Japan's Greatest Fuzzes (Guyatone Pedals)
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- In today's episode, we jam through one of the most criminally under appreciated pedal companies to come out of Japan: Guyatone. **Coincidentally, some of you have never wept years of joy when you realize the vintage pedal you ordered came in its original box, and it shows. Find out exactly why Josh is so crazy about boxes in this episode**. In the comments let us know your favorite fuzz pedal featured in this episode!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:21 Guyatone
1:04 Guyatone Buzz Box FS-1
4:32 "Night School Dropout"
5:16 Guyatone Fuzz 2000
6:16 "My Brother's a Fish"
7:19 Guyatone Sustainer FS-6
11:03 "Sonic Hex"
12:21 Guyatone Crazy-Face/Sears Fuzz
16:18 "Try Not to Die"
17:55 Guyatone Multi-Octaver
19:46 "Jerry Oldman"
20:31 Guyatone Torrid Fuzz
23:37 "Intergalactic State Champs"
24:45 Japan's Greatest Fuzzes
25:27 Record Time
26:30 Thanks for Watching!
Gear in this Episode:
Guyatone Buzz Box FS-1
Guyatone Fuzz 2000
Guyatone Sustainer FS-6
Guyatone Crazy-Face
Guyatone Sears Fuzz
Guyatone MultiOctaver PS-009
Guyatone Torrid Fuzz TZm5
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Guyatone Flip Tube Echo
Record Time:
Japanese House - Swimming Against the Tide
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Josh’s record player is by U-Turn Audio:
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The jams from this episode are on BandLab! Head over to the link below to jam with us, download the stems, and create your own samples from our sounds... or all of those things.
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Something huge about reading that Japanese: I just moved to Japan a month ago, and I've been learning Japanese since I was in high school. A huge life hack for reading technology-related Japanese is learning the katakana writing system. There are only 46 katakana characters, they only represent sounds, and katakana is used 99% of the time for words in Japanese that are newer from the past century or borrowed from another language. What this means is that nearly all of your words that are electric guitar related are just english words written in this Japanese script. Once you learn Katakana, you immediately know how to read hundreds, maybe thousands, of words written in Japanese, and these words are largely the kind that you read when it's related to electric guitar stuff (you just have to sound out the words). If you deal with Japanese guitar gear a lot, you're not wanting to commit to deeply learning the language, but you want to read Japanese labels for guitar gear better, that's an amazingly easy way to read labels on gear that doesn't take long at all.
There's kind of an art to reading Katakana though, because Japanese phonetics/phonology is different enough from English and sometimes the transliteration is surprising. Speaking of which, that probably explains the run of pedals with "Bazz" instead of "Buzz" he mentioned. Internally it was probably something like バッズ and then directly romanized. Still though, 100% agree that learning katakana is a low-ish effort to picking out some key words.
@@andrewlwatts as un PC as this is... if you read with an accent so to speak it helps... i noticed in an anime that the dub had kind of done the opposite... when listening to the original audio the heard a characters name pronounced kerarra and in the dub corrected it to ki'lalla thinking the R's were misprinounced L's... whoever did that got it wrong. Also i read a lot of Irvine Welsh and Terry Prattchett and they both write in heavy dialect so that would help i imagine. This is the first i had heard of this language(?) ABut im super intersted now.
Josh is the “crazy cat lady” of the pedal world.....
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rude
Top comment.
"Grghgf!" * *throws boutique/vintage pedal in the box after you* *
Would absolutely watch a JHS “Box Talk” series.
what if he did a Box Talk episode on talkboxes?
I would pay money for a video about talk box packaging. Talk Box Box Talk
Yes please, we want Oops All He Has The Box
Extra points for playing "Jingle Bells" straightfaced as the solo, and then moving on without mentioning it!
Yeah, that was fucked up😂
Who made you the point arbiter? Huh "Nate"? Who?
Addison gave him a look like Really? This is what we're doing?
Haha classic josh
Things I love about THE JOSH: 1) His love of pedal boxes. 2) His ability to not give a flaming
poop about how people feel about his love of pedal boxes. 3) His gloriously subtle eyebrows.
