say, “comes with original box, all include materials, manual, stickers, etc.”
Hi Josh, at 2:58 you hold up the "card" from the Guyatone Buzzbox. The little label across his chest says that's the Guyatone product warranty card. But what's really interesting is that the company name is written in Japanese as ぐヤ, which is for sure pronounced like "goo-yah" and actually guya is the way that sound would be written when using the alphabet in Japan. So there you go, Goo-yah-tone.
don't listen to anyone, I love the box stinger, when I watch older videos and there is no box stinger it feels almost like the video is not complete, all hail the box stinger!
Back in the earlier 2000s, there was a show called Dexter's Laboratory. Debatably the best episode was when the characters went to a Star Trek convention, and the better jokes are about something being Never-Removed-From-Box(NRFB), or Mint-No-Box. Whenever a box comes out, I mentally pan between everyone on the JHS show being in awe of it's status as MNB, with the few examples of NRFB pedal reveals being equivalent to Supa Hot Fire revealing he isn't even a rapper. Some may not care about them, but I feel like Josh needs to hear that other people are imparted with legitimate joy by the boxes, too.
Guyatone guitars are genuinely beautiful. Such bold orignal designs that really do crazy things. Definitely would have one in my collection somewhen in the near future.
Gonna jam with you guys using effects pedal boxes as percussions. Loved the segment about the science of pedal boxes, the toxicity glue levels that are used, and how they are shaped and folded, also what kind of effect the weather has on the boxes. Keep up the amazing work you do with showcasing different effect pedals, but more importantly keep up your diligent efforts and extensive knowledge in the boxes themselves.
Love your show. Keep showing boxes, boxes rock! I grew up with a Little Big Muff and I'm also watching over a good friend's Schaller fuzz. Sadly both without boxes and in dire need of repairs.
Fun video 😆 HERE IS YOUR FIRST JAPANESE LESSON: The correct pronunciation for Guyatone is goo-ya-tone: gu in Japanese is pronounced goo. Next: There is no I or eye in Shin-Ei. The ei is pronounced ay, like the letter A; so, the correct pronunciation is "shin-ay". As they say in Japanese: ベリグッド beri g'doh; or very good. 🤪
If the only think you ever talked about was the box, I would still watch right though. Love this channel . So informative and your all great people and musicians. 👍
I was thrilled that you showed us a Companion at the beginning, there are so few videos about it on youtube! Then I saw that all you’re gonna speak about today is Guyatone…I still hope sometime you’ll cover Companion, too!
Great episode. I love quirky Japanese guitars pedals and amps from the 60s 70s and 80s. But come on mate, surely the featured record should have been Terry And The Blue Jeans, or Sadistic Mika Band, or Yellow Magic Orchestra!
One of the owners of Guyatone now, Nate DeMont, his shop, DeMont Guitars, is literally across the street from me! His shop is awesome and I always take my guitars to get set up there.
I miss the tube based FLIP series Guyatone had. That blue delay (TD-X ?) sounded spectacular...had a textural richness that rivaled my views of the DMM. Oh sweet, they pulled one out just after I commented.
I had a guyatone distortion, it had a bright red or orange stripe on it and a rubber pedal. It was so good, I didn’t appreciate it at the time and sold it on
I still keep a box from my first skate shoes. I love boxes too. Specially guitar effect boxes. Please don't get effected by the haters. Please don't let them get into your system. You contribute a lot to music scene. I left multi-effects and rack system because get influenced by you. The weird part is, I'm a drummer. My BOSS JB-2 Angry Driver will never leave the box unless I got a second unit wether it's new or used. Thank you very much for your great influence and contribution. 🙏🏽😊
Something huge about reading that Japanese: I just moved to Japan a month ago, and I've been learning Japanese since I was in high school. A huge life hack for reading technology-related Japanese is learning the katakana writing system. There are only 46 katakana characters, they only represent sounds, and katakana is used 99% of the time for words in Japanese that are newer from the past century or borrowed from another language. What this means is that nearly all of your words that are electric guitar related are just english words written in this Japanese script. Once you learn Katakana, you immediately know how to read hundreds, maybe thousands, of words written in Japanese, and these words are largely the kind that you read when it's related to electric guitar stuff (you just have to sound out the words). If you deal with Japanese guitar gear a lot, you're not wanting to commit to deeply learning the language, but you want to read Japanese labels for guitar gear better, that's an amazingly easy way to read labels on gear that doesn't take long at all.
