What's the Deal? Josh Scott Explains Pedal Myths & Concepts

[@floatingdino]

When Josh held up the box, the "He has the box" jingle played in my head at MAX VOLUME

[@incredifunk]

You've been conditioned by evil pedal designers

[@kibbles1053]

"....WE WENT TO THE MOON... Are you telling me we can't make a part for an overdrive pedal?" Josh is a national treasure.

[@gnigognago9770]

I love Josh, but this is the first bullshit I've heard him say. I'm talking about the moon thing.

[@RayLilith]

what’s with all this moon business anyway? the moon isn’t real in the first place 🙄

[@har234908234]

@@jonahlouque9621 That would be bundled with other reasons... public will would be highest on the list. The tooling and personnel required to build and operate the machines the same way has gone, so in a sense it's correct... but you wouldn't go back to the moon to do Apollo all over again anyway. What's the point?

[@noises7029]

@@jonahlouque9621 Yes, I've seen that actual clip before too. They blamed it on storing those files on ancient hard drives in old barn/storage facilities and that stuff just gets thrown away. UGH.

[@MindtheGAS]

Tone is in the fingers... Next!

[@mikes062]

If people played their guitars as much as they argue about all this crap none of it would matter because they’d sound good through anything they plug into.

[@allthingsclassicrock]

Exactly. And playing in a band gig scenario you realize how trivial all the minor differences in pedals is.

[@mikes062]

@@allthingsclassicrock yup, but the guys that argue about that stuff don’t play in bands, they play in their mom’s basement lol

[@allthingsclassicrock]

@@mikes062 🤣🤣🤣 probably true.

[@ileutur6863]

@@allthingsclassicrock umm sorry no. Kicking on an octave fuzz into a phaser into two wahs taped together is definitely s significant change in sound

[@ShanevsDCsniperr]

@@ileutur6863 "let me just make up something no one ever said and argue against that"

[@AMTunLimited]

I love how much fun you can tell Josh is having. Like if he weren't going this for Reverb he'd be explaining this to random people at a bar or something

[@saculsheet]

I hope kids don't learn from this guy.

[@j_c_93]

Josh: [long explanation] so yeah, don't confuse germanium diodes with germanium transistors. Barkeep: uh... so what do you want to drink?

[@michaelsnydermusic]

I agree, he’s great. Kinda like a Public Science Educator but for guitar pedals. Reverb is a sponsor but he’d be doing this on KZbin regardless.

[@Carguyeight]

That's why the JHS show is so awesome

[@ColtonErvin]

Sad not hearing “He has the box” at 1:09

[@TeslaChad]

“If it sounds good, it is good” A lot of people really need to learn this

[@bazitube390]

No no no its needs to be an original Plexi that got cigarette burn marks on it. And then you jump the channels and plug in your vintage strat. Make sure it's a second half of 1959 serial number so you got the slab Brazilian board because the veneer board makes it sound different. And then you kshzoapozbzojahalanbxhdos. Source: trust me bro

[@yurimodin7333]

@@bazitube390 meanwhile the machining tolerances on the tuners and saddles were shit so it has that "warm vintage tone" but won't stay in tune to save your ass.

[@dxcman1]

as an engineer... i love hearing a guy who knows his stuff debunking silly myths. I feel like i should have an oscilloscope handy. 🙂

[@saculsheet]

What he say about >Op amps is false, the same for Germanium transistors, you choose the right Ge transistor and you get that Foxy Lady, Manic Depression tone!!!!

[@LucasFrancisco-uv6xv]

Did you make the JRC4558d a/b test?

