What EHX would make your top 10 list? Let's talk in the comments! Table of Contents 00:00 The Electro-Harmonix Legacy 01:32 Pedal #10 03:20 Pedal #9 05:20 Pedal #8 07:15 Pedal #7 09:15 Pedal #6 10:47 Pedal #5 12:20 Pedal #4 14:14 Pedal #3 16:10 Pedal #2 18:30 Pedal #1 20:56 How to Support Us!
I'm super stoked to see this. You should definitely do a guitar pedal giveaway in the future, I'm sure someone is in need of pedals, just a suggestion. I love your guitar review and amp review videos.
No particular order: 1. Deluxe Memory Man 2. Big Muff Pi (various versions) 3. Attack Decay (new version) 4. Pog2 5. Micro Synth 6. Bad Stone 7. Frequency Analyzer 8. 1440 Looper 9. Mainframe bitcrusher 10. MEL9
My first guitar rig in the early 80's was a Fender Super Reverb, Big Muff and Memory Man Deluxe. I didn't realize at the time that I sounded more like the Edge then Van Halen until I traded it all in for a Marshall JCM 800 and an Echo Plex and then wish I hadn't.
Yeah.... That Was Some Nice Startup Gear There Dawwgg.. You Would Have Been Better Off Savin Up Then You Would Have Had The Best of The Two Worlds... But As They Say Hindsight is...
Alright, I’m gonna be this guy😂 I am a massive John Frusciante fan, I hate to say it but you butchered that section. He has not been a “long time” POG user. He had a pig on his board for a very minimum amount of time during the stadium arcadIUM tour. In fact I’m the studio he has stated several times that he would actually layer most of his guitar tracks for those harmonizing parts. I’m saying this mostly because it’d hurt like heck if someone had spent quite a bit of money on a pog just to get that “Frusciante tone” it might not actually get you exactly there. Just an overall heads up. 🤘❤️
The Electric Mistress was/is more than a flanger; it had an LFO/filter matrix that produces sounds from metallic to hollow pipes. The best example is the long guitar solo from Frank Zappa in 'Watermelon in easterhay' from the album Joe's Garage, which is totally based on the Electric Mistress. Without the Mistress, this beautiful solo was hardly possible. I had one of the first badges of the mistress in the 70s. Stupid as I am I threw it in the garbage bin after picking it up after 15 years since there was no signal. Not sure if the new ones have the same characteristics.
I realized something recently about Kurt Cobain and the usage of the Small Clone pedal. Although he clearly used it a lot, the studio sounds on the Nevermind are probably rack chorus sounds added during the mastering. If you listen to the Butch Vig mix compared to the final mix by Andy Wallace, there were clearly chorus sounds added after all the tracking was done. Could it be we’ve been fooled into thinking the chorus sounds on Nevermind are from the Small Clone pedal when they are (mostly) not?
Especially for us older players, EHX is a huge part of what pedal effects are. My first pedals were a MXR distortion, a Big Muff and a small stone. Later a boss delay. I can still see the duct tape holding the muff together and the wires sticking out to hook up the 9v battery
I recall an interview with Ty Tabor of Kings X....he mentioned that he was able to get a synth-like nasal lead tone using an Electric Mistress and relying pretty much on the Filter Matrix function. Good example of this would be the guitar solo in "The World Around Me", but it is prevalent elsewhere in their early work. Thanks Mason, great vid!!! :)
I owned the original model Polychorus with the built-in power supply back in the early 1980s. I loved it for it was great and I deeply regret not still having it. I was a big fan of its flanger setting.
Waow ! Great review ! I was very surprised to hear that Summers used an Electric Mistress as everybody says it's a Boss CE1 ! But you look sure about that particular point ! IMHO "When the streets have no name" is the perfect example where you can clearly hear the Memory Man played by the edge. Another pedal less known and great on keyboards is the Bassballs, so gritty ! This thing sounds like no other !! Also, regarding Billy Joel and "Just the way you are", I truly think he used a MXR Phase 90 rather than a Small Stone . He "borrowed" the sound from ten CC's "I'm not in love". The Phase 90 is "creamier"and subtle compared to a Small Stone. But Jean Michel Jarre used an early version of a small stone in Equinoxe and Oxygen on an Eminent organ strings sound which was later the Solina String Ensemble (or ARP Solina string Ensemble).
I always hated fuzz, then I realized it's the big luff I was after along. I'd say that pedal essentially defined the 90s alt rock genre. Tangent: the point you make about sounds that you can't imagine seperate from the effect because it's like a key part of the instrumentation (heart shaped box with chorus) of the song and makes the tone but the first time I heard Dean ween play tears for Eddie, it completely changed the way; I as a guitar player, approached phase as a tool. I always dug it, but didn't know where the sound could fit into songs and I basically started with his settings and went from there and it opened up a new pah way and now I have my own songs I can't imagine seperate from the effect.
This might come from left field, but their newest looper, the 1440, is amazing. Out of all the loopers that have MIDI clock synchronization, the 1440 is the smallest in size. And after last year's firmware update, all of it's functions can be controlled via MIDI. I know that it's totally different than anything discussed here, but as someone that's getting into electronic music, this thing is a game changer.
