You folks need to set-up a live voting system, so you can survey the full audience. Would be fun to see the distribution of listener guesses.

The most surprising thing I've learned from this is that handling pedals while wearing white gloves imparts a more refined tone to all the pedals involved.

I'd like to see a secret "PLACEBO" example with two of the same pedals going head-to-head to explore that kind of bias.

I really hope this show continues. I just saved so much money.

I guessed A on the Klon but knew I was wrong the second I saw how much more gently Josh removed the patch cords from the B pedal. 😂

Exactly, a circuit is a circuit! Well said. Electronics are governed by the component values and the layout. The magic is entirely within our heads. Kudos to the crew at JHS for having the courage to make it real!

This channel showed me everything I know about pedals and to not be ashamed of the cheap ones as long as I like the sound

I preferred the sound of the cheaper Klon, straight up, and I do music and production professionally 😂. Maybe there’s no accounting for taste but I’m absolutely certain that $6,950 can be better spent just about every way imaginable.

having 2 clones and one original would lower the chance of a lucky random guess, and it would be cool if the third pedal was something like a digital multi stomp!

Would be nice to see some cheap "Amp In A Box" vs actual Amp comparisons. Tape Delays and Fuzzes would be nice too.

The Rat clone sounded so much better than the real thing. Original Rat seemed thin and sharp

The initial popularity and success of the Klon was due to the innovations in how the circuit was designed. Since the circuit does not involve any super rare or expensive components, cheap copies can be made and faithful reproductions will sound as good as the original (or at least to the point that human ear cannot detect any difference). The inflated price of the Klon is only due to the fact that it has become a collector's item, and it has become a collector's item because there are relatively few units, not because the original units sound better.

"Getting stringed" was very 90s Nickelodeon, that was fun. Great series I look forward to more!

This is the best show on KZfaq, hands-down. Hilarious to hear the comparisons and the difference in cost, especially the Klon. High five!

Cool, funny and informative as always! I’d never thought a Klon had reached 7k. But at the moment I’m so happy for the eventual owners who ve just realised they can get a better sounding pedal for 29.99 bucks

I’m going out on a limb here this was my favorite most fun JHS video I’ve viewed yet!!! Loved it you’ll have to do another one!

Would love to see "analog vs digital" in this type of show format for effects like modulation and delay. Even digital overdrive/distortion/fuzz like the Ultrawave against analog equivalents.

Line 6 stuff vs actual pedals would be an awesome comparison! ☺️

I absolutely love this and the JHS show. It’s great wholesome and informative guitar pedal videos. This was great to watch after a long stressful day of work. Cheers!

The klon much harder with very little output difference but tone was pretty spot on. Had 3 klons back in 2003. Sold them for $350/$400 back then. Thinking I made it out good. Damn I hate myself.

If you decide to do amps it'd be neat to see a real full stack vs. a fully digital setup. I'd definitely like to see some analog vs. digital stuff.

I want to hear an episode where you compare the actual pedal to a variety of modelled sounds, such as Helix, or even some software plugins. For example, Helix Native’s chorus sounds or the Digitech RP360 chorus sounds, versus the actual pedals they are modelled after.

Josh and Crew this is the best guitar pedal review ever in the history of KZfaq. Proves what I have been saying for years -- a pedal sounds only as good as it looks !

I feel like the mis-matched volume contributed to the answers more than the tone difference. Perceivable louder tone tends to sound better. Its weird but really true. Great tone a quiet level usually doesn’t sound as good as poorer tone louder.

That, like most of your episodes, was pretty fun. Also educational and entertaining. Thanks, y'all 🙏

This channel can really crush a person who’s bought 6 different overdrives of one type to find that one “magic” one. Great show!

Man, it's like buying a watch. You could spend thousands if you want to, but at the end of the day something for a fraction of the price can still tell you the right time.

I can’t tell the difference Love the person getting stringed with dignity ❤❤❤😂😂😂

This is a ton of fun! Keep going with this idea. The Klons were indistinguishable.

Great pilot guys!! That was not only helpful but just down right fun!! You rock🤘🎶🎸

I love how the people in jhs are always innovating with their content, it makes the idea of learning about tone, guitars, pedals and everything else music related, more enjoyable!! Kudoss

More of these videos please! So awesome. Thanks guys!

That was an awesome show!!! I'm looking forward to more of these. Pedal snobs may have some nervous breakdowns.

Paul Stanley said it best "People listen with their eyes."

