YESS THANK YOU JHS IVE WANTED THIS EVER SINCE I WAS BORN, PLEASE DONT STOP THIS SERIES!!! It’s so awesome you explain what the parts are actually doing to the sound. I’ve been struggling understanding op amps recently, hope yall eventually do something with those
I can't imagine another part of the guitar world where giants like Brian Wampler and Josh Scott would take their time to show you how they work and share their passion. Pedal builders are a different kind of of people. THANK YOU!!!
MORE MORE MORE! Fuzz and overdrive examples please! And also a video explaining how you go from a finished bread board design to building it into a pedal please!
It would be cool to see future circuits in the order they were designed, seeing how new ideas were built upon existing ones. Glad you're doing more of these Short Circuit episodes!
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen, right up there with Uncle Doug’s amp building series. I’d love to see you build something a bit more complex down the line and really get into the details
This was so awesome! I don't regret making my own DIY breadboard, but I super would not have done that if these would have been around. And, they're pretty affordable. I want to buy all of those substitution boxes... Future idea for you, Josh, would be a video on taking something from a breadboard to a pedal/guitar. Stereo jacks, stomp switches, LEDs, etc. are all things that are slightly tricky and I know you would explain it in such a great way. Also, there are other folks that do this, but I think you would be so good at explaining in down-to-earth terms- some of the "here is how this effects the circuit" concepts. The way you referenced the voltage divider, it would be great to hear you describe different types of tone circuits, a bias control, things like that. Keep doing these please!!! But, I'll watch whatever you guys put out. Thanks!
The is one of the most interesting JHS episodes ever...and I've seen a 'few'. Josh answered 3 or 4 related questions I've always had, before I could ask them. Yes...do more of these!!
OMG! Josh is a fantastic teacher...I had so many "lightbulb over my head" moments -- it all made sense, it all came together, and I finally understand a breadboarded circuit for the first time. I now understand how you actually do what you do...I'm inspired. MORE PLEASE!
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I recently started modding pedals and so I was GLUED to this stream. I absolutely love this type of content, thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world. Those Coppersound DIY kits seem like a dream come true for us beginners. I would love to see a Fuzz Face topology breadboarded out, and then next maybe a 'simple' modulation circuit. I also am hoping to see you demonstrate how & why to make use of a multimeter.
I’m totally new to this and want to give it a shot. I am looking at Brian’s course as well. If you ended up trying it, do you mind sharing your thoughts on it?
@@andrewbruning414 Life got a bit wild shortly after purchasing the course, so I have not fully gone through it. I was slightly disappointed, as it does not seem like a lot of information for $100, but in the grand scheme of things, pretty dang cheap for a master builder to give you some teaching/advice. The information is really helpful and it is really informative. I watched a few JHS pedal building streams that were very beneficial, and also completely free. If it won't hurt you too bad to drop the money, go for it, it will help you to get a good grip on it all. If $100 is feeling steep to you, then the course + all of the parts needed to complete it are going to be a bummer.
@@andrewbruning414 First reply didn't post for some reason. The course has useful data, and fully guides you through a simple pedal build. You learn very basic knowledge and steps. The $100 is fair for a master of the craft sitting with you talking through it for an afternoon, but that is definitely what it feels like. To call it a 'course' is definitely a bit much. The price tag would make you think there was more to it, especially if you are used to buying actual courses for various things online, like various IT certs. So yeah, it IS useful, but some people are not going to feel they get a lot for their money for sure.
THIS is my favorite kind of content. The LPB-1 was the first pedal circuit that got me into pedal building, and I've built different versions, variations, and mods of this and have settled on a souped out design with switchable caps, switchable clipping, and emitter gain onto a potentiometer. Just that one pedal into an amp gives me almost every sound I could ever need (minus modulation/delay/reverb). The LPB-1 is such a simple yet fantastic circuit, and like you said doesn't get the attention or recognition it deserves anymore.
Those sub boxes are outstanding. I’ve always thought that that kind of station would be immensely useful. “I’d love to get into breadboarding.” I’ve actually built a basic breadboard jack and power setup for design very similar to those BBs. This stuff looks amazing!
This was very cool, and LPB1 is so classic. I have some breadboarding experience from my work but never for audio products, so I may have to give this a try! ❤
Super cool, thanks so much! The combination of the pedal-enabled breadboard and the component switchers is .... majyk! I'm carried back more than fifty years to the Radio Shack "learn electronics" kits.
I loved this! Didn't know about the substitution boxes. One way of choosing a project would be that the circuit belongs to a vintage something not available any more OR something available but quit expensive. I for example would be motivated to make a BUMBLEBUZZ even though if I remember correctly it has quit a few components, exactly for that reason.
I literally just bought a similar breadboard for prototyping Eurorack modules, and now you show us one for pedals. I hope Coppersound send you a nice gift basket.
Sometime ago i did my first adventure in electronics and breadboarded a Harmonic Percolator with my dad. It worked! (For 5 minutes) I really would love to see a JHS video on the Harmonic Percolator one day, don't recall Josh mentioning it.
