i really really wanna see a Pixar movie where Brian voices himself as a pedal maker and one night his pedals come to life and at first he thinks its a big problem but eventually he learns to live in harmony with the pedals and maybe an old fuzz face with a long grey beard teaches everybody a valuable life lesson at the end
Literally, Brian and the JHS crew have made me want to get into building pedals for myself. I did a couple when I was at university. But these guys make me want to go further in to it. Inspirational stuff 🙂
Agree! You said they don’t teach this in college. I so wish they had. I have a biomed eng degree (which is like an EE but for gooey stuff) and really want to find a shop I could solder for part time. Any suggestions for pedal makers in California central valley, ie Fresno/Clovis area?
It's 7 months later. By now, you could've learned A LOT and built yourself countless pedals. So? It took me a week to order breadboards and components when I caught Josh's and Brian's specific vids about pedal building. And 3 days after I got it all, I had a biased silicon Fuzz Face of my very own that I didn't pay $150 for. The next day I had an EXH LPB1 boost pedal. And I've built others since then. I took the initiative to learn myself and that's exactly what I'm doing. 👌 And couldn't be happier or prouder of what I've accomplished. I actually need to go back and redo my Fuzz Face. It sorta never made it past breadboard stage lol. So it's been on a breadboard the entire time 🤣 I'm hoping Fran of Frantone will reply to me about whether it'd be OK for me to breadboard one of her fuzz circuits only for personal curiosity and research basically. I know I could have just built it and kept quiet but I figured that was the right thing to do. I respect Fran and the legacy of Frantone too much to do that. 👌
@@jhspedals hey let me ask you guys. If I wanted to breadboard a current or out-of-production JHS circuit, would asking you guys for permission be the right thing to do? I know. "well duh! You don't just steal it" but is that the accepted way to go about it? Ask for permission for research purposes or for whatever purpose it might be? Thanks.
I owe Brian Wampler a TON for guiding me down the rabbit hole when I picked up guitar again later in life. Thanks for the chasing tone podcast and the youtube channel. Both were BIG TIME!
God damn I've been repeatedly telling Brian Wampler in comments that his circuit walkthroughs are the best on internet, he knows exactly what to show and how to show it. Just what Josh said. He's trying all kinds of new content types every now and then, but whenever he releases another "here's how this works", I'm all ears, brewing coffee and excited. I might be the small niche that is exactly the target audience, and I'm really happy that Brian does that for people like me. I honestly think Brian and Josh have two of the most core pedal builder youtube channels that have their own niché and expertise so well down to the point. Add to that That Pedal Show and you've got three honest down to earth channels that have infinite value and do what they're the best at, never having to compete with others because they're so unique and core. Now I also know how all the new Wampler channel intros get born. And gotta agree with Josh about Brian's playing. He's downplaying himself often and barely plays on his show for real, just small bits of demo, but he does rock. It's funny how 80's was the peak of digital rack gear and everybody was using them (Eventide, Lexicon, Roland, Yamaha) and literally nobody was like "ugh it's digital" (although many of them might've had analog front, but the effects were all digital and so were the controls and screens). Then 20-30 years later people in the pedal world are going through this puritan phase. It must've been something like after Lexicon went down and there was the rush of cheap crappy digital stuff in the 90's where people who didn't really have passion or proper technological understanding and musical ear made all the units for beginner players. Like they weren't $2000 peak of technology units anymore, they were $200 junk. It wasn't probably until Timeline that the same brilliant quality in algorithms and signal chain inside the pedal came back. Like I got this Roland SDE-2000, their first of the legendary series in racks of people like Van Halen, a digital delay unit with modulation. The modulation is in the wet signal only and it's vibrato so essentially you adjust via delay time if you're having a flanger, a chorus or a delay with some juicy modulation. And enough depth of course makes it sound like a vibrato. It has an analog front because processing chips were relatively new in audio technology and you couldn't even get proper AD converters for reasonable prices so they hacked those, DSP's were what they were. That means that if you drive enough input signal/gain, it'll distort everything going through the delay smoothly in very analog manner. So if you run it in parallel like you'd usually do with 80's racks, you get smoothly distorted delay with modulation and your dry sound just the way you set it in the first place. It can get pretty tape vibey with all that control. It's beautiful. But so are things like Yamaha SPX90 and Symphonic, people really loved that effect, very much a digital thing. Eventide and Lexicon? Not a chance they were ever possible in analog and no chance anybody would ever call them subpar, they're the gold nugget you chase after when you want something unnaturally beautiful, lively and exciting from your reverb/delay/pitch shift. You two go very well together in this kind of format. Maybe one day you'll have another NAMM meet up with people like Robert Keeley and make a little video hanging out, talking random stuff. Also time for Boss micro rack episode Josh.
I've watched this video probably about five times already, but it really holds up. I love Brian's whole perspective on the industry and combining that with Josh and the crew makes this an instant classic. And yes, Joshua has fans out here.
Thank you for serving us, though we are a flakey, fickle bunch of yahoos. I see the love for what y’all do at Wampler and JHS. Thank you guys for helping guitarist everywhere.
I am a WHY guy. So I really appreciate when Josh goes into the WHY about things. The WHY is the soul of the direction of things. Happy little trees becoming Huge Motions. Like Rocket 88 being born from a white dude who loved Delta Music and a flat tire on Highway 61. This moment shaped music for the next 70 years. So thanks Josh for being a Geek about the little things. WHY? ON Brother.. WHY? ON..
Thanks again for the shout-out, Brian. And nice to hear you unleash your inner Angus. As for naming pedals, I was going to suggest just making up words that didn't sound like anything in particular. And then it occurred to me you'd probably have to go through the entire IKEA catalog just to make sure the pedal wasn't accidentally named after an end-table or study lamp. As for alternate uses of pedals, consider using any of the Line 6 Tone Core pedals to balance a ship, OR to hold a vault door open so you can slide under it when you're stealing all the gold. And hi Petey 2F, and Robert K. !
