Do You Use Too Many Pedals?

[@johnplunkett2004]

I love that Zach from Mythos was there to help Josh go minamalist on his board - and pulls out like 7 different expensive guitars for each jam...

[@MythosPedals]

I'm glad you got the joke :)

[@Iodine74]

And way more pedals in total.

[@TheOlesarge]

@@MythosPedals Brilliant, sir!

[@tambymeatfoot4421]

@@MythosPedals Zach, you have your guitar strap position all wrong.... go watch the Dean Ween episode of Guitar Moves.... and the answers will be revealed! Seriously.

[@TheFeatalion]

Because it is all about guitar(s)!

[@davidsparks6146]

...and the Josh woke up realizes it was just a bad dream... hugs all his pedals and reassures them he loves them all equally... goes back to sleep.

[@brianhintze6440]

Hahaha…funny

[@WPAPi3.14]

I effin hope so!!!! We need him!!!

[@drumnotdrum9262]

The ones without the box disagree.

[@tagadabrothersband]

😂😂😂

[@simpwood4973]

The tube screamer on rhetts display was an incredible touch.

[@HammyWheeler]

Ha! Took me a second to put that together. Love how he was just staring at it...

[@tomieilamo]

I really hope he got it adjusted just the way he likes it and found the bypass button

[@VenturiEffect02]

Just staring at it, clicking on and off continuously. Gold

[@Roxanneredpanda]

one of the best parts of this hilarious episode

[@SandauxBeats]

Rhett still figuring out why he's not interested in Tube Screamers aside from the "mid hump" he told us on his last video about TS9's. 😅

[@meathead76]

Please keep making videos like this and I’ll keep buying your pedals and leaving them in the box, because I only pick up the guitar after my kids go to bed and don’t even turn my amp on.

[@metalmick]

This is not good. Have the kids adopted and your wife kidnapped. Crank that amp!

[@jhspedals]

Okay!

[@HaldyBear]

Is this what I have to look forward to?!

[@eriklloyd2954]

Strymon iridium plus headphones will change your life

[@voxissima1702]

Man, we're on the same boat...

[@mctape]

Zach: Josh you need to use fewer pedals also Zach: *uses a different guitar for every jam*

[@ab036]

part of the joke, according to Zach :)

[@jhspedals]

😂

[@davedavem]

@@ab036 what joke?

[@fiete201]

I missed his headless guitar 😀

[@Theranthrope]

This is about pedal hoarding. Guitar hording is a different issue.

[@Znijik]

"Rely on the guitar, not the pedal." Good news: I have minimized the amount of pedals on my board, and I do not own any extra pedals that are not on my board. Bad news: I have accumulated a warehouse full of different guitars.

[@MythosPedals]

So true

[@J.C...]

I haven't. I have 33 pedals on mine CURRENTLY. 100% honest truth. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@J.C...]

I forgot thr best part 90% of them are daisy chained off of a single, quiet wall, wart 🤣🤣🤣 I mean...why not? It's quiet and I only use maybe 3-5 pedals at any 1 time so the 2700 mA should be plenty My fuzz pedal, for example, uses under 1 mA so there's no way I'm taxing that power supply yet.

[@methyod]

@@J.C... haha ok buddy

[@mrmatthew2443]

Josh is one of the few people that makes awkward comfortable

[@thatellipsisguy8984]

I’m sure he could also make comfortable awkward…

[@jhspedals]

Thank you? 😅

[@pedromorales3550]

@@jhspedals Actually a pretty good name for the next jam while testing a Muff or a Delay or whatever. Connfortably Awkward.

[@timwilcox615]

@@jhspedals DID IT AGAIN

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

@@timwilcox615😂😂😅

[@StavK]

This added much needed laughter on a Friday. "Boarder" , "capacitation" --- "does the water need rain" "BF-2 power leech" --- Thank you Josh for injecting high impedance low capacitance humor into our lives!!!

[@AlJohnsGuitar]

as an "actual addict" I got to say Josh was VERY CONVINCING. I love the explanations of why.

