Moonshine V2 Overdrive Pedal Review

A keeper!

Tried the slew of TS style pedals and transparent overdrives and this is both in a simple yet capable design! Love the ability to blend as much or as little grit with my clean. Makes for a perfect mild rock/ blues tone or even a great gain stage with mid/hi-gain amps!

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More than a Screamer…..

A year ago or so I purchased a JHS Sweet Tea pedal to use for high-gain tones. My focus was the Angry Charlie side, as I had planned to just use the Moonshine half as a dedicated booster. To my surprise, I ended up loving the Moonshine half so much that I purchased the stand-alone unit and quit using the Sweet Tea altogether. The Moonshine is more than just another screamer variant.… read more I find a pleasant "toothy" structure to the drive that adds a little bit of bite and aggression. The mids are prominent, but are voiced well within the overall eq so they don't get taxing on my ears like some of my other TS-based drive pedals have done. I use this pedal for mild to medium gain drive tones and pair it with a Wampler Mini Ego for solos. I also pair the Moonshine with a JHS Unicorn for Hendrix and Trower style tones and it works very well. This pedal has replaced several of my other od pedals and has become a staple for me for classic rock and blues tones. Some others have mentioned some noise or hiss coming from this pedal - my pedal has no issues and is very quiet - even when used with a compressor.

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Moonshine v2

Great pedal . Imo way more versatile than your regular ts type pedal 2 options re gain. And a blend knob too.

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Love this drive...not a mere TS.....much more

If you're like me and never happy with drive pedals for very long, or missing that one cool tone you can't get, grab one of these puppies! A fun pedal that makes you want to play. Weird thing about JHS, sometimes they hiss like crazy, I had that happen to me before and I thought I needed to upgrade my power supplies. Using my new ones I ran across a pedal chemistry thing where… read more it reacts to some pedals but utterly quiet w others. I just noise gate last in chain after my amps if it happens. The sound you get out of this, which is usually completely free of noise is just great. A very wide and versatile gain range and structure, never sounds bad. EQ is usable throughout the range voiced very well. You can blend in some dry guitar signal if you like or if you have something going into it you can bring in a bit more of that for a two voiced drive. MY fav drive pedal. It's on the Sweet Tea if you're lucky enough to have one of those. Also 18v internal charge pump, nice headroom. Dig this pedal! Oh yeah sounds good with any pickups!

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This is just way better than a TS

I had a Sweet Tea a yr or so ago and have missed it ever since. I decided to buy this one separate and also get a @ version of Angry Charlie and that should make for a killer set. This puppy runs on 18v internal charge pump and it has a vast range of gain adjustment not to mention it sounds like nothing else, just a delight to play. A real winner this one!

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