Implied-brows
A lad: insane.
great use of the phrase "flaming poop"
Yes his eyebrows could have their own show. And possibly a spin off featuring the sides of his mouth.
My god they are subtle now you mention it
I even kept the box from the HUGE reissue Fender volume pedal I bought 12ish years ago. I will never be the man to throw the box away. LONG LIVE THE BOX.
Earlier this year the power supply of my pedalboard stopped working. Thankfully it was still under warranty, so I got in touch with the shop I bought it from to get them to repair it. They said sure, no problem, just send it back in all the original packaging. Cue me spending the rest of the day hunting for it. When I finally find it, I sing at the top of my voice... 'HE HAS THE BOX'! Never change Josh, never change.
I personally love the stingers. I sing "words is hard" almost daily. They really are sometimes.
I want an entire episode of just boxes, manuals, and packaging in general. U broke my heart when u said u werent going to talk about the plastic and moved on to play the sustainer. in all seriousness i do find it interesting on all the old packaging and really enjoy it when u show off your boxes. I like to keep every box so that maybe one day in the future someone else can have that exciting moment where they have that old device and the box with its contents.
I seriously really do want a box only episode
So if Josh loves the Crazy Face circuit so much, we can expect a JHS clone version soon, right? Right? Right. Thanks...
JHS Legends of Fuzz “Crazy”. Yamanashi 1969.
Last week I bought 3 Series Hall Reverb but the store only had the box/manual for the 3 Series Reverb. I emailed JHS who offered graciously to send me the right box/manual, it arrived today. It’s the box/manual for … the 3 Series Reverb.
Quality episode again gentlemen. "Try Not to Die" with the Crazy-Face/Sears Fuzz was my favorite jam . Nice demo with the vol pot roll off for that crystal clear fuzz face clean tone . Your quality content is highly appreciated . Keep up the good work & rock on !
Veeelcrooo Tooooneeee
Your show never failed to amaze me! Nice jam!
You have one of the most informative and entertaining channels on RUclips, well done.
Excellent show ... Both informative & entertaining (as always) .. Cheers.
I seriously love you guys so much. Love the show and I always learn so much. Thank you!
I don't learn anything but im always entertained by Josh
Awesome topic and killer jams as always guys...
Thoroughly enjoyable vid. Thank you gentlemen!
Killer show. Thank you guys🚀
absolutely awesome episode. Well done and I like your box talk.
some great jams in this episode!
Can't wait to see the Box Episode!!
The Jams are just so good!! Always are and (I think) getting even better! The music is better than most stuff I’ve been downloading on apple music. Keep it up boys and screw the haters. I could listen to Josh talk about packaging all day. 😊
Josh, I love you for your boxes. Loved this show. I have a few Guyatone pedals, with boxes. The intro to 'Sonic Hex' is brilliant; and was good to the end. Way to go Josh.
I would buy Sonic Hex.
Love your show. Keep showing boxes, boxes rock! I grew up with a Little Big Muff and I'm also watching over a good friend's Schaller fuzz. Sadly both without boxes and in dire need of repairs.
Gonna jam with you guys using effects pedal boxes as percussions. Loved the segment about the science of pedal boxes, the toxicity glue levels that are used, and how they are shaped and folded, also what kind of effect the weather has on the boxes. Keep up the amazing work you do with showcasing different effect pedals, but more importantly keep up your diligent efforts and extensive knowledge in the boxes themselves.
If the only think you ever talked about was the box, I would still watch right though. Love this channel . So informative and your all great people and musicians. 👍
These shows are so above the content of ANYTHING on television Josh should have his own primetime, major network, television show. Comedy, Drama, Excitement. Some NBC executive should show up at his door and say "We want to be in the JHS Episode business." Well done. Because of you I saved the box my Boss Tone Bender came in.
Another killer show!
Twine Winder played at the original Woodstock. Right after The Who, I think. GREAT show. And I LOVE the OCD ranting box adulation. And Nick's editorial work is impeccable. And Addison has that soulful presence. And pedal crime novels should be a thing. I LOVE your band. Big fan. Such a roll you guys are on.
I was at Woodstock but missed the great Twine Winder! Must have been due to the brown acid! 😎🎸
Naw. They played the day after Hendrix.
