Yeah man, this is my favorite channel lately. I didn’t used pedals for the first 3 years of playing guitar, but I was gifted a vintage ibanez screamer and cry baby and since finding this channel a few months ago I have 10 pedals, its not a problem.
I used to own one of these. A former girlfriend gifted one to me. I didn't know what to do with it and after a breakup, I needed some money and sold it. Now. I would like to explore one of these again, especially since I have become a better player after all these years.
The Space Station is hands down my favorite pedal of my collection. I purchased mine in 98' or 99' from my local guitar store for 50% off the retail price. They were very happy for me to take it. The synth patches were the precursor to shimmer verbs. The reverse warp is shoegaze magic. I have recorded with it on hip hop records, shoegaze, electronic, and post rock. I feel very honored to have one as it has provided many opportunities for me to work with all kinds of artists due to its unique sound pallet. Digitech should make a small form factor version like the Ricochet with an expression pedal input jack. I feel like the Meris ENZO is an ode to the Space Station. Over 20 years with this thing and I still have not exhausted its possibilities.
Saw the Space Station on a video about Tom Morello’s live rig. The thing has to run on a separate mixer channel because it’s too NOISY compared to the rest of his board (Digitech Whammy and a bunch of Boss Pedals) Edit: I picked up a Digitech Nautila, it’s a chorus/flanger (there’s a switch on top that I wish was a footswitch) with a ridiculous amount of selectable stages for both. It also has concentric knobs, so one knob can be two knobs.
Nobody mentioning Nick Reinharts use of this pedal on the Tera Melos album X'ed Out or any Tera Melos live show from 2013 to like 2015 is insane. His use of the Space Station is inspiring, and what got me interested in this cool pedal in the first place.
Agreed. Not mentioning or speaking to Nick on a video about this pedal is actually a pretty big oversight. No mention of the aftermarket legacy like modding other XP pedals to be the XP300 (jetpack mod I think it was? Nick and Juan did a video about this pretty sure). C'mon JHS, cool folks, but this was straight fluff.
If you can track down Cooper FX Arcades pedal (unfortunately also discontinued) there is a Space Station card for this. Several other of the cards feature sounds from the Space Station too. Amazing pedal from the guy who now does all the complex DSP work for Chase Bliss. Unlike the original Space Station, the Arcades version also allows for fairly deep editing. A sleeper.
Don't forget folks, the XP-300's Synth Swell setting lived on in the Digitech EX-7 Expression Factory. You could control Pitch Shift, Chorus/Pitch Balance, and Swell Attack Time.
I have both pedals. I got an EX-7 hoping it would sound like an XP-300, and found the EX-7's space station mode just gives a bit of a taste of what the XP-300 can sound like. Still, I too have found that the EX-7 is more "functional" as it is easier to fit in my gig bag and has great wah and distortion sounds. I rarely use it in space station mode. @@rocketshiptoaltair
You should get MIDI pickup or even just the MIDI guitar software. With a good enough PC & interface you can make any sound you’ll ever want without having to degrade your signal with yet another fx pedal
I have two of these (one still in the plastic). I’m pretty sure Billy Corgan and James Iha used the Space Station on a few tracks from the Adore record. Still one of the coolest pedals in my collection.
Mine gave me one of those brian may signature red special pedals “brand new” unsold for too mahy years. and i threw it in the trash. The price on reverb now is making me regret that
She's most likely playing some kind of "performance" patch that has loops; that's almost certainly where the drum loop is coming from (possibly the bass as well) as she holds down that key the whole time and the little melody plays when she hits the higher key. Not really faking so much as just triggering loops.
I've just started watching this episode and I hope it's a good review. I bought a Space Station when they first came out and practically made my musical career with that puppy. I still love it's weirdness. Crazy expensive, back in the day, too.
One of the best pedals ever conceived, years ahead of its time. Wrote and recorded numerous songs with this pedal (patch 8), in my youth to mid 20s was my signature sound. People would always ask me "how do you get that sound" at shows. Thanks for hopefully hailing a reissue in with the hype train, or worst case increasing the value of the originals even more.
@@lewisratford2908 yeah I got mine Nov 2000. Not immediately as released, but still, some time ago. I gigged the shit outta it. In more recent years I acquired LNIB XP200 and performed the XP-all mods to it, so I have all the series (inc the Space Station again) in a beautiful package.
@@Lovetone1983 amazing ! So cool to hear. I used to use the synth sounds with drive and it filled the room. Still got all my XP gear. Even got the Hendrix pedal with the purple sock. Such a great brand and way a head .. sadly people didn’t know it. Will never sell any of them
I came into the comments section to say exactly this! Back in the early 2000s, when "alternative" music consisted mostly of rap metal, Finelines was a breath of fresh air. I recall reading that they used this pedal a lot, but I didn't have the finances or internet savviness to seek one out. Listening to this vid, I can see where so many of those cool effects from the guitar parts on that record came from.
