Roughly 5,000 guitar pedals.... but is it worth it for the tone!?
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Obviously it’s cool to see all these cool/weird instruments to play with, but I also have to commend Rob and the team for making great documentary style content ABOUT them. Like asking the right questions and actually getting a history of the instrument and all this extra research and HOW the instruments work? Super fascinating and I’m glad this is where the channel has gone. Thanks for all the history lessons!!
Excellent editing on top of an excellent recording
It's a better video than JHS has done in a while. I'm not a fan of the fact that they moved to doing live streams only. I loved their historical and informative videos.
It's a perfect documentary because it explains the models and gives an actual demonstration using them. That's only possible when someone is this enthusiastic.
Just as a fan, it allows me to understand what goes into the art I enjoy
You’re so very welcome! Couldn’t do it without your support 🙏
Josh is so entertaining to listen to. He has a silly dry sense of humour combined with insane background knowledge.
It's why I watch his videos, I can't get enough of his geekery knowledge!
He was so funny and i didnt expect that tbh lmao
This is so great. I'm 70 years old. I had a Maestro Fuzz Tone. After hearing 'Satisfaction' on the radio I had to have that sound. I just started playing and being an only child had it's privileges so my parents bought me one and I annoyed the shit out of them playing it about 8 hours a day though a Fender Vibro-Champ with my Fender Mustang.
Then this might be interesting for you. Josh talking about the first guitar pedals. kzhead.info/sun/nKajiM2GjYaNjYE/bejne.html
@@thegreatdestroyer6506 Thanks.
U go bruce!!!
@@pablodmdp I'm tryin'
Badass setup tbh
Love that Josh still plugs in all this old rare stuff! That slap of the DOD preamp to wake it up at 20:03 😂😂
:) död is swedish for dead..
@@kesokorv perfect! 😂
Little percussive maintenance
My favorite genre of KZhead is videos featuring an expert in something so niche that you wouldn't think there is an expert in it, who can explain everything on the spot as clearly as a class lecture.
Same. That's why I've come to love KZhead and finding things like this.
well, guitar gear isnt that niche
Totally agree, but this is very un-niche. Hence Josh in this video making enough money to own the many, many millions of $ worth of pedals you see here
@@caspay21 Hmm I don't know anyone personally who would have told me they have watched a video on a collection of guitar pedals.
@@mainecrab I’m sure that’s true, but it is a many, many billion dollar industry. It’s the basis for a huge percentage of the most successful music KZheadrs
Honestly Rob you could do another 7 videos with JHS and we'd watch and love all of them
why 7 lol
Oddly specific but yes!! MORE OF THIS !!!
@@maxrumsby it'd make it 8 total, which would be a nice round number
We? How about you speak for yourself instead of assuming we're all Rob Scallon sack snugglers?
@@J.C... dude, it's not that deep
My favorite moment: Rob: literally mentions any pedal Josh: _Oh these?_ then pops *8 more*
That moment at 5:47 where you find your first pedal and have that awesome moment of nostalgia, and Josh is just like “oh look, 8 more!” CRACKS me up to no end. I love this video.
props to the editor there seems like soooooo much footage to go through and to blend it all together like this is crazy
The unsung heroes of every great youtube channel are the people behind the cameras for sure. Big ups for them definitely.
As a video editor I have to agree with you Chris! Nice job to EVERYONE who were involved to put this together, not only as a hobby guitarist/pedal geek, but for someone in the video production business [yes, I make my living in video production] this was EXTREMELY enjoyable to watch!
Josh looks like he miniaturized you. Like antman. . He is so tall
I was just thinking that !
That tape echo is INCREDIBLE I had never seen that before.
It's mesmerisingly beautiful! I can see these continuing to sky-rocket in price for their sheer analogue beauty.
Oh my god right? I needed one instantly for my synth, until I saw the price tag lmfao
AxeFX tape echo sounds pretty sick :)
It’s made by Echofix. An Australian company.
Echoplex baby
My favorite thing about Josh is his passion for the history of the sounds, and my second favorite thing about Josh is how transparently ashamed he is to be a collector.
27:36 The comedic timing of those single notes, and then asking why anyone would choose anything besides max completely broke Josh, me as well 😂.
Rob Scallon playing Necrophagist on the Rat prototype is 👌😩
Came here to say the same!
What a classic One of these days I’ll finally commit to learning that whole song haha
@@hamishcollins5174 Stabwound
@@cthallborgtheineffable5583 i can only recommend to you, to listen to the whole Epitaph Album. Great Stuff
@@InvictusBananman yep, Muhammad Suiçmez is the man 💪💪
I love josh's face in 14:38 he is so proud, he knows he is on the right track and living his live the fullest
yeah that is what it looks like lmao
anyone able to ID the song he's playing here? its gorgeous.
