The sound of that Small Stone is very mysterious and I love it. The rarest guitar pedal I own is a boost I'm prototyping on a breadboard. It's the only copy ever made, and it is the only boost in the market that also doubles as an AM radio.
I almost bought a Small Stone back in the 70's and had a crack at the FOXX wah/distortion pedal but passed on it, regrettably. Had a Big Muff but honestly didn't care for it and sold it. That Foxx distortion sounded a thousand times better to my ears. I also had a working Script Phase 45 which I loved, till I let a friend borrow it. Oh, I got it back alright, dead as a doornail.
I was thinking at the last pedal "don't be a Klon, don't be a Klon, don't be a Klon." It was a Klon. ha. I appreciate your interesting hobby. Thanks for sharing your pedal love and interesting trivia knowledge.
@Life VIV The original MF104 released in 2000 didn't have tap, there was just a single footswitch for on/off. Pretty certain the first Moog with tap tempo was the MF104M circa 2012.
Josh, when did you buy the klon centaur? In 1995? I'm not curious about the serial number, I'm curious about how you obtained it exactly. Like, were you the original purchaser?
I have an Analogman Sun Face, with NKT 275 red dots inside. I don't think it's as rare as some of Josh's pedals, but in my small collection it's top dog. I also have a Zendrive built by Mr. Hermida himself, that runs a close second. Both sound amazing :)
Where the hell is the sovtek episode. WE NEEDS IT! pedal wise i have a strange version of the bubble font big muff that doesn't resemble either the tall or bubble font internally. Also both acetone fuzzmasters 2, and 3(which are my favorites).
I’m curious about something. You seem to use a lot more humbuckers than single coils, which seems odd to me given your love for fuzz and 6L6 amps. I’ve heard time and time again that fuzz was designed to be used with single coils. Also, 6L6 tubes tend to compress more than EL84s, or really most other tubes, and humbuckers compress a little compared to single coils as well. So I just want to know what your attraction to humbuckers is all about.
That might as well be remembered as the Schrödinger's Pedal. A thought experiment where the content of the box is both a Small Stone or a Small Clone at the same time. This is quantum pedaling, my friends. Quantum Pedaling.
I have one of the first three Catalinbread Super Chile Picoso pedals ever made back when he was hand painting them. Our dearly departed Nick Harris was a very close friend of mine (was even the best man at my wedding!) and I helped him build most all of his his early stuff when he was still in Seattle before he moved his shop to Portland. We we're kicking around pedal name ideas over some beers and I said 'super Chile picoso' and he was like THAT'S IT!' HMU if you wanna see a pic of it inside and out. I even still have the cute little personal note he wrote and folded up and stuck inside the pedal for me to discover later when it was time for a battery change. RIP old friend.
I never hear anyone mention the old Catalinbread Picoso boosts! I have an old Sagrado Pablano Picoso Stout Boost that I bought new back in the early 2000s, and more recently I picked a slightly newer Serrano Picoso boost. The stout boost is the older rectangle layout but doesn't appear to be hand painted. I remember walking into the shop in San Jose and asking for something that would help my clean tone in whatever amp I had back then. I didn't a thing about pedals then but it did exactly what they said it would. They're both amazing when you want just a bit 'more'.
Yeah! I really want ot hear it. If you just can't, send it to me and I'll do it for you. I promise I'll send it back. I promise. I really, really, promise. Sometime.
Every time my 8 year old daughter Lorelei comes in the room when I'm watching your videos she says it's "cupid face", I wonder where he hides his bows and arrows at? I was like yeah Josh does kinda have a cupid face, lol. I now think you should do a pedal with a cupid stamp on it. Who's with me?
Favorite rare pedals that I own: 1. Big Tone Music Brewery's Six of Swords (Serial number 10) 2. Spaceman Gemini III Fuzz (Black, serial number 35 of 50) 3. RGW Electronics Bad Bob Boost (pre-Analogman, RIP Robbie) 4. Dunlop Kerry King Q-Zone (prices are spiking recently) 5. Klon Centaurs (Serial numbers 122 & 123, original owner) 6. Creepy Fingers Treble Booster (made with Russian mil-spec components) 7. Boss FA-1 Preamp (soon to be replaced by a more durable JHS Clover) 8. Wampler Crush the Button (Orange amp style, short run for Belgian pedal shop) 9. Lovepedal Darling Devil Distortion (serial number 9 of 10 made) 10. Lovepedal Flaming Tiki COT 50 (1 of 2 made) Lots more have come & gone as my pedal horde had exceeded 300 units at one point. I try to keep it around a tidy 100 now. I'm always looking though, always...
Nirvana unplugged. Not so different for many bands, but no one saw a great set happening that day apart from the band themselves. Even the MTV unplugged crew were expecting a diaster. The band start playing and deliver one of the most iconic unplugged sets of the series. As a fan at the time the band's ability to switch from balls to the wall grunge to melodic and subtle acoustic songs was pretty mind blowing.
Nirvana Unplugged set the standard for unplugged shows, a songwriter not afraid to shine the spotlight on other songwriters that have inspired him, great performances by everyone and a nice general vibe of friends playing together. Having that show made losing Cobain, although still a terrible tragedy, a bit easier.
Severinate yeah that was kinda unexpected but still really good set Most unplugged sets sound not even close But I thought they did a pretty cool job They must have gotten some Tasty Chiller , to mellow out before the show
musik 1. followed, not set said standard 2. Covers are common for acoustic sets, ESPECIALLY when originals sound like 90% of the Nirvana catalogue which when translated to acoustic is very telling.
Awesome. Almost a history lesson, a wine tasting, and a suspense drama at the same time. A couple comments, first, that Red Army sounds killer. Secondly, I sure hope the sealed-box Small Stone didn't ship with a battery.
@KC Do you really want to get into it? You made a seriously embarrassing mistake just at the outset which I'll gladly show to you. We can do this ... but ...
