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Limelight is a dual channel overdrive developed in collaboration with LA-based punk band Touche Amore. The distinctive bright, clear tones of guitarists Nick Steinhardt and Clayton Stevens form the foundation of TA’s impassioned brand of post-hardcore, letting their riffs morph effortlessly between serene clean passages and cacophonous blast beats. This pedal was originally developed to commemorate the release of their 2020 LP, Lament, but since earned its place in a wide variety of guitar rigs spanning genres. In preparation for the recording of Lament, we worked with Nick and Clayton to create a new op amp overdrive with equal parts aggression and chime. While loosely based in the “breaker” lineage, we made significant changes to the circuit for superior articulation and a much wider range of gain. An independent front-end boost rounds out the package, perfect for adding power to clean tones or pushing the overdrive side into heavy distortion. While the primary goal was to help the band sound like their best selves, Limelight has a tone for everyone.

Ledges is a compact, three-mode reverb with the ability to save and recall six presets and user-assignable expression control with loads of customizable options. If you’re craving that warm, lush reverb tone from the players and songs you love, then this is your pedal. If you want to push the limits and take it further to sonic reaches that only you can uncover, then this is also your pedal. It’s everything you’ve ever wanted and needed out of a reverb. We created Ledges for no-nonsense musicians who need access to a wide variety of fantastic sounds and don’t want to mess with menu diving, extra footswitches, or midi controllers. Ledges offers three distinct, rich reverbs that cover all your bases - Room, Hall and the almost infinitely regenerating Plate - with user assignable expression control and six presets to easily switch between settings. Presets can even save expression pedal assignments, making it easier than ever to save and switch between the 6 best reverb sounds that are yours and yours alone.

  MODERN DISTORTION The JHS Hard Drive is the first attempt in our company’s fifteen-year history at a full-blown and respectable modern distortion pedal that is not based on a previous circuit or classic topology. In 2016, Josh had the idea to develop a circuit that covered the best high-gain distortion tones of the ’90s and 2000s, a sound that embodied the post-grunge alternative rock movement. We started by looking at pedals, then amps, and after exploring the typical paths of circuitry, we took a sharp turn and started from scratch. Eight years later, the pedal is finished and ready to take you to the next level. The Hard Drive goes harder and further than any gain or distortion we’ve released so far. A FRESH APPROACH A fresh approach to achieving high gain distortion in a pedal format, the Hard Drive includes cascaded gain stages and a hard limiting circuit, followed by a class AB amplifier section that drives a “sweepable midrange” EQ and Baxandall bass and treble controls. With its generous external controls, the Hard Drive lets you dial in everything from grinding tube amp crunch to a bona fide wall of distortion that can easily cut through any stage or studio mix. HONORING CLIFF SMITH The Hard Drive holds a special place in JHS history as the final design work of our former head engineer, Cliff Smith. The prototype and design had been finalized just weeks before he passed away in 2021. “I don't know that there's ever been a JHS circuit where we experimented more. It was always a loose and casual approach to getting this right. I knew something great would come of it, so we just let it simmer…Cliff would call the Hard Drive circuit a mutt, and I agree– meaning this circuit is not a clone of anything in particular but rather an original iteration of tons of different inspirations and ideas, kind of like the Colour Box that he and I developed years earlier. I have vivid memories of Cliff spending entire weekends and nights tinkering and experimenting with this circuit. He would message me notes on the weekend when he got excited about something he stumbled into. This pedal was his hobby for a long time. He truly loved big, complicated gain staging and the challenge of making solid state circuitry respond like a valve amp. As a passion project that became a real product through Cliff’s consistent work, I can’t think of a more fitting last release from us as a design team than the Hard Drive. Cliff loved learning and this was his last masterclass. It’s an honor to finally put it out and let people enjoy the idea he brought to life.” - Josh Scott CONTROLS Volume - Controls the overall volume of the pedal. Left is less, right is more. Mid Freq - Controls which mid frequencies are boosted or scooped by the Mid control. Drive (Distortion) - Controls the amount of drive (distortion). Left is less, right is more. Bass - Controls the bass frequencies level. Noon is flat, left is cut, right is boosted. Middle - Controls the mid frequencies level. Noon is flat, left is scooped, right is boosted. The frequency range is set by the Mid Freq control. Treble - Controls the treble frequencies level. Noon is flat, left is cut, right is boosted. Silent soft touch switching with a buffered bypass. THIS PEDAL REQUIRES STANDARD 9V DC CENTER NEGATIVE POWER, CONSUMES 78mA, AND MEASURES 2.6" X 4.8" X 1.6".   

