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Spending years touring and doing session work for other musicians, Scott learned of their needs and demands from pedals. Using that experience to great effect, the JHS team started developing original circuits shortly after, including the Morning Glory overdrive and Pulp N Peel compressor. Everyone from pro guitarists to bedroom jammers are familiar with the biting tone of the Blues Driver, but you might be less in the know about the Angry Charlie. This searingly hotcircuit captures the essence of a high-gain Marshall amp in a box. With both styles at your disposal, you have every flavour of classic, saturated tone to sculpt your unique sound. Multiple Modes This mode runs the Blues Driver into the Angry Charlie circuit with the standard footswitch turning the unit on and off while adding a remote switch allows you to select between SERIES MODE and AC Mode. input or battery powered, delivering high quality sound along with legendary Boss build quality – the JB-2 gives you everything that people love about Boss pedals with a great new flavour created through a great collaboration between Boss and JHS Pedals. The JB-2 is Boss'first collaboration pedal! They’ve teamed up with awesome the JHS Pedals to combine two of their best stompboxes into one sublime little unit. The JB-2 Angry Driver blends both the JHS Angry Charlie and Boss ' own BD-2 Blues Driver.
With this mode, you can turn the JB-2 on or off with the standard pedal, engaging the BD-2 circuitry while adding a remote switch allows you to switch between the Angry Charlie and Blues Driver circuits. These figures will vary depending on the actual conditions of use. Accessories Leaflet ("USING THE UNIT SAFELY,""IMPORTANT NOTES," and "Information") Housed in the iconic Boss enclosure and manufactured in Japan by Boss (but also stamped with the JHS Pedals logo), the JB-2 contains circuitry that enables independent or combined renditions of the two effects. Dual-concentric potentiometers control drive, tone, and level for each effect, while a 6-position mode switch activates the JHS Angry Charlie, the Boss Blues Driver, a mode in which you can toggle between the two, two series modes in which you can run JHS into Boss or Boss into JHS, and, lastly, a mode for running the two circuits in parallel. If you are interested in receiving this coverage for longer than one year, you have the option of purchasing additional years of the Performance Warranty. The pricing is as follows:When this plan came up, we used the ES-8 Effects switching system to try numerous combinations of our pedals with the JHS Angry Charlie,” Yoshi relates. “I thought a combination allowing each pedal to complement the other would be interesting to try. The sound of the Angry Charlie is exactly what BOSS didn't have.” This pedal is very simple to use, on the far right of the pedal there is a mode control to switch it between, JHS only, Blues Drive only, Toggle between JHS/Blues Drive, JHS series into Blues, Blues Series into JHS and finally a parallel mode. The next set of knobs simply control the Level, Tone and Drive of each pedal, the larger and lower control for the Blues Drive and the smaller control on top of each knob for the JHS. Nice and simple! With an additional footswitch you can have further switching options (such as having it in Blues into JHS mode, using an external switch to take out the Blues so its just the JHS pedal etc). That’s the basic functionality. Its awesome to be able to use the drives in different combinations, the series modes allows us to ‘push’ one drive with the other for more gain/unique mid-range, and the parallel mode also allows for even further more detailed tone shaping. The first two modes are the most straightforward: one gives you the JHS circuit, the other gives you the Boss Blues Driver circuit. Mode three has the footswitch toggling between the two, which can be useful if you want a mild dose of Blues Driver to add a hint of hair to your clean sound, with the option of unleashing the Angry Charlie for solos. And because each has its own set of controls, the amount of drive, level and volume shaping is entirely independent. Mode four has the JHS circuit feeding into the BD-2 circuit and mode five the BD-2 feeding into the JHS circuit. Mode six runs the two pedals in parallel and then mixes their outputs. The LED lights red for the JHS pedal, blue for the Blues driver and, logically, purple when both are engaged. You can use either of the circuits independently or combine the two, with the JB-2 cable of giving you a bit of boost to some full on, all out distortion. Comprehensive Controls and Huge Tonal Potential I have already set my sights on acquiring a Mega Distortion, Metal Core and Waza Craft Metal Zone, and would also quite like to snap up a Digital Metalizer and Xtortion at some stage if I ever find suitable candidates.
