@@ExperimentIV Did pedals make you huge? Maybe you should eat Behringer, which are lighter, and that way you don't get challenge all over your hands. And wear a mask.
Boards of Canada are great! Especially the album "music has the right to children". Also the other Warp records bands, such as squarepusher and Aphex twin.
I highly recommend listening to MHTRTC on 45rpm if you have a vinyl copy - I hadn't heard any of the tracks before buying (back in 2000) and assumed it was a more upbeat album!
How had I never come across this channel till 2 days ago? Love your presentation; relaxed, informative and funny. You even just made my wife chuckle. Guys like you are the reason jobs don't get done around the house and yet you still managed to charm her. Bravo Sir, bravo. Anyway just wanted to say thanks for the channel, keep fighting the good fight. Aloha.
This is my favorite JHS video so far. I live in CT, not far from KAMAN Aerospace and the old Ovation factory in New Hartford. I still have my 1984 Ovation Balladeer and it still slides off my lap when I play it (which is not very often). Gimmicky plastic guitars... well played Charlie Kaman (RIP).
I sold KMD products in a store I managed in the 90s. KAMAN was the distributor (Bruno and son) out of Chicago (?). We sold lots of the amps, and had Richie Ssmbora do a stop in. We also did Kramer a, and Ovation. All Richie stuff at the time. The KAMAN rep, a fella named Bob, wanted me to get the pedals in. At the time, pedals were soft and everyone wanted ADA preamps and full racks. He pushed on the pricing, and told me, "Yeah! BOSS makes them!" No idea if that was ever true, but he also left out that most of the manufacturing ended, and they were already booting those pedals through other competing wholesale outlets. I still have a ton of KMD stickers, but sold any of the amps I had, and some pieces were really good! The amps were made in England, sounded pretty good, but looked like they were made of plastic and old Playschool parts. I still have a Chorus pedal.
I was just given my first JHS pedal, the muffleta, and I haven't been able to turn it off, the Big Muff pi circuit is my favorite, and I have even written part of a song around the pedal. So thank you for making an inspiring pedal that has gotten me out of a writing Rut
This is now officially my fave record time you've done. I genuinely lost it when you mentioned them. BoC are electronic perfection. Their tunes are life changing 😁 No summer is complete without MHTRTC & Geogaddi playing while watching the sunset, as I've done on many an occasion.
Never thought I'd see BOARDS OF CANADA on record time! Legendary album for me as a guitarist turned electronic musician who is lately eschewing my synthesizers & getting back in touch with my guitar 👍
Seems like there was a design decision made. Kamen: "Jimmy, we are only gonna design one style of enclosure and it's gonna have 4 knob holes." Jimmy: "I know it's the 80s but everything is getting a tone knob even if it isn't common for this era" Kamen fires Jimmy for making a 3 knob Chorus pedal....
I had the KMD Delay back in the late 90s, kind of your standard analog bucket brigade delay, never really used it that much and eventually sold it off at some point. The thing that did impress me about it was the weight, it was definitely the heaviest, most solid feeling compact effects pedal I've ever owned, and I've gone through a lot over the years. I don't remember if the case itself was thicker than a standard Boss enclosure, but I recall the battery/switch cover feeling beefier, also the bottom plate.
When I was 15 in the 80s I used to plug my guitar in dad's tape deck and turn the input levels all the way up so it was really distorted thru dad's hifi. My mate was a very decent guitarist in a gigging band at the time and came over and said: "that's really cool, it sounds like the guitar tone on the intro to roadhouse blues!" and he grabbed my guitar started playing cool blues riffs, I was so proud. A few weeks later dad unexpectedly came home when I was cranked to 10 thru his stereo and that was the end of that. My dad still has that hifi in his shed, I should get it out!
This is great!! I bought the Delay from my bass teacher almost 30 years ago and knew nothing else about it. I still have it and it still sounds really good.
First off, great video as always! Secondly, in my years working at a music store that was 95% Kaman product, I was under the impression that it was pronounced "Kuh-man" rather than "Kay-men" since that's how our rep and all the people on the phone said it. Kind of like their Takamine guitars: Some say "Tak-uh-me-knee", but the people at the company always said "Tack-uh-mine". Sorry for the "well, actually" comments, but since Josh probably knows the people who lent their names to these products, I'd like some closure... Oh, and can we get a "RockTek" episode some day? Pretty sure those were also Kaman.