The Poly Chorus!!! I'm so glad you showed some Nirvana live footage with Pat Smear; he's got to be the most underrated sideman in music - a solid rhythm player & not at all a focus puller. Also, the Edge is definitely the king of the dotted 8th delay!
On my 14th birthday in 1979, my Mom got me an Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress Deluxe Flanger, a Big Muff and old LPB-1 . EHX made some of greatest pedals period .... David Gilmour, Andy Summers, Alex Lifeson and Robin Trower used the Electric Mistress Flanger .
When they were reissued, I snagged a 90's Deluxe Memory Man and its still my #1 delay. (I should have bought two of them). Prior to that I had been using an Echoplex. I also had a Roland SDE-1000.
The Clone Theory changed the sound of Joy Division and even more when they become New Order. I'm not sure but before that I don't think anyone had put chorus on a bass.
Awesome video! I have a friend who is related to Mike,and is setting up a phone chat with him for me. I’m nervous as f**k!! What do you say to a guy who literally made devices that are on some of the most iconic songs of the last 50 years? The order was pretty darn close to what I would have done! 👍
I have a Pog 2 and old green Russian I can’t do my music without those two. The organ like sound of Pog and the thickness and sustain of the muffs is uniquely their thing.
The o.g. Q-Tron from the 90's. I know it isn't a straight up EHX invention, but, damn if it isn't my favorite envelope of all time (and I have way too damn many envelope filters). The fact that I was able to shelf my beat the hell up MuTron III/Bootsy in a box when they issued the Q was such a big deal! As always, great video video Doc!!
If I had to survive using only one brand of pedals (don’t know why I’d ever be left with such a Sophie’s Choice), it would definitely be EHX. Vintage and new, they make some groundbreaking stuff.
@@VertexEffectsInc Very unusual sound. It happens in the the first 10 seconds ( I always wondered what Flanger it was ? ) Kinda like a Jet-plane and ends as a chorus???
Great video. Made me realize that the phaser I've been looking for is simply the Small Stone. I would, however, put the Big Muff Ram's Head as Number 1.
That's cool, but as far as I know Billy Corgan didn't use the Big Muff in a live setting and opted for a more traditional distortion because the Muff needs a serious mid boost to cut through the mix. Even David Gilmour boosted his Muff with an overdrive. So my question is: did Billy use a Muff in that clip? Because it lacks its characteristic violin-like sustain and sounds a little more aggressive. In other words, I think that your example showcases a regular distortion pedal.
My understanding was that live it was Marshall Preamps, however there are no studio recording that showed this that wouldn't get flagged by TH-cam so we had to pivot to this.
I'm an old guy who started playing in the mid 70's. EHX were the only pedals I used from the jump. And I bought every pedal they came out with as soon as it became available. I had the originals of the Big Muffs, Small Stone phaser, Deluxe Memory Man and Deluxe Electric Mistress flanger with me everywhere I went. One of my favorites was that LPB 1. You could stack two or three in a row and get some amazing multi-stage gain effects. I wish I had kept all of those pedals. Besides the vintage sounds they would produce they would probably be worth some decent money. EHX is still the pedal king!!!
Polychorus is awesome, great on synths as well. The original Deluxe Electric Mistress does something tonally that NO other flanger has ever done for me...it's so unique but immediately placeable; grungy, loud, harsh, but ultimately psychedelic and full of energy. Cool to see these EHX underdogs regarded as they should be!!! Side note, it's a very 70s tone but my immediate thought was that billy joel was taking from the sound of 10cc's I'm Not In Love
Great ! I'll go back to '73 when i ordered a LPB -1 (amp jack) for like $14.99. This to me is where it all started. Btw, It sounded great. Woke up a Gibson Champ alike i borrowed for months. Next, Red Script Big Muff, '75. Never liked what they became later but i loved mine. Yesterday And Today, UFO, Trower, Strat and a Magnatone all tube amp. Years go by, want a pitch shift for the ABB and TL stuff i loved. Boss Super Shifter suk'd (should have bought the Harmonist) but dug the Holy Stain. I haven't used it a while but it rocks. The fuzz was my fave for vintage Randy Hansen type tunes. Rock ON!!
Glad you mentioned the LPB-1 Power Booster! It was one of the first guitar “devices” I owned, I think around 1973 or 74. It looked a bit odd sticking out of the input jack of my Gibson 335, but it thickened up my tone and gave the guitar sustain that could turn to singing feedback, and there was nothing else around at that time that did anything like that! Great little device. More recently, I’m a big fan of the East River Drive, a TS 808 clone.
I’ve got a Small Stone that’s gotta be 40 years old, works fine. I’ve also had a ‘70s Big Muff, LPB-1, Q-Tron from around 2001. Never really had any problems with any of them.
I love EHX pedals. Such iconic sounds and keeping it affordable. On my board I have the Pitchfork which can do so much The Mod 11 and The holy grail reverb.
