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JHS Guitar Pedals & Effects/Accessories: 15% Off: JHS 3 Series Pedals Expired

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Various Retailers has select JHS Guitar Pedals & Effects/Accessories on sale for 15% Off listed below (from prices starting at $29.75). Shipping is free.

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All JHS Pedals 15% off through 5/31/2021
(first-time deal post - apologies in advance)

Available at authorized resellers:
https://www.jhspedals.info/united-states

https://www.jhspedals.info/online

SW and GC links:
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/...jhs+pedals

https://www.guitarcenter.com/JHS-Pedals/
..and others

Links to a few examples:

JHS 3 Series: $84.15
https://www.sweetwater.com/jhs-3/series

https://www.guitarcenter.com/sear...cyCode=USD

Morning Glory: $169.15
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/...rive-pedal

https://www.guitarcenter.com/JHS-...3132525.gc

Solid deals for new JHS USA made pedals at used prices. You can sit around and debate if they've ever had a better sale on any of these and hope to save another couple of bucks someday OR you can buy now and use them while someone else sits around hoping a better deal stumbles their way. ;-)

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I disagree, good pedals, reliable, and made in St. Louis. They are not expensive for American made pedals.

As far as the designs go, 95% of pedals designs are clones or near clones of prior pedal designs. So if the Double Barrel is just a stacked Morning Glory followed by a Tube Screamer, that's exactly what it is, and we know this because Josh Scott says that's what it is. They don't hide the design history of their pedals. JHS would be the first to acknowledge that a $19 Behrenger or Amoon/Mooer/Nux/AmazonBasics pedal does the same thing as many JHS pedals, but sometimes with compromised component choices, especially in the housing, switches and quality control.

And while I love the DS1, my first pedal which I've been using off an on since the 1980s, it isn't even remotely accurate to say that the DS1 an asymmetrical hard clipping pre-amp/op-amp distortion is the same or 'better' than the Paul Gilbert FET based distortion with a midrange shaping preamp. They are both distortions, but there are drawbacks to the DS1, too little midrange, noise with high gain, and it isn't the best voice for some amps. The DS1 does sound good at low-mid gain in front of an all tube Marshall half stack, though.

JHS is founded and run by some real pedal nerds and has all of this undeserved hate. Are they popular with the praise and worship world? Yes, but so are PRS, Fender, Wampler, Boss Wazacraft, Analogman and Line6 Helix. They have good gear because they have money for good gear. Praise and Worship players tend to have day jobs and don't spend very much on booze.

…. And for the record I own one JHS pedal what I got yesterday, that Neve clone ColorBox. I was disappointed for 30 minutes, then I read the manual. It sounds spectacular, once you figure out how to tame the insane amount of gain.

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e-cue
05-31-2021 at 07:38 AM.
05-31-2021 at 07:38 AM.
Quote from uniuni :
In for a Color Box V2. $339 sounds like a bunch, but for a Neve preamp on a pedalboard, it is already a bargain at the full price. And I can always resell it for that much on Reverb.com right?
I'm a studio engineer with a million various D.I. options. A Design's Reddi's, Evil Twins, Demeter, Avalon, Radial, Little Labs, the DI on the BAE Neve's, etc.

Looks like this deal is ending today at most places. Curious to know what your thoughts are on the Color Box V2 if you received yours yet.
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kc3
05-31-2021 at 08:16 AM.
05-31-2021 at 08:16 AM.
Quote from uniuni :
Josh Scott made a great video about Behrenger Pedals. He's of the opinion that they are pretty accurate clones of a lot of the Boss pedals. I love the Super Fuzz SF300, which is a spectacular sounding pedal and absolutely insane if set exactly half way between Fuzz 1 and 2. I hate the Analog Delay VD 400, it sounds like a wet noodle. I put a Tung Sol 5751 preamp tube into the Vintage Tube Monster pedal, and it's a real banger. I also like the Vintage Phaser and the June60 pedal, which is their take Stereo Guitar Pedal take on the Roland Juno Synth's Chorus buttons. The June 60 is a particularly attractive pedal in a nice metal housing with wooden end panels, like their Deepmind12 and Model D synths (also real bangers in the synth category).
Very cool. Great info. Thanks!
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05-31-2021 at 08:24 AM.
05-31-2021 at 08:24 AM.
Quote from uniuni :
Josh Scott made a great video about Behrenger Pedals. He's of the opinion that they are pretty accurate clones of a lot of the Boss pedals. I love the Super Fuzz SF300, which is a spectacular sounding pedal and absolutely insane if set exactly half way between Fuzz 1 and 2. I hate the Analog Delay VD 400, it sounds like a wet noodle. I put a Tung Sol 5751 preamp tube into the Vintage Tube Monster pedal, and it's a real banger. I also like the Vintage Phaser and the June60 pedal, which is their take Stereo Guitar Pedal take on the Roland Juno Synth's Chorus buttons. The June 60 is a particularly attractive pedal in a nice metal housing with wooden end panels, like their Deepmind12 and Model D synths (also real bangers in the synth category).
You don't like the bucket brigade circuit of the VD 400? What does wet noodle mean?

