I wonder if John Frusciante knew these Lovetone weird modulation pedals at the heyday of his guitar playing life. He would have made wonders out of those.
King gizzard and the lizard wizard is a great band that reminds me of vintage recording techniques. And I was really digging that question mark flanger. Anything that accidentally turns into a metronome is alright by me. I’m just into anything that warbles.
I now love that band, and I played them for my wife and she loves them too. I'm 57, so 70s classic prog etc. is what I grew up to. King Gizzard are terrific.
Waaaaaay too brief. These pedals definitely need a lot more demoing. Ping them in the post to Dan n Mick and let them do an hour long episode with them!
I’ve been playing guitar for a LONG time and only very recently heard of Lovepedal through a thread on the TGP forum, which has over 500k views! Great to here the backstory in this vid.
I got to play a meatball. I had just began to get into pedals, and the lead guitarist in the church I lead worship in pulled it from the depths of his collection. I was blown away by how crazy it was, and how it allowed me (an acoustic guy) to tweak all kinds of ways. I never looked back!
So glad to hear a shout out to Zeus! An amazing Canadian band who has recorded with other Canadian treasures like Jason Collette and Bahamas - and of course their own amazing work that is just dripping with feel
The first Alabama shakes record, and any Charles Bradley record. I hate waiting for the next jhs video. I guess I will have to watch 60 to a hundred times;)
Fantastic Josh! Well, I got to get MY first Lovetone experience at GuitCon in 2017 and it was the Meatball. I had ZERO preconceived notion of what it did or sounded like and just jumped in, head first, with cameras rolling. It was so much fun! Incredibly tweakable. Now if only I made enough money to justify the used prices I see 🤔 Either way, Lovetone WAS game-changing. It’s too bad they haven’t had a Renaissance because I’m sure players would love to hear more of what they could have created but I suppose we have guys like Chase Bliss and Meris and others I can’t think of pushing those boundaries for us.
Kurt Vile used to have several Lovetone pedals in his live setup in the early days. I have read somewhere that the pedals were stolen at some point, which is a shame.
My current favorite band is Rival Sons. Their 7th release will hit late Jan. They started out as there take on a 60s british rock band. think kinks, yardbirds, stones, early zeppelin. They have now evolved into something unique with Scott Holiday (guitar) coming up with some interesting tones. An absolutely phenomenal live act, you really have to see them!
The Strokes Is This It..............still absolutely love this album and man what a special time when it first came out...Really did feel like anything was possible again
I just finished building a clone of the Flanger With No Name! I’m so glad you posted this; I’m planning to finish a Meatball derived clone this winter.
@@jhspedals You should put out a Wobbulator, call it a Tsunami, and slap a butterfly on the front of it. Put out a Flange With No Name and call it the Kookaburra. I actually have some really good names for other pedals and live in Bama so you should hire me as a really cheap consultant
I came here for some reasonable pedal suggestions. I left with an incredibly valuable history lesson. And an incredible appreciation of Zeus (seriously, listen to these guys.). Josh, thank you so much for doing this kind of work; it will no doubt be invaluable to historians in the future. More importantly, thank you for working tirelessly on engineering problems which lead us everyday casual guitar players to sound just a little bit better every time we rock.
The rarest LoveTone pedal is the Flange With No Name, or the Question Mark (QM) Flange. I own one. I love it. It stays in the studio. It must be the first flanger to offer different wave form for flanging. It also has extreme tweakability. Plus, the tremolo is completely independent from the flanger. It comes with an solar sensor that plug in on the top of the pedal that adjusts the manual control using light. You can just use your foot to play around with it. I love my LoveTone pedal.
My Ring Stinger also has what they referred to as a Light Jack - It is awesome, but way too unpredictable, especially under the presence of stage lighting (as I discovered to my embarassment and amusement). I bought that and the Meatball at the time of release, but couldn't stretch to the rest back then.
Thank you for the walk through time! I very much enjoy your videos cannot wait to see the next one! And I cannot wait to get another JHS pedal! I gotta get that Big Cheese!
