How to Stack Guitar Pedals

Stacking pedals is a huge part of shaping tone. In this episode I'm gonna share a few ways I like to stack guitar pedals. In the comments let me know your favorite ways to stack pedals.
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Gear in this video:
0:18 Mythos Golden Fleece
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1:42 JHS Pedals Morning Glory
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2:12 Paul Cochrane Timmy
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2:16 Exotic RC Booster
2:30 Ibanez Tube Screamer
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2:35 JHS Pedals Double Barrel
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2:43 Klon Centaur
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2:50 Klon KTR
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2:54 Wampler Tumnus
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2:57 J. Rockett Archer
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3:00 Mojo Hand Sacred Cow
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5:20 ZVEX Super Hard On
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5:22 Earthquaker Devices Arrows
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7:06 JHS Pedals Panther Cub V2
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7:12 Walrus Audio ARP-87
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9:37 Old Blood Noise Endeavors Dark Star
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9:46 JHS Pedals Kodiak
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10:56 Wren and Cuff White Elk
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11:26 Jam Pedals Tubedreamer
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12:49 Diamond Memory Lane Jr.
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13:16 Boss RV-5
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13:46 Keeley Caverns
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13:51 Quiet Theory Prelude
13:58 Earthquaker Devices Dispatch Master
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15:06 Electro-Harmonix Micro Pog
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15:10 Ibanez OT-10
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15:14 Boss OC-2
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15:33 Death By Audio Fuzz War
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16:05 MXR Sub Machine
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17:42 Strymon Flint
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18:02 Boss DD-500
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18:09 Eventide H9
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18:23 Line-6 HX Effects
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18:44 JHS Pedals Double Barrel
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18:51 Browne Amplification Protein
19:09 T1M Pearl
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19:15 Visual Sound Jekyll & Hyde
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19:32 Fulltone GT-500
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Record Time:
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[@chilidogcowboy]

I speak for many of us: your inclusiveness of other pedal companies in these videos makes the whole pedal community fun to be a part of...and it also adds an ton of credibility to your presentations.

[@taiyoutamaki1872]

Your name is incredibly difficult for me to pronounce.

[@KodyXXVll]

yes this is what every pedal maker should be like, because now I know he knows his shit and it makes me want to actually try JHS pedals more, as opposed to someone who's just selling their own shit constantly with nothing to compare it to.

[@brianstephenson984]

Big dick energy, as they say

[@NotBenCoultry]

@@taiyoutamaki1872 Totally under the radar with that comment lmao

[@opgkoyote7989]

I recently got into guitar and the handful of pedals I do have are Boss, MXR, and one Pigtronix. This channel is introducing me to so many other brands and types of pedals. I can’t wait to get more!

[@MrDMF567]

One of the greatest pedal stacks that I think you missed is one of my favs. It’s incredibly delicate & responsive. You run a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone into a dimed Metal Zone

[@ryanhoward3028]

How to kill your neighbors by way of pure gain

[@zackperkins6107]

I feel like (and desperately hope) you are speaking from experience.

[@ryanhoward3028]

Lorenzo Alberti I use it on Jazz Fusion

[@Patrick-857]

This but with another Metal Zone.

[@voltnerstudios2115]

That's my clean tone

[@jmacc9876]

The great majority of Boss pedals are exactly the same form factor. So the best way to stack is to just use Boss pedals starting on a flat surface.

[@miloshk11]

This is so unbelievably funny

[@mrhat1073]

you could probably get away with tc electronic pedals, though you have to stack em sideways

[@emartinezr]

I hear Boss pedals are the easiest to stack.....

[@dannykiernan]

The disappearing Tubescreamer at 1:36 keeps me awake at night.

[@legendhustle503yt2]

😂

[@LannonHarmsEpicDev]

I know right!!?? 😱

[@94nolo]

this is horrifying

[@user-pk4kb8bx9g]

The aliens took it!

[@achgffgh]

its.... the one he pulls out literally 40 seconds later

[@CodyAlushin]

Owns a pedal company and says "don't feel the need to run out and buy something" ...class, Josh. You have pure class.

[@tomasotreasaigh111]

Lol, I believe thats called the 'soft sell' approach to marketing. (Insert Marc Almond jokes here).

[@gowithgroove]

He also gives props to other makers, which is admirable.

[@darwindewilde]

Even recommends alternatives from different manufacturers

[@joshmuz9018]

Reverse physcology.

[@Patrick-857]

This is the difference between a soulless corporation and a small business owner who got into it because he's a total gear nerd.

[@jakestewartmusic]

Pedal stacking tip - make sure they're flat so they don't fall over

[@Travis-pf3gt]

I'll have to remember that, thanks.

