I used to plug my $12 guitar into an old shortwave/AM/FM radio cassette player my grandfather gave me... straight into the Line In. It distorted nicely and could record straight to tape ! Hours of beautiful noise.

@iainguitar

Жыл бұрын

Me too. I know a number of people who'd pick up old valve radios from junk shops and make pretty warm sounding amps from them.

@lunchpin403

Жыл бұрын

That rules, I'd love to hear that

@kaiserjoe2316

Жыл бұрын

Yup. Had a cheap guitar and multi-fx unit(🤫) that I plugged into the mic-in on a hand-me-down hi-fi. Ended up jamming along to CDs of acts like Leftield, Future Sounds of London and other psychadelic styles. Think I still have some embarassing Gilmour-esque attempts recorded on cassette somewhere.🙃

@mortenroedfrederiksen3393

3 ай бұрын

Same!!

I remember when it was too late in the house to turn my amp on, I used to rest my chin on the guitar body which would amplify the sound in my mouth and head! It really works.

@Overworkt

Жыл бұрын

I used this technique to tune my guitar on stage before I had a tuner 😅

My first 2 years of electric guitar playing I ran into a "Australian Idol" branded karaoke machine that happened to have instrument jack inputs for the mics, and a built in reverb. Probably explains all my favourite tones now.

@philipellis7039

Жыл бұрын

My kids had a very cheap karaoke machine with a built in echo/delay. Was okay on guitar but absolutely awesome as a blues harp amp, just using the cheap mic that came with it. Instant Chicago 1950s. I did manage to kill it using it like that unfortunately.

Believe it or not, a VCR with a 1/4" aux input and our TV was my first amp in 1984. Those where the times...

@PaulKennedy5

Жыл бұрын

VCR was a great and cheap stereo recording studio. Quality was often much better than home tape. Worked a treat.

@jacobpittman1996

Жыл бұрын

I hooked a Mackie mixer to the RCA connectors on the VCR and played through the TV!!

When I was a young kid, with my first electric guitar, through a series of adapters, I was able to plug my guitar into the phono input on my parents vintage console stereo, and I was in heaven!

@rquimusica

Жыл бұрын

Same for me!

@Halliday7895

Жыл бұрын

i did something like this but it was a disregarded record player receiver and speakers...i dont know what happened to the turn table but i used the receiver tuner as an amp to learn electric on for a year or so until i could borrow a practice amp from someone who quit learning...then i got a fender 212 FMr for Xmas eventually .

This is informative, entertaining and a powerful analogy for puberty for many teenage boys

@smelltheglove2038

Жыл бұрын

Lol. I can honestly say I didn’t try to “plug it in” to anything it didn’t belong in. I had a pretty cool high school sweetheart so I didn’t do much “experimenting” by myself, hahhahaha.

@peddlereffects

Жыл бұрын

Lol I was going to say something like this but not nearly as funny as you were

@64cousins

Жыл бұрын

I haven't watched the vid yet but this analysis has made it sound awesome.

@DroneCorpse

Жыл бұрын

LMFAOOOO

@benjammin4840

Жыл бұрын

🤣😂

This brought back all the excitement of my first electric guitar ! For three months, the only thing I had to plug in to was older sister's portable Cassette Recorder. You couldn't listen 'live', but you could play back what you recorded. One hundred and twenty seconds of latency 😄

@mattgilbert7347

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 Brilliant

This is a wicked fun episode- I thought it was gonna be all about IRs and amp sims, but you had a lot of fun - and honestly I was shocked how clean and nice it sounded just plugging into a speaker. Fascinating-

What a joy... I really enjoyed watching you guys play in your environment. This took me back to when my dad wired in a quarter-inch jack to my big huge Motorola record player. You're a great team and I love that you're both just big kids at heart... with impressive intellect. Thanks as always for what you do. Edward in San Diego, California

Age 12 I had a mono cassette recorder with a mic you could plug in to talk into. I put the mic inside my very cheap acoustic guitar and turned the recording level up and played a root and fifth bar chord and played along to living after midnight by judas priest. Thanks for bringing back those memories guys 😍

I love how much fun you guys clearly had with this! Great episode!

