The Fireblade Series (Maxon's Best Kept Secret)
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- This week's episode is about the greatest (and hardest to collect) pedal series you've never heard of: the Maxon Fireblade series. These pedals are an enigma wrapped in a secret with inexplicable English subtitles. Hold on to your hats, people. It's gonna be a wild ride.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Fireblade Pedals
2:17 OD-F1 (Overdrive) & DE-F1 (Delay)
4:24 “Turtle Blues”
5:51 SM-F1 (Mystery Circuit) & GE-F1 (Graphic EQ)
8:18 “Double-Wide Kinda Life”
10:14 CS-F1 (Chorus) & CP-F1 (Compressor)
11:28 “Dentist Lagoon”
12:34 AF-F1 (Auto Filter)
14:13 “In The Name of California”
15:05 AF-F1 on bass!?
15:52 “Funky Bubbles”
17:11 DS-F1 (Distortion), the lost pedal.
17:50 “The One That Got Away”
18:44 Record Time
19:50 Thanks for watching!
Record Time:
R.E.M - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
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The jams from this episode are on BandLab! Head over to the link below to jam with us, download the stems, and create your own samples from our sounds... or all of those things.
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Josh, don't use 'effector' - go one higher and change all JHS pedals to be 'effectorizers'. Also include a knob called 'effectorization'.
What about "Effectorizationator"? Full Circle!
I back this 100%
effectorizers effectively affect effectors with effects
Josh uses Foot on Pedal. It's super effective!
In Japan all pedals no matter what they do are called "effectors"...
In Japan they have a history of printing advertising and branding in English simply for style purposes. Even if they had no intention of bringing it to an English speaking country, having it in English would make people feel like it was exotic and more desirable. I think it might be an industry standard thing to only print music gear in English too?
That tracks with how we specifically want the japanese labels of certain pedals.
The same thing happens here in Germany as well. Of course, it's German and not Japanese that's mixed with English though.
That's often times the same in Germany.
Kids in Japan get a lot of schooling in English in their elementary and middle school years. English characters is like a third script there. My guess is they’re already used to seeing Tone and Presence in English. It’d be more weird to write it in katakana.
So it's basically like how people will just slap random Kanji (or any given language that people are weebs for) just because it aesthetically looks cool? Didn't know it happened the other way round too.
"Real Cocaine Energy." Please add this to the JHS shirt collection.
Lol, you reminded me of the t-shirt Clapton used to wear in the 70's 'No snow, no show'.
I was an assistant at the studio the night REM and John Paul Jones recorded the strings for the 'Automatic for the People' album. There were 10 pieces of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra there and I think we overdubbed them twice. It was a 32 track digital recording. I got to hang out with JPJ for about 20 minutes during a break and talk about cars. Awesome night.
Awesome. My grandma used to make a killer rhubarb pie. RIP
Once upon a wibbly-wobbly time in the fantastical land of Quixlaria, where cotton candy clouds floated lazily in a purple sky, and gumdrop trees whispered secrets to shimmering unicorns, there lived a peculiar pickle named Percival McSnookerpants, whose polka-dotted hat housed a colony of mischievous fireflies that loved to dance the cha-cha at midnight under the glow of a smiling moon who wore a monocle and had a penchant for strawberry-flavored marshmallows, which coincidentally were the favorite snack of the majestic Jellyfish Queen, a regal creature with glistening tentacles that emitted a soothing melody as she swam through a swirling ocean of sparkling dreams, where dolphins played hopscotch with rainbow-colored seashells, and mermaids crafted elaborate sandcastles with tiny golden spades, while a chorus of singing seagulls provided a harmonious symphony that was conducted by an enthusiastic starfish named Bartholomew, who wore a top hat and carried a tiny conductor's baton made from the tiniest sapling of an enchanted oak tree, which grew near the whispering waterfall that told tales of ancient legends to anyone who dared to listen, especially the mischievous squirrel named Fuzzykins, who wore a tiny superhero cape and fought evil acorns that terrorized the peaceful woodland creatures with their wily antics, such as rolling themselves down steep hills and causing laughter-induced chaos that tickled the tummies of the wise old owls perched high on the branches of the wise old oak tree, who hooted profound words of wisdom to the critters below, advising them to embrace the magic of their imagination and celebrate the extraordinary in the ordinary, a message that resonated deeply with Percival McSnookerpants, who spent his days tickling the ivories of a magical piano that summoned rainbow-hued notes that danced through the air like ethereal butterflies, leaving trails of stardust in their wake, while a whimsical dragon named Ignatius puffed clouds of pastel-colored smoke that smelled of sugary cotton candy and dreams of adventure, as he soared through the boundless sky, carrying a basket filled with wishes that he sprinkled upon the world, creating a kaleidoscope of hope and wonder, a testament to the power of imagination and the sheer joy of nonsense, for in the land of Quixlaria, where dreams were the currency and laughter the national anthem, there was no limit to the extraordinary tales that could be woven from the threads of imagination, where rambling nonsense became the fabric of reality and unicorns wore sombreros while sipping tea with the toothy grin of a Cheshire cat.
