Meet The Maker - With Josh Scott From JHS Pedals!

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] hey guys welcome to Anderson's TV and a very exciting guest today Josh and his team from JHS pedals we shall be jamming we may have already jammed I don't know how this is gonna go out with and Josh as you probably know makes pedals fine pedals amongst other things and you're a bit of a geek when it comes to these things and you're you're quite absorbed in the history of pedals and so I thought as you're in the UK I'd like to know what impact did the UK have on pedals because I think we all know we didn't do a lot for guitars but we did a lot for amps and pedals I don't really know what yeah what did we do first of all I love how you described me being absorbed in pedals it's a good I'm gonna have to remember that so UK England like the importance that's what you're kind of getting into yeah did we make anything important as far as pedals is concerned yes crazy important okay um so the first you know the first guitar pedal is manufactured in 1962 in Kalamazoo Michigan the maestro fuzz tone and this is hard to imagine but there was no Anderton's doing International shipping Wow there was no Amazon eBay you know reverb and the fuzz pedal was really new they made a few thousand sent it into dealers like I even have this record or it like you put it on it's like the demo first guitar pedal demo ever it's fascinating and they're like the new sound of the maestro fuzz so make your guitar sound like a trumpet and things like that so they don't really have this rock and roll things not there yet and some people start using it they sell about 3,000 to 2,000 the dealers nobody's really buying it now the story goes that makka ruiz was down on Denmark Street yeah like number 22 there and session guy supposedly goes over has one now the reason that significant is like I said you couldn't really order things nobody it wasn't so connected can be on Instagram and you guys post something and I see it immediately but were thousands of miles apart and this guy had one of these pedals a few people knew about him you see John Lennon there's a photo from Abbey Road I think it's 63 he had one so like prominent people had them and this guy didn't like the sound of it he was he said it doesn't have enough sustain it could have more low in you've heard the maestro it's like a can of bees piercing your skull that's really bright and a guy in the back modifies it Gary Hearst and creates the tone bender also solace sound is formed this fuzz pedal the tone bender and that's 1965 and the British Invasion has started 1964 for us Americans at you know the Beatles on TV huge but this thing in London is to me the most important moment in rock and roll history you have these kids growing up John Lennon all these British artists listening to Elvis listening to blues they're over here and this fuzz pedal thing happens music starts to change and they take our American music and they create this British rock thing with this fuzziness and the tone bender is front and center Eric Clapton Jeff Beck just endless names could go on and on and they create this British Roxanne Jimmy Page right there bring it back over so there's this really interesting the fuzz puddle comes from America it's not really that great mm-hmm it gets brought to London made amazing and then the world's changed so it's a huge deal you have solo sound because I don't I mean I know the tongue bender but that never came really like a range or and so the sound I imagine most people aren't familiar with that yes so solo sound dues makaras which is still on Charing Cross is at Charing Cross Charing Cross yeah Charing Cross Charing Cross Road sharing a great store if you ever in Lund yeah so that was solo sound they came up with a name for this Hadley wanted company they knew there was something going on there and they start selling them there's a mark one there's a mark two or three there's all kinds of versions and as that kept going they wanted to evolve this even more because there's more petals so mr. arbiter is in London and he wants a fuzz pedal he looks and sees the base of a mic stand and says let's put a fuzz circuit in the circle and make it a face fuzz face so that's 66 the year that Hendrix lands here very convenient and that's London royal Hendrix you know comes from Seattle so once again you guys took an American thing but the data saw its face then yeah is the who was credited with the circuit in that so we don't know the circuit history - that is really fun right how nerdy do you I mean you guys can just fall for it if you want feel free to fast forward all right feel free to fast work so there's a guy Vox Jennings is on Charing Cross Road yeah I say right yeah okay Vox Jennings and there's a guy named dick Denny that works in there not dick designed the ac30 the ac15 and mr. Jennings hates distortion right and which is really ironic when you think over rock and roll history like Queen and in 1830 he hates distortion but this dick did he guy was constantly tweaking and inventing and there's a legend that he took like a tin can to basically like the little little flavoring thing and makes us like these cans people had laying around builds this buzz circuit in it two transistors and start showing it to people they don't really bite mr. Jennings doesn't like distortion it's their goal to make the AC amps as clean as they can be because it's jingle-jingle hold my hand stuff and that circuit is exactly the topology of the fuzz face so the first advertisement we see for box Jennings with this silver it's a long silver plug into area called box distortion booster right that is the fuzz-face circuit and the first ad for that is it's