These Guitar Pedals Are Excellent Clones
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- In this week's episode, I'm going to show you several pedals that are just unashamed clones of other pedals. Let’s be honest. This is more for my own amusement than anything else. These units are the pedal equivalent of copying your friends book report. In the comments let me know if you've ever played any of these shameless units!
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Check out the gear in this and past episodes here:
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0:53 Super Overdrive SD-1
1:00 Boss Super Overdrive SD-1
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1:18 PSK Super Overdrive SD-1
2:04 Monarch MCH-1 Stereo Chorus
2:08 Arion SCH-1 Stereo Chorus
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3:08 Delay DL-1
3:26 Boss Delay DM-2
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4:21 Elk Incorporated Super Fuzz Sustainar
4:38 Electro-Harmonix Triangle Big Muff Pi
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4:59 Wren and Cuff White Elk Small Foot
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6:00 Daphon E10CH Super Chorus
6:18 Ibanez Soundtank CS5 Super Chorus
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7:17 POS DT-1 Distortion
7:25 Ibanez CM5 Classic Metal Distortion
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7:54 Crock DS-2 Distortion
8:35 Also the Crock DS-2 Distortion
8:53 Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion
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9:00 Boss DS-1 Distortion
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10:31 Sound JS Stereo Chorus CE-5
11:03 Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
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11:13 Boss CE-2 Chorus
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12:22 GAMMA CR-1 Grunge
12:32 DOD FX69 Grunge Distortion
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Record Time:
Temple of the Dog
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#jhs #thejhsshow #pedalclones - Hudba
Why doesn’t anybody clone Behringer pedals? Like, for $4.95 a piece?
Great idea!
In China they definitely have.
I have several Behringer pedals. They are "OK". I also have a few boutique pedals that are interesting, overpriced and maybe a rip-off. They seemed like a good idea at the time. Currently I'm collecting "Amps-in-a-Box". To each his own. You may not be able to get Behringer's for $4.95 but maybe $15.
@@cjgrasser759 Most of the time I'd rather get a FAB pedal rather than a Behringer.
"Hold my beer!" -- Jeff Bezos
Speaking of shameless, I love the "definitely not the 'In Bloom' riff."
Yes. Need I say more? Yes.
The “CE-5” would be perfect for LoFi, has the record playing sound built in
came here to comment that hahah thank you
Yeah it ruled.
I need this pedal. But only the one in the video
Yeeeeees, the kinda white noise thingy, thought the same
Ironically, they now make $400 pedals to get this exact effect!
That chorus actually has a desirable effect with that bacon sound
besides all this, I gotta say one thing: you killed in all the demos - such a good playing + great ideas. love it! ha.
Cool to see you on here, man. Big fan of yours.
Cheers
Diz pra ele experimentar os Oliver daqui do BR
He really did
Damnnnnn
Wasn't actually expecting seeing fucking Mateus Asato here XDD. Love ur work man, abraço
Casa comigo, man!
WHY DID YOU NOT INSERT THE DIMPLES INTO THE BUMPS IM SO FRUSTRATED
Thank you. Exactly.
I was mimicking the gesture in the air during that part
You really wanna take that kinda chance in 2020?
I was expecting that too. And I thought Josh was to note that the color scheme is inverted in those ones.
@@kristopherjohnson7704 That would probably summon Gozer the Gozerian in giant Marshmallow form
Your broken "ce-5" is a lofi machine! I'm jealous.
"Piece Of Shame" surely has to be the next t-shirt design....
P.edals O.f S.cott maybe? no, we can do better
Persecution of Silence
Mad Season's Above is another huge record combining shining people in their shiny time
That's a great suggestion.
I came to say the same thing.
I was gonna suggest the exact same thing.
Yup was gonna say Mad Season. Long Gone Days is still one of my favorite songs still after all these years
Beat me to it
alternate title: What's the deal with Behringer: Part 2
That would have been very shameless
He did a great video on Behringer. You really should watch it. You'll be surprised by some of the results.
lmao
God bless Behringer to be honest. There clones of legendary (and legendarily expensive) synths have been amazing for musicians that aren’t millionaires.
Gethyn Thomas hell yeah, I’m a guitar and bass player and not really into electronic music.
