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... and over 50 years later nobody can sound like Jimi even with all the advances in technology. To me this means his sound came through him. The technology just amplified it. Jimi was a sonic magician. A true vibrational artist mixing spirit and soul. Fusing form and ethereal whispers of cosmic dust. Colourful, tasteful and as much an expression of pain as well as ecstasy.
@@barbrazavalasolimano I think the only other guitarist I have ever heard that had the same kind of passion and intensity in his playing was Stevie Ray Vaughan and he did an excellent "Jimi". Another brilliant guitarist in the same vein as Jimi is Isaiah Mitchell from Earthless. Check him and them out. Psychedelic blues rock to the max!
A true Hendrix fan has to wonder how he would sound today had he lived with the vast array of digital electronics and modern recording studios. The music he would have created would have been even more mind blowing. He was so far ahead of his time, I can imagine how crazy he would have gone with all the great tools of today.
Right on, this point overwhelms me! We will never know what Jimi would've unlocked, given more time to develop... and consider how he would feel about us... hopeless Hendrix fans, analysing his every move, like the kind of leads he used, or his preferred pick-up height, etc... I'm sure he's laughing at us all, but also saying, "move on, wake up man!" It's a sad story, we who are left to wonder... FACT: we'll never know !!!
I feel like his sound comes from the fact that his effects were so dynamic and unpredictable and that adds so much character to the sounds. I don't think he would have settled and maybe he would branch into other effects but I obviously don't know him. Whatever would have happened would have been dynamic, always pushed to the edge
I was 15 when I watched him at Woodstock. I was 25 feet in front of him. It was one of the best days in my life. Jimi played his best on that day. Wow...
@@beatvampire Typical vampire's perspective. Well. The DVD ages and so does your player and the dark room you are sitting in and the electricity you used is contributing to the eventual heat death of the universe same as the cup of blood you had while watching. You may be immortal and near-indestructible but your existence is not CO2 neutral either. Stop making everything a question about time just because you can't die. We all have issues to deal with. I understand that it can be a lonely thing facing unlimited mondays but we all gotta just get on with whatever it is we have to get on with or even things that don't age can get old real fast.
When I was 20, I built a fuzz from a circuit in Electronics Australia magazine. In hindsight, it was a simple single saturated transistor circuit but it worked quite well. As a first ever effort, I was quite pleased with myself. Made a lot of pedals since, but you always remember your first.
All I used as a kid was an American Stratocaster I saved up for at least 100 years to get...Ha ha, a 23 watt Panaramic tube amp with an 8" speaker and a Rat pedal. It was simple, but I miss that first real guitar rig. Even if it was arcane and simple.
Lol agreed, my first build was a klon clone but it was part of a parts kit(basically it came with a pcb and all the lose components and practically zero instructions lol but I learned a lot figuring it out, I had been modding pedals and guitars awhile so I was confident I could have built it from scratch but the kit cost much less than I could have built it for at the time. Now I live right next to Mouser electronics and anytime I need components it's just a 20 minute drive to pick them up at mouser will call which means I get to save in shipping and don't have to wait to place orders until I have enough stuff to make it worthwhile). So I don't consider the klon my first build(cause it wasn't from scratch since I didn't make the pcb or source the parts myself) although it's still on my board and gets a ton of use. It sounds amazing with my Marshall DSL100HR. My first completly from scratch pedal was a Brian May style treble booster (slightly altered Dallas rangemaster). I did some research and found a transistor that works great in it since I wasn't thrilled with the 2N5088 or 2N4401 or any of the other NPN silicons I tried. The transistor that really made the T.B. come to life is a low noise MPSA18, silicon NPN transistor. That treble booster is still one of my favorite effects ever. I added an output level control that doesn't effect the gain or tone as much as rolling off the gain or my guitars volume pot. So I can get all the gain but dial it back if I'm on the mid setting or the bass/full range setting. A couple weeks ago I put that treble booster into a horizontal 125B+ enclosure with a germanium PNP fuzz face I used a TC1044Scps as a charge pump which is cheaper, more reliable and more efficient than a MAX1044 So it will run off the same 9vdc jack as the treble booster and all my other pedals. I have a few MAX1044 ic's but i always end up getting better/more consistent values with the TC1044SCPS. So now the treble booster is basucally part of an Analogman Sunlion but reversed. The Sunlion is a Sunface into Beano boost and mine is the opposite. A lot of guys who own the Sunlion prefer it as I do with the boost first for a more classic rock type vibe. In fact later versions of the Sunlion had 4 jacks so you could use a patch cable to reverse the effect order and have it either way. I'm still debating whether or not I should add 2 more jacks and rewire it so I can run the fuzz face first sometimes(It would be really tight in that 125B+ enclosure but i think if I drill my holes in just the right spots I could fit the extra 2 jacks). I'm sure I'll end up doing it when I run out of builds/mods to do. That's actually why I built the fuzz face to begin with. My last build was a harmonic tremolo and between the leftover parts from that and parts I salvaged I had almost everything to build the fuzz face other than the transistors so I built it initially with silicon 2N3906's i had already and used it like that until I got some more germaniums that didn't have too much leakage and had the right amount of gain. I ended up finding a pair of NTE102 PNP Germanium's that fit the bill. It sounds good but I'm going to try to get a hold of a few NTE102A'S which are slightly higher gain so I can have a lower gaIn Q1(NTE102, typical hFE around 90) and a higher gain Q2(NTE102A, typical hFE 200 hopefully between the few I get I'll find one that's a bit below 200 hFE). Anyways I'm rambling, I really liked your story about building your first pedal from a schematic you found in a magazine. I was born in early 1990 but by the time I started building all the resources were online. But I imagine if my first pedal had been from a schematic I was lucky enough to find in a magazine it would've been that much more special to me. Back then it would have been (and was) even more of an accomplishment due to fewer easily attainable resources for a beginner wanting to get into building.
Dunlop has, for years, tried to make everyone believe his Wah of choice was a Cry Baby but I don't believe it to be true. He may have used one as a substitute or to try one out but he liked the Vox Wah. My college band opened for him in Maine (Lewiston Armory, March '68) and he had the Vox into the Fuzz Face. He wasn't happy with his rig that night and kept switching Fuzz Faces. We did get to meet and speak to him and the band. Very humble guy, no ego stuff, but when he played - OMG. Life changing for me, as well as many other guitar players of my era.
Wish hendrix was alive and playing ! Btw guys Our first track "inner dimensions" is out and we hope you'll enjoy the track! ua-cam.com/video/v20kKBgK8Hg/v-deo.html
Hendrix used the first made units which were Vox. They never bothered to patent the circuit so many manufacturers used the very same one in their models. Dunlop technically can make that claim but it's misleading.
Roger Mayer would rip the insides out and put his own electrics in, so the casing was irrelevant really. I have my Roger Mayer adapted wah that he done for me in the 90s. Sounds amazing, no spare space inside, weighs a ton.
Hendrix was way ahead of his time even clapton said on an interview! Btw guys Our first track "inner dimensions" is out and we hope you'll enjoy the track! ua-cam.com/video/v20kKBgK8Hg/v-deo.html
Jimi Hendrix!!! I love his music. Still to this day more Hendrix facts and details of his playing as well as his gear surprises me how much their is to know of him. Definitely a Legend of the last decades. Great video too. Thank I learned alot.
I remember reading once, in a Guitar Player magazine "special issue" dedicated to Hendrix, that someone was talking about seeing Hendrix at the Cafe Wha in NYC--where Linda Keith brought Chas Chandler to see "Jimmy James & The Blue Flames"--and that he was doing everything we would see him do in England, but with a fuzz, a wah, and a Fender Twin (or something to that effect). That quote may have been from Chandler himself? I can't remember, but this history of Hendrix's effects makes one wonder, given his being a notable player on the NYC scene, that he might have had an early fuzz from Mike Matthews (EH) even back then? Anyway, thank you for this!
I got backstage and onstage before Hendrix played the Baltimore Civic Center in June 1970, and got to see his stage gear for that night, briefly. There was a Thomas Organ Vox wah with the Vox logo on the treadle face, a red Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, Octavia and UniVibe.
