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Got a question for you. Can a fully analog pedal do digital presets inside of the pedal? So just Analog but have like 10-whatever presets that are saved on that pedal digitally. Thanks if you have time to answer the question. =D
david abe yes, there are different ways it’s done. But probably the most notable is Chase Bliss, their tag line is “Digital Brain, Analog Heart” or something like that. Incredible pedals.
I had an idea for a video: the evolution of the pedal board? for some reason these big pedals reminded me of Hendrix with a couple pedals just sitting on the stage, who made the first pedal board? cheers!
It's common knowledge to people "in the know" that people had much larger feet in the 70's. Just look at those "keep on truckin'" shirts that were so popular. The 80's came and all the cocaine shrunk our feet back to normal size. The history channel did a show on this, you must have missed it.
@Ben Hackett you are half right, acid and mushrooms make your feet longer thus all the stumbling around, however marijuana makes your feet wider and improves balance. Need proof, here in Colorado we have seen a 420% increase in slack lining in our parks since the legalization of marijuana. Science.
Ever since his craft became a legitimate business, he can write off pedal purchases in his tax. He can also use company money to buy them, throuth which he can write off further tax. Can you imagine?? Imagine having the G.A.S. you currently have, and then having a little backyard business you started go big...and then, not only will you G..A.S. spending sprees go unquestioned, but it will pretty much be expected - from a business standpoint!! It's pretty much the equivalent of giving a young woman a limitless credit card at David Jones! (In Australia, DJ's is the most ritzy department store).
Here's an idea: in the mode of Willy Wonka, you place golden tickets in the enclosures of five JHS pedals. The purchasers of those pedals get to come to JHS headquarters for a tour. This would make for a great episode, especially if you can figure out a way to turn one of the winners into a giant human blueberry (but I'll leave that to your discretion).
That would be sick, and at the end of the video he could give the entire company to one lucky contestant and his grandpa! ...right before they fly an elevator through the roof
@@tungtobak But that's the only exception in the whole video, because of the spring reverb tank. We saw more than one fuzz in the video, which are all simple af and super small inside. Maybe the Lovetone pedal does need space to place so many potentiometers, jacks and switches, but could still be way smaller.
Mellon Collie... Where boys fear to tread... That intro. The rocket explosions from Doom... What an album. One of my favorites. Such an inspiration for my music. Amazing video Josh! Have a nice day everyone
I love how Josh is humble and freely talks about other pedal companies. Not only this but the record time is always great to see some new music. These videos have made building my pedalboard less daunting and expensive. Thanks.
NIN- "the Fragile" just turned 20 years old and is easily my favorite double album. Every track is great and it flows from start to finish like nothing before and nothing since, plus the pop of the main snare is fantastic.
Definitely my favorite is Double Nickles on the Dime by the Minutemen. Double album with 43 tracks, all but two of which have a runtime of under two and a half minutes. The story goes they were in the studio and heard that Husker Du were putting out a double album, so they decided they would do one too. It's killer, has more incredible songs than most bands put out in their entire career, and has inspired countless musicians in the 35 years since. That includes me.
versnellingspookie I have. I also just saw Watt perform last week. He’s getting older and has some trouble walking, but the man still gives everything he has on stage. It’s amazing to see.
@@Logansag1 Siamese Dream is a better "album". Nothing in the SP catalog comes close to that. BUT! Mellon Collie is a better piece of sonic art that translates to a story about life, love, and losses. I was just listening to Mellon Collie yesterday, ironically.
If you check Spring King inside photos you will realize that it could be half of the size or even less. Yes, tank is long so pedal is wide but just like Lays chips most of the pedal is just air. I've heard people joke that old NYC muffs wasted space gives it more headroom, maybe Danelectro decided to do the same? Jokes aside they probably decided to reuse their Reel Echo enclosure. Own and love those clunky twins.
@@666makasin Ah good point, though the video doesn't really say why this pedal or any of the others are as big as they are. I've only owned the much smaller Dano pedals, including the French Toast and Tuna Melt - both pretty good.
@@greasykitchen French toast is the beast, got one for 20 bucks and it puts boutique fuzzes to shame. The only problem is it's heavily mid scooped so you'll have hard time cutting through the mix with a full band. I'd love to try Tuna Melt because my EHX stereo pulsar isn't fitting the sound I'm looking for
666makasin It’s been a while since I’ve played it but the trem seemed good especially for the low price. Mine has an ‘editors pick’ sticker on it from some magazine. Dunno if the still make them but they’d have to be cheap enough to take a punt on.
When Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" came out there was a limited edition that looked like a prescription drug box. Each song was on its own mini-CD and the CDs were housed in plastic and foil blister packs, like pills.
This is the most that's-what-she-saidiest episode ever. The Seer by Swans is my favorite big album. Triple LP, title track is more than a half hour long. Epic.
Swans are just BIG, period. Everything about them is excessive. Godspeed You! Black Emperor have a few album-long songs (movements, if you will). Transcendent Canadian Post-Rock. What more could you want?
The Boss CE-1 is also somewhat on the large side. I had one go at fitting mine on my pedalboard, then immediately gave up and bought a CE-2w. The benefit of the big graphic EQ sliders is that you get much better quality sliders, with greater ease of adjustment for getting your tone just right. It's why 100mm faders on mixing desks are preferred to 60mm ones. Nice video BTW.
My favorite BIG album has to be Consequences by Godley & Creme. They somehow talked Mercury Records into releasing a 3 lp concept album about a composer whose compositional skills were so powerful, they controlled the weather. The album was allegedly a concept album, but I believe it was actually a 3 lp demo record for their Gizmotron guitar bowing device. Very strange and wonderful album. BIG pedaI: I always loved the relatively large Maestro Stage Phaser. It has a Balls control. I need a clone of that there pedal. Bestest phaser ever.
