Checking Out The JHS Hard Drive! 

this is too good to just be a preamp, please make a lunchbox head. The industry doesn't have enough GOOD solid state amps

​@@nickalderman5943 199 bucks... Seems like it's got a lil extra power with good crunch capabilitiesoundabilities and it's not over priced ? Cool !

@@nickalderman5943good call! I doubt they have the infrastructure to make such a thing but it’d be awesome.

Preamp in a box?

So how about you explain what it is and why it is different to an amp sim or a pre-amp with ir afterwards, so we’d understand :)

Good luck explaining Gibsons Rythm and Lead toggle positions ;)

@@camenskycameron8413for me, ‘amp in a box’ means it has the speaker IR as part of the pedal features. Send a DI to a mixing console or audio interface WITH the IR filter straight from the pedal. Otherwise, every overdrive pedal could be considered an ‘amp in a box’

Let’s just call it a distortion pedal!

Dad joke of the day with that one…

It's based on a Crate. Which is why they won't say it.

@@YTisGay how do you know that?

​@@MrJingles021 it's super obvious: it's box shaped.

Yes I did

Man was I let down with that pedal 🙂‍↕️

@@Mike_HuntizWet you and I both man. The Krank was supposed to be a rock distortion but ended up being a treble machine.

Distortion pedals are not always preamps.

Never send a pedal to do a tubes job. Edit: unless it has tubes. Friedman IRX is my main tone generator now

@@OttophilCongratulations on being “that guy.” Every comments section needs a cartoon character like you 😄

@@josearjona3728 it’s marketed as a distortion pedal. Are you running distortion pedals thru power amps?

I used to run a red sun grantler (distortion based on a 1w high gain guitar amp) boosted by a maxon od808 into a two notes torpedo cab m+ (running power amp sim and cab sim and some eq, cause the natural grantler eq tilt was not my style) straight to front of house live, not bs-ing there was multiple gigs where touring bands, crew or audience members were asking what guitar amp I was using (cause they liked the tones) I used to run a line 6 pod hd into the effects return of a solid state amp head (bypassing the preamp, utilizing only the power amp) into a orange ppc 2x12 back in 2014-2016, these kinda rigs work great.

See, you get it.

Really? Interesting 🤔

@@Mike_HuntizWet that's why typically better phase coherency comes from 1st order crossovers (6db/octave) than steeper 2nd, 3rd, etc order crossovers. There's also a type of distortion added, I can't recall the name of it now, hysteresis maybe? I'm not an expert. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn once a long time ago 😁

@@Relayer6a Well d@mn. I’ve been dealing with audio in many forms most my life. Personally and professionally. And I never heard of that nor aware of such sorcery. Learn something new every day 🤘

Less of everything 😂

Well luckily for you there are 500 other videos on this pedal 🙂

I have a Triaxis. What does the 20/20 and 50/50 represent?

@@Mike_HuntizWet 20/20, 50/50, 90/90 and then there was something absurd like a 250W stereo tube power amp, all released around the same-ish time in the 90's. Those aforementioned tube power amps were designed to compliment Mesa's tube preamps, but in a modular way, as to fit your needs. I have the 50/50, but it is WAY TOO loud for the Triaxis, for my use case. I use the 50/50 with my Ampeg SVT III rack preamp. In general, I find it hard to find a stereo tube power amp in a small form factor. There are loads of solid state power amps (Milkman, EHX and some others), but when I A/B them to my 20/20...I hear the difference big time. I've even explored the Hi-Fi world for alternatives. More specifically to your question, I know that the 20/20 has some sort of "touch resistant-blah blah blah" (you can still look up the marketing on Mesa's site) that deals with the relationship between the preamp and power amp tubes, in a more natural way. Modelers claim that they've nailed this, (and maybe it's a mental thing) but I still don't think the models match the feel or sound. But I also like well tuned, unmuffled, loud vintage drums over modern-y, well muffled drums. Ultimately, I think if you wanna go modeler/FFR...cool. If you want full tube, also cool. But with the Triaxis/tube preamps or even transistor based preamps (the Hard Drive), it'd be nice to couple it with something of equal size that maintains the tube sound. PS::Z-Vex had a mono tube power amp that was pedal sized, like...15-years ago, but it was crazy expensive. The Mesa 20/20 and maybe Marshal or Rocktron are the best case, single rack space/smallest tube power amps out there (to my knowledge), but they're hard-to-find 90's vestiges.

@@TheLordcasio I use a Fryette Power Station as the power amp for my Triaxis. I believe Fryette also has a 1U rack mounted power amp

@@TheLordcasio Yeah. It’s the LX II. 50/50 single space tube power amp 👍

Neh, it has more substance, sounds like it has more body u know

That was kind of a joke

​@@gasarockbandsomebody didn't watch 20 cycle hum's review...

No, the JHS Hard Drive is NOT, I repeat Not a Metal Zone Clone. Yes, it is a Pre-Amp or a Very Versatile Distortion Stomp Box that will also double as a Pre-Amp Pedal as well. 🤷‍♂️

@@reverendg5937 your friends will think it’s a Metal Zone though

You didn’t hear the Stone Temple Pilots cover 😂😂😂

@@RiffsAndBeards metal that is

It also has a Haunting Mids circuit. I can’t believe somebody would take an existing, out of production circuit, add more features, and then tweak it over 8 years to make it as versatile as possible. What a scam!

@@boonehcorrect. Scam. Mass marketing company that happens to copy pedals or collab pedals along the way. Tell everyone you’re a fanboy.

@@traviscrown9189 I don’t own a JHS pedal. I don’t really like distortion pedals. But don’t be disingenuous. To replicate this pedal you’d have to buy a used distortion pedal and a different JHS pedal. The sm7 copied three different pedals itself.

​@@traviscrown9189 almost all analog circuits are a copy of another pedal. There's only so much you can do to make a circuit "unique". What you're paying for is the quality and the specific parameters and tweaks that were made. Fortunately for you, no one is forcing you to buy this, or any other JHS product for that matter. You can enjoy whatever you want without crapping on other people.

the sm7 was an inspiration to make a heavy distortion pedal. the circuit itself is not based on the sm7 or any of the other pedals mentioned in our video. our point was to show how versatile it can be. hope that helps.

Not sure that's true, I can't think of another overdrive/distortion that does sweeping mids in the same way. Maybe watch the JHS video about it. Or tell me what pedals you think do the same thing, maybe I'm just ignorant to them.

@@the_panosit’s a cool pedal but it’s been done to death. The original Ibanez sm7 is exactly the same which can also sound a lot like a beod. I mean don’t listen to me Josh did this himself in his video 😂. Basically grab any distortion pedal and an eq in front or behind, bang every distortion pedal ever made.

I’m not gonna lie, I definitely am not super impressed. I’m a huge shredmaster+rat fan. But something about it..

@@the92project The SM7 doesn’t have a mid control at all. And most overdrives and distortions can be tweaked to sound similar. JHS did a video about that already.

​@@MyersJMark lying about super impressiveness always looks ands sounds impressive no lie

There's a pill for that

How dare people care about things!

How dare people care about things!