I too was shocked by the news. I dismantled my JHS pedals and was shocked to see that they were just made of Kemper profiles as well! We have been lied to for so many years! Considering a class action…
I’m in tube amp Facebook groups and they’re all genuinely mad at this and all of a sudden they’re all saying how these videos have “always sounded horrible” despite the fact that this has only been happening for a year. I saw someone say “if he’s lying about this then he’s probably lying about other stuff”. Then some of them are mad that Josh can get pedals that typically are considered bad to sound good and they think he’s faking it. This stuff is crazy.
lol, this was all part of the idea. next to no one has ever said we sounded bad, and if they it, they were mocking josh's playing. now all of a sudden everyone can tell the difference? lol
This is (sadly) not surprising. The internet is full of this outrage-based nonsense. There is enough room in the wide world of guitar for both digital and analog setups. I don't see why people feel the need to pledge some sort of foolish loyalty to one or the other. People just like to get mad. I don't get it but it is what it is.
@@pretty.noodles3540 Tapping the brakes = proceed cautiously by slowing a vehicle or course of action in brief calculated intervals Tapping the breaks = radically snatching every opportunity to catch rideable waves whilst surf or boogie boarding. Taping the Breaks = rolling tape in between takes during a studio recording session Taping the brakes = using duct, gorilla or some other form of adhesive tape to restructure or rebuild a failing brake system.
Using a Kemper for a year... This has to be one of the most epic trolls of all time in the guitar gear world. Well done Josh and collaborators. Cue the line of people who'll comment they could tell something was off about the tone these last 12 months.
I loved this but it's impossible to share it with anyone else because it is so niche and have so much context behind it that they would probably sent me back to the mental hospital. 10/10
I'm a Kemper user myself for almost five years now - so I already know how freaking good this thing is, no need to convince me, but this vid is pure gold in terms of comedic timing and overall execution, love it!
I have been following this site for many years now and I have to say, Josh and the crew always deliver a fun, entertaining presentation and this was no exception. I loved the outrageous premise coupled with the mockumentary production style.
Josh's menu selections are completely in line with what my wife was horrified to watch me throw into the shopping cart in preparation for her going away on a three day business trip: Stagg Chili, Spam, Cheetos Mac and Cheese, and Manwich sauce. It was nearly as eerie as finding out that Josh has been LYING TO US THIS WHOLE TIME.
I was gonna say... If that is gonna be his diet the whole time nick and Addison are gonna be needing rescued even sooner than they think... Just beans and Vienna sausages... All ya need is a pack of ramen and it's like a cook-up in the county jail for God sake. EDIT: Also... No judgement. I learned my recipe in county jail but at this point my grandma even likes a good brick now and then.
I’m all for it, Josh! It makes my gigging life so much easier. It’s so much fun to have access to such great tones. Profile your favorite amp, put your guitar and Kemper in the boot of your car and go play. It’s the future and it makes sense.
I just bought my first tube amp a few days ago. Thanks so much for making me feel even more like the out-of-touch old fart that I am, Josh. Thanks a lot.
If you like the sound of that amp and it's dependable, you made a good investment. Kempers and digital gear loses value fast. Tube amps retain value and can gain value on the used market. Just find the tones you like and stick with the amp you like. Noone really needs 30 amp sims. If you like one amp, you like one amp... I use a wall of tube and SS Orange and PV amps with many different speakers. No Kemper can replace my wall or my analog dirt and modulation. If you are a knob fiddler, and not into presets. Tube or SS Jfets heads are perfect. What amp and cab did you get?
I only got back into guitar like early nov, right before i watched his last Kemper video (id never heard of them, in past been tube snob..) i ordered (and payed in full ) a boutique tweed deluxe, i love my tubes but Kemper is on the list for sometime next year for sure.
I sold the most of tube amps, I keep my deluxe reverb to play with friends but for practice and everything else, go to digital and never I been so happy. Even all the new guitar virtuosos use digital processors or plug ins, and they sound amazing.
OK, this was pretty damn good. Love the fact you didn't do a lot to hide what you were up to and nobody noticed. None of the "tubes or death" crowd got a whiff. I can think of a lot of things Spam needs. Salt is not one of them.
I recently thought about why I haven't seen the episodes as regularly as I used to do... Maybe it's because of the fake sound... Who knows, not even me.
Will Smith, FTX, and now this. Just when we thought 2022 could not get any worse. We thought Josh was one of us. He is the Sam Bankman Fried of Lance Armstrong.
I’m serious we need a step-by-step guide on how you guys produce these jams. If I could record like that in my garage, I would be producing records every other week.
a while back they did a video called "How We Record A Song" and it went over their recording process, I'm sure the gear had changed a bit since then but the process will still work. I've done a ton of live-to-tape style recordings and I can tell you the biggest factors are 1, have enough recording inputs with clean AD conversion (I personally used an allen and heath qu series for years, and am currently using a midas MR 18), good enough mics (Mics matter, but the ROI drops of real quick once you get into the expensive stuff), good mic placement, as much seperation between sources as possible (smaller amps, baffling, room placement, and DI whenever it's a good idea) and then a bit of post production. It's definitely attainable, but buying all that gear yourself even on the affordable side definitely stacks up. I did it because I'm passionate about recording.