One of my favorites episodes, ever, it was amazing. Loved to hear Wampler jamming with the JHS crew. No one asked me, but what is my take on the Clon? Make a JHS pedal, wipe out the capacitor and resistor values, obscure the pcb by adding 6 layers, and then put some black epoxy on top of it, and I'm people will assume there is something magical that you won't share with the rest of us. Saludos a la tía Hortencia.
There are 2 "boutique" pedal makers I'm going to buy a pedal from. And that's Josh and Brian both of them make great youtube videos and are so outstandingly cool and have scaringly good knowledge when it comes to guitarpedals. I might not be good enough a guitarplayer to be using one of their creations but they educate me about pedals in a way that makes me a better player! Josh educates more in sound and feel while Brian makes my electronic engineering degree shimmer with a sparkling interest:) Great work you guys:)
Damn Josh… Brian a deep thinker. I’m a huge fan of him, his company, and his personality. He couldn’t be more fun to listen to. You 2 could be more opposite, but totally the same. Thanks for doing this, I assume you are both headed for NAMM, if so have fun.
As a novice pedal builder, I appreciate the hell out of these two. I have learned so much from them over the last few years and they have inspired me to experiment with circuits. These are two of the best people in the guitar industry.
Thanks guys really enjoyed this show, having Brian as a guest was excellent. It surprises me nowadays how many people don’t use or don’t like chorus, to me it’s one of my favourite pedals and I love the effect and all round fullness it gives my guitar tone. But at the end of the day we all have our own opinions.
Klons: If you bought your Centaur directly from Bill himself, he would spend 20 minutes or more on the phone with you, getting a sense of your rig, the sounds you were aiming for, and such. If Bill felt the Klon would not add value in your circumstances, he would discourage purchase. I don't know that he ever outright *refused* to sell, but he would say "This is not going to do much for you". Given that there was always more demand than stock, this was not slitting his own throat; merely a very honest sales practice. Unfortunately, those phone calls ate into his build time (unlike Josh, Bill actually did build each unit), which contributed to the backlog, that in turn contributed to the customer impatience and a market that was willing to pay big bucks instead of waiting 3 months. The difficulty this created was that none of the people willing to empty their bank accounts on E-bay to a re-seller *EVER* got the 20-minute call with Bill to see if the pedal was right for them. And of course, if you're paying $800, $1200, $1500+ for a pedal, you expect it to make you sound like the second coming, even if you play through a Frontman 25R amp. It's a great pedal, but NO pedal is that good.
@@davemabee5798 I actually have one. It's a Champion110, but is identical to a Frontman 25R, and only differs by virtue of having a speaker-out jack on the front rather than a CD-in. Everything else is the same. S'okay. I use it to test out pedals I build. The Klon was developed to pre-condition an input signal to make a tube amp overdrive desirably. Nowhere was a TDA2040 or 2050-based amp *anywhere* within the perimeter of Bill Finnegan's thinking when he developed the Klon. Not dissing them, but nobody ever developed forks and knives to make soup a pleasure to eat, either.
It is wrong if you "drop a bill" for a dollar menu meal. That's essentially what he's saying here. People paying for something they're not actually getting. You can't push a solid state amp.
@@rmaxtpmx Not if you tell them to "keep the change" otherwise it might be a bit much to expect them to be able to count that high. Besides, I don't think that's what he means.
Two of my favourite "pedal guys" in one video? What more do ya want?! For reference, I only have one pedal from each (so far): the Angry Driver (very versatile) and the Plexi-Drive Deluxe (one of the best Marshall-in-a-box pedals I've heard). Thanks for all the great pedal designs and innovations.
Someday ... there should be a Battle of the Jams - maybe even trans Atlantic: Lee & Pete v Mick and Dan v Josh and Brian etc. Viewers vote. Maybe each team allowed one ringer - a Tim Pierce, Pete Thorn, Paul Gilbert. Oh hell, just do a concert and sell tickets. Nah, that would spoil the chill.
@@Herfinnur I think you're probably right. The "Battle" part was just figurative speech. I'm sure these guys could keep it chill with whatever project they ever create. Just throwing everything out there while brainstorming - or brain dust deviling.
I had a Wampler Ecstasy and it was “borrowed” and never returned. Loved that drive 😭. Bought the Belle this year. Tumnus and Plexi Drive are on the short list.
I bought Euphoria, cause the schematics remind me of Timmy. I never played Timmy, but Euphoria became veeery quickly my always on pedal,, not leaving my board, since I aquired it.
The gearbox is a game changer…a little bit of fresh air into the 2021 pedals approach… I got mine Two months ago and it’s a fantastic killer drive machine with an absolutely brilliant design by Andy Wood and Brian Wampler!!!🔥🎸👊🏻
I just got a Terraform and it's a fantastic addition to my board. I don't know that I ever would carve out the space for a phaser, flanger, wah, or filter, but I'm finding them super useful (fun) to have on tap. I'm surprisingly smitten with the Dimension setting.
I sat and watched this entire video. Just to find out you won't tell us the Magic that went into the Original "Klon Centaur" what is wrong with me! Cheers (great video and talk with Wampler pedals. Very kool)
Brian and Josh creating pedal heaven! Wampler Gearbox, oh yes, I totally get the idea! My two Wampler pedals of all time (so far😁😉) are the Pinnacle and the Tumnus (V1), and I gate it with a tc Iron Curtain or a Boss NS-2 🤩😁
This is either the third or fourth time I’ve enjoyed this episode. The amount of knowledge on display here is remarkable, the contributions from the JHS team beyond Josh, the openness from Brian and of course the jams. This has to be in the top ten episodes you’ve ever done from the JHS team perspective doesn’t it? Thanks for doing these, all of you. They really are tremendously appreciated at least in this little outpost of the UK. Keep up the inspiring work!
