I was surprised that Josh didn't review the slicer as soon as it came out. When some of the more obscure pedals come out its almost like they're too mysterious to fully understand until Josh has explained it in his own words lol.
Boss Slicer is one of the most underrated pedal of all time. It have sooo much potential to be a classic but no one use it the way it needed to be used
"Duty" is short for duty cycle, as Ran Zer noted in chat. Duty cycle is the ratio an intermittent system (such as the slicer or tremolo or transistor or pulsed radar or PWM signal, etc) is on versus the time it is off.
I had a Yamaha FX500 back in the early nineties: that patch was one of the too few highlights. And even in bypass it would lop about 10db off your signal. After a year or so of frustration and the impression that someone had thrown a moving blanket over my amp, I unloaded it and went back to analog pedals.
'With its roots in that patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit: no mix control, a sub-par preamp, and a ghastly tone-sucking bypass signal.'
Was going through some gear I don’t use to sell on Reverb, sadly no box. But I did find the boxes for other gear I have that I didn’t remember keeping the box/getting with a box. So I went, “He has the box.”
I used the Soft Focus pedal on the song TROUBLE by Coldplay. It really sounds beautiful! Yesterday I ordered the Cloudburst pedal from Sweetwater. I should have it tomorrow. I'm so excited!
I love the 3 series reverb, it’s a fantastic pedal. I did not love the 3 series OD until I depowered by 3 volts via my MXR isobrick now it’s on a lot of the time!
yeah I had to get that slicer - seemed like a good tool for the studio. Got it for what - a month? Wish I had one in early 2000s though would have been perfect for what I was doing. For now I use it as a fancy tremolo but the fun has barely begun.
Do a Catalinbread episode, I had a bunch of their pedals on my board for years! Still have the Dirty Little Secret (3 knobs and a tone switch version). And I have their Echorec for my bass board.
The SL-2 is dope af. I could just let audacity record for hours while I mess around with it and have a dozen legit song ideas. If you ever experience creative block just start experimenting with it. It lends itself to out-of-the-box ideas and techniques. I had a defective fuzz pedal that I ran into a Boss GT-1 multi effects on a harmonist patch with the expression pedal bending pitch up an octave then into the slicer. Instant inspiration. There are also downloadable patches in addition to the stock ones. I think there are somewhere in the range of 8 expansion packs. I'd highly recommend it for anyone who makes electronic music and also plays guitar because you can make a lot of unguitarlike, synthesizerish tones.
Not to take away from the awesome jams, and awesome pedals, and overall great production of the folks featured, but damn that 3 series phaser is hard to turn off. Any song I make or play eventually just gets phaser added to it and I’m glad Nick brought it out for the last jam. It’s so well voiced and just checks all the boxes for phaser
Dug out my FX500 from the 90s, new power supply, still works! Including my presets which I thought needed the button battery (which would have died many years ago...). The new pedal sounds very close, with a lot more easily accessible controls (no obscure menus).
I always miss the live streams somehow. That's a pretty cool dynamic with those three on instruments. You guys should incorporate Driller more often. Maybe two guitars or two basses? I would say get everyone involved, but I have a feeling all 40 employees at JHS are multi-instrumentalists.
There's hardly anything else (except Pray) I would rather be doing than watching Nick and crew at 'JHS Pedals' opening Sweetwater packages with a Hari Kari blade just before WW3.
Does this mean Catalinbread are going to do a range of pedals based on late 80s, early 90s rack unit patches? Next one best be a Alesis Quadraverb Chorusstrings pedal. Instant Verve/Nick McCabe for A Storm in Heaven sounds. Or a Quadraverb Taj Mahal patch pedal for Jeff Buckley.
Souvlaki was released in 1993 in UK I believe….though feels like it should be earlier. I’d guess that band were using that sound already though prior to the album release (possibly as early as 1990?). Would love to see some more Catalinbread pedals reviewed. Maybe some of the less well known ones, as many seem to know the Belle Epoch and Dirty Little Secret.
