I did Industrial/Mechanical Design for Dod/Digitech for 23 years. Worked with Jason on all of these products and many more. Jason was an amazing dude and is missed like hell. This video is an awesome tribute to him & his creative genius! Thanks for doing it!

@alexanderhudson47

4 жыл бұрын

We're you involved with the Corrosion pedal? That has been my main pedal for the last umpteen years! I can not imagine my sound without one!

@likethehotels

4 жыл бұрын

Rip Jason!

@jhspedals

4 жыл бұрын

John Bogdan can you email me?! Vlog@jhspedals.com

@aussieb1416

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderhudson47 i'm actually going to go buy a corrosion pedal as soon as possible. even on youtube it sounded great to me. i play thrash/punk/death metal but i can see this on my board

@aussieb1416

4 жыл бұрын

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DOD-Effects-Pedal-FX-70c-Corrosion/174119015314?hash=item288a4d5392:g:jFAAAOSwQLZd7DPS

6:00 “the buzz box is totally worthless, it sounds like a vacuum cleaner.” Me, a shoegazer: a vacuum cleaner you say?

@malcolmbeverly8967

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought lmao

@kaylons

4 жыл бұрын

*_Kevin Shields would like to know your location_*

@cyrustrembinski6648

4 жыл бұрын

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

@jimshorts6751

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe not for a normal guitar track, but for background color when you don't P lay keyboards, it could be worthwhile in a few places...a very few.🤣

@emiliojaquez5714

3 жыл бұрын

VREEEEE VREEEEW

“It’s not broken, it’s just sounds that way” might be the greatest marketing tag line ever.

@pearljaime2

4 жыл бұрын

You're onto something here.

@krmusick

4 жыл бұрын

Sony tried something that way with the first gen PSP. Didn't quite work so well for them.

@purpl3882

4 жыл бұрын

@@krmusick hahahahaha

@Dan_is_a_liar

4 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@10000spidersinatrenchcoat

4 жыл бұрын

Oof

Thank you for this awesome video! Proud to call Jason my uncle. I miss him everyday. Smoke Whiskey!

@vanessakrebs4836

4 жыл бұрын

Corbin Krebs Smoke Whiskey!!

Wait did your Grunge pedal come with a smoke machine operator? Cause mine did not.

@tomevans8240

5 жыл бұрын

When you buy one now, it comes with a vape.

@Astronomater

5 жыл бұрын

that smoke was the amp catching fire.

@presmasterflash7555

5 жыл бұрын

I love my grunge pedal But I wouldn’t consider it a “grunge” sound. It’s a “blistering layers of distorted menacing ear bleeding” sound.

@Asphyxiated81

5 жыл бұрын

If they paid you a few dollars you would claim they did.

@davelanciani-dimaensionx

5 жыл бұрын

@@tomevans8240 remember kids, ... vaping kills you now, just as much as or more than actual smoking.

Well done. I worked with Jason for 15 years during my time at DigiTech/DOD. Spent many a fun evening throwing back cold ones talking music. He was as unique a person as one could imagine. Still can’t believe he’s gone.

an MXR "blue box" story- dinosaur jr came to Mtv in london in early 1993 to do a studio session for "120 minutes". while I was helping the roadies set up mr mascis' tons of effects, one of them said "he wants to use this, but we think it's broken." we plugged one of J's guitars into the thing & it made *that* noise. "perhaps it needs a new battery", I offered, & duly fitted one. afterwards, it sounded exactly the same. we shrugged, & left it on the floor, on J's big perspex pedalboard. later, during the camera rehearsals, we watched as J went for the pedal during a solo. he switched it in for maybe half a bar, pulled a face & switched it off. we never heard the thing again.

@dewdop

3 жыл бұрын

😂

My brother had the Death Metal pedal. As a kid, I thought "guts" and "pain" were legit parameters.

@manuelplascencia3223

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@omarsharif927

4 жыл бұрын

I had it sounded awesome.

@DARTHMOBIUS

4 жыл бұрын

I own one for Bass, there is no other pedal on the planet like it, dunno if it’s my J-Bass or the ‘83 Carlsbro Amp, but the shock and awe it can punch into a crowd...

@Artefracture

4 жыл бұрын

THEY ARE...

@jimmygee3219

Жыл бұрын

I had one in the 2000’s. Fun pedal, not a ton of uses these days but as a teenager I thought it was amazing

Wouldn’t the then be “The Lamb Of Dod”?

@RshayneB

5 жыл бұрын

🤦‍♂️

@jackallen6261

5 жыл бұрын

Very good!!

@bosquezguitars5392

5 жыл бұрын

You win!

@needsLITHIUM

5 жыл бұрын

You're grrounded. NO MOAR PUNZ FER YEW

@WhoWouldWantThisName

5 жыл бұрын

That should be a tribute pedal to Jason.

I loved the Death Metal back in the day. It gave me the gain I needed on my practice amp. 20 years later I got it out of the closet and decided to run it into my Marshall Jubilee stack. I could not believe how good it sounded into a dirty Marshall. Later I read that it was designed to be run in front of a dirty Marshall.

@jeffrix27

4 жыл бұрын

I use my original DM in a Marshall 410h

"Grunge" was the first pedal I ever bought because I was a kid and I loved grunge. I hated the pedal at the time. Nearly 30 years later I love it.