I’d love to see a video that shows how you’d take a a circuit from a breadboard to an inclosure; perhaps with some soldering tips. Thanks. Great series so far.
This was awesome... I've been able to assemble BYOC-type kits where the instructions aren't schematics, so this helped me to really start to understand a little of that world. One thing I would LOVE to see is how to use a multimeter in the context of building pedals-like what are the common functions necessary to troubleshoot my build when it inevitably goes a little sideways?
Please make so many more of these. And also to anyone that's involved in the nitty-gritty of designing the super specific and niche circuitry that we all geek out over - the inside look into the thought process is really cool and will help inspire new generations of builders to keep all this moving along when AI is playing guitar for us in twenty years
That would typically require DSP. Which normally means another level of complexity. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be possible but assuming you could get the DSP chip for it, it would mostly involve just setting up input and output (AD/DA) for signal and then the same for controls. Apart from buffering and power, it would mostly be a black box.
Thank you so much for doing these! As someone just getting into electronics and petals this kind of content is incredibly helpful in learning and comprehending what is going on under the hood. Please keep doing more!!
I got one of these copper sound kits back in January Built a elektra overdrive and getting ready to build a fuzz face then I have like five circuits I want to try building by myself like you were doing in this video including the astrotone fuzz you mentioned. So yes keep doing this series and your pedal collecting series.
This video has come just in time! I just build my first fuzz few days ago, but I'm getting pretty low sustain out of it so I tough I'm going to add some boost to the signal...thanks a lot Josh!!...I may start a guitar pedal entrepreneurship
Thank you so much Josh, I have been waiting for this video since you mentioned you would do this in your first breadboard video, I really hope you continue with this and teach us more. I would be very interested in a video on how to build and modify the Distortion plus because it seems to be the design where every distortion started !!!
Was really excited for tutorials when he made the OG video a while back. Im glad he's doing this! Josh is a huge inspiration to me. Keep it up guys! Love from Dallas
Your Jimi Hendrix Fuzz mod vid & the original short circuit vid inspired me to start my own pedal company. First pedal comes out later this year. ❤❤❤ I’m grateful for you!
Love this! I have done the whole BYOC thing which was super fun, but it’s just following directions really well! I have been so craving this type of explanation videos! Keep it up! Please and thank you!!!
Great stuff ❤ I was on the way to make a 2 cascaded LPB1s circuit, as I told John. Breadboard and substitution boxes will certainly help a lot to tailor the sound before finalizing the pedal. Basing yourself on a diagram, and realizing at the end that it's not really what you were hoping for, I've experienced it many times with diy pedals kits...
After all the years of wonderful JHS shenanigans and their sharing of knowledge…this might be my absolute favorite video because of the comprehension gap I have lacked for so long. It’s so simple. Thank you, Josh!
Yeah was a really good breakdown of things. I think it’s easily to conceptualize some aspects of electrical engineering as it relates to music gear. However, it’s when you can see how the electrons flow through the circuit at each stage and have it broken down like that, it makes it actually much less abstract and inaccessible.
G'day Josh, Thanks for a great video. I enjoyed your fuzz build video as well, & look forward to more build videos. I just have to make a few more comments. 1- Did you connect the earth of the guitar input jack to the earth of the battery? It's shown in the circuit diagram, but I didn't see you make that connection on the breadboard. Unless that connection is already made on the DIY board.... 2- Thanks for explaining what the first coupling capacitor does, & how it separates the guitar pickup from the transistor. I've tried making a small amp with a breadboard, which didn't have the coupling capacitor. I have to go back & put one in now. 3- I've seen all of Brian Wampler's circuit & breadboard videos too, & always enjoy them. 4- Waylon McPherson has a YT channel where he described his capacitor substitution box in one of his videos. He uses it to change the resonate peak on guitar pickups. Once he finds a good capacitor/sound combination, he adds the cap into the guitar's wiring circuit. Since he's a guitar tech from New Zealand, he does a lot of DIY videos - those NZ guys can fix or build anything with some fencing wire and a screwdriver! Finally, 5- I don't care what you make - just make more! Thanks once again for a great video. Keep up the good work. Andrew
This is awesome, I did learn electronics stuff at university but it was all theoretical, this would be. a great way to apply what I remember and relearn what I forgot (about 98%...). Plus I'm broke and cheap if I do have money so like this I can make my own for cheap and use my inadequate woodworking skills to make fancy boutique looking wooden cases. I have a lot of scrap of nice woods, lots of mahogany and teak.
This must have been live while I was watching reruns of the JHS show and building my first kit. I now have a Klon Klone, and the buffer is really lowering the interference that was keeping me from using all the amp and guitar knobs. I'm glad to watch those specialized breadboards in use, as I ordered a couple but they got misdirected in shipping, and seeing one in use raises my spirits.
