Is the Jhs Little Black Amp Box Good

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  • Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024

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  • @davespin9034
    @davespin9034 5 месяцев назад +2

    I received mine today and it ROCKS!!!
    • High quality volume pot
    • Very well made
    • Dimed my Marshall DSL100H and could turn the volume all the way quiet, crank it to full & ears bleed 🩸
    • No buzz or him or noise
    • Great high gain sound quality
    Awesome investment

  • @tgchan
    @tgchan Год назад +15

    I am deadly scared of it failing or accidentally turning off FX loop. Same with the attenuation. It would literally kill me with the volume lol

    • @bradleyjpaolucci
      @bradleyjpaolucci Год назад +2

      I have the same fear

    • @chriscarrillo967
      @chriscarrillo967 Год назад +4

      I have been using one on my hot rod Deluxe since 2018. This has never happened, it lives cranked.

    • @Riffdad87
      @Riffdad87 Год назад

      Im glad I've finally stumbled upon this common fear, but one would also think that there would be "buyer beware" vids explaining this fail if it ever did, in fact, occur in any situation. I'm about to buy one, though! 😂

    • @RoyvanRikken
      @RoyvanRikken 5 месяцев назад

      Damned. New fear unlocked!

    • @RoyvanRikken
      @RoyvanRikken 5 месяцев назад

      If I set the volume to 3 it already rips my head off. 😅

  • @gonzalocalderon2238
    @gonzalocalderon2238 3 года назад +6

    I was randomly searching for a review on this little device, and this came up! Uploaded a couple of hours ago!

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад

      Awesome! Good to see you here. I think this pedal has been passed up by a lot of bigger guitar youtubers.

  • @davespin9034
    @davespin9034 5 месяцев назад

    I just bought one after watching a dozen or so videos. Elmo prefers these over attenuators so that’s good enough for me. Then I saw this, I have the DSL100H which lacks the master volumes (11 pot amp vs the DSL100HR which had 13 pots). This video matches 100% to what I’m trying to achieve. Thank you! Subscribed!

  • @jerroneous8549
    @jerroneous8549 3 года назад +4

    Just ordered one of these to use with a Randall Pro Tube 1000. Sounds like it will be well worth it!

  • @RoyvanRikken
    @RoyvanRikken 5 месяцев назад

    Because you played Gojira I believe every word you said and gonna order this pedal immediately. By the way I also have a DSL100 with a 1960 4x12 and I can’t wait to be able to finally crank this beast. 🤘🏻

  • @5150Morgan
    @5150Morgan 5 месяцев назад

    I know you would get massive more headroom cranking, the master volume, but with the volume down on the JHS does it really produce power amp sag? Thanks for the video!

  • @chresna1
    @chresna1 Год назад +1

    better to plug before delay/reverb pedal or after on effect loop, mate...??!!

  • @RNicolasRuvalcaba
    @RNicolasRuvalcaba Месяц назад

    PLEASE HELP!!!: I just purchased one of these and I don't think it's working. I have a Mesa Boogie Rectifier 25 combo. I hooked up the Little Black Box just as the directions says, input to the send and output to the return. It is a lower volume with the amp volume raised, but now its just a very low volume and there's no volume control. When I raise the volume on the Black Box it squeals and feeds-back but it doesn't raise the volume at all. And it doesn't sound any different than if I just had the amp volume at it's lowest level. What am I missing here ?

    • @mikerockshard8282
      @mikerockshard8282 22 дня назад

      You need to use a speaker cable and not just regular instrument cable

  • @Moode-Swing
    @Moode-Swing 3 года назад +3

    Looking forward to trying on on my hotrod deville, the amp sounds amazing with my strat on 12 on the clean channel buts it’s too loud for the little bar I jam at.

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад

      Nice! Strats into Fenders work together like chocolate and peanut butter to me. They are so sweet sounding. I think this box will work very well for what you are trying to accomplish with your amp. Rock some faces off for me!