late 64 early 65 plus miss is 66 and there's also a third wheel to this which is in the 90s a collector in somewhere and I think I think he's Swedish right I'm Dennis Johansen he has a tonne minute collection he opens up one that he thinks is a mark 2 it has two transistors atonement has three right so there's this discovery of a 1.5 or a mistake yeah but Gary hearse worked with dick Denny and Robin Harris was the tone bender designer and for some reason there's this two transistor tone bender that was made for a few months Kerry says and guess what it is exactly like the dick Denny Vox circuit okay and the fuzz face so there's these this connection there of who's credited for the fuzz face I think it's Dick Denny right some people would say who knows I kind of quite like that relatively early on people at people are looking at the form of a pedal as as important to how it's gonna be received and marketed as they actually inside of it because that round if I see a it's just it's one of the most iconic and he was really genius so says mister arbiter was the guy who designed the logo on the Beatles kick drum really very visual he was a retail guy like Jim Marshall yeah you know he he was just visual he was all about marketing and that fuzz-face so we see Hendrix in New York with a maestro fuzz tone we see him with a Marshall super fuzz but he gets the first place and keeps it and I like to think it's just how it looked we had some guys don't over that know we had some email exchange and recently because I saw they said this is this is so super weird like on a on a Facebook group that I'm a member of that's about Guilford the town that Anderton's is in somebody said let here's a clipping from Melody Maker in 1967 where my dad or whatever wrote to say happened to them say how does Jimi Hendrix gate sound and Jimi Hendrix wrote back in the clipping and he talks about a folks freak fuzz or know a folks fuzz that was part of like a freak group I think he refers to few access from Greenwich your city yeah West Village Greenwich Village so that yeah I googled bugs fuzz and couldn't find anything so this proves that you're a super nerd well that's just kinda this is mega nerd this is like a deep this is this is deep Illuminati because this is where like there's point one percentile who have even heard of this so yeah bugs there's if you're gonna like spot a fire up on music you can listen to the Fugs right it's not great but they're a band and it's it's very much the genre so like in this era you have like Cafe Wha and these like clubs and you have like Dylan and the protest movement all these poets and beatniks they were kind of this strange like psychedelic folk group and apparently one of the guys I can't remember his name he would tinker with circuits and there's a buzz circuit and I have never seen a picture i I've Scott I mean I interview people constantly talking to people all over the world no one has ever seen this pedal but Hendricks says he had a thug's fuzz and this would have been 64 so with no connection to England nobody knew dick Denny here yeah nobody in New York really I mean Vaux was probably there were some amps there's a lot of mystery that is in someone's garage or someone's love attic or somewhere in the land for hanging from you know it really was DIY that it's maybe made a few maybe Hendrix had one or three or four and this this was happening which is really weird so the maestro is actually designed in 1960 was an accident from a yeah country music session 1960 when snotty goes and makes the circuit to replicate the broken board and I just interviewed a guy in Beverly Hills who was there when the WHA was invented and I'm back in there prowlin and his room he's in his 80s I believe and he just opens a drawer and shows me this metal box and he made a fuzz and the pots I looked and dated it 61 and he didn't even care he didn't think it was cool and I'm drew I'm like drooling and sweating and holding this like this is this is really crazy because the air everyone wanted fuzz and people were making do I think so this Fugs buzz so you think folks were banned venom winter when weather I mean I'm listen right so well Hendricks says they were a freak group he doesn't mean like a group of freaky people he means like a band that probably made their own first modded yeah they were a band then you listen to when you've had enough drugs in your system well if if the folks are on Spotify they're gonna get a royalty check soon for about or maybe even $1 off the back of the number of people are gonna go and listen to them and after watching this video this is what we call a show yeah before we you're probably looking at the mess on the table it's all these are modern these are some of the the British guys who are doing pedals now but none of these no but before we before we get there tell me I mean I think of people like Roger mayor as a real pioneer oh shoot and color sound yeah what were they a little later or like just say tone bender 65 plus 66 67 is the Octavia right Roger mayor has this prototype he meets Hendricks the story is he said he walks in probably bagging ELLs and at the club and hey check this out and and Hendricks plays it gets excited and brings Roger and the pedal to the finishing overdubs of are you experienced Wow so this invented box and then he hires mayor to travel so Roger mayor's there at 67 then you have the okay the doubt so Dallas arbiter fuzz-face the Rangemaster was 66 that's huge Rory Gallagher yeah that was it that product the ranch boss yeah that was here and that was a failure of concept because they wanted to brighten up darker Marshalls and things to be like fender but what happens is you plug it into a dark fender and you crank it