I just don’t get this man and his genius. How can you consistently write cool and interesting jams weekly and also not even take a break after producing a musical. All this while running a company. That he built. Josh, you’re my guitar hero bro.
ATTENTION: Free idea for guitar builders to steal that I always wanted in a guitar: a built-in compressor wired before the volume pot, so you can have compressed leads on a dirty amp then roll back the guitar volume for clean sounds and still have compression. I do it already with a volume pedal, but I'd love it all onboard. Josh, or someone, please make this.
@@texasfossilguy I don't really have a demo, although, I'm pretty sure this is Steve Vai's signal chain often: Compression into a volume pedal (to control dirt) into the front of the amp, so you have a very controlled transient and sustain of the note via the compressor, but the volume control comes after the compressor to control how it's hitting the preamp, thus controlling the dirt/gain.
this is like how jerry garcia used to do with his mutron. he used an fx loop in his guitar though not an onboard effect. not hard at all to pull off with an onboard compressor though. you could easily fit a squeezer style circuit into most guitars
Josh needs to do a video just on his guitar playing and practice regimen, and where his retro playing vibe comes from. He's always been a solid player, but in the last year, his playing has really elevated. Josh, have you been doing some serious woodshedding lately? -Tom
First phaser I ever heard was in one of those Electra MPC guitars, when I was about 12. This kid down the street had one, I remember being pretty awestruck when he suddenly hit the switch for the overdrive (he actually said "Overdrive!" when he hit it, a word I'd never heard before), and then he hit the phaser switch and...Mind. Blown. Completely. I'd really never heard a sound like that. Then I met ANOTHER kid in my neighborhood who had one (I guess they were a popular cheap Les Paul copy back then), and I had to have one. I actually didn't know that you could get a pedal for that sound, I thought you had to have that guitar. Somehow I found two of them at this music store another town over - no memory of how I saw them there, I was too young to drive , maybe went with my older brother. Anyway, I begged my dad to get it for me. We actually went to look at it, but my dad was suspicious the guy at the store was trying to rip him off and sell a used guitar as new, so he didn't buy it. I was crushed, but by the time I got my first real guitar a couple of years later I'd learned about actual pedals and wanted a flanger more than a phaser anyway.
I have a guitar called the "Garage Master" It came with Volkswagon cars back in 2006. Found it used a few years back for very little money. It has an EQ and distortion built into it. It's a great guitar and I love the built-in effects...the distortion is amazing on it.
Back in the seventies, I built a two-transistor booster amplifier from a schematic in the back of Popular Electronics Magazine. My friend installed it under the pickguard and ran it into his Orange 80 and 18" folded horn for that righteous bedroom tone. I think it was about a Tone Bender circuit, it worked out okay.
Actually knew a guy that worked for SLM back in the day that designed some of the MPC circuits. Short dude named Tony. Showed me a few prototypes. He was very proud of the work he did with the Electra brand.
@@DarthEcoli In an odd way, it was really fitting for me too. OLP introduced me to my absolute favorite guitar design, the late-70s Starcaster. The two guitars that Bilt made for Josh have a Starcaster-knockoff headstock on them. 🙂👍
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has been an enduring album for me since it came out-Ashes of American Flags was one of my first Open Mic tunes. A great song to practice acoustic technique by incorporating the melody with bass lines over the chords.
As a guitarist I feel the need to buy a Metal Zone. I'd use it for all of 30 seconds but it feels like a right of passage. Are you even a guitar player if you've never owned one? 🤔
@Regular Joseph damn... I first thought you were saying they cloned the Fuzz Factory. My hopes were raised and ruined by the time I saw who you were replying to.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco is easily in my top 10 records of all time. And once you watch the documentary, it adds a whole different layer to that album.
Cool episode. Guitars with built-in electronics are always interesting. Lately, I've had a hankering to have a Roland GR-707 replica made. Something with a workable trem. When it comes to effects choices, it makes more sense to put those effects onboard a guitar whose knobs you tweak a lot. I don't really fiddle with my OD knobs much. For me, the best circuits would be a fuzz and mod effects. Band name for that guitar: Mechacaster
The jam at 5:30 is awesome -- great lesson for beginner lead players. Played it for 4 hours last night on my RC10-R. Thank you Josh -- perhaps you don't know your videos also serve as guitar teaching tutorials.
I bought my first electric guitar in 1993. It was a used Electra X810 (Gibson 335 copy with a tree of life inlay and big funky headstock.) I had no idea what a pedal was. All I knew was it had three effects in the case: Phase shifter (My favorite) bass treble enhancer and tank sound. I still have that guitar. I lent it to someone in the early 2000s and they spilled something on it. The Pots are frozen and I have been terrified to replace them. I am slowly working up the courage to do it. but in the meantime, it's just sitting in the case. This really makes me want to play it again.
Josh, not sure if you know this or not. Vox imported guitars from Italy. I think it is called a Chieftan (though not sure as Vox "Italy" is the only name on it). The switches included Treble / Bass Boost, Distortion, E tuner. I think the original sale receipt shows 1964 (but I'm lazy and I am not going to dig it out at this time). I'll email you some pictures if you want.
