Morning Glory Clean

[drbhrb]

MORNING GLORY CLEAN
– JHS Pedals

MG with a clean blend. They say it was inspired by a conversation/sound check with Julian Lage who I know has been a user of the MG. Unfortunately they didn't get him to demo it, nor can I find any jazz demos at this point but it did just come out.

[jads57]

I do like the Morning Glory, especially the later versions. Looks interesting from the video JHS posted.

[Herbie]

Yeah, I saw that too.

Josh tries his best to approach jazzy guitarists here in his YT-presentation from 19:19.

I guess that people in this forum will not get enough information from this, despite his pretty D'Angelico ...

[drbhrb]

He did do a Sco impression, but what I'd like to hear is very subtle grit for warming up a solid state amp or getting a low drive sound out of a tube amp at low volume.

[j.l]

Yeah, this looks very interesting. A bit annoyed I've already got a MG, makes it harder to justify this!

[MiniMerckx.22]

He did do a Sco impression, but what I'd like to hear is very subtle grit for warming up a solid state amp or getting a low drive sound out of a tube amp at low volume.

Just about any clean boost pedal should easily do what you want. I've never bought any pedal except for a single knob reverb unit but I have been gifted a ModTone boost, a Bad Monkey boost and a Vertex SSS (don't have many friends but the ones I have are the best). Any one of them will gently warm up my SS amps. It's weird, a clean boost will just kind of LIFT the tone, giving just a touch of warmth but also better clarity, definition without out an increase in treble response so it doesn't sound BRITE but,... it's brighter.

[Cunamara]

Yeah, I saw that too.

Josh tries his best to approach jazzy guitarists here in his YT-presentation from 19:19.

I guess that people in this forum will not get enough information from this, despite his pretty D'Angelico ...

Chalk me up as one of them. This video is a great demonstration of exactly why generally I don't use pedals (other than a reverb pedal, and lately a TC Electronics Combo Deluxe 65 as a DI): I don't want to have to put that much work into the signal chain for what sound like, to me, marginal gains at best. But there are people who love doing this stuff and find it helpful and satisfying, so more power to him. I simply don't have the patience to get the most value out of pedals.

[ruger9]

The Morning Glory (normal one) is a great overdrive, I had one for a year or so, it mated perfectly with my Princeton Reverb. I've had overdrives with clean blends on them before, and to be honest, it's not something I liked... the 2 sounds always seemed to sound "separated" from one another, which sounds odd to me. Just use a normal overdrive and keep the gain low. My $0.02

Oh and I bought the MG because I saw Lage using it with one of his teles and a blackface amp.

[ruger9]

He did do a Sco impression, but what I'd like to hear is very subtle grit for warming up a solid state amp or getting a low drive sound out of a tube amp at low volume.

That's what the normal MG does perfectly. I only sold mine because I use a tweed amp now instead of a blackface, and don't need the extra mids of the MG like I did with the Princeton Reverb.

[DawgBone]

The Morning Glory (normal one) is a great overdrive, I had one for a year or so, it mated perfectly with my Princeton Reverb. I've had overdrives with clean blends on them before, and to be honest, it's not something I liked... the 2 sounds always seemed to sound "separated" from one another, which sounds odd to me. Just use a normal overdrive and keep the gain low. My $0.02

Oh and I bought the MG because I saw Lage using it with one of his teles and a blackface amp.

Hey! Good to see you around!!

I have a Gladio SC clone with a blend knob and I think it's a really nice feature in the sense that it makes it a bit better interfacing the pedal into the amp in terms of the final sound i.e it sounds more like a Twin with some extra gain rather than a Twin with an OD pedal in front of it.

Granted, any good drive well matched to a given amp will give the same effect but I would (imagine) it adds some flexibility to the pedal between differing amps. Versus my Blue Note it's definitely the case. However, the overall "improvement" is a game of diminishing returns and for most people isn't worth the additional $300-400 of a new pedal.

I only buy new OD's once every 10-12 years and it's been a dozen, plus I'm recording another album so I thought I'd blow a bunch of money on diminishing returns refining my tone. Mission accomplished, but it wasn't a huge improvement for the $1000+ bucks I sunk into three pedals, a board, a case, and a power supply. I mainly just cleaned up the high end of my cranked Twin tone. It does sound bigger and better but I'm probably the only guy who'd notice LOL.

[ruger9]

Hey! Good to see you around!!

I have a Gladio SC clone with a blend knob and I think it's a really nice feature in the sense that it makes it a bit better interfacing the pedal into the amp in terms of the final sound i.e it sounds more like a Twin with some extra gain rather than a Twin with an OD pedal in front of it.

Granted, any good drive well matched to a given amp will give the same effect but I would (imagine) it adds some flexibility to the pedal between differing amps. Versus my Blue Note it's definitely the case. However, the overall "improvement" is a game of diminishing returns and for most people isn't worth the additional $300-400 of a new pedal.
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I love my Blue Note. One of my top 3 all-time overdrives, and I've been through probably 100 at this point, the other 2 being the Kingsley Page (tube boost), and probably the old Fulltone Fulldrive 2. The "secret" with the Fulltone is to have the amp sweating a bit already, then it's killer. Not a fan of it into a dead-clean amp.

[arnie65]

A few years ago I saw Jonathan kreisberg at a small venue here in town, after the show I looked at 3 pedals he was using, and the Morning Glory was one of them.





Arnie...

[lesyeuxnoirs]

Seems like a very nice piece of kit!

does anybody know which other pedal/s he was using in the Sco inspired demo?

[omphalopsychos]

I played two morning glory pedals. The first one had a crazy hiss when I plugged in. The second one sounded unimpressive and then after ten minutes it had a crazy hiss. Never tried a third.

[Mick-7]

I played two morning glory pedals. The first one had a crazy hiss when I plugged in. The second one sounded unimpressive and then after ten minutes it had a crazy hiss. Never tried a third.

Oh, that would explain their recent announcement that they'll soon be releasing a new version of this pedal named "The Crazy Hiss" pedal.

[Woodstove]

Granted, any good drive well matched to a given amp will give the same effect but I would (imagine) it adds some flexibility to the pedal between differing amps. Versus my Blue Note it's definitely the case. However, the overall "improvement" is a game of diminishing returns and for most people isn't worth the additional $300-400 of a new pedal.

Sweetwater has it for $175 when it arrives. Tempting.

[Woodstove]

Tempted enough to get one last week. I like it a lot. Could be defective since I can’t get it to hiss The clean blend is very useful ( don’t have the original) As he shows in the video a straight forward approach is setting gain to max and dialing drive in with the clean setting. I understand he has sort of a parallel circuit combining the gain and clean and it sounds very good. One review mentioned it worked well with the dude overdrive which I have and indeed it does. Nice pedal bringing from clean boost to useable edge of breakup.The tone sweep is also goid enough to be handy addressing a given amp’s needs.

[garybaldy]

Having bought a boat load of ODs/distortions since the 70s, I'm not sure I need any more but this one is tempting.