My Top 10 FAVORITE Weird Guitar Effects (2018)

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6 жыл бұрын

Sometimes you need a curveball in your rig to get the creative juices flowing. Here's some of my favorite weird pedals. Let me know your favorite weird pedal. #weirdisgood
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Check out the gear in this and past episodes here:
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Josh's guitar is a Gibson Les Paul Gold Top
Gear in this video:
0:51 Matthew Effects The Whaler Fuzz (Black out edition)
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2:01 EarthQuaker Devices Arpanoid
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3:07 DOD Gonkulator Modulator FX13
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4:27 ZVex Instant Lo-fi Junky Vexter Chorus/Vibrato
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5:35 Zvex Ooh Wah (2001)
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6:32 Mattoverse Electronics Tetrastep MKii
7:59 Lovetone Flange with No Name
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9:25 Boss DF-2 Super Feedbacker and Distortion
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10:16 Korg Miku Stomp
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11:09 Boss DS-1 JHS Mod
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12:33 Fender Runaway Feedback Expression
Honorable Mentions:
15:29 Walrus Audio Janus
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15:40 Death by Audio Echo Dream Delay 2
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15:46 Way Huge Ring Worm
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15:48 Dr. Scientist Bitquest
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15:54 SubDecay Noise Box
15:56 ZVex Fuzz Probe
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16:16 DigiTech DOD Gonkulator Ring Modulator
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Record Time:
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
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Josh’s record player is by U-Turn Audio:
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#jhs #thejhsshow #weirdguitareffects

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@EdSantilli 5 жыл бұрын

Please plug in that Miku Stomp, grab a slide, and play The Great Gig in the Sky.

@MiguelBaptista1981 4 жыл бұрын

Oh man. Someone. Do this.

@wesleyzimmerman94 4 жыл бұрын

That won't work, the tracking is trash

@shitmandood 4 жыл бұрын

...said no one ever, nor asked for. lol. Despite the high price of the discontinued Miku, I've not heard one song where I'd care to listen to it. Literally it will give you minutes of fun...then put away to collect dust forever.

@PaulTheSkeptic Жыл бұрын

Worst version ever. It doesn't even exist and it's already terrible.

@bigdaddy496 10 ай бұрын

Lmao

@maxkutner8419 4 жыл бұрын

Hi. I'm one of the guitarists in the present version of the Magic Band and I just wanted to thank you for mentioning "Trout Mask Replica". The only original alumnus presently involved is John "Drumbo" French but John was one of the longest serving members of the band and appears on all of Trout Mask. I highly recommend reading either his book called "Beefheart: Through the Eyes of Magic" or Bill Harkleroad's (guitarist from TMB who was called "Zoot Horn Rollo") book called "Lunar Notes". Finally, so-called weird albums for you to check out: "Music of Guatemala" by the San Lucas Band and "Basic" by Fred Maher/Robert Quine. Maybe also "Bitches Without Britches" by Kevin Blechdom. Thanks. Love the videos.

@ryanberry4670 3 жыл бұрын

@Gupster 23 at the party of special things to do of course.

@andywason3414 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you guys are still around. I heard some earlier recordings (minus Don) and I think John French perhaps?, did an admirable job of the vocals. Still got most of CB's albums on vinyl. Cheers!

@timmungenast 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these suggestions, Max, and thanks for keeping the music alive.

@neut9270 2 жыл бұрын

Hi from the future, I would like to recommend to anyone who genuinely enjoys TMR to check out the band Still House Plants. It's a bit simpler, they are not juggling as many instruments, but it's a similar chaotic vibe.

@mattparker8747 2 жыл бұрын

Fast and bulbous....

@Dan-zz1lm 4 жыл бұрын

2:55 MAKIN MY WAY DOWNTOWN

@golos9 4 жыл бұрын

This is the best comment of my whole life

@Marigoldpyre 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who heard that lmao

@ghiekorg 3 жыл бұрын

i saw Terry Crews

@laikaproductions8062 3 жыл бұрын

no wonder I cant find any sovtek

@robertlibutti6605 6 жыл бұрын

This dude has a lot of Sovtek MiG 60 amps. I had one of those in high school that I got new for $250; 60 watt all tube head. Biggest gear regret was selling that amp.