@@concretebadger glad to find another fan! I joined their bandcamp subscription. They're sticking a bunch of live stuff on there which is nice. Hoping they might also do tabs some day, Som mentioned it as a possibility on instagram
Really enjoyed this video format. I never played this pedal, but I do enjoy all of the sounds in the Cooper FX Satellite card. Thank you for continuing to highlight amazing gear and pedals. Sidenote: I love my 3 Series Oil Can Delay.
Does anybody else remember like in 2004 somebody was selling EPROMs flashed with Space Station settings? You could turn any XP into one with an EPROM swap. And so any XP pedal started going for $150 just so you could drop $50 in mods into it to avoid buying a $300 pedal. I always thought unmolested XP units not the Space Station would be rare because of that.
yes the bin files where online, and you could even put all of them on one eprom and switch between them, that's what i did on my whammy and most the time it is set on space station :-) . Also an easy mod is to give the pedal cv control, as it is optical controlled, you just need a led inside connected to a minijack input.
I have the Digitech Expression Factory, it is a sort of multi effects pedal but it has the space station synth swell as one of its options! It doesn’t have the other modes from the space station pedal though. But I LOVE IT. I actually got it as a bassist and the synth swell stuff sounds heavenly on a bass. The ONLY thing I wish I could change about it would be to have a wider sweep of the foot rocker for when using the wah mode, maybe that could be modded? I’m not sure but it’s great. I recommend it, it does have a non standard power supply though, but my pedal power has an outlet on it, so that makes it work.
I bought one of these, and the XP-400 Reverberator pre-owned for £30 each back in 1999, also a Sunn Model T for £350 because nobody liked them & even secondhand music shops couldn't get rid of them - plus I was a teenager on a budget. All of that gear along with huge sounding Fuzz pedals, delays and reverbs etc. got me to play Blade Runner inspired very heavy, dropped tuned Doom and Drone. Having that stuff blast through a 4x12 or two is insane & it's thanks to gear like this that nobody wanted and mocked to the heavens when they did try it. The trick is... Play it all how it's not to be played, think outside of the box. I would bet on the people who mocked these FX pedals went on to praise and purchase gear from the likes of EQD et al.
I was fortunate enough to pick one of these up at a kind of pawn shop/trading post for $45 around 2015. Guy didn't know what he had. Couldn't find a use for it so I ended up selling it for 150 to a different pawn shop
When Tom answered "NO", he broke my heart. A reissue of the Space Station would be the best for all. DigiTech would sell millions of units and great part of the music community, would buy the pedal that always desire. That would be fair and necessary. 🌈🌈🌈
@@maxonmendel5757 I mean, he thinks guitar pedals sell in the "millions" so I don't think we're dealing with a highly informed citizen with a firm grip on reality here.
@@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer he said millions of units. I think there might be between 50 or 700 million guitar players according to a quick Google search. maybe 2 or 3 million of them will buy a space station. not to mention synth, bass, or harp players. I was quoting a norm macdonald bit with the "commie goobleygook" cause the friend mentioned "fair and necessary" sorry to ruin the joke and I hope I don't ruin your youtube commenting experience, comrade.
I saved up and bought a space station at full price when I was in high school in the late 90s I was a synth player before a guitarist so when I herd it I had to buy it. My nu metal band hated it lol
I own one and have had it since the early 2000’s. It’s pretty noisy, and gain setting was always tough to dial in for me. It also messed with the signal when bypassed. So of course I kept it and just used a loop pedal to remove it entirely when not in use.
I knew how special the Space Station was when it first arrived, I'd go to Guitar Center JUST to play it. Amazing and sad this was a commercial failure...and of course they're worth HUNDREDS now because of course
Cooper FX came out with a pedal called Arcades. It takes cartridges to change its functions (delay, reverb, pitch shift ect.) One of the cartridges is called Satellite and it's meant to be a faithful recreation of the space station. It's super fun. Might be able to find one used as it's been discontinued.
I mean... I'm watching the video and feel it's a useless pedal for me, and then I hear the jams, and it sounds really cool!! When you're an artist and musician, you can do so much with even the weirder stuff.
ln 2011 i bought an "xp-1000" which had all 4 of the xp series in one. i assume it's a bootleg of the algorithms in the same chassis, with a rotary for the different pedals. they were all cool, but the space station was the one i used the most. i lost it in a fire in 2014. i still cry about it while I dream of a reissue with parameter knobs, an envelope/lfo section, and assignable expression,
I remember getting a space station for Christmas when I was 14 , I absolutely loved it especially the string sounds. Pure fun! If only I could find that old thing.