What a fun episode! Ending is ace😂 17 years ago I started playing the guitar. My parents got me a western electro-acoustic guitar. After some weeks of playing „dry“ of course I found out that you could plug this acoustic guitar into an amplifier. My sister had a karaoke system which conveniently had a line input. Of course I plugged my guitar into it and suddenly I was able to make louder noise than before. THIS was true POWER! I was learning to play Metallica on the acoustic guitar and suddenly Seek&Destroy sounded actually good (or so I though anyways haha)

@jcwear89

Жыл бұрын

I did this too! Westfield electro-acoustic

This takes me back! My first guitar amp was a Boss MA-5 Micro Monitor - it was 1982. I took its line out and ran it into my bargain basement, catalog store stereo. I plugged headphones into the MA-5 to turn of the speaker… then DIME’D the MA-5 volume to completely overload the stereo’s input. It was glorious to my 14 year-old ears.

I hope someday I can get my glasses from forehead land into “sports mode” as smoothly Mick. They’re like an extension of himself the control he has of them. Eye-opening as ever gents. ❤

I plug into my 1964 Grundig Stereo tube radio, with 2 x15" speakers and various Pedals infront of it. Sounds Killer!

When I was in college, I had a housemate who was big into the tinkering world of guitar. Regularly modded pedals and amps and things of the sort. In the house I lived in, we had a very high end toaster oven that we had won at a bingo night on our college campus. The toaster oven had speakers in it and would read out the mode it was set to and how long was left on the timer. You see where this is going. One night, after a few (perhaps too many) pints, he had decided to play his guitar through the toaster oven. I don't know what mods he had to make, but in a bout an hour he had it going. It sounded closest to that tiny bluetooth speaker played early in the episode, but it was hilarious. Toaster oven part still works, and I believe my mate still uses it regularly (for toasting, not guitaring). Great episode!

I love this video! I love just trying stuff because you can. Not to prove a point or chase a sound. Just thinking outside of the box and who knows... you might discover something!

Love the video! As a kid I seem to remember plugging my first electric guitar (Satellite LP copy anybody?😅) into the mic socket of the family music centre. By engaging the record & pause buttons (I think!) along with the tape monitor switch & adjusting the recording levels, it was possible to be heard through the 2 speakers. Of course, I may just have imagined all this, because it was a very long time ago...😂

I think it’s great if you are travelling and you can’t bring your amp and pedalboard with you, but you have songs you need to learn with solo parts ect. Being able to bring everything you need in your guitars gig bag is pretty cool for that!!

Man what fun that was. Love those creative explorations. I recently saw an old cassette deck that was used as a tape delay. This could be a fun project for you guys. Keep rockin'!

my first "rig" was plugging in a free, big hollow body guitar into mt Radio Shack Stereo. I didn't have any pedals, just played clean guitar over rock riffs. I love you guys! You crack me up, which is much needed these days. Happy to report I've upgraded to a Two-Rock CRS head and cab in burgundy suede, Thanks for the great info and inspiration. Long live TPS!

Cool vid guys. That was great! That projector sounded unreal. The megaphone was awesome lol. Really fun watch. Cheers!

Absolutely love this video! This is your wheelhouse, as far as I’m concerned. Watching the two of you work your way through a journey of discovery, Dan having moments of recollection of the huge vault of technical know how that he holds and Mick keeping things comprehensible to the viewer. These are the videos I get excited about on the channel.

@ThatPedalShow

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad 35 years of playing and journalism has left me with no technical know how. Mick here. This is my ego talking.

I remember using a 3 channel maplin microphone mixer which had just 3 level controls for each mic, it was powered by a 9v battery, into our home stereo system, a Goodmans I think, and turning the mixer up full. It sounded fuzzy and awesome!! I remember learning the intro to Layla playing along with the record!! It just makes me think of the saying “Necessity is the mother of invention”

Absolutely loved that! ♥️ Dan’s enjoyment playing through the TV was amazing! 😂 This really takes me back, nothing was safe in our house- my poor parents 🙈 What a brilliant video, thank you!