"..The Alaskan caught salmon phaser.." - Josh Scott Jhs pedals are incredible and I love and support them, but Josh's sense of humour is the main reason I am a hardcore fan of #Thejhsshow
The best distortion sound I ever recorded was an 80s KMD amp in a basement studio in Paris. I've never found an amp as rocking as that amp. I'm still looking to buy one!
I was thinking "Isn't that Kaman Music Division?". I knew something Josh didn't. Yes!!! Their Kaman Performer strings were pretty decent in the eighties. Lasted forever. Iirc.
Just to make it clear: they were licensed Boss clones when importing had severe restrictions in Brazil, so the solution was to manufacture it locally. Also, the components were sometimes the Brazilian-equivalent considering the availability. On late 70s and 80s that was pretty common in Brazil. For example, Gradiente implemented JVC designs (and on late 90s even Nokia clones).
I bought the delay a few months ago after watching the video where you mentioned it and it’s one of my favorite pedals. Love the sound when you crank the repeat to 100%
Cool video, I have the KMD distortion pedal. Bought it off some guy for $20. To me, after cranking it up it sounds like a fuzz pedal. They are hard to find online but I would love to have them all. Thank you for the knowledge. Great job
Yeah that was what I remembered about mine as well, at light settings it was nice and gritty, at medium settings it sounded kinda Boss DS-1-ish, but pushed it really got saturated and fuzzy without losing definition. Definitely one for the "ones that got away" wish list....
Love your videos Josh. I'm not normally a commenter, but I thought I'd make an exception, since I have some experience working for/with wholesalers. Production and rebranding companies come in all shapes and sizes. The most common are companies that make the exact same thing for whoever asks with whatever logo they want, as you say. RCA, Polaroid, Westinghouse, and fifteen other brands all have the exact same TV for sale, and none of those companies make anything - they're just labels. There are some brands that I we dealt with that changed the look of the product so it didn't look like their own version, and some that wouldn't bother, or didn't even make one under their own name. We also dealt with a lot of companies that would give us samples. We might say, "We like your doodad, and can you make some for us?" They'd show us a few doodads of different quality levels and price points, and we'd pick one and order a whole ton. Usually we ended up trying to shave a few bucks off the name brand without the quality getting too much worse, but every once in a while we ordered one that was BETTER than the name brand one, because we knew our clientele that would pay for more quality than the name brand thought they would. It's possible these pedals ARE made by BOSS, even though the construction techniques are different. BOSS may not have used ribbon connectors, but Roland certainly has that capability, and they may not care if there is a quality difference when it has someone else's name on it. My guess though is that they were probably made by whomever built the enclosures for BOSS. The extra cost of having two separate manufacturing processes would make it pretty unlikely to be worth BOSS's time to do ... but on the other hand, those enclosures are pretty unique. So the box maker is my final answer :)
I 'm not sure if you are familiar with these guys but this ep is so good. Rain Parade- "Explosions in the Glass Palace" They're a bay area band from the early 80's. Very moody, nice use of effects and well written songs. My fave song is Broken Horse. Keep up the good work or else my mom will ground me.
Love the T Shirt Josh, I used to do similar at work on the notice boards at work years ago, ending with ... 'must eradicate time wasters who read non- sensical messages, now go and do some work'. Just watching their reaction after reading was priceless, either re-reading or doing a quick glance left and right and heading off at speed!
KMD did more then just pedals. I actually owned, in another life time, a KMD 24 channel mixer my old band used. It wasn't fancy but it got the job done. Thanks for the walk down amnesia lane Sir. Cheers
The phaser was pure Pink Floyd.. Flanger - Lincoln-Green - like RobinHood Man - I love that you have a record player in your car ... makes Josh-Win every day of the week.
Wow! I had a KMD Chorus back in the very late '90s into early '00s, I had been missing that pedal something fierce... Until I actually heard one again in this video. Now I'm kind of low-key lusting after the KMD Flanger for its chorus tone.