[@danielhoskins4690]

Jake Stewart Music pro tip-if you keep them in the boxes they stack better. Flatter response

[@jakestewartmusic]

@@danielhoskins4690 I thought that was for more of a boxy tone

[@danielhoskins4690]

Jake Stewart Music damn, you’re right.

[@danielhoskins4690]

Josh uses those shelves for higher headroom when stacking pedals

[@paperhat3942]

Me watching this with my $30 fuzz pedal that picks up radio stations for some reason in one hand and my compressor that I'm not convinced actually does anything in the other "Now nothing can stop me from becoming the next matt Bellamy"

[@guthriesavagefriedman9975]

Do you actually have a fuzz pedal that picks up radio signals or were you joking? Cause that sounds awesome.

[@jan_Travis]

I have a tremolo pedal that when I have a lot of dirt going on, it will pick up radio signals. It's pretty cool.

[@DSPsWifesBf]

@@jan_Traviswhich trem does that?

[@bradbolluyt9569]

​@@guthriesavagefriedman9975Building a rat clone and it did that for a while on my breadboard while I was testing

[@heggy_69]

Wait till you find out Hendrix had the exact same problem and on some live album you can hear his fuzz picking up a radio station lol

[@mattutt2888]

I used to stack a DOD Chorus into a DOD flanger. They were the only pedals I owned, deep discounted floor models. No Idea what i was doing, created a standing wave that sounded great one drunken night. Also, patched in a stray guitar pickup and stuck it into a upright piano. Blew out something important in the bass amp we were using, and neighbors called 911.

[@EpicStuffMan1000]

how do you even blow up a bass amp with a pickup, two pedals and a piano. and i absolutely need to know how it sounded

[@djay6651]

My pedal chain is a DOD FX17 Wah ---> FX55b Supra Distortion--->FX69 Grunge--->FX40 EQ. It sounds like the mid 90 po' boy garage band.

[@joshweigel1131]

@@EpicStuffMan1000 it obviously sounded amazing. I'm calling 911 on your comment

[@BibleStorm]

Neighbours reported Jazz crimes in the neighbourhood

[@synthmalicious7541]

How did this go from Chorus and Flanger pedals to a guitar pickup in an upright piano? So many questions. Why did you stick a guitar pickup into an upright piano? Where would you even put that? How did you plug a stray guitar pickup into an amp? Why would you put it into a bass amp? How did you patch a stray guitar pickup to a piano? Who is we? Why did the neighbors call 911?

[@ffbunte796]

1:36 - The Tube Screamer magically disappears from the shelf, and then Josh magically pops it out in his hands, giving another proof he's magical

[@soundsfromblackandwhite2651]

For this Comment, I looking for xD

[@beforever]

Mr Magic

[@scrawfordmusic]

I did a double take at 1:37 when it disappeared. Thought it was a gnat taking flight off my screen or something...😅

[@JKLauderdale]

Yep, I had to "rewind" the vid twice before I realized what it was that caught my eye - It's sh*t like that that makes me bad to goto the movies with, I can't not call it out and my gf hates it.

[@Locke432]

Sir,. You are the Mr. Rodgers of the guitar world. Your, voice, tone, positivism, honesty, and how much your in it for us, the player,. Your my guitar sesame street, with each new video, keep it up, and rock on. You've improved my tone sir, and more importantly my understanding of it.

[@theystoleitfromus]

Wait... did Richard Rodgers do TV too?

[@ToddtheExploder]

Amar Kumar Vakamudi Well-said, sir! Completely agree.

[@JedWunderli]

So he's Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street? I liked both of those shows and I think both comparisons are warranted.

[@michaelpeterson5061]

My kids beg to watch your channel with me. Your delivery and information is so spot on and digestible. I've only recently come back to playing guitar and was looking for a solid informative resource and you have checked EVERY box. My 8 year old helps me stack pedals now because of what you teach. Thank you for opening up this world to us!

[@MasterTodd24]

Mr. Rodgers who did a little acid in college and followed his passion for music, man.

[@chuffertonsrichardfitzwell7717]

You're not just about making rad pedals. You're about history & fundamentals & sharing that with your rad pedals. 👆🏻Thanx again🤘🏻

[@nt-hd5fo]

5⁶ the ⁸ and

[@potatoheadhaoy]

If you have a fuzz face or a big muff, or any fuzz with a lot of low end, try running it into a wah and then have a distortion pedal after it. It gives you a really aggressive sweep that kind of sounds like a synthesizer. One of my absolute favorite lead tones.