After getting my first electric I remember sitting next to a hollow wall in my house and pressing my headstock against it for amplification. Worked best with gypsum walls.

Most enjoyable episode I've seen in a while, Loads of fun. Took me back about 53 years 😆

This was such a unique, informative video. Very cool, guys. Thanks so much for sharing!

My friend and I both plugged our service merchandise guitars into our parents home stereos and radios before we had real amps. I blew up one of the channels on my parents receiver/8 track player, but they never figured out it was me that did it! I eventually figured out how to overload the signal and make it distort way before learning about pedals. Thats how I got the nickname "Mickey", as in Mickey Mouse. My alternate job in our band was Mickey Mousing electronics in order to get them working/do what we wanted them to do. These days, when I'm not Mickey Mousing our guitars, pedals, and amps, I tune electron multipliers for machines owned by NASA and MOOG among others. Thanks for the great show guys!

Tks guys! My tube blew up last night as I was practicing, and all I had was old Bluetooth speaker and wire. It worked and has some more sound then just electric guitar with no amp sound! Ty!

My amp was being serviced so I couldn't help but connect my dad's old radio from the 80s to my 2x12. Soft distortion in front of it, worked like magic

I don't think I have smiled this much watching a KZread video in quite some time...well done y'all :)

This was the most fun I've seen these 2 have in a long time. A great lesson in humble, innocent 'play' from 2 guys with $100k of gear behind them...

Great show.. I laughed and hit the like button when you plugged into the television. Awesome 👍

This episode was very unique! You just look at an isolated clip of the guys showing that you can play your pedalboard through the TV, and you might think that's it's an April's fool joke. But this is no joke! Things can be done. Very creative, guys!

I love this episode! The creativity and exploration. It definitely put me in the mind of what it was like back then.

Fun episode!!! Brought back memories from the 80’s being a teen and plugging my guitar into my tape deck recorder into my stereo system with some chorus and delay to sound like Purple Rain or Zeppelin or whatever . Good times for sure!

In a pinch and away from power, I have always enjoyed my VOX amPlug AC30 headphone amp.

Nice! This is a really innovative episode. Loads of fun and play. 🙂 Thanks.

The first electric guitar amps WERE literally radios that ran off dry-cell batteries in the 30s before those first circuits deleted the radio in the tube circuit. Leo Fender (a radio repairman) made some of the first dedicated electric guitar/lapsteel amplifiers.

As someone with an orange rockerverb collecting dust in my apartment( I have a Princeton I’ve been using at home mainly). But I have started dabbling with guitar plug ins on PC and was blown away by the neural dsp mesa boogie one!! I just have a small focusrite interface and it’s a great solution for those challenged by volume constraints!

Great show Gents! I look forward to these shows every week. My first “amp” was an old desktop PA that teachers would use in large classrooms. My guitar teacher sold it to me as a really cheap option. I blew the speaker in a few weeks trying to learn Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult!

When my family did a road trip from FL to Maine I made a homemade travel amp by soldering an input jack to the play head of an inexpensive walkman knockoff. Add a switch to turn the motor off for battery life. I learned Diary of a Madman in the back seat going up I-95.

My first "guitar amp" was a Pioneer audio system with a turntable, tape player, AM/FM radio, and... a quarter inch microphone jack. It did me well! Still sometimes enjoy playing through it.

Amazing. Took me back to 1987. Soldering an aux jack in place of a 1/4" jack and plugging straight into one of the auxiliary inputs on the back of my yellow Phillips Ghettoblaster (D8304, the wonders of Google) to be able to play outside in the summer. I still own the Kramer and still own, and use daily, the Boss DS1 that I abused it with. Great episode. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

Such a great exploration in classic TPS style! Love it!

love the video guys. One of my fave episodes you guys did. Lol, who hasnt been in this situation needing something to plug into and getting a bit on the creative side. The video was just as creative of an idea as well! Cheers!

Great video, had me reminiscing. Before my first amp I plugged into the aux input on a cassette deck, had to push record to get it to work.

