@@jeffschaller803 With the emphasis on "sad". I've tried several times to appreciate SD, and last month I learned that solo from "Reeling in the Years", only to realize it's drivel.
I had the phaser pedal of this line (Garagetone Oil Can) which I instantely regretted to sell when I did two years ago... Now the wound reopens thanks to you Josh
Man, I remember this line from when I was still working in retail. We carried the whole line. I STILL have my Visual Volume!! Great revisit, Josh. Thanks!
Another super episode, @JHS. Having recently watched several episodes from one year ago and older, I must again mention the progress in musicianship, creativity, and audio quality -- all sounding great (diggin' the drum tone). You're all playing so well, you're like whoopin' all them pedal channels big time.
"Block Party Chill Town" is one of the best jams you guys have ever done. When you said "Steely Dan at a kid's 12th birthday party" I laughed, but... yeah, you nailed it.
The Guitar + Drum (and bass) tones on 'Cyborg Bike Gang' @ 3:46 are so awesome! You really bring out the fire in that pedal! And the snare sound is amazing!
I remember back in 2012 Visual sound put up a load of the artist demos using these as well as the V2 line and that had such a massive impact on how I first properly learnt about pedals and tone. So great to see them come to light again, great video!
Smoove... I imagine mainly guitar players like myself watch this channel... so this may seem like an unusual comment from a guitar player but I gotta say it... your drummer's doing excellent work on these jam tracks...
JHS has transformed itself from a pedal company to a media company. Josh you talk like some of the best creative directors I have worked with. I can’t wait to see what comes next out of this. Something bigger than a guitar pedal.
i've never had one of these but Dual Tap Delay is my main ambience pedal since a try it in a store eight years ago. Now i have to get garage tone series pedals, thanks to you Josh
@@bud9269 Oh yeah! I'm keeping all my boxes just for that reason. Edit: Yesterday, when I put away the box for my new ProCo RAT pedal next to all the other boxes, I found myself singing "he has the box!"
Great video. I have several Visual Sound pedals. I have the Drivetrain, v1 H2O, v1 Jekyll & Hyde and quite a few more. My favorite is the Open Road overdrive. I think these pedals are way underrated.
@@rayh966 Why knows? slipper is good too. And I actually had one of those, and it was great! Don't remember why I let it go. I had the phaser too, it was good, and I rememebr why I let that one go (I had enough phasers and traded it in for an octave, which I didn't have.)
The arcane information is fascinating and useful. The musical examples are engaging, varied and quite good! But that insurance ad was the best insurance ad EVER! ;-)
Great job! A little known fact: the Visual Sound Custom Shop Overdrive was a modified version of the Garagetone Chainsaw. There were under 200 of the CSOD pedals made but they sound amazing! : )
Still have my oil can phaser on my board. Got it cheap, fell in love with it. Thanks, Josh, for highlighting a great set of pedals! Now, if I can only find that tremolo pedal …. 😁😎🤘🏻✌🏻❤️
The Garagetone Drivetrain is the best kept secret in the parallel universe of TS mods - I have 4 of them, and they are completely great! They make a Strat sound huge. I will never, ever sell them - even if, as I suspect, they enter pedal Valhalla like the Klon.
I bought the Drivetrain when I worked in a guitar shop. Love it, still own it. Also, I live in Wichita, which is in Kansas, but not Western Kansas, but there ARE some saloons here...so...
I recently learned about Affordable and not flashy. I'm not a pedal guy at all but figured after 20 years of playing I should figure out how to use a pedal board to take my sound farther and inspire me to try new things. I bought a JHS 3 series delay and it is amazing. I can get great sounds out of it with it being very easy to use (I don't know what I'm doing so less knobs and switches works for me), I feel like it's a gem that a lot of people will miss out on because it's cheap and plain. There was a lot in this video that made sense in that aspect. Think I may buy a few more 3 series pedals and just let my daughter go nuts on em with some sharpies so they look different and I can tell them apart on the board.
Visual sound was my intro into pedals. My worship leader let me play his board and he had pretty much every visual sound double box. Visual sound lives up to their name and opened my eyes to the wonder of pedals back in the early/mid 2000s.
