Which iconic effect is a standby in your guitar rig? Tell us in the comments below about the piece of gear or effect you can’t riff without, and be sure to check out Josh Scott’s expertise in action with Sweetwater’s full array of JHS pedals and sonic-sculpting tools 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/JHS
Josh: "This is the Complete History of Guitar Effects", then proceeds to give a masterclass of electric amplification in the music industry. What a legend.
The amount of effort, time & resources that go into these pieces, is unbelievable ( especially when you consider it’s free content ) and I’m so grateful we have access to them. Thanks y’all 🙏
Ive watched all the old JHS and a lot of That Pedal Show's episodes, amongst many other top tier creators, and somehow found out things i never knew by watching this. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
After 45 years of playing guitar, this was the most simple to understand history of the technology of guitar amplification. Nice work Josh! You should like make pedals too, I bet they would rock😏😆😆
At 8:33 Josh meant Pulp Fiction. Not Kill Bill. The latter featured the awesome Japanese garage rock band The 5.6,7,8s. Anyhow.. annoying nerdy correction over.
I loved this, can’t wait for more episodes. The part about Clapton, Page, Beck, John and Paul growing up listening to distorted Fender amps setting the stage for Rock and Roll was fascinating. An episode focusing on how that sound evolved would be interesting.
Josh: great video. Worth dropping what I was doing to find this and watch. Sweetwater: Thanks for sponsoring this and making it happen. I'm a Sweetwater and JHS customer, always enjoyed the channel content of both - but this is something special.
I love hearing history of how this all came about. How people stumble on to something accidentally and create products. How an industry comes from creativity and the evolution of technology, and solving problems from the era that was witness to these issues. These stories and accounts of history are important for our future. I’m excited to learn more and more and look forward to the next series of videos. Thank you so much. Happy holidays…
when I read the title , and know of Josh Scotts work, then the idea of "Josh Scott Presents: The Complete History of Guitar Effects | Part 78" doesn't seem unlikely at all. Good luck to Sweetwater reigning this one in (it'll all be great by the way).
Thank you! I'm happy that you told the story of LOUD here, I'd love you to highlight the relationships between synths and pedals (which goes both ways of course), and personally speaking while univibe is amazing, I'm fascinated by how long it took to emulate a literal Leslie sound (affordable product), rather than Leslie adjacent. Seems like that Leslie sound was amazingly complex for a spinning cone. Also shout out to Lexicon, plate reverb, and studio effects in general!
Thanks Josh, History is so important and helps inspire a new generation of musicians, and even the ole crusty ones!!! Thanks again for your insight to possibly the most wonderful and life changing musical instrument ever!!!??? Looking forward to the next episode...........
This is one of the BEST lectures I have ever heard - concise, loaded with information, well-delivered. Josh, you should consider teaching a course on music amplification. Flat out terrific! MORE!
What I really appreciate about Josh is that he is a regular guy. Not a snob just an ordinary guy who plays excellent guitar and makes great pedals keeping it real for n the real world. Thank you SWEETWATER!
How can someone sitting in front of the singular most boring background be so captivating. Ladies and gentlemen...Josh Heath Scott!!!! Thank you Sir for your tireless dedication to making perhaps the greatest contributions to modern music history more approachable to kooks like me. ENCORE!!!
Fantastic to see this here. I had the pleasure of seeing Josh give a similar presentation at Fretboard Summit 2022 in Chicago. As I told him: I’ve learned more about guitar effects (my actual word was pedals) from Josh than from any other source.
I made that comment at the top of the video. This is MUCH more detailed than the presentation I saw. I can’t recommend Josh’s history lesson enough. I can’t wait for the rest of the story.
I'm really glad you emphasized the need for loud, it's so critical to the entire process, nobody would start messing with the signal if nobody could actually hear it in the room. Great work, looking forward to the rest.
I like the idea of exploring more of the "Found" effects like overdrive and how microphones come into play with it all. Great job on this first installment!!!
Thanks Josh for putting together this series. This History stuff is my favourite part of your JHS content. It really helped me get up to speed after a 40 year break from Electric Guitar. I have shared this with some friends that often don't understand my Electric Guitar/Effects related posts. Cheers Pete
I love love love this so much. So excited to watch the rest of this series, great to see a really historically thorough and diligent analysis of this topic from someone so knowledgeable.
