Honestly this was one of the most educational and real episodes of the show. I loved seeing the process of building a pedal, including all the mistakes. I can imagine how tough it must be to do it quickly, especially in front of cameras and people. Huge respect to both of them!
Watched this happen from the audience! A lot of fun to be there. Heather, you effing rock 🤘- love my spirit in the sky. Thanks for being a good sport for this and hope you still had a good time and got to bed!
I'm amazed at how friendly everyone is seems to be in the pedal world. No egos or anything, only passion. We've got maybe 70% of the best pedal manufacturers on the market in this video, and they're just messing around together with funny challenges, as friends, which I find soooo crazy
Almost gave up building pedals after trying to build a germanium FF as my first. Drove me nuts. Glad to see such respected builders were once in the exact same boat.
What a coincidence. Just about 15 minutes ago i finished my little fuzz in a tin can🎉😂 Its a two knob fuzz face, volume and bias, no fuzz pot. I used 2 Valvo AC128s I got in a cheap lot a few weeks back. Didnt have the nerve to crank it and annoy the neighbors yet but what ive heard until now sounds massive
I just finished building of my first guitar pedal here in Serbia (with a little help from my father who's making electric guitars, tube amps and pedals since 2009). My personal choice was to make Dallas range master treble booster clone, with all NOS parts. So I did it, all the capacitors and resistors are from 60's with all good measurments. When it comes to a transistor things become interesting. My father tried to make his first pedal back in 1988 when he has 16 and for this purpose he found very old glass OC47 germanium transistor as one of the parts. However, he could not make pade works, so he put wooden PCB plate (similar as Robert's one) with some parts and this OC47 transistor very badly soldered in the tool bag with all the things in it. So one month ago when I was collecting my parts I found a few AC 128s and AF350s germanium transistors, but I wanted OC44 or something similar (you cant buy or found that in Serbia so often). I asked my father about that, so he told me "I used to have one OC47 and that is the only one I ever saw, but I think it's probabbly broken". Whe tried to find it for a few days and eventualy we did, and gues what it was still working great. So, in the end of this very long coment (maybe boring) I finished pedal and it sounds absolutely amazing. I know OC47 is not the original transistor, but when I heard the story about how it survived for 35 years I had to choose this one. The sound is same as this old 60s treble boosters, and I love germanium sound. So, few days ago, I decided to do a germanium fuzz pedal, and I found and saw this video today, It was so much helpful and inspiring. Thank you JHS, greetings from Serbia.
Pre-Covid I said I was never going to make a pedal. Covid hits the TPS-Josh-Macari episode hits my computer. That ToneBender 1.5 was the sound I was looking for. I am on version 21 still trying to reach that sound. Currently using a shunt regulator to bias, OC140/950 (~80) Q1, OC140/950 Mullard Q2 (~120), emitter follower output with defeatable tone control. Toshiba makes some of the best transistors. Some of their JFETS are legendary. Great show, thanks so much!
Fun episode JHS, hope to see something like this again. I love how both builders went about the design of their board. I’ve never used a Fuzz but they both sounded great. Suggestion...if you do this again, give them 2 hours with a 15 min break after 1 hour that way it’s not so stressful. I mean I was stressed just watching this and props to the trophy builder that was pretty cool.
WOW!! The pedal geekdom community has so much to offer the world at large! Such goodness is the medicine we all need. Such an amazing event! Josh you are a treasure. That you support and promote all builders great and small is a shining example of the compassion and cooperation that has brought humanity to this moment in history. Thank you all! My heart sings.
I learned early on a valuable lesson that has served me well ever since: don't assemble any further than necessary to test. I cringed as soon as Heather started screwing on that back cover. This also brought back childhood memories of begging my dad for scraps of wood to build circuits on. I had the components and understood enough of the circuits but had no idea how things were meant to be built so I tried all sorts of solutions. The veneer was awesome here and I only wished we saw the custom cap. Great job to both with the only loss going to time limits. More of these PLEASE!!!
Josh..thx for your channel man, i dont have a t.v in my life (and thankful), but i still get the best entertainment a guitarist could ask for from channela such as to yours...love you mang, peace!