That moment when you see Brian Wampler’s settings on his Tumnus Deluxe in the top down.... and it’s the same as yours.... 🥺 Then... you hear his tone... 🤯 You are a gentleman and scholar Brian. JHS crew you ain’t half bad yourselves...
1000% agree that being in tune and on time is the key to sounding decent. (If you have a basic grasp of chords.) I've seen even great acts that lost me because something was out of tune. It's something I tell my band students. Knowing the notes, rhythms, style, and dynamics mean nothing because music is the one performance art where one person can ruin everything for the rest of the band. You have to be 100% in tune and on time, or else everyone in the audience is going to hear everything else that is RIGHT as wrong.
Hehe soo true:) I've been working as a PA sound engineer for well over 35 years and I nowadays totally refuse to do a soundcheck until the instruments are in tune! I just can't stand out of tune instruments!
Fantastic episode Josh!!!👏🏻👏🏻Brian Wampler is an overdrive genius mentor!!!!I have the Ego compressor,the Gearbox,the Pantheon,the Belle and the Ratsbane and they all are awesome pedals with so much great tones!!!!🔥🎸👊🏻🙅🏻♂️😎
Man, just now saw this. So good! The jams were all awesome! Love love loved the Floyd inspired jam especially! Brian seems like such a good dude. I only live a few miles south of him as the crow flies and have been doing electronics my whole life, have a degree and work professionally in the field and still find myself amazed at his talent. Great episode! I would love to see something that nails the “Spirit in the Sky” fuzz tone as precisely as the original recording. Have yet to see anything hit it exactly.
Josh ok I have been trying to write something down for the past 15 minutes. This show means so much to me, and I love both of your channels a lot. I am so Sorry Brian’s shop burnt down. It’s funny how much information you share to maybe out do you in pedal building it won’t be me but someone might. The guitar world is a lot like the shooting world a community that will give information to make someone better than they are. It’s all about a learning experience. No way am I saying either one of you aren’t world class at your trade, what I am saying is that you give people the tools to better. That says a lot about both of your characters. The team you have backing you Josh seems out of this world. Joshua has added a lot of flavor to the show I like him a lot. Also Nick congratulations on the new baby. You have brought another precious life into this world, and that’s special being a father myself I speak and say there won’t be anything that means as much to you as your kid will. I know the demographics being what they and people seem more divided than they ever have in my opinion the one thing that can bring us all together is love. Hey thanks JHS for all that you do and offer to us as your audience know it does not go unappreciated by any means. Take care y’all!!!!
These videos make me feel so old. I remember when Indy guitarist started sharing projects on his geocities site, and I remember people started asking questions about JHS mods a few years later. It always make me happy when I see the people from back in the day that was willing to share is having success. Also make me regret not daring to start selling my own pedals.
JHS and Wampler have blessed us with some truly great pedals made by passionate owners and employees that are like a Morning Glory on a pedal board. That foundation makes everything else on the board better and, ultimately, delivers tones that would be impossible to achieve without it.
I’ve never seen anyone spend anywhere near the production resources either of you does talking glowingly about competitors’ products. It’s simply remarkable.
Going to see Kenny Wayne Shepherd tomorrow night, kicking off his new tour in our hometown. I cannot wait! And I fully expect to hear PLENTY of Univibe on Saturday night. Fuzz, too. This will be the first time I've seen & heard Kenny play in almost a couple of decades. We used to ALWAYS catch him around here before he was a superstar. 👌
I have a 1978 copy of Craig Anderton's "Electronic Projects for Musicians" with a forward by Joe Walsh. His DIY Tube Sound Fuzz is was the inspiration for lots of pedals like the Way Huge Red Llama and the EHX Hot Tubes Nano.
The TSF originally showed up in Guitar Player, a few years before EPFM came out. It was a little more complex than the Red Llama, using *both* an op-amp and a 4049 invertor. It was a little more like the Hot Tubes than the Red Llama, truth be told. I actually prefer it to the Red Llama and EPFM version because it offered more options for tone shaping. A tech buddy made a clone of the Hot Tubes around 1979. Although the EHX pedal had an onboard transformer-based power supply, the circuit actually ran just fine off a 9V battery. It just didn't last a long time on a battery, and in 1979 no one was using power supplies for pedalboards, Indeed, no one HAD pedalboards. They had a couple of pedals on the floor, patched together. One of them might use a wallwart, but there was no such thing as a shared power supply. My own setup was 4 pedals and a foot controller, which seemed extravagant by comparison.
@@markhammer643 Thanks for this info. I was always wondering if the TSF had been deleted from my printing of EPFM. Now, it makes sense. I can probably look it up, but now I'm wondering how close the Ultra-Fuzz or the Bass Buzz in 1978 EPFM is to the TSF, or how they compare. I don't think I've seen any demos of these being built. I'm doing a UA-cam / Google search now.
@@GabrielVelasco The Ultra-Fuzz, Bass Fuzz and TSF are entirely different beasts, each from the other two. The Ultra-Fuzz is an op-amp-based comparator, that generates an all-or-nothing square wave whenever the input signal exceeds a predetermined (but adjustable) threshold. The Bass Fuzz is a diode (LED) based "soft clipper". It has a max gain of 220x (the MXR Distortion+ has a max gain of 213x). In theory it should have enough potential gain to yield nice intense distortion...if one was using regular silicon diodes. Using LEDs to clip, however, raises the clipping threshold by a factor of roughly 300%, so a max gain of 220x may not initially seem like "enough". But basses put out very hefty signals (thick strings and all that), so even raising the clipping threshold shouldn't prevent achieving serious buzz. Craig used 14-pin 4739 dual op-amps, his favorite at the time, but the circuit can be easily built with any 8-pin dual op-amp, and can also be run off a simple 9V battery or adapter, and does not absolutely require a bipolar supply. I can think of lots of productive mods for the basic circuit to make it more usable. You need only ask.