[@werewolfmedialv]

"power soak"

[@johnjacoLMSW]

As a therapist myself, and the owner of a huge pedal board too, I so enjoyed this! So many, so little time! Keep em coming! Josh has PPSD : Post Pedal Stress Disorder! 😆

[@jrgutierrez316]

It feels like I'm watching a live-action adaptation of the Telecaster Guitar Forum. (Love it)

[@methyod]

coming from a bass background and being used to the island of civility and tranquility that is talkbass, guitar forums are hilarious to me. you guys are ogres lmao

[@lw1391]

This comment deserves to be pinned. Just outstanding!!

[@MrCrook]

The best thing about JHS pedals is that they really make room for grown men to set up their cameras and put on their little skits. 💗

[@TheTrollMastah]

What’s that supposed to mean? Jw

[@duxoakende]

I misread that as "skirts" 💀

[@TheTrollMastah]

@@duxoakende I did too Lmao

[@Theranthrope]

This Guitar Pedal Salesman's skits are better then Saturday Night Live's have been since the early-90's.

[@iommiclife794]

Seeing Rhett using a tube screamer plug-in made me laugh so hard. Fricking inside-jokes left and right here :D

[@christiancersine225]

Thanks for pointing that out😂 I completely forgot he hates those

[@SirYowdy]

19:41ish My favorite moment of this fabulous bit... Addison shaking his head, as Josh spirals into his grand finale fantasy, soon followed by Nick giving up entirely on the putro. This episode is crammed full of really great humor, awesome production, and excellent music. What a great story line! The team at JHS amazes me!

[@andrewperkins2083]

The best part is Rhett looking at a tube screamer plugin after talking to Josh.

[@MrGamingGuitarist]

I saw this episode for the first time a year ago, and it instantly became my favorite JHS episode of all time! I spent nearly three months trying to find it to rewatch it. I'm currently unemployed, so I finally had the time to sit down and click on every single upload on this channel until I clicked on it and remembered this was the one!

[@postal-boy]

That was art. Ego tripping on Creed. Another amazing episode from everyone involved.

[@smackofalltrades]

Losers: "i use too many pedals" Winners: "i need a bigger pedalboard"

[@jhspedals]

😅

[@HerbaceousM8]

4'x8' Pedal board build when??

[@fortheloveofnoise]

@@HerbaceousM8 40x80 you mean

[@TheBetapimp]

Put handle as the edge of your carpet as if it was one giant board.

[@HerbaceousM8]

@@TheBetapimp handles screwed into the floor at each end. It should count

[@TraneFrancks]

This is insanely funny. Oh, and whomever is doing the mixes for the jams deserves a shout for the stereo placement of the drums. Love the spacing of the toms. Jus' sayin'.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Board-hoarding is a serious issue, a plague if you will, amongst society in general and I'm glad that it is finally being addressed in an adult and professional manner.

[@mralgebro]

The whole call to Rhett segment was top notch content.

[@jthead]

In the theme of "Monday Morning Talks" Josh proposed, I would love an episode that just goes over Josh's inventory system of his pedal collection pedals.

[@strunkneb]

Funniest episode yet. When y'all alluded to something very goofy I couldn't have hoped for "well I use these Flangers like a leech" 🤣🤣🤣 Truest anti-pedal-demo ever

[@nunninkav]

I was in tears from this joke. You starve a transistor of current, it does clip more. Most people just use a half dead 9V, not Josh, it's 3x BF-2 pedals in a ghost loop leeching the power supply.

[@JonathanDiNamesMusic]

I might be yelling into the void here, but I've got to say, this is one of my favorite videos that you guys have released. Great featured pedals, I loved the humor throughout, and the jams were absolutely killer. I hope to see more like this from you guys!

[@beezis2969]

Josh must be sick to even suggest this or maybe be found the perfect do all pedal. He will end up moving to a cave on the tallest mountain to meditate, and plot how to get all his pedals back

[@lw1391]

Look at Josh's body language at 9:25. Took away only a handful of pedals, and he's already lost the will to live! I don't know what's going to win best short feature at the Oscars this year but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it as much as I enjoyed watching this. It was like a modern update of Stevie Ray Vaughan's cold shot video, but much darker and shifed from Guitar obsession to Pedal obsession.