Not only that, but in the clip with Rhett he offers a correction that is only he’s “a former fan of JHS” meaning he agrees with their description of his skills, but not that he’s a fan. That had me rolling 😂😂😂 I’m curious to know if he was in on that little razz or if they slipped in on the edit, either way the burn is my favorite part, I agree!
I said "oh my!" out loud and couldn't stop laughing haha RS knows what he sent, but I bet when he got to watch the full video, he must have been really cracking up LOL
I usually do not comment in social media or TH-cam, but I couldn't resist in this case. I wish I could be a shareholder or employee in a company like JHS. Your products and show are outstanding! Congratulations on your success and enyoable journey!
I saw the kemper quite a few times and wondered what you guys were doing with it, if you own one they stick out like a sore thumb. Kempers are GREAT pedal platforms, the profiling is one thing but unlike a lot of digital gear, you can push the input just like a tube amp, they respond great to fuzzes, overdrive, anything a tube amp does. I run my board into my kemper first, then use the direct out into my interface as a DI as well as stereo outs so I have dry DI and amped sounds all the time. They feel awesome to play, sound great, and as Josh proved, if you don't KNOW you're hearing a kemper, all you hear is great tone.
"He's got the cans!" I'm surprised the guys didn't have any peanut butter. It would go really well with all those jams... Edit: Also one of those solos felt like a pointless spam. I'm gonna leave the comment section now and do a walk of shame as my penance.
I play live, I have kemper stages mounted to temple audio pedal board with wireless everything and it stuns people. I roll in with pedalboard plug direct to FOH grab guitar and go. Easy in and out. Setup time is couple min and can sound like anything.
@@thetruthexperiment yea. I owned one for over 10 years. They’re incredible but a bit lacking on the effects. I sold mine and just run my favorite tube amps into a captor X on stage for a really killer sounding DI sound. I only used profiles of my own amps so why not just use the real deal. For a studio tool though, the Kemper (and to and even greater extent, the AxeFX3, which I also recently sold after owning over a year) the digital stuff is HARD to beat.
I found a POD 2.0 with the floor board over the pandemic - $100. It has allowed me to play so much more than when I was using an amp in the house. Using MIDI and the Line 6 software you can really tweak the settings and dial in a great tone. I'm sure that is similar to how the other systems work. My Morning Glory is in front of the POD and sounds great into those models. In fact, you can put your whole pedal board in front of it just like an amp. My amps have been stowed away in the garage and I'm not mad. In fact, I think I'm happier. 97% of us are just hobbyists and don't need back breaking, ear blasting tube amps in their houses. You don't even need to spend the money on the newest modeler/profiler....The kidney bean is still viable. You can apply the extra savings to buying healthier food to make you strong so you can play better :)
Fabulous, brilliant, so creative. Love the fake food/Kemper thing going on there. On Facebook I comment, on the tabloid style post, about a proper tabloid scandal, well, this is a tabloid story that jumped into the nightly news. Love the TH-camrs being implicated in the scandal. Josh Scott, taken hostages, oh my! Did I mention my goofy smile and the laughs my kids got to see this morning? What a way to start my day. Thanks, JHS Pedals!
Thanks Josh. This video makes it so much easier to hear the digital harshness, the cold, sterile and much lower resolution in the digital gear. Seems like I've been having a "bad-ear-day" for an entire year. Glad that's been fixed! 👍
Absolutely fantastic episode!! The jams were especially tasty!!! The models sound amazing! And I’m sure it’s super helpful in many ways for the production of the show. And super cool you’ve released some incredible amp models. Well done and we’ll played!
Love that you still have the Bassman! That is the one you got from me years ago. It came from Louisiana. It was literally placed in my lap at a Cajun restaurant my wife and I were eating lunch at. The owner knew I played and he saw me a lunch at his place and sold it me that day.
What a surprise! But it really shows how great modeling has become. This was the year I left “proper” tube amps, switching out my Victory “The Copper” head for the pedal amp version (so not completely a modeler, as the preamp section is tube, but the power amp features modeling and Two-Notes cab sim) and honestly? I can’t tell the difference. Fits in my gig bag, weighs nothing and I can plug a set of headphones playing at home, plug in a cab to gig or just go line out to record. Never been happier.
I guess I'm considered a senior now because of my age? But I got the best flashback memories of my life when you opened the pack of vienna sausage and it instantly recalled all those Christmas Eve's cooking them over an indoor Hibachi. And at the same time the memories of my first amp and guitar; a Fender Vibrolux and Peavey T-60. I won't even bore you with my mothers spam casserole recipes. But thank you! And have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
The Kemper is the greatest piece of Gear I have ever bought and for me cured my insatiable G.A.S. that I suffered with for years. Thanks Christoph Kemper!
