Visual Sounds Forgotten Pedal Line (Garage Tone)
R.G. Keen and Bob Weil designed what might be the most under appreciated line of pedals ever: The GarageTone series. It’s excellent, the sounds and quality are great, but almost as soon as it hit the market, this pedal line disappeared. In this week’s episode, we find out why.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:30 Visual Sound
2:14 GarageTone Chainsaw
3:47 “Cyborg Bike Gang”
4:50 GarageTone Oil Can
6:50 “Block Party Chill Town”
7:39 GarageTone Tremolo
9:14 “Ok Cowboy”
10:55 GarageTone Drivetrain
12:35 “Slow Summer”
14:03 GarageTone Axle Grease
15:23 “Alternate Attic Dimension”
16:40 GarageTone Series Thoughts
19:28 Record Time
20:09 Thanks for Watching!
Gear in this Episode:
Visual Sound Route 66
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-route-66?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Visual Sounds Jekyll & Hyde
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-jekyll-and-hyde?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Visual Sound H2O
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-h2o-v1?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Visual Sound Visual Volume
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-visual-volume-black-2010s?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Visual Sound 1 Spot
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-1-spot?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Garage Tone Chainsaw Distortion
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-garagetone-series-chainsaw-distortion?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Marshall Shred Master
https://reverb.com/p/marshall-shred-master?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Zvex Box of Rock
https://reverb.com/p/zvex-box-of-rock-vexter-2012?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Visual Sound GarageTone Oil Can Phaser
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-garagetone-oil-can-phaser?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Electra Phase Shifter
EHX Small Stone
https://reverb.com/p/electro-harmonix-small-stone-phase-shifter?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
GarageTone Tremolo
Demeter Amplification Tremulator
GarageTone Drivetrain
Reverend Drivetrain
GarageTone Axle Grease
https://reverb.com/p/visual-sound-garagetone-axle-grease-delay?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
Record Time:
Natalie Prass -The Future and the Past
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Josh’s record player is by U-Turn Audio:
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The jams from this episode are on BandLab! Head over to the link below to jam with us, download the stems, and create your own samples from our sounds… or all of those things.
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Originally posted by UCjfbkA4jJkJY5g0wbjuoZWA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrPcIvxQABg
Learning about circuits actually makes it easier getting over the cheap pedals
are crap bias.
Behringer is a good example, to the untrained eye they seem cheap due to the plastic box
yet hidden beneath that, are those same circuits that we all revere today.
Don't let the plastic box taint your ears before you play one.
I have a soft spot for behringer since they used the boss fz2 hyper fuzz circuit in their
super fuzz pedal. Of all the fz's they could have picked, they used that one.Brilliant????
Electric wizard here we come!
Danke behringer.
Steely Dan played at my confirmation. Well, that’s what he said his name was.
9:40 Rhett Shull could learn a thing or two from this slide tone ????
The tremolo used to be called the chopper, I had one with the original name and stupidly sold it. I actually owned each of these at one time or another, now I wish I had them all back ????
JHS Insurance – For sure, pull the plug
Alternate Attic Dimension is the best jam JHS ever did.
i picked up the tremolo pedal years ago for like 35 dollars at music go round and it rivals the tremolo sound from my super champ.
"Or you just didn't try them because you didn't play guitar until a few months ago. Everyone has an excuse."
The drivetrain is incredible!
❤
I'm so lucky. I saw a Drive Train at my local pawn shop for $70 (Canadian). Looking now to see what I have in my collection that isn't getting any love to make a trade.
Its kind of funny how these pedals did not do as well as Bob had anticipated. People avoided them due to the price.
Had he done this a few years later when the chinese clone market took off, these pedals might have sold better.
The Tremolo was originally called "The Chopper", but a year or so after the pedal's release, when the were at NAM another pedal builder approached them to advise they were already making a pedal by thebsame name that predates the Garagetone pedal.
The Tremolo and Phaser are my 2 favorites of the series.
I've seen em before just didn't really like that series too much but the h20 v3 and Jekyll and Hyde v3 are wonderful
I love the new features on the chorus side and the self oscillation on the echo channel that detune feature makes it do the ehx poly chorus insanity but in a more controlled better overall sound i didnt like my v1 h20 but now i really want a v3 will go great with my v3 Jekyll and Hyde also one of my favorites Add a phaser and i could be happy with those two and a small stone phaser the rest of my life oh and a decent versatile fuzz And im good
Speaking of I'm looking for an inline effects.Master phaser
No two and one pedals have been made back in the late seventies by inline effects
I wanna see more JHS produced commercials.
I bought the delay about 14 years ago lol
Snare sound is dope tho!
I would think an added layer of confusion for the Chainsaw pedal is that anyone who's ever come within spitting distance of death metal would expect it to be an HM-1 clone.
The Tremolo jam sounds like Robert Rodriguez sound track!
I had one of those CHAINSAW pedals. I got it in a trade. I never even plugged it in because I thought that with a name like CHAINSAW it was probably a Metal distortion. I sold it a few days later.
Now I know it's a Plexi type overdrive (one of my favorite tones). FUCK!
Another thing I noticed – I have the V2 version of the Route 66 pedal. The overdrive part of the pedal was their 808 (tubescreamer type). Then they came out with the V3 version of the Route 66. They changed the shape to more of a rectangle instead of a triangle. They also removed the 808 overdrive and replaced it with the Garagetone Drivetrain overdrive. I've noticed that used Garagetone pedals are going for more than twice of what they were when they were brand new.
I love their pedals. I have the Oil can Phaser, Drivetrain, Tremelo and a One Spot.
I have all of these pedals. In 2010 I was a travelling sales person for a distributor and VS sent us all pedalboards with these pedals glued to it so we could show them to our customers. My clients were all local guitar shops with one or two locations. These pedals sounded great but the dealers did not get excited because the profit margin for them was thin and they did not think the average pedal buyer was interested in a $60 pedal no matter how great it sounded. VS should have just painted them white and sold them for $99. #thejhsshow #jhs
Slow Summer was a grooving jam
I don't have those pedals, am I gonna survive?
Josh is one of my favorite guitar players
Visual sound was my intro into pedals. My worship leader let me play his board and he had pretty much every visual sound double box. Visual sound lives up to their name and opened my eyes to the wonder of pedals back in the early/mid 2000s.
this isn’t fair, i was 5 in 2010
The Axle Grease is one of the first pedals I ever had. Still have it, still love it.
This line is an excellent view into the value, or pointless existence, of branding. Idk who was behind the branding of this line but they should never work in marketing ever again. Terrible
I have that drive train, and i regret selling it.
The Garagetone Drivetrain is the best kept secret in the parallel universe of TS mods – I have 4 of them, and they are completely great! They make a Strat sound huge. I will never, ever sell them – even if, as I suspect, they enter pedal Valhalla like the Klon.
I have the Garagetone drivetrain and love the sound.
I was well aware of these pedals when they came out. I was going to buy them all but I was just a kid mowing lawns to buy a really decent guitar. By the time I saved up for the guitar the pedals didn't exist
That delay has great derading on the repeats it really does sound like bucket brigade. I prefer the way the controls respond on the PT, they dial in more intuitive. He really was a circuit wizard.
Nice episode! I remember when these came out, but I already had the Reverend Drivetrain and still use it, as I’m a huge Naylor fan.