https://jhspedals.info/collections/all-products/products/at-mini

Meet the AT Mini: the original V1 AT circuit, permanently set to Andy Timmons' preferred 100-watt voicing — the loudest, most open, most amp-like setting on the version 1. Same four knobs (Volume, Drive, EQ, Air). Same tone. Just a smaller footprint and a smaller price — $129. Want the 25/50-watt voicings or the independent boost channel too? That's still the AT+, still $219, still in the lineup. This is the one for players who just want Andy Timmons' exact setting, in less space on the board.

The MXR Flanger/Doubler brings the sound of MXR’s original rack unit to your pedalboard, re-creating its all-analog flanger and doubler effects in a single stompbox. The flanger and doubler heard on countless ’70s and ’80s records used bucket-brigade circuitry, and this pedal preserves that same all-analog path and the original control set, ensuring you get the real textures rather than a digital approximation

Reviews:

• RJ Ronquillo
• Ola Englund
• Leon Todd

This week JHS Pedals shipped and sold its one millionth pedal. I started this company eighteen years ago — accidentally — on a plastic folding table in the attic of our townhouse in Jackson, Mississippi. This week we celebrated a million little metal boxes later, and in this entry I read you the speech I gave to the fifty people in the room.

You asked for it, but Houston, we have a problem…

Welcome to the show. This challenge has been suggested many times by many people, the idea of pitting one brand against another using a MonoBrand approach to each of our pedalboards.

As it turned out the challenge was very different because of the pedals we had to hand - in short we have LOADS of Boss pedals and almost no MXR pedals. Argh! What to do? Max five pedals, one guitar, one amp… GO!

Enjoy the show!

Not a totally new pedal, but Walrus Audio has returned the Lüm Texture Engine pedal to production.

Lüm seeks to illuminate your path with three unique granular and textural reverb modes, momentary automation, and presets. Drawing on elements of the Slö Reverb, Lore Reverse Reverb, and Fable Granular Generator, Lüm takes your audio signal and fractures it into tiny "grains" wrapped in different washes of reverb to create sporadic and atmospheric textures.

Ernie Ball Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of premium guitar strings, bass strings and musical instrument accessories, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Source Audio, the Massachusetts-based company behind some of the most innovative and acclaimed effects pedals in modern music.

And don't look now, but JHS used the occasion to announce a collaboration, 7 years in development, with Source Audio. It had knobs and a foot switch.

I built this Griffin Effects Hand of Doom pedal I got from Musikding. It's based on the Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra, so a Laney Supergroup preamp with a treble booster in front of it. I love how it turned out.

It was quite a hassle to build, since I was missing one of the pots, and there were some errors in the instructions. It also delayed due to the hot weather. I refuse to solder when it's 40 degrees outside.

The artwork was a bit of experimentation. I 3D printed a template, which I could lock into the holes. The burst on the edges was also a first for me. I'm very happy with how it turned out, and I'll definitely do something similar for any future builds.

Below some more pictures.

Obligatory gut shot. Q1 is in a socket. I have no intention of swapping it out, but who knows.

Freshly painted case.

The 3d printed template

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/39235955

Who knew that franchise-branded electric guitar peripherals were becoming a thing?

A Godzilla pedalboard would have been fantastic for garage bands back when GenXers were young…

Playing mostly through an Orange OR30 these days with a Mojotone 2x12 (Celestion Neo Creambacks). I use a Tone King Gremlin too sometimes, but to be honest I have more fun playing that one straight into the amp with no pedals. This board is super versatile and covers most of what I’m playing - mostly Pixies type stuff but also a lot of classics (Hendrix, Zeppelin) to punk (NOFX, AFI, Pennywise). The standout pedal here for me is the Mas Effects The Expanse - the power plug is a little wonky but the pedal sounds great.

https://www.chasebliss.com/big-time

Big Time revisits the mixed-up circuitry of rackmount delays from the early 80s, where advanced analog engineering was used to prop up crude digital systems. It includes both a stereo analog preamp at the input stage, and a stereo analog limiter within the delay’s feedback loop. Inside you will find misbiased modulations, dissolving loops, sequenced echoes, and all of the space stuff you could ever want. The anything-is-possible of digital, the everything-sounds-good of analog.

It also comes with a big time price tag of $999 (US).

In this video, I sit down with ChatGPT and quiz it on guitar pedal history - the Tube Screamer, the Big Muff, the Maestro FZ-1, DOD, JHS, Jimi Hendrix's rig... the works. And what you're about to watch is kind of alarming. It hallucinates pedals that don't exist. It agrees with things I KNOW are wrong when I push back. It confidently states dates it can't actually source. And then when I ask it to prove anything... it can't.

