00:00on today's episode we're gonna get on a
00:03travel to wilhelm's hoffen germany and
00:06learn all about a company named jupiter
00:08effects right is that what we did here
00:11well we didn't have the money to fly
00:13there oh the budget cut the book so we
00:15yeah we did like a call and learned yeah
00:18that okay so we're gonna we're gonna
00:19learn about jupiter effects
00:23it's the same going there in the phone
00:26same thing let's do it
00:38jupiter fx was founded in 2016 by chris
00:48i nailed it in his own words he changed
00:50his name because his real german name is
00:52boring as hell he also said this i lived
00:55a few years in berlin to explore my
00:59creativity side and i start to paint and
01:02all that and i need an artist name so i
01:04choose chris jupiter because the jupiter
01:06is for like passion and
01:08art and like the mars is for war stuff
01:11and all that and venus is love it's like
01:13jupiter's creativity and passion chris
01:16initially got into pedals as a teenager
01:18when he borrowed some records from his
01:20big sister ironically one of the albums
01:23was from a band called big sister you
01:25can't make this up this is in-depth
01:26journalism he also brought smashing
01:28pumpkins nirvana and like every other
01:30teenager in the 90s he wanted to be kurt
01:32cobain he started and got into some
01:35death metal bands grunge bands but
01:37eventually he realized the sounds that
01:39he loved wasn't really guitars or things
01:41like that it was the pedals at his feet
01:43like all people in a death metal band he
01:45eventually moved on to grunge the far
01:51and he started tinkering and building
01:53pedals now as he was playing some of
01:55this loud obnoxious music in his home
01:57his neighbors absolutely hated it and he
01:59even had some friends you know friends
02:01can be really difficult they told him
02:04hey pedals are for stupid dumb people
02:06who don't know how to play guitar and
02:08then he very eloquently said in a
02:10shakespeare-like manner yeah you don't
02:12have to if you sound cool no one needs a
02:16martial full stack but it's freaking
02:18cool that's the thing and music is about
02:20enjoying cool things not like the right
02:24things or the technical right things
02:26like all of us who started tinkering
02:28with petals it eventually turned into a
02:30business and consumed his life now five
02:32years later his girlfriend builds pedals
02:34his mom does paperwork and they have 40
02:37pedal days that's a huge deal for a
02:39company like this so i'm really excited
02:42to show these i love how they look i
02:43love what he's all about let's make some
02:45noise first up is the fernwa fernway
02:49that's what i say is an american i think
02:51it's actually fern vey is that correct
02:58german words are hard
03:04this is a delay pedal what i like about
03:06this first and foremost is it is
03:08overwhelming there is a theme throughout
03:11jupiter effects line which says this
03:14you want a simple pedal
03:16don't buy our pedal that's pr that's
03:17your new motto you can have that chris
03:19totally print it on a shirt because
03:22there's a lot of knobs
03:23there are some mysteries when you look
03:26down at this pedal and i think that it
03:28i don't know it encourages wandering
03:31around the settings that name actually
03:33means wanderlust we're going to wander
03:35around the settings here i think it's a
03:362399 delay which is the karaoke chip and
03:39he took a very strange approach to
03:42designing this i'll let him explain it
03:44if you try to develop a clean delay you
03:47search for the parts to make it cleaner
03:50but no one er thought about
03:53what if i don't do it cleaner
05:20one thing i love about this is holding
05:23this switch allows this infinite chaos
05:28it's kind of wild it's like
05:30there's the delay pedal aspect but when
05:32you hit this it's like something comes
05:34up from inside of it it's like there's
05:36this suppressed thing that happens
05:40it's really strange like as i was
05:42playing that i started thinking about
05:46there was this bully his name was josh
05:48he was really mean joshua james if
05:51you're out there one time he pushed me
05:53on a slide at the playground
05:54that's kind of how that feels like
05:57it's like it comes up you know
05:59you're not thinking about it
06:04yeah it's fine next up is the warlow
06:13and that rhymed and that's totally fine
06:14this is a version of the big muff and
06:24most specifically the op amp version
06:27five this is a 78 here it's seen better
06:31i like the throwback look here
06:33this is really brutal so here's what i'm
06:35gonna do i don't play death metal but i
06:39what's in it you know i know the heart
06:40of it i can find that place in myself
06:43i'm gonna i'm gonna tune that top string
06:46i'm just gonna go to town warlow there's
06:49also is there that series true blood
06:51there's like a vampire fairy is he what
06:56macklin warlow if you're watching
07:03do you watch true blood i've never seen
08:26that was heavy that's the heaviest thing
08:29you'll probably ever hear me play
08:34it is the ic big muff but it's adjusted
08:37and it has some uniqueness to it has a
08:39lot of mid-range and that's really fun
08:41one thing that's cool is i back the
08:44volume off on the guitar a little bit
08:47and as i strike a note it just squeals
08:50it howls it cries you might say it cry
08:52cries like a suppressed
08:57like a cry like it's almost like
09:01you get off the bus you know when you're
09:03walking home and this person's messed
