Can I Plug My Guitar Into That? [Or How To Rock Without An Amp]

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Can I Plug My Guitar Into That? [Or How To Rock Without An Amp]

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Күн бұрын

You might think the answer is in modern tech. Well not necessarily…
Welcome to the show! It has been said that Daniel and I, well, aren’t exactly early adopters when it comes to the very most modern guitar tech. There are a number of reasons for that, but a very significant one is that with all the latest gizmology, connection protocols, app registration and seemingly bottomless user interfii*, the will of most Average Humans can be sapped entirely before a single note gets played.
So let’s just plug into a bunch of stuff and see if we can have More Fun With Less Tech. Is it even possible?
Enjoy the show…
* TPS plural of interface
Pedals and stuff in today’s video
• IK Multimedia iRig Pro
UK & Europe: bit.ly/41BNBqc
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/ZdP6V1
• IK Multimedia Amplitube
iOS app available from Apple App Store
Presumably similar things exist for Android
• Any Powered Speaker with an aux input - we love the look of this…
Laney Supergroup Bluetooth Speaker
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3J0mRYW
USA: bit.ly/3m5LAC8
• TheGigRig Three2One
www.thegigrig.com/three2one
• Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner
Australia: bit.ly/2mR1s8c
• Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3y3YoeY
USA: bit.ly/3EnhrCE
• Tone City Angel Wing Chorus
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• JHS 3 Series Delay
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3xZ9wKV
USA: bit.ly/3tIx5Fg
• Boss GE-7 Equalizer
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3HZSfUa
USA: bit.ly/3dyPnAr
• Universal Audio Dream ’65 Reverb Amp
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3kzIfuT
USA: bit.ly/3ZpBRF8
• The GigRig Humdinger
www.thegigrig.com/humdinger
• The GigRig QMX4
www.thegigrig.com/quartermaster
• Tannoy Gold 5 Powered Monitor
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/BXDn5L
• Line 6 Stage Source PA Cab
No Longer available
• Some old LG 50-inch TV
Any old TV will do… as long as it has an audio input!
• 1940s/50s Bell & Howell Filmosound 179
Modded/built by Hello Sailor Effects
• Some Random Megaphone
Dan found it on Amazon
• Line 6 Pocket Pod (into Mini car stereo aux input)
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: bit.ly/3EQ8tQz
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro and welcome
1:40 Smartphone?
3:00 You need an interface
6:10 Bluetooth/Aux speaker
10:15 Straight into the BT speaker
11:15 Add some pedals
13:20 Pedals into a Bluetooth speaker
15:10 Powered monitor speaker?
19:10 EQ to make louder?
20:30 Will it overdrive?
24:40 UA Dream ’65 Reverb
29:35 Powered PA cab & UA Dream
36:10 It’s too complicated now
37:10 What about your TV?
40:00 Overdrive the TV!
41:45 OD pedal into TV
45:23 Bell & Howell Cinema Speaker
50:15 Megaphone
53:50 Closing thinkables & observances
56:07 Car?!
Guitars in this episode
• Gibson Custom Murphy Lab ’64 SG w/Maestro Vibrola, Light Aged. Hear it here: • Les Paul Vs SG [Four A...
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster. Dan’s video here: • That Pedal Show - Dan'...
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster. Video here: • Three New Strats For M...
• Gibson Custom True Historic 1957 Les Paul Goldtop, Murphy Aged - no video yet
Amps in this episode
• Erm…
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@kimbalbrown2338 Жыл бұрын

I used to plug my $12 guitar into an old shortwave/AM/FM radio cassette player my grandfather gave me... straight into the Line In. It distorted nicely and could record straight to tape ! Hours of beautiful noise.

@iainguitar Жыл бұрын

Me too. I know a number of people who'd pick up old valve radios from junk shops and make pretty warm sounding amps from them.