Opposite experience from what my friends and I had. We though Behringer sucked, we tried their analog delay and thought it was great.... sounded good with analog synths too.

Now I have their fuzz, a drive pedal and the delay pedal as knock around stuff to keep in the gig bag. Behringer seems worth the money to me.
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05-31-2021 at 09:12 AM.
05-31-2021 at 09:12 AM.
Quote from MaroonPollution488 :
JHS, for the most part, take other people's pedal designs and repackage them with solid color paint jobs and mid-80s Clipart graphics, calling them "handmade" and boutique."

They are average pedals, in both build quality, and audio quality.

They are not made with high end audio parts, by ANY stretch.

They are very popular with the "Praise&Worship" rock/metal bands as well as teenagers who have bands who play at churches.

They said OK, but not great, just OK.

The Neve preamp is meh, and its hard to find a real use for.

Josh Scott is more of a marketing guy, than a guy people in the pedal community "respect." He's really big on slapping someone's name on a pedal "Ryan Adam's, Paul Gilbert etc." To sell you on it, until you get it and find out your old DS-1 did the same thing, only better, for 29 bucks.

I don't think these pedals are worth 85 bucks personally, but to each their own.

Anyone looking to find out more about JHS and Josh Scott could Google "JHS Devi Ever" or "JHS Clones Pedals" or a million other things and find out what his company is about. Not good stuff.

Also, the resale value is basically, nothing, so if you buy these, expect to own it forever.
I think you're highly mistaken.

He started off modding other manufacture pedals. Also like every other pedal maker such as Wampler, Earthquake, Keeley, etc., even the sort after Klon is based on another circuit. .

FWIW I don't own a single JHS pedal, I do build my own. I have no affiliation with JHS either.

I do have a few pedals based on a few JHS Pedals.

If you're not a fan of JHS pedals because you don't like the sound of them and feel that build quality is average that's your opinion, but to say he just re-brands other pedals to JHS that is false information. Basing his circuit on another manufacture circuit that is a true statement.

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05-31-2021 at 03:19 PM.
05-31-2021 at 03:19 PM.
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I'm a studio engineer with a million various D.I. options. A Design's Reddi's, Evil Twins, Demeter, Avalon, Radial, Little Labs, the DI on the BAE Neve's, etc.

Looks like this deal is ending today at most places. Curious to know what your thoughts are on the Color Box V2 if you received yours yet.
I've only tried it with a guitar (a Kiesel with their Lithium pickups, which are high output but with coil taps in an neck and bridge hum bucker configuration). I'm finding some great sounds with single coil pickups into a lunchbox amp and a single 12" Celestion V30 in a closed back cab. That's all I've had time to fool around with thus far. I've got a lot more control over the gain staging, eq and high-pass filtering, such that small movements of the knobs can result in some pretty dramatic changes in the sound. The thing is, it has crazy amounts o gain as you increase the gain stages, which are in something like 10db increments on the staging knob. Thus you can quickly get a fuzzed out overloaded analog mixing console sound really quickly. What I like is the sound just before it really overdrives anything, which often requires rolling off my volume to keep things before a breakup. The sounds just before that are pretty gloriously full, particularly with a neck pickup, which is really full, slightly percussive and with a lot of breathy fullness without any "woof" or "flabbiness" because of the high pass filtering out those frequencies.