The DOD 640 is my favorite too big pedal. It's got it all; an un called for lighted on off switch, a "PA" option switch, and 2 extremely awkwardly placed in/out jacks
madvillainy by madvillain feels like a big album cause it has like a million songs and it moves around in so many different moods but then you get to the end and realise how brief the songs actually are and it's a weird thing, man.
The Moogerfooger ringmod "pedal" dwarfing over the rest of my pedals appreciates this video. Big is beautiful. My fave big album has to be Tago Mago by Can, with seven big tracks across two double-sided records.
perhaps he considers it and efx 'unit' since the foot switch are on the end of a 15 ft cord for the floor. After I watched it occurred to me it wasn't in the vid too
Bear in mind that, in the '60s and '70s, a "pedalboard" was likely to consist of maybe 3 or 4 pedals, sitting on the floor. The need for compactness didn't really emerge until the late '80s as people started to actually *have* pedalboards with a dozen or more devices needing to fit in a defined space, rather than sprawled out on a rug. Also worth noting that, while 1/4W resistors and DIP op-amps have not changed size in 50 years, electrolytic caps have shrunk dramatically during that period, as have pots. A 10uf/16V cap from 1968 is about the size of a 470uf/63V unit from today. That played a role in obliging big enclosures. Many of the early MXR pedals used tantalum caps. Why? Because you could easily lie them on their side, such that they could fit in a small chassis that wasn't so tall to accommodate electros standing up tall.
Back in the early Eighties, pedals cost just about what they run now, but the money wasn't quite as cheap. Robbie Dunbar and Joe Satriani were the only guys I ever knew who could afford more than one. Joe had three little Boss pedals running on batteries, but he was doing all that madman stuff so it didn't seem excessive.
@@hoboroadie Indeed, a great many pedals lacked any sort of jack for being externally powered. Just today, I saw an ad for a Proco Rat 2, in which the seller made clear he was including a dongle to connect an external supply up to the 9V battery snap inside.
@@Aleph_Null_Audio Also quite true. Certainly the availability of small enclosures has been a boon to reducing pedal size, but those smaller enclosures could only have uptake because so many other factors - smaller caps, pots, switches, and double-sided boards - made smaller effects possible. And once surface-mount became available, things shrunk even further.
You gotta love an unapologetic gear nerd. Encyclopedia of technical information who also obsesses about weird backstory and bizarre design choices that were made to come up with now iconic pedals. I love the admiration of other makers who technically are the competition but in reality are just buddies who exchange ideas and inspiration.
1991 and gish were my introductions to the Pumpkins... Love 'em! Mellon Collie was pretty damn good as an album, and I definitely compared it to the Wall album when it came out for the storyline present. Pumpkins will always have a place in my collections! thanks for spotlighting them again sir!
Favorite "big" album is Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips. It consists of four separate discs, all to be played at the same time on different stereo systems. Unnecessarily big, but also super freaking cool.
The only thing I wish is we could have seen the guts of some of the large pedals to see the irony of how small some of the older circuits are compared to the enclosure. Great episode as always!
hey thought id tell you, hit a goldmine yesterday, mxr compressor, phase 100, gibson firebird pickguard, some distortion wah thing, and a string operatibg ernie ball volume oedal, all for 20$
@@jtn191 Dan Coggins, formerly of Lovetone made a stink about JHS 'stealing' the circuit. It's obviously a copy and he has not been bashful about saying that, but they aren't producing it, so where's the problem? Maybe some proceeds should go towards the engineers and creators? Obviously Josh has no legal requirement to do that, its a great gig remaking pedals that aren't being made as the circuits are generally not protected, and anyone can reproduce them.
I've only recently discovered your channel and backlogging through the whole show! While you always seem to have a lot of fun making these episodes I think this one looked you guys had the most fun yet! From the jams played to the jokes, hats off to you!
As a child born in 1991, I was raised in middle America, as the middle child, in a middle class family. Being in the bible belt, I was raised on Christian music. My dad worked for our church as the sound/tech guy and my mom ran the church's daycare for a time, worked the church library and many other volunteer positions, along with home schooling us 3 kids. In 2004, my parents divorced and sent my world as I knew it way out into the great beyond. My dad grew up on what we know to be Classic Rock, so when his now angsty teen who was tossed into the middle of public middle school, he did what any parent would do, introduced me to Van Halen's first album and Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. My musical tastes being forever changed from our local Christian radio station to, "Everything that rocks," as another local station puts it, I wanted more. This all being said, Pink Floyd's The Wall was the first big album that I fell in love with. I listened to it over and over. My dad and I watched the movie. We watched Roger Water's version of it. It holds a special place in my life, because I can only imagine that my dad and I share the same fondness of it, he just got to hear it when it first came out.
Record time: Chicago by Chicago ( their second album, sometimes referred to as Chicago II). Not as raw as their first album (also a double album) but certainly does more things for me, a sucker for pop sensitivity. They also seemed to get the memo that The Beatles were not going back together, so they went almost full on Beatles-mode with horns.
It wasn’t full of hits but it was definitely full of “hidden gems!” The Magnetic Fields “69 Love Songs.” That’s right! The genius Stephin Merritt released a three-volume concept album composed of 69 (actual) LOVE SONGS in 1999.