@lunchpin403 Жыл бұрын

That rules, I'd love to hear that

@kaiserjoe2316 Жыл бұрын

Yup. Had a cheap guitar and multi-fx unit(🤫) that I plugged into the mic-in on a hand-me-down hi-fi. Ended up jamming along to CDs of acts like Leftield, Future Sounds of London and other psychadelic styles. Think I still have some embarassing Gilmour-esque attempts recorded on cassette somewhere.🙃

@mortenroedfrederiksen3393 4 ай бұрын

Same!!

@steverose81 Жыл бұрын

I remember when it was too late in the house to turn my amp on, I used to rest my chin on the guitar body which would amplify the sound in my mouth and head! It really works.

@Overworkt Жыл бұрын

I used this technique to tune my guitar on stage before I had a tuner 😅

@LothyBluesCave Жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, a VCR with a 1/4" aux input and our TV was my first amp in 1984. Those where the times...

@PaulKennedy5 Жыл бұрын

VCR was a great and cheap stereo recording studio. Quality was often much better than home tape. Worked a treat.

@jacobpittman1996 Жыл бұрын

I hooked a Mackie mixer to the RCA connectors on the VCR and played through the TV!!

@tomcaley8799 Жыл бұрын

This is informative, entertaining and a powerful analogy for puberty for many teenage boys

@smelltheglove2038 Жыл бұрын

Lol. I can honestly say I didn’t try to “plug it in” to anything it didn’t belong in. I had a pretty cool high school sweetheart so I didn’t do much “experimenting” by myself, hahhahaha.

@peddlereffects Жыл бұрын

Lol I was going to say something like this but not nearly as funny as you were

@64cousins Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched the vid yet but this analysis has made it sound awesome.

@DroneCorpse Жыл бұрын

LMFAOOOO

@benjammin4840 Жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@JohnLawrieTWS Жыл бұрын

My first 2 years of electric guitar playing I ran into a "Australian Idol" branded karaoke machine that happened to have instrument jack inputs for the mics, and a built in reverb. Probably explains all my favourite tones now.

@philipellis7039 Жыл бұрын

My kids had a very cheap karaoke machine with a built in echo/delay. Was okay on guitar but absolutely awesome as a blues harp amp, just using the cheap mic that came with it. Instant Chicago 1950s. I did manage to kill it using it like that unfortunately.

@dustinthiessen Жыл бұрын

When I was a young kid, with my first electric guitar, through a series of adapters, I was able to plug my guitar into the phono input on my parents vintage console stereo, and I was in heaven!

@rquimusica Жыл бұрын

Same for me!

@Halliday7895 Жыл бұрын

i did something like this but it was a disregarded record player receiver and speakers...i dont know what happened to the turn table but i used the receiver tuner as an amp to learn electric on for a year or so until i could borrow a practice amp from someone who quit learning...then i got a fender 212 FMr for Xmas eventually .

@johnmaseratis Жыл бұрын

This brought back all the excitement of my first electric guitar ! For three months, the only thing I had to plug in to was older sister's portable Cassette Recorder. You couldn't listen 'live', but you could play back what you recorded. One hundred and twenty seconds of latency 😄

@mattgilbert7347 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 Brilliant

@geordievapeman Жыл бұрын

I hope someday I can get my glasses from forehead land into “sports mode” as smoothly Mick. They’re like an extension of himself the control he has of them. Eye-opening as ever gents. ❤

@Toothbresh Жыл бұрын

When I was in college, I had a housemate who was big into the tinkering world of guitar. Regularly modded pedals and amps and things of the sort. In the house I lived in, we had a very high end toaster oven that we had won at a bingo night on our college campus. The toaster oven had speakers in it and would read out the mode it was set to and how long was left on the timer. You see where this is going. One night, after a few (perhaps too many) pints, he had decided to play his guitar through the toaster oven. I don't know what mods he had to make, but in a bout an hour he had it going. It sounded closest to that tiny bluetooth speaker played early in the episode, but it was hilarious. Toaster oven part still works, and I believe my mate still uses it regularly (for toasting, not guitaring). Great episode!

