History Of Guitar Distortion
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- In this episode we are exploring distortion through the decades. We can all agree rock wouldn't be the same with out it. Leave a comment with your favorite distortion! Stay Classy!
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10:58 Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi V1 (Triangle)
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12:05 MXR Distortion +
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13:35 Boss DS-1 Distortion
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14:45 Marshall JCM 800 and 900
15:45 Ibanez SD9 Sonic Distortion
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16:29 Boss MT-2 Metalzone
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16:57 DOD Supra Distortion GFX 55 Extreme
17:48 Zvex Fuzz Factory Vexter
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Hi Josh. I am 73 this year (2020) and despite our band mutually folding after 50 years, I still play every day. Played some big venues and crowds in my day and, following your channel of late, you bring back soooooo many memories with your wonderful, factual comments and opinions. This one - in particular (of all such-related subjects) - is particularly fantastic and I thank you so very much because... you demonstrate so much of what I try to tell younger muso friends. Especially the youngsters!! (LOL!) You have a new fan my friend - and I am spreading the word! Good luck going forward Josh.
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I got pumped for the shirt, then realized this video is over 2 years old
Lmao me too
It's for sale on the website
Oh, I didn’t even check the date. I just started watching this guy recently. I was watching the video the other day when he came up with that funny saying. I didn’t realize I was so far behind. But yeah, I saw someone wrote earlier, he still has those shirts on the website. I dig that phase pedal shirt too. 👍🏻🎸😎🇺🇸🤘🏻
And it's still available in July 2021
Same
“Distortion is the heartbeat of the guitar”
*jazz guitarists sweating*
@skbzk explains the out of key half notes
Univibe
I love how he owns a pedal company but still pushes (in a good way) other pedal companies. I have two JHS pedals. They have had beer spilled on them, gigged, stomped on etc and they still work all the time, everytime. JHS is the best pedal company out there in my opinion.
Yeah like he's a pedal company owner but still a fan boy to other pedal manufacturers. If it wasn't for these guys maybe there won't be JHS Pedals that we know today.
If he was struggling to make ends meet he might act differently. It’s less of something to admire and more a sign of their success IMO
@@sunny_disposition He still doesn't have to do it, regardless of success. Nothing wrong with giving admiration when warranted.
I really respect Josh that he does this. He seems to be all about pedals, whether they're his or another company's. He is a true pedal fanatic. The pedal, the box, all the swag inside the box. 😀😀😀😀
It's almost like they pay for their product placement and like he almost sells the vintage pedals he is discussing and almost promoting. It's almost like a giant marketing device so he can make money. Almost.
I'm 71, and still play my Ric 4001 through my Fuzz Face. Best bass noise ever !
wow are you a motorhead fan?
aw hell I love overdriven bass especially Rickenbacker. Check out a track called LSD off Hawkwind's Electric Teepee album. 2nd half of the track especially theres a very interesting overdriven effect ive been trying to duuplicate
Rock on man !
Which fuzz face do u use, germanium or silicon?
Aw hell yeah dude
so guitarist stole fuzz from us bassists.
marshall made his amp based on a fender bassman.
and when i distort my bass they say it sounds like a guitar...
damn you all guitar players!
How did you get that from this.
Read it
A bass player first introduced me to guitar, and taught me power chords!
I read this in a caveman voice in my head
checkmate bassist!
Best fuzz tone for me was The Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream. Layering several big muff guitar tracks isn’t easy but Corgan made it epic.
I don't think he stacked the pedals, just a ton of overdubs!
Joey Jo-Jo Shabadu I used the wrong terminology. Yes he overdubbed them so he layered them rather than stacked them. There’s a great EHX video he did and explained his use of the big muff. I’ll edit my comment , thanks for the input.
That was the ‘78 Muff he used that EHX just reissued in the past two years and colored like a pumpkin.
That was before the IC switch that bypassed the mid scoop was added.
I was just thinking about how great Billy’s sound was on that album and then I click on this video and your comment was at the top! “Hummer” has his best guitar sounds ever, imo.
Kevy Nova what’s so great about it (in my opinion) was the uniqueness of it. I’d never heard anything so big in my life. And I love how rare it still is.
Jesus and Mary Chain's PsychoCandy blew my mind in the 80s. Most of the album is skillfully drenched in fuzz and reverb and some individual guitar tracks are mostly feedback.
Lol very cool band. I get their tones by cranking a Dwarfcraft Necromancer into a Naga Viper treble booster and a ton of amp reverb
They said they made their carreer thanks to a broken Shin Ei fuzz
In my pre-teens I spent all my money, never had any cash for anything, and nearly bankrupted my poor parents... in search for the tone on Metallica's 'And Justice For All'. There was no internet back then, all I knew is they used Mesa Boogie amps which I clearly could not afford. I must have bought/sold/returned every amp made between '88-'90, trying to get that sound. Now I'm 42, play blues, and plug straight into a Peavey Delta Blues, lol
Taylor Smith can barely get that album tone with boogies lmao
Taylor Smith i’m currently Fender Blues Junior
You can get those early Metallica guitar tones with computer programs like Bias Amp 2 or Amplitube or some others. I myself have an almost identical ...And Justice For All guitar tone
There's no amp setup on the planet that will get 'that' Justice sound...