[@lukian111]

This may be the greatest episode ever. Thank you!

[@antoniog.n.7553]

Josh, you put up such fun show all the time! Thanks all the way from São Paulo, Brasil.

[@LonaDVidrio]

I'm glad to see how a pedal maker shows people how they don't need to have or use a great amount of pedals to just be happy. I remember some hate feed you reviewed in one of the last videos and can't believe how wrong they got it. Please keep sharing that humor and knowledge with us

[@Deathrape2001]

The only thing it makes sense getting as pedals is fuzz & analog chorus type things. There R good cheap 'analog-sounding' delays like from Mooer, but haven't found N E GR8 'modeler' chorus 4 sane price. The $trymon 4 instance doesn't sound than a $30 used analog chorus, but 10X the price. Would B nice if JHS got into making SOFTWARE 2 emulate things like the Danelectro Cool Cat & 'Memory Man', etc.

[@Deathrape2001]

Funny also how a donner ' analog chorus beats the much more expensive 'modeler' ~> kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJvUmXubf6llbrc

[@fataldiz133]

Absolutely one of the top 3 episodes ever. Really soul touching

[@kingdada94]

I like this episode. Genius and silly. Do more please. Susmaryosep is a Filipino slang for “jesus mary and joseph!” An expression of awe. More power JHS. from 🇵🇭

[@brianrollins7275]

Absolutely hysterical. You guys did a great job on this video. Superb entertainment for guitar lovers. Thanks for all you do.

[@xdoctorblindx]

One of the best episodes yet!

[@mykhedelic6471]

The commitment to the bit by all the actors involved was epic, even down to the production. Mr. Mythos is a class act. Rhett Shull needs to keep tryin wit dat slide. The finest gear show on the youtubes.

[@taviswardlaw]

Plot twist: Rhett is behind the pedal purge in an attempt to sabotage Josh’s slide tone.

[@skatertrev7]

The corner call to Rhett was too good. More episodes like this, please!

[@jamesh6535]

JHS needs to do a limited edition pedal that draws the power of three Boss flangers but the signal completely bypasses that power draw.

[@j.g.951]

Hahahaha that’s awesome! What a hilarious video!! The phone call with Rhett was too much! “Ok bye love you.” “Love you too man” perfect touch to finish that call!

[@Deathrape2001]

Some of his jokes R like what U C in 'audiophile' $cams like $elling door knobs as 'speaker cable risers' & various 'equipment isolators' like spikes & goo & stuff. It's extra funny as some1 who worked with fancy gear at 'high end' shops & borrowing things, the Behringer EP2500 is a GR8 amp better than most, as R a lot of Sony receivers, & the best speaker cable is the copper 1 side, aluminum (or something gray) on the other = evens out the sound (sounds silly but true!) Best sounding guitar cable was super thin stuff, with tiny center braided copper wire & foil shield (no braid on outter return 'ground'). Bit noisy when moving it (with high gain) but more transparent sound. Pete thorn has a many cables demo where he proves the differences between what he selected.

[@TheMerc1950]

Oh man, the Creed 'Higher' breakdown was epic!

[@taylormoon3561]

I was enjoying the bit enough that I kept forgetting that this episode is still a Mythos feature, and was like “is Zach going to do a shameless plug for EVERY jam?”

[@nohillforahighstepper]

I know you build excellent pedals. But your videos get better and better. I laughed A LOT during this one. Great vid. Keep tem coming...😊

[@odallard]

The universal and eternal answer to the optimal number of pedals one should have is: Yes.

[@Patrick-857]

I only have 3 delay pedals, two of which are Strymons. I definitely need more delay. I mean how on earth am I supposed to play with only 3? My sound still has gaps in it, no matter how much I mess with repeats and timing so that the repeats hit at different times. I'm not even joking. Plus I need some X Series delay in my life, because no bass role off.

[@mlewmisc]

5:38 Josh runs his voice through a tubescreamer !

[@joel.website]

i'm obsessed with the fact that once you got rid of the grunge, you started playing post grunge.