I really need to play with this some more and to try it on a vocal microphone, bass and analog synth just to run it through it's paces.
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05-31-2021 at 03:29 PM.
05-31-2021 at 03:29 PM.
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You don't like the bucket brigade circuit of the VD 400? What does wet noodle mean?

Opposite experience from what my friends and I had. We though Behringer sucked, we tried their analog delay and thought it was great.... sounded good with analog synths too.

Now I have their fuzz, a drive pedal and the delay pedal as knock around stuff to keep in the gig bag. Behringer seems worth the money to me.
A wet noodle is the sound of fettuccine 6 minutes of boiling past al dente!

Seriously though, what sounds great into one rig might sound awful in another rig. Plus, I'm kinda spoiled about delays because I've got a Helix, and before that had a Digitech GSP2101 and both have some really crystal clear delays and echo settings. Just so you know I'm not a total delay snob, I have been using a super cheapie "Mighty Sound" M5 OEM Chinese Delay I got at guitar center for a dozen bucks used. It is just a perfect repeat with echo, feedback, and time controls. It isn't bad, but all it does is to repeat the sound flawlessly, and to me that's kinda what I want.
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05-31-2021 at 06:00 PM.
05-31-2021 at 06:00 PM.
Quote from LesCaster :
Fascinating. You've basically tried to reduce JHS to that of Behringer. ??

I do NOT work for JHS, and I'm in NO way affiliated with them. I play guitar. I like gear. I really like high quality gear and vintage sounds. Mike Fuller (fulltone), Brian Wampler (wampler pedals), Josh Scott (jhs pedals), they all make great stuff and they -- and many others like them -- respect each other's work, support each other, and speak highly of one another. And, they ALL make pedals based on classic circuits with their own tweaks/mods. They, and many other pedal makers and professional musicians seem to be at odds with your manufactured narrative. Why is that?

Sorry, had to point that out for those that might otherwise buy into the hate-hype.

Peace!
Probably because he's right? I've found this having bought into a lot of hype in the past. I ended up building a lot of pedals and now find the mark up ridiculous! I'm not sure about this budget line, probably made in China. Amazon has a bunch of garbage clone type pedals for cheap and Berinnger are the kings of cheap clones, so good their stuff is pricey now. I'm all for any gear post tho, but Go play one, see if it's hype or not. BTW, Hate hype is not any worse than gear hype
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05-31-2021 at 06:07 PM.
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LOL, guess we found out who Josh bullied in high school

Most pedal company sell pedal styles people are familiar with. All sell a mid boosted green od pedal, etc. You just have to add a knob and then you have the most transparent mid humped scooped tube like marshallesqe pedal ever
ha ha, Josh looks like the kind of guy that was beat by younger girls in school, I'd bet money that he pees sitting down and has a soy latte at least twice a week.
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05-31-2021 at 09:18 PM.
05-31-2021 at 09:18 PM.
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ha ha, Josh looks like the kind of guy that was beat by younger girls in school, I'd bet money that he pees sitting down and has a soy latte at least twice a week.

I'm sure he's overly concerned what you think of him.
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06-01-2021 at 10:31 AM.
06-01-2021 at 10:31 AM.
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Probably because he's right? I've found this having bought into a lot of hype in the past. I ended up building a lot of pedals and now find the mark up ridiculous! I'm not sure about this budget line, probably made in China. Amazon has a bunch of garbage clone type pedals for cheap and Berinnger are the kings of cheap clones, so good their stuff is pricey now. I'm all for any gear post tho, but Go play one, see if it's hype or not. BTW, Hate hype is not any worse than gear hype
So, furthering my point, you said "I'm not sure about this budget line, probably made in China". It is, in fact, made in the USA like other JHS pedals. Thank you for participating! So, the 'ridiculous markup' is what's paying for those wages and benefits to the employees that make them, not just the parts.
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06-01-2021 at 10:38 AM.
06-01-2021 at 10:38 AM.
JHS are basically boutique Behringer pedals with mods. There are a ton of clones on the market right now of pretty much everything so you may as well save a few bucks and buy those.
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