These Guitar Pedals Are Excellent Clones

In this week's episode, I'm going to show you several pedals that are just unashamed clones of other pedals. Let’s be honest. This is more for my own amusement than anything else. These units are the pedal equivalent of copying your friends book report. In the comments let me know if you've ever played any of these shameless units!


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Check out the gear in this and past episodes here:

0:53 Super Overdrive SD-1
1:00 Boss Super Overdrive SD-1
1:18 PSK Super Overdrive SD-1
2:04 Monarch MCH-1 Stereo Chorus
2:08 Arion SCH-1 Stereo Chorus
3:08 Delay DL-1
3:26 Boss Delay DM-2
4:21 Elk Incorporated Super Fuzz Sustainar
4:38 Electro-Harmonix Triangle Big Muff Pi
4:59 Wren and Cuff White Elk Small Foot
6:00 Daphon E10CH Super Chorus
6:18 Ibanez Soundtank CS5 Super Chorus
7:17 POS DT-1 Distortion
7:25 Ibanez CM5 Classic Metal Distortion
7:54 Crock DS-2 Distortion
8:35 Also the Crock DS-2 Distortion
8:53 Boss DS-2 Turbo Distortion
9:00 Boss DS-1 Distortion
10:31 Sound JS Stereo Chorus CE-5
11:03 Boss CE-5 Chorus Ensemble
11:13 Boss CE-2 Chorus
12:22 GAMMA CR-1 Grunge
12:32 DOD FX69 Grunge Distortion

Record Time:
Temple of the Dog

Josh’s record player is by U-Turn Audio:

#jhs #thejhsshow #pedalclones

[Am-]

Why doesn’t anybody clone Behringer pedals? Like, for $4.95 a piece?

[forestcochran]

Speaking of shameless, I love the "definitely not the 'In Bloom' riff."

[MateusAsato]

besides all this, I gotta say one thing: you killed in all the demos - such a good playing + great ideas. love it! ha.

[henrystewart]

fun (but not so fun) fact: once when we were taking my dog to the vet to be put down, “say hello to heaven” by Temple Of The Dog started playing on the radio. it was a very sad moment but a funny coincidence nonetheless. miss you Bella!

[drpsy]

WHY DID YOU NOT INSERT THE DIMPLES INTO THE BUMPS IM SO FRUSTRATED

[brettlevine]

The “CE-5” would be perfect for LoFi, has the record playing sound built in

[rbrwr]

That Grunge is definitely in the uncanny valley of pedals.

[Get_Bush_wookied]

That chorus actually has a desirable effect with that bacon sound

[marcellostoppini]

Mad Season's Above is another huge record combining shining people in their shiny time

[tab]

Your broken "ce-5" is a lofi machine! I'm jealous.

[RhettShull]

"super FUZZ sustainar" I need that...

[markgatland]

"Piece Of Shame" surely has to be the next t-shirt design....

[thehound]

There is joy and happiness with this channel... no fail. TY Josh for the details and the humor.

[bubbleandsquawk]

It’s so great how you just love pedals so much, you really give them equal footing and judge them on their merits and not necessarily their status.

[jts]

My favorite clones are the ones that I build myself. PedalPCB has a great line of pc boards that they identify as “compare to” and name the original pedal. The online forum has information shared by other builders with suggested modifications and pictures of in-process and completed pedals. Small Bear is open again and is a great one-stop source for enclosures and components. Anyone aspiring to be Josh when they grow up should start here. Great video, Josh!

[veritog.]

I happen to have a Sound JS Stereo Chorus CE-5 and the output jack of it is actually stereo. You got to plug a TRS cable into it and get stereo signals on tip and ring then. You may need a Y-adapter in order to use that signal. Now the best thing about it: The stereo signal is useless to the bone. The bacon sound becomes even louder while a good part of the "stereo" chorus effect cancels out. Amazing!

[lornesmyth]

Temple Of The Dog is a phenomenal album. I've got a rather large collection of 80s-90s Seattle movement. Love it.

[gijsvansst]

That Collings orange? Josh, love how you play the shameless clones episode on a shameless ES335 clone that costs more than my car. Tastefully done.

[ICACJ]

The Temple of the Dog record is amazing. It was the soundtrack of my college years and the record that really made me appreciate Chris Cornell for his songwriting ability, his vocal range, and soulfulness. He ultimately became my musical idol. So many great tunes. Wooden Jesus and All Night Thing are also stellar. RIP Chris Cornell.

[ludocipriani]

I always felt like “Temple Of The Dog” is the beginning and “Mad Season” is the end of an amazing era, or maybe just my youth.