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“I don’t know that there’s ever been a JHS circuit where we experimented more”: JHS Pedals unveils Hard Drive distortion pedal after eight years of high-gain R&D

The Hard Drive is described as “the heaviest pedal” the Kansas stompbox brand has ever released, and it honours JHS's late head engineer, Cliff Smith, who died in 2021

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“Our contribution to a 90-year-old tradition of breaking the sound of the guitar”: JHS unveils its first-ever original distortion pedal, the Hard Drive

The new unit is not a clone of any previous pedal, but offers a huge variety of recognizable modern distortion tones

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“The Beach Boys are massively important in the evolution of guitar sound”: Josh Scott, Robert Keeley and Chris Benson have built exclusive effects units inspired by the Beach Boys’ studio tones

The Sweetwater-exclusive line sees some of the biggest names in pedals attempt to recreate the Beach Boys' most iconic studio sounds

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“This will take your tone straight back to the days when Good Vibrations and Fun, Fun, Fun ruled the airwaves!”: Sweetwater teams up with JHS Pedals, Benson Amps and Keeley Electronics for The Beach Boys Studio Effects Collection

Released to coincide with upcoming Disney+ Beach Boys doc, the range includes chorus/vibrato, a full bass rig, 12-string and rotary speaker sims, and a tube-driven spring reverb/tremolo

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“One of the most affordable Klon clones out there, and easily the most entertaining”: JHS Pedals Notaklön review

Every pedal brand under the sun seems to have its own take on the Klon Centaur, but JHS Pedals has put a unique twist on the drive. This one you, the player, build yourself

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Bored of your 'board? Stomp this way for the must-have new guitar effects pedals of 2024

GEAR EXPO 2024: The pedals you need to try this year, from psychedelic to out-of-this-world

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“You achieved more in one lifetime than most people could achieve in ten”: Renowned 12-string guitarist and vintage guitar expert Paul Brett dies at 76

The blues historian, who worked on over 20 signature guitars with Vintage, has passed away after a coronary illness

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“A lot of the pedals I use are to make guitars sound less like guitars”: Travis Johnson reveals the PS-3 secrets behind Activity’s sound, and what’s next for Trap Door Electronics

An alumni of Death By Audio, Travis Johnson is taking guitar sounds into uncharted territory with his band and his boutique pedal firm, Trap Door

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NAMM 2024: “The chance to succeed at building a classic sounding fuzz pedal”: Jack White’s Third Man Hardware just hopped on the DIY pedal train with the Fuzz-a-Tron – and it’s even cheaper than the JHS Notaklön

White makes a strong play for conquering the DIY pedal market with the new $75 kit, bringing serious competition to the likes of Catalinbread and JHS Pedals

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JHS Pedals simply can’t make enough of its $99 DIY Notaklöns to keep up with demand, but I managed to get my hands on one – does the Klon clone live up to the outrageous hype?

The humble IKEA-style stompbox took the guitar world by storm upon its relentless roll-out, and now there's a waiting list to get one. Is this just another DIY novelty pedal, or genuinely something special?

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There’s no beating the Boss: Reverb reveals its best-selling guitar pedals of 2023

From an orange classic to Josh Scott’s fake-it-til-they-make-it hit, here are the stompboxes that shifted over the last year

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“A dirt device that covers all the gain bases”: Catalinbread sees the JHS Pedals Notaklön and raises the Knight School Overdrive – an $85 DIY pedal kit based on a timeless circuit favored by Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayer and Paul Gilbert

The $85 kit can come ready for assembly or readymade for your pedalboard, and harks back to an early overdrive circuit that has been tweaked by EHX, Way Huge and many more

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"We severely underestimated your response to this product" – JHS planned to make 3,000 NOTAKLÖN pedals to sell at launch, a week later it has sold 12,000 of them. But why?

The appeal is strong with this one

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“No-one has made a Klon like this”: Don’t fancy spending $10,000 on a real Klon Centaur? Not to worry – the new JHS Pedals Notaklön lets you build your own for $99

Solderless construction, an added Shamrock tone mod, and it's only $99?! Shut up and take our money

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JHS channels IKEA to create the $99 NOTAKLÖN klone flatpacked pedal

You put it together yourself and it doesn't require soldering – it's already sold 3,000 pedals

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“I have a Danelectro ’84 Strat copy worth $400 – it’s one of my main guitars, right up there with the $10k Custom Shop SG”: He’s one of the guitar world’s biggest YouTubers. Now Tyler Larson is turning his gear habit into electrifying instrumental rock

Inspired by Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Radiohead, the debut album from the Music is Win mastermind brings his formidable demo chops to full-blown compositions. He explains why anyone can make it as a YouTuber, the elusive formula that makes certain gear so sought-after and whether the Klon Centaur is…

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Black Friday guitar pedal deals 2024: We round up the very best Black Friday stompbox deals still live right now

Your place for all the greatest Black Friday deals on guitar pedals, pedalboards, power supplies and more

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“It's not a replica or a clone. It’s the actual thing”: JHS Pedals revives influential gear brand Ross Electronics – and recruits John Mayer, Brian Wampler and Robert Keeley for new documentary

A 30-minute film has been released to chart the history and revival of the cult classic company, which is back with five new stompboxes

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JHS Pedals resurrects the Ross Electronics brand and relaunches it with five new pedals – and a documentary

The Ross Chorus, Compressor, Distortion, Fuzz and Phaser are based on classic designs and each share a simple two-knob setup and switchable modes

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Electro-Harmonix Lizard Queen review

The pedal that Electro-Harmonix could have made in the 1970s (but didn’t) is now here with some help from JHS Pedals

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"This may be his best drive" – Bad Monkey champion and JHS founder Josh Scott is blown away by Brian Wampler's new $99 overdrive and distortion pedals

A salute to the new Triumph and Phenom

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“This is huge”: Josh Scott says this new $99 drive pedal is “better than the Bad Monkey”

Monkey see, Monkey do: the JHS man invokes the most powerful name in pedal land – and, yes, we have absolutely taken the bait

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Jalen Hood-Schifino says he grew up a fan of Kobe Bryant

Jalen Hood-Schifino, the first player the Lakers took in Thursday's draft, says he's always been a fan the late Kobe Bryant.

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Josh Scott of JHS Pedals recommends four cheap overdrive pedals so you don’t have to freak out about the Bad Monkey anymore

Just don't go blaming him should any of these hitherto slept-on drive pedals rise in price

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All hail the Lizard Queen! Josh Scott's vision of a '70s Electro-Harmonix octave fuzz pedal has become a reality for us all

A nano-sized pedal that's the result of a collaboration between EHX and the uber-fan / JHS Pedals founder

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