The only thing with keys I normally use are Hammond clones, but the Behringer synths, grooveboxes and Drumcomputers are simply amazing and so much fun to play around with!
They’ve done a huge favor to the vintage synth community with offering these great reissues at a unbeatable pricepoint.
"Piece of Shame"
When he said that, I expected a different word tbh
I always felt like “Temple Of The Dog” is the beginning and “Mad Season” is the end of an amazing era, or maybe just my youth.
"super FUZZ sustainar" I need that...
Rhett Shull Alongside Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, who uses it.
@@richardbates1409 Wata from Boris, too. Her's looks like tape is holding it together at this point i.imgur.com/h7nTnQ2.jpg
It sounded quite good actually! My fave of all, after the bacon sound, of course.
That Grunge is definitely in the uncanny valley of pedals.
ultimateguitarwizard sounds like every 2 a.m. club choice...
I always used the Grunge for metal and the Supra Distortion for stuff like AiC and Godsmack.
It’s so great how you just love pedals so much, you really give them equal footing and judge them on their merits and not necessarily their status.
I happen to have a Sound JS Stereo Chorus CE-5 and the output jack of it is actually stereo. You got to plug a TRS cable into it and get stereo signals on tip and ring then. You may need a Y-adapter in order to use that signal. Now the best thing about it: The stereo signal is useless to the bone. The bacon sound becomes even louder while a good part of the "stereo" chorus effect cancels out. Amazing!
My Brain:
PUSH THE DIMPLES AND BUMPS TOGETHER
yes
Yeah, that was my take too. They made it that way so those two pedals could get together and make smaller pedals.
“Now kith”
I read this comment before that part of the video, and now that I have reached that part of the video, I am EXTREMELY upset he did not do this
Hello !! i'm from Argentina and have the same feeling.why he didn't do it ??!!..hahaha
Temple Of The Dog is a phenomenal album. I've got a rather large collection of 80s-90s Seattle movement. Love it.
The Temple of the Dog record is amazing. It was the soundtrack of my college years and the record that really made me appreciate Chris Cornell for his songwriting ability, his vocal range, and soulfulness. He ultimately became my musical idol. So many great tunes. Wooden Jesus and All Night Thing are also stellar. RIP Chris Cornell.
Crock is Ukrainian pedals made in Kharkiv, and the name "Crock" (Крок in Cyrillic) in Ukrainian means "Step".
I thought you wear them on your feet ... Its a bunch of Crock anyhows
There is joy and happiness with this channel... no fail. TY Josh for the details and the humor.
Clones are great because I can't afford a Klon gold, but I can get a clone and figure out that I don't particularly like it
Look up decibelics, he makes the most accurate klon around, I love mine
That Collings orange? Josh, love how you play the shameless clones episode on a shameless ES335 clone that costs more than my car. Tastefully done.
I swear if a “He has the box” shirt does not get released I will print it myself.
Zak Seipel but then you won’t have the box...
Good news. If you don't know it yet, the shirt is available at JHS site.
If you print it yourself it will be a… shameless clone
Check out Mad Season’s “Above” for that Seattle mish mash sound. Great record
Fantastic LP...
Killer album ! still in love with it since 1995 !
+100
Imagine copying the design of a pedal and you go with the Ibanez Lady Bug series.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I think Daphon earned a 10 on the shameless scale just for the series of pedals they decided to clone.
@@evitative462 Daphon were the ones that originally made the pedals produced the pedals for Ibanez so it's not really a clone.
Argh I foking hate lady bug.
I would stay out of the pedal business. I could design a pedal that I like and if I brought it to market, it would be the same or "too similar" to an existing pedal. Unless I could imagine a unique sound that I don't think has been done before, (which I can't at this time and I'm 65), I'd play it safe and just stay out of the arena. Look how Spirit sued Led Zeppelin (unsuccessfully) because Stairway to Heaven had some note & chord sequences that was similar to a song of theirs. The ruling was based on the fact that probably all of those note sequences have been used for centuries, with examples.