Great show! Best jams ever on JHS show… what did Brian had on his Epiphone? Sound freaking awesome. Both pedals company are genious.. Tummnus plus Unicorn is heaven sound!
I’ve been subbed to Brians channel, I think since before I heard of JHS. He’s a damn fine dude, an excellent teacher, and he makes wonderful products! ❤
It was nice hearing another guitar jamming with you guys. You guys sound good alone don't get me wrong. But maybe a guest musician on the jams from time to time. I jam along with you guys on every episode. So much fun.
To me the biggest development for pedals in the last decade is that we learnt a fair bit on old and new pedals (thanks to the internet). We are now able to enjoy them more and use them better, this possibly revitalized the interest in them.
He's right, digital modeling has come a LONG way. My main amp sim at church now is the Joyo Pre-amp house on the JCM900 clean sound. That 100ms of lag you used to get on a Line6 is gone. It sounds great and it plays great.
Secondary pedal use that I actually thought up and did….after way too many beers with my buddies -> Connect old school headphones with 1/4” jack into input on Phaser pedal, thereby creating a microphone out of one of the the two headphone speakers (mono vs. stereo). Now, turn on your Phaser, crank your amp and when you speak into the correct headphone speaker, a killer Darth Vader voice comes out. Try it. It’s fun. P.S. works with Flanger pedal, too; but that voice may scare you, so start at a low volume.
One of the most important lessons you can learn about business is that people aren’t willing to pay you for doing something they couldn’t do so much as paying you because they don’t want to do it themselves. (Because nobody has the time to do everything themselves.) Once you realize that, you understand that there’s no point in trying to hide knowledge instead of sharing it.
The jams of these episodes are just intense and take you on a journey through the depths of time and space and the PedalVerse!! Got to love the tones!!
John Foggerty! Brian you have arrived at last 😝 ETA: I’m old enough to have seen CCR on a black & white TV in leather jackets with fringe and dry ice roiling off the stage. I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen! Wasn’t Tech 21 very early in amp in a box pedals?
Josh your opening song here. Class act I tell ya.kind of young you are and I do wonder where the hell you get this stuff. Things said about you but this has never deterred me. Much respect. You're success. Whit?if you will. You're (I guess) capabilities to hit on things on guitar...what can I say. Youre presentations I appreciate. Jim
i really really wanna see a Pixar movie where Brian voices himself as a pedal maker and one night his pedals come to life and at first he thinks its a big problem but eventually he learns to live in harmony with the pedals and maybe an old fuzz face with a long grey beard teaches everybody a valuable life lesson at the end
One of those imagineers right here
As a guitar player……..
I LOVE IT!
Amazing, if only the market wanted it as bad as we all do…
I would watch that movie on repeat
And they sing, “You’ve got a tone in me….”
You and Brian should make a "Guitar Pedal Circuitry 101" video series.
Teach us.
I’m 100% for this! ❤️
Barrett, that is a great suggestion!
Yes please
@@wampler_pedals DO IT
That would be so cool!!!
I'm still going! 😅 Good on you, guys. Thanks for the mention. All the best.
OG BERGS!!!
Brian Wampler is a just good dude who happens to enjoy tweaking pedals. No frills. Love what he does!
And he's so cool,calm and collected in all this insanity. He's the guest and keeps getting ignored but just sits there laughing at all this.
"We're going to pickle stuff!" Absolutely murdering the entire late 00's early 10's hipster scene with one line lmfao
Literally, Brian and the JHS crew have made me want to get into building pedals for myself. I did a couple when I was at university. But these guys make me want to go further in to it.
Inspirational stuff 🙂
That's so awesome! Honored we get to be part of your journey.
Agree! You said they don’t teach this in college. I so wish they had. I have a biomed eng degree (which is like an EE but for gooey stuff) and really want to find a shop I could solder for part time. Any suggestions for pedal makers in California central valley, ie Fresno/Clovis area?
It's 7 months later. By now, you could've learned A LOT and built yourself countless pedals. So?
It took me a week to order breadboards and components when I caught Josh's and Brian's specific vids about pedal building. And 3 days after I got it all, I had a biased silicon Fuzz Face of my very own that I didn't pay $150 for. The next day I had an EXH LPB1 boost pedal. And I've built others since then. I took the initiative to learn myself and that's exactly what I'm doing. 👌 And couldn't be happier or prouder of what I've accomplished.
I actually need to go back and redo my Fuzz Face. It sorta never made it past breadboard stage lol. So it's been on a breadboard the entire time 🤣 I'm hoping Fran of Frantone will reply to me about whether it'd be OK for me to breadboard one of her fuzz circuits only for personal curiosity and research basically. I know I could have just built it and kept quiet but I figured that was the right thing to do. I respect Fran and the legacy of Frantone too much to do that. 👌
@@jhspedals hey let me ask you guys. If I wanted to breadboard a current or out-of-production JHS circuit, would asking you guys for permission be the right thing to do?
I know. "well duh! You don't just steal it" but is that the accepted way to go about it? Ask for permission for research purposes or for whatever purpose it might be? Thanks.
You should do 10 Tube screamers in one. Nobody every did that.
I owe Brian Wampler a TON for guiding me down the rabbit hole when I picked up guitar again later in life. Thanks for the chasing tone podcast and the youtube channel. Both were BIG TIME!
Wampler is my other favorite pedal youtuber. This episode is a dream come true!
Pedal-naming idea: Run a contest in which the winner gets a pedal named after them! :-)
I like
I want to say that I would watch every live featuring Brian in its entirety... but we all know I'm going to watch them all anyways. Bring Brian back!
