10 Rare Pedals 

I am trying to sell my Clone Theory. Please do an episode about how great they are so its value skyrockets. Thank you in advance.

That might as well be remembered as the Schrödinger's Pedal. A thought experiment where the content of the box is both a Small Stone or a Small Clone at the same time. This is quantum pedaling, my friends. Quantum Pedaling.

My rarest pedal is a jhs clover that is serial number 777. It's my lucky clover.

I have one of the first three Catalinbread Super Chile Picoso pedals ever made back when he was hand painting them. Our dearly departed Nick Harris was a very close friend of mine (was even the best man at my wedding!) and I helped him build most all of his his early stuff when he was still in Seattle before he moved his shop to Portland. We we're kicking around pedal name ideas over some beers and I said 'super Chile picoso' and he was like THAT'S IT!' HMU if you wanna see a pic of it inside and out. I even still have the cute little personal note he wrote and folded up and stuck inside the pedal for me to discover later when it was time for a battery change. RIP old friend.

The sound of that Small Stone is very mysterious and I love it. The rarest guitar pedal I own is a boost I'm prototyping on a breadboard. It's the only copy ever made, and it is the only boost in the market that also doubles as an AM radio.

I was literally thinking there is no way he brings out a klon since everyone knows about it but he brought out the klon of klons. Now that's epic.

"I was only looking at the small stone, I wasn't going to touch it---" "DON'T EVEN LOOK AT IT!!!"

Come for the pedals, stay for the cool history lessons. I love your VLOG, Josh. Please never stop. Also love record time.

I almost forgot... It's Thursday (which is becoming my favorite day of the week. Thanks, Josh!)

That Red Army is super chewy

Every time my 8 year old daughter Lorelei comes in the room when I'm watching your videos she says it's "cupid face", I wonder where he hides his bows and arrows at? I was like yeah Josh does kinda have a cupid face, lol. I now think you should do a pedal with a cupid stamp on it. Who's with me?

Favorite rare pedals that I own: 1. Big Tone Music Brewery's Six of Swords (Serial number 10) 2. Spaceman Gemini III Fuzz (Black, serial number 35 of 50) 3. RGW Electronics Bad Bob Boost (pre-Analogman, RIP Robbie) 4. Dunlop Kerry King Q-Zone (prices are spiking recently) 5. Klon Centaurs (Serial numbers 122 & 123, original owner) 6. Creepy Fingers Treble Booster (made with Russian mil-spec components) 7. Boss FA-1 Preamp (soon to be replaced by a more durable JHS Clover) 8. Wampler Crush the Button (Orange amp style, short run for Belgian pedal shop) 9. Lovepedal Darling Devil Distortion (serial number 9 of 10 made) 10. Lovepedal Flaming Tiki COT 50 (1 of 2 made) Lots more have come & gone as my pedal horde had exceeded 300 units at one point. I try to keep it around a tidy 100 now. I'm always looking though, always...

My rarest pedal would have to be one that I built. I was obsessed with Devi Ever pedals at the time and bought a couple of kits from her (just boards and components). I put together a pedal that, with switches of the toggles, turns from a Ruby to a Houndstooth to a 90 and a 4th combination that she didn't make. I also put in a tone knob and linked it via toggle to two different caps...one is fairly subtle and almost useless (and is, therefore, my favorite), but the other one allows you to dial the tone down pretty dark to get the tone of the Dark Ruby, which she accidentally made for a short period of time. It is like having at least 5 Devi pedals in one box. It has some quirks (why doesn't the LED ever cut off? What did I do???), but it sounds awesome. Thanks for sharing your obsession with us, Josh!

Transitional record: "You Made Me Realise" EP by My Bloody Valentine. They really became MBV with that one. In that recent Fender video series on the 60th Anniversary of the Jazzmaster, Kevin Shields said he basically came up with his signature gliding, wavy sound in an afternoon while working on "Thorn" and "Slow" from that EP. I know it's all about "Loveless" but "You Made Me Realise" is amazing, too. Great video, Josh!

