Josh could build a small 2-story house using Sovtek amps as bricks

As soon as Nick maxed out the settings on the soft focus and played a chord I went to sweetwater and bought one 😂

this show makes me want to have every pedal in the world

I was surprised that Josh didn't review the slicer as soon as it came out. When some of the more obscure pedals come out its almost like they're too mysterious to fully understand until Josh has explained it in his own words lol.

I'm really glad that you guys got my "Silky Johnson hate mail" 😀 I hope you enjoyed it, love you guys 😀

the soft focus is my favorite reverb pedal i’ve ever had! it’s epic even with the mod and symph down for a more basic reverb too

Glad to have you guys back! Drillers bass sounds awesome.

"Duty" is short for duty cycle, as Ran Zer noted in chat. Duty cycle is the ratio an intermittent system (such as the slicer or tremolo or transistor or pulsed radar or PWM signal, etc) is on versus the time it is off.

I had a Yamaha FX500 back in the early nineties: that patch was one of the too few highlights. And even in bypass it would lop about 10db off your signal. After a year or so of frustration and the impression that someone had thrown a moving blanket over my amp, I unloaded it and went back to analog pedals.

Boss Slicer is one of the most underrated pedal of all time. It have sooo much potential to be a classic but no one use it the way it needed to be used

I get pretty much the same sound out of my Wonderland Ambient Reverb and the Marianna modulated reverbs

The harmony on that stinger is freaking amazing! ❤

Everytime I purchase a used pedal now and they have the box I can't help but sing the "he has the box" tune hahaha

The CB Soft Focus maxed out sounds very Cocteau Twins

yeah I had to get that slicer - seemed like a good tool for the studio. Got it for what - a month? Wish I had one in early 2000s though would have been perfect for what I was doing. For now I use it as a fancy tremolo but the fun has barely begun.

I used the Soft Focus pedal on the song TROUBLE by Coldplay. It really sounds beautiful! Yesterday I ordered the Cloudburst pedal from Sweetwater. I should have it tomorrow. I'm so excited!

The SL2 is excellent if you use it with a signal blender to run the main signal parallel.

Soft focus belongs before dirt and drive buds

The SL-2 is dope af. I could just let audacity record for hours while I mess around with it and have a dozen legit song ideas. If you ever experience creative block just start experimenting with it. It lends itself to out-of-the-box ideas and techniques. I had a defective fuzz pedal that I ran into a Boss GT-1 multi effects on a harmonist patch with the expression pedal bending pitch up an octave then into the slicer. Instant inspiration. There are also downloadable patches in addition to the stock ones. I think there are somewhere in the range of 8 expansion packs. I'd highly recommend it for anyone who makes electronic music and also plays guitar because you can make a lot of unguitarlike, synthesizerish tones.

Killer jam on that Catalinbread SFX. They really nailed that unit I want one so bad.

I love the 3 series reverb, it’s a fantastic pedal. I did not love the 3 series OD until I depowered by 3 volts via my MXR isobrick now it’s on a lot of the time!

Super surprised you just discovered the Soft Focus! Wait till you get to Many Worlds!

Do a Catalinbread episode, I had a bunch of their pedals on my board for years! Still have the Dirty Little Secret (3 knobs and a tone switch version). And I have their Echorec for my bass board.

Good to see them working together with less friction.

That reverb sounds REALLY good into that kemper!! 😂

Nice to see Driller inducted into the JHS house band.

Watching this made me realize that it’s not Catalinabread but Catalinbread. My mind’s not exactly blown but it is weird I never noticed that.

Dug out my FX500 from the 90s, new power supply, still works! Including my presets which I thought needed the button battery (which would have died many years ago...). The new pedal sounds very close, with a lot more easily accessible controls (no obscure menus).

That Jam 21:10 sounds like; build to spill - Carry the zero.

Finally, after 24 years, I found out what effect John Frusciante uses at the end of Throw away your television!!!

I always miss the live streams somehow. That's a pretty cool dynamic with those three on instruments. You guys should incorporate Driller more often. Maybe two guitars or two basses? I would say get everyone involved, but I have a feeling all 40 employees at JHS are multi-instrumentalists.

LOVE Nick's sweater 😍

The Boss It’s a gater. And it works wonders on synthesizers.

For once i bought a pedal before JHS gave me the GAS for it. Slicer has been very fun to mess with

nice see catalinbread getting some love :)

Guys... Stop trying to pretend that Josh hasn't moved to Japan to work for Boss. It's ok. We love you anyway. I hope this helps.

I wonder how does the Waza tuner tune better than just regular Boss tuner …or just literally any tuner.

that first jam with the SoftFocus was everything. x

Not to take away from the awesome jams, and awesome pedals, and overall great production of the folks featured, but damn that 3 series phaser is hard to turn off. Any song I make or play eventually just gets phaser added to it and I’m glad Nick brought it out for the last jam. It’s so well voiced and just checks all the boxes for phaser

Slicer sounds like the intro to Camera Eye off Moving Pictures

The Slicer would be a great tool for song writing if you’re stuck in your same old rhythmic patterns.

