I've had 2 vinyl copies of SAF, I'm trying to get another. I love Big Black so much that I've never listened to the other albums, I was saving them till I was 50 and 60 and didn't have any other music to look forward to
This series is brilliant. Instead of doing maths to explain what's happening, we get to see the change in the circuit and hear the effect. Immediately. Particularly when it breaks ;-) Perfect.
This is my favorite thing! I got a Notaklon, then I bought a StewMac 2 Kings DIY pedal. Then I started listening to electronic courses on my daily commute (100 miles) as a 8th grade science teacher. I want to see if I can teach small electronics as a high school or middle school CTE science/engineering course. I'm totally obsessed now! And then you started this series, wow! So cool! Thank you :) highfive.
100 mile commute? Frickin hard core dedication there, not a chance i could. But back when I did, 30 miles mind you, I got a LOT of reading (via listening) done.
I’m in love with this series. I just ordered a copper sound breadboard and a kit of resistors and capacitors etc. I’m going to rewatch all the episodes and build along with you.
Very glad you do this warts and all. Seeing how you troubleshoot and experiment makes it so much more valuable that just a smooth lesson would be. Enjoying this greatly.
These first 2 of the series have already taught me soo much! I have had the stereo coppersound breadboard for months but still was a bit lost, even with the Wampler book, Suhr book, and Maintenance degree from my local college
Short circuit, I stayed as long as I could live. I had company stop in half way through finished up today! Thank you Josh! You absolutely shine in this aria and your expertise is appreciated. Thank you also to copper sound for hanging out. Checked out the website and you make the bread board super friendly.
Awesome episode Josh (and JHS). Liked the Coppersound stuff very much too! Hopefully it will be available in European stores soon as well; can't wait to start tinkering with them!
Ordering my breadboard and parts this week, my journey begins. Thinking Sound Drip Studios sounds almost as ear appealing as "He has the box!", so it's what i'm goin for.
Just made a diy breadboard setup to explore guitar circuit and stumble across your channel! This is pure gold, I'm learning so much and I'm counting down the days until the next episode. So much fun !!! Please continue this series through to a complete pedal in good time!!!!! Great chanel 👌
Episode 1 was the reason i just bought a copper sounds diy kit. I loved the one electrical engineer lab i had in college where we built circuits on breadboards. I'm very excited to try building this circuit.
Might be cool for next week’s short circuit, to know if there’s anything we can have prepared. I’m definitely that nerdy kid up the front of the class for these videos. I have my newly purchased breadboards and I’m ready to get buildin! Thanks again Josh!
Hey everyone at JHS. (1) Thanks for starting your videos back up. I have always enjoyed your content. Great stuff! (2) I LOVE these programs! I bought a breadboard last week but was having a problem getting the boost to work (I had the wrong resistors on the transistor), but this video solved my problem. I installed a potentiometer to bias the transistor and KABOOM! I also added the clipping diodes - and they worked great. I have wanted to do this for years but never had the right jumping off point. This content is perfect!
That was a shocker to hear of Steve Albini’s passing. Josh: “Sometimes wrong is right” -thats an Albini-ism if I’ve ever heard one. May he rest in analog peace!
Thanks so much for starting these videos Josh. I’ve been DIY-ing mics, 500 series and 19” rack gear and have just got into building pedals. I found your channel only, ashamedly only recently. I have built a lot of gear from many companies some featured on my channel, but I want to understand circuits more in depth and this series feels like the right beginning of that side of my DIY journey. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge on here, I look forward to many more vids!
Fantastic series. Turns out I have an LPB2 kit from GGG I’ve been meaning to get to. And I have been curious about breadboards for a few months now, had no idea where to start, and bang, here’s Josh delivering some really great stuff. Within 5 minutes I understood how a bread board worked. A Memorial Day Weekend miracle! And this is from a guy who’s probably about 30 years outside your target demographic.