Pedal designs have not been around for centuries but there are known circuits that cause effects such as fuzz ( a friend of mine build a fuzz for me in high school in 1973). It didn't come "with a box" but I still own it and the circuit board is simple. It would be so easy to swap out some caps, diodes or resistors and change the effect. I'd never even think of marketing it because whatever I came up with would probably resemble someone else's pedal and I don't have time to research all the electronics patents.
@@cjgrasser759 Almost the entire pedal industry is just those old circuits with some caps or diodes changed or sometimes just outright clones. There are very few pedals that actually are unique enough that they don't resemble another pedal. Marketing is the backbone of the pedal industry.
You know, there’s something very comforting about your vlog. Your manner and wonderful passion for this is actually quite soothing, as well as fascinating. I usually queue a heap of JHS episodes up and watch on my tv as just “binge watching”. Love your work mate.
This was sooo fun! Love the format you've created! :)
"We're all clones, all are one and one are all" -Alice Cooper
Q-What is a pirates favourite pedal?
A-SUSTAINAAAAAAAAAR
Corner. Now. And think about what you just did.
Aye cap'n
Maybe it was the Spanish infinitive “to sustain,” sustainar. The Russians had ties in Latin American countries, for sure, had to. My wife is Russian, she probably knows why. I will ask her; she will care, definitely.
Well, come to think of it, there were some Spanish pirates, as Pirates of the Caribbean would have us to believe, so maybe the Russian ties were to Spain itself and not the Latin American colonies. AGAIN, my wife would know, and she will totally set this one straight. Russian ties to Spanish Pirates - Viola! The Sustainarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Makes total sense; wife will confirm.
Ok, quick update; my wife can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a transatlantic Spanish-Russian Pedal pirating operation that may or may not have spanned from the early 80s to the mid-late 90s. And I’m not allowed to watch the show anymore. Bye guys. Hope you guys figure it out. The truth is out there!
Hello from your JHS founding home town...been living here all my life. Glad to have you on my play list. Really enjoy the content!
The editing in this episode is one of the best. I loved it ❤️
My favorite clones are the ones that I build myself. PedalPCB has a great line of pc boards that they identify as “compare to” and name the original pedal. The online forum has information shared by other builders with suggested modifications and pictures of in-process and completed pedals. Small Bear is open again and is a great one-stop source for enclosures and components. Anyone aspiring to be Josh when they grow up should start here. Great video, Josh!
love both of those sites and have been building stuff for years
Pedal building is good fun GuitarPCB is also a great site for boards.
The PedalPCB community is so good!
I have slowing been building a board of nothing but pedalpcb clones of my main board. I love it.
I've been building for years but I've never heard of Peral pcb. I feel like it's cheating to use a prefab'd pcb lol. I use Vero board or make my own PCB or do point to point. I live right next to mouser and can pick up orders at will call without paying shipping so I've never used small bear but I tried to buy a handful of germanium PNP transistors about a month ago but they were closed. Now that they are open again I'll give them another shot.
i was hoping you would interlock the bumps of the daphon with the dimples of the soundtank...
Man, this was great ! Most of your videos are great, but this was something special and amazing ! Loved it !
Temple of the Dog! One of my favorite memories was singing along with friends to Hunger Strike on repeat until 4am. And then having to go to work the next morning. Aww Youth!
On the topic of other strange collaborations, the was the King Gizzard and the Lizzard wizard and Mild High Club collaboration called Sketches of Brunswick.
An even weirder collab record was the soundtrack to the movie Judgement Night, where you have Sonic Youth do a song with Cypress Hill, De La Soul with Teenage Fanclub, and Sir Mix-a-lot with MudHoney!!!
Ha Ha , we are old
Missed opportunity not calling this episode "Shame of Clones"
You will never amount to anything. A title is supposed to be descriptive. Not a 10s joke from the episode. Have fun never amounting to anything.
Haaa that is the perfect shameless joke :)
no name = Nameless Clone
@@noname-ng6sj relax
A beautiful mixmatch collab band: Lard. The lovechild of Al jourgensen of Ministry and Jello Biafra from Dead Kennedy's. It's a weird amalgamation of industrial metal and 80's punk in the vein of Dead Kennedy's. Check out their record "Pure Chewing Satisfaction". A personal favorite: "I Wanna be a Drug Sniffing Dog".