X-ray that damn Small Stone box!!

When you find out that you had one of those 50 rare Superbolts a week after you sell it on Reverb 🤦🏻‍♂️

YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME OPEN THE FRIGGEN BOX

I’ve only recently discovered your channel, but I’ve been into all things music my entire life. I want to thank you for your constant praise of other pedal makers and musicians. It’s so sadly rare these days for creators to not feel the need for superiority- and that makes you a VERY RARE pedal(maker). Your knowledge of the history, your anecdotes, your humor make each episode refreshing. The way you speak so glowingly about the people who essentially are your “competition” speaks volumes about how good yours babies must be! Keep up the great work and the positive media... the world needs more discussions about creatives!

Awesome. Almost a history lesson, a wine tasting, and a suspense drama at the same time. A couple comments, first, that Red Army sounds killer. Secondly, I sure hope the sealed-box Small Stone didn't ship with a battery.

My oldest brother had two pedals in the late '60s that I remember. The first was a Schaller wah pedal that had a toggle for two tone settings, they were labelled "bow-wow" and "yoy-yoy". Bow-wow was a pretty standard sounding wah sweep, yoy-yoy had some crazy resonance peak. I was quite young but I can remember the sounds quite distinctly. I also remember the box (my brother was kind of fussy and always put it back in the box when he wasn't using it) had a photo of a Basset Hound on it. The other pedal was a fuzz pedal of some kind. I believe it was a Vox, it was shaped like a mid-late 60s Tone Bender just like yours, had the chicken head knobs, same rough textured metal, but the case was red. I've never seen a photo of red one . I can remember he got a pretty convincing Clapton-Cream SWLABR tone. Anyway, I'm sure they're both long gone, he had a lot of drug problems over the years, but I know he still had them in the early 90's. I saw them at my parents house where he'd been living after a divorce (and they were still in the boxes). I don't know how rare they are, apparently the Schaller is a collectible.

Nirvana unplugged. Not so different for many bands, but no one saw a great set happening that day apart from the band themselves. Even the MTV unplugged crew were expecting a diaster. The band start playing and deliver one of the most iconic unplugged sets of the series. As a fan at the time the band's ability to switch from balls to the wall grunge to melodic and subtle acoustic songs was pretty mind blowing.

Damn you guys make a classy vlog. This is an example of what a lot more of them need to aspire to be.

I love that you showcased Mutemath! I had the pleasure of meeting them a couple of times and once was at a meet and greet sound check. I must have seen 75 JHS pedals on stage! They put everything thru them! They are amazing guys, talented and obviously have impeccable taste in pedals. Cheers, great episode!

Best gear RU-vid Channel. Concise and to the point. Professional editing, fun and enthusiastic . Josh, others should learn from you and your team’s efforts.

Loved the first one, the Russian made red army.

Ever since Fluff gave you a shoutout, this's been my favourite channel on RU-vid. Really good stuff man! Pappa Bless! (To you and the team) Would love to see a top 10 Phasers kinda video xx

I grew up in Holland, MI and always enjoyed seeing what Cusack Pedals was coming out with. Hope you enjoyed your stay in my hometown man!

Superb video (as always), very informative! That Tone Bender sound is incredible.

The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me is a killer transitional record. Paul Westerberg handles all of the guitar duties because of Bob Stinsons' departure and writes some great tunes. Probably their most coherent, complete album.

The diamond delay and your panther where actually the two delay pedals I really really wanted to own among hundreds of others and it was not just about the tap tempo in an analog delay, they seemed to have the most awesome sound indeed. Never got to actually get either of those, but still it was fun to hear my all-time top choices mentioned together.

I could listen to you talk about pedals all day long. Keep making awesome videos and pedals!

But how does it sound with a bar full of people shouting over your playing?

I own one of your reissued Pink Panthers with the copywrite questioned graphics which I bought on Denmark St. the day before he was meant to release it, as a graduation present for myself. He also told a great story about meeting you and you making him a select dealer because he recognised you entering his shop. Not only will I hold on to it because it’s a future rarity, but also because I love the sounds it makes

I'll be Russian out to find a red army!

i rarely see you talk about the fulldrive. Nice to see one of my favorite pedals getting some love.