@horizontalblanking Жыл бұрын

This takes me back! My first guitar amp was a Boss MA-5 Micro Monitor - it was 1982. I took its line out and ran it into my bargain basement, catalog store stereo. I plugged headphones into the MA-5 to turn of the speaker… then DIME’D the MA-5 volume to completely overload the stereo’s input. It was glorious to my 14 year-old ears.

@MyWordPressGuy Жыл бұрын

What a joy... I really enjoyed watching you guys play in your environment. This took me back to when my dad wired in a quarter-inch jack to my big huge Motorola record player. You're a great team and I love that you're both just big kids at heart... with impressive intellect. Thanks as always for what you do. Edward in San Diego, California

@Mindartcreativity Жыл бұрын

What a fun episode! Ending is ace😂 17 years ago I started playing the guitar. My parents got me a western electro-acoustic guitar. After some weeks of playing „dry“ of course I found out that you could plug this acoustic guitar into an amplifier. My sister had a karaoke system which conveniently had a line input. Of course I plugged my guitar into it and suddenly I was able to make louder noise than before. THIS was true POWER! I was learning to play Metallica on the acoustic guitar and suddenly Seek&Destroy sounded actually good (or so I though anyways haha)

@jcwear89 Жыл бұрын

I did this too! Westfield electro-acoustic

@jonathanyork3636 Жыл бұрын

This is a wicked fun episode- I thought it was gonna be all about IRs and amp sims, but you had a lot of fun - and honestly I was shocked how clean and nice it sounded just plugging into a speaker. Fascinating-

@mikesmith2430 Жыл бұрын

Age 12 I had a mono cassette recorder with a mic you could plug in to talk into. I put the mic inside my very cheap acoustic guitar and turned the recording level up and played a root and fifth bar chord and played along to living after midnight by judas priest. Thanks for bringing back those memories guys 😍

@joelhabrial3897 Жыл бұрын

I love how much fun you guys clearly had with this! Great episode!

@Offthewallsigns69 3 ай бұрын

Tks guys! My tube blew up last night as I was practicing, and all I had was old Bluetooth speaker and wire. It worked and has some more sound then just electric guitar with no amp sound! Ty!

@henninghesse9910 Жыл бұрын

I plug into my 1964 Grundig Stereo tube radio, with 2 x15" speakers and various Pedals infront of it. Sounds Killer!

@SgtJADAN200 Жыл бұрын

I love this video! I love just trying stuff because you can. Not to prove a point or chase a sound. Just thinking outside of the box and who knows... you might discover something!

@dmac3316 Жыл бұрын

Cool vid guys. That was great! That projector sounded unreal. The megaphone was awesome lol. Really fun watch. Cheers!

@gregantonowicz2818 Жыл бұрын

My friend and I both plugged our service merchandise guitars into our parents home stereos and radios before we had real amps. I blew up one of the channels on my parents receiver/8 track player, but they never figured out it was me that did it! I eventually figured out how to overload the signal and make it distort way before learning about pedals. Thats how I got the nickname "Mickey", as in Mickey Mouse. My alternate job in our band was Mickey Mousing electronics in order to get them working/do what we wanted them to do. These days, when I'm not Mickey Mousing our guitars, pedals, and amps, I tune electron multipliers for machines owned by NASA and MOOG among others. Thanks for the great show guys!

@BigfootEngineering Жыл бұрын

Absolutely loved that! ♥️ Dan’s enjoyment playing through the TV was amazing! 😂 This really takes me back, nothing was safe in our house- my poor parents 🙈 What a brilliant video, thank you!

@nedim_guitar Жыл бұрын

This episode was very unique! You just look at an isolated clip of the guys showing that you can play your pedalboard through the TV, and you might think that's it's an April's fool joke. But this is no joke! Things can be done. Very creative, guys!

