JHS Pedals Morning Glory Clean Overdrive Pedal

JHS have taken their most legendary overdrive to a new level and redefined what it means to be transparent. The JHS Pedals Morning Glory Clean Overdrive Pedal features clearer pick attack, improved low end, and more versatile gain stacking. This is the ultimate first-stage overdrive pedal.

THE PROB­LEM WITH TRANS­PAR­ENT.

When you add over­drive — any type of clip­ping — you lose nu­ance. Pick at­tack gets com­pressed. Dy­na­mics nar­row. All overdrives shape frequency response, even the most transparent. So JHS tried some­thing no one's done: they took the Morn­ing Glo­ry (a Blues­breaker-style topol­o­gy) and com­plete­ly re­built it around a stu­dio-grade par­al­lel clean blend. Not just a mod­i­fi­ca­tion, a re­design from the ground up. On pa­per, it seemed point­less — why blend a clean sig­nal into some­thing al­ready trans­par­ent? Here's why. The Morn­ing Glo­ry's magic happens when you turn up the Drive, the circuit boosts higher harmonics and adds soft com­pres­sion. Jan­g­ly. Per­fect in a mix. The par­al­lel clean cir­cuit lets you keep all that while di­al­ing the nat­ur­al low end back in — all the tone, all the char­ac­ter. Noth­ing com­pro­mised.

THIS ISN'T A CLEAN KNOB SLAPPED ON A MORN­ING GLO­RY

The Clean con­trol uses a dual-gang po­ten­tiome­ter. As you turn it, clean gain scales pro­por­tion­al­ly with the drive sig­nal — it’s per­fect­ly en­gi­neered from the ground up. Most clean blends are an af­terthought — a sim­ple mix knob tacked onto an ex­isting cir­cuit. This one was de­signed so the two sig­nals track to­geth­er across all gain settings. No vol­ume jumps. No weird phase is­sues. Just seam­less blend­ing from Morn­ing Glo­ry to pure sig­nal and every­thing in-be­tween.

The pow­er sec­tion runs on a ±9V dual sup­ply — the same topol­o­gy as the V4 — which gives you high­er head­room than the orig­i­nal V1 cir­cuit and any oth­er Bluesbreak­er-style ped­al out there. This is where most clones get it wrong. Think of it as the orig­i­nal Ver­sion 1 Morn­ing Glo­ry voic­ing with the V4 en­gi­neer­ing en­hance­ments. The Tone con­trol af­fects only the over­drive path. Your clean sig­nal stays par­al­lel and un­touched. For the peo­ple who care about this stuff: this is the most thought-out and so­phis­ticat­ed Morn­ing Glo­ry JHS have ever built.

END­LESS HEAD­ROOM AT ANY VOL­UME

End­less head­room. Those mas­sive clean gui­tar sounds that you love on record­ings — most were made at vol­umes that would get you evict­ed. The Morn­ing Glo­ry Clean gives you the stiff­ness and au­thor­i­ty of a high-wattage amp at the edge of breakup — with­out the earplugs. Think of the Clean con­trol as adding back in wattage, clar­i­ty, and punch.

IT GOES ON EVERY­THING

Stack a dis­tor­tion in front and the sus­tain opens up in­stead of clos­ing off. Run it af­ter de­lay for new territories of series/parallel textures. First-stage over­drive? This is the best JHS ahve ever built. Pe­riod. It breathes in front of amp mod­el­ers too. The over­drive and pres­ence of the classic Morn­ing Glo­ry, with your at­tack and low-end con­tent di­aled back in — magic in front of a Kem­per, Quad Cor­tex, UAD, or He­lix.

Bass play­ers: the orig­i­nal Morn­ing Glo­ry rolls off low end just like a fi­nal mix. That's why you love it — that's why it's be­come a stan­dard on so many pro bassists' boards. The clean blend di­als that low end back on com­mand for your dif­fer­ent bass and ampli­fi­er needs.

CON­TROLS:

• Vol­ume: adjusts the overall volume in conjunction with the drive and clean
• Clean: full left gives orig­i­nal Morn­ing Glo­ry, full right gives you a pure clean sig­nal
• Drive­­­: saturation - crank it and use the Clean con­trol as your bal­ance
• Tone: clas­sic Morn­ing Glo­ry tone stack af­fects only the drive path, back for warmth, for­ward for clar­i­ty