OVERDRIVE- JHS PEDALS Fumble ___NEW ___ Klon clone

JHS PEDALS

FUMBLE

$90.00 USD

JHS as a marketing gimmick made a DIY version of a Klon. 

This is simply that pedal put in a small enclosure for 99% 

of us that have no time patience or indeed skills with 

building kits. The layout is simply Input and Output. 

The voice is hardwired into the circuit. 

     CONCLUSION __

The sound of the kit model is identical and it is 

generally agreed it is damn impressive. I am 

happy with my $50.00 USD Sonicake Trio Rider. 

It has all 3 Klons in it. You get the classic Gold, 

the small batch Silver and the V.2 Red. 

That said if I had the JHS I would use it on #2 

of my 3 channel board, 😇

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___THE UPDATER___JUNE2026___NEW GEAR NEWS___UPDATED 24/7

THE UPDATER

JUNE 2026

I seperate those pedals that are a steal from those

that are stealing from you at any price

IF IT IS WORTH KNOWING IT IS HER FIRST !

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MY MONTHLY RANT

WTF !!! Some ay-hole at Fender wants to pull my Harley Benton Strat right out of my hands and smash it to pieces.!!!! If they do I will be shoving those pieces right up their ....

TIME OUT

The big oops last month is Fender after 72 years Fender wants every maker of a guitar that makes a guitar with its body cloned even if only vaguely cloned, to not just stop, but smash up their inventory and buy back the ones thy sold and smash them too. Then send videos to prove the destruction. Fender sent them a legal warning and it was literally worded just as I just wrote it. In short a Mafia  draconian demand. Small companies can not afford the lawyers that Fender can. Fenders lawyers only need to use legal loopholes to tie it up in the courts and these companies will be bankrupt. A trial by jury would win for the cloners as they would rightly see

the guitar as a 72 year old style of an appliance like a refrigerator or stove etc, that never got 

a patent in the first place and is now decades old. The BIG BUT is some bigger company like PRS would have to do it.  

FUZZ at half price? 

I have worked with several designer/builders trying out proto-types over the

last 10 years. I recently was sent a Fuzz from Sweden that really impressed me. The maker suggested that rather than start a budget brand he thought selling it as my brand LENARD Re-Inventions could benefit us both. The estimated price would be $100.00 USD. About half that of a brand name. For that you get a  handmade Fuzz without shortcuts or dumb downs like not mounting the adapter and input jack right to the pedal ...not like even some well known names to the circuit board. Some seriously good parts are used that are the roots of the sonic strength of the overall sound. 

Money will be saved on cosmetics that do not do anything except bump the price. The 

pedal would come in a simple raw  Hammond 1590 B type enclosure. The kind used for MXR pedals since the MXR Phase 90 was made. There won't be graphics just a simple 

pro label with LENARD, Re-Inventions and FUZZ. There will not be any hotshot YouTubers 

giving you a demo. You would be buying on trusting that after doing 4300 reviews that 

if I put a pedal on my board it has to sound damn good.

To get to the point I need to know if you guys are interested. 

So I would be very grateful if you give me your opinion below  

in the 'Post a Comment'.

TOYS FOR THE OLDER BOYS

Some old, some new, all cool !!!

MAESTRO COMET CHORUS

The big deal is not the Chorus voice all though it is very warm and full, the big deal

is it has a near killer Rotary/faux Leslie Speaker cab sound. When one needs to sub 

for what one could prefer to play on an acoustic and you are stuck with just your clean sound this if nothing captures the vibe and mood an acoustic makes . Even much, much more if you are flatpicking or finger picking some parts.

...it is a no-brainer choice now that it sells for $60.00 USD

 

JOYO JF-36 SWEET BABY OD 

Bjorn Juhl designed the Sweet Honey Distortion 17 years ago. It is currently licenced to the Mad Professor. It was meant to take a Marshall single channel amp pushed into crunch and push it it into a perfect high gain. Not only that it had to have not just great feel and dynamics but both those on steroids. 99% of the guys buying them all this time kept it no matter what amps they had or bought over the years just for the feel of the thing. I can tell you a MIAB pedal set to a good crunch with this stacked on it does the same thing. The latest Mad Professor Sweet Honey hand wired sells for a whoping $390.00 USD. The clone by Joyo easily gets a 9.5 out of 10 nailing it. 

 ...WTF it cost me $40.00 USD & it lives up to the hype!!!

UPDATED 6/1/2026

Hey its early. New stuff 

all day every day !

THE GUITAR KIOSK 

EASTWOOD MRG
$800.00 USD
maple top, chambered mahogany body
maple neck, rosewood fretboard Hofner PU's
24 3/4 "(Gibson scale)

Gordin Smith
T-Graf
$1500.00 USD + 
Custom Made in UK since 1984
endless options /even a Floyd

PHASER/CHORUS- CATALINBREAD EFFECTS X/F (Proto6)___NEW___hybrid modulation

CATALINBREAD  EFFECTS

$210.00 USD

PROTO  CLUB

X/F (Proto 6) 

It is a simple concept. All the low frequencies go 

through a Chorus and all the highs go through 

a Phaser.

The layout is Rate, Depth, Mix and K/F a Tone 

control that interreacts to sound right as you 

blend the two voices. 

     CONCLUSION __

There is nothing to compare it to. You use 

it how with trial and error it fits. The unit 

is a Limited Edition that will be pulled 

on June 12.

CHORUS- MAESTRO Comet Chorus ... is it a re-invention of their 60's Phase Shifter ???

COMET CHORUS

$60.00 USD
Sweetwater price

In the late 60's Maestro made a very early tech Phaser not so 

unlike the 1974 MXR Phase 45 that is still in production. The 

old Maestro was meant to give the player a Rotary speaker 

vibe. I bought one myself because of that. The Comet uses 

a Chorus topography to do that but better. The layout is Depth, 

Speed and Mix with Toggle to switch from Chorus to Rotary.

     CONCLUSION __

Yes these days you can get really convincing Rotary 

effects and Phasers that swish like a jet engine. But 

for a vocal accompanying type sound this is killer. 

It gives you a wall/blanket of sound that lays back 

in the mix but never disappears whether you use

Chorus or its very pleasing Rotary. So is the new price!!!   

     NOTE:  

Prices were 3 times and on some sites still are. One site said 'discontinued'.

Amazon took me to a Maestro on-line site with the cheap price. I suspect 

Maestro have moved to direct sales plus a key store or 2 in each country.