I had a Shredmaster because of Jonny... It was an extremely noisy circuit that eventually replaced with a 94 Big Box Rat that did the Bends tones a lot better...
@@Place_to_keep_videos yeah the noise may have been quieter for johnny since he used Lace Sensor pickups that are super quiet and handle gain really well
Yup, I was always wondering a) do they add the bass in later, or b) is Josh some kind of a cranky controlling son of gun off camera that for whatever reason refuses to show the bass player! I kind of liked imagining b was the correct answer, because it cracked me up to imagine his crazy tirades and tantrums.
Ed bought his guv nor and Jonny bought his shredmaster, tele plus, and fender 85 when the got their first advance when they were signed. So Jonny's shredmaster rig has been there day one of being a signed band, since 1992. Also Josh, Jonny only uses the DOD live, he used a muttron rack mount in the studio. The secret to getting Paranoid Android did sound is using your foot to manually control the rate knob as you play. Super janky but effective.
@@homunculusSZN As far as I know he's using his trusty Boss OD most the time. But I think he started using a fuzz for Bending Hectic. King Of Gear breaks down his "Smile" set up.
I worked for Marshall as a test engineer 1991 - 92 so I tested 33% of the first wave of Bluebreaker/Drivemaster/shredmaster range before they went out. The Shredmaster has stayed in my top 2 distortion pedals of all time ever since. It's surprisingly rarely copied from, with only the Jekyll & Hyde (beefed up) and the Joyo high gain distortion jf-04 ( bass knob eliminated and fixed at 9 o'clock ) being out there as far as i can tell. There NEEDS to be more Shredmasters . I have number 62 somewhere but it has got lost when I moved house and it's not entirely stock, hope I find it soon. I do not own a blues Breaker, I just don't "get" ... well blues actually, so I suppose that explains that. I mean I know it does it well but I also know I don't want it.
@@jfo3000 - Absolutely. The mixes are always on point. I'm more of a cranked metal shell snare guy (Stewart Copeland ish, but not that tight), and i just love the how the drums and bass are mixed. I think Addison has the best P bass tone i've heard in awhile. Plus, as Simon says (pun intended) Josh is a great player.
The Blues Breaker was my first drive pedal and it's still a cornerstone on my board. Never understood why my older brother decided to get rid of it but never stopped thanking him for gifting it to me.
I contributed to the “Save the Sticker” go fund me you started. It’s obvious to me now it was never genuine and once you went back in time the money was squandered on more pedals for your collection. After the time travel, updating the video to keep the contributions coming in was genius. Well played sir
I rarely post comments on RUclips videos but Josh you gave the order: ADDISON YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO OK COMPUTER!!! This album came out the year I graduated high school and three years into my learning guitar and it BLEW MY MIND! I keep coming back to it, and today I felt a deep need to listen to it again today before even seeing today’s JHS video. It’s fate. You have to do it Addison. Your life will be different forever…
I remember seeing an ad in one if the guitar magazines (maybe "For the Practicing Musician" in the '80s?) that had a picture of a grenade, a Guv'nor pedal, and the tagline "Just because it's loud doesn't mean you want to listen to it." That one always stuck with me for some reason. Good show!
The 3 piece vibe with Addison in the shot is killer. Two mustaches, but the lead guy doesn’t have a mustache. It’s like zz-top, but with mustaches and like the guy without the mustache last name is actually Moustache. I’m here for it.
Bought my ShredMaster S/H for £20 years ago. Does everything from edge of breakup to full on shred. Easily my best bargain pedal. Love it! Thanks for this episode, brings back good memories.
The line they released in the early 2000s is underrated, misunderstood, and are hidden gems. I've had all of them at one point or another. The guvnor2 has an interesting design flaw. I've had 3 and 2 of them had a problem from factory: no treble and the knob made no difference. If you took it apart there was a capacitor on the top right of the board that was bent over and shorting on a resistor lead. Separate them and the treble circuit now works. I still have my first gv2, the compressor, and the bluesbreaker. They're great and I don't care what harmony central told you about them 15 years ago.
@@MrSpeed-lt8gr I still have my jackhammer as well. Agree, the OD mode is great as a low gain distortion (because it's not an OD, really, the clipping is too hard). But every single silver line pedal has some great sounds in it, it's just that they made the controls overly complicated so folks didn't bother messing with them enough to find out where they shine.
@@kbcarroll yeah I wish I would have kept the pedals. But of course back in the 2000’s I was just rotating guitar gear in and out trying to find the “perfect” sound which I now know doesn’t mean thousands of dollars of gear.
I had no idea how good the Gov’ner was. I passed that pedal up a million times, and wrote it off as a joke. Then, one day played through it by accident, and was stunned. Doesn’t measure up to where Josh and Brian (Wampler) have taken Marshall-esq pedals, but I was amazed at how good it sounded.
I remember them being launched in the UK, those ads too. Gary Moore used a Guvnor I think on Still Got the Blues, into an already cooking Marshall. An acquired taste for blues really.
I’ve had 3 guitars in my life and sadly could barely play any lol, but I watch every video you guys put out and love every second. Thank you for the quality content!
Re: The Echohead; yeah I'd like to see something on that series. I have the Regenerator from the same collection, bought for its "vibe" setting, which works nicely with an expression pedal, also the stereo output option.
In the studio, Johnny used a Mutronics Mutator for the filtering effect on the Paranoid Android solo, which is a rack unit. Live, he used the DOD but adjusted the range knob with his toe to give it some of the filter modulating effect you hear on the recording. That could be why Josh has never been able to get it to sound right.