If you can ever get your hands on a Q Tron Plus I can not recommend it enough. They are super fun and this is coming from a guy that absolutely worships Vox wahs.
Glad to see you used Billy Corgan as an example for the OP amp Big Muff Pi. However, the video clip you used of Cherub Rock is not the Big Muff. Billy used a Marshall JMP-1 preamp into a Marshall power amp during the beginning of the siamese dream tour. The Big Muff was used mainly in the studio.
Originally we had a different clip planned that I had spoken to in the video that we couldn't get around without a copyright issue, so we pivoted to something that resembled the album but was in a live performance situation.
I love the sound of EHX... But all three of my pedals I've owned by them break. Sometimes just easy repair jobs, sometimes not. Very odd, even the cheap plastic danelectro I have outlasted all 3. I dunno if anyone else has these issues...
Love this video. I have nine EHX pedals and if you will indulge me I will list them: Pitch Fork+, Cock Fight, Superego+, Attack Decay (reissue), Op Amp Big Muff (reissue), Poly Phase, Grand Canyon, Oceans 12 and Glove. Also through my modelers (Helix and Fractal) there's Big Muff Pi and Ram's Head, Memory Man, Electric Mistress and Small Stone.
@Vertex Effects great video! I asked this on the live right at the end but kinda got cut off. What plugs do you use for the Cioks power supplies? Are the just regular RCA jacks? Or would you just use the Kobiconn connectors on the pedal side of the cable?
So, we have a video on how to DIY your own DC power cables, however for RCA the placement of the hot and ground wires are reversed to make it normal polarity. So on the RCA plug, the hot, center conductor goes to the sleeve. The ground wire/shield goes to the tip.
I enjoyed this video, but I do think a great band that definitely deserves a mention on any EHX roundup, a band that even did demos for EHX as I recall, is Ween. T
Very nice! The EHX pedals are good, nice price and characteristic sounding. As a keyboard player i'm thrilled by the memory man series but even more by the Grand Canyon. That is such a loveable and rewarding pedal to play and use. i think more important than the order or ranking here is that you made an EHX exclusive list and give a very good audio impression of the use of each of the pedals. Was a real enjoyment to watch and hear!
I knew watching this would be painful. My first pedalboard in 1979ish (literally a board with duct tape) had an original LPB1, Big Muff, Electric Mistress...among other ones. All lost or stolen over time.
Bummer. Nothing wore than having vintage gear stolen. I had my old Vox AC15 and Vox SG guitar nicked from my house by a dinner guest - we thought he was a decent bloke, turns out he was hiding a raging drug habit. EDIT: to clarify, having a drug habit doesn't mean you aren't a decent person. It just means you need help. Nick my gear and I'm less compassionate tho
I love Electro harmonix pedals I have four on my board they do the job admirably and are priced very reasonable compared to some of the so called boutique stuff out there I also have the Vertex tone secret on my board
I've got two EHX pedals on my board that I couldn't go without, The Big Muff Op-amp (reissue aka Billy Corgan's version) and the Ocean's 11. Thanks for the cool top 10.
I bought every EH I could find in the early 80s knowing that they would b valuable one day. Big muff, clone theory & electric mistress. The inefficiency of the early electronics makes the magic and they are in mint condition.😅💪🎸
Thank fucking god the Ram's Head got on there. That Gilmore tone tho???? LOL Nah, Dinosaur Jr. does a good job using it. Also solid for doom/heavy metal (just make sure to have volume & saturation at 11)
Right when I started watching this the first pedal I started thinking about was the deluxe memory man thanks for the info about Andy Summers using the electric mistress I've always wondered what the hell chorus is that guy using
"Come as you are" is infamously similar to "Eighties" by Killing Joke... and Geordie Walker used a Deluxe Memory Man in stereo, ironically. That EHX connection.
The phase 90 script is a permanent fixture on my board. You can hear it on my MAJIK BAND song I Feel Phine. Check it out if you want to hear. Great video as always.
Dinosaur Jr made enough of an impact in the UK to headline the Brixton Academy when they toured in the 90’s and get the ‘Start Choppin’ single to number 20 in the pop chart in 1992. (Not to mention being a staple on the indie chart from ‘88 onwards).
Mike is a genius and a true badass. I would tell anyone to go read his bio on the EHX site. It all started with a friendship he developed with one James Marshall Hendrix. The rest is history.
Jack, there are some thing you can do, and some mods to reduce the noise floor. Guys like Mick Davis who designed a lot of these EXH pedals still does mods and repairs if you end them in to him.
Cool video! Like many people who started playing in the 90s, my first pedal was a green Russian muff…. But I have a deluxe electric mistress modded by Howard Davis and it could be my favourite pedal of all time. So great!
I love the combination of an Octave Multiplexer into an EHX Bass Balls with the dirt switch on and sometimes even all of this into the Frequency Analyzer. I used this for many solos.
