JHS Pulp 'N' Peel V4 Compressor Pedal

Name: JHS Pulp 'N' Peel V4 Compressor Pedal
Brand: JHS
Rating: 5 (26 reviews)

Compressor Guitar Pedal with EQ Control, Parallel Dirt Circuit, and DI Output

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The Pinnacle of the Famous Pulp 'N' Peel

The JHS Pulp 'N' Peel V4 compressor pedal puts dynamics and sustain at your fingertips while adding a distinct flavor to your tone. Recalling a classic vintage design, the Pulp 'N' Peel V4 still keeps your tone and attack intact like the previous designs, but it adds more headroom, EQ control, and a parallel dirt circuit to further diversify what these pedals are capable of. And the Pulp 'N' Peel V4 boasts enough headroom to easily be used as a boost. We've put the Pulp 'N' Peel through its paces at Sweetwater, and it sounds great in any genre.

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Tech Specs

Pedal Type: Compressor, EQ
Analog/Digital: Analog
Inputs: 1 x 1/4"
Outputs: 1 x 1/4", 1 x XLR (DI out)
Bypass Switching: Buffered Soft-touch Switching
Power Source: 9V DC power supply required (sold separately)
Power Usage: 100mA
Height: 1.6"
Width: 2.6"
Depth: 4.8"
Weight: 0.59 lbs.
Manufacturer Part Number: PnP V4

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This is a well-built, USA made, easy to use, musical compression pedal which I'd be happy with if it were just that. But it is so much more. It also gives you Distortion, Gain Boost/Level Match, Blend, Treble Boost, Lo and Hi EQ, and it's a Post Processing Direct Box as well. This is my first JHS pedal and I'm quite impressed.

This thing is awesome. Excellent compressor from subtle-moderate. Clean signal blend is an Excellent touch!

Dirt circuit is excellent from a little hairy-full rat tone. I wish there was a foot switch for this, but the function is outstanding.

Works fantastic at any place in the signal chain!

I overlooked this pedal for years, but now I can't do without it. Compared to the Keeley or JHS 3 series, I find this compressor very subtle. I don't want to overuse the word, but it is transparent in the sense that there is no tone shift at all. Just compression. It does what a compressor is supposed to to do and levels out my signal making me sound like a better player than I am.
Like the Keeley Compressor, it has a blend knob that makes it a parallel compressor. Between the knobs is a dirt switch that kicks in a RAT style distortions. The distortion amount is controlled with a screwdriver driven pot on the side. But no worries, the blend also controls distortion. I turned the distortion up all the way when I got it and I will likely never change that setting. When I need it, I flip the switch and set the Blend and Compression. The RAT style distortion and compressor combination make this the perfect tool for country musicians. Add a Keeley Memphis Sun and you've got a road-ready chicken-picken and rockabilly setup.
But wait. Did I forget something? It has an XLR out DI. It's a compressor/distortion/direct-box. The worlds smallest pedal board.
Thank you JHS for this brilliant tool. Thanks Sweetwater and my sales rep John McWhirter for getting it to me.

Great pedal, very versatile. The compression, EQ, and blend functions are easy to use and the dirt setting sounds amazing. The only other thing I could ask for is a knob for the dirt setting instead of the screwdriver port and another footswitch instead of the toggle to turn it on and off.

So, over the years I have been upgrading my signal chain in terms of fidelity for both bass and guitar. After getting some really great gain structure in my path, I found that my MXR M87 Bass Compressor really couldn't hack it in my signal chain. There was no setting at which it wasn't scraping away a ton of mojo from my tone, and no position in my signal chain where it wasn't super noticeable at my new higher gain/fidelity settings. I remembered a video of The JHS Show where Josh said that he chose Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer circuit for this pedal's design because he found it to be the only compressor which didn't mangle his tone. Well, much of my introduction to next level sounding pedals was with Analog.Man modded Boss pedals, so I decided to pick up one of their Juicer pedals (based on the same circuit), and man oh man did it juice my tone. Running it @ 18v, it just made my whole bass tone sound bigger and better, without changing the character of the sound at all. I kind of couldn't believe that it lived up to the hype, but it totally did. A year or so later, I was wanting to juice up the front end of my direct/DI rig, and when I saw that the JHS Pulp 'N' Peel V4 had both an XLR out and a 1/4", as well as a blend knob and a charge pump to get the headroom benefits of running 18v off a 9v power supply, I knew that I wanted to give it a spin at filling that role. I waited for it to go on sale (not a super common occurrence) and snagged one when it did. I am so stoked. It plumps up the sound just like I was looking for it to, and splits the signal so I can run one direct with nothing but the P'N'P's fattening effect, and one through my FX chain, so I can capture a given performance both ways. It's fantastic. I run the FX signal through my Ampeg PF-20T (using the amp's DI out rather than a mic on a cab), and then the XLR out is currently going straight to my ADC. The tone I'm getting from the P'N'P through the Ampeg is incredible. So far above any bass tone I have recorded for such a long time. Warm, punchy, and as full as can be. I don't have super fancy mic pre's but it would seem that for where my sound is currently at, I don't need them for fantastic direct tone.

I don't ever really use the "Dirt" switch option, and found the trimpot a bit unwieldy to use, and generally I eschew tone/EQ knobs as I have my own nice EQ circuits in my chain, but I have found myself using this one for mild tweaks, especially when switching from bass to guitar and back. The "Volume", "Comp" & "Blend" knobs, however, are clutch.

In summation, this pedal is awesome. If you're considering this pedal, it's probably going be just what you're looking for. If what you need is a compressor that sounds amazing without changing the tone of your source, this thing will totally fill that role. The additional output options might not be the boon for everyone that they have been for me, but I really can't give enough praise to this pedal purely on tone alone.