LIVE Comments & Questions With Markus & Izzy Reeves! 14 Aug 2023

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[@johnnyboymcconnell43]

"As long as you enjoy it, you don't have to be good at it." GOD BLESS YOU, IZZY.

[@aidanswafford]

She knows this audience then 🎉😂

[@elecengineer46]

Well that is a relief, because i am a shit guitar player. haha

[@Parariddle]

John Nathan Cordy is a great guest idea as he mixes analog and digital for awesome tones.! Great show and good luck with the rest of the line team Reeves!

[@Amish_Trivedi]

I love the sentiment at the end about passing down knowledge. Starting a new year of higher ed teaching, it’s just the thing I needed to hear. I hope Izzy continues!

[@MR_Robbers]

Great guests! Great show. Mick I loved that you made special note of the mentor and apprentice relationship and the passing of knowledge...so valuable. Go Izzy and Dad🤟

[@scottcopeland2585]

Shout out to Markus and Izzy from Singapore.

[@seanpatrickwatkins640]

I have a list of about 20 potential fuzz names that I came up with back when I was building kits. "Occams Razor" was at the top of the list! PLEASE Markus, use it. Somebody, use it. I will buy it! 😊

[@gbarge4]

What a wonderful VCQ! Well done, all. Special tip of the cap to Dan, for giving the perfect gift at the perfect time. Enjoy your richly deserved holidays!

[@ThatWhatIsNot]

Those pedals are truly works of art. What a treat to work with your daughter (or your dad) on such an effort. Great video.

[@aidanswafford]

John Cordy is excellent!! Very understated but an incredibly talented and toneful player

[@Spuzzmacher]

I hope you have them back on, to bring all their fuzzes and walk us through them & the nuances and details of their work, bc any product line this handmade deserves a feature.

[@SomeKindOfMadman]

Thank you all for the awesome upload. Cheers and enjoy the time off, vacation lads, you deserve it.

[@diggerd6489]

Wow that pedal looks fantastic, I live in Darlington (birth place of the railway) so really should get one of those pedals to add to my collection 😊❤

[@garygallagher7341]

Johnny MARR is coming?!?! I have one of his Jags, can't wait to see that guitar on the show. Rips with a treble boost!

[@Chris_Nouvelli]

100% get John Cordy. His weekly Monday lessons often get me through the week. A truly brilliant and underrated player from KZbin land.

[@kingcal53]

​​@@GraniteSoundtrackAbout 19:20 onwards for about a couple of mins.

[@mattroberts4201]

On the subject of makers, I have an episode request idea (in fact you could do a few). What about Mick and Dan both choose a pedal manufacturer and put together a board comprised of only that brand? It should include a couple of their “greatest hits” demonstrating what they’re best at or known for, but also be fairly multi purpose with a range of general gigging sounds available (drives, boost, wah, delay, mod etc). How about it chaps? @thatpedalshow

[@dhod900]

Mick, you’d probably like Hanlon’s razor too: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." 😂

[@lawrencekashak]

Fuzz! Regarding setting the level. Fuzz at max, guitar volume knob turned down to edge of fuzz breakup,(~6), then set output level to same as pedal off / guitar vol knob up.(10). I love using the guitar volume knob as the fuzz level control. It can be so clean until you dig in. Fuzzface fun!

[@freitopolis]

Thank you for the discussion about components. FWIW, TAVA was/is the main motivator for me to dive deeper into electronics, safely. As Markus stated, there are many brands and suppliers of electronic components. Vishay has been lauded as a good value option and if the Reeves family recommends, I will try it. In past restorations/conversions, I went with Mallory, F&T, Sprague and even custom (aka costly) can capacitors. If anyone is interested in learning more about vintage amps, I echo Mick’s recommendation and listen to Truth About Vintage Amps from the beginning. You’d be hooked just like Mick and Dan hooked us on guitar tinkering, pedal goals and tone dreams.

[@scottcopeland2585]

I’ve got two battery powered pedals by Markus 🤓 - big format of course. Legend.