Awesome episode. Would also like to point out that these are buffered bypass and the buffer is of very high quality. That’s why I bought them originally and discovered that they sound great too.
A bunch of years ago I bought a used and already then discontinued Reverend Drivetrain II (for nerds the second revision with two black felt pen dots on the bottom) and thought it was the best tubescreamer type of pedal ever, and couldn't understand why it was no longer in production. I contacted the company about the possibility of a reissue and learned that I was far from the first to do so and that there were no immediate plans for this, but maybe someday... Then suddenly the Visual Sound Garagetone series was released and lo and behold with the Drivetrain brought back to life, and for a ridiculously low price. I of course bought one, to check if it indeed sounded like the original and to have as a backup if my cherished original should, god forbid, break or get lost. In my opinion the reissue doesn't sound exactly as the originalm but it can be they cloned the first version, not the version II that I have. In retrospect I should have bought a bunch, but I could not imagine that a pedal this good and so attarctively priced also should go out of production. It's a killer pedal for a SRV like tone on the neck pickup of a strat into a Fender amp set clean or just at the verge to break up.
I remember when these came out. You nailed it. I didn't like the look or the names like "oil can" and "axle grease" at all... I was actually offended by the name "Garage Tone" because real garage rock is kind of sacred to me. So when I saw they were cheap, I forgot to try them at my favorite store... just ignored them. I was always jealous of my friend's Tremulator too.. had I known.. had I known... / I really like the sound of the phaser and the sound of the delay now. Thanks, Josh.
Dang your live drums always sound amazing. Don't get me wrong, cool pedals, cool songs, but I'm always blown away by the quality of the drum recordings
I don´t know what they may have changed since, but I remember, in 2019 JHS produced two episodes, where Nick explains some drum miking and preamping stuff: "How we record a song" and "The colour box is back". Maybe this helps a little bit to your question. Links to the episodes: ruclips.net/video/xUaLE0_3v8A/видео.html ruclips.net/video/zQSOwzfV7Vc/видео.html Have fun.
Another thing I noticed - I have the V2 version of the Route 66 pedal. The overdrive part of the pedal was their 808 (tubescreamer type). Then they came out with the V3 version of the Route 66. They changed the shape to more of a rectangle instead of a triangle. They also removed the 808 overdrive and replaced it with the Garagetone Drivetrain overdrive. I've noticed that used Garagetone pedals are going for more than twice of what they were when they were brand new.
I recently acquired a Modtone harmonic tremolo pedal for substantially less than the the other brands available. It's my least expensive pedal at under $100 brand new. Love the tone and the vibe.
I have all of these pedals. In 2010 I was a travelling sales person for a distributor and VS sent us all pedalboards with these pedals glued to it so we could show them to our customers. My clients were all local guitar shops with one or two locations. These pedals sounded great but the dealers did not get excited because the profit margin for them was thin and they did not think the average pedal buyer was interested in a $60 pedal no matter how great it sounded. VS should have just painted them white and sold them for $99. #thejhsshow #jhs
Me and my band mates had a bunch of the V2 and V3 of these. The Jekyll and Hyde remains one of my favorite overdrive pedals of all time , and my single biggest regretted pedal trade.
After 10 years of pedalboard building, my Axel Grease along with my Boss GE-7 were the only true gladiators that ended up on every rendition of my board. It was finally dethroned this year by the JHS 3 Delay. ;)
I remember those! I had forgotten all about them, and I've never owned one, but I remember seeing the pentagon shaped pedals in guitar stores a lot back in the day
Digitech pds line did 2 in 1 pedals way earlier. Double Play, Hot Box, etc... maybe a great future episode topic? The PDS 20/20 Mulriplay I think is the grand dad of the EQD Disaster Transport (lo fi digital modulation delay, chorus, flanger, inf hold)
I had one of those on loan for a while. I had to give it back to the owner eventually though. I bought a Digitech Time Machine 8000, which was the same circuit in a rack mount unit.
@@andrewjadczak I know on the Truetone site they call the Jekyll & Hyde the "first true dual effect pedal" so I wonder what exactly they mean by it, or whether the earlier ones were just forgotten, or what.
