@@jeffschaller803 With the emphasis on "sad". I've tried several times to appreciate SD, and last month I learned that solo from "Reeling in the Years", only to realize it's drivel.
@@bud9269 Oh yeah! I'm keeping all my boxes just for that reason. Edit: Yesterday, when I put away the box for my new ProCo RAT pedal next to all the other boxes, I found myself singing "he has the box!"
@@rayh966 Why knows? slipper is good too. And I actually had one of those, and it was great! Don't remember why I let it go. I had the phaser too, it was good, and I rememebr why I let that one go (I had enough phasers and traded it in for an octave, which I didn't have.)
I had the phaser pedal of this line (Garagetone Oil Can) which I instantely regretted to sell when I did two years ago... Now the wound reopens thanks to you Josh
I bought the Drivetrain when I worked in a guitar shop. Love it, still own it. Also, I live in Wichita, which is in Kansas, but not Western Kansas, but there ARE some saloons here...so...
Man, I remember this line from when I was still working in retail. We carried the whole line. I STILL have my Visual Volume!! Great revisit, Josh. Thanks!
"Block Party Chill Town" is one of the best jams you guys have ever done. When you said "Steely Dan at a kid's 12th birthday party" I laughed, but... yeah, you nailed it.
Digitech pds line did 2 in 1 pedals way earlier. Double Play, Hot Box, etc... maybe a great future episode topic? The PDS 20/20 Mulriplay I think is the grand dad of the EQD Disaster Transport (lo fi digital modulation delay, chorus, flanger, inf hold)
I had one of those on loan for a while. I had to give it back to the owner eventually though. I bought a Digitech Time Machine 8000, which was the same circuit in a rack mount unit.
@@andrewjadczak I know on the Truetone site they call the Jekyll & Hyde the "first true dual effect pedal" so I wonder what exactly they mean by it, or whether the earlier ones were just forgotten, or what.
JHS has transformed itself from a pedal company to a media company. Josh you talk like some of the best creative directors I have worked with. I can’t wait to see what comes next out of this. Something bigger than a guitar pedal.
Another thing I noticed - I have the V2 version of the Route 66 pedal. The overdrive part of the pedal was their 808 (tubescreamer type). Then they came out with the V3 version of the Route 66. They changed the shape to more of a rectangle instead of a triangle. They also removed the 808 overdrive and replaced it with the Garagetone Drivetrain overdrive. I've noticed that used Garagetone pedals are going for more than twice of what they were when they were brand new.
The Tremolo was originally called "The Chopper", but a year or so after the pedal's release, when the were at NAM another pedal builder approached them to advise they were already making a pedal by thebsame name that predates the Garagetone pedal. The Tremolo and Phaser are my 2 favorites of the series.
Smoove... I imagine mainly guitar players like myself watch this channel... so this may seem like an unusual comment from a guitar player but I gotta say it... your drummer's doing excellent work on these jam tracks...
Before I click on any JHS Video I think to myself “My pedalboard is complete and I I’m not in the market for anything, but I sure love pedal history, so I’ll check out this video!” But then halfway through any video I find myself window shopping for pedals 🤦🏼
I remember back in 2012 Visual sound put up a load of the artist demos using these as well as the V2 line and that had such a massive impact on how I first properly learnt about pedals and tone. So great to see them come to light again, great video!
Another super episode, @JHS. Having recently watched several episodes from one year ago and older, I must again mention the progress in musicianship, creativity, and audio quality -- all sounding great (diggin' the drum tone). You're all playing so well, you're like whoopin' all them pedal channels big time.
The arcane information is fascinating and useful. The musical examples are engaging, varied and quite good! But that insurance ad was the best insurance ad EVER! ;-)
The Guitar + Drum (and bass) tones on 'Cyborg Bike Gang' @ 3:46 are so awesome! You really bring out the fire in that pedal! And the snare sound is amazing!