@KC Okay, you clearly want to do this so here we go. It's always easier to make stupid accusations then to debunk them, so this will take time, but it's easy, and your first one was such a bad one it doesn't take long at all. Let's look at your 3rd of 4 claims. You state unequivocally, "They (meaning the church I imagine) covered up matters." You don't state alleged, or maybe, or that there MIGHT be a case for it - you just simply say they do, and you point to a Rolling Stone article (www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/love-and-death-in-the-house-of-prayer-53866/). Now, do you know what irrational bias is? Irrational bias is what you appear to have - someone who is not only biased but so biased that they don't care WHAT the facts say. Why do I make this conclusion? Because while Rolling Stone did originally indicate, in that article that a murder (not murders - more illogical and irresponsible hyperbole) may have occurred, they then printed a complete and 100% retraction that all of the evidence indicated it was actually a suicide rendering the entire thesis of the article false. What's funny is that I did a quick Google search on this argument you are making today and noticed that these same two articles (Slate and Rolling Stone) seems to be all anyone ever says - and you spit it out almost verbatim. Considering you completely missed this point indicates only two things I can think of: 1. You never actually read the Rolling Stone article in its entirely showing that you have no real depth of intellectual honesty in this fight of yours OR 2. You WERE aware of it and pushed it anyway which puts you and your false moral outrage in true perspective. I really hope this last one isn't it.
My rarest pedal would have to be one that I built. I was obsessed with Devi Ever pedals at the time and bought a couple of kits from her (just boards and components). I put together a pedal that, with switches of the toggles, turns from a Ruby to a Houndstooth to a 90 and a 4th combination that she didn't make. I also put in a tone knob and linked it via toggle to two different caps...one is fairly subtle and almost useless (and is, therefore, my favorite), but the other one allows you to dial the tone down pretty dark to get the tone of the Dark Ruby, which she accidentally made for a short period of time. It is like having at least 5 Devi pedals in one box. It has some quirks (why doesn't the LED ever cut off? What did I do???), but it sounds awesome. Thanks for sharing your obsession with us, Josh!
My oldest brother had two pedals in the late '60s that I remember. The first was a Schaller wah pedal that had a toggle for two tone settings, they were labelled "bow-wow" and "yoy-yoy". Bow-wow was a pretty standard sounding wah sweep, yoy-yoy had some crazy resonance peak. I was quite young but I can remember the sounds quite distinctly. I also remember the box (my brother was kind of fussy and always put it back in the box when he wasn't using it) had a photo of a Basset Hound on it. The other pedal was a fuzz pedal of some kind. I believe it was a Vox, it was shaped like a mid-late 60s Tone Bender just like yours, had the chicken head knobs, same rough textured metal, but the case was red. I've never seen a photo of red one . I can remember he got a pretty convincing Clapton-Cream SWLABR tone. Anyway, I'm sure they're both long gone, he had a lot of drug problems over the years, but I know he still had them in the early 90's. I saw them at my parents house where he'd been living after a divorce (and they were still in the boxes). I don't know how rare they are, apparently the Schaller is a collectible.
Hey Josh. Have you ever seen/heard of a old Electro Harmonix filter wah that had a roller wheel on it to adjust the sweep? My friend had one in the early 80's. It was cool and unique sounding. Never seen it since. You rock. Thx
The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me is a killer transitional record. Paul Westerberg handles all of the guitar duties because of Bob Stinsons' departure and writes some great tunes. Probably their most coherent, complete album.
Transitional record: "You Made Me Realise" EP by My Bloody Valentine. They really became MBV with that one. In that recent Fender video series on the 60th Anniversary of the Jazzmaster, Kevin Shields said he basically came up with his signature gliding, wavy sound in an afternoon while working on "Thorn" and "Slow" from that EP. I know it's all about "Loveless" but "You Made Me Realise" is amazing, too. Great video, Josh!
I subscribe to engineering channels and channels about AI and physics, philosophy, etc, and this might be the nerdiest video I’ve ever seen. :P The transition of Dillinger Escape Plan from having Mike Patton on that EP and then releasing Miss Machine (with a new singer) is incredible. A lot of OG fanboys disagree with me for sure, but I think Miss Machine is their best album IMO. I have a pedal that was hand made for a friend of mine that passed and I have absolutely no idea what it is. I just know it’s some kind of boost/drive and it sounds killer and I will never let it go.
I have a one-of-one Rook in a Kensrue enclosure whose color didn't match the run, and so it didn't get built. Mark built it for me and he and Jon signed it. If Brad Fee could sign it, I might have to take it off my board and buy a used Rook for daily use. That's my only rarity.
Cool pedals! I got a kick out of the fonts on that Red Army pedal. They're so Western! LOL! I own an Effectrode Helios--that's my "rare" pedal, and also the first boutique pedal, as well as the first TUBE pedal, and the first and only fuzz/tube pedal combo, that I ever bought. IDK if it qualifies as historic, and making a pedal rare is as easy as making only a few; but that's what I have. If an all-tube fuzz ever existed, I'd like to know about it. For records, I'm going with Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. To me, this is the record that took them from their more clattering (in a good way) 80s period, past the references to pop music, and into riffage territory. It's also the only album they really played that way on. The record was a HUGE influence on Nirvana, Beck, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, most of the grunge people (especially SY's former label mates from SST Records)...the list goes on. It's a dissonant, rough, mind-bending assault, yet also strangely palatable. It changed my thinking about what music could be and drove me to try new things. I would say that from this point, Sonic Youth began a gradual decline. Goo was good but not AS good, and certainly not mixed as well, as Daydream Nation. Starting with and including about half or more of Dirty, they quit being as sonically adventurous, probably due to record label crap, and I pretty much decided to stick to their older stuff. For an alternative choice, I'd go with something like Hologram of Baal, by The Church. They were on an artistic and business decline, and nearly came to an end. As a fan, I had abandoned hope. Then, I found a deluxe copy (with Bastard Universe included) for $3 at a used record store. This record was the first to feature Tim on drums, and if you ask me, Tim's production helped rejuvenate the band in a significant way, even if Tim disagrees. It also featured the "official return" of Peter, one of the founding members of the band. Peter brought with him a Pog and was doing spacey, shimmery ambient/dream-pop stuff on this record, letting Marty play more of the up-front guitar parts; this injected a fresh and complementary dimension to the music and lyrics. Needless to say, as a fanboy, I was excited by their return, and they haven't put out another bad album since then (with possible exception of last year's Man, Woman, Life, Death, Infinity, which didn't suck but wasn't particularly remarkable to me). Rock on!