That gigantic little black buffer will give us an authentic precise glitter tone without any tone loss guaranteed even when we using 10 mile cable long
In my day job, I teach English and computer skills to refugees in Boise. Yesterday the students had some free time on the computers and all of a sudden I hear the JHS vlog theme from across the room. I look over and one of the students from the Congo is whatching this video and looking interested but very confused. Apparently I forgot to log out of my google account on that computer and because you're like one of my fav. channels I subscribe to, this video was at the top of my youtube page. I was busy helping someone else out so the video ran until you were done playing with the first fuzz and then I switched it to the ESL video he was looking for. By that point like 2 or 3 other students were watching over his shoulders as well. When I switched the video, the students' faces had a combo of relief, interest, and vague amusement. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know how far your videos are reaching, even by accident :P
The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my favourite bands of all times, i didn't dig their last album, but all other ones are amazing. Edit: this band is also responsible for getting me into effects pedals
Mellon Collie is one of my all time favorite albums from one of my all time favorite bands. I listened to that CD back and forth over and over in middle school
Hearing the first few notes played on Danelectro Spring King, I thought it was going to be a cover of a Cramps song, but alas. My favorite UA-cam channel.
Great episode, but I was slightly disappointed it didn't include two things: 1) A shot of the inside of the pedals, showing how much (if any) wasted space there was inside the enclosure. 2) An actual pedalboard with all of these on it. You might have to take a door off its hinges.
I think the original Univibes was large out of necessity... Their predecessors, the Psychadelic Machine (by Honey, then Shin Ei) were so big, they had to make it a stand alone unit that went on top of your amp. If you’ve never seen one, check them out here on UA-cam. It’s a superb vibe and a pretty gnarly fuzz in one box.
Writing from KC, Love this episode love the channel. Its great to see how builders like you have brought these designs so far. Will you do an episode where viewers share what they have on their pedal board and you show us how YOU would use their rig?? That'd be rad. Thanks.
Damn you! I used to be a happy, ignorant acoustically based guitar player that was happy playing my acoustic and electric guitars with a minor amount of effects through a clean amp. Now you have opened up my world to your world of pedals.i am a 68 year old,blues/rock guitarist. You are not supposed to be able to teach an old dog new tricks!! Not only do the pedals add great sounds to guitar playing they have collectable niche component to them. Two weeks ago I had one pedal that I have never used....now I have just purchased 5 pedals, including a JHS Clover!. Is there pedal addiction rehabilitation available? Love the VLOG and info.....damn you😎
I feel your pain. I'm 6' 7". People don't understand the struggles our kind have to endure. Like people telling us we're tall (as if we didn't know), bumping our heads on various objects and peeing on the top of urinals. Big time stuff!
I have a Morley Pro Flanger. This bit of awesomeness is a classic bucket brigade flanger in a Morley wah pedal enclosure. Yes, it is a factory product, just not very well known. The pedal can be switched from controlling speed to controlling the flange itself. Ever wonder what it would sound like if you could work a flanger like a wah? Well you can get your own. This one is mine.
Thanks loads Mr JHS for these videos. I'm not a guitarist (I'm a synth guy...) but I love "guitar" pedals and own quite a few. These vids make me laugh soooo much. I really love your presentation style, dry "English" humour (with "English" spelling) and informative approach. Great stuff!
That spring reverb sounds incredible. I played a Fender '65 Twin Reverb for 15 years(recently sold it to get a JP-2C and 4x12)so I'm no stranger to reverb.
I know this is out of place here but it has to do with Spring Reverb Tanks in pedals or amps. OMG the old Grey Tuck & Roll Kustom 100 Watt SS Combo Amp had a massive and equally noisie Reverb Tank that was so sensitive that it would sound like it was exploding or thunder & lightning strike if you just tapped the amp. That amp ruined a lot of recordings, so I quit using the amps Reverb Tank and started using reverb tanks and reverb effects pedals outside the amp. I finally took the Kustom Reverb Tanks out of the amp and made my own patch to the unit and a patch switch box and put the reverb tank in a box and suspended it within the box using recording mic shock mounts. Then a playing buddy blew the cones out of the front of the face grill literally. I traded the amp for a Fender 65' Twin Reverb and a C Note ! ! ! Effects from yesteryears ??? WoW, that's a lots of Big Gear ago & now I gotta use readers to find my gear and settings and be careful that I don't stomp my boxes to death ! ! ! 😁 Peace & Play On . . . 🎸 😎 DDH 10-3-2019
I still listen to Melon Collie on a regular basis. The best thing about it is how, when it first came out, I would listen to the singles: Zero, Bullet, Tonight but as I got older (and more musically aware?) songs like Stumbleine, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Thru the Eyes of Ruby became my favourites ... and of course, Lily - such a sly song. Whatever his faults, Billy can write a song. I'm going to cheat for big album and say, the still in my possession from 1990, Remasters - Led Zeppelin. I still remember the day I pulled the plastic off that TRIPLE LP and putting the needle down to hear the first notes of Communication Breakdown. Great day.
Hey! Long time listener, first time caller. I have 2 topic ideas. First off, as a bassist (sometimes Bass VI), I'll get in line to mention the lack of quality bass vids on UA-cam. But I think, if and when you were to do any, do not shovel 23 topics into one 'bass' video, and drop it. Be specific. A video about modulation on bass, reverb and delay, stacking combos for bass, etc. Something bassists can sink their teeth into with each video. Second idea. A video showcasing all the wild and wacky pedals that people deem to weird to actually use in a serious fashion. Any pedal has a purpose in the right setting and genre. Make people give the oddball pedals a second look.