and it's like it's a distortion it was you know technically not what they wanted but it's known now I wish I'd known that I cuz I met however a few times before he died really he much older than I am obviously and and I never really I just saw him as a guy who was the head of a big distributor you know they defender at the time and all kinds of stuff like that I never really very like bit of a cliche sort of older guy drove his rolls-royce everywhere I never knew I'd love to have asked him out all this yeah it's like he didn't play guitar and like a lot of these founding people didn't play guitar really they they had an engineer that worked with him and did things and they put products out and that and he was a distributor yeah like you said he just wanted to make a product Mike Matthews late 60s he doesn't play get to re just right saw these effects and it's kind of Wow like a lot of the founding people are just businessmen who were hearing fuzz all over the radio now I also kind of think to myself after that sort of early that sort of period of pedal making so you're going through you know three or four quite well-known British concepts and manufactures that here then it all goes a bit dark in the sense of sort of going and until even some of the brands that are on here reappear that that almost seems to be just a total I don't it we're not on that and then they said but you know boss mxr the HX you know they get just dominate so what happens is you have 72-73 mxr comes under AA chest for new york Mike Matthews has started 67 69 he gets huge at the big muff you have all the DoD stuff happens yeah 84 color sound is started or like the first ad I think is 1970 and that is so listen it's my car right okay you can go there by the way and there they make these nice like reproductions really great have a lot of legendary English builders making them but they you kind of go through the 70s and boss releases the compact series in 77 and absolutely destroys everyone mxr goes bankrupt early 80s Mike Matthews goes bankrupt knowing electro harmonix DoD survives because they switch to the silent boss tile switching all these the clicking switches yeah anyone who had a clicking switch in the early eighties died right everyone wanted the FET like the clean bypass no popping and so boss it's absolutely boss bankrupt and makes companies completely disappear and I mean I know we're gonna talk about British stuff but just because I know I will I won't get the opportunity to ask you all this stuff if I don't do it now so what was boss on day one an entirely sort of Japanese design subsidiary of Roland or was it for a while its own thing and that Roland then acquired yes so bar so Roland's first pedals there are Roland pedals to be bar you ever seen those big silver pedals so Roland had pedals seven leaf I think the catalog is 73-74 and they have the first flanger one of the first Flanders ever there's a story where they don't even know what flanges like the engineers told to design a flanger and it brings him to tears because he's trying to design that effect he doesn't know what it sounds like there's like crazy stuff because it's Japan starts taking over when with Roland specifically and then they tinker around with making a little bit of a smaller unit you've seen like the boss ce-1 the big horse so yeah the early roland stuff was big form like that yeah they start using the boss name not quite a moniker but like another way of approaching maybe these effects are getting big and then in 77 they create the compact series which is the spectrum is released the green phaser and the arendt of the yellow overjoyed to know that they did that thing of three didn't I 20 and they put that out I mean the ads show it fitting in the flap of the guitar case and it's silent switching it's beautiful it's never been done better and when that happens and that was originally called a mag by the way there's a quickly planned it was cool to me boss was the guy over how do you innovate here the guy over roland basically he's starting to develop this thing called boss it's originally called meg they said this is a little too feminine of a name yeah and they go to boss cuz it feels like we're the boss you know that thing they do those in 77 and then from that point it is like complete world domination and so they very intelligently stumbled and like they knew what they were doing and and now I still think there's some great looking petals here but I know several of these people and they probably say with me like you can't really the boss is so perfect before that's my you know when I started playing guitar in the 80s and I had no recollection of I didn't even know there was an alternative pedal brand it's just you just bought boss pedals there was or I I remember there being some plastic like Arion maybe here some oh yeah alternatives about elastic cheap Japanese yeah yeah but it was boss that was it wasn't his boss word was and for them for quite a long time probably all through the 90s as well and it or maybe maybe one or two of those sort of pioneering yeah what we now call boutique brands you know like like careful tone or Keeley or they've started to sort of appear them but hey if we do the whole potted history of pedals will be his own day so let's talk about all these guys and that there are standing on the shoulders of the Giants who've come before them but they're all making a success now and they're all British and I wondered how many of these you you know you were familiar with maybe I could tell you a bit goods unitl yeah you can I'm familiar with a good most I just interviewed him on my show about I love this and then I'm very familiar here we're pretty good buddies and so the designer of these