Bad Monkey Does the Klon

This week’s episode pits the Digitech Bad Monkey against…well…everything. What did you expect? This is our love letter to any JHS Show viewer who ever watched an episode and thought, “There aren’t enough shoot outs.”

0:00 Ooo ooo ahh eee
0:11 Intro
1:15 History of the Digitech Bad Monkey
1:50 Can it sound like a vintage Ibanez TS10?
2:36 Bad Monkey vs TS10
3:22 Can it sound like the Klon Centaur?
4:00 Bad Monkey vs Klon
4:36 There is more than one version of the Bad Monkey
5:24 Rhett Shull can't play guitar
5:36 Can it sound like a Fulltone Fulldrive 2?
6:12 Bad Monkey vs Fulldrive 2
6:29 Spiced down
7:40 Can it sound like a JHS Morning Glory?
7:57 Bad Monkey vs Morning Glory
8:30 Wait, more versions of the Bad Monkey that you didn't know about?
9:57 Take that, Daniel Danger
10:14 Can it sound like a Hermida Audio Zendrive?
10:38 Bad Monkey vs Zendrive
11:45 Can you hear the difference?
12:10 Can it sound like a Nobles ODR-1?
13:00 Bad Monkey vs ODR-1
13:47 The Bad Monkey is amazing
14:56 Record Time

Josh's Record Time pick:
Scott Pilgrim vs The World

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

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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[submersedlalo]

Now I need to buy a Klon to get the Bad Monkey tone I’ve been searching for!

[astrondelta]

The most interesting takeaway from this shootout isn't "how close the bad monkey sounds to X pedal, " but "how close all of these overdrive pedals sound to each other."

[Optiman]

I’ve been binging JHS videos and seems like no one ever mentions how great of a guitarist Josh is. Cudos my man!!!

[asherplatts]

Thank you JHS pedals for showing us that nothing matters and everything is hype

[cheshirecat]

I feel that the newfound Bad Monkey craze was exact opposite of what Josh and guys wanted to achieve - the idea was to pick up your forgotten gear and just try it/experiment with it - instead of going shopping frenzy. That makes the humour in the video even better. That said, I need Josh to demo Hot Head distortion in the future 😂

[vanessajazp]

Inarguably THE most famous product demo ever put on Youtube.
This video will become as legendary as the Bad Monkey itself!

[peytonmassey]

The Klon bit killed me. Literally sounds indistinguishable.

[OpossumPiper]

Now that Josh has destroyed the Bad Monkey market, the ultimate FU to pedal scalpers would be for JHS to release a faithful reproduction called the "That's Bananas" and sell it for $99.

[Dave]

“You can get on a forum and say they sound different if it makes you feel better” I’m dying laughing. That got me.
Busting pedal myths
We all love this stuff Josh
Keep at it

[iguanaanalog]

So good to have you and the team back, Josh! Thanks for all that you do to preserve the history and punch holes in bad thinking.

[anscari]

I've been fanatically advocating for the Bad Monkey for almost 15 years. It's an absolute beast sound-wise, construction-wise and versatility-wise, to the point that it has been the best OD I've had and I'm a bassist myself... Happy to see it being considered as it deserves, thanks for that!

[kangaroofoot]

Wow. Josh really shot the Bad Monkey up against his own pedal to challenge it.

This guy is a marketing genius and above all he’s a cool dude.

[dobiqwolf]

Not sure what to think of this video; nothing bad but there are many points to take in consideration:
-Josh usual nonchalance in showing that you can get great sounds with a cheap pedal, no need to buy expensive or JHS pedals, huge respect for that.
- Teaching people to learn how to use their equipment, this is one pedal and look how many sounds it is able to produce; the take away is learn how your pedal work before rushing to buy another one.
- The banana feast I did not know I was missing
Thanks guys for a great and entertaining video.
Looking forward to the next cheap pedal you will demonstrate.

[bsmith]

All Josh is doing with these videos is convincing me that I don't need as many pedals as I thought.

[imacmadman]

Josh Scott proving, once again proving that the gear matters less than most people realize and you can get great tones regardless of what pedals you have.

[TheBedroomRocker]

This the best pedal show on YouTube! There's content, history, sarcasm, eccentricity, and even some good music!

[vyacheslavkhristolyubov]

I love the fact that Josh is a passionate collector with pedals that cost thousands and he’s not afraid to bust all the myths 😂

[SolamenteVees]

All this video did for me was confirm how fantastic Telecasters sound.

[jnvo]

Phil X used the bad monkey a lot in his fretted americana demos and he always sounded great!

[martyshwaartz]

Really goes to show how much more important your EQ and SPEAKER are compared to the actual pieces of gear that come before that.