[@c1ph3rpunk]

@@saculsheetno, he’s correct, it’s the circuit around it, and how it’s tuned to that component to achieve a specific tonal outcome. Let’s set aside the definition “better means more reliable, consumes less power, is lower cost, is easier to manufacture” and define “better means sound better”. With that, you’re now firmly in personal bias territory, your “better” likely doesn’t match mine. The parts are the parts, they’re no better or worse, quantitatively, than each other, they’re just different, they have different attributes and qualities. It’s how you wrap a circuit around them that changes things. You can create the ultimate shitty fuzz pedal with that BETTER $25 germanium transistor, I know, I have, it truly sucked ass (like all fuzz does). I can’t stand fuzz, absolutely hate it, you can put ANY germanium fuzz in front of me and I’ll say any other overdrive or distortion pedal, using silicon, is better. Then there’s the fact germanium is so god damn finicky, let’s make sure the room is exactly 71.394°F so we can get THAT SOUND. I’ve already finished playing my set, and am drinking with your girlfriend, while you’re staring at your germanium to warm up.

[@benstevens1718]

Josh really needs to have his own Drunk History episode where he can let loose about pedals. Compulsory viewing.

[@ProfVonW]

I think that was called “Pedals: The Musical”

[@benstevens1718]

@@ProfVonW Kind of. I'm talking about just drunk. No songs.

[@innawoods2131]

That rat history video seemed like it could use some sauce...

[@John-e4p1x]

I think this is it...

[@doctorstrangehere1372]

100 percent this needs to happen, I'd even be curious what his drink of choice would be

[@kbcarroll]

"Do you think we got WORSE at building these?" is my default response to my vintage-obsessed friends who automatically believe "vintage is more gooder" on everything.

[@kbcarroll]

@@matthewnapoletano6669 okay but what happens to your point when someone says transistors are "worse" than tubes?

[@_Ike]

Weeelllllllll, in the age of industry, old things can quite often be better than new things. Cars and trucks. It's not secret that older trucks, on average, last longer than new trucks. I think it's because there's more going on in new vehicles. More to upkeep. Maintain. Tools- power drills, wrenches, toolboxes- using cheaper parts and materials to make larger quantities to sell more. Old Craftsman tools are better than new ones. That's not subjective, really. So I can understand in some scenarios where older = better. But it definitely doesn't apply everywhere. I don't know enough about/haven't played enough pedals to say one way or the other on them.

[@masonianbund]

“Please play guitar” is the best gear advice I’ve heard in a long time.

[@doughankins3996]

Josh Scott. National Treasure. A combination of Mr. Roger's and Ferris Bueler. I salute you sir. Thank you Reverb for doing this. You guys make great business partners.

[@timwatson4118]

This an obvious reference to the groundraking work of the Rogers/Bueler Group.

[@chadfelter3003]

True...His life story will be portrayed by Tom Hanks in an upcoming made for TV movie.

[@bronsonjohnson9019]

He looks like a young version of my junior high guitar teacher. But yes, this man is a treasure.

[@andsoistopped]

Totally. Completely. That’s exactly who and what he is.

[@saculsheet]

Many guitarists came to my shop and their Tube Screamers had different Opamps, different code,,,etc, I still have the JRC4558D, every time I replaced it the results was extra great!, I , separately, made an A/B Opamp test and the diffenrence was increible, total,. So, how can this man be talking that all the Opamps sound the same!, it is incredible, I can not explain with what calm he can be giving false information.

[@John-e4p1x]

This guy should make his own pedals instead of talking about other people’s pedals. Maybe he could sell a few or something. Stop being so critical!

[@edb3366]

😂

[@badkatrising3918]

I used to love grabbing a pocket full of money with my guitar buddy and heading down I-70 from St. Louis to Kansas City and visiting JHS’s old walk in store. I’d leave with a bunch of pedals and barely enough money to get a couple of hamburgers without cheese and some gas for the ride home. Good times. Josh was always great to deal with.

[@DenKulesteSomFins]

Weird to hear Josh say "box" without the "he has the box"-jingle

[@marknason4572]

I was heavily influenced by certain guitar forums and didn't like Josh when I first heard of him but over his humble videos, humor, and interest in giving attention to other builders, I have learned to love him in the way one might love a neighbor from which you ask to borrow a rake.

[@timwatson4118]

But is that a Germanium rake or a Silicon rake?

[@Subhumanslug]

Initially, I didn't like him because I believed what other people were saying about him. I couldn't have been more wrong.