@ghost mall yeah! I have mine set up the same. I just added the Matthews Futurist for midi control over my delay, reverb, and modulation. It’s been a lot of fun and sounds great.
I'm serious as a heart attack -- if folks take anything away from this, it's that you need to puncture the BOTTOM of the SPAM can for it to come out in one piece.
Welcome to the digital world! Been a Helix user for years now, and I have NO desire to go back to hauling a tube amp around. I love the versatility and flexibility of the Helix (and by relation, the Kemper).
Anybody that shits on the Helix hasn't actually played one. It's the single greatest piece of guitar tech ever created. The interface is perfect and the sound is spectacular.
Busting guitar gear myths whether the community wants it or not AND advertising things to me that I didn't ever think I needed but sound so fun and good? I love this so much! 💖🤣🤣💖
@@chipsnmydip Id imagine its that you more than likely cant tell the difference between a real amp and a good kemper profile/Model in a blind test like a lot of people say they can
@@mfkrwill I think that probably matters the context. In a dense recording or live mix, maybe hard to tell the difference. Standing side by side with a real amp, not difficult. But truth be told the last few JHS videos I've watched I really didn't like Josh's tone, and figure it always sounded that way, or it was the pedal he was using.
This is a cautionary story. The Kemper ultimately leads to spam can slide guitar. Spread the word to all the guitarists you love before it's too late!!!
This is the best show on TH-cam. My girlfriend knows nothing about guitars and still is entertained enough to watch this ridiculousness with me. Thank you for being you!
This is hilarious! Now I want a pedalboard full of Kempers to stack gain from different apms as I always do with my amps: the fx loop send of the Fender into input of the Vox, the fx loop send of the Vox into the Marshal, and then, if it was not enough, into Revv Generator.
Lol, this is gold. I scrolled through comments for a while but saw nothing from tube amp purists who can hear a fly cough at 100 yards and tell what it had for breakfast. Where are those guys?
Amazing job guys. I love JHS videos. This humor remembers me Monty Python mixed with Brian Wampler YT channel. My deep respect folks for your work, in pedals and content.
The Stoicism bit at the end absolutely killed me - actually the whole video killed and revived me multiple times, with each successful cycle erasing more of my corporeal form on the mortal plane. I am now a Specter. Thank you for allowing me to haunt my family this blessed Holiday season.
Do you ever feel like you just end up using the same couple amps or do you change it up enough for it to be worth it? I am a fan of my analog dirt, modulation and mix of Orange and PV amp wall. I could see it being great for quiet studio and limited short overseas gigs. But can you blend a few amps and cab and speaker tones at once? Or is it a more single mono or stereo amp set up? I love my amp wall, the tones blend well. However, I do have to move a wall. If I get a modeler, I would hope I can build a virtual wall .. thoughts?
@@KelticKabukiGirl I have two profiles I use fairly consistently, but I do use a lot of different ones. You can mix and match amps/cabinets and then there's endless tweaking from there if you so desire. A lot of people don't like the technical side of it, but without sounding like too much a jerk, it seems a lot of them older folks who may have struggles with tech. It's really not difficult at all to dial in a sound you want. Finding the right profile as a foundation can be a little tougher because of the way they were modeled and what guitar was used etc...but the rig manager, which is kind of like the itunes but for Kempers, is loaded with 30k+ profiles and there's so many out there to purchase. So, to answer your question, yeah, you can. People complain about a "feel" difference. A few times I've noticed it, but again, it depends on your profile, guitar, speaker, and location. I actually find that the Kemper improves on a lot of amps. I can't describe why, but it feels like it brings some amps to life.
If a vintage gear geek like Josh goes all in for Kemper, maybe there's something to it. The Kemper livestream you guys did last year with Tone Junkie is actually what pushed me over the edge to buy a Kemper Stage and leave my tube amps at home. I had tried Amplitube, Iridium, Sans Amp, Joyo, IR Loaders, etc. hoping to avoid shelling out the $$$$. Wish I'd have pulled the trigger 10 years (and about 2000 gigs) ago.
Love this and love what you did. My favorite local bands dont play tube amps, they put all their guitars, even live, through a korg ampworks sim, the one with the three big knobs. (they share members so it makes sense they all do this). another local band recorded their new record with the stock logic clean fender sim, which according to the entire internet, sucks bad; its one of my favorite albums this year. its funny that most of the local bands i see are a bore and the ones i like use the cheapest stuff possible. not that expensive stuff makes you boring, but you can do so much with very little. also, want to shout out my crush 20, its a solid state beast and i record the headphone output instead of miking it.
