"I can make a clean boost in like 10 seconds with a single transistor." Oh hell yeah. After I had built a fuzz face and a rangemaster in high school I hacked together a clean boost with a mosfet, a couple of resistors, a 9 volt battery connector and a piece of perfboard about the size of a US penny that I found while cleaning out the physics lab at school. This all hid neatly in my strat and was my "secret sauce" for a few years. The gain was controlled via the guitars volume knob and the battery was only connected if the guitar was plugged in. I was pretty proud of myself at the time, and looking over what I just wrote I guess I still am.
I recently found this channel… I’m 62 years old I’ve been playing guitar since I was eight… I am addicted to this JHS… They bring so much information and joy ,thank you guys... The Chase Bliss was amazing...Take care everyone
@@guestivity2063 Yeah, I'm 28 and most younger people these are full on into amp sims. Yeah, I think they sound killer, but I feel like the sounds I can get through pedals to be much more unique as well as more fun to experiment with and dial in- I'm not relying on the same algorithm everybody else is using! I'm the asshole that likes to be different just because lol
I love how both dudes at the panel are perfectly acceptable parallel universe versions of Josh and Nick if only the tiniest detail of the past had been different
Oh my God, I love how you had two regular dudes, and then that ridiculous character "Addison" in the middle! And what a crazy costume too! I don't know where you come up with this stuff.
I come from an age where we didn’t have ear protectors and common sense. This means I no longer can tell the difference between a Klon and a Zoom 505 any more.
Addison’s face when the panel starts arguing about the Klon clone in the Boss OD200, had me ROLLING! 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve bought like 3 JHS pedals because I love this channel so much and love the originality and chemistry of everyone. Thank y’all for being one of my fav channels!
Josh's rant about the, what I learned today, "Apparently Overhyped & Overrated Klon Centaur" at 21:32 thru 23:55 was absolutely amazing and hilarious! XD
Now that I've finally got my Blues Jr figured out I sometimes plug straight in. But I also love fuzz, delay, and have figured out how to get a deliciously squishy high gain overdrive with a morning glory into an OCD. I won't be dropping the pedals anytime soon.
I can't believe no one has discovered the secret to why Klons sound so good... Tone Metal. Guitar makers seek out the perfect tone woods but most pedal makers (including JHS) just slap their circuits into any old enclosure. Not so with The Mighty Klon! The atomic structure of their boxes is what totally makes this pedal worth $6000.
I once read that Eric Johnson would take the screw out of his fuzz face and use a rubber band to hold it together, because he insisted that the screw affected his tone...
@@creamydistortion absolutely true. And the battery type makes a difference in the Germanium fuzz pedals. Lead acid and alkaline sound different. It’s kind of weird and I didn’t believe it until I tried it. It’s not with all pedals though. Sometimes you don’t notice much of anything. And I’ve measured the voltage with a meter. When a 9v starts to dip around 7.5 -8VDC you can hear the difference. It has less of a hard edge to the fuzz. Some people feel that it’s a little more musical. Notice in the video about the Boss Tonebender that it has a voltage sag switch. It’s there for a reason.
Think about the number of CEOs who operate a TH-cam channel and talk honestly about products from the competition, and aren't constantly plugging their own. Exactly.
Being from England, hearing it pronounced "Henley-on-Thames" hurt even though that's the logical pronunciation. Just for future reference it would be said, "Henley-on-Tems". Great video though, was a really thought provoking panel you had there :)
I'd probably never spend two thousand bucks on a pedal, but if I did, one of those Lovetones would be a good candidate. They are quite incredible creations. I remember back in the late '90s they were still in production and already expensive at 400 bucks or so.
I got a chase bliss spectre, the 2nd model with the fixed noise floor. Don’t make it anymore and that makes me love it more lol, it’s a crazy flanger with more options than I’ll ever need and I hardly understand how to use it fully but it’s my secret sauce “you can’t have this” flanger/weird noise box
hey everyone this is a PSA both for the channel and for you pedal buyers. there's a little boutique company called wilson effects (and yes it's really boutique) that sells reissued vintage circuits for a little less or around the price of JHS. And they have things they don't offer. I'd love to see a video about Wilson Effects because I think they deserve it
Haha, this is a great episode, love it. By the way, Josh, "Thames" is pronounced "Tems", "Upon" means it's close to the river Thames (Tems). Keep them coming, I think you are the top, Guitar pedal TH-cam channel, in the world!
Best vid yet! You guys are a trip! That Auotomatone is nuts. I was just thinking an OD w/ built in multi-band EQ would be genius! I can sell all 7 of my OD's and afford that robot pedal! Or JHS can make one that is manual and I'll buy yours.
That Memory Man thing.. I've got the Memory Man TT1100 which costs a few hundred pounds - so is it just the chips that are the difference, or that would make someone spend a grand on the older version???