[@aldersmoke1]

Kinda reverse order for me. I've been watching him for a couple years, then recently joined a pedal group of FB and there was a thread where people were ripping on him. I was confused and tried to get someone to tell me why they didn't like him and of course no one could.

[@wbfaulk]

@@aldersmoke1 The summary is that he was accused of stealing a small builder's fuzz circuit and passing it off as his own, that he had a history of that sort of thing in general, and that he had a long-time association with a church that was associated with some significant anti-LGBTQ+ activities. It's unclear exactly how much of that is true.

[@mongchacha]

Kinda had the same exact journey in my opinion of Josh (and JHS).

[@keatonlusk3693]

In the infamous words of Jeremy clarkson, being hand built is just another way of saying the door will fall off

[@samwisegrangee]

I’ve recently got my answer to the “Tone is in the fingers” question. During quarantine I’ve listened to hundreds of voice memos of myself from across the years, on electric, acoustic, single coil, humbuckers, fuzz, tubescreamers, this delay, that delay, etc. and I finally know what I sound like regardless what I play. I will say I needed to “play around” all those tones, and I’ve found some tones that help me play more “like myself” than others. It’s a weird thing: when you find your right pedals and right rig, it just sounds like you and you stop thinking about gear.

[@mikedr1549]

I think the whole "tone is in the fingers" meme is unfortunate. EVH would sound like EVH no matter what gear he used - but his tone would be radically different playing through different gear.

[@AndreaAustoni]

@@mikedr1549 Thank you! I can't hear that stupid sentence without getting rile up by the word tone, which is so wrong. The playing is in the fingers. Technique and playing style can influence tone a bit but it's minimal.

[@vekii677]

I love how Zappa told Steve Vai that tone is not in your hands - it's in your HEAD! Ofc it's lots of different elements combined + gear that make you sound a certain way, but you hear that sound that lives in your head first, and then you recreate it with whatever u have. Zappa added the missing link to the equation that makes the most sense to me.

[@peteytwofinger]

@@vekii677 and zappa EARNED his tone , if you look into it , he was a tone miser . he ran his signal thru a lot of stuff !

[@mikedr1549]

@@AndreaAustoni Right. I get it - people are simply saying that we should focus more on practice than gear - which is true - but the two aren't mutually exclusive and you can't pretend that good gear doesn't make it easier to get thw tone you love!

[@mark46c]

14:52 - Do different op-amps sound different from one another? Josh, I appreciate that you're here to promote playing over tech talk, but I've swapped op-amps in particular pedals for sonic improvements.You know this of course, it's your biz. Is it subtle? yes! And it's NOT as important as just playin' yer guitar - but it's real. I think you short changed this one by poo-pooing it.

[@HenriksenDolf]

I claim him as a worldwide treasure.

[@patrickcarroll1754]

In all seriousness, this cleared up so many questions for me. Thanks for Nailing it on the head, Reverb.

[@benspeeds]

Such good stuff! The more this man eliminates ignorance through education (with a playful touch of sarcastic humor) the better the conversations we can have as community of gear loving tweakheads. Absolutely love you Mr. Scott!

[@darwinsaye]

I remember when Panasonic was about to run out of bucket brigade chips and were not going to make anymore. There was a whole Guitar Player magazine article talking about how you should buy up an analog delay while you could, because when the remaining supplies ran out, your only option was going to be digital… I was like, “What the f*ck do you mean only one company in the whole world makes them?? And why the f*ck would another company not just start making more?? I don’t know how long it was before they started being made again, but I couldn’t believe they were saying, “Well, that’s that. No more analog delays, ever.”.

[@Dram1984]

I sold most of my pedals and bought an HX Stomp last year. Couldn’t be happier.

[@ryanlayton3868]

Got a helix about a year ago and haven’t really cared about hear ever since. I still watch gear videos sometimes, but just to get inspired to try new stuff with my helix. I might get a real amp again one day, but for now I’m extremely satisfied.

[@Allison_Chaynes]

This dude is awesome. I bought so many Behringer because of him. I'm happy for it. He knows his stuff.

[@John-e4p1x]

The global billion corporations Behringer Music Group thank you, as they swallow up smaller companies. Meanwhile josh is making videos to pay his rent and door dash bills...