... but the little Mesa Mark 5:25 and it's little EL84's get pretty damned close to Master and Justice goodness.
I was obsessed with distortion but didnt know anything and kept buying amps that didnt have it built in, it was like a quest I couldnt succeed at, I didnt know about pedals, finally I bought a Peavey Decade and my dream came true! Some idiot friends stole it from me in the 80s but I have a cooler one now, my Fender Champion 20 watt with tons of effects at the turn of a knob. My giant Peavey Classic makes a good piece of furniture but stopped working yrs ago.
19:22 is the best advice ever. The sound you're looking for is often just a few degrees on a knob somewhere in the chain you already have, whether it's your guitar, pedals, or amp.
as someone who has distortion pedals and is a librarian....I love this.
imagine having all of those pedals behind him and only one 9v battery
Or having all those pedals but u only got 3 shark cables to connect them into a chain........
Or having all those pedals but only one guitar lead
And the one battery is just about dead.
But it's rechargeable so you just have to wait 3 and a half hours and you're ready to go again.
Favorite Distortion Tone: "Funeralopolis" by Electric Wizard
dronehymns hell yeah!
Daaamn
YES.
Da FZ-1
@@fionaur5933 FZ-2 actually. And if you buy yourself a behringer SF300 it's and exact clone in a plastic box only 50 bucks get it put in a metal enclosure and you've got yourself a $300 pedal for $130.
No Boss HM-2??? You've just offended the entire country of Sweden hahah!
I had one of those. At least I'm going in not expecting it. Thanks!
NOT JUST SWEDEN...THE WHOLE SCANDINAVIA...
I used to run an Ibanez Sonic Distortion through a Boss HM-2. It was insane.
@@johnorlitta Awesome and ear bloodning.
That was my first ever pedal back in the late 80’s. I loved it.
The Rocket 88 story being told at Sun Studio in Memphis is that the amp fell off the car and busted the speaker. The guitarist put newspaper in the hole and the fuzz was the result. The band thought this ruined their chance at a hit. But instead, it worked out.
They even have an amp, supposedly THE amp, on display in their museum.
Aside from selling my Mesa Dual Rectifier, losing my Boss Metal Zone is one of my bigger regrets. Oh, and selling my DBZ Thoracic X signed by Dean Zelinsky is my number one biggest gear regret. Heroin.. not even once, kids. Clean and rebuilding the armory as we speak.
Keep up the good work champ!!
Right on man
Working on not losing my 3 american fenders and track board to the pawn shop....fml
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i read an article back in the 70s saying that r&b and rock and roll guitarists through the 40s 50s were "jealous" of the energy that sax players could create during their solos, and wanted something that would give their instrument, which traditionally had a relatively clean sound, more punch and energy like the sax.
mj99a sounds like it was written by a sax player
@@d.j.ashley saxes actually really can growl and dirty up their tone. It actually makes a lot of sense that a guitarist with only a clean tone would be envious of that ability to change tone inherent to the saxophone.
Ricky Harline obviously. It's a joke.
You think that’s why the P-Funk guitarists loaded up with enough Marshall stacks for 50 Jimi Hendrix Experiences?
Everyone's jealous of sax players.
LINK WRAY was the one who stabbed the tweeter of his Premier amp.
Ike Turner used an amp that was simply broken from falling from a truck - which sounded amazing, but happened by accident.
Wray is severely underrated
@@protestssopeacefulweneedad2017 By who? Pretty sure almost every guitar player in Los Angeles doesn’t think that. And that’s only in Los Angeles.
@@recycology5468 Fuck Los Angeles.
Yes! "Rocket 88" was one of the first songs to use distortion in 1951. Sam Phillips, of Memphis Recording Service/Sun Records stuffed some napkins in the torn speaker cone and noticed how cool it sounded! The band was called "Jackie Brenston & his Delta Cats" (Ike Turner was the band leader) and the amp dropped when they got a flat tire and were looking through the trunk of their car for the spare. They were driving up to Sun to record for the first time (B.B. King referred Ike to Sam.)
Ike Turner played piano on Rocket 88, not guitar. The guitar player was Willie Kizart.
Van Halens distortion on their first album is just unbeatable..
i distortion on vh 2 song DOA is killer also.
