LIVE: Delay Pedals / Q&A

Today, we're taking a deeper dive into delay pedals. I shamelessly plug a few JHS pedals and weep over pedals I don't have. We answer some burning questions from the live chat and even giveaway a JHS Milkman pedal.
Other JHS Show Episodes:
Delay 101: • Understanding Guitar P...
Origin of Delay: • History Of Delay Pedals
Delays Under $100: • Delays Under $100
Congrats to Milkman giveaway winner ShaneTrain!
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GUITAR
Fano GF6
AMP
Milkman/JHS Loud is More Good
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STRAP
Jayko - Shiba! Shiba! Shiba!
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PEDALS
Boss SD1 Waza Craft
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Boss TU2
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Caroline Kilobyte
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Meris Polymoon
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Teisco TSC-Delay
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Death By Audio Echo Dream 2
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Alexander Radical Delay DX
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Source Audio Nemesis
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KEELEY Mag Echo
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Line 6 DL4
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Vintage Echoplex
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Vintage EHX Deluxe Memory Man
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Vintage Boss DD2
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Voodoo Labs 4x4
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Cusack Tap-A-Delay
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Earthquaker Devices Disaster Transport SR
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JHS Lucky Cat
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JHS Panther Cub
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JHS Pink Panther (discontinued)
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CABLES
D'addario Pedalboard Cable Kit
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D'addario XLR's
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Ernie Ball Flat Ribbon Patch Cables Pedalboard - Multi Pack
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MICROPHONES
Shure SM57
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Shure SM7B
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Aston Stealth
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Cloud Microphones Cloud Lifter
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CAMERAS & LENSES
Sony A7 iii
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Sony 55mmSony Sonnar T* FE 55mm f/1.8 ZA Lens
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Sony Sonnar T* FE 35mm f/2.8 ZA Lens
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Sony Vario-Tessar T* FE 24-70mm f/4 ZA OSS Lens
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LIGHTING
Ikan Lyra LB5
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Ikan Lyra 1x1
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GVM 800D-RGB
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MISC
Shure SRH440
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Epiphan Video AV.IO 4K
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Benro Tripods
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Stream Deck
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Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
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Macbook Pro 15"
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[@RussArteaga]

22 minutes in and I’ve laughed out loud at least twice. “I don’t have this pedal am I gonna survive” is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.

[@RussArteaga]

Oh yeah and it’s literally 4:20 am and I’m sober.

[@ClinicalDecisionYikesYT]

More of an FX-69 GRUNGE YEAHHH man myself

[@GIBKEL]

Loved the title credits-how many times I wish I could have said this at a movie. It’s why I only used to go to matinees. Delay and reverb. Like peanut butter and jelly. Thank you for your constant effort!

[@nclauser42]

You are the reason why I play music now! Thanks just picked up the Fuzz Face Mini Germanium and love it!

[@craiger2399]

Awesome to have a Q&A to help fill in the blanks after a topical video. I just want to share that Pete Thorn has a TonePrint for the Flashback2 delay that is made to work going into a dirty amp. It really does stay out of the way and work well.

[@rsi1964]

Love the vibe and detail in the show. Great blend of content and entertainment

[@GustavoLovato]

You guys are great for my soul. Thank you for such great content!

[@SaphroxStudios]

This was such a great stream. Thoroughly enjoyed it Live. Top chat comments where hilarious and it was great to see Fluff and Rhett joining in too

[@evanharnett]

Great live show on delays. Learned so much I expected a quiz at the end.

[@nathanschad8048]

Love the live shows. Need more of these. Learned a lot.

[@kirabarsmith9353]

LOL This was surreal to watch. Thanks for turning my gripe into great content, Josh! I hope someone hooks you up with a Morley EVO-1 soon:)

[@zosojstro]

This channel is awesome!! I learn so much and helps me getting better tone and hopefully make better music.

[@andrewb7111]

42:50 I actually goofed when I wrote down my favorite DD pedal in the chat. I too favor the DD5 because it was released in the 90s and I'm real big on 90s alternative & grunge.

[@LordHar]

These live shows are getting really good man!

