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JHS. Your opinion. Live with or just leave?
- Thread starter Driven Crane
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I mean honestly I wouldn't know because they don't care enough about me to show me their stuff. I was standing at their NAMM booth and the dude I was talking too, who is in a ton of their pictures on Instagram, seemed so uninterested in me that I had to leave. All the bad press aside, if you are not personable, then forget you. You could at least pretend to give a crap that your shop is 15 minutes from my home and I'd love to talk more about your stuff.
So pretentious and odd. Don't care.
So pretentious and odd. Don't care.
I leave politics and religion conversations at the bar, lol.... but as a businessman myself, communication and showing people they are important is everything. Having said that, I knew nothing about jhs, or whoever owns it until recently, but I do own a jhs colour box, that other than a seriously annoying click when I turn it on, I love it.
Not a fan.
All they seem to do is rip off other designs and try to pass them off as their own and charge a fortune for it. Kinda like giving answers to questions that nobody asked.
The Colour Box was a cool idea until I saw the $400 price tag.
All they seem to do is rip off other designs and try to pass them off as their own and charge a fortune for it. Kinda like giving answers to questions that nobody asked.
The Colour Box was a cool idea until I saw the $400 price tag.
I think I'd rather drink toilet water than give JHS any of my money. Garbage company. Pretentious thieves that smell worse than a hipsters mustache.
That's what is cool about the used market, you can buy a colour box without ever giving money to JHS
Seriously though, I don't care about Josh Scott's politics, religion, whatever. I just won't contribute to his little empire of cloning, ripping off, and intimidating small builders.
That being said, it's sad because the colour box was their one semi-original idea. I mean, at the end of the day, it's their ONLY pedal that is not a direct clone of another pedal. Sure, it's yet another Neve clone, but not another pedal exact copy.
I have said this before, I would never look down on anybody who owns a JHS pedal, even if they bought it new. It's not like you are encouraging slavery or anything of the sort. I just hate JHS the company, that is all.
If you really love it than keep it. Definitely should get a new enclosure and then take a dump in the old one and send it back to JHS.
Nahhh, don't sell it man. Unless you want to get a golden age audio project Pre 73 setup
The colour box is their only pedal that is not a direct ripoff of another pedal
Now, on the @jwr etching, well, sure, all pedals should be etched like that
If you really love it than keep it. Definitely should get a new enclosure and then take a dump in the old one and send it back to JHS.
That would be funny
devnulljp
Supporting Member
my dealings with JHS were limited, and frustrating, but I did get a personal response from them on a simple question. I asked if they could mod my EHX turnip greens, they said they couldn't but if they picked it up they'd let me know. I don't know anything about their politics, and I'm not a huge fan of the prices, but the products seem solid and I don't know any JHS users that are unhappy with what they've got.
I tend not to worry about a company's politics. What they do with their time and money is their business, what I do with mine is mine. I'm not marrying them I'm making a limited number of transactions with them.
I tend not to worry about a company's politics. What they do with their time and money is their business, what I do with mine is mine. I'm not marrying them I'm making a limited number of transactions with them.
I wouldnt buy anything from the company either, support the companies that are trying to move forward with some new original ideas. I think there can be some respect in trying to "clone" a pedal but not if you sell a bunch to people and claim it was your idea. Pretty sleazy..
Nah just sell it to me....
That is the only pedal they make that I find seriously attractive.
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
I don't mind the cloning or copying because with the tons of rat,muff and tube screamer clones there really aren't many original designs most pedals are just variations of a handful of circuits and as far as the other stuff I don't have any experience with that but they do sell a decent amount of pedals so there must be people out there with a different opinion of the company?.
I think there are a lot of people out there who don't know the real story. Hell I didn't until I came to TGP or TalkBass.