Requiescat in pace, Steve Albini. Josh, thanks for turning me on to the Copper Sound development gear. I will be receiving a breadboard and three substitution boxes by the weekend.
This is very similar to my first pedal design, minus the extra boost stage. Instead of the Sil/Ger diodes, I use Led/Off/Sil for the clipping, and a 3 way cap switch 222/103/104, and a gain pot for the emitter resistor. I absolutely love this circuit and the things you can do with it, it's so fantastic. I also really really love this type of content, I can already tell this will be my favorite series not only from JHS, but all of UA-cam. Literally my favorite type of content.
Suggestion for future episode: Would love to see the process of taking an on-paper schematic and converting it to a PCB that gets sent off and printed with traces and all the notation on the board. Short of that, even a paper schematic or breadboard circuit that moves to perfboard/stripboard with input/output/power/knobs. Until then? Loving the breadboard designs and mods from schematics that's happening here.
Love this series! I've been wanting to graduate from kits to janky self-built, but I just can't comprehend books about this stuff. As a visual / conversational learner, this is becoming the best resource for understanding pedal circuits. Please keep it up!
These 2 videos are awesome! They came around just when I'm getting started building my own LPB-1 Boost pedal. I'm really looking forward to the next one. Good job Josh!
Bring this format to the Fretboard Summit this summer! Take everyone back to elementary school with you. I'm going to get a couple of these kits to build with my technology students and the music teacher at school.
I'm so glad I waited until I was in the right mindset to watch this series. I really appreciate Josh's teaching style along with what CopperSound put together for their breadboard kits. Seeing and hearing the circuit mutate and evolve feels like watching the history of guitar pass before my eyes. I really hope the series continues into the realm of delays and modulations.
It's 10:39 AM in Hermosillo Sonora México, this video was my Saturday morning class (feel like I'm at school with the greatest teacher 😎🤟) btw I went to bed at 3AM after rocking the hell out of my guitar rig at a gig last night. We need more of this videos Josh, wish I could get one of those DIY boards to start doing some shxt. Big thanks!!
Thanks Josh and JHS for putting this out! I'm playing catch up right now on all the episodes, but this is exactly what I've been looking for. Josh, you are the Rick Beato of pedal building.
As a teacher, I really loved how you took the time to just patiently solve the unexpected issues as they occurred. One of the great things about "doing it live" is that learners get to see you troubleshoot mistakes or problems in real time. As a programming prof I do live demos all the time, and I feel the students get a LOT out of seeing how I triage and figure out what is causing the problem and how I fix it. I think that you doing this live is so much better than a edited-together perfection of a final educational video. Kudos, Josh.
Thanks for another great class, sorry I can't be there live. Have just now built the initial circuit from last week's class and wow, what a moment when I turned it on and it worked! Getting into those mods now. Cheers!
I love this so much I could scream! All these things I wondered about, suddenly made sense! I got a special Short Circuit notebook and I'm numbering my episode notes. SO much info coming SO fast! Thank you so much Josh, I feel like I can jump in!
You think and design like I do, and it is so great that you are doing this for the DIY community that got us started, back when we had to trace circuits off of existing pedals, and guess what parts were used when the manufacturer so thoughtfully obscured or used “house” number codes. I look forward to how this series develops, and even though I have been working with electronics for decades, I still get insights, information, and inspiration from even the basic stuff that we sometimes forget (that’s like a Rasta trinity I, I, and I 😂). Thanks again Josh and stay Nerdy!🖖
Not sure I can say thank you enough. I have already built out some pedals from schematics, but I never quite had a grasp on what to experiment with. This series has lit a good kinda fire for me to get back into "try it and see what happens" without just feeling around in the dark.
These first 2 of the series have already taught me soo much! I have had the stereo coppersound breadboard for months but still was a bit lost, even with the Wampler book, Suhr book, and Maintenance degree from my local college
yes!!! love this. ive built and modded a few pedals but been wanting to play with the bread board thing for a while. grabbing these boards for sure. youre rad josh, ty for what you do
I Just want to thank you for this. I watched this live yesterday and re watched it today. This is so informative and entertaining. You explain everything in a way that makes it so accessible I am really inspired. I have made a few pedals and messed around with my breadboard a bit but This series has already given me a way better understanding of what is happening in the circuit. I will build this. Thank you so much!