09:04with you all day and you're exhausted
09:06you're a kid and you don't and your mom
09:08your mom's working your dad's at work
09:10there's nobody to talk to
09:12so you just cry down the driveway you
09:14just scream you scream into the trees
09:19just did you let it out you know this
09:21pedal lets it out i guess
09:23are you sure you're okay
09:31next up is the jive according to chris
09:37spelling this backwards is evil
09:40jive backwards equals evil
09:45whatever it's fine i'm gonna jam on it
09:47now this replicates the sound of a 70s
09:50akai tape machine that he really likes
09:53and what happens with these old tape
09:54machines is you can plug your guitar in
09:56or whatever vocals and you can use the
09:58preamp and it will distort it's really
10:00nice some of these tape machines have
10:02tube sections for that preamp summer
10:05solid state with transistors i believe
10:06this is and he emulated
10:08that sound of a driven tape machine
10:11being used as a distortion device this
10:13is the tamest pedal like in the dirt
10:16category i've seen by jupiter i would
10:19say it's an overdrive distortion it's
10:20really fun all kinds of ways to mess
10:23with it i'm also going to add back in
10:28i keep trying i keep trying we're going
10:30to do let's see what happens let's see
11:42that jam was really fun um
11:46it's that part it's like
11:48the kick it's like the kick drum
11:50it made me think about like
11:52trying to bang down a door you know like
11:56if you're trapped inside something
11:59somewhere you don't want to be
12:03never had any real friends i just
12:06everybody was always better than me
12:11just always felt trapped you know stupid
12:14i don't use anything i learned at school
12:16it was pure hell basically
12:22never could beat the door down you know
12:25get out of it just i still feel like
12:27honestly i feel trapped right now
12:30like if i i'm fine you know it's also if
12:33you're this is a good selling pedal or
12:35whatever they do well with this i think
12:36chris said something about it in the
12:39i don't know let him take it over i find
12:41it very funny that a nice very nice good
12:48is our best-selling pedal next up is my
12:51favorite jupiter effects pedal i got
12:53this several years ago i don't actually
12:56know how long they've been making it but
12:57i ended up trading something for
12:59something and ended up with this
13:02it is a reverb pedal it is
13:07normal not predictable but a lot of fun
13:10basically you can hold this for a
13:11sustaining reverb feedback loop and you
13:14can kill the dry signal for a full wet
13:17signal but it is a lo-fi
13:22crazy reverb now there's a trick in here
13:24that's really fun and he takes this from
13:27the idea of verbing out of sound but the
13:30distortion and compression of your
13:32amplifier is actually on the output of
13:34your verbs if they're pedals so he went
13:36ahead and put that in here this has some
13:38saturation and compression
13:40after the reverb i think that's pretty
13:44and here's what he said about that
13:46approach right before we jam we work a
13:48lot with the jfet circuits
13:51because i like this that style of
13:54boosting and that's my go-to if i
13:56develop something i put like three
13:59stages of that boost and put something
14:01between and see what happens if i do
14:03this the kaleidoscope is self developed
14:06and i'm very proud of that if you play
14:09it with a band you don't have a clean
14:10app there is no clean amp there is no
14:12pedal platform they are all color the
14:15speakers color like 70 percent of your
14:17signal and even pedal doesn't work in
14:19the band situation it's useless
16:45childhood is so difficult
16:48when i think back on it
16:52you're there you know
16:54you can only do that
16:56just always so trapped
16:59everybody's having fun
17:02and i never felt that way you know just
17:04trapped inside of that dark place what
17:06is what is childhood
17:09i don't even think it's a thing i think
17:10it's something that we pushed on
17:12ourselves and our parents had it pushed
17:14on them and now here i am a father
17:16i have three kids am i doing it to them
17:18and when i get into this it's just like
17:21am i breaking my children the way i was
17:23broken i don't know i don't know hey
17:26it's fine next up is
17:29the one in the big huge box i have you
17:31know the others have boxes um
17:34this is a bigger box though i have the
17:42silver machine he kind of writes like a
17:44doctor i like that there's some black
17:47it would be black crinkle paper um
17:50less talent more volume i can get behind
17:52that for sure what do we got what is
17:55his business card is a circuit board
17:58hold on you can build a fuzz pedal on
18:06this is the best idea ever did you ever
18:10you want this you can build there's like
18:13i guess they're in every box
18:16here's the sticker oh this is a family
18:18show so we won't show that sticker
18:22who likes patches anybody yep there you
18:25go little eyeballs there's like those
18:27little eyeball things
18:29the little goo little googly eyes
18:32you put those on your pedal
18:38is a beautiful petal
18:41it kind of harkens back to the old
18:43school british wedge i like that
18:47dual gain stage fuzz
19:47that was a really aggressive sound
19:50this is chris's favorite
19:56there's no logos there's not i mean when
20:02it's just so minimal and like
20:05understated and here i am with
20:09underwear on my pedals and
20:19toy dinosaurs with a drum
20:25it's like i'm living in some
20:28version of reality where i imagine i had