I have a “Boba Fuzz” Woolly Mammoth clone made by DopeFx in the UK. “Hand wired on the dark side” it says on the box. Awesome fuzz. “Flow Motion” by CAN is an awesome transition album; a move from the beach to the pool. Also “Shiny Beast” by Captain Beefheart.
Not incredibly rare, but I have a DOD Meatbox with all the original packaging that I bought for $25. It is in pristine condition and sounds killer (if you can work out what the knobs do being as they are labeled "Flank" "Meat" "Rump" and "LBS"). I also have an original OP Amp Big Muff that is just incredible! The "bypass" is kinda worthless, it's like a fuzz when it is on and an overdrive when it is off; but I will be buried with it!
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have an album which is quite different from their previous ones. its called "Flying Microtonal Banana". As they said that album is "An Exploration into Microtonal Tuning" and they used guitars with modified fret placements. Check it out.
@@JGHFunRun You’re in luck, there’s a new Gizzard album coming out on the 11th! That said, you never have to wait long for one, their last album came out in late February (that one was part 3 in the microtonal trilogy)
Mine aren’t that rare but I do have the EHX/Sovtek Big Muff Pi and EHX/Sovtek Smallstone with both original boxes and on my board.. I did have the original EHX Electric Mistress but sold it... I’ll be adding more to my board/collection over time..
The diamond delay and your panther where actually the two delay pedals I really really wanted to own among hundreds of others and it was not just about the tap tempo in an analog delay, they seemed to have the most awesome sound indeed. Never got to actually get either of those, but still it was fun to hear my all-time top choices mentioned together.
I own one of your reissued Pink Panthers with the copywrite questioned graphics which I bought on Denmark St. the day before he was meant to release it, as a graduation present for myself. He also told a great story about meeting you and you making him a select dealer because he recognised you entering his shop. Not only will I hold on to it because it’s a future rarity, but also because I love the sounds it makes
Well. If you still own them. You are still hoarding them... Fun video. Thanks for sharing Josh. Don't know where else I would hear a decent demo of a Tone Bender and original Klon in the same video.
My rarest pedal is a Guild Foxey Lady from circa 1968, hand built by Mike Mathews. It's exactly like the one in this video. The fun starts at 3:10 th-cam.com/video/CewOX5ch_ok/w-d-xo.html Mine's 100% intact, functional, with original bakelite knobs and hard rubber footplate.
Sir Mildred Pierce I grew up in Holland, and played with a guy who worked for them for several years. It was a real treat seeing him bring out some of the stuff they were working on!
My son and I own serial numbers #024 and #025 of the first 100 (hand built) Keely El Rey Dorado's. Killer Plexi sounding overdrives. Ian went to buy one for himself and bought me the other one for Father's Day. It's been on my board since.
Yep was completely different sound from AM and Humbug was a big statement too at the time, lyrics got a lot more poetic and sound got less catchy and darker they really shook off a lot of pub/footie/lad/m8 listeners with that album and I love it
Hey Josh, I was curious about some other rare pedals I've only seen once before, and I was wondering if you had any info to go on at all. I recently purchased a Japanese made Night Hawk NH340 Electric Tube overdrive from a pawn shop and tried to look up the manufacturer online to no avail so far. I believe it may have been manufactured under In-Line Effects possibly? I've seen a few scant pictures of other Night Hawk pedals in the line such as a chorus but can't find any further info or even valuation aside from a single eBay and Reverb posting for sale which seems to be using the same photo set on both listings
I have one of the rats with the tone knob instead of filter knob. Picked it up in a pawn shop in the early 90's. Didn't know the tone version was different till much later I also have a ColorSound overdriver and a Rosac nu wa-fuzz all picked up at pawn shops
Transition record - Candy Apple Grey by Husker Du. The band always existed as a tension between Grant Hart, who should have been a pop star, and Bob Mould, who would have killed you for saying he maybe some day could be a pop star. It's hard to overstate how controversial it was for an already legendary hardcore band to go off and play footsie with Warner Brothers. CAG was their attempt to marry their punk cred with some some degree of professionalism and success. What's interesting is that it doesn't sound punk and it doesn't sound commercial. The production quality is worse than most punk records, by a lot. And with the odd exception (yes, I'm looking at your 'Dead Set on Destruction') there's no a pop hook to be found. They never did get it going, and folded in spectacular acrimony soon after. But it's Husker Du so I still listen to it . . . .
I have a MAK Ion modulated delay... I believe this particular version is the only one ever made! Next time you are in the UK, feel free to pop by for a coffee and a jam
My rarest pedal is an ALESIS BITRMAN pedal. It is has a crappy plastic housing, but it does crazy bit crushing and has an over-the-top phaser thrown in to boot.
My rarest pedal is the Thunder Tomate Phil Hilborne Fat Treble Boost. It will punch virtually any pedal combination through the mix but, thanks to the treble cut knob, without making your ears bleed! Perhaps these aren’t rare at all and it’s just that anyone who owns one thinks it’s a keeper.
Ever since Fluff gave you a shoutout, this's been my favourite channel on TH-cam. Really good stuff man! Pappa Bless! (To you and the team) Would love to see a top 10 Phasers kinda video xx
Heathkit make a copy of your 2 transistor Tone Bender in the later 60's of course it was a kit that you had to put together & it was in a case more like a boss pedal.
i have an imfanem faye's her. i think there were 27 of them sold and a prototype sold later on. other rare ones are a slow gear, love pedal pompeii fuzz, mr. black pre-amp, maestro phaser, a few limited colours and enclosures of otherwise not so rare pedals.
Geeze there are thousands of pedals now, and the modeling stuff can make any sound you want. My pedals are from the 70s mostly. I once bought a whole boxed filled with electroharmonix pedals. I sold one like ten years ago and there was a bidding war for it on ebay. I'm keeping the box now.