@capth00k 6 жыл бұрын

yeah, I was wondering about those ... I passed one up recently. Apparently they are build pretty solidly; almost a point to point design but with a PCB in the middle I think if I remember correctly...

@robertlibutti6605 6 жыл бұрын

I was stupid and bought a Mess Dual Recto. I really didn't understand tube amps at the time and thought it was better and what I needed. Needless to say, that thing didn't get much use and was also eventually sold (for not to much of a loss luckily). Wish I'd just understood what I had and kept the Sovtek.

@zeusapollo8688 6 жыл бұрын

Same

@stefanpalicki3538 5 жыл бұрын

you can get one for about 500 on reverb if you really want it back EDIT: and EHX makes them

@m0j0b0ne 5 жыл бұрын

Note that the amp with the lit jewel light is a Fender combo.

@panhandlegeardemos6837 6 жыл бұрын

Also, put that miku pedal infront of a volume pedal and then use delay/reverb and you got yourself an interesting swell sound.

@tobiasgehring2462 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so disappointed that there are so many "weird pedal" videos that include the Miki and then just use it by itself or right at the end of a signal chain. Sure if you're doing a list of pedals just giving a quick overview (like this one), you don't necessarily have time to show it off, but I've seen several videos that spend ages doing stuff with it, then declare it garbage because they clearly have no idea how to use it well. Stick it right at the start of the chain, then put some interesting stuff after it to morph it's vaguely crappy raw sound into something actually cool. Or at the very least chuck on some chorus and a dab of reverb to give it some depth and space.

@pilotdrift05 5 жыл бұрын

Make a video of it

@ChaitanyaBhagwatChai 4 жыл бұрын

@@tobiasgehring2462 make a video of it :D

@immanuelkuhrt8508 3 жыл бұрын

I think it would be interesting with an envelope follower after it.

@jts3339 5 жыл бұрын

I saw Captain Beefheart at Ludlow Garage in Cincinnati when I was in college. It was on a freezing day and a group of us waited outside the stage door to see if we could walk in free with the band. When he walked up with his band I said, “How ‘bout it, Captain?” He looked around and replied, “It’s so cold the birds won’t fly... come on in” in a gravelly voice, and put on a great show.

@Jaspertine 4 жыл бұрын

Does anyone else catch themselves singing "he has the box" when re-watching old episodes?

@baorozzo 3 жыл бұрын

Me too LOL

@pankomitch8094 5 жыл бұрын

there’s a gonkulator for $85 at a little pawn shop in quebec city that buddy said he’s had there for years and no ones bought it. it’s probably still there if you care to look

@b4itcools 5 жыл бұрын

Top Ten Weird Pedals 1:58 Earthquaker Devices Arpenoid 3:05 DOD FX13 Gonkulator Modulator 4:23 ZVEX Lo-Fi Junky 5:32 ZVex Ooh-Wah 6:30 Mattovere Electronics TetraStep MKII 7:49 Lovetone Flange (with No Name) 9:14 Boss Super Distortion and Feedbacker DS-2 10:06 Korg Miku Stomp Vocaloid 11:05 JHS Mod to DS-1, Synth Drive 12:25 Fender Runaway Feedback Expression Pedal Honorable Mentions: 15.28 Walrus Janus - Fuzz/Trem with Joystick 15:35 Death By Audio Echo Dream 2 15:44 Way Huge Ring Worm 15:46 Dr. Scientist Bit Quest 15:53 SubDecay Noise Box 15:56 Zvex Fuzz Probe 16:13 DOD Gonkulator Reissue

@movimentodoscacos 5 жыл бұрын

You are amazing and deserve to be happy, thanks

@duffman18 5 жыл бұрын

You are the MVP

@Quendi1234 5 жыл бұрын

b4itcools woulda stopped watching this video if not for you..

@RichusRkr 4 жыл бұрын

Old Blood Noise Reflector

@gordrock 6 жыл бұрын

Adult Themes for Voice is an album recorded by Mike Patton (vocalist for Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom) in hotel rooms during a Faith No More tour. It consists of vocal noises by Patton himself. The 34 tracks are not considered singing in any conventional sense, as they consist mainly of Patton shouting, screaming, clapping, squeaking and moaning. These elements were then spliced and edited in a fashion that resulted in a dramatic ebb and flow of bizarre, albeit organic sounding compositions. The compositions do not adhere to traditional song structure. The tracks are named after hotel and room he was staying in.

