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Style: Angry Charlie
Pattern Name: Pedal
Features
- Convincingly and accurately breathes JCM800-like tones into any rig
- Sports a 3-band tone stack to help nail warm yet searing tones and boundless sustain
- Go from bluesy Hendrix-like breakup to high-gain Brit tones with a twist of the Drive knob
- Drive and Volume control interact the same as a master volume amp head
- Back off your guitars volume to control your gain levels without losing clarity
- Fine-tune your tone with controls for Bass, Middle, and Treble
Description
The Angry Charlie has become a staple of the JHS line over the years, and it’s a force to be reckoned with in the high-gain pedal territory. Its ability to convincingly and accurately breathe JCM800 tones into any rig has made it a popular choice for guitarists of all genres. And unlike many other British amp-in-a-box pedals, the Angry Charlie V3 sports a 3-band tone stack, just like the Marshalls, helping nail those warm yet searing tones and boundless sustain. If you are a glutton for high-gain overdrive/distortion that has a British flavor, the Angry Charlie V3 will change your life. Well, your gear life.
Brand: JHS Pedals
Style: Angry Charlie
Color: Red
Product Dimensions: 2.75"L x 2.25"W x 5"H
Item Weight: 4 ounces
Voltage: 9 volts
Amperage: 100 milliamps
Audio Output Effects: Distortion
Controls Type: Knob
Power Source: Corded Electric
Hardware Interface: 1/4-inch Audio
Signal Format: Analog
Style: Angry Charlie
Color: Red
Item Dimensions L x W x H: 2.75"L x 2.25"W x 5"H
Item Weight: 4 ounces
Item Dimensions: 6 x 3 x 3 inches
Connector Type: 1/4 inch audio jack
Brand Name: JHS Pedals
Number of Items: 1
UPC: 637390553054 650415210909
Unit Count: 1 Count
Item Type Name: JHS Angry Charlie V3 Distortion
Manufacturer: JHS
Model Name: Angry Charlie V3
Model Number: JHS ACV3
Manufacturer Part Number: AC V3
Warranty Description: Limited lifetime warranty (within the usa).
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Top Amazon Reviews
The JHS Angry Charlie was one of those pedals I was "around" for years, but somehow never tried out...until now. Like many JHS pedals, its circuitry is based on a classic pedal of yesteryear (The 90's era Marshall Guv'nor), along with some further tweaks and enhanced EQ control. The V3 edition has bass, middle, and treble controls - these are set so that a 12:00 setting is basically "flat", and then you can cut or boost each frequency band. The mids control is crucial to pedal's versatility, as it will transform your sound from chunky to cutting, or from scooped to punchy. The idea of the Angry Charlie is that it's a "Marshall JCM800 in a box", which is the classic, hi-gain Marshall sound from 80's rock and metal. However, what's most notable to me about the pedal isn't how close it gets to a Marshall, but the variety of different sounds and styles it can accommodate. I've tried plenty of pedals that go for that similar driven sound - the MI Audio Crunch Box and Wampler Pinnacle come to mind. But few of them can do that...and also crunchy, just-breaking-up blues sounds with lower gain settings. In fact, the pedal puts out usable sounds with decent output almost through the entire sweep of the gain knob, which is an impressive and much-appreciated design feat. The Angry Charlie has stood the test of time for a reason, and I was pleasantly surprised how well it could be dialed in to work with different guitars, cover different gain ranges, and pair with other overdrives/boosts in front of it.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2023 by StormJH1
The Angry Charlie has a great sounding distortion and the active eq is very versatile, which is a very nice touch as most pedals have lower fidelity passive eq's. It's modeled after a Marshall JCM 800 amp, so it's voice certainly leans that way, and it leans that way extremely well. It's a fairly high gain pedal, however, it sounds gorgeous at low gain overdrive settings as well. What shocked me the most was how quite this pedal is even at extreme gain settings. I've owned many dirt pedals and I have never heard one this quite. I hear virtually zero hiss coming from it at even the highest gain settings. The circuitry and quality of components must be outstanding to get this level of quietness and musicality. In this case you are definitely getting what you are paying for. There is really not a bad sound on this pedal and the usable settings are broad and work well with the guitar volume knob. I own a strymon sunset which is also an outstanding overdrive/distortion pedal and this is on par with the sound quality of that pedal. It would be very unlikely you'd have buyers remorse.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2021 by Mike Pippin
Works well as a high gain overdrive pedal
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017 by Amazon Customer
So I got this one at a discount because it was supposedly used or returned or something. It has some scratches on the knobs like it got knocked upside down and slid on concrete or something. I don't care though because this is the single best sounding pedal I've ever heard! This is my new sound! I like to play a Slash type of distorted rock and this puts me right there! Sounds 9 out of 10 of a Marshall amp. I'd imagine that if it sounded 100% like a Marshall the end user wouldn't know though because in the end, the amp you're using isn't a Marshall and the speakers in it aren't cellestions. If they were you wouldn't need this pedal, that's why you buy this pedal. It's cheap than that set up. It sounds good and right at normal practice levels and at higher volume (bar band volume) it sounds exactly like a cranked up Marshall on about 7 or as close as one can get without having the real thing. I've played it only through my solid state amp thus far because my tube amp is waiting on new tubes at the moment but when I finally get to play it through my tube amp I will update if there's a negative you need to know about. Otherwise assume it works equally well on either style of amp. I was worried it wouldn't be able to "push" my solid state the right way to get the right sounds but it works perfectly. I also turned up my amp to the same levels with its onboard distortion and while it sounds damn good, this pedal blows it away because of the pedal's specific Marshall-y sound. There's just something more powerful and trebly about the pedal even at the same levels of my amp's distortion. I've played a lot of pedals in my life and none have ever compared to my amp's distortion but this one is definitely better! This also doesn't produce obnoxious feedback like many other pedals do. This just pushes the amp just hard enough to sound like a loud Marshall halfstack instead of overly compressing your sound into a fake crappy distortion that is unusable like pretty much all other destortuon pedals do. If I were buying again I'd get this or the @ version.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2022 by Wm D. S.
This should be called an everything pedal. The distortion is just perfectly angry, creamy, silky smooth and wonderful. I cannot say enough good things about the distorted sounds this has given my 65 drri which has the Jensen p12q. What blew me away was that turning the gain down and volume up gave me completely new clean tones to play with. The 3 band EQ is amazingly responsive. Adding just a bit of gain gives some great bluesy dirt. Cranking the gain gives awesome distortion on the fringe of fuzz. I love the tone so much I can't wait to finish typing this review and get back to playing. In fact I thi
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Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2018 by Steven
Great pedal if you’re trying to make your Fender amp sound like a Marshall when you need it!
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2026 by Kris
JHS absolutely nailed the JCM800 sound with this. I am running it into my 65 Fender Princeton Reissue and it works great with the amp. It makes my amp sound like absolute monstrous. The bass on this pedal is perfect and the EQ allows you to dial in the bass along with the mids and treble perfectly. The nice thing with this pedal is it isn’t over the top as far a bass so it doesn’t make my amp sound like it’s flanking out. Some pedals have so much bass that when you use them in a smaller speaker amp like mine it can be too much for the amp and sound bad. This pedal also sounds takes overdrives one front of it really well. I use my Boss SD-1 with it and it throws the amp into heavy, thick, wild saturation. Buy it. It is worth every penny.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2019 by Kimberly Eddo
This thing kills. It's emulating a JCM800 amplifier and sounds great for classic and harder rock. It doesn't really do the modern scooped-mids metal sound, but its active 3-band EQ is very versatile. JHS knocked it out of the park with this one.
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024 by Chris