I remember as a kid stringing a wire attached between trees to listen to am radio. Fast forward to 1982-1986, IC 386 amplifier chip were in mass production. Computer memory was in its infancy and was in 4 mb and 8 mb options. Technology grew rapidly after. My friend showed me how to build my 1st guitar pedal using that 386 IC
I believe someday someone in the distant future will be explaining the history of effects and Josh will be included as a topic for being the custodian of this obscure knowledge that otherwise would be lost. Keep it coming Josh!
Love this stuff. So glad to see Josh teaching effects history again. This was always my favorite JHS content, much better than random demos or trolling.
Absolutely floored with how unbelievably informative and consice this was. I'm already insanely excited for part 2 to drop! Josh is an absolute legend and inspiration! ^_^
Thanks so much for sharing this history with all us guitar players.I have all the standard guitar effects on my pedal board but the one pedal I cannot live without is overdrive/distortion because of the wonderful harmonics that it adds and the natural compression so that I can switch from playing chords to soloing without too much change in volume.
It got a brief mention but it does not really fall into the remit of this series as the pickup is not a 'guitar effect'. That said I do think that another series on the evolution of the guitar, and thus including pickups, would be a great idea! How about it Sweetwater?
Looking forward to watching this entire series. The history of music is interesting, and electric guitars and effects play a big role in that. Can you spend some time talking about "Rack Mounted" Effects and their relationship to Pedal Effects? Who's got the best sounding gear solutions is always a topic of lively debate, and understanding Rack Mounted gear in context might shed some light on what's happening now with Analog Amps and Effects, and Modelers and Plugins. Thanks
Josh, that one newspaper clipping (with caption that says “Today On The Radio”) at the bottom left with other clippings has some radio station listings that I’m very familiar with. WSAN-Allentown, Pennsylvania and WFIL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WSAN was the underground rock station from the early 1970’s-1985 and WFIL is a Christian station with good Bible teaching that I listen to regularly. Small world!
OMG i needed this. Thank you Josh for doing this! I'm getting some old school jhs video vibes... oh yeah, thanks sweetwater for getting Josh to do this😂😂😂
BOSS BE-5, just ordered another one from japan, my first pedal in 2003, i use it more as an instrument with that 1 second delay, dials, no menu, pure playing
Josh, I love the part about tape delay in this video. Probably because I adore delay effects (I got the Oil Can Blackout and the Merika during the special Reverb sale last month). At some point in this series I hope you'll talk about guitar magazines. Go into their inception and history and how they affected players through the years, the people and players who contributed to them, and how the magazines influenced tablature distribution and affected how people learned to play guitar and bass. Guitar mags (Like Guitar For The Practicing Musician) seem to be one of - or maybe the only? - the bridges during the years between everyone learning to play from listening to albums over and over until the internet video craze made online instruction ubiquitous with playing in the 21st century.
Because of Josh’s education on the mandolin and banjo era, and the Hawaiian ukulele craze, I came 🤏 close to buying a 1930s banjo ukulele this weekend. Banjolele? Ukulejo? First it was just new “effectors.” Then the IKEA of gooped pedals. Now I’m bidding on an instrument no one has heard of because it captures such an interesting and forgotten moment in American music history. I need Josh to be less interesting and educational. I’m lucky my wife is a patient supportive person or I’d be in a van down by the river right now.
you mentioned when the tube cam out , but when was it that they started to make those tubes different and why and how did hotter gain tubes come about and then how did they match using the right speaker and magnets
I am weirdly obsessed with knowing the base circuit that pedals are made from. That’s always fascinating to me. So like a Rat or Klon Centaur that spawn a ton of clones, things like that, but to know the starting blocks and their tree of offspring would be great to explore, like a guitar pedal coaching tree if you will
As for my pedal board or if I were to look back at what I started out with as my guitar rig developed. Overdrive or distortion and boosting the volume have always been priority one through the years. From there wah and chorus. Now I’ve recently, like the past twenty years or so incorporated delay and more delay along with modulation but of course loud is still priority one and I don’t see that changing at all. I’m old school and have not embraced the advanced technology so much. Mostly because that new stuff is expensive and becomes outdated the day after being released. Though I do have a couple of modeling amps that the prices didn’t have the greed factor built in. lol really I was in the right place at the right time. They had discounted the discount and I got a great deal. Happy holidays…
Question for Josh in part 2? Jimi's guitar rig seemed to change overnight with his move to England. Wah, Marshall, Fuzz. Is that all historically true? What was he using before the genre defining change in guitar? OK, Two questions... My effect thats always been there is my wah.