I would like to see an episode where you go more into technical details, component level etc. Maybe you could disassemble one of this huge pedals and show us why they are sound like they sound... or not. You say this one specific chorus brought you the idea of making your own version... maybe you could show us your attempt to "recreate" a curtain pedal. Oh, and as always, great video and if i have to suggest you an album then i would suggest you "Died Laughing" from (Keith) Mina Caputo... great vocals, great guitars, gigantic good songs. Greetings from Germany
Mellon Collie was a huge part of my high school life! A big album? Todd Rundgren “Initiation”...68 minutes on a single piece of vinyl (absolutely ridiculous) and they sped up a couple of the tunes by a half step to fit it all in! “A Wizard/A True Star” and “todd” are both unnecessarily huge albums as well. Really fun listening, every bit of it...but I do recommend the CD! haha...!
First long record- mom gave me an original Elvis 45 that had 2 songs per side! Thought that was so cool. First double album that I purchased was Live Bullet and just as “Loud is more good” ; “More Music is more good”.
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Hey everyone! Please check out the full description for info on the gear in this episode, our JHS Show Website, our new Patreon page, and links to gear and the record in Record Time. Thanks for watching!
Got a question for you. Can a fully analog pedal do digital presets inside of the pedal? So just Analog but have like 10-whatever presets that are saved on that pedal digitally.
Thanks if you have time to answer the question. =D
I worked at Carlsbro in the early 80's - I loved all our pedals.
david abe yes, there are different ways it’s done. But probably the most notable is Chase Bliss, their tag line is “Digital Brain, Analog Heart” or something like that. Incredible pedals.
I had an idea for a video: the evolution of the pedal board? for some reason these big pedals reminded me of Hendrix with a couple pedals just sitting on the stage, who made the first pedal board? cheers!
Do you mod Arion stereo chorus pedals? cuz i got one....wink wink
It's common knowledge to people "in the know" that people had much larger feet in the 70's. Just look at those "keep on truckin'" shirts that were so popular. The 80's came and all the cocaine shrunk our feet back to normal size. The history channel did a show on this, you must have missed it.
L O L
RCMandTWO 😂
@Ben Hackett you are half right, acid and mushrooms make your feet longer thus all the stumbling around, however marijuana makes your feet wider and improves balance. Need proof, here in Colorado we have seen a 420% increase in slack lining in our parks since the legalization of marijuana. Science.
RCMandTWO this is very good
Also, Wookies were big in the '70s Rock scene and those dudes have yuge feet (paws? I'm unsure).
History Channel covered that as well.
Josh: “Why would anyone want this?”
Also Josh: *owns the pedal*
At least he keeps and preserves them
I don't think there's a pedal in the world Josh doesn't like.
its for science
Ever since his craft became a legitimate business, he can write off pedal purchases in his tax. He can also use company money to buy them, throuth which he can write off further tax.
Can you imagine?? Imagine having the G.A.S. you currently have, and then having a little backyard business you started go big...and then, not only will you G..A.S. spending sprees go unquestioned, but it will pretty much be expected - from a business standpoint!!
It's pretty much the equivalent of giving a young woman a limitless credit card at David Jones! (In Australia, DJ's is the most ritzy department store).
Also Josh: I MUST have it, I cant sleep, eat or drink... I NEED THAT PEDAL!!!
Here's an idea: in the mode of Willy Wonka, you place golden tickets in the enclosures of five JHS pedals. The purchasers of those pedals get to come to JHS headquarters for a tour. This would make for a great episode, especially if you can figure out a way to turn one of the winners into a giant human blueberry (but I'll leave that to your discretion).
That would be sick, and at the end of the video he could give the entire company to one lucky contestant and his grandpa! ...right before they fly an elevator through the roof
shvinehoond Essential.
The golden ticket idea is cool but Mabie Josh could just autograph the pedal ?
But what can replace the chocolate river and bad acid trip boat ride in a pedalmaker’s workshop?
Joe R M Nothing could replace that, and I'm sure Josh could make that happen!
When i saw the title i thought it was gonna be pedals that are large for no real reason, like a fuzz face. Tiny circuit board and a massive enclosure.
I thought the same thing.
Ray Cunningham - they’re ALL like that inside!
@@bobstar76 Not really. A spring reverb tank, like the one Spring King has in it can't really be made much smaller than it is.
me too
@@tungtobak But that's the only exception in the whole video, because of the spring reverb tank. We saw more than one fuzz in the video, which are all simple af and super small inside.
Maybe the Lovetone pedal does need space to place so many potentiometers, jacks and switches, but could still be way smaller.
You forgot the Morley wah that has that big ass Rotary simulator oil can thing attached to it. It’s literally the size of a car. 💁🏻♂️🤣👋🏻
I was going to say the samething lol
Literally?
and it needs a 6lb transformer bcz I'm in the UK!
@@Andystonemusic ever see a smart car
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Mellon Collie... Where boys fear to tread... That intro. The rocket explosions from Doom... What an album. One of my favorites. Such an inspiration for my music. Amazing video Josh! Have a nice day everyone
I love how Josh is humble and freely talks about other pedal companies. Not only this but the record time is always great to see some new music. These videos have made building my pedalboard less daunting and expensive. Thanks.
NIN- "the Fragile" just turned 20 years old and is easily my favorite double album. Every track is great and it flows from start to finish like nothing before and nothing since, plus the pop of the main snare is fantastic.
Yes! My favorite NIN album as well.
Definitely my favorite is Double Nickles on the Dime by the Minutemen. Double album with 43 tracks, all but two of which have a runtime of under two and a half minutes. The story goes they were in the studio and heard that Husker Du were putting out a double album, so they decided they would do one too. It's killer, has more incredible songs than most bands put out in their entire career, and has inspired countless musicians in the 35 years since. That includes me.