That had to be killer. The F.A. was so dense I actually sold one cheap 20 some years ago, but with bass...man post that sound on SoundCloud. I'm there (Stargazer21)
As an Englishman (British, European really) I can't believe I have never owned an Electric Mistress since it was ubiquitous on my hero's boards! I may have to rectify it, I used my BF-2 more as a chorus back in '83 so will have to try one.
What EHX would make your top 10 list? Let's talk in the comments!
Table of Contents
00:00 The Electro-Harmonix Legacy
01:32 Pedal #10
03:20 Pedal #9
05:20 Pedal #8
07:15 Pedal #7
09:15 Pedal #6
10:47 Pedal #5
12:20 Pedal #4
14:14 Pedal #3
16:10 Pedal #2
18:30 Pedal #1
20:56 How to Support Us!
I'm super stoked to see this.
You should definitely do a guitar pedal giveaway in the future, I'm sure someone is in need of pedals, just a suggestion.
I love your guitar review and amp review videos.
@@adonisboyd1997 Thanks for watching!
@@VertexEffectsInc Heck yeah of course.
No particular order:
1. Deluxe Memory Man
2. Big Muff Pi (various versions)
3. Attack Decay (new version)
4. Pog2
5. Micro Synth
6. Bad Stone
7. Frequency Analyzer
8. 1440 Looper
9. Mainframe bitcrusher
10. MEL9
@@stevenbatke2475 All great pedals!
Ehx has 20 million different pedals and this dude put the big muff and electric mistress literally twice on a top 10 list.
They're his top 10, not necessarily mine or yours...the mel9 is magic
My first guitar rig in the early 80's was a Fender Super Reverb, Big Muff and Memory Man Deluxe. I didn't realize at the time that I sounded more like the Edge then Van Halen until I traded it all in for a Marshall JCM 800 and an Echo Plex and then wish I hadn't.
We’ve all got stories like that.
Yeah.... That Was Some Nice Startup Gear There Dawwgg.. You Would Have Been Better Off Savin Up Then You Would Have Had The Best of The Two Worlds... But As They Say Hindsight is...
Mine was Ampeg V2, Big Muff and an Ibanez delay
@@jfmax2000 why type like that?
My first was a fender bronco amp and a Big muff. And a Greco hollow body. In the 70’s.
I love Andy Summers' subtle but present flanger sounds. His tones with The Police were gorgeous without ever being overbearing.
Alright, I’m gonna be this guy😂 I am a massive John Frusciante fan, I hate to say it but you butchered that section. He has not been a “long time” POG user. He had a pig on his board for a very minimum amount of time during the stadium arcadIUM tour. In fact I’m the studio he has stated several times that he would actually layer most of his guitar tracks for those harmonizing parts. I’m saying this mostly because it’d hurt like heck if someone had spent quite a bit of money on a pog just to get that “Frusciante tone” it might not actually get you exactly there. Just an overall heads up. 🤘❤️
Deluxe Memory Man used by Daniel Ash of Bauhaus on their iconic track, Bella Lugosi's Dead.
Nice!
The Electric Mistress was/is more than a flanger; it had an LFO/filter matrix that produces sounds from metallic to hollow pipes. The best example is the long guitar solo from Frank Zappa in 'Watermelon in easterhay' from the album Joe's Garage, which is totally based on the Electric Mistress. Without the Mistress, this beautiful solo was hardly possible. I had one of the first badges of the mistress in the 70s. Stupid as I am I threw it in the garbage bin after picking it up after 15 years since there was no signal. Not sure if the new ones have the same characteristics.
I realized something recently about Kurt Cobain and the usage of the Small Clone pedal. Although he clearly used it a lot, the studio sounds on the Nevermind are probably rack chorus sounds added during the mastering.
If you listen to the Butch Vig mix compared to the final mix by Andy Wallace, there were clearly chorus sounds added after all the tracking was done.
Could it be we’ve been fooled into thinking the chorus sounds on Nevermind are from the Small Clone pedal when they are (mostly) not?
ha, interesting observation Jon!
Especially for us older players, EHX is a huge part of what pedal effects are. My first pedals were a MXR distortion, a Big Muff and a small stone. Later a boss delay. I can still see the duct tape holding the muff together and the wires sticking out to hook up the 9v battery
The mention of duct tape really brought me back.
1- Deluxe Electric Mistress (70-80's ONLY) 2- Deluxe Big Muff Pi 3- Small Stone 4- MEL 9 5- Poly Chorus 1980 6- Pitch Fork 7- EDDY 8- MOD 11 9- Tubes Hot Tubes 10- Tube Zipper
Great list!!
For me the most underated pedal for EHX is the attack decay. The polyphonic swells turns your guitar into a synth ambiant machine.
Nice...yes, that is cool :)
I recall an interview with Ty Tabor of Kings X....he mentioned that he was able to get a synth-like nasal lead tone using an Electric Mistress and relying pretty much on the Filter Matrix function. Good example of this would be the guitar solo in "The World Around Me", but it is prevalent elsewhere in their early work.
Thanks Mason, great vid!!! :)
Wow, really! Love King's X!
Why twice for Electric Mistress? WTH?
Original Electric Mistress and the Deluxe Electric Mistress. They're quite different from one another.