@austinbridge Жыл бұрын

This was such a unique, informative video. Very cool, guys. Thanks so much for sharing!

@Glenn54321 Жыл бұрын

Love the video! As a kid I seem to remember plugging my first electric guitar (Satellite LP copy anybody?😅) into the mic socket of the family music centre. By engaging the record & pause buttons (I think!) along with the tape monitor switch & adjusting the recording levels, it was possible to be heard through the 2 speakers. Of course, I may just have imagined all this, because it was a very long time ago...😂

@dh1665 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this video! This is your wheelhouse, as far as I’m concerned. Watching the two of you work your way through a journey of discovery, Dan having moments of recollection of the huge vault of technical know how that he holds and Mick keeping things comprehensible to the viewer. These are the videos I get excited about on the channel.

@ThatPedalShow Жыл бұрын

I’m glad 35 years of playing and journalism has left me with no technical know how. Mick here. This is my ego talking.

@DavesGuitarGear Жыл бұрын

I remember using a 3 channel maplin microphone mixer which had just 3 level controls for each mic, it was powered by a 9v battery, into our home stereo system, a Goodmans I think, and turning the mixer up full. It sounded fuzzy and awesome!! I remember learning the intro to Layla playing along with the record!! It just makes me think of the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention”

@halofour01 Жыл бұрын

When my family did a road trip from FL to Maine I made a homemade travel amp by soldering an input jack to the play head of an inexpensive walkman knockoff. Add a switch to turn the motor off for battery life. I learned Diary of a Madman in the back seat going up I-95.

@EmanuelKuhn Жыл бұрын

Man what fun that was. Love those creative explorations. I recently saw an old cassette deck that was used as a tape delay. This could be a fun project for you guys. Keep rockin'!

@blues61 Жыл бұрын

Nice! This is a really innovative episode. Loads of fun and play. 🙂 Thanks.

@MesaGuitarGuy Жыл бұрын

my first "rig" was plugging in a free, big hollow body guitar into mt Radio Shack Stereo. I didn't have any pedals, just played clean guitar over rock riffs. I love you guys! You crack me up, which is much needed these days. Happy to report I've upgraded to a Two-Rock CRS head and cab in burgundy suede, Thanks for the great info and inspiration. Long live TPS!

@darryltolbert8950 Жыл бұрын

I love this episode! The creativity and exploration. It definitely put me in the mind of what it was like back then.

@schwabit989 Жыл бұрын

In a pinch and away from power, I have always enjoyed my VOX amPlug AC30 headphone amp.

@ChrisLinker1 Жыл бұрын

Great show.. I laughed and hit the like button when you plugged into the television. Awesome 👍

@kjypeace Жыл бұрын

After getting my first electric I remember sitting next to a hollow wall in my house and pressing my headstock against it for amplification. Worked best with gypsum walls.

@ERICKATERLE Жыл бұрын

Fun episode!!! Brought back memories from the 80’s being a teen and plugging my guitar into my tape deck recorder into my stereo system with some chorus and delay to sound like Purple Rain or Zeppelin or whatever . Good times for sure!

@JiminTennessee Жыл бұрын

I don't think I have smiled this much watching a KZfaq video in quite some time...well done y'all :)

@adeptgopnik Жыл бұрын

love the video guys. One of my fave episodes you guys did. Lol, who hasnt been in this situation needing something to plug into and getting a bit on the creative side. The video was just as creative of an idea as well! Cheers!

@jeffreyswansey5195 Жыл бұрын

Most enjoyable episode I've seen in a while, Loads of fun. Took me back about 53 years 😆

@scottcurry4116 Жыл бұрын

Great show Gents! I look forward to these shows every week. My first “amp” was an old desktop PA that teachers would use in large classrooms. My guitar teacher sold it to me as a really cheap option. I blew the speaker in a few weeks trying to learn Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult!