This was excellent. Perfect timing for me, I bought a beginner breadboard kit a while back and just started playing around with it last night. Keep doing these!
As a beginner I found it more relaxed to work with 9V battery. Make it rechargable too. I screwed two 9v battery holders to breadboard environment to easy access. From that point on it is the same as here. The thing is that if I had used a powerful wall wart I had burned things on bread board without knowing and then got very fustrated in the beginning of the pedal mogul career. A 9V battery is very forgiving. So the burning happened to me anyway with wall warts and I learned to use battery. The second time around I got much further. Now it is third time and I seem to know quite alot of this stuff already. One thing to do to ease the hard work is to use LTSpice simulator where ever you can to get some sensible idea of the circuit and biasing and frequency response and then go on with building and listening the real thing. It is an iterative process and you learn what can and what cannot be simulated. The clean signal paths of circuit can be simulated but when there is complex distortion interaction it is harder but still helpful to know the biasing voltages and expected current magnitudes and so on. I wonder why Josh did not break the rules and put the straight line sound out for all the folks. No camera or amp or mic of any kind - just direct sound of that circuit on the line as a big mess but crystal clear to observe. That would bring the differencies of components loud and clear to be sensed. It would not be how the circuit would be used but it is up to the user to learn to match the gear. The user must do it anyway in some stage. Now the through the amp and speaker situation which all the other channels use too always hides the actual meaningful differencies in the circuit under the observation. It would be really nice to hear that direct guitar to circuit with all the glory of its badness listened on hifi system just the way the signal lives on the wire at the point before it hits the amp and then speaker. It is the speaker that tames the harsh sounds of any amp or pedal so it can be counted out by not applying it and listening at much lower volume so that it can be tolerated. But there is an alternative if speaker must be considered or used for taming the harshness. The active audience should have the same experience. People have so many different kind of guitar speakers which all sound different that actually demoing circuits if a speaker is used should be done using digital version of speaker i.e impulse response which anyone can download from internet. It could be JHS product or acessory. It is very easy to program. And if the audience use a good pair of headphones the experience is closer to similar. There is already one such free IR product but I leave to Josh to point it out if he is truely serious about it. All that said this is absolutely one of the greatest videos about how the breadboarding should look like.
I just created a stock LPB-1 circuit using the Orman schematic, CopperSound breadboard and components purchased from Newark, Stompbox and Stu-Mac. Never done anything like this before. It's been a blast learning about pedals this way. Thank you for the Short Circuit series of videos. Can't wait to modify the LPB-1 next.
Please do as you mentioned. Do a video with the board you just made, and either manually swap components, or use some of those boxes, to shows many mods, and explain them as you go. Thanks!
I'd love to hear you go over blend knobs. The Lumberjack by Electro-Harmonix sounds wild to me. My favorite pedal is the 4 knob Keeley Compressor with the blend. Blend knobs automatically make a pedal seem more bougie to me. Makes me feel like a hi-fi sophisticate instead of the descendent of alcoholic, hillbilly coal miners. Which is ironic because my second favorite pedal is the V2 Moonshine.
❤ Love this. Hope you do more 🤖 Sure you have ideas, but heres some more you didn't ask for 🤗 These boards look very good for showing whats going on because they are very tidy, (i will get one) It might be nice to show which bit of the jacks conect to who like in your OG breadboard 4:40 for understanding the tidy board basics and for people on low budgets. It might be nice to see a breadboard basic pedal and how you make that into an real homemade pedal in a box, where does the earth go etc. This might be an excellent place to show some breadboard pedal mods (I would love to see inserting a RAT strangle pot to reduce voltage going into a RATesque pedal build)
@JHSPEDALS Great video Josh! I need more! I built my first pedal yesterday! It was a lot of fun. I want to learn as much as I can and learn to build amps. Great video with lot of good information. Make more of these type videos please! Thanks.
Hi Josh, cheers from Paris France and I love bread. So much, I would love to get into bread-boarding too ! I'd would very much like to know how to breadboard the simpliest digital pedal (delay, octaver, reverb?...). Would it be feasible ? Keep the pace, your channel is awesome and always so inspiring.
Their silicon fuzz was the first kit I ever built. It got me started on my journey. I actually built my first pedal today that wasn't a kit, a Hemmo Bazz Fuzz, but I slightly modified it. I also got some of those component swap pedal thingies they make, they are fun and make experimenting easier.
I gotta say, you've really opened my eyes and mind into how the breadboard actually works. It's significantly less daunting and I'll likely have one within a couple week.s
This episode was super helpful! Over the last couple months, I’ve built some pedal kits I had bought but never gotten around to and have really been enjoying it! I’ve just started to branch of from kits to pcbs and sourcing components but also want to try out breadboarding and building my own with perfboard instead of having to find pcbs for anything I want to build. This episode really helped me figure out how to read schematics and how to lay out the circuit! In future episodes, it would be awesome to see how you would move a circuit from a breadboard to perfboard and assemble it into a pedal!