[@sesa2984]

Bringing up the inuendo of the Ginuwine song with the man and his daughter...priceless.

[@NeilEdgson]

Comparing vinyl, CD and digital, as Dan said, can depend on what it's mastered for. Also a playback system will possibly only be optimised for one of those options.

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

My favorite fish is sammun. I've struggled with lead-free solder. It requires a higher melting temperature and doesn't flow as easily - for me. It may be I wasn't using the right equipment.

[@GazP23]

Wonderful! Loved that 😎

[@paulmatulevich3623]

The Black Hat Sound was my first Reeves pedal and had me in love with Electro from the get go. I lament deeply that life's expenses have prevented me from engaging fully with Markus' latest releases. Truly tragic

[@nickharrington12]

Thanks for the answer Mick. I figured at some point over the years you would’ve encountered the brass nuts and trem blocks. Eddie used them on the very first rendition of the Frankenstrat. The black and white version. Since I have to replace so many parts of my Strat, I figured I go for the EVH tone with it. I can do all the work myself so having to swap things around if I don’t like it isn’t a big deal. I’m just having a hard time finding info on why brass for these couple of pieces. Cheers And just so Dan feels ok with it, I’m not routing or painting the guitar. I’m keeping it looking like a 54. All the wear I’ve acquired on it over the years still intact.

[@ThatPedalShow]

Good man 🤓👍

[@aidanswafford]

Mick was fully ready to write off digital soldering irons in the same way he would a digital amp sim 😂

[@ThatPedalShow]

But an expert with experience explained to me that a digital soldering iron generally works better than a non-digital one. No expert with experience has ever been able to explain or demonstrate to me that a digital amp sim sounds or feels better than a decent tube amp. I think that's where I am with it.

[@rossedwards73]

I got a Maplin (“Precision Gold”) digital soldering station for my birthday years ago - it improved my soldering no end!

[@TraneFrancks]

_Occam's Razor_ is a brilliant name for a fuzz pedal that features the simplest of circuits. Excellent VCQ, guys. [Edit to add: My favourite fuzz tone: Pete Townsend on _Live At Leeds_ … It's just sublime. His mastery of his SG Special's P-90s volume knob with that fuzz pedal is just ridiculously good. Univox Super Fuzz, I think. Beyond the fuzz tone, however, _Live At Leeds_ is my favourite live album of all time. It's a magnificent snapshot of the band at such a high point.]

[@davidpekarsky2977]

Fran’s KZbin channel is fantastic too! True scientist.

[@MrWilson-WithaPbass]

Shout out for Dave , He is great ,watching him for years . He's a repair guy in Toronto Canada . He's a life long bass player (but works on guitars too ) He likes Fender basses , Hates Rickenbackers :-) , ,works on everything . so entertaining .

[@Thatbobguy8]

That spectrum filter pedal is awesome!

[@andyw6026]

To quote the (never wrong) internet: "Occam's razor (also known as the 'law of parsimony') is a philosophical tool for 'shaving off' unlikely explanations. Essentially, when faced with competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simplest is likely the correct one."

[@petergoddard1960]

+1 for John Smith returning. +1 for John Cordy on the show as well.

[@john808welk]

Yes please

[@nonleodog]

Smashing Pumpkins as a favorite band? I knew this Izzy was gonna be great.

[@scottcopeland2585]

Until I saw the train graphic I assumed (wrongly) that the Darlington flyer was some reference to Markus’ cycling exploits 🚴

[@raffaele7185]

we're all aiming for the higher action, especially when playing live and we go harder with the right hand lol

[@stefanbo3620]

Regarding how to simplify. Please include a 'less pedals, but (better) switcher' option. Something like from qmx8/10 to G3 atom

[@MrWilson-WithaPbass]

+1 for Ernie ball cables , affordable and Never had one fail for years ....

[@TheDrunkenScoundrel]

RE: Cables-So many cables are so stiff they overpower the weight of what they are plugging into and the end result is your expensive electronics flopping about like an halibut.