@tonymoore78 Жыл бұрын

Such a great exploration in classic TPS style! Love it!

@topfacemod Жыл бұрын

The first electric guitar amps WERE literally radios that ran off dry-cell batteries in the 30s before those first circuits deleted the radio in the tube circuit. Leo Fender (a radio repairman) made some of the first dedicated electric guitar/lapsteel amplifiers.

@guitarnutbolinuli5788 Жыл бұрын

Great video, had me reminiscing. Before my first amp I plugged into the aux input on a cassette deck, had to push record to get it to work.

@robertsiesling3960 Жыл бұрын

Nice show, brings back memories. I started plugging in an old tube radio, it sounded a bit boxy but distorted nice. Even gigged with it.

@YanYeiDei Жыл бұрын

This is such a good idea for a video, that I am honestly surprised that it hasn't been done yet. When I was growing up I did exactly this! One thing I found that I could plug into was my home stereo. You would be challenged to find one now day's like the one I had. But it worked!

@grahamkelly8299 Жыл бұрын

I think it’s great if you are travelling and you can’t bring your amp and pedalboard with you, but you have songs you need to learn with solo parts ect. Being able to bring everything you need in your guitars gig bag is pretty cool for that!!

@bassnsax Жыл бұрын

Out of a combination of needing to be able to play silently with headphones and sheer laziness, I've got my guitar plugged into a Snouse BlackBox OD 2 into a DI, into my interface and out to my studio monitors. Works for me! Great video, and I loved to see you both stretch out of your comfort zones, smashing job! Matching impedence is super important to getting a good sound - I've got a piezo pickup on my upright bass, and I always run into a combination preamp/high pass filter that converts the 1Meg Ohm signal to 10K (or 100K?) Ohm signal, so I can run through pedals and into a standard bass amp.

@Rockfish66 Жыл бұрын

This was the most fun I've seen these 2 have in a long time. A great lesson in humble, innocent 'play' from 2 guys with $100k of gear behind them...

@davidkieltyka9 Жыл бұрын

Such a timely episode! Almost all my gear is packed for an impending move. But I’ve still got one guitar, four pedals (OD, delay, reverb, boost) and an old Red Box cab emulator plugged into a pair of Audix monitors. Sounds pretty darn good!

@Damaraja Жыл бұрын

This one is conjuring up lots of memories for me. I plugged into everything when I was a kid. Lots of fun. Thanks 🔊

@gabormata6029 Жыл бұрын

My amp was being serviced so I couldn't help but connect my dad's old radio from the 80s to my 2x12. Soft distortion in front of it, worked like magic

@tedc6694 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the videos, the laughs, and the inspiration. Traveling around the USA for weeks at a time in my Kenworth and tractor trailer I use a 10ft lead with 1/4" on one side and 1/8" on other side. I can sit on my bed in the sleeper and plug my guitar directly into my radio aux input on the dash. My MIM Strat has seen all the contiguous 48 and NEARLY every Canadian province bordering the US. I tried the IK Pro and messing around with all the cables and using headphones sucked all the fun out for me. In the 70s I remember plugging into my folks HiFi 1/4" input. When distortion happened and happens now in the truck it is unique. Honestly I wish I had that sound as an option I could achieve at home! (I have a Hotrod Deluxe, Rocker 32, Blackstar HT5R, Bogner Line6 DT50 212, Marshall MG10cd, 11 Rack and rack power amp, Line6 HD500X, original Yamaha THX10 and none of them come with me anymore. Just a guitar and a chord. Keeps me in practice and helps pass the time when sitting at a loading dock for 8 hours or over the weekend in NoWheresVille 1500 miles from home) One day I'll pick my first stand alone pedal (instead of hd500 or 11rack) and I expect it will be like the opening of flood gates. Maybe a green pedal? Or an OCD. Or a D&M Drive!