Those pedals sound fine, and also sound like most other pedals. The jams were great, as usual, and the show has been another joy to watch. (Apart from rise/raise confusion, but I'm not at work so I'll ignore that.) (I'll also ignore "there's/there are" duffers, since it's Friday and I'm happy.)
The Tremolo was originally called "The Chopper", but a year or so after the pedal's release, when the were at NAM another pedal builder approached them to advise they were already making a pedal by thebsame name that predates the Garagetone pedal. The Tremolo and Phaser are my 2 favorites of the series.
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You let that vintage air out of the bubbles in the bubble wrap! 😮
Better than the air you get today! Maybe.
Now it just doesn't sound as good
@@tite93 But it smells better, and that's important (for some people).
The tone, Josh. THE TONE! D:
We're soon going to reach a point where every sentence Josh says has a jingle for it and the episodes will be 45 minutes long.
Good
i can only hope
@@joshuaheathscott oh hey Josh. welcome to RUclips
Not a problem
Sign me up!
Today, Josh makes a video entirely out of his own memes, and we still love him.
theyre made drummer guy
Really delivering on the stingers this week, that’s what I subscribe for.
Same. Stingers and low-key shaming of pedal snobs. All day.
Me too!
Ok Cowboy was easily the best slide toan I've heard in my short life.
Rhett how bout a vid on not resorting to violence against the foh guy
@@leptyga Rhett Shull is turning red somewhere in Atlanta !
Great episode Josh. I would love to hear you talk about Damage Control before they became Strymon
Not yet. I've bee trying to collect them for some time and I don't want the prices to rise 🤫
I like how Radiohead in a western saloon is just Wilco...
If Steely Dan did play at your birthday, I’m assuming they played “Happy Birthday” but it was in a 11/16 time signature
Using the Mu chord in the chorus.
They played at my 21st, but everyone walked out. Boring sods.
@@Ndlanding they didn’t have their team of studio musician magicians
@@Ndlanding they just wanted to give you the best experience possible. Alone and a little sad is the Steely Dan sweet spot.
@@jeffschaller803 With the emphasis on "sad". I've tried several times to appreciate SD, and last month I learned that solo from "Reeling in the Years", only to realize it's drivel.
dat life insurance spot! *chefs kiss*
overlooked pedal company of the gods
LOVEPEDAL
I had the phaser pedal of this line (Garagetone Oil Can) which I instantely regretted to sell when I did two years ago... Now the wound reopens thanks to you Josh
RG Keen is a legend. Really cool to hear him being talked about
RG Keen is One of the most generous members of the DIY guitar electronics community ever. Thank you sir!
REAL TALK in the first 10 seconds
-**SIIICK BUUUURN***
Love this episode. I have the entire GarageTone series on my current pedalboard.
Man, I remember this line from when I was still working in retail. We carried the whole line. I STILL have my Visual Volume!! Great revisit, Josh. Thanks!
RG Keen's article/study on JFETs changed my life. His study on the Fuzz Face is a must read.
And after watching your videos for a while, now I sing to myself “I have the box” when I look at my pedal boxes 🤣
Or when i see a pedal on reverb with all the fixins haha
I sing "I have the box" when I've finished my pizza. What else could I sing? "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
Nick went CRAAAAAZY with the jingles this week lol
Think this is the most jingles in any JHS video
There is certain line of Pedals I've started collecting because I'm living in constant fear of Josh doing a video about them.
At JHS Insurance we take the hassle out of buying and out of dying. I love this content so much.
Another super episode, @JHS.
Having recently watched several episodes from one year ago and older, I must again mention the progress in musicianship, creativity, and audio quality -- all sounding great (diggin' the drum tone).
You're all playing so well, you're like whoopin' all them pedal channels big time.
"Block Party Chill Town" is one of the best jams you guys have ever done. When you said "Steely Dan at a kid's 12th birthday party" I laughed, but... yeah, you nailed it.
Mr Keen is my reference whilst learning about Pedals and Circuits, another great Video, thanks. : )
Ooh that Slow Summer jam was legit. Great tone.
The Guitar + Drum (and bass) tones on 'Cyborg Bike Gang' @ 3:46 are so awesome! You really bring out the fire in that pedal! And the snare sound is amazing!
Can't believe you just destroyed that original vintage bubble wrap 😱
Same lol
with that vintage air
Please say it was a stunt double
It’s gonna affect the tone........