@hectorosbert

3 жыл бұрын

It was first pedal that i bought in the mid-90s and i was pretty disappointed at the time and gave it away a few years later. I saw the newer Digitech version in a store last week for $25 and snapped it right up. It sounds a bit different but i'm loving it.

Not only are these videos super informative, but Joshua's super dry sense of humour makes him one of the most entertaining gear guys on youtube.

@fuzzyoverdrive6477

4 жыл бұрын

redskullz124 he was great in Eastbound and Down too!

RIP Jason Lamb! He was a great friend for over 2 decades. He will forever be missed.

Mad Season, one of those great 90s albums that went under the radar

@benoastler4376

5 жыл бұрын

Undisputed!!! RIP Layne.

@treesurgeon2441

5 жыл бұрын

River of Deceit GOAT!

@erictoniaschwab1009

5 жыл бұрын

That was such a great album I love the opening cut Wake Up.

@stephencrane

5 жыл бұрын

Miss you,Layne.

@madmac66

5 жыл бұрын

Truly

I know I'm a little late, but this might be my favorite JHS video of all times.

Favourite grunge records no one talks about are the first two Silverchair albums 95’s Frogstomp and 97’s Freakshow Fantastic song writing, the heavy songs have amazing riffs and crushing tone and an amazing production all round Plus the fact they were still in high school when they wrote them just adds to the vibe

@violence30

Жыл бұрын

Frogstomp is THE one. They were like 15/16 when they made that first album. So simple. So catchy.

@incredifunk

Жыл бұрын

Just pulled that album out .frog stop, the other day. And I wondered what had happened to the boys and of course I looked it up on google add found only sad stories. The singer developed some kind of funky arthritis and then drummer died. Turns out they had five studio albums though.

@jacktowers7533

Жыл бұрын

@@incredifunk dunno where you read it but Ben Gillies is alive and well as are all members Dan's had some issues with Alcohol and isolation in recent years after battling arthritis and Anorexia in his youth and Chris the Bassist lost his sister to suicide but that's about it No one in the band is dead or completely fucked up at least

@jacktowers7533

Жыл бұрын

@@violence30 I love frogstomp for the nostalgia but love freakshow for the pure anger, Ironically Diorama is my favorite album of theirs

@rafaelcabralwilliams

Жыл бұрын

That's not grunge, grunge is the grunge scene from Seattle basically.

Man, does this bring back memories. 14 year old me with a cheap Samick Strat from the General store, smashing down on a DOD grunge pedal with all the knobs dimed and thinking "Man, this sounds like shit, whatever, it says grunge on it"

@EmettTheGreat

5 жыл бұрын

Bruh for real. Took me back to high school. I remember a lot of these. We would swap em at lunch and tell everyone how rad they are. They still are.

@semiografo

5 жыл бұрын

Like Boss Heavy Metal.

You never turned up the RIP knob on the Death Metal one!!! I feel robbed.

@nicks4802

5 жыл бұрын

Now you'll never be able to "rest in peace".... I'll show myself the way out

@leroy0053

5 жыл бұрын

yeah i wanted to hear what the oscillation would sound like too haha

@AndyAcker

5 жыл бұрын

It kind of feeds back like the Corrosion one did between chords in his demo. Cool pedal- sounds great on bass.

@jmaes1507

5 жыл бұрын

i guess you could say “grave robbed”

@homergump3

5 жыл бұрын

He didn't play any death metal with it either.

The Ice box chorus was the first chorus pedal that I ever owned. Damn, I shouldn't have sold that pedal

@CasaDeJoker

Жыл бұрын

I just purchased a brand new never used (still in the box) Ice Box with the snowflake ❄️ graphics on it for the 1990’s price of $75 usd (it was actually $79.99 back then but anyway its going to join my MINT FX69 Grunge pedal my dad got me back in 1994. I just need the FX747 Supersonic Stereo Flanger & the FX22 VibroThang to complete the pedals I want from that era. Actually if they weren’t going for $250-300+ on ebay Id try n get more of the LAMB line up but I digress. Excellent video and awesome comments! Keep on keeping on ! 🤘🏻🎸

@Anjohl

6 ай бұрын

The Ice Box was wonderful!

@maverickpro

3 ай бұрын

I bought one off an acquaintance a few years ago. It still works!

I have a Corrosion fx70c that I bought new in the 90s. Multiple wires broke off the board from opening up to tighten/fix inputs, and to fix that crappy switch that would always fail, and I didn't know where to solder them back. I kept the pedal around for years and finally last year (2018) was able to figure it out. I've learned a lot more about electronics over the years.. anyways, all new pots, a better switch and she's rockin again. I love that DOD sound!

Pedal snobs: "DOD Buzz box sounds bad; it's worthless and unusable." *Introducing the Bee Barrel from Earthquaker Devices for $229* "What a brilliant, creative pedal! I'll take 7!"

@richnewman

5 жыл бұрын

That sound is pretty much the Dwarfcraft Great Destroyer.

@JasonQuackenbushonGoogle

5 жыл бұрын

Rich Newman god the great destroyer is a fantastic pedal.