ACK ACK ACK! I love that album! Its I one of my favorites. Have you seen 'We Jam Econo - the story of The Minutemen' yet?
versnellingspookie I have. I also just saw Watt perform last week. He’s getting older and has some trouble walking, but the man still gives everything he has on stage. It’s amazing to see.
I’d never heard that story, but Zen Arcade had a huge impact on 14-year-old me.
@@alanshewitt The inside of the Double Nickels gatefold says "Take that Huskers!"
In the engine room
::sees title:: "Oh, Josh is making a video about the Big Muff."
Thats exactly what I thought too. I was pleasantly surprised to see a bunch of stuff I'm not familiar with. Cool video as always Josh you big mo fo!
Me tooo the russian ones though
Big Muff was literally the first pedal I thought of when I saw the title
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is just the soundtrack of 90's as a whole. One of the best ever made!
Diego Camilo definitely agree listened to it everyday of high school
Is melon collie better than Siamese dream? I've listened to bits and pieces of melon collie but I adore Siamese dream
@@Logansag1 Siamese Dream is better.....and still not the best of the 90's.....there is no best.....too many great records.
I think it's one of the greatest albums ever made. Fantastic record. A creative production masterpiece.
@@Logansag1 Siamese Dream is a better "album". Nothing in the SP catalog comes close to that. BUT! Mellon Collie is a better piece of sonic art that translates to a story about life, love, and losses.
I was just listening to Mellon Collie yesterday, ironically.
That Danelectro Spring King seems necessarily big to fit in that spring!
greasykitchen They’re great pedals too, if a little noisy
If you check Spring King inside photos you will realize that it could be half of the size or even less. Yes, tank is long so pedal is wide but just like Lays chips most of the pedal is just air. I've heard people joke that old NYC muffs wasted space gives it more headroom, maybe Danelectro decided to do the same?
Jokes aside they probably decided to reuse their Reel Echo enclosure. Own and love those clunky twins.
@@666makasin Ah good point, though the video doesn't really say why this pedal or any of the others are as big as they are. I've only owned the much smaller Dano pedals, including the French Toast and Tuna Melt - both pretty good.
@@greasykitchen French toast is the beast, got one for 20 bucks and it puts boutique fuzzes to shame. The only problem is it's heavily mid scooped so you'll have hard time cutting through the mix with a full band. I'd love to try Tuna Melt because my EHX stereo pulsar isn't fitting the sound I'm looking for
666makasin It’s been a while since I’ve played it but the trem seemed good especially for the low price. Mine has an ‘editors pick’ sticker on it from some magazine. Dunno if the still make them but they’d have to be cheap enough to take a punt on.
When Spiritualized's "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space" came out there was a limited edition that looked like a prescription drug box. Each song was on its own mini-CD and the CDs were housed in plastic and foil blister packs, like pills.
This is the most that's-what-she-saidiest episode ever.
The Seer by Swans is my favorite big album. Triple LP, title track is more than a half hour long. Epic.
Ehhh....that comment was almost funny
Swans are just BIG, period. Everything about them is excessive.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor have a few album-long songs (movements, if you will). Transcendent Canadian Post-Rock. What more could you want?
@@mattgilbert7347 Finally, another gybe fan
"Sit back as i serenade you with warbly goodness"....thats all i ever wanna hear from a women
@@spectratio Raise those skinny fists, my friend!
"Joe's Garage" - Frank Zappa. Has a lot of songs and every single one of them is a masterpiece. One of the best Zappa albums.
Every Zappa album is one of the best.
and for that matter, the Anyway the Wind Blows double live album is my favorite live Zappa and quite a big album.
watermelon easter hay is one of my favorite zappa songs
"You'll love it..."
Good one, but no...All Things Must Pass by George Harrison wins....imo
Electric Ladyland is my favorite long album. If that one counts. It is a double album so I think it should.
The Boss CE-1 is also somewhat on the large side. I had one go at fitting mine on my pedalboard, then immediately gave up and bought a CE-2w.
The benefit of the big graphic EQ sliders is that you get much better quality sliders, with greater ease of adjustment for getting your tone just right. It's why 100mm faders on mixing desks are preferred to 60mm ones.
Nice video BTW.
My favorite BIG album has to be Consequences by Godley & Creme. They somehow talked Mercury Records into releasing a 3 lp concept album about a composer whose compositional skills were so powerful, they controlled the weather. The album was allegedly a concept album, but I believe it was actually a 3 lp demo record for their Gizmotron guitar bowing device. Very strange and wonderful album.
BIG pedaI: I always loved the relatively large Maestro Stage Phaser. It has a Balls control. I need a clone of that there pedal. Bestest phaser ever.
The DOD 640 is my favorite too big pedal. It's got it all; an un called for lighted on off switch, a "PA" option switch, and 2 extremely awkwardly placed in/out jacks
"..or you can tap the pad with your severed hand." 😂😂😂
Said like it is the ONLY other option.
Best unnecessarily large big album:
Zaireeka by the Flaming Lips.
4 CD set, meant to be played at the same time on 4 discrete stereo systems.
The reveal of the Boss PD-1 made me laugh out loud! I've never seen this beast in my travels, and how awesome it is! Hysterical episode!
madvillainy by madvillain feels like a big album cause it has like a million songs and it moves around in so many different moods but then you get to the end and realise how brief the songs actually are and it's a weird thing, man.
The Moogerfooger ringmod "pedal" dwarfing over the rest of my pedals appreciates this video. Big is beautiful.
My fave big album has to be Tago Mago by Can, with seven big tracks across two double-sided records.
Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Unnecessarily big, crazy, and wonderful!
David Ozab wonderful record!
