Brand

Jam Pedals

JAM Pedals began in Athens in 2005 as guitarist Jannis Anastasakis’s workshop. The team still hand-builds, hand-paints and inspects its pedals in Athens, Greece, and offers a custom shop for point-to-point wiring and special builds. Its catalogue combines effects rooted in familiar analogue circuits with more individual designs. JustPedals listings include the Lucydreamer overdrive, Dyna-ssor compressor, Ripple phaser, Chill tremolo and bass-specific Lucydreamer. The distinctive finishes reflect the company’s craft process; the pedals themselves span drive, dynamics, modulation and other expressive sounds.

Category

Overdrive Pedals

Overdrive uses soft or moderate clipping to add harmonics and compression while retaining more of the original note shape than heavy distortion. Some circuits emphasise the midrange and trim bass before clipping; others remain broad, transparent or amplifier-like. Gain, clipping arrangement, headroom and tone filtering decide whether it supplies a light edge, a saturated drive sound or extra push into another gain stage.