Zappa had this kind of stuff in his guitars at times as well. I love the concept of using the pedal to power the effects in the guitar body! One less big thing to carry, easy to switch and no batteries!
I used Jamup on an iPod Touch for a few years and always wanted to find a way to get one built in to a guitar with a bigger battery (the one drawback of the iPod is its small battery). This comes close to what I had in mind, so, well done Josh.
That's the coolest thing ever. Love how the PCB fits into the trem cavity. Would love to see this open-sourced. I don't imagine many people would actually buy a product like this, but I do imagine a few nerdy gear heads out there might see this as THE project that starts them down the builder's journey. Just my thoughts.
Nice chops and vibe, dude. How sad I live so far away and your pedals are not exactly accessible here. Your channel is really inspirational and educating. Thou shalt not stop!!!
I have been waiting for someone to do this with good pedals like forever. The ability to move around with a wireless unit and still switch pedals is priceless
About 13 years ago, my buddy pulled the guts out of a boss DD-3 and stuffed it into a Charvel. The stuff he did live with it was amazing! Also, shout out for the Our Lady Peace shirt, great Canadian band, who I was lucky enough to see on the 'Clumsy' tour because my Mom was so cool she let me go to the show alone when I was in grade 8 :D
In 2005ish I had a guitar given to me by a grandparent. They had bought it at some kind of garage sale. It was called the effector it was shaped like an explorer and had buttons on the bottom of the guitar that when pressed could give you a crappy distortion and maybe overdrive idk it’s been awhile and I can’t find it anywhere but it’s the weirdest guitar I’ve ever had.
Tweedy: "A Ghost is Born", maybe "Muzzle of Bees" but it's a standout album and 'band' record. Band name: 'Mute'. I was in a band where I used my '75 Fender Starcaster (with a crap, neck pocket join so it was all sloppy as) as a feedback-drone pedal leaned up, face in, against a maxed-out, Twin Reverb then pushing on the back of the body to flex the neck join/string length to modulate the feedback pitch...that's how we rolled in the '90s. Analogue. 'No guitars were harmed in the making of all that racket'...guitar is still alive and in tune.
Seriously need to put out a collection of all your jams. You guys are so tight, Josh's drums, your riffing and your bass players got skills too! Just lift them off of your TH-cam shows and it would sell like crazy I'm telling you you got to do it. I love them all everything you do the names especially! You could do a little longer versions of each one and when you go gigging live let me know where and I'll fly out to Wherever! I love it.
A kid in my high school had a Cort Effector guitar. It was basically a super strat with distortion, phaser, and some delay. It was around 1987-ish, so my memory may have some holes, but I remember there were explorer shaped and strat shaped versions that were for sale in the AAFES catalog/Christmas wish list book and I spent hours staring at those pages. The guitar itself wasn't that great and the effects had a habit of intermittently working. That kid in my school noted the phaser wouldn't turn off on the one he had after about a month or so of owning it.
I have a danoblaster with built in efects, the fuzz is fantastic. Please do a history of this kind of excentric guitar/pedals. Love the show and was waiting for this episodes for at least 2 years when you mention this guitar. :)
Forget Churchill, Father Billy Gibbons took it up one notch. He has a guitar with visual effects made by John Bollin that he used for some "The Moving Sidewalks" shows years ago. The effects are played through an iPad. It's a one pickup telecaster body guitar with a space between the pickup and the fretboard that fits perfectly an iPad. He said something like he didn't like it that people were looking at the visual effects instead the musicians that are playing so he put it there.
I got Wilco’s A.M from a friend and I have listened to it at least once a week for years since then, not too familiar with a lot of the other stuff but the way that album hits is unparalleled
I love Wilco! I just pulled out my deluxe copy of Summerteeth - cuz somehow I always like it in the spring. If I was forced to pick a fave LP - I’d probably go with Hotel Yankee Foxtrot. This Bilt guitar is unbelievable! And I think you’re going to love gigging with it. You simply press a button(s) ON THE GUITAR and your favorite pedal combo is on. It’s a bigger box - but it’s only one!!! If I was gonna gig with that thing - my band would be called “Enemy of the Unicorn” - because that’s the band name my boys came up with when they were like 7 and 10. And I still haven’t thought of a better one 🤘🤘🤘!
Love Cyborg Blues. I'm now very curious which mini humbuckers hide in this setup. SD 1s? 1 / 1 / 3 ? Spoon should get together with Posty and do a country album now ... hey, just riffing on Josh's comment. Dot Warner just chilling with pedals My band would be called Dastardly Offset
The guitar is amazing, but i admire your endless creativity dear Josh! I know there's a lot of realy hard work you got to take care, in so many aspects. Even you got nothing to win in money for that complicated job, you dare to manage everything so perfecty!!! Guitar, effects electronics and music, are my hobies too. I use to turn am radios to distortions and amp at my 11 years old becouse thre was no othr way for me to plau electric guitar, so i know how far you wend to make a company and all those amazing things that tou done! You are my hero man!
