That Pedal Show | Jack Griffiths Pedalboard Build [Monster Analog & Digital Board PLUS UA Lion!] @ThatPedalShow | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Dan undertakes an epic board build from scratch for our good friend Jack
Welcome to the show! There are times in life when you just need to start from scratch. This is one such time for our good friend Jack Griffiths, who has recently quit the day job - you may know him from Peach Guitars - to go all-in as a professional musician.
Jack approached Dan for a TBB - Total Board Build - to give him everything he might need in terms of compression, gain stages, modulation, delay and reverb… into either regular guitar amps or direct to DAW/desk. It’s a big job, but somebody’s gotta do it!
Sit back, grab a beverage of your choosing and enjoy watching Jack’s dream board come into being.
Enjoy the episode!
Pedals and stuff used in this video…
• Dunlop Mini Volume X (Expression mode)
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/45P6OGj
USA: bit.ly/3m424bk
• Dunlop Volume X (Expression mode)
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3GOLBBr
USA: bit.ly/47ZR0BY
• Universal Audio MAX
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3PFCRDB
USA: bit.ly/43hhEmu
• TheGigRig Remote Loopy 2
thegigrig.com/remote-loopy2
• Mythos Argonaut
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3s4Kl9I
USA: bit.ly/3rvCwag
• Great Eastern FX Co Focus Fuzz
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/46II17v
• Line 6 HX Stomp
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3FPMOIB
USA: bit.ly/3GCN23O
• Pro Co RAT
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/2Vj4ntr
USA: bit.ly/3s2Apez
• Browne Protein Dual Overdrive
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3SbRTC6
• Cornerstone Imperium
cornerstonemusicgear.com/product/imperium
• Universal Audio Lion
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Universal Audio Astra
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3yrdOcV
USA: bit.ly/3oFHP57
• Strymon Lex
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/46OAZOv
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/21YADD
• Strymon Timeline
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/2pSEFKm
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/NkPrLO
• Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3nWH71J
USA: bit.ly/3ra6vo2
• TheGigRrig G3
thegigrig.com/g3
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro to today’s show
0:37 The board choice
1:38 The big idea for the board
3:02 Never used a proper switcher
3:45 Arriving at a layout
5:17 Starting the build
6:35 It takes a long time
8:05 Standoffs for cable tidiness
8:30 Power thoughts
9:40 Putting the pedals on in loop order
10:40 Using Dual Lock, pedalboard tape
11:40 Loops and pedals so far
14:25 Solderless patch cables
15:58 Many hours later, power up!
19:18 Signal path diagram
19:33 Time to plug it in!
20:08 Checking the loops = fuzzes
20:55 UA Max, always on?
22:20 HX Stomp
24:20 RAT!
25:08 Browne Protein
26:35 Cornerstone Imperium
28:00 Mythos Mjolnir
29:30 The mystery of loop 6. With diagrams
31:40 The stereo loops explanation
32:35 Strymon Lex sounds
33:27 UA Astra sounds
34:55 Strymon Timeline
39:06 UA Golden
40:05 Turning a bunch of stuff on
42:30 Thoughts so far?
43:12 End of day 1, Jack has a play
46:10 Jack returns a few weeks later
50:25 Another expression pedal?
53:12 Anything surprised you so far?
54:20 Amps?
55:31 What is that SG?!
56:30 How Jack approaches presets
59:04 Loop 6 again
59:39 A revisit to the gain pedals
1:04:08 Imperium or Protein?
1:06:13 Focus Fuzz!
1:10:15 Back to the Astra & Lex sounds
1:12:00 The point of two loops for the HX Stomp
1:13:40 Explaining the UA Lion
1:16:35 Direct sounds via the UA Lion
1:23:00 3 of the cab sounds in the Lion
1:24:40 Closing thoughts
Guitars in this episode
• Suhr Alt T Pro
• Gibson Custom Murphy Lab 1964 SG With Maestro Vibrola
Amps in this episode
• Victory V140 The Super Duchess with Tone King 112 cab with standard speaker
• Matchless C-30 & 212 ESD with one Celestion G12M Greenback and one Celestion G12H Anniversary
• Suhr Badger 35 with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker
• 1970s Carlsbro 100 [behind Dan] with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
patreon.com/ThatPedalShow
Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire bit.ly/2mWmJQf
Dan undertakes an epic board build from scratch for our good friend Jack
Welcome to the show! There are times in life when you just need to start from scratch. This is one such time for our good friend Jack Griffiths, who has recently quit the day job - you may know him from Peach Guitars - to go all-in as a professional musician.