Another idea for a show series- the “pedals of artists who shaped the music we love” (or something with a catchier name). Hendrix, Gilmour, , EVH, SRV, Billy Corgan, Kurt Cobain, J Mascis, Thom Yorke, John Mayer, etc… Bonus episode: a deep dive into the most loved/hated by Boss pedal (perhaps by any pedal company): the Boss MT2 Metal Zone. Where it came from (evolution from the HM2?), it’s design, why it’s hated, why it’s loved, different ways people have used it (effects loop) and taking on the big question- is the Metal Zone actually “the Swiss Army Knife of high gain distortion pedals”? Can it be dialed in to sound like other famous pedals? A RAT? A fuzz? A DS1 or DS2? (Spoiler- I think it can get close enough in many instances!). I think it would be an amazing episode or livestream. Keep up the great work!
RECORD TIME SUGGESTION: HUM’s “You’d Prefer An Astronaut” Please check it out if you haven’t. This album takes “shoegaze” and smashes it with walls of trippy driven guitars, backed by unique, jaw dropping, drums. It a perfect use of the “shades of colors” sound, and “beautiful quiet to heavy” formula. It blows me away that after 20 something years of listening to this album,Im still hearing new sounds and textures. They are still so influential to me and countless others..
I had the 2nd version of the Blues Breaker. I hated it. The only time I was happy with it was when I used the boost function for an acoustic guitar. I practically gave that pedal away. I figured nobody would be happy with it anyway. 😬
My favourite ever drive pedal was a mk.1 Guv'nor that had obviously been set on fire at some point. The paint was bubbled and the knobs were all melted and misshapen but it sounded insanely good.
Just was listening to OK Computer yesterday in the car. This record is still absolutely up to date! You can dive into it easily in 2022. Do it! Thanks for another great written episode!
Yes, do the Gen2 Marshall pedals, too. That reverb of the series is still killer to my ears. The knobs were junk when it comes to visibility, do we agree? ;-)
OK Computer might be my favorite album of all time, it’s between that and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. OK Computer is like a forewarning regarding life as we know it today. Where computers have invaded every aspect of our lives, where privacy has become a thing of the past, where we don’t appreciate the world around us because we are preoccupied, where the culture of automation has effected our minds. Sonically OK Computer is a masterpiece. I like to think of it as the Dark Side of the Moon for the 21st Century. An amazingly dense, atmospheric album. It gets even better when you realize that it was recorded in a haunted mansion on the English countryside. Thom recorded “Exit Music (For A Film)” on the staircase. “Let Down” was recorded in the mansions ballroom. Apparently odd noises were heard from time to time, perfectly complimented the spookiness of what lied ahead of the nineties, the general feeling of uneasiness and anxiety that has lined the 21st century thus far.
Man! As much as I love your show, I do hate the fact that the price of any given piece of gear you feature on your show goes up. You have that influence on the market and is both worth admiring and inconvenient to me. Cheers!
Tried it, but it doesn't stack or react to the volume knob as well as the snouse bb2 pro mod. I'm a huge fan and owner of 8 wampler pedals though, he builds quality gear.
Great episode, Guvnor / Drive Master is a beast! Without mentioning that it can also be used as booster, Carcass Heartwork is basically a 5150 boosted with a Guvnor
The brilliance of JHS and TPS and a few other similar shows is that I as a hobbist player wouldn't have this many gear conversations in 100 lifetimes with staff at the local shop. Even though I have some EXCELLENT shops in the Detroit area, I'd have to LIVE THERE to learn all this information. Then there are people all over the globe that don't even have access to good local shops. For ever small criticism I've ever had for these shows there are 100 or 1,000 compliments I could give. You guys do an invaluable service to the whole planet of guitar players, and its all recorded for posterity. Mega Bravo to all.
Anyone notice that pretty much every pedal Josh says should be reissued gets reissued? He mentioned in ehx’s pedals you’ve never heard of that the slapback delay (can’t remember the name) should be reissued and just last week it was…
Ok, please please do the video on that newer line of Marshall pedals. The echohead was the first pedal I ever bought (after a tuner). Would love to learn more about the history and maybe why the line ended/wasn't as successful as they hoped.
That excellent Gilmour solo came out of nowhere, based on what directly preceded it (I know you announced Gilmour, but I couldn't hear it until you 'went there'). LOVED your playing!
Addison!! Please listen to ‘OK Computer’. It is legitimately regarded as a masterpiece by a Hall of Fame band. Would love to hear your thoughts on this album on the next live stream. You guys are all awesome!
@@johanneschristopherstahle3395 I kind of feel that way about Radiohead in general: I acknowledge what they’ve created and I don’t dislike them, I just never fell in love with them.
I've had 2 different drivemasters, both UK made. I missed the sound so much that I got a JHS Charlie Brown. Brought me back to my days in the best band I was ever a part of.
Lovely stuff - been waiting for this one! Marshall's pedals from the early days are incredible. Carlsbro is a PA/Amp company that I grew up near. It's about the only productive thing to come out of Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
When I was growing up and making music in the North East, the closest I got to a Marshall was when a very close friend (and far better guitar player) bought an original Bluesbreaker pedal. He'd never heard it, but was a big fan of Clapton and the Beano album. At the time I pointed out there was more distorted sounds available from the other two in that line-up, suggesting that whilst you could turn those down for lighter OD, you couldn't turn the Bluesbreaker up...shows how prescient my pedal knowledge was! By contrast, Carlsbro were very popular and common both as respectable guitar/bass instrument amps, alongside their PA mixers, amps and speakers. I don't remember the instrument amps and cabs ever sounding anything but good, yet many years later I ended up working FOH in a couple of small venues with old Carlsbro PA kit - I don't know what toll age and wear had taken, but whilst they could just about cope with basic vocal reinforcement, putting music via CD decks through those systems sounded awful. I did like what I heard of the now much maligned Marshall Valvestate guitar amps. Back in my teens, the lead guitarist for the most professional band I knew bought the top combo in that range, but took it straight back and exchanged it for a model with half the power - so he could get a more usable "pushed" sound. Not long after I started working venues with full PA rigs, but only then did I understand that decision!
Was my first multi effects pedal, then I upgraded to the 1010, it had 4 switches instead of the 2 up/down switches the 505 did. Ola did a video with a 505, and of course he hated it!