Great job! A little known fact: the Visual Sound Custom Shop Overdrive was a modified version of the Garagetone Chainsaw. There were under 200 of the CSOD pedals made but they sound amazing! : )
I recently learned about Affordable and not flashy. I'm not a pedal guy at all but figured after 20 years of playing I should figure out how to use a pedal board to take my sound farther and inspire me to try new things. I bought a JHS 3 series delay and it is amazing. I can get great sounds out of it with it being very easy to use (I don't know what I'm doing so less knobs and switches works for me), I feel like it's a gem that a lot of people will miss out on because it's cheap and plain. There was a lot in this video that made sense in that aspect. Think I may buy a few more 3 series pedals and just let my daughter go nuts on em with some sharpies so they look different and I can tell them apart on the board.
i've never had one of these but Dual Tap Delay is my main ambience pedal since a try it in a store eight years ago. Now i have to get garage tone series pedals, thanks to you Josh
Visual sound was my intro into pedals. My worship leader let me play his board and he had pretty much every visual sound double box. Visual sound lives up to their name and opened my eyes to the wonder of pedals back in the early/mid 2000s.
As for Steely Dan at your birthday party. You were sort of quoting Hey Nineteen. The guitar player on that, the late Hugh McCracken was a friend of mine, we hung out and played a little, sort of like having part of Steely Dan as your buddy?
The Garagetone Drivetrain is the best kept secret in the parallel universe of TS mods - I have 4 of them, and they are completely great! They make a Strat sound huge. I will never, ever sell them - even if, as I suspect, they enter pedal Valhalla like the Klon.
The ulitimate scheme: Josh buys up all the floating stock of an obsure and unrated pedal line; then does a feature on the line and then uses his 100's of proxy reverb accounts to make a sweet mint.
Still have my oil can phaser on my board. Got it cheap, fell in love with it. Thanks, Josh, for highlighting a great set of pedals! Now, if I can only find that tremolo pedal …. 😁😎🤘🏻✌🏻❤️
A bunch of years ago I bought a used and already then discontinued Reverend Drivetrain II (for nerds the second revision with two black felt pen dots on the bottom) and thought it was the best tubescreamer type of pedal ever, and couldn't understand why it was no longer in production. I contacted the company about the possibility of a reissue and learned that I was far from the first to do so and that there were no immediate plans for this, but maybe someday... Then suddenly the Visual Sound Garagetone series was released and lo and behold with the Drivetrain brought back to life, and for a ridiculously low price. I of course bought one, to check if it indeed sounded like the original and to have as a backup if my cherished original should, god forbid, break or get lost. In my opinion the reissue doesn't sound exactly as the originalm but it can be they cloned the first version, not the version II that I have. In retrospect I should have bought a bunch, but I could not imagine that a pedal this good and so attarctively priced also should go out of production. It's a killer pedal for a SRV like tone on the neck pickup of a strat into a Fender amp set clean or just at the verge to break up.
I have all of these pedals. In 2010 I was a travelling sales person for a distributor and VS sent us all pedalboards with these pedals glued to it so we could show them to our customers. My clients were all local guitar shops with one or two locations. These pedals sounded great but the dealers did not get excited because the profit margin for them was thin and they did not think the average pedal buyer was interested in a $60 pedal no matter how great it sounded. VS should have just painted them white and sold them for $99. #thejhsshow #jhs
My solution to good sounding, bad looking pedals is to paint over them or stripe the paint and get some sharpies. Not only you will get something unique and nice looking, but also the process makes you bond with it.
I remember those! I had forgotten all about them, and I've never owned one, but I remember seeing the pentagon shaped pedals in guitar stores a lot back in the day
Awesome episode. Would also like to point out that these are buffered bypass and the buffer is of very high quality. That’s why I bought them originally and discovered that they sound great too.
Dang your live drums always sound amazing. Don't get me wrong, cool pedals, cool songs, but I'm always blown away by the quality of the drum recordings
I don´t know what they may have changed since, but I remember, in 2019 JHS produced two episodes, where Nick explains some drum miking and preamping stuff: "How we record a song" and "The colour box is back". Maybe this helps a little bit to your question. Links to the episodes: ua-cam.com/video/xUaLE0_3v8A/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/zQSOwzfV7Vc/v-deo.html Have fun.
I recently acquired a Modtone harmonic tremolo pedal for substantially less than the the other brands available. It's my least expensive pedal at under $100 brand new. Love the tone and the vibe.