Jack approached Dan for a TBB - Total Board Build - to give him everything he might need in terms of compression, gain stages, modulation, delay and reverb… into either regular guitar amps or direct to DAW/desk. It’s a big job, but somebody’s gotta do it!
Sit back, grab a beverage of your choosing and enjoy watching Jack’s dream board come into being.
Enjoy the episode!
Pedals and stuff used in this video…
• Dunlop Mini Volume X (Expression mode)
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/45P6OGj
USA: bit.ly/3m424bk
• Dunlop Volume X (Expression mode)
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3GOLBBr
USA: bit.ly/47ZR0BY
• Universal Audio MAX
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3PFCRDB
USA: bit.ly/43hhEmu
• TheGigRig Remote Loopy 2
thegigrig.com/remote-loopy2
• Mythos Argonaut
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3s4Kl9I
USA: bit.ly/3rvCwag
• Great Eastern FX Co Focus Fuzz
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/46II17v
• Line 6 HX Stomp
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3FPMOIB
USA: bit.ly/3GCN23O
• Pro Co RAT
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/2Vj4ntr
USA: bit.ly/3s2Apez
• Browne Protein Dual Overdrive
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3SbRTC6
• Cornerstone Imperium
cornerstonemusicgear.com/product/imperium
• Universal Audio Lion
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Universal Audio Astra
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3yrdOcV
USA: bit.ly/3oFHP57
• Strymon Lex
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/46OAZOv
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/21YADD
• Strymon Timeline
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/2pSEFKm
USA: sweetwater.sjv.io/NkPrLO
• Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
UK & Europe: bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: bit.ly/3nWH71J
USA: bit.ly/3ra6vo2
• TheGigRrig G3
thegigrig.com/g3
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro to today’s show
0:37 The board choice
1:38 The big idea for the board
3:02 Never used a proper switcher
3:45 Arriving at a layout
5:17 Starting the build
6:35 It takes a long time
8:05 Standoffs for cable tidiness
8:30 Power thoughts
9:40 Putting the pedals on in loop order
10:40 Using Dual Lock, pedalboard tape
11:40 Loops and pedals so far
14:25 Solderless patch cables
15:58 Many hours later, power up!
19:18 Signal path diagram
19:33 Time to plug it in!
20:08 Checking the loops = fuzzes
20:55 UA Max, always on?
22:20 HX Stomp
24:20 RAT!
25:08 Browne Protein
26:35 Cornerstone Imperium
28:00 Mythos Mjolnir
29:30 The mystery of loop 6. With diagrams
31:40 The stereo loops explanation
32:35 Strymon Lex sounds
33:27 UA Astra sounds
34:55 Strymon Timeline
39:06 UA Golden
40:05 Turning a bunch of stuff on
42:30 Thoughts so far?
43:12 End of day 1, Jack has a play
46:10 Jack returns a few weeks later
50:25 Another expression pedal?
53:12 Anything surprised you so far?
54:20 Amps?
55:31 What is that SG?!
56:30 How Jack approaches presets
59:04 Loop 6 again
59:39 A revisit to the gain pedals
1:04:08 Imperium or Protein?
1:06:13 Focus Fuzz!
1:10:15 Back to the Astra & Lex sounds
1:12:00 The point of two loops for the HX Stomp
1:13:40 Explaining the UA Lion
1:16:35 Direct sounds via the UA Lion
1:23:00 3 of the cab sounds in the Lion
1:24:40 Closing thoughts
Guitars in this episode
• Suhr Alt T Pro
• Gibson Custom Murphy Lab 1964 SG With Maestro Vibrola
Amps in this episode
• Victory V140 The Super Duchess with Tone King 112 cab with standard speaker
• Matchless C-30 & 212 ESD with one Celestion G12M Greenback and one Celestion G12H Anniversary
• Suhr Badger 35 with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker
• 1970s Carlsbro 100 [behind Dan] with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
patreon.com/ThatPedalShow
Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire bit.ly/2mWmJQf
![Jack Griffiths Pedalboard Build [Monster Analog & Digital Board PLUS UA Lion!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mlJtQGGsttc/hqdefault.jpg "Jack Griffiths Pedalboard Build [Monster Analog & Digital Board PLUS UA Lion!]
