Description

When Transparent Overdrive Isn’t Good Enough
JHS took their most legendary overdrive to a new level and redefined what it means to be transparent. Clearer pick attack, improved low end, and more versatile gain stacking. This is the ultimate first stage overdrive pedal.
The problem with transparent.
When you add overdrive with any type of clipping you lose nuance, pick attack gets compressed, dynamics narrow and all overdrives shape frequency response, even the most transparent.
So JHS tried something no one’s done: they took their Morning Glory (a Blues breaker style topology) and completely rebuilt it around a studio grade parallel clean blend. Not just a modification, a redesign from the ground up.
On paper, it seemed point less – why blend a clean signal into something already transparent? Here’s why. The Morning Glory’s magic happens when you turn up the Drive, the circuit boosts higher harmonics and adds soft compression. Jangly. Perfect in a mix. The parallel clean circuit lets you keep all that while dialing the natural low end back in – all the tone, all the character. Nothing compromised.
It goes on everything.
Stack a distortion in front and the sustain opens up instead of closing off. Run it after delay for new territories of series/parallel textures. First-stage overdrive? This is the best JHS ever built. Period. It breathes in front of amp modelers too. The overdrive and presence of the classic Morning Glory, with your attack and low end content dialed back in – magic in front of a Kemper, Quad Cortex, UAD, or Helix.
Bass players: the original Morning Glory rolls off low end just like a final mix. That’s why you love it – that’s why it’s become a standard on so many pro bassists’ boards. The clean blend dials that low end back on command for your different bass and amplifier needs. This might be the best bass overdrive JHS ever made.

Specifications

– +9V Dual Supply (massive headroom)
– Top mounted jacks
– 9V DC Center Negative
– Silent Buffered Bypass Switching