Hi I think the quantum physics guy Schodinger had a similar issue with 'what's in the box', in his case a thought experiment as the aliveness or otherwise of an imaginary cat. Seriously, it kept him up at night. If I had a time machine (which he probably had also given some thought too), I'd use it to ask him what problem he had with cats, why not have an imaginary frog, a more common science dead animal, used in disections. So in the case of it being dead it might still be useful, or maybe call animal welfare services and ask him if he was unkind to small animals as a child etc etc adinfinitum
Why not run the Small Stone box under an airport (or elsewhere) security scanner? You will know what is in the box... without actually having to open the box. Problem solved!
@@skqwhorl6083 Yes they are.Very, very cheap. Manufacturers just don't want the masses to know how cheap and easy it all really is. In china the same pedal which is $100 here, is only $10 there.Yet made with the same things.
I saw Adrian Belew in 1983 on his “Twang Bar King tour (running 2 JC-120s BTW....one chorusing and one w chorus turned off) I know this because I showed up early and chatted my way into the venue and ended up helping him sound check the drums because the drummer was absent....and I was a 15 year old gtr nerd......and after the show I found an EHX 16 second delay w remote.(the 1st gen)in my local paper(the recycler) I still use it today but the reticon chips are near extinct if they go bad. Nells Klein did a great demo of his. Bill Dillans had a stack of em (parts)while working on a Robbie Robertson 2nd album. I love your Channel. Your my new friend.
I saw him at the old El Macombo (Toronto) in 1983. What I remember most was his new Fender Mustangs painted out in the “Twang Bar King” colours. Great show! 2nd thing I recall: my friend almost not getting in because they were checking IDs and the suspicious doorman asked my friend for his horoscope sign as a spot check; my friend honestly didn’t know…
I’ve only recently discovered your channel, but I’ve been into all things music my entire life. I want to thank you for your constant praise of other pedal makers and musicians. It’s so sadly rare these days for creators to not feel the need for superiority- and that makes you a VERY RARE pedal(maker). Your knowledge of the history, your anecdotes, your humor make each episode refreshing. The way you speak so glowingly about the people who essentially are your “competition” speaks volumes about how good yours babies must be! Keep up the great work and the positive media... the world needs more discussions about creatives!
I have a ProCo Rat with the TONE knob in the middle. I have had this pedal since 79/80 .I also have a ChandlerTUBEDRIVER, the rack mount version. Yes I know it's supposed to be Butler but this was when Butler was with Chandler. I also have an early Dyna Comp and Noise Gate / Line Driver by MXR. I got all of these when I first started playing guitars in the late 70's early 80's.
I just ordered one of your modded Rat pedals. If you want, you could just send me that one. I wouldn't even care if it didn't have the mod. It's not that I want it. I mean, I don't have to have it or anything.
I am trying to sell my Clone Theory. Please do an episode about how great they are so its value skyrockets. Thank you in advance.
NO! You sell it for a good low price to your fellow musicians! No room for ripoffs in music..
@@michaelcraig9449 I sold it for $5000 and then used the money to burn down an orphanage on Christmas Eve.
@@FastAnimal75 based
@@FastAnimal75 this guy gets it
The sound of that Small Stone is very mysterious and I love it. The rarest guitar pedal I own is a boost I'm prototyping on a breadboard. It's the only copy ever made, and it is the only boost in the market that also doubles as an AM radio.
João Felipe Santos that made me grin!
I almost bought a Small Stone back in the 70's and had a crack at the FOXX wah/distortion pedal but passed on it, regrettably.
Had a Big Muff but honestly didn't care for it and sold it. That Foxx distortion sounded a thousand times better to my ears.
I also had a working Script Phase 45 which I loved, till I let a friend borrow it. Oh, I got it back alright, dead as a doornail.
I was thinking at the last pedal "don't be a Klon, don't be a Klon, don't be a Klon." It was a Klon. ha. I appreciate your interesting hobby. Thanks for sharing your pedal love and interesting trivia knowledge.
@Life VIV The original MF104 released in 2000 didn't have tap, there was just a single footswitch for on/off. Pretty certain the first Moog with tap tempo was the MF104M circa 2012.
That Eventide Rose really out here looking like my MySpace layout from 2005.
Josh, when did you buy the klon centaur? In 1995?
I'm not curious about the serial number, I'm curious about how you obtained it exactly. Like, were you the original purchaser?
I really enjoyed the show and love the Centaur pedal! Which JHS pedal is closest to the Centaur?
We don't have a Klon-style pedal currently. But our mod to the EHX Soul Food is great! www.jhspedals.com/products/mod-shop/soul-food-meat-3-mod/
Cool I have a soul food now running it as a clean boost before my zen drive , got the idea from your stacking pedals set very nice
I have an Analogman Sun Face, with NKT 275 red dots inside. I don't think it's as rare as some of Josh's pedals, but in my small collection it's top dog. I also have a Zendrive built by Mr. Hermida himself, that runs a close second. Both sound amazing :)
The thing that scares me the most is what if Josh dies...Josh, please, live long! Wee need you...
Got me a pink panther delay! That’s beautiful and rare !
I own a pretty rare pedal, there’s only 100 of them around. Oh yeah! It’s the blacked out Cheese Ball! Thanks for that by the way :)
Where the hell is the sovtek episode. WE NEEDS IT! pedal wise i have a strange version of the bubble font big muff that doesn't resemble either the tall or bubble font internally. Also both acetone fuzzmasters 2, and 3(which are my favorites).
What's the guitar that you play while playing with the Eventide Rose ? Looks like Dave Grhol's guitar
Rhoney
I NEED THE OCTIVIDER FOR BASS
When you die, who gets all the pedals?? 👀
I’m curious about something. You seem to use a lot more humbuckers than single coils, which seems odd to me given your love for fuzz and 6L6 amps. I’ve heard time and time again that fuzz was designed to be used with single coils. Also, 6L6 tubes tend to compress more than EL84s, or really most other tubes, and humbuckers compress a little compared to single coils as well. So I just want to know what your attraction to humbuckers is all about.
10:50... Come down there Schrodinger
That might as well be remembered as the Schrödinger's Pedal. A thought experiment where the content of the box is both a Small Stone or a Small Clone at the same time. This is quantum pedaling, my friends. Quantum Pedaling.
I thought the same thing 😂
No. It's just called being a Nerd
Ha, I was thinking the same thing at that point in the video.
