MOONSHINE V2
The JHS Moonshine V2 is a unique overdrive pedal, a tweaked version of a famous design, housed in a green enclosure. It offers a blend of clean signal with Volume, Tone, and Drive controls, and a "Proof" toggle for various gain settings. The Moonshine V2 has an internal 9V to 18V charge pump for enhanced headroom and low-end. It is designed to work well with other pedals such as fuzz or other overdrive and is suitable for a range of musical styles, from blues to metal, and even bass guitar. It may also allow you to mimic the tone of more expensive boutique amps.
What JHS Pedals say about the MOONSHINE V2
Are you looking for an overdrive that is not transparent and adds its own character and attitude? The Moonshine V2 is for you. Our Moonshine V2 overdrive is a highly unique and massively tweaked version of the most famous overdrive ever created and housed in a little green enclosure. Blues, rock, country, jazz, and even hardcore/metal players will find this is an indispensable tool for shaping and creating unique mid heavy tones for almost any need.
The Moonshine V2 is still the core tone of the version one and retains the simple Volume, Tone, and Drive knobs. However on the Moonshine V2 we added a new Clean knob to blend in any amount of clean signal to your tone!
The simple 2-position “Proof ” toggle gives you everything from low gain amp-like breakup with powerful colored boost settings to grinding, heavy overdrive that reaches to the very edge of cranked amp distortion. In the down position, you’ll find the highest gain settings, lots of saturation and sustain and the most mid-range goo available. In the up position are the more open and forceful crunchy tones that will make any amp beg for mercy. The up position also adds more overall volume and more headroom to those searching for cleaner applications. The tone control goes down as smooth as Grandpa’s White Lightning, with none of the harsh ice-pick characteristics that many overdrives often have in the brighter settings.
Just like our SuperBolt pedal, the Moonshine uses an internal 9V to 18V charge pump that allows it to run on normal 9V but converts it internally to 18V for an enormous amount of headroom, added low-end, and more overall punch.
We wouldn’t be surprised if this is the most girthy, thick overdrive you have ever plugged into. If you’re a fan of stacking overdrives, you’ll love putting this in front of or behind your favorite drive, booster, or fuzz. The Moonshine delivers on any style amp, easily producing anything from SRV classic Stratocaster/ Fender amp tones with class to huge “wall of rock”/The Edge-style force through a Vox.
On another note, you might find a few Dumble-esque lead settings that will have you feeling like you saved a cool $100,000 in search of that sacred tone. It also kills on bass guitar, the reason it was originally designed.
V1 = V-shaped knob layout; no Clean Blend Control.
V2 = Square-shaped knob layout; added Clean Blend Control.
THIS PEDAL REQUIRES STANDARD 9V DC CENTER NEGATIVE POWER, CONSUMES 30MA, AND MEASURES 2.2" X 4.8" X 1.6"
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