[@ohkee]

Hi Team JHS, just wanne say you guys are doing great stuff. I missed this show, but that’s okay. I’m still alive. I’ll watch the video instead of the livestream and fill the hole in my soul with delaytalk.

[@milessmart]

I'm loving these follow up videos!

[@howardmaryon]

In the late ‘60’s I had a Watkins Copycat. We used to let the tape loops wear out before changing them, so the repeats got darker and darker. We also used to deliberately slow down the capstan roller with a finger to get random modulation effects, and I liked playing with a tape that had been caught up in the works at some point and was all crinkled, so it gave random drop-outs and modulation.

[@banjobones4190]

Hey Josh, I know your show is about pedals, but you should consider doing a “rig-rundown” type show covering your guitars and amps, talking about your favorites, etc., enQuiring minds want to know...

[@AlexanderWS92]

I love your sense of humour Josh.

[@mikeneldner3316]

I bought my DL4 in 2000. At that time my Guitar teacher´s opinion on this pedal was: Get rid of it, it sucks. I´m really glad I kept it anyways. It´s been with me for countless hours of live playing and only once I had to change a switching knob. The Looper nowadays of course is outdated, but still cool. It´s reliable and has a pretty good amount of great delays, with or without modulation. Still love the darn thang!

[@middle_pickup]

My friend, and guitar teacher at the time Jonross Aldridge got a big box silver panther delay very early. To this day playing my Line 6 verbzilla on the octo shimmer setting in that panther's effects loop is one of my favorite tones I've ever had. Really, really cool pedal. It had a delay tone that was too dark for my taste, but when paired with the bright shimmer my heart was filled with wonder.

[@GIBKEL]

I think it’s great. Follow up.....It makes it more of a two way conversation. Best and convoluted band name “And you will know us by the trail of dead” Epic and sonically apt.

[@makingmusiconline2309]

Josh and team: you could consider a PTZ camera for pedal board cam .... that way you could pan, zoom, and tilt from a little control panel, or save preset locations on the pedal board, and just hit a single key to zoom in on each pedal as you wanted to talk about them (probably a little grid for simplicity) Love your stuff :)

[@IgnacioP96]

Awesome content! You're the best Josh

[@lukeheckel7926]

Sick Harry and the Hendersons ref, very nice.

[@duncan-rmi]

modification to the DL4? a piezo inside the case, hooked into the delay time, so that when you kick it, it wobbles. I'd also add the drum model from the rack version, & maybe midi clock.

[@christophertodd1980]

Catalinbread Adineko is a fun digital reproduction of the Oil Can delay. It ‘can’ replicate some of the quirks of the old devices with a small footprint, extended delay times, two ‘heads’ and is very usable with a lot of control over the sounds it produces. Great little preamp in it too.

[@shawngalbraith9366]

Thank you for melting brain about the mechanical reality of the Original Echoplex!

[@bouzoukiman5000]

I think of bucket brigade dark repeats as if the buckets of water are spilling a little bit between each pass till there is none left

[@xdoctorblindx]

That's the whole point of the analogy, yes.

[@Pianet]

@@xdoctorblindx actually not. the buckets brigade name actually is referring to the crazy number of caps (20ish per millisecond) in the chip. At the time people didn't think of bbd as lossy...instead they thought it was cool you could make delay chips at all.

[@danielrosadoguitar]

Love the guitar pick-shaped drink coaster.

[@GlennJimenez]

Ps I really appreciated seeing the pink panther in the screen right away when I was this was a delay episode Just ordered the 3 series delay. Because of your show🥳 No joke. Cheers.

[@bouzoukiman5000]

Panther Cub sounds beautiful! Gonna get one!!!!

[@GarryGnu]

My friend bought one (Echoplex) from Japan. It looks awesome in person.

[@xdoctorblindx]

"I don't think anyone is going to complain about that." FAMOUS LAST WORDS

[@mattelder9147]

Heck yes on the sweep echo

[@TannerTbonePape]

Love your stuff!

[@archie3k433]

Can of Redbull right next to all of that gear... The BALLS on this dude.

