JHS Third Man Hardware Collab Incoming – 11/11 – 11am CST

Dave Lewis

Dave Lewis

Rock Star
Messages
2,620
https://jhspedals.info/_t/c/v3/AAA-...cgdP084jA6wHYfmAyOU0nJhU4QCUGviCzYa21wfk5RAg=

1762537119969.jpeg

1762537160682.jpeg
 
Last edited:
Yeah, no thanks. Big, expensive for what it does, I already know footswitch location would drive me crazy.

I guess it’s the pedal to buy if you need to add delay to your vocals live?
 
sashimi said:
Wait why tf is the footswitch behind the sliders??
Click to expand...

Good question. That seems like a terrible design to me

According to them:

Why does it look like that!?

We designed the Troika with sliders like a small mixing console to give Jack White easy, real-time control of the unit in a live setting. The bypass switch is above the sliders to keep it out of the way of on-the-fly adjusting.
Click to expand...

And to make sure you accidentally bump the sliders and mess up your settings every time you try to turn it on :rofl
 
Yeah seems like a performative layout specifically for Jack, but my bigger issue is I didn’t hear anything tonally that would justify the $350. Maybe the vocal functions are the appeal?
 
Whizzinby said:
Yeah seems like a performative layout specifically for Jack, but my bigger issue is I didn’t hear anything tonally that would justify the $350. Maybe the vocal functions are the appeal?
Click to expand...

Yeah, I think it's designed specifically for his use case, which is not a use case a lot of JHS customers will actually relate to.

And tbh kind of agreed on the rest too. I mean the price is okay for a high quality mic preamp, but if you don't need that part... and most of the artists I know who are running vocals through delay effects live don't, and in fact many are purposefully using more lofi / analog-sounding delays (like the DBA Echo Master which is designed for the same use case, can clip on a mic stand, and has an FX loop) and preamps or like DMMs. And a good enough mini mic pre + a DMM will cost about the same (and that won't get up to 1 second, but it will have a lot more delay options). Or get a better mic pre + a Disaster Transport Legacy Reissue (very underrated and "playable", and goes for very cheap since it seems it didn't sell well)

I do like sliders though.
 
Last edited:
The more I think about it, the more it makes a lot more sense as a high quality (?) mic preamp that happens to have a delay effect in it, like when little mixers or audio interfaces have built-in send FX. idk it's really surprising they didn't make the delay aspect more interesting, even just a little bit. Maybe Jack wanted to keep it simple, but as it is it's their least feature rich delay effect and their most expensive.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top