I started watching your vlog in February and I really love it. I was already in a band when you were born, but played bass at the time and didn't realize what pedals could do for me. Now, I play acoustic and am exploring the wide world of weird effects, and not so weird. I really appreciate your knowledge, passion, and unconditional love for the pedals you share with us. It's absolutely awesome, Awesome, AWESOME!

My rarest pedal is a 1977 Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Octave Multiplexer

That riff you played with the Superbolt is a damn ripper!

What a cool pedal collection! Really liking your channel and your content. Looking forward to getting my first JHS pedal when I get out of school. God bless, brother!

Another great video, Josh! I got 1 of 10 Way Huge Royal Huge pedals from Carter Vintage guitars earlier this year!!

Odd Soul is an amazing album! Got to see them when they played in the UK a couple of years ago and definitely the best gig I've been to!

The Cure’s “Head On the Door” feels like a transition between their earlier, simplistic “post punk” sound you hear on Seventeen Seconds and Pornography and the more layered, rich, romantic material you hear from Kiss Me... to Wish. I feel like it belongs to neither era, yet somehow both. Adore this record.

Thanks so much for the record section of these shows discovering so much great new music - Odd Soul is brilliant!

Awesome Vid Josh!!!! That Klon sounded sick Bruddah!!!

man......LOVE your channel!! thank you!

Lol, Schrodinger's Small Stone

Addicted to this channel! Your content is top class!

Josh- That Red Army fuzz tone is to die for. I love that sound! definitely on my (ever-growing) list.

I have a MAK Ion modulated delay... I believe this particular version is the only one ever made! Next time you are in the UK, feel free to pop by for a coffee and a jam

Well. If you still own them. You are still hoarding them... Fun video. Thanks for sharing Josh. Don't know where else I would hear a decent demo of a Tone Bender and original Klon in the same video.

I was so excited when I realized it was not Friday, but Thursday! New JHS Vlog!

Fanatic video Josh. I love the Rat. I have one of your JHS moded Rat. It's got a special place on my board.

Mutemath! Great choice! Josh, highlight Mae, Everglow. Monumental album. That tone bender has my heart.

I have a one-of-one Rook in a Kensrue enclosure whose color didn't match the run, and so it didn't get built. Mark built it for me and he and Jon signed it. If Brad Fee could sign it, I might have to take it off my board and buy a used Rook for daily use. That's my only rarity.

You make the best videos. I’ve learned so much from you. Thank you!

My favorite part of the Russian Big Muff, is that switch, that you can stand on and it's still engaged. Then just take your foot off and it turns off. Genius dynamics

I have in my collection a Roland GR300 with the G303 Roland guitar. It is a great analog synth and also a very unique hex fuzz distortion sound. Thanks a lot for the videos and also the channel Joshl!! :-)

I have one of the rats with the tone knob instead of filter knob. Picked it up in a pawn shop in the early 90's. Didn't know the tone version was different till much later I also have a ColorSound overdriver and a Rosac nu wa-fuzz all picked up at pawn shops

I love the way you are so passionate about pedals! Even more I love the way that you (and Brian Wampler) have no hesitation in praising others manufacturers products. (From one of your Aussie fans)

Love your videos! My olde and odd pedal is my Maestro Volume-Wah. First pedal I ever bought (in 1974--with my babysitting money, haha). I still use it in my rig; admittedly it needed a bit of work at one point, but the thing is a beast and sounds fab.