Jimi also owned a fuzz box called the Clark Fuzz Box , manufactured by Clark Mfg.of Clark, N.J. This company also manufactured amp cabinets for Ampeg, which was located in Linden, the next town over. Between 1967-1969, Clark built and marketed their own line of p. a. column speakers, in addition to the Clark Fuzz Box, which came in a shinny chrome plated box, sporting 2 controls ( Vol. and Fuzz) with conventional ft. switch activation. The circuit is based on a hybird of the Maestro Fuzztone, and the Mosrite Fuzzrite. The Clark Fuzz Box produced a harsh, raunchy tone, common for that period. When Hendrix purchased the unit from Mannys in N.Y.C., Clark got a phone call from Henry, the owner of Mannys, verifying the purchase. Not sure when, or where Hendrix used it.
Thank you for your insight on this historical phenomena of electronic events! I ask everyone in the know for a piece information that no one has yet to confirm about Jimi Hendrix. On the Electric Ladyland album, there's a song performed called House Is Burning. They asked Jimi to create the sound of a panther on his guitar during this song. I would love to know the effects he used to achieve this sound. It sounds like he used 2 tracer echos, each at different speeds, and maybe a phase shifter, of course along with distortion. The phase shifter has so much depth in its sweep, that the sound actually dives in and out of existence. The texture of the distortion is more of a jagged edge and seems to lend to the effect of the phase shifter, making a very dynamic sound. This is especially noticeable in the end solo, which is only about 15 seconds long and performed after the song stops. I know that sometimes Jimi created phase shifting and or flanging by using 2 recorders with the same track and phasing them against each other by slightly changing the speed of 1 of them, making a natural sweep. It may have even been more prominent than any electronic pedal ever devised for the same effect. I tried to contact Eddie Kramer, who you all know was Jimi's studio engineer but got no response back. I'm sure he's probably inundated with a lot of fan questions and my question probably got buried. I am still in search of the ingredients of that sound. If anyone can shed some light, I would be heartfully appreciated! Thanks for reading and thanks again for this video! Will Williams Suprawill1@yahoo.com
It's really not the tools ,but the craftsman that uses the tools that amaze. JIMI was a mad student of these gadgets - and constantly worked with them until they were mastered by him in his art of guitar playing. .Cuts like PURPLE HAZE,EXP,and MIDNIGHT are masterpieces of his guitar skills. What amazed me about all this was he could not read music.
That's the thing. You can't read music. You hear it in your head. It comes from your soul and you play it. You listen to music. You don't read it. You can read notes on a piece of paper though.
In 1970 I saw a picture of Jimi trying out a EMS Synthi Hi-Fli prototype unit, (aka The Sound Freak). It looked about the size of the Uni-Vib, & was mounted hip high on a stand, with 2 rocker foot pedals on either side of the stand. This product was released to the public the next year. David Gilmore acquired one on 1972.
I was pretty lucky,I was able to contact Roger Mayer personally. He made me an Octavia. I just recently found the money order I purchased it with. Great video,great history. Thanks.
So funny to hear of the most influential guitar player of all time using the CHEAPEST fuzz he could find! Nowadays everyone thinks you have to have a $40,000 rig to even BEGIN to sound like Jimi. Gotta have a Custom Shop Strat made by John Cruz on his best day. Gotta have a perfectly vintage Marshall handwired by angels. Gotta have a super expensive "boutique" fuzz pedal. Gotta have a super vintage Vox wah powered by literal Energizer Bunnies running around inside it. Ya know just the basics...
it just pisses me off how everyone is obsessed with gear instead of the actual music. If you wanna sound like jimi chances are the gear is not what's holding you back.
Same with those Dumble amps, and even those expensive Soldano SLO amps. I’ve used a basic Vox, my Fuzz Face, and a Uni-Vibe fir quite a long time now. What’s cool now is that there are other modulation and time based effects that can get close to some of the album effects. I can put together a killer Hendrix setup for well less than $1500, and that’s if you want a half decent tube amp. I played a $200 solid state when I was learning and people always thought it was a tube. Fender Stage 100. I would recommend it to any beginner.
btm wtfb No doubt. I love to play Hendrix and Gilmour stuff, but I always put my own spin on it. Learning how they got their tones, helped me figure out what worked and didn’t, then I developed my own sound.
@@CorbCorbin Man I know exactly what you mean. When you're a kid you want to sound EXACTLY like them but as you grow you begin to realize it's impossible and even if it WERE possible you would sacrifice "yourself" at the altar of "them". That's what I think about a lot of the SRV wannabe players on youtube is that they can do the "STEVIE THING" very, VERY, well BUT I don't hear "them". I much prefer a guy that I can tell is "influenced" by Stevie and Jimi and Clapton than a guy that just is a carbon copy of both. I can listen to Josh Smith play all day because I can hear Jimi and Stevie there but I can also hear Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian there and when it's all said and done it's actually "Josh Smith" that I'm hearing. The main problem players face these days is never being able to distinguish between "influence" and "identity". When you wear your influence so much on your sleeve you sacrifice your own identity. Kenny Wayne Shepherd I feel does that. However, John Mayer who is EQUALLY influenced by the same players has a MUCH more distinctive sound because his playing is much more diverse. I don't care what gear you use. If you're only gonna play some other guy's licks what's the point?
First effect I bought in '78 was the Big Muff Pi because of that ad (discussed at 13:37) claiming Jimi used it. Only took 43 years to learn the truth. Thanks!
Actually you still haven't learned ALL the truth ...in 1969 Dave Weyer modded his 100 watt heads to accept RCA 6550 tubes and the preamp section to be cleaner at high level with more definition with the use of 12AT7 preamp tubes ( like fender preamps which Jimi very much liked ) ..... and within his wedge Octavio box at Fillmore east there wasn't any distortion circuit , just the octave doubling transformer and diodes arrangement and a 9v battery , the evolving distortion was in the fuzz box with a 9V battery too , which makes the whole Octavio unit (albeit separated in two box ) a 18V unit , Mayer did that at the time in case someone had stolen the white wedge , they would have had only the transformer and diodes and would have been puzzled , also because having 18v effects on stage at the time was a bit hard without separated boxes ...which is why putting a regular fuzz face in front of an dunlop Octavio or a tycobrahe octavia is totally not the right setup for Fillmore sounds because it's intrinsiquely a two gain stages setup , the gain section of the fuzz face PLUS the gain section of the Octavio.tycho, and not of the right configuration circuitry wise , no one seems to be able to find the right tone for that concert , the REAL configuration is just ONE gain section which is the dunlop band of gypsies/mayer axis , and the octave doubling section .....For that you need a big ass Marshall 100w with a tweaked towards fender configuation preamp , with RCA6550 tubes ...and a 18v Octavio unit with more of an a axis fuzz distortion section ( which is what the fuzz the dunlop band of gypsies replicates ) inside , with the transformer and germanium diodes inside .
I had a Thomas organ wah pedal circuit in my early crybaby that my old friend passed down to me, it had a stack of dimes in it. The board had all huge resistors and antique capacitors in it. I modded it with true bypass and vocal mod, and expanded range. The board had Thomas organ company stamped on it. Was the best sounding wah I ever heard. Better than a Vox even, and yes through some unfortunate things it got separated from me, and today it's worth a pile of money because it was one of the ones that was both Thomas organ and hybrid Dunlop
When I was in high school…1971…I built a fuzz unit that drove a DTL flip flop (Signetics LU322) and used it with my Farfisa organ for some really weird sounds.
Amazing to me the variety and abundance of pedals and effects that were used, not just by Jimi but everybody who was playing back then on a professional level. As a kid from upstate NY I had no idea at that time, why my electric guitars never made the sounds I heard on records. I thought I was doing something wrong or overlooking something on my store bought equipment. All this info from a variety of guitarists at this time has me inspired to keep on playing and keep messing around with my own sound.
The only thing wrong with it was how it didn't go in depth about how Jimi got his tone on Little Wing by using a Line 6 Spider and a Boss Metal Zone with a Miku but very people know about that.