I remember back in 2012 Visual sound put up a load of the artist demos using these as well as the V2 line and that had such a massive impact on how I first properly learnt about pedals and tone. So great to see them come to light again, great video!
Smoove... I imagine mainly guitar players like myself watch this channel... so this may seem like an unusual comment from a guitar player but I gotta say it... your drummer's doing excellent work on these jam tracks...
JHS has transformed itself from a pedal company to a media company. Josh you talk like some of the best creative directors I have worked with. I can’t wait to see what comes next out of this. Something bigger than a guitar pedal.
It already came out... Pedals the musical!
Bob and company have always had an amazing line of products.
i've never had one of these but Dual Tap Delay is my main ambience pedal since a try it in a store eight years ago. Now i have to get garage tone series pedals, thanks to you Josh
The Axl Greace was my first delay pedal, after 15 years it's still on my pedalboard! I Love it!
Who else sings the "I don't have this pedal" jingle when you see a pedal you'd like to have?
And then I sing "but does he have the box" if it's on reverb.
@@bud9269 Oh yeah! I'm keeping all my boxes just for that reason.
Edit: Yesterday, when I put away the box for my new ProCo RAT pedal next to all the other boxes, I found myself singing "he has the box!"
Yes, almost every time he shows a pedal here. I'm glad I kept most boxes however, even though nothing I have is _rare_ or _collectible_
i don't, i do my best deadpan 'i don't have this pedal, it's fine, i'm gonna be fine' Josh impression i can.
Nick, great zoom on the tremolo segment!...also the jam was rad
I bought two Behringer Pedals recently (Reverb and Multi-Fx) due in part to your Behringer Pedals Video. Thanks.
Great video. I have several Visual Sound pedals. I have the Drivetrain, v1 H2O, v1 Jekyll & Hyde and quite a few more. My favorite is the Open Road overdrive. I think these pedals are way underrated.
A great pedal company run by some of my favorite people!! So glad to see you repping them!
The "axle grease" was in keeping with the garage theme, but I think the reference to "oil" (grease) as a throwback to "oil can delays"
Good call, I was just going to say that delay effects can be slippery like axle grease, but yours is better.
@@rayh966 Why knows? slipper is good too. And I actually had one of those, and it was great! Don't remember why I let it go. I had the phaser too, it was good, and I rememebr why I let that one go (I had enough phasers and traded it in for an octave, which I didn't have.)
I don't think Josh gets enough props for his guitar skills. He is always pumping out the bops
These videos keep getting better and better. I was hearing a “Dinosaur Jr. at a skatepark” on Jam#1 with Chainsaw.
The arcane information is fascinating and useful. The musical examples are engaging, varied and quite good! But that insurance ad was the best insurance ad EVER! ;-)
That delay + screamer thingy sound was absolutely awesome!!
Did not expect a video about guitar effects pedals, would call into question my financial decisions regarding my own mortality.
And literacy.
For me Bob Weil + RG Keen = TAKE MY MONEY 💰
How on earth did these pedals fail in the marketplace? My favorite JHS video so far.
I've got their Route 808, which is absolutely brilliant!! Thanks Josh!!
The pedals were beautiful, thank you.
Great job! A little known fact: the Visual Sound Custom Shop Overdrive was a modified version of the Garagetone Chainsaw. There were under 200 of the CSOD pedals made but they sound amazing! : )
Still have my oil can phaser on my board. Got it cheap, fell in love with it. Thanks, Josh, for highlighting a great set of pedals! Now, if I can only find that tremolo pedal …. 😁😎🤘🏻✌🏻❤️
Love the aesthetic of these pedals, surprised these didn't take off
The Garagetone Drivetrain is the best kept secret in the parallel universe of TS mods - I have 4 of them, and they are completely great! They make a Strat sound huge. I will never, ever sell them - even if, as I suspect, they enter pedal Valhalla like the Klon.
I absolutely LOVED these pedals! Especially the oil can , chainsaw and the old..
I so miss them,wish I never gave them away
I Have The Box!
I received my Morning Glory Throwback about a week ago.