Again, I love this series. Can't wait for episode 400, may you have a long life then. If I can request something, when we get into moving away from the breadboard to protoboards, please use protoboards that have the same layout that the breadboard has, and is going to make the experience much clearer for everyone, as it would be the same circuit, with the exact same layout, just soldered. (I like the Adafruit brand, but there are tons of folks who build them, even Crcibernetica here in Costa Rica)
One of the best vids of the channel ! Congratulations 👏 And thank you very much for cascading 2 lpcb1. If I wasn't sure, now I am 👍 Adding the germanium clipping diodes was genius. This is the pedal ! 2 cascaded LPB1s with germanium clipping diodes. I want to share an idea that could change the world of pedals. Customisable pedals : You put trim pots on the pcb instead of resistors, trim caps, a bag of different transistors to plug into sockets on the pcb, and every one can customise his pedal in a safe and funny way. I'm sure a lot of guys will love to adjust trim pots, play with transistors, then close the back cover and stay with a 2 knobs pedal...
This is so fun! Love the tweaking and love Boosters! I used to have an MXR MicroAmp. Later I used a BOSS OD as a booster. These days I use the XOTIC RC Booster.
Very cool seeing how this stuff is done. I don't know if I'll ever get around to trying this, but just seeing the process is really interesting. Thanks Josh!
Just been building one of these and ended up here after googling mods. I ultimately went with a 10nF input cap, a 47nF output cap, a 47uF across the 330 ohm (closest I could find to a 390 in my bits box) on a switch as a gain boost option, a B-taper volume pot and I have a BC109 in the transistor slot. I plan to put it in my modded big-box reissue NYC Big Muff as a pre-boost, it sounds quite like a Rangemaster clone I already have but I want this box to be all-EHX.
these videos are so fucking sick, im so excited i get to watch this as its happening. im gonna order one of those copper sound boards and follow along!
Absolutely love this series! I'd really love to learn how to take a circuit and put it into an actual pedal I could put on my board. I also would love to know how something like a phase 90 works but that may be too complicated for the first episodes. Thanks Josh!
Thanks so much Josh. I built my first pedal yesterday thanks to Episode 1!! I'll probably start modding it today though😁 Greetings from Namibia (yes, we have electricity here too...)
Awesome video! I build pedals as a hobby, and have probably built around 100 or so at this point. But I learn something everytime I watch a JHS video! Thanks for teaching us and I can't wait for the next one. Maybe go into a distortion for the next video.
This is going to be (and already) such a great series! Would be interested in seeing where you can chop a circuit into replaceable chunks, although I think those will become apparent really quickly.
So good. Thanks for this! I'm collecting parts to build a tube preamp and planning to have a James tone stack in it. I'm going to breadboard the tone stack to play with some values. Just bought the Coppertone breadboard kit for the Baxendal EQ. I would love to see the process for going from breadboard to vero strip board or the like. And then from there to planning out a circuit board to be made.
I am loving this series but I'm also afraid that you're opening up a pandora's box of a new hobby for me. I see purchases and tinkering in my future. Thanks, Josh! But no...seriously...thank you for inspiring me. Never thought I would give a crap about this kinda stuff but... now I do!
This whole series is so good. I love Wampler’s videos but there is nothing like this anywhere. For people who know nothing of circuit design, this is so fun and really shows what each change sounds like. Makes this so much more accessible and makes me want to build a pedal. Thanks and keep them coming!
20:40 "Audio taper is evenly spreading the 100k across...". I know with certainty that Josh has forgotten more about pedal building than I will ever learn, but right there, that's the definition of a linear taper. Audio tapers are logarithmic, Linear is well, linear. Hey Josh, if you ever read this, please correct me. Of course if you hook up a log taper backwards then the results will be questionable at best...