Dan undertakes an epic board build from scratch for our good friend Jack
Welcome to the show! There are times in life when you just need to start from scratch. This is one such time for our good friend Jack Griffiths, who has recently quit the day job - you may know him from Peach Guitars - to go all-in as a professional musician.
Jack approached Dan for a TBB - Total Board Build - to give him everything he might need in terms of compression, gain stages, modulation, delay and reverb… into either regular guitar amps or direct to DAW/desk. It’s a big job, but somebody’s gotta do it!
Sit back, grab a beverage of your choosing and enjoy watching Jack’s dream board come into being.
Enjoy the episode!
Pedals and stuff used in this video…
• Dunlop Mini Volume X (Expression mode)
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/45P6OGj
USA: https://bit.ly/3m424bk
• Dunlop Volume X (Expression mode)
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3GOLBBr
USA: https://bit.ly/47ZR0BY
• Universal Audio MAX
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3PFCRDB
USA: https://bit.ly/43hhEmu
• TheGigRig Remote Loopy 2
https://www.thegigrig.com/remote-loopy2
• Mythos Argonaut
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3s4Kl9I
USA: https://bit.ly/3rvCwag
• Great Eastern FX Co Focus Fuzz
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/46II17v
• Line 6 HX Stomp
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3FPMOIB
USA: https://bit.ly/3GCN23O
• Pro Co RAT
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2Vj4ntr
USA: https://bit.ly/3s2Apez
• Browne Protein Dual Overdrive
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3SbRTC6
• Cornerstone Imperium
https://www.cornerstonemusicgear.com/product/imperium/
• Universal Audio Lion
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
• Universal Audio Astra
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3yrdOcV
USA: https://bit.ly/3oFHP57
• Strymon Lex
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/46OAZOv
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/21YADD
• Strymon Timeline
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2pSEFKm
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkPrLO
• Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3nWH71J
USA: https://bit.ly/3ra6vo2
• TheGigRrig G3
https://www.thegigrig.com/g3
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro to today’s show
0:37 The board choice
1:38 The big idea for the board
3:02 Never used a proper switcher
3:45 Arriving at a layout
5:17 Starting the build
6:35 It takes a long time
8:05 Standoffs for cable tidiness
8:30 Power thoughts
9:40 Putting the pedals on in loop order
10:40 Using Dual Lock, pedalboard tape
11:40 Loops and pedals so far
14:25 Solderless patch cables
15:58 Many hours later, power up!
19:18 Signal path diagram
19:33 Time to plug it in!
20:08 Checking the loops = fuzzes
20:55 UA Max, always on?
22:20 HX Stomp
24:20 RAT!
25:08 Browne Protein
26:35 Cornerstone Imperium
28:00 Mythos Mjolnir
29:30 The mystery of loop 6. With diagrams
31:40 The stereo loops explanation
32:35 Strymon Lex sounds
33:27 UA Astra sounds
34:55 Strymon Timeline
39:06 UA Golden
40:05 Turning a bunch of stuff on
42:30 Thoughts so far?
43:12 End of day 1, Jack has a play
46:10 Jack returns a few weeks later
50:25 Another expression pedal?
53:12 Anything surprised you so far?
54:20 Amps?
55:31 What is that SG?!
56:30 How Jack approaches presets
59:04 Loop 6 again
59:39 A revisit to the gain pedals
1:04:08 Imperium or Protein?
1:06:13 Focus Fuzz!
1:10:15 Back to the Astra & Lex sounds
1:12:00 The point of two loops for the HX Stomp
1:13:40 Explaining the UA Lion
1:16:35 Direct sounds via the UA Lion
1:23:00 3 of the cab sounds in the Lion
1:24:40 Closing thoughts
Guitars in this episode
• Suhr Alt T Pro
• Gibson Custom Murphy Lab 1964 SG With Maestro Vibrola
Amps in this episode
• Victory V140 The Super Duchess with Tone King 112 cab with standard speaker
• Matchless C-30 & 212 ESD with one Celestion G12M Greenback and one Celestion G12H Anniversary
• Suhr Badger 35 with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker
• 1970s Carlsbro 100 [behind Dan] with Zilla Custom 112 / WGS 12L speaker
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
https://www.patreon.com/ThatPedalShow
Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf")
![Are Two Amps Better Than One? [TPS Wheel Of Challenge For Challenges!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nAVLfJ6PRSg/hqdefault.jpg "Are Two Amps Better Than One? [TPS Wheel Of Challenge For Challenges!]