[@ab036]

I don't know if what you said is true, but it made me laugh :)

[@stoatystoat174]

This entire channel is a funnel to gather pedals. Josh sits in the middle of his web speaking kindly of others pedals until others send their pedals to him for kind wordz to be spoken upont them....can't youe seee.....can't you seeeeee!

[@skullkid112]

Maybe the truest tone is the friends we made along the way...

[@thejolt124]

As always, excellent and hilarious video, and an awesome display of a bunch of really cool pedal combinations. Particularly happy with Zach's record time, absolutely one of my all time favorite albums. I've included it on every shopping list I've ever written with my wife as a stupid joke to annoy her. I'm a huge recent fan of Dipped in Tone, really love the community all you guys are building on here. Keep it up and have some fun making music today!

[@El...Presidente]

Love seeing 20 Gs worth of pedals in a pile on the floor. Now that’s drip!

[@rhyanns]

If you count just the klons, yeah 20Gs

[@TheRealJanKafka]

"20 Gs" As I understand it, Klon Centaurs are going for a minimum of $5k. There were seven of them on the board near the end (along with two KTRs), That's a bit more cash than "20 Gs".

[@rhyanns]

@@TheRealJanKafka i was talking about the first board at the moment

[@yqbzrxs]

Absolutely brilliant!! Excellent seeing Zach from Mythos as well!!!

[@petersparker]

Funnest show on the internets!! GREAT jams too!

[@cap9041]

The first shot of the pedalboard had me rolling! Then the "ZZ Top" slide style jam ending! The way y'all kept going with straight faces! The slide! The detuning! I was dying! 🤣

[@nickolasecker9596]

I used to be one of those people that constantly needed a fuzz or distortion with reverse reverb or delay going and maybe some vibrato for killer shoegaze tones. The problem was though, that I never grew in terms of playing, I was playing to the gigantic walls of fuzz rather than actually learning chords or notes. Johnny Marr of The Smiths inspired me to play cleaner and use light gain/or a compressor, chorus if I want modulation, and a bit of reverb or delay. Since then, while I’m admittedly mediocre at best, I’ve grown in terms of actually learning how to play guitar and not just strumming randomly to a swirling wall of noise.

[@jhspedals]

💪🏼

[@fortheloveofnoise]

Nothing beats a wall of noise in my book.

[@IamtheWV17]

But why would you need to learn to play better when walls of sound are perfect?

[@aaronunroe5267]

@18:45 he’s chillin with 7 Centaurs 😂 …so many times in this video it looks like Josh is about to crack up and smile lol

[@jsalmons84]

Rhett playing with a virtual tube screamer is the best gag in the whole thing 😂

[@mickdestiny6542]

That was a crack up. Lol..

[@blakejung3876]

Ok this is gold. I think there needs to be regular skits with Zach and Rhett. So funny, Kinda true, I would definitely watch Tone adventures with Josh, Zach, and Rhett.

[@pillarsofadventure]

"Does a water need the rain?" had me doubled up laughing

[@wolfgangdevries127]

Well.. it does 😎

[@raimondo3178]

Zach - our favorite therapist. I definitely need a few sessions.

[@CJLee-jd2lh]

i had a grin on my face throughout this entire episode haha too funny oh yeah the jams were nice too

[@jhspedals]

Thanks!

[@WarrenPostma]

Those were epic jams.

[@johngraves2185]

Seriously great tones in this one! Plus, I haven’t laughed that much in a while, thanks fellas!

[@lancecluster]

Very entertaining, I am surprised how well you both played your roles in this little skit, Zach Broyles was excellent. Fun to watch. Your videos are normally good, this stepped it up.

[@jhspedals]

What skit?

[@WarrenPostma]

This was all serious.

[@danishpete]

You guys, super heroes... And great to see you’re rocking the Doosy trem Josh... 🤘🤘🤘. Luv ya, DP

[@mikedr1549]

Nice playing Zach!

[@MythosPedals]

Hey thanks!

[@nunninkav]

I'm afraid to admit, Josh using the BF-2 Flangers to leach current and starve his drive pedals, had me in tears. OMFG

[@TheRealJanKafka]

Nothing short of brilliant.

[@timmungenast]

Great episode, with even more deadpan humor than usual! And that octave-up fuzz was delicious.