Sergio Dias Baptista, the guitarrist of "Os Mutantes", a psychadelic brazilian band of the 60s used a guitar called the REGVLVS (Regulus), which was bulit by his eccentric brother and luthier Claudio Cesar. The guitar had built in effects such as distortion/fuzz, as well as something akin to a piezo pickup which could be blended with its single coils. It is also called the "golden guitar", because of the gold shielding in its interior.
That’s the year Einstein drew up plans for the Stratocaster and after receiving a patent for it said to Watson, I think this will be relatively popular.
Crazy timing! I always loved those 60s Vox and Hofner guitars with built in fuzzes and last week I ordered a 60s hollow body Teisco (that is arriving today!) and I’m building a Univox Superfuzz clone to install in that guitar.
I had one of those Hofners, I recently found an old trashed BC Rich that is going to get a Wah and a Rangemaster circuit built in. I plan to run power from a break-out box like Josh did but it is going to look a lot funkier. My builds always look like Homer Simpson was the tech. 🙈 uncanny inability.
@@hoboroadie a built in wah sounds brilliant! I thought about the idea of putting some sort of octave that allows me to go two octaves down using a slider to get some funky whammy sounds but I’m biting more than I can chew and I need to sit with the idea for a while to figure out how to actually do it. Haha
In the 1980s I owned a "Hayman Modular", which was a great guitar, and had these modules that you swapped to give different effects. It didn't have a trem, and I wanted a guitar with a trem, so I part-exed it against an Ibanez Roadstar. Years later, I discovered that they only made about 50 of those Hayman guitars, and it's worth quite a bit of money.
I believe that dude who wrote "Spirit in the Sky" had a Fender with built-in fuzz. This was before my time but it was late60s, early 70s so they definitely had built-in effects back then.
I've been making a list of cool band names for a few years foe this very moment. Here's my top 5 I would make if I owned that guitar. 5. Danger Bucket 4. No Alarms Tonight 3. Under Salmon Skies 2. Amish Grandma 1. Trains across the ocean.
Nick Loux does great work, playing along! (including Pedal History, the Musical) (Must watch the behind the scenes videos, too, including Rhett Shull's...) Josh may be forcing me to stick with acoustic-electric.... Whatever band I form will be biologists, hydrologists, geologists and other musicians of that bent, which explains the suggested "The Glacial Erratics," and others. Yes, "Big Sky" is Montana's license plate, and like southern Idaho leans to country rock (Tex-Mex?), while north Idaho is more blues (used to be bluegrass seed farms rather than "Famous Potatoes" of the south end). I'll stick with the effects in my amp for now, after looking in the Sweetwater 'Wish Book" this morning! Remember laying on the floor, looking through the Sears and Penney's Christmas Wish Books? There's so many pedals, including JHS! I'd better go play now and continue learning my lessons.
i know you have tons of ideas for a video but I had one. What is the most iconic pedal per company only 1. for Roland would it be the metal zone, the Ds1, the space echo. for MXR is it the Dyna comp, the phase 45/90, or the blue box. For EHX would it be the bigmuff line, the small clone, the memory man. for dunlop is It the cry baby wah or the fuzz face.
Great sounding Guitar. Love the idea. Love Jeff Tweedy and Wilco. But really love the intro....."1731, Winston Churchill....." C'mon you guys understand fun!
I have several JHS pedals and by far, my favorite has always been the Mini Foot. I tested out the V1 (I KNOW V2 is better lol) back when it first released against other fuzz pedals and it beat them all, and it was the most moderately priced one.. it just has this dynamic that reacts perfectly with how aggressive your picking attack is. It can cover a wide range of styles.. currently, I’m using it in a doom/stoner/sludge metal band.. so there lol
This is just great! I own a Pignose (by Aria) Travel Guitar with built in speaker. Changed out the fuzzy LM386 amp with a clean TDA2822M based amp and threw an ARTEC QDD2 in there (not without frying each). Then converted the headphone out to a FX send-return, so I can loop it. So far a great party guitar but I'd really love an octaver to loop a bass line. I will likely have to build it myself. board and all.... and I have no idea whatsover. Oh, and reverb/delay... chorus? I could just go on...
The Foot Fuzz sounded fab. What I really like is those old Vox guitars with built-in effects, though - the repeater is particularly good, so I should like a modern version of that.
Awesome episode. I found the Danelectro Innuendo used but in near-mint condition at a G.C. a few years back, has built in distortion/fuzz and two output jacks (!!!) one for the clean channel n one for the dirty channel. Very fun, picked it up for under $200.
Way cool! They should make the back cover on the guitar attach with magnets so you can access it without tools. That's what my buddy Steve at Moonstone Guitars did for my bass.
@JHS Pedals - WMD worked with Music Gear Guys in Denver to turn some of their effect into onboard circuits. It was really cool because you could tweak the knobs while you played.
