We Modified Our Most Legendary Overdrive! The NEW Morning Glory Clean

For over 17 years, 60,000 units sold, and four revisions, the Morning Glory has been our flagship [music] and most trusted overdrive we've ever made. Today, I'm introducing [music] a second version that will stand alongside the version 4, the Morning Glory Clean. [music] >> [music] >> The Morning Glory Clean is the classic version one morning glory that I designed in 2009 [music] with a true studiograde parallel clean blend on the output. The whole idea of the Morning Glory comes from the '9s English-made Marshall Blues Breaker pedal.

This is one of the first ever transparent overdrives. It was made really famous by John Mayer right after the Continuum era. Pedals like Analog Man's King of Tone are based on this. And it is a wonderful, wonderful circuit.

It is the topology that I used for the Morning Glory since this V1. It's the opposite of a tube screamer. That's not transparent. You turn it on and you get a mid bump.

That can be a really good thing for a lot of people, but an equal amount of people don't want that change. They want their lows and their highs and their mids to stay the same. And you just want to have the sound of your amp at the edge of breakup. [music] So, the morning glory through the topology of this blues breaker lets you get those cranked [music] amp sounds in different environments where you would normally get a noise violation.

If you want to know more about how I modified this original Blues Breaker into all these different iterations, there's an episode you should check out in a blog post. [music] So, one major question that I would ask if I was in your shoes, if you've seen The Morning Glory all these years, if you're one of those 60,000 people that have depended on it, you might ask, "Josh, why would you add [music] a clean blend to an already transparent overdrive?" And to be fair, when this idea first happened in my head, I said the [music] same exact thing. That feels kind of pointless, right? But at a soundcheck with Julian Lodge several years ago, there was this moment where I had the thought, what if [music] there's something else I can do with the Morning Glory.

Julian has made the Morning Glory very known in the jazz community. He's ...