MEET JOSHUA - Exploring the freaky ambient echo sounds hidden in this MXR pedal WITHOUT A MANUAL

[@cookiebombsta2607]

I am one of the Joshua developers for MXR. One thing you Majorly missed is out pedal name “Joshua” is a reference to The Joshua Tree by the band U2. We worked exclusively with The Edge and his guitar tech Dallas Shoo to recreate Edge’s signature sound. Our new chip is based on The Edge’s twin 1981 and 1982 blue series Eventide H3000’s with his original effect of “delaying the delay”. As most U2 guitar fans know the overly modest Edge does not put his name on his signature products. Next time you review an MXR product I highly suggest you do your research. More importantly, everything I just said is a load of BS. I don’t work for MXR. I don’t even have a job. I don’t need one, because I’m 52 and my mom still gives me an allowance. Gotcha. I was just “Joshing”. Who loves you, Ryan? That’s right. I do.

[@60CycleHumcast]

HOW DARE YOU SIR! * * * * I ENJOYED THIS COMMENT VERY MUCH AND I AM GOING TO PIN IT!

[@Uncle_Buzz]

That's what I came down here to say.

[@OzziePete1]

And there I was thinking this was either a homage to Josh Homme or Josh Scott of JHS! 😉😁

[@theWARMJET]

the modest the Edge who needs to have almost like 50 guitars on stage 😆 what an humble Christian

[@TheDrunkenScoundrel]

@@theWARMJET Dude, I'm broke AF because of a car accident.....I am SURROUNDED by guitars right now because I'm not going to sell them unless I want to. That doesn't make me not humble or un-Christian, it just means I put my money into my passion. If you want to hassle someone, hassle Bono.

[@celticwolff5429]

@15:18 Ryan recreates the synth part from "Won't Get Fooled Again." @19:24 White Zombie "Dragula" Definitely not a candidate for the Afford-A-Board. Does the pedal come preloaded with Global Thermal Nuclear War?

[@spicyjuniormint]

This with some fuzz would be great for shoegaze

[@gooseabuse]

Giving humans pedal names > giving pedals human names

[@ousley421]

The brightness adjustment on my computer does not make this video any more intelligent I must not be possible...likely the Directors fault.

[@jfredricks2394]

I wish designers would stop putting the power on the side "below" the guitar jacks... anyway, pretty cool pedal

[@legitimatefrenzy]

It's definitely supposed to be an edge pedal right? Joshua like Joshua tree album?

[@patrickr.5821]

I'd say so, especially the modulated delay. Both the Memory Man and, I think, the Korg SDD3K, units used by Edge, had a modulation circuit for the delayed signal.

[@Taallyn]

Delay? Joshua? Delay? The Joshua Tree? Delay?

[@tymime]

Honestly this channel is my weekly dose of experimental noise rock

[@guidedbyechoes]

This pedal has my name written all over it.

[@gooseabuse]

Is your name Joshua?

[@guidedbyechoes]

@@gooseabuse It is my government name.

[@captaincoconut4119]

@@gooseabuse nah i think it’s actually “guided”

[@Dungeon_of_Regret]

i didn't have any expectations for this pedal, but it seems like they have some really musically interesting functions - like just enough weirdness. the modulation particularly sounds great in the sweet spot..

[@jameschamplin1742]

At around 21:30 some of those sounds remind me of mid-80s Vangelis.

[@larswohl502]

Best pedal last few years

[@guloguloguy]

WOW!!!!!!!!!! MOST OF THOSE EFFECTS ARE OF NO INTEREST TO ME,.. BUT!!!!... TOWARD THE END, WHEN YOU SWITCHED TO THE "BASS VI",... THERE WERE SOME SUGGESTIONS OF A "MONOCHORD" AS WE KNOW WE ALL HEARD MICKEY HART USE, TO GREAT EFFECT, IN THE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC FOR THE CLASSIC VIETNAM WAR MOVIE,..."APOCALYPSE NOW"...!!!!!!!!

[@scooter5005]

My name is Yellow Diamond Compressor!

[@codelicious6590]

Getting Susperia vibes

[@AIRDALEmusic]

18 minute point was the soundtrack to nightmares.

[@averyadrian1534]

MXR are working on the pedal to follow up to ‘Joshua’ - Its name……. ‘Achtung’

[@Ambientnauts]

My Walrus Audio Julianna is winking at Joshua... She's stereo and has two...

[@TheDrunkenScoundrel]

I am getting whole songs referenced with just a few notes. The very first thing you played sounded like you were going to do 'Sunshine Superman' by Donovan and at around 30:20 it sounded like the opening to 'I Am A Tree' by Guided By Voices.

[@chrisb3976]

Naming pedals after guys would be weird. "dude I gotta go turn up Daves knob he needs to be more wet" lol.

