JHS Pedals announces Double Dragon analog octave pedal

February 26, 2026 · 2 sources

JHS Pedals announced the Double Dragon, a fully analog octave up and down pedal, in late February 2026. Guitar World describes it as the company's first-ever octaver pedal¹. Gearnews calls it JHS Pedals' take on the vintage, classic analog Octave Up and Down effect².

The pedal uses vintage octave-divider technology from 40 to 50 years ago, according to Gearnews, and is a mono effect that straddles fuzz and distortion tones among the octave effects². Guitar World reports that JHS says the pedal is "built on the shoulders" of the 50-year-old octave-divider technology that powers the MXR Blue Box, Boss OC-2 and Electro-Harmonix Micro-Synth¹. The same report says the upper octave is said to land somewhere between an Octavia and a Superfuzz¹. Gearnews writes that players should expect odd tracking and weirdness, calling them desirable artifacts of this older-style analog octave effect².

Controls are a Volume for master output, a Dry knob to blend the clean signal, an OCT- knob for the lower sub-octave mix and an OCT+ knob for the upper-octave distortion². There are two footswitches: the left is master on/off and the right engages just the OCT+ circuit, which requires the main pedal to be active²¹. The pedal has top-mounted jacks, silent buffered bypass switching and runs from an external 9VDC center-negative power supply²¹. Gearnews describes it as bright yellow with bright red knobs².

The two reports give different US prices. Guitar World says the Double Dragon is available now for $179¹. Gearnews says it is available at Thomann for $198²; the same page also lists $175.00 in an affiliate link². The pedal sits among other octave and pitch pedals.