JHS Pedals Wanderer

A Morning Glory and something Klon-esque have been on my pedalboards for as long as i can remember. The Morning Glory because I designed it as my take on the Marshall Bluesbreaker, and it’s the best-selling pedal we’ve ever made. The Klon circuit because in 1995 Bill Finnegan built an overdrive that did the version of high gain overdrive I had always wanted, and I’ve been collecting and modifying them ever since. My JHS modification of his KTR was called the Shamrock mod, a nod to the Boston Celtics logo, because Bill and the Klon are from Boston and Larry Bird is my hero. In 2023 that mod became featured in the JHS Pedals NOTAKLÖN, a solderless DIY kit you build yourself.

The Wanderer has four jacks. Use the main input on the far right and the main output on the far left and it behaves just like every two-in-one we’ve ever built, with a center toggle that points at whichever circuit is first in the series.

Use all four individual I/O jacks instead and the two circuits become completely independent. Put a compressor between them. Put a fuzz between them. Put your whole pedalboard between them — we don’t know why you would, but you can. Or run each side into its own loop on a switcher and save them in presets like two separate pedals. That’s what they are. They just share a case and a power supply.