There's kind of an art to reading Katakana though, because Japanese phonetics/phonology is different enough from English and sometimes the transliteration is surprising. Speaking of which, that probably explains the run of pedals with "Bazz" instead of "Buzz" he mentioned. Internally it was probably something like バッズ and then directly romanized. Still though, 100% agree that learning katakana is a low-ish effort to picking out some key words.
@@andrewlwatts as un PC as this is... if you read with an accent so to speak it helps... i noticed in an anime that the dub had kind of done the opposite... when listening to the original audio the heard a characters name pronounced kerarra and in the dub corrected it to ki'lalla thinking the R's were misprinounced L's... whoever did that got it wrong. Also i read a lot of Irvine Welsh and Terry Prattchett and they both write in heavy dialect so that would help i imagine. This is the first i had heard of this language(?) ABut im super intersted now.
Josh is the “crazy cat lady” of the pedal world.....
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Top comment.
"Grghgf!" * *throws boutique/vintage pedal in the box after you* *
Things I love about THE JOSH: 1) His love of pedal boxes. 2) His ability to not give a flaming
poop about how people feel about his love of pedal boxes. 3) His gloriously subtle eyebrows.
Implied-brows
A lad: insane.
great use of the phrase "flaming poop"
Yes his eyebrows could have their own show. And possibly a spin off featuring the sides of his mouth.
My god they are subtle now you mention it
Extra points for playing "Jingle Bells" straightfaced as the solo, and then moving on without mentioning it!
Yeah, that was fucked up😂
Who made you the point arbiter? Huh "Nate"? Who?
Addison gave him a look like Really? This is what we're doing?
Haha classic josh
Would absolutely watch a JHS “Box Talk” series.
what if he did a Box Talk episode on talkboxes?
I would pay money for a video about talk box packaging. Talk Box Box Talk
Yes please, we want Oops All He Has The Box
I even kept the box from the HUGE reissue Fender volume pedal I bought 12ish years ago. I will never be the man to throw the box away. LONG LIVE THE BOX.
Earlier this year the power supply of my pedalboard stopped working. Thankfully it was still under warranty, so I got in touch with the shop I bought it from to get them to repair it. They said sure, no problem, just send it back in all the original packaging. Cue me spending the rest of the day hunting for it. When I finally find it, I sing at the top of my voice... 'HE HAS THE BOX'! Never change Josh, never change.
I personally love the stingers. I sing "words is hard" almost daily. They really are sometimes.
I want an entire episode of just boxes, manuals, and packaging in general. U broke my heart when u said u werent going to talk about the plastic and moved on to play the sustainer. in all seriousness i do find it interesting on all the old packaging and really enjoy it when u show off your boxes. I like to keep every box so that maybe one day in the future someone else can have that exciting moment where they have that old device and the box with its contents.
I seriously really do want a box only episode
Last week I bought 3 Series Hall Reverb but the store only had the box/manual for the 3 Series Reverb. I emailed JHS who offered graciously to send me the right box/manual, it arrived today. It’s the box/manual for … the 3 Series Reverb.
So if Josh loves the Crazy Face circuit so much, we can expect a JHS clone version soon, right? Right? Right. Thanks...
JHS Legends of Fuzz “Crazy”. Yamanashi 1969.
Quality episode again gentlemen. "Try Not to Die" with the Crazy-Face/Sears Fuzz was my favorite jam . Nice demo with the vol pot roll off for that crystal clear fuzz face clean tone . Your quality content is highly appreciated . Keep up the good work & rock on !