I was in a band all through the 90s and worked in a local little music store. Midwestern Musical Company. I saw lots of digitech stuff come in. People were not ready for a lot of it. I bought quite a few digitech pedals. One of my favorites being the PDS8000. I never bought a space station, but I was buying digitech before it was cool to buy digitech...lol
If it makes you feel better Josh, I used a XP300 on my song New Humanity a couple of years ago. I used one of the Synth settings, saved me from having to bust out a keyboard.
I like hearing what people do with the wild pedals.... but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. It's like a friend of mine........got a "rainbow machine" and then didn't know how it could be useful.
Would love a modern (small) pedal that did just the synth part and could do clean through to your ramp and synth sounds to another output/DI. Any suggestions?
Not sure exactly what you're asking, but I use the Meris Enzo to do similar things to the Space Station synth swells. And you can set it so the synth comes out one side and the clean comes out the other
I had an XP-200 Modulator a friend had the XP-300 Space Station. Both were great pedals. Unfortunately both developed faults after a couple of years and became unusable. So my opinion is a great series of pedals, but prone to electronic failure.
Ok, so, there needs to be a JHS Space Station licensed by DOD/Digitech… with a few modern features like much faster ad/da conversion, more processing power, the possibility to use a higher bit rate and sample rate and addition of MIDI and Bluetooth to program your own presets.
Really great production quality attention to detail and tight scripting! Josh's geeky rants and passion got me into pedals for the first time, but this is a whole new beast. The interview quality and placement of the quotes? Chef's kiss. Are you guys going to do less of just Josh talking about lines of pedals? Those were what got me watching in the first place, but I get it. I don't like change, but you guys are obviously working hard.
Pretty sure a sizeable portion of your audience would love nothing more than to hear you talk for an hour about pedals like the spacestation (ideally in the same format as the Lamb series vid). Never change
So awesome, I truly don't think I would have stuck with guitar if not for my trusty DigiTech RP50 back in the day! I was finally able to add distortion and play with effects. I remember thinking "who the hell needs pedals and amps when you have this thing!?"
I saw a post rock band use one of these things around 2006 or 2007, and I've been obsessed ever since. Someone should bring it back if DigiTech/DOD dont want to!
My buddy had one but everyone dogged it saying Digitechs sucked. He got it on clearance and thought it had a lot of cool sounds. I agreed. Seemed neat to me. I forgot all about that until seeing this video. Thanks for making this one! :)
A couple of months ago I performed an all-xp mod into an xp-100 just to feed my curiosity; I wanted to test those pedals without spending a lot of money. I wasn't particularly impressed by the 100 because I already had a WH1. My impression with the 200 and 400 was that I had better chorus and reverb individual pedals... And the 300... Well... I didn't know how to use it. Seemed too weird and frankly I couldn't find any use for it. After watching this video I think I should give it a second try because it deserves better attention and I totally under-appreciated it. The moral of the story: it is not about the pedal, but about how you use it. Be imaginative, be creative. If it sounds, can be used.
I ve ran entire pieces through the 10 trough 12 forward setting with great results look up Tracing Archiac Names - Cages unfortunately unfortunately that band we only recorded with a 4 track thus the quality quality.
I bought this pedal for $175 in 1998 and loved it for many years.... Pretty sure I fried the input with a theremin It was so great with my theremin. Lost it in a storage unit 20 years ago when I could afford being an adult
I bought one of these used in the original box off of someone on Craigslist over 15 years ago for $200. Used it for a while and it was fun, but there were two issues for me that made me decide to sell it. 1: I was lazy and didn't want to build a bypass box for it to resolve the awful high end tone suck it had. 2: There were only a few usable settings for anything I played for the amount of pedal board space it took up. That said, it was a fun pedal to have and a joy to play through for fun. At the end of the day, I made a solid profit from selling it and now I have the sounds I was loving from pedals that benefited from all of the hard work and engineering that went into this oddball effects pedal.
Bought one new at a place called Daddys Junky Music in Peabody MA. It was lost when I moved to AZ in 2001. :( I am one of them weirdos that "got it" instantly. Couldn't afford one now to save my life.
I'm just waiting for you guys to do a video on the DigiTech X-Series bass pedals. The bass synth-wah was the most popular for the bass guitar pedals and the price for that has skyrocketed since it came out.
Perhaps some video on JOYO amp modeling pedals? I have recently bought Joyo California Sound JF-15 and wasn't sure about it until I have actually tired it. Clean sounds are stunning, overdriven sounds are great but there are no really good test videos out there and these pedals are not getting the attention they deserve
The space station was too soon and too weird for its time. Nowadays it fits right in! I bought mine used for 75 $ in madison wisconsin in 2002 at a used gear shop. Had it ever since.
Ah, shit, that string swell fifth sound, I have definitely heard. If I had known that did that I would gave gotten one when they were cheap just for that. The rest of it I don't care for. :-D