[@EstebanOnGuitar]

The irony of using less pedals, but playing through a two rock and switching to all those guitars got me 😂😂😅

[@ForViewingOnly]

11:04 - That Pearl Jam / Eddy Vedder parody for the FX69 Grunge ... made my day!

[@annedeoedipus7849]

Having all your pedals taken away only for Zach to play a different guitar in every jam, wow, that’s rough. Stay strong.

[@Mindartcreativity]

Drum sound on "Surf's Up, Jeff", uuughh, Chef's kiss! So good! Humor is on point too haha

[@grandudetonesnob7107]

I had a pedal that didn't change the sound or tone of my guitar at all when I would switch it on.. my tech told me it was because of incapacitance.

[@joshuasaylor3783]

I love how pedal makers are so friendly with eachother

[@phillippitts6294]

Did you keep the boxes?

[@peterperrone6128]

Too funny! You guys rock! Love the cross colabs...this one is right up there with the Klon Music is Win episode!

[@mattrobbins2268]

I got my "FX 69 Grunge--YEAH!" and "Sick Burn!" stingers so that makes this episode a win right there. Add to that Josh's They Tried to Make Me Go to Pedal Rehab l Said No No No desperate denial and we've got one for the ages.

[@dylandenney3980]

Grunge stinger is my favorite. There was an episode of TNB where they used it like 10 times and my face hurt from smiling

[@subliminallabs]

That Truest Tone is Letting Go jam was SO about to be an amazing 90's sunny day style amazement and then it just derails... love it!

[@coreyw5981]

But for most of joshs jams, its just a drive of sorts, then maybe a delay. He always does minimalist jams and theyre amazing

[@jhspedals]

🙏🏼

[@WarrenPostma]

The JHS show is so wholesome. Even when the gear lust gets pretty thick, or the collecting bug gets a bit over the top, it just stays wholesome. That's kind of Josh's magic.

[@yelram4life]

This is my new favorite channel! "THE TRUEST TONE IS LETTING GO!" 😂

[@ToddHowardBethesda]

I use 12 Tube Screamers to boost into my 6 Klon Centaurs.

[@karstenhammerhansen]

Too few Klons, the Todd Howard I knew would now have all of the Klons

[@madf00bar15]

The "I love you" exchange with Rhett was precious.

[@Mistertbones]

For me, the best pedalboard is fuzz, tremolo, and delay. Keeping it simple.

[@GabGonzalezPH]

OK Marie Kondo

[@texasreddirt1408]

That was the best episode y'all have done to date. I loved that. Lots of little details that were hilarious.

[@michaeldorman]

I feel like we can’t gloss over the fact that the minimalist pedalboard is plugged into a maximalist amp…

[@stuminnis4050]

This reminds me of the episode where he was showing Amazon pedals in between the Collings and the Two Rock. One of these things is not like the other.

[@seancca]

and that he is using a new guitar every time! haha

[@danielhunsinger8017]

This video was probably the best one ever. So I'm a gear head, and with Cars and home audio video equipment. For many years I have spent more time washing my car, waxing etc, changing cables and gear and tweaking the system with the home audio video gear , and with the pedalboard, Dude I have over the years went from pedals to a Multi effects unit, then back to pedals over and over then got a pedal switcher when they came out , then added multi effects pedals mixed with other pedals and it never ends. I spend more time thinking about all of that then actually playing guitar . I really need to spend more time practicing then messing with the gear. I definitely have issues. Dude I gotta tell you, I really enjoy all of your videos, your pedals and opinions on basically everything, Nice job man. Anyway I get it , We all buy pedals bigger pedalboards etc and I have been thinking about this for a long time. I want to get down to just Reverb , Delay, Chorus and maybe 1-3 Overdrive style pedals. But then you need a Buffer, a Noise gate a EQ pedal and then the madness starts. Then you think "well what if I want a Phaser or Flanger?"Then anxiety sets in and you put pedals back on your board. Why do we need 3 Delay pedals? Especially when one of them is a fully programmable and MIDI controllable Boss DD-500 that can basically recreate any Delay sound you could ever want. and so many more you will never need? Yet you want to put other Delay pedals? I think we as Guitarist and with Pedal issues need a special kind of therapy.

