6 Guitar Inventions Explained (Electric Guitar. Overdrive, Fuzz, Distortion, Reverb)
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- Welcome to another Monday Monolog with Josh. This live talk will be about why different people seemingly invent the same things at the same time throughout guitar and world history.
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I meant 1830s regarding the Martin guitar :-)
;o)
@@TheGhostComputer Well, there things like the EQD Arpanoid or Rainbow Machine, or the Digitech FreqOut, the EHX Superego. I guess they're all springboards or specific quirks of other pre-existing effects, but, so is everything. Phase, Chorus and Flange are all considered distinct but are very much siblings, and they are kind of children of delay technology. And all of them came from tapeland, first. Ring Mod is old but is still the King of Weird.
Phew, you fixed it before you could be descended upon by hundreds of fact-locusts
@@TheGhostComputer There are so many crazy, unique pedals coming out. Chase Bliss and Earthquaker always releasing interesting stuff, to name just 2
We know.
Lavoisier (one of the oxygen guys) wrote, "We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air," which has to be one of the most poetic lines in the history of science.
This very format needs to become a regular thing. I've enjoyed the regular content for years, but this was packed full of knowledge. Keep 'em coming.
@@stoneysdead689 I've seen the others, I was referring to this particular video.
This was fascinating Josh! Thanks so much. I feel like that term “Adjacent Possible” is going to stick with me for a long time. Keep up the great work!
Awsome
Regarding “You may have written a song and you ask yourself ‘Where did I hear that?’ The best example of that is Paul McCartney and ‘Yesterday.’ McCartney went around for months playing it for various songwriters and composers asking them if they recognized it. He wasn’t sure he hadn’t heard the melody somewhere.
I once rewrote the main riff to Testament’s The Preacher despite having never listened to testament at the time
Another example I really like is King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Float Along - Fill Your Lungs. For those of you who don't know it, it was an important moment for the band, because it set ground for them using weird time signatures on future albums. The guy who wrote it said that after composing it, he realized that he might have based it on the alarm of his car.
@@mondoke and now I’m googling them lol
i “wrote” the main riff to soundgarden’s rusty cage. i was sooooo bummed when someone told me it was already a song. so i never tried to write another song again😔
@@DaveGraw I was once noodling on my guitar with my buddies, and came up with a catchy repeated arpeggio riff in A minor.
We jammed on it, and turned it into a Satriani-type instrumental shred tune.
But something about it always struck us as weirdly familiar.
Playing it later, I changed tempos, and it sounded even closer to something I couldn’t quite identify.
Then one day I experimented and put it up an octave. REALLY familiar.
What if I change keys?
G... no
F... hmmm... but no...
E... waitaminute...
E-flat... oh...
I just re-wrote the intro lick to Sweet Child of Mine.
Well... damn.
James Burke did a number of PBS series and books, most notably “Connections” that dealt with how we ended up with modern technology thanks to some relatively obscure discoveries centuries, and in some cases millennia ago.
He also covers how many people often invented the same thing simultaneously around the world without knowing about each other.
I think many of the episodes are available on CZcams. I dig this stuff.
Sounds like you do too.
czcams.com/video/XetplHcM7aQ/video.html
My favorite documentary show ever.
@@danmiller1981 I used to watch that with my dad. Great series. I’ll have to dig those up and watch them with my daughter.
Came here to say pretty much the same thing; "The Day the Universe Changed" was great too
I love that show. Also great is The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
This was absolutely your best Monday morning video so far. Thank you Josh for bringing up the adjacent possible. I struggled with this when I thought I had created something and somebody had ripped me off. And then I realized that we were all just coming to the same conclusion at the same time relatively. It is really good to hear somebody else bring up the importance of people invent things and create things not corporations. Thank you for doing this on Monday mornings. I am just around the corner from you here in Kansas City. Once again thank you very much for doing this. Hope to meet you one day. Have a great day.