Fascinatingly detailed. My first electronic project was a "crystal set" which featured a Germanium diode, rather than an actual crystal. The main impression I get is that Jimi was always interested in experimenting with different sounds. He will always be the top guitarist in my book, but I can't resist saying that Paco de Lucia is up there as well.
This video is a nice reminder that that really illustrates that whatever it was that you like about Jimi's playing or sound at any given moment was really just more of a snapshot of what he was doing at that moment because he was always sort of relentlessly searching and if you're truly inspired by him enough to want to be like him, you have to be completely yourself and follow your individual inspiration. That being said, I'd be interested to know what song he's playing with that Les Paul Jr. at around 10:13. lol
“Uni-Vibe” on display at the museum is from Shin-ei and is a product since 1974. Jimi was using the early Honey company. Honey went bankrupt in 1969. Only the pedal is the initial one. The rubber will be one piece in the latter term. THX.
The early Uni-Vibe logo is a thin cursive script. The latter term “Uni-Vibe” is a thick cursive script. The initial product has a “JAPAN” decal on the back cover. The latter product is a round stamp. If the stamp number is printed as s48, it is “Shou-wa48th”. “Shou-wa48th” means 1973.
First wide spread exposure of the Maestro Fuzz Tone to the general music public (in- cluding musicians) was in 1965, with Satisfaction. It had been used before but was initially thought to be a bass effect, also to simulate the sound of a horn. Jeff Beck was also using some sort of fuzz with the Yardbirds, most likely that Tone Bender.
Thanks for this... I've just picked my geetar up after a while and I was looking for pedals. Much obliged. My hero Hendrix... first time I watched him was when i was 16 and I bought the monetary pop festival lol
Thanks for a great video. Now I'm gonna hafta come back, note part numbers and try to find data sheets on all those transistors. I got into electronics in my 30s after spending 15 years playing guitar--trying to become a star, you know, like all my heros. By then it was the 80s and op-amps and analog/digital delay ICs were all the rage, so I followed that path into recording studios--tape machines and consoles. Never messed with fuzz tones or wawas. My last rig was a Marshall plexi and a Yamaha SPX900 multi-effects--plenty of sounds. Looking forward to your next videos and maybe some transistor debates.
The Fuzz Face circuit is not only the same typology as the so-called ''mk. 1.5'' tonebender but also the Vox 'Distortion Booster' (a plug in device). It is hotly debated which of the three came out first.
I have one of the vox. Plug in distortion boosters, I bought in the early sixties, for 5 guineas sterling, also a sixties Marshall supra fuzz. The vox has a slide on/off switch which used to make a loud thump when activated with the volume up. ,!,, never used it much.? Many thanks for the informative vids....
Brian May (Queen) had one of these Distortion Boosters built into his guitar. He played a Version of Purple Haze with his band “1984“ as a (kind of) opening act for a Hendrix show at Imperial College London in 1967. There are rumors that Jimi came down in the middle of 1984s set and stood in the back and listened a while. www.loudersound.com/features/brian-may-i-paid-a-thousand-pounds-for-jimi-hendrix
Just to add to your "History", Jimi said (and right now, I can't remember exactly where I saw this, but I know I saw it) that he used a 'Hand wah' only during the 1st solo of "I Don't Live Today" on the Are You Experienced album. He didn't make it "WAH", he only used it to change the tone of his lead. Now I do remember that Vox used to make a 'Palm' wah and had them on many of their guitars in the later sixties. The Palm Wah looked like a chrome triangle piece, between the bridge and tailpiece, that I believe could be spun around so you could use the palm of your hand to push down (and possibly a spring made it return). This was at a time when Vox would build Fuzz and Wah into certain guitars. The hand wah, Jimi spoke of, I believe was something "experimental" they got a hold of during the recording of Are You Experienced. The palm wah, Vox built into guitars along with Fuzz, if I remember correctly, would've been 1968 & 69. Check out Vox facebook page for pics... but I didn't see any written descriptions. I did see the triangular chrome hand wahs on a few of the pics at this facebook page called 'Vintage Vox Guitars of the 1960s' You'll have to go down a ways before you see any. I've never seen a pic of the 'Hand Wah' Jimi spoke of. I also wouldn't be surprised if Vox built it.
Great presentation, very interesting, it always amazes me where you guys get all your Jimi Hendrix knowledge from. :-) well done! Jimi was a very complicated performer, constantly working on his sound and techniques.
About the Maestro Fuzztone: Keith used it on Satisfaction, which was the first time the general public (musical and otherwise) became aware of it. That was Summer, 1965. I had one of the original units, bought new in 1966. The Vox Tone Bender was used by Jeff Beck and other Brit rockers by 1965, possibly ‘64. I think the Maestro (Seinfeld reference here!) had been used previous to 1965 but not generally known about.
Fascinating video - thanks for sharing. I understand (from several Chicago documentaries) that Chicago opened for Jimi Hendrix on at least one tour. Given their mutual admiration for each other, I wonder if Terry Kath's live set up (wah, and overdriven pre-amp) was ever tried by Jimi? I am pretty sure Terry Kath used a fuzz as well for one or two tunes on the original Chicago Transit Authority recording (1969), which would overlapped in time. In any event, I'm sure the two of them shared some lively and interesting discussions regarding pedals and sound. Would have loved to have been a fly on that wall.
It has taken me some time to see this one my friend. If Jimi had a lock down nut for that trembolo bar he love to use and was truly be the first guitar player to dive bomb. Freaking out everyone s minds . Today with a boss processor effect imagine how full the sound would be with chorus and even a flanger Pagey used so well. I've seen comments from ,80,s guitarist really being classless for saying that Jimi needed to tune his guitar. Where are those shreaders now ? Sittin wishing they had Jimi,s heritage.
ce hayes I have two Roger Mayer Octavia pedals, one signed by RM. They both have serious flaws which make them difficult to use. The ones I have are shaped like a ship from Star Trek, and use a silent push button that activates an electronic switch which unfortunately does not provide perfect switching. When ‘off’, the effect still bleeds through at a low level. They sound great though, and can be used with relay switchers.
I think the Uni Vibe wasn’t made to replicate a Leslie. The story goes the Japanese designer was tuning his radio one day and accidentally tuned into radio Moscow. However since the radio waves had been reflected of the atmosphere to arrive at Japan it produced that strange sound which he made the pedal to replicate.
The photo of Cream at 7:25 was taken at the Farewell Concert at Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta, GA in 1968. I was there and made a lot of photos. This wasn't one of mine, however.
Thanks',really enjoyed this well-researched video! I've seen a lot of "Jimi" pictures' and always' try to spot pedals'! Thanks' for the "Roger-Mayer" information. I had only heard a limited amount of what he had talked about,as to modifications on the fuzz! He usually just said that he "tweaked" the pedals',with no more information about tweaks'!
Thanks- the wah explanation is helping me with a pedal I have from that era- it looks exactly like the King Vox - at 7:50 the pedal shows is exactly the same casing, footboard and decal on the back- and later a shot of the electronics looks like it BUT mine has only Cry Baby written on the front and JEN Italy on the bottom plate- it was bought about 1971 from a guitarist who claimed it was "the Hendrix pedal" - I still use it but really never knew what it was- I might be a bit closer now.
Never had I considered how much Jimi might have used and experimented with more modern effects had he lived past 1969. I suppose I had always felt he made such incredible music with simple effects at hand id be happy just listening to him forever on an accoustic.
I have a Roger Mayer Octavia autographed model I bought at a pawn shop in Phoenix a long time ago. I once bought a Colorsound "Faze Four" at a flea market for $2.00! Sold it a few years later and wish I didn't! It had a beautiful sound, just like the solo in Black Sabbath's "Am I going insane".