@@fosferus probably random shenanigans
@@ilham7345 never heard of them. :P
Get you a girl that looks at you like that.
Imagine the pedalmobile he could build.
Beato
that tape delay is ridiculous. it sounds so amazing and natural. thanks for the episode!
Josh is such a cool guy. There is something special about seeing people knowing everything in a niche
Far from a cool guy. Look into the IHOPKC.
Eapecially when it's your niche as well
I don't think I've ever seen Josh have such a genuinely good time on camera. This is so fun to watch.
I think it helps to have someone with him who's just as excited about this stuff as he is...
They have good chemistry.
Have you seen the best guitar pedals of 2022 video? It's a lot of fun and he definitely had a really good time there as well. The chemistry in this video between Josh and Rob was great though
every collector dreams of having someone show up to their house and ask to see their collection
the tape echo was the coolest sounding pedal shown in this video. what a gem
How many people went to check out Marty Robbins's song at 1:45 and then came back? ;o) It's good - real old time country. And its legacy of having essentially "invented" guitar effects is just so novel. Fun stuff!
Yeah added it to my playlist
Rob. Robert. Mr. Scallon. Sir. "Building a Guitar Pedal from Scratch (with the pros)" PLEASE!
I would rather like to watch Sca-Taylors version aswell!
@@simonrongeholmmadsen that's just an industrial fire waiting to happen
As a regular watcher of the JHS show it's a lot of fun listening to Josh say the exact same stuff he always says about pedals that we JHS watchers have heard 5 times over.
Okay. Sorry it was boring for you.
S I C K B U R N
Eh, it's still entertaining to have it presented in a different way.
And to the people who watch Rob's channel but aren't guitarists primarily, or at all; or whom are not regular viewers of the JHS show - and thus this content is new and interesting we wonder why you watched this video (or JHS videos 5 times over) to ensure you've heard the information 6 times now :).
18:49 that childhood excitement when you unexpectedly discover a cool sound. That’s what it’s all about folks
This is such a cool vid. Always love seeing the JHS studio.
Rob's channel is really turning into a musicology/ethnomusicology/organology channel and im here for it
When taking about pedals,though, you can't beat the JHS channel
2:42 Love how Rob gets to try to play a fuzz pedal from 1962 and he plays a Gojira riff of all things lmao
Most fun I’ve had on YT in a long time. Thanks guys !!
Josh is such a vibe. Absolutely love this content.
5:54 "I didn't even know what distorsion was". Happened to me too. Bought an electric guitar and amplifier. Went home and plugged everything in and felt like it sounded even lamer than my acoustic guitar. Being early 90s I had to figure out stuff the hard way :)
when i got my first guitar and amp i called the store first thing after the weekend to ask for 'the Metallica sound'.
For me it was “the buzzsaw” tone. Yeah, I started playing guitar around Doom 2016 became popular (so.. 2017-ish for me), I started with a Schecter Blackjack (lefthanded, card inlay, 2009-era).
The look on Josh's face when Rob "metalizes" the Satisfaction riff is priceless.
It's at 5:01.
The replica mini pedals look amazing and the energy from discussing the Klons! This was great content thank you so much!
Great video!!! I became a JHS Show fan several months ago and thru the show, Josh’s documentary style history lessons and videos like yours here, I’ve learned so much info about guitar pedals. Thank you so much for including the section on the tape delay; I’ve never seen one like that in action or fully understood how they work. Really great stuff! And now, I’m a new Subscriber to your channel as well! Thanks again.
I could watch Rob and Josh talk about guitars and pedals for 24hrs straight and not be bored of it
Josh is my all time fave in the guitar geek kingdom. He is the King Geek. Watching the blindfolded challenge where he identified pedals on their feel along cemented that position. His sense of humor is killer, his musical ability is solid and the products he makes are legendary. And he has the box!
Omg I watch this whole episode and truly blown away about the knowledge and love you have each and every item have on displayed within your library of your passion of music...Thank you so very much for sharing to is sll
Both of you guys are fantastic. Such cool anecdotes Josh just spits out from memory thanks to his obsession.
20:54 Just love this Keith Merrow's riff ! As always thank you for the incredible video
What song is it?
@@justchill1617 Pillars of creation by keith merrows. (usually played on a 7 string)
came to the comment section looking for this
Hearing that riff brought me back to early 2010s KZhead. What a simpler time. Killer to hear that again.
@@nuclearwinter514 same man, damn near got whiplash thinking about all the duncan pickup comparison vids
Seeing the sincere joy and excitement about his pedals on Josh’s face as he talks about them is so precious. He’s such a genuine, fun person. Never lost his chid-like wonder. Love it!