[@HippieTrax]

I have a functioning Gibson GA-4RE oil can delay, I believe it’s a 1965. I live in KC so if you want to check it out let me know.

[@HippieTrax]

No treachery here, just some sweet motor hum.

[@alanredversangel]

I think something that wasn't brought up was analog dry through. Probably why your favourite DD stops at 5, I think the 6 was digital dry through. The line 6 is an exception to the rule somehow.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

Apparently the DD-8 also has analog dry thru: delaydude.de/en/testbericht-boss-dd-8-teil-i/?v=3a52f3c22ed6

[@pipelobo08]

Love this !

[@erestube]

Tapes are covered in magnetic particles which get rearranged into readable patterns when something is recorded. The erase head bulldozes those particles back evenly across the tape to where it is approximately like it was when it was new. Of course, degradation of those particles happens over time.

[@markhammer643]

The "killer app" for the Memory Man, when it was initially released, was the EHX Hot Foot pedal (here's a pic of one: www.hyperguitars.com/image/sub/is44268525884774.jpg ) that allowed you to attach a foot-controllable flexible cable to the shaft of a pot/control and work it in real time with your foot as you picked away. This was well before expression-pedals. I owned a Hot Foot at the time, and it had two major weaknesses: 1) there was *so* much torque that unless the pedal you were controlling was big and heavy or bolted down, the Hot Foot could easily flip it over, and 2) the nut used to tighten the cable end to the pot shaft required a lot of clearance around it. Both of these aspects suggested it really was optimized for use with the Memory Man or Electric Mistress. But what it meant was that you could do Whammy-like pitch bends with the Memory Man, or work the manual flanging on the EM.

[@jasonlongo6823]

This is a great idea

[@mattelder9147]

As THE pedal historian, you should definitely have an oil can delay. You have the wits not to get maimed or martyred on our behalf. All in.

[@willtonvannostrum6810]

There's a Fender Adineko machine on ebay right now!

[@willtonvannostrum6810]

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1968-Fender-Echo-Reverb-ADINEKO-Memory-System-Tel-Ray-Electronics/333650761864?hash=item4daf229888:g:JNoAAOSwfHJfCL6t

[@JimHawkins808]

Simply awesome

[@veerchasm1]

I owned a JHS Cub. It was as cool as the Deluxe Memory Man I used to own. I still use a Echo Park which I love, tall as hell. My current fave is the DOD Rubberneck

[@nicholasrobins2835]

The Echo Park keeps finding its way back on board. Takes up the space of 1 pedal and the tap mechanism is genius. They didn't need the modular gimmick because its a good pedal.

[@ScottGailor]

Jeff Slingluff can't be overlooked for his work on the Line 6 DL4. Josh that's a call you need to make

[@Nukeboy93]

I heard a sound effect from the "Six Million Dollar Man" show at about 18 minutes in!

[@floridaman7079]

My theory on the DD-4 4 thing, because in Japanese the number four sounds similar to another word meaning Death (kinda like Whether and Weather)

[@dazming]

Yes 4 in mandarin, japanese , sounds like die/death. It is considered unlucky. It might be inauspicious to BOSS. Now we might be spoiling it for Josh to put it in an episode :p

[@betts12220]

That's correct. Source: I used to live in Japan and speak some Japanese.

[@HELLCHILDFAN101]

Love it!

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

I love my Memory Man,. And the Roland JC120 is the only solid state guitar amp I ever loved. Two of my favorite players, John Scofield and Adrian Belew, use the JC120. When I was a kid I had a DD2 also, that was my favorite pedal for years. Edit: 38:12 Of course it matters.

[@zachary963]

Adrian Belew use as a JC 120? Wow

[@shawngalbraith9366]

I just recently picked up a Mojo Hand FX Rook Royale. It has a modified stage based on the Speakasy, which emulates the Echoplex Preamp thingamamabob. The other side is The Rook. You can switch, with a toggle, which stage comes first in the signal chain. Awesome.

[@shawngalbraith9366]

I should mention, the comment that inspired me to make this post was the beautiful white noise produced by the Speakeasy side of The Rook Royale. It's my favorite thing about any pedal I know of right now. I just said that. I love White Noise.