People tend to forget that when the first VH album came out and all us guitar players couldn't find our lower jaw for about a month or so ... we were all just as baffled by that TONE as we were with those CHOPS. Meta Chiba --- there's a story about the "brown" tone that many of us probably already know. Eddie got his distortion through using a "Vari-AC" ("Variable Alternating Current") which was basically a dimmer switch that allowed him to provide his amp with more or less voltage than the standard 120v. Rumour had it that he was pushing too much current into the amp to get it to distort more. The truth is that he was STARVING his amp, giving it LESS than 120v... basically "browning" it out - hence the name "brown tone." A lot of players (so I've understood) ended up damaging and even destroying their amps trying to do the opposite.
@@Guitarburt yes he ran his amps at 59 volts to get that brown sound.
I still remember the first time I heard Dream Theater's album "Images and Words" on the local rock station. It was featured on their weekend "CD Feature" where they played select albums from start to finish. I was only half listening when the first song "Pull Me Under" started playing but when those heavy distorted guitars came in I was floored. I listened to the whole album with my jaw on the floor. To this day, the distortion sound on that album is my favorite distorted guitar sound ever. I've spend a small fortune trying to recreate it.
Gotta say Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. Such a classic fuzz jam
Loud is more good except when you wind up with Tinnitus which is a constant ringing in the ears. I have this for life now and I dont enjoy it. I still love distortion and i play music every day...watch your loudness levels, protect your ears with plugs.. it can happen to you. 👂
What?
Same problem here...
Agreed! I'm a bass player and an Audiologist. I have tinnitus from not protecting my hearing, and I'm only 30. YES Loud is More Good, but in appropriate dosages. ;)
Sadly, it was Jackyl. that was the cause of my 30 years of ear ringing. Couldn't hear properly for a week, afterwards. Have used hearing protection in any loud environment, since. The ringing drives me crazy. Have to have a fan and TV going to be able to sleep. Sux
Very apt warning ... I am right there with you. Not a happy camper.
The first time I really took notice of distortion was on the Beatles song Revolution. (the hard version from the B side of Hay Jude not the one on the White Album). I was 8 years old and it really got my attention.
Mad respect for this dude incorporating other pedal companies into his presentation! That’s good sportsmanship! There’s enough work to go around so no need to be overly competitive. People like this are what continue to make the music industry a pleasure to be in! Kuddos JHS!
On another note, my favorite driven sound of all time is still my Modded Boss SD-1. That pedal gets used 80%-90% in my studio.
I am always amazed by the distortion sound of Tony Iommi’s guitar in the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage albums. Symptom of the Universe has to me the nicest distortion sound of that era.
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Any idea/links for how he created that sound?
@@grokness gibson sg though a layney
modified Dallas Rangemaster is the secret weapon.
I was just thinking how much I liked the distortion on children of the grave
Jimi Hendrix
Machine Gun
Band of Gypsys self titled item
Kinda cheating because it’s distortion/modulation but I love the fuzz/uni-vibe combo
I’m a big fan of the untamed Ride the Lightning “hot rodded marshal slammed with a tube screamer” tone that James Hetfield achieved. That distortion is so epic even today.
I love Boston's distortion tone. Tom really put alot of work to achieve it
Tom Scholz really blows me away. Look I know he was known for being hard to work with and a bit too over bearing on other member's at some points but...
The man is a rock legend. That first record was recorded in his basement with equipment he made, he was able to make the sounds that he heard in his head. Fun fact hysteria by death leopard uses the rockman a ton...
Every single song on that first boston record is amazing, every single one. Foreplay/long time is just mind blowing...
Shame about Brad Delp, what a voice.
@@drdre4397 DEATH LEOPARD or Def Leppard. One will win this fight.
11 - my level of disappointment that I cannot order this shirt now. Re-release oh please ?
Great episode by the way. I love hearing the history of these circuits!
All I want for Christmas is just like every JHS pedal. C'mon santa it's not that much...
I agree on you there
I want the JHS/Boss Angry Driver for my harmonica!
I’ve always been really partial to the fuzz tone on Revolution by The Beatles.
My distortion tone at the moment is a Gretsch plugged straight into cranked AC15 with a micro amp booster for cut
ICYDK, that's a direct-into-the-console kinda fuzz. JHS's Color Box would be ideal for that, but their Crayon would get you there too, I think.
If you want something cheaper, the ModTone Fuzzer claims to have this sound too. While maybe not as 100% accurate as the Color Box, I would say it is still quite pleasant and in that ballpark.
I never cared for that tone....sounds like a kazoo.
@@StatusMusicDesign I'd ask Chris Buck, he nailed the tone exact.
Yeah that was literally the guitar plugged directly into the mixing console, and ran it into the next channel, and into the next channel and so on. Robbie kreiger did the same thing on when the music's over.
Wicked Annabella by the Kinks. Sounds so mean, two dirty basses, fuzz guitar, great vocals, acid outro. The Kinks were perfect from ‘66 to ‘68.
