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Jext Telez White Pedal V2

This is the second version of the original Beatles White Album inspired pedal by Jext Telez. Based on the fuzz tone the Beatles used for guitar parts (among other instruments) on the classic tracks on the White Album and others including “Back in the U.S.S.R, Birthday (the ‘underwater piano’), Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Helter Skelter, Lady Madonna, Hey Bulldog (Yellow Submarine), Hello Goodbye, Sgt. Peppers.” The Stones also used the same fuzz tone for “Sympathy for the Devil, Brown Sugar, Honkey Tonk Woman,” etc.

The Beatles and Stones used this fuzz tone in the studio between 1966 & 1972. In an era where there were very few effect pedals, this particular fuzz tone was a feature of the early solid state Vox Supreme, Defiant, Conqueror and Virtuoso amplifiers that they used in the studio. These amps came with a Fuzz/OD and semi-parked Wah (cocked Wah) built into the amp. Stones and Lennon/McCartney/Harrison all used it judiciously on many tracks.

Vox Conqueror Amp

The Jext Telez White Pedal as the early solid state Vox Supreme, Defiant, Conqueror and Virtuoso amplifiers utilized an inductor in the circuit to produce the fuzz tone with the frequency swept sound like a cocked-wah pedal.

Since Vox was the maker of the earliest wah pedal that used a couple of transisors and an inductor to make a sweepable filter. It is of no surprise that similar circuit was included inside the early solid state Vox amplifiers. The inductor is a coil that is an important part of the circuit. The wah pedal is, first and foremost, a band-pass filter that rolls off the treble and the bass and creates a resonance peak at the low-pass filter frequency point. The result is a boost at a very narrow frequency range that is sweepable on a wah-wah pedal. Moving the pedal sweeps the resonance peak up and down the frequency range and makes your guitar make the ‘wah’ sound.

The fuzz tone along with the “cocked” wah is the trick here. The idea is to sweep a wah-wah pedal until you find the “sweet spot” and park it there. Great examples of a cocked wah sound is Dire Straits hit “Money for Nothing” where Mark Knopfler used his Gibson Les Paul and a “parked” or “cocked” wah pedal to achieve the tone for the famous riff.

A great example of a “cocked” wah with a fuzz tone is guitarist Mick Ronson with David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory era. Using a Tonebender MKI fuzz pedal, Marshall amp and a Gibson Les Paul Mick Ronson utilized his wah pedal parked in the sweet spot for these tones. You can easily hear this tone on Bowie’s “Queen Bitch” and the solo on “Moonage Daydream.”

Today we even have pedals like the Fulltone WahFull of the Electro-Harmonix Cock Fight to get a “cocked” wah sound even easier. No actual wha-wah pedal needed.

The Beatles Sound
It is also true that the Beatles would sometimes even plug a guitar directly into the Neve Recording Desk used at Abbey Road and over drive the preamp section to get a huge guitar sound. An example is Revolution recorded in 1968. This is a different guitar tone however. According to Geoff Emerick (studio engineer at Abbey Road for that session), he had John Lennon and George Harrison running their guitars directly into the mixing desk. The guitar tone is a result of one channel on the mixing desk being run into another. Both of these channels were driven well beyond their normal operating capacity. Could have been bad news for the Neve Desk causing permanent damage, but was great news for guitar tone history! JHS Pedals makes a pedal called the Colour Box that attempts to give you the unmistakable sound of plugging your guitar, bass, piano, microphone, or anything else, directly into a vintage Neve preamp.

The Beatles also used mulitple tape machines in the studio to get chorus, flange and double track guitars. Compression was added in the recording process as well. Tape saturation was a big part of the overall sound on those legendary recordings. Another effect used quite a bit all the way to Let It Be, was a Leslie rotating speaker: like John Lennon’s vocals on Tomorrow Never Knows, or George Harrison guitar solos on Abbey Road. Pure Leslie!