Question: I feel like the cartridges you made or circuits for these things are crazy small. Why not make more mini, simple versions of these pedals for sale? Love the jhs tidewater, I'd certainly purchase a mini morning glory or other mini jhs pedal!
Re Usage of the Guitar: Forty plus years ago, I was in a Band called Hot Moose. The Genius (Ph.D. from Princeton in Nuclear Chemistry!) Multi-Instrumentalist (Keys, Bass, Brass, Woodwinds) drew a Bullwinkle-styled pair of antlers for the Bass Drum of the Kit. This guitar would've helped my Lousy Lead Work🎸
I just don’t get this man and his genius. How can you consistently write cool and interesting jams weekly and also not even take a break after producing a musical.
All this while running a company.
That he built.
Josh, you’re my guitar hero bro.
ATTENTION: Free idea for guitar builders to steal that I always wanted in a guitar: a built-in compressor wired before the volume pot, so you can have compressed leads on a dirty amp then roll back the guitar volume for clean sounds and still have compression. I do it already with a volume pedal, but I'd love it all onboard. Josh, or someone, please make this.
can you demo the sound youre talking about?
Imagine that on bass. Trynna work on that.
@@texasfossilguy I don't really have a demo, although, I'm pretty sure this is Steve Vai's signal chain often: Compression into a volume pedal (to control dirt) into the front of the amp, so you have a very controlled transient and sustain of the note via the compressor, but the volume control comes after the compressor to control how it's hitting the preamp, thus controlling the dirt/gain.
@@tecolote.x8090 This would be bananas-awesome on bass. That's an amazing idea.
this is like how jerry garcia used to do with his mutron. he used an fx loop in his guitar though not an onboard effect. not hard at all to pull off with an onboard compressor though. you could easily fit a squeezer style circuit into most guitars
This is the most JHS Pedals I've ever heard in one video from Josh which I think is hilarious.
Unlike other youtubers, I generally like when he tries to sell us stuff. I wanna hear about that stuff.
The irony is richer given his caveat @ 14:19.
He doesn't even put links in the description to buy each pedal like he does with every other brand
Also, the other episode of JHS pedals were all discontinued units. So josh just rub in our face what we cant buy I guess hahahhahahahahaha
Seriously? He plays like 7 pedals in his 3 Series - Budget pedal line for under $100 vid
That snare sound is KILLER
The drums always sound better on the JHS Show than most of our favorite albums, Nick is a grade A badass. Complete Respect ✊
Josh: "We don't want to get flagged." Also Josh: *Plays 0-3-5*
@Luvenia Lanum and you too.
@Tucker Phoenix No we DON'T give a shit about your spam! Reported!
@Luvenia Lanum No it's not you lying answer bot! Reported!
@@FakingANerve DON'T feed the bots!
@Tucker Phoenix I've seen you on another vid. Dunno how you get such positive responses
I love that you made your own cartridges. That guitar you made with FX is super cool!!
Nick is such a solid drummer 👌
Still waiting on that Sovtek episode 😄
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME.
We're all still waiting for this
same. Got a Soviet-made tube-midget head that I wanna know more about
One does not simply walk into a Sovtek episode.
"You can put your weed in there" - Sadam Andler
He was referencing an SNL sketch. That line is originally a rob schneider bit. Adam just wanted to bring back his buddies character
@@Ottophil Even though I live at the South Pole, I managed to guess that SNL was Saturday Night Legover, so I don't see the relevance.
@@Ndlanding its been relevant for almost 50 years
@@Ottophil Oh.
@@Ndlanding whats a legover?
So the next JHS release should be a loaded Strat pickguard with effects built in. Just sayin.
Do you make a skills cartridge? That would really help me 🤷♂️
word....
Same
Josh needs to do a video just on his guitar playing and practice regimen, and where his retro playing vibe comes from. He's always been a solid player, but in the last year, his playing has really elevated. Josh, have you been doing some serious woodshedding lately? -Tom
I wouldn't say he just has a retro style. He plays a lot of types of shit too.
These feels like an April fools, but I dont think it is. And this is awesome
Yeah, obviously a late April's Fool. I thought so all the way through. Now I'm not sure.
The fun times keep rolling at JHS. Nice work team! Now do a synth guitar?
Robotic e-bow attachment somewhere on it.
You can use a guitar with Midi output to play a synth with your guitar
I have a Nobels ODR1 Mini in one of my Strats. I love it! Everyone said i was crazy. Thanks Josh for vindicating me!