Amazing how the first two "distortion" pedals ever made, sound better than half the distortion pedals in the market today.
No mention of Link Wray's 'Rumble"?...I Really enjoyed your visit on That Pedal Show..good chemistry with those guys....Cheri Knight " the Knitter".. Eric Ambel's guitar tone on that album is amazing....I'm a deluxe reverb / tele guy...RAT, TS9..& the MXR DISTIII...are faves...:)
I talk in length about Link in my clinics but these videos have to be a little more compact.... SO MUCH amazing history!
True!.....we opened up for him a while back and our guitar player set up his old yamaha electric he was using... he was so grateful.... ...@@jhspedals
Link Ray!!!
@@DaisyHollowBooks That's Link Wray you mean.
Brandonio Granger Yep. My bad...
My favorite distortion tone: The White Stripes - "Fell In Love with a Girl"
Maybe it's cos I was born in 2000 and grew up listening to White Stripes but as far as I'm concerned some of the absolute best guitar tones EVER are from White Stripes tunes
1.Best tone: Eric Johnson-Cliffs of Dover
2.My favorite distortion rigg: 65 reissue Twin (Cranked to 5 or 6), Fender Strat 57 into-Eric johnson Fuzz Face-BB Pre-amp-Voodo Lab Giggety-Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay:))
Finally the explanation for jcm 800, 900, 2000! I dont do forums
Unfortunately, it doesn't hold true to the 2000 (the DSL and TSL) because they first came out in the late 1990's (I think it is like 1996 or 1997).
Although they are some great amps. I have one.
"Loud is more good"? Very poor grammar. Should be "loud is more gooder".
5 out of 5 drummers agree
Loud is greater
Loud is much more betterer
You're grammer is more wurser than myne.
@@williamhogarth6866 always a no it evrything
November 22, 2020: I am citing this video for a master's degree research project. Thanks JHS!
I've messed around with so many distortion pedals that I can't remember them all, but I never really liked any of them. Now going right into the amp has almost always made me a happy man.
One of my all-time favourite distortion music tracks... I Heard Her Call My Name by The Velvet Underground. I use a Vox tone bender and Electro-Harmonix Big Muff currently.
One of my favourite distorted sound is Billy Gibbon's in ZZ Top. Also Clapton's in Cream. In my present rig I have 3 pedals: TS9 by Ibanez, Tube Marker by DV Mark and a Suhr Riot clone. I use them in combination depending on the sound I want to obtain. A few years ago I was in love with the Metal Zone by Boss which I found quite versatile provided you spend a few days fine tuning the box... Thank you for the nice and instructive video!!!
Just discovered this channel. And yea, I'm a guitar player of 30 years! Anyway, I love the un-biased pedal reviews of this and Behringer and others... That's what makes a great company spokesman. Think I'm looking into JHS pedals now, just because of this.
This video is really, really cool! Highly professional and very well documented, especially I loved the guitar demos of those historic boxes! Thanks
My uncle found a SD9 at a flea market for $5, only needed potentiometers cleaned out
Was it vintage?
@@TheJMan1K yep, and surprisingly has all the desired stock components people usually want in them. It's pretty beat up but works perfectly.
@@TheJMan1K yes it is a original first version. i am the one who got it for him. watched youtube video of one apart and wow was i surprised at what i had to give to my nephew.
I love the story of Jimi's feedback when he hit. All the famous rock musicians were there to see this crazy guitar guy. They were baffled how he was getting sounds that came from outta nowhere like magic. Because amp feedback had not been invented yet.
To be the first person to do the feedback thing with a trem. What a trick to have up your sleeve. People heads in the front row probably exploded. And that is why we all started playing guitar!
"Street Fighting Man" by the Stones. It opens with a distorted acoustic guitar played by Kieth Richards in an open room onto a cassette tape recorder in 1967. Overloading the electronics and saturating the tape created an amazing distortion effect. Richards said, "The basic track of that was done on a mono cassette with very distorted recording, on a Philips (tape deck) with no limiters. Brian is playing sitar, it twangs away. He's holding notes that wouldn't come through if you had a board, you wouldn't be able to fit it in. But on a cassette if you just move the people, it does. Cut in the studio and then put on a tape. Started putting percussion and bass on it. That was really an electronic track, up in the realms." Not only distortion, but speed errors and tape drop outs create a sharp n' dirty sound.
I would like to thank you for all these types of videos that you produce for TH-cam. I really do appreciate your knowledge and the seemingly tireless studying of music and the making of it by those colorfully epic stomp-boxes.
Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray, Jr., "Rumble", 1958
I talk about him in clinics all the time. A really great story! So little time :-)
That apparition at 14:29 was stellar hahaha
Dude, I'm addicted to this channel. So educational and yet entertaining.
Keep up the good work, Josh! Love from Spain!