There’s an old video on this channel (maybe about pedal myths?) where Josh did pull out his old 505 that he used when he first started playing. My first pedal wasn’t that (Boss Overdrive/Distortion OS-2), but I did have one at some point.
The Bluesbreaker is the first new pedal that I bought (in 1995). One changed pot and two switches later, it’s still on my board. It was my ‘always on’ pedal for when you’re using a borrowed/too bright/too loud amp, or works to just tip a sagging amp into my rhythm tone. I know it’s a popular Strat pedal, but I’ve literally never used it with one. It sounds great with Humbuckers too. Surprised that you got through a discussion of the Gov’nor without mentioning Gary Moore tho.
My '89 Guv'nor is the one pedal I'll take with me into the afterlife. You can take my TS10... but the Guv (and I HAVE the box...) is the one I can't live without. I Bought it new shortly after it hit the market. I've always felt the 3-band tone-stack was the important key to it. Nobody before that ever really made a pedal with that much tone shaping on it from what I can recall. I never got along well with the DS-1 or Rat types... but the Guv was a truly transcendent experience when I first played it. Putting in my pre-order now for your next multi-pedal in the line with the Bonsai and the others, which has these 3 main Marshall circuits in it, as well as a sampling of all the important variations in it. What you think about the Blammo! Blues Blaster? It kinda hits the Blues Driver and Shredmaster key tones really well to my ears. It's been a while since I've felt the burning 'need' for a new drive pedal... but this one activated the GAS in me unlike anything else I've heard for a while. (Though, a lot of that might be the fact that I saw it on Andy Demos... and let's face it: Andy kills it every time he demos something. Plus: The fact that he played an early Rush track while doing it was a dirty move... It's like that video was made to address me personally.)
Great vid but would love some more info on the silver -2 line. Dating my guitar playing a bit here but the first pedals I ever heard in the GC that had just opened near my local mall were an Ibanez TS-7, a Danelectro Fab Tone, and a Marshall GV-2 Guv’Nor. Would love some more info on them before I do the old man thing of just buying nostalgia from my youth 😂
I love Ola and Trogley and 60 Cycle Hum and countless others but I got to say this channel probably my favorite. So much knowledge, great personalities, and awesome jams, just the best.
Rumor has it that it was recorded with a Guvnor into an early JTM45 reissue set fairly clean. So you're absolutely right, Still got the blues is a prime example for the excellent sound of the original Guvnor.
I appreciate the dedication to pedals from Josh and the team! Not only is he running a full fledge business but he is making real deal content for us on RUclips. JHS is my favorite modern company and I collect “vintage” jhs the way he collects boss
I don’t think these pedals are “forgotten” so much as they are exorbitantly expensive for what they are. With great boutique builders making faithful, or even improved, replicas of these, there’s just no reason to drop hundreds of dollars on one of the originals.
About Jonny Greenwood's sound on Paranoid Android, he apparently played the recorded guitar track through a Mutronics Mutator while fiddling with the knobs. He does something similar on stage with the 440 by playing with the range knob while soloing but it isn't really the same. Crazy idea: could a pedal company - maybe one run by some kind of pedal nerd - find out exactly how to reproduce that studio sound in pedal form and make it available to the world? Call it the Paranowah or something?
Yes, I want to see a video on the later line of Marshall pedals. I have a Jackhammer and an Echohead, and it would be interesting to know more about them from you.
Also, OK Computer and The Bends are the only two Radiohead albums you really need. I'm not a fan, per se, but I cannot deny how brilliant those two albums are.
Would love to see a show on the Marshall "silver series", of which I own two...the VibraTrem and the Reflector (reverb). Can certainly recommend them; the pedals are incredibly well built and heavy as hell, probably twice the weight of a Boss pedal.
Josh you didn't get the slurp because i'm pretty sure he would put his foot on the range/rate knob and rotate it back and forth whilst playing treating it like a resonant filter cutoff, been waiting for a reissue with expression input for forever.
around 1992 I had and sold a bluesbreaker and shredmaster but kept the Gov’ner ( I also have the box) being a big Gary Moore fan yeah Im old the kid who bought the shred was a huge radiohead fan and was thrilled to find one I made a small fortune for back then!
This is great, I had a ShredMaster back in the day I bought it back in 1992-93 one of the big attraction I think for a lot of people in the UK for this pedal (series of pedals) was that it was cheap. It was cheaper than any BOSS or DOD and it was built like a tank. It cost £54 which equates to about £100 ($130) today. If "No pedal [is to be] left behind" it be great to see something on the Roger Mayer Fuzz pedals. - Thank you for the excellent channel!
Amazing episode! Been waiting for this one for some time. On the TPS episode with Ed O'Brien he talks about buying these. Each guys had a different one apparently.
When I joined a punk band in the early 90s, the main singer/guitar player eschewed my 6-pedal board, and told me all I would need is a tuner (Arion) and a Marshall Guv'nor, for solo boosts. He had a wah as well, but I was not interested (and still not) in that effect. The Guv'nor was no longer available, so I got a Drive Master. I was going into a 100-watt Laney half stack. It worked well as a boost. A few years back when I discovered your show (and this whole *new to me* boutique pedal world) I tried to fall back in love with that Drive Master but it just didn't have what I wanted in a drive/distortion, so I sold it.
No pedals left behind: great idea for a series. First two shows- 1) tube pedals (yes- finally a show about tube based pedals, how they work, topology, etc). And 2) pedals from the late 60s -early 70s UK scene (obviously things like the Fuzz Face picked up by Hendrix, but especially the early Sola Sound pedals, particularly the ColorSound PowerBoost made famous by David Gilmour and others).
Lovely video. A proud owner of an early Guvnor and it’s great. First time I saw it was on the album cover of ”Still Got The Blues” by the late great Gary Moore. It was also the first pedal I’ve seen.
Speaking of lost pedals, Sears Roebuck had pedal in the mid 70`s, it was a combination volume, wah. fuzz tone and octave. It also had four different types of wah. Bright, mellow, funky and mellow plus. It was made by a company called Foxx.