Thank You JHS for doing this for us. It’s my first JHS pedal... #212
I bought the Drivetrain when I worked in a guitar shop. Love it, still own it. Also, I live in Wichita, which is in Kansas, but not Western Kansas, but there ARE some saloons here...so...
These pedals are still sold in my country. And you're spot on. The name "chainsaw" isn't selling it.
Neat. I had that Oil Can phaser for a little while. Always wondered what the rest of that line sounded like.
You absolutely nailed the Steely Dan jam!!!! Cool ✌🏻😎
The opening alone made watching this worthwhile 😂😂😂
I recently learned about Affordable and not flashy. I'm not a pedal guy at all but figured after 20 years of playing I should figure out how to use a pedal board to take my sound farther and inspire me to try new things. I bought a JHS 3 series delay and it is amazing. I can get great sounds out of it with it being very easy to use (I don't know what I'm doing so less knobs and switches works for me), I feel like it's a gem that a lot of people will miss out on because it's cheap and plain. There was a lot in this video that made sense in that aspect. Think I may buy a few more 3 series pedals and just let my daughter go nuts on em with some sharpies so they look different and I can tell them apart on the board.
This channel is one of my favorite and I never even use pedals (went down the modeling route). If I ever buy a pedal it will be a JHS!
Honestly, Josh, you make all pedals sound great.
Visual sound was my intro into pedals. My worship leader let me play his board and he had pretty much every visual sound double box. Visual sound lives up to their name and opened my eyes to the wonder of pedals back in the early/mid 2000s.
Awesome episode. Would also like to point out that these are buffered bypass and the buffer is of very high quality. That’s why I bought them originally and discovered that they sound great too.
Nice episode! I remember when these came out, but I already had the Reverend Drivetrain and still use it, as I’m a huge Naylor fan.
That commercial: "We're really great at marketing, but we only do it as a joke." 🤓
A bunch of years ago I bought a used and already then discontinued Reverend Drivetrain II (for nerds the second revision with two black felt pen dots on the bottom) and thought it was the best tubescreamer type of pedal ever, and couldn't understand why it was no longer in production. I contacted the company about the possibility of a reissue and learned that I was far from the first to do so and that there were no immediate plans for this, but maybe someday...
Then suddenly the Visual Sound Garagetone series was released and lo and behold with the Drivetrain brought back to life, and for a ridiculously low price. I of course bought one, to check if it indeed sounded like the original and to have as a backup if my cherished original should, god forbid, break or get lost. In my opinion the reissue doesn't sound exactly as the originalm but it can be they cloned the first version, not the version II that I have.
In retrospect I should have bought a bunch, but I could not imagine that a pedal this good and so attarctively priced also should go out of production. It's a killer pedal for a SRV like tone on the neck pickup of a strat into a Fender amp set clean or just at the verge to break up.
I bought the delay back then and still have it. Really great.
I remember when these came out. You nailed it. I didn't like the look or the names like "oil can" and "axle grease" at all... I was actually offended by the name "Garage Tone" because real garage rock is kind of sacred to me. So when I saw they were cheap, I forgot to try them at my favorite store... just ignored them. I was always jealous of my friend's Tremulator too.. had I known.. had I known... / I really like the sound of the phaser and the sound of the delay now. Thanks, Josh.
Thanks for the tip, I just bought 3 of, they are all super usable
Dang your live drums always sound amazing. Don't get me wrong, cool pedals, cool songs, but I'm always blown away by the quality of the drum recordings
I don´t know what they may have changed since, but I remember, in 2019 JHS produced two episodes, where Nick explains some drum miking and preamping stuff:
"How we record a song" and "The colour box is back".
Maybe this helps a little bit to your question. Links to the episodes:
ruclips.net/video/xUaLE0_3v8A/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/zQSOwzfV7Vc/видео.html
Have fun.
@@marcofioravanti4176 thanks!
Another thing I noticed - I have the V2 version of the Route 66 pedal. The overdrive part of the pedal was their 808 (tubescreamer type). Then they came out with the V3 version of the Route 66. They changed the shape to more of a rectangle instead of a triangle. They also removed the 808 overdrive and replaced it with the Garagetone Drivetrain overdrive. I've noticed that used Garagetone pedals are going for more than twice of what they were when they were brand new.
The thing at the end is a really nice touch. Thanks!
