compressor
I
designed
based
on
Dan
Armstrong’s Orange Squeezer. I love that pedal
and I wanted to add a bunch of stuff. I wanted
the pedal to be orange to pay tribute to the
Orange Squeezer and I wanted an icon of an
orange, and that’s all I wanted on it. And that’s
how I think about all of them usually. So I found
an icon of an orange, stamped it on there,
called it the Pulp ‘N Peel and that’s it. That’s
how I’ve tried to approach them all.
[WM] Be it the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff,
Boss CE-1, or the Roland RE-150, what are
some of the circuits that inspired you most and
why?
[Josh] The ProCo Rat because I love the story
Way Huge Aqua Puss
– it’s an accident, it’s this American accident,
and it’s really cool. And because of all the weird pedals. I would say the Love Tone Big
records it’s been used on, and I like how simple Cheese. It’s funky, it’s British, and kind of rare.
it is. I’m a big fan of that pedal, it kind of inspires you
that you can do something out of the box and
JHS Pedals Pulp 'N Peel
The Marshall Blues Breaker pedal, the black
people might like it.
one from England, because I had a certain way
that I played and then I heard John Mayer. I [WM] You’re up to v4 on both the Morning
had never heard anybody with the same kind Glory and the Pulp ‘N Peel, what makes you
of clean dirty sound that I was trying to do. He want to go back and revisit a circuit?
used this pedal and I had been using this pedal,
it was like this ironic moment. I’m nowhere near [Josh] For general education or learning that
Jon Mayer, I’m just saying tonally it was a very I could have done something ‘better’. I try to
similar aesthetic. And then I made the Morning go through an electronics textbook pretty
Glory out of that pedal, so that’s special to consistently, and there’s one I read all the
me because I found the pedal that identified a time. It’s harder and harder nowadays, but I
sound I had always been trying to get from an try to discipline myself to stay in that flow. You
amp. Then I took it and made it even more of might learn some method or something, and
what I wanted. how I said it’s kind of like cooking, this is like
a cookbook where you’re looking at methods
Every Boss pedal, I’ll just say the DM-2 because and breadboard ideas or tone controls. And
it’s a great bucket-brigade delay, it’s one of the you have this old recipe, the version 3, and you
first ever. I have nine of them, they’re all different go, “Well I want to try this in the recipe…” and
in some way. To me it’s like everyone has used that becomes the version 4.
that circuit, whether it’s my Cub, or Way Huge’s
Aqua Puss, or whatever, we’ve all used the It’s a little bit of challenging myself to improve
circuit. I like the fact that it kind of stays as it something, which can be dangerous. I think
is, people just kind of tweak with it. It kind of there are people who need to not do that, I
represents Boss’s stuff from the late 70s, late could do that too, just need to leave something
80s, that you still cannot improve upon really. alone. But it’s trying to challenge myself, and
sometimes a new version is because we have
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Then, got to do something for weirdness sake,
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