It would be hilarious to do a limited release line of jhs pedals where the only change is it says effector
And make like the spring tank camo!!!!!!
@@booitsnick genius
And they're all in Japanese.
or how about Supreme Series ??
or that's like $50 max
The amount of ripping Josh is doing in these jams…. Bro could tear through a phone book
Seeing Nick laughing his head off during the last jam was priceless.....
“Everyone had played the Tube Screamer”
funny enough, I’ve been buying / collecting pedals since the mid-90’s but I’ve never played a Tube Screamer
It's ok
I was watching the Fuzz Face mod session from ‘20 and was blown away by how much your production has developed in the past two years. You are THE pedal show of pedal shows. Sorry, That Pedal Show, guys. Josh and his crew are the best.
That DS-F1 vintage pedal from the future has an incredible chime to it! That's an awesome tone.
Drums sound is as spectacular as ever
I listened to this in my dentist's office waiting room and during the second jam he stopped what he was doing, came into the waiting room without taking off his gloves or magnifying glass glasses and said, "What the hell is even that?!"
😂
Whoever does the post-production on these music segments deserves a raise, b/c they sound great.
Addison
That camo contraption redefines and takes to a whole new level the concept of ear fatigue. Muse approves :D
Thanks for the enlighten moment that "MAXON" are the Build Creators of the Tube Screamer. Good Jam By the way.
I’m just here to check out pedals that I’ll never own.
And the jams
Welcome home.
With good reason... they're garbage! Arion showed that when you could skimp on the casing you could go hog-wild on the circuits (e.g. the best delay ever put into a placcy pedal, the Arion DDS-4, years ahead of the pack and still sounds incredible). Now, if we'd been discussing Maxon's beautiful 'Vintage Series', and had the PH-350 - the best phaser of all-time imo - mic'd up in stereo with the OD-820 going into it...... ooh la lah!
I always love the sound of a grumpy old frog on my funky Sade tunes!
This video is my first exposure to this channel and the personalities and what passes for normal here in crazytown USA. Thank you for promising not to bother the world with horrible content, because you love what you do. You do! It shows
Fireblade pedals brought me here. They're not cheap any more. I'll take your advice and not drive myself insane trying to collect them all. Today.
great vid ....... as usual . You guys are such a joy to listen/watch , thanks Josh
I had almost as much fun watching/listening to this video as you guys did making it 😃
Addison's Resting Bass Face is intense but it looks like all he needed was some auto filter on bass to smile and chuckle while he played.
I don't know how you guys always come up with something interesting and fresh to jam on. I sometimes watch just for the jamz.
Wow, that Eq gave the perfect blend to the distortion !!! Great video as always :)
The "one that got away "sounds really tasty! Thanks as always for showcasing this stuff - and awesome playing from the whole crew! 😎
Y'all are killin it with the recent exemplary content n whatnot.
That distortion sounds a lot like Dinosaur Jr., treble booster into a fuzz. I loved it.
Thought the same thing.
Hi Josh, i don't know if it's often pointed out here but i each time tell to myself how great your playing is... as also is the sound you globally get from the band... thanks for the videos!
I also started collecting this line, after getting the Compressor in a trade. After acquiring 3 or 4, they got increasingly hard to find. I wound see them, in every episode, over Josh's left shoulder, mocking me!! Josh was always one unit ahead of me!! The Filter was indeed the final and hardest unit to get. I had to enlist the help a 'pedal broker' mate, who managed to find the one and only unit available(at the time) in Japan. The Treble control on the Camo distortion MUST NOT LEAVE '0'!!!!😆
Thank you Josh and crew...this was another fun video!
The Sick Burn Rhett Shull thing is always hilarious!
A new episode of the JHS-Show, watching it on my birthday - I'm living the good life
Happy birthday!