Funny, I was just rewatching You Can Build A Fuzz Face, the pilot episode of Short Circuit, and was thinking to myself "I wonder if Josh is ever going to get around to doing more of these Short Circuit videos?" Even though I had seen this Episode 1 video in my TH-cam feed, I kept glossing over it thinking it was an older video for some reason. Glad to see Josh has gotten back around to doing these! And fortuitous timing as I finally bit the bullet and decided to start building my own pedals. All of my pedal building tools are on the way! Josh started the Short Circuit series with a StewMac Fuzz Face Kit before moving to breadboarding with this episode. I'm planning to do something similar and ended up ordering a pedal clone kit from Aion FX. I also bought a couple of cheap little soldering practice kits from Amazon so I could practice soldering on something less intimidating. When I was ordering my tools from various sites, I saw the CopperSound DIY Breadboards and almost ordered one. I ended up ordering the PedalPCB ProtoBoard instead which provides only the prototyping PCB and requires you to add your own breadboards, components, and hardware. I ordered everything before seeing this episode. The CopperSound DIY Breadboards do look really nice and convenient. Hopefully it won't be too difficult building the PedalPCB ProtoBoard. Looking forward to diving into this new hobby! Does anyone know of a place that sells a good grab bag of assorted common guitar effect pedal components? It might be handy to have something like that for experimenting on a breadboard.
I love how you guys make me laugh so much. And here I am writing a comment just because the opening intro is just so effing funny. 😂 Fascinating video by the way!
I bought the CopperSound Fuzz kit about a week ago and will agree that their kits are really awesome, and their pedal prototyping breadboard is amazing - highly recommended, especially for beginners who just want to get into the circuits. Word of advice to those looking into buying more than one. Just buy one prototyping kit, then buy the component kits for other circuits, it'll save some money as you don't need a new breadboard for each kit (unless you want to). Anyway, thanks for the video, I learned more watching this than I have most other similar videos. One caveat, and this goes for most videos I've seen, and I realize that most won't understand the theory behind everything, like me, but in the next video, can you go over the "why" certain components do certain things when positioned the way they are? For instance, why does the 1M resistor connected between input+ and GND help in reducing that loud click? Why 1M instead of 1K? Thanks again, love the channel, everyone on it, and everything you're all doing for the community... And for anyone curious about the prototyping board before they buy - feel free to ask
Thank you, Josh! You and Brian Wampler are shining a light on such needy goodness, guitar pedal breadboarding/design/building! Very well done, indeed.
YESS THANK YOU JHS IVE WANTED THIS EVER SINCE I WAS BORN, PLEASE DONT STOP THIS SERIES!!!
It’s so awesome you explain what the parts are actually doing to the sound. I’ve been struggling understanding op amps recently, hope yall eventually do something with those
I can't imagine another part of the guitar world where giants like Brian Wampler and Josh Scott would take their time to show you how they work and share their passion. Pedal builders are a different kind of of people. THANK YOU!!!
MORE MORE MORE! Fuzz and overdrive examples please! And also a video explaining how you go from a finished bread board design to building it into a pedal please!
It would be cool to see future circuits in the order they were designed, seeing how new ideas were built upon existing ones. Glad you're doing more of these Short Circuit episodes!
This type of content is GOLD. Thank you and more please. Fuzz pedal sounds like a great next lesson.
Actually, he has a mod your fuzz face video from way back and he did build a fuzz kit in the first diy video.
@@rhymeswfamous Thank you for that info! I did not know that and will have to seek it out.
Complete gold!
Brian Wampler has a ton of this type of content
@@barnabyotoole2016 That's great to know, thank you. I've seen a few of his demo videos but nothing on building. I will definitely seek it out.
This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen, right up there with Uncle Doug’s amp building series. I’d love to see you build something a bit more complex down the line and really get into the details
This was so awesome! I don't regret making my own DIY breadboard, but I super would not have done that if these would have been around. And, they're pretty affordable. I want to buy all of those substitution boxes... Future idea for you, Josh, would be a video on taking something from a breadboard to a pedal/guitar. Stereo jacks, stomp switches, LEDs, etc. are all things that are slightly tricky and I know you would explain it in such a great way. Also, there are other folks that do this, but I think you would be so good at explaining in down-to-earth terms- some of the "here is how this effects the circuit" concepts. The way you referenced the voltage divider, it would be great to hear you describe different types of tone circuits, a bias control, things like that. Keep doing these please!!! But, I'll watch whatever you guys put out. Thanks!
The is one of the most interesting JHS episodes ever...and I've seen a 'few'.
Josh answered 3 or 4 related questions I've always had, before I could ask them.
Yes...do more of these!!
I would love to get (back !) into breadboarding!!! Great memories, great fun. Sugestion: Spring reverb . TxH
Spring Reverb would B HITTIN’‼️💯🔥🤩
Josh's teaching is spot on. This is super similar to an electronics tech course i had at community college. Look forward to more.