I'm glad someone else caught this! He definitely understands the concept but got the names reversed. As someone who teaches for a living, I totally understand how that happened.
Hey Josh, love this series! Could you possibly do an episode for us super beginners to circuits? Explain what a capacitor is and what it does, resistor, transistor, etc etc and how they all play into guitar pedal circuits?? That would be so helpful and you teach things so well and easy to understand!
G'day Josh, Thanks for another great video. Two hours of breadboarding is like E.N.E. woofed up to a million (Electronic Nerd Enjoyment + 1,000,000)! But, I have some comments & questions for you. 1. Did you connect the silicon diodes correctly when you moved them to the middle of the two LPB1 stages? It looked like 1 diode was connected to ground, but the other diode was connected to power. It looked like the germanium diodes were both connected to ground. 2. Did you have to add the 2nd coupling capacitor between the two LPB1 stages? All you had between the two stages was the clipping diodes. 3. You can tell us that the capacitor stores & releases electrons, & when it's followed by a resistor, a high pass filter is created, which leaks low frequencies to ground - we are all nerds here, & we can handle it. 4. I think that for your next Short Circuit episode, you should leave this circuit as it is, & show us how you take it from a breadboard & circuit diagram, then put it on to a circuit board. Thanks once again for a great video. I'm looking forward to next week's video. Keep up the good work Andrew
RIP Steve Albini. Big Black is still one of my favorite bands.
I've had 2 vinyl copies of SAF, I'm trying to get another. I love Big Black so much that I've never listened to the other albums, I was saving them till I was 50 and 60 and didn't have any other music to look forward to
Public domain schematics sounds like an awesome idea
This series is brilliant. Instead of doing maths to explain what's happening, we get to see the change in the circuit and hear the effect. Immediately. Particularly when it breaks ;-) Perfect.
Please don’t stop making these 😍
This is my favorite thing! I got a Notaklon, then I bought a StewMac 2 Kings DIY pedal. Then I started listening to electronic courses on my daily commute (100 miles) as a 8th grade science teacher. I want to see if I can teach small electronics as a high school or middle school CTE science/engineering course. I'm totally obsessed now! And then you started this series, wow! So cool! Thank you :)
highfive.
100 mile commute? Frickin hard core dedication there, not a chance i could. But back when I did, 30 miles mind you, I got a LOT of reading (via listening) done.
@@c1ph3rpunk I'm looking for a closer gig this upcoming school year. We'll see what happens :)
I’m in love with this series. I just ordered a copper sound breadboard and a kit of resistors and capacitors etc. I’m going to rewatch all the episodes and build along with you.
Same bro
Oh man! That's so cool! I also wanna do that really bad!
Very glad you do this warts and all. Seeing how you troubleshoot and experiment makes it so much more valuable that just a smooth lesson would be. Enjoying this greatly.
These first 2 of the series have already taught me soo much! I have had the stereo coppersound breadboard for months but still was a bit lost, even with the Wampler book, Suhr book, and Maintenance degree from my local college
This was an emotional rollercoaster with all the "I'm gonna cut it there" (awww), and then "here's some other cool stuff" (yayyy)
It’s Zen DIY.
Love the way you teach.
Love everything you do, Jams, reviews, history and pedals you made.
Thank you!
Short circuit, I stayed as long as I could live. I had company stop in half way through finished up today! Thank you Josh! You absolutely shine in this aria and your expertise is appreciated. Thank you also to copper sound for hanging out. Checked out the website and you make the bread board super friendly.
Thanks so much! :)
Awesome episode Josh (and JHS). Liked the Coppersound stuff very much too! Hopefully it will be available in European stores soon as well; can't wait to start tinkering with them!
Pedal Jungle in the UK has them depending on where you are.
Thanks so much! Pedal Jungle, Musikding, and FX Pedal Planet would be the best options.
