JHS Pedals Launches Morning Glory Clean Overdrive

The Morning Glory Clean offers clearer pick attack, improved low end, and more versatile gain stacking. It’s designed to provide an ideal first-stage overdrive pedal for a broad range of musical styles.

For the new Morning Glory Clean, JHS took their Morning Glory circuit (a Bluesbreaker-style topology) and completely rebuilt it around a studio-grade parallel clean blend. It’s not just a modification, but a redesign from the ground up.

Why blend a clean signal into something already transparent? The Morning Glory's magic happens when you turn up the Drive, and the circuit boosts higher harmonics and adds soft compression. The newly added parallel clean circuit lets you keep all that while dialing the natural low end back in.

The new Morning Glory Clean offers a four knob control set: Volume, Drive, Tone and Clean.

Volume — Adjusts the overall volume in conjunction with the drive and clean.

Clean — Full left: original Morning Glory. Full right: pure clean signal. Start with Clean and Drive maxed, dial Clean back (counter clockwise) until you find your perfect balance.

Drive — Saturation. Crank it and use the Clean control as your balance. This pedal is designed to be used this way.

Tone — Classic Morning Glory tone stack. This Tone control affects only the overdrive path. Your clean signal stays parallel and untouched. Adjust Tone back for warmth, forward for clarity.

Clean Boost Pro Tip – Morning Glory Clean can be used as a stand-alone clean boost. Set the Clean to 100% (fully clockwise) and increase the Drive. In this configuration, the Drive will not produce any overdrive clipping - only clean volume boosting.

This isn't a Clean knob slapped on a Morning Glory. The Clean control uses a dual-gang potentiometer. As you turn it, clean gain scales proportionally with the drive signal — it’s perfectly engineered from the ground up. Think of the Clean control as adding back in wattage, clarity, and punch. Most clean blends are an afterthought — a simple mix knob tacked onto an existing circuit. This one was designed so the two signals track together across all gain settings – with no volume or weird phase issues. Just seamless blending from Morning Glory to pure signal and everything in-between.

The pedal is also well suited for bass. The Clean blend dials that low end back on command for different bass and amplifier needs, making it a highly versatile bass overdrive.

Other Morning Glory Clean features include:

- Pedalboard friendly top-mounted jacks

- Uses standard 9V DC Center Negative external power – no battery compartment

- Silent Buffered Bypass Switching

An important note: this pedal does NOT replace the JHS Morning Glory V4 pedal, which remains a key item in the company’s product lineup.

The new Morning Glory Clean carries a street price of $179. For more information visit jhspedals.com.