is the designer of the brand who made you know the Big Cheese and all that stuff so that's a big deal and I think that's where British petals came back on the map for you guys it was like when Mike Fuller started fulltone and you got analog man and you got Robert Keeley making the compressor selling it on harmony central and that whole thing started you have over here you have love tone they kind of jump on the scene the big cheese that the all the episode flanger with no name all kinds of great pedals so that that company ended and he's doing these designing him for feet it's because there's two I think sometimes yeah well isn't the two that the guy from love times honor that they're just the two that he's just released aren't they he's been working on several things but the newer ones are directly like hey these are they're purposely throwing back which is really awesome yeah I don't know who so we've got yeah we've got a no these I had the big giant compressor yes like the size of this table yeah what have we got Hampstead who mainly an M friend but they have a couple of pedals they've started doing Ranger I love David I did I've known him was so small like these are honorary mentions because all of them they're made in England but designed by an American chap so they're sort of they are made in England or the certain internal circuits were kind of design there I know this guy is here but he's a loser oh and and stone-deaf which is it I cut my Baluch surname but it's named Lugh it's based out of Manchester this is amazed that the graphics alone yes I could have turned that on and it just went like it's a little under well we'll start with kiss yeah we did sin so Luke I first met Luke he's quite young guy I say young guy he's probably the same age as me so not that young might be a bit younger than me your arms exactly extra-large JHS order next month he was an automation engineer and the first stuff that he started doing was all stuff where you what do you call that where it's where the knobs move when you've got different settings so like yeah and he made some amps like that but I'm not sure how much about there's a couple of pedals he does now but he just does these really as you say cool graphics kind of unusual fuzzies they've mostly got these expression pedal inputs so that you can sweep the sky that sort of wah-wah kind of effect but where you're sweeping the frequency as well as the fuzz the gate was really cool yeah not that we've are at a gym not that we've already jammed no we don't spent three hours trying to figure out how to do a two minute change [Music] [Music] I have played another model of this I think in New York City somewhere I've never played this you picked it up love it so they're cool yeah I suppose I mean thought piece the guy I probably know the best this day Nguyen is a little weird he was not sure to be honest with you I mean exactly Stenmark even a real place as much as well wasn't that just at the movie honestly to me I think it just likes the tip of something I'm not sure we can put that so we know thorpey and I must admit I love dopey is one of those guys where you just go yeah they had a pretty successful the successful is that the right word but a pretty long career in the military if you can be successful in miniature suppose you came here she was he achieved a fairly serious rank and got lots of medals and stuff and then just decided to do something else and I know congratulations thought because he's just made it through to the final three of a award that the Armed Forces do for people who have a successful career after they finished in the Armed Forces and he was at the House of Lords the other day picking up an award or some he said congressionally I'm never even been to a House of Lords I don't know what that is he got to go there he got a medal exactly and the first he's not been doing this that Lawton has he may be in that maybe was it five six years ago that the Warthog came I know the the one that had to change the name the mushroom cloud and then Daryl Mike Matthews served the kind of anybody using the word muff apart from you got away with it everyone else who was using the word of mouth had to change their the pedal amber heated the mushroom cloud and it was a fantastic fuzz very well received maybe don't watch this cuz I'm really enjoying still making the muffler so and now we do tons of Thor peas pedals really like him yeah he's he's a class act yeah get along with him so well yeah really really lovely guy and also as well I think could probably bench press probably both of us maybe everybody in this room in one go so I would of all the military background he could kill us I think we probably could yeah against certainly create an explosive device that would destroy most of Guilford the next one now you probably know more about Michael and I do because the broadcast we started selling two or three years ago I've never been in a situation where our stock control system doesn't have like two hundred Hudson pedals on backorder literally that made a great problem and like periodically I found Michael and I go you must like I don't even know what you look like you know you but you must come in and like talk about your pedals and doing it and he's terribly nice on the phone oh yeah definitely will definitely do that like that and it's like hangs up I don't never ever he probably just guys like no get on that show that's for sure Zachary doesn't need to so exactly but he doesn't need you that's what you have to understand so he'll how does somebody yeah how does somebody approach a pedal a fuzz pedal that has been done a billion times and yet somehow carve out something where guitarists seem to unanimously go all that