How Electro Harmonix Listened To Me And Reissued This Rarity! The Slap-Back Echo Delay 

Josh Scott rocks!!

I don’t know why but I’m so giddy with joy that they used your video. Despite everyone else, I appreciate your influence in the pedal community and how you use your influence as well.

Josh if you ever see , thank you for your explanations of effects, I have never understood a slap echo and now I love doing really overdriven sticcato chords to hear that sapbacck...it's weird, oh and starting at noon on everything has saved my life and honestly my tone, thanks buddy! I've been playing for 20yrs my God

I can't say it enough that I love the JHS show, the jokes are always so perfect and the content is in depth while never boring. Wonderful episode, I'm gonna go order one 👌🏻👌🏻

Thank you Josh. Every reissue is ever a little miracle for guitar geeks. My question now is… what abiut the Echo Flanger? Millions of Nirvana fans are praying for a reissue of it. You know. It’s about that lovely filter matrix. 🙏

For years I've snuck up on the edge of the pedal rabbit hole and took short, small looks. Around the mid-late 70's we were doing a cover of Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, and a friend gave me a pedal that made 'whooshing' sounds, like surf, and I used that for awhile. When we added a 'Stones' set, I found a Boss BD, to make my 80W silver face twin w/jbl's growl a little. I liked the BD, and used it with a Morley volume/woah for years. During a 2 year sabbatical I loaned it to a friend and it disappeared. Also during that time I had my working guitars refreshed, and bought a new Yamaha RevStar w/P90's (shocked myself on that one LOL), now I'm making my very first pedal board!! That's a big deal for a cat that's been playing 55 years!! LOL I bought a Voodoo labs PS, and a new Boss BD2 so far. Found a comp90 at a garage sale, and bought a Korg tuner pedal. Now I'm listening to Sir Josh to determine what my essentials might be. Appreciate you guys!!! 8) --gary

Man the Lizard Queen would be an amazing pedal that I would throw all my money at.

I miss the Friday shows. They were part of my end of working week routine.

i have been watching/digging yer channel for a couple years. this is my favorite. EVER ! thanks.

The JHS RU-vid multiverse continues to expand! So cool

I love how much of a pedal geek you are, Josh!😂💯🤘🏻

I enjoy your content so much! Guitar pedals are freaking cocaine… You know what I mean. Crazy thing is I’m a drummer. I don’t know why I like these things so much it’s ridiculous. I do have to say though I really really really really really loved knowing what day you guys are dropping new episodes! I was never available on Mondays to watch the monologue live, but always found a way to figure out Wednesdays and Fridays. Give me one day and time that you’ll put out something consistently! Please. And if not, I’ll just watch when I can. Hope you’re doing well.

This is so great, two brands almost like working together 🤝🏻

I got one of these two weeks ago after watching your video. It's a tad darker than I was expecting but it's really nice. Even with the blend all the way off it adds some really nice thickness. I think it's boosting the lows or low mids a bit, but not totally sure. Fun pedal. Now I can keep my DM-2W set for longer delays and use this for slapback and thickening. Tightens up nicely with some compression in front of it. Really happy with it.

“a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.” - full phrase

Got one! Now I need a guitar. And an amplifier…maybe a gig?

I know mini pedals are a controversial topic here, but I think the small enclosure works for this pedal, because it's something I can imagine people just sort of throwing in a random spot on an already established or nearly full pedalboard and having a little extra option

I want to see a Josh and Mike colab man!.... DO IT!!!!

The Klon/Reverb/Bad Monkey joke slipped in, love it 😂

Cracked Windshield is so good, I immediately enjoyed the music which is a rarity for me anyway. I'm so happy for record time :)

Thank you, Josh!

I am loving my JHS Bonzi. It's a great pedal. Thanks!

So awesome they used your video in theirs

Glad these fun little low-key live streams are back! I'd personally love to see History of Electric Guitar finished up at some point, covering the genesis of the classic designs, though I realize that may be too labor intensive to be feasible. Josh, what books would you recommend covering Fender history up to the CBS era? Thanks as always for a great show.

Great little pedal, I want one

That sounds so good with the Blooz Driver. Such a good drive at low gain.

That's a cool pedal, i'm trying to acquire an east river drive myself. The people at EHX are cool on instagram and always like my comments. Not surprising that they watch your stuff.

Excited for the Tech 21 episode, hope you try them into a totally clean power amp, they're neat.

perfect pedal for my Marshalls effects loop. Just ordered

The EHX Lizard Queen!!!! C'mon EHX, I'm def in for one.. 🤘🏼 Thanks Josh and team!

Slap-Back Echo to $300 by tomorrow!

Congratulations Josh!