[@joellebrodeur1015]

You got two of the Alabs pedals on there. Nice. How are you liking those Ryan? I am loving the 3 Series Oil Can Delay into the Cetus reverb. It's amazing.

[@Simplertous]

I got the Alabs reverb and delay. They are totally worth the hype!

[@Simplertous]

Largely thanks to Ryan’s demo and review 😉

[@retromacman620]

This pedal gets so wild, I love how much you can do. Ryan, you seem so sincere in these demos, if you're "faking" for the money, you're a great actor! ❤ love your videos man! 😂

[@60CycleHumcast]

If I was going to fake something I’d hope it would be something better than what I actually do lol.

[@retromacman620]

@@60CycleHumcast fair point, lol! Well thanks for this, you and Perfecto kinda have me sold on this pedal... wish it had a favorite setting, though.

[@onefatstratcat]

Tomorrow they will release "Eugene" the flanger :)

[@mattrobbins2268]

This thing is diseased. It just ain't right. And l like it.

[@johnmundt7834]

Nice concept to just try and figure it out without manual, probably allows you to find best uses of it versus trying to make it do something

[@johnmundt7834]

Just read that you can split the mod control to do rate or depth one at a time vs both. That would have been a deal breaker for me if you couldn’t

[@buckwheat2002]

reminds of a chase bliss mood

[@garywagstaff7142]

Hmmm, gotta check that one out. Chase Bliss does some great pedals…but I’ve been out of the pedal loop for a little while… (Read: I don’t keep up.) Google, here I come…

[@KingLoopie1]

Cool pedal! Echo sounds BIG! 👍

[@jkf9167]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Hell is other Joshes.

[@60CycleHumcast]

I have a similar saying for ryan's. Its not as extreme though "There's always another Ryan".

[@adamwilcox6405]

An ambient delay pedal called Joshua? I wonder if there's anything iconic in music history that's famous for the use ambient delay????

[@joek81981]

My favorite pedal is called Flow. That's my grammy's name. How did you get your Strobo to display in purple? Does mine do that?

[@joek81981]

Ha! It does. I didn't know you could change it from shitty orange! Hey hey!

[@60CycleHumcast]

yep!

[@thomascleveland]

Hi Joshua

[@GregStraub42]

Hey! I'll take a Greg pedal.

[@CanadianArchivist]

If someone needs a multi effects this is good. I am interested But sometimes it is better to have several individual pedals to get exactly what you want. A few years back i was looking for a delay pedal. So I purchased a Fender Mirror image delay, then the Boss Super Overdrive SD-1 In December 2023 I bought the Behringer SF-300 Fuzz and an Azor Tremolo pedal.

[@tymime]

Honestly this channel is my weekly dose of experimental noise rock

[@DyeHardBB]

With the Joshua going, I thought you were playing parts of "Let the World Turn" by DEATH from their album: For The Whole World To See

[@larswohl502]

For me better than lvx

[@shadowminister4090]

If anyone should have release a "Joshua" pedal, it should have been JHS. 😅 One thing is for sure, no one will release a "Rodney" pedal. 😂

[@stuartchapman5171]

Loving this. Simple control set, some get too tricksy for their own good, you end with choice paralysis, as well as too much of a learning curve. It gets plenty weird enough for noise monkeys like myself. Lesser digital delays can suffer from nasty unusable scratchy clipping, I'd like to think this has the MXR massive headroom tech that they have on the MXR300 reverb, I'm also wondering if there's an internal dip switch, to flip it to stereo, using trs jacks instead of ts regular mono jacks, you'd think/hope so, as they did it with the 300. All in all a great reveiw of an awesome delay, and I've got one or two or 10. It's a must for experimental, I love using a bunch in parallel all sent through a send/return slightly modulated delay to make great vintage sounding room verbs.

[@pghoughton]

Subdivision is adjustable for both main echo and echo2. to adjust echo2 subdivision, hold the echo2 button until it flashes then adjust subdivision

[@paulkreeft2091]

The Timmy is my fave od

[@kevingriffin8854]

I'm waiting for that Kevin pedal. Kevin Chorus.

[@dahmc59]

Love this. My favorite was you chunking instructions.

[@joshuasutak2284]

Definitely seems to be a great pedal, might be able to get some nice spooky riffs combined with a loop pedal

[@BkBk-gy6vr]

Another delay pedal big deal there are no sounds here that I havent heard from plenty of other pedals

[@darrellminx5459]

I figured out the Joshua tree reference right off the bat. We are getting old.

[@frankunger7242]

not the pedal for me

[@garywagstaff7142]

I was thinking I really wanted one…until I saw this. Seems there’s so many ways to make it unusable.

[@larswohl502]

No mainstream pedal And that's why is so good

[@buzzcrumhunger7114]

Weird that I am looking at analog delays and searching for ambient sounds and Ryan pops up

[@claycrowe4032]

This is a cool pedal. This may eventually end up in my arsenal.

