00:00on today's episode i'm gonna teach you
00:02all about how analog man is an important
00:04part of effects pedal history i'm gonna
00:06play my favorite pedals that he's ever
00:08i'm gonna tell you all kinds of stuff
00:10it's gonna get rowdy it's gonna be fun
00:12i i just need you to trust me
00:25as i've often said on the show companies
00:29people do so to understand why analog
00:32you need to know first of all the analog
00:34man is a person his name is mike pierre
00:36and he got started in the mid 80s i
00:39think around 1985 when he moved to japan
00:41to be a software engineer so he's over
00:44there he starts seeing vintage guitars
00:46he'd never seen in the states
00:48effects and just a universe of crazy
00:50stuff that was very collectible and
00:52interesting to him so
00:53he starts tinkering around recreating
00:55some of these rare effects he starts
00:57modifying things for friends one thing
00:59leads to another and he starts a pedal
01:02and he's one of the very few og boutique
01:07that was pre-internet as a matter of
01:08fact i believe his website was the
01:10second or third pedal website ever made
01:13that's astronomically crazy to think
01:15about because there are
01:17millions of guitar related threads
01:20with all that said let's look at my
01:23favorite analog mana pedals i'll tell
01:24you a little bit about them we'll do
01:26let's jump right into this and talk
01:28about analog man's most popular famous
01:30and prestigious pedal
01:32it is the king of tone dual overdrive
01:34this is a doozy because on the used
01:37market they go for really crazy prices
01:39and if you are on his waiting list where
01:41he sells it at a very fair and
01:42reasonable price the wait is sometimes
01:45two years i've heard three years i just
01:46don't know it's true but
01:48all that said it's a fantastic pedal he
01:52and yeah i don't know what else to say
01:55there is an easier way to get this sound
01:57and it came out in the form of a pedal
01:59called the prince of tone i just so
02:05and a story now inside this here it is
02:09on the back it says p000 number five
02:13and the person i bought it from sent me
02:15a little message let me read it to you
02:17it says hey josh i have something quite
02:19special you might be interested in
02:21i received the first analog man prince
02:23of tone that was made public
02:26analog man made four prototypes and the
02:28first production pedal was number five
02:31you have probably heard this but the
02:33idea came from two guys on the gear page
02:35mike responded to them and was
02:37interested in their idea for a yellow
02:39of the king of tone only so this pedal
02:42is half of this pedal
02:43same sound just half and mike sent
02:46number five to the thread creator
02:48and this is it so this is a little bit
02:49of history with the box and i'm going to
02:53because the other one's two petals and
02:54that would take too long and i like this
02:56one more actually because it's simple
02:58you can find it and it's more affordable
03:00i'm going to quit talking about it
03:27next up is in my opinion the most
03:30under under-appreciated analog man pedal
03:33ever made and that will ever be made i
03:34don't care what he does
03:35i don't care what brilliant idea he has
03:39have a more under-appreciated pedal than
03:41this i know that's a big claim
03:43but it's true it is the astro tone
03:46fuzz three knob fuzz it's based around
03:49the pedal that i actually don't have
03:52um but there's another version of the
03:54pedal that i don't have
03:56the sam ash fuzz box but anyway i don't
03:58have the actual astro tone there's a
04:01i'm dying inside silently
04:09the beauty of this is it is a 60s fuzz
04:12it actually came out in 1966
04:15but it feels more like a distortion i
04:18think i would vote in an imaginary
04:21voting scenario in front of an imaginary
04:23panel of nerds who actually care about
04:25such a hypothetical situation
04:28that this would be the first distortion
04:29pedal ever invented and he replicated it
04:31but that imaginary situation doesn't
04:33exist although i am telling you so
04:36actual situation of the imaginary
04:39so i'm going to vote to you this could
04:42be the first distortion circuit ever
04:44and the most underrated ever made this
04:47is a very important pedal let's play it
05:28next up is the oldest analog man pedal
05:32date wise it's from 2001 and it's had
05:36which means it's a great pedal it is the
05:39it's based around the dan armstrong
05:41orange squeezer and again
05:43i'm almost positive correct me if i'm
05:45wrong i think he was the first person to
05:47clone this in such a quality way and put
05:50it into an enclosure with true bypass
05:53that said i'm a huge fan of the orange
05:55squeezer i based my compressor on it as
05:58and this one's fantastic it's also
06:02somehow red on orange works it's a
06:21one of the things the analog man is most
06:25at doing and i do use that word as a
06:27choice word because he is fantastical at
06:30this type of circuit it is recreating
06:34and very well classic fuzzface circuits
06:37from the 60s and 70s if you don't want
06:39to fork out a billion dollars for one of
06:41these and the enclosure size is massive
06:43you can look at his line of pedals
06:45they're called sun face there's several
06:47versions i'll go over here but
06:49he covers different ranges and
06:50transistor types mike has
06:52extensive knowledge on transistors
06:54leakages and gains and
06:56he just knows a ton probably more than
06:58anyone out there to some extent
07:00what was actually in certain pedals and
07:02how to replicate it so
07:03one of the versions that's really cool
07:05is the bc109 that's the type of
07:07transistor in it and you see this clock
07:10time which is a pink floyd reference