@rmg222 Жыл бұрын

I used to teach in my office, after work hours, plugged a Joyo preamp pedal (brittish overdrive) into a bluetooth speaker ˆˆ, worked pretty well, no power cables needed

@schwabit989 Жыл бұрын

The bullhorn segment was cool. One of these rigged with a wireless output and placed on a drill, cheap turntable, or pottery wheel would create a cheap Leslie type sound.

@peckermusic Жыл бұрын

That was so brilliant! My first rig was plugging a Rose Morris SG copy straight into an Amstrad stereo. It had the most fantastic straight into the desk distortion sound when cranked (think Beatles 'Revolution').

@SquareWaveSymphonies Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video! That finale is pure entertainment gold! 😂

@tatters72 Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Took me back to 1987. Soldering an aux jack in place of a 1/4" jack and plugging straight into one of the auxiliary inputs on the back of my yellow Phillips Ghettoblaster (D8304, the wonders of Google) to be able to play outside in the summer. I still own the Kramer and still own, and use daily, the Boss DS1 that I abused it with. Great episode. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

@gibbysg8143 Жыл бұрын

As someone with an orange rockerverb collecting dust in my apartment( I have a Princeton I’ve been using at home mainly). But I have started dabbling with guitar plug ins on PC and was blown away by the neural dsp mesa boogie one!! I just have a small focusrite interface and it’s a great solution for those challenged by volume constraints!

@jacobpittman1996 Жыл бұрын

In the mid-90’s, I used a 1/4” phono adapter onto a 1/8” TRS to RCA 3 foot cable, into the back of my dad’s 1960’s Pioneer solid state stereo receiver on the Aux input. MY FIRST ELECTRIC AMPLIFICATION!! Then a friend lent me a Zoom guitar strap mounted multi-effects unit. I was in guitar heaven.

@michaeleaster1815 Жыл бұрын

Highly relevant topic! Looking forward to this... thank you

@ih1440 Жыл бұрын

My first "guitar amp" was a Pioneer audio system with a turntable, tape player, AM/FM radio, and... a quarter inch microphone jack. It did me well! Still sometimes enjoy playing through it.

@ikbogle Жыл бұрын

Feckin ace guys, great show, brings me back to plugging into the boom box. Have a great weekend. You can use the siren for Jailbreak bridge at the next TPS gig

@GuitarsOK Жыл бұрын

Yesss! What can I listen to That Pedal Show through?!? My tv, my iPad, iPhone, my treadmill tablet, my truck radio, my bedroom Bluetooth, my AirPods, my tv on my refrigerator, my Nikon camera, my overhead projector shining on my Shop door (outdoor style for lots of people)….😂😂! 👏 You guys are awesome! Keep up the good work

@crouton3455 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see my bandmates reaction if i said a bought a vintage tele and then turned up with a television

@SomeKindOfMadman Жыл бұрын

I could honestly see your inner child shining through when you were filming this lads. That may be the secret to staying young, just plug into whatever can make a sound.

@BrentAdams Жыл бұрын

Dan, I have to admit... I'm a fan of the "CAP" over the other, but no matter which you prefer to wear ....I love to watch you get excited over playing the guitar! The Megaphone is EPIC!

@benspeeds Жыл бұрын

This was a lot of fun and definitely brought back memories of questionable and potentially dangerous "Let's see if we can plug into that!" scenarios. Loved this episode! Great idea guys!

@yohnsvain9651 Жыл бұрын

Watching Mick play, “human Leslie speaker cab,” was simply the best!

@RobFlaxMusic Жыл бұрын

I'm *still* laughing

@slaphand5311 Жыл бұрын

My dad had this Radionette cabinet with radio on one side and a record player and a tape recorder on the other side. That tape recorder became my first amp...

@TechMetalRules Жыл бұрын

Such a fun video! Epic ending, haha!

@user-oy7gz5bf2h Жыл бұрын

I know we talked about it earlier, but a friend of mine has a couple of old projector amps that have been converted into proper guitar amp heads. Great stuff. Plugging into random stuff is fun!

