The JHS Double Dragon Lo-Fi Octave Is Here!

Do you know why it's called double dragon? Why is it called double dragon? Cuz it's two octaves. It's double the dragon.

The double dragon is nostalgia. Octave circuits that everyone couldn't wait to get rid of that they now need to rediscover have been there all along. This is a look backwards at octave. I don't want to go forward to octave.

There's too many good ones. I mean, every great DSP company does a really good job at a low latency, perfectly replicated up or down. I don't want to do that. I want to take old garbage octaves from our past and make my version of that because it's fun, unpredictable, incredibly musical, even though I hate that word.

The reason I say it's musical is it feels like a friend that you kind of have to collaborate with instead of a device that's doing what you want it to do. So, what about the technology inside the Double Dragon makes it bad but good? It's all analog. It's a It's like a lost version of one of our favorite sounds.

This is roughly 40 to 50y old tech for an octave device. >> Mhm. >> Which is absurd. Like within the history of guitar pedals, you have the same narrative with all technology.

I can't wait for my computer to be faster. I can't wait for quicker internet speeds, right? But we had internet and it sucked. We had computers and they sucked, but they're cool.

Like there's something about them. Like I had a friend who just bought a typewriter to start writing his emails on and I was like, "That's funny." But like he's turning out more emails. >> Yeah. Yeah.

The charming thing about the Double Dragon is that it isn't perfect. It doesn't perfectly track a high octave and low octave. Meaning, you know, the more notes you play, the more the low octave fidgets. It almost becomes like modulation almost.

It's like, I don't know which note to pick, so I'm just going to kind of flub between two or three of them. It can't handle the processing of the guitar's waveform perfectly. Octave ups the same way. Here's a one note.

Here's a two. If you add a third, you're going to start falling apart. If you strum a full chord on this, you're giving it too much information. >> ...