[@stepans2167]

Oh man, those are the only pedals I own, definitely will try it, thank you

[@aleksandralekhin8231]

i do that! distortion or muff into the wah and something After and when you open... oh boy, a frying hell rushes out!

[@Farewelltokingz]

Very fun combo, I especially like it on a Morley wah, crazy shredage

[@yaboi269]

I run a classic crybaby out of my jhs Fuzz and it sounds so sick

[@bobbychubb6913]

I use the fuzz on my Keely dark side with my wah in front so I should run it after the darkside ? If so does my overdrive go after the wah?

[@daniloalmeidadotcom]

To me this is hands down the best channel on KZbin

[@imannonymous7707]

Agreed

[@pompomsonfurballs8832]

Hells yes it is!!

[@RichardSeal]

This and @ThatPedalShow - both are equally awesome!

[@marcolalama6729]

I´d agree

[@sauce1101]

It's not bad. But have you seen Jelle's Marble Races? Heh

[@oldjess]

Conspiracy: disappearing TS9 at 1:36. This one goes all the way up to the top.

[@manuelguerreroescobar]

Maybe it fell down?

[@olafvanrijnsbergen1177]

He showcases that pedal in the video.. Like 10 seconds after it disappeared. Maybe there's a connection?

[@WarHero56]

Hahaha, he realized he needed it for the video, he's holding it in the next shot.

[@jacksonroth1427]

@@olafvanrijnsbergen1177 whoosh my guy, it was a joke by OC

[@steezah3063]

Wooooow

[@kellyjandrews]

I'm finding you four years later, and still super relevant. Thank you for your wisdom.

[@valentino3191]

Your willingness to include your contemporaries/competitors in a positive fashion is very admirable. Business can be dog-eat-dog, but there are so many possibilities and plenty of coin to go around. Thanks for the great presentations and great products.

[@clayheinzerling1852]

Something that I absolutely love about these vlogs is how you showcase other company's products. You could easily do all this with your own pedals but you showcase stuff outside your brand even though someone might choose that pedal over one of yours. I really admire that

[@scottt9382]

he is so humble - always eager to promote other non-JHS pedals (I love his AT+ and Muffuletta pedals)

[@SebasnatorHDChannel]

"There are endless ways to stack pedals," I only have two pedals, so I only have about two ways to stack 'em.

[@davesdream]

Actually you have 4 ways 0-0; 1-0; 0-1; 1-1 :D :D :D

[@ThomasEmain]

@@davesdream 5 if you reverse the order of the last two

[@davesdream]

@@ThomasEmain ??? 2 options (on/off) raise to the power of number of pedals 2^2=4 no more options. Pure math and binary conversion.

[@ThomasEmain]

@@davesdream no, the order of the last two pedals can be swapped ....

[@davesdream]

@@ThomasEmain Johnny the author of the post states that he has only 2 pedals. So, only 4 combination to stack those 2 pedals. :)

[@ancoraproductions]

You are such a likable person with so much talent, but never hesitate to give other people credit. That quality is the opposite of being narcissistic and it is an admirable quality. I always enjoy your videos.

[@almightytreegod]

Me: I don’t have enough money to keep watching this channel You: You might have this stuff, so don’t feel like you have to go out and buy something Me: Easy for you to say, mythical pedal man #takemymoney

[@ericthompson7387]

Haha same, dude pedals are so expensive just get a muti-effects and give me a 10% cut on the money you save.

[@ZachariasEinstand]

@@ericthompson7387 me at the store. Eh, I am looking for something with less functionality or how do you expect me to come here next month what I already planed to do.

[@lickmyfuckinnuts]

Hall of Canons I’m with you.

[@gabeandthehs]

A new Vlog T shirt is needed. ‘Eclipsed By Fuzz.’

[@conormackinnon4622]

second

[@mikebraunmusic7647]

Loud is more good is so old! It's all about eclipsed by fuzz now!

[@conormackinnon4622]

Also it sounds like a Fuzzrocious or death by audio pedal hahah

[@rolojeldres]

new hashtag #eclipsedbyfuzz

[@stulora3172]

not to be confused with "fuzzed by eclipse"!

[@andredegiant3876]

Confucius say: better to have 5 pedals that play well together than 50 that don't. Once I minimized my board, I felt a huge burden lift

[@aaronmcnair1829]

Pedals are like guitars, once you try a few cheap ones it's worth it to trade them in for a good one and build in that direction.

[@TOANhound]

@@aaronmcnair1829 Very true, but sometimes you can find gold in a cheap pedal. Joyo’s American Tone is an example. At like $35 new (bought mine used for $12) it hasn’t left my board and is basically an extra EQ for my amp. It’s also technically an amp in a box DI which I don’t really use it for but it’s there. The sound is gold I tell ya! For $35 new!