Well, effects in guitars used to produce in USSR, they had something like fuzz, tremolo or something in Ural guitars
First phaser I ever heard was in one of those Electra MPC guitars, when I was about 12. This kid down the street had one, I remember being pretty awestruck when he suddenly hit the switch for the overdrive (he actually said "Overdrive!" when he hit it, a word I'd never heard before), and then he hit the phaser switch and...Mind. Blown. Completely. I'd really never heard a sound like that. Then I met ANOTHER kid in my neighborhood who had one (I guess they were a popular cheap Les Paul copy back then), and I had to have one. I actually didn't know that you could get a pedal for that sound, I thought you had to have that guitar. Somehow I found two of them at this music store another town over - no memory of how I saw them there, I was too young to drive , maybe went with my older brother. Anyway, I begged my dad to get it for me. We actually went to look at it, but my dad was suspicious the guy at the store was trying to rip him off and sell a used guitar as new, so he didn't buy it. I was crushed, but by the time I got my first real guitar a couple of years later I'd learned about actual pedals and wanted a flanger more than a phaser anyway.
I have a guitar called the "Garage Master" It came with Volkswagon cars back in 2006. Found it used a few years back for very little money. It has an EQ and distortion built into it. It's a great guitar and I love the built-in effects...the distortion is amazing on it.
I had a friend who had one of those, it was super sweet.
@@mykhedelic6471 It really is...I'm hanging onto it for sure.
Back in the seventies, I built a two-transistor booster amplifier from a schematic in the back of Popular Electronics Magazine. My friend installed it under the pickguard and ran it into his Orange 80 and 18" folded horn for that righteous bedroom tone. I think it was about a Tone Bender circuit, it worked out okay.
my friend Jimmy loved Wilco, he would have loved this episode too. RIP amigo, miss you. Look up THEE SIDEWALK SURFERS- that was Jimmy's band.
You had me at THEE SIDEWALK SURFERS. Best name. Sorry for your bro, man. They sound awesome. Pity :(
@@DarthEcoli thanks for checking them out. He was a fantastic human.
@@drewburgess525 Actually mate, the pleasure was mine. Again, they sounded great. Someone I would have went out to see a lot.
Actually knew a guy that worked for SLM back in the day that designed some of the MPC circuits. Short dude named Tony. Showed me a few prototypes. He was very proud of the work he did with the Electra brand.
Nah, he's talkin bout 'litlr Tony.
Josh: Shows the circuit in the back
Me: *eyes glaze over* (It all looks the same to me)
I haven't thought about Our Lady Peace for years. I remember them being great! Thanks big guy!
As per my comment to them, I was listening to Starcede and One man army earlier, then this joker is wearing an OLP shirt.
@@DarthEcoli In an odd way, it was really fitting for me too. OLP introduced me to my absolute favorite guitar design, the late-70s Starcaster. The two guitars that Bilt made for Josh have a Starcaster-knockoff headstock on them. 🙂👍
They're still around, though I've not heard a lot of positive things about their newer albums.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has been an enduring album for me since it came out-Ashes of American Flags was one of my first Open Mic tunes. A great song to practice acoustic technique by incorporating the melody with bass lines over the chords.
Installed a metal zone on my guitar.
I’m kidding. But Matt Bellamy of Muse’s Manson guitar has a zvex fuzz factory built in.
As a guitarist I feel the need to buy a Metal Zone. I'd use it for all of 30 seconds but it feels like a right of passage. Are you even a guitar player if you've never owned one? 🤔
Colin Scott of CSGuitars installed a metal zone on a BC Rich not too long ago.
@@WailingRaven just posted this and then saw your reply so I had to edit lol
@Regular Joseph damn... I first thought you were saying they cloned the Fuzz Factory. My hopes were raised and ruined by the time I saw who you were replying to.
my buddy put a Boss DD-3 in a Charvel about 13 yrs ago :D
9:14 Josh: "Is every band from Texas country sort of?"
Pantera: "Yeah"
Cowboys from Hell. \m/
@Mike noface my first thought exactly!
lol why did I think they were from Brazil
@@nikolaisoerensen Sepultura is from Brazil
@@Leychen that's it, thanks
That cherry sunburst Electra MPC was my first guitar back in 1979. I had almost every effect. ❤❤❤
Great video, Josh! I am a huge OLP and Tweedy/Wilco fan, so it was awesome seeing the shirt and Record Time!
There are also late '60s Hofners and Voxes with built-in fuzz and treble booster circuits.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco is easily in my top 10 records of all time. And once you watch the documentary, it adds a whole different layer to that album.
I got introduced to Wilco/ YHF by means of that doc. Probably listen to album at least once a week 12 yrs later. :D
Can a house be a pedal? Can a sandwich be a pedal?
I’m starting to worry about Josh. 😂
Can a person be a pedal?
Muahahahahahahaahhaa
A pizza can be a pedal
Is God a pedal?
@@sahbiah
What if God was just a fuzz?
Just a DOD Grunge?
Just a pedal on a tour bus.
Trying to make some sweet tones.
@@ToneSherpa if God was a pedal, he wouldn't be ONE pedal, he'd be like, a verb, delay and chorus all in one...
I couldn't stop listening to Jeff's album for the longest time... It is amazing!!!
man, that tone is sick (in a figurative way)! Congrats for your guitar!
I see the new JHS Show video in my notifications and I get giddy. Keep up the great work!