@danielplainview2584

5 жыл бұрын

A lot of people just don't know how to use pedals in a creative way. There are tons of useful sounds you can get from this line, if you stabilize the Buzz Box a little bit and use it on the higher end of a bass it sounds like an droning electricity generator, run vocals through it it can sound like killer bees (obligatory Wu Tang reference here), or if you want some absolutely insane tones run a drum machine through it or a drum kit for actually sonic destruction

@luisbarrera7248

4 жыл бұрын

That already happened with the Sunn Life Pedal

@removedot

4 жыл бұрын

A pedal can not be great but become great with a little bit of tweaking.

Josh make an updated grunge pedal. I’m sure you can take that circuit and make it cool.

@motoki1

5 жыл бұрын

Call it: Post Grunge

@witeshade

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. The grunge is so close to being good, I bet Josh can tweak it up to rock.

@floydhopkins7901

5 жыл бұрын

Grunge was my first pedal ever. No idea what happened to it but lord I miss it. So yeah, I would love to see a modern clone.

@gowithgroove

5 жыл бұрын

It's already cool.

@luthiervandros

5 жыл бұрын

He did. It killed him and his clone is now posting videos.

Me: "Wait! A 25 minute video on DOD pedals that I never had an interest in? I'm not watching for that long?" 25 minutes later..... cool!👏👏👍

@4GotSumthing

4 жыл бұрын

........ and then bothering to comment on it - Amazing! and we thought it was impressive that DOD could turn numbers with that line of dung pedals.

@frankstetka7206

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, my thoughts exactly but it’s hard not to watch Josh geek out about pedals and even the overlooked ones. It’s bad, worse than a comic book collection I suppose.

@yallimsorry5983

5 ай бұрын

@@4GotSumthingwhen did the dod pedals hurt you my dude

A: So how much Distortion shall we put on those DOD pedals? Lamb: Yes!

Buzz Box sounds like any given Saturday at Guitar Center

@gabe4u22

5 жыл бұрын

That's actually pretty funny lol

@WhoWouldWantThisName

5 жыл бұрын

I knew I heard that sound before.

@presmasterflash7555

5 жыл бұрын

Lou reed could’ve used this on the metal Machine album

@DirtyDog995

5 жыл бұрын

I hope they do a reissue ;)

@madmac66

5 жыл бұрын

I want one tho

Published: 47 seconds ago. Reverb: error 429 "Too Many Requests"

@thenewmedic

5 жыл бұрын

Ehhhh, maybe? This is the first set of pedals that JS hasn't been particularly effusive about. Behringer, DOD is not.

@aphexon.

5 жыл бұрын

Never buy when upload, chill a month.

@CorbCorbin

5 жыл бұрын

Rikkousa Behringer had a slight increase, but pedals like their Dimension clone, or the Vibrato Clone, are still under a $100.

@Green_1_574

5 жыл бұрын

you should see their 1966 pedals on reverb, it’s insane lol

@Speedojesus

5 жыл бұрын

Shit legit annoys me. People will buy them, post them on Instagram, /r/Guitarpedals, and piss around with them for an hour and leave them in a drawer, or on their desk, and the prices will go up for no reason.

Thanks so much for the smiles. I was binge watching ALL the JHS Pedals vids, but had to slow down out of fear of running out. OK - so now I'm on my 2nd time thru on some and 3rd or 4th watch on others. Thanks so much, JHS - really ! Serious "thumbs up"!

The first Distortion I ever bought was a DOD Death Metal. Being 13, playing in a punk band and a total guitar noob, I just picked the distortion with the coolest look. And wow did it sound mean. Great memories. Thank you for this vid!

“I’m sorry, he forgot to eat lunch that day...” This is a brilliant vid Josh!!! “In Bloom” is my fave Nirvana track by a country mile! Grunge kind of passed me by as I was into more home grown UK bands. As a link, you mentioned Blur tonight... Graham Coxon’s distortion on “Battle” is heavenly and raw... I’m sure you’ve heard it. You make Thursday night fun! Cheers!

That corrosion pedal is really nasty in the best way.

@themongoloid8944

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Chenier I agree, I am gonna have to have one of those corrosion pedals

@wombat6

5 жыл бұрын

I think it sounds fantastic, and I'm a really harsh critic when it comes to distortion pedals

@Metalbass10000

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. And I like it even more as Corrosion of Conformity has been a favorite of my wife and mine since the 90's. It sounds like that pedal could be used to approximate some of their guitar tones from over the years.

@glisteningkabana8154

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree. I loved the sound when I first heard it in an earlier JHS video.

@sophicane7

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely sounds great in this video.

I owned almost all of these pedals in high school. This video takes me back. :) Thanks for this!

@CasaDeJoker

Жыл бұрын

I honestly never cared for any other brand just because DOD made TANKS! Also they had cool paint jobs compared to Boss & whoever else. Idk its just me I guess but yeah this was a blast from the past!

Back in the 90s, these were not well regarded by most guitar players. Listening back to the tones, I feel like... we were right... :P

@frankstetka7206

3 жыл бұрын

I ignored them and lost interest in DOD even though we used Digitech crap a lot. I did like the bucket brigade Supersonic and hope it’s still around here somewhere and I have a phaser that’s not mentioned that sucks volume badly so it needs surgery that I may never get around to. The problem is that Josh is such a pedal geek that he makes us all want to play all of them for ourselves all over again.

@Anjohl

6 ай бұрын

Grunge sounds great to me! Death Metal too!