[@michaelpeterson5061]

My kids beg to watch your channel with me. Your delivery and information is so spot on and digestible. I've only recently come back to playing guitar and was looking for a solid informative resource and you have checked EVERY box. My 8 year old helps me stack pedals now because of what you teach. Thank you for opening up this world to us!

[@alexo1998]

Josh, what makes your channel great is not just the incredible knowledge dump, but your objectivity on all pedals , not just your own...i like buying from someone as honest as you!

[@hass89]

Geoff Davids he almost does not mention his own enough.

[@RobertKeeleyTV]

That's exactly how I feel.

[@alexo1998]

Hey Josh. Just purchased a new Morning Glory. I practice what I preach!!

[@strangelanguage]

Radiohead - In Rainbows! One of my favorite stacks is a Fuzz Face style Fuzz into a Rat distortion on Low Gain. I discovered this by accident on a gig when I forgot to turn off my Rat before hitting my FF for a fuzz section. It was amazing! Infinite fuzzy, violin-like sustain.

[@iankeene9532]

one thing i love about you is you show us the options. you dont always say buy my stuff, you give us options and thats nice

[@TheLateBoyScout]

This was so informative. Thank you.

[@bobconklin9250]

The first Fleet Foxes full length was 10-ish years ago. It's still one of my favorites to listen to with headphones.

[@dmac-333]

Amazing live too.

[@bobconklin9250]

@Mortachai Epstein Yeah! I think around that time, just about all I was listening to was Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, John Mark McMillan, and if I'm being honest, Ryan Adams.

[@JollyWillard]

I was also thinking Fleet Foxes’ Ragged Wood and Sun Giant EP. Great!

[@billedwards2657]

The Empyrean - John Frusciante is getting a tenth anniversary vinyl release this year. That one covers some wicked sonic territory

[@rasanto_s9716]

Its so good that you just want to close your eyes until you finish the album

[@thereallbking]

My fav Frusciante album ever ❤

[@crunchy3651]

Johns solo stuff is so under appreciated it’s just tragic.

[@MikeBaum]

I read an article that said he only puts out a solo album when he needs money for drugs and that is why they are so out there. I wish I could remember where I read that...

[@loganphelps4916]

@@MikeBaum yeah back in the early 90s that was true. he's sober now, man.

[@dwood1201]

As a guy that is constantly chasing different tones (probably like most people here) I love the fact that you give everybody genuine insight into a pedal producer's understanding, thought processes and preferences on tone and sounds using various brands and never making me feel like this is an infomertial for your brand. For an Aussie (we hate self serving BS), it actually makes you and your products more credible!

[@AlexanderXtcSlayin]

This is my favorite gear channel lol, not only does he show you and showcase the gear but you also get the interesting vintage history of it.

[@jdb4288]

I really like making a fuzz and phaser sandwich: stacking two fuzzes with a phaser in between. I have the Love Pedals 200lbs fuzz, varying the gain, into the Keeley Dark Side's Phaser into the Dark Side's fuzz with mids switch at full and gain low. The Love Pedal brightens the Dark Side and the Dark Side's fuzz calms the Phaser. It gives a really great, full ambient tone with a Memory Man Delay.

[@TheGilTV]

The xx's debut album (2009) is one of my all time favorites. Prime example of "less is more" and makes fantastic use of reverb and silence

[@marcellinden7305]

One of my favorite practice combinations in recent months has been running my SD rails loaded Strat or Studio LP to a AU$50 Klon kit clone into a Behringer UC200 ultra chorus and then taking the two outputs to my Blues Junior IV and my JVM210 in OD1 Green mode. Yes, there is a little battle to balance volume, but it works and fills the room with slow chorused cool driven strat tones and two variations of reverb....

[@jimmymarchisotto8152]

Excellent foray into the pedal stacking universe! Thank you for the valuable info!

[@McPherson123]

4:31. Astounding bridge pickup drive tone. Love the mid squawk in that with all the bass and treble still present.

[@marcolalama6729]

Every time I watch this channel I feel like a kid in awe. Bear in mind that I´ve been middle aged for quite some time. Thank you, Josh and sorry for the corny praise, but I promise it is true. Would love to hear your thoughts on looper pedals.

[@peterglennie8391]

Bump for looper pedals!

[@fxman8]

Bump for loopers! Well thought @Marco Lalama !

[@jhspedals]

Thanks for the love and great idea. We'll put it on the list for potential episodes.

