About JHS Pedals

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JHS Pedals is an American boutique guitar effects pedal company founded by Josh Scott in 2007.

Known for its innovative designs and high-quality craftsmanship, JHS Pedals has become a prominent name in the pedal industry, offering various effects including overdrives, distortions, fuzzes, delays, and modulation. The company is particularly celebrated for its ability to blend classic tones with modern features, often incorporating unique twists on traditional effects. JHS Pedals are also recognized for their reliable performance and distinctive visual designs, making them a favourite among musicians of all levels.

Josh is known for his educational and entertaining content on the history and design of guitar pedals, further contributing to the brand’s influence and appeal in the guitar community.

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.

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Series

JHS Pedals 3 Series Fuzz (3SFUZZ)

£108.43

Made in Kansas City USA The perfect balance of vintage and modern with soaring sustain and clear articulation. The controls allow you to create a wide variety of sounds via the Bias knob, which gives the Fuzz a more gated sound as you turn it up Unlike many fuzz pedals, the fuzz knob is usable across 100% of the sweep for many different flavors not typically found in a fuzz, like distortion, and even pushed amp Esq overdrive tones The Fat toggle engages a bass boost for an overall fatter, more powerful sound Runs on 9V DC Negative Center power and consumes 9mA

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JHS Pedals Cheese Ball Orange Distortion Fuzz Pedal

£175.70

Has your standard volume, gain, and tone knobs found on most distortion fuzz boxes, but comes with an extra Mode selector knob that gives you four different overall tone and gain selections In the “off” position, the tone knob is disengaged, giving you a bright and trashy fuzz/distortion sound In the “1” position you have a mid-scooped sound that will give you a big Muff style buzz for a rounded sound reminiscent of fine mozzarella that sits just right on your pizza but doesn't get in the way The “3” position gives you a biting, gated fuzz tone that, when cranked, spits, spats, and bites like Gorgonzola naturale

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JHS Smiley Fuzz Pedal

£157.24 £158.77

Volume control sets the overall output level of the effect; turn it up and it gets louder Fuzz is the distortion control; the more you turn it clockwise, the more fuzz you create On the side you will see a “Mode” control. Push this button to access our own unique “JHS Mode” JHS Mode sends the Smiley into high gain / gated fuzz territory that you may never want to come back from Legends like Jimi Hendrix, Jack White, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, and Eric Johnson have used this circuit on countless albums. Now it's your turn

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POWER SUPPLY COMPATIBLE WITH JHS 3 SERIES FUZZ GUITAR EFFECTS PEDAL ADAPTER 9V

£5.99

9v 500mA Regulated Power Supply Filtered for Zero Hum Noise Free Power Supply Centre-Negative Polarity 2 Meter Rounded Thick Cable

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JHS Pedals 3 Series Octave Reverb (3SOR)

£110.57

Made in Kansas City USA Our take on Brian Eno's classic "Shimmer" effect that has been used for decades to allow the guitar to create pads and textures that fill out ambient space Toggle up layers in upper octave sounds, while toggle down layers in lower octave sounds Runs on 9V DC Negative Center power and consumes 65 mA

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