I thought the exact same thing.
Now I want to make a Schrödinger's Stone modulation pedal. Time to break out the breadboard.
You my friend won the internet today, well played!
My rarest pedal is a jhs clover that is serial number 777. It's my lucky clover.
Hey my JHS Clover is Serial number 777 too.
I'm starting to see a pattern here...
@@CamiloPefaur 1 is just one, 2 is a coincidence, 3 is intruiging, 4 is a pattern
You need to hit up Steve Vai and see if he wants it. He is totally bananas about the number 7. Like compulsive about it.
I have one of the first three Catalinbread Super Chile Picoso pedals ever made back when he was hand painting them. Our dearly departed Nick Harris was a very close friend of mine (was even the best man at my wedding!) and I helped him build most all of his his early stuff when he was still in Seattle before he moved his shop to Portland. We we're kicking around pedal name ideas over some beers and I said 'super Chile picoso' and he was like THAT'S IT!' HMU if you wanna see a pic of it inside and out. I even still have the cute little personal note he wrote and folded up and stuck inside the pedal for me to discover later when it was time for a battery change. RIP old friend.
I never hear anyone mention the old Catalinbread Picoso boosts! I have an old Sagrado Pablano Picoso Stout Boost that I bought new back in the early 2000s, and more recently I picked a slightly newer Serrano Picoso boost. The stout boost is the older rectangle layout but doesn't appear to be hand painted. I remember walking into the shop in San Jose and asking for something that would help my clean tone in whatever amp I had back then. I didn't a thing about pedals then but it did exactly what they said it would. They're both amazing when you want just a bit 'more'.
"I was only looking at the small stone, I wasn't going to touch it---"
"DON'T EVEN LOOK AT IT!!!"
Eric Vinson underrated reference
I was literally thinking there is no way he brings out a klon since everyone knows about it but he brought out the klon of klons. Now that's epic.
When you find out that you had one of those 50 rare Superbolts a week after you sell it on Reverb 🤦🏻♂️
Bummer 🤔
I almost forgot... It's Thursday (which is becoming my favorite day of the week. Thanks, Josh!)
Yess!! Thursday is awesome
Hot Ones and JHS... great day
X-ray that damn Small Stone box!!
My instant thoughts exactly!
What a great idea.
That Red Army is super chewy
*Earthy 🌎
Andrew Clock there is no food only the motherland!!
@Andrew Clock 🤣 nailed it
But how does it sound with a bar full of people shouting over your playing?
Gregory Golda
LOL! Same as everything else. That’s where the ‘65 Fender Twin Reverb and the Line 6 Spider sound the same.
YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME OPEN THE FRIGGEN BOX
Yeah! I really want ot hear it. If you just can't, send it to me and I'll do it for you. I promise I'll send it back. I promise. I really, really, promise. Sometime.
Every time my 8 year old daughter Lorelei comes in the room when I'm watching your videos she says it's "cupid face", I wonder where he hides his bows and arrows at? I was like yeah Josh does kinda have a cupid face, lol. I now think you should do a pedal with a cupid stamp on it. Who's with me?
Yess it should be an harmonizer or a shimmer or maybe a romantic chorus
Loved the first one, the Russian made red army.
I'll be Russian out to find a red army!
Favorite rare pedals that I own:
1. Big Tone Music Brewery's Six of Swords (Serial number 10)
2. Spaceman Gemini III Fuzz (Black, serial number 35 of 50)
3. RGW Electronics Bad Bob Boost (pre-Analogman, RIP Robbie)
4. Dunlop Kerry King Q-Zone (prices are spiking recently)
5. Klon Centaurs (Serial numbers 122 & 123, original owner)
6. Creepy Fingers Treble Booster (made with Russian mil-spec components)
7. Boss FA-1 Preamp (soon to be replaced by a more durable JHS Clover)
8. Wampler Crush the Button (Orange amp style, short run for Belgian pedal shop)
9. Lovepedal Darling Devil Distortion (serial number 9 of 10 made)
10. Lovepedal Flaming Tiki COT 50 (1 of 2 made)
Lots more have come & gone as my pedal horde had exceeded 300 units at one point. I try to keep it around a tidy 100 now. I'm always looking though, always...
Jon Vecellio wow
Nirvana unplugged. Not so different for many bands, but no one saw a great set happening that day apart from the band themselves. Even the MTV unplugged crew were expecting a diaster. The band start playing and deliver one of the most iconic unplugged sets of the series. As a fan at the time the band's ability to switch from balls to the wall grunge to melodic and subtle acoustic songs was pretty mind blowing.
Nirvana Unplugged set the standard for unplugged shows, a songwriter not afraid to shine the spotlight on other songwriters that have inspired him, great performances by everyone and a nice general vibe of friends playing together. Having that show made losing Cobain, although still a terrible tragedy, a bit easier.
Uhm, don't ever watch the uncut version of that show. The editors created that vibe.
That's pretty much the same for every movie ever made in the history of movies. The editor is often considered "the final writer".@@FossilFishy
Severinate yeah that was kinda unexpected but still really good set
Most unplugged sets sound not even close
But I thought they did a pretty cool job
They must have gotten some Tasty Chiller ,
to mellow out before the show
musik 1. followed, not set said standard
2. Covers are common for acoustic sets, ESPECIALLY when originals sound like 90% of the Nirvana catalogue which when translated to acoustic is very telling.
Awesome. Almost a history lesson, a wine tasting, and a suspense drama at the same time. A couple comments, first, that Red Army sounds killer. Secondly, I sure hope the sealed-box Small Stone didn't ship with a battery.
Exciter 250 it did ;) I have one from the same years
Shit!! The battery,you are right
My rarest pedal is a 1977 Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Octave Multiplexer
Ooh, how is the fuzz effect on that?
Joseph Pickard It’s pretty nice. It’s more of an MXR Distortion+ sound than fuzz but it pairs quite nicely with the octave.
Damn you guys make a classy vlog. This is an example of what a lot more of them need to aspire to be.
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@KC I made fun of a school teacher once.
@KC , nope, but I did study logic. You really could use some training.
@KC Do you really want to get into it? You made a seriously embarrassing mistake just at the outset which I'll gladly show to you. We can do this ... but ...