[@carwynvan]

So how much longer until the mother board gets a jingle? 😉

[@aidanoswald5034]

sweetwater may give you candy but do they give you extra silica packs?

[@pickyyeeter]

I don't know what silica packs are, but the pack of clear Nerds they sent tasted kinda weird

[@italianstallion6488]

Btw you're cute

[@toddhatfield5329]

Yessss

[@RookieAlert]

War games reference?

[@patrickr.5821]

Joshua, eh? But where's the tree?

[@TheChristafershawn]

I assume it’s Joshua as in Joshua tree as in U2 as in the edge.

[@60CycleHumcast]

I think it might have something to do with josh groban.

[@TheChristafershawn]

@@60CycleHumcast Ahh I see. Edit: Wait really or was that sarcasm? I just looked him up and I am not seeing an obvious connection.

[@TheChristafershawn]

@@60CycleHumcast Oh I didn't realize it was the actor guy. I'm slow, you are "joshing" me.

[@60CycleHumcast]

@@TheChristafershawn lol. I totally joshed you.

[@TheChristafershawn]

@@60CycleHumcast 😆

[@Fl4ppers]

Ahhh the Hainbach pedal.

[@hypnosis_phantastica]

ONE OF THE BEST DEMOS EVER

[@11000038]

Another pensive toy that will end up in the cupboard. $240. Damn expensive too.

[@terryenglish7132]

$240

[@garywagstaff7142]

Not a huge amount if ya really want it. Just save your pennies. I mean, have you checked out a Strymon pedal? O_o I get it, it’s not a bog-standard Boss pedal…but if it gets you the sound you’re looking for…go for it. I thought I wanted it…but the demo illustrated far too many ways that I could screw it up. LOL I decided to stick with the delays that I have. At least for now.

[@terryenglish7132]

@@garywagstaff7142 I want controls that I see , 0 that are reached by tapping or scrolling. I looked up the price just out of curiosity, so I thought I'd pass it on because it wasn't mentioned for whatever reason

[@daviddaniels6473]

WTF would you use it for?

[@kingarthur1776]

U2 songs

[@Sd12sx23]

He takes it to its extremes in this video, but I would think it does more conventional delay stuff as well.

[@shaft9000]

Smart marketing to call it that...there's easily 100K players that will instantly get the association and keep it "in mind". Not very compelling, though. A dual delay w/ up+down octave shift going to mono out, no separate mod rate control. Pass...

[@60CycleHumcast]

aparently its got stereo out via trs or you can use the exp jack as a second output. it would have been neat to have more modulation controls though

[@shckltnebay]

@@60CycleHumcast It does, check out Andy from reverb demo

[@Occupancy64]

It's stereo output (via TRS or dual mono), TRS input, and there are tons of secondary parameters to adjust basically everything - including independent mod rate/depth. From the manual: "By default, the MOD knob controls both the depth and rate of the modulation effect, but each can be adjusted independently. To adjust the modulation depth, hold down the TRAILS button and rotate the MOD knob as needed. To adjust the modulation rate, release the TRAILS button, and rotate the MOD knob as needed. The MOD knob will continue to function as a rate control until default settings are restored through a factory reset (see RESTORE DEFAULTS section below)." Source: www.jimdunlop.com/content/manuals/M309.pdf

[@stuartchapman5171]

​@Occupancy64 Damn, I love the stereo option that the MXR300 also has, I'm hoping it's got the massive headroom tech as well for clipping issues, so many digi delays have with big synth like inputs. I'm now terrified of the extra "hidden" feature set, don't like them, I struggle to navigate beyond the "Top loaded" controls, I get overwhelmed with "menus" more so when you can't see them. Having said all that, I love the variety of noise you can get. A Dark Ambient droners wet dream.

[@LeviHeld]

trying to get my hands on that movall falling star after seeing your video of their series. its unavailable everywhere ive seen

[@60CycleHumcast]

yeah its out of stock right now, movall says there are more on the way but i wasnt given a timeline of when that would happen.

[@LeviHeld]

appreciate the response! i'll just have to keep an eye out @@60CycleHumcast

[@DravenxEyeless]

It's available on Aliexpress

[@DravenxEyeless]

Or, get either the Mosky Magnetic Delay or the DemonFx Tape Echo. All of these, including the Falling Star are based on the Keeley Mag-Echo. Falling Star sound a little grittier and does have an on/off switch for the modulation part, but turning the depth pot fully counter clockwise acts the same way, bypassing the modulation. Also, the mosky and demonfx have a separate led visualizer for the modulation speed.