Four awesome & unusual amp pairings
Welcome to the show. We often get asked which guitar amps pair well together, given that we usually use two. Now it would be easy to pick some old faves and get busy with the noise… but today we wanted to mess about with some stuff that we don’t normally use.
You’ll get the drift as we get going. So are two amps better than one?
Let’s find out…
Todays amps
Electro-Harmonix MIG-50
A modern reissue of the classic Sovtek MIG-50. People say they’re like a Tweed Bassman. We wouldn’t completely disagree. It uses two 5881 power valves.
Hello Sailor Shipwreck
A one-off build inspired by the famous Trainwreck amps, using four EL84s in the power section. Joe built it as a bit of fun and kindly gifted it to us. We’re loving how harmonically rich it is, especially under overdrive! Thank you Joe.
Hagerman Half Watt
We were introduced to Jim Hagerman via our good friend Gordon Rankin. Jim makes really lovely tube things. The Half Watt actually reaches the giddy heights of 1.5 watts when it’s flat out – a complete valve guitar amp that also has a useful headphone out. You might think it’s a toy… we can see this in any studio.
Victory V4 The Copper Guitar Amp
Slight potential for confusion here as Victory also makes a V4 The Copper tube preamp only… but this guitar amp version adds a class D power section to make it a complete guitar amp. There are four little tubes up front, plus on-board Two-Notes cab sim technology if you want to do the direct thing.
Laney Supergroup Mk I 50-watt
This 1969 beauty belongs to our good friend Paul Stacey. He’s a massive fan of these old Laneys, which he tends to use in combination with a Marshall Plexi. He brought it here for us to listen to… and has yet to take it back. Two EL34s, totally old school. Crank it and be rocked.
Philmosound
We met Phil Harris at a TPS Band show in Leicester. Phil has done a bunch of projector amp conversions – this one is currently on loan to us – and he’s keen to point out this is less ‘conversion’ and more ‘complete rebuild!’. It uses a pair of 6V6GTs in the power section with a 5Z4GT rectifier, alongside some rare/out of production valves… some of which were used in the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park! Thank you Phil, it is a wonderful thing to play!
Two-Rock Joey Landreth Signature
A true colossus of a guitar amp, Joey’s signature tone-machine uses a quartet of 6L6 power tubes for 100 watts, with both tube-driven harmonic AND bias tremolo on board. Oh, and a stunning spring reverb. This is Joey’s actual amp that he uses when touring in the UK and Europe. We are extremely lucky that it lives at TPS. Big love mate!
Wallace AC 5075 XT/FV MkIII
This was gifted to us by John Box before he died in 2021. Ted Wallace was a British electronics engineer whose amp building dates back as the late 1930s! By the mid-60s his amps were in a bunch of serious studios, used by a glittering array of artists.
After doing some reading, we think this one is probably from the 1970s. The ‘XT’ amps were later in Ted’s career, especially the ones with built in fuzz like this. Sadly, as you can hear in the video, the amp needs some serious TLC.
Erm, also nothing to do with the Wallace amp brand in the US.
Speaker Cabinets
Marshall 1960AX with 4 Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
Marshall 2061X with 2 Celestion G12H Anniversary speakers
Interesting bits and go to sections…
0:00 What Noel Gallagher taught us
1:13 The Wheel Of Challenge For Challenges!
2:40 A Humble Pedalboard
3:00 EH MIG-50 & Shipwreck
5:05 MIG & Shipwreck together
8:35 More WOCFC
9:00 Hagerman Half Watt & Victory V4 The Copper
13:35 Hagerman & Victory together
19:45 Yet more WOCFC
20:00 Drop A Name Game
21:24 Laney Super Group & Philmosound
25:04 Laney & Philmosound together
29:20 Really? WOCFC again?
30:00 Landreth Two-Rock & Wallace
32:38 Problems problems
39:00 Two-Rock & Wallace together
Pedals & Stuff used in this show
If you use these links to buy stuff - any stuff – we receive a (hilariously) small cut.