You've such a great thing going on this channel. The fun, the knowledge. The production.the gear...the endless stupid high end gear. The jokes. The jams... The friendships... Fuck I wish I had just some of that. I hope you guys realize how blessed you are
You had me at the FS-1 Buzz Box, that thing sounds killer on "Night School Dropout"- rippin'! Best one in the video!
One big thumbs up for the drum and bass work here! 👍🏼
Damn you guys jam. Nick just killlllls it. Good on ya', Josh. Keep doing exactly what you do, we love this show.
Great drum and bass mix today (and it's usually excellent).
I’m really worried about some of these boxes and manuals, shouldn’t they be in humidity and temperature controlled environments away from light and only handled with white gloves?!!
needs a box humidor, like a real cigar connosoir.
I hope the temperature in his studio/storage space is well-regulated.
white gloves have bleach residue in the fabric, best to use a static-free but naturally colored glove
Doubling down on the box at 9:00. Love it.
If I didn't watch the show for the pedals I'd definately watch it for the jams...I so want your album on record time! Awesome trio. Guyatone, I had their Guyatone PS-013 Chorus Stereo when I was ateenager and really regret selling it ! Have not found a chorus pedal that can touch it (might just be my memory) , I know it is not a fuzz, but Guyatone are awesome! Thanks for the video.
So you people do exist! (people who actually want to hear the 'jams' and don't just scroll through to the informational bits that is)
Love the boxes!!
Love the boxes and ephemera, NEVER STOP!
Very much appreciated the contextualization of box history segment
Totally agree on Face Like Thunder, such an amazing track
Your amp cranked sounds killer!!! That’s an ideal overdriven sound for me.
Don’t let the haters get to you, Josh. I also collect pedals in their original boxes, and it’s even better when they have instruction manuals, warranty cards, ads, etc. I’m super jealous of your collection.
I was thrilled that you showed us a Companion at the beginning, there are so few videos about it on youtube! Then I saw that all you’re gonna speak about today is Guyatone…I still hope sometime you’ll cover Companion, too!
I support the saving/ hording of boxes. I have all the boxes my pedals came in... Remember, even if you cannot read the Japanese documentation, make sure you still read it right to left, top to bottom. Love the show!
Yeah, I hate it when I buy a used pedal and they don't have the box!
Has anyone approached you three for soundtrack work yet? All these motifs you all put together are a main reason I watch/listen.
My Brother's a Fish - 6:18 ......oh man the niiiiice vibe I needed
So stoked you're talking about Guyatone. I discovered them through their WAH ROCKER the Mighty Micro WRM5, the older one with the bar - which I think is the BEST and unique version of this effect EVER. Please talk about that pedal when you do your show on them!! I think they make the best wah rocker ever.
I saw SLOWDIVE back in the '90's and spoke with Rachel for a while and my heart is still hurting.
Guyatone guitars are genuinely beautiful. Such bold orignal designs that really do crazy things. Definitely would have one in my collection somewhen in the near future.
Thanks to your informative and entertaining video I've learned that the very first pedal I ever bought, the Sears Fuzz, is considered cool. I've had it since about 1973 and vaguely remember a slight sense of shame for buying off brand but a young teen back then only had so much cash.
Still have it and it still works and now I'll have to respect it more.
Really love the Dino Jr. riff on My Brother, very cool stuff 👍🏽
Love guyatone la stuff… thanks for running the prices through the roof Josh. Hahah.
We love your box dude! We got more meds where those came from!
I absolutely love this! I don't have a Guya fuzz just yet, but I have my trusty Guyatone made Kent #630 "Las Vegas" Model...2 pickup. ALL solid wood! and plays brilliantly even these many decades later! Guyatone? Guy-a-GREAT!!!!
Love the killer fuzz 2000. Bring it back JHS!
last jam was sick asf!!
Absolutely loving The Japanese House. Great call Josh!
Love the box stinger!