  • @Austin_Bourque_
    @Austin_Bourque_ 6 месяцев назад

    So I have a mesa boogie mark iib, and this don’t really work as an attenuator, for that get the bugera ps1. But in the loop it works as an fx send basically giving u a loop modded mesa for like 60$ and the mark iib heads float around 1400-1800. So do with that what u will

  • @cadedriskell16
    @cadedriskell16 11 месяцев назад

    I have a Randall century 170 that sounds 10x better when it’s cranked up, it has an effect loop, do you think this pedal would still work just as good even tho it’s a solid state amp

  • @therealjohndoe3862
    @therealjohndoe3862 Год назад

    I use a LBB in the EL of my MT 15 and it sounds insane. You really can jack up the front end and have reasonable volumes with heavily pushed gain structure. I also use it with a Dirty Tree and noise gate behind it. Works great, and not sure why people rag on it. Best pedal I've gotten for that amp. I was pleasantly surprised by how effective it is.

  • @svenzia
    @svenzia 11 месяцев назад

    Great looking Telephonecaster.

  • @jamiefordmusician
    @jamiefordmusician Год назад +1

    Awesome video! I hadn’t thought of using the loop for attenuation! I might experiment using my SP compressor with the output reduced right down and see what happens!

    • @jrlee243
      @jrlee243 Год назад

      I was wondering if you did try the compressor attenuation and if it worked?

    • @jamiefordmusician
      @jamiefordmusician Год назад +1

      @@jrlee243 Yes! It worked really well actually!!

    • @TheWeathermanJR
      @TheWeathermanJR 4 месяца назад

      Haha I just started doing this. I was thinking of getting the black box so I can crank on stage and have a more permanent solution. Not sure if I want to spend the 40 as I’ll likely have to turn the knob at a show regardless

  • @gerinsindanight
    @gerinsindanight Год назад

    great man! thanks 4 the vid. I understand that by using this guy you loose the option of and FX through the loop, right?

    • @danpaterson7314
      @danpaterson7314 9 месяцев назад +1

      Just put it last in the chain so you aren't turning down the signal going into the effects.

  • @guitarguy4343
    @guitarguy4343 6 месяцев назад

    Do you think its gonna make a marshall 100 watt plexi work on a bedroom lvl with this device because i would be realy helpt with it?

  • @ruggie.74
    @ruggie.74 Год назад

    How is this different from a Bugera, Mesa Boogie, or Dr. Z attenuator? Like I legitimately don't understand. I have a Marshall with an FX Loop. I want to crank it, but then attenuate the volume so I can get the tubes nice and hot. What do I need to buy to achieve this? I feel like the price of this thing being so cheap that it is going to completely suck compared to those Mesa Powerhouse attenuators. Am I right or wrong? I can save my money for them because they are around $600, but if I can get the EXACT same thing with this little black box.... Maybe I should buy this?

  • @badoverman
    @badoverman Год назад

    I use a 2-channel Peavey Stereo Chorus 400 which only has an insert plug for each channel, OUT PRE/IN POWER AMP. There’s something in the manual about this single plug being a send/return loop with a TRS cable, where the tip is the pre out and the ring being the power amp in. Would you know if and how I can use this with my Peavey? Thanks

  • @redstrat5976
    @redstrat5976 Год назад

    What cables preferably would I need to run this master volume box speaker or instrument? I know I can use other pedals with the volume box , but I use the volume box to lower my volume safely on my tube preamp pedal while using my micro dark with it? my signal chain would be gtr-ts9-orange micro dark-ten band eq-Vox copperhead tube preamp -volume box.

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  Год назад

      I just use standard instrument cables through the FX loop with this box.

  • @ruggie.74
    @ruggie.74 Год назад

    Could you please upload another video with your amp set to 12-2 o'clock-ish, just on a drive channel, then don't touch any amp settings, use no other effects, then just show us the volume level when the black box is at 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, and 1%? It would be really helpful, and I would happily use an affiliate link to purchase one if you did that. Thanks!

  • @DJSmoothie
    @DJSmoothie Год назад

    I saw the EVH 5150 box back there and swore that I once use that overdrive pedal as a attenuator as well or is memory really going?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  Год назад +1

      You probably could since it has a master volume on it.

  • @Bloodysugar
    @Bloodysugar 3 года назад +7

    Good question would also be "is JHS selling us a potentiometer, two jacks, some inches of wire and a box, for 65$ ?" Have a look at what's inside, it's depressive or hilarious. It's the easiest pedal to DIY in the world, it's a 15mn build for a complete beginner (counting the time needed to have soldering iron hot enough) likely less than 5mn for someone used to do such thing, and it would cost between 10 and 20$ to get similar components (variation depending on what box you go for), or as low as 5$ with cheap parts and DIY box.