Those 1/1 pedals are priceless. They are museum artifacts. It's a big family of pedal builders. The best reality show ever. Everybody's a winner. Great extra time plot twist. We know 1 hour doesn't enough. Robert Keeley forever will be a father figure. Thank you Josh Scott for making guitar pedal great again and again and again. You never stop amaze the community.
This takes me back to the days when as a kid I would watch my dad make a circuit board from scratch for is circuit. He’d have this panels with gold in them and pit tape on it. Then dipped it in some acid of some sort and in a few minutes this Fiberglas board had his virus onit when her removed the take. All the other plating was fine except for where he put this pin stripping tape. It was very cool then he start adding the components and soldering them up. It was amazing to watch him. I was a kid at the time and I watched but eventually into Law Enforcement. Later I did go back to school for electronics and only got an Associates Degree. I wish I had done more so I could jump into the pedal bldg. Great show everybody and we all won, there were no losers…!
Robert's fuzz sounded absolutely killer! I tried to build a germanium fuzz at least 15 years ago and never got it working. The capacitors got hot and I gave up on it. I'm going to look for it and see if I can get it running.
Btw. I almost started to build my very own Fuzz Face a year ago. I mean after making some Fuzz kits first. Got all kinds of germanium transistors and caps and vintage resistors waiting for it. Let's see who's gonna finnish it first, them or me? Btw. I'm in the halfway of the video (and running out of beer). Loving every moment, though. ❤
Bill Shockley had come to my one electrical engineering class at Rolla as a guest lecturer. He started off by doing a magic trick and making a bouquet of flowers appear.
Holy shiet. After building 4 pedals this week, 0 of them working from the beginning and 2 of them still not working… I needed to see this ❤️ Thank you Josh and Heather for making me feel a bit less like a worthless pedal builder 😉 It is such a freaking unforgiving thing to be doing.
@@jhspedalsyou’ve just given me a direction forward on fixing a build I’ve been avoiding! I’ve got continuity where I should; now to systematically make sure I don’t have continuity where I shouldn’t!
My gateway to fuzz was David Gilmour. Those amazing lead tones on the classic PF records we all love. I read that he used a Big Muff with his famous Strat and wanted to give it a try. I ended up with an @EarthquakerDevices Hoof and never looked back. As the panelists mention here, fuzz is organic - buy or borrow one and try it with as many guitars and amps as you can, always experimenting with volume, tone, and pickup selection.
In a side note, can’t get over how much Heather looks like Sigourney Weaver. Definitely Pedal-Builder Hot! Also, no disrespect to Robert, but I’d say after hearing your post-show, tone comparison, really!prefer Heath’s creation. Lots of cool tones in one box. She needs to market that thing!
The advice about trying effects broadly is great. I didn't like fuzz for the longest time until I found one that you can crank to the point that it becomes (effectively) a bit crusher/signal decay; the catalinbread blood donor being the best of that type. I went from never thinking I would own one to now having three different fuzzes.
That was so incredibly fun. Thanks to Heather Josh Belle Jeorge Chris Emily. Everybody was so great. (It was very Very hard live. 😅)
Legend!! Always enjoy seeing you in videos
Robert, did you go to school at the University of Oklahoma?
Great video and you both made great pedals.
One of the all-time great Fretboard Summit moments. Thanks for doing it, Josh. Next Summit: August 23-25, 2024 in Chicago!
Can't wait!
Honestly this was one of the most educational and real episodes of the show. I loved seeing the process of building a pedal, including all the mistakes. I can imagine how tough it must be to do it quickly, especially in front of cameras and people. Huge respect to both of them!
Watched this happen from the audience! A lot of fun to be there.
Heather, you effing rock 🤘- love my spirit in the sky. Thanks for being a good sport for this and hope you still had a good time and got to bed!
you coming back this year?
@@jhspedals 💯 - bike ride and all - looking forward to it!
This was so cool. I’d love to see this live!
Stoked to hear Heathers fuzz! It sounds awesome, and definitely would have won!!