OMG! Josh is a fantastic teacher...I had so many "lightbulb over my head" moments -- it all made sense, it all came together, and I finally understand a breadboarded circuit for the first time. I now understand how you actually do what you do...I'm inspired. MORE PLEASE!
My thoughts exactly, it’s been neat seeing other people chime in with similar aha moments.
Couldn't agree more and love to hear this! :)
Three days ago I sent an email requesting this. I am going to pretend I am responsible for the awesomeness of this episode
Thanks man!
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I recently started modding pedals and so I was GLUED to this stream. I absolutely love this type of content, thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world. Those Coppersound DIY kits seem like a dream come true for us beginners.
I would love to see a Fuzz Face topology breadboarded out, and then next maybe a 'simple' modulation circuit. I also am hoping to see you demonstrate how & why to make use of a multimeter.
Thanks so much, Dino. We wanted to make these things as approachable and as fun as possible!
I’d love to see a phaser or a chorus breadboard. This is a dream-come-true series. Thank you!
Analogue delay would be my heaven. Especially one flexible enough to act as a chorus and flanger.
“Sorry, I can’t come over tonight babe, Josh just made another Short Circuit video”
Priorities in order :P
But you promised.
Here because I was thinking about getting Brian's course about building pedals. The comment about him being the OG helped make my decision.
I’m totally new to this and want to give it a shot. I am looking at Brian’s course as well. If you ended up trying it, do you mind sharing your thoughts on it?
@@andrewbruning414 Life got a bit wild shortly after purchasing the course, so I have not fully gone through it. I was slightly disappointed, as it does not seem like a lot of information for $100, but in the grand scheme of things, pretty dang cheap for a master builder to give you some teaching/advice. The information is really helpful and it is really informative. I watched a few JHS pedal building streams that were very beneficial, and also completely free. If it won't hurt you too bad to drop the money, go for it, it will help you to get a good grip on it all. If $100 is feeling steep to you, then the course + all of the parts needed to complete it are going to be a bummer.
@@andrewbruning414 First reply didn't post for some reason. The course has useful data, and fully guides you through a simple pedal build. You learn very basic knowledge and steps. The $100 is fair for a master of the craft sitting with you talking through it for an afternoon, but that is definitely what it feels like. To call it a 'course' is definitely a bit much. The price tag would make you think there was more to it, especially if you are used to buying actual courses for various things online, like various IT certs. So yeah, it IS useful, but some people are not going to feel they get a lot for their money for sure.
@ I appreciate you taking the time to reply, and thanks for the info.
Thank you. I love this. My son is playing guitar and I want to support him find the sound he likes without going bankrupt. This is very helpful!
Excited for this series! Love the videos like this that wampler does as well.
I really enjoyed this vid.
I'll probably never design my own pedals but it was fun watching a master at work...
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THIS is my favorite kind of content. The LPB-1 was the first pedal circuit that got me into pedal building, and I've built different versions, variations, and mods of this and have settled on a souped out design with switchable caps, switchable clipping, and emitter gain onto a potentiometer. Just that one pedal into an amp gives me almost every sound I could ever need (minus modulation/delay/reverb). The LPB-1 is such a simple yet fantastic circuit, and like you said doesn't get the attention or recognition it deserves anymore.
It's such a legendary circuit.
Those sub boxes are outstanding. I’ve always thought that that kind of station would be immensely useful. “I’d love to get into breadboarding.” I’ve actually built a basic breadboard jack and power setup for design very similar to those BBs. This stuff looks amazing!
This was very cool, and LPB1 is so classic. I have some breadboarding experience from my work but never for audio products, so I may have to give this a try! ❤
Super cool, thanks so much! The combination of the pedal-enabled breadboard and the component switchers is .... majyk! I'm carried back more than fifty years to the Radio Shack "learn electronics" kits.
Finally, coursing an electric technology class was useful for something, I understand what he's saying!
Wow. Mazing, thank you so much for this.
I loved this! Didn't know about the substitution boxes. One way of choosing a project would be that the circuit belongs to a vintage something not available any more OR something available but quit expensive. I for example would be motivated to make a BUMBLEBUZZ even though if I remember correctly it has quit a few components, exactly for that reason.
I literally just bought a similar breadboard for prototyping Eurorack modules, and now you show us one for pedals. I hope Coppersound send you a nice gift basket.
this is great! would definitely like to see more of these circuit history / build / mod breadboard videos.
This was so much fun! Thanks for sharing and I’m definitely going to pick up some stuff from coppersound. Cheers!
Sometime ago i did my first adventure in electronics and breadboarded a Harmonic Percolator with my dad.
It worked! (For 5 minutes)
I really would love to see a JHS video on the Harmonic Percolator one day, don't recall Josh mentioning it.
josh, I’m so happy you exist. you’re just the best
This one video has answered so many questions I’ve had about pedal building and circuitry. LOVE this series!
I’d love to see a video that shows how you’d take a a circuit from a breadboard to an inclosure; perhaps with some soldering tips. Thanks. Great series so far.