Sounds neat but I worry you need to run it in stereo to get the full effect.

Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.

This is another one that’s been on my list for a while. It’s a good delay, maybe not as prominent as I would have liked but I’m still messing around with it. I have it set to a pretty crunchy tape delay here.

I want to get my expression pedal set up for the intensity knob so I can manipulate the self oscillation without bending over.

Hi all, as the title says, what is my best bet for a Big Muff cheaper alternative? I see a number of pedals on AliExpress, is any of those acceptable?

Thx!

If the onboard memory of a looper has gone bad, is the looper still fixable?
I don't care about any phrases saved, just hoping to still make use of the looper.

I got a boss RC-3 pedal secondhand, and because it flashed (still does) Er, I followed steps per the Boss rc-3 manual (page 19) to reformat it. No dice. Instead of flashing Fn for a reformat, it flashes dn, which is apparently the code for "contact ur dealer." Can I still replace the memory and use the pedal?

Things I've already tried:

• the above method for formatting, according to the boss rc-3 manual
• connecting to PC following the manual's instructions:
  • on Linux, shows up in lsusb with the device name, "Roland rc-3" or something like that, but not in lsblk. Not sure why that was, and I wasn't sure of what effective search terms to follow up with to troubleshoot further
  • on windows 11, doesn't show in disk manager nor file explorer, but does show as "mass storage device" among my usbs. Updated my USB drivers, tried the "uninstall device, and restart" thing from Device Manager.
    Nothing's changed. Properties of device from Device Manager also show a "device cannot start (code 10)" error
• I also tried to connect to pc in update-firmware mode, according to the manual. I still get the same results connecting to pc as above. I believe the looper data storage is shot.

All that said, is it worth prying open to fix it or nah?
If nah, what's the most "budget" looper you would recommend that includes:

• fake drums
• a count-in feature
• a tap-tempo button
• and undo-redo?

I have a cheap looper for practice, but it's a basic one-loop + overdubbing looper. It overwrites the one loop to an SD card, too, but I wouldn't mind trading in that feature for the above list. Once I tried an RC-2 with the count-in, I couldn't go back to using my cheap one. The rc-2 functions though felt way too crowded to use just to pick out a rhythm or write to memory, so I sold it and got this rc-3.

UPDATE:

No local help found: No boss-authorized service centers in Hawaii, except on the Big Island. I'm not flying out there for a pedal. I didn't reach out very far in Oahu, but, like, the few guitar-sources I could message asking for pedal-repair references - they didn't have anyone they could recommend.
The pedal's serial number is... Gone, so I couldn't submit an online ticket through Roland/boss. Their service request page requires a registered product, which requires a serial number.

So, I figured, I didn't want to disappoint the guy I bought this from and return a junk pedal.

I opened it. Found a 4GB micro SD card inside. Covered in a pea-size's worth of fucking GLUE. It looked and felt like wood glue because it was a BITCH to peel off.
Besides the glue, there's a bracket around the SD card also permeated with glue on three sides. The bracket had to to be slid upward & tilted up to release the SD card. See picture of opened bracket

I'm gonna see if replacing the SD card with the default folders & update-files in place works. The smallest replacement I have is only 16GB. Wish me luck.

Update: I'm still getting the "dn" code, but all I really did was slap a folder named ROLAND & the v1.6 firmware files on a blank 8GB micro SD I found.

I can't get to whatever was on the old 4GB SD card to copy files because my pc won't detect it. The flat pins are tinged in green stuff

In case it's relevant - anyone with a Boss loop-station here able to share what filesystem format it is when plugged in as a USB? Or share the file structure and whatever files should be in /ROLAND/DATA?

In this episode host Adam Wakeling speaks with Analog Mike Piera, founder of Analog.man.

Teaming up with pedal maker Brian Wampler, Synergy has introduced the Wampler Pedalhead. This pedalboard-friendly, 240-watt stereo power amp (equivalent to 60 tube watts) is designed to be the “engine” for players using digital modelers or preamps.

Danish Pete checks his hearing with help from Brian https://youtu.be/QVasjTEwXUQ

The Encounter Ambient Delay+Reverb is a fully-loaded vessel of atmospheric discovery, thoughtfully designed to explore swirling celestial tones and deeply immersive soundscapes

I hadn't heard of this pedal but saw it in a recent TPS challenge episode (or skip to here to hear Mick's track using it).