I used to have this with my old board. I picked up a russian station. This was early 80ies in the Netherlands. It was annoying and cool all at once. Never figured out what caused it. I suspected a power supply/grounding issue.
Lol. I have the same pedal. Actually… I have two of them and only one of them does this. It only picks up the radio when amp on, pedal on, and I touch the metal parts of the pedal directly. I ‘fixed’ it by putting barriers (cloth, tape, etc) on the enclosure areas that I usually touch and by putting a little thin silicone booger thingy on the switch flat surface. Barefoot buttons would work too if not metal on metal. Funny thing is: of the two identical fuzz pedals, only one had this problem… and that one happened to be the best sounding fuzz of the two. Go figure. Update: what actually fixed this was changing the power supply. I was using a 1spot when I started picking up radio. Changed to a different single power supply and could barely hear the radio any more. I’m thinking it’s a power supply and/or patch cable issue.
My bass pedalboard started picking up radio too. It’s only a boss tuner, boss eq, a direct box and a compressor. It’s strange because it took years for it to start up doing it.
One of the guys i jam with has that problem. We unplugged everything started experimenting and found the pedalboard power supply was the source. The fuzz was just amplifying the signal. We were able to get the radio station with only the boss tuner plugged in if we cranked the gain on the amp. We could even get it with the pedal board unplugged from the wall but it would disappear as soon as we disconnected the tuner from the power supply.
Hey Tim, I'm actually looking to design a pedal that actually has this radio effect. I got the idea from jimi hendrix playing live and radio signals cutting into his playing. Have you heard any more about how to get this sound?
I have no idea. Returned it. The one thing I can say is it only did it when my skin came in contact with it. So you would need to be bare foot to get that signal from it
@@timguitar862 whats up Tim. Did you end up replacing that JHS fuzz pedal with another JHS fuzz and if so, did that 2nd pedal still pick up the radio? I have an Electro Harmonix Bad Stone pedal that does it. First pedal, i have had about a dozen, first pedal to do it. I'm feeling like you right now!
I have a different fuzz pedal that does a similar thing but i don't even have to touch it, just crank the volume up and it's with certain settings...so odd...
My JHS lucky cat does this. Only that pedal. I even pulled it out of my pedalboard loop and used different cables/power supply and it still does it. No solution as of yet.
I am trying to get my fuzz to do this on purpose so I can run fuzz in parallel with my doom setup and use a transmitter to send some demonic voices so they play randomly behind the fuzz. hoping it sounds more mystical and random like accidentally communicating to the demon realm through the guitar than if I just played an audio loop behind things.
I had a wah-wah who was picking up a radio station. I put a orange drop condenser between the circuit ground and the 9v adapter socket ground. Zero change in the sound and no more radio. Problem solved.
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I used to have this with my old board. I picked up a russian station. This was early 80ies in the Netherlands. It was annoying and cool all at once. Never figured out what caused it. I suspected a power supply/grounding issue.
Hi I just saw this. Love the Tim Conway Jr. show. Sometimes transistors can pick up radio signals.
Lol. I have the same pedal. Actually… I have two of them and only one of them does this. It only picks up the radio when amp on, pedal on, and I touch the metal parts of the pedal directly.
I ‘fixed’ it by putting barriers (cloth, tape, etc) on the enclosure areas that I usually touch and by putting a little thin silicone booger thingy on the switch flat surface. Barefoot buttons would work too if not metal on metal.
Funny thing is: of the two identical fuzz pedals, only one had this problem… and that one happened to be the best sounding fuzz of the two. Go figure.
Update: what actually fixed this was changing the power supply. I was using a 1spot when I started picking up radio. Changed to a different single power supply and could barely hear the radio any more. I’m thinking it’s a power supply and/or patch cable issue.
My bass pedalboard started picking up radio too. It’s only a boss tuner, boss eq, a direct box and a compressor. It’s strange because it took years for it to start up doing it.
One of the guys i jam with has that problem. We unplugged everything started experimenting and found the pedalboard power supply was the source. The fuzz was just amplifying the signal. We were able to get the radio station with only the boss tuner plugged in if we cranked the gain on the amp. We could even get it with the pedal board unplugged from the wall but it would disappear as soon as we disconnected the tuner from the power supply.
Hey Tim, I'm actually looking to design a pedal that actually has this radio effect. I got the idea from jimi hendrix playing live and radio signals cutting into his playing. Have you heard any more about how to get this sound?
I have no idea. Returned it. The one thing I can say is it only did it when my skin came in contact with it. So you would need to be bare foot to get that signal from it
@@timguitar862 whats up Tim. Did you end up replacing that JHS fuzz pedal with another JHS fuzz and if so, did that 2nd pedal still pick up the radio? I have an Electro Harmonix Bad Stone pedal that does it. First pedal, i have had about a dozen, first pedal to do it. I'm feeling like you right now!
Because it could be it's silicon transistors and not germanium
I have a different fuzz pedal that does a similar thing but i don't even have to touch it, just crank the volume up and it's with certain settings...so odd...
My JHS lucky cat does this. Only that pedal. I even pulled it out of my pedalboard loop and used different cables/power supply and it still does it. No solution as of yet.
I am trying to get my fuzz to do this on purpose so I can run fuzz in parallel with my doom setup and use a transmitter to send some demonic voices so they play randomly behind the fuzz. hoping it sounds more mystical and random like accidentally communicating to the demon realm through the guitar than if I just played an audio loop behind things.
Watching this because I literally have the same problem with the exact same pedal wow
cool, you should write a song with it
Did you ever get a solution to this? I had two pedals that did this.....and they were both JHS and one of them being the 3 series
My jhs foot fuzz does the same thing. That’s why im here
Same!
This just happened to me with the JHS MIni Foot Fuzz. It's literally only my second time using guitar pedals so really confused me!
Hello I'm new....i have the same thing going on I have to turn the bias to the middle and it goes away.
One guy has the same problem with his jhs smiley …I have the jhs bender and no problems
my JHS pack rat just started doing this. I don't have to touch it either, its actually pretty annoying
I had a wah-wah who was picking up a radio station. I put a orange drop condenser between the circuit ground and the 9v adapter socket ground. Zero change in the sound and no more radio. Problem solved.
hello i have the same problem with diferent fuzz pedal some of them from analogman i will like to know wich number of capasitor did you used thank you
@@lisandroguevara5991 0,01 did it. No need for a Orange Drop however, if there is not enough room, put a ceramic one.
My JHS Smiley does the same thing
My jhs smiley does the same thing sometimes.
All their pedals do…. Its a things with their pedals in my experience….
its your wah pedal causing the problem. they are notorious for doing this.
sounds like a propaganda machine! lol
That's actually sounds sick for a pedal name