By far , my favorite episode . Thanks a lot Josh , you' ve just pleased a 40 y.o. guitarist who was a teenager when grunge showed up

@joelcprice

5 жыл бұрын

Same. Such a trip down the memories of my early years playing and discovering music.

@CasaDeJoker

Жыл бұрын

FACTS! 🎸

This was the time period that I started playing music and I remember friends having so many of these pedals. My first pedal was the Deep Freeze (bass version of the Ice Box). Thanks for letting me relive some of those memories.

this much passion, knowledge and humor in one person is so rare. wonderful. thank you for all of these!

I love Buzz. His tone is one of the best and he uses a solid state amp and a metal guitar.

“Basically you just put some flies on your slab of meat and move on”-Josh JHS

@K.Dor.888

4 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... He's Whacky

The re-issued meat box is a staple for crushing live sounds. It’s so low on bass it makes your guts hurt. It’s fantastic. If you are a bassist you need one.

@luthiervandros

5 жыл бұрын

Archie Montoya it looks like something GWAR would use lol.

@TeepleBass

5 жыл бұрын

It's an essential pedal on my board. I have the original and the re-issue and the new one is more useful than the OG version.

@archiemontoya585

5 жыл бұрын

I got turned on to it by Janek Gwizdala from his synth sounds demos. I use it for huge sound scapes, big breakdowns, and as a foundation for making analog synth sounds on bass. What do you all use it for?

Great video Josh! My truly first sound guitar, back in 2001, was a mix of a DOD Grunge, a Boss flanger and a Boss dd-3 delay/sampler. At the time I thought it was the most awesome, unique sound to ever been created. To my ears it sounded futuristic and emotional, it was inspiring 24/7, I was ‘hooked’. Good memories!

@-jank-willson

Жыл бұрын

my first setup was a reverb going into an overdrive going into a tremolo going into another overdrive

I've watched this video several times and learned much from it. Myself and several Facebook friends plan to change our profile photo to our favorite Lamb DOD Pedal to celebrate Jason Lamb's Birthday in Sept. THANK YOU for the Education.

14 year old me, plywood Ibanez, DOD death metal. I played in a grunge band at the time :D

@MrSimondaniel3

5 жыл бұрын

haha yup. i thought Ibanez was so good.. nope.

@mrdumbfellow927

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrSimondaniel3 I mean they are sort of like everyone else in the way that there are good and bad guitars they make right?

@enzodemello849

5 жыл бұрын

80’s ARIA with super microphonic pickups and a peavey pa/Bass amp, set up to play in drop b, I think I had the lowest low ends of my local hardcore scene in the late 2000’s when I kicked that did death metal on.

The Death Metal Distortion was my first pedal when I picked up the guitar. Naturally, I used it to play in a worship band😂

@chuckbabygorilla

5 жыл бұрын

Naturally.

@ryans9029

4 жыл бұрын

Was my first also. Lol

@christsanjoures

4 жыл бұрын

hah! mine was a DS-1, cause Nirvana. What's up Brett.

@brettwondrak7953

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Tsanjoures Hey, Chis! You chose wisely😆

@taylorprocker

4 жыл бұрын

I was 13,it was mid 90’s, Got cannibal corpse’s Bloodthirst and was like, of course THIS is what death metal boys MUST use. It’s labeled just for them!

The Grunge is probably my favorite Distortion pedal that I've ever used. I'm not really a big Distortion user, especially using single coils where distortion can get a bit brash. It had enough low-mid that just worked really well. It's also the ONLY useable pedal in this line, or at least it can be used for more than 2 song. We have an independent record shop in town. The owner had a record company back in the 80s and 90s that worked with "noise rock" bands. If you're thinking "oh noise rock, like Sonic Youth,I like Sonic Youth," no that's not the noise rock I speak of, this is actually NOISE. It's pretty much only popular in the Merrimack valley in Massachusetts, and Japan; and that's not an exaggeration, look it up. These pedals sound like that record store.

@djay6651

3 жыл бұрын

I still use the FX69 Grunge. I run it through an FX40B EQ and it tames it a bit.

it would be amazing to see someone giving all the love Josh does give to pedals but through a bass player view

@incredifunk

Жыл бұрын

I don't know if it could be as popular but I totAlly agree.. Although a lot of pedals can be / are used through both formats

I grew up listening to all of Jason's bands in Salt Lake, and then became friends with him and his crew much more during the last years of his life. He had such a creative mind and a knack for marketing. Boy do I miss that dude.

I remember when "Nevermind " came out, my kids were watching MTV and "Smells Like Teen Spirit " was in heavy rotation. I was lost at first, but after hearing it a gazillion times I was hooked. Rock On Josh.

@tomcoryell

5 жыл бұрын

The Root Boy Cooks ! You broke my mood ring....

I just turned 40 this year, and had fallen away from guitar playing for some time. im just getting back into it and have been interested in buying some new pedals and came across your show and I'm really enjoying it. I love the music of the nineties (and some late 80s stuff like sonic youth and Dinosaur jr. that helped usher in that era) so this episode really hit home with me. I personally like In Utero better than Nevermind, but i understand how important Nevermind is and it does have my favorite song of theirs on it "In Bloom". That being said, one of my favorite nineties albums came out a bit later in the decade, but its Hum's Downward is Heavenward. Anyways, keep up the good work!