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +4

      Great question! I can't remember if JHS actually just flat out agreed and said it was a glorified volume pot or not on their website, but it really is. You can really use almost any pedal with a volume knob in the FX loop to crank your amp with. They also sell cheaper versions of this same type of pedal on Ebay if you just want a dedicated volume knob. I bought this because I like JHS and I just thought it looked nice, I've also been cranking my amps with a volume pedal for over 10 years and I thought having a dedicated knob would be much cleaner.

    • @Bloodysugar
      @Bloodysugar 3 года назад

      Hi @@DustinAlford, the interest of a dedicated knob is indeed strong. And I wouldn't be surprised if Josh did some self ironic joke about it. Also it's a neat looking box indeed.
      But at least for that price he could have put a buffer into it. Playing that long with volume pedals I guess you experienced the benefit on effects of an active volume pedal in the fx loop instead of a passive one. JHS for this is to advice to use it with no effect in the loop... so I guess it is at least a low impedance pot to avoid to suck too much tone, but still it could have been better. For an Amazon Chinese stuff at 10$ I wouldn't ask for it (although a buffer is not expensive it requires a power supply), but for 65$ it's an other story.
      I wonder if this choice wasn't pushed to do the margin profit they want with this, as an active pedal + power supply would have been a bit more expensive and then closer to a cheap attenuator doing a better job.
      I have a huge respect for Josh's knowledge and will to share it. JHS show is awesome, as fun as full of informations, and quite a bunch of his pedals are darn good. Plus it is against my religion to hate someone who loves Sovtek's Migs... but I feel bad looking at him playing on the hype he build around JHS to sell this at this price level, while bashing the hype for Centaurs, old Migs etc.

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +1

      @@Bloodysugar I totally get you man and thank you for your thoughful comment! I feel the same way about Apple and Nike's prices. They may make good products but they are very very overpriced for what they are. You really are buying it more so for the brand then the product itself. Sadly I think JHS is going in the same direction as those companies.

    • @Bloodysugar
      @Bloodysugar 3 года назад

      @@DustinAlford Thanks.
      All premium boutique shops go in this direction as soon as they get known and can grow. They have to import most of (if not all) their components, and they got to pay salaries and taxes way more than in China, but their volume of production and sale is still pretty little compared to major brands like Berhinger, Boss etc, going cheap thanks to outsourcing and big thanks to cheapness.
      So they have this logic : now I'm known, after years eating noddles and doing all the job, I can finally have a good living focusing more on what I love in this job, but I need to hire people, and then I need to pay a lot, and so I need to price my products high enough to be able to pay.
      That's a necessary mindset to survive in this kind of business, but it doesn't need a lot of pressure to go too far.
      Sale a lot of production for few money, or sale a few production for a lot of money, that's the way to survive making business. From a businessman perspective sale a lot for a lot is the ultimate success, but at this point if their production is cheap they are milking their consumers and the ratio quality/price is broken. It is business greed detrimental to consumer wealth.
      And indeed it looks like, with this product, JHS is going on that path.

    • @ecstrat1966
      @ecstrat1966 Год назад +4

      Maybe everybody doesn’t do DIY? $65? That’s nothing.

  • @BladeDoomer86
    @BladeDoomer86 2 года назад +5

    I use my Zoom g1x4 in the Fx loop. It has a master Output volume, which is the same as this. Plus, i can use the awesome modulation pedals it offers, and the looper. I'd suggest that instead of this imo 🤑

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +3

      Great tip man! I've heard alot of folks love the Zoom purely for effects in the effects loop. The ability to crank your amp with it as well is a major plus. I used a Volume pedal for years doing the same thing I'm doing here with the JHS black box.

    • @svenzia
      @svenzia 11 месяцев назад +1

      Haha, i have a Zoom G3. I can also do this.

  • @73prd
    @73prd Год назад

    Can u still run effects pedal through the loop even while this is in loop also

    • @AaronAllstott
      @AaronAllstott 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes you can, you just need to have this as your last pedal in the chain. I would turn down volumes on the other pedals when you first plug them in just to make sure nothings cranked, but I run delay and chorus before my little black box and it works great.