  Caroline Guitar's "ARIGATO" neither seeks to recapture the sounds of the past, nor to be state of the art. It is a snapshot of a future we were promised as children. While capable of the airy psychedelia of classic units, this one is meant to rumble, wobble, shake, rattle, and roar. It is also capable of going fully wet for interesting vibrato sounds, max out feedback for auto wah style filter sweeps, and a wide range of responsive shades throughout each control as they interact with the others. We’re pretty excited about this release; the first pedal Philippe ever owned was a phaser, and getting to make this feels like a homecoming. Your pedal was dreamed, designed and created at our small batch distortery™ in Columbia, S.C. Thank you for supporting our work, and putting it to good use for yours.Designer’s notes: if you and your customers have enjoyed our SOMERSAULT™ lo-fi modulator, then I think you’ll really enjoy ARIGATO. It’s built on a similar framework: an analog LFO that can do some wild stuff and push things beyond their boundaries, a mix control that can go 100% wet, and a havoc control that is all gas, no brakes. It’s an OTA based analog phaser but with a couple twists – the mode switch changes the capacitors and filter notches to more closely resemble a classic vibe pedal, giving the sweep a bit of an off-balance feel. The bypass on ARIGATO can also be a momentary bypass for instant phasing “hits” and releases. And the square wave, like the Somersault’s, can push the phasing into audible pumps and overload things. We could have tamed it for noise purposes, but we didn’t want to lose the fun. With this pedal we recommend starting with everything at 12:00 – “true north” as we’re fond of calling it – and then adjusting from there to discover how each control interacts with the others.

Roaring like a British Lion from Wembley to the Sunset Strip, the Jubilee is ready to melt faces.  Sure, it can do subtle but that's no fun.  Crank it up and rock out.   Controls: Loudness:  Controls the output level of the pedal. Drive:  Adjusts the gain and distortion of the pedal. Treble / Middle / Bass:  Passive three-band tone stack, voiced like a British amplifier.    Power Supply: The Jubilee requires a DC power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative.  The Jubilee will operate on power supply voltages up to 18V and does not use a battery.  The Jubilee should work fine on a multi-pedal "daisy chain" connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply.

Forget-Me-Not is a lot of things. It can be an echo, or a reverb unit. It can sound gorgeous, or incredibly broken. It can make you remember, or cause you to forget everything .Forget-Me-Not is a digital echo unit based on a fairly rare piece of rack gear. The original was designed as a reverberation unit but the implementation was a bit idiosyncratic, so the result ended up somewhere between reverb and delay. We’ve leaned into the differences between this unique approach and a modern delay / reverb unit to create something that has one foot in each world. From the designer: Forget-Me-Not is a bit of a departure for us. No menus, no display, just lots of knobs and switches. This allows you to get your hands on everything in the pedal and focus on creating. Don’t worry, we still have MIDI, presets, expression pedal support, and all of the other modern conveniences! But we wanted to give you something that makes you feel inspired. We hope this pedal makes you as happy to play as it was for us to build.— Matthew Farrow Buffered bypass with fading or forever trails Feedback Swell by holding the Tap footswitch No menus or secondary controls - everything is accessible from the face of the pedal Mono or stereo input via TRS, supports input summing MultiJack allows expression pedal, tap tempo, or MIDI input via TRS Full MIDI support - every control is accessible via MIDI over TRS or USB Digital Multi-Head Delay Line Up to 900ms of delay time Four delay taps with individual output level controls Adjustable modulation engine with sine, square, random waveforms Tap tempo with quarter, dotted 8th, 8th divisions Four instant presets, WYSIWYG / live mode, and 32 total presets via MIDi Mono or stereo input (TRS) Mono or stereo output (use either TRS or dual TS) Input Impedance: 1M ohms Output Impedance: 560 ohms DC 9V only, 250mA or greater Requires isolated DC power supply 5.72” x 4.7” x 1.6” H x W x D not including knobs(145 x 120 x 42mm)  

  DIGITAL REVERB CUSTOM MINI-PEDAL WITH UP TO 6 SECONDS OF REVERBERATION TIME INCLUDES AN IGOR PRESSURE PAD CONTROLLER FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL! BLEND IN ANY AMOUNT OF DISTORTED REVERB FOR SMOULDERING ATMOSPHERICS… AMAZING ‘EDITED GUITAR SAMPLE’ SIMULATION! BRIGHT AND IMMEDIATE SPARKLE-VERB, OR DARK AND BROODING PRE-DELAYED AMBIENCE EFFECTS ‘SEND’ FUNCTION ALLOWS SOUNDS TO REVERB AWAY WHILE YOU CARRY ON PLAYING DRY DOES CLEAN BRIGHT REVERB, ‘LIVE BOOTLEG’ REVERB, 80’S GATED REVERB, SPACEROCK OVERLOAD REVERB… BUILT-IN NOISE GATE KEEPS UNWANTED HUMS AND BUZZES TO A MINIMUM INPUT CONTROL AND INDICATOR FOR OPTIMUM SIGNAL-TO-NOISE DEEPLY COOL RAINGER FX CUSTOM MINI-PEDAL STEEL ENCLOSURE