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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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“Over the span of several years of wrestling with that dynamic, I had an epiphany”: JHS Pedals’ Josh Scott on how IKEA inspired him to create a DIY Klon clone that took the internet by storm

Last year, the budget-friendly Notaklön turned heads – and made fans (and foes) along the way...

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“He knew I wasn’t able to film. He knew I was in a lot of pain”: Josh Scott on how John Mayer ended up demoing JHS Pedals’ new Mk.gee-coded pedal – following the firm founder’s serious biking injury

Scott reveals how Mayer’s surprise demo video – in which he spoke of an ongoing revolution in guitar playing – came about

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“There is a revolution taking place right now in guitar playing”: John Mayer posts surprise demo of JHS Pedals’ new Mk.gee-coded stompbox – and explains why it reflects a wider change in guitar music

Mayer – who has demoed the pedal while Josh Scott recovers from a serious bike accident – says the 424 Gain Stage has forced him to explore new ways of playing

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“Broken vertebrae, knee/shoulder damage and 29 face stitches”: JHS Pedals founder Josh Scott recovering after suffering serious cycling accident

The pedal specialist will be taking time away from his firm's YouTube channel while he recovers

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“This Mk.gee thing came along. It’s really new and fresh and different”: JHS Pedals has put Mk.gee’s beloved Tascam 424 multi-track tones into a pedal – as it finally unveils its mystery stompbox

After much speculation, JHS has finally unveiled the 424 Gain Stage – a preamp pedal based on the cult classic Tascam Portastudio beloved by Mk.gee

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“Listings are getting taken down everywhere, so grab it before it disappears”: $2,000 for a $69 Klon clone? Some people are selling Behringer’s "Lawsuit" era Centaur Overdrive for crazy money online

Have we reached peak crazy in the guitar effects pedal market?

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“I realized I made a huge mistake”: JHS Pedals’ Notadümblë has been discontinued after two weeks – because it was accidentally fitted with an even rarer Dumble circuit

The DIY pedal was accidentally fitted with an alternative Dumble-style circuit – but a ‘fixed’ version is already in production

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“Save yourself a few hundred thousand dollars and experience the magic for yourself”: JHS Pedals has unveiled its latest DIY pedal kit – a $119 Dumble-style overdrive partly inspired by a one-off John Mayer stompbox

With easy instructions and no soldering required, the Notadümblë adds to the firm's ‘build your own pedal’ family – and offers two tonal flavors from one of the world’s most sought-after amp brands

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“Surely the most versatile version yet, putting different flavours of gourmet crunch on the menu”: DOD 250 Overdrive/Preamp 50th Anniversary review

A stone-cold pedalboard classic celebrates 50 trips round the sun with a collectable edition that reminds us what the fuss is about

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“From January 2024 to now, we sold 334 units. I went after it, but it plummeted”: Why JHS Pedals is discontinuing Ross Pedals – just over a year after resurrecting the legacy brand

In his announcement, Josh Scott revealed that starting on Friday, November 15, he'd be selling the remaining Ross units – which were revived against the backdrop of much fanfare last year – for $79 apiece

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“It's different to anything we’ve ever made”: JHS Pedals launches Lari Basilio’s first-ever signature stompbox – and it offers “a new take on distortion and overdrive”

Basilio has been using a prototype of The Violet on almost everything she's played since mid-2022 – and now the core of her celebrated guitar tone has been given a signature release

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“In a world full of complex effects, we worked hard to bring you the opposite”: JHS Pedals’ Flight Delay bucks the trend of ultra-complicated pedals by delivering 3 iconic delays in a frills-free form factor

Delays inspired by classic EHX, Boss and Line 6 units have been crammed into the easy-to-use stompbox, which promises to give you “easy access to sounds almost immediately”

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“I heard that the CEO, Uli Behringer, lost sleep over that episode. He could not comprehend why a pedal company would tell you to buy other people's stuff”: JHS Pedals’ Josh Scott on praising his rivals and seeing his stomps being used by the stars

“I've still never met Noel - probably don't want to - but Radiohead, they're sweet guys”

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“You have to be secure in yourself. I'm not intimidated to tell you to buy a Keeley pedal. If that tears my business apart, then my business sucks”: How Josh Scott built one of the world’s leading pedal firms by recommending his rivals

The JHS founder has become the internet’s go-to pedal guru. He tells GW about his pre-pedal days as a pawn-shop gear flipper, the Bad Monkey bubble – and the key to finding genuinely new guitar sounds

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“This all-original distortion circuit is a home run for fans of ’90s guitar tones”: JHS Hard Drive review

Josh Scott’s tribute to ’90s guitar tones brings us gain and lots of it, in a versatile stompbox that has Mesa/Marshall vibes, grungy grit, and EQ’ing options for those who like it scooped

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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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“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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“Strong choices with the advantage of dual modes”: Ross Pedals review

A long-lost US pedal brand makes a comeback under Josh Scott at JHS Pedals – we take a look at the Phaser, Fuzz, Compressor, Distortion and Chorus

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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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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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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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“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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