@lexustech48

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Of all the dozens of guitars ive owned over the years, the only one I still have is the Fender Strat my mom and Uncle bought me waaaayyyy back in the 90's. I remember the DOD lineup well. Mom wouldnt buy me one. I eventually bought a Boss MT-2 Metal Zone. So, yeah, same incoherent tonal mess. hahaha

@kidcoastless8575

4 жыл бұрын

Dino and Sonic Youth are always some of my faves. I'd agree that In Utero is better, but nothing gets me as riled up as Territorial Pissings. I haven't heard of that last record you mentioned though, I'll have to check it out

@controllerstruggle8737

4 жыл бұрын

@@kidcoastless8575 hope you enjoy it!

@Justin-yz6mo

3 жыл бұрын

@@controllerstruggle8737 I remember seing Hum on Conan one night at a friends house when their first album came out. I got friends to listen to it years after that said "i really would have liked this at the time, and like it now. Why didnt you say something!?" The radio was so saturated with "that sound" a lot of great stuff got overlooked. One of my closest friends even got to meet some of the people they recorded with in Champaign while he was working on his own music.

I bought a DOD Stereo Chorus pedal back in the 1980's and I still use it to this day.

Great episode! Smashing Pumpkins' 'Gish' is one of my favorite albums from that era (or any era).

@erictoniaschwab1009

5 жыл бұрын

ascii 70 85 I didn’t get into Gish much later after Siamese Dream. It’s such a great album.

@madmac66

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Without question. Still my “go to” album when I want something good and great. From the opening drum refrain to the closing decay it’s non stop awesome. Saw them on that tour and is still one of the best sounding shows ever. And Darcy. Oh sweet sad Darcy. Such a slinky bass goddess. I don’t think they ever reached that height again, that sound and tone and dynamic songwriting. Saw them on the Siamese dream tour and they sounded terrible. Corgan was well into his self destructing I don’t care pity party by then

I love Thursdays. Things I never thought I'd ever say.

@jackallen6261

5 жыл бұрын

"I love Thursdays" that could be a very cool name for a band!! Think about it...."Next up from I Love Thursdays, Pedaling my way to fame!!" Okay, maybe that sucks but you get my drift, lol. You know the whole pedal thing with Josh being into bicycling...Okay, I'll see myself out now, lol.

@WhoWouldWantThisName

5 жыл бұрын

@@jackallen6261 Haha, that's awesome, and I didn't even know Josh was into bikes. Even without that bit still good.

@jackallen6261

5 жыл бұрын

@@WhoWouldWantThisName Sure!! I mean we had Till Tuesday right? Why not I love Thursday?? I think I may be on to something here...Or not, lol.

@WhoWouldWantThisName

5 жыл бұрын

@@jackallen6261 Quite a few of the KZread channels I follow release a video every Thursday. So this could be a cultural thing that people might relate to. I know if I hear someone say "I love Thursdays." that's exactly what I assume they are talking about.

When Josh knocks the Grunge pedal off the amp at 4:00 is comedy gold! That kid has moxie! ;)

I have my dod supra distortion and I love it! Had it since '92.

New level of comedy in this one. 🤣❤

I like you josh, you have moxy. You are the kind of guy I would trust to feed my cat whilst I was out of town.

The Death Metal is my all time favorite distortion. I've owned mine since '94 R.I.P. =volume, Guts=bass, Pain=mid, Scream=treble

@xhooliganx7297

4 жыл бұрын

It sounded horrible, like a bunch of styrofoam surrounding your tone.

@4GotSumthing

4 жыл бұрын

@@xhooliganx7297 Might be a good thing if your tone is lacking any redeeming value................

@4GotSumthing

4 жыл бұрын

One day you will have to decide on playing it or putting it in the pedal museum - Until then Make music that relates to giving up your favorites in life. I can already feel your pain ...

@noesunyoutuber7680

3 жыл бұрын

The Death Metal has actually had a surprising revival among Noise musicians because the maximized gain and ludicrous EQ is perfect for making contact microphones scream. Plus they're much cheaper than similar dirt pedals like the HM-2 or Metalzone because they were bought and swiftly collected dust in droves.

@t0rment

2 жыл бұрын

@@xhooliganx7297 Sounds a lot better in the FX loop, much like the metal zone.

I wish someone looked at me the way Josh looks at the milk box

@dewdop

3 жыл бұрын

🥲

please include a fog machine in all episodes to come. Thank you.

@enkiea8322

5 жыл бұрын

^ Do this.

@ironbeard2796

5 жыл бұрын

I think it was just someone vaping.

@joshlane6192

5 жыл бұрын

definitely not fog...

@uri674

5 жыл бұрын

Dang, okay lol

@ascii7085

5 жыл бұрын

Don't know about every episode, but it needs to make another appearance.

That was great. Reminded me how hard it was to get a good sound for little money as a broke teen in the early 90’s 😁

@juanvaldez5422

5 жыл бұрын

damn straight. People take for granted all the cheap yet good gear they can get today. 20 years ago if you had little money, you got crap

@jacksparrow6218

4 жыл бұрын

Juan Valdez Very true.