Ordering my breadboard and parts this week, my journey begins. Thinking Sound Drip Studios sounds almost as ear appealing as "He has the box!", so it's what i'm goin for.
Thanks for being such a positive educator in the field. Super big fan of all of your stuff and everything you and your team do!
Just made a diy breadboard setup to explore guitar circuit and stumble across your channel! This is pure gold, I'm learning so much and I'm counting down the days until the next episode. So much fun !!! Please continue this series through to a complete pedal in good time!!!!! Great chanel 👌
Episode 1 was the reason i just bought a copper sounds diy kit. I loved the one electrical engineer lab i had in college where we built circuits on breadboards. I'm very excited to try building this circuit.
Thank you! We appreciate you! 🙌
Great episode! I love the nerdy stuff. Can you do an episode on EQ / tonestacks? I love the EQ in the Angry Charlie for example.
Might be cool for next week’s short circuit, to know if there’s anything we can have prepared.
I’m definitely that nerdy kid up the front of the class for these videos. I have my newly purchased breadboards and I’m ready to get buildin!
Thanks again Josh!
Hey everyone at JHS. (1) Thanks for starting your videos back up. I have always enjoyed your content. Great stuff! (2) I LOVE these programs! I bought a breadboard last week but was having a problem getting the boost to work (I had the wrong resistors on the transistor), but this video solved my problem. I installed a potentiometer to bias the transistor and KABOOM! I also added the clipping diodes - and they worked great. I have wanted to do this for years but never had the right jumping off point. This content is perfect!
LPB1 was my first pedal I built end to end. This is a great series keep it coming.
That was a shocker to hear of Steve Albini’s passing.
Josh: “Sometimes wrong is right” -thats an Albini-ism if I’ve ever heard one.
May he rest in analog peace!
Awesome series. I bought a copper sound kit for my son and myself. Can’t wait!
So great to hear this. Thank you so much! :)
Thanks so much for starting these videos Josh. I’ve been DIY-ing mics, 500 series and 19” rack gear and have just got into building pedals. I found your channel only, ashamedly only recently. I have built a lot of gear from many companies some featured on my channel, but I want to understand circuits more in depth and this series feels like the right beginning of that side of my DIY journey.
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge on here, I look forward to many more vids!
This is definitely a series I am going to be following, this episode really peaked my interest and now I think I have a new hobby.. 😅
This is the kind of content I've been wanting you to make since I started watching five years ago. Please keep it going.
would be interesting to see a video that goes from finished breadboard to circuitboard assembly and finished pedal. Love these videos!
You caught me with, "Focus! Focus!"
I wasn't fully paying attention, and I snapped right up to see the screen... and knock over my bong.
Too real, and I love it.
Fantastic series. Turns out I have an LPB2 kit from GGG I’ve been meaning to get to.
And I have been curious about breadboards for a few months now, had no idea where to start, and bang, here’s Josh delivering some really great stuff. Within 5 minutes I understood how a bread board worked. A Memorial Day Weekend miracle! And this is from a guy who’s probably about 30 years outside your target demographic.
Requiescat in pace, Steve Albini.
Josh, thanks for turning me on to the Copper Sound development gear. I will be receiving a breadboard and three substitution boxes by the weekend.
Thanks for checking it out! RIP, indeed.
This is very similar to my first pedal design, minus the extra boost stage. Instead of the Sil/Ger diodes, I use Led/Off/Sil for the clipping, and a 3 way cap switch 222/103/104, and a gain pot for the emitter resistor. I absolutely love this circuit and the things you can do with it, it's so fantastic. I also really really love this type of content, I can already tell this will be my favorite series not only from JHS, but all of UA-cam. Literally my favorite type of content.
RIP Legend!😢 That said i absolutely love this series! Im here for all of it! Thanks Josh 🙏
These are my favourites. Stayed the full video.
Keep them coming.