My favorite distorted tone from a record is the Dookie album GreenDay, idk why but it’s just such a perfect tone for that album.
I just remember playing a __old__ all tube (including diodes) Gibson pure class A.
It was only 10 watts... but turning all the knobs to the right was awesome.
DAY-UMMM!!
My favorite ”original” dirt sound is by Ty Tabor from King’s X gretchen/faith, hope, love -era. When those albums came out, nobody sounded like that at all! In my books, he is right up there with Eddie and Jimi.
Tys sound is to die for. My absolute favorite. the tones on the album with black flag is also beyond tasty.
Not even Ty can recapture the Gretchen tone. Lighting in a bottle. I put it in the category of unobtainable tones.
Best riff and overdrive sound:
Cant You Hear Me Knocking
Kieth Richards
2nd place: pete Townshend:
Live At Leads
Good I though I was the only one that thought Can’t You Hear Me Knockin has some of the best recorded guitar tone period.
It's Mick Taylor , not Keith, on "Can't you hear me knockin"
@@ricksvintageguitars Well, they both play. Keith is the right guitar track, the one that starts off the song. Micks is on the left and in the second part of the song you hear mick louder in the mix than Keith before Mick takes the solo
My dad, who was a Pro-Level Pedal Steel player used to have a BOSS TONE distortion unit, that Pedal Steel players of the 1960s & 1970s would stick into the 'bridge-end' guitar jack, and then you ran an instrument cable from that to the amp, and you were able to get 'hot-rod engine' sounds from it when using the steel's tone bar. The thing produced enough distortion that my brother & I could play RATT's 'Round & Round' on a 1963 Fender Mustang rhrough a very collectible 1950s-era Gibson 15 watt tube amp!
John Martyn - all of his albums had buckets of distortion. a legend on the Scottish uni/pub circuit. 'Solid Air' - best album ever to make out to
Favorite recorded distortion tone: Boston's "We're Ready" from the 3rd Stage. He uses a lot of range of distortions on that song, all very heavily textured. My rig: I'm using various hollowbody guitars, all with humbuckers, sent through a TS-9 and a Digitech RP-1 (multi-effects processor), played through a Crate Vintage Club 5212.
Those were all Scholz R&D Rockmans
I've been getting JHS recommendations from TH-cam. Was stoked to hear of the first ever t-shirt being available. Then noticed the video was a year old. Then noticed the link was still in the description (!). Then tried the link and sure enough..."gone forever". What a ride at 8am on a Saturday.
I pined for years for the tone of Kink's Low Budget thinking it was the absolute best recorded tone ever. I resigned figuring I'd never really own a Plexi. Until I saw vid from the 80's of Ray playing through Peavey Deuce. I Facebook messaged Ray and he replied yes, the tone is in fact two Peaveys through a Heritage LP. In other words, I had had the Peavey Deuce for 2 decades and I already had had the tone I was searching for. smh My fav now (after 30 years of building after last night...smh) is Tumnus near dimed cascaded into Tonebone Classic set on 9 or 10 o'clock which lifts and delifts OD giving it organic tube crunch.
First and most is still Pete Townsend’s tone on Live at Leeds. The way those sweating Hiwatts blend with his occasional hammering with the Univox Superfuzz is transcendentally classic. My personal rig: Mesa Rectoverb fronted by a Foxcatcher overdrive and a Carcosa fuzz in front of that. The Mesa distortion is nice and smooth, the Foxcatcher brings the glass, and turning up the bias on the Carcosa lets me get close to that Townsend mumf.
A few of my favorite distortions on some of my favorite albums:
Van Halen - Van Halen
Mastodon - The Hunter
Tool - Lateralus
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Which distortion is on which?
Favourite distortion: Hmmm That's hard. My first thought was "Everlasting Gaze" by Smashing Pumpkins. But FILTER's Title of record album is pretty hard to beat for massive tone. The Edge of U2 is underrated when it comes to distortion, but i think he has some of the coolest distortion pieces ever. U2 - Discotheque or Numb. The Edge uses a lot of effects and uses them all as part of a sonic palette, i think his use of distortion really stands out when he does use it.
My rig:
Guitars: Fender blacktop Jazzmasters and others.
Current effects rig: Boss TU3 Tuner > Ibanez TS9 > Yamaha magicstomp > Lateral sound thermite > DVK Silvertop > MXR Sub machine > Boss GT-1000 (stereo out) > Line6 Verbzilla > Line6 DL4.
Amps: Stereo out to Blackstar HT5 & MesaBoogie
"You Really Got Me" got me onto R&R at 7 years old. It had everything to do with the distorted guitar (and the heavy drum beat). I was changed forever.
I had a 1950 Fender Pro Amp with a 15 inch speaker in the 70's. When I turned the volume all the way up, it had the best over-driven sound ever, and if I turned my guitar volume down, I could still get a clean sound. One time I was playing loud and it literally started to smoke and some of the wires got burned. Year later, I was looking for someone reliable to fix it, but got stolen and I never got it back.