  • @owenwhitefoot
    @owenwhitefoot Год назад +2

    With this pedal would you put it before any effects in the fx loop chain or after? and how does this compare to a standard attenuator that goes between the amp and cab? Great playing by the way!

    • @AngusNB
      @AngusNB Год назад +2

      You would put it last in the FX loop chain. You don't want to cut the signal going in to other pedals.

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  Год назад +1

      AngusNB is right!

    • @powerhitter033
      @powerhitter033 Год назад

      Thank you. I was also wondering this.

  • @HeathanzSinzBand
    @HeathanzSinzBand Год назад

    could you use this in a 4 cable method?

  • @etrivard
    @etrivard 2 года назад +3

    Came for the gear, stayed for the playing 🤘

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +1

      Thanks you, glad you liked it. Rock On!

  • @johncasper2701
    @johncasper2701 3 года назад +6

    Sounds great man! I also run one of these into fx loop of Marshall DSL. Works good in the loop after chorus and delay too. What are you using to boost the front end?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +2

      Nice! chorus and delay would sound awesome on this amp. I'm using a Amazon Boost pedal in this video. The DSL sounds awesome with this pedal, It even beats out the Tube Screamer I usually use.

    • @johncasper2701
      @johncasper2701 3 года назад

      @@DustinAlford I'm definitely gona look into that pedal! Great tone! Thanks Dustin! Keep the cool content comin. 👍

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +1

      @@johncasper2701 Thank you I'm glad you like my videos and my tone. I think you'll like the boost too, it's like steroids for any amp. It just makes the sound more robust and large without coloring it too much.

    • @ZaidPhyre
      @ZaidPhyre 29 дней назад

      Amazon boost pedal? I looked it up and couldn't find anything. Could you share a link? @@DustinAlford

  • @markbeard2850
    @markbeard2850 2 года назад +1

    what if your amp doesn’t have a effect loop

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +1

      Sadly it's not gonna work for cranking with the JHS Black Box. If it's an amp that connects with a cabinet like a half stack or even a combo with a speaker in jack you can use a product called a hot plate connected between the two to crank your amp. A lot of people who use vintage amps without FX loops have used this in the past.

  • @scottbelcher3013
    @scottbelcher3013 8 месяцев назад

    could you not do this with any pedal that has volume control? Granted this wont be adding any tone or effects.

  • @Pufedu
    @Pufedu 2 года назад +3

    Dude, you look so much like M Shadows from Avenged Sevenfold I really had to think a while if you were really him :D

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад

      Thank you, he's my long lost twin brother. Now if only he'd give me half of his rockstar money lol.

    • @Pufedu
      @Pufedu 2 года назад

      @@DustinAlford I'm sure he will if you just send him a picture of yourself and ask nicely :)

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад

      @@Pufedu Ha ha, your right man, I gotta think positive lol.

  • @seanhulska4966
    @seanhulska4966 2 года назад +1

    I have one to. It's great!!!

  • @unzerjio
    @unzerjio 2 года назад

    Hi Man! Great sound. Question, so with this the idea would be to crank up the channel volume and the gain or the master volume on the amp ? Or both?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +4

      You would use the JHS box as the master volume to keep the volume low while cranking the amp's master volume and channel volume to get full tube saturation.

  • @Mycall1983
    @Mycall1983 3 года назад

    I’m having trouble with a chorus pedal in my effects loop, I get a significant volume drop when engaged. I think it’s due to the line level of the effects loop being too hot of a signal, do you think this could fix the issue if I placed it in front?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +1

      Hmmm I'm not sure. I don't think it would work though. Sorry I couldn't help you.

    • @Mycall1983
      @Mycall1983 3 года назад

      @@DustinAlford All good, I was thinking the same, but hopefull lol

  • @okaynoice
    @okaynoice 3 года назад

    Had one of these units, but having it in my effects loops of a HRD IV I was hearing a lot of additional hissing no matter what. Would you say that's normal?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад

      I hear a little bit more hiss but not a trouble some amount. Could be remedied by using a gate in the loop as well.

  • @markp4818
    @markp4818 Год назад

    So many more better demos of this on youtube.

