Can you just reissue the Sovtek, since you are hoarding them all.

@eguitarplayer6689

2 жыл бұрын

I had a Mig-100 it was great. Reissue the Mig-100 with hybrid solid state/tube technology.

@Lennoxandjon

2 жыл бұрын

This!!! Especially the Mig 60

@GrungeIsN0tDead

2 жыл бұрын

This

@joeyravage4798

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣

@feddomeijerwiersma6955

Жыл бұрын

This made me spit out my drink. And made me realize we watch waaaaay too much Josh in his white dungeon

Seems like a nice guy with wise words and parting thoughts. No dogma about gear and stuff, and gives props to other manufacturers.

@michaelpacinus242

3 жыл бұрын

I want to pet your horse tail

I have stuff. I have wires. I hook my wires to my stuff. The stuff lights up. My guitar makes noise. I like noise. Usually. I hook my guitar to my stuff with my wires. I make noise through my lit up stuff. It makes me happy.

To all the people asking "where should I put my buffer?", stop typing and start switching your boxes around, then use whatever arrangement sounds best to you. Then ask your friends, just in case your opinion sucks.

What's ironic is that everyone complained about boss pedals being not tru bypass. So they modded all their boss pedals to be tru bypass, then went out and bought buffers for the pedal boards... Musicians eh

@alexmurphy5289

3 жыл бұрын

Guitarists**

Simple bit of advice: get a BOSS tuner. It has buffered bypass. Go one step further, get the BOSS looper/reverb/delay and boom you have a buffer at the beginning and end of your chain.

@bohenian

4 жыл бұрын

TC electronic HOF2 has a buffer mode as well if that helps

@keithremedy

3 жыл бұрын

That would only give a buffered signal to the next pedal over soon as you turned a compressor or drive the rest of the board wouldn’t be buffered. You want the pickups to think it’s getting the same input impedance as an amplifier. Buffer interface is a better option something with a 1mg ohm input and a output

@emiliolopez8796

3 жыл бұрын

Jhs pedal is 44 bucks tho

@DanielBobke

2 жыл бұрын

Two of these Little Black Buffers are way cheaper than a BOSS tuner and looper pedal...WAY cheaper.

dude. you just completely saved my biscuits. i must have been crook the day "no buffer before fuzz" got taught at school. unbelievable difference to my fuzz face . thanks man

The price of that water hose went up to $1000 on reverb after this video

You're literally improving the world by doing vids like this

I always click on a JHS video, if just to hear the intro music :) sounds like a warm blanket.

I use a small board of RAT - Boss EQ - Boss Chorus - Boss Reverb, so, this guy's honesty has led me to the decision that I don't need a buffer and can save some money

0:23 Nice full stop at that stop sign there. ;) Thanks for what you all do!

Very cool, very honest, and respectful towards other pedal companies...

@luisangelEXALTA

4 жыл бұрын

A class act. I still will get one of his pedals out of respect for all his work and videos ( and he makes some damn tempting boxes)

I always use a buffer, even if I’m not using my pedalboard, I modded one of your buffered splitters so I have individual active volumes on each so when I’m playing at a gig I put my bass direct to the pa and to the bass amp.

One last comment. I am retired in Europe in a country with terrible grounding. I bought 2 very expensive Joe Bonamossa guitar cables. They made an incredible difference in the signal and the noise!!

This was really helpful. Just rearranged my board putting my Fuzz before overdrive (and SD-1 acting as buffer) and it sounds way better! Thank you!

This is by far the best video I've watched explaining a buffer. I've watched many I can't lie :) Thank you!

Josh, I had the utmost respect for you as both a pedal manufacturer and entertainer. Then I saw those New Balance shoes.

@Josev-TV

5 жыл бұрын

morphine0000 😂😆😝

This is the best channel.... why have I only just found this?? I am telling all the guitar playing kids I teach about it and now we all nerd out at break and lunch about different pedals and our dream shopping lists.... awesome vids, great work!!

That analogy just blew my mind. Ive always known kind of what buffers are for but that analogy just brought it home for me.

Honestly I don’t own any JHS pedals but I’m addicted to this station. This dude is awesome. Recently i got a Fulltone Deja vibe and Realize i should have bought a unicorn if for no other reason than that i want to support this dude and this channel ... so now i have to find a reason to buy something else just to support jhs !