I get the distinct vibe he's just sitting behind that laptop, quietly wondering how someone with such high educational achievements ended up answering emails from dumb guitar players? Joshua should move up north, preferably inside the Acela corridor - from whence the deep state elite is basically running the world, and getting paid handsomely for it! PS don't tell him about the cost of living, he may decide to stay put ;-)
I still think - they haven’t quite got the true Yamaha Fx 500 soft focus patch quite right. It seems to lack the depth or something. I found the Loomer pedal the same
The new one adds some valuable extra functionality, plus the single pedal size lets you either keep things compact, or add 1 or 2 extra expression and/or tap tempo switches in a more convenient place on your pedalboard - including using Gigrig type switcher, which can also be used with other pedals as a (admittedly not cheap) compact pedalboard control solution...including sending TRS MIDI to the SL-2, which really makes the pedal in relation to the way I prefer to use it. The MIDI implementation is basic, but incredibly useful when clocked from a synth running a sequence based on the drum/rhythm tempo + other control functions.
Nick! You dial something up, then down, then up, then back up, then dial something else, then dial the first one back to where you originally had it. It gives me anxiety.
I hear sorta augmented like an original I do...and an ad before the same. woke up groggy bizarre. I just got a belle echo and I need an A B Y pedal you guys recommend yours? I had a space echo stereo...this is weird your sound is my song on Piano and midi are you spies stealing my best stuff? Just curious asking for a friend
Doc Martens or chunky boots from the Army Surplus...basically part of the uniform back then, plus much cheaper and sturdier than the nicest sneakers of the era!
If you can't bring yerself to even type out the most milquetoast of curse words, I doubt you'll ever get anywhere close to exploring the more jarringly choppy and extreme sounds from the SL-2 Slicer!
This probably has been asked in the past (I’m late to the game)haha… what brand is your t-style guitar and what pickups are in it? That guitar sounds so good. Thank you.
I love how the pick a number.....people start spamming numbers like freakin crazy before you even get the number and the whole stream is spammed numbers like crazy for several minutes. even 5 mins later theres still numbers going.
I can’t wait until Addison leaves and starts his own TH-cam channel. Then you get some weird guy to replace him. And the weird guy isn’t really that bad but nobody likes him and in the comment section everyone just says they want Addison back.
Josh could build a small 2-story house using Sovtek amps as bricks
And when showing off his house he'd still avoid talking about them 😆😆😆
The house that SOVTEK built. That and some glass block.
yes
They did an entire episode in Sovtek amps?
...with BOSS compact series shingles.
As soon as Nick maxed out the settings on the soft focus and played a chord I went to sweetwater and bought one 😂
💪🏼
this show makes me want to have every pedal in the world
This is why I had to stop regularly watching lol. Spent WAAAY too much money on pedals.
You're too late. Josh already has them.
I was surprised that Josh didn't review the slicer as soon as it came out. When some of the more obscure pedals come out its almost like they're too mysterious to fully understand until Josh has explained it in his own words lol.
I'm really glad that you guys got my "Silky Johnson hate mail" 😀 I hope you enjoyed it, love you guys 😀
Boss Slicer is one of the most underrated pedal of all time. It have sooo much potential to be a classic but no one use it the way it needed to be used
Needs to be used in stereo to even understand it
What way does it need to be used?
Glad to have you guys back! Drillers bass sounds awesome.
Where tf is Josh
the soft focus is my favorite reverb pedal i’ve ever had! it’s epic even with the mod and symph down for a more basic reverb too
"Duty" is short for duty cycle, as Ran Zer noted in chat. Duty cycle is the ratio an intermittent system (such as the slicer or tremolo or transistor or pulsed radar or PWM signal, etc) is on versus the time it is off.
I had a Yamaha FX500 back in the early nineties: that patch was one of the too few highlights. And even in bypass it would lop about 10db off your signal. After a year or so of frustration and the impression that someone had thrown a moving blanket over my amp, I unloaded it and went back to analog pedals.
'With its roots in that patch, the Catalinbread Soft Focus is intended to be an instant shoegaze button, while addressing the most glaring issues of the original unit: no mix control, a sub-par preamp, and a ghastly tone-sucking bypass signal.'