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If I didn't watch the show for the pedals I'd definately watch it for the jams...I so want your album on record time! Awesome trio. Guyatone, I had their Guyatone PS-013 Chorus Stereo when I was ateenager and really regret selling it ! Have not found a chorus pedal that can touch it (might just be my memory) , I know it is not a fuzz, but Guyatone are awesome! Thanks for the video.
So you people do exist! (people who actually want to hear the 'jams' and don't just scroll through to the informational bits that is)
There's a picture out there on the interwebs of Ringo Starr playing a Guyatone electric guitar. (I think. I'm pretty sure.)
I haven't seen the pic, but I want to find it now 🙂
@@jimthecraftyguitarist878 I posted a link to the pic but I don't see it here now. It was on Pinterest.
Twine Winder played at the original Woodstock. Right after The Who, I think. GREAT show. And I LOVE the OCD ranting box adulation. And Nick's editorial work is impeccable. And Addison has that soulful presence. And pedal crime novels should be a thing. I LOVE your band. Big fan. Such a roll you guys are on.
I was at Woodstock but missed the great Twine Winder! Must have been due to the brown acid! 😎🎸
Naw. They played the day after Hendrix.
I support the saving/ hording of boxes. I have all the boxes my pedals came in... Remember, even if you cannot read the Japanese documentation, make sure you still read it right to left, top to bottom. Love the show!
Yeah, I hate it when I buy a used pedal and they don't have the box!
Josh, in around 1969 when I was 15, after being steeped in Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, I saved up enough money from mowing grass (the original catalog price says $16.95-I have pictures of the catalog descriptions of both the FF and wah pedal style fuzzes) and ordered this same circular shaped fuzz like in this video from the Sears catalog. Walked a good ways across the river over to the north side of town and picked it up when it came in. Got it home, plugged it in in the basement and let it rip. When my Mom who was upstairs heard it started screaming uncontrollably like she was being stabbed with a kitchen knife. She comes down stairs screaming at me, made me take it back to Sears. I had no choice but to do so. The next fuzz I bought my parents actually bought me because I was in a band and was the Rosac Nu Wa-Fuzz (fuzz-wah combo pedal). The pedal cracked and broke but the fuzz still works great and sounds glorious! The wah part of this pedal still works if you manipulate the pot by hand but it always sounded terrible even at a time when I didn’t know anything about this stuff. It is very thin sounding and after the pedal broke I got a Big Muff Pi and a real Cry Baby. Both of those are gone but I still have the Rosac. Can you do a video on the Rosac Nu-Fuzz or Nu Wa-Fuzz? Rosac has an interesting history. I have pics.
It took you all summer to save up $16.95?
$16.95 and tax and shipping, that'd be a fair amount of NC mowing cash back in 1969. Pete brought his broke down mower to mow a big hilly lawn and wanted five bucks. Maybe he got the cash? That was in the mid 70's. I can only imagine how much less one earned mowing a lawn in NC in 1969
@@brandonlesko3126 I don’t know that it took me all summer. I only mowed our yard which gave me what was called an “allowance” (in case you’re real young) back then plus went to Franklin, Pa. in the back of a pickup truck to deliver grocery store ad papers for a dollar or two got (2 + hours of walking all over town) at the most plus a few candy bars. Plus, inflation calculators say $16.95 is $133.53 in todays money without even adding tax. A dollar in 1969 in today’s money is worth $7.88. My Big Muff Pi I bought in 1971 was $49.95 (equivalent to $356.57 without .06% sales tax) at a Mom and Pop shop that charged list price in our small town. As far as the weeks, it’s hard to remember now but I’d say it might’ve at least been a month. If you could share pics on TH-cam comment sections, I’d share the catalog pictures and descriptions with the prices. What did take me the whole summer was working on the farm of a machine shop owner for a buck an hour the whole summer long to get a transistor Carvin amp head and cabinet for I think $300, but I may have sold a trail bike that supplemented that amp. I still have the cabinet but not the head. Those early ‘70s Carvin amps were not good quality. Plus, the speakers were cheap CTS and wouldn’t handle the power and I blew two sets of raw frame speakers. 😥😳
@@scooter5005 Yea! I ordered it from Sears so I assume shipping got eaten by someone. Haha. Things were different back then-the good old days. I still wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’m 67 born in December 30, 1954. Things were much more simple. Minimum wage was $1.30 in ‘69, $1.45 in ‘70 and $1.60 in ‘71.