Suggestion for future episode: Would love to see the process of taking an on-paper schematic and converting it to a PCB that gets sent off and printed with traces and all the notation on the board. Short of that, even a paper schematic or breadboard circuit that moves to perfboard/stripboard with input/output/power/knobs. Until then? Loving the breadboard designs and mods from schematics that's happening here.
Maybe next time a Harmonic Percolator in honor of Steve Albini. RIP Legend! 💔
I love these videos. The DIY product line is brilliant as well. I really do hope to see more videos like these! Thank You!
Love this series! I've been wanting to graduate from kits to janky self-built, but I just can't comprehend books about this stuff. As a visual / conversational learner, this is becoming the best resource for understanding pedal circuits. Please keep it up!
Episode 2- even more AWESOME. Educational and entertaining.
These 2 videos are awesome! They came around just when I'm getting started building my own LPB-1 Boost pedal. I'm really looking forward to the next one. Good job Josh!
Bring this format to the Fretboard Summit this summer! Take everyone back to elementary school with you. I'm going to get a couple of these kits to build with my technology students and the music teacher at school.
I'm so glad I waited until I was in the right mindset to watch this series. I really appreciate Josh's teaching style along with what CopperSound put together for their breadboard kits. Seeing and hearing the circuit mutate and evolve feels like watching the history of guitar pass before my eyes. I really hope the series continues into the realm of delays and modulations.
I love this series and am glad you're happy to teach. Super interested in everything you have to share
I love this series a lot!
I am nonetheless deeply heartbroken to learn that Steve Albini has passed away so suddenly.
I just get into pedal building recently and this series is a godsend. perfectly timed.
It's 10:39 AM in Hermosillo Sonora México, this video was my Saturday morning class (feel like I'm at school with the greatest teacher 😎🤟) btw I went to bed at 3AM after rocking the hell out of my guitar rig at a gig last night. We need more of this videos Josh, wish I could get one of those DIY boards to start doing some shxt. Big thanks!!
This has been so much fun and informative, please keep doing more of these, Thanks.
Thanks Josh and JHS for putting this out! I'm playing catch up right now on all the episodes, but this is exactly what I've been looking for. Josh, you are the Rick Beato of pedal building.
Couldn’t join on the stream but that was a blast to watch back! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and excitement 👏
As a teacher, I really loved how you took the time to just patiently solve the unexpected issues as they occurred. One of the great things about "doing it live" is that learners get to see you troubleshoot mistakes or problems in real time. As a programming prof I do live demos all the time, and I feel the students get a LOT out of seeing how I triage and figure out what is causing the problem and how I fix it. I think that you doing this live is so much better than a edited-together perfection of a final educational video. Kudos, Josh.
Thanks for another great class, sorry I can't be there live.
Have just now built the initial circuit from last week's class and wow, what a moment when I turned it on and it worked! Getting into those mods now. Cheers!
I am so psyched for this! Will have to wait though, until I can order a breadboard to follow along. Please keep on doing these
I love this so much I could scream! All these things I wondered about, suddenly made sense! I got a special Short Circuit notebook and I'm numbering my episode notes. SO much info coming SO fast! Thank you so much Josh, I feel like I can jump in!
You think and design like I do, and it is so great that you are doing this for the DIY community that got us started, back when we had to trace circuits off of existing pedals, and guess what parts were used when the manufacturer so thoughtfully obscured or used “house” number codes. I look forward to how this series develops, and even though I have been working with electronics for decades, I still get insights, information, and inspiration from even the basic stuff that we sometimes forget (that’s like a Rasta trinity I, I, and I 😂). Thanks again Josh and stay Nerdy!🖖
Not sure I can say thank you enough. I have already built out some pedals from schematics, but I never quite had a grasp on what to experiment with. This series has lit a good kinda fire for me to get back into "try it and see what happens" without just feeling around in the dark.
Absolutely loving this series! Please keep it coming! I would love to see the schematics of any circuits and mods published too!
Bro what a badass series of videos these are! Thank you for this information.
