JHS Pedals

 JHS Pedals has become a well-known pedal builder among tone aficionados. This is a pedal company that has something for everyone. In fact, you can find one of their guitar pedals on just about any pedalboard. Fronted by Josh Scott, this Kansas City company has worked hard to earn their reputation as one of the top boutique pedal builders. in the guitar community. This post is going to explore several of their most popular guitar pedals.

Morning Glory

The JHS Morning Glory, inspired by the bluesbreaker, is the pedal that is responsible for all of the hype surrounding JHS. The Morning Glory is best known for its transparent overdrive qualities, and it is commonly spotted in the early gain stages on a pedalboard. This gives your tone that extra edge needed to cut through the mix and help your playing stand out in the house. If you are someone that prefers amp overdrive, the morning glory will also function as a great clean boost that will help you push your amp into a nice overdrive. Since it is a transparent drive, this pedal really works to bring out the tonal qualities of your guitar rather than infuse your tone with its own color. This makes this pedal super versatile and allows it to work well on many different rigs. 

Pulp n' Peel

In the never-ending search for the perfect compressor pedal, the JHS Pulp N, Peel is a strong competitor. JHS claim the Pulp n' Peel pedal to be a compressor for those guitar players who thought they didn't like compression. This pedal seeks to help players shape their tone without completely squashing it by offering up a few extra features. Players still get the typical controls we see on comps: Volume, Comp, EQ, Blend. One nice extra feature is the dirt toggle. This switch gives players the option to blend a little bit of overdrive into their signal. This little bit of dirt adds an interesting texture to your tone and helps add a rich sustain. The most recent version of this pedal also offers up an XLR out allowing players to go from the Pulp N' Peel direct into a console.

Still have questions about compression? Check out our blog on Compressor Pedals

Superbolt

Even though it is new the JHS Pedals family, The Superbolt has quickly made a name for itself. This pedal is a nice break from all of the typical overdrive circuits we are used to seeing. Rather than modeling a pedal, the JHS Superbolt emulates tones from 60's era Supro Amps. The controls on this pedal function like they would on an amp. Drive acts as your gain or volume control and the volume is more like a master volume. This allows you to bring set the output of the pedal to a suitable level. Once you have the desired about of gain, you may use the tone control the cut treble or boost bass as needed. There is also a toggle switch that will give you the option between higher or lower gain. 

Color Box

A recording console might not be the first thing you think of when you are looking for the perfect guitar tone, but the Never Recording console is responsible for hundreds of songs we know and love. The JHS Colorbox was created to help players capture those same tones on stage. A few artist that have used this console include, Led Zepplin, Steely Dan, and The Beatles. In fact, the guitar tone on "Revolution" was achieved by plugging a guitar straight into the console.Since this isn't so easy to pull off live, JHS came up with this guitar pedal to help open up the tonal possibilities in a live setting. This is one of the more quirky pedals JHS builds, but it has quickly become a classic. 

Typically when you think of guitar tone the word recording console doesn't come to mind. This is what makes the Color box so interesting and unique. Rather than emulating and amp or vintage pedal, the Color Box recreates tones from the old Neve Recording Console. In case you are wondering what that sounds like, think Revolution by The Beatles. Other famous artists including Led Zepplin and Steely Dan have also recorded on this same console.  These awesome tones, easy to get in the studio, are harder to recreate on stage. The team at JHS decided to do something about it, and the end result was this quirky little pedal. 

Kilt

This recent JHS release has already found a home on pedalboards everywhere. The Kilt was created in collaboration between JHS Pedals and StuG of  Delirious. StuG. StuG spends time in both studio sessions, and performing live on stage, so he needed a pedal that could be used in almost any application. The Kilt is the final result of their partnership. This pedal was created with the goal of giving the player everything from transparent drive to a thick Fuzz.

This pedal contains two independent channels. This right side is a JFET Boost responsible for the light overdrive. The left side is based on the Expadora and pushes the pedal into Fuzz territory. The 2-in-1 design allows these channels to be used simultaneously or independently. This opens up The Kilt to be used for almost any situation. This pedal is incredibly flexible and would be a perfect fit on any players board. 

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