This one is conjuring up lots of memories for me. I plugged into everything when I was a kid. Lots of fun. Thanks 🔊

That was so brilliant! My first rig was plugging a Rose Morris SG copy straight into an Amstrad stereo. It had the most fantastic straight into the desk distortion sound when cranked (think Beatles 'Revolution').

Fantastic video! That finale is pure entertainment gold! 😂

Thanks for the videos, the laughs, and the inspiration. Traveling around the USA for weeks at a time in my Kenworth and tractor trailer I use a 10ft lead with 1/4" on one side and 1/8" on other side. I can sit on my bed in the sleeper and plug my guitar directly into my radio aux input on the dash. My MIM Strat has seen all the contiguous 48 and NEARLY every Canadian province bordering the US. I tried the IK Pro and messing around with all the cables and using headphones sucked all the fun out for me. In the 70s I remember plugging into my folks HiFi 1/4" input. When distortion happened and happens now in the truck it is unique. Honestly I wish I had that sound as an option I could achieve at home! (I have a Hotrod Deluxe, Rocker 32, Blackstar HT5R, Bogner Line6 DT50 212, Marshall MG10cd, 11 Rack and rack power amp, Line6 HD500X, original Yamaha THX10 and none of them come with me anymore. Just a guitar and a chord. Keeps me in practice and helps pass the time when sitting at a loading dock for 8 hours or over the weekend in NoWheresVille 1500 miles from home) One day I'll pick my first stand alone pedal (instead of hd500 or 11rack) and I expect it will be like the opening of flood gates. Maybe a green pedal? Or an OCD. Or a D&M Drive!

Watching Mick play, “human Leslie speaker cab,” was simply the best!

@RobFlaxMusic

Жыл бұрын

I'm *still* laughing

Nice show, brings back memories. I started plugging in an old tube radio, it sounded a bit boxy but distorted nice. Even gigged with it.

Brilliant. When I was a teenager in the 80s dual tape decks were all the rage. I had one from a brand called Emerson. I could plug straight into it, record a guitar part to a tape (from the speaker through the built in condensor mic), then play back the tape and play along with it. I could even record the overdub, and then do it again and again. A chorus pedal and a distortion (both from Arion) to spice it up. Hours of fun and creativity.

Great fun chaps, the bullhorn was hillarious, thanks a bunch

Such a timely episode! Almost all my gear is packed for an impending move. But I’ve still got one guitar, four pedals (OD, delay, reverb, boost) and an old Red Box cab emulator plugged into a pair of Audix monitors. Sounds pretty darn good!

Out of a combination of needing to be able to play silently with headphones and sheer laziness, I've got my guitar plugged into a Snouse BlackBox OD 2 into a DI, into my interface and out to my studio monitors. Works for me! Great video, and I loved to see you both stretch out of your comfort zones, smashing job! Matching impedence is super important to getting a good sound - I've got a piezo pickup on my upright bass, and I always run into a combination preamp/high pass filter that converts the 1Meg Ohm signal to 10K (or 100K?) Ohm signal, so I can run through pedals and into a standard bass amp.

This is such a good idea for a video, that I am honestly surprised that it hasn't been done yet. When I was growing up I did exactly this! One thing I found that I could plug into was my home stereo. You would be challenged to find one now day's like the one I had. But it worked!

Yesss! What can I listen to That Pedal Show through?!? My tv, my iPad, iPhone, my treadmill tablet, my truck radio, my bedroom Bluetooth, my AirPods, my tv on my refrigerator, my Nikon camera, my overhead projector shining on my Shop door (outdoor style for lots of people)….😂😂! 👏 You guys are awesome! Keep up the good work

I thought Friday's episode was amazing but this...this is the most amazing, epic thing I've ever seen.

This was a lot of fun and definitely brought back memories of questionable and potentially dangerous "Let's see if we can plug into that!" scenarios. Loved this episode! Great idea guys!