Josh is in the thumbnail but I see no Josh on the video?

We need a JHS 3 series Jam Pal now.

That tone in the intro was Maximum Rock, Nick

That last jam just needed lyrics . . . total vibe.

Souvlaki was released in 1993 in UK I believe….though feels like it should be earlier. I’d guess that band were using that sound already though prior to the album release (possibly as early as 1990?). Would love to see some more Catalinbread pedals reviewed. Maybe some of the less well known ones, as many seem to know the Belle Epoch and Dirty Little Secret.

I think a sliced bread joke was missed by the team.

you need to co ver the whole catalinbread range - very original idea pedals

Love my SL-20 ... Better get me the SL-2 as well !!

Candy!!!! Glad to see your impressions of boss slicer

Nick: makes his guitar sound like economy 80s pads Addison: i will literally say anything sounds great

Almost positive Richard Buckner used the original Slicer on an album & I've wondered for years what it was. Has to be it.

Soft Focus is an always on pedal.

There's hardly anything else (except Pray) I would rather be doing than watching Nick and crew at 'JHS Pedals' opening Sweetwater packages with a Hari Kari blade just before WW3.

Nick is my style guru. Nice chord progressions today!

That is one he ** of a jam guys I wasn't sure how the second pedal would be applied ... but it was killer

There's a Slicer on the old Boss GT8 but it isn't nearly as musical. The SL2 sounds amazing

FWIW, I believe Miki Berenyi of Lush had an all Boss pedal board back in the day.

Anyone else getting the “wife who doesn’t want to be here” vibes from Josh the secretary? No?..it’s just me?

The sound of the slicer is so 2000s to me.

That Slicer jam was way dope.

I’d love to hear that Boss Slicer on drums!!

I can only say nick is a great drummer

I still think - they haven’t quite got the true Yamaha Fx 500 soft focus patch quite right. It seems to lack the depth or something. I found the Loomer pedal the same

Nice video, nice sweater. Where did you get the super cool sweater?

There you go - maybe an antique finish?

Does this mean Catalinbread are going to do a range of pedals based on late 80s, early 90s rack unit patches? Next one best be a Alesis Quadraverb Chorusstrings pedal. Instant Verve/Nick McCabe for A Storm in Heaven sounds. Or a Quadraverb Taj Mahal patch pedal for Jeff Buckley.

If yer gonna do the Slicer, ya gotta do the DigiTech Time Bender! Underrated and still so cool!

Save every box forever

I want to hear the Catilinbread with the Slicer.

Thank you Sweetwater 🎉❤😊 Also, tiny knife users of the world, UNITE!!

FRIST impressions > FIRST impressions. Prove me wrong.

Slicer rocks! I have it! 😜❤❤❤

Next time I go to the barber for a haircut, I'm going to ask him to give me a "trimlow".

You just sold me the Boss Slicer.

I’m looking for the OG SL-20 for my BigBoard build.

Is it a Marshall bluesbreaker reissue that Marshall are denying but Thoman are sending orders out?

Why isn’t there more apparel with swans on it? Or even Canadian geese? My mother would love that.

Guitar sounds a little soft in the jams, but great stuff as usual, gents!

Play “Life in a Northern Town” by Dream Academy. That first pedal is perfect for it. Or some Prefab Sprout.

Yay Gloria chords!

Pencils: silicon vs germanium?

Josh in the thumbnail pic for super effective clic-bait effect! 😂

if it's available currently at sweetwater, we all already know about it.

I hear sorta augmented like an original I do...and an ad before the same. woke up groggy bizarre. I just got a belle echo and I need an A B Y pedal you guys recommend yours? I had a space echo stereo...this is weird your sound is my song on Piano and midi are you spies stealing my best stuff? Just curious asking for a friend

The last Is thing I need is another guitar pedal, But d*** I sure want a slicer.

15:28 Getting down with the sickness

👑Josh stepping away from the camera as often as he had been?

Nick! You dial something up, then down, then up, then back up, then dial something else, then dial the first one back to where you originally had it. It gives me anxiety.

We need a deep dive on the FX500 and SPX900 plzzzz

What kinds of shoes are appropriate for shoegaze? I would imagine that the kind of shoes worn might have a subtle affect on tone.

21:00 pre chorus of wrecking ball. “Don’t you ever say…” Miley Cyrus

I love how the pick a number.....people start spamming numbers like freakin crazy before you even get the number and the whole stream is spammed numbers like crazy for several minutes. even 5 mins later theres still numbers going.

Wo. That shoe gazy AF

Driller’s bass lines tho.

This probably has been asked in the past (I’m late to the game)haha… what brand is your t-style guitar and what pickups are in it? That guitar sounds so good. Thank you.

MORE DRILLER!

I love tiny knife. tiny knife is my friend

You didn't need the clickbait. I'd have clicked to see you guys.

Who does the sound mixing on the jams?