Tony Iommi's tone on Lord of This World off of Masters of Reality....
i prefer into the void
Masters of Reality is hands down Sabbath’s best album
@@kylemcintyre4182 imo, it was the first top to bottom metal album.
Really loved this episode, it trully felt like a walk on the history of everybodys favorite savage pedal. My new favorite distortion pedal is the angry driver...of course...
A walk through the history of distortion. All the pedals were cool. The guitar through the loud amp gave me the warm and fuzzies. Lol. By the way, I'm a drummer.
1965, me mid teens, heard Satisfaction for the 1st time.
Hearing the opening riff WAS mind blowing and made me an instant Stones fan for life...
Then, over 50 years later, I discover that opening riff was not a saxophone! DOH!
most certainly!
"Satisfaction " was one of those super important songs setting a standard, introducing a new element into rock ... if you listen closely (after the 1st verse, I think, "... and I try") you can actually hear that distinctive pedal switch sound when Keith stomps on it to deliver the famous riff
might be a bit late to the party, but my favourite distortion song is Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley, the lead guitar is slightly broken up perfectly with some tremolo, while the riff makes the song just perfect
my rig is ever evolving with unique pedal circuits i design and put on my gigable breadboard.
i use a stack of 5 small 20w amps all cranked to max, which gives a perfect tone of thick but natural distortion
My favourite recorded distortion tone is in Meddle, the slide guitar in "One of these days" played by Gilmour is the winner for me.
For my go-to distorted tone, I use a Super Badass Variac Fuzz in my JCM800. Whoooooooooo.
Got to be careful if you're using a variac on a valve amp mate .
If you limit the voltage at the primary winding of the power transformer, the heaters are not at working temperature. You could be stripping the cathodes in dem toobs .
@@attilajozefik1625 Thank you for the infos, but I think that you are talking about a real variac, I use the MXR Super Badass Variac Fuzz, that has a variac INSIDE the pedal to replicate the effect of a dying, overpowered or normal 9v battery. Check out the official dunlop demo :)
The first song I think of with good distortion is Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower.
My favourite recorded distortion is the fuzz tone on the intro to Spirit in the Sky. My favourite way to get distortion on my rig is the gain channel on a Peavey classic or the Pantheon by Wampler.
I'm late.. 5 years late .. I run a Morgan AZ20 (a 5e3 Tweed with power scale and tube verb) through a Jam pedals Fuzz Phrase and or a Strymon Riverside. No matter how dirty it gets my goal is that it never sounds like pedals, just a really pushed or collapsed amp.
Love your channel thanks !!
5:56 for a split second I thought I was going to get Rick Rolled 🤣
Nice history of distortion! As you mentioned, Howlin' Wolf's guitarist, Willie Johnson, was one of the first guitarists to get distortion from a tube amp during a recording, on Wolf's first single, "Moanin' at Midnight." Willie Kizart was the guitarist on "Rocket 88," the other great distorted-guitar song of 1951. "Rocket 88" and "Moanin' at Midnight" were recorded within three months of each other in Sam Phillips' studio in Memphis. Despite the story about the damaged speaker cone that Ike Turner told, I suspect that Kizart really got his fuzz tone from listening to Willie Johnson overdrive his speaker. Wolf's band was by then the top band in the Memphis/West Memphis region, and Kizart and Turner would've heard Wolf and Willie Johnson many times by then and probably would've lifted a few tricks from them. Willie Johnson played and recorded with Wolf for years, both in Memphis and Chicago and was sadly underrated as a guitarist. He played the lead guitar lick on Wolf's great "Smokestack Lightning" in 1956 while Hubert Sumlin played second guitar.
Great post. Willie Johnson's "Smokestack Lightning" riff is one of the greatest guitar parts ever put to tape! Cheers!🤘🎸
What about Guitar Slim? I heard Guitar Slim had the first distortion sound in the early 50's, by slashing his speaker?, but i can't find the scource of that info. mm ok so it must be Williie Johnson i guess.
@Brazilian Atlantis wow thanks , so guitar distortion goes back even before Willie Johnson("one of the first"), so i wonder who the other ones are, apart from John Lee Hooker ?
I love my boss mt2, I have it for about 13 years and even Since I started playing guitar I started With the boss mt2 clone from behringer, the UM100, the I still sold it and got the UM300, and finally sold it and got the metal zone, as good as the amp distortion is I allways get back to using the boss mt2, I can't play anymore without it, maybe I just got used to that sound! My favourite distortion tone on a record, that's tough one, but for many years it has been the tone from "And Justice for All".
metal zone sounds good in my amp
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Quite a few years ago, I bought a Digitech DF-7 distortion pedal. I have used it for about 17 years now. They call it the Distortion Factory. It has 7 settings that model various pedals. My favorite right now is the Pro-Co Rat model, before that, it was the Metal Zone model I liked best.