Adjacent Possible! I use that all the time. From the author Stephen Johnson, I think. I was thinking it throughout your whole video and couldn't believe you mentioned it! Great video!
Been seeing a question lately that's "What's your favorite event in history?" and I keep thinking- no moment is isolated, exists in a vacuum. I've heard Josh talk on the adjacent possible when he was doing his Monday videos.
Without a doubt, reverb is the most impactful and used effect ever. So much so that it's built into most amps. I like chorus too, but come on, outside of the JC-120 where is that considered a deal breaker if it's missing? BTW, I just bought a stack of your 3 Series pedals, including the harmonic trem, delay, flanger, and phaser. Love them. I also have a Rat Pack, Bonsai, and Muffaletto on the board. Come Christmas, I believe I will have a little card saying that there's a Notaklon on the way. I love everything you do, and I honestly think you have the best business model ever, expanding everyone's knowledge, lifting up other pedal makers, and making the Bad Monkey great again.
Josh you are the James “Connections “ Burke of guitar, amps, and effects. Please include Bear Owsley, The Grateful Dead, Ampeg, and Alembic for PAs when you get to that time period. The Wall of Sound was the art of music.
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Which iconic effect is a standby in your guitar rig? Tell us in the comments below about the piece of gear or effect you can’t riff without, and be sure to check out Josh Scott’s expertise in action with Sweetwater’s full array of JHS pedals and sonic-sculpting tools 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/JHS
Wah pedal for me of course
Crazy history of how we have the foot control wahs we have today
I'd like to put a controversial vote in for graphic or parametric EQ. Tone shaping be powerful.
reverb!
Flanger
Guitar? Chorus. Bass? Compression
Josh: "This is the Complete History of Guitar Effects", then proceeds to give a masterclass of electric amplification in the music industry. What a legend.
Love it. Back history
Josh really cares and puts effort into everything he does and it shows
Josh is my favorite Music history teacher.
Still desperately and eagerly awaiting part 2, 6 months later. This video was so incredibly good. Honestly one of my all time favorites.
I need part 2, and more! Please sweetwater, I couldn't sleep till it happens
This is such an incredibly valuable history lesson! Thank you, Josh! Thank you, Sweetwater!
This is one of the greatest, well paced lesson of all time. Josh you are an amazing part of the guitar community. Thank you!!!so much Wow
Thanks Josh and Sweetwater! Looking forward to part 2. Peace
Hey Josh, Pulp Fiction featured ‘Miserlou’ not Kill Bill! Great history, had no idea spring reverb was developed for the organ!
Josh is a national treasure!
The amount of effort, time & resources that go into these pieces, is unbelievable ( especially when you consider it’s free content ) and I’m so grateful we have access to them. Thanks y’all 🙏
Ive watched all the old JHS and a lot of That Pedal Show's episodes, amongst many other top tier creators, and somehow found out things i never knew by watching this. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
Thank you 🙏 thank you Josh
It is not only an important history lesson. It is always a pleasure to be with you sharing your love for these topics.
Amazing first part. Can't wait for the rest. I love how he's not rushing through the important precursors. Nice work getting Josh on this
🎶❤🎵you're the professor of electric guitar&effects history, master Josh😊🎓love your lessons‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😀💚🤟🏼
After 45 years of playing guitar, this was the most simple to understand history of the technology of guitar amplification. Nice work Josh! You should like make pedals too, I bet they would rock😏😆😆
At 8:33 Josh meant Pulp Fiction. Not Kill Bill. The latter featured the awesome Japanese garage rock band The 5.6,7,8s. Anyhow.. annoying nerdy correction over.
