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“I had confused the two similar circuits and made a horrible mistake. I made a video. I told everyone”: JHS Pedals unveils the Fumble – an $89 boost pedal with a seriously complicated back story involving John Mayer, Dumble amps and a ‘70s acoustic preamp

The Fumble is a two-knob clean boost with a compact housing and lots of pedalboard uses. It might be easy to use, but how it got here is a little more difficult to explain

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“A strange and weird anomaly that stands apart not only from most known octave fuzz designs, but also from fuzzes full stop”: JHS Coyote review

A fascinating lost octave fuzz gets a reissue

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“The ultimate pedal demo guitar”: You’ve seen it in the JHS Pedals demos – now you can get a signature version of Josh Scott’s custom Bilt Relevator

The first 100 models sold out in 15 minutes but more are on their way

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Meet the $99 stompbox that’ll crush your bits – JHS expands its affordable 3 Series with three exotic effects for your pedalboard

JHS Pedals unveils a ring modulator, glitch delay and bit crusher that's priced for beginners, because an affordable pedal can be fun and a little weird too

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“Pedal history is in danger. ChatGPT is rewriting fact”: Josh Scott of JHS Pedals interrogated AI on the pedal industry – and what he found should alarm us all

Misinformation, feedback loops, and a lack of detailed sources sit at the root of the problem, he says

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“I told myself I’d stop buying JHS Pedals gear. At this rate, my pedalboard is going to look like a shrine to the company”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including the most outrageous Ibanez I think I’ve ever seen

Feast your eyes on all the weird and wonderful guitar gear that dropped this week, with new releases from Strymon, Ibanez, Catalinbread, and more

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“Way more rare than a Klon”: JHS Pedals pays tribute to mysterious pedal builder with the Coyote – a new fuzz based on one of the rarest pedals of all time

The three-in-one fuzz is based on G.S. Wyllie’s Moonrock – and it took Josh Scott six years to find one

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“There’s plenty of output to use the pedal as a conventional boost with tonal options. And there’s a whole area of dirt to be explored”: JHS Pedals 424 Gain Stage review

The latest from JHS Pedals captures the sound of plugging your guitar into the input stages of a vintage multi-track recorder, aka, the mk.gee approach

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“It offers the holy grail amp sounds beloved by John Mayer, SRV, and more for just $150. A must-try for Dumble fans”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the angriest fuzz pedal you will ever come across

Plenty of new pedals, amps and more from the likes of Epiphone, IK Multimedia, Fender, Laney, Mesa/Boogie and beyond...

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“It’s about time this unsung guitar great received the recognition he deserves”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a firm-first from my favorite pedal brand

New drops from Gibson, Ernie Ball Music Man, JHS Pedals and more

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“I wanted to take old garbage octaves from our past and make my version”: JHS Pedals’ first-ever octaver is imperfect and unpredictable – and that’s the whole point

The all-analog stompbox draws from octaves of old for a purposefully imperfect pedal that puts up a fight

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“We were packing up, then all of a sudden he goes, ‘Have you been down to the basement?’” The iconic EHX Holy Grail has been championed by Jim Root and John Frusciante – and now the lost prototype has been found

The classic reverb pedal can be found on pedalboards the world over, but JHS Pedals' Josh Scott has tracked down the first one

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“This is the best we’ve ever built. Period”: JHS Pedals says it has just made the ultimate first-stage overdrive pedal – and the inspiration came from a bona fide jazz legend

Josh Scott says witnessing a soundcheck gave him the idea of the Morning Glory Clean – which reimagines the world-beating transparent overdrive

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“I could never play a Strat – with Stevie Ray Vaughan being my first influence, every time I play one it’s like I’m 13 again, hacking through Pride And Joy”: Joanne Shaw Taylor on how the blues helped her find her voice, and why she'll always choose Teles

Having embarked on a journey from classical guitar to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins, Taylor is determined to keep the blues alive... until she can open that dog shelter

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“You don’t really see that a lot with competitors in other industries – throwing parties together, doing joint releases, supporting each other online”: The boutique pedal explosion and what comes next in this golden age of guitar effects

Jamie Stillman of EarthQuaker Devices gives GW a pulse check on the trends affecting what we see on our pedalboards

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Reverb has unveiled the bestselling pedals of 2025 – and ’80s tone nostalgia rules supreme

Last year’s winner falls to fourth, while there’s a surprise victor among the most popular used pedals

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“It’s taken its time, but finally one of rock music’s most iconic instruments has been launched as a signature run”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a follow-up to the internet-breaking Bad Monkey story

It's pedal mania this week, with new drops from Strymon, JHS Pedals, and DigiTech – but a long-awaited replica of Tom Morello's legendary Rage Against the Machine guitar steals the spotlight

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“We found it. We built it”: A forgotten design for the Big Muff 2 spent 50 years buried in dust – now JHS Pedals and Electro-Harmonix have unearthed it and turned it into a reality

During a research trip for his new book, Josh Scott stumbled upon a never-before-seen circuit drawing that offered an alternate take on the Op-Amp Big Muff concept

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“This unreleased circuit, hidden for decades, represents an alternate, previously unknown branch of Big Muff development”: Electro-Harmonix and JHS Pedals team up to release a “lost” Big Muff

While researching a book on the history of EHX, Josh Scott found a 50-year-old schematic from Big Muff inventor Bob Myer. He took it to the breadboard and now it's here... The Big Muff 2

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“Time to add a 5th JHS pedal to my rig? With 25% off this just-launched distortion, it’s hard to resist”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the unmissable Black Friday gear discounts I’m eyeing up

The Kilt celebrates its 10th birthday, Fractal goes up against IK Multimedia and Line 6, and Tom DeLonge reaches for the stars (literally)

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“It’s like a playground. There are so many things you can do with this”: JHS Pedals retools one of its most underrated distortion pedals for its 10th anniversary

The JHS Kilt 10 arrives with an updated clipping circuit, higher headroom, and more nuance than ever before

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In 2015, JHS Pedals released what it called the “ultimate dirt pedal” – now it has made it better with a revised circuit featuring a heap of player-requested features and more headroom

What’s up yet Kilt? On JHS Pedals’ 10th anniversary limited edition, it’s a whole lotta mods to make it even more versatile, and amp and mix friendly

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“Jacob Collier’s 5-string guitar revolution is here to stay”: All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – and the new launches you might have missed

Johnny Marr's latest reinvention of the Fender Jaguar, another pedal inspired by Mk.gee's oddball rig choices, the ultimate evolution of the Tube Screamer and so much more...

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“It’s a pedal that’s never existed before, no doubt about it”: Jack White’s Third Man Hardware and JHS Pedals have released a ‘horse-powered’ delay pedal – and it was all over White’s most recent album

The Troika Delay is a reimagining of a rare Japanese boutique pedal that Josh Scott never knew existed

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“It irritated a few people! I saw a couple of other pedal builders who seemed to be annoyed by how toy-like and fun it was”: Josh Scott on the Notaklön’s wild success, recovering from his mountain bike crash – and his gratitude to John Mayer

As he recovers from mountain biking injuries, Scott recalls how the NotaKlon irritated other pedal makers, how he underestimated success, the 424 gain stage and what’s coming once he’s fully recovered

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