We're soon going to reach a point where every sentence Josh says has a jingle for it and the episodes will be 45 minutes long.
Good
i can only hope
@@joshuaheathscott oh hey Josh. welcome to UA-cam
Not a problem
Sign me up!
You let that vintage air out of the bubbles in the bubble wrap! 😮
Better than the air you get today! Maybe.
Now it just doesn't sound as good
@@tite93 But it smells better, and that's important (for some people).
The tone, Josh. THE TONE! D:
I like how Radiohead in a western saloon is just Wilco...
Really delivering on the stingers this week, that’s what I subscribe for.
Same. Stingers and low-key shaming of pedal snobs. All day.
Me too!
Ok Cowboy was easily the best slide toan I've heard in my short life.
Rhett how bout a vid on not resorting to violence against the foh guy
@@leptyga Rhett Shull is turning red somewhere in Atlanta !
Today, Josh makes a video entirely out of his own memes, and we still love him.
theyre made drummer guy
Great episode Josh. I would love to hear you talk about Damage Control before they became Strymon
Not yet. I've bee trying to collect them for some time and I don't want the prices to rise 🤫
If Steely Dan did play at your birthday, I’m assuming they played “Happy Birthday” but it was in a 11/16 time signature
Using the Mu chord in the chorus.
They played at my 21st, but everyone walked out. Boring sods.
@@Ndlanding they didn’t have their team of studio musician magicians
@@Ndlanding they just wanted to give you the best experience possible. Alone and a little sad is the Steely Dan sweet spot.
@@jeffschaller803 With the emphasis on "sad". I've tried several times to appreciate SD, and last month I learned that solo from "Reeling in the Years", only to realize it's drivel.
dat life insurance spot! *chefs kiss*
REAL TALK in the first 10 seconds
-**SIIICK BUUUURN***
Who else sings the "I don't have this pedal" jingle when you see a pedal you'd like to have?
And then I sing "but does he have the box" if it's on reverb.
@@bud9269 Oh yeah! I'm keeping all my boxes just for that reason.
Edit: Yesterday, when I put away the box for my new ProCo RAT pedal next to all the other boxes, I found myself singing "he has the box!"
Yes, almost every time he shows a pedal here. I'm glad I kept most boxes however, even though nothing I have is _rare_ or _collectible_
i don't, i do my best deadpan 'i don't have this pedal, it's fine, i'm gonna be fine' Josh impression i can.
Can't believe you just destroyed that original vintage bubble wrap 😱
Same lol
with that vintage air
Please say it was a stunt double
It’s gonna affect the tone........
There is certain line of Pedals I've started collecting because I'm living in constant fear of Josh doing a video about them.
Think this is the most jingles in any JHS video
RG Keen is a legend. Really cool to hear him being talked about
RG Keen is One of the most generous members of the DIY guitar electronics community ever. Thank you sir!
That commercial: "We're really great at marketing, but we only do it as a joke." 🤓
Is it just me, or does Josh seem a bit more sassy lately? I'm sensing more attitude, and I like it.
2020 was a long year
so much sass!
And after watching your videos for a while, now I sing to myself “I have the box” when I look at my pedal boxes 🤣
Or when i see a pedal on reverb with all the fixins haha
I sing "I have the box" when I've finished my pizza. What else could I sing? "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
The "axle grease" was in keeping with the garage theme, but I think the reference to "oil" (grease) as a throwback to "oil can delays"
Good call, I was just going to say that delay effects can be slippery like axle grease, but yours is better.
@@rayh966 Why knows? slipper is good too. And I actually had one of those, and it was great! Don't remember why I let it go. I had the phaser too, it was good, and I rememebr why I let that one go (I had enough phasers and traded it in for an octave, which I didn't have.)
Love this episode. I have the entire GarageTone series on my current pedalboard.
RG Keen's article/study on JFETs changed my life. His study on the Fuzz Face is a must read.
Nick went CRAAAAAZY with the jingles this week lol
I had the phaser pedal of this line (Garagetone Oil Can) which I instantely regretted to sell when I did two years ago... Now the wound reopens thanks to you Josh
Is it me, or are the jams getting better? I'm not saying I found them lacking. But I am saying I've been impressed recently.