[@albertplaysguitar]

I lived your last point about experimenting for over a year! I've found so many stacking combinations, I love it! Just today I was digging the TC rusty fuzz on the lowest fuzz setting, into the Boss OC3 on the polyphonic setting, into the DigiTech Ventura Vibe on the vintage setting halfway, low speed, high depth, into the Boss DD7 on the analog setting with a slap back vibe, finally into the EHX Canyon for ultimate shimmery goodness 😅

[@pedalfr3ak265]

Just ran across this video. You are absolutely necessary to the guitar community. You own one of the best pedal companies out there and show other brands and manufactures products and how to use them with respect. Ive bought plenty of your stuff and will continue to do so. Thank you!!

[@CBilly7]

Only by the Night from KoL (2008). It starts BIG with Closer and Crawl and just gives you the feels when you arrive to Cold Desert. Favorite stacking is exactly the Morning Glory into the Klon sound. What a beautiful overdriven sound.

[@quadrogong1111]

I love really open sounding boosts, that double boost technique is a great tip,sounded good thx

[@SimonMas]

Hey, this is the third video of yours that I watch and I thought I just had to drop you a line to thank you for the immense amount of food for thought you manage to squash in them. It's not just that you make me think about effects in a different way, it's also great to see your passion and your knowledge displayed in such a simple way, without the lecturing tone that I find in other videos. Thank you again. I'll keep an eye on the other videos as soon as I manage... and why not: investigate into your pedals :)

[@Wurmzilla]

I’ve been bingeing your videos. The way you guys do these, it could easily be a commercial for your own pedals and I’d love every second, but the love for pedals, the respect for other companies (large and small) and their legacies is infectious. I’ve never been a big pedal guy, my own touring rig for years was just a boss delay, tuner and micro pog into a very loud, driven amplifier setup, but I’m dipping my toes into more pedals lately and finding your channel has been really great and helpful, not to mention just generally interesting. Amazing work! Ps, I love the record bits at the end.

[@MrAsherdb]

This video has given me so many new ideas! I have to say that this channel and Josh in particular has re-invigorated my passion for guitar! I put my guitar down about 13 years ago and could not find the motivation to pick it back up until I started watching your vlogs and digging more into the world of pedals! Since then I found my love of guitar again and have been loving every minute of it! Thanks you for your work on here and for the pedals you make! I love running your panther cub into my TC Electronics Flashback2 using the quarter note/dotted eighth technique that you talked about! Love the ambient sounds that come from those two! Keep up the awesome work!

[@Lettsbet]

As far as 10 year old albums, Tame Impala, Inner Speaker. So good. So very good. Lots of pedals!!!

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

Arnis Venta around the time that album came out I found tone nirvana by stacking a Marshall 8080 Valvestate combo I had tweaked into a 100W CBS Fender Silver face Bassman 100 and 4x12 cab. The Marshall has a line out and I run both channels of the bass man in parallel. While I was playing bass at the time I scored the Marshall, I’ve since moved to guitar and that has become the A rig. The only pedals I use is a modded grey Dod overdrive into a JD 2 transistor Wah. Then into the amp. Just use the channel selector to go from a classic over drive to a more modern high gain. Sounds absolutely huge through two quads and isn’t overly loud, but can keep up with anything else if I need to.

[@Lettsbet]

@@MidlifeRenaissanceMan That's quite the Rig!!! I bet it can peel paint off the walls if needed.

[@craighambo]

Newly obsessed by pedal combos and am now addicted to your channel.So informative and well made.Thanks from Australia and keep up the videos.

[@djb3545]

I go back and watch this video over and over again. So great. Thank you.

[@jordandangelo180]

This is quickly becoming my new favorite KZbin channel. I wish I watched all of these episodes before I started collecting pedals! I would of made so many better decisions! But hey you live and you learn and that’s part of the fun of it all. Thanks for the great work! Really enjoying it!

[@samueljett7807]

Dude! You are amazing! I've been wanting to know pedal stacking stuff! Great channel. Keep up the useful content

[@DavidDiMuzio]

Great video. So many awesome ideas to try! Ididn't realize you were Nashville based. Awesome! So am I 😁 ...makes sense because I've seen you mention a lot of Nashville artists like Matthew Perryman Jones during "record time" 💫

[@tomhill9066]

Uuuh, who’s gonna tell him.

[@ryanjohnson985]

He's not Nashville-based; he is based in Kansas City. I had to tell him, Tom Hill!

[@iamtheonewhoknox]

im gonna start saying im based instead of i live in

[@whatskraken3886]

you're absurdly annoying, you just pop your head up in every comments section on earth

[@GabrielGomes]

This is the best channel I've discovered recently, been binged watching it for 2 days! Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

[@guitarandrewy]

"Trem and reverb - like peanut butter and jelly." Next vlog shirt. 👌

[@hoboroadie]

My trem and reverb were busted when I got them. What an adventure.