20:30a good childhood and these are my
20:32memories and i had toys look at me i
20:34didn't i wasn't in pain or anything it's
20:36fine childhood was great
20:39let's play with my ninja turtle
20:40just ignore all the pain that's welling
20:44it's totally fine next up is super
20:47weirdo i have the box
20:51i mean i have the box to all of them but
20:54sticky note okay that was explanation
20:57point that's why i yelled you never
20:59heard this sound before
21:06there's a lot of eyeballs around here
21:12has some origins in the super fuzz
21:15but it's super weird it's a super weird
23:09time modulation unit
23:12i was super weird in school
23:15especially when i started getting tall
23:17everybody else was short i was tall
23:20hey it's all boy hey weirdo
23:23you can see on top of the refrigerator
23:25whatever let's move on next up is the
23:27tesla wolf there's nikolai tesla there's
23:33by elon musk it's a fuzz it's uh it's
23:37like a swiss army knife kind of
23:38overdrive distortion fuzz
23:41swiss army they're from germany it's
23:43hard to put it put something together
23:45i probably need to stop trying and just
23:52i didn't i didn't say they did i just
23:55i'm tr you know there's like trying to
23:56put the threads together nick okay not
24:48that was a good jam you know but i'll be
24:50the first to critique my own art and
24:52just say it kind of fell apart at the
24:56sometimes things fall apart i had this
25:00i think she's walking down the street
25:03trying to make a change you know picks
25:04up some trash picking up a can here bag
25:10a bunch of kids pass by and they start
25:17trash girl or was it trash picker-upper
25:20trash picker-upper every time we try to
25:24someone else is not changing the thing
25:26or making it worse just like a jam it
25:28fell apart anything we try to do falls
25:31it really just stems back to how it all
25:33started we're just kids thrown into a
25:37world that is literally spinning on its
25:47if today we'll keep going
25:51let's go to the next one
25:56next up and last of these amazing pedals
26:07there's not a knob let me tell you why
26:14like the only way people set an hm2
26:17which is all the knobs up
26:21no knobs no nonsense no nothing i think
26:25that's that's the that's the saying here
26:28i think that's from our website i don't
26:29know anything about swedish death metal
26:31really i've said this already in the
26:33that's this pedal kind of made that
26:35genre and uh i'm gonna take a stab at
26:39what it feels like to be
26:41nordic plus angry i don't know what
26:44that's like because i'm from the midwest
26:47it gets cold here right
26:49yeah okay that's good enough
28:26that jam was good but like the hundreds
28:29of jams we've done on this show
28:32some would say that jam had to die
28:40the beginning of our end okay we are
28:43born and immediately time ticks
28:48the stroke of the hand of the clock is
28:52to an end that is inevitable from our
28:55everything we are taught every success
29:00everything we're good at and bad at
29:02everyone else dies in and in that is
29:08this is a good pedal but does it even
29:11you know why because what are you doing
29:13hey man stop untouch me stop it
29:35it's like this blood sugar thing
29:38i just need to eat i feel pretty good
29:40was that was i like getting weird yeah
29:42you're making everyone sad
29:44it's almost lunch oh it's 12 32.
29:48i had a late breakfast
29:49okay i'm good whatever i said people
29:51understand i just wasn't feeling good
29:53let's go to record time
29:55today's record time is brought to you by
29:572021's the million masks of god by
30:00manchester orchestra one of my favorite
30:02bands this record is on par and most
30:05excellent i'm a huge fan of andy hall
30:07his vocal his melodies the way he
30:10approaches songs and just the way this
30:13band sounds this is a band that to me
30:16there is no one like them there's no one
30:19that sounds like this a lot of it is the
30:22writing but a lot of it is the
30:23production and the way they approach
30:25arrangement so just everything about it
30:27i love it if you're a fan of manchester
30:29orchestra in the comments tell me your
30:31favorite record and tell me what you
30:32think about this and if you have not
30:34heard this do yourself a favor put it on
30:36and let me know what you think
30:39record time that's it
30:41i just want to know it's a good record
30:45thanks for watching today's episode let
30:47me know in the comments what your
30:49favorite jam was what your favorite
30:51petal was also just for fun
30:54um make sure you eat blood sugar is
30:56really important those plummets are
30:58really dark dark terrible places if you
31:00have a dark terrible story from your
31:03childhood drop in the comments let's
31:04talk about it i think it's good to know
31:06what went wrong in the beginning of our
31:08lives that really shaped who we are
31:12um you now know all about me so that's
31:14horrifying i just need to know about you
31:16kind of level the playing field anyway
31:18hit like if you liked this episode
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31:22episodes and if you want to jam along
31:24with these really dark
31:27broken childhood songs
31:29go to bandlet there's a link in the
31:31description you can download the stems
31:32and you can sing you can scream over the
31:34music you can read poetry about how
31:36tormented you were as a child
31:38again i don't want to spiral i do need
31:40to go eat lunch it's already now it's
31:42later than it was the chocolate's not
31:43holding i'm gonna bail right now i'm