I loved the spam inclusion. For some reason, my grandmother thought I loved spam and bought it for me every Christmas. She has passed away and this is our first Christmas without her. Seeing the spam this time of year made me remember her and all the cans I've accrued over the years. Nothing like good tone and good food 😉
Please do more on these topics- especially the pedal oriented preamps (see Sansamps, Joyo American Sound, EAE Model Fet) combined with something like IR pedals (you had the Flamma Cab on once. )
I understand this may not be even close to your priorities but when are you guys gonna drop a full length album? You guys do not play my style of music but you guys are really good together. I've been watching maybe 2 years now and I've just kinda been waiting on it to happen. Now I'm starting to feel like somebody should say something. So here it is. SOMETHING! good now that I got that out the way, you guys should totally record an album.
This show is unhinged and I love it, you guys do a great job!
somewhere else on youtube theres a show about how you can get all the JHS pedal sounds using free/stock DAW plugins
I too was shocked by the news.
I dismantled my JHS pedals and was shocked to see that they were just made of Kemper profiles as well!
We have been lied to for so many years!
Considering a class action…
I’m in tube amp Facebook groups and they’re all genuinely mad at this and all of a sudden they’re all saying how these videos have “always sounded horrible” despite the fact that this has only been happening for a year. I saw someone say “if he’s lying about this then he’s probably lying about other stuff”. Then some of them are mad that Josh can get pedals that typically are considered bad to sound good and they think he’s faking it. This stuff is crazy.
lol, this was all part of the idea. next to no one has ever said we sounded bad, and if they it, they were mocking josh's playing. now all of a sudden everyone can tell the difference? lol
can you tell me the name of the fb group you're in? i'm gonna find it 😈
@@jhspedals yes!
These groups coping HARD.
This is (sadly) not surprising. The internet is full of this outrage-based nonsense. There is enough room in the wide world of guitar for both digital and analog setups. I don't see why people feel the need to pledge some sort of foolish loyalty to one or the other.
People just like to get mad. I don't get it but it is what it is.
Josh’s sense of humour is exactly what the Gear community needs 😂
Y'all don't seem to be tapping the brakes on the weirdness and I am 100% here for it. Thank you.
thank you for your support.
Took me a minute. What is tapping the breaks? Oh. Tapping the brakes. Okay. Got it.
@@WarrenPostmait’s a surfing term, bro. Gotta tap them breaks bruh
@@pretty.noodles3540
Tapping the brakes = proceed cautiously by slowing a vehicle or course of action in brief calculated intervals
Tapping the breaks = radically snatching every opportunity to catch rideable waves whilst surf or boogie boarding.
Taping the Breaks = rolling tape in between takes during a studio recording session
Taping the brakes = using duct, gorilla or some other form of adhesive tape to restructure or rebuild a failing brake system.
Using a Kemper for a year... This has to be one of the most epic trolls of all time in the guitar gear world. Well done Josh and collaborators. Cue the line of people who'll comment they could tell something was off about the tone these last 12 months.
I loved this but it's impossible to share it with anyone else because it is so niche and have so much context behind it that they would probably sent me back to the mental hospital. 10/10
Haha I pretty much had the exact same thought
Isn’t it good though when you stumble across a fellow JHS show enthusiast
@@thehodgi1 it's magical 🦄🌈
Ahah I feel the same as I’m here laughing stupidly and without being able to explain to anyone around. Nice 😂
My Kemper arrived today. JHS profiles already downloaded ready to load. Great video!
You’ll be hearing from my lawyers.
i know what you said
W Jew
This is my favorite
U kill me rhett …so great
I mean, this has got to be nominated for some kind of Award! This was amazing. Even if it's a good show award. Bravo lads and lasses, Bravo!
That slide playing with the SPAM can is now a permanent piece of guitar history
Someone get Rhett Schull in here.
The Spam Jam!
Wonder how Rhett feels knowing that his attempts at good slide tone were beaten by a can of spam
Queue the Monty Python crew singing about Spam, wonderful Spam.
Rhett wishes his slide tone was as good as that spam can
I'm a Kemper user myself for almost five years now - so I already know how freaking good this thing is, no need to convince me, but this vid is pure gold in terms of comedic timing and overall execution, love it!
I agree 100%. It is definitely time to embrace new (11 year old) technologies!
😂😂😂
I have been following this site for many years now and I have to say, Josh and the crew always deliver a fun, entertaining presentation and this was no exception. I loved the outrageous premise coupled with the mockumentary production style.
Josh's menu selections are completely in line with what my wife was horrified to watch me throw into the shopping cart in preparation for her going away on a three day business trip: Stagg Chili, Spam, Cheetos Mac and Cheese, and Manwich sauce. It was nearly as eerie as finding out that Josh has been LYING TO US THIS WHOLE TIME.
I was gonna say... If that is gonna be his diet the whole time nick and Addison are gonna be needing rescued even sooner than they think... Just beans and Vienna sausages... All ya need is a pack of ramen and it's like a cook-up in the county jail for God sake.
EDIT: Also... No judgement. I learned my recipe in county jail but at this point my grandma even likes a good brick now and then.