Darn it! I just ordered it and I don't know why, darn Josh and his mind tricks...thanks Josh ;p Congratulations Chris, let us know how it works for you! :)

Josh, seriously, if you’re gonna pretend this isn’t the absolutely coolest dream come true ever, I don’t even know what to tell ya. Cuz it really is.

This is awesome but there's only one issue; I already bought my coffee today before watching this so now I have to wait till tomorrow to be able to afford it.

Awesome vid! I'd love to see a blend knob on the small clone, and maybe even a stereo version.

The unfinished SOVTEK MIG episode is what haunts Josh's dreams every single night. What's your recurring nightmare Joshua?

A pog in the same mini format.. also the holy grail and mm

I bought along with the Glove and love it!

Now can you work on them reissuing the original big box polychorus?

Sweet jam. EHX is super cool.

I want Josh to just sit back for a minute and imagine telling his 13 year old self that, one day when he grows up, he will throw out a request to the ether for ehx to reissue a cool pedal and they listened. Also that boss pedals would make a custom pedal with him and it would be amazing. How cool is that? Follow your dreams kids

Nice to see that Mike Mathews is still fine.

When I first saw the the reissue, I immediately thought about that obscure EHX pedals episode. And the statement I made about not buying another pedal this year unless something crazy happens, like I find a vintage BK Butlers Tube Driver for an insane deal, or EHX actually reissues the Slapback Echo. I’m just waiting to get the Slapback, and last week got an insane deal on a vintage Tube Driver (1/6 of what a Bad Monkey is being sold for at the time of this video). So 3 months in, the two scenarios I deemed nearly impossible happened. I can’t wait to try them together. I love the Slapback’s doubling effect; it reminds me of that double tracked guitar on “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” (the third solo). Hope EHX continues to surprise!

Definitely need to squeeze this onto my board now.

Analog Slapback - Thanks Josh!

I would make a plea to EHX to dig deep into their history in Russia and build a pedal that will give me the tone of Ivan Drago punching the pressure meter in front of the press. As long as we are on a Rocky theme, maybe they could make a special version of the SlapBack that has a picture of Adrian slapping Clubber Lang.

I've been doing this with an Ibanez DE-7 this whole time.

Love the callout from MM!

this sounds so good

Such a sick jam!

That exh/jhs jam was legit

Their video is absolutely epic.

I bought this pedal and I sent it back for being a slap echo it didn't seem to have any echo. I was hoping it was an upgrade for my danelectro plastic slap echo pedal but it wasn't so I put it back on my board.

@JHSPEDALS are you running the pedals into the front of the Kemper or in the effects loop? I'm giving up on the onboard effects and going to set up a pedal board for mine.... Might be a good Video - "Using the Kemper as a Pedal Platform Amp" 😀

😃😃😃 Yaaaaay!! The ol' feller @ EHX was lis'nin to ya, Josh! Mike Matthews, a living legend in pedal making history! Now, if he would reissue the EHX Electric Mistress Flanger "As Manufactured" in 1979-1980, for those "Spirit Of Radio/Alex Lifeson"- Flange Tones, I would DEFINITELY buy one, and later match it up with the Small Clone, and a Slap Back! If you're reading this, Josh, beg and plead, (or push, whatever needs to be done!), to have Mike M. METICULOUSLY recreate the Electric Mistress like Lifeson used on the intro to 'Spirit Of Radio!' Yeah, I've already heard that the current Deluxe Electric Mistress does the job, but there is 'something' missing, a 'thickness' or a 'warmth'. And it 'is' audible, I really don't think my ears or brain are playing tricks on me. If Mike can reissue the EXH Slap Back in a smaller enclosure, then he can faithfully recreate the 'Late 1970s-Early 1980s'- version of the EHX Electric Mistress Flanger, and put it in the 'current' Deluxe Electric Mistress enclosure, can he not? 🤔😐😁

This is dope af

Rushed out and bought one as soon as they came out. Perfect second delay.

Great looking pedal everyone can use one 👍

Looks like a great pedal, the most shocking part of the video was Josh admitting that there is a version he doesn't have! I've never heard him say that before. The only EHX pedal I have is a Big Muff, but I will have to change that. There's a mad genius to their pedals that just goes outside other makers.

Would love to know how I could recreate this on my Kemper with Delay? Tape Slapback?

That jam is epic!!!!

BD-2 what a great workhorse of a pedal - dig it

I like your jams.

Damn...I missed this live stream!

I'm about that Pico life. On my tacos, 🌮 and in my tone 😋 👌

Now if EHX could bring back the Zipper Envelope Follower in a small package that would be huge. I own over 25 of their pedals and that is one of my absolute favorites for lead tone.

