The JHS Morning Glory CLEAN builds on the ever-popular Morning Glory platform by addressing what often gets lost when you introduce overdrive into your signal: low end, pick attack, and dynamic range. Still rooted in the Bluesbreaker-style circuit, this version is re-engineered from the ground up with a studio-grade parallel clean blend, allowing you to dial in the Morning Glory without losing the character of your sound. In our experience, the Morning Glory Clean also expands clarity and headroom.
At the heart of the design is the Clean control, which blends a pristine, unaffected signal alongside the Morning Glory overdrive path. Unlike typical clean blends, this circuit uses a dual-gang potentiometer so the clean and driven signals scale together naturally across all gain settings. The result is a seamless balance of harmonic content and fundamental tone, with the Tone control affecting only the overdrive path while the clean signal remains untouched.
The Morning Glory Clean runs on a ±9V dual-supply power section, providing significantly more headroom than traditional Bluesbreaker-style circuits. This allows it to deliver the firmness and authority of a high-wattage amp at the edge of breakup, even at lower volumes. It excels as a first-stage overdrive, an always-on tone shaper, or a stand-alone clean boost by running the Clean control fully clockwise and increasing the Drive for pure volume without clipping.
Designed for players who value feel and balance over extremes, the Morning Glory Clean stacks exceptionally well, stays articulate in front of amp modelers, and adapts easily to both guitar and bass. Familiar yet more refined, it offers the nuance and responsiveness the original is known for, with added flexibility that makes it one of the most practical drive pedals JHS has produced.