These first 2 of the series have already taught me soo much! I have had the stereo coppersound breadboard for months but still was a bit lost, even with the Wampler book, Suhr book, and Maintenance degree from my local college
Good stuff! Can’t wait for the next one!
Thank you so much Josh. Appreciate you doing this type of show show.
God I hope you keep doing these 👍🏻
yes!!! love this. ive built and modded a few pedals but been wanting to play with the bread board thing for a while. grabbing these boards for sure. youre rad josh, ty for what you do
This is so interesting. Never really had an understanding of circuits but this has me really intrigued to learn more and start playing around.
LPB-1 is a really fun circuit to start off with. i like adding a bypass capacitor to the emitter. it makes the signal boost extremely loud
I Just want to thank you for this. I watched this live yesterday and re watched it today. This is so informative and entertaining. You explain everything in a way that makes it so accessible I am really inspired. I have made a few pedals and messed around with my breadboard a bit but This series has already given me a way better understanding of what is happening in the circuit. I will build this.
Thank you so much!
Again, I love this series. Can't wait for episode 400, may you have a long life then.
If I can request something, when we get into moving away from the breadboard to protoboards, please use protoboards that have the same layout that the breadboard has, and is going to make the experience much clearer for everyone, as it would be the same circuit, with the exact same layout, just soldered. (I like the Adafruit brand, but there are tons of folks who build them, even Crcibernetica here in Costa Rica)
It was fun to be around to see the birth of the JHS Hot Dish gain pedal.
More please! Thanks for sharing your knowledge Josh. It would be fun to see how a modulation pedal can be designed and tweaked.
One of the best vids of the channel !
Congratulations 👏
And thank you very much for cascading 2 lpcb1. If I wasn't sure, now I am 👍
Adding the germanium clipping diodes was genius.
This is the pedal !
2 cascaded LPB1s with germanium clipping diodes.
I want to share an idea that could change the world of pedals.
Customisable pedals :
You put trim pots on the pcb instead of resistors, trim caps, a bag of different transistors to plug into sockets on the pcb, and every one can customise his pedal in a safe and funny way.
I'm sure a lot of guys will love to adjust trim pots, play with transistors, then close the back cover and stay with a 2 knobs pedal...
SO grateful for this series! Thanks
This is so fun! Love the tweaking and love Boosters!
I used to have an MXR MicroAmp. Later I used a BOSS OD as a booster. These days I use the XOTIC RC Booster.
Very cool seeing how this stuff is done. I don't know if I'll ever get around to trying this, but just seeing the process is really interesting. Thanks Josh!
Almost two hours long and this is the second time Ive gone through the whole thing! Yeah, Id say Im pretty into it.
Just been building one of these and ended up here after googling mods. I ultimately went with a 10nF input cap, a 47nF output cap, a 47uF across the 330 ohm (closest I could find to a 390 in my bits box) on a switch as a gain boost option, a B-taper volume pot and I have a BC109 in the transistor slot.
I plan to put it in my modded big-box reissue NYC Big Muff as a pre-boost, it sounds quite like a Rangemaster clone I already have but I want this box to be all-EHX.
these videos are so fucking sick, im so excited i get to watch this as its happening. im gonna order one of those copper sound boards and follow along!
I've been experimenting with a breadboarded Electra/Fleece/Cranker for the last week. Would love to see an Electra Show!
Love this content, Josh, keep it coming
Absolutely love this series! I'd really love to learn how to take a circuit and put it into an actual pedal I could put on my board. I also would love to know how something like a phase 90 works but that may be too complicated for the first episodes. Thanks Josh!
Thanks so much Josh. I built my first pedal yesterday thanks to Episode 1!! I'll probably start modding it today though😁 Greetings from Namibia (yes, we have electricity here too...)
Awesome video! I build pedals as a hobby, and have probably built around 100 or so at this point. But I learn something everytime I watch a JHS video! Thanks for teaching us and I can't wait for the next one. Maybe go into a distortion for the next video.