Try a Maricopa county jail "Ladmo bag" Green bologna sandwich and a donated grocery store leftover apple/orange
I mostly just fill my cart with beer 🤣
I’m all for it, Josh! It makes my gigging life so much easier. It’s so much fun to have access to such great tones. Profile your favorite amp, put your guitar and Kemper in the boot of your car and go play. It’s the future and it makes sense.
I just bought my first tube amp a few days ago. Thanks so much for making me feel even more like the out-of-touch old fart that I am, Josh. Thanks a lot.
If you like the sound of that amp and it's dependable, you made a good investment. Kempers and digital gear loses value fast. Tube amps retain value and can gain value on the used market. Just find the tones you like and stick with the amp you like. Noone really needs 30 amp sims. If you like one amp, you like one amp... I use a wall of tube and SS Orange and PV amps with many different speakers. No Kemper can replace my wall or my analog dirt and modulation. If you are a knob fiddler, and not into presets. Tube or SS Jfets heads are perfect. What amp and cab did you get?
@@KelticKabukiGirl Right. I plan to buy a Kemper when I can get one for $200. 🙂
@@WarrenPostma I will just wait for Quantum computing to develop then see how they emulate tubes
I only got back into guitar like early nov, right before i watched his last Kemper video (id never heard of them, in past been tube snob..) i ordered (and payed in full ) a boutique tweed deluxe, i love my tubes but Kemper is on the list for sometime next year for sure.
I sold the most of tube amps, I keep my deluxe reverb to play with friends but for practice and everything else, go to digital and never I been so happy. Even all the new guitar virtuosos use digital processors or plug ins, and they sound amazing.
OK, this was pretty damn good. Love the fact you didn't do a lot to hide what you were up to and nobody noticed. None of the "tubes or death" crowd got a whiff.
I can think of a lot of things Spam needs. Salt is not one of them.
I knew it, as soon as you revealed it, out of no where I suddenly realized that the jams this past year have sounded digital
laptop
Hahahahahaha
I recently thought about why I haven't seen the episodes as regularly as I used to do... Maybe it's because of the fake sound... Who knows, not even me.
i noticed the knobs on the amp on a few eqisodes but just thought hmmmm thats weird sounds good anyway
…did you now.
Things like that spice up our lives in a good old rare way. Bravo Josh!
Will Smith, FTX, and now this. Just when we thought 2022 could not get any worse. We thought Josh was one of us. He is the Sam Bankman Fried of Lance Armstrong.
I’m serious we need a step-by-step guide on how you guys produce these jams. If I could record like that in my garage, I would be producing records every other week.
That’s so funny. I hate their jams.
a while back they did a video called "How We Record A Song" and it went over their recording process, I'm sure the gear had changed a bit since then but the process will still work.
I've done a ton of live-to-tape style recordings and I can tell you the biggest factors are 1, have enough recording inputs with clean AD conversion (I personally used an allen and heath qu series for years, and am currently using a midas MR 18), good enough mics (Mics matter, but the ROI drops of real quick once you get into the expensive stuff), good mic placement, as much seperation between sources as possible (smaller amps, baffling, room placement, and DI whenever it's a good idea) and then a bit of post production. It's definitely attainable, but buying all that gear yourself even on the affordable side definitely stacks up. I did it because I'm passionate about recording.
rhett shull ; amateur slide enthusiast was the sickest burn of all time, but I loved this whole episode. Great job team 👏 👍
Not only that, but in the clip with Rhett he offers a correction that is only he’s “a former fan of JHS” meaning he agrees with their description of his skills, but not that he’s a fan. That had me rolling 😂😂😂 I’m curious to know if he was in on that little razz or if they slipped in on the edit, either way the burn is my favorite part, I agree!
I said "oh my!" out loud and couldn't stop laughing haha RS knows what he sent, but I bet when he got to watch the full video, he must have been really cracking up LOL
NOVICE slide
Also. Notice the hello kitty guitars on rhetts monitor. This skit is hilarious
I usually do not comment in social media or TH-cam, but I couldn't resist in this case. I wish I could be a shareholder or employee in a company like JHS. Your products and show are outstanding! Congratulations on your success and enyoable journey!
Never misses an opportunity to throw shade at Rhett! 😵
NEVER
And now I'm wondering if the Hello Kitty Strats on Rhett's computer screen were added by JHS
@@yessitsme6884 nah, that’s just the designs for Rhett’s new signature guitar, coming out April 1.
The commitment to the bit is exceptional, all "amps" sound killer. Nice work
thank you!
We’re blaming Josh, but we forget to blame ourselves for letting it get to this. I’m sorry we weren’t there for you when you needed us most 🖤
Amen, brother, amen.
WE ARE enablers!
It all started with those damn behringer pedals
😔
@@mfkrwill I bet those are emulated! :(
All it took was a goddamn village!!!
The JHS Show is just becoming The Office
haha yes
This is not a bad thing.
great call.
What do you mean “just”? ;)
....almost....