WOW. The Rat and Klon comparisons blew my mind. I love it! 👏

A revue show that actually creates real, live, unbiased comparisons AND has fun without wasting a lot of time doing it. Thumbs up!

I love this gameshow-type content! Bluesbreaker clones next? Chuck in a Morning Glory as well and have Josh play it to see if he can find his own pedal! ;)

I love it. my entire board is made up of these budget pedals And know I feel validated LOL

Great show, keep it going. This is on my mind every pedal purchase!!

This was an awesome concept! More of this please!

I feel like this could be even harder if Josh got to set each pedal's settings before the listener could hear it.

This show gives such a different experience on pedals than normal Pedal Review Videos

Great show. Looking forward to future episodes!

The more you know, the more you suffer 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you JHS pedals team for doing this important work.

Good show! Please make several more episodes. Some pairing ideas: wah wah pedals and their "magic" inductors; blues breaker pedal variants vs original; modern chorus/vibrato pedals vs Boss CE-whatevers; modern analog/tape delays vs "the good ones" from yester-years.

I absolutely love these can you hear it vids and the fun energy in the room ans how much joy Josh seems to get out of these experiments

I LOVE this series!! It's about time for another installment!!!

That was great! 😆 Defo up for more of this series - I'd like to see a 3 way comparison though: Expensive pedal vs cheap pedal vs cheap multi effect pedal like, say an MS-50g - We also need two participants: Gen-Z with hearing intact vs Gen-X with burned out ears but experience.

3/3 for me, but 1 and 3 were total guesses. Also I guessed the OG rat would be more scooped and a newer style would me more mid forward. But NONE of them were significantly better or worse in this test. Amazing!

Amazing format! Please more of this :)

I love this format. More please! 💜

Just discovered this channel - excellent stuff! And Josh is hilarious - the Peter Kay of Guitar Gear!😄 Never fails to brighten up my day 😎

This was very interesting and I think it absolutely proves Josh's point of confirmation bias being most of what we "hear" when we decide one piece of gears sounds inherently better than another piece of gear. (I'm totally guilty of this myself) We buy into the whole package and history just as much if not more than the sound. The Rat clone totally fooled me. I guessed the Tube Screamer correctly, but since I'm not a fan of Tube Screamers anyway, I dion't know if that really counts. I got the other two wrong. I do have a suggestion though. For future episodes Josh should do a little "pre production" and find settings for all the boxes ahead of time that he can dial in when he plugs in each pair of pedals, so right out of the gate they sound close. THEN you can start twiddling knobs. Set up the expensive one the ways most people use it, then try to match that with the cheap box, and use those setting before anyone even plays a note. I think it would be even more challenging that way.

Love it! Great video

Brilliant video! Thank you. Love to see/hear one on delays, tone benders and reverbs

This is hilarious and should teach people that they shouldn't be buying into this crazy hype surrounding pedals.

Agree that this can be a really fun series! There are soooo many good pedals out there and knock-offs from Caline, NuX, Mosky, Moorer, etc etc, you could make it a weekly thing! One that I think would be a tough one to pick is the Jan Ray vs. Caline Pure Sky✌🏻

I really enjoyed this. Thank you for the video.

what a bloody brilliant concept and show ....we all listen with our eyes

This was awesome! I have been saying for a long time to all the cork sniffers out there that the Mosky Klon is AWESOME, and gets you there for 25 bucks (closer/as close as the 400/600 'boutique' versions ...) ... but hey-ho ... a fool and his money ....

Very fun. Would love to hear some delay and echo pedals like the EHX Memory Man or a vintage Echoplex.

This was a lot of fun because I know through my crappy speakers I rarely hear the difference, and it was nice to see that live with no bias they couldn't really either

Great, fun format - thanks!

for the third shootout (silver klon, $29 vs $7K) : that means you can buy 233 x Bezos Clones for the value of a single authentic Klon that just proved to sound the same ? Extremely surprising, interesting and baffling all at the same time !!! Definitely Food for Thoughts !! Thanks a lot Josh for bringing us back to Planet Earth !!!

I would love more of this, and i think it'd be cool to include amps as well.

Do this again. Very much enjoyed the comparisons!

Great series! Looking forward to future episodes. Would love to see Marshall Bluesbreaker v1 vs. Mooer Blues Crab.

Good object lesson in confirmation bias, an affliction that combines with FOMO resulting in severe GAS. An additional point to add, when you get in the thrash and crash of a pub gig, I think it gets even harder to hear differences.

