It has been described by its creator as “mutt” of a distortion pedal, a all original circuit that has been in development for eight years, and it might well offer stiff competition the RAT, DS-1 or ShredMaster on your pedalboard as your high-gain go-to, and it is called the Hard Drive. Meet the new stompbox fresh out of Kansas from JHS Pedals, now available in black or white enclosures.
JHS Pedals supremo Josh Scott describes the Hard Drive as a “passion project” and it is a release that is freighted with a sense of poignancy knowing that it was head engineer Cliff Smith’s final design project before he died in 2021. Scott says the pedal’s design was completed just weeks before Smith passed away.