Aaron Archual That was a lineup I never would have imagined until I held the album. Jello being straigh laced and Al being so open about dropping acid on the daily.
Lard! Man, that takes me back.
You guys have the best intro graphics! Kudos!! I'll be humming that tune til bedtime now. So chill 👌😘
Just stumbled upon your channel earlier today, and am going to be spending some significant time in the near future catching up on your videos. As a hobbyist A/V volunteer that likes to dabble in electronics projects and that is hoping to have some time to finally get around to playing with and learning how to play some of the instruments I have acquired over the years, I find your content incredibly educational, very interesting, and just really resonating with me. And then to top it all off, ending the video with a highlight of my favorite album of all time, how can I not subscribe?
Temple Of The Dog is one of my all time favorite record.
The second album by Down is a great one too. For those who may not know, it’s a band consisting of members of Pantera, Crowbar and Corrision of Conformity.
Josh, you need to check out this "hybrid collab" band that I discovered. The lead singer from the Crawling King Snakes got together with a session guitarist, the bassist from Them Crooked Vultures, and the drummer from Band of Joy. I'm blanking on the collab band name but it's something like Iron Blimp or Heavy Floating Passenger Vessel. They're pretty good.
God - they're terrible. The singer sounds like he's far more suited to some alt-country crap. And the drummer makes me want to puke.
I believe they're called the Archies, and they're a cartoon...sorry to be the one...
I fell for that. The singer and the drummer were both in Band of Joy though
@@reeeky2001 Sure, but that's not inconsistent with the singer also being in Crawling King Snakes.
Great episode! I'd like to see an episode on pedals that started out as clones but ended up being a totally different (but still great) pedal. As in like, "we couldn't get the right components cheaply enough, so we used this cheaper bit and simplified the wiring, and now a lot of people like it better than the original."
Lol at your bizzaro Nirvana riffs haha. You're a great person doing great work, I appreciate you. Thank you.
The CE-5 has nice lo-fi-esque sound effects to it
Yes very reminiscent of Puma Blue
Should be titled: "Pedals I can actually afford"
I'm sorry if your budget can't reach a legit SD-1 :D I guess behringer is still cheaper. Like second hand SD-1 are plenty and go for like $30. Electro-Harmonix is also one of those brands that you always called budget friendly.
Not anymore after this video!
@@Yupppi that's not how you spell Joyo
Thanks man! Good stuff! The Soundtank clones are epic!
The "'CE5"' sounded like a low fi - hip hop chorus with the noice in the back haha amazing
HE HAS THE BOOOOOX!! Need that t shirt 😯
Only his says "l have". Everyone else's says "He has"...
If that shirt comes in a box, I don't even care if the shirt is missing.
“But Josh, aren’t most pedals these days technically clones?” *sees thumbnail* “Oh, THOSE kinds of clones...”
Probably my favourite shirt I’ve seen Josh wear on this show.
I loved this episode, it certainly put a smile on my face. The extra long Grunge pedal looked so wrong but sounded really good. FYI I ALWAYS have the box.
Star Wars is just Dune with a plastic enclosure.
Nope
@ultimateguitarwizard star wars sucks, but dune is a shitty movie
Whaaaat?
Christianity is just Dune with a hard styrofoam case, and they forgot the stereo input.
@@BoardnotBored It's not true bypass that's why.
I liked Temple of the Dog a lot, I like just about anything Chris Cornell has ever been involved in. It seemed to me that was more like a "pre-PearlJam" than a merging of anything. They decided they couldn't go on as Mother Love Bone but that affected Soundgarden and Cornell in particular as much as anyone. So this came as a result before they all went their separate ways.
That's spot on! I'm in my 50's, from Seattle, friends with a number of the people involved, and worked at the downtown Tower Records, at the time.
Temple Of The Dog was a tribute to Andy Wood, and it was FROM that mish-mash of musicians from various groups, that Pearl Jam formed (at first, as Mookie Blaylock).
Obviously being close to it all, I feel that this specific element of this album, is historically significant, but most important is for people to DISCOVER the album, and from that, they can start tracing band lineages, and deep diving into a number of great bands from that time and place.
@@soundpropellerpatrick113 That comes from their own words in the Malfunksun documentary.