First off, KUDOS to Addison for putting himself out there for this challenge. My suggestion would be even more risky/challenging for another brave or foolish JHS soul - can a current JHS employee do a Versus episode using JHS pedals versus the OG reference pedals of their types? Maybe if they can get *all* the JHS pedals correct, they can have a paid, nice lunch or something (I'd certainly chip in for their meal)

Thanks for the great job. You do make a point keep going that way!! Never learnt so well from anybody on youtube 👍

This was super fun to watch. Thanks JHS.

Awesome episode! Please consider doing a vintage Dallas Rangemaster vs. cheaper treble boosters, please!

I've been buying those little pedals from Amazon for the past year or two, and use them a lot. The various Klon clones are remarkable.

Now this is super entertaining, Nice Work

“Yeah I think everyone should Google confirmation bias as well” hhahahaha Josh’s face is priceless.

I think there is a difference between trying to pick the more expensive pedal and the better sounding pedal. That may be where Addison went a bit off track. The contestant should, perhaps, be allowed to choose one or the other criteria, or both, when they give their final answer. Either way, you still have a relevant game show, plenty of fun and lots of points to make. Also, the use of an actual partition or 'blind fold' (think blacked out goggles of some sort) between the contestant and the host would be a more legitimate way of concealing each device. Then, the audience could know the identity of each pedal before the contestant, guess which pedal the contestant may pick in each criteria and avoid playing the same role as the contestant each episode. Thanks for another entertaining peek into the world of JHS!

Thoughts: Use a looper pedal to ensure that strumming or playing doesn’t affect how each pedal is played. Play in a band setting - in a genre specific to the pedal’s most appropriate purpose -

Great format!

Keep this going. I really enjoyed it!

Sweet. That's the Rat clone I have, and that's the Klon clone I have. Love them both, and they were dirt cheap! Would like to see some fuzz comparisons: I have the Behringer Super Fuzz, and the Soniccake Fazy Cream Muff clone

great show idea ! i would recommend trying to have an equal volume comparison... specially in the RAT example, version A (expensive) was lower in volume most of the 1 minute test, and that is a big BIAS when comparing... Louder is going to sound better most of the time.

Love this guys ! So hilarious and informative

This is great news, for those of us on a tight budget 😅 As always, watching your videos is so much fun. Thanks , and best wishes for your continued success.

A 'basic' chorus pedal shootout would be pretty interesting. ie: each pedal should have the same parameters because obviously an Eventide ModFactor is going to sound better than a $30 Amazon pedal but what about a vintage Boss CE-1 or CE-2 ?

The Tube Screamer was louder. So right there, the perception is that it's better. Take two identical sounds, make one just slightly louder and it will always be picked as sounding better.

This was one the the best vids you guys have done! Just good wholesome fun! 🤣

I love this Josh's character and the relation between them 👏👏👏 and this blind tests are always a great thing to do.

Loved the episode! It would be cool if you could find a clone to shoot out with some Strymon pedals. Also maybe a Timmy overdrive shootout as well.

I have the Mosky Silver Horse. I absolutely love that pedal, and feel so good about my cheap purchase after hearing this. It sounds really, really similar to the Klon.

Great show! More, please!

Please keep this up!!

This was a great show! Can't wait for the next installment. I got the Ibanez and the Klon right and got the RAT wrong. Honestly, the Ibanez sounded better, so I picked it and lucked out. The Amazon RAT sounded better than the actual Whiteface RAT, to be honest, so I biffed that one and guessed wrong. I owned a Centaur a long time ago, and there was one small sound I heard at either :13 or :14 secs left when Addison was playing the cheapie that the Klon wouldn't make (it was the guitar equivalent of a mic being overdriven...sort of a microsecond of bad saturation), but that one small microsecond was the ONLY way I could tell them both apart; otherwise, they both sounded great.

The Mosky Black Rat is a very good sounding pedal.

This was great!

I love how Josh smashes snobs feelings constantly! Great video! I can taste the snobs’ tears through the internet ahaha

I know that the whole “vintage pedals have to be better than modern clones and therefore stupid expensive” concept has been a “ bete noir” for Josh since forever, and I know that Addison has an excellent ear for tone, so Point made. However this was a lot of fun so more episodes please, who is going to be the next contestant?

It's important to point out, sometimes a higher price is not because it sounds better... but sometimes its a collectable factor. Like with anything, collectors seek certain things and that affects price. Supply and demand. Also, of course, what sounds better is completely subjective. Use and enjoy the tools you prefer for your sound and have fun.

Awesome competitive... You guys are great. Keep on rockin'

Super fun! Plesase do more!