@KC Okay, you clearly want to do this so here we go. It's always easier to make stupid accusations then to debunk them, so this will take time, but it's easy, and your first one was such a bad one it doesn't take long at all. Let's look at your 3rd of 4 claims. You state unequivocally, "They (meaning the church I imagine) covered up matters." You don't state alleged, or maybe, or that there MIGHT be a case for it - you just simply say they do, and you point to a Rolling Stone article (www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/love-and-death-in-the-house-of-prayer-53866/). Now, do you know what irrational bias is? Irrational bias is what you appear to have - someone who is not only biased but so biased that they don't care WHAT the facts say. Why do I make this conclusion? Because while Rolling Stone did originally indicate, in that article that a murder (not murders - more illogical and irresponsible hyperbole) may have occurred, they then printed a complete and 100% retraction that all of the evidence indicated it was actually a suicide rendering the entire thesis of the article false. What's funny is that I did a quick Google search on this argument you are making today and noticed that these same two articles (Slate and Rolling Stone) seems to be all anyone ever says - and you spit it out almost verbatim. Considering you completely missed this point indicates only two things I can think of: 1. You never actually read the Rolling Stone article in its entirely showing that you have no real depth of intellectual honesty in this fight of yours OR 2. You WERE aware of it and pushed it anyway which puts you and your false moral outrage in true perspective. I really hope this last one isn't it.
My rarest pedal would have to be one that I built. I was obsessed with Devi Ever pedals at the time and bought a couple of kits from her (just boards and components). I put together a pedal that, with switches of the toggles, turns from a Ruby to a Houndstooth to a 90 and a 4th combination that she didn't make. I also put in a tone knob and linked it via toggle to two different caps...one is fairly subtle and almost useless (and is, therefore, my favorite), but the other one allows you to dial the tone down pretty dark to get the tone of the Dark Ruby, which she accidentally made for a short period of time. It is like having at least 5 Devi pedals in one box. It has some quirks (why doesn't the LED ever cut off? What did I do???), but it sounds awesome. Thanks for sharing your obsession with us, Josh!
Come for the pedals, stay for the cool history lessons. I love your VLOG, Josh. Please never stop. Also love record time.
Lol, Schrodinger's Small Stone
He got into quantum physics there a little bit haha
My oldest brother had two pedals in the late '60s that I remember. The first was a Schaller wah pedal that had a toggle for two tone settings, they were labelled "bow-wow" and "yoy-yoy". Bow-wow was a pretty standard sounding wah sweep, yoy-yoy had some crazy resonance peak. I was quite young but I can remember the sounds quite distinctly. I also remember the box (my brother was kind of fussy and always put it back in the box when he wasn't using it) had a photo of a Basset Hound on it. The other pedal was a fuzz pedal of some kind. I believe it was a Vox, it was shaped like a mid-late 60s Tone Bender just like yours, had the chicken head knobs, same rough textured metal, but the case was red. I've never seen a photo of red one . I can remember he got a pretty convincing Clapton-Cream SWLABR tone. Anyway, I'm sure they're both long gone, he had a lot of drug problems over the years, but I know he still had them in the early 90's. I saw them at my parents house where he'd been living after a divorce (and they were still in the boxes). I don't know how rare they are, apparently the Schaller is a collectible.
Give me that small stone. GIVE ME THAT SMALL STONE.
Thanos, is that you?
Is this supposed to read like one of those Eric Andre "Let me In" memes?
Hey Josh. Have you ever seen/heard of a old Electro Harmonix filter wah that had a roller wheel on it to adjust the sweep? My friend had one in the early 80's. It was cool and unique sounding. Never seen it since. You rock. Thx
Yep, thats a whacky pedal!
The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me is a killer transitional record. Paul Westerberg handles all of the guitar duties because of Bob Stinsons' departure and writes some great tunes. Probably their most coherent, complete album.
Transitional record: "You Made Me Realise" EP by My Bloody Valentine. They really became MBV with that one. In that recent Fender video series on the 60th Anniversary of the Jazzmaster, Kevin Shields said he basically came up with his signature gliding, wavy sound in an afternoon while working on "Thorn" and "Slow" from that EP. I know it's all about "Loveless" but "You Made Me Realise" is amazing, too.
Great video, Josh!
What is that sweet Starcaster you're playing? I love it!
I subscribe to engineering channels and channels about AI and physics, philosophy, etc, and this might be the nerdiest video I’ve ever seen. :P
The transition of Dillinger Escape Plan from having Mike Patton on that EP and then releasing Miss Machine (with a new singer) is incredible. A lot of OG fanboys disagree with me for sure, but I think Miss Machine is their best album IMO.
I have a pedal that was hand made for a friend of mine that passed and I have absolutely no idea what it is. I just know it’s some kind of boost/drive and it sounds killer and I will never let it go.
I just got lucky enough to pick up a working shin-ei companion wah for 65 bucks.
@Andrew Clock I know right?!
I have a one-of-one Rook in a Kensrue enclosure whose color didn't match the run, and so it didn't get built. Mark built it for me and he and Jon signed it. If Brad Fee could sign it, I might have to take it off my board and buy a used Rook for daily use. That's my only rarity.
Cool pedals! I got a kick out of the fonts on that Red Army pedal. They're so Western! LOL!
I own an Effectrode Helios--that's my "rare" pedal, and also the first boutique pedal, as well as the first TUBE pedal, and the first and only fuzz/tube pedal combo, that I ever bought. IDK if it qualifies as historic, and making a pedal rare is as easy as making only a few; but that's what I have. If an all-tube fuzz ever existed, I'd like to know about it.
For records, I'm going with Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. To me, this is the record that took them from their more clattering (in a good way) 80s period, past the references to pop music, and into riffage territory. It's also the only album they really played that way on. The record was a HUGE influence on Nirvana, Beck, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, most of the grunge people (especially SY's former label mates from SST Records)...the list goes on. It's a dissonant, rough, mind-bending assault, yet also strangely palatable. It changed my thinking about what music could be and drove me to try new things. I would say that from this point, Sonic Youth began a gradual decline. Goo was good but not AS good, and certainly not mixed as well, as Daydream Nation. Starting with and including about half or more of Dirty, they quit being as sonically adventurous, probably due to record label crap, and I pretty much decided to stick to their older stuff.