I'm better than all my friends and I will shortly be knee deep in wahs and benjamins!! Thanks so much guys!! Keep up the great vids!
The way you entered the frame at the 5:20 mark made my day, and JHS is now officially my favorite guitar pedal channel.
“You can kick it with your foot, or you can hit it with your severed hand.” -Josh Scott, just in time for Halloween
Love Mellon Collie!
'Here is no why' has one of my favorite guitar solos ever.
I never hear anyone else mention this song. My favorite solo from Corgan of all time.
How addictive is to watch this guy talk about any pedal. And he talks about ANY pedal.
A new JHS video is like a big, warm hug, first thing in the morning.
Record time : Yes - Tales from a Topographic Ocean. 2 gorgeous vinyl discs !
4 songs, 4 sides. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
I was expecting the Mu-Tron Bi-Phase to make an appearance.
Agree, that has to be the biggest pedal.
perhaps he considers it and efx 'unit' since the foot switch are on the end of a 15 ft cord for the floor. After I watched it occurred to me it wasn't in the vid too
Because it’s a perfectly apt size?
Bear in mind that, in the '60s and '70s, a "pedalboard" was likely to consist of maybe 3 or 4 pedals, sitting on the floor. The need for compactness didn't really emerge until the late '80s as people started to actually *have* pedalboards with a dozen or more devices needing to fit in a defined space, rather than sprawled out on a rug.
Also worth noting that, while 1/4W resistors and DIP op-amps have not changed size in 50 years, electrolytic caps have shrunk dramatically during that period, as have pots. A 10uf/16V cap from 1968 is about the size of a 470uf/63V unit from today. That played a role in obliging big enclosures. Many of the early MXR pedals used tantalum caps. Why? Because you could easily lie them on their side, such that they could fit in a small chassis that wasn't so tall to accommodate electros standing up tall.
All true. Double sided PCBs were also much less common. Most stuff was single sided.
Back in the early Eighties, pedals cost just about what they run now, but the money wasn't quite as cheap. Robbie Dunbar and Joe Satriani were the only guys I ever knew who could afford more than one. Joe had three little Boss pedals running on batteries, but he was doing all that madman stuff so it didn't seem excessive.
@@hoboroadie Indeed, a great many pedals lacked any sort of jack for being externally powered. Just today, I saw an ad for a Proco Rat 2, in which the seller made clear he was including a dongle to connect an external supply up to the 9V battery snap inside.
@@Aleph_Null_Audio Also quite true. Certainly the availability of small enclosures has been a boon to reducing pedal size, but those smaller enclosures could only have uptake because so many other factors - smaller caps, pots, switches, and double-sided boards - made smaller effects possible. And once surface-mount became available, things shrunk even further.
You gotta love an unapologetic gear nerd. Encyclopedia of technical information who also obsesses about weird backstory and bizarre design choices that were made to come up with now iconic pedals. I love the admiration of other makers who technically are the competition but in reality are just buddies who exchange ideas and inspiration.
I used to have a Morley stereo volume pedal and a Bad Horsey it was like having the drive pedals of a monster truck at your feet.
I used to love my Bad Horsey pedal because of how ugly and huge it was. I never even used it that much lol
It's Alive by the Ramones is my favorite big record. Colorsound is the perfect size for a pedal.
1991 and gish were my introductions to the Pumpkins... Love 'em! Mellon Collie was pretty damn good as an album, and I definitely compared it to the Wall album when it came out for the storyline present. Pumpkins will always have a place in my collections! thanks for spotlighting them again sir!
That A.D.T. is giving off some strong Mac Demarco vibes
Mellon Collie is my such a great album
I'm in love with this show
Favorite "big" album is Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips. It consists of four separate discs, all to be played at the same time on different stereo systems. Unnecessarily big, but also super freaking cool.
The only thing I wish is we could have seen the guts of some of the large pedals to see the irony of how small some of the older circuits are compared to the enclosure. Great episode as always!
No MuTron Bi-Phase? Ludwig Phase II? Those would be the two largest pedals I can think of!
hey thought id tell you, hit a goldmine yesterday, mxr compressor, phase 100, gibson firebird pickguard, some distortion wah thing, and a string operatibg ernie ball volume oedal, all for 20$
cornman__. How where and what in the fuck ?😂
@@dannysnow46 some tweakers yard sale his friend died, and so he sold all his shut
"Favorite BIG album with TONS of songs" ... The Smiths, Louder Than Bombs
My favorite big album is actually two albums - The Appleseed Cast's Low Level Owl volumes I & II.
“Here’s no why” changed the way I perceived music.
He's still giving shoutouts to Lovetone even after that dude threw a fit about the Cheeseball.
Huh?
@@jtn191 Dan Coggins, formerly of Lovetone made a stink about JHS 'stealing' the circuit. It's obviously a copy and he has not been bashful about saying that, but they aren't producing it, so where's the problem? Maybe some proceeds should go towards the engineers and creators? Obviously Josh has no legal requirement to do that, its a great gig remaking pedals that aren't being made as the circuits are generally not protected, and anyone can reproduce them.
@@yeahdancetomyrecord With as much as Josh plugs Lovetone, they should be paying him for keeping their memory alive.
Dude - this is the best channel out there right now. Really appreciate the great content.
I've only recently discovered your channel and backlogging through the whole show! While you always seem to have a lot of fun making these episodes I think this one looked you guys had the most fun yet! From the jams played to the jokes, hats off to you!
Surely the Spring King is necessarily big? I was expecting it to be large enough to hold a reverb tank but be digital with a tiny chip inside!
Surely "EXILE ON MAIN STREET" must rank among the best big albums....