I would love to get more into breadboarding! Would also like to see a distortion pedal breadboarded. Thanks so much for doing this!
Loved it! I look forward to other content like this.
This was awesome... I've been able to assemble BYOC-type kits where the instructions aren't schematics, so this helped me to really start to understand a little of that world.
One thing I would LOVE to see is how to use a multimeter in the context of building pedals-like what are the common functions necessary to troubleshoot my build when it inevitably goes a little sideways?
Please make so many more of these. And also to anyone that's involved in the nitty-gritty of designing the super specific and niche circuitry that we all geek out over - the inside look into the thought process is really cool and will help inspire new generations of builders to keep all this moving along when AI is playing guitar for us in twenty years
I love those CopperSound breadboards! I've got a few. And I love this video! Can't wait for more in this series.
Thanks so much! :)
Thanks so much! :)
Loving the retro 80's synth wave music. Glad to see a new vid.
Endlessly cool! Please more like that!
Gotta love that les paul sound. So clean.
Great video Josh! Thanks for taking the time to do this!
Breadboarding a reverb circuit would be sick. Awesome content as always
That would typically require DSP. Which normally means another level of complexity. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be possible but assuming you could get the DSP chip for it, it would mostly involve just setting up input and output (AD/DA) for signal and then the same for controls. Apart from buffering and power, it would mostly be a black box.
Brilliant, thanks Josh, whats not to like, more please!!!
Thank you so much for doing these! As someone just getting into electronics and petals this kind of content is incredibly helpful in learning and comprehending what is going on under the hood. Please keep doing more!!
I got one of these copper sound kits back in January Built a elektra overdrive and getting ready to build a fuzz face then I have like five circuits I want to try building by myself like you were doing in this video including the astrotone fuzz you mentioned. So yes keep doing this series and your pedal collecting series.
I would love to get into breadboarding. Love this content Josh!
Josh, this was great, I enjoy pretending that I understand.
This video has come just in time! I just build my first fuzz few days ago, but I'm getting pretty low sustain out of it so I tough I'm going to add some boost to the signal...thanks a lot Josh!!...I may start a guitar pedal entrepreneurship
Thank you so much Josh, I have been waiting for this video since you mentioned you would do this in your first breadboard video, I really hope you continue with this and teach us more. I would be very interested in a video on how to build and modify the Distortion plus because it seems to be the design where every distortion started !!!
Was really excited for tutorials when he made the OG video a while back. Im glad he's doing this! Josh is a huge inspiration to me. Keep it up guys! Love from Dallas
Your Jimi Hendrix Fuzz mod vid & the original short circuit vid inspired me to start my own pedal company. First pedal comes out later this year. ❤❤❤ I’m grateful for you!
❤ this so much. Can't wait to get my own coppersound board and supplies soon. I can do this kinda of stuff for hours. Calms my brain 🧠
nice!
Love this! I have done the whole BYOC thing which was super fun, but it’s just following directions really well! I have been so craving this type of explanation videos! Keep it up! Please and thank you!!!
Great stuff ❤
I was on the way to make a 2 cascaded LPB1s circuit, as I told John.
Breadboard and substitution boxes will certainly help a lot to tailor the sound before finalizing the pedal.
Basing yourself on a diagram, and realizing at the end that it's not really what you were hoping for, I've experienced it many times with diy pedals kits...
After all the years of wonderful JHS shenanigans and their sharing of knowledge…this might be my absolute favorite video because of the comprehension gap I have lacked for so long. It’s so simple. Thank you, Josh!
Yeah was a really good breakdown of things. I think it’s easily to conceptualize some aspects of electrical engineering as it relates to music gear. However, it’s when you can see how the electrons flow through the circuit at each stage and have it broken down like that, it makes it actually much less abstract and inaccessible.
G'day Josh,
Thanks for a great video. I enjoyed your fuzz build video as well, & look forward to more build videos. I just have to make a few more comments.
1- Did you connect the earth of the guitar input jack to the earth of the battery? It's shown in the circuit diagram, but I didn't see you make that connection on the breadboard. Unless that connection is already made on the DIY board....
2- Thanks for explaining what the first coupling capacitor does, & how it separates the guitar pickup from the transistor. I've tried making a small amp with a breadboard, which didn't have the coupling capacitor. I have to go back & put one in now.
3- I've seen all of Brian Wampler's circuit & breadboard videos too, & always enjoy them.
4- Waylon McPherson has a YT channel where he described his capacitor substitution box in one of his videos. He uses it to change the resonate peak on guitar pickups. Once he finds a good capacitor/sound combination, he adds the cap into the guitar's wiring circuit. Since he's a guitar tech from New Zealand, he does a lot of DIY videos - those NZ guys can fix or build anything with some fencing wire and a screwdriver! Finally,
5- I don't care what you make - just make more!
Thanks once again for a great video.
Keep up the good work.