@@celephais5748 not to mention the jellies...
At JHS Insurance we take the hassle out of buying and out of dying. I love this content so much.
The Jekyll and Hyde was my first pedal. I’d seen that the Strokes used them so I had to get one. Covers quite a bit of ground
I'd buy and rock a JHS+ insurance shirt all day.
I bought the Drivetrain when I worked in a guitar shop. Love it, still own it. Also, I live in Wichita, which is in Kansas, but not Western Kansas, but there ARE some saloons here...so...
Man, I remember this line from when I was still working in retail. We carried the whole line. I STILL have my Visual Volume!! Great revisit, Josh. Thanks!
Ooh that Slow Summer jam was legit. Great tone.
For me Bob Weil + RG Keen = TAKE MY MONEY 💰
How on earth did these pedals fail in the marketplace? My favorite JHS video so far.
Did not expect a video about guitar effects pedals, would call into question my financial decisions regarding my own mortality.
And literacy.
"Block Party Chill Town" is one of the best jams you guys have ever done. When you said "Steely Dan at a kid's 12th birthday party" I laughed, but... yeah, you nailed it.
That was very much exactly Steely Dan at a 12 yr old Bday party. 👏👏👏
Digitech pds line did 2 in 1 pedals way earlier. Double Play, Hot Box, etc... maybe a great future episode topic? The PDS 20/20 Mulriplay I think is the grand dad of the EQD Disaster Transport (lo fi digital modulation delay, chorus, flanger, inf hold)
I had one of those on loan for a while. I had to give it back to the owner eventually though.
I bought a Digitech Time Machine 8000, which was the same circuit in a rack mount unit.
And I'm pretty sure Ross's 2-in-1 pedals were even earlier than that... so I have a confuse.
@@jamesroy9182 ohh good call.
@@andrewjadczak I know on the Truetone site they call the Jekyll & Hyde the "first true dual effect pedal" so I wonder what exactly they mean by it, or whether the earlier ones were just forgotten, or what.
@@jamesroy9182 those Ross phaser/distortions are definitely 2 pedals in one and predate all of this
The opening alone made watching this worthwhile 😂😂😂
You just know there were people who bought the chainsaw expecting an HM-2 and were very confused upon plugging it in
JHS has transformed itself from a pedal company to a media company. Josh you talk like some of the best creative directors I have worked with. I can’t wait to see what comes next out of this. Something bigger than a guitar pedal.
It already came out... Pedals the musical!
I don't think Josh gets enough props for his guitar skills. He is always pumping out the bops
Love the aesthetic of these pedals, surprised these didn't take off
Bob and company have always had an amazing line of products.
These pedals are still sold in my country. And you're spot on. The name "chainsaw" isn't selling it.
Nick, great zoom on the tremolo segment!...also the jam was rad
Another thing I noticed - I have the V2 version of the Route 66 pedal. The overdrive part of the pedal was their 808 (tubescreamer type). Then they came out with the V3 version of the Route 66. They changed the shape to more of a rectangle instead of a triangle. They also removed the 808 overdrive and replaced it with the Garagetone Drivetrain overdrive. I've noticed that used Garagetone pedals are going for more than twice of what they were when they were brand new.
The Tremolo was originally called "The Chopper", but a year or so after the pedal's release, when the were at NAM another pedal builder approached them to advise they were already making a pedal by thebsame name that predates the Garagetone pedal.
The Tremolo and Phaser are my 2 favorites of the series.
Smoove... I imagine mainly guitar players like myself watch this channel... so this may seem like an unusual comment from a guitar player but I gotta say it... your drummer's doing excellent work on these jam tracks...
I still have my distortion and tremolo and old Route 66 can’t say enough good things about Visual Sound Truetone. 👏
Before I click on any JHS Video I think to myself “My pedalboard is complete and I I’m not in the market for anything, but I sure love pedal history, so I’ll check out this video!” But then halfway through any video I find myself window shopping for pedals 🤦🏼
I remember back in 2012 Visual sound put up a load of the artist demos using these as well as the V2 line and that had such a massive impact on how I first properly learnt about pedals and tone. So great to see them come to light again, great video!