For an alternative choice, I'd go with something like Hologram of Baal, by The Church. They were on an artistic and business decline, and nearly came to an end. As a fan, I had abandoned hope. Then, I found a deluxe copy (with Bastard Universe included) for $3 at a used record store. This record was the first to feature Tim on drums, and if you ask me, Tim's production helped rejuvenate the band in a significant way, even if Tim disagrees. It also featured the "official return" of Peter, one of the founding members of the band. Peter brought with him a Pog and was doing spacey, shimmery ambient/dream-pop stuff on this record, letting Marty play more of the up-front guitar parts; this injected a fresh and complementary dimension to the music and lyrics. Needless to say, as a fanboy, I was excited by their return, and they haven't put out another bad album since then (with possible exception of last year's Man, Woman, Life, Death, Infinity, which didn't suck but wasn't particularly remarkable to me).
Rock on!
I have a “Boba Fuzz” Woolly Mammoth clone made by DopeFx in the UK. “Hand wired on the dark side” it says on the box. Awesome fuzz.
“Flow Motion” by CAN is an awesome transition album; a move from the beach to the pool. Also “Shiny Beast” by Captain Beefheart.
10:55 - What if it's Gwyneth Palthrow's head?
Odd Soul is an amazing album! Got to see them when they played in the UK a couple of years ago and definitely the best gig I've been to!
A rare pedal I’ve always wanted was a Electro harmonix Electric Mistress
Amazing! I'll get there someday
"10 Rare Pedals": starts w a new pedal
Me: ...are you kidding me?
Not incredibly rare, but I have a DOD Meatbox with all the original packaging that I bought for $25. It is in pristine condition and sounds killer (if you can work out what the knobs do being as they are labeled "Flank" "Meat" "Rump" and "LBS"). I also have an original OP Amp Big Muff that is just incredible! The "bypass" is kinda worthless, it's like a fuzz when it is on and an overdrive when it is off; but I will be buried with it!
Sold a Meatbox with original packaging for $450 just recently!
You have a pedal hording problem. Open the damn box. That's where the healing begins.
Haha haha... It might burn your retinas if you open it!
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have an album which is quite different from their previous ones. its called "Flying Microtonal Banana". As they said that album is "An Exploration into Microtonal Tuning" and they used guitars with modified fret placements. Check it out.
Almost every King Gizzard album is different from their previous ones. Their second full-length release was a spoken word spaghetti western.
@@Chris-mc2dt you had me at flying microtonal bananas, lost me never, double had me at spoken word spaghetti westerns
@@JGHFunRun
You’re in luck, there’s a new Gizzard album coming out on the 11th!
That said, you never have to wait long for one, their last album came out in late February (that one was part 3 in the microtonal trilogy)
Mine aren’t that rare but I do have the EHX/Sovtek Big Muff Pi and EHX/Sovtek Smallstone with both original boxes and on my board.. I did have the original EHX Electric Mistress but sold it... I’ll be adding more to my board/collection over time..
The diamond delay and your panther where actually the two delay pedals I really really wanted to own among hundreds of others and it was not just about the tap tempo in an analog delay, they seemed to have the most awesome sound indeed. Never got to actually get either of those, but still it was fun to hear my all-time top choices mentioned together.
I own one of your reissued Pink Panthers with the copywrite questioned graphics which I bought on Denmark St. the day before he was meant to release it, as a graduation present for myself. He also told a great story about meeting you and you making him a select dealer because he recognised you entering his shop. Not only will I hold on to it because it’s a future rarity, but also because I love the sounds it makes
If you send me the Small Stone I can add to the mystery - I'll never tell you if I opened it or not :-)
Well. If you still own them. You are still hoarding them...
Fun video. Thanks for sharing Josh. Don't know where else I would hear a decent demo of a Tone Bender and original Klon in the same video.
My rarest pedal is a Guild Foxey Lady from circa 1968, hand built by Mike Mathews. It's exactly like the one in this video. The fun starts at 3:10 th-cam.com/video/CewOX5ch_ok/w-d-xo.html Mine's 100% intact, functional, with original bakelite knobs and hard rubber footplate.
Oh god, I just moved away from Muskegon, Michigan. Why am I only hearing about Cusack Pedals, now?! :(
Sir Mildred Pierce I grew up in Holland, and played with a guy who worked for them for several years. It was a real treat seeing him bring out some of the stuff they were working on!
My son and I own serial numbers #024 and #025 of the first 100 (hand built) Keely El Rey Dorado's. Killer Plexi sounding overdrives. Ian went to buy one for himself and bought me the other one for Father's Day. It's been on my board since.
tranquility base hotel and casino is a pretty big progression in terms of the Arctic Monkey sound
Yep was completely different sound from AM and Humbug was a big statement too at the time, lyrics got a lot more poetic and sound got less catchy and darker they really shook off a lot of pub/footie/lad/m8 listeners with that album and I love it
@@DiscOjeSUs100 completely agree
Hey Josh, I was curious about some other rare pedals I've only seen once before, and I was wondering if you had any info to go on at all.
I recently purchased a Japanese made Night Hawk NH340 Electric Tube overdrive from a pawn shop and tried to look up the manufacturer online to no avail so far. I believe it may have been manufactured under In-Line Effects possibly? I've seen a few scant pictures of other Night Hawk pedals in the line such as a chorus but can't find any further info or even valuation aside from a single eBay and Reverb posting for sale which seems to be using the same photo set on both listings
Mutemath! Great choice! Josh, highlight Mae, Everglow. Monumental album. That tone bender has my heart.
I have one of the rats with the tone knob instead of filter knob. Picked it up in a pawn shop in the early 90's. Didn't know the tone version was different till much later I also have a ColorSound overdriver and a Rosac nu wa-fuzz all picked up at pawn shops
Transition record - Candy Apple Grey by Husker Du. The band always existed as a tension between Grant Hart, who should have been a pop star, and Bob Mould, who would have killed you for saying he maybe some day could be a pop star. It's hard to overstate how controversial it was for an already legendary hardcore band to go off and play footsie with Warner Brothers. CAG was their attempt to marry their punk cred with some some degree of professionalism and success. What's interesting is that it doesn't sound punk and it doesn't sound commercial. The production quality is worse than most punk records, by a lot. And with the odd exception (yes, I'm looking at your 'Dead Set on Destruction') there's no a pop hook to be found. They never did get it going, and folded in spectacular acrimony soon after. But it's Husker Du so I still listen to it . . . .