Josh, in around 1969 when I was 15, after being steeped in Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, I saved up enough money from mowing grass (the original catalog price says $16.95-I have pictures of the catalog descriptions of both the FF and wah pedal style fuzzes) and ordered this same circular shaped fuzz like in this video from the Sears catalog. Walked a good ways across the river over to the north side of town and picked it up when it came in. Got it home, plugged it in in the basement and let it rip. When my Mom who was upstairs heard it started screaming uncontrollably like she was being stabbed with a kitchen knife. She comes down stairs screaming at me, made me take it back to Sears. I had no choice but to do so. The next fuzz I bought my parents actually bought me because I was in a band and was the Rosac Nu Wa-Fuzz (fuzz-wah combo pedal). The pedal cracked and broke but the fuzz still works great and sounds glorious! The wah part of this pedal still works if you manipulate the pot by hand but it always sounded terrible even at a time when I didn’t know anything about this stuff. It is very thin sounding and after the pedal broke I got a Big Muff Pi and a real Cry Baby. Both of those are gone but I still have the Rosac. Can you do a video on the Rosac Nu-Fuzz or Nu Wa-Fuzz? Rosac has an interesting history. I have pics.
It took you all summer to save up $16.95?
$16.95 and tax and shipping, that'd be a fair amount of NC mowing cash back in 1969. Pete brought his broke down mower to mow a big hilly lawn and wanted five bucks. Maybe he got the cash? That was in the mid 70's. I can only imagine how much less one earned mowing a lawn in NC in 1969
@@brandonlesko3126 I don’t know that it took me all summer. I only mowed our yard which gave me what was called an “allowance” (in case you’re real young) back then plus went to Franklin, Pa. in the back of a pickup truck to deliver grocery store ad papers for a dollar or two got (2 + hours of walking all over town) at the most plus a few candy bars. Plus, inflation calculators say $16.95 is $133.53 in todays money without even adding tax. A dollar in 1969 in today’s money is worth $7.88. My Big Muff Pi I bought in 1971 was $49.95 (equivalent to $356.57 without .06% sales tax) at a Mom and Pop shop that charged list price in our small town. As far as the weeks, it’s hard to remember now but I’d say it might’ve at least been a month. If you could share pics on RUclips comment sections, I’d share the catalog pictures and descriptions with the prices. What did take me the whole summer was working on the farm of a machine shop owner for a buck an hour the whole summer long to get a transistor Carvin amp head and cabinet for I think $300, but I may have sold a trail bike that supplemented that amp. I still have the cabinet but not the head. Those early ‘70s Carvin amps were not good quality. Plus, the speakers were cheap CTS and wouldn’t handle the power and I blew two sets of raw frame speakers. 😥😳
@@scooter5005 Yea! I ordered it from Sears so I assume shipping got eaten by someone. Haha. Things were different back then-the good old days. I still wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’m 67 born in December 30, 1954. Things were much more simple. Minimum wage was $1.30 in ‘69, $1.45 in ‘70 and $1.60 in ‘71.
Scott, fellow Scott here. I recently had my father's amp for the bass speakers from his Heathkit hi-fi console with floor to ceiling electro-static speakers (long since dead and gone) converted to use as a guitar amp. I can't imagine how much all that cost back in the 60s in "real" money. I can tell you the amp sounds great, it's a single ended tube amp that sounds to me like a much sweeter Champ.
I always love a fuzz sound. You mentioned overdrive that does fuzz, that would be an awesome video.
I would love to see an episode on Japanese Distortions! There were some serious beasts coming out, but my favourite will always be the Akai Shred-O-Graphic, from what I can tell it’s an earlier model of the Akai G-Drive under a different name, absolutely wild distortion
holy shit just was googling that one, that thing looks sick. love the concept of marker points for specific diff tones called out on the pedal. def grabbing one of these before josh does that show and they’re 2000 not 200 on reverb hahaha
@@rede13rooster super worth it if you love weird fuzz/distortion sounds, you can definitely get more traditional stuff but the weirdness is where it shines
I love seeing the boxes
Josh, this guitar amp combo never gets old! If only that beautiful amp was more affordable.
Love your first jam! It sounds very much like J. Mascis / Dinosaur Jr. Greatness.
Sears Fuzz? So THAT's the housing that Roy Goode used to make my FF clone back in the early Aughts! I always loved the look as much as the sound of that thing. Loving this show, very educational and fun!
This episode was worth it just to hear the JHS Milkman dimed out across the board. Tasty.
I like the purple fuzz box that sounded like a synth. Beautiful man make party with wonderful bandmates playing rock music . Beautiful pedals in the box.