[@LeviHeld]

thanks for the info ill check them out@@DravenxEyeless

[@robertmcdowell6936]

This definitely was one of your most interesting and out there pedal demos. Some may not appreciate everything you do, but I was pretty amazed on how with something so???? I can't even come up with a word for it you are still able to either put chords or notes with working a tremolo to give some outrageous sounds. But I still have to say I'm somewhat captivated by the Guild. How do you decide on what you're going to pull off the wall to demo with? Do you try a couple first before you decide? Especially for one that's on the chopping block. Unless maybe you filmed this prior to knowing it was going to be? Hmmmmm?

[@ElectromaticG5120]

If I’d win this, I’d give it away. An ideal gift for a friend I don’t like. 👍🏼

[@davidfragale5156]

Gimme a break !!! Any idiot, except you would get that the name is a referral to the U2 album “Joshua Tree.” So, what we’re looking at here is a EH Memory Man clone that can do the dotted 8th note thing that Dave originally did with two EH pedals

[@jamesearl389]

Sure would love to see big time guitar KZbinrs saying “forget you, sweet water! We’re going to promote people’s LOCAL MUSIC STORES; the people that are out in the trenches, working with everyday musicians, learning how they like their guitars set up, calling them when their parents are in the hospital, providing “cheers” level customer service…………. That’s what I’d love to see.

[@NeoRichardBlake]

If only they could get a paycheck from local music stores. Also, those would be very niche videos. For example, being outside of the San Diego area, I wouldn't watch a video focusing on their local stores. I could see it working as sort of a set dressing thing though, rather than a focus. Something like, "This is 60 Cycle Hum, and today I'm at local shop X and I'm demoing the Joshua pedal provided to me by MXR. They carry this pedal, so come get it from them." However, since this pedal was provided by Sweetwater, I don't think it would go over well to tell people to buy it locally. However, equipment that comes straight from the manufacturer could work this way.

[@jamesearl389]

@@NeoRichardBlake totally misunderstood my point. All they have to do is say “hey look for this pedal at your local music store, and if they don’t carry it, let them know you’re interested! That’s how they know what to carry.” Did you really think I wanted them promote to the whole world a small shop in Des Moines?

[@NeoRichardBlake]

@@jamesearl389 You literally typed "promote people's local music stores," So yes, that's what I thought you meant.

[@christopherdillard6835]

My local music store has about 10 pedals and nothing this “niche.”

[@thetownspeople6486]

Funny how everyone on KZbin release a review of the same effects pedal on the same day. As if pedals weren’t boring enough. 😮

[@60CycleHumcast]

PAYDAY!

[@terryenglish7132]

What are you complaining about.? , how is having multiple reviews on something you're researching to buy a bad thing.?

[@jamesearl389]

@@terryenglish7132it’s not a bad thing, but it does make us all incredulous about the blurred line between honest review and marketing hype

[@rcolpitts5528]

If only we had zero reviews that would be so much better. 😅

[@pickyyeeter]

It's funny how when a company releases a product, they pay to promote said product on the same day. Weird.

[@rogerwalker9191]

"Cool?" "I like it!" @ $248.00..Of course you do! Your Credibility Stock price is dropping fast, especially since Sweetwater gave it to you free...

[@60CycleHumcast]

Wait till you find out that they also paid my demo fee.

[@DanFlashes99]

because if a gear demo says anything positive, it's automatically a lie and a conspiracy. Everyone knows this. It's not paranoid or juvenile at all. I hope the entire internet reads the wisdom of rogerwalker9191, who I respect very much. Can we hang out sometime?

[@spearchuckerbear2817]

Why is his credibility stock price dropping? Just playing with pedals, it’s just fun.

[@philipschiffman9070]

That is ridiculous. He should show products of all price ranges. He deserves his money and does not make me like the pedal or dislike it. Actually he saved me $248. I was about to buy it but realized it may not be for me and that is ok. You need to be open minded and less bitter. This guy is always 100% authentic. He does not hard sell anything and certainly not this product. He does a great job showing us so we can make our own decisions. Why don’t you show us your videos on pedals?

[@philipschiffman9070]

@@60CycleHumcastI hope you do get paid well!!! I used to watch network TV and these days I spend more time watching you. This is long hard work. Great job as always! This pedal does seem fun not sure what to do with it yet.

[@BishopEddie5443]

"I gotta play these bummer blues licks"- too funny!

[@BishopEddie5443]

Always new amazing gear from this channel. Thanks!

[@ferrousmcgarrus3431]

This demo leaves a lot to be desired.. Watching a guy twist knobs for 30 minutes while knowing jack shit about the pedal is highly boring. Put in some effort.

[@andrewsmith1520]

There’s probably another YT guy doing that. Watch that guy. Ryan does what Ryan does and his fans enjoy it. MXR and sweetwater sent this to him for his audience to watch, not for him to make a new audience out of “more effort” viewers.

[@growupthendie27]

As a Joshua, Im seething with need