Just shows the innovation of the Fab Four at a time when there were no pedalboards or overdrive, chorus, flange pedals! Modern pedals like the Strymon DECO, the Keeley 30ms Automatic Double Tracker and the Electro-Harmonix Lester G pedal can go a long way to achieving these sounds today.

Add some Gretsch, Rickenbacker, Epiphone Casino, Hofner Violin Bass, Fender Strat and some flat wound strings plugged into some Vox amps and you will get even closer… You must add your OWN talent however!

The new Jext Telez White Pedal V2 gets its vintage 1968 flavor from a quad of NOS (New Old Stock) transistors under the hood. The results are a juicier fuzz flavor, juicier MidRangeBoost flavor, and less high end sheen than the original V1 pedal.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE between V1 and V2 Jext Telez White pedals?
First off. V2 has blood red knobs. This is so you will physically be able to spot a V1 and a V2. I guess no reason you could not change the red knobs with white ones if you like the old look (I ordered some white knobs on eBay). The tonal difference is the result of switching to NOS transistors are gains in 4th of the 7th positions.

This results are:
1) a bit thicker, rounder distortion characteristic
2) a bit more wetness, depth from the MRB filter section
3) a bit less brightness overall, especially from the treble section

According to the Jext Telez website:
The White Pedal delivers stripped down, raw, holographic, direct, timeless, deconstructionist. Guitarists are consistanly calling the White Pedal one of the best pedals ever. It leaps out of mixes and is insanely flexible. The EQ serves to put guitars in an audible position, even in dense mixes.

White Pedal V1 – 700 Sold and discontinued as of Feb. 1st 2018.

White Pedal V2 (Oxblood Edition) – 15 Made. SOLD OUT

Pedal comes in white bag inside white box. Manual, labels, stickers and white feet included. Can use 9V Battery OR Standard 9V Negative Tip DC Power Supply. Daisy chains work OK. Pedal draw is low.

Yes, the knobs are unlabeled, just like the Beatles White Album. However, you can use the included labels if you wish. The knobs are (left to right): VOLUME, GAIN, TREBLE, BASS and on the side the “Yoko” switch is MRB (MidRangeBoost Frequency Selector). The “Yoko” switch has three positions and is what adjusts the “cocked” wah sound.

The fuzz is aggresive yet vintage sounding and blended with an inductor – a sort of “parked” or “cocked” wah. It shoots out of mixes with ease. The pedal cleans up into overdrive and boost. The treble and bass knobs interact with the inductor. Custom inductors were wound which is crucial as the overall timber of the entire pedal is formed by the quality of the inductor. The inductor type and quality is a huge formal discussion among classic Vox Wah pedal collectors.

TIPS/SETTINGS
From vintage clean to mid-rich overdrives and stabbing blues possessed fuzz, there is alot of land to explore with the White Pedal.

Leave the gain down and connect other fuzz (or any type!) pedals and the MidRangeBoost (YOKO) will add a halo of mids to them.

The Beatles ran a piano through one for the ‘underwater piano’ sounds on ‘Birthday’. Talking midrange leads. Hints of octave up and ring mod can be heard when cranking the gain. Complex fuzzes can be found by tweaking the eq and Yoko combinations.

Strange honky rhythm tones. Dial the bass knob all the way down for killer phone and A.M. filters. Use on bass guitar, synth, keyboards, electric pianos, everything is great through it. We get a lot of reports of studio use of our pedals including mixbuss, parallel buss, and reprinting tracks through for tonality and dimension. Explore and enjoy!

Jext Telez White Pedal V2 and Strymon DECO

Great way to get these classic tones in a pedal. Note that this pedal is a bit on the large size and will be an issue for crowded pedalboards. The Jext Telez White Pedal V2 measures roughly Height 4 3/4 inches x Length 4 3/4 inches x Depth 2 1/4 inches. Larger than my Strymon DECO or Flint pedals.