All of them great pedals! I'd rank them like this: 1- Bluesbreaker 2- Guvnor 3- Shredmaster But mostly I'd love to have some dual pedals like Guvnor + BluesBrekaer, or Shredmaster + Bluesbreaker in a box. Also I didn't know that about the Jekyll and Hyde! Thanks for the video Josh!
Blood. Sweat and Gears is one of my favourite jams you guys have ever done. They're all enjoyable but that one was somehow unique. Informative video as always, and fun to watch.
For years I didn't know what effect was getting used til I saw them on TV at Glastonbury & he uses his foot on the knob. I never owned one of the Marshall pedals but my mates had them. The Guv'nor is a beast, good to know the Drive Master is pretty much the same. BTW, I have that Marshall catalogue among others.
I have a Marshall DRP-1 I use as a DI pedal. It always adds great texture to an overdub track. Nobody ever seems to know what it is when they see it though.
I built a guv'nor clone. It's my favorite pedal I've built after my Klon clone. It can do a lot of cool things, but if you put everything at 10 it gets a pretty good metal tone.
Well... I've got original drive master and now I understand how should I treat it. But Blood, Sweat and Gears gonna be my "crying at 2am" song from now... I love you guys. Best wishes from Poland
the guv nor 2 is a phenomenal bass overdrive.. two controls for bass so …you loose no bass signal and this gain is so graduated that you can get a svt like slight tubey grind without going full bore like most bass distortion pedals.. it is truly outstanding for bass
Great channel and great content as always. Alas, I'm finding out that I can generally just watch and not own these types of pedals and here is why. I watch the episodes , get all excited about the pedals and what I see. I then go online to find one and like a "Mammoth hand face slap"! you see the prices and just like that....the pedal is out of reach lol. Just a little humor there. Keep it up JHS family!
I have recently found a Shredmaster in my old childhood house where I'm now living. I didn't even know it was here and I don't remember who was the original owner. I hope it still working looks really cool and to know it was part of the tone of Greenwood OK Computer era really makes it even more appealing.
"From the guys who gave you distortion" is one of the best sellers in history
From the guys that have you distortion is the best slogan ever
It's complicated and weird... but you guys are my favorite band right now.
Micheal - Not complicated or weird at all. I'm in the same place as you are. The jams are the biggest reason i'm here.
Embrace it man.
It's like finding out your local diner has your favourite food ever
best drum mixes on RUclips
Josh actually has several albums, check apple music
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Radiohead’s guitarists split three of them between the guitarists, Thom got the Bluesbreaker, Jonny got the Shredmaster, and Ed got the Guvnor :)
I had a Shredmaster because of Jonny... It was an extremely noisy circuit that eventually replaced with a 94 Big Box Rat that did the Bends tones a lot better...
@@Place_to_keep_videos with a strat? Cause with buckers they are very silent...
@@Place_to_keep_videos yeah the noise may have been quieter for johnny since he used Lace Sensor pickups that are super quiet and handle gain really well
Airbag
Woman tone
it's good to see "Bass Face" Addison in the frame now, I always thought it was weird that he was jamming off-camera before
@@50Something maybe it's really itchy!
I thought Nick used to overdub the bass?
@@DylanShield oh I didn't know that
Yup, I was always wondering a) do they add the bass in later, or b) is Josh some kind of a cranky controlling son of gun off camera that for whatever reason refuses to show the bass player! I kind of liked imagining b was the correct answer, because it cracked me up to imagine his crazy tirades and tantrums.
I would absolutely dig a series about the Marshall « silver » pedals, always been curious about them
Ed bought his guv nor and Jonny bought his shredmaster, tele plus, and fender 85 when the got their first advance when they were signed. So Jonny's shredmaster rig has been there day one of being a signed band, since 1992. Also Josh, Jonny only uses the DOD live, he used a muttron rack mount in the studio. The secret to getting Paranoid Android did sound is using your foot to manually control the rate knob as you play. Super janky but effective.
Is he using the DOD with The Smile? That distortion tone he gets is absolutely amazing
@@homunculusSZN As far as I know he's using his trusty Boss OD most the time. But I think he started using a fuzz for Bending Hectic. King Of Gear breaks down his "Smile" set up.
@@homunculusSZNHe uses an EQD Hizumitas and a Boss SD-1 stacked. He’s been using the SD-1 since OK Computer.
I worked for Marshall as a test engineer 1991 - 92 so I tested 33% of the first wave of Bluebreaker/Drivemaster/shredmaster range before they went out. The Shredmaster has stayed in my top 2 distortion pedals of all time ever since. It's surprisingly rarely copied from, with only the Jekyll & Hyde (beefed up) and the Joyo high gain distortion jf-04 ( bass knob eliminated and fixed at 9 o'clock ) being out there as far as i can tell. There NEEDS to be more Shredmasters . I have number 62 somewhere but it has got lost when I moved house and it's not entirely stock, hope I find it soon.
I do not own a blues Breaker, I just don't "get" ... well blues actually, so I suppose that explains that. I mean I know it does it well but I also know I don't want it.
the king of gear's Oxford Drive is a modern shreadmaster clone!
I bought a Shredmaster new when they came out, it was my main distortion for all of the 90s. I still have it and it is amazing.
@@RomainBigeardGuitar I still have mine, in mint condition, never gigged...
@@RyanRenteria Wasn't on my radar as we don't get these in the UK. Thanks for expanding my knowledge.
I had a Shredmaster for years and sold it about 5 years ago, seriously regret this and am thinking of buying one again
Josh is unironically my favourite guitarist of late. Dude has way more chops than he realises.
Simon - Agreed. Since i'm a drummer i'm mostly here for the jams. They're that good.
Yep, he comes up with good parts.