Jhs and wampler pedals together, just like on my pedal board!🤘🤘🤘 #twintwelve #catapulp
God damn I've been repeatedly telling Brian Wampler in comments that his circuit walkthroughs are the best on internet, he knows exactly what to show and how to show it. Just what Josh said. He's trying all kinds of new content types every now and then, but whenever he releases another "here's how this works", I'm all ears, brewing coffee and excited. I might be the small niche that is exactly the target audience, and I'm really happy that Brian does that for people like me.
I honestly think Brian and Josh have two of the most core pedal builder youtube channels that have their own niché and expertise so well down to the point. Add to that That Pedal Show and you've got three honest down to earth channels that have infinite value and do what they're the best at, never having to compete with others because they're so unique and core.
Now I also know how all the new Wampler channel intros get born. And gotta agree with Josh about Brian's playing. He's downplaying himself often and barely plays on his show for real, just small bits of demo, but he does rock.
It's funny how 80's was the peak of digital rack gear and everybody was using them (Eventide, Lexicon, Roland, Yamaha) and literally nobody was like "ugh it's digital" (although many of them might've had analog front, but the effects were all digital and so were the controls and screens). Then 20-30 years later people in the pedal world are going through this puritan phase. It must've been something like after Lexicon went down and there was the rush of cheap crappy digital stuff in the 90's where people who didn't really have passion or proper technological understanding and musical ear made all the units for beginner players. Like they weren't $2000 peak of technology units anymore, they were $200 junk. It wasn't probably until Timeline that the same brilliant quality in algorithms and signal chain inside the pedal came back. Like I got this Roland SDE-2000, their first of the legendary series in racks of people like Van Halen, a digital delay unit with modulation. The modulation is in the wet signal only and it's vibrato so essentially you adjust via delay time if you're having a flanger, a chorus or a delay with some juicy modulation. And enough depth of course makes it sound like a vibrato. It has an analog front because processing chips were relatively new in audio technology and you couldn't even get proper AD converters for reasonable prices so they hacked those, DSP's were what they were. That means that if you drive enough input signal/gain, it'll distort everything going through the delay smoothly in very analog manner. So if you run it in parallel like you'd usually do with 80's racks, you get smoothly distorted delay with modulation and your dry sound just the way you set it in the first place. It can get pretty tape vibey with all that control. It's beautiful. But so are things like Yamaha SPX90 and Symphonic, people really loved that effect, very much a digital thing. Eventide and Lexicon? Not a chance they were ever possible in analog and no chance anybody would ever call them subpar, they're the gold nugget you chase after when you want something unnaturally beautiful, lively and exciting from your reverb/delay/pitch shift.
You two go very well together in this kind of format. Maybe one day you'll have another NAMM meet up with people like Robert Keeley and make a little video hanging out, talking random stuff.
Also time for Boss micro rack episode Josh.
I've watched this video probably about five times already, but it really holds up. I love Brian's whole perspective on the industry and combining that with Josh and the crew makes this an instant classic. And yes, Joshua has fans out here.
Brian Wampler is a legend. I have 3 of his pedals on my board (Ego, Tumnus Deluxe, Terraform), and I don’t think any of them are ever coming off.
When does Brass Knuckles hit the road? I'm buying tickets!!
Same!
Thank you for serving us, though we are a flakey, fickle bunch of yahoos. I see the love for what y’all do at Wampler and JHS. Thank you guys for helping guitarist everywhere.
I am a WHY guy. So I really appreciate when Josh goes into the WHY about things. The WHY is the soul of the direction of things. Happy little trees becoming Huge Motions. Like Rocket 88 being born from a white dude who loved Delta Music and a flat tire on Highway 61. This moment shaped music for the next 70 years. So thanks Josh for being a Geek about the little things. WHY? ON Brother.. WHY? ON..
I um.. got my names mixed cause I suck. Content was correct. But I meant Josh Scott. 💩
Thanks again for the shout-out, Brian. And nice to hear you unleash your inner Angus.
As for naming pedals, I was going to suggest just making up words that didn't sound like anything in particular. And then it occurred to me you'd probably have to go through the entire IKEA catalog just to make sure the pedal wasn't accidentally named after an end-table or study lamp.
As for alternate uses of pedals, consider using any of the Line 6 Tone Core pedals to balance a ship, OR to hold a vault door open so you can slide under it when you're stealing all the gold.
And hi Petey 2F, and Robert K. !
More Brian with the JHS gang please
One of my favorites episodes, ever, it was amazing. Loved to hear Wampler jamming with the JHS crew.
No one asked me, but what is my take on the Clon? Make a JHS pedal, wipe out the capacitor and resistor values, obscure the pcb by adding 6 layers, and then put some black epoxy on top of it, and I'm people will assume there is something magical that you won't share with the rest of us.
Saludos a la tía Hortencia.
There are 2 "boutique" pedal makers I'm going to buy a pedal from. And that's Josh and Brian both of them make great youtube videos and are so outstandingly cool and have scaringly good knowledge when it comes to guitarpedals. I might not be good enough a guitarplayer to be using one of their creations but they educate me about pedals in a way that makes me a better player! Josh educates more in sound and feel while Brian makes my electronic engineering degree shimmer with a sparkling interest:) Great work you guys:)
Thank you!!!
Both of these guys make outstanding pedals, and they also seem like outstanding humans. Thanks guys!
Damn Josh… Brian a deep thinker. I’m a huge fan of him, his company, and his personality. He couldn’t be more fun to listen to. You 2 could be more opposite, but totally the same. Thanks for doing this, I assume you are both headed for NAMM, if so have fun.
As a novice pedal builder, I appreciate the hell out of these two. I have learned so much from them over the last few years and they have inspired me to experiment with circuits. These are two of the best people in the guitar industry.