@davewebb3847 5 жыл бұрын

DOD FX22 Vibrothang. It's a trem, it's a phaser, it's neither, and if you're not careful, it will start talking to you. Very usable at less extreme settings.

@themikeaustin 5 жыл бұрын

John Coltrane's "Ascension" album was weird for me. I went into Sam Goody on 5th Ave and 42nd Street back in the mid-60s and asked an employee to recommend a Coltrane record. "Ascension" is what he chose. For lack of a better word, it's "free" jazz. There are ~10 musicians on the record. I used to bet friends that they couldn't listen to the record all the way through. I never lost. Later, I worked in a pizza place and would play this music when we wanted patrons to leave at closing time. The person who wrote the liner notes stated that the music was so intense that non-musicians in the recording studio were screaming and the writer was amazed that the screaming didn't bleed over onto the recording.

@Twilightzoneelectronics 4 жыл бұрын

Same with his live in Belgium 1965 with the Coltrane quartet, so intense never felt anything like it

@Markus_Breuss Жыл бұрын

great record! but weird? it's normal!

@Cauldronofbats666 5 жыл бұрын

it’s really cool how you talk about every type of guitar effect out there. instead of just pedaling your own. (no pun intended). you’re clearly very passionate about guitar sounds and it’s very fun to watch.

@stacysublett5809 5 жыл бұрын

"Weird is good" That's been our family motto for years. We adopted 6 kids to go along with our 3 bio-kids. At one point we were reminding our then 9th grade daughter "Weird is good!" She replied, "yeah, mom, but sometimes weird is just weird." Good pedal stuff. I've watched several episodes today, and I think I'm going to send you some stuff to mod.

@westendmotel1989 5 жыл бұрын

My Captain Beefheart Cover Band "Trout Mask Replica Replica" . has always had trouble finding anyone brave enough to put in the effort... lol

@WarrenPostma 4 жыл бұрын

That's so meta that several alternative universes just stopped existing when you wrote that.

@groovydjs 5 жыл бұрын

Super Groovy Channel. Spending most of my time here now.

@Mark-gd5vr 3 жыл бұрын

@Jaziel Achilles bot

@Mark-gd5vr 3 жыл бұрын

@Gavin Benedict bot

@timmungenast 3 жыл бұрын

Same here. It's just a damned pleasant place to be, and our Josh's quiet deadpan flair for the absurd is a joyous thing.

@JasminBellavance_Music 6 жыл бұрын

Fantomas - Fantomas (1999) is pretty epic! Saw them live one time and the show lasted only 50min...on that 50min, Patton played at less 10min of cymbales (on Dave's drums)! He then said "You like that assholes?" and when on with 5 more minutes of cymbales as an encore and leave....wow!

@stbreal 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite weird records and just plain favorite records is Torture Garden by Naked City. John Zorn is at his punk rock Jazz Thrash best in this record. He enlists an insane Japanese vocalist named Eye from the band The Boredoms and don’t forget Bill Frisell on guitar. Nirvana took them on tour at one point. Great stuff!

@darthanddedeu2580 3 жыл бұрын

Check out z-rock Hawaii, it's ween with the Boredoms

@johnblood10 2 жыл бұрын

I know I’m replying to a year-old comment, but describing Eye as “insane” is quite literally true, and might even be understating things. One of his “danger music” performances ended when he drove a bulldozer through the rear wall of the venue and onto the stage, which I’d imagine sorta signals the end of the show by default.

@less_concerned1221 5 жыл бұрын

The Digitech Space Station.. incredibly weird and awesome.

@skyviewdesign 6 жыл бұрын

EQD Rainbow Machine is definitely one for the weird list. Love their stuff! So many weird & unique effects coming from Akron!

