with anything else . So I dug out the old schematics , notes and revisions , and started racing down the endless highway chasing that magic little black box .
A number of years ago ( probably around 2009 or 2010 ), I designed this fantastic little dirtbox .
Yes , it ’ s true , I ’ ve designed a LOT of dirtboxes over the years , but this one was really special .
It had this character to it , this feel — this vibe . It helped that it looked hella badass , totally murdered-out in a plain , flat-black box with flat-black knobs and no writing on it at all , but it was more than just another drive pedal . It had some kind of black magic voodoo in it , I treasured it and I worried I ’ d never be able to get that sound and feel again .
Years passed and that dirtbox got beat to hell and was then stolen from me , but the circuit , tone and feel haunted me . It did something that nothing else I ’ d ever heard ( let alone made ) did , and I wasn ’ t able to replicate that special something
If you know me at all , you probably know that I just don ’ t give up . At all . Ever . Never-ever . Never-ever-ever . Some people call it obsession , some people call it compulsion , some insanity . Maybe its a mix of all three of those words , and a little of that intangible element tha zmakes us all individual and human , but I ’ ve always found that if you want it : work for it , and you can do it .
Well , I ’ d like to share this one with you : I nailed it . And it ’ s called the JDS-50 . The JDS-50 was intentionally designed to interface seamlessly and sound damned good with just about any guitar , amp or placement in your chain that you can come up with ( although it probably won ’ t work if its plugged in backwards ).
In the words of my good friend “ the Cook ,” Robert Keeley , “ I thought it was simply your best and most elegantly voiced overdrive . I would suggest this pedal for any use where tone and expression were paramount .”
As they say : It ’ s got Moxy . And a lot of it .
- JACK DEVILLE
with anything else . So I dug out the old schematics , notes and revisions , and started racing down the endless highway chasing that magic little black box .
A number of years ago ( probably around 2009 or 2010 ), I designed this fantastic little dirtbox .
Yes , it ’ s true , I ’ ve designed a LOT of dirtboxes over the years , but this one was really special .
It had this character to it , this feel — this vibe . It helped that it looked hella badass , totally murdered-out in a plain , flat-black box with flat-black knobs and no writing on it at all , but it was more than just another drive pedal . It had some kind of black magic voodoo in it , I treasured it and I worried I ’ d never be able to get that sound and feel again .
Years passed and that dirtbox got beat to hell and was then stolen from me , but the circuit , tone and feel haunted me . It did something that nothing else I ’ d ever heard ( let alone made ) did , and I wasn ’ t able to replicate that special something
If you know me at all , you probably know that I just don ’ t give up . At all . Ever . Never-ever . Never-ever-ever . Some people call it obsession , some people call it compulsion , some insanity . Maybe its a mix of all three of those words , and a little of that intangible element tha zmakes us all individual and human , but I ’ ve always found that if you want it : work for it , and you can do it .
Well , I ’ d like to share this one with you : I nailed it . And it ’ s called the JDS-50 . The JDS-50 was intentionally designed to interface seamlessly and sound damned good with just about any guitar , amp or placement in your chain that you can come up with ( although it probably won ’ t work if its plugged in backwards ).
In the words of my good friend “ the Cook ,” Robert Keeley , “ I thought it was simply your best and most elegantly voiced overdrive . I would suggest this pedal for any use where tone and expression were paramount .”