Cool pedals! I got a kick out of the fonts on that Red Army pedal. They're so Western! LOL! I own an Effectrode Helios--that's my "rare" pedal, and also the first boutique pedal, as well as the first TUBE pedal, and the first and only fuzz/tube pedal combo, that I ever bought. IDK if it qualifies as historic, and making a pedal rare is as easy as making only a few; but that's what I have. If an all-tube fuzz ever existed, I'd like to know about it. For records, I'm going with Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. To me, this is the record that took them from their more clattering (in a good way) 80s period, past the references to pop music, and into riffage territory. It's also the only album they really played that way on. The record was a HUGE influence on Nirvana, Beck, My Bloody Valentine, Swervedriver, most of the grunge people (especially SY's former label mates from SST Records)...the list goes on. It's a dissonant, rough, mind-bending assault, yet also strangely palatable. It changed my thinking about what music could be and drove me to try new things. I would say that from this point, Sonic Youth began a gradual decline. Goo was good but not AS good, and certainly not mixed as well, as Daydream Nation. Starting with and including about half or more of Dirty, they quit being as sonically adventurous, probably due to record label crap, and I pretty much decided to stick to their older stuff. For an alternative choice, I'd go with something like Hologram of Baal, by The Church. They were on an artistic and business decline, and nearly came to an end. As a fan, I had abandoned hope. Then, I found a deluxe copy (with Bastard Universe included) for $3 at a used record store. This record was the first to feature Tim on drums, and if you ask me, Tim's production helped rejuvenate the band in a significant way, even if Tim disagrees. It also featured the "official return" of Peter, one of the founding members of the band. Peter brought with him a Pog and was doing spacey, shimmery ambient/dream-pop stuff on this record, letting Marty play more of the up-front guitar parts; this injected a fresh and complementary dimension to the music and lyrics. Needless to say, as a fanboy, I was excited by their return, and they haven't put out another bad album since then (with possible exception of last year's Man, Woman, Life, Death, Infinity, which didn't suck but wasn't particularly remarkable to me). Rock on!

I have a “Boba Fuzz” Woolly Mammoth clone made by DopeFx in the UK. “Hand wired on the dark side” it says on the box. Awesome fuzz. “Flow Motion” by CAN is an awesome transition album; a move from the beach to the pool. Also “Shiny Beast” by Captain Beefheart.

You make me love pedals Josh, thanks 🤘✌️

This was a good episode, I love the history. Also, that Mutemath album is a great shout. 👍

Amazing! I'll get there someday

Hey Josh. Have you ever seen/heard of a old Electro Harmonix filter wah that had a roller wheel on it to adjust the sweep? My friend had one in the early 80's. It was cool and unique sounding. Never seen it since. You rock. Thx

Watching Josh and just listening to him talk about pedals and play is like hanging with a lifelong friend

That was the best video that I have watched in your making. I love pedals especially compressor pedals.Jim

That ending with the Klon sounded especially delicious.

I have a MK1 EH 16 Second Digital Delay purchased new in 1983 - still works with occasional hiccups ;)

I am catching up on all these old episodes after finding this channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and I appreciate Record Time. Just listened to MUTEMATH for the first time. Love it!!

I have a ProCo Rat with the TONE knob in the middle. I have had this pedal since 79/80 .I also have a ChandlerTUBEDRIVER, the rack mount version. Yes I know it's supposed to be Butler but this was when Butler was with Chandler. I also have an early Dyna Comp and Noise Gate / Line Driver by MXR. I got all of these when I first started playing guitars in the late 70's early 80's.

I subscribe to engineering channels and channels about AI and physics, philosophy, etc, and this might be the nerdiest video I’ve ever seen. :P The transition of Dillinger Escape Plan from having Mike Patton on that EP and then releasing Miss Machine (with a new singer) is incredible. A lot of OG fanboys disagree with me for sure, but I think Miss Machine is their best album IMO. I have a pedal that was hand made for a friend of mine that passed and I have absolutely no idea what it is. I just know it’s some kind of boost/drive and it sounds killer and I will never let it go.

Finally, this week's highlight is out...

I just love how much you are a big fan from other brands. Awesome, you are a legend too!

"The Tall Ships" by the British prog rock band It Bites was definitely became a transition-type album when John Mitchell took over guitar & vocal duties from Francis Dunnery - both of which are amazing guitar players (and pretty damn good vocalists, too).

Thrice and Brand New, awesome ability to change their sounds from album to album.