That delay + screamer thingy sound was absolutely awesome!!
Another super episode, @JHS.
Having recently watched several episodes from one year ago and older, I must again mention the progress in musicianship, creativity, and audio quality -- all sounding great (diggin' the drum tone).
You're all playing so well, you're like whoopin' all them pedal channels big time.
The arcane information is fascinating and useful. The musical examples are engaging, varied and quite good! But that insurance ad was the best insurance ad EVER! ;-)
The pedals were beautiful, thank you.
i just realised that i've never been subscribed to jhs and still watched every video. i kinda feel bad and seek for redemption
You absolutely nailed the Steely Dan jam!!!! Cool ✌🏻😎
The Guitar + Drum (and bass) tones on 'Cyborg Bike Gang' @ 3:46 are so awesome! You really bring out the fire in that pedal! And the snare sound is amazing!
These videos keep getting better and better. I was hearing a “Dinosaur Jr. at a skatepark” on Jam#1 with Chainsaw.
life insurance bit got me real good
I bought two Behringer Pedals recently (Reverb and Multi-Fx) due in part to your Behringer Pedals Video. Thanks.
awesome bit! love the jhs+ insurance!!!
The Axl Greace was my first delay pedal, after 15 years it's still on my pedalboard! I Love it!
Great job! A little known fact: the Visual Sound Custom Shop Overdrive was a modified version of the Garagetone Chainsaw. There were under 200 of the CSOD pedals made but they sound amazing! : )
Mr Keen is my reference whilst learning about Pedals and Circuits, another great Video, thanks. : )
I recently learned about Affordable and not flashy. I'm not a pedal guy at all but figured after 20 years of playing I should figure out how to use a pedal board to take my sound farther and inspire me to try new things. I bought a JHS 3 series delay and it is amazing. I can get great sounds out of it with it being very easy to use (I don't know what I'm doing so less knobs and switches works for me), I feel like it's a gem that a lot of people will miss out on because it's cheap and plain. There was a lot in this video that made sense in that aspect. Think I may buy a few more 3 series pedals and just let my daughter go nuts on em with some sharpies so they look different and I can tell them apart on the board.
i've never had one of these but Dual Tap Delay is my main ambience pedal since a try it in a store eight years ago. Now i have to get garage tone series pedals, thanks to you Josh
Visual sound was my intro into pedals. My worship leader let me play his board and he had pretty much every visual sound double box. Visual sound lives up to their name and opened my eyes to the wonder of pedals back in the early/mid 2000s.
I bought the delay back then and still have it. Really great.
I never had Steely Dan at my birthday party (I know, hard to believe, right?), but I feel like I did after watching your jam, and it was awesome.
overlooked pedal company of the gods
LOVEPEDAL
As for Steely Dan at your birthday party. You were sort of quoting Hey Nineteen. The guitar player on that, the late Hugh McCracken was a friend of mine, we hung out and played a little, sort of like having part of Steely Dan as your buddy?
I only ever met Hugh's brother and his partner -- Ben Down and Phil McCracken.
Is it uncommon to be inspired by a font? The Garage Tone logo makes me want to get into a "The Sonics" cover band.
The six (6) people who gave this a thumbs down clearly need JHS+ Insurance.
JHS Life Insurance: For when you don't have that pedal, and you did not, in fact, survive.
The Garagetone Drivetrain is the best kept secret in the parallel universe of TS mods - I have 4 of them, and they are completely great! They make a Strat sound huge. I will never, ever sell them - even if, as I suspect, they enter pedal Valhalla like the Klon.
A great pedal company run by some of my favorite people!! So glad to see you repping them!
The ulitimate scheme: Josh buys up all the floating stock of an obsure and unrated pedal line; then does a feature on the line and then uses his 100's of proxy reverb accounts to make a sweet mint.
Im quite convinced he would.
Insider pedal trading....GENIUS!!
@@72ratchet Its easy money.
Still have my oil can phaser on my board. Got it cheap, fell in love with it. Thanks, Josh, for highlighting a great set of pedals! Now, if I can only find that tremolo pedal …. 😁😎🤘🏻✌🏻❤️
Loving the sick burn straight of the bat LOL!