Got to love beaver cleaver

Now some question comes to my mind. I have a Dod Hard Rock Distortion. As i understand, is a Distortion with a delay added to it. Is this a Slap back? Would you give some data about it sometime?

It is wild how an effect so simple can be so huge. I've tried doing the same with my DMM but it just doesn't sound right

My first impression of you chuggin' (at full echo and blend) was the intro to The Georgia Satellites', Keep Your Hands to Yourself.

That pocket is for picks Josh, not change...

I've been trying to get the slap-back of the Stones records 78-81. Can't seem to nail it with any of my pedals and I have some good ones. I was stoked to get this pedal but I'm really bad at settings. Anyone have a setting? I'm sure it's more Keith's right hand. Funny he really only gets mentioned by the Satisfaction fuzz but that's the last thing I want. But that's also a sound that I never hear sounding like the record.

Chris Allen won American Idol in like 2010 or something like that. He lived in the Arkansas town nexto me.

That jam at 6:30 is amazing!

Do you have Cicognani pedals that you could do an episode on? (Pompeii PE 603) for example…

Part of the plan for the physical emulation thing is to get a cheap and effective pedal for the analog version. The short time option switch and EHX price ratio pretty much rates, but in the nano it is especially perfect for the ultimate contrast. I can put one of these on the dry kill position into that analog spot. A/B comparisons will have to wait until I can score another JBL 2485, but it is not feasible to get the roll of conduit into the suburban yard here anyway. I could run just a low-pass into a cone transducer, even. Out on the farm I had hi/low pass filter and spare amp running fifty foot of conduit between the driver and horn. The mantra was always, of course, "They make a pedal for this". But yeah, fattens the tone.

Yo Ehx! Make a Nano version of the Ring Thing! I love mine, but it takes up too much room and/or may be broken, haha!

How'd I miss this. I never get notified anymore when your live...damn RU-vid! I wanted to win this. You can still send me on if you want,or instead a jhs reverb/delay? 🤔 Anything that slaps back would be fine!

Dope! I need the sour owed version. Or souround version!

What happened to the full band lives? Probably my favorite content of yours, haven't seen them since last year.

IF you're a pedal maker and JHS's buddy and NOT listening to Josh and taking marketing/manufacturing advice from him, you are missing out!!!

I could really use that slap back echo, Josh. 😃

If anyone can answer the question below to educate me, please do! Why would you want a slap echo pedal? Doesn't it work just as well with any delay pedal that can have much longer delay time, but you just put the time very low to mimic slapback?

JHS needs to produce the JHS Slap-Back Hair-Do pedal, inspired by the 2023 vs. 2021 JS hair cuts. A Big Muff with soft clipping "hair" on the fuzz. 2021-mode short and tight with a high top-end. 2023-mode, freeform, carefree and a bit of attitude to let the fuzz blossom bloom!

sweet Two-Rock collection!

That is similar to Junior Brown he's the guy that did Better Call Saul

That pocket on jeans was actually intended originally for a pocket watch. Over the years I think it evolved to change packet😂

I'll miss the Monday Monologues...but this was an enjoyable video.

pico sized "180" looper. would bookend the board nicely with the 2020 tuner.

Erg gave uitvoering! Lekker!

I wish theyd reissue the polychorus and put it in a box like did with the Attack/Decay reissue. It looks like the vintage pedal just smaller, but not too small. Or reissue the EchoFlanger. Echoflanger or Polychorus. Either one. They're the same I'm told

Good one Josh. You’ve made a video of it and now I probably can’t afford it.

The way that this is sounding at the beginning is that as you go clockwise, you are blending in only echo...so it adds latency to the signal and drives you totally insane. Other than that, seems like an awesome slap.

I have always been an EHX fan. Everyone clones them and charges 3 times the price of the original. The Tone Corset Compressor and the OD glove are two great affordable pedals from EHX.

ut oh Josh is doing it again LoL. I have an original EHX Slapback and it sounds awesome in it's primitiveness. I don't have the box, am I gonna survive? Bought it at a yardsale years ago for $00.25

i bought a Canyon based on JHS' recommendation. Very happy with it

Like a Memory toy with gain and without delay potentiometer

Tell us about your camera gear … pretty please? 🥺

I am a bit late to the party, but I would really like EHX to reissue their big dual preamp tube pedal series. I got the Black Finger, and absolutely love it, actually even bought a backup recently, so now I got two Black Finger pedals, as it is an essential part of my setup. Unfortunately though I was stupid enough to the LPB 2ube stereo/dual channel tube preamp that I also owned at some point, and the The Wiggler, tube tremolo and vibrato pedal, that I also owned at some point. Very much regret that and would buy these again if you reissued them, as they are pretty rare to find used, and also costs more than they did originally from new.