[@rickc2102]

I love my Flint pedal 🤘👍

[@chriskellervxstudios]

Rick C same here! I was wondering why he didn’t mention the Flint

[@chriskellervxstudios]

Haha edit! I replied before I saw the end. Flint FTW

[@guitarandrewy]

@@chriskellervxstudios The Flint is freaking awesome!

[@conormackinnon4622]

Qotsa - Era Vulgaris, 2007 I believe, great underrated (maybe?) queens album. Turning on the screw, make it witchu, and of course 3s and 7s. So many gems. Plus that album art... incredible

[@DiscOjeSUs100]

I love that Era sound, people always point to SFTD for the qotsa sound but you can tell Josh really scoped something a little more unique taking the band further out from the sound of traditional rock at that point, the guitar tone and playing in that record is absolutely filthy I love it

[@dmac-333]

Hell yes. Sick. Sick, Sick, Misfit Love... forget about it.

[@conormackinnon4622]

Ben Roebuck that’s exactly what I’m sayin. Everyone’s like “ohh sftd and Dave grohl omg!!!” Don’t get me wrong I love the guy haha but he definitely adds to why that album is overrated.

[@sho-nuffmadrigal6857]

Suture up your future. I love the bass line in that song. Reminds me of "There's always something there to remind me" bass line. Just a bit.

[@hunterthompson2206]

Mmmm, great pick. I love how they changed up the production sound, opting for a trashy, lo-fi garage band sound.

[@steveclark9934]

I used two old 80's home audio amplifiers stacked together to make a very useable distortion once when I was in a pinch just for fun I was very impressed. Thanks for reminding me good memories.

[@bugzaney9888]

love your videos. super informative, well put together and most importantly not pretentious whatsoever. thanks dude.

[@dmac-333]

10 years-ish old favourite - In Rainbows - Radiohead, an incredible record.

[@cyrusfontaine2598]

I really love a compressor into a transparent-ish overdrive! You can get the light breakup thing going on, but with the long sustain of something heavier, sorta like a compressing amp! It just feels great to play!

[@davewebb3847]

Route 66 by Visual Sound.

[@christofyre]

This is one of the most useful videos I’ve seen on KZbin. Another great job from JHS!

[@TreyAlexander]

Absolutely love your channel!! Nice to see someone so passionate about what they do!! Can’t stop watching!!! Thank you for your time and effort it means the world to me!

[@sprintingforsigns]

Earth - The Bees Made Honey In the Lion’s Skull. Such a beautiful album that transports you to a better place.

[@SwirlyWhirlyXYZ]

sprintingforsigns also from around the same some Hex Or Printing In The Infernal Method, and don’t forget Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light Vol 1 & 2 I stack a Fulldrive 2 into a Soul Food, I think they’re both mid boosted, maybe that’s an issue

[@sprintingforsigns]

Richard Swan totally agree. Big fan of Earth. Looking forward to seeing Dylan play this week.

[@garrettbabcock9024]

Radiohead's "In Rainbows" and I can still crank that album and rock out to it like I'm a senior in high school driving to zero period jazz band, smoking weed as the sun comes up!

[@transCoder1]

Album also provided a huge boost in PWYW awareness!

[@garrettbabcock9024]

@@transCoder1 pay what you want? I remember that. Bought it as a dual disc. Other versions of the release don't include the second disc.

[@chesterjetton1077]

+A fella who has enough kid about him that "Dude, try this out!!" is still a big deal. I'm 65 and just recently found the sound in my head in a pawn shop. Not vintage stuff, but modern off the shelf versions of cool stuff. When I'm feeling it, a big restrained fuzzy 60"s EC Spoonful is heaven. I don't have a Marshall stack played full on in a sweaty ballroom filled with sweaty admiring 'smoke filled fans to get That sound from That album. Try a Dyna Comp into a Boss FZ5 . I'm there. Simplicity works just fine. Doesn't hurt to crank up a Big Muff when yer headed for the Spirit in the Sky. Enjoy. We are all children searching. That's what makes us cooler than the poor lost souls who plinka plinka banjos and believe they are musicians. . . well, that could apply to drummers too but who's counting.

[@coltrane2323]

I just tried stacking my Westwood with my Archer Ikon thanks to this episode. Sounds phenomenal.

[@AaronBattyVideo]

Seriously, for delay/reverb, there is the Roland Space Echo RE-201tape delay or nuthin.' You can't tap the tempo in. Hell, you can barely even control it. Ghost echoes from minutes before flit in and out of consciousness. It overdrives. It has 11 patterns. You can go from subtle and atmospheric to "bad psychedelic trip" with the turn of a knob or two. It is chaos and beauty and beautiful chaos in a giant whirring wooden box.