The V2 editions of Route 66 and H2O have been on my board for years. I sold my Garage tone Tremolo a few years back - with the box and and the feet.
I absolutely LOVED these pedals! Especially the oil can , chainsaw and the old..
I so miss them,wish I never gave them away
I Have The Box!
I received my Morning Glory Throwback about a week ago.
Thank You JHS for doing this for us. It’s my first JHS pedal... #212
Wow reverb on the drums!!! Sounds great!!
I loved Visual Sound back in the day! I had 2 double troubles and a Route 66. I would love an episode on Visual Sound.
A bunch of years ago I bought a used and already then discontinued Reverend Drivetrain II (for nerds the second revision with two black felt pen dots on the bottom) and thought it was the best tubescreamer type of pedal ever, and couldn't understand why it was no longer in production. I contacted the company about the possibility of a reissue and learned that I was far from the first to do so and that there were no immediate plans for this, but maybe someday...
Then suddenly the Visual Sound Garagetone series was released and lo and behold with the Drivetrain brought back to life, and for a ridiculously low price. I of course bought one, to check if it indeed sounded like the original and to have as a backup if my cherished original should, god forbid, break or get lost. In my opinion the reissue doesn't sound exactly as the originalm but it can be they cloned the first version, not the version II that I have.
In retrospect I should have bought a bunch, but I could not imagine that a pedal this good and so attarctively priced also should go out of production. It's a killer pedal for a SRV like tone on the neck pickup of a strat into a Fender amp set clean or just at the verge to break up.
Whoever edits these videos is my new favorite person.
15:23 Josh and Nick basically become Brand New but without the lyrics
Bought the Chainsaw for $25 a couple years ago. It’s a misnomer but gets used on some recordings.
Great treble boost.
I have all of these pedals. In 2010 I was a travelling sales person for a distributor and VS sent us all pedalboards with these pedals glued to it so we could show them to our customers. My clients were all local guitar shops with one or two locations. These pedals sounded great but the dealers did not get excited because the profit margin for them was thin and they did not think the average pedal buyer was interested in a $60 pedal no matter how great it sounded. VS should have just painted them white and sold them for $99. #thejhsshow #jhs
I love this line-up. I keep a Drivetrain and Axle Grease on my board all the time. The Axle Grease is my favorite simple "analog sounding" delay.
My solution to good sounding, bad looking pedals is to paint over them or stripe the paint and get some sharpies. Not only you will get something unique and nice looking, but also the process makes you bond with it.
Thanx for the Natalie Prass turn on; The production reminds me of Peter Gabriels So.
I remember those! I had forgotten all about them, and I've never owned one, but I remember seeing the pentagon shaped pedals in guitar stores a lot back in the day
Awesome episode. Would also like to point out that these are buffered bypass and the buffer is of very high quality. That’s why I bought them originally and discovered that they sound great too.
The Axle Grease is one of the first pedals I ever had. Still have it, still love it.
Ive had the overdrive for a long time and I love it.
I found a 1Spot the other day. In my toolbox. At work. I work on airplanes and I have no idea why it was in there. I’m not even sure it’s mine.
It’s a sign ... maybe even a conspiracy ...
@@chrisdrake447 lol. Has to be. Both.
Neat. I had that Oil Can phaser for a little while. Always wondered what the rest of that line sounded like.
I had a few of these. The drive train is great.
Dang your live drums always sound amazing. Don't get me wrong, cool pedals, cool songs, but I'm always blown away by the quality of the drum recordings
I don´t know what they may have changed since, but I remember, in 2019 JHS produced two episodes, where Nick explains some drum miking and preamping stuff:
"How we record a song" and "The colour box is back".
Maybe this helps a little bit to your question. Links to the episodes:
ua-cam.com/video/xUaLE0_3v8A/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/zQSOwzfV7Vc/v-deo.html
Have fun.
@@marcofioravanti4176 thanks!
I recently acquired a Modtone harmonic tremolo pedal for substantially less than the the other brands available. It's my least expensive pedal at under $100 brand new. Love the tone and the vibe.
This is the funniest episode yet. Awesome