Great episode guys

Took me back to my younger days, lovely show lads 🤘😂🔥

Highly relevant topic! Looking forward to this... thank you

Mick's playing thru the filmosound with the LP was insane, I remember plugging into my old Pioneer all in 1 home stereo unit, using the mic inputs, a Y cable, and a MXR Distortion +

Most informative pedal show yet!

I've been playing on (and loving) the Walrus 385 Overdrive for about 3 or 4 years now, which emulates the projector. Nice to hear the real thing.

The bullhorn segment was cool. One of these rigged with a wireless output and placed on a drill, cheap turntable, or pottery wheel would create a cheap Leslie type sound.

I know we talked about it earlier, but a friend of mine has a couple of old projector amps that have been converted into proper guitar amp heads. Great stuff. Plugging into random stuff is fun!

Great show guys, a lot of fun. reminds us all, when we are knee deep in cables and pedals, that sometimes we should just cut the crap and just rock out with what we got.

One of the best KZread videos I've ever seen. There will be thousands of electrical devices blowing up this weekend as we all try to figure out what else you could possibly plug your guitar into. I'm off to see if I can run it through the car stereo using the USB aux. If I manage it the missus is in the back from now on and the passenger seat is reserved for my strat to make getting stuck in traffic a bit more bearable. Imagine how fun traffic jams would be if they all resulted in an impromptu jam session.

Such a fun video! Epic ending, haha!

My 1st amp was a tube radio called an EMVD Rekord Senior that my grabd father had purchased in West Germany when he was stationed there in the late 40s. It is probably around 1W and sounds lovely. Thankfully I still have it.

Feckin ace guys, great show, brings me back to plugging into the boom box. Have a great weekend. You can use the siren for Jailbreak bridge at the next TPS gig

I could honestly see your inner child shining through when you were filming this lads. That may be the secret to staying young, just plug into whatever can make a sound.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen you guys have so much fun! My first amplified guitar was a nylon string from my sister’s closet. Enter the reverse headphones turned microphone. One ear piece on the top and the other ear piece on the back. So the headphones have straddled the guitar’s body, and the headphone plug is in the aux input of a ‘70s Panasonic tape recorder with a built-in compressor/limiter. Coolest feedback…ever! JJZ…(°¿.°`)

I used to travel a lot for work - 3 nights a week away from home for months and months on end. I used to leave a guitar with the hotel concierge. Anyway, I went though this long process of finding a working solution for playing in a hotel room. I'm not an Apple user (I use Android and PC laptop) and I ended up with an IK Multimedia interface and AmpliTube running on a PC laptop. It allowed me have volume using headphones in a hotel room - with the added bonus of a ton of virtual amplifiers to play with.

My first amp was a Panasonic cassette recorder. 😁 Diggin' this episode!

In the mid-90’s, I used a 1/4” phono adapter onto a 1/8” TRS to RCA 3 foot cable, into the back of my dad’s 1960’s Pioneer solid state stereo receiver on the Aux input. MY FIRST ELECTRIC AMPLIFICATION!! Then a friend lent me a Zoom guitar strap mounted multi-effects unit. I was in guitar heaven.

I used to teach in my office, after work hours, plugged a Joyo preamp pedal (brittish overdrive) into a bluetooth speaker ˆˆ, worked pretty well, no power cables needed

Way too much fun! The rotating megaphone was epic!

@fletches4084

Жыл бұрын

Methinks there's a design for a home-brew megaphone-powered Leslie cab in the offing....

In my early days of playing guitar I played through some computer speakers with a 1/4 inch adapter in my guitar for years. It was the quickest way to get to the playing back then

All of us with an abundance of birthday candles can relate! Great show! Fun stuff!

Holy crap! When you did the Leslie effect with the bullhorn I literally had a bit of a wee in my shorts! Guys, keep 'em coming!!!

I was looking for the answer for same question. Thanks.

This is the most fun I've had on KZread in a while

That was a fun video! IK Multimedia has released the Tonex pedal recently, and going guitar > tonex pedal > headphones sounds absolutely amazing. Very low latency (3ms) and all the amps in the world at your fingertips!