@LordStompyHarpLoonyTunes 5 жыл бұрын

Rainbow Machine, the sound of pixies on acid. Look up Pepe Seppuku Tape Warp on YT. That pedal is freaky amazing...a very warped dark acid trip pedal

@simonv7449 5 жыл бұрын

Hey man, I never tried a JHS pedal before and fell on your channel by surprise. I want to give you praise for this channel, it’s good to see such recognition and optimism. I’m talking about your praise of your competitors, it is a noble passion. The rainger video is the perfect exemple. As a diy enthusiast who likes to mess with pedals , MIG-50 owner , and beefheart fan (is it « through the eyes of magic » you’re talking about at the end?) I feel like a brother from another mother. And your enthusiasm cheered me in a rough patch so cheers to that. Oh and I will absolutely buy a clover

@enkiea8322 6 жыл бұрын

You just broke Reverb.

@bardobro 5 жыл бұрын

Love the Captain Beefheart shoutout, especially from a young whipper-snapper! You give me hope for the future of weirdness in music!

@quintas66 5 жыл бұрын

I started listening to Trout Mask Replica in high school and I'm still freaked-out by it.

@markhamstra5473 6 жыл бұрын

Weird is my favorite kind of pedal. All the amp-in-a-box pedals and the 10,000th variation on a Tube Screamer bore me. A pedal that does something way different from what an amp alone can do is much more interesting.

@thomasmullin9315 6 жыл бұрын

Honestly this series is my current fave. Really well done, JHS!

@burnsdesignco5593 6 жыл бұрын

Love seeing my old bassman being put to use so much Josh! Glad you’re liking it

@greggjohnson7 6 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about that! Is that a custom job? Cant find another like it

@mootbooxle 5 жыл бұрын

Trout Mask Replica is a record that I can't imagine my life without.

@delivrance3961 6 жыл бұрын

Weird n#1: wmd Geiger counter, special mention to absolutely every death by audio pedal...and btw nice shirt, these races are my fav ones! Great stuff

@garrettboomerbender 6 жыл бұрын

Very cool series of videos! Keep them coming!

@RockyH. 3 жыл бұрын

Josh you truly crack me up man, that dry no-play humor you have is gut busting man. Please never change and thank you.

@panhandlegeardemos6837 6 жыл бұрын

I’m really enjoying these vlogs! Glad to see Mattoverse make the list. I have the Octostep and a few of his earlier versions of stuff.

@RCAvhstape 4 жыл бұрын

2:00 Earthquaker Devices Arpanoid 3:10 DOD FX13 Gonkulator Modulator 4:24 Zvex Lo Fi Junky 5:30 Zvex Ooh Wah 6:30 Mattoverse Electronics Tetrastep MkII 7:50 Lovetone Flange With No Name 9:13 Boss DF-2 Super Distortion & Feedbacker 10:05 Korg Miku Stomp 11:10 JHS-circuit-bent Boss DS-1 12:23 Fender Runaway Feedback Expression 14:00 Record Time! Honorable Mentions: 15:22 Walrus Janus 15:38 DBA Echo Dream 2 15:43 Way Huge Ringwork 15:46 Dr. Scientist Bitquest 15:43 Sub Decay Noise Box 15:55 Zvex Fuzz Probe 16:13 DOD Gonkulator reissue

@smackroscoe 5 жыл бұрын

All the glory to you for professing love & appreciation for your competitors products. Mad respect to you good sir.

@robertwest9643 4 жыл бұрын

So happy he mentioned the Echo Dream 2, been on the fence about swapping it out over the years but bc he found some joy in it I’ll keep it forever, or at least until I start questioning its awesomeness once again 😋 Thanks Josh

@ZombifiedGenitalia 5 жыл бұрын

As a Belgian cycling fan, loving the t-shirt!

@gropifiasco 5 жыл бұрын

as a belgian, loving the t-shirt !

@blinkendecharizard7080 3 жыл бұрын

Belgium club right here

@attackofthepacifists 4 жыл бұрын

Favorite weird records: Double Negative by Low, The Pod by Ween, and El Oso by Soul Coughing

@levkamenev3904 4 жыл бұрын

Attack Of The Pacifists I will now go download El Oso.

@adammoravek1785 4 жыл бұрын

Attack Of The Pacifists The Pod is classic. I love Locust Abortion Technician by the Butthole Surfers... Hairway to Steven is great too.

@sryburn641 4 жыл бұрын

Attack - you have great taste.

@idontcare8405 3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t started watching the video but I know the Korg Miku is gonna be here.

@elvis_chen 6 жыл бұрын

Oh I love this episode! Please make a part2!