- UK & Europe: Andertons Music - https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
- USA: Sweetwater - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5g6ALN
- Australia: Pedal Empire - http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf
• Boss BP-1w Booster
• Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man 1100-TT
• Surfy Industries Surfy Bear Metal Reverb
• TheGigRig AB Baby
Today’s guitars
• Fender Custom Shop ’63 Telecaster - Dan’s video here: https://youtu.be/rnQ4OIJFTgY
• 1965 Gibson ES-345 TDSV - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/tdYvdn7vDDE
• Fender Custom Shop ’62 Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/WOMHUQeHGRQ
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop Murphy Aged - no specific video but it’s on the channel a lot
Selling merch is what keeps us on the air. Want some? https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
Support us via Patreon
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![Amazing Guitar Guests Of 2023 [Noel Gallagher, Johnny Marr & Many, Many More!]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oJQ7XKStOy8/hqdefault.jpg "Amazing Guitar Guests Of 2023 [Noel Gallagher, Johnny Marr & Many, Many More!]
A round up of the best bits of our artist & guest videos this year!
Welcome to the show! It’s been yet another exceptional year for guests on That Pedal Show. Dan and I feel tremendously lucky and privileged to be able to invite such a fabulous bunch of humans to our studio, and indeed visit them in theirs.
This compilation of clips brings together some stellar playing with genuine insight and guidance from these titans of tone and music.
Thank you to everyone who helps all of these shenanigii come together!
Guests are as follows, with publish dates if you want to find the full episodes on our channel.
• Pete Thorn - Feb 17 2023
• David Rainger - Feb 24 2023
• Captain Anderton & Danish Pete - Mar 31 2023
• Rick Beato - April 14 2023
• Chris Shiflett - Apr 21 2023
• Tim Lerch - May 19 2023
• Rabea Massaad - June 2 2023
• Noel Gallagher - June 7 2023
• JAM Pedals - Aug 4 2023
• Mike Vennart - Sep 8 2023
• Simon Mc Bride - Sep 15 2023
• Dave Kilminster - Sep 22 2023
• Steven Wilson & Niko Tsonev - Sep 29 2023
• Johnny Marr - Oct 20 2023
• Andy Wood - Oct 27 2023
• Tom Trones - Nov 7 2023
• Jocelyn Gould - Dec 1 2023
• Jack Griffiths - Dec 15 2023
Enjoy the episode - more great guests next year!
Interesting bits and go-to sections
Too many to list!
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
https://www.patreon.com/ThatPedalShow
Please visit our preferred retailers!
UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf")
![Crazy Pedalboard! JAM Pedals At That Pedal Show [Jannis Bonkers Board, Band Jams & Interview]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p-SMPGJ3Wfw/hqdefault.jpg "Crazy Pedalboard! JAM Pedals At That Pedal Show [Jannis Bonkers Board, Band Jams & Interview]
Jannis, Ilias & Emmanuel join us for chat, playing and fun!
Welcome to the show! We are delighted to welcome our great friends Jannis Anastasakis, Ilias Pantoleon and Emmanuel Vourakis from JAM Pedals to Schwangri-La.
Regular viewers will know that we have a special relationship with JAM, not least because of our collaboration on the Harmonious Monk pedal. Its very existence is evidence of the deep respect we have for the inspirational art and craft that emanates from their facility in Athens, Greece.
While they were visiting the UK to see Blur at Wembley and take in a few dealers along the way, we thought it would be only proper to get them into the studio to talk… and play!
There are English language captions available if you find Jannis (or me and Dan) hard to understand.
The first track Jannis plays at 0:35 is a version of the track Agrypnia by Greek songwriter Thanasis Papakonstantinou
You can see more of Jannis personal music stuff at www.jannisanastasakis.com
Jannis also mentions an artist with whom he plays; Dan and I attended a gig. The artist is Michalis Siganidis.
Enjoy the show!
Pedals used in this episode
Too many to mention - check out https://www.jampedals.com/
Interesting bits & go-to sections
0:00 Yasas!
0:35 Jannis Solo Jam 1
4:40 Some background & context
7:27 Jannis’ start in electronics
9:15 Amazing artwork
11:23 Band Jam 1
13:40 Analogue at heart, the way it’s done
17:30 How does R&D work?