Hang on to that gem!! Shin-Ei Uni Vibes can be found on Reverb, price ranges from $1,800-$3,500 depending on condition.. The name Shin-Ei was sold to some cats down in Texas and they're currently making several types.. Shin Ei Vibe Bro is the name of them and they've just came out with a smaller version and they have a rack mount as well.. They're very clean sounding with modern amenities, true by pass switching, cleaner floor for less noise, input jacks are state of the art.. About four years ago had the opportunity to score a ShinEi UniVibe.. Long story short, after some weeks of research decided to go with the Unique-Vibe.. It's the one for the original sound and this one I have "NAILS IT DOWN!!" It's an exact replica to the chip board, Jim Klacik is the builders name.. Some of the components have been outlawed by the EPA because of toxicity elements.. Jim has the enclosures made to the exact specs to the original and even the vents are there.. He makes a smaller version as well called The Shiftee.. Been wanting to try out the Shin-Ei Vibe Bro because of the modern updates and the cleaner floor.. I think the Uni-Vibe is the most unique sounding pedals ever made.. The chordal melodies, sliding fourths, note embellishments sound so beautiful, the textures are amazing.. FoxRox does a take on the Uni Vibe as well, Aqua Vibe?? Think that's the name.. Nothing like the real thing though.. Jim Klacik is on Facebook and under the name Unique Vibe.. Peace!!
Great again!! Not a Fuzz guy after my Red Script Big Muff but have had a few wha's (more Distortion +, Bad Monkey...). What really brings me here is The UniVibe. Bought a colored knob Peavey Mace from '81 a year later and the phaser was marketed as bringing 720 degrees. More UFO and Y&T then so though I loved Jimi and Trower I rarely used that. Not as much hype as I thought (jeez, I miss that amp).
I used the fuzzface and crybaby in the 70s on tour. The fuzzface had one inherent problem in that when you operated the pots with your foot it punched them through breaking them. The crybaby was good and pretty strong but I was given a German plastic wah which was better but also too breakable. Long time ago...where at we at now? I haven't played much since then but still have my battered Jaguar. Jimi was our life in so many ways.
Great vid, well researched. I used to have a Solar Sound Tone bender in my Punk band in the early 80s, no idea what happened to it....someone's going to tell me now it's worth a million quid!
great vid. i'd really be interested to see a similar vid about TONY IOMMI's effects history. aside from LANEY amps and a treble booster in the real early days not much is known about it.
Just bought a couple of fuzzface clones, a silicon & germanium & also one of those plasma pedals by gamechanger audio. That was expensive but I had to treat myself for my birthday last month. Gonna get a pro co rat clone tomorrow. I love a bit of dirt. Lol. Filthy! Cheers Ramon man. Your passion for this stuff really shines. Great stuff. Great channel. Keep it up mate. ;)
2nd time i watched this, nice research. Btw youtube changed their vids to reset at 3 months so you have to rewatch all the vids you've seen previously but they clear they're memory of each channels history at 3 months instead of a year like they used to
Back @Stuyvesant High School, a fellow long hair student who had what I call a hashish-laugh, brought in Jimi's White Strat, opened the case and let me touch it! Those were the days...
I got pedals and guitars autographed by my friend Jimi that will be getting auctioned off. Including 100 1969 autographed Marshall amps. Signed King Of Classic Rock.
I once read an article in a guitar magazine where it mentioned the concept of the wah wah dating way back to the BIG BAND era where various trumpet players used a cup on the end which they opened and closed to raise or lower the pitch.
I wish I could have seen him at Woodstock I was just born 69 that is so kool you got to see jimi I study every thing I can about him he was shy humble and very polite every rockstar including Paul McCartney said jimi was from another planet he had such a vibe about him every body wanted to be near him at a club I still can’t believe Chas Chandler had to take him to England. To make it big I think it was because over here. They knew he was great they were scared shit of him thank god linda kieth took cas to cafe wa off Bleecker Street in Manhattan every body he worked for fired him because he was better then them Little Richard king Curtis and others and they always hired him back Jimi truly is the Best
Everyone born between 1958 and 1978 needs to watch this.
Anyone still alive and not born yet should.
@@Agt.Orange 😅👍
There was a girl in my high school daze they called "Big Muff". Now you know.
‘77 mate Hendrix little wing was the first hard song I learned
Born in '57. Still in :)
no unnecessary intros, background music or anything that's distracting. keep on doing these videos like that, it's refreshing.
Here here!
Thanks!
yep, so nice to see a vid without the irritating preamble
Agree!!!
Love it
... and over 50 years later nobody can sound like Jimi even with all the advances in technology. To me this means his sound came through him. The technology just amplified it. Jimi was a sonic magician. A true vibrational artist mixing spirit and soul. Fusing form and ethereal whispers of cosmic dust. Colourful, tasteful and as much an expression of pain as well as ecstasy.
Well said!!!
@@barbrazavalasolimano I have heard him play a little bit through UA-cam etc. He is an excellent impersonator of Jimi.
@@barbrazavalasolimano I think the only other guitarist I have ever heard that had the same kind of passion and intensity in his playing was Stevie Ray Vaughan and he did an excellent "Jimi". Another brilliant guitarist in the same vein as Jimi is Isaiah Mitchell from Earthless. Check him and them out. Psychedelic blues rock to the max!
It makes me think of early blues musicians like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson - they were probably genius level IQ
Yes they can I seen plenty of people do it lol
A true Hendrix fan has to wonder how he would sound today had he lived with the vast array of digital electronics and modern recording studios. The music he would have created would have been even more mind blowing. He was so far ahead of his time, I can imagine how crazy he would have gone with all the great tools of today.
You are right, I have wondered the same thing for years
or he could have switched to piano aping mozart
Right on, this point overwhelms me! We will never know what Jimi would've unlocked, given more time to develop... and consider how he would feel about us... hopeless Hendrix fans, analysing his every move, like the kind of leads he used, or his preferred pick-up height, etc... I'm sure he's laughing at us all, but also saying, "move on, wake up man!" It's a sad story, we who are left to wonder... FACT: we'll never know !!!
flanged? Sound today isnt natural to much programmed affects
I feel like his sound comes from the fact that his effects were so dynamic and unpredictable and that adds so much character to the sounds. I don't think he would have settled and maybe he would branch into other effects but I obviously don't know him. Whatever would have happened would have been dynamic, always pushed to the edge
I was 15 when I watched him at Woodstock. I was 25 feet in front of him. It was one of the best days in my life. Jimi played his best on that day. Wow...
I'm jealous
I saw him live at the Baltimore Civic Center back in 68. One of the greatest concerts I ever attended.
@@hamburgerdan101 YEah ... what canuckguy worried said ... Belieber.
I watched him last night at woodstock on dvd he never ages
@@beatvampire Typical vampire's perspective. Well. The DVD ages and so does your player and the dark room you are sitting in and the electricity you used is contributing to the eventual heat death of the universe same as the cup of blood you had while watching. You may be immortal and near-indestructible but your existence is not CO2 neutral either. Stop making everything a question about time just because you can't die. We all have issues to deal with. I understand that it can be a lonely thing facing unlimited mondays but we all gotta just get on with whatever it is we have to get on with or even things that don't age can get old real fast.
When I was 20, I built a fuzz from a circuit in Electronics Australia magazine.
In hindsight, it was a simple single saturated transistor circuit but it worked quite well. As a first ever effort, I was quite pleased with myself. Made a lot of pedals since, but you always remember your first.
All I used as a kid was an American Stratocaster I saved up for at least 100 years to get...Ha ha, a 23 watt Panaramic tube amp with an 8" speaker and a Rat pedal. It was simple, but I miss that first real guitar rig. Even if it was arcane and simple.
calvin masters how to make a fuzz and echo box?