That Guyatone FETFACE i lovely, and looks so kool!
The sinus medication jam was brilliant and hilarious!
Great show Josh, Nick and Addison!
The Fet Fuzz sounded like Steely Dan solos to me. Nick still the Charlie Watts of you tube demos.
Must carry on the Watts tradition Nick! Thanks. Darrell
This just in - Josh has issues with moist boxes. Now, here’s Nick with the weather.
Personally, the box stinger is one of my top 3 favorite things about the JHS Show.
I love the boxes.. (also the pedals... maybe..)
The first jam has Josh's absolute best tone ever on JHS show. Ever.
I agree. I'm not a huge fan of most fuzzes but that one I'd grab in a second if it was affordable. A bout halfway through he plays another I liked that had a bit of a saxophone vibe to it. Rich and warm and not fizzy at all.
That last Jam was SO Mermen-esque. Well Done! Jim Thomas would dig it! Gimme some Guya-Tone!!!!
I've just pushed the like button because you have mentioned bush and slowdive in one sentence.
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I love that you have boxes. I always throw away boxes & give the stickers to my niece. Sorry for being part of the problem.
I struggle with getting fuzz sounds I like to play, but everything here sounds great. Thx
The boxes rock! Totally agree
1st one was the best. tone coming out of that Demo really gave off a Pillows vibe
Josh!🍀
Truly, you encapsulate in succinctly delivered words, EXACTLY how I feel about my own very specific selection of Fuzz pedals...
Guilty, but---
I am very happy for the modelling stuff that let's me try stuff. Couple of things I decided I loved, once I'd lived with them awhile... So either got or am getting the things I liked in the modelling, for real...
Edge of my seat shabby shaggy stinky shonky fuzz...!!!🍀
I LOVE the box!!
That Sonic Hex jam at 11:06 up to 12 is absolutely sick. the drums just took off
Keep the box! We love the box! 👍👍👍
Guys!... Josh!!! That Jam, "Try Not to Die"... Ohhh My! That was absolute ACE!!! And the little Sears Fuzz thingy? In the plastic tote? I get it. I'm like that. Over the many decades dudes and friends have given me their guitars that were "injured." I felt it. I gather them to my like little chicks. They never see them again. They go away. And slowly, I find just the right Luthier with just the right interviewed Vibe. Then no matter the work or cost, eventually they are resurrected to glory... restored to what they should be. I know... it's OK. Most of my guitars were once Orphans.
I love the boxes!
Great episode. I love quirky Japanese guitars pedals and amps from the 60s 70s and 80s. But come on mate, surely the featured record should have been Terry And The Blue Jeans, or Sadistic Mika Band, or Yellow Magic Orchestra!
There's a picture out there on the interwebs of Ringo Starr playing a Guyatone electric guitar. (I think. I'm pretty sure.)
I haven't seen the pic, but I want to find it now 🙂
@@jimthecraftyguitarist878 I posted a link to the pic but I don't see it here now. It was on Pinterest.
Hey Josh! Love the show, can you do a video on best reactive clean-up distortion/fuzzes, like when you roll off the volume you get a slightly clean tone
I like the "He Has The Box" stinger!
I’ve still got my Guyatone PS-007 Phaser I got in the 80s, I still use it to this day. 👍
That first jam is so cool
That Christmas jam was by far my favorite in any episode lmao
I watch JHS every Saturday morning, sometimes Friday night if my wife goes to bed early. She's a musician but doesn't geek out over gear as much as I do. Anyway, I just want to say I love the" He Has the Box" stinger.
I love the stingers. They’re practically why I watch the show lol. Also, pedals.
The Guyatone shirt is champion. I got a 130t for $39 at a Gibson's dept store, Jackson, Ms, in the late '60's. My brother played it on the 'Coffee With Judy' show ,along with Bob Saxton around '71. I got the Univox superfuzz in '75, and have been looking for a Guyatone fuzz or amp forever.
日本のペダル紹介ありがとう！Thank you for spreading the Japanese pedal!
that tube echo was sweet. also the triangle fuzz face was pretty gnarly.
I love the boxes. More boxes. 24-hour Boxtalk TV
I am down for it