Cool episode. Guitars with built-in electronics are always interesting. Lately, I've had a hankering to have a Roland GR-707 replica made. Something with a workable trem.
When it comes to effects choices, it makes more sense to put those effects onboard a guitar whose knobs you tweak a lot. I don't really fiddle with my OD knobs much. For me, the best circuits would be a fuzz and mod effects.
Band name for that guitar: Mechacaster
Good call on the Jeff Tweedy - Warm record! Thanks for the introduction.
My hypothetical band name is, “Dad-Bod and the Jorts”
The jam at 5:30 is awesome -- great lesson for beginner lead players. Played it for 4 hours last night on my RC10-R. Thank you Josh -- perhaps you don't know your videos also serve as guitar teaching tutorials.
I bought my first electric guitar in 1993. It was a used Electra X810 (Gibson 335 copy with a tree of life inlay and big funky headstock.) I had no idea what a pedal was. All I knew was it had three effects in the case: Phase shifter (My favorite) bass treble enhancer and tank sound. I still have that guitar. I lent it to someone in the early 2000s and they spilled something on it. The Pots are frozen and I have been terrified to replace them. I am slowly working up the courage to do it. but in the meantime, it's just sitting in the case. This really makes me want to play it again.
Josh, not sure if you know this or not. Vox imported guitars from Italy. I think it is called a Chieftan (though not sure as Vox "Italy" is the only name on it). The switches included Treble / Bass Boost, Distortion, E tuner. I think the original sale receipt shows 1964 (but I'm lazy and I am not going to dig it out at this time). I'll email you some pictures if you want.
Zappa had this kind of stuff in his guitars at times as well. I love the concept of using the pedal to power the effects in the guitar body! One less big thing to carry, easy to switch and no batteries!
I used Jamup on an iPod Touch for a few years and always wanted to find a way to get one built in to a guitar with a bigger battery (the one drawback of the iPod is its small battery). This comes close to what I had in mind, so, well done Josh.
That's the coolest thing ever. Love how the PCB fits into the trem cavity. Would love to see this open-sourced. I don't imagine many people would actually buy a product like this, but I do imagine a few nerdy gear heads out there might see this as THE project that starts them down the builder's journey. Just my thoughts.
Nice chops and vibe, dude. How sad I live so far away and your pedals are not exactly accessible here. Your channel is really inspirational and educating. Thou shalt not stop!!!
I have been waiting for someone to do this with good pedals like forever. The ability to move around with a wireless unit and still switch pedals is priceless
About 13 years ago, my buddy pulled the guts out of a boss DD-3 and stuffed it into a Charvel. The stuff he did live with it was amazing!
Also, shout out for the Our Lady Peace shirt, great Canadian band, who I was lucky enough to see on the 'Clumsy' tour because my Mom was so cool she let me go to the show alone when I was in grade 8 :D
In 2005ish I had a guitar given to me by a grandparent. They had bought it at some kind of garage sale. It was called the effector it was shaped like an explorer and had buttons on the bottom of the guitar that when pressed could give you a crappy distortion and maybe overdrive idk it’s been awhile and I can’t find it anywhere but it’s the weirdest guitar I’ve ever had.
Tweedy: "A Ghost is Born", maybe "Muzzle of Bees" but it's a standout album and 'band' record. Band name: 'Mute'. I was in a band where I used my '75 Fender Starcaster (with a crap, neck pocket join so it was all sloppy as) as a feedback-drone pedal leaned up, face in, against a maxed-out, Twin Reverb then pushing on the back of the body to flex the neck join/string length to modulate the feedback pitch...that's how we rolled in the '90s. Analogue. 'No guitars were harmed in the making of all that racket'...guitar is still alive and in tune.
Seriously need to put out a collection of all your jams. You guys are so tight, Josh's drums, your riffing and your bass players got skills too! Just lift them off of your TH-cam shows and it would sell like crazy I'm telling you you got to do it. I love them all everything you do the names especially! You could do a little longer versions of each one and when you go gigging live let me know where and I'll fly out to Wherever! I love it.
A kid in my high school had a Cort Effector guitar. It was basically a super strat with distortion, phaser, and some delay. It was around 1987-ish, so my memory may have some holes, but I remember there were explorer shaped and strat shaped versions that were for sale in the AAFES catalog/Christmas wish list book and I spent hours staring at those pages. The guitar itself wasn't that great and the effects had a habit of intermittently working. That kid in my school noted the phaser wouldn't turn off on the one he had after about a month or so of owning it.
As a Canadian who grew up in the 90's, I have often wondered to myself if Josh is an OLP fan. Nice shirt and thanks for answering my silent question!
I wonder if Josh has listened to I Mother Earth's 'Scenery And Fish' still one of my favourites and an absolute gem of musicianship
I've always loved that Starcaster headstock.
Oh, and the effects are cool, too.