Indeed! Good thing this wasn’t a video on movie soundtrack history
Terrific presentation Josh - informative, thorough and interesting. Can't wait for part 2
I loved this, can’t wait for more episodes. The part about Clapton, Page, Beck, John and Paul growing up listening to distorted Fender amps setting the stage for Rock and Roll was fascinating. An episode focusing on how that sound evolved would be interesting.
This is so awesome. Thank you Josh and Sweetwater! I forwarded this to all my guitar nerd friends. I think it’s mandatory viewing.
I don't think this could have been better presented, can't wait for the rest of the episodes!
Great stuff from Josh; he’s a natural teacher. 👏👏👏
Josh: great video. Worth dropping what I was doing to find this and watch. Sweetwater: Thanks for sponsoring this and making it happen. I'm a Sweetwater and JHS customer, always enjoyed the channel content of both - but this is something special.
I love hearing history of how this all came about. How people stumble on to something accidentally and create products. How an industry comes from creativity and the evolution of technology, and solving problems from the era that was witness to these issues. These stories and accounts of history are important for our future. I’m excited to learn more and more and look forward to the next series of videos. Thank you so much. Happy holidays…
My friend just started playing with guitar and fx for the first time tonight and this just dropped. 🥰
This was so interesting. Can't wait for the next one!!
when I read the title , and know of Josh Scotts work, then the idea of "Josh Scott Presents: The Complete History of Guitar Effects | Part 78" doesn't seem unlikely at all.
Good luck to Sweetwater reigning this one in (it'll all be great by the way).
Thank you! I'm happy that you told the story of LOUD here, I'd love you to highlight the relationships between synths and pedals (which goes both ways of course), and personally speaking while univibe is amazing, I'm fascinated by how long it took to emulate a literal Leslie sound (affordable product), rather than Leslie adjacent. Seems like that Leslie sound was amazingly complex for a spinning cone. Also shout out to Lexicon, plate reverb, and studio effects in general!
When is Part 2 coming?
Great work, as expected. Thanks to everyone involved.
Josh, always informative and humorous in the best way. Love the history lesson and look forward to more.
Wow, Josh Scott your the best teacher with the best history lesson I've ever heard. Epic🏆🥇. Delay is my favorite invention and effect.
Thank you for the video, Josh! It's awesome. Looking forward for other parts.
20:54 i think it's also called markovian process, when for a thing to appear you need the antecendent to happen, and it keeps adding up
Brilliant down to earth topic Josh. Thanks. For me Delay has always been my favourite effect.
Thanks Josh, History is so important and helps inspire a new generation of musicians, and even the ole crusty ones!!! Thanks again for your insight to possibly the most wonderful and life changing musical instrument ever!!!??? Looking forward to the next episode...........
This is terrific, really well-researched and presented, great work Josh and Sweetwater!
This is one of the BEST lectures I have ever heard - concise, loaded with information, well-delivered. Josh, you should consider teaching a course on music amplification. Flat out terrific! MORE!
What I really appreciate about Josh is that he is a regular guy. Not a snob just an ordinary guy who plays excellent guitar and makes great pedals keeping it real for n the real world. Thank you SWEETWATER!
Dang, can't wait for part 2! Fascinating history lesson
How can someone sitting in front of the singular most boring background be so captivating. Ladies and gentlemen...Josh Heath Scott!!!! Thank you Sir for your tireless dedication to making perhaps the greatest contributions to modern music history more approachable to kooks like me. ENCORE!!!
Fantastic to see this here. I had the pleasure of seeing Josh give a similar presentation at Fretboard Summit 2022 in Chicago.
As I told him: I’ve learned more about guitar effects (my actual word was pedals) from Josh than from any other source.
I made that comment at the top of the video. This is MUCH more detailed than the presentation I saw. I can’t recommend Josh’s history lesson enough. I can’t wait for the rest of the story.
8:34 I think you mean Pulp Fiction, though most people watching this have probably heard Misirlou even if they haven't seen any Tarantino movies.
glad i wasnt the only film nerd who caught that
I'm really glad you emphasized the need for loud, it's so critical to the entire process, nobody would start messing with the signal if nobody could actually hear it in the room. Great work, looking forward to the rest.
Thank you, Josh. It’s interesting how people who don’t like history really appreciate it once they become guitarists.