I love this line-up. I keep a Drivetrain and Axle Grease on my board all the time. The Axle Grease is my favorite simple "analog sounding" delay.
I loved Visual Sound back in the day! I had 2 double troubles and a Route 66. I would love an episode on Visual Sound.
I recently acquired a Modtone harmonic tremolo pedal for substantially less than the the other brands available. It's my least expensive pedal at under $100 brand new. Love the tone and the vibe.
I have all of these pedals. In 2010 I was a travelling sales person for a distributor and VS sent us all pedalboards with these pedals glued to it so we could show them to our customers. My clients were all local guitar shops with one or two locations. These pedals sounded great but the dealers did not get excited because the profit margin for them was thin and they did not think the average pedal buyer was interested in a $60 pedal no matter how great it sounded. VS should have just painted them white and sold them for $99. #thejhsshow #jhs
Me and my band mates had a bunch of the V2 and V3 of these. The Jekyll and Hyde remains one of my favorite overdrive pedals of all time , and my single biggest regretted pedal trade.
Ive had the overdrive for a long time and I love it.
awesome bit! love the jhs+ insurance!!!
Wow reverb on the drums!!! Sounds great!!
Is it me, or are the jams getting better? I'm not saying I found them lacking. But I am saying I've been impressed recently.
@@celephais5748 not to mention the jellies...
YES!!! been waiting for a VS Vid :) thanks brother
I love this place ! Josh is the Mike Myers of pedals show !
Loving the sick burn straight of the bat LOL!
After 10 years of pedalboard building, my Axel Grease along with my Boss GE-7 were the only true gladiators that ended up on every rendition of my board. It was finally dethroned this year by the JHS 3 Delay. ;)
Josh you never disappoint.. my favourite RUclips show on Fridays. Wurdz is hard. You’re a great guitar player do you guys write all the riffs.
I remember those! I had forgotten all about them, and I've never owned one, but I remember seeing the pentagon shaped pedals in guitar stores a lot back in the day
I love my oil can phaser and would definitely buy it again if I had the chance. Never knew the story behind it so thank you!
Just bought a Trutone Jekyll and Hyde of the Amazon. Great Show Today!!!
I love Visual Sound pedals (still have a V2 H2O Chorus/Delay on my board!). Way to highlight a cool series and a great Tennessee company!
i just realised that i've never been subscribed to jhs and still watched every video. i kinda feel bad and seek for redemption
Nice playing, as always.
This is the funniest episode yet. Awesome
All the jams were really solid this episode
Digitech pds line did 2 in 1 pedals way earlier. Double Play, Hot Box, etc... maybe a great future episode topic? The PDS 20/20 Mulriplay I think is the grand dad of the EQD Disaster Transport (lo fi digital modulation delay, chorus, flanger, inf hold)
I had one of those on loan for a while. I had to give it back to the owner eventually though.
I bought a Digitech Time Machine 8000, which was the same circuit in a rack mount unit.
And I'm pretty sure Ross's 2-in-1 pedals were even earlier than that... so I have a confuse.
@@jamesroy9182 ohh good call.
@@andrewjadczak I know on the Truetone site they call the Jekyll & Hyde the "first true dual effect pedal" so I wonder what exactly they mean by it, or whether the earlier ones were just forgotten, or what.
@@jamesroy9182 those Ross phaser/distortions are definitely 2 pedals in one and predate all of this
Those pedals sound fine, and also sound like most other pedals. The jams were great, as usual, and the show has been another joy to watch. (Apart from rise/raise confusion, but I'm not at work so I'll ignore that.) (I'll also ignore "there's/there are" duffers, since it's Friday and I'm happy.)
Dammit, Josh, you're blowing up my spot.
The Tremolo was originally called "The Chopper", but a year or so after the pedal's release, when the were at NAM another pedal builder approached them to advise they were already making a pedal by thebsame name that predates the Garagetone pedal.
The Tremolo and Phaser are my 2 favorites of the series.
Wow! One of my favorite records!
Love the Visual Sound stuff, the Route 808 is my go to for overdriven sounds :)
I never had Steely Dan at my birthday party (I know, hard to believe, right?), but I feel like I did after watching your jam, and it was awesome.