[@shawngalbraith9366]

For those who might be confused by my post, White Noise is that hissing sound made by analog tape. Not the Politics of The Right. I just felt the need to clarify that. I support the former, and oppose the latter. Let's move on.

[@RagdollOC]

I purchased 3 echoplexes cheap many years ago after DDL's and Analogs became the flavor of the day. I sadly didn't keep them very long. I wish I would have at least kept one.

[@johnwade3476]

Bucket brigade is basically a shift register with the clock controlled by a pot , you can build them easily with a shift register Chip

[@kebmel8668]

I love my Milkman so much I bought a backup

[@williammackay9201]

I'm wondering where the 1" master duplicator and it's tape bin disappeared to after the local duplication factory closed. That would be awesome on the pedalboard.

[@markhammer643]

At one level, a person in search of "audio purity" would look askance at a PT2399, simply because it doesn't offer exceptional bandwidth or audio resolution. But the thing is that sound reflections in the real world lack MUCH of the audio bandwidth of the source. Stand in a canyon or stairwell, or parking garage, and listen to the repeats; not exactly a paragon of bandwidth. So when the lowpass filtering applied to address any aliasing, or other artifacts introduced by the analog-digital conversion it uses, shaves off the top end, nobody really actually cares all that much, because it doesn't sound any *less* "realistic". In other words, it is very solidly GOOD ENOUGH FOR ROCK AND ROLL. Which is precisely why so many pedal-makers who could easily use something fancier and costlier, and charge a hefty price for doing so, DON'T opt for that choice and stick with the PT2399. BTW, the Danelectro Dan-Echo uses the PT2395, which is the PT2399's big brother. It opts for an external memory chip, which allows it to achieve delay times of up to 800msec.

[@DreidMusicalX]

I had the Line 6 DL4 for a while. The only thing I really didn't like was the short looper time it has.

[@3mstudiospalmdesert]

One trick guys use for that is to start the looper in half time. It doubles the time of the looper.

[@STRATMAN1969]

wow cusack and la croix ,two great boutique items from michigan . Although a couple of times I thought you were going to "water board" one of those pedals ha. Also new JHS pedal idea la croix can delay maybe a colab with Jon : )

[@fuzzyskiboy]

I have a vox delaylab. Just wondering your thoughts on it compared to other large multi functional delays.

[@BrianPellerin]

Beautiful music

[@michaela9817]

I like the Echoplex hands down...

[@SRone45]

36:34 describes my lead guitar playing perfectly

[@m0j0b0ne]

J. Rockett's APE is a pedal with a loop for your delay that does the Echoplex preamp and circuitry, and it's WICKED good; better than El Capistan, to my ear, but it doesn't produce delay on its own. It'd be badass, with a TC Nova Repeater.

[@tomieilamo]

Dear Josh, can you build a tape echo with a tap tempo that mechanically moves the reading head depending on the tempo you tap to it with robotics and magic?

[@johnwade3476]

Good old 555 timer works perfectly

[@joerivde]

I want both the cub and the lucky cat. Great video! Also, which video featured 'The Suburbs' on record time?

[@danm5945]

26:37 “pour water into your pedal” Got it.

[@joelstephenson8017]

You!😂

[@henryjames8928]

Awesome!

[@Rolf_D]

Great Video, but I miss the great Pigtronix Echolution 2 Ultra Pro!

[@francoisdallaire5424]

Hi, No Digitech Hardwire pedal ?? I like them a lot.

[@MoncoField]

Its okay Josh, i remember recording movies on TV with vhs tapes

[@sandyturner1911]

I would love to have a DL4, but I have a TC Alter Ego 4. I'm looking at a EHX Memory Toy.

[@m0j0b0ne]

Zipper noise is a byproduct of low sample rates in early digital delays, the low resolution produces the stair-stepping effect as you turn the time knob. HTH

[@pabcrane]

'Dont ever pour liquid into your pedal' except when you have a Rainger Minibar

[@mattgilbert7347]

No bodily fluids unless you're a wild man and want to void that warranty

[@Liko81DJ]

@@mattgilbert7347 Bummer. So the manufacturer can say they put blood, sweat and tears into their pedal, but you can't.