Had an Ampeg VT60 head with a Metal Zone through the effects loop. Face melted.
The Rat is definitely on of my favorite distortion pedals of all time. I had a Supra Distortion as well. Although not the Extreme model. But my all time favorite will always be a JCM 800 with a Tube Screamer.
😲 is no one shocked that he just really took a razor to that poor speaker? My heart skipped a beat and then another when he slashed it again. That's dedication, I couldn't slash a speaker just like that. Rest in peace speaker, you're loud has ended🤘
Les Paul custom with Linde Fralin P-90s, into both a 1966 blackface super reverb for the clean, and verb and also into my dads old Peavey tnt 100 which has sweepable mids and a single 15” speaker. Running into both gives me this huge sound. Massive bottom end without being muddy, clarity from the super. The Distortion is tasty and rock and kinda seventies but in an overdrive way.
Josh, I would say the best sounding Distorted guitar I heard was from Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells in 1973. Supposedly he used something called a Glorfindel box to get his distorted tone (that I hear was home built). I just love the way it sounds. It so rich and has great thump to it. You are a pedal genius, maybe you could answer what it is. As for my rig I am using a Carvin V3M 50 watt , retubed with 12AT7 in channel 3, and 2 x 12AX7 in channels 1 & 2., Running through 4x10" Celestion cab.
As for effects, I am using multiple distortions and OD's on my board including a ProCo Rat, Digitech Metal Master, EHX Big Muff Pi, a JHS/Boss Angry Driver, Boss DD-200, and a True Tone Jekyll & Hyde. Got a few OD's in there too, including Visual Sound Route 66, EHX Soul POG, and a paid of Joyo's Tauren and Taichi. As for Guitars I am running a Les Paul equipped with Seymour Duncan P-Rails, a Fender Strat equipped with Evans' Eliminator pickups, and a Joe Barden equipped Tele. Been putting together my rig for over 20 years. I actually posted it recently in the JHS pedal users group on FB. Check it out.
Thank you for all that you do in the world of Pedals, you are very educational, and make some amazing pedals. Kudos to you man !
That bit of psychedelic distorted feedback at the beginning of 'Magic Carpet Ride' is pretty cool, sounds like the amp is about to blow up.
Trying to figure out what pedal he used?
Or method. Sounds like a fuzz but it almost sounds like a torn speaker as well. An amp on the edge of feedback and a fuzz I reckon.
Thanks for giving props to the humble Rat🐀! 35 years of using them and I feel like I'm still 18 when I do.... God I love music!!!
The RATs are so good
Favorite recorded distortion tones; Queens of the Stone Age, "Songs For The Deaf"...... My rig: '64 Fender Bassman, Analogman Prince of Tone, Bad Cat 2-Tone, Les Paul Standard... But my FAVORITE distortion/overdrive tone that I get, is just cranking my Bassman up near 10. No pedals needed in that case.
Rocket 88 was by Ike Turner's band though Jackie Brentson was credited by the label. It was recorded at Sun and Sam Phillips claims the amp was damaged from being dropped and newspapers were stuffed into it to keep the cone from falling out. They liked the result.
I don't like Fuzz.
It's coarse and rough and irritating.
And it gets everywhere.
Just like "the fuzz"
None of your Business From my point of view, the distortions are evil
@@PurpleLightning6was9 maybe you just rock?😉
Max Wattage r/woooosh
@@PurpleLightning6was9 sorry bro, i edited it, i missed the plane, GOOD ONE.I read it again with my cap on my head, which is now dislodged from my ass. Your answer to him was interpeting his statement, and not your opinion, I read it again , still confused OR do u really think distortion is "evil" ?
I like the sound of the 60's. The song by Norman Greenbaum "Spirit in the Sky" has an awesome sound
Always thought somebody was farting into the mic. ;-])
This is a great history. I learned so much! Kalamazoo MI has seen so many firsts. The first adjustable truss rod, the first adjustable height bridge, the first commercially available electric guitar, the first commercially available fuzz pedal, the Pro Co Rat. So rad.
Loving all the content! Hope all is well in the JHS family! My favorite distortion tone is Adam Jones' in Pneuma. Specifically in the big slow power chords he plays in the song, just wow! What an achievement in tone in my opinion! I was an F18A++ engine and fuel system mechanic and that tone reminds me of two GE engines going full afterburner!
Link Wray jabbed pen holes in his speakers for distortion years before the kinks. Listen to the song rumble and check the date date in the release.
i wonder if Link Wray ever heard 'Rumblin' Man' (1970) by Cactus, which was obviously inspired by 'Rumble'.
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So did Ike Turner!