Lol agreed, my first build was a klon clone but it was part of a parts kit(basically it came with a pcb and all the lose components and practically zero instructions lol but I learned a lot figuring it out, I had been modding pedals and guitars awhile so I was confident I could have built it from scratch but the kit cost much less than I could have built it for at the time. Now I live right next to Mouser electronics and anytime I need components it's just a 20 minute drive to pick them up at mouser will call which means I get to save in shipping and don't have to wait to place orders until I have enough stuff to make it worthwhile). So I don't consider the klon my first build(cause it wasn't from scratch since I didn't make the pcb or source the parts myself) although it's still on my board and gets a ton of use. It sounds amazing with my Marshall DSL100HR. My first completly from scratch pedal was a Brian May style treble booster (slightly altered Dallas rangemaster). I did some research and found a transistor that works great in it since I wasn't thrilled with the 2N5088 or 2N4401 or any of the other NPN silicons I tried. The transistor that really made the T.B. come to life is a low noise MPSA18, silicon NPN transistor. That treble booster is still one of my favorite effects ever. I added an output level control that doesn't effect the gain or tone as much as rolling off the gain or my guitars volume pot. So I can get all the gain but dial it back if I'm on the mid setting or the bass/full range setting. A couple weeks ago I put that treble booster into a horizontal 125B+ enclosure with a germanium PNP fuzz face I used a TC1044Scps as a charge pump which is cheaper, more reliable and more efficient than a MAX1044 So it will run off the same 9vdc jack as the treble booster and all my other pedals. I have a few MAX1044 ic's but i always end up getting better/more consistent values with the TC1044SCPS. So now the treble booster is basucally part of an Analogman Sunlion but reversed. The Sunlion is a Sunface into Beano boost and mine is the opposite. A lot of guys who own the Sunlion prefer it as I do with the boost first for a more classic rock type vibe. In fact later versions of the Sunlion had 4 jacks so you could use a patch cable to reverse the effect order and have it either way. I'm still debating whether or not I should add 2 more jacks and rewire it so I can run the fuzz face first sometimes(It would be really tight in that 125B+ enclosure but i think if I drill my holes in just the right spots I could fit the extra 2 jacks). I'm sure I'll end up doing it when I run out of builds/mods to do. That's actually why I built the fuzz face to begin with. My last build was a harmonic tremolo and between the leftover parts from that and parts I salvaged I had almost everything to build the fuzz face other than the transistors so I built it initially with silicon 2N3906's i had already and used it like that until I got some more germaniums that didn't have too much leakage and had the right amount of gain. I ended up finding a pair of NTE102 PNP Germanium's that fit the bill. It sounds good but I'm going to try to get a hold of a few NTE102A'S which are slightly higher gain so I can have a lower gaIn Q1(NTE102, typical hFE around 90) and a higher gain Q2(NTE102A, typical hFE 200 hopefully between the few I get I'll find one that's a bit below 200 hFE). Anyways I'm rambling, I really liked your story about building your first pedal from a schematic you found in a magazine. I was born in early 1990 but by the time I started building all the resources were online. But I imagine if my first pedal had been from a schematic I was lucky enough to find in a magazine it would've been that much more special to me. Back then it would have been (and was) even more of an accomplishment due to fewer easily attainable resources for a beginner wanting to get into building.
Please send me one plz ..
Plzzz i want sound like a stairway to heaven solo
Dunlop has, for years, tried to make everyone believe his Wah of choice was a Cry Baby but I
don't believe it to be true. He may have used one as a substitute or to try one out but he liked
the Vox Wah. My college band opened for him in Maine (Lewiston Armory, March '68) and he
had the Vox into the Fuzz Face. He wasn't happy with his rig that night and kept switching Fuzz
Faces. We did get to meet and speak to him and the band. Very humble guy, no ego stuff,
but when he played - OMG. Life changing for me, as well as many other guitar players of my era.
larry geetar yeah everyone knows he used a vox, even though Dunlop has a Hendrix signature wah
Fake story
Wish hendrix was alive and playing ! Btw guys Our first track "inner dimensions" is out and we hope you'll enjoy the track!
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Hendrix used the first made units which were Vox. They never bothered to patent the circuit so many manufacturers used the very same one in their models. Dunlop technically can make that claim but it's misleading.
Roger Mayer would rip the insides out and put his own electrics in, so the casing was irrelevant really.
I have my Roger Mayer adapted wah that he done for me in the 90s.
Sounds amazing, no spare space inside, weighs a ton.
What a fantastic video, with clear factual researched information. Thank you.
Pleasure Nik
At 1:30 another legendary blues rock guitarist is pictured Rory Gallagher. Jimi was allegedly an admirer
He also saw King Crimson once and thought they were amazing. R Fripp told it in some video.
@@fkorekore265 YEAH !
I heard that Hendrix and Rory actually jammed together sometime in New York.
Hendrix was way ahead of his time even clapton said on an interview! Btw guys Our first track "inner dimensions" is out and we hope you'll enjoy the track!
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Hi Patrick! Much love from Poland, Rory is THE HERO in this part of the universe. Such a Good Man, and Musician.
Jimi Hendrix!!! I love his music. Still to this day more Hendrix facts and details of his playing as well as his gear surprises me how much their is to know of him. Definitely a Legend of the last decades. Great video too. Thank I learned alot.
Great work, so well documented, with a lot of photos I've never seen before, I learned a lot, Thanks .
Pleasure
love it, Jimi had perfect pitch, to turn a guitar upside down and play left handed, then quickly tune it and blow us all away !!
I remember reading once, in a Guitar Player magazine "special issue" dedicated to Hendrix, that someone was talking about seeing Hendrix at the Cafe Wha in NYC--where Linda Keith brought Chas Chandler to see "Jimmy James & The Blue Flames"--and that he was doing everything we would see him do in England, but with a fuzz, a wah, and a Fender Twin (or something to that effect). That quote may have been from Chandler himself? I can't remember, but this history of Hendrix's effects makes one wonder, given his being a notable player on the NYC scene, that he might have had an early fuzz from Mike Matthews (EH) even back then? Anyway, thank you for this!
I got backstage and onstage before Hendrix played the Baltimore Civic Center in June 1970, and got to see his stage gear for that night, briefly. There was a Thomas Organ Vox wah with the Vox logo on the treadle face, a red Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, Octavia and UniVibe.
Got pics from that?
@@MG-lb6nq Nah. I had a tiny Instamatic with me but it had auto flash and I didn't want kill the chill backstage
Impressive history for guitar and Hendrix lovers.
Best regards here from Brazil
Jimi also owned a fuzz box called the Clark Fuzz Box , manufactured by Clark Mfg.of Clark, N.J. This company also manufactured amp cabinets for Ampeg, which was located in Linden, the next town over. Between 1967-1969, Clark built and marketed their own line of p. a. column speakers, in addition to the Clark Fuzz Box, which came in a shinny chrome plated box, sporting 2 controls ( Vol. and Fuzz) with conventional ft. switch activation. The circuit is based on a hybird of the Maestro Fuzztone, and the Mosrite Fuzzrite. The Clark Fuzz Box produced a harsh, raunchy tone, common for that period. When Hendrix purchased the unit from Mannys in N.Y.C., Clark got a phone call from Henry, the owner of Mannys, verifying the purchase. Not sure when, or where Hendrix used it.
Thanks Rich for this info
Its possible he used the Clark Fuzz on Peace in Mississippi from the album Crash Landing.
Thank you for your insight on this historical phenomena of electronic events!
I ask everyone in the know for a piece information that no one has yet to confirm about Jimi Hendrix.
On the Electric Ladyland album, there's a song performed called House Is Burning. They asked Jimi to create the sound of a panther on his guitar during this song. I would love to know the effects he used to achieve this sound. It sounds like he used 2 tracer echos, each at different speeds, and maybe a phase shifter, of course along with distortion. The phase shifter has so much depth in its sweep, that the sound actually dives in and out of existence. The texture of the distortion is more of a jagged edge and seems to lend to the effect of the phase shifter, making a very dynamic sound. This is especially noticeable in the end solo, which is only about 15 seconds long and performed after the song stops.
I know that sometimes Jimi created phase shifting and or flanging by using 2 recorders with the same track and phasing them against each other by slightly changing the speed of 1 of them, making a natural sweep. It may have even been more prominent than any electronic pedal ever devised for the same effect.
I tried to contact Eddie Kramer, who you all know was Jimi's studio engineer but got no response back. I'm sure he's probably inundated with a lot of fan questions and my question probably got buried. I am still in search of the ingredients of that sound. If anyone can shed some light, I would be heartfully appreciated! Thanks for reading and thanks again for this video!
Will Williams
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Didnt know Hendrix was this particular with the pedals, and got them all modded and had favourites etc. Great informative video.