[@mistermcclain8178]

Beat me to it lmao

[@TasteofPremier]

Please Do a Show on the Electra MPC effects..

[@nonahyobusiness8063]

Blurry cam is awesome

[@marksc1929]

Josh can you explain why my Line Six MM4 modulation pedal sounds better in front of my OD pedals ?....cheers 👍

[@aarronwootton]

I love this channel so much, you guys.

[@johnlow5399]

Big Box Memory Man is so incredible. What's the key to that? Chip? High voltage? My 1100-TT just isn't the same? Whhhhhyyy?

[@inkpad100]

About the oil can thingy: Don't do it Josh It's too crazy!

[@mikaulwilliammuesesrodrigu8257]

hi, buddy, thanks for such a great explanation. I've got an analog delay and found out the longest time it offers is 520 ms. Is there any chance I can increase that time by changing the bucket brigade chips for more powerful ones?

[@JC-11111]

No

[@JC-11111]

Just buy a digital delay that, has up to 1000ms delay

[@asims1066]

FYI, Radiohead used an AMS DMX in Karma Police. Old rackmount unit from BBC studios

[@felipealvarez3291]

I thought it was a space echo.

[@asims1066]

Felipe Álvarez they’ve used a space echo live and in studio, but the sound at the end of the studio recording Karma Police was done by Ed O’Brien using the AMS unit

[@JAFOpty]

56:31 is that the popping sound I read about in the forums? was that issue solved?

[@tomflynn2912]

Addison is a good moderator!

[@danemiles2285]

I know I’m late to the game, but how do BBD chipsets create both chorus and delay effects?

[@robertfrippers]

Hey JHS gang, do this for chorus!

[@duncan-rmi]

"this is the best use of tape-delay...." >robert fripp raises eyebrow.

[@lentisco9]

This question is probably obvious, but how good are the amp modulations compared to the pedals?

[@RealGingerTea]

isn't the ibanez DE-7 the first good digital emulation of analog delay? Even today, effects manufacturers rarely come close...

[@johnwade3476]

Josh do you have a Digitech super ambiant thingy reverb pedal

[@saculsheet]

Josh, Memory Man and Sun Face NKT!

[@ciro0107]

Josh, do you have the white version of the dl4?

[@negrocienfuegos]

What do you think about ME 70 and ME 80 pedalboards by BOSS

[@RobertWrightOneManCovers]

Josh: "I'll mute the guitar so we don't blow your head off..." Me: Little late for that -- put a compressor on that dang microphone, man!!

[@RobertWrightOneManCovers]

Stick a 80Hz hi-pass on Addison's SM-7 while you're at it! 💕

[@andreedipo6356]

Boss RV-3.

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

If the dudes in the BB are capacitors. Then they shall be called Clive, Clifford and Colin !!!

[@SaphroxStudios]

So at a point you in this stream Josh said never to put liquids in your pedal!!! Has he got the Rainger FX Minibar yet? 😉

[@bouzoukiman5000]

How much would it cost to design a new BB chip with a longer time?

[@alanstein9713]

When You ate some chips did You get sick? Was there a delayed effect ?

[@enricopallazzo8510]

Josh, have you ever played the Demedash T-120 deluexe Videotape Echo? It has probably the most beautiful modulation i've ever heard on a tape delay pedal. BTW i own one ahahahha

[@philxchitarristaeclettico5130]

Yeah it's amazing

[@mariolinomanson611]

@@philxchitarristaeclettico5130 The great Phil X

[@markhammer643]

Had a lovely chat with Steve Demedash at the Festival Sonore last September. Terrific guy. Interesting products.

[@GiveThemHorns]

I recently got a v2 and am already considering selling it for something else. It's not a bad pedal, but for me there are a number of things I don't care for and would like to be different. It's at least helped me learn more about what I'm looking for in this type of effect. Steve provides great customer service and has some great effects in the works