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

More pedals = more choice = happy bunny. Don’t get rid of ANYTHING is my advice 👍

[@johnmossey]

The “I love yous” on the Josh/Rhett hang up was the perfect touch.

[@markbyers5569]

I love how Zach is using a different guitar for almost every jam… 🤣

[@MythosPedals]

:D

[@m.a.6478]

Different kind of addiction

[@markbyers5569]

@@MythosPedals If Rhett is in the jam, he’s busting out a different amp for each one! 🤣

[@dionisiovulture4889]

Best Documentary ever!, it lacks of b&w shots of Josh smuglin pedals and plugs but its a 99/10 movie

[@anthonymichael3029]

I refused to use pedals other than a tuner until 2017 when I decided to try my first Klone…hundreds of pedals and 4 live pedal boards currently in use later…this episodes makes me long for that guy lost somewhere inside me who only used to plug straight in…

[@Ottophil]

I too spent many years like this. Heck. I had the tuner next to the amp. I thought anything between my guitar and amp was bad.

[@jhspedals]

There's a balance, I guess. Lol

[@anthonymichael3029]

@@Ottophil in my college band we had one song that I needed a wah for. I used to plug it in and out after each use. Like a cave man!

[@drewsanderson1365]

Likewise. it wasn’t until I started playing bass for a band where all the guitar players had crazy boards that I decided I’d dust off my fuzz face. Well, might as well get a tuner. Okay, I should get a wah. One year later I have a bookshelf full of pedals

[@eddiequinones3396]

11:58 “ 🐀 Filming with Rats. Please knock first.” 😂 Is that always there, or was it just for this video?

[@grantbob]

Pinch Me I'm Harmonic 😀

[@sixxbrisbane]

Dude. The Roadtrip To Freedom!! That’s unbelievably good

[@JJ-nq3ll]

I never seen Josh so 😢, don't do it! More pedal means infinite tone's happiness that is good for the soul. Being a Rebel is good! 🎸🤣

[@marvinadn]

This was so great! Awesome jams and the storytelling was great. Smiled the whole time.

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

Tuner, envelope filter, phaser, analog delay, and boost. That’s it. What else would I need! Oh…. And I only have one amp. Orange OR15. Keep it simple. ☝️😄

[@marcsullivan7987]

Well, duh….FUZZzzz. (And a wah.)

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

@@marcsullivan7987 - The envelope filter is my wah, sort of, and I can’t stand fuzz. I dunno.

[@marcsullivan7987]

@@Burnt_Gerbil try a Fuzz face type Fuzz (Fulltone 69 or 70, for example) Then turn the fuzz on and roll your guitar volume down (works better on single coil/strat, etc) and it will do the “clean up” to a great almost clean sound (think “Little Wing”)…and as you turn your guitar volume up…more and more until it’s full fuzzz, and all points in between. Changed my life. Pedal HAS to be FIRST in the chain

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

@@marcsullivan7987 - I’m not a Strat player, but I did have a Dunlop mini fuzz face. The little red one. Not a fan of the Velcro fuzz thing. Perhaps I should try a big muff fuzz.

[@leeoffender8406]

Wow. I never realized how tall you are until 13:00. Standard door frame is 6'-8" and when you straighten up it looks like you're approaching that.

[@TheRealFreekBos]

I'm already laughing... 😂

[@alococuccoyo6103]

I was downsizing my board to just 3 pedals. I succeeded. But then I got a looper, and it meant that I had a better reason to use the ABY box I just took off a month ago than just to use two amps in parallel. My pedalboard ended up doubling in size, but I'm happy with where it's at now.

[@alancrapo2881]

There's no such thing as too many pedals!

[@TheAmazingSnarf]

you're a great candidate for Zach's Pedal Cleanse Method. something to consider

[@diegoruizguitar]

Loved this episode! Should be more about this stuff and examples

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

To each his own, but god, are those 'I only plug straight into an amp and so should everyone else or you're not a real guitarist' purists tiresome.

[@ondrejtregler]

Nice touch with the black t-shirts. Really one of the funniest episodes.