22:45 How hard was Harmonious Monk?
24:08 Jannis Solo Jam 2
31:29 The pedal that put JAM on the map
33:55 Jannis’ music style & influence
38:00 Jannis’ pedalboard & must haves
39:45 Bits of metal and springs
43:30 Dumb guitar players? [like Mick]
47:20 Jannis’ parallel career
50:45 JAM next steps?
52:58 Where is the pedal market going?
54:57 Band Jam 2
Guitars in this episode
• 1965 Fender Telecaster - Dan’s video here: https://youtu.be/EwBXaq72jQI
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop, Murphy Aged - no video yet
• 1971 Fender Precision Bass (belongs to Aynsley Lister)
Amps in this episode
• Fender Bassman 70 (1979) & Barefaced Audio Big Twin cabinet
(Bass amp for Jannis solo, and also the band jams)
• Two Rock Classic Reverb Signature 100/50 & 212 cab with TR1265B speakers
• Two-Rock TS1 50-watt 1x12 combo with TR1265B speakers
We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel.
You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com
We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives
https://www.patreon.com/ThatPedalShow
Please visit our preferred retailers!
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![Mike Vennart Visits TPS! [Oceansize, Biffy Clyro, ESB & Massive Fuzz Tones]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/p1jxJDBcyCM/hqdefault.jpg "Mike Vennart Visits TPS! [Oceansize, Biffy Clyro, ESB & Massive Fuzz Tones]
A true sonic warrior joins us for an insight into uncompromising artistry and massive tones
Welcome to the show! It’s been a while coming, but we are absolutely DELIGHTED to welcome the incomparable, the indefatigable, the monumentally marvellous Mike Vennart to the show. Mike is much loved for his work in bands including Oceansize, Vennart, Biffy Clyro and latest project, Empire State Bastard.
Today’s show focusses tonally on the latest project and record, but we also talk about everything and nothing in and around a life in music and guitar.
What a wonderful day we had - please enjoy the show!
Check out Empire State Bastard - https://empirestatebastard.com/
Check out Vennart - https://www.vennart.com/
Pedals & stuff in this episode…
• Earthquaker Devices Life Pedal V2 - no longer available, links to latest version
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3qBPzsV
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qy4Wz3
• Does It Doom Doomsaw
Australia: https://bit.ly/3E3iMQn
• JHS PackRat
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3qHL28j
USA: https://bit.ly/3qDUrha
• Fredric Effects Green Russian
https://www.fredric.co.uk/green-russian-sovtek-clone
• Boss DM-2W
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/2vT8ulc
USA: https://bit.ly/3DM0S2k
• The Gigrig G3 Atom
https://www.thegigrig.com/g3-atom
Interesting bits and go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing and hello!
5:00 Big Muff for the win
6:50 Fredric Green Russian sounds
8:25 Early influences?
10:50 Two amps & Doomsaw
12:13 Early Oceansize sonics
18:25 A journey in technical guitar?
23:18 Mike plays for us #1
26:35 Empire State Bastard - Dave Lombardo?!
31:00 What is it about Manchester?
36:00 The Biffy Clyro gig
40:17 Gibson Les Paul Studio
46:30 Les Paul, Fredric Green Russian, shredding roots
52:24 Les Paul & Doomsaw & Fredric
53:25 Earthquaker Life Pedal
1:00:00 Mike’s Green & Orange amps
1:03:02 Mike plays for us #2
1:05:35 Guitar pedals now and then
1:09:54 Left-handed guitars & Mike’s Squier
1:18:00 Production and sonics
1:21:56 Mike plays us out
Guitars in this episode
• 1980s Squier Stratocaster with DiMarzio ToneZone bridge pickup
• Gibson Les Paul Studio with Monty’s Firebird bridge pickup
Amps in this episode
• Green Matamp GT120MV & 412 cab
• 1978 Orange Overdrive & Matamp 212 vert cabinet
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![New Year, New Pedalboard? [Mick Goes Back To ‘Basics’]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pTA1REG-cXY/hqdefault.jpg "New Year, New Pedalboard? [Mick Goes Back To ‘Basics’]
Goodbye option paralysis, hello whole new can of worms
Welcome to the show – Mick here, hello! The top line of this show is me wanting to put together a more simple pedalboard, after years of relative complexity. We explain the reason for doing that in the intro section, but what then unfolds is a kind of pinball machine of thoughts and issues. For which I should apologise…
Having watched the show back prior to upload, it dawned on me that the sketchy general narrative and incessant technical terminology will be annoying and alienating to anyone who doesn’t know me and Dan very well. But… It is what it is, and it happened as it happened so this is undoubtedly a show for the TPS faithful.
