As one of today's leading pedal companies, JHS has often created its own takes on classic circuitry: like the Colour Box, which packs the direct-to-console tones of a Neve recording console into a pedal, or the Bonsai, which places nine Tube Screamer–style overdrives in one unit.
For JHS' brand-new Legends of Fuzz Series, the company is tackling four vintage fuzzes at once.
The new lineup of old favorites is "is our tribute to the most important fuzz circuits ever made. It is our way of ensuring that the stories of these effects live on in the music that you are going to make," Josh Scott says.
They include:
- Bender, modeled after a 1973 MK3 Silver/Orange Tonebender.
- Crimson, modeled after the Mike Matthews Red Army Overdrive (which, despite its name, is a fuzz pedal).
- Smiley, modeled after early silicon-transistor Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Faces.
- Supreme, modeled after a '72 Univox Super-Fuzz.
Watch our video above to hear Andy Martin test JHS' new clones against the original inspirations.
Find them all on Reverb.