Back in the 90s, here in Australia if you wanted to buy a pedal, you went to a music shop where you could choose from a small selection of Boss, DOD and Danelectro. The range back then was nothing like you get today! If you bought at pawn shops, the pedal effectively chose you, as you usually couldn't try them out, and the range was even more limited than the music shop!
blackberry smoke..straight killing that southern rock. as far as my favorite, i liked the big Cheeze. perfect evil fuzz with humbuckers in a hollowbody. pretty impresive. another great episode.
A kinda famous guitar player here in Sweden was my old teacher for a while. He had a Big Cheese on his board and when he first showed it to me and then put an octave in front of it...man it was instant LOVE! Ten years later I finally own one. Love the tone, love the shape but too afraid to use it outside the studio! To much affection...
Alright Josh you did the Lovetone segment and did it well. Thank You So many people don't know about this amazing pedal company because they are no longer made. I remember calling Vlad in England to order my Doppleganger direct from Lovetone, it would be one of the last ever sold. Lovetone, really made true Boutique Pedals as they created something that was never before. lol You have given both Dan and Vlad the spot light they deserve in the Pedal Hall of Fame. Bravo
The more I think about it, it seems that they're kinda the Strymon of the late 90s. Big boxes with huge utility. If social media had been a thing back then, I think they would have seen more success.
You inspired me to get my Cheese Source out and re-explore it after being in one of my 2 suitcases I use to store pedals I don’t really use. I got it in 99-00 and loved it, but you know how fuzz can take you down a never ending road. I lean towards triangle muff style fuzz, and there were just better options. Going through my suitcases I grabbed a few others that were half forgotten to reexamine at this stage in my playing, and I’m gonna have some fun today!! I don’t know why I put a Butler tube drive in a suitcase!!!! It’s almost so I can find them again I guess.
I know this name is pretentious but Jack White keeps the sound of the classic rock era and pushes the boundaries of sound and texture!! And oh ya Radiohead bless them for breaking barriers! Ya ya people say they like them but I liked them WAY before Creep. And I'm not just a fan I'm a musician and guitarist and my whole family are musicians. Thanks dad for teaching us Elvis, Beatles and Beach Boys in grade school era. RIP Pops ❤️🎵🎤 And I evolved to Hendrix, Zep, Floyd, Sabbath, RUSH.Happy New Year 2019 gonna ROCK!! Btw... Thank you for what you do and represent. I started playing guitar with my kid brother playing drums and singing 7-8 yrs old. My 1st effects were MXR distortion box yes mustard yellow. Electric Mistress Flanger and the bad ass BIG MUFF! Keep analog alive and the beauty of late 60s and 70s recording 🎵🎤🎧🎹❤️🎸🥁🎼
The Cheese and Cheese /Sauce pedals are keepers. I LOvE fuzz, either alone or stacked with an OD pedal.....I'm still diggin' my Firefly fuzz. It's been on my pedalboard for years. The bias adjustment knob is the "Sauce" on that pedal ....
Witchcraft or Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats pay homage to older recording techniques while maintaining an original sound in my humble opinion. Love your channel and pedals! Cheers
Excellent. I remember a couple of those coming through when I used to work at a little music store/studio in Martinsburg, WV. The "?" especially. This one blues guy who started getting psychedelic with his material used it on a few cuts. Ran it through a Fender Super Six Reverb. It was an amazing sound.
Tame Impala's InnerSpeaker album sounds very much like The Beatles' Revolver, but in a very new and fresh way. Loved it as soon as I started listening at it.
New Twist On Classic Sounds: Mr. Airplane Man reformed a while back. They put out an LP this year called "Jacaranda Blue". Check that out. If you can't find the record, they're also on Band amp. ... Someone already said King Gizzard, so that too.
Kinda late to the party but Alabama Shakes do that for me! Their first album catches the classic blues rock that came out of the south and then their second album transformed that into something super cool and unique!
The Flange With No Name has me intrigued and a little hungry to hear more! There were some unexpected pitch changes in the flange that perked my ear just enough to make me say 0oo0oO. That alone has gotta be a good thing.
Roxy Music, first eponymous LP, still with Brian Eno.Absolute, addled, genius, running thru the entire history of music.As many, many, times as I've heard it, I still can't get over it's expansiveness and prowness.Coming from a diff place, before Ferry figured out he could be a rock legend with unlimited income and options.Fertile minds of actual artists.(For Your Pleasure pretty cool as well).