@@sugarkitty4777 That's why it's so spot on!
Mother Love Bone's singer, Andrew Wood, had recently died due to a drug overdose just as their debut album was released. He was a good friend of Chris Cornell. They had lived together for a time. Chris wrote some songs about Wood and asked Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament of Mother Love Bone if they wanted to record them with him as a tribute. The tribute songs grew into an album. While this was going on, Jeff and Stone had started forming a new band with Mike McCready on guitar. They didn't have a name yet. During the Temple of the Dog recording sessions, Eddie Vedder had come up from San Diego to audition for the new band which would become known as Pearl Jam. They asked him to sing on Hunger Strike. Don't remember if he had any other backing vocals on the album or not. They toured a little as Temple of the Dog, but I don't think there was ever an idea to be a permanent band since Soundgarden were on the verge of their breakthrough with Superunknown and the new formation of Mookie Blaylock/Pearl Jam. It was always meant to be a one off tribute to Andy Wood.
@@scedge This is very accurate. I was... close... to the whole situation (friends with a number of the people involved - no namedropping, that's not the point).
There was a big Andy tribute show at The Paramount, where Temple Of The Dog played (that show was maybe without Chris, of memory serves).
For such famous groups involved in the realization of that project, I'll say again, I think it's odd how muddled the history became to those who weren't there, despite being fans of the various groups.
Before the rest of the world realized there was something going on musically in the Northwest, Andy seemed poised to become a huge star, and he was a good musician, amazing sense of humor, and so on.
When he died, it GUTTED all of us who were friends with him, or even just casually knew him.
Obviously many tragedies and losses to come, but none of us knew that, of course, so Temple Of The Dog was such a cathartic thing for all of us, amd fans of Andy/MLB/Malfunkshun
YES! More shameless clones, please. But first, a full episode on the Ibanez Tone-Lok pedal series!
Brilliant - thanks for another great video. I'd love to hear a record of songs made with this type of pedal.
The Jeff Beck album "Jeff" is really good, the song seasons in particular is outstanding Jeff beck and apollo 440 collaborating. Defo worth checking out for that song alone
Pushin' Forward Back is my favorite on the album! The Melvins - Hold It In is pretty great. King Buzzo & Dale Crover are joined by Paul Leary & Pinkus from The Butthole Surfers. There are a few songs on there that sound like Butthole Surfers songs but with Buzz on vocals instead of Gibby. The Hindu Love Gods self titled album is pretty great too. Warren Zevon backed by Mike Mills, Peter Buck, & Bill Berry of R.E.M. playing covers. Their version of Raspberry Beret is really good.
Speaking of Soundgarden, while there is no official release of this, the Tadgarden show is super cool! Soundgarden reunited in 2009 playing Soundgarden songs but with Tad Doyle singing
I gotta check that one out! Thanks for the intell!
Awesome. Let's have episode 2 asap
I contacted you about the DL-1 a while back. Glad it made it here.
It's embarrassing to say this as a Korean, but Josh is wrong. PSK is made in Korea.
That’s what I thought too. PSK stands for “Product of South Korea” ... also I think those “unbranded” boss clones he shows are also PSKs. They didn’t always have the initials printed on them.
koreans will always try to copy japanese
@@Amir14Ameero Hey man I'm Japanese and that's fucking uncalled for.
@@potatoheadhaoy Yup Very True.