[@ronaldnollet1461]

Hi from australia

[@vincentsiri5839]

Hi, you should invite guys from anasounds. They make great pedals, despite they are french.

[@dougmishoe1336]

Markus is a cool dude!!

[@joshuaraysummey7679]

We are very different @dan, for me a Malbec is the most acceptable substitute for water if none is available ;)

[@ThatPedalShow]

Hahah! Nice 👌

[@AlanRutherford]

Funny how both Mick and John Cordy in their respective videos, both said about the other, "I'm sure they won't ever watch this."

[@christopherjbutler]

YES!!! Both appear to be humble to a near fault lol..

[@ScottfromBaltimore]

@FranTone!

[@mpaige101]

When our British friends go on about the pronunciation of words like "solder", and saying, "there is an 'L' in there", I would just like them to pronounce the following words - Leicester, Worcester, Gloucester, Marylebone, Loughborough 😉😜

[@ThatPedalShow]

And our American friends with San Diego, Los Angeles etc. Language is always evolving and increasingly homogenised, usually reflecting the dominant culture / politics / economics of new doing away with old. Or 'ohwd' as they say in Bristol.

[@brymills]

@mpaige101 How do you pronounce soldier?

[@mpaige101]

@@brymills How do you pronounce salmon, or yolk, or privacy vs. private? Look, before this devolves into a phonetics discussion, try to read the post with the good-natured intent that the emojis tried to convey - a wink and a bit of sarcasm. As the boys had a good-natured discussion on the pronunciation of word solder, this was just a bit of ribbing back. As I assume Mick pointed out, language is an evolution and homogenization of words, accents, and rules sometimes long forgotten. So when I joke about the pronunciation of Leicester, etc. it’s with the full knowledge that the etymology of the words are long removed from their current forms, and that sometimes pronunciations are simply passed on, and no one questions why a word is the way that it is. And in closing, if, by pointing out San Diego, and Los Angeles you’re saying they are inherited names and words from past cultural clashes (because I don’t think there’s a phonetic problem there), I totally get it. But it was just a bit of fun about the phonetics of the words, not their etymology. Solder’s etymology is a mix of different languages both with and without the ‘L’. I will concede we bastardized aluminium to aluminum, and we use both aluminium housings and solder to make pedals. So, anyone have a problem with pronouncing copper wire, or silicon? 😉😜 Thanks for all the tones, and all you do for pedal manufacturers like Marcus and others. Cheers!

[@Bobby_twoshitz]

I love what I’ve heard of the reeves pedal line but I can’t pay 500.00 dollars for any pedal but to each there own

[@amcrorysd]

Mick - brand new heavies?

[@riff1964]

Why is Markus talking about the TPS boys as if they are not in the room? Or has Markus accidentally revealed that TPS is actually a vast empire!

[@ThatPedalShow]

😂 well, I have put a bit of weight back on, if that counts as ‘vast’

[@rgr4929]

Vaya TOSTONAZO

[@christopherjbutler]