@@christopherweise438 the drums sound great
@@jfo3000 - Absolutely. The mixes are always on point. I'm more of a cranked metal shell snare guy (Stewart Copeland ish, but not that tight), and i just love the how the drums and bass are mixed. I think Addison has the best P bass tone i've heard in awhile. Plus, as Simon says (pun intended) Josh is a great player.
He knows exactly how to do what the pedal wants to hear
The Blues Breaker was my first drive pedal and it's still a cornerstone on my board. Never understood why my older brother decided to get rid of it but never stopped thanking him for gifting it to me.
Do we need a new jingle for "He had the prototype?" I think so.
🎶HE SHOWED THE PROTO!🎶
🎶HE SHOW THE PROTO!🎶
🎶HE SHOW PRO-TO!🎶
I need him to have a stinger for when he has a vox. “He has the Vox.” I’ll show myself out
Addison’s face on these jams is everything. Love all the recent uses of “he has the box” Josh’s pedal addiction makes me happy.
Nooooo kill the box jingle, with fire! Please dear god make it stop. 😖
Cliff's a Dozer - Not to mention that's one of the best P bass tones I've ever heard.
but he hasn't heard OK Computer
Josh collects them so I don’t have to. 👍🏼
I contributed to the “Save the Sticker” go fund me you started. It’s obvious to me now it was never genuine and once you went back in time the money was squandered on more pedals for your collection. After the time travel, updating the video to keep the contributions coming in was genius. Well played sir
I rarely post comments on RUclips videos but Josh you gave the order: ADDISON YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO OK COMPUTER!!! This album came out the year I graduated high school and three years into my learning guitar and it BLEW MY MIND! I keep coming back to it, and today I felt a deep need to listen to it again today before even seeing today’s JHS video. It’s fate. You have to do it Addison. Your life will be different forever…
I remember seeing an ad in one if the guitar magazines (maybe "For the Practicing Musician" in the '80s?) that had a picture of a grenade, a Guv'nor pedal, and the tagline "Just because it's loud doesn't mean you want to listen to it." That one always stuck with me for some reason. Good show!
The 3 piece vibe with Addison in the shot is killer. Two mustaches, but the lead guy doesn’t have a mustache. It’s like zz-top, but with mustaches and like the guy without the mustache last name is actually Moustache. I’m here for it.
Blood, sweat and gears is definitely, the best jam I've ever heard from this channel. Period. .
Mitch Colby is one of the unsung heroes of he boutique gear world. He makes a great amp is a very nice fellow! More folks need to know about his work.
True!
As a limited production pedal builder here in Hawaii I appreciate you're dedication and equanimity (words is hard) thank you.
Definitely do a show on the metallic-looking Marshall pedals.
Bought my ShredMaster S/H for £20 years ago. Does everything from edge of breakup to full on shred. Easily my best bargain pedal. Love it! Thanks for this episode, brings back good memories.
The line they released in the early 2000s is underrated, misunderstood, and are hidden gems. I've had all of them at one point or another. The guvnor2 has an interesting design flaw. I've had 3 and 2 of them had a problem from factory: no treble and the knob made no difference. If you took it apart there was a capacitor on the top right of the board that was bent over and shorting on a resistor lead. Separate them and the treble circuit now works. I still have my first gv2, the compressor, and the bluesbreaker. They're great and I don't care what harmony central told you about them 15 years ago.
I loved the Jackhammer in OD mode. Really wasn’t overdrive but more classic hard rock.
@@MrSpeed-lt8gr I still have my jackhammer as well. Agree, the OD mode is great as a low gain distortion (because it's not an OD, really, the clipping is too hard). But every single silver line pedal has some great sounds in it, it's just that they made the controls overly complicated so folks didn't bother messing with them enough to find out where they shine.
@@kbcarroll yeah I wish I would have kept the pedals. But of course back in the 2000’s I was just rotating guitar gear in and out trying to find the “perfect” sound which I now know doesn’t mean thousands of dollars of gear.
@@heggy_69 the reverb pedal is easily one of the best! But that isn't a secret, you can't get one for less than $100 most of the time.
Early 2000s? Marshall introduced this line of pedals in the late 80s… Ah, I see, you mean the later silver bugs. Well, never liked them
I had no idea how good the Gov’ner was. I passed that pedal up a million times, and wrote it off as a joke. Then, one day played through it by accident, and was stunned. Doesn’t measure up to where Josh and Brian (Wampler) have taken Marshall-esq pedals, but I was amazed at how good it sounded.
I remember them being launched in the UK, those ads too. Gary Moore used a Guvnor I think on Still Got the Blues, into an already cooking Marshall. An acquired taste for blues really.
I’ve had 3 guitars in my life and sadly could barely play any lol, but I watch every video you guys put out and love every second. Thank you for the quality content!
Re: The Echohead; yeah I'd like to see something on that series. I have the Regenerator from the same collection, bought for its "vibe" setting, which works nicely with an expression pedal, also the stereo output option.
In the studio, Johnny used a Mutronics Mutator for the filtering effect on the Paranoid Android solo, which is a rack unit. Live, he used the DOD but adjusted the range knob with his toe to give it some of the filter modulating effect you hear on the recording. That could be why Josh has never been able to get it to sound right.
Came here to say this…iirc they ran it through the Mutator twice! :)
Another idea for a show series- the “pedals of artists who shaped the music we love” (or something with a catchier name). Hendrix, Gilmour, , EVH, SRV, Billy Corgan, Kurt Cobain, J Mascis, Thom Yorke, John Mayer, etc…
Bonus episode: a deep dive into the most loved/hated by Boss pedal (perhaps by any pedal company): the Boss MT2 Metal Zone. Where it came from (evolution from the HM2?), it’s design, why it’s hated, why it’s loved, different ways people have used it (effects loop) and taking on the big question- is the Metal Zone actually “the Swiss Army Knife of high gain distortion pedals”? Can it be dialed in to sound like other famous pedals? A RAT? A fuzz? A DS1 or DS2? (Spoiler- I think it can get close enough in many instances!). I think it would be an amazing episode or livestream.
Keep up the great work!