[@joshuagardner4095]

My favorite weird stack is reverse delay->shim verb->tremolo. Soon I plan to add a SG-1 to the front. I just have to build the clone first.

[@EdgeOfFuzz]

Ever since you introduced that MG and Klon stack I have not stopped using it! It's officially a staple on my board. Thanks!

[@evanfox4204]

This is one of the best channels on all of youtube.. thanks for the great content that is presented in such a comfortable and digestible way. I'll be getting myself a double barrel to show my thanks.

[@blakevickrey]

An album about 10 years old: In Rainbows by Radiohead. I listen to it all the way through yesterday and love as much as I did when I downloaded it the day it came out.

[@inthewild5776]

Josh is amazing. He builds and sells pedals yet he markets and endorses other manufacturer’s pedals. I think he is so humble and amazing that I went out and bought a brand new pink panther delay (I never buy new). I wanted to support JHS.

[@frogunrua]

A year behind but my favorite album from 11* years ago was Big Whiskey and the Gru Grux King. Love your channel and how you show so many other pedals love!

[@scubbyjoe9953]

Last stack is exasctly what ive been trying to do with my fuzz of war! thabsks dfor the tpsz

[@craigshipley666]

My favorite stacking combo is a Sparkle Drive going into Klon type pedal, in my case a modified Soul Food. I don't have the SF set at a high gain. In this set up, I don't think of it as a boost, so much as a sonic shaper or sculptor. I love love love this combo.

[@loofonme]

The Shins- Oh Inverted World is an album I've been listening to since it came out. It's always on rotation for me.

[@BLEMUS1211]

Is it weird that I had an emotional reaction to the trem into reverb... It was almost as if it was squeezing my heart everytime it pulsed... Thank you for sharing this, I gonna try this immediately and play with it

[@DaveyGage]

Trem after reverb? That's the sound of old Fender amps - maybe a resonance from listening to old records when you were younger!

[@BracliCreations]

Love your commentary and geek wisdom, indeed the Klon tuned up to a higher gain setting is blissful. I used to swear by my stacked Hermida Zendrive and Marshall BB, however the Wampler Klon is the kat's meow in front of any AC30, Blackface, or JTM. Kudos to JHS!

[@mattgilbert7347]

Syncing analog delay quarter-notes + Digital delay triplets is also fun. It's very similar to the quarter+dotted 8ths but you can get a subtle variation of a "galloping delay" rhythmic effect. The humble Boss GE-7 is probably the most underrated (or maybe not? It's kinda ubiquitous) and useful stacking tool. Around a decade old? Arcade Fire "The Suburbs" came out in 2010. Close enough, and any Arcade Fire from Funeral to Suburbs is hard to beat.

[@jordanb9511]

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[@lexzbuddy]

High Voltage by AC/DC. I've been listening to it since I was a kid... when it originally came out. I still love it & it never gets old for me. Go For It LIVE by Fu Manchu. This album just has such great energy & the guitars just sound fantastic. Few live albums just have this sort of magic for me. Fuzz stacked on fuzz at its best, Super cool.

[@justinwilsonmusic8555]

Fu Manchu is one of the most under mentioned band and underrated bands today. And High Voltage will still be solid after we've all died.

[@whatspadethinks]

Been playing for almost 30 years and am just now getting heavy into pedals. Of course I've used an overdrive & wah occasionally but I consciously avoided too much effects, never even had a small pedal board. The past year of quarantine has given me the time to really research and sit with a bunch of pedals and ex poo experiment. Josh especially has been a huge help, this channel, his interviews, etc have been invaluable. Going through the channels archives and keep seeing jems like this. Thanks to everyone at the JHS channel...

[@gronxman1]

This is the best 'guitar effects' channel on You Tube by far! The information is so well presented, easy to understand and has been really helpful to me.

[@kyle_brenn]

Am I the only one who didn't know you could link the tap outs on delay pedals like that? That's awesome.

[@MartinCliffe]

2009 was a pretty good year for albums. A few come to mind: Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King (Dave Matthews Band) The Sky Is Falling (Days Before Tomorrow) The Whirlwind (Transatlantic) Burning The Days (Vertical Horizon) and of course Joy by Phish.

[@sundog88888]

One of my favorite noises for ambient alien backdrops is a p-bass w tone rolled halfway back going into an octave up into a mid-heavy bass fuzz (fuzz-face style, low gain) into a slowish phaser into a tremolo on fast chop and med depth. On guitar, I enjoy any guitar with 2x P90/jazz pups set in middle position into an envelope filter into an octave up + down into a slap-back with 2 repeats. For fun, toss in a bit crusher on med-high sample rate pretty much anywhere in the chain.