I have a MAK Ion modulated delay... I believe this particular version is the only one ever made! Next time you are in the UK, feel free to pop by for a coffee and a jam
My rarest pedal is an ALESIS BITRMAN pedal. It is has a crappy plastic housing, but it does crazy bit crushing and has an over-the-top phaser thrown in to boot.
Josh. That MXR pedal is pre-Dunlop. But that is all the info Dunlop has.
My rarest is a Toetags Electronics Rangemaster Clone (serial #1). If you’ve never checked them out, look them up. Really cool stuff!
I love that white JHS amp.
It's a good look.
My rarest pedal is the Thunder Tomate Phil Hilborne Fat Treble Boost. It will punch virtually any pedal combination through the mix but, thanks to the treble cut knob, without making your ears bleed! Perhaps these aren’t rare at all and it’s just that anyone who owns one thinks it’s a keeper.
My rarest pedal is a Keeley Seafoam Chorus prototype.
Shrodinger's phaser? Quantum Superposition Phasing Device (maybe).
Ever since Fluff gave you a shoutout, this's been my favourite channel on TH-cam. Really good stuff man! Pappa Bless! (To you and the team)
Would love to see a top 10 Phasers kinda video xx
I may be wrong, but that boss delay copy might be from PSK. They are semiconductor producer.
Heathkit make a copy of your 2 transistor Tone Bender in the later 60's of course it was a kit that you had to put together & it was in a case more like a boss pedal.
I think my most rare pedal is a sitar swami by dan electro. as of right now, this post, there are zero...ZERO listed on Reverb. So...
That riff you played with the Superbolt is a damn ripper!
I have two Tim pedals i can not live without them and i have a EHX little big muff still works
Finally, this week's highlight is out...
i have an imfanem faye's her. i think there were 27 of them sold and a prototype sold later on. other rare ones are a slow gear, love pedal pompeii fuzz, mr. black pre-amp, maestro phaser, a few limited colours and enclosures of otherwise not so rare pedals.
Geeze there are thousands of pedals now, and the modeling stuff can make any sound you want.
My pedals are from the 70s mostly. I once bought a whole boxed filled with electroharmonix pedals. I sold one like ten years ago and there was a bidding war for it on ebay. I'm keeping the box now.
"any sound you want" from a modeling pedal is basically no sound I would ever want
Please do the Sovtek amp video
He's got the collection
Hi I think the quantum physics guy Schodinger had a similar issue with 'what's in the box', in his case a thought experiment as the aliveness or otherwise of an imaginary cat. Seriously, it kept him up at night.
If I had a time machine (which he probably had also given some thought too), I'd use it to ask him what problem he had with cats, why not have an imaginary frog, a more common science dead animal, used in disections. So in the case of it being dead it might still be useful, or maybe call animal welfare services and ask him if he was unkind to small animals as a child etc etc adinfinitum
Why not run the Small Stone box under an airport (or elsewhere) security scanner? You will know what is in the box... without actually having to open the box. Problem solved!
With the new digital amps, I thought pedals might be dead but, thanks to you I now see that they're not dead. They've only become more nerdy.
stuff like the axefx is meganerd stuff pedals are as basic as you get.
No I mean circuitry. There is no programming, or computers required. And cheap? Do you even know who eventide are? High quality effects are not cheap.
@@skqwhorl6083 Yes they are.Very, very cheap. Manufacturers just don't want the masses to know how cheap and easy it all really is. In china the same pedal which is $100 here, is only $10 there.Yet made with the same things.
I saw Adrian Belew in 1983 on his “Twang Bar King tour (running 2 JC-120s BTW....one chorusing and one w chorus turned off) I know this because I showed up early and chatted my way into the venue and ended up helping him sound check the drums because the drummer was absent....and I was a 15 year old gtr nerd......and after the show I found an EHX 16 second delay w remote.(the 1st gen)in my local paper(the recycler) I still use it today but the reticon chips are near extinct if they go bad. Nells Klein did a great demo of his. Bill Dillans had a stack of em (parts)while working on a Robbie Robertson 2nd album. I love your Channel. Your my new friend.
I saw him at the old El Macombo (Toronto) in 1983.
What I remember most was his new Fender Mustangs painted out in the “Twang Bar King” colours. Great show!
2nd thing I recall: my friend almost not getting in because they were checking IDs and the suspicious doorman asked my friend for his horoscope sign as a spot check; my friend honestly didn’t know…
I’ve only recently discovered your channel, but I’ve been into all things music my entire life. I want to thank you for your constant praise of other pedal makers and musicians. It’s so sadly rare these days for creators to not feel the need for superiority- and that makes you a VERY RARE pedal(maker). Your knowledge of the history, your anecdotes, your humor make each episode refreshing. The way you speak so glowingly about the people who essentially are your “competition” speaks volumes about how good yours babies must be! Keep up the great work and the positive media... the world needs more discussions about creatives!
I have a ProCo Rat with the TONE knob in the middle. I have had this pedal since 79/80 .I also have a ChandlerTUBEDRIVER, the rack mount version. Yes I know it's supposed to be Butler but this was when Butler was with Chandler. I also have an early Dyna Comp and Noise Gate / Line Driver by MXR. I got all of these when I first started playing guitars in the late 70's early 80's.
Diamond sounds like the old rack-mount Yamaha analog delay models- black with the recessed knobs
I just ordered one of your modded Rat pedals. If you want, you could just send me that one. I wouldn't even care if it didn't have the mod. It's not that I want it. I mean, I don't have to have it or anything.
I have a MK1 EH 16 Second Digital Delay purchased new in 1983 - still works with occasional hiccups ;)
Cocteau Twins- ‘Treasure’ The Rat pedal sounded amazing!! I think I’m going to go buy one.