Thank you!!
Thanks guys really enjoyed this show, having Brian as a guest was excellent.
It surprises me nowadays how many people don’t use or don’t like chorus, to me it’s one of my favourite pedals and I love the effect and all round fullness it gives my guitar tone. But at the end of the day we all have our own opinions.
By far, the best music of any show I've seen since November '23 when i first discovered this JHS Show
Klons: If you bought your Centaur directly from Bill himself, he would spend 20 minutes or more on the phone with you, getting a sense of your rig, the sounds you were aiming for, and such. If Bill felt the Klon would not add value in your circumstances, he would discourage purchase. I don't know that he ever outright *refused* to sell, but he would say "This is not going to do much for you". Given that there was always more demand than stock, this was not slitting his own throat; merely a very honest sales practice. Unfortunately, those phone calls ate into his build time (unlike Josh, Bill actually did build each unit), which contributed to the backlog, that in turn contributed to the customer impatience and a market that was willing to pay big bucks instead of waiting 3 months. The difficulty this created was that none of the people willing to empty their bank accounts on E-bay to a re-seller *EVER* got the 20-minute call with Bill to see if the pedal was right for them. And of course, if you're paying $800, $1200, $1500+ for a pedal, you expect it to make you sound like the second coming, even if you play through a Frontman 25R amp. It's a great pedal, but NO pedal is that good.
And what is wrong with a Frontman 25R?
@@davemabee5798 I actually have one. It's a Champion110, but is identical to a Frontman 25R, and only differs by virtue of having a speaker-out jack on the front rather than a CD-in. Everything else is the same. S'okay. I use it to test out pedals I build. The Klon was developed to pre-condition an input signal to make a tube amp overdrive desirably. Nowhere was a TDA2040 or 2050-based amp *anywhere* within the perimeter of Bill Finnegan's thinking when he developed the Klon. Not dissing them, but nobody ever developed forks and knives to make soup a pleasure to eat, either.
price is relative to one's personal circumstances. Some people drop a bill on lunch, others dine on the dollar menu. Neither is wrong.
It is wrong if you "drop a bill" for a dollar menu meal. That's essentially what he's saying here. People paying for something they're not actually getting. You can't push a solid state amp.
@@rmaxtpmx Not if you tell them to "keep the change" otherwise it might be a bit much to expect them to be able to count that high. Besides, I don't think that's what he means.
Two of my favourite "pedal guys" in one video? What more do ya want?! For reference, I only have one pedal from each (so far): the Angry Driver (very versatile) and the Plexi-Drive Deluxe (one of the best Marshall-in-a-box pedals I've heard). Thanks for all the great pedal designs and innovations.
hi larry, high gain scooped marshall in a box is what i'm looking for. does the plexi-drive deluxe do that? thx :)
@@danriley903 I would say no. It's not super high gain unless you add the boost side, a tube screamer type circuit that pushes mids and cuts lows.
thx larry
Morning glory + tumnus deluxe is an awesome combination
This a great episode! Nick is back. Brian and Josh are becoming blood brothers. A lot of character in one room! Sick jams!
Brian. Wampler. Is killin’ it on that second jam. I wanted 20 more minutes of that.
The combined pedal knowledge of these two is immense. 😎
Someday ... there should be a Battle of the Jams - maybe even trans Atlantic: Lee & Pete v Mick and Dan v Josh and Brian etc. Viewers vote. Maybe each team allowed one ringer - a Tim Pierce, Pete Thorn, Paul Gilbert. Oh hell, just do a concert and sell tickets. Nah, that would spoil the chill.
I think the battle aspect would spoil the chill more than the ticket sales, but the transatlantic jam idea itself is good
@@Herfinnur I think you're probably right. The "Battle" part was just figurative speech. I'm sure these guys could keep it chill with whatever project they ever create. Just throwing everything out there while brainstorming - or brain dust deviling.
The Great Guitar Riff Off
Andertons vs norms?
I had a Wampler Ecstasy and it was “borrowed” and never returned. Loved that drive 😭. Bought the Belle this year. Tumnus and Plexi Drive are on the short list.
I bought Euphoria, cause the schematics remind me of Timmy. I never played Timmy, but Euphoria became veeery quickly my always on pedal,, not leaving my board, since I aquired it.
The backstory for Brass Knuckles was like every bar band ever.
Nice jams. You guys got mojo playing together Josh, Briand and the other guys
Got a Gearbox a month ago and it’s been the coolest drive pedal ever!
*josh weeping over his Morning Glory*
I ordered one a couple of days ago and it’s on the way.
The gearbox is a game changer…a little bit of fresh air into the 2021 pedals approach…
I got mine Two months ago and it’s a fantastic killer drive machine with an absolutely brilliant design by Andy Wood and Brian Wampler!!!🔥🎸👊🏻
That’s a lot of pedal nerdery going on right there…and I loved it! Fun jams guys!
I have his mini-Ego, Belle, and Terraformer on my board, and they’ll never leave.
Mini-ego, Tumnus Deluxe, Pantheon & Rats Bane have permanent spots. I’d like the Belle but already have a Timmy…
Full size Ego and Ratsbane here. Two of my favorite pedals.
I just got a Terraform and it's a fantastic addition to my board. I don't know that I ever would carve out the space for a phaser, flanger, wah, or filter, but I'm finding them super useful (fun) to have on tap. I'm surprisingly smitten with the Dimension setting.
Terraform was the best purchase I've made in 5 years!!!
What do they do? I mean, I can read about them, but I'd like to hear from users.
The Pantheon is the greatest Overdrive pedal of all time.
This is the crossover that I longed for ever since I discovered both channels. Thank you so much for this! So inspirational!