It's really not the tools ,but the craftsman that uses the tools that amaze. JIMI was a mad student of these gadgets - and constantly worked with them until they were mastered by him in his art of guitar playing. .Cuts like PURPLE HAZE,EXP,and MIDNIGHT are masterpieces of his guitar skills. What amazed me about all this was he could not read music.
That's the thing. You can't read music. You hear it in your head. It comes from your soul and you play it. You listen to music. You don't read it. You can read notes on a piece of paper though.
In 1970 I saw a picture of Jimi trying out a EMS Synthi Hi-Fli prototype unit, (aka The Sound Freak). It looked about the size of the Uni-Vib, & was mounted hip high on a stand, with 2 rocker foot pedals on either side of the stand.
This product was released to the public the next year. David Gilmore acquired one on 1972.
I was pretty lucky,I was able to contact Roger Mayer personally.
He made me an Octavia.
I just recently found the money order I purchased it with.
Great video,great history.
Thanks.
So funny to hear of the most influential guitar player of all time using the CHEAPEST fuzz he could find! Nowadays everyone thinks you have to have a $40,000 rig to even BEGIN to sound like Jimi. Gotta have a Custom Shop Strat made by John Cruz on his best day. Gotta have a perfectly vintage Marshall handwired by angels. Gotta have a super expensive "boutique" fuzz pedal. Gotta have a super vintage Vox wah powered by literal Energizer Bunnies running around inside it. Ya know just the basics...
it just pisses me off how everyone is obsessed with gear instead of the actual music. If you wanna sound like jimi chances are the gear is not what's holding you back.
Same with those Dumble amps, and even those expensive Soldano SLO amps. I’ve used a basic Vox, my Fuzz Face, and a Uni-Vibe fir quite a long time now. What’s cool now is that there are other modulation and time based effects that can get close to some of the album effects.
I can put together a killer Hendrix setup for well less than $1500, and that’s if you want a half decent tube amp. I played a $200 solid state when I was learning and people always thought it was a tube.
Fender Stage 100. I would recommend it to any beginner.
btm wtfb
No doubt. I love to play Hendrix and Gilmour stuff, but I always put my own spin on it. Learning how they got their tones, helped me figure out what worked and didn’t, then I developed my own sound.
@@CorbCorbin Man I know exactly what you mean. When you're a kid you want to sound EXACTLY like them but as you grow you begin to realize it's impossible and even if it WERE possible you would sacrifice "yourself" at the altar of "them". That's what I think about a lot of the SRV wannabe players on youtube is that they can do the "STEVIE THING" very, VERY, well BUT I don't hear "them". I much prefer a guy that I can tell is "influenced" by Stevie and Jimi and Clapton than a guy that just is a carbon copy of both. I can listen to Josh Smith play all day because I can hear Jimi and Stevie there but I can also hear Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian there and when it's all said and done it's actually "Josh Smith" that I'm hearing. The main problem players face these days is never being able to distinguish between "influence" and "identity". When you wear your influence so much on your sleeve you sacrifice your own identity. Kenny Wayne Shepherd I feel does that. However, John Mayer who is EQUALLY influenced by the same players has a MUCH more distinctive sound because his playing is much more diverse. I don't care what gear you use. If you're only gonna play some other guy's licks what's the point?
DuckTalesWooHoo1987
Well said.
Josh is a perfect example, and he’s always searching for more sounds and better ways to get them.
First effect I bought in '78 was the Big Muff Pi because of that ad (discussed at 13:37) claiming Jimi used it. Only took 43 years to learn the truth. Thanks!
Thanks lol
Actually you still haven't learned ALL the truth ...in 1969 Dave Weyer modded his 100 watt heads to accept RCA 6550 tubes and the preamp section to be cleaner at high level with more definition with the use of 12AT7 preamp tubes ( like fender preamps which Jimi very much liked ) ..... and within his wedge Octavio box at Fillmore east there wasn't any distortion circuit , just the octave doubling transformer and diodes arrangement and a 9v battery , the evolving distortion was in the fuzz box with a 9V battery too , which makes the whole Octavio unit (albeit separated in two box ) a 18V unit , Mayer did that at the time in case someone had stolen the white wedge , they would have had only the transformer and diodes and would have been puzzled , also because having 18v effects on stage at the time was a bit hard without separated boxes ...which is why putting a regular fuzz face in front of an dunlop Octavio or a tycobrahe octavia is totally not the right setup for Fillmore sounds because it's intrinsiquely a two gain stages setup , the gain section of the fuzz face PLUS the gain section of the Octavio.tycho, and not of the right configuration circuitry wise , no one seems to be able to find the right tone for that concert , the REAL configuration is just ONE gain section which is the dunlop band of gypsies/mayer axis , and the octave doubling section .....For that you need a big ass Marshall 100w with a tweaked towards fender configuation preamp , with RCA6550 tubes ...and a 18v Octavio unit with more of an a axis fuzz distortion section ( which is what the fuzz the dunlop band of gypsies replicates ) inside , with the transformer and germanium diodes inside .
@@benoitguillou3146 Orange Sunshine
Utterly brilliant video on sound effects. It’s the best I’ve ever seen. Just brilliant. Cheers man. Great work.
Glad you enjoyed it David, thanks.
I had a Thomas organ wah pedal circuit in my early crybaby that my old friend passed down to me, it had a stack of dimes in it. The board had all huge resistors and antique capacitors in it. I modded it with true bypass and vocal mod, and expanded range. The board had Thomas organ company stamped on it. Was the best sounding wah I ever heard. Better than a Vox even, and yes through some unfortunate things it got separated from me, and today it's worth a pile of money because it was one of the ones that was both Thomas organ and hybrid Dunlop
Stack of dimes inductor*
When I was in high school…1971…I built a fuzz unit that drove a DTL flip flop (Signetics LU322) and used it with my Farfisa organ for some really weird sounds.
thanks for the outstanding content
pleasure, thanks
I've watched this so many times. Thanks for doing this. Always entertaining@!
Pleasure Richard - that means a lot!
Amazing to me the variety and abundance of pedals and effects that were used, not just by Jimi but everybody who was playing back then on a professional level. As a kid from upstate NY I had no idea at that time, why my electric guitars never made the sounds I heard on records. I thought I was doing something wrong or overlooking something on my store bought equipment.
All this info from a variety of guitarists at this time has me inspired to keep on playing and keep messing around with my own sound.
No matter what year you where born if your into good music this is a must watch.
Thanks for uploading this. Great work.
Pleasure
The only thing wrong with it was how it didn't go in depth about how Jimi got his tone on Little Wing by using a Line 6 Spider and a Boss Metal Zone with a Miku but very people know about that.
Jimi's Voodoo Child wah ended up with SRV and used on SRV's cover of Voodoo Child. The story can be found in the biography Caught in the Crossfire.
Ahhh Stevies pedals are next!!
The original?..not sure I can believe that..maybe better for the author's sales.
@@TheGuitarShow please!!!
@@michaelsteven1090 it was Steve's brother who traded in a new wah for jimi's broken wah and some money
Fascinatingly detailed. My first electronic project was a "crystal set" which featured a Germanium diode, rather than an actual crystal. The main impression I get is that Jimi was always interested in experimenting with different sounds. He will always be the top guitarist in my book, but I can't resist saying that Paco de Lucia is up there as well.
Thanks yes Paco IS the mastet
Paco is one of the greatest ever. I saw Carlos Montoya once and he was terrific as well.
Rory Gallagher @ 1:32 Another of the greats!
Yes agreed
@@TheGuitarShow check out 'Band of Friends' with Marcel Scherpenzeel. Played with him in Amsterdam.
Love your show, I am a guitar player and use all the effects that Hendrix used. Great job, keep them coming!!
This video is a nice reminder that that really illustrates that whatever it was that you like about Jimi's playing or sound at any given moment was really just more of a snapshot of what he was doing at that moment because he was always sort of relentlessly searching and if you're truly inspired by him enough to want to be like him, you have to be completely yourself and follow your individual inspiration. That being said, I'd be interested to know what song he's playing with that Les Paul Jr. at around 10:13. lol
I believe he's doing that jazz song w all the instrumentation on South Saturn Delta.