RECORD TIME SUGGESTION:
HUM’s “You’d Prefer An Astronaut”
Please check it out if you haven’t. This album takes “shoegaze” and smashes it with walls of trippy driven guitars, backed by unique, jaw dropping, drums. It a perfect use of the “shades of colors” sound, and “beautiful quiet to heavy” formula. It blows me away that after 20 something years of listening to this album,Im still hearing new sounds and textures. They are still so influential to me and countless others..
Always loved the gold line of pedals that came later. Especially the Jackhammer. Please do a series on the later line of Marshall Pedals.
I concur! The GV-2, The Echohead, The SuperVibe, etc. An underrated pedal line from Marshall that are still stupid cheap used.
They’ll triple in price soon... like everything else.
The compressor and the echo were my faves!
I had the 2nd version of the Blues Breaker. I hated it. The only time I was happy with it was when I used the boost function for an acoustic guitar. I practically gave that pedal away. I figured nobody would be happy with it anyway. 😬
Yes! Just picked up the Jackhammer this year, love the OD section.
My favourite ever drive pedal was a mk.1 Guv'nor that had obviously been set on fire at some point. The paint was bubbled and the knobs were all melted and misshapen but it sounded insanely good.
They are back !
Just was listening to OK Computer yesterday in the car. This record is still absolutely up to date! You can dive into it easily in 2022. Do it! Thanks for another great written episode!
Yes, do the Gen2 Marshall pedals, too. That reverb of the series is still killer to my ears. The knobs were junk when it comes to visibility, do we agree? ;-)
OK Computer might be my favorite album of all time, it’s between that and Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. OK Computer is like a forewarning regarding life as we know it today. Where computers have invaded every aspect of our lives, where privacy has become a thing of the past, where we don’t appreciate the world around us because we are preoccupied, where the culture of automation has effected our minds.
Sonically OK Computer is a masterpiece. I like to think of it as the Dark Side of the Moon for the 21st Century. An amazingly dense, atmospheric album. It gets even better when you realize that it was recorded in a haunted mansion on the English countryside. Thom recorded “Exit Music (For A Film)” on the staircase. “Let Down” was recorded in the mansions ballroom. Apparently odd noises were heard from time to time, perfectly complimented the spookiness of what lied ahead of the nineties, the general feeling of uneasiness and anxiety that has lined the 21st century thus far.
YES!!! Do a video on the newer line of Marshall pedals!! I have a JH1 jackhammer and it’s awesome!!
Man! As much as I love your show, I do hate the fact that the price of any given piece of gear you feature on your show goes up. You have that influence on the market and is both worth admiring and inconvenient to me. Cheers!
Wampler Pantheon is, in my opinion, the greatest Bluesbreaker variant ever made. So, so good.
Wampler makes everyones favorite pedals, but better
@@Roxanneredpanda this is a true statement.
Incredible pedal. Will never leave my board.
Tried it, but it doesn't stack or react to the volume knob as well as the snouse bb2 pro mod. I'm a huge fan and owner of 8 wampler pedals though, he builds quality gear.
Yes on a video regarding the small form pedals.
Great tones in many of those.
Very convincing
Sub'd to Fresh Clips
The echohead is still on my board because it has my favorite reverse delay of all time. Please do a video on this series!
Great episode, Guvnor / Drive Master is a beast!
Without mentioning that it can also be used as booster, Carcass Heartwork is basically a 5150 boosted with a Guvnor
Love that echo head. They were absolutely killer in that price range.
The brilliance of JHS and TPS and a few other similar shows is that I as a hobbist player wouldn't have this many gear conversations in 100 lifetimes with staff at the local shop. Even though I have some EXCELLENT shops in the Detroit area, I'd have to LIVE THERE to learn all this information. Then there are people all over the globe that don't even have access to good local shops. For ever small criticism I've ever had for these shows there are 100 or 1,000 compliments I could give. You guys do an invaluable service to the whole planet of guitar players, and its all recorded for posterity. Mega Bravo to all.
Anyone notice that pretty much every pedal Josh says should be reissued gets reissued? He mentioned in ehx’s pedals you’ve never heard of that the slapback delay (can’t remember the name) should be reissued and just last week it was…
Ok, please please do the video on that newer line of Marshall pedals. The echohead was the first pedal I ever bought (after a tuner).
Would love to learn more about the history and maybe why the line ended/wasn't as successful as they hoped.
That excellent Gilmour solo came out of nowhere, based on what directly preceded it (I know you announced Gilmour, but I couldn't hear it until you 'went there'). LOVED your playing!
This show is getting better and better.
Addison!! Please listen to ‘OK Computer’. It is legitimately regarded as a masterpiece by a Hall of Fame band. Would love to hear your thoughts on this album on the next live stream. You guys are all awesome!
I really love Paranoid Android, but I never fell in love with the album though. I guess I need to give it another try.
@@johanneschristopherstahle3395 I kind of feel that way about Radiohead in general: I acknowledge what they’ve created and I don’t dislike them, I just never fell in love with them.
Ok Computer is like Dark Side of the Moon. You have to start at the first track and go through the whole record without skipping. It's a journey.
I've had 2 different drivemasters, both UK made. I missed the sound so much that I got a JHS Charlie Brown. Brought me back to my days in the best band I was ever a part of.
Lovely stuff - been waiting for this one! Marshall's pedals from the early days are incredible. Carlsbro is a PA/Amp company that I grew up near. It's about the only productive thing to come out of Kirkby-in-Ashfield.
When I was growing up and making music in the North East, the closest I got to a Marshall was when a very close friend (and far better guitar player) bought an original Bluesbreaker pedal.
He'd never heard it, but was a big fan of Clapton and the Beano album. At the time I pointed out there was more distorted sounds available from the other two in that line-up, suggesting that whilst you could turn those down for lighter OD, you couldn't turn the Bluesbreaker up...shows how prescient my pedal knowledge was!