Scott, fellow Scott here. I recently had my father's amp for the bass speakers from his Heathkit hi-fi console with floor to ceiling electro-static speakers (long since dead and gone) converted to use as a guitar amp. I can't imagine how much all that cost back in the 60s in "real" money. I can tell you the amp sounds great, it's a single ended tube amp that sounds to me like a much sweeter Champ.
This just in - Josh has issues with moist boxes. Now, here’s Nick with the weather.
I would love to see an episode on Japanese Distortions! There were some serious beasts coming out, but my favourite will always be the Akai Shred-O-Graphic, from what I can tell it’s an earlier model of the Akai G-Drive under a different name, absolutely wild distortion
holy shit just was googling that one, that thing looks sick. love the concept of marker points for specific diff tones called out on the pedal. def grabbing one of these before josh does that show and they’re 2000 not 200 on reverb hahaha
@@rede13rooster super worth it if you love weird fuzz/distortion sounds, you can definitely get more traditional stuff but the weirdness is where it shines
These shows are so above the content of ANYTHING on television Josh should have his own primetime, major network, television show. Comedy, Drama, Excitement. Some NBC executive should show up at his door and say "We want to be in the JHS Episode business." Well done. Because of you I saved the box my Boss Tone Bender came in.
I love the boxes! I always ask if the box is included when I buy a used pedal.
I always ask the seller if I'm gonna survive without this pedal.
The best is buying a pedal and surprise! There IS a box after all!
The first jam has Josh's absolute best tone ever on JHS show. Ever.
I agree. I'm not a huge fan of most fuzzes but that one I'd grab in a second if it was affordable. A bout halfway through he plays another I liked that had a bit of a saxophone vibe to it. Rich and warm and not fizzy at all.
Personally, the box stinger is one of my top 3 favorite things about the JHS Show.
1st one was the best. tone coming out of that Demo really gave off a Pillows vibe
Josh, this guitar amp combo never gets old! If only that beautiful amp was more affordable.
It's okay, Josh. You're not the only one. There are other's. We once were unified, but during the pedal wars of the 21st century we found ourselves scattered. Many boxes were lost as we scrambled amidst the chaos in a search for sanctuary. In the panic we found ourselves seperated. Exodus turned to exile as we found ourselves forced into hiding in solitude. Each of us questioning, "Am I the last of our kind?". The isolation and fear would've driven us mad.
If not for our boxes.
Thanks to your informative and entertaining video I've learned that the very first pedal I ever bought, the Sears Fuzz, is considered cool. I've had it since about 1973 and vaguely remember a slight sense of shame for buying off brand but a young teen back then only had so much cash.
Still have it and it still works and now I'll have to respect it more.
Josh, I love you for your boxes. Loved this show. I have a few Guyatone pedals, with boxes. The intro to 'Sonic Hex' is brilliant; and was good to the end. Way to go Josh.
I would buy Sonic Hex.
You've such a great thing going on this channel. The fun, the knowledge. The production.the gear...the endless stupid high end gear. The jokes. The jams... The friendships... Fuck I wish I had just some of that. I hope you guys realize how blessed you are
I love that you have boxes. I always throw away boxes & give the stickers to my niece. Sorry for being part of the problem.
Don’t let the haters get to you, Josh. I also collect pedals in their original boxes, and it’s even better when they have instruction manuals, warranty cards, ads, etc. I’m super jealous of your collection.
