EPISODE 9: Big Q&A (Part 1) - SHORT CIRCUIT

Join Josh live today for a Q&A where he goes through community questions!

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[CarolMatzPiano]

Josh's comments about people feeling like they need a degree in something to DO something totally resonates with me! I have a high school diploma with some advanced college...no degree, just TONS of knowledge studying music under the right people. I've edited composers/authors with alphabet-soup letters after their names... this is a world where you can just dive in and learn things SO easily on the internet. Just Make Stuff.

[AndrewWukusick]

Speaking more on feel and less on technicality is exactly why this series has been so helpful for me. I know the math is important, which I am trying to study, but I want to know what changes how things sound and feel.

[Jenisonc]

There are those I am thankful for, and teachers are one. You are a genuine teacher, and the world needs more like you. Be well ❤🤙🤘

[FuzzImp]

31:40 what I meant was more so, my goal as I company is to make the things Boss hasn’t already covered super well. Boss covers all the basics. Their fuzzes in the boss lineup and more weird drives leave a lot of room for experimentation and market gap. But learning the boss pedals inside and out gave me a lot of the building blocks and the later designs still have tons of great tricks in them. It’s wild how advanced they were from day one!

[mattwesthaver]

Thanks so much for answering my questions! I'm getting that book

[bjornjuhl]

Such a feelgood and positive vibe in this show.

[Youtubemademeaddahandle]

The way to reveal to yourself the limit of what you may already know and the direction toward which growth is needed is revealed by doing.

[SpaceWolfefx]

Love this series and how you really get into the whole aspect of designing a pedal project. I have been experimenting with some new ideas and have some ideas and results to share with you if you’re interested. In the meantime keep making great pedals and sharing your love for effects with the world.👍🤙🖖

[slmgmt]

Josh this is currently my favorite series! I wanted to ask what flipping the transistor actually does to the circuit

[Janokins]

52:52 Great point! I broke one of my keyboards in a similar way, I should buy some wire and fix it up

[eross]

yeah a quick pcb design from your sweetwater course would be awesome.
i also played your newest pedal at sweetwater yesterday. and it was awesome!!! i love the 90’s 2000’s vibe from it. so cool

[tylergreene]

One of my goals in learning this stuff is to eventually design my own bass amp preamp section. Is that something Short Circuit will ever get to, or cover the necessary skills and circuits for? For instance, different types of EQ (shelf, parametric, etc.)?

[johnsuede]

48:55 I use one of those $30 oscilloscopes and it works fine, a little difficult because it moves around a lot cause it’s so small and light, but very useable

[MrBlockHead]

21:47 its fun when you start to smell something and then the smoke starts to rise lol. I have burned two parts so far.

[michaelreed]

Hi Josh, very excited about fuzz face episodes and would be cool to explore the evolution of Jimi’s fuzzes as I understand they changed from germanium to different silicon trannies and even using the fuzz section of the Octavia which maybe true or not. I found my way into pedal building to save money as I found it cheaper to make than to buy. I progressed to building a few amps realising Marshall was a man in his shed and me having the ‘I can do that’ syndrome. I’ve always been building pedals through a paint by number approach so having you explain what’s going on has been an amazing journey. Thank you man. Also Third Eye Blind rock viva

[RobbyMatthias]

Hi Josh, appreciate all that you do for us!Have you ever thought of building a small, (Discrete-transistor, deaky-type)amp? I know there are a lot of 'LM386' based products out there, but I personally like the sound of 'discrete' stuff!

[sirwilliamkarl]

Yes, this should go all the way through to putting it in a case.

[j.d.lawrence]

I had an idea like the CopperSound selectable, resistors, caps, diodes, and transistors as well as the breadboard that they do nearly 10 years ago....but I couldn't figure out how to implement it (there layout is great IMO!) but also I didn't think anybody was interested in breadboarding circuits anymore lol.
Really like these episodes and Q&A's ::))

[CarolMatzPiano]

Throw stuff in and see how it sounds... yes!!! Some of the coolest things I've written have a chord or something that came from a MISTAKE. (Without looking I put my hand on the piano, for example.) I wonder how many inventions have arisen from mistakes. That'd be cool to know about, similar to the episode you did about adjacent possibles.

[sniggity]

@ 38:21 I want Short Circuit to continue down the path that birthed it because it awoke something in my OCD, ADHD, PTSD infested, never-sleeping mind of creativity. I must confess I bought both books by Charles Platt but couldn’t afford Volume 3 but this studying led me to discover what a Darlington Pair/Trio is capable of and I am hooked. I just ordered over $600 of stuff from Amazon and Coppersound. I can’t wait to plug in and see how sensitive a Darlington trio truly is, I want to see if I can make it work like a Theremin. So, I’m a sponge, I literally take notes because you’re a walking gold mine of circuit building goodness and I truly look forward to every episode. Maybe an episode on how Transistors led to IC Op Amps? Thanks Josh!