This was awesome, it felt like I was sitting in one of my college lectures in the best way possible! Can't wait for more episodes!
I like the idea of exploring more of the "Found" effects like overdrive and how microphones come into play with it all.
Great job on this first installment!!!
Is there no part 2? I was looking forward to that 😅
Thanks Josh and Sweetwater!!
Thanks Josh for putting together this series.
This History stuff is my favourite part of your JHS content. It really helped me get up to speed after a 40 year break from Electric Guitar.
I have shared this with some friends that often don't understand my Electric Guitar/Effects related posts.
Cheers
Pete
Very much anticipating part 2!
Josh, you are such a talented teacher and story teller.
Josh man, this has to be a book. Please think about it. Something solid, permanent, as reference.
Looking forward to Guitar Effects Part 2!
This will be a great series. Players need to know where sound came from, how it evolved.
I love love love this so much. So excited to watch the rest of this series, great to see a really historically thorough and diligent analysis of this topic from someone so knowledgeable.
Josh amazing as always!!
8:01 Hammond spring reverb box to add ambience 21:10 "adjacent possible": evolutionary change
When will we get part two please?
I remember as a kid stringing a wire attached between trees to listen to am radio. Fast forward to 1982-1986, IC 386 amplifier chip were in mass production. Computer memory was in its infancy and was in 4 mb and 8 mb options. Technology grew rapidly after.
My friend showed me how to build my 1st guitar pedal using that 386 IC
Looking forward to the next episode!!
THANKS for the rich History of Guitar effects/ amps plus pedals
Super history lesson.
I believe someday someone in the distant future will be explaining the history of effects and Josh will be included as a topic for being the custodian of this obscure knowledge that otherwise would be lost. Keep it coming Josh!
Jeez, one of the best videos on RUclips.
Love this stuff. So glad to see Josh teaching effects history again. This was always my favorite JHS content, much better than random demos or trolling.
Amazing. So psyched that Josh is OCD interested in this history. THANK YOU for sharing it 🤩
Josh You Sound Like You Know What Youre Talking About Because You Do.. Its Great to Hear Your Aouthorative Perspectives... Cheers AAA
Awesome!! Can’t wait ‘til the next episode!
Incredible. Well written and delivered. Great work good piece to save! Thanks
Absolutely floored with how unbelievably informative and consice this was. I'm already insanely excited for part 2 to drop! Josh is an absolute legend and inspiration! ^_^
Thanks so much for sharing this history with all us guitar players.I have all the standard guitar effects on my pedal board but the one pedal I cannot live without is overdrive/distortion because of the wonderful harmonics that it adds and the natural compression so that I can switch from playing chords to soloing without too much change in volume.
Cheers , looking forward to more videos in this series
That was an awesome look into the past!!! The only big thing that you missed in the timeline was the pick-up!!! Thanks for the interview!!!
It got a brief mention but it does not really fall into the remit of this series as the pickup is not a 'guitar effect'.
That said I do think that another series on the evolution of the guitar, and thus including pickups, would be a great idea! How about it Sweetwater?
Looking forward to watching this entire series. The history of music is interesting, and electric guitars and effects play a big role in that. Can you spend some time talking about "Rack Mounted" Effects and their relationship to Pedal Effects? Who's got the best sounding gear solutions is always a topic of lively debate, and understanding Rack Mounted gear in context might shed some light on what's happening now with Analog Amps and Effects, and Modelers and Plugins. Thanks
Josh man I really dig how you lay things out. I've learned so much from watching your videos, thank you.
I'm loving this. Thanks, Josh!
Where is part two?
Great work, Josh! 🤘
AMAZING!!! Part 2!!!
This is going to be awesome!! You are the man Josh!!
Josh, that one newspaper clipping (with caption that says “Today On The Radio”) at the bottom left with other clippings has some radio station listings that I’m very familiar with. WSAN-Allentown, Pennsylvania and WFIL, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WSAN was the underground rock station from the early 1970’s-1985 and WFIL is a Christian station with good Bible teaching that I listen to regularly. Small world!
Josh, you’re just the coolest man. I was aleady a big fan but this is absolutely fantastic! Thanks so much for this
Tube overdrive is of course the most spectacular effect that is now used for more than 70 years and today ever so popular than in the 1950s.