The harmony on that stinger is freaking amazing! ❤
Everytime I purchase a used pedal now and they have the box I can't help but sing the "he has the box" tune hahaha
Was going through some gear I don’t use to sell on Reverb, sadly no box. But I did find the boxes for other gear I have that I didn’t remember keeping the box/getting with a box. So I went, “He has the box.”
Next you have to buy the shirt
I used the Soft Focus pedal on the song TROUBLE by Coldplay. It really sounds beautiful! Yesterday I ordered the Cloudburst pedal from Sweetwater. I should have it tomorrow. I'm so excited!
I get pretty much the same sound out of my Wonderland Ambient Reverb and the Marianna modulated reverbs
The CB Soft Focus maxed out sounds very Cocteau Twins
Ugh. They're so good.
Watching this made me realize that it’s not Catalinabread but Catalinbread. My mind’s not exactly blown but it is weird I never noticed that.
I love the 3 series reverb, it’s a fantastic pedal.
I did not love the 3 series OD until I depowered by 3 volts via my MXR isobrick now it’s on a lot of the time!
woah, nice!
Guys... Stop trying to pretend that Josh hasn't moved to Japan to work for Boss. It's ok. We love you anyway. I hope this helps.
😶
Killer jam on that Catalinbread SFX. They really nailed that unit I want one so bad.
yeah I had to get that slicer - seemed like a good tool for the studio. Got it for what - a month? Wish I had one in early 2000s though would have been perfect for what I was doing. For now I use it as a fancy tremolo but the fun has barely begun.
Soft focus belongs before dirt and drive buds
yep!
Do a Catalinbread episode, I had a bunch of their pedals on my board for years! Still have the Dirty Little Secret (3 knobs and a tone switch version). And I have their Echorec for my bass board.
That last jam just needed lyrics . . . total vibe.
nice see catalinbread getting some love :)
The SL2 is excellent if you use it with a signal blender to run the main signal parallel.
Good to see them working together with less friction.
Don't worry. Nick will annoy me soon enough and the old feud will return.
For once i bought a pedal before JHS gave me the GAS for it. Slicer has been very fun to mess with
well done!
Josh is in the thumbnail but I see no Josh on the video?
😈
we got bamboozled
Nice to see Driller inducted into the JHS house band.
that first jam with the SoftFocus was everything. x
We need a JHS 3 series Jam Pal now.
Super surprised you just discovered the Soft Focus! Wait till you get to Many Worlds!
The SL-2 is dope af. I could just let audacity record for hours while I mess around with it and have a dozen legit song ideas. If you ever experience creative block just start experimenting with it. It lends itself to out-of-the-box ideas and techniques. I had a defective fuzz pedal that I ran into a Boss GT-1 multi effects on a harmonist patch with the expression pedal bending pitch up an octave then into the slicer. Instant inspiration. There are also downloadable patches in addition to the stock ones. I think there are somewhere in the range of 8 expansion packs. I'd highly recommend it for anyone who makes electronic music and also plays guitar because you can make a lot of unguitarlike, synthesizerish tones.
That reverb sounds REALLY good into that kemper!! 😂
🤖
LOVE Nick's sweater 😍
Hat ain't bad either. And it just matched the tele sooooo nice. Looking so slick I think he should of been the thumbnail
I wonder how does the Waza tuner tune better than just regular Boss tuner …or just literally any tuner.
It doesn't? But it has an improved buffer... or so the legend goes
You can also use it to power other boss pedals, if thats your thing.
@@bud9269I thought it was true bypass lol
it doesn't, but our regular Boss tuner pooped out on us just before the show, lol.
@Ramoon CG I think it is selectable, true bypass or buffered. It might have increased tuning sensitivity, I don't know..
Not to take away from the awesome jams, and awesome pedals, and overall great production of the folks featured, but damn that 3 series phaser is hard to turn off. Any song I make or play eventually just gets phaser added to it and I’m glad Nick brought it out for the last jam. It’s so well voiced and just checks all the boxes for phaser
Dug out my FX500 from the 90s, new power supply, still works! Including my presets which I thought needed the button battery (which would have died many years ago...). The new pedal sounds very close, with a lot more easily accessible controls (no obscure menus).
