The JHS Pedals Flight Delay was made with one goal in mind: to be everything you need in a delay and nothing you don’t. In a world full of complex effects pedals, we worked hard to bring you the opposite - a beautifully simple stompbox that combines the most essential delay types with the features that matter. With three modes (Analog, Reverse, and Digital) inspired by my all-time favorite delays - EHX Memory Man, Boss DD-5, and Line 6 DL4 “Reverse Mode” - the Flight Delay is familiar, inspiring, and versatile enough for players in any genre. If you are tired of delay pedals that require frustrating menu diving to find the sound you want, endless scrolling on option screens, and complicated user interfaces, look no further! 

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In 1966 the electric guitar was still in its infancy. As early as the mid-1940's guitarist had discovered the magic of turning up their valve amplifiers to create overdrive and distortion, but this sound was a very new frontier. In 1962 we saw the first mass-produced fuzz box in the Maestro Fuzz-Tone as well as the second-ever in 1965 by Sola Sound, the Tonebender. These fuzz boxes produced massive amounts of distortion and fuzz within themselves, even if your amp's tone was clean. In 1966 a company called Dallas Musical LTD who was known for producing amplifiers and guitars released something different, a first of its kind. The name of this effect was the Rangemaster Treble Booster. It wasn't a pedal but a stand-alone box with no footswitch that sat on your amplifier. The Rangemaster is similar in design to what we consider a fuzz to be, but the sound is not. In 1966, English manufactured amplifiers such as Vox and Marshall were much darker than the American made Fenders. This new effect unit allowed you to boost the middle and high-frequency range of your guitar into these darker amps so that you could achieve a brighter and more aggressive tone that would cut through a band mix. It also gave the guitarist a powerful amount of boost/volume that could push the preamp valves into beautifully overdriven and distorted tones. This circuit gave us some of the most beloved tones in guitar history as players like Rory Gallagher, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Marc Bolan, and Billy Gibbons made it their secret weapon. As with most classic fuzz pedals, it loves a dirty amp or overdrive afterward in the signal path. Staying true to the original, I used high-grade carbon composition resistors, oversized capacitors, and a single germanium transistor that I hand-selected. 

Each small batch of Boosts will use different transistors as it is challenging to find reliable sources of these devices in large quantities. The circuit uses vintage positive ground voltage, so do not daisy chain your power with other pedals. Inside the pedal is a battery snap or use any isolated power supply with a normal polarity power cable like your other pedals as I have wired it internally to work that way. The Boost is identical to the original except that I adjusted the taper of the pot to feel more intuitive. I also added a single power supply filter capacitor to help with noise and pull-down resistance to relieve switch pop. The switching is true-bypass. Each pedal in this batch is built-in identical form, but because of parts tolerances and the slight variance in the transistors, they will all be a bit different while still being the same. Be sure to always have this pedal first in your signal chain; the guitar must be plugged into its input due to the impedance it requires on its input, no exceptions.

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Simpel, solide und nützlich. Der JHS Mute Switch ist genau der einfache Stummschalter den du schon immer gebraucht hast. Tritt drauf und alles, was du daran anschließt ist sofort 100 % still!

Simple, solid and very useful. Have you ever needed a simple mute switch with no frills? Just hit the footswitch and anything plugged into the input is made 100% silent.

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Mit dem JHS Pedals Summing Amp habst du die Möglichkeit, zwei Eingangssignale in einem Ausgangssignal zu mischen. Dies ist ideal, um Effekte parallel zu betreiben, so dass sie nicht voneinander beeinflusst werden. The Edge verwendete diese Technik beispielsweise in den 80er Jahren mit seinen Delays. Wenn du ein Viertel-Delay und ein Punktierte-Achtel Delay hast und beide gleichzeitig benutzen möchtest, kannst du sie mit dem Summing Amp zusammen führen und die Delays des einen Pedals werden nicht weiter vom anderen verzögert. Er kann auch mit Overdrives verwendet werden damit sich diese nicht gegenseitig pushen. Eine weitere Möglichkeit besteht darin, Fuzz und Kompressor parallel zu kombinieren, damit das Fuzz nicht durch die Kompression zerdrückt wird. Mit dem Summing Amp hast du die Möglichkeit, Effekte auf völlig neue Art und Weise zusammen zu nutzen, die du dir vielleicht nie vorgestellt hast. Und der JHS Summing Amp eröffnet dir mit deinen alten Effekten völlig neue und inspirierende Klänge.

The JHS Pedals Summing Amp gives you the ability to take two inputs and blend them into one output. This is perfect for putting effects in parallel so that they are not affected by one another. The Edge used this technique in the 80s with his delays. When you have a quarter note delay and a dotted eighth delay and you place them in parallel then sum them back together, the effect is that both delays come through more clearly and are not "delaying the delays". This can also be used with overdrives so that they are not pushing each other as in series, but sit atop one another in parallel. Another use is combining fuzz and compression in parallel so the fuzz isn't getting choked by the compression. The Summing Amp gives you the ability to use effects together in completely new ways that you may never have imagined and can open up new and inspiring sounds with your old effects.

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JHS ist stolz darauf, den NOTAKLÖN DIY Overdrive-Bausatz zu präsentieren, der die einzigartige „Shamrock“-Modifikation nutzt, die JHS mehrere Jahre lang am Klon KTR durchgeführt hat. Mit einer leicht verständlichen Anleitung (kein Löten erforderlich) ist dieser Bausatz für jeden, der einen besonders mythischen Overdrive und die Erfahrung haben möchte, sein eigenes Pedal zu bauen. Der Bausatz enthält sogar „Goop“, um die „magischen“ Dioden zu verstecken.

JHS is proud to present the NOTAKLÖN DIY Overdrive kit, which utilizes the unique “Shamrock” modification that JHS performed on the Klon KTR for several years. With easy-to-understand instructions (no soldering required), this kit is for anyone who wants a particularly mythical overdrive and the experience of easily building their own pedal. It even includes ‘Goop’ so that you can conceal the ‘magic’ diodes.

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