The Guyatone shirt is champion. I got a 130t for $39 at a Gibson's dept store, Jackson, Ms, in the late '60's. My brother played it on the 'Coffee With Judy' show ,along with Bob Saxton around '71. I got the Univox superfuzz in '75, and have been looking for a Guyatone fuzz or amp forever.
Sears Fuzz? So THAT's the housing that Roy Goode used to make my FF clone back in the early Aughts! I always loved the look as much as the sound of that thing. Loving this show, very educational and fun!
The Jams are just so good!! Always are and (I think) getting even better! The music is better than most stuff I’ve been downloading on apple music. Keep it up boys and screw the haters. I could listen to Josh talk about packaging all day. 😊
Doubling down on the box at 9:00. Love it.
It's awesome that Josh mentions Slowdive, one of the most under appreciated bands ever.
I feel like Shoegaze is massive at the minute, with makers like Catalinbread straight up making pedals based on Slowdive sounds
This episode was worth it just to hear the JHS Milkman dimed out across the board. Tasty.
I purchased JHS Lucky Cat, Muffuletta, and Pulp N Peel today..... I love the Lucky Cat and Pulp N Peal but I am having a bit of trouble making the Muffuletta work the way I want it to sound with my board.
I have a series setup: First in is Pulp N Peel then Muffuletta, then Lucky Cat, then Mobius (Strymon) and then Big Sky (Strymon) going into a Fender Twin Blonde or can switch to a Line 6 Firehawk 1500.
My Brother's a Fish - 6:18 ......oh man the niiiiice vibe I needed
Guys!... Josh!!! That Jam, "Try Not to Die"... Ohhh My! That was absolute ACE!!! And the little Sears Fuzz thingy? In the plastic tote? I get it. I'm like that. Over the many decades dudes and friends have given me their guitars that were "injured." I felt it. I gather them to my like little chicks. They never see them again. They go away. And slowly, I find just the right Luthier with just the right interviewed Vibe. Then no matter the work or cost, eventually they are resurrected to glory... restored to what they should be. I know... it's OK. Most of my guitars were once Orphans.
I love Guyatone pedals and the pedals you featured were already at unobtainable prices, except for the torrid fuzz. I guess I won't get my chance to own that one now. Is "My brother is a fish" about a family member's prison experience? It reminds me of a modern "Meters" song. I love it.
P.S. please hire your buddy Toshi to design a pedal. Those pedals he was responsible for were amazing.
They rolled the intro....
.....but rather than becoming lost in the curiosity of what devices would make this supposedly contrary cut, I instead enjoyed a deep ease in knowing that the pedals included would have received a keen degree of consideration...
Don't presume to read my mind, JOSH!
I dig the boxes and the paper work! Sometimes; yes, sometimes the box, papers and artwork are better than the pedal. I said it, and it’s true. Now, can we see Josh in a giant JHS box? With an even more ultimate massive explosive beyond contestation “He’s in the Box” stinger?
I like the purple fuzz box that sounded like a synth. Beautiful man make party with wonderful bandmates playing rock music . Beautiful pedals in the box.
RECORD TIME SUGGESTION:
HUM’s “You’d Prefer An Astronaut”
Please check it out if you haven’t. This album takes “shoegaze” and smashes it with walls of trippy driven guitars, backed by unique, jaw dropping, drums. It a perfect use of the “shades of colors” sound, and “beautiful quiet to heavy” formula. It blows me away, thinking that, after 20 something years of listening to this album, Im still hearing these new little sound and textures. To this day, they’re still so influential to me and countless others..
Pleasssssssssse!!!!
The way Josh mocks drop D, I am guessing it ain't gonna happen. ;-)
What is this, like the third video I've seen this comment on? We get it, you like it a lot.
People hating on the "he has the box" jingle...smh. I love all the stingers. They always make me chuckle. My favorite is, "I don't have this pedal. Am I gonna survive?"