@teachingfeller 6 жыл бұрын

Ok Josh, now you're wearing a Cobbled Classics tee. That's freaking awesome.

@JayBeeBikes 6 жыл бұрын

Larry Johnson he gets his shirts from threadandspoke.com

@teachingfeller 6 жыл бұрын

Josh Beck Thanks!

@cameronmee7634 6 жыл бұрын

Surprised the Montreal Assembly Count To Five didn't make it to the list.

@DadRockAndGuitars 6 жыл бұрын

That Arpanoid was pretty cool. Just found your vlog and really digging them - Good stuff!

@thesoozeTJ 6 жыл бұрын

Love this!! Thanks for creating/posting

@williamdavis7274 6 жыл бұрын

Loved that you futures some feedbacker style pedals.... Seems like such an obviously musical sound... I'm surprised they've never really been popular. Have you tried Digitechs entry, (into the controlled feedback in a pedal sweepstakes) FreqOut. I've actually tried a lot of em and this has been my favorite

@phogue1 5 жыл бұрын

The Runaway would make a great reissue.

@ashleylanagen9048 5 жыл бұрын

Boss's fb-2 (I believe?) is unreal feedback wise. when you hold it down it pumps 48 db's of clean juice for actual feedback. Nothin like the real thing.

@hirekeenan 6 жыл бұрын

The Snarling Dog Mold Spore is my favorite weird pedal. Everything that goes through it seems to become maniacal.

@mattryan2489 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for all the cool videos Josh.

@leonardo.rafael Жыл бұрын

Thank you for introducing me to the Fender Runnaway. I looked for a demo video and was lucky enough to buy one immediately.

@DrewrGriff 6 жыл бұрын

Giles Corey is my go-to weird album. Written by Dan Barrett (Have a Nice Life), this record is a goddamn trip. It's a little difficult to identify the album's genre... maybe noise-drone-ambient-folk-sadtime music? Nevermind, that wasn't difficult. The album and it's accompanying book follow this story Barrett wrote about a guy's experience with the occult. If you're at all interested, the first two tracks are a good indicator of what the record has to offer. Super DIY recording style. Super moody. Super super.

@doomsdaydanceparty7646 5 жыл бұрын

dude thats good shit, glad to see theirs have a nice life fans out there, huge deathconciousness fan. Not sure what my go to weird album is, theres so many, idk anything by ween, lightning bolt, butthole surfers, sonic youth, my bloody valentine, guerilla toss, don cab, ect ect

@witeshade 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, not a name I expected to see on youtube! HANL is awesome. I miss In Pieces too, Dan's old band.. Lions Write History was a killer post-hardcore/ambient album.

@ThomasAtzinger 4 жыл бұрын

"One evening with Wild Man Fisher". That's hard to find - and really weird. Also produced by Frank Zappa, and it has one of the best love songs ever: "All I Think About Is You"

@geecen 5 жыл бұрын

Nice t-shirt! Nearly spring classic season again and I can stop spending all my time watching youtube videos ;)

@estebanpalacios4476 4 жыл бұрын

I felt tears of joy well up in my eyes as the beautiful voice of miku was being rendered over the sound of you caressing the guitar strings. My search for tone and music that can ever be considered of the caliber of what you just played is over. Miku is love, Miku is life.

@robertlewis5439 6 жыл бұрын

Favorite "weird" album is Bee Thousand by Guided by Voices (I've liked weirder albums, but this one has transfixed me with astonishment for 24 years.) Favorite weird pedal is a no-name MIJ 80s-era garage sale flanger I got in high school after a "friend" trashed my other no-name garage sale flanger (it was the 80s and "MIJ" were dirty words.) [Next favorite is a BBE Two Timer analog delay that glitches amusingly on short delay times.]

@mindbodylightsound10 5 жыл бұрын

"Out to Lunch" by Eric Dolphy is similar to Trout Mask Replica in that it sounds improvised but is actually totally written and rehearsed.

@Markus_Breuss Жыл бұрын

there are improvisations!!!

@katzillaswrath 5 жыл бұрын

First off, this is my second JHS VLOG video and I am really enjoying them, thank you for making them. Also, it goes without saying, but I'm totally in awe of the gear. But my favourite part of the video is at 15:21, the subtitles read "because I just I just have so many pills and I just love those". :P

@christophersoprano-sculptor 4 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your demonstrations.