REM: I love this subject. How you feel about REM depends on when your entry point was. REM are almost 4 different bands: IndieREM, Major Label REM, Grunge REM, and Late Stage REM. If you're not into REM, you should probably listen to it in chunks, not on shuffle. My playlist is linked below.
The first 5 albums, Murmur through Document, are the foundation of indie/alt. They were college radio in the 80s. People who got into REM later struggle with these, with the possible exception of the Document singles. It was lo-fi. They lived in an abandoned church. They never thought they were going anywhere. They made music for their friends at the 40 Watt in Athens. Remember that when you listen. They were figuring it out as it goes. REM was the first college band to sign to a major with a huge-at-the-time deal with Warners. It opened the floodgates and I'll argue that it was the beginning of what would become the 90s flood.
Major REM is 3 albums: Green, Out of Time, and Automatic for the People. They won multiple Grammys, conquered the world and MTV made some people sick of them. Other people, thinking REM were a 'new' band, were horribly confused by things like the Losing My Religion video aesthetic and never understood why Stipe wasn't a typical 80s frontman. That's because they don't know the college radio start. The Drive and Ignoreland singles were a foreshadowing of what was to come - mid90s Grunge REM.
Grunge REM isn't grunge, its REMs spin on it. Peter Buck got a Boogie and a Les Paul and a RAT and a big ol' taste of glam. Stipe was friendly with Kurt Cobain and recognized he was now an elder statesman and an icon for the misfits, and he embraced it. You got two phenomenal albums. Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi. There is not a bad song on either, and I'll argue that Josh is insane for not mentioning The Wake-Up Bomb or Binky The Doormat. Fantastic. Check them out.
Then Bill Berry blew an aneurysm on stage and decided that farming quietly was better than dying behind a drumkit and everything changed. The hired the drummer from Ministry (yep, Ministry, Bill Reiflin) who could play the parts but didn't sing. REM was always 3 voices harmonizing and losing Bill changed the dynamic. The albums were no longer great. They had great singles, but losing Bill was a lot. All The Way To Reno and Imitation Of Life, from Reveal, are among the most beautiful things they've ever written. The second-last studio album, Accelerate, was New Adventures Part II. It's a solid album with some outstanding songs, but it was clear that REM knew they were repeating themselves, and their integrity mattered. Soon, it was a wrap.
MTV did a longass documentary on them a few years ago. Every minute is fantastic. It's not gloss. Nothing is papered over.
Here's my 79 song REM Spotify list, in chronological order. It's everything you need and nothing you don't. Please notice that 11 songs are from New Adventures. There are only 13 songs on the album.
open.spotify.com/playlist/5wvhbfOG20FcpTJErQqsD2?si=a32806e7074143fe
And perhaps one day there'll be the Reunion Geezer REM, odes to extra beachfront houses and wine cellars. 😆
This is probably the reason REM is my all-time favourite band -- they are really 4 different bands.
Lifelong REM fan starting in high school when a gal who transferred in from Athens, GA loaned me the Life's Rich Pageant album. "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" from Reckoning is the top listing on my Songs that Define My Life playlist. That is a great summary of REM's long career. Cheers!
Before Rieflin -whom i love, rip- came Joey Waronker. He was there for the up and reveal eras. Not much touring during those years but he got the band into playing some songs off Murmur again.
I was in my teens listening to REM on local college radio (KBVR, Oregon State University), as well as a lot of 'underground' music.
Stipe's voice is iconic, and I pretty much like everything they've done. The indie music still holds a special place in my musical heart.
Thanks for the playlist! 🙏
Definitely the first episode filled with pedals I would never seek out or buy. Good work wrangling a decent sound out of them
Regarding why they use English on their Japan-exclusive pedals: It's actually quite common to see English terms in everyday Japanese as a sort of loanword thing. "Let's! " is often used for motivational phrases. "Viking" is used for buffets type restaurant since the original "Smörgåsbord" was deemed not quite compatible with the Japanese audience. Also "Effector" for effect pedal. If it's a non-Japanese term, they often use it right away or do as many adjustments as necessary to make it more marketing friendly. Additionally they didn (afaik) not use Japanese for their early pedals anyway, so it makes sense to stick to an already established terminology.
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Using "viking" makes a lot of sense just from a phonetic standpoint - pronounced in Japanese, it's "bai-kee-n-gu", where "smorgasbord" would wind up as "su-mo-ru-ga-s'-bo-ru-du", which is, I think you'll agree, a little silly.
@@unsoundmethodology Very good point, that does indeed sound silly 😄
I really appreciate the tightness and the talent of the whole band here. You guys truly rock.