sounds different to anything else I've tried but yeah or is it just is it just luck no he's he's clever I first saw this so I dropped the color box British spelling that's one box color bomb Ocala box sorry yeah I dropped that and did the first demos that I think did up at Abbey Road in 2012 as somewhere around there we released it and then I you know the concept of that was the di n kind of Abbey Road EMI Nev sound no amp can you make your amp sound like that I thought that was crazy and it was and we did really well with that so as I'm American doing a British sound I saw this come out he's British and this is based on an American pre so it's like the bizarro world of the color box then I remember I got this I just loved it because fuzz pedals are generally fuzz phases or tone benders or big muffs just to be honest like in your and we all make I make something of all those what happens is hello like this falls into the category which is like maybe you hated fuzz and this is what you liked or maybe you loved fuzz and this is very different and I think it's just it's just different and that falls into different camps of people and just look at it it's wicked thing else I mean it sounds amazing but I'm the kind of person I would buy that and like decorate my living room with just the pitch Jam did we do with this one with a second one we we haven't played you we haven't jammed yet okay well but we should don't forget to plug this in in one of the jams no I do when we play I'm first so I'm gonna put my sweatshirt back on excellent and then we're gonna do like a like a like a Sonic Youth kind of yeah crazy noise can I say base in that one you play this not really do you know do you have like a mediocre guitar player that can join us we definitely got a mediocre guitar player yeah absolutely what is he okay like one gnihton just I'm done make eye contact with him but you know four and a half okay okay you can let him in kenji I mean yeah the guys doing sound over there can you turn them down who mix him out okay it's fine so anyway so broadcast is super super cool Arielle Posen has done a signature pedal with these guys but it's it's yeah it's just it seems to it's got madness to it that some fuzzies don't have but anyway there we go yeah the token it's so good the tone controls super shapeable and it's just I think what's so great is it's not a fuzz face not atonement or not a big muff yeah so toss Michael if you're watching I'm formally inviting you again - come on - Anderson's TV I don't work here and I'm inviting you to come here let's do so these make some reason you're here bold claims cures all known bad time so I in fairness Rob and I had an idea about two or three years ago that you know we should make but what do we know we know what we know what petals we like but we don't so we got a guy called Zach Broyles from mythos em we've batted some designs back and forth until we came up with a couple of pedals that we saw it sounded great and then we just had a load of fun making this is all like is it called Victoriana I don't know if it's called Victoriana but it's like you know there's old medicine posters that you get where you know this is mrs. Jones for like miracles on it yes she ate three lumps of chocolate and ignited okay a lot of people don't know this but I actually took a knob off earlier these are real brass knobs weighed 10 pounds per notch for because tempeh there's a little bit well if you want to do that what a great segue yeah this is where you want to do that I mean you can you can generate some real guns with so this is a Japanese Simon from origin effects another but kind of slightly mad scientist from bucking here there's a pastor there Allison but so he got famous with the Cali 76 which became in almost almost I want to sort of don't wanna upset anybody here but it almost helped did the key leek you know for it like is this the compressor it's not the Keely compressor anymore it's now the Callie said it was the first new style guitar presser in like decades yeah really expensive as well and almost set a new kind of limits to like which is how crazy a little bit yeah limiter but like you know it's almost like so what people are gonna spend three or four hundred bucks on a pedal now are they it's like I never nobody knew that you know and then other brands have almost boy in fact yeah he again did even bigger pedals that cost like six or seven hundred bucks and people still buy them just goes to show exposes it sounds good so these are very cool I think yeah add the slide room that's one is yes very cool yeah and then over here we've got James Hampstead who know James when I met him he's another guy that basically had a career completely not in guitar amps I'm sorry James worked with this wrong but I don't think you played guitar either but he was some astrophysicist nuclear scientist thing was just these are guys who are way sorry yeah us and he's looked inside a guitar amp one day and just gone what designed that yeah you know so why would you do that and why would you do that my foot but from a pure scientist so he's a better guitar player than the guy we're gonna probably have jam with us motto yeah he's he's he's a solid 6 this is 6 and he doesn't even he play really no sir Hampstead a beautiful beautiful you know expensive handmade British guitar amplifiers and he has a drive peddling and a tremolo pedal which you we should plug one of these in the jam I think you'd like it not that we've jammed but I love I loved it yeah good feel I need to jam do the actual I need to play at first to know that I love you should do will definitely remind me to make sure you plug this in in the second door first Jam first time first Jam indefinitely in the