I saw the kemper quite a few times and wondered what you guys were doing with it, if you own one they stick out like a sore thumb. Kempers are GREAT pedal platforms, the profiling is one thing but unlike a lot of digital gear, you can push the input just like a tube amp, they respond great to fuzzes, overdrive, anything a tube amp does. I run my board into my kemper first, then use the direct out into my interface as a DI as well as stereo outs so I have dry DI and amped sounds all the time. They feel awesome to play, sound great, and as Josh proved, if you don't KNOW you're hearing a kemper, all you hear is great tone.
He doesn't have all those boxes
They're reissues made by Behringer using the same cardboard as the original.
And now I hear the jingle "He doesn't have the Box!". Annnnd now it's in your head too
"He's got the cans!"
I'm surprised the guys didn't have any peanut butter. It would go really well with all those jams...
Edit: Also one of those solos felt like a pointless spam.
I'm gonna leave the comment section now and do a walk of shame as my penance.
CHECKMATE
I have a kemper box profile it was only $1000
dang. these fellas are SUPER TALENTED at music and I feel like the more they play together for their videos the more amazing they sound!!!
Why is this show’s production value so good?
Cause we have the best media team!
As a Kemper user for the past 4 years, I am dying laughing at this, imagining the "purists" losing their minds.
Pretty much boomer blooz dads
I play live, I have kemper stages mounted to temple audio pedal board with wireless everything and it stuns people. I roll in with pedalboard plug direct to FOH grab guitar and go. Easy in and out. Setup time is couple min and can sound like anything.
I'm a purist and honestly couldn't care less.
So, they sound good through house PAs? Or what? I’m all for it but I have trouble believing they’re good for any old PA. Please advise!! Stat!!
@@thetruthexperiment yea. I owned one for over 10 years. They’re incredible but a bit lacking on the effects. I sold mine and just run my favorite tube amps into a captor X on stage for a really killer sounding DI sound. I only used profiles of my own amps so why not just use the real deal.
For a studio tool though, the Kemper (and to and even greater extent, the AxeFX3, which I also recently sold after owning over a year) the digital stuff is HARD to beat.
Love it! Deeply marinated in sarcasm. Jams were top notch! This is one of your best ones so far!
I found a POD 2.0 with the floor board over the pandemic - $100. It has allowed me to play so much more than when I was using an amp in the house. Using MIDI and the Line 6 software you can really tweak the settings and dial in a great tone. I'm sure that is similar to how the other systems work. My Morning Glory is in front of the POD and sounds great into those models. In fact, you can put your whole pedal board in front of it just like an amp. My amps have been stowed away in the garage and I'm not mad. In fact, I think I'm happier. 97% of us are just hobbyists and don't need back breaking, ear blasting tube amps in their houses. You don't even need to spend the money on the newest modeler/profiler....The kidney bean is still viable. You can apply the extra savings to buying healthier food to make you strong so you can play better :)
That jam during the Skylark was doooooope.
This is probably the best Kemper AD - if not THE best AD I have ever seen. Would probably buy a Kemper now, if I did not already had one 😂
This may be the best video you guys have ever done….
thanks :)
This informative video has helped me choose my next dream rig: vienna sausages with baked beans.
Thanks JHS
Fabulous, brilliant, so creative. Love the fake food/Kemper thing going on there. On Facebook I comment, on the tabloid style post, about a proper tabloid scandal, well, this is a tabloid story that jumped into the nightly news. Love the TH-camrs being implicated in the scandal. Josh Scott, taken hostages, oh my!
Did I mention my goofy smile and the laughs my kids got to see this morning? What a way to start my day. Thanks, JHS Pedals!
Josh has become the 'Keyser Soze' of the guitar world.... Hiding in plain sight, feeding us what we want to hear....
Damn him and his barber shop quartet!.
Been using a kemper for 7 (i think) years. I love it.
That picture of Josh holding the Kemper and pumping gas got me pretty damn good.
This is even better than expected.
Thanks Josh. This video makes it so much easier to hear the digital harshness, the cold, sterile and much lower resolution in the digital gear.
Seems like I've been having a "bad-ear-day" for an entire year. Glad that's been fixed! 👍
I love that Rhett is looking at Hello Kitty Strats on his computer!😻😻😻😻
Omg, hadn't even noticed it. This just gets better and better
Absolutely fantastic episode!! The jams were especially tasty!!! The models sound amazing! And I’m sure it’s super helpful in many ways for the production of the show. And super cool you’ve released some incredible amp models. Well done and we’ll played!
Love that you still have the Bassman! That is the one you got from me years ago. It came from Louisiana. It was literally placed in my lap at a Cajun restaurant my wife and I were eating lunch at. The owner knew I played and he saw me a lunch at his place and sold it me that day.
that's awesome!!! i'll let josh know you're here :)
@@jhspedals you're not Josh!? EVEN MORE LIES!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What a surprise! But it really shows how great modeling has become. This was the year I left “proper” tube amps, switching out my Victory “The Copper” head for the pedal amp version (so not completely a modeler, as the preamp section is tube, but the power amp features modeling and Two-Notes cab sim) and honestly? I can’t tell the difference. Fits in my gig bag, weighs nothing and I can plug a set of headphones playing at home, plug in a cab to gig or just go line out to record. Never been happier.