In addition to "the adjacent possible" as applied to technology, there is a concept about what constitutes "art" that all artists should ponder. Author Jose Ortega y Gassett wrote a series of essays around 1925 trying to explain then-recent trends in the art world involving cubism, surrealism and other non-human centric visual styles. The collection of essays, called The Dehumanization of Art, defined art as creative work that lies on an ever-moving boundary between the commonplace as structured by standards and norms and the completely novel / unique that follows no known / accepted conventions. The true measure of the resulting art is how enjoyable the product can be while a) following enough current conventions so the average person can grasp how much skill was required to master those conventions in a particular medium and b) how far astray the artist can go from the current conventions to advance the art. If you are too far within safe conventions, the work has no bite. If the work is too far outside the lines, few can grasp the point and it doesn't click with the masses.
This is like the BBC show, Connections, from around 1980. It's up there with Cosmos.
Thanks for doing all of this work and sharing it, Josh!
This is the best JHS video and highly relevant to not just guitar players but every human on earth. What a great message dispelling the myths of progress and creative success.
"6 on one side" is even older than Martin`s approach:
"By 1825/30, the instruments usually had a headstock in a figure eight shape (similar in shape to the guitar's body). In 1825 Stauffer invented the machine heads named after him: a metal plate with an asymmetrical "scroll" headstock, machine heads with worm gears mounted on the plate, arranged in a single line on the upper side of the head stock (six-in-line). This "Stauffer" headstock and design was reproduced by his son Anton, and copied by many luthiers in the 19th century."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Stauffer
From Vienna with love
Thank You for the link. That was really informative.
This was a great talk - it’s great that you’re not just limiting these talks to pedals and guitar Josh. You’re passing on knowledge with wisdom, which is great. Keep it going. This talk not only made me feel at ease with my own creativity, it’s also been liberating. Making things is part of the joy of life and living.
Another glorious day at JHS university. Thanks as always for sharing your knowledge and findings with us, Josh. I always enjoy learning from you!!
Love the term "adjacent possible."
Also heard it similarly called "the peak to peek principle" - reach a peak and from there you can peek to new places
oh i like that
I’ve been watching this channel for some time now and I really think this is my favorite episode. I love history and I love guitars so this subject is right up my alley…I hope you’ll do more videos like this one. Well done.
Hey Josh great video I really enjoyed it. I took a Psychology course on Creativity in college a few years ago. This book was one of the required readings "Johnson, S. (2010). Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. New York: Riverhead Books" You might find it interesting.
This, my friends, is exactly why people have so much respect for Josh Scott in this industry. Excellent talk.
Great topic. In line with what you discuss, there was a British documentary series created in the late ‘70s called “Connections”. It was hosted by a leisure suit attired guy named James Burke, who in part traced the various historic inventions that led to the creation of modern day items (like cars). It was fascinating.
Yup, this brought it up to me too, and Josh would probably enjoy it. Great series.
His ‘Connections’ series was great too. Similar concepts.
If someone from JHS Is reading this Josh should really read Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media: The extensions of man". It touches on sociological impact of each invention and could be applied to the invention of every effect pedal.
Josh, you need to do this as a TED talk, it's better information than 95% of what they usually pedal . Breaks down the "lone genius" needed for progress myth that has seemed to have taken over so much of the discourse today in all fields. Unfortunately most of those "lone genius" guys and gals are just modern snake oil salesman trying to take credit for all the previous work they did not do to come up with whatever usually small but they claim is huge "innovation" they came up with. Love these Monday talks to get the brain engaged, keep it up.
Would be fun
i LOVE this more academic, thoughtful content from josh-super interesting stuff, and he does an excellent job explaining things. please keep this series up :)
Several episodes ago, you featured a “red remote” in a cable jack. I actually invented that several years ago and when I saw it on the episode, I thought someone must have stolen my idea. Upon talking to the maker of the one you featured, it came out that we really just both stumbled upon the button fitting in the jack based on being pedal nerds making stuff. It was a pretty simple idea and we both came to basically the same conclusion. Parallel thinking is wild.
