an existing one, are your ears your primary what I want to do. That starts to become quite
compass? challenging. That’s the answer to what I’ve been
missing, I think I’m missing a good bit of things
[Josh] Always ears. JHS has an R&D because everything that I do I’m like, “Man, I’m
department, and there are several people missing this one little thing, you know?” It could
involved. I come up with ideas, but I don’t do be a pedal that’s like fifty bucks or a pedal that I
all of that by myself. There are so many things
to do, and now I’ve got a YouTube show so
wouldn’t even know where to find it.
JHS VLOG // “6 Pedal Myths”
it’s impossible. There’s a lot of people involved. Fuzz 101, starts in ’67 with the Octavia stuff, Prized possessions would be… I have the first
Cliff is my head engineer. You walk in when he’s and I’m laying in bed and I’m like, “I forgot Klon ever made, serial number 002, the first
working on something, he’s got his machines that one, do I have that one?” Then I couldn’t one ever sold. And I have seven Klons total,
out, he’s analyzing, he’s got data, and he’s got remember what I have because I don’t have every single version. I have silver no horse, silver
graph paper. Then there’s me at home in my a good inventory system yet. I come into the horse with a short tail, silver horse with a long
shop, I do my designing in the basement, and shop and I’m panicked, like I think I’m missing tail, gold no horse, gold short tailed horse, gold
I’m just setting there with a breadboard, a 50- something! I’ve become a little OCD about long tailed horse. So that’s obsessive, yeah,
watt Bassman, and a Telecaster, and I’m just that subject. But the things that are missing is that’s really amazing. I have the entire Love
changing stuff. every single Boss pedal. I have a lot of them, Tone pedal collection from England. I really
but there’s a lot of fringy stuff that I need to love my Ibanez 10 series collection. I like the
The breadboard process is a lot like cooking. I get so I can sleep better. I have a lot of stuff, collections and I’ve been collecting Colorsound,
have a couple of friends who are chefs and it’s I think we’re up to like two thousand total, so I’ve been getting really attached to these
the best parallel I’ve ever seen, it’s the same or fifteen hundred, something like that and 70’s British pedals, and they’re pretty special
with them. They’re cooking something like I have stuff at my house too. I think the stuff because there weren’t hardly any in America. I
carbonara or something, and everyone cooks I’m missing is more of the early boutique guys, have two guys in the UK that find them for me
carbonara, but they’ll stand there, and they’ll like Prescription Electronics, Cornish. I have a and mail them over. It’s really random, you don’t
know what they could do to it. And that’s how couple, but it’s like, will I go all the way and get get to pick them, someone finds them, and you
the circuits are, and I play it like that, by ear. I all of them? I don’t know how crazy that is. Early deal with it. I’ve been working through those
get to where I really know a circuit, say a Tube germanium Dallas Arbiters, like the ’67 model I and repairing them. Stuff like that, those things
Screamer, I understand the circuit after all these don’t have. I have a ton of old Fuzz Faces, but are probably the most important.
years and I kind of know I can add a little of this like I don’t actually have a ’67 germanium.
or that, or maybe this thing from another dish,
[WM] What about the Captain Coconut?
maybe the tone control from this other thing. It’s It becomes a thing for me of like, do I have a like cooking, that’s been the best comparison date, which gets ridiculous. So that’s what gets [Josh] Don’t have one. See, that’s a thing.
visually to explain it. So, I’m all ears and feel, dangerous is I start getting obsessive. If I’m Like I would love to do an episode on him but I
feeling and ears, and I have a hard time being going to teach a Big Muff episode, do I have don’t have all that stuff. He’s such an important
technical with data. I get lost and I don’t care, every Big Muff? Can I sit with Mike Mathews, story, he’s amazing.
it’s like I suddenly stop caring. The answer is which I’m going to do, and can I walk Mike ears. Mathews through his history visually? That’s But there are a lot of things like that, like I have
Dallas Music Industries Fuzz Face Foxrox Electronics Captain Coconut
[WM] There’s a great shot of you on video in
front of what I presume is but a part of your
pedal collection. What are your crown jewels
and what pieces are missing?
[Josh] There’s a joke here where I’m either
a hoarder or a collector. My assistant Katrina
says I’m a collector because collectors
organize things and they’re clean. But I always
feel like I’m on the verge of being on the show
Hoarders. It’ll haunt me! I just filmed an episode
today called ‘Octave Fuzz’. It’s basically Octave
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