That Jam 21:10 sounds like; build to spill - Carry the zero.
I always miss the live streams somehow. That's a pretty cool dynamic with those three on instruments. You guys should incorporate Driller more often. Maybe two guitars or two basses? I would say get everyone involved, but I have a feeling all 40 employees at JHS are multi-instrumentalists.
The Slicer would be a great tool for song writing if you’re stuck in your same old rhythmic patterns.
Yeah, it makes a really boring music sound unique
The Boss It’s a gater. And it works wonders on synthesizers.
Slicer sounds like the intro to Camera Eye off Moving Pictures
Candy!!!! Glad to see your impressions of boss slicer
There's hardly anything else (except Pray) I would rather be doing than watching Nick and crew at 'JHS Pedals' opening Sweetwater packages with a Hari Kari blade just before WW3.
🙏🏼
That tone in the intro was Maximum Rock, Nick
Nice video, nice sweater. Where did you get the super cool sweater?
Does this mean Catalinbread are going to do a range of pedals based on late 80s, early 90s rack unit patches? Next one best be a Alesis Quadraverb Chorusstrings pedal. Instant Verve/Nick McCabe for A Storm in Heaven sounds. Or a Quadraverb Taj Mahal patch pedal for Jeff Buckley.
🤷🏻♂️
@@jhspedals You should do an episode on those old rack units. Midiverbs, Quadraverbs, Fx500, SPX90, GP8.
The sound of the slicer is so 2000s to me.
in a good way, right?
@@jhspedals Of course!
Nick: makes his guitar sound like economy 80s pads
Addison: i will literally say anything sounds great
You just sold me the Boss Slicer.
yes!
Finally, after 24 years, I found out what effect John Frusciante uses at the end of Throw away your television!!!
Next time I go to the barber for a haircut, I'm going to ask him to give me a "trimlow".
Souvlaki was released in 1993 in UK I believe….though feels like it should be earlier. I’d guess that band were using that sound already though prior to the album release (possibly as early as 1990?). Would love to see some more Catalinbread pedals reviewed. Maybe some of the less well known ones, as many seem to know the Belle Epoch and Dirty Little Secret.
Nick is my style guru. Nice chord progressions today!
I think a sliced bread joke was missed by the team.
I can only say nick is a great drummer
Truly
Love my SL-20 ... Better get me the SL-2 as well !!
That Slicer jam was way dope.
I’d love to hear that Boss Slicer on drums!!
Almost positive Richard Buckner used the original Slicer on an album & I've wondered for years what it was. Has to be it.
Soft Focus is an always on pedal.
Yes
you need to co ver the whole catalinbread range - very original idea pedals
Anyone else getting the “wife who doesn’t want to be here” vibes from Josh the secretary? No?..it’s just me?
Wait... lol.
I get the distinct vibe he's just sitting behind that laptop, quietly wondering how someone with such high educational achievements ended up answering emails from dumb guitar players?
Joshua should move up north, preferably inside the Acela corridor - from whence the deep state elite is basically running the world, and getting paid handsomely for it!
PS don't tell him about the cost of living, he may decide to stay put ;-)
There you go - maybe an antique finish?
Thank you Sweetwater 🎉❤😊
Also, tiny knife users of the world, UNITE!!
That is one he ** of a jam guys I wasn't sure how the second pedal would be applied ... but it was killer
I still think - they haven’t quite got the true Yamaha Fx 500 soft focus patch quite right. It seems to lack the depth or something. I found the Loomer pedal the same
There's a Slicer on the old Boss GT8 but it isn't nearly as musical. The SL2 sounds amazing
Slicer rocks! I have it! 😜❤❤❤
If yer gonna do the Slicer, ya gotta do the DigiTech Time Bender! Underrated and still so cool!
FWIW, I believe Miki Berenyi of Lush had an all Boss pedal board back in the day.
Boss is best!
Emma had a GP-16 rack unit that was forever breaking down.
