JHS Pedals

The company began in Jackson, Mississippi. In early 2007 Scott replaced a faulty footswitch on his BOSS Blues Driver, became curious about pedal circuits and started modifying pedals for friends. From around April 2007 he sold modified BOSS units as JHS Mods through Fondren Guitar, starting with the Lexi Drive (a modified DS-1) and the Blu Drive. In 2008 he moved on to original designs, among them the Morning Glory, his reworking of the Marshall Bluesbreaker, and the name changed to JHS Pedals. Scott has called the Morning Glory the pedal that launched the company.

In 2009 the workshop moved to a backyard shed in Tupelo, then to Ecru, Mississippi, and a fuzz made with Switchfoot guitarist Drew Shirley, the BunRunner, brought wider attention. In December 2009 Scott relocated to Kansas City, hired Nick Loux as the first employee and built pedals in a basement before moving to a shop in Grandview. A 2011 dealer push took JHS from 5 to 50 retailers in about a month. The Colour Box, which puts a preamp, EQ and drive stages into one DI-ready pedal, debuted at the 2014 NAMM Show and was the best-selling JHS pedal for several years. The Angry Charlie, Scott's version of what he wished the Marshall Guv'nor had been, led to the BOSS JB-2 Angry Driver, a 2017 collaboration for the BOSS 40th anniversary.

The Bonsai launched in January 2018 and became the most successful JHS release up to that point. In May 2018 Scott and Loux released the first episode of The JHS Show, a YouTube series on pedal history and on other makers' gear rather than product demos. The 3 Series followed in October 2020: a range of mostly original pedals at 99 US dollars, each with three knobs and one toggle, such as the 3 Series Octave Reverb. By Scott's own account, the company has grown to more than 40 employees and has built around 100,000 pedals in a single year.