The Intergalatic State Champs jam ripped my face off. I am now convinced that I urgently need a Guyatone Torrid Fuzz...
Totally agree on Face Like Thunder, such an amazing track
Has anyone approached you three for soundtrack work yet? All these motifs you all put together are a main reason I watch/listen.
Can't wait to see the Box Episode!!
I’m really worried about some of these boxes and manuals, shouldn’t they be in humidity and temperature controlled environments away from light and only handled with white gloves?!!
needs a box humidor, like a real cigar connosoir.
I hope the temperature in his studio/storage space is well-regulated.
white gloves have bleach residue in the fabric, best to use a static-free but naturally colored glove
That Christmas jam was by far my favorite in any episode lmao
I love that he has the box stinger. Every time I hear it I sing along and it brings a smile to my face. Forget about the haters Josh rock on you crazy diamond
I will watch a 10 hour video of Josh simply flexing that he has the box for various pedals followed by the tag. F the haters WE WANT THE BOX.
I am a 5 time cancer survivor when methboy I don't even want to say his name developed the intro to your videos when I hear them soothe help me through my cancer now hes leaving you and andI just don't think it's right Because with all things I know my cancer will come back I will die but I will remember the old JHS videos
Love your first jam! It sounds very much like J. Mascis / Dinosaur Jr. Greatness.
The sinus medication jam was brilliant and hilarious!
There is a music video by Yura Yura Teikoku called “Tsumetai Gift”. Basically it’s just fuzz pedal galore as they line up all their fuzz pedals in their collection from the studio in the vid. That kickstarted my interest in electric guitar.
I’ve still got my Guyatone PS-007 Phaser I got in the 80s, I still use it to this day. 👍
I watch JHS every Saturday morning, sometimes Friday night if my wife goes to bed early. She's a musician but doesn't geek out over gear as much as I do. Anyway, I just want to say I love the" He Has the Box" stinger.
You had me at the FS-1 Buzz Box, that thing sounds killer on "Night School Dropout"- rippin'! Best one in the video!
So stoked you're talking about Guyatone. I discovered them through their WAH ROCKER the Mighty Micro WRM5, the older one with the bar - which I think is the BEST and unique version of this effect EVER. Please talk about that pedal when you do your show on them!! I think they make the best wah rocker ever.
I saw SLOWDIVE back in the '90's and spoke with Rachel for a while and my heart is still hurting.
Night School Dropout may be your best song-demo-thingy to date
A lot of pedals come in cool boxes, but since I’m not a collector I don’t care so much about them the way some people do. Still, I keep all boxes for them stored away carefully, along with all the original included materials, manual, stickers, etc., so that if I ever sell one I can say, “comes with original box, all include materials, manual, stickers, etc.”
Hi Josh, at 2:58 you hold up the "card" from the Guyatone Buzzbox. The little label across his chest says that's the Guyatone product warranty card. But what's really interesting is that the company name is written in Japanese as ぐヤ, which is for sure pronounced like "goo-yah" and actually guya is the way that sound would be written when using the alphabet in Japan. So there you go, Goo-yah-tone.
That's how it's pronounced over here in Japan!
I am HERE for the box collecting. In fact I think the channel should re-brand to "JHS Boxes" where sometimes you talk about pedals.
don't listen to anyone, I love the box stinger, when I watch older videos and there is no box stinger it feels almost like the video is not complete, all hail the box stinger!
Back in the earlier 2000s, there was a show called Dexter's Laboratory. Debatably the best episode was when the characters went to a Star Trek convention, and the better jokes are about something being Never-Removed-From-Box(NRFB), or Mint-No-Box.
Whenever a box comes out, I mentally pan between everyone on the JHS show being in awe of it's status as MNB, with the few examples of NRFB pedal reveals being equivalent to Supa Hot Fire revealing he isn't even a rapper.
Some may not care about them, but I feel like Josh needs to hear that other people are imparted with legitimate joy by the boxes, too.