Hugs! Thanks from Nuremberg! This was a really nice cut-thru and very helpful for me as lefthand player. Your voice rocks.
Many thanks indeed 🎸🙏
“Uni-Vibe” on display at the museum is from Shin-ei and is a product since 1974. Jimi was using the early Honey company. Honey went bankrupt in 1969. Only the pedal is the initial one. The rubber will be one piece in the latter term. THX.
The early Uni-Vibe logo is a thin cursive script. The latter term “Uni-Vibe” is a thick cursive script. The initial product has a “JAPAN” decal on the back cover. The latter product is a round stamp. If the stamp number is printed as s48, it is “Shou-wa48th”. “Shou-wa48th” means 1973.
@@JunDogGod thanks so much for the info
"The Fuzz Face was just £6". Just £6??? That was £1 more than my take-home pay in 1966!
Apparently thats so, thanks Robert.
Monthly or daily?? Bro
@@kiran-yz8io
Monthly of course
Fantastic and cracking such a history total respect to all the research and how you hunt such material ....salute bro
Thanks bro and lets grab that coffee in the next 7 days!
The Guitar Show let me know when and coffee ☕️ on me
The story goes that Jimi first used a wah wah at Frank Zappa's log cabin home studio. Zappa had referred to this in interviews.
First wide spread exposure of the Maestro Fuzz Tone to the general music public (in-
cluding musicians) was in 1965, with Satisfaction. It had been used before but was
initially thought to be a bass effect, also to simulate the sound of a horn. Jeff Beck
was also using some sort of fuzz with the Yardbirds, most likely that Tone Bender.
i heard it was in NYC, where Frank was playing lie and Jimi was in attendance.
Im an audio tech from 88 .omg , i wish all videos were this much bang for buck
Thanks for this... I've just picked my geetar up after a while and I was looking for pedals. Much obliged. My hero Hendrix... first time I watched him was when i was 16 and I bought the monetary pop festival lol
Pleasure David glad it helped 🙏
Thanks for a great video. Now I'm gonna hafta come back, note part numbers and try to find data sheets on all those transistors. I got into electronics in my 30s after spending 15 years playing guitar--trying to become a star, you know, like all my heros. By then it was the 80s and op-amps and analog/digital delay ICs were all the rage, so I followed that path into recording studios--tape machines and consoles. Never messed with fuzz tones or wawas. My last rig was a Marshall plexi and a Yamaha SPX900 multi-effects--plenty of sounds. Looking forward to your next videos and maybe some transistor debates.
The Fuzz Face circuit is not only the same typology as the so-called ''mk. 1.5'' tonebender but also the Vox 'Distortion Booster' (a plug in device). It is hotly debated which of the three came out first.
I have one of the vox. Plug in distortion boosters, I bought in the early sixties, for 5 guineas sterling, also a sixties Marshall supra fuzz. The vox has a slide on/off switch which used to make a loud thump when activated with the volume up. ,!,, never used it much.? Many thanks for the informative vids....
@@robertkibbler1564 i love the use of the word guineas shame we no longer use that term
Thanks Tommy
Brian May (Queen) had one of these Distortion Boosters built into his guitar. He played a Version of Purple Haze with his band “1984“ as a (kind of) opening act for a Hendrix show at Imperial College London in 1967. There are rumors that Jimi came down in the middle of 1984s set and stood in the back and listened a while.
www.loudersound.com/features/brian-may-i-paid-a-thousand-pounds-for-jimi-hendrix
@@robertkibbler1564 I had one too back then - bloody awful it was! Didn't last very long before it 'died'.
Cool video. Interesting deep dive on Hendrix's pedals. Never really thought about the various makes of pedals he had.
Pleasure
Awesome Video mate...there will never be another Jimi
Pleasure and so true
Great job on the research and showing the photos where you found the pedals and their chain.
Just to add to your "History", Jimi said (and right now, I can't remember exactly where I saw this, but I know I saw it) that he used a 'Hand wah' only during the 1st solo of "I Don't Live Today" on the Are You Experienced album. He didn't make it "WAH", he only used it to change the tone of his lead. Now I do remember that Vox used to make a 'Palm' wah and had them on many of their guitars in the later sixties. The Palm Wah looked like a chrome triangle piece, between the bridge and tailpiece, that I believe could be spun around so you could use the palm of your hand to push down (and possibly a spring made it return). This was at a time when Vox would build Fuzz and Wah into certain guitars. The hand wah, Jimi spoke of, I believe was something "experimental" they got a hold of during the recording of Are You Experienced. The palm wah, Vox built into guitars along with Fuzz, if I remember correctly, would've been 1968 & 69. Check out Vox facebook page for pics... but I didn't see any written descriptions. I did see the triangular chrome hand wahs on a few of the pics at this facebook page called 'Vintage Vox Guitars of the 1960s' You'll have to go down a ways before you see any. I've never seen a pic of the 'Hand Wah' Jimi spoke of. I also wouldn't be surprised if Vox built it.
Many thanks for this
Great presentation, very interesting, it always amazes me where you guys get all your Jimi Hendrix knowledge from. :-) well done! Jimi was a very complicated performer, constantly working on his sound and techniques.
Glad you enjoyed it!
About the Maestro Fuzztone: Keith used it on Satisfaction, which was the first time the general public (musical
and otherwise) became aware of it. That was Summer, 1965. I had one of the original units, bought new in 1966.
The Vox Tone Bender was used by Jeff Beck and other Brit rockers by 1965, possibly ‘64. I think the Maestro
(Seinfeld reference here!) had been used previous to 1965 but not generally known about.
Thanks Larry
Amazing. I love the way you're making videos.
Fascinating video - thanks for sharing. I understand (from several Chicago documentaries) that Chicago opened for Jimi Hendrix on at least one tour. Given their mutual admiration for each other, I wonder if Terry Kath's live set up (wah, and overdriven pre-amp) was ever tried by Jimi? I am pretty sure Terry Kath used a fuzz as well for one or two tunes on the original Chicago Transit Authority recording (1969), which would overlapped in time. In any event, I'm sure the two of them shared some lively and interesting discussions regarding pedals and sound. Would have loved to have been a fly on that wall.
It has taken me some time to see this one my friend. If Jimi had a lock down nut for that trembolo bar he love to use and was truly be the first guitar player to dive bomb. Freaking out everyone s minds . Today with a boss processor effect imagine how full the sound would be with chorus and even a flanger Pagey used so well. I've seen comments from ,80,s guitarist really being classless for saying that Jimi needed to tune his guitar. Where are those shreaders now ? Sittin wishing they had Jimi,s heritage.
Thanks for this Scott interesting!
I’ve always like the Octavia Pedals & Erine Isley used them as well 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 !!!
I love the Isley brothers and also Maggot Brain by Eddie Hazel
The Guitar Show Well that makes both of us 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 !!!
@@TheGuitarShow I Betcha.
ce hayes yes , Roger mayer also worked with the isley brothers ( he had a gold record from them on his wall).✨
ce hayes I have two Roger Mayer Octavia pedals, one signed by RM. They both have serious flaws which make them difficult to use. The ones I have are shaped like a ship from Star Trek, and use a silent push button that activates an electronic switch which unfortunately does not provide perfect switching. When ‘off’, the effect still bleeds through at a low level. They sound great though, and can be used with relay switchers.
Stevie Ray Vaughan had one if his wah pedals and i think its now in a vault somewhere in texas with the rest of his gear
I think the Uni Vibe wasn’t made to replicate a Leslie. The story goes the Japanese designer was tuning his radio one day and accidentally tuned into radio Moscow. However since the radio waves had been reflected of the atmosphere to arrive at Japan it produced that strange sound which he made the pedal to replicate.
Thanks for this!
This is a major turning point in Rock and Roll
I agree
I have an old original uni-vibe, the same as Jimi used. They sounded beautiful, I have not used it for many years, hope it still works.
Very nicr you are lucky
Honey 1968 univibe ❤
Thank you. Would of been fantastic to of heard these pedals as well as seeing them.