I'm starting to see that 3-pieces-band as the very talented musical equivalent to the guys in "Who's line is it anyways" TV show, so the teh JHS show is the show where a random pedal sparks the jam.
Your dentist jam reminded me of the last time I was in getting a root canal... There I am with my unreasonable fear of the dentist drill, listening to Norah Jones on my headphones just trying to stay calm while slightly buzzing on nitrous oxide. The song I am listening to gets over and I can hear the music playing in my dentists office is AC/DC Highway to Hell. It was so non-typical "dentist office" music the absurdity of me bringing my own easy listening music while he was jamming out made me laugh. He blamed it on the NO2, but it still makes me laugh and I am pretty sure I'm not high on anything right now.
The slide on funky bubbles was awesome. You know you’ve got something going on when even the drummer smiles.
E-bow the letter is one my favorite songs ever. I was pleasantly surprised when you mentioned it!
The forgotten flame is my favorite jam to date y'all have done
Gigantic R.E.M. fan here. Happy to see you picked New Adventures for your Record Time! That was a very ambitious album for them, because it was comprised almost entirely of material they were writing *and* recording on the road. Some songs are just lifted straight from soundchecks with no overdubs. Because of that, it does a great job capturing the feeling of being on the road. The album also managed to take the fuzzier sounds of their previous album (Monster) and refine & darken them a bit to fit the aesthetic of the band very well. Just a brilliant record.
Zither was recorded in the bathroom at the Philly Spectrum the night I saw them.
Love the jams , Dudes !
The auto-filter sounds KILLER!
These jams were next level!
You really funked it up! Thank you . I have owned a Ibanez TS7 for awhile. It,s good.
Josh “in the name of California” is your best jam yet
E-Bow The Letter is an amazing song. Patti Smith’s vocals add so much to it. My favorite R.E.M. record all-round is “Fables of the Reconstruction”
Reckoning is probably my favorite REM album. South Central Rain, Rockville, Pretty Persuasion and Camera really stand out for me. Pavement does a cover of Camera on the B-side to the Cut your Hair single which is worth a listen. Fun episode!
I should probably buy a rotary pedal soon. Just bought my first Tube Screamer, it was the Bonsai of course.
Men, love the jam! I just bought a JHS pedal. Thanks for the free gift too 😁
hilarious video guys XD Josh is a national treasure, a true scholar and artist
another great show!! that end jam was an awesome display audio goodness brunch buffet combo of sonic groove sauce drizzled over some thick slabs of smoked bacon bass with a side of slippery super slide sunny eggs and held down with that dense pancake drum mojo
That distortion almost sounds like you ran a treble booster into a DS-1. I kinda like it.
Quick update: I looked up the SM-F1 pedal and if Mojo StompBoxes is right, then this thing uses the same op-amp as the Tube Screamer. Absolutely incredible.
That may be, but opamps BARELY change or affect the sound, if any. Maybe if the slew rates are vastly different. The circuit itself is what shapes the pedal's sound, not the type of opamp.
@@disthymia6929 I completely agree, but try telling that to the snobs who swear the TS-808 is superior to the TS-9 because of the op-amp (and definently don't bring up part tolerance or diode clipping).
loving this 3 man deep stacked jam view!
FINALLY they demo'd one of these pedals on bass! More please. :D
Grew up on REM. Had a chance to see them live a couple of times. My favorite album has to be Life’s Rich Pageant.
Same here
I love REM and I think their 1st 5 Albums are all superb, I can't pick a favourite. New Adventures in Hi-fi was certainly their last great album tho 😕
Since this is a pedal line review.... eagerly awaiting the Line 6 Tone Core review whenever you get to it! I've gotten 3 of them in the past few months because they seem like some of the most versatile, affordable, standalone pedals out there. And they have interchangeable modules like freakin gameboy!
I have all of them except for the Rotory one. They are ugly as hell, and unnecessarily heavy, but they sound fantastic, plus the wet effects are true stereo. The Liquiflange is my favorite.
Love R.E.M.! Fables Of The Reconstruction is my favorite album. If you haven’t heard their early to mid 80’s releases, do yourself a HUGE favor! I dig New Adventures. Low Desert is such a cool tune.
I'm just here for the stingers. I was not disappointed. Thank you
Good to hear Nick’s snare sound is back!!
The last three jams were on fire 🔥
Awesome video. I just bought a fireblade distortion and it's so good. The eq feels like a Amp in a box. Any way thanks for the video now my pedal will increase 200 percent in value. 😆
14:19 - I'd love to see you gig one day man. really enjoyed that one.