Guyatone guitars are genuinely beautiful. Such bold orignal designs that really do crazy things. Definitely would have one in my collection somewhen in the near future.
Your amp cranked sounds killer!!! That’s an ideal overdriven sound for me.
Gonna jam with you guys using effects pedal boxes as percussions. Loved the segment about the science of pedal boxes, the toxicity glue levels that are used, and how they are shaped and folded, also what kind of effect the weather has on the boxes. Keep up the amazing work you do with showcasing different effect pedals, but more importantly keep up your diligent efforts and extensive knowledge in the boxes themselves.
Love your show. Keep showing boxes, boxes rock! I grew up with a Little Big Muff and I'm also watching over a good friend's Schaller fuzz. Sadly both without boxes and in dire need of repairs.
Fun video 😆
HERE IS YOUR FIRST JAPANESE LESSON:
The correct pronunciation for Guyatone is goo-ya-tone: gu in Japanese is pronounced goo.
Next: There is no I or eye in Shin-Ei. The ei is pronounced ay, like the letter A; so, the correct pronunciation is "shin-ay".
As they say in Japanese: ベリグッド beri g'doh; or very good. 🤪
i have never seen anything more quinteseetial josh scott then a crate with 10+ Sears Fuzz enclosures
If the only think you ever talked about was the box, I would still watch right though. Love this channel . So informative and your all great people and musicians. 👍
You had me at "Outer hood flap and 2 linear side flaps" Josh.
Love the boxes!!
Very much appreciated the contextualization of box history segment
I was thrilled that you showed us a Companion at the beginning, there are so few videos about it on youtube! Then I saw that all you’re gonna speak about today is Guyatone…I still hope sometime you’ll cover Companion, too!
HE HAS THE BOX!!!!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
Love guyatone la stuff… thanks for running the prices through the roof Josh. Hahah.
Great episode. I love quirky Japanese guitars pedals and amps from the 60s 70s and 80s. But come on mate, surely the featured record should have been Terry And The Blue Jeans, or Sadistic Mika Band, or Yellow Magic Orchestra!
One of the owners of Guyatone now, Nate DeMont, his shop, DeMont Guitars, is literally across the street from me! His shop is awesome and I always take my guitars to get set up there.
I've just pushed the like button because you have mentioned bush and slowdive in one sentence.
😁
We love your box dude! We got more meds where those came from!
I love the boxes.. (also the pedals... maybe..)
I miss the tube based FLIP series Guyatone had. That blue delay (TD-X ?) sounded spectacular...had a textural richness that rivaled my views of the DMM.
Oh sweet, they pulled one out just after I commented.
some great jams in this episode!
You have one of the most informative and entertaining channels on TH-cam, well done.
I love the boxes. More boxes. 24-hour Boxtalk TV
I am down for it
I had a guyatone distortion, it had a bright red or orange stripe on it and a rubber pedal. It was so good, I didn’t appreciate it at the time and sold it on
Pump up the box Josh and own your freaky boxiness..... that's what we luve.
Love the subtle shout-out to the 90's Conan show.
I have a Guyatone Mini Fuzz and Mini Tremelo from the 90’s. Was hoping you would include the Fuzz, but as you said, just too many to cover. Thanks.
That Sonic Hex jam at 11:06 up to 12 is absolutely sick. the drums just took off
Activia!
That's all I hear when you play the box theme song. Not complaining, just sharing.
That guy who hates the box sure got a really special episode ahead of him.
I still keep a box from my first skate shoes. I love boxes too. Specially guitar effect boxes.
Please don't get effected by the haters. Please don't let them get into your system. You contribute a lot to music scene. I left multi-effects and rack system because get influenced by you. The weird part is, I'm a drummer.
My BOSS JB-2 Angry Driver will never leave the box unless I got a second unit wether it's new or used.
Thank you very much for your great influence and contribution. 🙏🏽😊
Celebrate having the box people - you gotta celebrate having the box!
My ginger tabby and I love the box too 😊