Both fuzzeses sound amazing...
It would've been dope to see live troubleshooting of Heather's pedal.
For real. Like in real life, get a second opinion and the error often jumps out to that person. Proofreading.
I'm amazed at how friendly everyone is seems to be in the pedal world. No egos or anything, only passion. We've got maybe 70% of the best pedal manufacturers on the market in this video, and they're just messing around together with funny challenges, as friends, which I find soooo crazy
i think we've all worked really hard to get rid of that old 70s and 80s industry hate. and it's working!
Josh, you’re not only one of the best pedal makers ever but an amazing showman and cool entertainment dude. Your channel is Gold!
Almost gave up building pedals after trying to build a germanium FF as my first. Drove me nuts. Glad to see such respected builders were once in the exact same boat.
it gets the best of us!
What a coincidence. Just about 15 minutes ago i finished my little fuzz in a tin can🎉😂
Its a two knob fuzz face, volume and bias, no fuzz pot. I used 2 Valvo AC128s I got in a cheap lot a few weeks back.
Didnt have the nerve to crank it and annoy the neighbors yet but what ive heard until now sounds massive
do it 😈
Louder is more good! Logically, that means it cannot be annoying.
You should have annoyed the neighbors, especially until 10:30pm, 8:30 if you like them..😊
I just finished building of my first guitar pedal here in Serbia (with a little help from my father who's making electric guitars, tube amps and pedals since 2009).
My personal choice was to make Dallas range master treble booster clone, with all NOS parts. So I did it, all the capacitors and resistors are from 60's with all good measurments.
When it comes to a transistor things become interesting. My father tried to make his first pedal back in 1988 when he has 16 and for this purpose he found very old glass OC47 germanium transistor as one of the parts. However, he could not make pade works, so he put wooden PCB plate (similar as Robert's one) with some parts and this OC47 transistor very badly soldered in the tool bag with all the things in it. So one month ago when I was collecting my parts I found a few AC 128s and AF350s germanium transistors, but I wanted OC44 or something similar (you cant buy or found that in Serbia so often). I asked my father about that, so he told me "I used to have one OC47 and that is the only one I ever saw, but I think it's probabbly broken". Whe tried to find it for a few days and eventualy we did, and gues what it was still working great.
So, in the end of this very long coment (maybe boring) I finished pedal and it sounds absolutely amazing. I know OC47 is not the original transistor, but when I heard the story about how it survived for 35 years I had to choose this one. The sound is same as this old 60s treble boosters, and I love germanium sound.
So, few days ago, I decided to do a germanium fuzz pedal, and I found and saw this video today, It was so much helpful and inspiring. Thank you JHS, greetings from Serbia.
Watched it again… and enjoyed it again. It’s a hard watch at points, cuz I feel the pain. Those who build understand.😵💫👈🏼
The pain was real. 😅
Riveting truly riveting.
Soldering as well.
Truly soldering.
love heather brown’s blessed mother OD so much
Me too! Seriously good.
You should do a fundraiser / raffle to giveaway each pedal.
Pre-Covid I said I was never going to make a pedal. Covid hits the TPS-Josh-Macari episode hits my computer. That ToneBender 1.5 was the sound I was looking for. I am on version 21 still trying to reach that sound. Currently using a shunt regulator to bias, OC140/950 (~80) Q1, OC140/950 Mullard Q2 (~120), emitter follower output with defeatable tone control.
Toshiba makes some of the best transistors. Some of their JFETS are legendary.
Great show, thanks so much!
incredible
I love how Josh is always making fun of "magic transistors" but these guys (including Josh) believe in magic.
I’m just starting the video but I already know it’s gonna be good just the concept sounds great, I would love more of this format!!
Fun episode JHS, hope to see something like this again. I love how both builders went about the design of their board. I’ve never used a Fuzz but they both sounded great. Suggestion...if you do this again, give them 2 hours with a 15 min break after 1 hour that way it’s not so stressful. I mean I was stressed just watching this and props to the trophy builder that was pretty cool.
That was so much fun! Thanks for making this experience and sharing it.