[@Allison_Chaynes]

@@John-e4p1x Maybe those companies wouldn't be swallowed up if they didn't try to sell overdrive pedals for 10x what it costs to make them.

[@PhillipCalvin627]

"Again, please play guitar. I'm begging you." - Josh Scott Dude is a legend.

[@larrimos]

When I sneeze, my acoustic guitar rings, my electric guitar is obstinately silent. 😳 what pedal do I need?

[@jeremiahbayani184]

Claritin

[@markiszak]

A Sneeze attenuator pedal for sure

[@creamydistortion]

Dude, why didn't my electronics teacher ever say "topology", "populate", etc? And why the hell didn't I think to work for a pedal company? There were no jobs in the area when I graduated (but they invaded Afghanistan that year, so smart guys were being fooled into joining the military because they were broke)...

[@jackodonnell3463]

So glad JHS videos don’t add needless guitar noise in the background like this

[@DeadWhiteButterflies]

I do love as guitar players, we do try to make so many excuses to not sit & learn the instrument. Instead resorting to: "Well, it must be the transistors in my pedal that mean I don't sound like Hendrix". Mate, learn your chops as well as your gear. You will benefit from 6 months of regular solid guitar practice over buying a new tube screamer. Trust me. I've seen people half my age breeze past my skill level in half the time. That's because their practice regimen was that consistent, I've been humbled by it when it happens.

[@andrews2772]

There has never been a person more equipped for an easy to ingest Q and A about pedals. You are a credit to your kind Mr. Scott.

[@gizmogearloose3391]

Josh is a Nerdy, Dry Humored, Super-nerd Demi-Genius...keep bringing him back...!

[@coreyclark6505]

Josh, saving the internet from more bs arguments over chips and parts… “Just try stuff”.

[@motorbikeTim1]

Thank you for the information. Josh rocks. I can’t imagine another person suggesting all of his competitors over and over again. That goes to show you how he ma in it for the love of pedals and music not money. Also I’m sure he’s not hurting for money, so that helps.

[@RobMods]

8:15 That's why all my guitar cables are 11 inches long.

[@senterpoint]

Tech talks are the best Josh shows. Just got the 3 series Reverb at a 15% discount. Thanks JHS. Sounds awesome.

[@johnnydeformed7123]

Should we buy new whiteboard markers? Nah.

[@AndrewMcDonald]

Best line: “if it sounds good, it is good.”

[@ileutur6863]

One of my favorite arguments is when people go "you said the line 6 POD sounds just like a tube amp and now you're saying a Helix sounds like a tube amp bleeeeh whine whine grumble grumble" The truth is that the old crappy emulations were just the best we had at the time. The ones we have now are bordering on realistic and even those will sound like crap to us in 5-10 years when we have something even more accurate in our hands. Also, comparing everything we have now to tubes is a fool's errand, instead of constantly chasing emulation we should embrace the things solid state and digital excell at.

[@Merlincat007]

Nah, imo it's a case of diminishing returns. Our best emulations are pretty accurate now and noticeably better than they were back then, but they will only be marginally better - and likely not noticeably so - in the future.

[@alangreenway6695]

Just think of all the things you can change playing guitar- Speaker, Tube, Amp Head, Amp Distortion, Lead, Effects, Guitar Style, Frets, Bridge, Nut, and Guitar Material, Pickups, Pickup Placement, Strings, Pick, Finger Attack, Treble; Mid, Bass, and Volume Controls, Rhythm, Note Choice, Length Of Note, Key, Chordal Choice, The Song You’re Playing. A trillion combinations and when you find the perfect blend for that moment, chances are you’ll change your mind and want to find a different sound. Possibly playing Kazoo instead.

[@mookmook5715]

As far as the Tube Screamer chip conspiracy goes.. yes they both do the job but really there is a difference in the sounds they produce. I'm not saying that anything else but the sacred JRC4558D chip sounds rubbish and is worthless but there truly is a difference in tone.