In any case… I will do a mercifully short follow-up show in the next week or two to explain what happened next, and show the final choices along with a signal path diagram and all that. Watching the show back has cemented a few choices.
I also want to say that listening back, many of the tones in this show just had waaaaay too much gain and flub. It sounded massive and exciting in the room, but in hindsight the loss of articulation, definition and harmonic interest is pretty much the exact opposite of what I’m actually going for… especially with the new/old ES-345 which feels somewhat desecrated by all that mess. It really deserves better, and again, that helps cement a few choices.
Aaaaand, we also had a serious earth problem, hence all the buzz. We’re trying to track that down, but it does rather highlight the issues arising from just chucking a few pedals on a board with no switcher and expecting it all to play nice at 105dB! Not today old friend.
So with apologies for all the apologies, I’ll say a big thank you for sticking with it, and also to Dan for indulging me. Sometimes doing shows with no preparation ends up in an interesting journey with fun discoveries. Today it was a bit of a mess. Such is life, and we move on.
One final thank you. To Thorpy, Dan Coggins and Rob Francis for all being involved in me being able to acquire this AMAZING 1965 Gibson ES-345. Holy mama.
‘Enjoy’ the episode if you dare!
Pedals & stuff in this show:
• Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer, Keeley Mod+ - no longer made
• Kingsley Page Tube Boost
http://kingsleyamplifiers.com/products/pedals/7/
• BK Butler Tube Driver
https://butleraudio.com/
• TheGigRig QMX4
https://www.thegigrig.com/quartermaster
• Kinglsey Juggler V3
http://kingsleyamplifiers.com/products/pedals/21/
• Jam Pedals Harmonious Monk MkII
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/414fg2h
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ThatPedalShowStore: https://bit.ly/421cyKA
• Universal Audio Golden Reverberator
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3nWH71J
USA: https://bit.ly/3lafrGl
• Universal Audio Evermore
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3TYdq26
USA: https://bit.ly/3TWinZw
• JAM Delay Llama Xtreme
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/3qWpvES
• Caroline Guitar Company Megabyte
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
Australia: https://bit.ly/41Sjlb4
• Source Audio Nemesis ADT
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z
USA: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xk6Rrk
Interesting bits & go-to sections
0:00 Intro playing
2:00 Welcome and what is that scar?
3:20 That’s not basic
3:55 Why are we doing this?
6:30 The base requirement
7:40 Why the extra board?
8:15 Kingsley Juggler V3, Strat
8:15 Kingsley Juggler V3, Les Paul
13:09 Wet effects in one amp…
17:00 …and now wet/dry
19:05 Kingsley Page
22:30 Page and TS808 compared
24:45 Page and TS808 into more gain
24:50 Arrgghhh, hum
27:54 BK Butler Tube Driver
29:44 Why is the QMX4 there?
30:45 Tone suck, buffers and all that
34:00 Why no switcher?
34:40 Some gains with humbuckers
40:45 Why not have them all?
42:33 Moving on to delays, gain recap!
45:20 UA Evermore Reverb
47:30 Delay comparison
51:25 And the new ES-345!
56:15 Back to delays
58:44 A bit more playing
1:00:28 Dan plays Micks ES-345
1:04:00 Closing thoughts
Guitars in today’s show
• 1961 Fender Stratocaster - Mick’s video here: https://youtu.be/WOMHUQeHGRQ?si=65bYf5-AgLI3P3_a
• Gibson Custom 1958 Les Paul Standard - Dan’s video here: https://youtu.be/UrmPhw_8vpg?si=wgIBvwqLylog6sH-
• Gibson Custom True Historic ’57 Les Paul Goldtop. Murphy Aged - no video yet
• 1965 Gibson ES-345 Stereo - no video yet
Amps in today’s show
• Two Rock Classic Reverb Signature 100/50 & 112 cab with EVM12L
• Two Rock TS1 50 watt 1x12 combo with TR1265B speaker
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