JHS Pedals 3 Series Ring Modulator / Glitch Delay / Bit Crusher

We’re back today with the latest round of THREE new 3 Series effects from our friends at JHS Pedals! The 3 Series is a collection of pedals designed to give you affordability and simplicity without compromising quality. The latest offerings in this series are a Ring Modulator, a Glitch Delay and a Bit Crusher, three experimental units that are simple at first glance, but offer a wide range of sounds and tones to play with. There’s a lot to explore here, let’s dive right in and check these beauties out!!

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The 3 Series Ring Modulator covers it all, from subtle, invisible modulation to full metallic chaos, with two distinct modes. The Blend knob mixes the ring modulation against your dry signal. The Frequency knob controls the speed of the ring modulator’s oscillator, moving from slow, pulsing movement at lower settings to bell-like, metallic tones at higher ones. The Mode toggle selects between two algorithms. Down is Earworm mode, inspired by the now discontinued Way Huge Ringworm. The Tweak knob introduces an auxiliary LFO that adds wobble and movement to the modulation, turning a fixed ring mod into something alive and animated. Up is Green Lantern mode, inspired by the Green Ringer circuit, a wave rectifier that produces a natural-sounding octave effect alongside the ring modulation. In this mode, Tweak blends the octave effect from off to 100%. Used subtly under a solo, it adds a barely-there harmonic presence. Pushed hard with gain in front of it, it becomes something considerably wilder.

The 3 Series Glitch Delay is a delay pedal built around one singular obsession: time-based glitching. Inspired by the legendary Line 6 DL-4 and the ambient, smearing delay work of Bill Frisell, this pedal locks your core delay time in place while a randomized glitch event alters the playback speed in real time. This bends, drags, and warps repeats inside the delay circuit’s feedback loop. The result is a living, breathing delay that moves with you without losing your tempo. With Glitch fully counterclockwise it’s a warm, musical delay pedal. No glitch, just classic delay tones that will fit any rig. Turn it clockwise and glitch probability increases up to 50% (when the knob is full clockwise), with the LED flashing in sync with each event. The Time control spans 20ms to 980ms, from tight slapback to long ambient pads. The Repeats control adds beautiful modulation as it climbs, and an internal limiter allows endless, never-runaway feedback. New notes stack on top of older, slowly dissolving repeats. The Mix toggle sets delay level at either a subtle 35% or a more present 80%. This is an easy to use pedal where no setting sounds bad.

The 3 Series Bit Crusher was built from scratch to do two things with precision: reduce bit depth and reduce sample rate, with a filter to shape the result. The Crush knob controls bit depth, moving from full 24-bit resolution counterclockwise down to 1-bit clockwise, from unprocessed through grainy and textured, into square-wave aggression and gated digital distortion. The Sample Rate knob works counterclockwise from a clean 32.768 kHz down to 2.5 Hz, introducing aliasing and artifacts that range from subtle harmonic shifts to metallic, ring-mod-like chaos and full digital collapse. The Filter knob shapes both, fully clockwise is unfiltered. Turn counterclockwise to sweep the corner frequency and increase the filtering. The Type toggle selects the filter character: down is a second-order low-pass with no resonant peak, inspired by vintage synthesizers like Oberheim, full-bodied and well-suited to bass guitar. Toggle up is a high-pass and low-pass swept in succession, focusing a band of strong mid-range frequencies that evokes the small speaker sound of a handheld game console. Under the hood, this pedal applies a zero-hole filter, a theoretical signal processing concept that had never found a practical application until it became part of this circuit.

With three simple controls and one toggle that offer a wide range of sounds, the JHS Pedals 3 Series will inspire your playing and help you explore new sounds at a totally approachable price point, perfect for beginners and professionals alike. The Ring Modulator, Glitch Delay and Bit Crusher definitely step outside the musical box, bringing new and exciting sounds along the way, opening and expanding your mind, and how you will approach songwriting from now on. I’ve made a demo for each of these three pedals, so be sure to check them out over on our YouTube channel, and please subscribe if you don’t already! There are a bunch of 2 Series pedals over at Sweetwater, too, so grab a couple, and head to the JHS Pedals website for more info!!