@jhspedals

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

So a buffer is basically a redstone repeater

@raptor_guy2327

Жыл бұрын

Wait actually

@CrashExhibition

Жыл бұрын

Or just a repeater ;)

@AS-vq3ep

Жыл бұрын

redstone repeater circuit clone

@marcello9476

Жыл бұрын

or just a normal repeater

These videos are ALWAYS brilliant and one of the best things for me is the way you constantly talk about how good Boss pedals, MXR too, Danelectro, etc and really hammer home that you don't have to buy boutique stuff all the time and it's OK to get cheaper gear because there are some real gems out there. I did a lot of work on my board last year and ended up putting a few buffers in at various points to balance it all out - the TC Electronic Polytune 3 has a built-in buffer so I was able to get rid of my separate Bonafide Buffer then in my FX loop I have an MXR Stereo Chorus, Carbon Copy Deluxe and M300 Reverb which are all buffered. You really can hear the difference between that and the old all true bypass board that I used to use especially when connecting with two 20ft cables in the front end and two 10ft cables into the loop.

I absolutely love this VLOG series. Just switched my Source Audio Ventris reverb at the end of my chain to a buffered bypass (per your suggestion) and it fixed so much so easily. Thanks for doing this!

I finally realized your theme reminds me of the "Portlandia" theme... nice theme.

I have my RC-30 looper at the end of my board. I'm glad I do now after watching this vid. Got about 6 true bypass pedals in front of it (including two JHS...Whitey Tighty, Crayon) so I hope it being at the end of my signal chain cleans any loss up good and proper. BTW, just some feedback on your channel. Your unbiased channel which features more product placement for your competitors, rather than your own product, has driven me to your products. You do a great job educating and showing love to all pedals, which in turn leads me to trust your products and designs. If a guy loved hamburgers as much as you love pedals, I'm sure he makes the best hamburgers kind of logic. The Crayon is ridiculous by the way. Just ridiculous. The Whitey Tighty with a clean boost are my always on pedals, going into an AC30. The compressor really makes a huge difference. You and your team do a great job. Don't know what my next JHS purchase is going to be. Still mulling that around. Cheers.

Love the little pep talk at the end. Keep it light and have fun.

I'm glad you mentioned the coiled cord thing. I use it the same way, like a UHF filter.

I don't know what to say but i am just glad i found your channel. And i don't even have a pedal...yet

What an awesome example that hose bit was

These vlog videos are fantastic, I'm learning LOADS from them. Please keep them coming!

I’m a beginning guitar player and this video really helped me. The buffer analogy is genius! Great job !

Your KZread channel is soo damn awesome! Soo much great info.

I had the JHS little black buffer on my mini pedal board a few years ago and it worked best at the front of the board. But then I got a TC Elec poly tune 3 tuner for that mini pedal board so I didn’t need the jhs buffer anymore. But for my main rock band (one gig per week) bigger pedal board w about 13 pedals on it, I didn’t have a buffer at the end of my board. Most but not all pedals are true bypass on that board so just the other day I thought I’d A/B the sound of my board as is - with no buffer at the end, vs the tone w the jhs buffer at the very end of the board. Note that I already have a buffer at beginning of the big board via a tc elec polytune 3 tuner. The results were very unexpected. Without the buffer the sound was weak and lifeless compared to the sound w the jhs buffer at the very end of my chain. Wow. More volume. More life. More top end. Sounded like I was plugged straight into the amp. I’m sold. I mounted the little black buffer underneath my pedal train Novo board last in the chain. What a difference. Had no idea I was missing what I was missing. Big fan of that little buffer!

Thanks for the video...great explanation! I just bought your little black amp box and am now able to crank my Peavey Classic 30 and not go deaf. Makes my overdrive pedal sound so much better at low amp volumes.

hey, i just wanna say how much i enjoy these vlogs, always informative, entertaining and so relaxing. Thanks for keeping em coming on a regular basis.

0:45 nice low key he has the box moment

Not Russian egg 😂 Russian wooden doll called Matreshka 🙂we love your show here in Saint Petersburg man!

Thank you. I needed this video severely. This resolved weeks of confusion.