Actually i have heard something like that, now that you mention it... "Rumble" is what i remember. And something about the radios banning it from fear of inciting riots...)
@@user-gb5mb1rv7f No, Turner used an amp that had been dropped a couple of feet when unloading, and that gave the amp a distortion was not intentional (but obviously very useful).
Link Wray deliberately created the distorted sound by stabbing the tweeter of his Premier amp, 'deliberately' being the key word here.
@@lueyteledeluxe7457 True, Rumble was banned from the association with gang violence (both fropm the title and the whole atmosphere of the song). Plus, some radio stations banned it for being 'too sexual in nature' - which is pretty cool for an instrumental record.
This is great info.
R.J. you are the man. Love the life on the road vlog. Really fun to watch. Cool to see you watching Josh's stuff. You need to hook up with Dan and Mick at TPS. That would be epic
First. Thanks for your content man, watch all you musician vlogs and they have REALLY helped. This year I did my first international gigs and long travel gigs and I really appreciate you sharing your experiences, you are doing an excellent service to the community. Second, not sure if you have but the TPS episode with Josh last week is must viewing as a companion to this IMO. Cheers man, keep killing it!
Thanks man! Love your videos as well!
RJ, you are pure rock and fuggin' roll!
I’m adding every song in this video and the comments to a playlist!
I’m listening to Jimi Hendrix live at the Miami Pop Festival while I do the morning dishes because of this video.
Glad you said it. The Metal Zone is an incredible versatile box, in the 90's I played both Jimi stuff as well as Pantera and it did it all, so many sounds, so many depths of distortion, such good colouring. I still own it, I still love it and if it had to be only one in the bag, it would be the Metal Zone.
And all the controls have such a tight precise feel to them.
@@TravisBean777 Jup, unless you know what you're doing or searching for that one tone, it will get pretty fiddly real quick, perhaps owing to the bad rep these things have. Back then, I actually learned from it how parametric eq's worked which came in handy when I started doing livesound mixing. For me it works brilliantly, I'm driving it with a Boss compressor/sustainer which really kicks it in high gear. That, or drive it from the send/returns of the amp, it needs some signal buffering and boost to do what it does best. plugging the guitar directly into the MT2 isn't recommended, it will sound bad and tinny.
I love the damn thing, no matter what the so-called "experts" say about it. Guess they can't handle the power....
Thanks! Great video and tones!
Bass solo and entire song, NIB with Geezer Butler. G+L 2500 through Acoustic C100 with overdrive channel cranked then through Way Huge Pork and Pickle..ear bleeding good. And yes, I am a bass player
i think his fills behind the solo's made the band stand out and last long.
Overall there is very little (nothing?) about Black Sabbath. I thought, they are universaly considered the first true user of distorted sounds.
I've always used a Boss distortion on my bass
I love the sound that Bob Mould gets on the album Copper Blue from Sugar. Specifically the song Fortune Teller - it's heaven for me. His newer stuff is good too. I have a small Blackstar amp that brings the crunch in a good way.
My favorite recorded distortion is by far "Revolution" (the single). So much gain, so much chaos! As a young guitar player, I had a Maestro Fuzz Tone, and another fuzz that I got from Lafayette Radio, and even one I built out of a GE Op Amp - they actually published a fuzz circuit! But to try to replicate the "Revolution" distortion, I hacked into one of my parents' old 5-Tube AM radios and fed the result into the Lafayette pedal. The result was pretty extreme and pretty close, but utterly non-portable and possibly lethal.
Favorite recorded distortions- Iommi-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Sepultura-Beneath The Remains, and Arise, 2 different but very brutal tones. Exodus-Impact Is Imminent, and Fabulous Disaster. Slayer-South Of Heaven. Metallica-Ride The Lightning. ZZ Top-70s. Anthrax-Among The Living. Zepplin. All Dimebag tones of course. I've used A Digitech Twin Tube preamp through Peavy tube amps, then a Zoom 505, currently use a MXR Fullbore Metal through a Randall RG 1503 150W head and for small jams the MXR through my Peavy Studio Pro 112 tube amp.
Man. “Among...” was just insane crunch. Paradigmatic thrash tone. Bottle that and inject it right into my veins.
Two of the most impressive and enigmatic distortion tones for me are 1) Ritchie Blackmore on Deep Purple's Machine Head album, specifically Smoke on the Water; 2) Dimebag's tone on Cowboys From Hell (Pantera). Both have a huge influence on me. Dimebag's unique gain structure informed how I approach my tone now, i.e. stacking pedals into a clean amp. Currently running MXR's il torino > il diavolo > custom badass '78 distortion. The clarity, brightness, touch sensitive attack, spit and sizzle are what ignite my playing.
Great video Josh! As always :) Thank you 🙏
Wonderful, smart presentation. Thanks for the interesting information. You position your company as the go to experts on effects pedals by doing things like this.