More of this plz
WOW!! The pedal geekdom community has so much to offer the world at large! Such goodness is the medicine we all need. Such an amazing event! Josh you are a treasure. That you support and promote all builders great and small is a shining example of the compassion and cooperation that has brought humanity to this moment in history. Thank you all! My heart sings.
There’s cool people in the world, and then there’s this group of people. 🤘
hey thanks!
Remarkably different tones!!
Amazing!
Heather’s fuzz lo gain demoed at the end sounds killer!
This is the best video of the best format ever!!!! Awesome! More video like this, please!!!
I’ve been saying for years that a pedal building competition should be a thing! Make more!!
I learned early on a valuable lesson that has served me well ever since: don't assemble any further than necessary to test. I cringed as soon as Heather started screwing on that back cover. This also brought back childhood memories of begging my dad for scraps of wood to build circuits on. I had the components and understood enough of the circuits but had no idea how things were meant to be built so I tried all sorts of solutions. The veneer was awesome here and I only wished we saw the custom cap. Great job to both with the only loss going to time limits. More of these PLEASE!!!
Very cool, love the history, the techniques, and the sounds!
Josh..thx for your channel man, i dont have a t.v in my life (and thankful), but i still get the best entertainment a guitarist could ask for from channela such as to yours...love you mang, peace!
Same
This is so cool! Josh, you should have more of these "build off competitions" with other pedal designers.
This, this is peak content. Hope we get to see more stuff like this in the future!
Super fun to watch. Glad this finally got posted!
this is wonderful - thanks to all of you
Just a fantastic video with incredible builders. And learning about R2R Electronics was an added bonus!!!
What a great show. Good times.
Wow I did not expect to see Joey Landreth in this video, what a group of super cool people! Enjoyed the whole thing
I'm 8 min into it, predicting RK with tonewood will pull it off..lol. super fun concept this show. Thanks Josh!
Delightful, both fuzzes sound fantastic
Fun video. Both pedals sound great, Robert showed some balls with his veneer board wiring approach. Thanks, guys.
Those 1/1 pedals are priceless.
They are museum artifacts.
It's a big family of pedal builders.
The best reality show ever.
Everybody's a winner.
Great extra time plot twist.
We know 1 hour doesn't enough.
Robert Keeley forever will be a father figure.
Thank you Josh Scott for making guitar pedal great again and again and again. You never stop amaze the community.
So good! Was hoping you kids would post this 🙏
It's almost like a plot from a movie how it played out. I couldn't stop watching. I don't even know how to build pedals and I loved it.
This takes me back to the days when as a kid I would watch my dad make a circuit board from scratch for is circuit. He’d have this panels with gold in them and pit tape on it. Then dipped it in some acid of some sort and in a few minutes this Fiberglas board had his virus onit when her removed the take. All the other plating was fine except for where he put this pin stripping tape. It was very cool then he start adding the components and soldering them up. It was amazing to watch him. I was a kid at the time and I watched but eventually into Law Enforcement. Later I did go back to school for electronics and only got an Associates Degree. I wish I had done more so I could jump into the pedal bldg. Great show everybody and we all won, there were no losers…!
I have zero regrets that I watched this video. Thanks for posting.
In the end, I prefer the sound of Heather Brown's pedal.
Thanks for a great time!
Robert's fuzz sounded absolutely killer! I tried to build a germanium fuzz at least 15 years ago and never got it working. The capacitors got hot and I gave up on it. I'm going to look for it and see if I can get it running.
Josh u rock!!!!!! This is epic Nerd stuff. Proud to be in the same club.🤘🤘🤘
That was super fun. Thanks…..
Hella cool episode. This was very interesting, I love learning about pedals and building pedals. Jhs rules.
Loved the video. Thank you.
That was fun!
Excellent! ❤ this show.
Very fortunate to have a Fuzz Face that was hand wired by Jeorge. Would love to have these hand wired one-offs, too!
Waited this for a year. Could've waited longer if needed I guess? But glad it's here now. Gonna pop a beer and enjoy some germanium grace.
