Instead of overwhelming users with deep menus or sprawling control sets, Josh Scott and his team strip each effect down to its essential personality throughout the JHS 3 Series of pedals. Now the brand is back with three very experimental ones – the Glitch Delay, Bit Crusher, and Ring Modulator – and they’re pretty damn cool.
And pretty affordable as well! Before we even get into this, I’ll say it right up top – you can get all three JHS 3 Series pedals (and everything else in the series) right here for $99 each.
JHS 3 Series Glitch Delay
At its core, the JHS 3 Series Glitch Delay offers familiar echoes and rhythmic repeats, but layered underneath is a system designed to destabilize expectations. With up to 980 milliseconds of delay time available, it can function as everything from a tight slapback echo to expansive ambient trails that stretch into atmospheric haze.
The real character comes from the Glitch control, which introduces up to 50% probability of rhythmic stuttering and fragmentation within the repeats. Instead of clean, linear echoes, notes can fracture, skip, or smear into unpredictable textures. Paired with the Repeats control, this creates evolving trails that shift from controlled delay lines into cascading ambient decay.
A 2-position Mix switch allows you to quickly change wet/dry blending behavior, offering either more traditional delay integration or more pronounced ambient wash. It’s a pedal that can behave politely—or completely unravel your signal in beautifully musical ways.
JHS 3 Series Bit Crusher
If the Glitch Delay bends time, the Bit Crusher bends resolution itself. This pedal is designed for controlled digital destruction, taking a clean signal and reducing it into increasingly unstable, lo-fi fragments.
A Type switch sets the tonal foundation of the effect. In one position, the filter emphasizes a sweeping band of midrange frequencies, evoking the grainy character of old handheld gaming speakers. In the other, a second-order lowpass filter removes resonance for a smoother but equally degraded synth-like tone.
From there, the sampling rate becomes the main weapon of transformation, ranging from a full 32,000Hz down to an almost unusable 2.5Hz. As the rate drops, the sound collapses into aliasing, artifacts, and rhythmic distortion that borders on ring modulation chaos. The Crush control further strips resolution, moving from full 24-bit clarity down to raw 1-bit degradation.
JHS 3 Series Ring Modulator
The Ring Modulator is where things leave conventional guitar tone entirely behind. This is not an effect designed for subtle enhancement – it is built for transformation, instability, and sonic unpredictability.
At the center is the Frequency control, which dictates the speed of the internal oscillator. At low settings, it produces slow, warbling motion that feels almost unstable and atmospheric. As you increase the frequency, the sound shifts into bell-like metallic tones and aggressive harmonic dissonance that feels distinctly synthetic.
A Blend control lets you mix dry and processed signals, allowing everything from subtle metallic shimmer to full-on robotic mutation. The Mode switch dramatically changes the character of the effect: one position delivers a fixed-rate waveform for consistent modulation, while the other introduces a 60s-style octave-influenced ring modulation that feels more chaotic and expressive.
The Tweak control adds another layer of unpredictability, altering the harmonic interaction depending on the selected mode. The result can range from subtle sci-fi texture to full alien broadcast interference.