@soulassasin10 Жыл бұрын

Took me back to my younger days, lovely show lads 🤘😂🔥

@cavacofonseca Жыл бұрын

One of the best episodes lately lads! Love you guys. Cheers

@Sylvain44 Жыл бұрын

That was a fun video! IK Multimedia has released the Tonex pedal recently, and going guitar > tonex pedal > headphones sounds absolutely amazing. Very low latency (3ms) and all the amps in the world at your fingertips!

@ShiroiTengu Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up on the Tonex! Next on my to buy list

@kevinlt143 Жыл бұрын

1:09 I see you have a machine that goes "ping!"

@mikeholmed7029 Жыл бұрын

In the early 80's l had no amp. I plugged into the family stereo thru the cassette deck. You had to put a blank cassette in, push play,rec and pause. Then crank up the input sensitivity, it would help with distortion that way. I did this for a while until l finally got a amp.

@cbaten2 Жыл бұрын

Ha, ha, great one! Brings back lots of memories of blown-out hifi speaker tweeters, hearing (and seeing the guitar signal on a mini-oscilloscoe) plugged directly into an outdated Electromuographic amplifier (muscles themselves also produces microvolt signals to be picked up by electrodes, so 1+1=...). Emergency replace-gigged once with that pocket pod on my buckle... Amazing toy... Also remember cross-connecting inputs and outputs of two tapedecks with a DIY switch to reverse recording direction. Wow, flutter and Dolby b/c, produced pumping multitracks that a Deco would be very jealous of. Utterly unusable, but fun.

@jonschwieb323 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. When I was a teenager in the 80s dual tape decks were all the rage. I had one from a brand called Emerson. I could plug straight into it, record a guitar part to a tape (from the speaker through the built in condensor mic), then play back the tape and play along with it. I could even record the overdub, and then do it again and again. A chorus pedal and a distortion (both from Arion) to spice it up. Hours of fun and creativity.

@mathewjones8886 Жыл бұрын

One of the best KZfaq videos I've ever seen. There will be thousands of electrical devices blowing up this weekend as we all try to figure out what else you could possibly plug your guitar into. I'm off to see if I can run it through the car stereo using the USB aux. If I manage it the missus is in the back from now on and the passenger seat is reserved for my strat to make getting stuck in traffic a bit more bearable. Imagine how fun traffic jams would be if they all resulted in an impromptu jam session.

@sidgruich5615 Жыл бұрын

Great show guys, a lot of fun. reminds us all, when we are knee deep in cables and pedals, that sometimes we should just cut the crap and just rock out with what we got.

@pauleddy5146 Жыл бұрын

3rd watch, especially liked this one. BTW, I really love your Hulk SG! It's just friggin' awesome. You really should play it more.

@jamesunderhill1603 Жыл бұрын

That was the most fun thing I've ever watched, thanks lads, 👍👍👍

@davidsummerville351 Жыл бұрын

In 1971 I soldered the wires from the needle line of a record player to a jack and had an amplifier for a year and a half. It was an old hack from back in the day.

@egg43002 Жыл бұрын

Great episode guys

@bradylambert6820 Жыл бұрын

Really digging this episode. Reminds me of plugging my guitar into the soundcard on my parents computer back in high school (1999) and then trying to figure out why it sounded so bad and how to make it work. I recently bought a 90s synth/keyboard and have gone on a little journey of trying to figure out what to listen to it through. Started with the headphones I use for my turntable. Then ran the 1/4" into a DOD envelope filter, a DS-1, a flanger, and cheap delay into a Blackstar modeling amp I had laying around. Ended up finding a used pair of Mackie CR-3 monitors for cheap and am now running the pedals on one side of it for a nice stereo sound. Though now I'm thinking of what kind of bass lines I could get out of that sub in the living room... Always fun to make the most of what you've got around.