Is it a Marshall bluesbreaker reissue that Marshall are denying but Thoman are sending orders out?
Save every box forever
Guitar sounds a little soft in the jams, but great stuff as usual, gents!
Why isn’t there more apparel with swans on it? Or even Canadian geese? My mother would love that.
Yay Gloria chords!
Play “Life in a Northern Town” by Dream Academy. That first pedal is perfect for it. Or some Prefab Sprout.
I’m looking for the OG SL-20 for my BigBoard build.
The new one adds some valuable extra functionality, plus the single pedal size lets you either keep things compact, or add 1 or 2 extra expression and/or tap tempo switches in a more convenient place on your pedalboard - including using Gigrig type switcher, which can also be used with other pedals as a (admittedly not cheap) compact pedalboard control solution...including sending TRS MIDI to the SL-2, which really makes the pedal in relation to the way I prefer to use it.
The MIDI implementation is basic, but incredibly useful when clocked from a synth running a sequence based on the drum/rhythm tempo + other control functions.
I want to hear the Catilinbread with the Slicer.
go to the end!
FRIST impressions > FIRST impressions. Prove me wrong.
That's what I was SAYING! But someone got on and changed it.
Nick! You dial something up, then down, then up, then back up, then dial something else, then dial the first one back to where you originally had it. It gives me anxiety.
I hear sorta augmented like an original I do...and an ad before the same. woke up groggy bizarre.
I just got a belle echo and I need an A B Y pedal you guys recommend yours?
I had a space echo stereo...this is weird your sound is my song on Piano and midi are you spies stealing my best stuff?
Just curious asking for a friend
"You don't like the sound of phaser...just working thru pedal chain"?
Josh in the thumbnail pic for super effective clic-bait effect! 😂
We changed it! lol, cause like, you're right.
LOL… It wasn’t my intention, tho. 😅
Pencils: silicon vs germanium?
What kinds of shoes are appropriate for shoegaze? I would imagine that the kind of shoes worn might have a subtle affect on tone.
i'm wearing luggz
Doc Martens or chunky boots from the Army Surplus...basically part of the uniform back then, plus much cheaper and sturdier than the nicest sneakers of the era!
if it's available currently at sweetwater, we all already know about it.
When are Band of Joshes going to feature a set on this show? The Joshua family Tree is strong with JHS.
Believe it or not another Josh just started on the production line this week... we are now 15% Josh's at JHS
Are they a U2 cover band that only performs covers of songs off The Joshua Tree?
👑Josh stepping away from the camera as often as he had been?
The last Is thing I need is another guitar pedal, But d*** I sure want a slicer.
If you can't bring yerself to even type out the most milquetoast of curse words, I doubt you'll ever get anywhere close to exploring the more jarringly choppy and extreme sounds from the SL-2 Slicer!
Wo. That shoe gazy AF
This probably has been asked in the past (I’m late to the game)haha… what brand is your t-style guitar and what pickups are in it? That guitar sounds so good. Thank you.
It’s a KC made Seüf OH-20. They wind their own pickups but not sure if that’s what he has in there.
@@PAHVID thank you
We used the Seüf Jazzmaster and Seüf Telecaster!
Pickups are Fralins!
@@jhspedals killer tones.
Thank you for all you do for the guitar community.
MORE DRILLER!
How in the world did you get Joaquin Phoenix to play bass for you?
Josh has many more connections in Hollywood than he leads on
I love how the pick a number.....people start spamming numbers like freakin crazy before you even get the number and the whole stream is spammed numbers like crazy for several minutes. even 5 mins later theres still numbers going.
15:28 Getting down with the sickness
Is Josh ok? I heard he's missing. TAVA podcast guys are looking for him, too.
🤫
I can’t wait until Addison leaves and starts his own TH-cam channel. Then you get some weird guy to replace him. And the weird guy isn’t really that bad but nobody likes him and in the comment section everyone just says they want Addison back.
😂
I want to get rid of Addison now just so we can make this happen.
JHS branded box openers?
never.
well, only if they're like that big brass knife.