Best explanation - and demonstration of - Buffers ever!!!!!

Interesting takes on Buffers and surprisingly some very different ones than Mason from Vertex Effects has. He says that Boss Buffers are not good and you shouldnt use them as main buffers and instead get a standalone one.

Skateboarders figured out a long time ago that stickers are some of the best advertising.

Thank you Josh. Putting the buffer at the end of chain really make a huge difference. like a new set of strings, as you perfectly said.

What a great description regarding buffering. Awesome job !!

You might want to check your water pressure.

Your water’s example at the beggining was the most graphicalstronomically incredible explanation all over KZread. Buffers pedals are happy now! Cheers from Chile!

Thanks for putting such great, practical messages at the end of your videos. Sometimes I lose sight of what really matters: plugging in and jamming!

Appreciate your knowledge and your delivery. Grazie! 🌴

I'm studying for my ECE board exam, and I got curious with the purpose of a buffer (cause I got it wrong in a practice test). As a guitarist, I really appreciate being able to relate my course to my passion. This was a really helpful video! Awesome analogy too with the water hose. Thanks!

What is the benefit of the 'sandwich' approach to buffers? The way I understand it, putting a buffer between your first cable coming out of your guitar (cable 1) and the rest of your cables (cables 2, 3, 4, ...) essentially eliminates the 'darkening'/'tone suck' effect. I.e., the capacitance that would have built up from stringing pedals together using cables 2, 3, 4, ... is eliminated when you put a buffer in between them and cable 1. Based on this understanding, it would seem that putting a buffer at the end of the chain is redundant. All of the capacitance that would have built up form cables 2, 3, 4, ... is neutralized by putting a buffer between them and cable 1, therefore, your high-end should be retained. Why would I need to put another buffer at the end of the chain? What kind of effect would I likely hear as a result of utilizing the 'sandwich' approach? It seems to me like that is just wasted space. Not criticizing, just looking for an explanation. Would love to hear your thoughts.

@jhspedals

5 жыл бұрын

Sure, it all depends on the size of the board. If you like your sounds with just one, then that is great! Try the test I mentioned in the VLOG and see what you hear.

@KonstaKurki

3 жыл бұрын

@@jhspedals With all respect, you completely avoided the question and dissmissed questioner's curiosity. It would be better to not respond at all.

@DanielBobke

2 жыл бұрын

The goal with the buffers is to decrease/eliminate the high end loss that occurs because of the length of the signal chain and the cabling involved AND to provide the proper impedance load to your guitar pickups and the amp. A buffer at the beginning of the signal chain and one at the very end is ideal.

Josh, if you're ever super busy and you feel you don't have the time for a new episode, just do a quick Record Time :D It's my favourite part of the videos, you've already showed me so many amazing artists I had no idea even existed!

Great vlogs, Josh! Simple yet really helpfull and down to earth! And the record time bonus is awesome everytime!!!!! Tnx!

Its not a Russian egg)) its a doll, called матрёшка. Like matryoshka))

Coily cables are awesome. Just ask Brian May and Gearmanndude.

I was just asking myself this morning if I need a buffer. Impeccable timing. Thank you!

@jhspedals

5 жыл бұрын

I knew.... 👁👁👁

I remember the first time I used a buffer it amazed me at how much it cleared up my tone. It was everything I felt was missing from my sound. It’s like lifting a blanket off of your speaker cab to let the sound breathe.

You mentioned that Boss has a really good buffer. Is there any situation where that isn't the case or they don't perform well? For example, I run 2-6 pedals at any time. The first time I bought a boss pedal, I loved the sound of it, but when it was off my clean sound had this strange character to the midrange that wasn't there before. So while I was losing some signal with all true-bypass pedals, when comparing the clean sound of my amp to the buffer going through several different pedals of which I swapped around as well as changed the number of them in the chain, I was still getting something that wasn't there before. I've had this experience with every buffered pedal I've tried (though more noticeably with Boss) so I'd like to know why this is happening? I loved my Bluesdriver but I couldn't get on with the clean tone when it was in the signal.

Like a redstone repeater in Minecraft!

Gorgeous looking pedal. Great explanation. Sounds fantastic too.