As a child born in 1991, I was raised in middle America, as the middle child, in a middle class family. Being in the bible belt, I was raised on Christian music. My dad worked for our church as the sound/tech guy and my mom ran the church's daycare for a time, worked the church library and many other volunteer positions, along with home schooling us 3 kids. In 2004, my parents divorced and sent my world as I knew it way out into the great beyond. My dad grew up on what we know to be Classic Rock, so when his now angsty teen who was tossed into the middle of public middle school, he did what any parent would do, introduced me to Van Halen's first album and Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. My musical tastes being forever changed from our local Christian radio station to, "Everything that rocks," as another local station puts it, I wanted more. This all being said, Pink Floyd's The Wall was the first big album that I fell in love with. I listened to it over and over. My dad and I watched the movie. We watched Roger Water's version of it. It holds a special place in my life, because I can only imagine that my dad and I share the same fondness of it, he just got to hear it when it first came out.
Record time: Chicago by Chicago ( their second album, sometimes referred to as Chicago II). Not as raw as their first album (also a double album) but certainly does more things for me, a sucker for pop sensitivity. They also seemed to get the memo that The Beatles were not going back together, so they went almost full on Beatles-mode with horns.
Time for the next episode: Most unnecessarily small pedals.
Very hard to fix or repair, as well.
And can you stuff all of them onto a bunch of boards to break Rob’s record for most pedals? (Most tiny pedals?)
I thought my Cry Baby mini wah was a nice tone and great size...until I realised I like wearing stack heels live!
It wasn’t full of hits but it was definitely full of “hidden gems!” The Magnetic Fields “69 Love Songs.” That’s right! The genius Stephin Merritt released a three-volume concept album composed of 69 (actual) LOVE SONGS in 1999.
The Epic by Kamasi Washington is a fantastic triple album and quite possibly the best jazz album of 2010's. Massive.
Congratulations, John Baker. That looks like a good foundation to a wah collection. 🎸 Rock on!
Great record. Their Siamese Dream reminds me of being 17 with my whole life ahead of me. Now I'm an old fuck! Lol. Cheers Josh. Great stuff man.
You’re the AVGN of pedals
Except he's chill af?
That gigantic little black buffer will give us an authentic precise glitter tone without any tone loss guaranteed even when we using 10 mile cable long
In my day job, I teach English and computer skills to refugees in Boise. Yesterday the students had some free time on the computers and all of a sudden I hear the JHS vlog theme from across the room. I look over and one of the students from the Congo is whatching this video and looking interested but very confused. Apparently I forgot to log out of my google account on that computer and because you're like one of my fav. channels I subscribe to, this video was at the top of my youtube page. I was busy helping someone else out so the video ran until you were done playing with the first fuzz and then I switched it to the ESL video he was looking for. By that point like 2 or 3 other students were watching over his shoulders as well. When I switched the video, the students' faces had a combo of relief, interest, and vague amusement. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know how far your videos are reaching, even by accident :P
The Smashing Pumpkins is one of my favourite bands of all times, i didn't dig their last album, but all other ones are amazing.
Edit: this band is also responsible for getting me into effects pedals
Carlsboro wins. Danelectro is disqualified by definition of the word "unnecessarily".
Indeed. My thought, too.
Mellon Collie is one of my all time favorite albums from one of my all time favorite bands. I listened to that CD back and forth over and over in middle school
Hearing the first few notes played on Danelectro Spring King, I thought it was going to be a cover of a Cramps song, but alas.
My favorite UA-cam channel.
This is my favorite UA-cam show. Hot Ones is my 2nd.
Good taste
wasnt original ADT system at Abbey Roads even bigger than those units?
Great episode, but I was slightly disappointed it didn't include two things:
1) A shot of the inside of the pedals, showing how much (if any) wasted space there was inside the enclosure.
2) An actual pedalboard with all of these on it. You might have to take a door off its hinges.
Josh, I wish I could’ve been at the Ramp yesterday and today. So sad I missed out on you speaking and your workshop... please come back soon!!
Coming Soon - The JHS 'Whiteboard' multi effects
me thinks this might have been corporate espionage ha j/k
Hey where is the original univibe?
Good point ! He's bound to have one . I want to see inside. I read years ago that they used electrolytic fluid .
I think the original Univibes was large out of necessity... Their predecessors, the Psychadelic Machine (by Honey, then Shin Ei) were so big, they had to make it a stand alone unit that went on top of your amp. If you’ve never seen one, check them out here on UA-cam. It’s a superb vibe and a pretty gnarly fuzz in one box.
Writing from KC, Love this episode love the channel. Its great to see how builders like you have brought these designs so far.
Will you do an episode where viewers share what they have on their pedal board and you show us how YOU would use their rig?? That'd be rad. Thanks.
Damn you! I used to be a happy, ignorant acoustically based guitar player that was happy playing my acoustic and electric guitars with a minor amount of effects through a clean amp. Now you have opened up my world to your world of pedals.i am a 68 year old,blues/rock guitarist. You are not supposed to be able to teach an old dog new tricks!! Not only do the pedals add great sounds to guitar playing they have collectable niche component to them. Two weeks ago I had one pedal that I have never used....now I have just purchased 5 pedals, including a JHS Clover!. Is there pedal addiction rehabilitation available? Love the VLOG and info.....damn you😎
Wait.... Because there is an actual spring reverb in that pedal, isnt it actually NECESSARILY big?
No spring. It's a Gimmick. But u can kick it to get the splash
“I DON’T UNDERSTAND!!!” 😂
Must’ve been wahs designed for people taller than Josh!
The whole episode right there at 9:58.