Well that was an eye opener 😳.....jams were great as usual and honestly I didn't think any of those pedals sucked . I rather liked them , even that can of bees distortion , nothing some EQ pedal couldn't fix ! Good one now I can't sleep !
Holy moly. I have a DE-F1 Delay on the floor under my desk. Have used it since forever and, you know what, it's not that bad. I keep thinking that I want to replace it with something like a Memory Man Deluxe or whatever, but the Maxon has been sufficient. Also, FWIW, I have an FL-301 reissue flanger. Outstanding!
That chili peppers/u2 jam was excellent. Top marks, old boy.
such a cool and useful channel thanks
Great Showmanship!
That’s a great record. I always loved Dead Letter Office.
Great Jams Guys! Josh you didn't play crap!!🤍🤣
REM are one of my favourite bands with the fewest albums I love. I generally prefer their 90s stuff (except out of time) overall and New Adventures is probably a top 5 favourite album of all time for me. Leave and How the West Was Won are stone cold classics imo. So glad to see it still getting some love 25 years after release.
One reason I like REM is how their songs sound so similar. The fact that they almost all have crying somewhere there is a little weird but what the hey.
Evidently Josh has been taking slide lessons from Rhett. Finally nailed it! :)
Good one. Rhett is a terrible player and no one wants his advice.
two sick burns in opposite directions.. i'm trying to do the math on this one
In 1994, the Honda Fireblade was the hottest motorbike you could buy.
I never had one, but they were rad.
Pretty sure that was some kind of influence.
I used to have a Honda Shadow. Miss it very much.
Holy shit that "in the name of California" jam was awesome.
Thank you! I've seen these pedals in the background of countless JHS pedals and it's been killing me that I don't know what they are.
I have to say the pedals were totally uninspiring. But this video is hilarious 😂🤣😂👍 THANKS JOSH FOR THE FUN VIDEO!
The looks on the face of the drummer and bassist during "Double Wide Kind of Life" has me laughing. A mixture of "this is really weird... but not bad... but okay we're going with it." LOL I love that and I like that gnarly sound.
😏 Nicky Nailzz on the kit! Love the hits, every week another top ten jam.
Chronic Town - The EP that introduced me to R.E.M. and, to this day, is my favorite. I just wish that I could buy a remastered CD of it. All five tunes are stand-outs.
The names of the songs is the best part of these videos. Dentist Lagoon 😂😂😂
This is gonna be me trying to collect the Cusack Selenium fuzzes. Also happy birthday Nick!
Best jams yet!
Thanks! Now they’re going to be more expensive then they already were.
Bonus insanity jam. Nice
Whoa killer playing killer grooves
"In the name of california" wow!! so great song. let put me on to a winter, foggy in the mornening, sunny in the middle. With a beer. Cheers for you guys.
I know this episode is all about the pursuit...but don't think we didn't notice those amazing, panned toms Nick!
Nick, thanks for putting your drums in stereo-it tipped me off that my headphones were on backwards
I totally agree regarding 'E-Bow the Letter'. One of the best songs ever written, but tough for me to listen to. Makes me a bit misty-eyed every time I hear it.
That's such an underrated album for R.E.M. Leave is my favourite song by them.
Hi-Fi is my personal favourite. I still remember when I bought it new from the store and was sitting in a bus with a portable cd-player when a friend got in to the bus too and asked what I was listening, I replied that it is the new R.E.M. album and he asked is it any good and I replied that it is awesome!
oh! oh ! that was oodles of fun, fun, fun, fun, this is entertainment this is fun. fun, fun, fun, thanks for doing the heavying lifting part.
‘Dentist Lagoon’. spot on!
R.E.M. at their peak. I go back to that album the most. It helped me appreciate “Monster”.
These jams are so sweet that I want them on my toast for breakfast.
“Compressor Effector” has the same jangle as the Speed Racer character “Inspector Detector”
"if you like treble", finally the pedal for all the kids in my highschool guitar class who would play snow out of tiny amps on the bridge pickup with the controls dimed
Worth it just for the funky filter on the bass.
Grunge band, playing a casino, trying to reach their fans who have become dentists might be the best description of a jam I’ve seen on the JHS show
its funny because ive been watching your fireblade collection sit just over your shoulder for two years waiting for you to talk about them
Total R.E.M. obsessive here, LOVE New Adventures!
I want that auto wah so friggin bad!!! It sounds amazing