Josh, dude, you can play for real! Great vibrato, and your buds have big skills too. Loving this vid and I'm only 4 minutes into it, haha! This is gonna be fun!
Must have burned my brain out mixing today because it took me until 10 minutes into the video to realize t-bone looks exactly like josh in a stetson and sunglasses. Don’t get me wrong, I’m aware they’re different people, but it’s a cool coincidence.
Hi Josh. I bought a MXR IL Diavolo pedal recently and was wondering if anyone could help me in determining what pedals it is intended to emulate . Thanks . Tom
For the price of 700 cups of coffee a kid can have a guitar pedal. Not my kids, I drink the coffee and they can eat guitar pedals. Also I’m broke from these life choices and make my own pedals when I should be working. Damn it, this cycle is endless
A lot of money doesn't buy a delay pedal; a lot of money buys an army of professional guitarists to stand there and repeat your licks for you at quieter volumes. Prole.
This channel is fantastic
uh better than urs uh
Right!
You are also fantastic my dude
Well said.
I love how they constantly infuriate The Gear Page and all of the other snobs 😂 it’s truly beautiful
“I really care about my tone so I’m going gold tip cables straight into my Dumble” that killed me too funny
Hemp cones bro. Hemp... Cones.
Came for the pedals, stayed for the comedy
@@SpinandThrowDiscGolf Smoking a couple cones will make any rig sound better than any Dumble for sure
"I can make a clean boost in like 10 seconds with a single transistor."
Oh hell yeah.
After I had built a fuzz face and a rangemaster in high school I hacked together a clean boost with a mosfet, a couple of resistors, a 9 volt battery connector and a piece of perfboard about the size of a US penny that I found while cleaning out the physics lab at school. This all hid neatly in my strat and was my "secret sauce" for a few years. The gain was controlled via the guitars volume knob and the battery was only connected if the guitar was plugged in. I was pretty proud of myself at the time, and looking over what I just wrote I guess I still am.
I just bought a Squier bullet to try and teach myself this kind of stuff that sounds bad ass
So maybe you should sell it on or make your own guitar and who knows maybe even Matt Bellamy himself will buy his next guitar from you! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
But is a buffer in it? If not, then why boost? 😄
Impressive man..I hope u build circuits for a living..sounds like u should be...
This is "Boss" boss. Have you published the schematics?
WOW! I never wanted a Klon until now! DIdn't know it could work as a clean boost - I just went and bought two! Thanks JHS!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring the panel back for more videos!!! I love nerding out AND laughing with you all!
"Why buy cheap and be a creep, when you can spend money and sound like honey?" Best quote ever!
The quote of the year…
I recently found this channel… I’m 62 years old I’ve been playing guitar since I was eight… I am addicted to this JHS… They bring so much information and joy ,thank you guys... The Chase Bliss was amazing...Take care everyone
Welcome!!!!
I'm 63
Well I'm the youngest of us at 56. I quit enjoy being young, Glade to see the "Old Guys" getting with It!!! LoL
@@reverendg5937 I'm 17 and also a pedal nerd. It's hard finding other pedal nerds like me my age😂
@@guestivity2063 Yeah, I'm 28 and most younger people these are full on into amp sims. Yeah, I think they sound killer, but I feel like the sounds I can get through pedals to be much more unique as well as more fun to experiment with and dial in- I'm not relying on the same algorithm everybody else is using! I'm the asshole that likes to be different just because lol
I love how both dudes at the panel are perfectly acceptable parallel universe versions of Josh and Nick if only the tiniest detail of the past had been different
"Line-666" is the funniest thing I've heard all year
Oh my God, I love how you had two regular dudes, and then that ridiculous character "Addison" in the middle! And what a crazy costume too! I don't know where you come up with this stuff.
I come from an age where we didn’t have ear protectors and common sense.
This means I no longer can tell the difference between a Klon and a Zoom 505 any more.
The panel of judges is just, perfect
I have, 100%, been on threads with all 3 panel members here on TGP.
I appreciate the guys playing down the absurdities of each character.
Is Obese Mike still a wannabe cop over on the Geezer Page?
17:17 Josh: Does anybody want to study this? Answer: no. 😂😂😂
"They're coming down a little bit [in price]" NOT ANY MORE, thanks to Mr. Josh and co!
*laughs at the idea that someone subscribes to this show and is hearing about the tb-2w for the first time today*
Hahah amazing. I think Josh eating fast food on camera, was his ultimate goal on this video
I’m super invested in these characters you’ve created.
Watching the Klon break Josh's mind somehow never gets old
Addison’s face when the panel starts arguing about the Klon clone in the Boss OD200, had me ROLLING! 🤣🤣🤣 I’ve bought like 3 JHS pedals because I love this channel so much and love the originality and chemistry of everyone. Thank y’all for being one of my fav channels!