Talk about JHS clones
@Rumy 73 I don't think that JHS is really that straight forward about the fact the many of his "designs" are little more than tweaking a few cap and resistor values here and there of pre-existing circuits:
Wheeler Fuzz - Zvex Wolly Mammoth
Andy Timmons - Mi Audio Crunch Box
Angry Charlie - Mi Audio Crunch Box
All America - Pro Co RAT
Alpine - Sky Pedals Cloud 9
Astro Mess - Devi Ever Hyperion
Bass Mini Bomb - Tim Escobedo's Duende JFET (Bass version)
Blender - ROG Splitter-Blender
Bun Runner - Devi Ever Hyperion + Tone Bender
Charlier Brown - Zvex Distortron
Double Barrel - Marshall Bluesbreaker + Ibanez Tube Screamer
Emperor - Arion SCH-1
Feedback Looper - diy Feedback Looper with volume control added
FireFly - Sola Sound ToneBender MKIII(Madbean PastyFace)
Green Tea - Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer(Bass) + ROG Splitter-Blender + Tim Escobedo's Duende JFET
Honey Comb - EA Tremolo
Kilt - Bixonic Expandora + Booster(booster not traced)
Lime Aid - Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer (Bass version)
Low Drive - Ibanez Tube Screamer with fat mod and clipping mod
Mini Bomb - Tim Escobedo's Duende JFET
Moonshine - Ibanez Tube Screamer with fat mod and clipping mod
Morning Glory - Marshall Bluesbreaker
Muffuletta - EHX Big Muff
Pandamonium - Zvex Wolly Mammoth + ROG Flipster
Panther Analog Delay - BOSS DM-2
Panther Cub V 1.5 - BOSS DM-2
Pink Panther Delay - BOSS DM-2
Pollinator - Dallas Arbiter/Dunlop Fuzz Face(Germanium)
Pulp n Peel - Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer
Ruby Red - ROG Superaux Deux + booster(booster not traced)
State Line - Zvex Distortron + Marshall Blues Breaker
Superbolt - ROG Superaux Deux
Sweet Tea - Ibanez Tube Screamer + Mi Audio Crunch Box
The Calhoun - Eighty Seven Percent - De Stijl + Sola Sound ToneBender MKIII(Madbean PastyFace)
Twin Twelve - Eighty Seven Percent - De Stijl
Warble Tron - Uni-Vibe(Madbean Harbinger One)
Note that whilst some of these are pedals made by big businesses that probably don't care about the numbers JHS is selling, some are smaller independent builders and plenty are DIY designs where the actual designer is known. In the case of the Devi Ever pedal, he denied it was a clone for a while until it turned out that, actually it was a clone.
@Rumy 73 Everyone is straight forward about their clones, they do the same layout, color and knobs and everything, just cause they don't write a paragraph or make a vid doesn't mean they are not saying it,
JHS just charges "premium" pricing at "boutique" BS.
Of all the pedals I owned, JHS and Wampler are the only two that died on me, and the only two that fit that description, I found tons of better alternatives, I stopped buying any a long time ago.
@@leeroyfunk many of these builders have no clue how to design a new circuit or innovate in something ...they just change 2 or 3 resistors or caps and charge you big money 🤣
First demo sounded like shit bro..
JHS clones have been talked about already in JHS' "Pedals I Have Killed" episode: czcams.com/video/FIXzYTCXy1s/video.html
YESSSSSS!!!!! When I saw the title I was really hoping they would do a version of their "shameless plug" jingle and I was immediately satisfied!
Great episode for my birthday! As much as I love fuzz, I think the Super OD clone was my favorite.
Man, that “stereo” ce-5 is the ultimate lo-fi hip hop machine...
Was here to comment this. I'd actually love to record a chill track with that little sizzling noise goin the whole time.
Alternate title: least self reflective man in pedal industry solidifies his place.
Wot.
My favorite is a toss-up between the POS and the Stereo(?) Chorus. But watching Josh trying not to laugh makes me laugh. Thanks, I needed that.
Loved that fried blue chorus sound!! its like an old vinyl sound!! great idea for a pedal, fried sound with some mids eq!!
Okay is there already a "sounds like bacon" shirt?^^
Could also be a pedal, JHS Bacon, a pedal that lets you dial in smooth cooking sounds or turn them up to fuzz or hi-gain madness
Has a cool lo-fi sound to it like an old record
I could see some use for a @jhs whitenoise generator with sizzle sfx. Think like the noise oscillator in Serum, but geared more to the goofy memer internet dork rather than bassheads
Yeah if that thing is broken there is NO WAY I would fix it! That's like having a chorus and a low-fi sound all in one. Only think is gigging with it I would always be wondering if it would just quit at any moment!
+ 1 for the Bacon Pedal. Maple toggle?
@@comrade_crab for a sweeter midrange!!!
The Grunge pedal is a must have pedal for every jazz guitarist
Metal guitarists as well. I run mine through an 8 band FX40B EQ and get a pretty good sound.