Btw. I almost started to build my very own Fuzz Face a year ago. I mean after making some Fuzz kits first. Got all kinds of germanium transistors and caps and vintage resistors waiting for it. Let's see who's gonna finnish it first, them or me? Btw. I'm in the halfway of the video (and running out of beer). Loving every moment, though. ❤
So Cool!
Great video!
This was super fun.
Heather’s a serious builder with few words! Loved this video.
Fun stuff - love Keeley pedals.
One of your best videos ever!❤
Thank you!
Loved this.
I was stressing right up to the end, I wanted them both to make it! Side note: The Blessed Mother is one of my very most favorite pedals…
Okay I need more of these
Amaziing video !!!
This is awesome 😊
Mr Keeley the Goat he gifted me a Blues Disorder.
20:57 That’s brutal!
My one fuzz build was a kit of a Shin-ei Superfuzz… way more than 11 parts. 😂
This is 👍 awesome. Would love to see this with guitar players !
Bill Shockley had come to my one electrical engineering class at Rolla as a guest lecturer. He started off by doing a magic trick and making a bouquet of flowers appear.
Heck yeah!
This was brilliant - it needs to be a new bake off type format TV show. Different pedal each week. Imagine- This week is wah week!
so wholesome. love it. an actual olympics drama.
I’ve owned every pedal heather’s made (sadly had to sell the fuzz assumption 😭). They’re awesome
aren't they all so good!
Hey maybe I bought your fuzz assumption lol. Probably not, but you never know. It's a great pedal
This was a really cool idea. Sweet pedals. Heather's Fuzz ended up sounding awesome, I hope it didn't take her a year to get it working!
Makes me feel good that HB got "no signal"; that's happened to me with every fuzz I've built
same
Same! 😂
I was there and had a great time watching.
So cool!
Loved this so much. Such great energy in the community. But I'm … biased.
You should do this with other builders. Maybe Josh versus Brian (Wampler)?
That " GO" on the countdown was brutal.
Old Skool Rules!
Holy shiet. After building 4 pedals this week, 0 of them working from the beginning and 2 of them still not working… I needed to see this ❤️ Thank you Josh and Heather for making me feel a bit less like a worthless pedal builder 😉 It is such a freaking unforgiving thing to be doing.
you'll get it!
Killer fuzzes at the end!!
I really want to know what the issue ended up being for Heather's pedal.
Just a pesky bridged solder 🥲
@@jhspedalsyou’ve just given me a direction forward on fixing a build I’ve been avoiding! I’ve got continuity where I should; now to systematically make sure I don’t have continuity where I shouldn’t!
My gateway to fuzz was David Gilmour. Those amazing lead tones on the classic PF records we all love. I read that he used a Big Muff with his famous Strat and wanted to give it a try. I ended up with an @EarthquakerDevices Hoof and never looked back. As the panelists mention here, fuzz is organic - buy or borrow one and try it with as many guitars and amps as you can, always experimenting with volume, tone, and pickup selection.
In a side note, can’t get over how much Heather looks like Sigourney Weaver. Definitely Pedal-Builder Hot!
Also, no disrespect to Robert, but I’d say after hearing your post-show, tone comparison, really!prefer Heath’s creation. Lots of cool tones in one box. She needs to market that thing!
The advice about trying effects broadly is great. I didn't like fuzz for the longest time until I found one that you can crank to the point that it becomes (effectively) a bit crusher/signal decay; the catalinbread blood donor being the best of that type. I went from never thinking I would own one to now having three different fuzzes.
that's awesome!!
Fun stuff!
I wasn’t a fan of fuzz for years then i got a keeley moon fuzz, it makes my bits tingle
She did get cocky and everyone thought she would win. But, the master schooled the student!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Allez... le tone!
Love it.
what a great video!
So cool.
The Keeley fuzz bender is a great pedal!
Hey, I just wore that shirt yesterday!
This is wild!
Dude throws together a fuzz pedal in an hour from basically scratch and it sounds uttetly ferocious!
We need to get Josh interviewing David Grusch about those alien transistors.
so super fun! \m/\m/