@josepcla 5 жыл бұрын

You wearing a Belgium cycling t-shirt? Hahaha. Amazing.

@jeremyrandall7228 5 жыл бұрын

Yes that’s a rad shirt. Ride bikes jhs?

@davelanciani-dimaensionx 5 жыл бұрын

I love my Digitech FreQout pedal. I'm a home-studio guy, and I love getting feedback at VERY LOW volume. I use it all the time. It's probably the result of the Boss Feedbacker and that Fender thing mating. Trout Mask Replica was recorded by Frank Zappa at the house that Don Van Vliet and his band were renting. Van Vliet was actually quite mad at Frank for recording it there, because he thought Frank was just being cheap. Frank was just trying to record them in an environment that he thought they'd be comfortable and creative in.

@goopy1971 4 жыл бұрын

Partially true. Some songs such as "China Pig" and "Hair Pie" were recorded there but the majority of the album was recorded in a studio. In a single session I think? Not to be a know it all. I read John Frenchs book in high school for this.

@TheFarout69 3 жыл бұрын

I have one of those. I use it in the "Kill Dry" mode for synthy Ebow like swells. It's way cool.

@psilocypher 6 жыл бұрын

When I clicked on this video, my arponoid was the first thing that came to mind. Then that was the first one you showed! Awesome.

@Soonerbldr 6 жыл бұрын

Love the VLOGS they are fun and informative so please keep them coming! One thing that would be good to add is a link or reference to the Record Time selection for the episode. Cheers!

@daneguitarist1 5 жыл бұрын

god these pedals.. i want them all hahaha i am thinking you might have missed that Geiger counter pedal, ive always wanted one but could never actually rationalize buying one hahaha great vid!

@daneguitarist1 5 жыл бұрын

you own the beefheart record!! geeesauce that is so cool! i think that album is ... just plain unable to like...... like sonic ly haha lol, but its more of an event and insane

@axedoc2010 6 жыл бұрын

The Mid-Fi Clarinot is another great weird pedal

@mgregory22 5 жыл бұрын

Your vlog makes me love pedals.

@dikkeskieven484 6 жыл бұрын

Never pictured you as being a pro cycling fan, but here you are wearing a t-shirt with my favourite classics

@joseph-ow1hf 5 жыл бұрын

I need a pedal that magically makes me sound like I can actually play the guitar. If ya got one of those.....I'm all in. ;-)

@jhspedals 5 жыл бұрын

lol

@brainsplosion3000 3 жыл бұрын

i heard the gold horsie klon can do it?

@afern2007 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite “weird” albums are anything by Deerhoof, but especially Milkman-it was unlike anything I had ever heard before.

@ThePianotuna 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me of them,someone gave me all their records was a strange few hours listening to it all in a row

@MarsHottentot 6 жыл бұрын

Milkman and the one prior - Revillie - both are soo good, I jump between the two as my faves. They've changed a lot over their career but, definitely see them live. Greg is one of the best drummers I've ever seen - full spectrum with a snare, a kick and a crash.

@michaelsnydermusic 4 жыл бұрын

I love my Warped Vinyl! It gave me a sound that I’ve been wanting for years. It’s made my albums way more unique. Just use it in moderation when appropriate. Great for lofi ambient tunes.

@BenBollinger 6 жыл бұрын

Love it. I remember seeing the gonkulator in guitar stores back in the late 90’s. So cool. So weird.

@lucasbrunne5193 5 жыл бұрын

Love the DOD Gonkulator sound, I'll have to look up one of the reissues. But how does one get a JHS modified Ds-1?

@jhspedals 5 жыл бұрын

Get on our website and order from the mods tab. There's a couple options there. We don't do the new ones, but if you open it up and it's an older version, you can send it in and we'll mod it.

@MisterGuitarItalia 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, but I wish you'd talked about the MXR Blue Box...

@prunepanthormanofprunes7686 5 жыл бұрын

Great video! I used to have that boss pedal, also I subscribed as soon as i saw trout mask. Good hustle, keep it up!