When Parallel mode is activated, it runs both circuits in Parallel, maintaining the clarity of both at the same time. Using a remote switch while Parallel mode is activated drops out the BD circuit, giving you the AC alone. Those oh-so familiar Boss pedals have been with us for 40 years now but, to the best of my knowledge, the JB-2 Overdrive is the first example of Boss collaborating with a boutique pedal builder. US company JHS Pedals build a wide range of stompboxes (and, despite the ‘Pedals’ in the company name, some 500-series studio modules too), and one of their most revered overdrives is the Angry Charlie. The all-analogue JB-2, which can be powered from a 9V battery or an external PSU, features both the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver and Angry Charlie circuits, but the most interesting thing about it is the way in which the circuits can be combined. JB-2 Angry Driver is a new pedal co-developed with JHS Pedals to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Boss compact pedals. Most of these are still in the current range - that is to say the original Metal Zone, Mega Distortion, Metal Core and recent Angry Driver and Waza Craft Metal Zone. While the Heavy Metal, Digital Metalizer, Hyper Metal and Xtortion have all been discontinued for a while now.In recent years Boss’s Metal Pedals came in for some unfair criticism - in particular the Metal Zone which was a joke meme for the longest time - even though it is Boss’s second best selling pedal of all time supposedly. Recent revivalism and playing these pedals through an amp effects loop has largely managed to restore the reputation of these pedals which are all very decent high gain tone machines - some just require more due diligence when dialling in. As you can here from the various below demos there is no ’bad’ sounding pedal amongst these - that is unless of course you don’t like this genre of music. But generally the Boss High Gain Pedals server up very decent chunky soundstage which server most types of metal. You may not like some of the sub-genres, and possibly have other pedals whose core tones and features you prefer, but that doesn’t discount these 9 pedals in the slightest - and the newer ones will hold their own against mosts of what else is out there. I have always liked the Metal Zone - in my case in its Keeley Modded variation, and I find the Angry Driver sounds exceptional when both circuits are combine in parallel. I feel I will certain add the 3 current ones I don’t yet have, and will look to snag one or two of the others - probably the Digital Metalizer and Xtortion if I can find good condition versions at the right price. I already have several HM-2 clones, and will patiently await the reissue of the original - hopefully with more of a Metal Zone style control topology.
Three dual-concentric knobs provide independent drive, tone, and level control for each overdrive type At first sight the JB-2 looks like a conventional overdrive, with four knobs labelled Level, Tone, Drive and Mode, but closer inspection reveals that the first three are dual-concentric pots, enabling completely independent control over the two circuits, and the last is a rotary switch. The real magic happens with the mode switch, which allows the drive circuits to be used individually, in series or in parallel — and in serial mode you get to decide which circuit comes first in the signal path. I feel that any of the 4 most recent / current pedals are suitable starting points into this selection - with possibly the Angry Driver and Waza Metal Zone at the head of that queue - but pricing and availability may be a determining factor and likely some you may prefer the core tones of the less flexible but still great sounding Metal Core.To experience working on a product with a company that has done this thing so well for so long has been really inspiring,” Josh continues. It’s just amazing to see such talented people that love what they do.” Josh is very pleased with the way the JB-2 turned out, saying, “I am 150-percent satisfied. I love it.” In 2017, JHS collaborated with legendary pedal company BOSS to produce a joint-designed pedal. Named the Angry Driver, this pedal combined core elements from the Angry Charlie and Boss’ Blues Driver. Modded Pedals Yoshi and Josh regularly visit with each other at the yearly NAMM shows, and they had discussed the idea of a collaboration a number of times. With BOSS celebrating the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the compact pedal design throughout 2017, Yoshi felt the time was right to develop a new pedal together. “In the 40 years of BOSS compact pedal history, this is a first,” Yoshi said. “I think it's a wonderful thing that two companies have collaborated based on a great mutual respect for each other.” Thanks to the circuitry inherited from the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver, the JB-2 Angry Driver gives you a really nice bluesy overdrive that’s great for pushing valve amps, while the JHS Angry Charlie side of the family gives it some extremely high gain tones. USED products: 4% of the current new selling price to increase the warranty from 3 months to 1 year. 4% for each additional year.
When this mode is selected, the unit is always on with the standard foot switch allowing you to choose between the Blues Driver and Angry Charlie circuits while the use of a remote switch allowing you to turn the pedal on and off.Whilst JHS now boasts a large product range, the company hasn’t entirely abandoned its roots. Still offering modded pedals, this show that JHS are still open to garnering inspiration from other manufacturers. In this small format, you get this amazing switching system that is out of this world with series and parallel,” Josh relates. “You have six controls for two pedals, but the six controls in parallel become six controls for one new pedal, and that is very, very cool. So you have the Angry Charlie that people know, and the Blues Driver that people know. But when you put them together, the six controls all interact and there are hundreds of sounds. I think that's a fantastic product.” Nominal Input Level -20 dBu Input Impedance 1 M ohm Nominal Output Level -20 dBu Output Impedance 1 k ohm Recommended Load Impedance 10 k ohms or greater Controls Pedal switch Today, the company employs a team of 20-25 people at their Kansas facility, skillfully constructing their circuits by hand to maintain an excellent level of quality. The JHS Pedals Range BOSS pedals are no doubt one of the most well-known guitar pedal companies out there, their legacy needs no introduction, their lineage of instantly recognisable pedals, sounds and familiar consistent quality have made them one of the go to choices for all levels of Guitarist. Its no doubt that BOSS has influenced many other budding pedal companies over the years in their choices of effects and approach to design. One particular person they influenced was a dude by the name Josh Scott, Josh of course is the brain power behind the awesome pedal brand JHS pedals. He has been making some fantastic pedals for many years now which are incredibly popular with many professional players. Josh has a YouTube channel in which he talks about the history of pedals, brings in pedals from different brands and talks about their influence on Guitar Players and his own pedals as well. One video he has done on his YouTube channel is about how much of a ‘Fanboy’ of BOSS pedals he is. So to see that JHS has had a chance to hook up with Guitar Pedal Giant JHS is truly heart-warming and of course well deserved. The JB-2 stood out as the most versatile pedal overdrive that I can recall playing in quite some time—maybe ever.
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