JHS Pedals 3 Series PHERB Phaser Reverb Pedal

Product Description

The JHS Pedals PHERB is Phaser + Reverb, built from the ground up, in house, in October 2026, by way of a manic 35-hour push of engineering and panic. That isn't a marketing number — it's the fastest anything at JHS has ever gone from a decision to a finished, approved prototype, and the old record holder, the Twin 12, wasn't really close. The reverb is dark, moody and lo-fi on purpose. Not a plate. Not a hall. Not a room anybody measured. It's chorused and chunky, and at longer decay times it slightly pulses. The phaser is a four-stage vintage style phase shifter (think Phase 90) with the feedback left off and the notch sweeps moved up through the frequency spectrum, so they stay out of the way of the reverb's low mids. You still get the swish. It just doesn't swallow everything underneath it. Speed covers 0.05 Hz to 5 Hz, from barely moving to seasick.

BOTH EFFECTS, ALWAYS ON

There's no blend on purpose, no order switch, and no way to run one effect without the other (because it's called PHERB) — with one exception. Turn Speed all the way left in normal mode and the phaser steps out, which leaves you the reverb by itself. Three knobs and a toggle, and every position on all of them does something worth hearing. Flip the toggle up and your signal hits an “asymmetric bitcrusher” with analog-style clipping on the way in. The reverb and phaser are built on top of the wreckage. The phaser can't be stepped out in this mode. The destruction sounds amazing — it reminds us of an old Jordan Bosstone fuzz from the 60s if it collided with a DOD Grunge!

HOW TO USE IT

Put it near the end of your board where you would normally put a reverb, after your dirt, and leave your amp set the way you already like it. Or don’t. Maybe “just try stuff?” Mix low, Length low, Speed around ten o'clock: the feeling of a lively room instead of an effect you can point at. Length all the way up, Speed slow: a pulsing drone that sits under everything and keeps breathing like a synth pad. BREAK with a short Length: a fuzz that screams out of the speaker. Good for riffs that need to sound broken. BREAK with a long Length: the sound of a nightmare you wouldn’t mind having again. This is the setting that some people will hate but a lot of people are going to love!

CONTROLS

MIX controls the amount of reverb/phaser. Clockwise increases the level, counterclockwise decreases it. SPEED Controls the speed of the phase shifter. Clockwise is faster, counterclockwise is slower. Fully counterclockwise disables the phaser when the BREAK toggle is in the down position (normal mode). LENGTH controls the decay time and pre-delay of the reverb. As the decay time increases, the pre-delay increases proportionally. Higher settings naturally allow more phasing to be present. Clockwise is more, counterclockwise is less. The BREAK switch toggled up engages BREAK mode, which distorts your incoming guitar signal before it hits the reverb and phaser. Toggle Down is normal.