This seems like such a fun show to make.
I guess I'm considered a senior now because of my age? But I got the best flashback memories of my life when you opened the pack of vienna sausage and it instantly recalled all those Christmas Eve's cooking them over an indoor Hibachi. And at the same time the memories of my first amp and guitar; a Fender Vibrolux and Peavey T-60. I won't even bore you with my mothers spam casserole recipes. But thank you! And have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
I've watched a lot of episodes but this is the one that made me hit subscribe.
🙏🏼
Btw. Always good fun to see JHS videos. You have to be really humour resistent to not like them.
I love the photo of Josh holding his last hit of Kemper, on the phone with his Kemper dealer trying to get more sweet sweet Kemper.
The Kemper is the greatest piece of Gear I have ever bought and for me cured my insatiable G.A.S. that I suffered with for years. Thanks Christoph Kemper!
I don't own a Kemper, and this episode alone won't entice me to buy one. However after watching this episode I am extremely hungry.
Josh is now officially my favorite person on TH-cam.
When i was putting my rig together it was, “choose an amp, or buy the iridium”. I went with the iridium and have been very happy.
@ghost mall yeah! I have mine set up the same. I just added the Matthews Futurist for midi control over my delay, reverb, and modulation. It’s been a lot of fun and sounds great.
This is the best video ever uploaded to TH-cam.
I'm serious as a heart attack -- if folks take anything away from this, it's that you need to puncture the BOTTOM of the SPAM can for it to come out in one piece.
Omg right!? I almost had an aneurysm watching Josh scoop the cube out of the tin.
Welcome to the digital world! Been a Helix user for years now, and I have NO desire to go back to hauling a tube amp around. I love the versatility and flexibility of the Helix (and by relation, the Kemper).
Anybody that shits on the Helix hasn't actually played one. It's the single greatest piece of guitar tech ever created. The interface is perfect and the sound is spectacular.
@@JustinLesamiz It is a pretty killer piece of gear. The only weakness I see in it is the synth effects are pretty weak IMO.
Every time I watch the JHS show I regret that I didn't watch the previous one
1:52 Rhett’s Hello Kitty search results are funny. 😂
Busting guitar gear myths whether the community wants it or not AND advertising things to me that I didn't ever think I needed but sound so fun and good?
I love this so much! 💖🤣🤣💖
What's the myth?
@@chipsnmydip Id imagine its that you more than likely cant tell the difference between a real amp and a good kemper profile/Model in a blind test like a lot of people say they can
@@mfkrwill I think that probably matters the context. In a dense recording or live mix, maybe hard to tell the difference. Standing side by side with a real amp, not difficult.
But truth be told the last few JHS videos I've watched I really didn't like Josh's tone, and figure it always sounded that way, or it was the pedal he was using.
@@chipsnmydip lmao you're lying but its ok
@@sirkeyzmusic I'm lying? Wow.
Something just creepy about seeing the king make his subjects do his bidding. You guys are the best and a breath of fresh air
This is a cautionary story. The Kemper ultimately leads to spam can slide guitar. Spread the word to all the guitarists you love before it's too late!!!
I agree, Using bean cans is as far as you should go!
Man did you hear the difference in tone with two and then three Spam cans for slide?!? Unreal!
spam can slide is almost too perfect of a song name
This is the best show on TH-cam. My girlfriend knows nothing about guitars and still is entertained enough to watch this ridiculousness with me. Thank you for being you!
This is hilarious! Now I want a pedalboard full of Kempers to stack gain from different apms as I always do with my amps: the fx loop send of the Fender into input of the Vox, the fx loop send of the Vox into the Marshal, and then, if it was not enough, into Revv Generator.
Lol, this is gold. I scrolled through comments for a while but saw nothing from tube amp purists who can hear a fly cough at 100 yards and tell what it had for breakfast. Where are those guys?
Amazing job guys. I love JHS videos. This humor remembers me Monty Python mixed with Brian Wampler YT channel. My deep respect folks for your work, in pedals and content.
Cheers from the brazilian audience.
That was a lot of fun. Thank you and happy holidays!
This is an episode I will watch reruns of for years! So well done, I was laughing so hard! 😂🤣🤪
Times like this remind me of when we only had andertons as our major GuitarTube channel…feels like we’ve stepped out of the cave
I had a 93 blues Deluxe ..then bought another 25 yrs later.. ..( replaced the speaker, Fromel mod, shellaced the tweed....its amazing..
You guys are so awesome! Your comedic timing is impeccable.
Favorite jam of the show so far
This ep is why I love this show/channel as a whole. If this were on Netflix I would binge.
Well played! You fooled us! The practicality of recording/re-amping through a modeler or profiler is understated and underrated.