I sat and watched this entire video. Just to find out you won't tell us the Magic that went into the Original "Klon Centaur" what is wrong with me! Cheers (great video and talk with Wampler pedals. Very kool)
Jams were killer, and I actually laughed a few times… props
Brian and Josh creating pedal heaven! Wampler Gearbox, oh yes, I totally get the idea! My two Wampler pedals of all time (so far😁😉) are the Pinnacle and the Tumnus (V1), and I gate it with a tc Iron Curtain or a Boss NS-2 🤩😁
The Belle and the Tumnus Mini have been on my board quite a while now. Thanks, Brian!
This is either the third or fourth time I’ve enjoyed this episode.
The amount of knowledge on display here is remarkable, the contributions from the JHS team beyond Josh, the openness from Brian and of course the jams.
This has to be in the top ten episodes you’ve ever done from the JHS team perspective doesn’t it?
Thanks for doing these, all of you. They really are tremendously appreciated at least in this little outpost of the UK.
Keep up the inspiring work!
woah, thanks for watching!
That moment when you see Brian Wampler’s settings on his Tumnus Deluxe in the top down.... and it’s the same as yours.... 🥺
Then... you hear his tone... 🤯
You are a gentleman and scholar Brian. JHS crew you ain’t half bad yourselves...
1000% agree that being in tune and on time is the key to sounding decent. (If you have a basic grasp of chords.) I've seen even great acts that lost me because something was out of tune. It's something I tell my band students. Knowing the notes, rhythms, style, and dynamics mean nothing because music is the one performance art where one person can ruin everything for the rest of the band. You have to be 100% in tune and on time, or else everyone in the audience is going to hear everything else that is RIGHT as wrong.
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Hehe soo true:) I've been working as a PA sound engineer for well over 35 years and I nowadays totally refuse to do a soundcheck until the instruments are in tune! I just can't stand out of tune instruments!
I agree, but being on time is easily fixed with an alarm clock.
Actually debatable. There are a lot of reputable artist who played out of tune when they recorded. There's no rules to music.
Omg, Josh’s slide tone in the end was absolutely amazing!
And notably better than Rhett’s.
Hands down the best ad I’ve ever seen.
I could picture myself in a '69 Camaro blasting some BrassKnuckles tunes. Definitely!
Nice!
Brian makes me want an Epiphone 335. Which I appreciate, because too many other guitarists make me want a Gibson Memphis 335!
Congrats to Nick and his family! Summer lasts for 7-8 months in my nick of the woods. Unless it's raining. Then it's cooler, but also flooding.
Fantastic episode Josh!!!👏🏻👏🏻Brian Wampler is an overdrive genius mentor!!!!I have the Ego compressor,the Gearbox,the Pantheon,the Belle and the Ratsbane and they all are awesome pedals with so much great tones!!!!🔥🎸👊🏻🙅🏻♂️😎
Man, just now saw this. So good! The jams were all awesome! Love love loved the Floyd inspired jam especially! Brian seems like such a good dude. I only live a few miles south of him as the crow flies and have been doing electronics my whole life, have a degree and work professionally in the field and still find myself amazed at his talent. Great episode! I would love to see something that nails the “Spirit in the Sky” fuzz tone as precisely as the original recording. Have yet to see anything hit it exactly.
I love that Brian is playing an epiphone. His podcast is awesome too. Awesome playing. Love this channel
Rhett's slide tone just filed a restraining order!!
Thank you for having Brian on. He is excellent.
Josh ok I have been trying to write something down for the past 15 minutes. This show means so much to me, and I love both of your channels a lot. I am so
Sorry Brian’s shop burnt down. It’s funny how much information you share to maybe out do you in pedal building it won’t be me but someone might. The guitar world is a lot like the shooting world a community that will give information to make someone better than they are. It’s all about a learning experience. No way am I saying either one of you aren’t world class at your trade, what I am saying is that you give people the tools to better. That says a lot about both of your characters. The team you have backing you Josh seems out of this world. Joshua has added a lot of flavor to the show I like him a lot. Also Nick congratulations on the new baby. You have brought another precious life into this world, and that’s special being a father myself I speak and say there won’t be anything that means as much to you as your kid will. I know the demographics being what they and people seem more divided than they ever have in my opinion the one thing that can bring us all together is love. Hey thanks JHS for all that you do and offer to us as your audience know it does not go unappreciated by any means. Take care y’all!!!!
Thanks so much for sharing and your kind words! 💪💪💪
@@jhspedals your very welcome.
These videos make me feel so old. I remember when Indy guitarist started sharing projects on his geocities site, and I remember people started asking questions about JHS mods a few years later. It always make me happy when I see the people from back in the day that was willing to share is having success. Also make me regret not daring to start selling my own pedals.
JHS and Wampler have blessed us with some truly great pedals made by passionate owners and employees that are like a Morning Glory on a pedal board. That foundation makes everything else on the board better and, ultimately, delivers tones that would be impossible to achieve without it.
This episode is soooo goooooood!!! Thanks Wampler and JHS
I dub the end jam "Better than Rhett", great episode.
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How does this video have only 2000 likes? It's easily one of the best JHS have ever done.
Collective… hmm, my Triumph should be here tomorrow. Thank you Brian for making another overdrive.
This has become my favorite channel of all time! Thanks guys. I love Brian’s channel too!
This was extra fun. Welcome back Nick.
I’ve never seen anyone spend anywhere near the production resources either of you does talking glowingly about competitors’ products. It’s simply remarkable.
I got the Fuzztration because, y'know, "fuzz"-- and it totally rocks. Covered up the graphic, though.
Fantastic episode, Thanks
Going to see Kenny Wayne Shepherd tomorrow night, kicking off his new tour in our hometown. I cannot wait! And I fully expect to hear PLENTY of Univibe on Saturday night. Fuzz, too. This will be the first time I've seen & heard Kenny play in almost a couple of decades. We used to ALWAYS catch him around here before he was a superstar. 👌
The commentary about the Klon phenomenon at the end was great
In response to people not wanting new products I absolutely love the PG-14. Most fun I've had with my guitar in a long time!