Andrew
I think this is one of my favorite videos I've ever seen
This is awesome, I did learn electronics stuff at university but it was all theoretical, this would be. a great way to apply what I remember and relearn what I forgot (about 98%...). Plus I'm broke and cheap if I do have money so like this I can make my own for cheap and use my inadequate woodworking skills to make fancy boutique looking wooden cases. I have a lot of scrap of nice woods, lots of mahogany and teak.
Ive built a couple of these but watching the really detailed description after already building them really helps cement some principles.
This must have been live while I was watching reruns of the JHS show and building my first kit. I now have a Klon Klone, and the buffer is really lowering the interference that was keeping me from using all the amp and guitar knobs. I'm glad to watch those specialized breadboards in use, as I ordered a couple but they got misdirected in shipping, and seeing one in use raises my spirits.
love this content. im a year into my diy pedal journey and this was still so helpful to watch. definitely need more of these
So cool. Thank you for inspiring an old nerd to begin nerding again. Yes a diy TS’r would be very nice.
I built a distortion circuit in high school shop class in 1996 and watching this video made me wanna do it again. Awesome stuff
This was excellent. Perfect timing for me, I bought a beginner breadboard kit a while back and just started playing around with it last night. Keep doing these!
Yes I love this! I appreciate how you broke down the schematic, makes way more sense!
As a beginner I found it more relaxed to work with 9V battery. Make it rechargable too. I screwed two 9v battery holders to breadboard environment to easy access. From that point on it is the same as here. The thing is that if I had used a powerful wall wart I had burned things on bread board without knowing and then got very fustrated in the beginning of the pedal mogul career. A 9V battery is very forgiving. So the burning happened to me anyway with wall warts and I learned to use battery. The second time around I got much further. Now it is third time and I seem to know quite alot of this stuff already. One thing to do to ease the hard work is to use LTSpice simulator where ever you can to get some sensible idea of the circuit and biasing and frequency response and then go on with building and listening the real thing. It is an iterative process and you learn what can and what cannot be simulated. The clean signal paths of circuit can be simulated but when there is complex distortion interaction it is harder but still helpful to know the biasing voltages and expected current magnitudes and so on.
I wonder why Josh did not break the rules and put the straight line sound out for all the folks. No camera or amp or mic of any kind - just direct sound of that circuit on the line as a big mess but crystal clear to observe. That would bring the differencies of components loud and clear to be sensed. It would not be how the circuit would be used but it is up to the user to learn to match the gear. The user must do it anyway in some stage. Now the through the amp and speaker situation which all the other channels use too always hides the actual meaningful differencies in the circuit under the observation. It would be really nice to hear that direct guitar to circuit with all the glory of its badness listened on hifi system just the way the signal lives on the wire at the point before it hits the amp and then speaker. It is the speaker that tames the harsh sounds of any amp or pedal so it can be counted out by not applying it and listening at much lower volume so that it can be tolerated. But there is an alternative if speaker must be considered or used for taming the harshness. The active audience should have the same experience. People have so many different kind of guitar speakers which all sound different that actually demoing circuits if a speaker is used should be done using digital version of speaker i.e impulse response which anyone can download from internet. It could be JHS product or acessory. It is very easy to program. And if the audience use a good pair of headphones the experience is closer to similar. There is already one such free IR product but I leave to Josh to point it out if he is truely serious about it.
All that said this is absolutely one of the greatest videos about how the breadboarding should look like.
I just created a stock LPB-1 circuit using the Orman schematic, CopperSound breadboard and components purchased from Newark, Stompbox and Stu-Mac. Never done anything like this before. It's been a blast learning about pedals this way. Thank you for the Short Circuit series of videos. Can't wait to modify the LPB-1 next.
Please do as you mentioned. Do a video with the board you just made, and either manually swap components, or use some of those boxes, to shows many mods, and explain them as you go.
Thanks!
I'd love to hear you go over blend knobs. The Lumberjack by Electro-Harmonix sounds wild to me. My favorite pedal is the 4 knob Keeley Compressor with the blend. Blend knobs automatically make a pedal seem more bougie to me. Makes me feel like a hi-fi sophisticate instead of the descendent of alcoholic, hillbilly coal miners. Which is ironic because my second favorite pedal is the V2 Moonshine.
I loved this episode a super whole bunch.
❤ Love this. Hope you do more 🤖
Sure you have ideas, but heres some more you didn't ask for 🤗
These boards look very good for showing whats going on because they are very tidy, (i will get one) It might be nice to show which bit of the jacks conect to who like in your OG breadboard 4:40 for understanding the tidy board basics and for people on low budgets.
It might be nice to see a breadboard basic pedal and how you make that into an real homemade pedal in a box, where does the earth go etc.
This might be an excellent place to show some breadboard pedal mods (I would love to see inserting a RAT strangle pot to reduce voltage going into a RATesque pedal build)
This was awesome. I learned more in 1 hour than I have in 40 years of running pedals. MORE!!!
YES!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks Josh!