I owned the original model Polychorus with the built-in power supply back in the early 1980s. I loved it for it was great and I deeply regret not still having it. I was a big fan of its flanger setting.
Thanks for the info!
Waow ! Great review ! I was very surprised to hear that Summers used an Electric Mistress as everybody says it's a Boss CE1 ! But you look sure about that particular point ! IMHO "When the streets have no name" is the perfect example where you can clearly hear the Memory Man played by the edge. Another pedal less known and great on keyboards is the Bassballs, so gritty ! This thing sounds like no other !! Also, regarding Billy Joel and "Just the way you are", I truly think he used a MXR Phase 90 rather than a Small Stone . He "borrowed" the sound from ten CC's "I'm not in love". The Phase 90 is "creamier"and subtle compared to a Small Stone. But Jean Michel Jarre used an early version of a small stone in Equinoxe and Oxygen on an Eminent organ strings sound which was later the Solina String Ensemble (or ARP Solina string Ensemble).
98% talk, 2% FX.
Education is so overrated, huh?
I always hated fuzz, then I realized it's the big luff I was after along. I'd say that pedal essentially defined the 90s alt rock genre.
Tangent: the point you make about sounds that you can't imagine seperate from the effect because it's like a key part of the instrumentation (heart shaped box with chorus) of the song and makes the tone but the first time I heard Dean ween play tears for Eddie, it completely changed the way; I as a guitar player, approached phase as a tool. I always dug it, but didn't know where the sound could fit into songs and I basically started with his settings and went from there and it opened up a new pah way and now I have my own songs I can't imagine seperate from the effect.
Heck yea! Thanks for watching and your comment!
I think Ram's Head/ Gilmore has to be number 1. Otherwise, great.
Could make an argument for that as well!
I would put big muff first. But It Really doesn’t matter. Its a great vídeo.
Would have liked to have seen some bassists on this list. Peter Hook for instance, was using a Clone series chorus years before Kurt Cobain.
Nice! Yes...we should for next time :)
Great video! For EHX, both the Pog and Big Muff saw great usage by Jack White. Would have been worth the mention.
Yes!!!
Muff and mistress comfortably numb need I say more
Classics!
This might come from left field, but their newest looper, the 1440, is amazing. Out of all the loopers that have MIDI clock synchronization, the 1440 is the smallest in size. And after last year's firmware update, all of it's functions can be controlled via MIDI. I know that it's totally different than anything discussed here, but as someone that's getting into electronic music, this thing is a game changer.
Adrian Belew does unbelievable things in Elephant Talk, at King Crimson with this Memory man! He uses his elevated pedal! It's surreal!!
Yes!!!
The Poly Chorus!!! I'm so glad you showed some Nirvana live footage with Pat Smear; he's got to be the most underrated sideman in music - a solid rhythm player & not at all a focus puller.
Also, the Edge is definitely the king of the dotted 8th delay!
Heck yea!
Billy Corgan used a Marshall JMP-1 live in 1993, Big Muff in studio for Siamese Dream. You didn't hear a big muff in that clip.
01:32 #10 : Poly Chorus
03:20 #9 : LPB-1 Power Booster
05:20 #8 : POG all versions
07:15 #7 : Deluxe Electric Mistress Flanger/Filter Matrix
09:15 #6 : Small Stone Phase Shifter
10:47 #5 : Small Clone
12:20 #4 : Big Muff v4
14:14 #3 : Electric Mistress Flanger/Filter Matrix
16:10 #2 : Big Muff Ram's Head
18:30 #1 : Deluxe Memory Man
Electro-Harmonix Superego+ Synth Engine / Multi-Effect Pedal (Demo by Bill Ruppert)
On my 14th birthday in 1979, my Mom got me an Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress Deluxe Flanger, a Big Muff and old LPB-1 .
EHX made some of greatest pedals period ....
David Gilmour, Andy Summers, Alex Lifeson and Robin Trower used the Electric Mistress Flanger .
Nice!
When they were reissued, I snagged a 90's Deluxe Memory Man and its still my #1 delay. (I should have bought two of them). Prior to that I had been using an Echoplex. I also had a Roland SDE-1000.
They're all great!
Im a huge fan of th JHS youtube channel and I always wish he would talk about songs pedals appeared on. Awesome video
Thanks for watching man, glad you dug the video!!
The Clone Theory changed the sound of Joy Division and even more when they become New Order.
I'm not sure but before that I don't think anyone had put chorus on a bass.
Awesome video! I have a friend who is related to Mike,and is setting up a phone chat with him for me. I’m nervous as f**k!! What do you say to a guy who literally made devices that are on some of the most iconic songs of the last 50 years? The order was pretty darn close to what I would have done! 👍
I have a Pog 2 and old green Russian I can’t do my music without those two. The organ like sound of Pog and the thickness and sustain of the muffs is uniquely their thing.
Perfect combo!
The Polychorus is a fantastic pedal. I have the old "big box" style, it takes up a lot of pedalboard real estate but I won't take it off.
Great pedal!
