3 Series Pedals
Rich tone. Boutique quality. But the simplicity—and price—of your favorite old standbys. This is the 3 Series by JHS.
Harmonic Trem
- Like the circuit in earliest Fender amps
- "Harmonic trem" setting has phaser-like effect
- Toggle switch for standard trem too
Screamer
- JHS' TS9 "Strong Mod" in one pedal
- More headroom than an original
- Versatile tone and drive controls
- 9V DC, 12mA draw
Compressor
- Smooth your tone or squash it to oblivion
- Attack knob lets you choose the speed of compression's onset
- Sustain knob lets you dial in the length of compression
- Bright toggle switch lets you choose between normal and bright EQ
Overdrive
- Purring, amp-like overdrive tones
- Body knob is an EQ, letting you choose the frequencies treated
- Drive sweeps from subtle to saturated
- Gain toggle allows for more or less saturation
Delay
- Tape echo–like slapback or pad-like ambiance
- Time knob lets you choose between 80ms to 800ms of delay time
- Repeats knob controls the amount of repeated signal
- Type toggle offers crisper digital-voiced delay or warmer analog-voiced
Distortion
- Medium-gain to high-gain, fuzz-like tones
- Filter knob chokes or opens up your signal
- Distort knob controls level of distortion (though you probably guessed that)
- Gain toggle lets you switch between more-compressed or more-open distortion
Reverb
- Small room echoes to large swaths of ambiance
- EQ knob lets you choose between bright and dark reverb tone
- Decay knob sweeps from short reverberations to cavernous tones
- Pre-Delay toggle lets you introduce a short delay before reverb begins, to keep original signal clear
Fuzz
- Versatile range of fuzz sounds that can be tamed or let wild
- Bias knob introduces more or less of a gated effect
- Fuzz knob offers a full range of usable amounts of fuzz
- Fat toggle switch lets you turn on a bass boost
Chorus
- Your choice of chorus and vibrato sounds
- Rate knob goes from slow to super-quick modulation
- Depth knob offers subtle to extreme effect
- Vibe toggle gives you just the pitched signal, offering a true vibrato