This is going to be (and already) such a great series! Would be interested in seeing where you can chop a circuit into replaceable chunks, although I think those will become apparent really quickly.
Great stuff, the debugging was perfect, troubleshooting rocks
So good. Thanks for this! I'm collecting parts to build a tube preamp and planning to have a James tone stack in it. I'm going to breadboard the tone stack to play with some values. Just bought the Coppertone breadboard kit for the Baxendal EQ. I would love to see the process for going from breadboard to vero strip board or the like. And then from there to planning out a circuit board to be made.
Really cool classes I've ever watched, thanks josh
This is the best, love your enthusiasm and nerdery, thanks for sharing!
This is great for newbies like me. Love the public domain pedals too.
Please please please keep doing these videos they are amazing!
Once again, fantastic sharing of information. Thanks a bunch!
Great breadboard episode, I learned so much!
I would be curious how an EQ breadboarded circuit would work and some of the options that could be done.
This was so much fun! Thanks Josh!
Different tone stacks on same circuit?
Thanks Josh, loving these.
I am loving this series but I'm also afraid that you're opening up a pandora's box of a new hobby for me. I see purchases and tinkering in my future. Thanks, Josh! But no...seriously...thank you for inspiring me. Never thought I would give a crap about this kinda stuff but... now I do!
This whole series is so good. I love Wampler’s videos but there is nothing like this anywhere. For people who know nothing of circuit design, this is so fun and really shows what each change sounds like. Makes this so much more accessible and makes me want to build a pedal. Thanks and keep them coming!
thank you!!
@@jhspedalslove the series...but- wish Josh had emphasized metal film caps for input n output.
It would be fun to have an episode on reverb and delays!
20:40 "Audio taper is evenly spreading the 100k across...". I know with certainty that Josh has forgotten more about pedal building than I will ever learn, but right there, that's the definition of a linear taper. Audio tapers are logarithmic, Linear is well, linear. Hey Josh, if you ever read this, please correct me. Of course if you hook up a log taper backwards then the results will be questionable at best...
I'm glad someone else caught this! He definitely understands the concept but got the names reversed. As someone who teaches for a living, I totally understand how that happened.
Hey Josh, love this series! Could you possibly do an episode for us super beginners to circuits? Explain what a capacitor is and what it does, resistor, transistor, etc etc and how they all play into guitar pedal circuits?? That would be so helpful and you teach things so well and easy to understand!
This guy covers the basics perfectly: ua-cam.com/play/PLah6faXAgguOeMUIxS22ZU4w5nDvCl5gs.html&si=7_IsONkZeuSuH4e0
I would suggest just looking it up. Khan Academy has a free electrical engineering course in which you can learn basic components and circuitry stuff.
Loved this. Thanks Josh.
Please keep this going.
That tone at 1:45 = 😍but with heart-ears. When's the next episode?!
Yes. Absolutely interested
G'day Josh,
Thanks for another great video. Two hours of breadboarding is like E.N.E. woofed up to a million (Electronic Nerd Enjoyment + 1,000,000)! But, I have some comments & questions for you.
1. Did you connect the silicon diodes correctly when you moved them to the middle of the two LPB1 stages? It looked like 1 diode was connected to ground, but the other diode was connected to power. It looked like the germanium diodes were both connected to ground.
2. Did you have to add the 2nd coupling capacitor between the two LPB1 stages? All you had between the two stages was the clipping diodes.
3. You can tell us that the capacitor stores & releases electrons, & when it's followed by a resistor, a high pass filter is created, which leaks low frequencies to ground - we are all nerds here, & we can handle it.
4. I think that for your next Short Circuit episode, you should leave this circuit as it is, & show us how you take it from a breadboard & circuit diagram, then put it on to a circuit board.
Thanks once again for a great video. I'm looking forward to next week's video.
Keep up the good work
Andrew
Another amazing lesson. Im actually super considering getting into breadboarding lol Thanks JHS
Can one of these classes be about designing a PCB after breadboarding? (I'm really digging these so far!)