[@dt9r]

cool things down, Josh Scott is not a genius, he's just a honest pedal builder BUT it is a very cool, funny, informative guy and I'd listen for hours and hours his show. Cheers Josh

[@JustPlayItLoud]

I love how the “tone is in the fingers” argument is so asinine as to not even merit a response.

[@ileutur6863]

Its just an arbitrary semantic thing. *Technique* is in the fingers, *tone* is in everything from the tip of your finger to the air between you and the amp

[@Burnt_Gerbil]

“Tone is in the fingers” simply means how hard or soft you play. The guitar is a tactile instrument. That’s all it is.

[@nickp440]

those people never use their tone knobs

[@RAndrewNeal]

As a fellow electronics guy, I pretty much knew the answers going in, but there is always something to learn. One thing about BBD chips though, is that they're obsolete and all that is widely available are either NOS or cheap copies. The good reissues seem to be harder to get a hold of without spending dollars to tens of dollars for a single chip. But that's also coming from a guy who hasn't yet seriously looked into acquiring them. So take that with a grain of salt.

[@entropybentwhistle]

If a pedal sounds good to my ears I couldn’t give a picogram of crap what anyone else thinks about it or if it meets their ridiculous faux-puritanical standards. If it made making music fun and interesting it’s more valuable than whatever thing people are arguing is most fantastic on a forum…kinda why I avoid forums now.

[@TyroneNorthcutt]

Love it, "we hold a supercomputer in our hands and think we can't design a better 1940's chip".

[@calicrixthemodprofessorpol2625]

I love how he uses the contrived southern accent when he wants to sound ignorant. I believe he’s from Dixie and he speaks with a regular American accent.

[@williamrobertson1563]

Hey been naughty this year can jhs hook up coal shoveling blues man. Reverb same request. Literally I have no one that gets me presents. Single dad life.

[@reiddillashaw2383]

Josh Scott has a great charisma, and great sense of humor. I can listen to him talk about pedal circuitry, and understand what he's explaining. He strikes the perfect balance between informative & entertaining.

[@davidsisto7694]

He really does prove that learning can be fun!!!

[@toploadtele]

5-Stars! ★★★★★ The Rock Star of pedals... another talent from a long list of sound/music stars born in Alabama.

[@julianhebbes]

Josh not only do you write incredible riffs,make amazing pedals.You also tell us how it is no smoke and mirrors.Thanks so much legend.

[@JJ-nq3ll]

Thanks to you Josh and the rest of you, I'm becoming a Pedal Addict! Thanks a lot. 🎸😎

[@fernandoazevedoneckeljr.2771]

It seems that in Josh's mind "pedal people" have a southern accent...

[@stonedriver9298]

If it sounds good, it is good.

[@TheJamison76]

I'm actually writing an article about this. Too many gear snobs don't realise that they're over paying for a lot of pedals.

[@YaBoiJaFoy]

Where can we find it when it's up? Would love to have a read!

[@sseltrek1a2b]

i like this guy (and the gear he creates)...his final conclusion about all these questions?..."again- please play guitar...i'm begging you..."

[@tomaselke3670]

I'd love to hear how the hell anyone implements "true bypass" without clicking. It seems like that switch would make a loud "click" whenever you turned it off.

[@BrandonKJohnson]

17:43-18:15 Best guitar GEAR advice/concept/school of thought/lesson OF ALL TIME, FOR ALL TIME! Thank you!!! Joshua H. Scott for president 2036 !!!! Edit - also 21:53 😆

[@eduardoprieto5267]

Ok, tone is in your hands. Ask Tommy Emmanuel.

[@allthingsclassicrock]

I agree with the argument about chips and whatnot and I try not to get into the trivial minutia about minor differences in pedals. With that said, there’s something about the original Electric Mistress that hasn’t been matched.

[@absea7918]

There are lots of shoot-outs that compare them, but know that old Electric mistresses don't even sound like with each other. Each one is a little different due to variance in the parts. There have been some good, similar sounding pedals - Retro-Sonic, Mooer E-lady and Hartman all sound great. I agree that EHX hasn't really come close though.