@ShiroiTengu

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the heads up on the Tonex! Next on my to buy list

Great video! I, too, used to plug things into other things just to see what happened. Here's a list (sorry if it's long): 1. When I was a trucker, I plugged my Pocket Pod into the stereo, threw the fader to the back, dialed in a sound I wanted, and recorded some things onto my phone. Keep in mind that trucks in the U.S. have bigger sleepers than in Europe. The recordings weren't so great, but the sound in the sleeper was AWESOME! 2. I once ran a guitar through a Hyper Fuzz and into a practice amp, out the headphone jack, and into the mike jack (I tried the aux jack, too, but forget that for a sec) of one of those 90s component stereo systems. The output from the amp clipped this intense fuzz sound; let's just call it a matter of taste, but anyway, I recorded that, too. 3. I once ran from my guitar and pedals into the mike input of a little tape recorder with no tape and set it to record, then ran the headphone output to that same practice amp. The record head was picking up stray magnetic waves, and the feedback was highly variable. It was quite a lot of fun, but the rest of the band hated it, so I never did that trick with them again. 4. I once had this H&K combo amp that had a messed-up effects loop. I ran my DOD Classic Fuzz through the effects loop, and the broken circuit only ran the bass frequencies through the fuzz, which meant all the treble bypassed the fuzz separately. The mids mostly dropped out, if I recall correctly. It was a fun sound, but very weird. I lost that amp in the pawn shop during desperate times, but I always wanted to screw around with that weird sound some more. I gotta know how y'all wired that box up to the megaphone! It looks like something that's commercially available; where can I get one? Or did you modify it? Thanks again for a very fun video; and to everyone else, remember that stuff like this is how new sounds and genres are born!

@ThatPedalShow

Жыл бұрын

Awesome stuff. Experiments! Dan got the megaphone on Amazon and just wired a jack on to where the mic/handset connects I think. Sweeet!

What a fun episode!!

Never grow old, good to see you guys having fun, Megaphone sounds like Arena Rock 🤩

This is great for many reasons. It really tells us what the amp is doing. The small options are good for travelling light. This is an idea of what direct to desk would sound like. (Note: Many FRFR & Studio monitors have DSP...even those you thought were purely analogue, so there may be some indiscernible delay from the Tannoy.)

This was great!

In 1971 I soldered the wires from the needle line of a record player to a jack and had an amplifier for a year and a half. It was an old hack from back in the day.

I love this! Before I got my first electric guitar(MIJ Strat )I used my father's '65 Epiphone Cortez with a Lawrence soundhole pickup into my parent's stereo system. I learned that if you put a cassette(😂) in o the tape.deck plugged guitar pickup in and started recording increasing Record Level I could get poor man's distortion. It was glorious and most likely blew up their stereo......inquiring minds 🙂

One of the best episodes lately lads! Love you guys. Cheers

My first teenage setup was an old classical guitar that I'd restrung with steel strings, with a soundhole pickup running into my Midi (not MIDI) system through a cheap Maplin vocal mixer. I used to loop the channels into each other to overdrive it, before I could afford any pedals. Got quite a decent fuzz tone if I remember right. I still have all the gear stashed away 30+ years later - may connect it back up and relive the early years.

That was the most fun thing I've ever watched, thanks lads, 👍👍👍

Dan, I have to admit... I'm a fan of the "CAP" over the other, but no matter which you prefer to wear ....I love to watch you get excited over playing the guitar! The Megaphone is EPIC!

Really digging this episode. Reminds me of plugging my guitar into the soundcard on my parents computer back in high school (1999) and then trying to figure out why it sounded so bad and how to make it work. I recently bought a 90s synth/keyboard and have gone on a little journey of trying to figure out what to listen to it through. Started with the headphones I use for my turntable. Then ran the 1/4" into a DOD envelope filter, a DS-1, a flanger, and cheap delay into a Blackstar modeling amp I had laying around. Ended up finding a used pair of Mackie CR-3 monitors for cheap and am now running the pedals on one side of it for a nice stereo sound. Though now I'm thinking of what kind of bass lines I could get out of that sub in the living room... Always fun to make the most of what you've got around.