About JHS

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JHS Pedals is a prominent manufacturer of guitar effects pedals, known for their high-quality craftsmanship, innovative designs, and commitment to tone. Founded in 2007 by Josh Scott in Kansas City, Missouri, JHS Pedals has quickly gained a reputation for producing boutique-quality pedals that cater to a wide range of musical styles and preferences.

JHS offers a diverse lineup of effects pedals, including overdrive, distortion, fuzz, modulation, delay, reverb, and more. The company is known for its meticulous attention to detail and dedication to producing pedals that deliver exceptional tone and versatility. Many of their pedals are designed to capture the tones of classic vintage effects while incorporating modern features and improvements.

In addition to their standard pedal lineup, JHS Pedals also offers a range of signature pedals in collaboration with renowned artists and musicians. These pedals are designed to meet the specific needs and preferences of the artists, providing them with unique tones and features for their playing style.

With a commitment to innovation and a passion for tone, JHS Pedals continues to be a trusted name in the guitar effects industry, providing musicians with inspiring tools to shape their sound and creativity.

Fuzz

Fuzz is a distinctive type of distortion effect used in guitar playing, known for producing a thick, saturated, and buzzy tone. Unlike other distortion effects that aim to mimic the sound of overdriven tube amplifiers, fuzz pedals create a more extreme and aggressive distortion by severely clipping the guitar signal. This results in a unique sound characterized by rich harmonics, extended sustain, and a pronounced edge. Key features of fuzz pedals include gain, tone, and level controls. The gain control adjusts the amount of distortion applied to the signal, with higher settings producing more aggressive tones. The tone control allows musicians to shape the frequency response of the effect, ranging from dark and bass-heavy to bright and treble-focused sounds. Lastly, the level control sets the overall output, ensuring that the fuzz effect matches the volume of the rest of the signal chain or amplifier.

Fuzz pedals are popular across various music genres, particularly in rock, blues, and psychedelic music, due to their ability to enhance different guitar-playing styles. For rhythmic riffs, fuzz pedals create thick and aggressive tones with plenty of sustain and grit, adding depth to power chords, riffs, and palm-muted passages. In lead solos, they allow guitarists to achieve soaring, saturated tones with singing sustain and harmonically rich overtones, helping solos stand out in a mix.

Fuzz pedals are versatile tools for creating experimental sounds, capable of producing oscillating feedback, glitchy textures, and otherworldly tones when pushed to their extremes. Overall, fuzz pedals offer guitarists a powerful means of shaping their tone and adding character to their playing. Whether used subtly for warmth or dialled up for extreme distortion, fuzz pedals inspire creativity and expand the sonic palette of any guitarist.

Guitar Effect Pedal

A guitar pedal, also known as an effects pedal, is a device used by guitarists to alter the sound of their instrument in various ways. These pedals are typically small, foot-operated units that are connected in a signal chain between the guitar and the amplifier. They can modify the guitar’s tone, pitch, and dynamics by applying different effects such as distortion, reverb, delay, chorus, and more. Guitar pedals come in both analog and digital formats, and they allow musicians to create a wide range of sounds, enhancing their musical expression and creativity. They are essential tools for guitarists in genres ranging from rock and blues to jazz and electronic music.

Used

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JHS Pedals JHS The Kilt V2 Overdrive and Fuzz Guitar Effects Pedal

£146.48

Compact and versatile tone-machine When both toggles are down, you are in the lightest gain setting, amp-like chimney breakup G1 flipped up adds a touch of drive for more riffy grit G2 flipped up puts you almost into distortion land, with more saturation and sustain for lead tones Both toggles flipped up sends the Kilt V2 into almost uncontrollable gated fuzz/distortion that will cut through anything

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JHS Charlie Brown V4 Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal

£219.99 £183.55

Turns any amp into a gritty JTM45 stack Drive and Volume control interact the same as a master volume amp head Fine-tune your tone with controls for Bass, Middle, and Treble Stacks beautifully with overdrive pedals for even more shades of grit Standard 9V DC Negative power, consumes less than 100mA

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JHS Pedals JHS Summing Amp Input Signal Blender Guitar Pedal

£71.52

Gives you the ability to take two inputs and blend them into one output Perfect for putting effects in parallel so that they are not affected by one another When you have a quarter note delay and a dotted eighth delay and you place them in parallel then sum them back together, the effect is that both delays come through more clearly and are not “delaying the delays” Can also be used with overdrives so that they are not pushing each other as in series, but sit atop one another in parallel Another use is combining fuzz and compression in parallel so the fuzz isn’t getting choked by the compression

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JHS PackRat Distorion Pedal, White

£325.94

A pedal that could go from overdrive to distortion and all the way to fuzz A passionate homage to a landmark pedal that changed music history Uses a unique digital runway system to direct the paths of 261 components through 40 individual switches to achieve a fluid, analog multimode switching Over 100 different RAT specimens were studied to achieve this unique circuitry 9 unique iterations of the ProCo Rat in 1 stomp box

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JHS Pedals JHS Whitey Tighty Compressor Guitar Effects Pedal

£105.41

FET compressor that has three simple controls: Volume, Compression, and Blend The Volume control gives you the ability to set your volume at unity gain or slightly boosted to make up for any perceived loss from the compression The Compression knob controls the amount of compression for everything from a subtle smoothing of your tone to a pleasing squash that’s perfect for country, blues, pop, and rock Use the Blend knob to dial in the right amount of clean tone along with your compressed signal With the ability to blend in compression and clean signal, you’ll be able to dial in the perfect sound that keeps everything in place

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