[@jsullivan2112]

@@absea7918 This is true. I've got a '78 Deluxe Mistress and my brother's friend has a '76 Deluxe and the character is there but they definitely sound different.

[@danielcolehour6454]

What's the deal with Rhett Shulls slide playing/tone?

[@ciphertext01]

"It's about the circuit, not the part." -- mic drop

[@funkuncle999]

Josh really would have made a great university teacher but I'm glad he nerded out on guitar pedals instead.

[@yellowtruckproductions7502]

Thanks Josh!

[@danpreston564]

As Novation synths said about their Peak Synthesiser, 'Analogue where it matters - digital where it counts'.

[@stevenmqcueen7576]

Josh is the best. Even if you've never played a guitar or don't use pedals, his videos would still be worth watching simply for the entertainment value.

[@Issicra]

Stay off of pedal forums. Buy and play what you like.

[@eddiecarter9831]

I really appreciate Josh's honesty and willingness to explain all this in "layman's terms," for guys like me. He is like the Penn and Teller of pedal making. Haha!

[@tfwthewhen]

14:40

[@darindipietro9141]

Been a studio owner since the mid-90’s. I’ve sat thru more hours of “got to find my tone” then I care to admit. A majority of time once they find “their tone”, the part they played (in a fraction of the time it took to get the tone) wasn’t worth recording in the first place.

[@jasongardner9554]

"If it sounds good, it is good." --Duke Ellington

[@travisbartley58]

Your are never going to sound exactly like your idol because they have access to modded Marshall's and modded guitars that the general public can't get.

[@arsenije_wav8620]

what

[@progression_decibel]

I'm a drummer (and an Engineer) but every time a video comes up with Josh in my feed I have to watch! Smart, captivating and humorous!

[@TraneFrancks]

Josh is a such a gem. The JHS show and TPS are my 100% go-tos for fun and information.

[@wbfaulk]

His "the chip isn't the circuit" thing bothers me. I mean, I think his point is that you should use what you think sounds good, which he explicitly says a number of times, and I agree with, but it feels like he's saying that you can get the same sound out of a different chip/transistor/whatever as long as you redesign the circuit properly, and that's just not the case. Each of these different components has different characteristics. For instance, silicon transistors transition from linear amplification to saturation much more quickly than germanium transistors do. Neither of those is inherently better, but they are different, and it's exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to make one perform like the other. So if you want the sound of one of them over the other, it's unlikely that you're going to be satisfied with the other, regardless of how the circuit is modified.

[@anonymousforensic]

Fun video! I find these types of questions can dominate my mental space when I’m jamming alone and tweaking my board, but everything goes out the window when I’m jamming with friends! It just becomes a matter of “Is it loud enough?” and “Is it sitting somewhat passably in the mix?” Going down to just 3 pedals and a tuner for jam sessions was a life saver.

[@BungleJoogie68]

Once I got a multi delay unit I realized how little I actually need for anything.

[@johnreid1394]

"Just buy the pedal if it sounds good"!

[@TheFlutecart]

Where are all these questions coming from ?? - "He has the box!"

[@xb5883]

Josh is a great teacher, and a marketing genius.

[@LucasFrancisco-uv6xv]

He's wrong with some, the TS chip for example. some Ge transistors also.

[@stilwel]

Drink every time he uses "air quotes". :D

[@trevordoolan5011]

"He Has The Box" 📦 .

[@floridaman7079]

whenever he is saying whats the deal..... im thinking of wintson always saying: "WHATS THE DEAL WITH BANNANAS......."

[@jesselabbe7389]

Hey Josh!!! I heard you were a bigshot but I had to see it for myself! Love the editing, music, information. You're killing it man! Good job!!!

[@martynspooner5822]

Really interesting, thanks for posting, shattered a few myths have heard forever.

