JHS battery simulator

[Fuzzbass]

I once had an onboard preamp that had really great overdrive when the battery got low. Naturally, that was within a fairly narrow window of battery life. I went to my tech and asked whether the onboard battery voltage could be lowered, maybe via potentiometer? He looked at me like I had a tree growing out of my forehead, mumbled "well maybe", and immediately changed the subject.

 

[groooooove]

I once had an onboard preamp that had really great overdrive when the battery got low. Naturally, that was within a fairly narrow window of battery life. I went to my tech and asked whether the onboard battery voltage could be lowered, maybe via potentiometer? He looked at me like I had a tree growing out of my forehead, mumbled "well maybe", and immediately changed the subject.

i had the same experience with a bartolini (i think?) on board preamp in a Ristola bass.

it had a gated fuzz sort of characteristic. but, it was an interesting flavor because the sound was not coming from gain/drive but just the dying battery.

i imagine the volture into an outboard preamp could make the same interesting sound.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

FYP

he not only loves to steal peoples' circuits but also their jokes. This particular one comes from Reddit a little ways back. Almost word for word.

The joke about special ways to emulate battery types is probably about twenty years old if not older. It uses to be special power supplies

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Just piping in to say the Baghdad battery was almost certainly not a battery:

He's very earnest but needs to have a cup of camomile tea before doing his videos. Please. No. Need. To. Shout. In. Your. Videos. I. Can. Always. Turn. It. Up.

 

[cosmicevan]

to be fair the joke is sort of an obvious one if you're deep in the pedal game.

i've heard the circuit-stealing stuff but never understood how it become quite so controversial. The thing between him and devi as far as i know is a very one-sided story, and from what i understand devi is not exactly a trustworthy source/reliable person. I may be wrong, and for all I know devi is a lovely honest and classy person. I have owned several of her pedals and they were amazing.

pretty sure at one point devi herself argued that you con't copyright pedal circuits anyway - after having sold the rights to her designs under a non-compete disclosure, but then went ahead and broke the disclosure based on the argument that it was void in the first place.

I really don't want to turn this thread into a JHS controversy conversation, so i'll leave my point at "everyone copies everything" in this business, and yes it's in bad form for someone to outright clone a lesser known persons unique design, but having discontinued the pedal and seemingly moved on from that misstep the controversy seems to outweigh the situation.

I'll edit this post for more context if i have anything totally wrong, but would rather not turn the conversation into a JHS controversy thread (theres plenty of those already)

Yes…JHS is the geeky boutique version of Behringer.