I have a danoblaster with built in efects, the fuzz is fantastic. Please do a history of this kind of excentric guitar/pedals. Love the show and was waiting for this episodes for at least 2 years when you mention this guitar. :)
Forget Churchill, Father Billy Gibbons took it up one notch. He has a guitar with visual effects made by John Bollin that he used for some "The Moving Sidewalks" shows years ago. The effects are played through an iPad. It's a one pickup telecaster body guitar with a space between the pickup and the fretboard that fits perfectly an iPad. He said something like he didn't like it that people were looking at the visual effects instead the musicians that are playing so he put it there.
I got Wilco’s A.M from a friend and I have listened to it at least once a week for years since then, not too familiar with a lot of the other stuff but the way that album hits is unparalleled
The first number was wonderful boys. Bravo. Love the fuzz and more smoke please.
I love Wilco! I just pulled out my deluxe copy of Summerteeth - cuz somehow I always like it in the spring. If I was forced to
pick a fave LP - I’d probably go with Hotel Yankee Foxtrot.
This Bilt guitar is unbelievable! And I think you’re going to love gigging with it. You simply press a button(s) ON THE GUITAR and your favorite pedal combo is on. It’s a bigger box - but it’s only one!!!
If I was gonna gig with that thing - my band would be called “Enemy of the Unicorn” - because that’s the band name my boys came up with when they were like 7 and 10. And I still haven’t thought of a better one 🤘🤘🤘!
Lovely moments when you did those fake-endings and ran off into SOTW.
That Bilt is a lovely piece of work.
Love Cyborg Blues. I'm now very curious which mini humbuckers hide in this setup. SD 1s? 1 / 1 / 3 ?
Spoon should get together with Posty and do a country album now ... hey, just riffing on Josh's comment.
Dot Warner just chilling with pedals
My band would be called Dastardly Offset
The guitar is amazing, but i admire your endless creativity dear Josh!
I know there's a lot of realy hard work you got to take care, in so many aspects. Even you got nothing to win in money for that complicated job, you dare to manage everything so perfecty!!!
Guitar, effects electronics and music, are my hobies too. I use to turn am radios to distortions and amp at my 11 years old becouse thre was no othr way for me to plau electric guitar, so i know how far you wend to make a company and all those amazing things that tou done!
You are my hero man!
Sergio Dias Baptista, the guitarrist of "Os Mutantes", a psychadelic brazilian band of the 60s used a guitar called the REGVLVS (Regulus), which was bulit by his eccentric brother and luthier Claudio Cesar. The guitar had built in effects such as distortion/fuzz, as well as something akin to a piezo pickup which could be blended with its single coils. It is also called the "golden guitar", because of the gold shielding in its interior.
That’s Winston for you, talking about future technology one hundred and forty three years before he was born.
History is epic!!
Did you know that Winston had a cigar clipper built into his Epiphone?
Way to put a fine point on the joke
That’s the year Einstein drew up plans for the Stratocaster and after receiving a patent for it said to Watson, I think this will be relatively popular.
@@jasong546 swing and a miss
What a great idea to put the pedals in the guitar! I love it and I’d buy one (although I’m lefty). It’s the future upon us!
Crazy timing!
I always loved those 60s Vox and Hofner guitars with built in fuzzes and last week I ordered a 60s hollow body Teisco (that is arriving today!) and I’m building a Univox Superfuzz clone to install in that guitar.
I had one of those Hofners, I recently found an old trashed BC Rich that is going to get a Wah and a Rangemaster circuit built in. I plan to run power from a break-out box like Josh did but it is going to look a lot funkier. My builds always look like Homer Simpson was the tech. 🙈 uncanny inability.
@@hoboroadie a built in wah sounds brilliant! I thought about the idea of putting some sort of octave that allows me to go two octaves down using a slider to get some funky whammy sounds but I’m biting more than I can chew and I need to sit with the idea for a while to figure out how to actually do it. Haha
In the 1980s I owned a "Hayman Modular", which was a great guitar, and had these modules that you swapped to give different effects. It didn't have a trem, and I wanted a guitar with a trem, so I part-exed it against an Ibanez Roadstar. Years later, I discovered that they only made about 50 of those Hayman guitars, and it's worth quite a bit of money.
insanely great idea to free more space on your pedal. so simple yet, so genius. Maybe this idea may need some refining in future
... and, now, the man that has everything has a one-of-a-kind.
Congratulations.
Josh, I've always dreamed of a guitar like that! That 's all you need for a gig!!!
You should check out CSGuitar's Ultimate Teenager Metal guitar. He embedded a Metal Zone inside of it
I believe that dude who wrote "Spirit in the Sky" had a Fender with built-in fuzz. This was before my time but it was late60s, early 70s so they definitely had built-in effects back then.
“Don’t dream it’s over” vibe was nice
I saw Our Lady Peace in 2002 at Stubbs. I also got to see the Hip at La Zona Rosa a few years later. Canada rocks.
saw OLP in Gr. 8. The Hip was my first concert in Gr. 6
I've been making a list of cool band names for a few years foe this very moment. Here's my top 5 I would make if I owned that guitar.