By contrast, Carlsbro were very popular and common both as respectable guitar/bass instrument amps, alongside their PA mixers, amps and speakers. I don't remember the instrument amps and cabs ever sounding anything but good, yet many years later I ended up working FOH in a couple of small venues with old Carlsbro PA kit - I don't know what toll age and wear had taken, but whilst they could just about cope with basic vocal reinforcement, putting music via CD decks through those systems sounded awful.
I did like what I heard of the now much maligned Marshall Valvestate guitar amps. Back in my teens, the lead guitarist for the most professional band I knew bought the top combo in that range, but took it straight back and exchanged it for a model with half the power - so he could get a more usable "pushed" sound. Not long after I started working venues with full PA rigs, but only then did I understand that decision!
Haha hi joe!
I was not ready for the Boss backpacks. Another classic JHS vid
I’d love to see something about the zoom 505, it seems it was a lot of people’s first pedal, including me
Was my first multi effects pedal, then I upgraded to the 1010, it had 4 switches instead of the 2 up/down switches the 505 did. Ola did a video with a 505, and of course he hated it!
There’s an old video on this channel (maybe about pedal myths?) where Josh did pull out his old 505 that he used when he first started playing. My first pedal wasn’t that (Boss Overdrive/Distortion OS-2), but I did have one at some point.
So I finally look up stuff. My life was changed when I met David Ruis in KC years ago-Good job JHS keep it up!
When Josh pulled out the prototype I legit went “uuuh”, because I didn’t know how to react to it. It’s just that cool!
And he has ALL the prototypes. How? Jedi mind tricks? It’s really cool.
The Bluesbreaker is the first new pedal that I bought (in 1995). One changed pot and two switches later, it’s still on my board. It was my ‘always on’ pedal for when you’re using a borrowed/too bright/too loud amp, or works to just tip a sagging amp into my rhythm tone. I know it’s a popular Strat pedal, but I’ve literally never used it with one. It sounds great with Humbuckers too.
Surprised that you got through a discussion of the Gov’nor without mentioning Gary Moore tho.
My '89 Guv'nor is the one pedal I'll take with me into the afterlife. You can take my TS10... but the Guv (and I HAVE the box...) is the one I can't live without. I Bought it new shortly after it hit the market.
I've always felt the 3-band tone-stack was the important key to it. Nobody before that ever really made a pedal with that much tone shaping on it from what I can recall. I never got along well with the DS-1 or Rat types... but the Guv was a truly transcendent experience when I first played it.
Putting in my pre-order now for your next multi-pedal in the line with the Bonsai and the others, which has these 3 main Marshall circuits in it, as well as a sampling of all the important variations in it.
What you think about the Blammo! Blues Blaster? It kinda hits the Blues Driver and Shredmaster key tones really well to my ears. It's been a while since I've felt the burning 'need' for a new drive pedal... but this one activated the GAS in me unlike anything else I've heard for a while.
(Though, a lot of that might be the fact that I saw it on Andy Demos... and let's face it: Andy kills it every time he demos something.
Plus: The fact that he played an early Rush track while doing it was a dirty move... It's like that video was made to address me personally.)
Great vid but would love some more info on the silver -2 line. Dating my guitar playing a bit here but the first pedals I ever heard in the GC that had just opened near my local mall were an Ibanez TS-7, a Danelectro Fab Tone, and a Marshall GV-2 Guv’Nor. Would love some more info on them before I do the old man thing of just buying nostalgia from my youth 😂
I love Ola and Trogley and 60 Cycle Hum and countless others but I got to say this channel probably my favorite. So much knowledge, great personalities, and awesome jams, just the best.
Great episode, but how can you NOT mention Gary Moore's Still got the blues?
Rumor has it that it was recorded with a Guvnor into an early JTM45 reissue set fairly clean. So you're absolutely right, Still got the blues is a prime example for the excellent sound of the original Guvnor.
@@error8418 it’s not a rumour. It’s pretty well documented.
I appreciate the dedication to pedals from Josh and the team! Not only is he running a full fledge business but he is making real deal content for us on RUclips. JHS is my favorite modern company and I collect “vintage” jhs the way he collects boss
I don’t think these pedals are “forgotten” so much as they are exorbitantly expensive for what they are.
With great boutique builders making faithful, or even improved, replicas of these, there’s just no reason to drop hundreds of dollars on one of the originals.
Jonny was using a Shredmaster way before Ok Computer. The crunch on Creep is a Shredmaster.
Ed used a Guv'nor.
Damn Josh really does have crazy influence on the pedal market. He single-handedly brought this line back lol.
*woman tone
@Smell The Glove hahahahahahahahaha
ha.
:-)
@@smelltheglove2038 let’s say it together: “woman tone” 😂
@@kalkidasofficial Right? I mean, who ya gonna call: Josh... or God?
I want to thank you all for this episode :* You are all awesome. Keep up!!!
About Jonny Greenwood's sound on Paranoid Android, he apparently played the recorded guitar track through a Mutronics Mutator while fiddling with the knobs. He does something similar on stage with the 440 by playing with the range knob while soloing but it isn't really the same.
Crazy idea: could a pedal company - maybe one run by some kind of pedal nerd - find out exactly how to reproduce that studio sound in pedal form and make it available to the world? Call it the Paranowah or something?
@@ericlevas I know, right? I need that bubbly, glitchy sound in my life!
Yes, I want to see a video on the later line of Marshall pedals. I have a Jackhammer and an Echohead, and it would be interesting to know more about them from you.
Also, OK Computer and The Bends are the only two Radiohead albums you really need. I'm not a fan, per se, but I cannot deny how brilliant those two albums are.
In Rainbows though? Kid A and Amnesiac are also up there
Hey Josh, don't forget the Marshall SupaWah from 1968-70, best wah I've ever had, silky smooth, open and noiseless.. Still have it ...Cheers.
Would love to see a show on the Marshall "silver series", of which I own two...the VibraTrem and the Reflector (reverb). Can certainly recommend them; the pedals are incredibly well built and heavy as hell, probably twice the weight of a Boss pedal.