first one then so this guy another guy David Roger David Ranger so this is this is the stupidest arrangement that we have here so we don't we can't even buy the pedals from David I have to go to an American company he lives in London yeah to buy the Ranger pedals to then I don't in fairness I don't think they're shipped to America and braca sniffing this too but I've never missed a finish there's so good you're doing that yeah but so David you need to come on as well but you've met David and he looks like a lot of fun using with he's my best friend here in this country right now I love him I did the who is Ranger we went and interviewed him he lives on Baker Street hasn't America what with Gerry Rafferty Oh Sherlock Oh Sherlock sorry I knew that medal too so handsome Baskerville now he surely stole the show at this year welfare in fairness what's his background because again he's another you know slightly more mature chappies obviously been doing things with his life yes a really cool story dad you didn't watch the episode I didn't teach you videos today I'm too busy making my own ones time for anyone else you don't sit around and watch everything like me if you make any YouTube content I've seen it no in old fantasy you do I mean actually he actually was he worked in like early marketing and some magazines he was telling stories about he would got like the whammy pedal and we write an article he was kind of in that world he's done a lot of stuff but he thinks nothing like me or any other pedal builder I've ever seen so at NAMM he puts out this yes this enclosure well I thought it was a joke like cuz I do stuff like this that doesn't work for like the jokes but it has a little cup and you pour liquid put a cap on it and the liquid changes the sound of the overdrive and it works it's like witchcraft I mean did I that is my biggest regret of the 20/20 NAMM show is as we're leaving you know it's finished someone's yeah did you check out the range of thing with the thing and we like what No so it's a reward of this genius but just it's the what do you call it when a is it conductive then is the liquid that goes in conductive in some way and so we're getting a sick or is it just like some really bright overdrive distortion circuit and liquid is conductive and different liquids have different conductive natures / resistance yeah so that change of the liquid there's fancy words I'm acting like I know yeah but like the change of different liquids will cause that part of the circuit for sure shoot the gain in the circuit it's such a brilliant idea brilliant and simple and only if you would think of it and so many yeah inappropriate YouTube concepts will come out of what kinds of liquid we can put in the pedal to see how it sounds I'm sure there are made I'm Joe we're gonna make him again I think he's sold a jillion of them already oh yeah because who wouldn't want one just to see what happened what are they well there you go check them out check them out so I hoping I'm if there's another that they'll obviously be other British pedal manufacturers that we haven't mentioned now but I'm hoping we haven't sort of forgotten anyone who's like oh I certainly know when the end its inspires lots of pedals for my we haven't forgot I I was thinking really hard I am incredibly jet-lagged and tired but I was looking in the cabinet I think I don't feel like we've left anyone out if we have all forever feel horrible so come on your pedals we should talk about how have you been making pedals for since 2007 okay well isn't it 50 years ago yeah no but it feels it feels like you're like what part the establishment in the sense of like is that good define establishment why is it I you know like one of the the main guys and make pedals really I 2007 is a long time ago they say those what happens yeah you're really fortunate I'm gonna to do that to do what I love have a great team and yeah we just keep growing I'm always wondering who's buying them and I just try to have fun and but I sell lots of them we do and I'm kind of intrigued because you know you would you're very very very very forthcoming and open about other pedals that have inspired you to do things and favorite pedals you've got and other makers and and and it's an interesting is it because the pedal community seems to do that in a way that the guitar and the amp can you have never really done but how do you you know what when you're approaching you know it's pretty tough now to sort of think of a pedal that's come out in the last twenty years that was truly original you know it's really tough you know everything else is it is is a is a hopefully a take or an inspiration of something so where do you you know what is it that you're looking at when you're you know you must have your favorite chorus pedals or your favorite delay pedals and your so thinking where do I go with this it's really tough I mean the Ranger thing pouring liquid into a pedal is amazingly unique but even within that it's an overdrive circuit that there's only so many ways to make the fuzz there's only so many ways to delay things and so I don't know if you've ever been on forums or the internet but I've definitely been on the Internet I don't remember the I pedal it's tough because there is a there is a way of thinking that's really unhealthy and my opinions ah my opinion I'm not endorsing Anakin's way of thinking but the way of thinking is if something's not new and magical it's some rip off of something but the truth is the tube amp was basically invented the circuit like late 1800s and then you have fender making amps from Radio circuits and marshall using the fender circuits and pedals like we just discussed the maestro is taken into Macari is modified into the