@CaptPostmod 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite weird guitar effect is one preset on the late-90s DOD Tec4X. The effect is called "Pixelator", I believe. It mixes a bit crushing fuzz with a gonkulator ring modulator that acts as a synth step filter. It's similar to the Arpanoid but also adds in the bit crushing fuzz that makes the whole thing sound massive and synthy. If memory serves, DOD claimed that NIN used the effect or something like that.

@gfgf9300 6 жыл бұрын

Lo Fi Loop Junky (one of my top 5 ever). Weird record? Storm & Stress "Under Thunder and Fluorescent Light" (Ian Williams' pre Battles band).

@yaledelay 6 жыл бұрын

I saw SS on that tour, it was weird. They chased most of the crowd away.

@gfgf9300 6 жыл бұрын

Very underrated band. And Williams' guitar work on that record is really remarkable. Like a liquid version of Marc Ribot's approach :)

@sammadden5540 6 жыл бұрын

Good call, I love me some Ian williams

@Ishkybibble 6 жыл бұрын

I think Safe as Milk is an under-rated album, but I’m glad you mentioned TMR, as it is truly a strange album! Captain Beefheart!

@asmahism 6 жыл бұрын

Kevin McErlean Lick my Decals is in my opinion a better album than trout mask but it’s always overshadowed by TMR. I get it though TMR just has that something. From the cover to the music it carries weird weight. Anyway I love Safe as Milk as well, I like to bug friends by saying eeee-lec-trisss-a-teeeee at random times.

@aliasdandavisofficial 6 жыл бұрын

"Safe As Milk" has Ry Cooder on it. That's all you need to say. Totally agree. Great record.

@williamolsen20 6 жыл бұрын

Safe as Milk would be the first album I would recommend to a first time Beefheart listener, it is more accessible than TMR, and it is fucking great.

@MarsHottentot 6 жыл бұрын

Kevin McErlean As much as I love TMR, Safe as Milk was my introduction to the Captain and will forever be my favorite. Drop Out Boogie just slays.

@lorensteele2962 3 жыл бұрын

Love safe as milk

@gdw3 6 жыл бұрын

Great summary of Trout Mask Replica.

@beesong2450 5 жыл бұрын

That zvex lofi junkie is one of the coolest sounding modulation pedals ive heard. Its like being trapped in a movie

@blueskoebes 5 жыл бұрын

Best T-Shirt! Hell of the North!

@stulora3172 5 жыл бұрын

Now that I see that record time includes classic albums and not just new ones.... I am sure you know this, but King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King is one of the best music ever written and recorded. The next two albums (at least) are not less interesting and great.

@chrisshacklett2999 5 жыл бұрын

That ‘oh wah’ May have been used on 311’s ‘flowing’. I love that song and I now love that pedal.

@DreCarvalho 5 жыл бұрын

Really nice video. Thanks!

@YHRS 6 жыл бұрын

This one comes to mind, Focus doing Hocus Pocus (is the guitarist playing through a Marshall Major? I can't quite tell): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iKx0ipyTxMvOln0.html I like The Age of Adz, which can be summarized as "Sufjan Stevens has an existential meltdown with Omnisphere". Then there's The Black Rider, which I find unlistenable even as a huge Tom Waits fan. I find a perverse pleasure in Six Demon Bag from Man Man. I imagine it's what the inside of a demented carney's head must've sounded like in 1900.

@gowithgroove 5 жыл бұрын

Today's failure is tomorrow's genius! Weirdnesswise, I have been a fan of ring modulation ever since I heard Jabba's droid say, "You're a feisty little one" in Return of the Jedi....

@curtislitchfield1378 5 жыл бұрын

NOICE!!! I have NOS Gonkulator due to a mixup at the local shop right around the time it was bought out by a larger chain store. They found it in the back of the store room from when the ordered it years before, and I signed it out to try it out (because I love Incubus and freaked out when I saw the pedal, because it was discontinued even back then). When I brought it back a week later the owners of the store changed and they had never put it in inventory. Told me to just keep it. So I got a brand new Gonkulator about 10 years after it was discontinued. Still one of my favs.