Rob, thank you for doing exactly what myself and many others have wanted to do in Josh's studio. This was great.
This was awesome! I'm an absolute beginner but couldn't look away. Great video/editing as well!
20:56 that riff brings back some memories watching Seymour Duncan pickup comparisons
I knew I knew that riff!
Rob's face while the pedal is spitting out reversed evil nonsense at 32:10 is priceless
Yeah haha. Thought the exact same
Rob goes uncanny
Bro idk why but the side eye Rob gives at 32:27 reminds me of that old champagne commercial with an absolutely unhinged Orson Welles lolol
This is a staple second channel sound but recreated with pedals
Kinda creepy
Joe Bonamassa is the Jay Leno of American made guitars and amps, this dude is the Bonamassa of pedals! One could get irritated that these guys are hoarding all the cool gear but in actuality they are preserving history and safe guarding it, not only that but this guy is producing pedals based off his experiences with these pedals and that's pretty badass!
Well said!
I'm also pretty sure he rents pieces of his collection out to the local studio.
JHS's Rat episode was great, listing all the versions and basically saying "the white logo version that gets all the hype is literally the same as the other one".
Love the content and how you guys had fun!!
Listening to Josh Scott to over the timeline of events around pedals is so good. It's impossible not to catch that enthusiasm.
Josh and his deadpan humour and comical insights into music, musical electronics, and dimensional music timelines, are so addictive. It helps if you're from at least the late seventies to really fall over laughing, but I'm definitely from that time frame, and played many of these pedals. Would love to sit back and watch SpinalTap with Josh and a few friends from that were teenagers in that era of time. Better do it soon though, because a lot of us are looking at Depends in the near future, and laughter and adult diapers are a little awkward. Besides, girls from that era have never really gotten the jokes from those days, and you have to go home with someone at sometime...
This is like watching a highlight reel of JHS’s entire catalog of KZhead videos, super fun! Made me want to go back and watch the old JHS vids again for the 6th or 7th time.
Holy... Engaging, drool-worthy hardware, great playing and use of tones; Josh- being an actual pedal, with the box. So cool to see the room from angles we don't get in JHS vids. Love this presentation style.
I am not a music person so I was so surprised when I instantly connected the fuz face with hendrix. I didn't realize how important this was. Thank you!
Hold up, Marty "Big Iron" Robbins was essentially the first person to have guitar distortion in a studio recording? That's wild.
It was a bass guitar I believe
Bass VI actually, which is sort of between a bass and a baritone guitar. Not the instrument that many players think of as a six string bass which has a much wider string spacing and it tuned B to C. A bass VI (Danelectro or Fender originally) has a much skinnier neck with a more guitar-like string spacing generally around 30" scale length and tuned E-E but an octave below standard guitar tuning. String gauge usually around 24-84 with no plain strings, even the B and high E are wound strings, unlike baritone guitars which have slightly lighter gauges and plain high strings rather than wound ones. Very cool instruments which were originally used to double upright bass lines, music like Duane Eddy and a bit later by Jack Bruce (early Cream stuff) and the Beatles (Helter Skelter and others).
IMO this the best pedal video out there. Nice work!
What a kind and awesome man to share the experience of his collection
I could have watched this for at least an hour. So interesting and entertaining, thank you for always providing such great content!
Check out JHS pedals on KZhead, for more
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What an insane production they have at the JHS HQ. Upstairs and downstairs
i love the way rob always makes these type of videos fun for everyone involved
hes a very good guitar player.
2:39 a bit of 'Heaviest Matter' on the OG pedal! NICE
Awesome episode! I love the JHS Show and Josh's knowledge on effects. I think tape delays are the coolest and I want one.
The tape machine sounds like it was made specifically for you! Awesome sound.
Josh is a legend, love this
I don’t watch your videos all the time but always manage to stumble across them when I am hung over to the max and I never complain
Rob... I don't know what the musician's world would do without you. You shed so much bright light on the very curious universe that is, all things music. Love from Texas... ❤
Massive fan of Josh and everyone on the JHS show. Their pedals are awesome too ❤
You two Rock! That was amazing,thank you,learned mega!
What a wonderful journey, such a treat to see this collection. Imagine how much Josh could charge by the hour to go in there and play those pedals!! Thanks so much Rob for posting..
I'm enjoying this because it's two guys, nerding out about guitar pedals and playing really epic music with each one.
Bro that "This is a problem!" at 22:23 is just so perfect who else on planet earth has these issues such a good video
This was awesome. Great video, extremely entertaining. had me smiling the whole time.
What a brilliant video. Could listen to pedals and pedal stories like this for hours. Thanks to you all.
Have you watched any of Josh's pedal history videos on the JHS channel?