😂
Josh definitely needs a poster collage with snapshots of him holding every pedal he has held up to the camera.
Love the tone-deaf covers in the demos... almost hitting the mark on the hits the original pedals are known for, but just off a hair.
40 seconds in and you’ve already exceeded your quota of saying shameless in one video.
Masters of Reality "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" - Our incomparable Mr. Ginger Baker joins existing band with singer who sounds eerily like Jack Bruce to create album of unclassifiable alt rock, sounding like an echoing inpressionistic rendering of Cream from an alternate universe in which the concept of long blues-based guitar solos does not exist.
The Smithereens "Meet the Smithereens" - The Smithereens cover "Meet the Beatles", itself an alternate American version of "With the Beatles" with three songs added and five songs (all covers) omitted, seemingly unconcerned with sounding remotely like the Beatles.
Fantastic episode. More like this.
The opening of Reach Down. Awesome!!!
PSA: A coworker of mine let me know that you should refer to the place as Ukraine w/o 'The'. Source: coworker is from Ukraine and apparently adding 'The' is offensive.
Nobody asked you though.
Simon H shut up Simon
The irony of this title should be lost on no one. Hell, you could rename the company this.
Great episode and album choice!
I was huge Temple Of The Dog fan when that was released. Reach Down is an all time great (math) rock song.
Having worked in the telcom and bicycle industries in Taiwan and China I very much enjoyed this episode. Finding knock offs of products you've been involved in getting to market can be crushing. At the same time it can be fun to see how someone else reverse engineers things. One observation I'd like to offer is that I've seen Japanese companies licence designs to other companies who can produce them at lower cost. The agreement is usually that they only sell them into markets not focused on by the licencing company. Or they are stealing the intellectual property and selling into a market where the patents and copy writes can't be enforced.
WHERE'S THE ASTRO MESS JOSH?
Is copying a circuit okay but copying a circuit and the design is shameless? Im confused and mit sure where to draw the line.
It is not OK to copy a circuit board but copying a ciircuit is allowed.
Awesome vid as always. Would love to see a video of the Boss Blues Driver and where it falls in the overdrive spectrum
Nick Cave and Shane McGowan s cover of Louis Armstrong, what a wonderful world. Great combo right there
Judgement Night soundtrack.
Killer soundtrack!
First album that came to mind.
can we get an "I have the manual" version for those of us with very slightly less shelf space
My fave one, POS (Piece of Shame!!) you got me on that one Josh. Hilarious 😂
That broken chorus pedal at 11:20 actually sounded awesome
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There is a fanzine all about POS dt-1 in Japan.
The author compared and analyzed13 different versions of them.
booth.pm/ja/items/1913257
"He has the box" had me laughing so hard! Great episode!
Legend has it if you press the soundtank clones' bumps into the soundtank's dimples they both cease to exist.
I've fallen in love with the purple powerhouse named the Suhr Riot and it's "Us Dream" clones. They're fantastic.
This was a very entertaining episode.
I am a fan of this show, and also of heavy metal. I know you're not exactly a metalhead, but I was wondering if you would ever consider doing an episode comparing effects pedals that claim to have a "metal" sound to them (of which there are many). I would love to see and hear that.
That Crock with the bypass issue has exactly the sound I'm looking for my next psychedelic track :-)
Like how you changed up the Nirvana song just enough at the end. Also kudos for not being a gear snob w those odd ball purchases! Seems these pedals are fun tools for the right job anyways
TOTD is one of my favorite band collabs ever.
Another odd one was a record from a band called The Gracious Few. It was the vocalist from Candlebox fronting the band Live. I can't say it was a stellar album, but it definitely has that new-but-familiar vibe you mention if you're familiar with the origins from which the members hailed.
Temple of the Dog is one of my favorite albums!
I had a feeling that since the last clone you've covered was Grunge that the record time will be in the same vibe...
Cool episode!
Excellent video, you are very funny. I really like your playing, and I also admire the distortion at 9:52 -- the distorted letters on the name of the pedal -- killer! Check out the soundtrack to the movie Spawn for some odd artist pairings, Filter + The Crystal Method, Buthole Surfers + Moby, you name it.