    • @svenzia
      @svenzia 11 месяцев назад

      None i tell you. NONE!

  • @73prd
    @73prd Год назад

    Might as well just a boss eq pedal in loop

  • @RicardoLopez-ce9cj
    @RicardoLopez-ce9cj 3 года назад +1

    The best demo of this pedal. Great video. Do you think ca I use it with other pedals stacked in the fx loop, or you recommend just use this alone?. I was thinking to put this at the end of the fx loop chain, do you think it will work normally?
    Thanks and keep with the good work.

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад

      Thank you. I think it'll work with other effects. I haven't tried it but it should work, it's just a volume pot.

    • @nedim_guitar
      @nedim_guitar 2 года назад

      JHS don't recommend using it with other pedals in the FX loop. They give no explanation to it on their website. That would be interesting to investigate or try out.

    • @martinmooney1975
      @martinmooney1975 Год назад

      😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @casobeattts
    @casobeattts 3 года назад

    Can you use this with pedals? JHS' website suggest you don't use it with pedals but I've seen people do it. What do you think?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +2

      You can, you just need to set it up as the last pedal in the loop series. I'd experiment with it at low volumes though before committing to a full on crank, just to save your ears.

    • @bernardfoshage9901
      @bernardfoshage9901 2 года назад +2

      I have a full pedal chain with the JHS little black box last in that chain. Works just fine.

  • @buffdaddy2032
    @buffdaddy2032 2 года назад

    Does this work just like a attenuator

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +1

      It's similar, this goes through the FX loop but an attenuator goes between the head and cab.

    • @roscius6204
      @roscius6204 2 года назад

      No.
      Just No.
      It work like a volume pot.....
      Just a volume pot 😳

  • @dirtyeric2
    @dirtyeric2 2 года назад

    What model guitar is that ? Sounds killer

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +1

      Thank you, it's a frankenstrat I built off of Ebay. The body and neck are Mexican Fender Strats, the pickups are an EMG 81 in the bridge and a 60 in the neck, the bridge is a bladerunner bridge, and the tuners are locking Fender tuners.

    • @BubbaZanetti_375
      @BubbaZanetti_375 2 года назад

      @@DustinAlford Dustin, do you just keep the battery under the pickguard in the controls cavity? Thinking about doing this to my partscaster. Thanks man

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +1

      @@BubbaZanetti_375 I dremeled out a section for the battery next to the spring cavity for the trem.

  • @paul_henderson
    @paul_henderson 3 года назад +2

    Is your forearm ok?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +2

      It's completely fine, I've been using the sleeve to reduce friction between my arm and the guitar for a few months now. Seems to work really well for my right hand picking.

    • @paul_henderson
      @paul_henderson 3 года назад

      @@DustinAlford I was assuming that's some kind of trick too. Well that's cool and good for you! I returned to forearms and wrists exercises workout with dumbbells for a better stamina and flexibility which resulted muscles soreness (I'm not used to so intensive exercises)

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  3 года назад +1

      @@paul_henderson Working out the forearm can be tough. Mine definitely gets winded doing too many downstrokes. I'm no Hetfield lol.

    • @paul_henderson
      @paul_henderson 3 года назад

      @@DustinAlford Yeah me neither though I like combining downpicking with triplets which saves muscles a bit even while playing fast

  • @richardjones2811
    @richardjones2811 4 месяца назад

    Just use a volume pedal.

  • @MrMarcburger
    @MrMarcburger 4 месяца назад

    expensive potentiometer

  • @maselbac
    @maselbac Год назад +2

    This is basically cranking the preamp tubes... not the power tubes.
    Made one for a few pennies.
    Spend your money on a real attenuator

  • @yousocrazy1199
    @yousocrazy1199 2 года назад

    How do u add this to the other pedals?

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +1

      I guess JHS doesn't advise that you add this with other pedals in the FX loop, but if I were to do it I'd probably put this last in the chain. I haven't tried it though.

    • @yousocrazy1199
      @yousocrazy1199 2 года назад

      i just ordered and came yesterday and yup its says dont chain it with other pedals. I appreciated the reply. Thank u and keep it up bro!

    • @DustinAlford
      @DustinAlford  2 года назад +1

      @@yousocrazy1199 Thank you, glad to help.