This was highly bizarre but equally hilarious and entertaining! I’m on the fence between line 6 and Kemper but this video definitely made my mind up
There’s no way ur locking me into a effects company bunker with josh, his digestive system, and cans of spam and beans. Nfw.
It's clear to me now that what this channel needed was more beans and spam. Vast improvement! Keep up the great work.
this convinced me to sell all my gear for a Line Pod
How about those Zoom multi effects? You know the ones, that were $35 new in 2001? Those are sick.
You want an ART FX preamp
The Stoicism bit at the end absolutely killed me - actually the whole video killed and revived me multiple times, with each successful cycle erasing more of my corporeal form on the mortal plane. I am now a Specter. Thank you for allowing me to haunt my family this blessed Holiday season.
I've had my Kemper for a few years and it's probably the best purchase I've ever made. Every day I look forward to turning it on.
that's awesome!
@@jhspedals I hope at some point in my life, I'm also able to turn you on every day too
Do you ever feel like you just end up using the same couple amps or do you change it up enough for it to be worth it? I am a fan of my analog dirt, modulation and mix of Orange and PV amp wall. I could see it being great for quiet studio and limited short overseas gigs. But can you blend a few amps and cab and speaker tones at once? Or is it a more single mono or stereo amp set up? I love my amp wall, the tones blend well. However, I do have to move a wall. If I get a modeler, I would hope I can build a virtual wall .. thoughts?
@@KelticKabukiGirl I have two profiles I use fairly consistently, but I do use a lot of different ones. You can mix and match amps/cabinets and then there's endless tweaking from there if you so desire. A lot of people don't like the technical side of it, but without sounding like too much a jerk, it seems a lot of them older folks who may have struggles with tech. It's really not difficult at all to dial in a sound you want. Finding the right profile as a foundation can be a little tougher because of the way they were modeled and what guitar was used etc...but the rig manager, which is kind of like the itunes but for Kempers, is loaded with 30k+ profiles and there's so many out there to purchase. So, to answer your question, yeah, you can. People complain about a "feel" difference. A few times I've noticed it, but again, it depends on your profile, guitar, speaker, and location. I actually find that the Kemper improves on a lot of amps. I can't describe why, but it feels like it brings some amps to life.
If a vintage gear geek like Josh goes all in for Kemper, maybe there's something to it. The Kemper livestream you guys did last year with Tone Junkie is actually what pushed me over the edge to buy a Kemper Stage and leave my tube amps at home. I had tried Amplitube, Iridium, Sans Amp, Joyo, IR Loaders, etc. hoping to avoid shelling out the $$$$. Wish I'd have pulled the trigger 10 years (and about 2000 gigs) ago.
After seeing this I opened up my JHS haunting mids, and you know what I found inside? Lies.
OMG Pedal World News really needs to be a thing! Please make it a you tube chanel!
This was one of the best shows you have ever done! Sooooo gooood! LOL
Love this and love what you did. My favorite local bands dont play tube amps, they put all their guitars, even live, through a korg ampworks sim, the one with the three big knobs. (they share members so it makes sense they all do this). another local band recorded their new record with the stock logic clean fender sim, which according to the entire internet, sucks bad; its one of my favorite albums this year. its funny that most of the local bands i see are a bore and the ones i like use the cheapest stuff possible. not that expensive stuff makes you boring, but you can do so much with very little. also, want to shout out my crush 20, its a solid state beast and i record the headphone output instead of miking it.
This was, as always, HILARIOUS!!
Hello Kitty Strats are the best 😂😂😂 Great Rhett Shull
Jhs is the perfect business man. He can sell everything. Respect 👏
I loved the spam inclusion. For some reason, my grandmother thought I loved spam and bought it for me every Christmas. She has passed away and this is our first Christmas without her. Seeing the spam this time of year made me remember her and all the cans I've accrued over the years. Nothing like good tone and good food 😉
“I like my tone path to be pure tube analog goodness” (records and edits in protools.)
And uses a reverb pedal haha
😂
Okay but that's not really relevant. Good AD converters shouldn't change your tone at all
Very happy to see more of Belle - she's so fun. Keep it up!
Good God I love this show!!! Makes my day!!!
1:38 Rhett shopping for a Hello Kitty Strat 😂.
I look forward to Rhett’s “What is the ‘Hello Kitty’ sound?” video
Please do more on these topics- especially the pedal oriented preamps (see Sansamps, Joyo American Sound, EAE Model Fet) combined with something like IR pedals (you had the Flamma Cab on once. )
"you don't drink water, there's water in the spam" fucking killed me on rewatch
I understand this may not be even close to your priorities but when are you guys gonna drop a full length album? You guys do not play my style of music but you guys are really good together. I've been watching maybe 2 years now and I've just kinda been waiting on it to happen. Now I'm starting to feel like somebody should say something. So here it is. SOMETHING! good now that I got that out the way, you guys should totally record an album.
THIS