3 words. Big. Muff. Pi. If it’s good enough for David Gilmour, it’s good enough for me (pro tip: throw a treble boost in front of the fuzz. Magic.)
David G is KING!
The o.g. Q-Tron from the 90's. I know it isn't a straight up EHX invention, but, damn if it isn't my favorite envelope of all time (and I have way too damn many envelope filters). The fact that I was able to shelf my beat the hell up MuTron III/Bootsy in a box when they issued the Q was such a big deal! As always, great video video Doc!!
Still a great pedal nonetheless! Thanks for watching!
If I had to survive using only one brand of pedals (don’t know why I’d ever be left with such a Sophie’s Choice), it would definitely be EHX. Vintage and new, they make some groundbreaking stuff.
Heck yea! Great pedals no doubt!
If my Big Muff Pi and Memory Man disappeared off my pedal board I would go into a cold panic.
@@alexander_winston ha! DMM for me for sure :)
Great stuff. Did Robin Trower use a Mistress on: "Somebody Calling" ( never heard a flanger used like that ) ?
Hmmmm...did he???
@@VertexEffectsInc Very unusual sound. It happens in the the first 10 seconds ( I always wondered what Flanger it was ? ) Kinda like a Jet-plane and ends as a chorus???
You can actually see the POG being used by John Mayer in his song “In Repair.” In fact, I think he has a whole video on how that song was written!
Yes, I remember this!
no holy grail reverb?
We did not but could be an honorable mention!
I love the Op Amp Big Muff sound all over Siamese Dreams.
Yes!!!
🙌🙌🙌
Great video. Made me realize that the phaser I've been looking for is simply the Small Stone. I would, however, put the Big Muff Ram's Head as Number 1.
Thanks for watching!
THE Pumpkins werent actually using the Muffs live, only in studio, they were too extreme distortion for playing them live!
Yes, however I don't think we could get video of a Siamese Dream session so this will have to do :)
That's cool, but as far as I know Billy Corgan didn't use the Big Muff in a live setting and opted for a more traditional distortion because the Muff needs a serious mid boost to cut through the mix. Even David Gilmour boosted his Muff with an overdrive.
So my question is: did Billy use a Muff in that clip? Because it lacks its characteristic violin-like sustain and sounds a little more aggressive. In other words, I think that your example showcases a regular distortion pedal.
My understanding was that live it was Marshall Preamps, however there are no studio recording that showed this that wouldn't get flagged by TH-cam so we had to pivot to this.
I'm an old guy who started playing in the mid 70's. EHX were the only pedals I used from the jump. And I bought every pedal they came out with as soon as it became available. I had the originals of the Big Muffs, Small Stone phaser, Deluxe Memory Man and Deluxe Electric Mistress flanger with me everywhere I went. One of my favorites was that LPB 1. You could stack two or three in a row and get some amazing multi-stage gain effects. I wish I had kept all of those pedals. Besides the vintage sounds they would produce they would probably be worth some decent money. EHX is still the pedal king!!!
I just saw a deluxe mm for 600 an some bucks.
Polychorus is awesome, great on synths as well. The original Deluxe Electric Mistress does something tonally that NO other flanger has ever done for me...it's so unique but immediately placeable; grungy, loud, harsh, but ultimately psychedelic and full of energy. Cool to see these EHX underdogs regarded as they should be!!! Side note, it's a very 70s tone but my immediate thought was that billy joel was taking from the sound of 10cc's I'm Not In Love
Thanks for the info!
@@VertexEffectsInc I like to use a stereo electric mistress but just as a chorus not a flanger, it stands out from the crowd a bit run through 2 amps
Great !
I'll go back to '73 when i ordered a LPB -1 (amp jack) for like $14.99.
This to me is where it all started.
Btw, It sounded great. Woke up a Gibson Champ alike i borrowed for months.
Next, Red Script Big Muff, '75.
Never liked what they became later but i loved mine. Yesterday And Today, UFO, Trower, Strat and a Magnatone all tube amp.
Years go by, want a pitch shift for the ABB and TL stuff i loved.
Boss Super Shifter suk'd (should have bought the Harmonist) but dug the Holy Stain.
I haven't used it a while but it rocks. The fuzz was my fave for vintage Randy Hansen type tunes.
Rock ON!!
Thanks for sharing!!!
Dude! Awesome video! I had a very early Big Muff. Back in those days you could buy E-H pedals as a kit as well as assembled. Ancient History!
Thanks for watching!
Great list man. Personally hard for me to think of great EHX pedals without a QTron, but you had solid picks!
QTron is a MuTron clone, I tried to sick with stuff uniquely EHX.
@@VertexEffectsInc word, I actually didn’t know that! Makes sense now. Thanks man.
Glad you mentioned the LPB-1 Power Booster! It was one of the first guitar “devices” I owned, I think around 1973 or 74. It looked a bit odd sticking out of the input jack of my Gibson 335, but it thickened up my tone and gave the guitar sustain that could turn to singing feedback, and there was nothing else around at that time that did anything like that! Great little device. More recently, I’m a big fan of the East River Drive, a TS 808 clone.
