I have shown off the JHS Pedals 3 Series Octave Reverb, as well as the Mr. Crybaby in volume mode, but what I haven’t been able to do, is get both, the guitars dry signal, as well as the signal from the JHS Pedals 3 Series Octave Reverb.

The reason this is important, is that when I’m playing just through the Octive Verb petal, I am not able to hear what I’m playing, before I send it through the petal. This petal offers at least a 6 second reverb tale, that’s huge and oh so beautiful, in less you make a mistake, then it’s over. It reminds me of a sustain petal on an acoustic piano. Now that I have two signals, I can play the guitar dry, and bring in the petal exactly when I want.

Yes, the Octive verb petal does have an on/off switch, but, in my opinion it’s not wired correctly, for how I would want to use it. When you switch it off, the entire signal is bypassed. So, you have this beautiful tale, you engage the switch, putting it in off mode, and, it’s all gone. What I feel should happen, is that the input is wired to the switch, so when you click it off, your guitar is bypassed, and you still hear the tale that’s left over. You kick it on again and the signal is going through the verb, but this, is harsh even so. Here in comes the cry baby super wa petal,which doubles as a volume petal. Now, you can bring the signal up, with a fade so it’s not harsh, and, you’re not using the hand volume control on your guitar, which causes you to switch focus off of playing which is just awkward.

I purchased a male quareter, into dewl quarter y cable. It’s mono. Into the females, I plug two guitar cables. So, now my guitar has two outputs. Lets not get fixed on resistance, and how this can cause signal loss from the guitar, lets, however focus, on how I can run one output into the cry baby, which goes into the octive verb, and the other, dry signal into another channel of the board, so now, we can split both onto, two tracks, and get it sounding however we want.

The octive Verb petal was like $150, I would have easily after playing this setup, paid $300 to have a built-in volume expression petal, and it wired correctly like this. I’m so so in love!!

I test with two guitars below. A lucero Classical, and a Taylor Grand Theater. It is, in my opinion quite amazing. I feel like I could easily book playing massages.