[@roqueeeeeeeee]

today I checked almost 20 videos about pedals, and this was by far the only one which i learned something... thanks

[@vidallepe2073]

I love stacking chorus and vibe. Slow chorus warbel to a long round vibe style circuit. I remember listening to Alex Lifeson clean guitar tone and my friend telling me he used 2 chorus pedals. I did not have 2 chorus to used. I used my boss chorus and my rotovibe to emulate that and loved the result. I"ve since got rid my the boss chorus but I'll use a chorus with overdrive/distortion. I now stack more than 2 pedals. Like tremolo, delay & synth. Triple stack pedals? I need to clean up my pedal board. It is a crazy mess of stacked pedals velcroed on top of each other. I feel like I don't listen to anything new anymore. I still love everything I listen to that is over 10 years older. Built to Spill "Keep It Like A Secret". I still love everything by them. I'm sure you will to.

[@gordonfreeman9368]

Hay! Thanks for the big muff trick. I will try it with my Muff and Bonsai. ✌

[@fendushi]

You are a gear head that every guitarist can nerd out with. Thank you for making these videos, you have inspired me to play guitar again.

[@MegaTubescreamer]

this is just as helpful today as it was tomorrow! thankyou josh you always know stuff most !😇

[@collintheplonker4809]

Lately I have been playing around with the Moonshine V2 with clean around 9 o'clock. Then I run a Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret into it for the heavier parts.

[@zachary963]

I love The Cure, so my album for you is Wild Mood Swings. Great, underrated album. I especially love the lead tones on Want and on Trap. Also, since The Cure is my favorite, I love putting a long, deep flanger with low-to-medium regen into literally anything, but usually light drive and delay/reverb

[@kobilux]

I know this is an old show, but I keep on coming back, because it's the best "how to" video to me. My pedal order: Compressor >Octave >Fuzz >Volume >Rat >Bluesbreaker >Modeling >Delay >Reverb >Looper My Recordtime tipp: Everything by Tommy Guerrero. Please invite him. He would fit like a glove! Skateboards and Pedalboards

[@Drew_Gliebe]

Clutch "Blast Tyrant" is the first that comes to mind. I've steadily grown distant from heavier music, and this album showed me that I wasn't alone on that journey. Its so well done … its the Blues with big ole balls.

[@octacilioalvares5879]

Great video. You also should make a video about using OD pedals in parallel, maybe using a Boss LS-2 to mix them together. Thanks

[@yl9991]

I was at Costco today I didn't see the Kirkland Signature pedal :( If 2003 is still within "a decade ago", then its Chutes Too Narrow by the Shins I leave my JHS-modded Soul Food on all the time (the top switch setting) for a nice amount of crunch (except when crunch is not necessary) and I use an EQD Westwood to kick it up a notch, and for lead parts I stack my EHX Russian Big Muff reissue (with the sustain and tone past noon) on top of the Soul Food to kick it up a few more notches.

[@davidozab2753]

2003 should be within "a decade ago" but it isn't anymore. 😞

[@yl9991]

@@davidozab2753 Tell me about it yesterday I realized how long ago I graduated high school...

[@afterstars]

Y L They are back in stock in my Costco. I got a 5 pack of Boss Metal Zones.

[@handlewithcare1234]

Tumnus has been sitting on my shelf for years. A simple twist and it comes alive. Yes. I am really surprised. Thanks!

[@stillnessinmovement]

man, you do such a good job of talking up the entire industry. I love it. we can all get along, it would seem.

[@d3vilsign]

2009? baroness - blue record mastodon - crack the skye converge - axe to fall every time i die - new junk aesthetic re: pete yorn-- the record he made with Scarlet Johansson is (maybe surprisingly) fantastic as well.

[@carsonhorne7302]

Saw Mastodon and Converge tour for those records way back when they came out. Easily some of the best albums ever made imo

[@JasonMann99]

I was trying to mimic that sound from the chorus of Radiohead’s Palo Alto, and got pretty close with a Big Muff Pi into a short delay. The delay makes the fuzz sound HUGE.

[@zachrobertson8138]

I totally agree about the Klon needing to be turned up! What makes it so delicious is the way it effectively adds a parallel signal of drive and your clean signal coming through. So that's what gives it that super natural and 'transparent' tone that sounds fantastic. Using it as a clean boost is wasting its potential and what makes it great.

[@danandkiko]

Thanks for the advice. I've seldom ever used more than one or two pedals, so I'm learning anything I can about pedal boards and signal chains.