PLEASE PLEASE do have John Nathan Cordy on the show! He is so insanely talented, understated, dedicated to learning and sharing what he learns, and such a BEAST of a player, both live and on his daily KZbin improvisations before his unbiased and often dryly hilarious reviews and ruminations on gear, theory, playing and life as a musician.. He has been a gigging function guitarist for years, and I am sure thousands of guitarists out there could identify with that..(with some studio session experience and a brush with a pop record label backed project in his 20's too) He is equally facile with real amps and pedalboards, and with modelers (ANY modeler). And he builds patches by applying the same methodology and knowledge of the response of the real pedals and amps he has played. And there have been many of said amps and pedals bought and sold and gigged with by him over the years. He is a constantly driven student of guitar and music, he offers a lesson every Monday on something he learned himself because of his love of getting better, and then sharing that progress, warts (rarely) and all with his viewers. IF you have John on the show, I would love to see John informed ahead of time what pedals you guys will have on the board and what pair of amps, so he can get a feel ahead of time what signal chain to have ready in a few skeletal patches on his Helix / HX Stomp / Fractal or whatever, just to make things move along quickly when you guys start shooting. He IS insanely quick programming, though, so he could probably do it cold, but still, the show must go on... What I think would be a great set of talking points for a guest like John is about him in general, of course, and his influences, path as a guitar player etc.. and also about his experience with both real amps and modelers, considering his programming of the latter has always been informed by his experience with the former. Also, after hearing John play perhaps through the TPS rig and say, his HX Stomp into the power section inputs on the two TPS amplifiers of choice for the show, (though a modeler will probably never replace what a real amp and pedals can do in a room with VOLUME and moving air) Discuss and ruminate on how, as Lukather has said, no matter what rig he plays through, he sounds like him. And John sounding like John is effin AWESOME.. Who could benefit from a "modeler guy" (I say that facetiously) on a TPS show? I think that perhaps some plugin/modeler-only guitarists (and there are many who are just starting out as players today) who might not think it is worth it for them to watch in depth TPS delves into the minutiae of the different components of a potentially unobatainable real amp and pedal rig, might be surprised to learn that THAT VERY UNDERSTANDING of how the real thing works informs EXACTLY the holy grail that the better modeler manufacturers and software developers aspire to in their real-world based models.. Learn how to understand, combine, gain stage, Feel and HEAR the real gear.. If you can't afford to do so, TPS is the damned library of alexandria for this knowledge... Use the same techniques in your modeler of choice, and you will find that you can make that modeler sound the best it can be within it's inherent compromises or limitations Potential new Audiences for both channels: Part of (but certainly NOT all of) John's following is modeler-centric because he has reviewed modeling and profiling gear from the most expensive (FM 9 Turbo) to the most affordable (NUX MG-30 or Amp Academy, etc) and shows the viewer step by step how to build those patches, and plays so flippin brilliantly with them that you hear what the potential of any piece of gear sounds like. He also pulls no punches about both wins and shortcomings on any of the products he reviews. He buys most of the gear himself, and lets you know when it was something given to him or loaned to him by a retailer or manufacturer.. There is probably a new potential TPS audience of younguns who have started out with only plug-ins or modelers from scratch, that are only going by what they hear from Instagram or KZbin guitarists that also have limited exposure to the real thing. If they are lucky enough to have found John's channel (and I suspect many have) I would love to see those "plug-in babies" join the TPS party :-) Emphasize in the show that the things learned on the TPS show will help them with their modeling efforts, perhaps a demo by john following playing the TPS rig with a patch informed by it would be proof of that? And for the benefit of a certain musician named John Nathan Cordy, there is probably a HUGE TPS audience of people, who, like Mick had not had the pleasure of having heard what John can do as a musician, and a gifted and humble player. What my ulterior motive has been since I found John's music and channel is to do whatever little bits I can to help more people know who he is... I have never before seen or gotten to know (a bit) a guitarist of John's caliber who is so genuinely blinded by his own humility that he has no clue how good he is.. And he constantly is learning new stuff every week and applying it, and getting better all the time. Not to mention the fact that he does his whole channel completely by himself while being a gigging musician with a new baby. And does a video every day that I watch for just the joy of hearing his stunning pieces of music and melodic playing every morning when I start my day.

[@kingcal53]

Well said!

[@christopherjbutler]

Thanks!@@kingcal53 Perhaps, but I always hit TL;DR critical mass with stuff I care about.. LOL..

[@jordanwilkinson7368]

Izzy is A-DOR-A-BLE. What a contagious smile.

[@jaunianise4172]

A beautiful decorative plant !

[@davepark1827]

Australia is one of the last places you would have wanted to be during the covid craziness. unless you like being told what to do, where to go and who you can associate with, with a little police beating for not having your mask on properly and off ya go to the internment camp. what a nightmare Australians went through.

[@lexist7]

I have to say… i’ve got a little crush on izzy.

[@JoshLikesFuzz]

🤦