Back when I was a teenager was the first time I heard Relient K. I’ve been a little complacent lately and needed to hear “Be My Escape” again. For the life of me, I couldn’t remember why the song was called or who it was by. I immediately knew and started singing it like it hadn’t been 13 years since I’d heard that song. Thank you!

does a boss tuning pedal count as a buffer? if so, should it be after my fuzz pedal? Thanks

Did you open the pedal? because maybe there is another pedal inside that pedal.

JHS Pedals - I am new to your channel (subbed about a week ago) and have been enjoying going through your past vids. Thank you for another down to earth explanation of a very common question. Being a *BIG* believer in self-education (including music, psychology, and computer programming/hardware among other subjects that interest me), I appreciate your plain language approach to whatever info you are sharing with your viewers. It is always a pleasant surprise to meet a smart yet humble guy that doesn't talk down to someone who has come to him for advice. Kudos on a great channel and I look forward to checking out some of your pedals.

Monsieur, with these informative videos, you are really spoiling us.

So, are buffer pedals and boost pedals the same?

Albert Collins had a 100 foot cable so he could order pizza or mingle with the crowd! He is the Ice Man! Treble Master!

That water hose analogy is so good! thanks for this videos Josh!

I've been wanting this video for a long time and I didn't even know it. I love the garden hose analogy.

Hello, I have a JHS Buffered Splitter and I would like to know what the input and output impedance are. I have checked the entire website, the manual, and the entire web, but there are no references. Thank you.

@asharpbflat7179

10 ай бұрын

You could ask the same question under a current video, then they might read and answer it!

I have a boss tu-3 at the front of my board, and a hall of fame 2 with the buffer at the end of my board. But i dont use 5 pedal total. So I sandwhiched a small board. I assume that give me more power right?

@blizzbee

4 жыл бұрын

More peace of mind I guess.

Hey man, I appreciate your honesty and being informative. Much respect!

The best explanation of a buffer I've ever seen/heard. Great episode Josh. I

Great videos, thanks. :) One request : when your video contains a "Record Time" section, could you include the name of the band and album in the description?

@briane1116

5 жыл бұрын

Denis Diaz Heart Like a Levee by Hiss Golden Messenger. What a wonderful record! He’s got a more recent one called Hallelujah Anyhow that’s just as good.

@DandySummer

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate it. :) The reason for my request is that, on some videos, it's hard to tell what record is recommended.

So if all BOSS pedals have good buffers, does that mean that the Behringer models who are made to copy them also have buffers?

@MsAmigo1990

3 жыл бұрын

I am also curious.

Very cool! Probably gonna pick up a little black buffer at some point now. Thanks Josh!

Thank you! Very helpful. Im building my pedalboard. More serious than before.

I bought 2 JHS pedals this week. I'm not making any points, just bragging.

@jhspedals

Жыл бұрын

you still get the points

So everything is okay if I use a Boss Tuner and a Flint?

@music_works

2 жыл бұрын

My first and last as well lol

Dude, I love your channel! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and ideas with us.

i think I've just learned more on this 9 min video than in the 6 hs at high school today. I actually love your records recommendations btw

I just had a lightbulb moment. A buffer "buffs" the signal. I'm a software developer and a buffer is a temporary space to hold data, or space buffer. I was wondering what the hell that had to do with a guitar signal and why you would ever want to do it. Isn't that what delay is for? SMH...

@loicrechard

5 жыл бұрын

a buffer in effect pedals is just an amp with unity gain, changing the impedance of the signal because e guitars have a very high impedance, which is not good to drive long cables and to enter effect section

U didnt stop at the stop sign in the Intro...

Love your videos. Always very informative and interesting.

I like how you rolled through that stop sign

A pump on a long run of pipe is a better representation for a buffer

stop making me buy more pedals!!!!! please:(

Amazing video as always, thanks for doing this!

You have a beautiful pace and style. I've watched 10+ episodes and now subscribe. I'm a 40 year + player/ teacher. Thank you ..Jeff Bedrosian

So now I’m confused. Currently, I’ve got my Boss TU-3 going into an always-on compressor > volume pedal > always-on EP Booster > Fuzz. Does this mean I need to have my Tuner after the Fuzz? And also don’t always-on pedals like my boost and compressor effectively act as buffers? My boosts and compressors are supposed to be after fuzz?