Thanks for sharing!
I had an LPB-1 in 1968 and I plugged iy into a Fender DUAL SHOWMAN. "What??"
I remember plugging mine into my Silvertone 212 1484 in 1969
I don't remember what happened to it. I had a Maestro Fuzz and a wha pedal
Classic paring!
My first EHX pedal was the Holy Grail nano. I put it on flerb and was very confused and upset.
They can be cool :)
I’ve got a Small Stone that’s gotta be 40 years old, works fine. I’ve also had a ‘70s Big Muff, LPB-1, Q-Tron from around 2001. Never really had any problems with any of them.
Great news!
I love EHX pedals. Such iconic sounds and keeping it affordable. On my board I have the Pitchfork which can do so much The Mod 11 and The holy grail reverb.
So many great pedals!
I think a big muff should be #1. Probably the #1 fuzz pedal of all time. Doesn't get more iconic than that.
Thats certainly up there!!
I’d have to agree
EHX >boutique and my favorite is the micro pog
If you can ever get your hands on a Q Tron Plus I can not recommend it enough. They are super fun and this is coming from a guy that absolutely worships Vox wahs.
Classic!
Glad to see you used Billy Corgan as an example for the OP amp Big Muff Pi. However, the video clip you used of Cherub Rock is not the Big Muff. Billy used a Marshall JMP-1 preamp into a Marshall power amp during the beginning of the siamese dream tour. The Big Muff was used mainly in the studio.
Originally we had a different clip planned that I had spoken to in the video that we couldn't get around without a copyright issue, so we pivoted to something that resembled the album but was in a live performance situation.
Great vid as usual.
I have a bad stone mummy face v1
It sounds amazing to me despite not being on the list. Thumbs up 👍🏻
Nice!!!
I love the sound of EHX... But all three of my pedals I've owned by them break. Sometimes just easy repair jobs, sometimes not. Very odd, even the cheap plastic danelectro I have outlasted all 3. I dunno if anyone else has these issues...
Some of them weren't so well built, but classic nonetheless.
Drinking game: take a shot every time you hear the word "iconic."
Love your videos! Thanks!
Haha. Thanks for watching Jahn!
I've got a Big Muff Nano. It's a great pedal, but does not sound well on a Marshall jtm30. Should I use the Big Muff only on a clean amp?
They sound great into a lot of amps, could be how you have the amp EQ'd. I like Fuzz Faces into Marshalls.
Love this video. I have nine EHX pedals and if you will indulge me I will list them: Pitch Fork+, Cock Fight, Superego+, Attack Decay (reissue), Op Amp Big Muff (reissue), Poly Phase, Grand Canyon, Oceans 12 and Glove. Also through my modelers (Helix and Fractal) there's Big Muff Pi and Ram's Head, Memory Man, Electric Mistress and Small Stone.
So many great pedals there :)
@Vertex Effects great video! I asked this on the live right at the end but kinda got cut off. What plugs do you use for the Cioks power supplies? Are the just regular RCA jacks? Or would you just use the Kobiconn connectors on the pedal side of the cable?
So, we have a video on how to DIY your own DC power cables, however for RCA the placement of the hot and ground wires are reversed to make it normal polarity. So on the RCA plug, the hot, center conductor goes to the sleeve. The ground wire/shield goes to the tip.
No sound demos?? Lame.
I enjoyed this video, but I do think a great band that definitely deserves a mention on any EHX roundup, a band that even did demos for EHX as I recall, is Ween. T
Great suggestion!
Mike Matthews..Jim Dunlop and Michael fuller are electronic geniuses pure legend
Indeed!
Very nice!
The EHX pedals are good, nice price and characteristic sounding. As a keyboard player i'm thrilled by the memory man series but even more by the Grand Canyon. That is such a loveable and rewarding pedal to play and use.
i think more important than the order or ranking here is that you made an EHX exclusive list and give a very good audio impression of the use of each of the pedals. Was a real enjoyment to watch and hear!
Glad you like them!
Awesome video! The Small Stone is my go-to favorite phaser pedal. That color switch just nails the warmth and accentuates the sweep so well.
Good choice!
I knew watching this would be painful. My first pedalboard in 1979ish (literally a board with duct tape) had an original LPB1, Big Muff, Electric Mistress...among other ones. All lost or stolen over time.
Bummer. Nothing wore than having vintage gear stolen. I had my old Vox AC15 and Vox SG guitar nicked from my house by a dinner guest - we thought he was a decent bloke, turns out he was hiding a raging drug habit.
EDIT: to clarify, having a drug habit doesn't mean you aren't a decent person. It just means you need help.
Nick my gear and I'm less compassionate tho
Oh no!
I love Electro harmonix pedals I have four on my board they do the job admirably and are priced very reasonable compared to some of the so called boutique stuff out there I also have the Vertex tone secret on my board
Yes! Great pedals all around here! Thanks for the support!
I've got two EHX pedals on my board that I couldn't go without, The Big Muff Op-amp (reissue aka Billy Corgan's version) and the Ocean's 11. Thanks for the cool top 10.