What is that sweet Starcaster you're playing? I love it!

Loved that album! They actually played a prerelease tour in tiny venues before the album came out. I saw them at the Grog Shop in Cleveland. It was packed and sweaty but Mutemath was incredible as always. They actually came in through the crowd while Darin played a drum hung from his neck.

My favorite pedal from the show today is the Tone Bender Mk 1.5. That has to be my favorite fuzz sound. The Phase 45 was probably a close second. Thanks for reminding me how much I need one. I swear this show makes me spend more money than any youtube ad could hope to get from me. As for my rarest pedal, it's definitely my Analogman King of Tone. They aren't too hard to get, but if you aren't willing to wait on a year+ long waiting list for one be prepared to spend double what they go for new.

I was thinking at the last pedal "don't be a Klon, don't be a Klon, don't be a Klon." It was a Klon. ha. I appreciate your interesting hobby. Thanks for sharing your pedal love and interesting trivia knowledge.

I love that white JHS amp.

As usual, I loved this episode! And having just acquired my first real Klon (Golden short tail horsie) I loved seeing yours! Klon is def my rarest, but I also have a 1982 Boss CE-2 from the original owner (a friend). There's a couple 80's DOD pedals in my Parent's attic. I also have a small collection of EM-Drives including a prototype made on my birthday and one of the 1st 50 Mitch made (I actually sold it and several years later found it online and bought it back). Last, a couple not rare YET: a brand new JHS Pink Panther (to remain in it's box for years to come and a mint condish Bondi Del Mar.

I watch these videos partly because I love the way you say "wreally".

McCartney II: the ultimate one-off album. Also I really appreciate the history you give for pedals and pedal companies. It makes your channel more than just pedal demos. And it makes people have a deeper appreciation for the history of pedals when they see your fandom of the whole industry.

A rare pedal I’ve always wanted was a Electro harmonix Electric Mistress

I love to come home from work on Thursday - get my coffee and watch the JHS video. But today I get the video - and now I get to plug in and try out my brand new Emperor V2 pedal! Hell yeah, what a great day. The maybe not so rare, but still super sweet pedal I have - lost in my house for the last three years - is a mid 80's Rat my older brother gave me years ago. I still remember exactly how it sounds - coming through his little - but loud as hell - Gallien Krueger amp - rocking a custom painted Kramer Baretta. I think it'll sound better with my Tele and Fender amp, but who knows. I honestly liked the Super Bolt. It might be moving to the top of my desired pedals list. With the inclusion of the Emperor, JHS now dominates my board. And the purple really ties the scheme together.

Where were you 60 years ago. I've learned so much just from watching your videos. I keep getting multi effects units but I always regret it. Pedals are the way to go.

Give me that small stone. GIVE ME THAT SMALL STONE.

Has he done a mig amp breakdown/comparison. If not plz compare all the migs?

I always find myself every now and then watching this.. pure gold for the pedal nutter.

As always, nice episode Josh!

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have an album which is quite different from their previous ones. its called "Flying Microtonal Banana". As they said that album is "An Exploration into Microtonal Tuning" and they used guitars with modified fret placements. Check it out.

Cocteau Twins- ‘Treasure’ The Rat pedal sounded amazing!! I think I’m going to go buy one.

Favorite transitional album is definitely Title Fight's "Floral Green." It's the perfect transition from their amazing punk album "Shed" to their full blown clean, modulated, reverb sound on "Hyperview." Really cool to see them move through the thought process and "Floral Green" captures that perfectly.

Bands that have always changed - Underoath. They had line-up changes for every album and just went with it. They highlighted the best of who they had and it gave them a ton of range. Also, great hardcore/metal tones - dynamic and aggressive, riffs all across the neck, plus some analog synth (depending on the album).

Josh. That MXR pedal is pre-Dunlop. But that is all the info Dunlop has.

My rarest pedal is a Keeley Seafoam Chorus prototype.

Watched only for the Solasound - and it did NOT disappoint!

That little jam w the superbolt and the Sg sounded great,man.