Josh's rant about the, what I learned today, "Apparently Overhyped & Overrated Klon Centaur" at 21:32 thru 23:55 was absolutely amazing and hilarious! XD
“Spend money, make honey” must become a shirt where funds are donated to a bee organization.
They used to have one called the Pollinator iirc
@@wiggledixbubsy98 oh damn your right! Forgot about that haha. Gonna edit post haha
I’m convinced cowboy Josh exists in a parallel universe.
Idk why this episode was so fucking funny. Like a lot of these episodes are funny but this one had my dying “clear skies, Paul blart, hit snooze”
I have an original Ampeg Scrambler. I bought it in the mid 90's for $75. It's still in great condition and I still use it.
The next panel needs the “plug straight into the amp” guy who does t use pedals at all, but if he did here’s his opinion
Just cut to him after every segment and have him say "don't like it"
Only pedal you need is one to switch from clean to dirty
Also known as the dude that gets processed the most in the studio
Now that I've finally got my Blues Jr figured out I sometimes plug straight in. But I also love fuzz, delay, and have figured out how to get a deliciously squishy high gain overdrive with a morning glory into an OCD. I won't be dropping the pedals anytime soon.
Waddy Wachtel
I can't believe no one has discovered the secret to why Klons sound so good... Tone Metal. Guitar makers seek out the perfect tone woods but most pedal makers (including JHS) just slap their circuits into any old enclosure. Not so with The Mighty Klon! The atomic structure of their boxes is what totally makes this pedal worth $6000.
SMH Duh!!!!🤦
A weird anecdote: the original fuzz faces sound different if you don’t screw on the back cover.
I once read that Eric Johnson would take the screw out of his fuzz face and use a rubber band to hold it together, because he insisted that the screw affected his tone...
@@less_concerned1221 Ha! Is this true!?! Eric Johnson uses a rubber band to hold it together.
@@creamydistortion absolutely true. And the battery type makes a difference in the Germanium fuzz pedals. Lead acid and alkaline sound different. It’s kind of weird and I didn’t believe it until I tried it. It’s not with all pedals though. Sometimes you don’t notice much of anything. And I’ve measured the voltage with a meter. When a 9v starts to dip around 7.5 -8VDC you can hear the difference. It has less of a hard edge to the fuzz. Some people feel that it’s a little more musical. Notice in the video about the Boss Tonebender that it has a voltage sag switch. It’s there for a reason.
Love the "N+1" shirt. "How many pedals do you need? Just one more." :)
That Klon segment made me laugh a lot. Thank you for that.
That reaction to the OD-200 made my sides hurt. Wow. This might be your best work yet guys
New to your channel...Love your content...it's 2:12am and I really need to go to bed but contemplating wether to watch another episode...damn it
This may be the funniest JHS episode ever... love you guys, please keep doing this forever :)
That Sonic Kick Flip was really cool actually 🔥🔥🔥
The moment Nick said, “Traxton” I pissed myself laughing.
Think about the number of CEOs who operate a TH-cam channel and talk honestly about products from the competition, and aren't constantly plugging their own.
Exactly.
Awesome video. Thanks for the blend of information, wisdom, and a good dose of humour for the icing on the cake. The comedy skits were gold
Please make an “I don’t want a toy, I want the sauce” t-shirt. The people need this.
Probably my favorite episode yet
Thanks for the great music recommendation! Thanks for the humor. Thanks for making great pedals. Thanks for everything.
Listening to Denison now ...
Being from England, hearing it pronounced "Henley-on-Thames" hurt even though that's the logical pronunciation. Just for future reference it would be said, "Henley-on-Tems". Great video though, was a really thought provoking panel you had there :)
I wonder if “Ring stinger” means the same thing in America 😂
@@michaelhalliwell1015 I hope so but I have my doubts
Thank god you mentioned this "thems" gave me anxiety.
Oxford shyer
JHS is the only content TH-cam needs
I'd probably never spend two thousand bucks on a pedal, but if I did, one of those Lovetones would be a good candidate. They are quite incredible creations. I remember back in the late '90s they were still in production and already expensive at 400 bucks or so.
I love hearing Josh complain about the KLON being used as a clean boost at 22:23
😅
The Ring Stinger sounds like it was created to recreate the connection sounds from the days of dial-up internet
“There is an anger inside of me!” 🤣🤣
Addison reminds me of Jim from The Office in this episode 😂
I got a chase bliss spectre, the 2nd model with the fixed noise floor. Don’t make it anymore and that makes me love it more lol, it’s a crazy flanger with more options than I’ll ever need and I hardly understand how to use it fully but it’s my secret sauce “you can’t have this” flanger/weird noise box
How has this channel not cracked a million subs yet?
one of the best one's yet...who wrote the long-haired dude's lines!?!?! Hilarious!