07:12from dark side of the moon
07:14and this would have been the fuzz face
07:17sound and circuit that david gilmour
07:20then you have the bc 183 version it's
07:23just another type of transistor
07:25slightly different sounds but different
07:27enough that they are completely
07:29my favorite though i have the box
07:33is the sun face in kt
07:38i'm not going to get into having the
07:40sticker and manual and all that stuff
07:41that really excites me but i do have the
07:43bag and that still excites me here it is
07:46ntk red dot very very very
07:49very very very very very
07:53very rare transistor type i don't know
07:56that it sounds better because there is
07:59maybe it's because it's so rare i feel
08:00like it's better but i do love how it
08:36next is the bino boost i have the
08:40there is a larger box version same
08:43is a very well made faithful recreation
08:47range master which was a box with no
08:49footswitch uses a battery
08:51has an annoying cable you know whatever
08:53but sounds great and this sounds great
08:55i love this for pedal boards because
08:57it's not obnoxious and treble booster is
08:59not something that most of us
09:01even though i love it will run all the
09:03time so it is kind of a
09:05peripheral effect for a lot of players
09:08and you can get it on your board if the
09:09case is this size so
09:11yeah that being said we'll play this
09:12there is tossing back to the fuzz as i
09:16he makes the sun lion which has this
09:19one of his sun faces there it's pretty
09:22awesome it's extravagant if you're an
09:25you might want the two in one you might
09:27be a little crazy you might be reckless
09:29and wild i don't know but i'm not
09:31i just want this i want the small one
09:33it's simple i'm a simple person my mind
10:12last but not least never least possibly
10:17not most but it's cool it is the analog
10:21this is based around a classic
10:24small clone now the classic ones are
10:27getting hard to find they have a very
10:31and he did it justice this is one of the
10:34bucket brigade choruses i think you can
10:38uh it's simple has two knobs not a lot
10:40of bells and whistles because
10:41let's be honest you don't really need
10:43them most the time so i'm going to play
10:45i'm also going to play his modified
10:47distortion by boss the ds1
10:49this was the first analog man product i
10:53sending it in and he modified it so he
10:57of market share when it comes to mods
10:59and historically that's how he got
11:01a lot of you may have those or have seen
11:03them so i'll play these together
11:04and we'll do like a bad nirvana thing
11:07that should never have existed
11:49in 2020 the term boutique is often
11:52convoluted and watered down it's really
11:54hard to even know what people mean when
11:56they say i only like boutique pedals
11:58it's really hard to deal with but and
12:00the truest form boutique
12:02is small batch small production runs
12:05and usually by a small crew that gives
12:08incredible attention to detail
12:10and i think in the current pedal market
12:12it's a pretty rare thing but analog man
12:15actually boutique so with that said if
12:17you've ever wanted that definition and
12:19wanted to understand how to visually see
12:21it and see a product line that i feel
12:22like represents boutique
12:24analog manage that let's go to record
12:26time today's record time is brought to
12:30rubber neck by the band toadies this
12:33is in hindsight all these years later
12:37you know it's pretty influential i'll
12:39listen back through this
12:40they just released the vinyl and i
12:43ripped this record off constantly the
12:44riffs are fantastic i'm not saying i'm
12:46fantastic i just say like this
12:49and i didn't really know and i'm kind of
12:50sharing that with you now but if you
12:52don't know this record you need to know
12:55was you know it was a weird year
12:57gangster's paradise ruled the airwaves
12:59but the toadies are like no no no no no
13:02gangsters paradise here
13:03we're gonna scream and play alternative
13:07rock post grunge experimental
13:12and we're gonna do it in a way that like
13:13peels your face off this is a very
13:15important record to me
13:16my favorite songs are possum kingdom
13:20one hit of being a two-hit wonder i came
13:23from the water as a solid hit
13:25not a huge fan of that song but tyler
13:29it's a creepy song uh but it's
13:33so check this out if you're a patreon
13:35member of the show there's a link in the
13:36description below i'm going to give away
13:38brand new sealed copy it's never been
13:41and it's brand new i already said that
13:43but it could be yours
13:45i don't know in the comments talk about
13:48how you love it or hate it don't care
13:50about it never want to hear it whatever
13:52thanks so much for watching this episode
13:54i hope that you enjoyed it
13:55and in closing i just want to make the
13:57point and say that companies like jhs
13:59and dozens and dozens of others would
14:02if it were not for people like analog
14:04man who started this boutique industry
14:08we all owe him a great debt and he's
14:10done such a great job
14:12keeping effects history and important
14:14circuits alive and available
14:16to players like me and to you there is a
14:18book that he's involved with you can get
14:20it on reverb there's a link in the
14:23it's by tom hughes but he was a huge
14:25part of this process it's called analog
14:27man's guide to vintage effects
14:29i dig through this often because there
14:31are interviews with people who are no
14:34there's some really really great stories
14:37information photography it's a really
14:39important book because
14:40no one's really put this amount of
14:42effort into something
14:43to this degree so go check it out hit
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