5. Danger Bucket
4. No Alarms Tonight
3. Under Salmon Skies
2. Amish Grandma
1. Trains across the ocean.
The drum kit always sounds stellar. Great video as usual.
Fun throw back to Japanese 60s guitars.
This is one of my favorite TH-cam channels of all!
My second favorite is Rick Beato’s TH-cam channel.
Nick Loux does great work, playing along! (including Pedal History, the Musical) (Must watch the behind the scenes videos, too, including Rhett Shull's...) Josh may be forcing me to stick with acoustic-electric.... Whatever band I form will be biologists, hydrologists, geologists and other musicians of that bent, which explains the suggested "The Glacial Erratics," and others. Yes, "Big Sky" is Montana's license plate, and like southern Idaho leans to country rock (Tex-Mex?), while north Idaho is more blues (used to be bluegrass seed farms rather than "Famous Potatoes" of the south end). I'll stick with the effects in my amp for now, after looking in the Sweetwater 'Wish Book" this morning! Remember laying on the floor, looking through the Sears and Penney's Christmas Wish Books? There's so many pedals, including JHS! I'd better go play now and continue learning my lessons.
Really interesting project. I've been planning putting a SHO in my build when I make it. Switches are nice touches.
You sir are making youtube a better place!
Josh is the only person I ever see taking about or repping our lady peace. They need more love.
I commented above.. when I was in grade 8 my Mom let me go to the show on the 'Clumsy' tour alone..
@@AaronAubreyPhoto Dude...that would have been epic
i know you have tons of ideas for a video but I had one. What is the most iconic pedal per company only 1. for Roland would it be the metal zone, the Ds1, the space echo. for MXR is it the Dyna comp, the phase 45/90, or the blue box. For EHX would it be the bigmuff line, the small clone, the memory man. for dunlop is It the cry baby wah or the fuzz face.
Great sounding Guitar. Love the idea. Love Jeff Tweedy and Wilco. But really love the intro....."1731, Winston Churchill....." C'mon you guys understand fun!
Fender could have expanded into this with their “personality cards” strats
I have several JHS pedals and by far, my favorite has always been the Mini Foot. I tested out the V1 (I KNOW V2 is better lol) back when it first released against other fuzz pedals and it beat them all, and it was the most moderately priced one.. it just has this dynamic that reacts perfectly with how aggressive your picking attack is. It can cover a wide range of styles.. currently, I’m using it in a doom/stoner/sludge metal band.. so there lol
billy bragg and wilco, mermaid avenue: the epitome of americana.
also, we need a morley episode!
My dude wearing an OLP shirt! Spreading some of the Canadian alt rock love.
This is just great!
I own a Pignose (by Aria) Travel Guitar with built in speaker.
Changed out the fuzzy LM386 amp with a clean TDA2822M based amp and threw an ARTEC QDD2 in there (not without frying each). Then converted the headphone out to a FX send-return, so I can loop it. So far a great party guitar but I'd really love an octaver to loop a bass line. I will likely have to build it myself. board and all.... and I have no idea whatsover.
Oh, and reverb/delay... chorus? I could just go on...
Love your site, your pedals, and.....great playing. Your bilt guitar circuit is amazing.....awesome work, you rock👍🏼💥😎😎
The Foot Fuzz sounded fab. What I really like is those old Vox guitars with built-in effects, though - the repeater is particularly good, so I should like a modern version of that.
Awesome shirt Josh! Love me some OLP! Made in 🇨🇦
Awesome episode. I found the Danelectro Innuendo used but in near-mint condition at a G.C. a few years back, has built in distortion/fuzz and two output jacks (!!!) one for the clean channel n one for the dirty channel. Very fun, picked it up for under $200.
Danoblasters also have 2 output jacks for effects or bypass.
Way cool! They should make the back cover on the guitar attach with magnets so you can access it without tools. That's what my buddy Steve at Moonstone Guitars did for my bass.
Wow, I seriously want this guitar. It sounds amazing!
You guys are doing great. Musical skills with pedals. Love it.
Love my surf green revelator. Analog delay, fuzz, and self oscillation with lollar pickups. What’s not to love?
@JHS Pedals - WMD worked with Music Gear Guys in Denver to turn some of their effect into onboard circuits. It was really cool because you could tweak the knobs while you played.
Question: I feel like the cartridges you made or circuits for these things are crazy small. Why not make more mini, simple versions of these pedals for sale? Love the jhs tidewater, I'd certainly purchase a mini morning glory or other mini jhs pedal!
I usually hate Treble boosters, but that not-AC/DC bit sounded REALLY good.
Re Usage of the Guitar: Forty plus years ago, I was in a Band called Hot Moose. The Genius (Ph.D. from Princeton in Nuclear Chemistry!) Multi-Instrumentalist (Keys, Bass, Brass, Woodwinds) drew a Bullwinkle-styled pair of antlers for the Bass Drum of the Kit. This guitar would've helped my Lousy Lead Work🎸
Having delay controls at your fingertips is really fun. I forever have a three finger memory toy muscle memory from playing the tetris table