MORE. I NEED MORE OF THIS
@JHSPEDALS Great video Josh! I need more! I built my first pedal yesterday! It was a lot of fun. I want to learn as much as I can and learn to build amps. Great video with lot of good information. Make more of these type videos please! Thanks.
Thanks a million Josh. Been struggling a little with breadboarding as a hobby. Nice and simple. Please keep doing these 👍🏻
Very cool please do more video/lives like this. Thank you for taking your valuable time to do this for us.
Hi Josh, cheers from Paris France and I love bread. So much, I would love to get into bread-boarding too !
I'd would very much like to know how to breadboard the simpliest digital pedal (delay, octaver, reverb?...). Would it be feasible ?
Keep the pace, your channel is awesome and always so inspiring.
Their silicon fuzz was the first kit I ever built. It got me started on my journey. I actually built my first pedal today that wasn't a kit, a Hemmo Bazz Fuzz, but I slightly modified it.
I also got some of those component swap pedal thingies they make, they are fun and make experimenting easier.
Thank you for the support! :)
Just lovely! Could you make us a fuzz to show the difference to the LPB 1?
Absolutely please keep doing these!! It makes so much more sense to me now. Thank you!!
I would love to get into breadboarding !
I'm going to make a Canadian pedal company. This was my beginning, thank you.
Thanks Josh. What a great teacher you are!! I really enjoyed this video!
Love to see more vids like this!
I gotta say, you've really opened my eyes and mind into how the breadboard actually works. It's significantly less daunting and I'll likely have one within a couple week.s
Well I’m hooked. This is rad. Thanks Josh.
This was awesome! Can't wait for more! Thanks!
He is so pure, he still says he works at a pedal company while he owns it.
take us to the next step in pedal build- thanks!
Please do a Rat circuit. Delay (the one in the spring tank) and compressors would be really cool to see. Also a simple tube preamp, please!
This episode was super helpful! Over the last couple months, I’ve built some pedal kits I had bought but never gotten around to and have really been enjoying it! I’ve just started to branch of from kits to pcbs and sourcing components but also want to try out breadboarding and building my own with perfboard instead of having to find pcbs for anything I want to build. This episode really helped me figure out how to read schematics and how to lay out the circuit! In future episodes, it would be awesome to see how you would move a circuit from a breadboard to perfboard and assemble it into a pedal!
I LOVE this! thanks Josh!
Funny, I was just rewatching You Can Build A Fuzz Face, the pilot episode of Short Circuit, and was thinking to myself "I wonder if Josh is ever going to get around to doing more of these Short Circuit videos?" Even though I had seen this Episode 1 video in my TH-cam feed, I kept glossing over it thinking it was an older video for some reason. Glad to see Josh has gotten back around to doing these! And fortuitous timing as I finally bit the bullet and decided to start building my own pedals. All of my pedal building tools are on the way!
Josh started the Short Circuit series with a StewMac Fuzz Face Kit before moving to breadboarding with this episode. I'm planning to do something similar and ended up ordering a pedal clone kit from Aion FX. I also bought a couple of cheap little soldering practice kits from Amazon so I could practice soldering on something less intimidating. When I was ordering my tools from various sites, I saw the CopperSound DIY Breadboards and almost ordered one. I ended up ordering the PedalPCB ProtoBoard instead which provides only the prototyping PCB and requires you to add your own breadboards, components, and hardware. I ordered everything before seeing this episode. The CopperSound DIY Breadboards do look really nice and convenient. Hopefully it won't be too difficult building the PedalPCB ProtoBoard. Looking forward to diving into this new hobby!
Does anyone know of a place that sells a good grab bag of assorted common guitar effect pedal components? It might be handy to have something like that for experimenting on a breadboard.
Brings me back to me 80's DeVry days. Love this! Ordered a hard clipping circuit to play with. Brilliant idea CopperSound!
Super excited for this video series. Thanks JHS! P.S. what's the resistor adjacent to the power switch doing?
I love how you guys make me laugh so much. And here I am writing a comment just because the opening intro is just so effing funny. 😂 Fascinating video by the way!
I bought the CopperSound Fuzz kit about a week ago and will agree that their kits are really awesome, and their pedal prototyping breadboard is amazing - highly recommended, especially for beginners who just want to get into the circuits. Word of advice to those looking into buying more than one. Just buy one prototyping kit, then buy the component kits for other circuits, it'll save some money as you don't need a new breadboard for each kit (unless you want to).
Anyway, thanks for the video, I learned more watching this than I have most other similar videos. One caveat, and this goes for most videos I've seen, and I realize that most won't understand the theory behind everything, like me, but in the next video, can you go over the "why" certain components do certain things when positioned the way they are? For instance, why does the 1M resistor connected between input+ and GND help in reducing that loud click? Why 1M instead of 1K?
Thanks again, love the channel, everyone on it, and everything you're all doing for the community...
And for anyone curious about the prototyping board before they buy - feel free to ask
Thanks so much John!