I love this vid - brings back many memories. I live in Salt Lake and was using Digitech Valve FX and 2120’s as a kid - we were always able to go to the factory and visit the guys making these. They gave my friend a Punkifier because we played a lot of U2 and they said Edge used one on the Pop album..(I think Mofo was the song?) I got the death metal one from them. They were so much fun. I even remember the technicians would go to music shops and take measurements (with an oscilloscope). To get their “modeling” that they were starting to do (right before the GNX line). Cool Vid Josh!!! And you mentioned Cram!! He one of the main guys we would visit. Love him!!

I had the DoD Grunge. Best studio distortion ever! Great mids and sustain. Combine it with an eq and a valve amp and you'll be amazed! Oh god I miss it already!

So DOD shifted 8,000 units a months of a pedal that Kurt Cobain didn't use. Now that's clever marketing, I can see why you like them.

@jakedibiase7404

5 жыл бұрын

Cobain actually did use the Grunge on the Live and Loud performance. You can hear it specifically on the song “School” from that show.

@danielallan5058

5 жыл бұрын

He did use that pedal..you can hear it just by hearing it in the room

@removedot

4 жыл бұрын

Supposedly he only ever used it mockingly

@lueysixty-six7300

4 жыл бұрын

removedot He looked down on everyone. Heck, he looked down at Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam, ffs! He really was a Pretentious F***! Noone wants to say it because he's dead. I don't hate him or anything at all. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Teen Spirit - it was the defining moment of my adolscence... Even so, Kurt Cobain was a the sort of Snob that would put bike-riding, quinoa-chomping hipsters to shame!

@ThatGuy-y2c

4 жыл бұрын

Luey Sixty-six I would argue that he was extremely cynical, and skeptical of some of his contemporaries. Cobain was into subverting expectations, whereas Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins were both using “grunge” and “alternative” as marketing labels in order to fill arenas and make money. Cobain was brilliant but extremely immature (at least in my opinion, and I attribute it to early fame and drug addiction), and what comes of as pretentious may have been a sort of naive belief in artistic purity. Hell, he was right about Billy Corgan being a poseur, and Cobain died around the time Pearl Jam decided to embrace authenticity over arena rock. Say what you want about the guy, but Kurt was nothing if not a perceptive observer of his contemporaries.

You had me at smoke machine.

I remember enjoying this line of pedals quite a bit back in the mid to late 90's as a new guitar player. Fun episode, thanks for a dive into nostalgia.

Nevermind is the reason I play guitar. Lounge Act is my favorite song from the album and one of my favorites from the era for close to 30 years now. My favorite album from the era is Pisces Iscariot.

Huh! "It's not broken, it sounds that way" is also the way I usually have to explain my guitar tone!

"I'm sorry, he forgot to eat lunch that day." Genuine LOL.

I've watched this video a couple dozen times. I'm exactly the same age as Josh and I started playing at the same time, and being a broke kid in the 90's meant you had a bunch of DOD pedals! Great stuff. Josh I would love for you to do a big DOD video, if love to hear you interview people like Tom Cram and Roger Johnson and others from there. It'd be interesting to hear tales from the height of their popularity.

I’ve always loved the way the Grunge sounded, it’s so ridiculously gained up that there’s nothing else like it, especially on bass

I recently found my DOD Grunge pedal in my mom's house. Hadn't touched it in 20 years, and now I'm crazy about it again! Off Topic: You should do a review on Ibanez's Soundtank line. They were super cheap 90's pedals that were plastic. My favorite was the Thrashmetal one. I like it so much that I have a backup. Don't let the name fool you, It's actually not super distorted. It's perfect!

The purchase of the Vitalogy album the day after its release was the probably the most pivotal moment in my life.

@mattgilbert7347

5 жыл бұрын

It's the best PJ album

@juanvaldez5422

5 жыл бұрын

one of mine to. We waited in line for the vinyl

You’re my new hero! As a person with a pedal addiction on a budget you are a GOD!! Love your style and approach 👍

Proud 2nd owner of the DOD FX70P Big Pig here. A friend gave me this pedal several years ago. The story goes that his Gma bought it for him (from MF) as a gift to use with his bass. He hated this pedal and I remember him telling me not to feel bad if I decided to throw it away. I kept it. And got reacquainted with it 6-7 years ago and love it! It's not on either of my main pedalboards but it gets used fairly often as it's got its own thing going on and is a ton of fun to play. Definitely not a transparent pedal and it is in no way subtle or tame but it is a total good time for mid-bumped riffing and angular lead stuff. Glad this one made it to the video! :-)

One of my favourite albums from the Grunge era? Dirt, by AIC. It’s such a good album, with both classic songs and a deep pool of quality tracks

@AndyAcker

5 жыл бұрын

I will agree with you all day on that. Bought it as a teen the day it came out....

@jackallen6261

5 жыл бұрын

I was at their concert the week before it came out!! They opened for Ozzy! Layne Stalely broke his ankle before the show. He did the set with a cast on! It was seriously awesome!!

The Corrosion sounded awesome, it didn't have that high end splatty noise in the background some of the other distortions did 🤘🏼

@VBshredder

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree, i could use that one

@producermind9030

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!!

@WarrenKingDudeface

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome sounding pedal for sure. I can't remember the life of me what song you played. It's very familiar. What song was it? Silverchair song?