@@thegreatdestroyer6506 Many, yes. :)
90% of these, I have know idea how I could use it musically (not saying someone else couldn't) but all of this is absolutely fascinating from a history and electronic/technology stand point. Great video!!!!!
The perfect guy for a great episode. This guy knows his stuff and that place is off the charts unreal. High fives to all involed!
Entertaining and educational. Loved this so much.
Absolutely love these type of your videos.
Josh is a treasure I can listen to him for hours. I bet you didn't want to leave that palace.
Hey rob, I’m a big fan!! Keep making great content man
Josh is a damn treasure. I love it when he just plays a song that featured any given pedal, or a riff that wouldn't have been possible without a specific innovation.
Yeah! Nice episode. Two of my favorite guitar youtubers! So cool!
2:28 Rob looks like he is doing something awesome nobody has ever done and the guy looks like someone is playing stairway to heaven in his guitar shop.
Oh wow, clicking on this video I did not expect to find it so INTERESTING, heavy acoustic guy, but man, this makes me wanna start getting into physical pedals instead of amp sims! Awesome! So high quality and such a great premise, with someone who seems to know his shit, I love this channel so much man. Thank you for another banger!
“I wanna start getting into physical pedals” Famous last words my friend. Lol
Yes i traded electric guitars 25 years ago for bluegrass and fingerstyle. Burned out on all the shredding and distortions and endless dialing in getting nowhere,.yet here i am
Then you better subscribe to the JHS channel.
Thank you for going into the history of the maestro fuzztone, it's one of my favorite music stories.
I love how happy he is to tell you about these, such an amazing documentary video I enjoyed every minute of it
Have you watched any videos from the JHS channel? Josh get's into the history of all kinds of pedals and pedal manufacturers.
I should have known Josh was responsible for this madness when I read the title. Idk if I should be concerned for him or stoked for him, but he'll forever be the king of pedals in my mind.
Love this vid, but the “Stab wound” on the Rat made my day. Haha
I love John's attitude and down to earth personality. Seems like a great guy.
i lost track how many times i had to pause the video to just look at everything. really cool video. big metalhead big pedal guy. you sir, have earned yourself a subscriber.
learning that fact about Marty Robbins made me love him so much more. the guy made some of the most influential music of the last 100 years AND drove the hell out of a NASCAR stock car. he really was a legend
I remember when I was about 5 years old in 1966 and my parents had the Album The Gunfighter. I listened to it all the time. Cool cool Water, Big Iron... a couple I remember. Great times!
Wow! That ‘Pillars of Creation’ riff is one of the best riffs ever written! -Shout out to Keith Merrow! 🤘😝
Josh is honestly a treasure in the pedal space, he's preserving a lot of history.
I watch a lot of JHS stuff. This was totally awesome. Nice job!!
I love that for all of these videos where Rob tries out cool stuff, he always looks at the other person with that "Listen to this! Isn't this awesome!" kind of look in his eyes. Just pleading to listen and making sure that they're paying attention. I love it.
The level of eye contact is a bit much for me. I'd be like Josh and stare at the table most of the time.
I love how they prioritized to show a completely useless stereo reverb right after holding the most expensive pedal ever. Best video ever, thanks a lot for doing this. Hopefully this will be a public museum someday together with a guitar and bass collection that goes with it.
This is a music history lesson from a whole new angle!!! Brilliant!
This was a fun video, I would like to see more of you guys hanging out.
What an amazing episode and collaboration. Thank you for that.
The James Bond Theme song guy was Vic Flick, not Dick Flick, and while he did play the guitar part on the song he is not credited for writing it. John Barry is. I might have gotten it wrong though.
... and on top of all of that, Vic Flick has repeatedly denied having any involvement in the development of the Tone Bender. He even still owns his original Maestro Fuzz-Tone. Gary Hurst appears to have mixed up the session guitarist in his story over the years, because before he died, Big Jim Sullivan told a very similar story about how he exchanged his Fuzz-Tone with Hurst for a primitive wooden fuzz box in the mid-60s.
great vibes all around in this vid
Off to buy some more pedals now thanks 🙏 😂 Great video, love jhs and very cool that he has literally every pedal in existence and knows all about them
No matter what Rob plays through. The tone of a crate amp is in his fingers ❤
Loved hearing the Necrophagist Riff on the rat. Another great video!
STABWOOOOUUUUNNNNDDDD!!!! EPIC!
So he waaaaas playing what I thought he was playing.
Hehehe, thought the same thing :D :D
Goosebumps man! And that solo hit just the right spot🥰
This video taught me some things I didnt know, but needed to. Im starting out getting ready to start playing shows, my pedalboard is primarily EHX, JHS, MXR, and Digitech. But after this video, I’m going to be adding some new toys to the board!