I didn't expect a pedal designer to share thoughts that would completely change the way I think about the world. Thanks Josh.
Josh, you’re a fountain of knowledge. Thanks so much. Endlessly interesting.
Absolutely outstanding. Josh, thank you for continuing to take an analytical (and sometimes silly) approach to everything you do ! We need more of this in our world.
I guess we are all standing on the shoulders of giants in what ever we think and do. Fantastic talk, really fascinating... thanks!!
I love these monologues Josh, offers a great balance between your various shows. I love the carefree vibe of the live shows, but these scratch a different itch. Great work, 👍👍
You’re the best josh. You slide tone is better that rhett, and your appreciation of the tubescreamer makes you an overall better person then rhett.
Hey Josh love all the new series. What would knock my socks off is if you could do something like the Plate on an RV2, which has that slight lofi crunch to it
Josh, I listened to Go on Home, and I believe that guitar is buzzing on frets, and is also clipping at the input of the amp. The combination of these two create a fuzzy sound.
The guitar is tuned to E flat and it is the low string that buzzes the most. Also low frequencies clip more. Cool sound
I listened to it too and I agree. The Howlin’ Wolf and the Bob Wills songs are great though. My own personal favorite is Chuck Berry-Maybellene.
@@scotthutchens1203 thanks Scott 🎸🎶
@@UmasPapa You’re welcome! My WWll era parents would be surprised to know some of these “hippie” things were actually done first much earlier than in the late 60’s. Exp: the term “Hipster” actually came from their day long before the 60’s.
Finally got a chance to watch this!
No joke, I live my life by most of these principles ... thank you !!!
Interesting!!! I love how Josh is like, "Now, did people copy each other? I'm sure they did, but whatever." LOL
The adjacent possible thing is very cool; all technology/physics is linked, especially when there's a cultural link as well.
This episode nails it! And Josh seemed happier like he had breakfast first.
The history buff in me just LOVES this episode Josh. Well done.
This was, for me, the most interresting episode I’ve seen you do! I’m facinated! I’ve been thinking about this things a lot through the years, and now I even have a 9-year old son who swears he’s gonna be an inventor when he’s done with school.
This episode really pulled the strings together for me, and brought up many interresting things. Really inspired me to do a deep dive into this stuff! Thank you, Josh!
Please, do more of these! ❤️
♥️
Josh, as a seasoned electronics engineer, thanks for the history. The concept of similar inventions happening at the same time is fascinating. It is refreshing your clearing up of so much of the bullcrap that I see on other popular guitar channels. If only the concept of transfer functions could be explored for your audience. Everything along the guitar signal chain can be broken down into individual "boxes" with associated transfer functions acting on the sound. Also, why does noone consider using a spectral analyzer to examine the effect on tone of various popular stomp boxes, amps, pickups, gold standard vintage pickups, tonewood etc. Science. I am certain the developers of DSP effects are aware of these concepts. Thanks for all you do. Such an exciting time on youtube.
I LOVE this kind of stuff. I hope this format is enjoyable for Josh and we can keep getting granular about things.
I been in a massive JHS video worm hole the last few months, love them all. Bought The Bender and absolutely love it. The history/education vids are my favs. This video has to be the most interesting I have ever watched on youtube, learnt so much! The way you explain intention, the steps from one to another was so well explained. Top Marks!
Adjacent possible is what really blew me away, possibilities all over the place!
There's another famous video about this topic, it's called : "everything is a remix".
It comes to the same conclusions of yours.
Great video btw, thanks for all the inspiration and good energy you give us constantly!
An amazing Lecture truly hit me on decades of music that I love. Just great.
I'm not obsessed with guitar pedals because I discovered this channel. I'm obsessed with this channel because discovered guitar pedals.