@MrLivebynight

3 жыл бұрын

@@WarrenKingDudeface Stone Temple Pilots - "Down" off the album No. 4

That was cool Josh, thanks! Those two albums are the soundtrack to my highschool experience (along with Dookie, and Out Came The Wolves, Mellon Collie, Tragic Kingdom, Core, and a bunch more I'm forgetting)

@CasaDeJoker

Жыл бұрын

YES TO ALL OF THESE! 💯

I worked with Jason at Fender in the 2000s. He was a great friend who would do anything for you. RIP old pal.

“I have the box here...” *shows box for like a second* “Nobody cares...” Me: I care

@luthiervandros

5 жыл бұрын

SeanPierceJohnson I don't know why this is funny, but I literally LOL'd!

@SeanPierceJohnson

5 жыл бұрын

Frank DeSalvo I’m a sucker for OG packaging

@luthiervandros

5 жыл бұрын

SeanPierceJohnson take my thumbs up. I hear ya.

@Jonathan-ih7qp

4 жыл бұрын

I care too. I always keep all of the original packaging from my pedals too. Still have my Punkifier (first pedal I ever purchased) and Death Metal Distortion in the box on the shelf behind me.

@kampfkustomer2343

4 жыл бұрын

A different era. JHS 1.0, before...HE *HAS* THE *BOX!*

FX 55C Supra Distortion was my very first pedal. Everyone who thinks that Metal Zone is a can of bees should listen to that nasty machine of torture.

@ignis777

5 жыл бұрын

I have one and I love it :)

That Grunge it’s sick.. I dream the day I could get one again!

I absolutely loved this video! These pedals were basically my childhood in a stomp box.

@CasaDeJoker

Жыл бұрын

Same here!!! What I would give to relive High School except with parents with actual money and no divorce. Meh. We can keep the divorce but just make it happen sooner LMAO!!!

I'm glad someone else is as into Pearl Jam as I am. Not as a novelty, but as my actual favorite band of all time. Favorite 90s grunge album: Pearl Jam - No Code

@zl5465

5 жыл бұрын

Howdy... see my reply above

@mccreadypj17

5 жыл бұрын

PJ is my favorite band of all time, and No Code is an amazing album.

And that's how a DOD Grunge pedal goes up in price by 150% in 25 minutes... lol

@tungtobak

5 жыл бұрын

Eh... I dunno. There are so, so many out there. And they do still sound like crap (including this demo). I would take any kind of regular RAT over it any day.

@gregmerritt9366

5 жыл бұрын

That's the big problem with these "hidden gems" videos. They essentially put a countdown on the collector's market ruining things for the working musician.

@karlmontenegro

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregmerritt9366 It can become the hedgehog's dilemma for guitar pedal makers/buyers. Josh wants to point attention to underestimated/overlooked makers/pedals/fx but yet again since the boutique market has a big chunk dominated by JHS, their influence will cause a price/rarity increase.

@tungtobak

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregmerritt9366 That is true though. I have put up buying this thing or another for years, and then Josh or Hainbach or whoever does a video on that specific thing and bam, they are expensive now.

@karlmontenegro

5 жыл бұрын

@@notmyrealhandle Still can get a lot of them second hand here dirt cheap.

I looked up Jason and I found out he died. Man's legacy is amazing. RIP.

Such a great tribute to a wonderful guy! I'm proud to say I played in a band with Mr. Lamb.

Very fun! Nirvana restored my love of Rock radio...remember radio!?! It kicked off another wave of guitar rock. Hope it happens again?

@erictoniaschwab1009

5 жыл бұрын

druwk Yes I remember that very much. I still love 80’s hard rock to this day. But by 1991, bands like Trixter, Dangerous Toys and Sleeze Beez were just played out. When Nevermind came out it made me excited to be a rock fan again.

I've had one of those 747supersonic flangers on my board for years!! Love it even when it's off, the buffers are very nice. Killer flange sound either dialed in soft or cranked up. Thanks for covering these DOD classics- sad to hear of the Harmon group shake-up this year. Hoping DOD survives again somehow.

@CasaDeJoker

Жыл бұрын

Theres a large chainnof gas station/carwash/convenience store giant service stations here in upstate New York called Delta Sonic and their logo and colors remind me of this Supersonic Stereo Flange graphics lol.

WOW!!!! Lightning crashes!!!! there´s a song i never expected to hear on any pedal demo show!!!! excellent choice, sir!!!!

I see these pedals are coming back, but I wonder where all of the battery covers have gone?

@saddestchord7622

5 жыл бұрын

Hey I have a T60 like the one in your avatar thing. Mine's black, though.

@briansuniqueguitars

5 жыл бұрын

Dustin Anderson that’s cool. I have a black one too with the original sticker on the pick guard, case candy and all. I will make a video on it in the near future.

When you look at the albums released the same year as Vitalogy, and realize how important that year was in the history of music, it shows how good this album is. They even performed Not For You on SNL the Saturday before the album release on Tuesday, further edifying how this was a big deal. I remember planning my escape from classes that day, in order to get down to the Sam The Record Man on Barrington St. in Halifax at opening, so I could buy the album. There was even this sense of wonder with the packaging they released it in; it was a bit impractical to someone whom loathes fingerprints on the surface of his media discs, but it was just a wonder to hear straight through the first time, you forgot about it. Pearl Jam evolved on that incredible album. Nevermind was great too.