That thousand could buy a awful lotta tootsie rolls!
This was one of the best videos I've ever seen! Josh the cowboy needs to be a recurring character!
hey everyone this is a PSA both for the channel and for you pedal buyers. there's a little boutique company called wilson effects (and yes it's really boutique) that sells reissued vintage circuits for a little less or around the price of JHS. And they have things they don't offer. I'd love to see a video about Wilson Effects because I think they deserve it
Haha, this is a great episode, love it. By the way, Josh, "Thames" is pronounced "Tems", "Upon" means it's close to the river Thames (Tems). Keep them coming, I think you are the top, Guitar pedal TH-cam channel, in the world!
'You're an adult, or at least you are a child'
Yes indeed
Fun fact: T-Bone Drexel is just Josh Scott's brother, also named Josh Scott
Love the ending with asking why do I really want this pedal. Allot people should be asking that question before they buy allot of gear.
I think the Zoom multi pedal has a ring mod setting too. I think.
I want to shout that final monologue on TGP
Traxton really brings a lot to the table. No more JHS Pedals! The people cry out for Traxton Pedals Incorporated!
The Klon segment was hilarious!
Best vid yet! You guys are a trip!
That Auotomatone is nuts. I was just thinking an OD w/ built in multi-band EQ would be genius! I can sell all 7 of my OD's and afford that robot pedal! Or JHS can make one that is manual and I'll buy yours.
'My poor friends listen to Radiohead' 🤣🤣 more of this format
Best JHS video EVER.
How did Josh just pronounce Henley-on-Thames? Oh Boy - that was so wrong - yet he's been in London.
I really enjoyed the Boss Waza ToneBender.
I'm convinced nick came up with the phrase "you gotta put your money where your tone is" and then invented a whole character around it
“If Mayer has it, I have it” thought I’d switched to the Vertex channel
That Memory Man thing.. I've got the Memory Man TT1100 which costs a few hundred pounds - so is it just the chips that are the difference, or that would make someone spend a grand on the older version???
Henley-on-Thames is a very posh place about 30 miles west of London. The Thames is the river it is on. Thames is pronounced Tems.
Josh, dude, you can play for real! Great vibrato, and your buds have big skills too. Loving this vid and I'm only 4 minutes into it, haha! This is gonna be fun!
Hope you get to interview or guest Bill Finnegan here someday soon.
“My poor friends listen to Radiohead.” -- but this line is priceless.
Can you keep yourself from singing whenever you hear him say "I have the box?"
watching Josh lose his mind over the Klon as a clean boost is always funny
Ahem....The Way Huge Havalina pedal, is discontinued, however, cheaper to consider The Boss FZ-5, very similar sound.
This episode is just too much fun
Greatest JHS show ever!
"...can you stop rolling the cameras? Please, seriously... STOP !!!" ick wins the internet, again !!!
That sounded nothing like the Talking Heads mixed with Grateful Dead 🤣
If you want that experience check out Phish.
That ring mod robot pedal is my worst nightmare...
Must have burned my brain out mixing today because it took me until 10 minutes into the video to realize t-bone looks exactly like josh in a stetson and sunglasses. Don’t get me wrong, I’m aware they’re different people, but it’s a cool coincidence.
I love the way the wig makes Nick's beard into a total dirtbag beard.
Hi Josh. I bought a MXR IL Diavolo pedal recently and was wondering if anyone could help me in determining what pedals it is intended to emulate . Thanks . Tom
Oh that? That's just my Eventide H90
Yea, it's awesome.
Best episode on 2021
"Come up to Wyoming, my horse will put you in court"
My new motto..."Spend money, sound like honey". Mic drop anyone?
For the price of 700 cups of coffee a kid can have a guitar pedal. Not my kids, I drink the coffee and they can eat guitar pedals. Also I’m broke from these life choices and make my own pedals when I should be working. Damn it, this cycle is endless
A lot of money doesn't buy a delay pedal; a lot of money buys an army of professional guitarists to stand there and repeat your licks for you at quieter volumes. Prole.
That Chase Bliss box is something else. $750 new on reverb on 10/17.
The judges 😂😂😂👌🏼 love you guys soooooo MUCH!!!
I came into possession of a Behringer BLE100 pedal. so I understand, why would I want to, but would it work as a compressor on my guitar?
«and...i have the box...i can even...»
thanks for the demos, timestamps would be helpful
Great show!
Came for the pedals, stayed for the comedy.
Just saw the Community reference, six seasons and a movie!
To a video about octopi please!!! Also shrimp
Simply and perfectly hacked the klon lie 😂😂😂
T bone is the best character ever.
In N Out is great. You should make an In N Out pedal.