Two of my favorite Pedal makers put on a hell of a good show. BTW, as a recovering drummer you get an awesome drum tone.
It was great to be there and witness history🥃🐒
I have a 1978 copy of Craig Anderton's "Electronic Projects for Musicians" with a forward by Joe Walsh. His DIY Tube Sound Fuzz is was the inspiration for lots of pedals like the Way Huge Red Llama and the EHX Hot Tubes Nano.
The TSF originally showed up in Guitar Player, a few years before EPFM came out. It was a little more complex than the Red Llama, using *both* an op-amp and a 4049 invertor. It was a little more like the Hot Tubes than the Red Llama, truth be told. I actually prefer it to the Red Llama and EPFM version because it offered more options for tone shaping.
A tech buddy made a clone of the Hot Tubes around 1979. Although the EHX pedal had an onboard transformer-based power supply, the circuit actually ran just fine off a 9V battery. It just didn't last a long time on a battery, and in 1979 no one was using power supplies for pedalboards, Indeed, no one HAD pedalboards. They had a couple of pedals on the floor, patched together. One of them might use a wallwart, but there was no such thing as a shared power supply. My own setup was 4 pedals and a foot controller, which seemed extravagant by comparison.
@@markhammer643 Thanks for this info. I was always wondering if the TSF had been deleted from my printing of EPFM. Now, it makes sense. I can probably look it up, but now I'm wondering how close the Ultra-Fuzz or the Bass Buzz in 1978 EPFM is to the TSF, or how they compare. I don't think I've seen any demos of these being built. I'm doing a UA-cam / Google search now.
@@GabrielVelasco The Ultra-Fuzz, Bass Fuzz and TSF are entirely different beasts, each from the other two. The Ultra-Fuzz is an op-amp-based comparator, that generates an all-or-nothing square wave whenever the input signal exceeds a predetermined (but adjustable) threshold. The Bass Fuzz is a diode (LED) based "soft clipper". It has a max gain of 220x (the MXR Distortion+ has a max gain of 213x). In theory it should have enough potential gain to yield nice intense distortion...if one was using regular silicon diodes. Using LEDs to clip, however, raises the clipping threshold by a factor of roughly 300%, so a max gain of 220x may not initially seem like "enough". But basses put out very hefty signals (thick strings and all that), so even raising the clipping threshold shouldn't prevent achieving serious buzz. Craig used 14-pin 4739 dual op-amps, his favorite at the time, but the circuit can be easily built with any 8-pin dual op-amp, and can also be run off a simple 9V battery or adapter, and does not absolutely require a bipolar supply. I can think of lots of productive mods for the basic circuit to make it more usable. You need only ask.
Had the ego compressor forever. Loved that pedal!
Great “pinkish floyd” jam.
My two favorite "boutique" pedal builders together. Thanks for the tones guys.
Congrats Nick!
Great show! Best jams ever on JHS show… what did Brian had on his Epiphone? Sound freaking awesome. Both pedals company are genious.. Tummnus plus Unicorn is heaven sound!
I honestly don't remember.
I’ve been subbed to Brians channel, I think since before I heard of JHS. He’s a damn fine dude, an excellent teacher, and he makes wonderful products! ❤
It was nice hearing another guitar jamming with you guys. You guys sound good alone don't get me wrong. But maybe a guest musician on the jams from time to time. I jam along with you guys on every episode. So much fun.
The Catapulp is fantastic.
In case anyone watching wondered what Brain said about the velvet fuzz. It simulates a fuzz face being used with a plexi amp.
Best Jam Ever!!!
To me the biggest development for pedals in the last decade is that we learnt a fair bit on old and new pedals (thanks to the internet). We are now able to enjoy them more and use them better, this possibly revitalized the interest in them.
the merch ad was actually hilarious. good job boys.
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Sweet jams! Rock is dead. Long live Rock!
He's right, digital modeling has come a LONG way. My main amp sim at church now is the Joyo Pre-amp house on the JCM900 clean sound. That 100ms of lag you used to get on a Line6 is gone. It sounds great and it plays great.
Secondary pedal use that I actually thought up and did….after way too many beers with my buddies -> Connect old school headphones with 1/4” jack into input on Phaser pedal, thereby creating a microphone out of one of the the two headphone speakers (mono vs. stereo). Now, turn on your Phaser, crank your amp and when you speak into the correct headphone speaker, a killer Darth Vader voice comes out. Try it. It’s fun. P.S. works with Flanger pedal, too; but that voice may scare you, so start at a low volume.
One of the most important lessons you can learn about business is that people aren’t willing to pay you for doing something they couldn’t do so much as paying you because they don’t want to do it themselves. (Because nobody has the time to do everything themselves.) Once you realize that, you understand that there’s no point in trying to hide knowledge instead of sharing it.
The jams of these episodes are just intense and take you on a journey through the depths of time and space and the PedalVerse!! Got to love the tones!!
Most beautiful Tumnus jam. I need one of those.
I'm watching this a year later and loving it. Have you guys ever built a collaboration of any kind?
Great show!!!!
John Foggerty! Brian you have arrived at last 😝
ETA: I’m old enough to have seen CCR on a black & white TV in leather jackets with fringe and dry ice roiling off the stage. I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen!
Wasn’t Tech 21 very early in amp in a box pedals?
So glad it was in person and not over zoom! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Josh your opening song here. Class act I tell ya.kind of young you are and I do wonder where the hell you get this stuff. Things said about you but this has never deterred me. Much respect. You're success. Whit?if you will. You're (I guess) capabilities to hit on things on guitar...what can I say. Youre presentations I appreciate. Jim
Brian And Scott … finally . 😎🎉🎊