The JHS 424 Gain Stage recreates the elastic, lo-fi tone of plugging a guitar straight into a vintage 424 multi-track recorder, bringing rubbery clean tones, high headroom and smashed-out fuzz into pedal form. Multi-track recorders became well known in the '80s and '90s, giving musicians and songwriters the ability to bring songs to life from home studios; the format eventually found its way onto records including Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, Wu-Tang Clan's Enter the Wu-Tang, and Spoon's Gimme Fiction. Many of the vocal parts and fuzzy guitar tracks on Gimme Fiction - a major inspiration for JHS's earlier Colour Box pedal - were recorded on a vintage multi-track unit, and hearing those recordings is what set the 424 Gain Stage in motion. JHS describes this as a historically accurate recreation of the original 424 MKI circuit, using the original UPC4570 and NJM4565 op-amps and all the original controls, which JHS says is crucial to recreating the character that makes the old units sound the way they do.

Highlights

• Historically accurate recreation of the original 424 MKI circuit, using the original UPC4570 and NJM4565 op-amps and controls
• Volume (Master), Gain 1 (Trim) and Gain 2 (Channel) controls work together, refined further with Bass and Treble EQ
• Offers both a 1/4" output and a balanced XLR (DI) output, which can be used simultaneously
• Ground Lift dip switch on the side addresses hum or buzz through the XLR output
• Silent, soft-touch switching with buffered bypass
• Usable as a subtle gain stage or boost, a distinct overdrive voice, or pushed into full overloaded fuzz

Specifications

All our pedals are tested on arrival, and regularly after that. Fast, tracked delivery to Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Melbourne & Australia-wide.

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