OMG i needed this. Thank you Josh for doing this! I'm getting some old school jhs video vibes... oh yeah, thanks sweetwater for getting Josh to do this😂😂😂
BOSS BE-5, just ordered another one from japan, my first pedal in 2003, i use it more as an instrument with that 1 second delay, dials, no menu, pure playing
Josh, I love the part about tape delay in this video. Probably because I adore delay effects (I got the Oil Can Blackout and the Merika during the special Reverb sale last month). At some point in this series I hope you'll talk about guitar magazines.
Go into their inception and history and how they affected players through the years, the people and players who contributed to them, and how the magazines influenced tablature distribution and affected how people learned to play guitar and bass. Guitar mags (Like Guitar For The Practicing Musician) seem to be one of - or maybe the only? - the bridges during the years between everyone learning to play from listening to albums over and over until the internet video craze made online instruction ubiquitous with playing in the 21st century.
Because of Josh’s education on the mandolin and banjo era, and the Hawaiian ukulele craze, I came 🤏 close to buying a 1930s banjo ukulele this weekend. Banjolele? Ukulejo?
First it was just new “effectors.” Then the IKEA of gooped pedals. Now I’m bidding on an instrument no one has heard of because it captures such an interesting and forgotten moment in American music history. I need Josh to be less interesting and educational.
I’m lucky my wife is a patient supportive person or I’d be in a van down by the river right now.
you mentioned when the tube cam out , but when was it that they started to make those tubes different and why and how did hotter gain tubes come about and then how did they match using the right speaker and magnets
I am weirdly obsessed with knowing the base circuit that pedals are made from. That’s always fascinating to me. So like a Rat or Klon Centaur that spawn a ton of clones, things like that, but to know the starting blocks and their tree of offspring would be great to explore, like a guitar pedal coaching tree if you will
As for my pedal board or if I were to look back at what I started out with as my guitar rig developed. Overdrive or distortion and boosting the volume have always been priority one through the years. From there wah and chorus. Now I’ve recently, like the past twenty years or so incorporated delay and more delay along with modulation but of course loud is still priority one and I don’t see that changing at all. I’m old school and have not embraced the advanced technology so much. Mostly because that new stuff is expensive and becomes outdated the day after being released. Though I do have a couple of modeling amps that the prices didn’t have the greed factor built in. lol really I was in the right place at the right time. They had discounted the discount and I got a great deal. Happy holidays…
Rotary effects that ramp up and down and/or have a "brake" are pretty cool.
Those 70s Morley "Power Wah Fuzz" are interesting as well.
First well-used voice amplification device: megaphone. First guitar with built-in amplification: resonator guitar.
Question for Josh in part 2? Jimi's guitar rig seemed to change overnight with his move to England. Wah, Marshall, Fuzz. Is that all historically true? What was he using before the genre defining change in guitar? OK, Two questions... My effect thats always been there is my wah.
nicely done man. You kept it interesting.
Adjacent Possible! I use that all the time. From the author Stephen Johnson, I think. I was thinking it throughout your whole video and couldn't believe you mentioned it! Great video!
Been seeing a question lately that's "What's your favorite event in history?" and I keep thinking- no moment is isolated, exists in a vacuum. I've heard Josh talk on the adjacent possible when he was doing his Monday videos.
Great video as always! But we need you back in the shop shipping those Notaklons, stat!
Without a doubt, reverb is the most impactful and used effect ever. So much so that it's built into most amps. I like chorus too, but come on, outside of the JC-120 where is that considered a deal breaker if it's missing? BTW, I just bought a stack of your 3 Series pedals, including the harmonic trem, delay, flanger, and phaser. Love them. I also have a Rat Pack, Bonsai, and Muffaletto on the board. Come Christmas, I believe I will have a little card saying that there's a Notaklon on the way. I love everything you do, and I honestly think you have the best business model ever, expanding everyone's knowledge, lifting up other pedal makers, and making the Bad Monkey great again.
Josh you are the James “Connections “ Burke of guitar, amps, and effects. Please include Bear Owsley, The Grateful Dead, Ampeg, and Alembic for PAs when you get to that time period. The Wall of Sound was the art of music.