Loved hearing about these! I got the analog delay as my very first pedal. Had played bass for awhile and got a Peavey Mantis guitar that looked like a pulled/roots included wisdom tooth and the analog delay from a buddy and bought an early four track cassette recorder. Used the delay for everything I recorded. Didn’t even have a mic or di box, ran everything through a passive mixer into my Roland bass amp w onboard chorus. Lol. The delay was so useful and had that warm old school tone. Hadn’t thought about it in decades.
"It's very, very unique." Josh, I love ya brother, but you're killing me with this! Unique is an absolute, meaning unlike any other, one of a kind. It cannot be intensified or modified, so no "very," "more," "somewhat," "a little," and so forth. Rock on!
Both KMC and KMD were distributors I worked with often in the mid 2000's at the guitar store I was working for. They distributed everything from like.. Gibralter drum hardware, to Fender parts, pedals, etc - in fact, still now, KMC is a distributor for Digitech, Supro, Pigtronix, etc.
Love your videos, Josh! I love how much in depth knowledge you have on random things in the music gear world-it shows your passion. Oh and by the way, I live in Alaska and if you ever want to come on up to catch some wild Alaskan salmon... well, I guess hit me up. We can make it happen!
Aloha! In the mid eighties, Kaman had a promotion. Buy a box of electric guitar strings, send the top of box with coupon from dealer and select the effect of your choice. I picked the analog delay. It was one of my first effect and I really enjoyed it. I. Believe you only had four choices of effects. I wish I still had it.
I was gifted an EQD SILOS from earthquaker day, my buddies business logo midimultiverse is painted on it too... its red. idk if thats normal. but i am here because they said it's like an echoplex, which ive heard of but not a KMD delay.. this was a really awesome story and video, dad.
I bought the Analog Delay brand new in the late 80's (I had the box). I was buying a Crate amp and had some cash in the budget left. Asked if they had any delay pedals. Guy said "How about this one?" and showed me the KMD. Tried it out, liked it and bought it. Sold it a couple of years later when I was buying my 1st Jem. I'd only been playing guitar a year or 2 at that point and had no idea what a cool and unique pedal it was.
When I worked at a music store a few years ago, Kaman was still one of the main middlemen/wholesalers of music accessories. Mostly smaller stuff - strings, straps, cases, stands, hardware, effects, etc. Maybe a few instruments and amps.
I got thE Boards of Canada record when it came out.. (id buy anything I could find on Warp records back then) and BOY did it deliver. Still does. One of the best “blind record store buys” I’ve made. The cover, the label, the title... didn’t listen, just bought it.
My very first pedal I ever bought at age 15 new was a KMD distortion. And guess what, I never sold it or traded it! I’m not a big metal guy but you can get it to sound pretty chainsaw-ish.
I'm on a huge weight-loss journey right now (cause I got huge), and I swear when I get down to regular clothing sizes I'm buying a bunch of JHS shirts. They are awesome!
KMD amps were made by harman (JBL) that was my first amp. Seems like I had a poster with Ritchie sambora on it??? Not sure if they related but I’ll watch to find out 👍🏽
The KMD amp range were designed...as I remember it, by the people from British company ProAmp and involved some of the design engineers from the early Selmer range of amps....I had the ProAmp Venom and Viper combos...which were fantastic......of course there is no saying they were also involved with the pedal range....but maybe....the drive channels on those amps were little out of the ordinary.
The KMD analog delay pedal was probably the best sounding delay pedal I have ever owned. When combined with distortion it would give me the most insane "alive" sounding leads that would morph into amazing sounds as I would bend strings. Sadly, these pedals DO NOT HAVE POLARITY REVERSAL PROTECTION and one day I plugged the wrong power adapter into it and the pedal literally went up in smoke catching on fire briefly. And that was the end of that pedal. The closet I can find to it, sound-wise, is the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man.
very cool, had never heard of them before! Please do a video about tremolo, it never gets enough love as it deserves and I need to spend my money on more tremolo effects!
Greeting from Alaska! I have a KMD super flange, black plastic case??? But sounds great! The mystery continues.... Josh- come on up to Seward some September tons of salon fishing and yes they’re that color!
I have a KMD GV 60 amp. Basically a 60-watt tube power section and a solidstate preamp. Essentially a clone of a MusicMan HD, super loud, super clean and it takes pedals like nobody's business.