I feel your pain. I'm 6' 7". People don't understand the struggles our kind have to endure. Like people telling us we're tall (as if we didn't know), bumping our heads on various objects and peeing on the top of urinals. Big time stuff!
I have a Morley Pro Flanger. This bit of awesomeness is a classic bucket brigade flanger in a Morley wah pedal enclosure. Yes, it is a factory product, just not very well known. The pedal can be switched from controlling speed to controlling the flange itself.
Ever wonder what it would sound like if you could work a flanger like a wah? Well you can get your own. This one is mine.
Best double album - The Mothers of Invention “Freak Out”
I gave a friend my collection of early Zappa, since I mostly only ever listened to Absolutely Free. He freaked out. 😎
Thundercat “Drunk” 4 10” Vinyls and Swans “Soundtracks for the Blind” 4 12” Vinyls
Soundtracks for the Blind 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks loads Mr JHS for these videos. I'm not a guitarist (I'm a synth guy...) but I love "guitar" pedals and own quite a few. These vids make me laugh soooo much. I really love your presentation style, dry "English" humour (with "English" spelling) and informative approach. Great stuff!
That spring reverb sounds incredible. I played a Fender '65 Twin Reverb for 15 years(recently sold it to get a JP-2C and 4x12)so I'm no stranger to reverb.
everyone on youtube has some real 5'3" energy, so im always shocked when anyone here says theyre taller than that im shocked
Watch the world record episode, Josh is like the worlds most giant pedal maker!
Three way tie:
Quardaphenia
All Things Must Pass
Layla
I know this is out of place here but it has to do with Spring Reverb Tanks in pedals or amps. OMG the old Grey Tuck & Roll Kustom 100 Watt SS Combo Amp had a massive and equally noisie Reverb Tank that was so sensitive that it would sound like it was exploding or thunder & lightning strike if you just tapped the amp. That amp ruined a lot of recordings, so I quit using the amps Reverb Tank and started using reverb tanks and reverb effects pedals outside the amp. I finally took the Kustom Reverb Tanks out of the amp and made my own patch to the unit and a patch switch box and put the reverb tank in a box and suspended it within the box using recording mic shock mounts. Then a playing buddy blew the cones out of the front of the face grill literally. I traded the amp for a Fender 65' Twin Reverb and a C Note ! ! ! Effects from yesteryears ??? WoW, that's a lots of Big Gear ago & now I gotta use readers to find my gear and settings and be careful that I don't stomp my boxes to death ! ! ! 😁
Peace & Play On . . . 🎸 😎 DDH 10-3-2019
Super happy to finally see Roger Mayer pedal in your collection.
I still listen to Melon Collie on a regular basis. The best thing about it is how, when it first came out, I would listen to the singles: Zero, Bullet, Tonight but as I got older (and more musically aware?) songs like Stumbleine, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Thru the Eyes of Ruby became my favourites ... and of course, Lily - such a sly song. Whatever his faults, Billy can write a song.
I'm going to cheat for big album and say, the still in my possession from 1990, Remasters - Led Zeppelin. I still remember the day I pulled the plastic off that TRIPLE LP and putting the needle down to hear the first notes of Communication Breakdown. Great day.
If this list were for people and not pedals, your mum would be on there
Shrapnel Head if this isn’t top comment then I don’t understand the internet
Hey! Long time listener, first time caller. I have 2 topic ideas. First off, as a bassist (sometimes Bass VI), I'll get in line to mention the lack of quality bass vids on UA-cam. But I think, if and when you were to do any, do not shovel 23 topics into one 'bass' video, and drop it. Be specific. A video about modulation on bass, reverb and delay, stacking combos for bass, etc. Something bassists can sink their teeth into with each video.
Second idea. A video showcasing all the wild and wacky pedals that people deem to weird to actually use in a serious fashion. Any pedal has a purpose in the right setting and genre. Make people give the oddball pedals a second look.
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum : The complete collection. 4 tracks per color, just beautiful.
I would like to see an episode where you go more into technical details, component level etc. Maybe you could disassemble one of this huge pedals and show us why they are sound like they sound... or not.
You say this one specific chorus brought you the idea of making your own version... maybe you could show us your attempt to "recreate" a curtain pedal.
Oh, and as always, great video and if i have to suggest you an album then i would suggest you "Died Laughing" from (Keith) Mina Caputo... great vocals, great guitars, gigantic good songs.
Greetings from Germany
I believe for the A.D.T you can use the wet and dry (Left & Right) outs to get the full effect 👌
We have one at the studio I'm at, love it!
I have a little black buffer so seeing the huge one you did was not short of hysterical! Thanx for the fun video
more shenanigans, more jokes, and more weirdness please. really funny when you do creep in the frame shots while playing making funny faces.
Plug into a mini Moog. Plug into an avatar. Plugged into one of those old Roland guitar synth. 🤟🏼
ARP Avatar ? You're not Pete Townshend are you ? 😉
You should do twice as much episodes and then double that amount! Keep on!
It is amazing how many pedals you've collected. Your place has got to be the Smithsonian of guitar effects
Mellon Collie was a huge part of my high school life!
A big album?
Todd Rundgren “Initiation”...68 minutes on a single piece of vinyl (absolutely ridiculous) and they sped up a couple of the tunes by a half step to fit it all in!
“A Wizard/A True Star” and “todd” are both unnecessarily huge albums as well. Really fun listening, every bit of it...but I do recommend the CD! haha...!
First long record- mom gave me an original Elvis 45 that had 2 songs per side! Thought that was so cool. First double album that I purchased was Live Bullet and just as “Loud is more good” ; “More Music is more good”.