Brand

JHS Pedals

JHS Pedals grew from Josh Scott’s pedal-modification work in 2007 into a Kansas City effects maker. Scott’s first original designs followed in 2008; the Morning Glory began as his reinvention of the Marshall Bluesbreaker. The JustPedals catalogue carries the Morning Glory V4 and Muffuletta, along with practical tools such as the Little Black Buffer, Buffered Splitter and Little Black Amp Box. JHS describes its guitar pedals as made in Kansas City, USA. The range mixes original drive and fuzz designs with utility pedals, so the current listings show more than a single “boutique overdrive” identity.

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.

Tags

Bass

Voiced or equipped to retain low-frequency fundamentals and the higher headroom of a bass signal. Clean blends, crossovers and bass-specific filter ranges can preserve weight and articulation while the effected portion adds harmonics, movement or ambience.