Nice! Two great pedals!
I bought every EH I could find in the early 80s knowing that they would b valuable one day. Big muff, clone theory & electric mistress. The inefficiency of the early electronics makes the magic and they are in mint condition.😅💪🎸
Nice!
The Mel9 deserves a spot also for me... And in my opinion, literally the best EHX wasn't on the list: the Tube Black Finger Compressor.
Nice!
The MEL9 with a SuperEgo+ are a Superb combo. Almost unreal.
I was at that Police show, in Atlanta. It was amazing.
I bet that was something!
My original Memory Man Deluxe still sees a lot of action. Nothing quite like it.
thats one of the best pedal ever made!
I've got a weird one. It's a huge phaser pedal , the Flanger Hoax. It's so funky it HAS to be on at least one Parliament or Rick James album.
Thank fucking god the Ram's Head got on there. That Gilmore tone tho????
LOL Nah, Dinosaur Jr. does a good job using it. Also solid for doom/heavy metal
(just make sure to have volume & saturation at 11)
Thanks for watching!
What Chorus was being used in the Gilmore Tone? It was pretty thick in chorusing as well ... T
J Mascis is the god of the rams head tbh
Right when I started watching this the first pedal I started thinking about was the deluxe memory man thanks for the info about Andy Summers using the electric mistress I've always wondered what the hell chorus is that guy using
I had a Big Muff in the early 80’s when I first started playing. I wish I had it today.
Those are great!
"Come as you are" is infamously similar to "Eighties" by Killing Joke... and Geordie Walker used a Deluxe Memory Man in stereo, ironically. That EHX connection.
Mel9 is a baddass pedal. Maybe not top 10, it def in the teens.
Thats a good one!!
Billy Corbin Muff on Geek USA is a BEAST.
Yes!!!!
I'm happy to see that the two EHX pedals I have are your top two! :D They are awesome indeed!
Yes they are!
Great video! The video clips you added to give context to the pedals are awesome.
Glad you liked it!
I have both the Small Stone and the #1 Echo, and both are really good pedals.
Great pedals!
Just got the new EHX string9 pedal that I'm using with a lever harp and a pedal steel guitar. The adventure continues!
👍👍👍
You gotta love the lush, haunting tone of the Polychorus on 'Come As You Are'
Oh yeah!!!
Mason, I am surprised by your choice of Dinousour Jr. but I like it.
Cult Classic ;)
@@VertexEffectsInc Yes
J's core loud tone is a tone bender > a Big Muff .
@@STRATMAN1969 true, but the song is well chosen with this pedal
One might want to include Billy Gibbons with using deluxe memory man. Manic Mechanic crushes. Several others!
Yes!!!
The phase 90 script is a permanent fixture on my board. You can hear it on my MAJIK BAND song I Feel Phine. Check it out if you want to hear. Great video as always.
Nice!!!
Title of this video should be, "10 Safest EHX Pedals to Tell People You Like".
EHX Octave Multiplexer on Neil Young’s ‘Into the Black’.
Ohhhh...yea! Good one!
Awesome choice.
It's the Electric Mistress for me. No mention for Andy Summers I see? Dinosaur junior didn't really register in the UK🌴
Did you watch the video? Seems you missed a few thing.
See 14:26 it's right there.
Dinosaur Jr made enough of an impact in the UK to headline the Brixton Academy when they toured in the 90’s and get the ‘Start Choppin’ single to number 20 in the pop chart in 1992. (Not to mention being a staple on the indie chart from ‘88 onwards).
Mike is a genius and a true badass. I would tell anyone to go read his bio on the EHX site.
It all started with a friendship he developed with one James Marshall Hendrix.
The rest is history.
He was!! Thanks for watching Jack!
Jack, there are some thing you can do, and some mods to reduce the noise floor. Guys like Mick Davis who designed a lot of these EXH pedals still does mods and repairs if you end them in to him.
Cool video! Like many people who started playing in the 90s, my first pedal was a green Russian muff…. But I have a deluxe electric mistress modded by Howard Davis and it could be my favourite pedal of all time. So great!
Heck yea! Thanks for watching!
@@VertexEffectsInc No problem! You guys put out some great stuff! ...And for the record, my favourite Big Muff is actually my Cornish P-1 :D
I love the combination of an Octave Multiplexer into an EHX Bass Balls with the dirt switch on and sometimes even all of this into the Frequency Analyzer. I used this for many solos.
That would be cool!
That had to be killer. The F.A. was so dense I actually sold one cheap 20 some years ago, but with bass...man post that sound on SoundCloud. I'm there (Stargazer21)
As an Englishman (British, European really) I can't believe I have never owned an Electric Mistress since it was ubiquitous on my hero's boards! I may have to rectify it, I used my BF-2 more as a chorus back in '83 so will have to try one.
Thanks for watching Graham!!
Alex Lifeson used electric mistresses a lot in late 70’s- early 80’s
Yes!!! Classic!
Listen to the arkhams she lost control for the best memory man tone ever
Will do!