@incredifunk

Жыл бұрын

You're so right period psychology was such An important album. and just the whole time period from ninety four- ninetysix,ninetyseven. Mother love bone, Temple of the dog, Sound garden, Nirvana, weezer. Hole( to a lesser degree)And who can forget Rage.??!? The music that formed & possibly changed our lives. A precursor of what we were to become musically, Perhaps spiritually.

Wow-- this is a very cool video and history lesson. In the 80s and early 90's, I was a die-hard BOSS/ Roland buyer. During a bunch of live gigs in '95, my original BOSS DF-2 Super Distortion/ Feedbacker pedal (that I had been using since 1987) got damaged and I was needing something to drive my Marshall JCM 900 4100 a bit harder. On short notice, a very good friend sold me his DOD Grunge pedal for a very reasonable price and I ended up using it on on a recording session for my band. I was really was in a panic not having any kind of pedal to boost my Marshall, so that DOD Grunge was a total confidence saver. A year or two later, I did a second band recording session without using the Grunge pedal and in retrospect, I wish I would have used that pedal again. Now, taking into account that there are a million variables with room and microphone placement (the amp and guitar was the same on both sessions), there is still something missing from my guitar energy and tone on the second recordings. It is a very punk rock pedal-- there is just mid range "ommph" to what the pedal adds to your tone that I can't replicate with other brands of pedals. The Grunge really helps the guitar cut through a mix. Anyway, I am very glad I still have that DOD Grunge pedal, though it is probably now considered to be a bit of a collectors item. I won't be taking that pedal outside my home studio, for sure. I will always have a nostalgic fondness fort that purple metallic pedal.

Great episode. Having been on Sub Pop at the same time as Nirvana and Mudhoney it was a real treat to watch so many friends bands become huge. I’d say my fave record from that time was Flop-“Fall Of The Mopsquezer”. Fave song on Nevermind is On A Plain and while I know and even toured with the PJ dudes, I never really got that into them as much musically. I suppose my fave song by them is “Spin The Black Circle” but I don’t know what record that is on.

@IamtheFerryMan

2 жыл бұрын

I know your comment is a couple years old but Spin the Black Circle is on Vitalogy. Bands like PJ, Mudhoney, Tad and the Melvins shaped me into the fine human I am today. May I inquire what band you were in? If you're near PDX, let's make a record?

Oh what a good episode!!! LOVE IT, LOVE JHS, LOVE YOU JOSH!! I remember drooling over some of the pedals you mentioned around 96-97, I couldn't afford any of them but I used to have the SupraDistortion that a friend gave me, my favorite Grunge record it's really hard to define, Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop, Superunknown, In Utero, Yield?(does still counts as grunge), Well as you can see all of them! hahaha, But of course there couldn't be a Better World without a Better man...see what I just did there?, and On a Plain it's my favorite song of Nevermind also. Josh thank you for this great videos, and for making such amazing pedals!!!

You didn't turn up the r.i.p. knob like you said you would!!

@musicisart2

5 жыл бұрын

skipped lunch...

@tondebruijn5424

5 жыл бұрын

I somehow fail to be upset by that after listening to that clip. I have a very strong feeling it was going to do the impossible and make it sound worse.

@coreyw5981

5 жыл бұрын

@@tondebruijn5424 🤣

@adventuresinasmr1314

5 жыл бұрын

@@tondebruijn5424 His pedal didn't sound right, it sounded like a ring mod was on there too. I own that pedal and it sounds awesome. Well it did until I plugged the PSU in with the wrong polarity and it died :(

As an ex colleague of Jason I can say this honors him in the right way!....thanks for this!

After watching this video a light went off in my head. My old drummer gave me an FX86B years ago and I forgot. I plugged it into the return of my Peavey Ultra, then put myMXR Badass OD in front and a gate at the end. It’s the nastiest thing I’ve ever experienced. It’s going in the loop of my HX Stomp.

Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains. I was very, very depressed when I was young and being able to know that someone else was hurting was comforting. Now, I wish someone had reached out earlier to help. But it was incredible.

@CGCEifel

5 жыл бұрын

I've seen them on the Dirt Tour in in Cologne germany 1993 with a friend. They opened with Rotten Apple and it got so intense in the venue my buddy had to leave. Unforgettable show and Band.

Nice to see the Juice Box... I've had mine for MANY years (I have the other version)... old Music Go-Round buy from the college days! Still have the box and all!

Perfect episode, forgiving the missed opportunity to name this epidose "Lamb of DOD"

Vitalogy was a great album. I haven't listened to it in years, and I keep meaning to pick it up on vinyl. Nevermind was, of course, fantastic. I think my favorite grunge records were Facelift and Dirt by Alice In Chains, and In Utero by Nirvana. If you haven't heard the 2013 remix of In Utero, you should. It's much closer to what the band originally envisioned, and I think it's a far superior mix. The noisier songs that the label insisted be toned down particularly benefit from the remix. Also, I just recently discovered this channel and it's fascinating. There's a whole bunch of these I want to try. Especially the one made for bass, since I'm a bassist much more than a guitarist.

@frankstetka7206

3 жыл бұрын

Glen Grubbs, thanks for the information. Super cool.

I was awake for the midnight release of Vitalogy because my school mate insisted on getting it! Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, STP, Blind Melon and many others filled the airwaves from my childhood!