@dan____4520 Жыл бұрын

What a great idea, and great video! I’ve been hauling a 212 to family dinners only to barely turn it up. Was thinking about getting a small amp just for those times. However, I have that boss mini speaker, a 9volt battery powered headphone guitar amp and a 1/4 inch to 3mm cable from some headphones. Just tested it and I’m happy with it. I didn’t notice any latency with using the headphone guitar amp (it’s not a digital system). Now I can put the money for a small amp into something more important, a pedal! …. and more 9 volt batteries.

@brucegregori Жыл бұрын

Ha! Dude I dig it completely. You know today it is almost easier to just a spark or a thr or something like that. Even the Ampero, Valeton, HX devices are pretty much what the young students are getting because they have the feel of an amp and have lots of solutions. Back in the day I had inherited a pioneer stereo from my brother. It did the Revolution guitar tone perfectly. Keep on…

@mikepretorius6350 Жыл бұрын

Never grow old, good to see you guys having fun, Megaphone sounds like Arena Rock 🤩

@JonNewquist Жыл бұрын

My first amp was a Panasonic cassette recorder. 😁 Diggin' this episode!

@j.justinzimmerman9836 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’ve ever seen you guys have so much fun! My first amplified guitar was a nylon string from my sister’s closet. Enter the reverse headphones turned microphone. One ear piece on the top and the other ear piece on the back. So the headphones have straddled the guitar’s body, and the headphone plug is in the aux input of a ‘70s Panasonic tape recorder with a built-in compressor/limiter. Coolest feedback…ever! JJZ…(°¿.°`)

@nabilcharbel4136 Жыл бұрын

Great fun chaps, the bullhorn was hillarious, thanks a bunch

@lachcim104 10 ай бұрын

You can use an old watch as a microphone (the one that plays polytune melodies, uncover the back lid and use the white round "token" it has two connectors - that's your microphone, stick it to your guitar and run cables via jack or if you have cassette player, and connect to the head where it touches the tape..

@sugarcane503 Жыл бұрын

Pretty fun episode! I remember finding a tiny tube radio from the 50s at a flea market...it had a little phono input..boom instant super fuzzy guitar amp...

@kimbalbrown2338 Жыл бұрын

I thought Friday's episode was amazing but this...this is the most amazing, epic thing I've ever seen.

@joncarr9380 Жыл бұрын

Most informative pedal show yet!

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing Жыл бұрын

I use the A+ CabZone LE IR based Cabinet Simulator. It fits in the palm of your hand. You get 10 of the world's most famous amps cabs including the Vox AC30, Marshall 4x12 & my favorite the MESA Dual/Rec cab. It cost me $100.00 USD and you can put it in your pocket if you want, lol. It is designed so you can even put it thru a open backed combo amp & from the center of the club you are hearing a convincing stack. You can still do a direct to the board thing or record with it or do all 3 at the same time.

@Angus.Maclean Жыл бұрын

This is great for many reasons. It really tells us what the amp is doing. The small options are good for travelling light. This is an idea of what direct to desk would sound like. (Note: Many FRFR & Studio monitors have DSP...even those you thought were purely analogue, so there may be some indiscernible delay from the Tannoy.)

@texasbootlegger3752 Жыл бұрын

This was a fun vid! Awesome guys!!!

@1minutecomicswalahollywood648 Жыл бұрын

I was looking for the answer for same question. Thanks.

@christopher-miles Жыл бұрын

i grew up in the 90's and broke me dad's new Yamaha neutral sounds stereo at the time... do this. turns out they had ns-1000 that i might have broke the tweeter of too. he's cool now. somewhat 30 years later only comes up at the holidays when he has no music to play! hahaha

@tdan71 Жыл бұрын

I still want a pair of NS1000!

@christopher-miles Жыл бұрын

@@tdan71 i know someone with some... tweeter dose not work, doe! hahah