[@wbfaulk]

"We went to the moon … but we can't make a chip for an overdrive pedal? Do you know how stupid that sounds?" Of course we *could* make it, but no electronics manufacturer *would* make it. They transitioned away from these parts because they developed better technology to do the things that they were intended to do. Guitar effects makers were using these things intentionally at the edge of their capabilities: at the places where they performed incorrectly. Companies who buy these chips in *real* bulk don't want that. They're uninterested in the edge cases. And semiconductor manufacturers have provided that. They've moved past those old crappy technologies. But it's explicitly those old crappy technologies that we like the sound of. We could recreate the manufacturing facilities that produced them, but it would cost _many_ millions of dollars to recreate those facilities, so that they could generate enough transistors to saturate the guitar pedal market? What's that going to be? Apparently there are fewer than 1.5million guitar pedals sold every year. Even if they could be sold for $10 per (while NOS germanium transistors are being sold for about $1 per), that would still probably take 10 years just to make their money back. So, yeah, it's technologically feasible; it's just not economically feasible.

[@equaleyez]

Covid has made me watch a lot of JHS videos and I'm glad to say I nearly knew all the answers already! This geeky guitar stuff rules

[@thedude-jb7wx]

Josh you could do a series on styles and what players should buy. Blues, rock, metal, punk and pop video series and the best options. That way folks can just stop worrying about all this ship lol. Like a video saying if you like 80s pop and alternative just buy a JC120 and a comp and an EQ lol and maybe an OD and then practice practice practice. I mean isnt practice practice practice what the old man is essentially saying. PEOPLE PLAY GUITAR DONT TALK PLAY LEARN SONGS GET REALLY FN TIGHT AND GO PLAY LIVE AND MAKE MONEY AND GET FANS. Now you can worry about germanium tones after you get rounds of applause lol. TAKE A PRODUCTION COURSE TOO SO YOU CAN RECORD SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS GOOD IF YOURE A DUMMY LIKE ME.

[@iasonandthesun]

I swear, Reverb won "worst Christmas song ever" with this intro.

[@TerrestrialMack]

Josh Scottfeld

[@tothefinlandstation]

What's the deal with using guitar pedals with line level instruments like synths? How much of a difference is there between just turning down the synth's master volume versus running the signal through a reamp box first?

[@thedude-jb7wx]

People that worry about all these things arent practicing enough lol. Its like the guy at GNC store trying to find magic pills to get ripped instead of just being at the gym sweating.LOL The old man at the bar is saying FN NOTHING COMES EASY SON AND YOU NEED TO PLAY P[LAY PLAY ALL DAY. PLAYING BLUES right DOESNT ALLOW YOU TO PLAY metal RIGHT. Find style if you want to be really good and just stick with it. Or be a guy like me who is a blues player who is decent but just studies music and isnt worrying about rocking the stadiums and being rich. You want to make good recording go take a production course if you arent one of those really smart guys like Josh that can figure out things on his own

[@avantgardenovelist]

He's got the box.

[@AttawayAudio]

I love the heavy Alabama accent for the silly ideas

[@philiphopper4885]

This is...ironic...considering Josh uses the Reverb platform to showcase the ridiculous price gouging happening.

[@CurtisMcLeodMusic]

Love this video

[@NebulaStudios1]

Merry Christmas Josh.

[@John-e4p1x]

Josh PLEASE REVIEW THE FM3, PLEASE GOD PLEASE. I’ll buy a kodiak and haunting miss I swear!

[@duotonguitars]

There's two pedals that have fingers - EHX Black Finger and EHX White Finger.

[@yurimodin7333]

IMHO most "sonic differences" between similar components can probobly be compensated for fairly easily with a slight tweak of the EQ........seriously you will see the 19 Boutique Tube Screamer shootout and some are just a tad darker sounding than the others.......turn the treble knob and they sound the same.

[@killaken2000]

6:36 if you have active electronics in your guitar the buffer is is the pickup or eq (as in a bass) so you can drive 100' of cable no problem. So having all true bypass effects is not a problem with active electronics.

[@thisguy2973]

Mannn.......when I was 16, I had that RP100R. And like all those earlier digital pedals by Digitech, that piece of garbage broke. The foot switches broke, and then one of the adjustment knobs started glitching out and would randomly change values on presets while playing. Then I had another one that was the next model with an expression pedal. And it did the same thing. Never again, Digitech!