tone bender the fuzz face is apparently this vox are you so it's everyone's sharing of tweaking and I make a little series I hand make them and three of those fuzzes they're on the same circuit board with parts variations and they sound wildly different but it's the same circuit yeah so there's a really important fact of like understanding that when you go to look at things and what I love is history the stories why do we love the sound of something like a good example is I put out the bonsai so9 tube screamers in one pedal and I don't know that we haven't jammed yet but I think the mediocre guitarist is using that I'm not sure it's a it does it generally make you better than you actually I takes a two to a five Ryan a six he's dead to us em he's definitely using them and yeah that's so definitely using that one of the things that's crazy is like the concept people have about like I'm going to this furries and the tube screamer hmm I mean people and they swear the 808 sounds so much better than the nine mm-hmm but it's like is it that or is it that they were in this amazing band and they liked that girlfriend more and they had beautiful flowing locks of hair and wore leather and I had to sell that pedal because they got a day job and then the nineties got a ts9 and didn't like their van as much therefore the ts9 does not sound as good psychological things go on with pedals and I just try to be really honest about these circuits come from here these are the stories let's not get hung up on little things is this the better pedal what's the best pedal there is no best pedal so what I've tried to do is like pull from these stories and make products that that come from these important stories of history like why is this pedal cool because it's the univer band Hendrix uses at Woodstock and there's a lot of univibe 's I put tap tempo on this which i think is really cool but it is unified and I think if we're all just honest when someone hates this because it has a picture of a unicorn on it and they're not gonna buy it but they'll buy another univibe and they should go buy that one and I think as a pedal builder I just try to be comfortable and say like I my pedals aren't for every I hope it didn't come across that I was criticizing the sort of the morality of because if we're if you're all gonna start going what you shouldn't copy someone else's happens then you go the whole music industry we only have three products if you've known I was approaching is it getting really crazy yeah it was more just the thought process of just going you know when there are I mean the two scream is a great example yeah when there are 500 other tube screamers out there and you're going hmm okay there's a people are asking me to do my take on the - screaming where do you hide just do what I want to do the Banzai is a great show so I I took my nine favorite ones and instead of making a tube screamer clone I made a clone of nine yeah it's a great honest than one in fact you probably didn't know if you watch any of our YouTube stuff but that was that the bonsai video we did was we blindfolded Rob and we were pretending to throw different tube screamers in and secret we were doing which is clicking through I saw that and I watched your video anyway look it's very very cool so what is coming from you are we talking about the stuff that you did it now or is there a secret thing that you can tell us that's maybe in Louie how we're supposing about an idea yeah this is like that super secret this year I don't know I don't know this year for us as a company has some of the coolest stuff we've ever done I'm most excited for this year any of it any other year and so that's what I want to do live on YouTube semi live because we talked about you did this cold thing for sweet water didn't you wait yeah the 1966 or six hours referring to these classic pedals from 66 an Anderton started in 64 we've talked about some of the fuzz pedals that maybe came out I'd love to do something with you where we deep dive back into you know some of those things that we talked about the beginning and so if we can come up with some real because I love the fact that on those 66 series is you sitting in your basement you know it's not like I know your team are obviously all very skilled and probably just as capable but they're starting more capable yeah there's something about the ones that you do I think I think it's the dodgy soldiering and the NCD very much where they're lower quality best they cost more no yes but I'd love to do something with you on that front I'm so into all this I'm so nerdy I love all this oh good one we'll have to talk yes cuz we haven't talked about it not really or jammed we definitely have a GNote well I don't know I'm feeling like I'm feeling like this is reaching its natural conclusion this and and I'm feeling like we should Jam let's jam shoot about I just picked some things and we just chin Randy Nick on the drums shout Nikki on the drums how's the you has the rubix yeah done it no I can't solve it in my soul is dead Rubik I think done that to a lot of people yeah where's Jason Richardson we need to get him back in he did the Rubik's Cube in like he's turrets can you do this nope let's jam okay let's jam everybody Josh Scott in the room that guitar player you said you can play bass Nick on drums we'll see what happens let's see what happens let's jam out a merry man it's a pleasure to see thank you very much for coming over I hope you enjoyed that little our trip down pedal memory lane please tune in for the next video and we shall see you probably tomorrow bye 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Length: 48min 16sec (2896 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 19 2020