Josh you didn't get the slurp because i'm pretty sure he would put his foot on the range/rate knob and rotate it back and forth whilst playing treating it like a resonant filter cutoff, been waiting for a reissue with expression input for forever.
I had a Shredmaster and it ruled!!! Sold it like an idiot. The best pedal hands down is the Marshall Echohead. I own 3 of them.
Just ordered a Tkog Oxford Drive V2 which has a switch to go between Guv’nor and Shredmaster… I’m extremely excited to play it.
Instead of woman tone let’s just say Claptone
That made me chuckle. Have an upvote, king.
I watched your Proco rat vs dolamo vintage dist. video
I just wanted to let yk
@@alt-acc9391 damn I’ve been spotted lol. I hope you didn’t hate it
Excellent video. I really enjoy learning about the history of these iconic pedals. Plus the bit about Josh and his nemesis the DOD 440 🤣
around 1992 I had and sold a bluesbreaker and shredmaster but kept the Gov’ner ( I also have the box) being a big Gary Moore fan yeah Im old the kid who bought the shred was a huge radiohead fan and was thrilled to find one I made a small fortune for back then!
This is great, I had a ShredMaster back in the day I bought it back in 1992-93 one of the big attraction I think for a lot of people in the UK for this pedal (series of pedals) was that it was cheap. It was cheaper than any BOSS or DOD and it was built like a tank. It cost £54 which equates to about £100 ($130) today. If "No pedal [is to be] left behind" it be great to see something on the Roger Mayer Fuzz pedals. - Thank you for the excellent channel!
Amazing episode! Been waiting for this one for some time. On the TPS episode with Ed O'Brien he talks about buying these. Each guys had a different one apparently.
Such big flex in this episode with the proto. Dang.
When I joined a punk band in the early 90s, the main singer/guitar player eschewed my 6-pedal board, and told me all I would need is a tuner (Arion) and a Marshall Guv'nor, for solo boosts. He had a wah as well, but I was not interested (and still not) in that effect. The Guv'nor was no longer available, so I got a Drive Master. I was going into a 100-watt Laney half stack. It worked well as a boost. A few years back when I discovered your show (and this whole *new to me* boutique pedal world) I tried to fall back in love with that Drive Master but it just didn't have what I wanted in a drive/distortion, so I sold it.
No pedals left behind: great idea for a series. First two shows- 1) tube pedals (yes- finally a show about tube based pedals, how they work, topology, etc). And 2) pedals from the late 60s -early 70s UK scene (obviously things like the Fuzz Face picked up by Hendrix, but especially the early Sola Sound pedals, particularly the ColorSound PowerBoost made famous by David Gilmour and others).
Lovely video. A proud owner of an early Guvnor and it’s great. First time I saw it was on the album cover of ”Still Got The Blues” by the late great Gary Moore. It was also the first pedal I’ve seen.
The Visual sound jekyll and hyde (hyde side) is based on The shredmaster. The Strokes used this
Speaking of lost pedals, Sears Roebuck had pedal in the mid 70`s, it was a combination volume, wah. fuzz tone and octave. It also had four different types of wah. Bright, mellow, funky and mellow plus. It was made by a company called Foxx.
Josh ,thank you for shedding a light on all these pedals and history of pedals .Love your videos !
This is the best pedal content on any platform
YES Please do a video on those latest Marshall series!
All of them great pedals! I'd rank them like this:
1- Bluesbreaker
2- Guvnor
3- Shredmaster
But mostly I'd love to have some dual pedals like Guvnor + BluesBrekaer, or Shredmaster + Bluesbreaker in a box.
Also I didn't know that about the Jekyll and Hyde!
Thanks for the video Josh!
One of these days you should do a video telling us about the unique guitar you use for all of these videos. I'm always enthralled by it
Blood. Sweat and Gears is one of my favourite jams you guys have ever done. They're all enjoyable but that one was somehow unique. Informative video as always, and fun to watch.
For years I didn't know what effect was getting used til I saw them on TV at Glastonbury & he uses his foot on the knob. I never owned one of the Marshall pedals but my mates had them. The Guv'nor is a beast, good to know the Drive Master is pretty much the same. BTW, I have that Marshall catalogue among others.
I have a Marshall DRP-1 I use as a DI pedal. It always adds great texture to an overdub track. Nobody ever seems to know what it is when they see it though.
Awesome video! And yes, please make a video on the other Marshall series!
I built a guv'nor clone. It's my favorite pedal I've built after my Klon clone. It can do a lot of cool things, but if you put everything at 10 it gets a pretty good metal tone.
Well... I've got original drive master and now I understand how should I treat it.
But Blood, Sweat and Gears gonna be my "crying at 2am" song from now...
I love you guys. Best wishes from Poland
the guv nor 2 is a phenomenal bass overdrive.. two controls for bass so …you loose no bass signal and this gain is so graduated that you can get a svt like slight tubey grind without going full bore like most bass distortion pedals.. it is truly outstanding for bass
Marshall made sure to not forget! I think Josh is making pedal brands to get engaged again and reissuing classics
Great channel and great content as always. Alas, I'm finding out that I can generally just watch and not own these types of pedals and here is why. I watch the episodes , get all excited about the pedals and what I see. I then go online to find one and like a "Mammoth hand face slap"! you see the prices and just like that....the pedal is out of reach lol. Just a little humor there. Keep it up JHS family!
Big Jackhammer Secret! Set the Mode knob 1/2 way between O/D and DIST for a blend of both (+ BIG volume bump!)
i bought the angry charlie, it’s my favorite overdrive and it does “the bends” so well
Would love to see a video on those later Marshall pedals, I have the reverb one and honestly it’s great
I have recently found a Shredmaster in my old childhood house where I'm now living. I didn't even know it was here and I don't remember who was the original owner. I hope it still working looks really cool and to know it was part of the tone of Greenwood OK Computer era really makes it even more appealing.