The cheese source is my favourite, best sounding thick overdrive & so many ripping but totally useable fuzz sounds. On the cheese setting the gated fuzz can sound like a synth or a bee or a broken computer, it's just excellent. I don't have the flange or tremolo or separate big cheese & brown source pedals but am using the wee metal board as my main small gigging board at the moment. Bought 2 of the pedals direct from them before they closed & remember i got slagged off by Dan for having a dodgy email address. Have sent pedals to him to repair more recently, not sure of he's still offering that but a very nice guy if you have reason to chat to him.
Hi I had the meatball! I put every thing trough it. Yeah it was great but back in the nineties I just took everything for granted. It got sold. Now I get a mix of all those sounds with excellent contemporary pedals. Loving the v logs 👍
The Flanger With No Name!!! That was really cool how it can be used as a modulated metronome to play along to. Hours and hours would disappear into that machine.
There's a sauce in the UK called "HP Sauce" that's generally called Brown sauce because it's Brown. Looks like Barbecue sauce but tastes different. Given there's a few food names, maybe this is another one?
it's always so cool to me how you and other pedal designers admire one another. No bad blood between makers it seems. (Holy cheese, that Big Cheese just got added to my want list)
To me, they seem to be more than a pedal and more of a studio tool. The question mark for example: a normal flanger is limited to a particular range that you associate a flanger to. The Question Mark seems to be the range that those parameters are limited to. Like you would view that as the typical range a flanger has but expanding out into the range the parameters have outside its category. Really interesting and creative
I remember seeing a picture of Kevin Shields in a magazine playing a couple of those together and thinking that all I needed was two Lovetone pedals to sounds like MBV. Hahah.. oh to be young.
I’ve been really digging the album “Sex & Food” by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Lots of classic psychedelic tones. Throws back to Hendrix but also Prince. His combo of phaser/vibe and octave fuzz just sounds soooo good.
I remember seeing Mouse on Mars live around '99 and noticing a couple of these big boxes on the table in front of them. I didn't know what effect they had on the sounds I was hearing, but I could tell they were not the basic Boss/DOD units I was used to.
Hey I think it is a cool design, too! And that Cheese Source pedal sounds absolutely delightful! Thank you for sharing, Josh. I feel like I needed this today. Stay safe.
Though I'm a Fuzz/Disto/OD freak and long time worshipper of the Electric Church at the alter of Hendrix for 35 gainfully saturated, fuzzed up, overdriven years, I gotta say my favorite personal pedal pick award goes to.....?. The odd quirkiness and hours of "fun for the whole family" vibe and tones in that short clip proved to be just that, hours of wild, weird and whacky fun. Though there was some fine fuzz-tastic freak-out, fuzz/OD coming out of the Cheese Source, (which of course is runner up) the fun of exploring strange alternate universal sonic soundscapes for eons won me over. Great vids Josh, all of them, thanks! Rite on and fuzz on! Fun freaky fuzz fact: the oldest and most fuzzumental pedal I own is a Guild "FOXY LADY" from 1975. I aquired it on a trade 20+ years ago but it does need a little work.
DR DOG! Almost all of their albums give me 70s recording vibes. The live takes, guitar tones, it's a big mess but they make it all work as a band. Love it!
This video brought back memories of talking to Vlad on the phone when I paid for my pedals and then getting a big phone bill for the international call. You can hear the Lovetone influence in the pedals from Chase Bliss.
my favourite band: i think they're never trying to imitate old records but California band The Mother Hips always have gorgeous guitar tones that reminds me to classic rock records.
Another lively & lovely episode. I first encountered LoveTone devices when I read a review of the Meatball in a UK music/instrument magazine (maybe Guitarist?). I was fascinated, and surprised. Pedals? Single pedals? Don’t we just want digital multiple-FX devices in racks? And therein lay there demise; LoveTone were ahead of their time, and couldn’t generate enough interest for what were very expensive devices at the time to make it successful, yet, like Firefly, LoveTone, no “boutique” pedal market. Or craft Gin.