Great video. Thanks Josh. Just, serendipitously, saw Stuart Copeland video where he made the point that without the bass drum pedal, there’d be no rock and roll. Before that humble invention, there were different drummers for different drums and there was no groove!
I love when you get like this , it’s really amazing how many things evolve from other things.
Others have said this before, but these Monday videos remind me of your earliest vlog/Show entries. The Show has gone in a different direction (that I love), but I'm so glad to have this back. You're filling several different voids in the internet guitar community.
Speaking of the development of bucket brigade I.C.s, I recently repaired a well-used mid-80s Scholz Rockman X100. To my pleasant surprise, all the BB chips, although currently unavailable, were functioning perfectly. Several TL072 chips had bit the dust, the contacts of the battery connections and slide switches were corroded, needing thorough cleaning, and there were several other minor issues, but once all that was done the device worked perfectly and sounded great, and the owner was quite happy with the results.
Recently discovered JHS's channel and it's an absolute goldmine. As a fan of music technology (eurorack and pedals) I know I'll end up watching every episode eventually. Please keep the content coming!!
Dude, this might be one of the best videos on CZcams ive ever seen. I have thought about this so much, and to see someone in your status in life talk about it. It is so so inspiring . Your the best and thank you!
Love your channel Josh.
Your corny dry humor is adorable too lol
Why does nobody see that power cables are obsolete? You could easily route both audio and power signals through a series of pedals using only Midi, TRS(for mono effects), or TRRS(for stereo effects) cables and reduce pedalboard clutter. I will support whichever company does this first.
Seriously, I feel an exam coming. Josh Scott has found his calling and the secret formula, quite professorial...keep these coming.
this was super fun and instructional! thanks for sharing Josh. Keep it up we love to listen to these pieces of wisdom
Josh, if you are into the history of invention and innovation, you have to read about Joseph Needham. I recommend "Bomb Book and Compass" by Simon Winchester. Thanks for your long form nerdy deep dives. I love the content!
One funny thing is that "The Log" is closer in construction to a 3X5 type guitar but Gibson still decided to manufacture a solid body before revisiting it (for lack of a better term) several years later..
Great talk on a very intersting topic!
There’s a cool video of Carl Thompson talking about his dad building an electric double neck in the 30’s/40’s because he was into jamming with his buddies and traded it for a little lap steel. Pretty cool video. These guys were everywhere tinkering in basements!
Josh,
Love the History lessons! Keep 'em coming. You're the reason I picked my guitar up, after 20 years of it sitting in a corner, collecting alot of dust!
Much respect,
Guitar Dave🎸👍🏻
According to the Mayo Clinic, Nearsightedness (myopia) is a common vision condition in which you can see objects near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry. It occurs when the shape of your eye causes light rays to bend (refract) incorrectly, focusing images in front of your retina instead of on your retina.
A slight correction from this stream. I'm farsighted and need glasses for reading.
Love this new content!!
every field of intrest needs a version of this talk
Here's one for you. If you look at upright basses, look at their heads, the guitars were just going off of classical instruments, so its not a who's ripping who off, everybody comes from something already done, and you just brainstorm it to be what you need it to be, and evolve from there. This was a really good one Josh, thanks!
The head shape predates upright basses even!
Im hanging on for the nerdy while taping and velcroing my Morning Glory V4 in 2024. First one from you guys. I kept the shipping box and the pedal box ("He has the box!"). I came back from a massive years long break from guitar playing. Looked into the new technology and found you guys. Life will never be the same. I have consumed embarassing amounts of your content the past couple months 😂
I’m a bit late to this live stream, however thank you!!!!!
One of the best things I’ve ever watched!
That's a very dialethical-materialistic way of analysing history. The material conditions precede the given idea.
One of your best videos ever, as casual and simple as it may be. The subject is a gold mine, you could (/should?) do a full serie of episodes dedicated to it with just the examples you briefly mentioned here being more detailed on each one. Anyway, many thanks for the vid!