What a gift this post is. Thank you sir
Oh yeah, thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures and knowledge. So cool
I appreciate your work. You are always so thorough and you get it right. I can't think of anything else he used. Great work keep it up!
The photo of Cream at 7:25 was taken at the Farewell Concert at Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta, GA in 1968. I was there and made a lot of photos. This wasn't one of mine, however.
Thanks for this Mark
I noticed his Firebird and flashed to 1968 tour👌
It would have been cool to have some audio examples of the pedals you are talking about.
Thanks',really enjoyed this well-researched video!
I've seen a lot of "Jimi" pictures' and always' try to spot pedals'!
Thanks' for the "Roger-Mayer" information.
I had only heard a limited amount of what he had talked
about,as to modifications on the fuzz!
He usually just said that he "tweaked" the pedals',with no more information about tweaks'!
Thanks Charles yes Mayer is always somewhat vague you wont believe the amount of interviews i read from him.
That was a great video. Lots of fascinating details. Thanks for creating that.
Many thanks 🙏
Good vid. The Octavia is all over the Band of Gypsies album and as a kid it was ages before I knew what that sound was, no internet in 1973.
Brilliant! Never noticed the Maestro in the background in the Curtis Knight photo before.
Thanks
Thanks- the wah explanation is helping me with a pedal I have from that era- it looks exactly like the King Vox - at 7:50 the pedal shows is exactly the same casing, footboard and decal on the back- and later a shot of the electronics looks like it BUT mine has only Cry Baby written on the front and JEN Italy on the bottom plate- it was bought about 1971 from a guitarist who claimed it was "the Hendrix pedal" - I still use it but really never knew what it was- I might be a bit closer now.
Good job, thumbs up!
Never had I considered how much Jimi might have used and experimented with more modern effects had he lived past 1969. I suppose I had always felt he made such incredible music with simple effects at hand id be happy just listening to him forever on an accoustic.
NEWS FLASH.... Jimmi died September 1970
Especially delays.
That was a very generous video, thank you!
Thanks for this very interesting and well informed post!
I have a Roger Mayer Octavia autographed model I bought at a pawn shop in Phoenix a long time ago. I once bought a Colorsound "Faze Four" at a flea market for $2.00! Sold it a few years later and wish I didn't! It had a beautiful sound, just like the solo in Black Sabbath's "Am I going insane".
I own a univox univibe, nothing sounds like it. I bought it for 400 bucks 25 years ago
Amazing you are one lucky guy!
$400 25 years ago?! That's expensive man! Wow. As long as you love it that's what counts. Don't ever get rid of it. ;)
Dave Kiddie...yeah...they're like $1500 now!!! I have that Dunlop Univibe....it's decent but nothing like the original!
@@kelvendyson1508 3 to 5000
Hang on to that gem!! Shin-Ei Uni Vibes can be found on Reverb, price ranges from $1,800-$3,500 depending on condition.. The name Shin-Ei was sold to some cats down in Texas and they're currently making several types.. Shin Ei Vibe Bro is the name of them and they've just came out with a smaller version and they have a rack mount as well.. They're very clean sounding with modern amenities, true by pass switching, cleaner floor for less noise, input jacks are state of the art.. About four years ago had the opportunity to score a ShinEi UniVibe.. Long story short, after some weeks of research decided to go with the Unique-Vibe.. It's the one for the original sound and this one I have "NAILS IT DOWN!!" It's an exact replica to the chip board, Jim Klacik is the builders name.. Some of the components have been outlawed by the EPA because of toxicity elements.. Jim has the enclosures made to the exact specs to the original and even the vents are there.. He makes a smaller version as well called The Shiftee.. Been wanting to try out the Shin-Ei Vibe Bro because of the modern updates and the cleaner floor.. I think the Uni-Vibe is the most unique sounding pedals ever made.. The chordal melodies, sliding fourths, note embellishments sound so beautiful, the textures are amazing.. FoxRox does a take on the Uni Vibe as well, Aqua Vibe?? Think that's the name.. Nothing like the real thing though.. Jim Klacik is on Facebook and under the name Unique Vibe.. Peace!!
Great again!! Not a Fuzz guy after my Red Script Big Muff but have had a few wha's (more Distortion +, Bad Monkey...).
What really brings me here is The UniVibe. Bought a colored knob Peavey Mace from '81 a year later and the phaser was marketed as bringing 720 degrees. More UFO and Y&T then so though I loved Jimi and Trower I rarely used that.
Not as much hype as I thought (jeez, I miss that amp).
awesome research work
Pleasure
Fantastic video. Now you know.
Thanks Stephan!
As an electrical engineer in college I had fun taking analog circuits class and building stuff like this.
So cool Robert.
This was awesome! I love the old pedals!
Pleasure Criss
I used the fuzzface and crybaby in the 70s on tour. The fuzzface had one inherent problem in that when you operated the pots with your foot it punched them through breaking them. The crybaby was good and pretty strong but I was given a German plastic wah which was better but also too breakable. Long time ago...where at we at now? I haven't played much since then but still have my battered Jaguar. Jimi was our life in so many ways.
Great vid, well researched. I used to have a Solar Sound Tone bender in my Punk band in the early 80s, no idea what happened to it....someone's going to tell me now it's worth a million quid!
great vid. i'd really be interested to see a similar vid about TONY IOMMI's effects history. aside from LANEY amps and a treble booster in the real early days not much is known about it.
I was about to do a Tony Iommi video but I saw 5 Watt world got there before me - so good call about the pedals
@@TheGuitarShow other ppl. have done HENDRIX too doesn't mean you can't still do IOMMI would be awesome
1:32 My main man for blues,Rory Gallagher. A fan since ‘73 and miss his presence since he passed.
Superb work again Ramon . Cheers 😉👌
Pleasure Shaun glad you enjoyed it
It would be great to hear a snippet of what each pedal sounded like!
Just bought a couple of fuzzface clones, a silicon & germanium & also one of those plasma pedals by gamechanger audio. That was expensive but I had to treat myself for my birthday last month. Gonna get a pro co rat clone tomorrow. I love a bit of dirt. Lol. Filthy! Cheers Ramon man. Your passion for this stuff really shines. Great stuff. Great channel. Keep it up mate. ;)
Pleasure is mine and great to hear of your recent acquisitions
Thank you so much for sharing, incredibly interesting to listen to. Subbed.
Great job on the narration
Wwoww This is the Greatest Show on Planet Earth 🌏 🎸🔊🎶🎶🎶
2nd time i watched this, nice research. Btw youtube changed their vids to reset at 3 months so you have to rewatch all the vids you've seen previously but they clear they're memory of each channels history at 3 months instead of a year like they used to
this video is great! thank you so much for sharing!
Pleasure
Back @Stuyvesant High School, a fellow long hair student who had what I call a hashish-laugh, brought in Jimi's White Strat, opened the case and let me touch it! Those were the days...
as a builder of guitar fx too this is a cool vid......nice one.
Thanks Ill check out your pedals!
Bro...thank you!
I got pedals and guitars autographed by my friend Jimi that will be getting auctioned off. Including 100 1969 autographed Marshall amps. Signed King Of Classic Rock.
I once read an article in a guitar magazine where it mentioned the concept of the wah wah dating way back to the BIG BAND era where various trumpet players used a cup on the end which they opened and closed to raise or lower the pitch.
Yes this is true
Jimis best effect was his fingers... Damn no one ever matched his tone...
You don’t have to be a good guitarist to get a good tone
@@ayericky4903 Distinct Tone bum
I wish I could have seen him at Woodstock I was just born 69 that is so kool you got to see jimi I study every thing I can about him he was shy humble and very polite every rockstar including Paul McCartney said jimi was from another planet he had such a vibe about him every body wanted to be near him at a club I still can’t believe Chas Chandler had to take him to England. To make it big I think it was because over here. They knew he was great they were scared shit of him thank god linda kieth took cas to cafe wa off Bleecker Street in Manhattan every body he worked for fired him because he was better then them Little Richard king Curtis and others and they always hired him back Jimi truly is the Best
Great comment, thanks