@paddling_out 6 жыл бұрын

Sorely missing from this list: Mtl.asm (Count to 5, 856 For Zellersasn), Red Panda (Particle, Tensor), Dwarfcraft (Grazer, Wizard of Pitch), Hologram (Infinite Jets, Dream Sequence), Chase Bliss (Thermae, or everything they make if you go crazy with the ramping)

@mikecerame9008 6 жыл бұрын

Joel Korte actually designed the Lofi Junky if I'm not mistaken.

@reynoldswrap36 6 жыл бұрын

Can confirm. I worked at a pedal shop that dealt with both companies. I believe the story goes that Joel wanted to do more weird stuff, ZVEX was kind of holding him back on the circuits he could get through into production, and when his brother passed away, he decided to leave and try to make it on his own doing what he loves. The original Warped Vinyl is basically the Lofi Junky with a lot more control

@nodfactor8808 6 жыл бұрын

Wow! That's cool! Thanks

@DavidDiMuzio 6 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this so much. The anime pedal killed me.

@DerAykac 3 жыл бұрын

The Miku kinda became something to get your hands on. Google the price of that thing, you will be blown away.

@Mollohandro 3 жыл бұрын

Next time something like that is new and still for sale, I’ll have to check it out!

@brainsplosion3000 3 жыл бұрын

i spent way too much on this pedal, then found a japanese children's toy that did the same thing for a couple of bucks 🤣

@michaelcraig9449 3 жыл бұрын

It probably would.

@Mollohandro 3 жыл бұрын

@@brainsplosion3000 What's the children's toy?

@josephcorcoran8714 5 жыл бұрын

Hey man, Great video. Awesome amp you have there! I play through a '67 Bassman 50w head with a 2×10 speaker cab that my father bought new. IMO you can't beat a Bassman and some pedals to achieve whatever sound you want. Keep up the good work. You're a genius! Joe

@rafatoro8 5 жыл бұрын

Love the classics shirt! Roubaix is my favorite race all year!!!

@uriar5073 5 жыл бұрын

Ottobit by merris is weird. Exposure by Robert Fripp is a crazy album as is most of his solo work

@chrissoares23 6 жыл бұрын

Weird album? Hmm, anything off the Dr. Demento Show. Fish Heads. But, I think I'll go with Vai's Flexible album. Kinda weird.

@lorencobbyweber646 6 жыл бұрын

Chris Soares little green men is my jam!!

@serenemachine9110 4 жыл бұрын

I still have one of those Boss feedback pedals. I love that thing!

@duaneanderson9492 5 жыл бұрын

I love the gonkulator, there is a version in my Digitech GSP1101 , I love it!

@anilyazar_ 6 жыл бұрын

Tube Screamers are pretty weird

@sk8ter4life171 5 жыл бұрын

Turn up your amp, we can still hear the guitar strings over the noise coming out of the amp

@maxonmendel5757 6 жыл бұрын

6:40 woo! I knew it! I saw the box of mattoverse pedals in your last vlog, so I was hoping to see at least one of them in this one!

@Robert-xn3jb 6 жыл бұрын

Weirdest record? Delusion of the Fury of course! The booklet is priceless. The story behind the music and recording is priceless. Love the blog. Robert

@asproulliswhite5533 6 жыл бұрын

Weird is gooooooooooooooooood

@loudtim265 6 жыл бұрын

Trout Mask Replica FTW!

@loudtim265 6 жыл бұрын

BTW, if you want to get weird anything by the Residents fits the bill. Honestly tho it can be a bit much unless you see them live, then it all kinda comes together. Bonus, they are originally from Shreveport La, right down the highway from me. A friend of mine, another north Louisiana guy, has some great weird stuff under the band name Olivia Tremor Control. But my favorite of his is The Sunshine Fix album “Age of the Sun”. He was involved in The Elephant Six recording project, most of which probably qualifies as weird. He passed a few years ago and is dearly missed. Mr Bill Doss.

@loudtim265 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite Neil Young album is Trans. And nothing to do with guitar but Kraftwerk might be my desert island band...on the short list anyway.

@aliasdandavisofficial 6 жыл бұрын

Loudtim "Smelly Tongues Looked Just As They Felt".

@stulora3172 5 жыл бұрын

My drummer gave me this when I was 18.... Changed the way, I listened to and thought of and felt music.

@namebrandmason 5 жыл бұрын

& there are ZERO effect pedals on it. No drive, I don't even think they used reverb.