Interesting topic. I think you have to ask why they wanted to amplify guitars in the first place. As I understand it, artists wanted to amplify them because of the music being played at the time. The predominant style of music being made at the time was 'big band' . They needed to beef up the volume of the CLEAN guitar signal so it could be heard among and over all the horns, woodwinds and other band instruments. All the rest came once someone heard the amps being pushed.
I love these videos. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this.
Thank YOU!
Perhaps my favorite of your shows. Well done.
I love this shit! Josh is a deep dive kinda guy. The color box wouldn't be without this deep dive kinda guy. Josh is a genius... the real deal..
Favorite talk so far, Josh. THANK YOU
When I was a Program Director in Radio, I found myself having to teach my employees all kinds of things. My own line about “adjacent possibles” was simply this: “Everything has to come from somewhere”. For example, there could be no rock and roll if the BLUES hadn’t been invented first. It’s really as simple as that. And to this day, there is still debate about what Calvert DeForrest invented or DIDN’T invent! This includes the vacuum tube and FM Radio.
The "scroll" headstock is a homage to the headstocks of the Violin family.
Good talk Josh. Context is everything. I recognized your main argument decades ago when I went to a Picasso retrospective at MOMA in NYC. I just assumed he came up with his crazy abstract stuff out of thin air. I was blown away to see that he studied the classic masters and created work in their styles before he evolved his own unique style (as did his contemporaries). Also, a lot of new technology comes from trying to solve problems or optimize existing solutions. During that process, innovations often come from the "adjacent possible".
I have always liked the saying "necessity is the mother of invention:. That explains all this phenomena best to me.
@@stoneysdead689 electric guitar was necessary to get more volume for larger audiences. Solid body electric guitar was necessary because amplified hollow bodies at high volumes create feedback. Od distortion pedals were created because players wanted that sound without damaging their amps/speakers. I respectfully disagree with you
@@stoneysdead689 i didn't say it was just necessary things that get invented. Necessity does speed that process on. I didn't create that saying. It is true though
@@stoneysdead689 its ok with me if you don't agree with me. The person who made the video that we are both commenting on seems to like my comment and that is cool
@@stoneysdead689 what's funny is it seems to me its a matter of semantics in why you disagree with me. I agree with what you said in your essay. I just think that when you say being "steered" in a direction, I see that as necessity. They are being steered by what is wanted by players. I'm not using the word necessity as saying it's absolutely necessary and people cannot go on without it. Although the saying can work in that situation, it is just a saying nonetheless. My comment was simply that I've always liked that saying and that it works in the context of two or more people inventing something without knowing that the other one was. I was in no way saying that the only reason things are invented is because of necessity. I don't understand why you latched onto my comment and decided you have to tell me I'm wrong. I'm not wrong. I completely understood the purpose of what he was talking about. This is all way too much over you not understanding what I meant. I hope this isn't something you normally do as this is exhausting over something so trivial.
@@stoneysdead689 If things aren't necessities people won't purchase them. The fact that all of those things became extremely popular said there was a necessity.
Fantastic Mr. Josh!! No one saw that end thought coming. 100% A. O. K
This is a great video--and Mr. Scott is absolutely right in regard to everything that develops anywhere at any time.
Thank you Josh! I think I grinned through the whole thing. 😁 As a visual artist, and history nerd these are concepts I've been contemplating for quite some time, and as a self taught, perpetual amateur guitarist I found it a real treat to hear them talked about through the prism of modern guitar technology.
Great video man! Thank you for your extensive research and analisis. Paco de Lucía always said "Only mediocre people copy, geniouses steal!", you get my point haha!
Genuinely loved this! I think it can be summed up with the phrase ‘…standing on the shoulders of giants’ fantastic fun.
Thanks for the wonderful words of affirmation towards the end! Came out when i least expected it, but i really needed that for my mental health.
After watching this till the end my mind has just gone 🤯
That’s more than just a video about evolution of thought, that’s inspirational!
🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Rick Rubin's book "The Creative Act: A Way of Being" also describes this phenomenon of ideas having their time to come into existence through multiple people/sources and how this same thing happens within music itself as genres are born and progress. Fascinating stuff.
Thanks for input on innovation. I really appreciate all the research you do to provide us with facts based on historical information. I totally agree with you on your statement that there's no inventing without imitating...
So true Josh! We are all standing on the shoulders of giants!
That Sanford Clark song is straight savage but vibey. Holy cow.
Dear Josh, if you did lectures across the country on this, you would win.
Actually one of the most intresting videos so far
Decided to take a shot every time you say "adjacent possible"... Now I'm haaaaaammmmmmeeerrrrd
I listened to your whole story here and you are absolutely correct. This was very informative for us 👍 to know because we can never know what will be next from technology.
Nice little shout-out to the Line 6 Flextone amp there. I bought one back in the 90s, American made, sounded great (still have it too). I recently bought a Quad Cortex, which if we follow your theory is probably all thanks to the Line 6 continual evolution of DSP and constantly finding ways to get into the market. Great episode. Also I have come to appreciate how well you speak and look at the camera when speaking, thank you.
You are good enough. You are smart enough. And gosh darn it, people like you.
Your discussion reminds me of good talks I've had with retired Motorola engineers. Different applications, but same appreciation and passion. Nerd on!
This is probably one of the most interesting shows you’ve ever done!!!
Also a very inspiring show too!
I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF THIS EPISODE
the best nerdiest stuff I’ve heard since wrath of kon and cosmos.. please keep it up.
Wow! Messge at the end was fantastic. I have stood still creatively for so long .. I will rewatch .. yes inspirational 💛
“ It’s not where you take things from, it’s where you take things to.” -Jean Luc Godard
Another profound, engaging lecture! Thanks Professor Josh. I think you have really nailed down the theory of technological evolution driven by examining the "Adjacent Possible." Your comments on creativity and genius are are encouraging and thought-provoking. I would add that you must be able to accept mistakes because you only find that which works after finding the things that don't work. As you often say, "Just try stuff."
Thanks again and please continue the Monday Mornings.
Great episode. The idea of the adjacent possible is very interesting. It also immediately set up another idea: that creativity is a lot more rule-based and a lot less spontaneous than we normally think. The adjacent possible is about preconditions for an invention being in place, before it can be invented. But then it’s striking that there is any degree of convergence about the things that are in fact invented.
Dude your Monday fireside chats are da bomb.
This was a great video, truly special. This worldview needs to be further embraced by society at large. There are way too many creators (particularly mediocre ones, maybe?) who get way too precious about their original content. Musicians and record labels suing each other and trying to claim copyright on basic musical elements that have been around for hundres of years come to mind. Some reflection on adjacent possibility might influence people towards showing some humility. To top it off, really inspiring words at the end there! This is possibly my favourite JHS video of all time.
Brilliant mate, thoroughly enjoyed it. I must point out that you are a genius for pointing out how WE can be a genius. Keep safe.
Wow! Josh is talented at laying out and demonstrating complex ideas. Talented guy in general. I guess I’m late to this one but, I love this format. I would love to hear him do more work like this.
Not that work like this can be cranked out exactly, it can take decades of experience and research to form thoughts and opinions like these. Anyway, 🔥🔥🔥 haha
You’re referencing p.a speakers in theatres at around 23mins… I believe the bell and Howell style projector boxes played a big part in the design of the first fender amps. My first tube amp was a modified bell and howell with an alnico speaker that I played my partscaster Tele into using the Duckbucker pickup in the bridge and a antiquity in the neck! GAS and gear has always been part of me
As an engineer, this is one of the things I’ve repeatedly had to try to convince other engineers as well as managers & executives of. The myth of creativity & innovation is so widespread.
It’s funny how Apple had possibly its greatest stumbles when they bought into the idea that they had to be “innovative” instead of just executing well on what was possible.