@everychild9473

3 жыл бұрын

good question dude! i would like to see an answer to this too!

@studieslessonstheoryetc141

3 жыл бұрын

Every Child I actually went ahead and did it. Sounds great. Only my pedals are a bit interesting, not standard fuzz. Anyway, I took my tuner out of my tone chain entirely, have it out the dedicated tuner jack of my volume pedal.

@studieslessonstheoryetc141

3 жыл бұрын

And yup, I have a distortion first (it’s a Caroline Wave Cannon and Phillipe from them told me the pedal wants to hear the guitar directly as first pedal or true bypassed through other pedals if the feedback switch is gonna work. I love that switch and liked the idea of being able to hit it and push it into the next pedal so it’s first after volume. Then Plasma Pedal. Then a chorus. Then a cleaner drive pedal. Then Chorus. Then EP Boost just for color. Then Conpression. And then on to a modulated delay and my time based stuff.

4:00 ... how many tries did that take.......

Funny enough in the water/wastewater field we sometimes use circuit terminology to describe how we handle flow. That analogy is really cool.

Relient K was a huge part of my childhood. Cool to find out he makes guitar pedals. Hist guitar work was really influential to me

I’m sure somebody has to have asked this, but why aren’t amp makers building a buffer into the input jack? Or are they? 🤔

@diegorhoenisch62

2 жыл бұрын

The amplifier can only amplify what it receives. If signal is lost(e.g. the high frequencies get reduced) between the guitar and the amp, the amplifier can't magically renew the signal. Buffers help prevent signal loss; they don't cure it. I hope that helps. Cheers, Alan Tomlinson

@c.picker1672

2 жыл бұрын

@@diegorhoenisch62 I thiiiiiiink you’re missing the point. A. You could put a buffer in front of the amp jack and it could conceivably do the exact same thing as putting a buffer on the backside of an amp jack. I completely understand that the amplifier is only amplifying what comes through the jack, but that shouldn’t negate the ability to put a buffer in-line between the input jack and the rest of the amplifier. If the purpose of a buffer is to improve the signal and reduce loss, including it at the very tail end of your chain seems like it would be accomplishing exactly what it is supposed to do at a very logical spot. B. If what Josh (and most) say is true, and there is signal loss at the end of a 15 or 20 foot cable instrument cable, why don’t we see more buffers at the tail end of “out” signal chain? I can’t think of a single time I’ve seen a buffer sitting on top of an amp, or in-line with the amp jack. You’re talking to a guy who has two buffer pedals inside his pedal board, so I’m not like I’m anti-buffer, but some of the hot sports opinions on buffers seem to contradict each other IMO.

You have crappy water pressure. Great video tho

I needed to hear that ending.. thanks for the video!

Excellent video - straight to the point and helpful. Thanks!

my chain starts with a TU3 and ends with a BD2 going into the amp, in theory I should not need an extra buffer, right?

@johndiloreto3738

2 жыл бұрын

Correct

I got a question! The only way I can get my wah (cry baby GCB-95) to sound good with my fuzz face (FFM3) is to run it before the fuzz, with a buffer between them (Boss TU-3). However, the buffer messes with the sound of the fuzz, and also makes it so it doesn't clean up when I roll off the guitar volume. The fuzz face sounds best when it has nothing in front of it, but if I put the wah after it, the effect is ear-splitting. Anyone got advice for me?

@woodchucksquirrel

Жыл бұрын

wah

@aaronbabcock9127

Жыл бұрын

@@woodchucksquirrel What a crybaby

@woodchucksquirrel

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronbabcock9127 :(

@jaxonjordan4835

Жыл бұрын

Hey! if you hadn't figured it out yet, usually putting the impedance sensitive pedals like a wah first, then a buffer, then any dynamic pedals, and then onto distortion pedals usually fixes tone best!! the higher the gain on the distortion pedals (fuzz, ect.) the closer you want it to the guitar, and the lower the further ect. could also be if you only have one buffer, having another output buffer pedal at the end of the chain cleans it up a bunch. hope this helps!

@jaxonjordan4835

Жыл бұрын

try checking out the signal chain video from vertex too!

Always with the great advice. Daily dose of motivation here.

I love this channel so much!