JHS AT Mini

The JHS AT Mini is an overdrive pedal from JHS Pedals, developed with guitarist Andy Timmons to deliver his signature dynamic drive tones¹. It is the original V1 AT circuit in a compact mini-enclosure, with the wattage toggle removed and the voicing set to 100 watts². It launched in August 2026 at a list price of $129².

Where the larger AT+ gives you a boost channel and three wattage voicings, the AT Mini is a single-footswitch drive with four knobs, aimed at players who want the AT sound without giving up much board space. JHS describes the fixed 100-watt voicing as "the open, loud, less-compressed voicing with the most volume and the most amp-like crunch"².

What it does: the AT+ at its 100-watt voicing

The AT Mini is the same exact circuit as the V1 AT, according to JHS, but with the headroom choice taken out of your hands. On the AT+ and the original AT, a three-way toggle simulates the headroom characteristics of a 25-watt, 50-watt or 100-watt valve amp⁵. Josh Scott of JHS explained the thinking behind that toggle on the original: "We added the headroom toggle. The idea there was the way that the waveform is clipping. It feels like a 100 watt or a 25" watt amp⁵³.

The Mini is locked to the top setting. On the AT+, that position is described as delivering "tons of volume and open crunch while being less focused"⁶. The lower settings trade that openness for compression: the 50-watt setting offers a balance of compression and openness, and the 25-watt setting has the most compression and saturation with the least volume⁶. If you know you like the big, open sound, the Mini saves you the switch and the enclosure space.

What the Mini does not have is the AT+'s boost side. On the larger pedal, that is a slightly dirty, overdriven pre-boost that hits the front end of the drive channel for more saturation and definition, and it can also be used alone to drive an amp or other drive pedals⁴. Guitar World's Daryl Robertson noted that on the AT+ the boost sits in front of the main drive circuit, adding gain and sustain rather than a volume spike⁵. Andy Timmons has said the boost in front of the gain also takes a little low end down, which makes the neck pickup more usable⁷. None of that comes with the Mini; it is the drive channel alone.

The controls: Volume, Drive, EQ and Air

Four knobs, and gearnews found they "perform their essential amp-tone/drive functions"⁸:

The EQ and Air pairing is carried over from the AT line. On That Pedal Show's demo of the AT+, Dan and Mick described the two as effectively a treble control and a presence control alongside volume and drive⁹. Andy Timmons walked through the same idea in Sweetwater's AT Drive V2 video, pointing to the EQ and Air knobs as the controls for tailoring the top end¹⁰.

Power and connections

The AT Mini requires 9V DC to 18V DC center negative power and consumes 10mA². That draw is low enough that it is easy on most isolated supplies. The original V1 AT could also be safely run on 18 or 9 volts, so the wider voltage range is inherited from the older circuit⁴. There is no battery option; it is a powered-pedal design with a single 1/4" input on the right and a single 1/4" output on the left².

History: from the V1 AT to the AT Mini

The AT line began with the Angry Charlie. Andy Timmons describes the original AT as the pedal "which began as the angry charlie," a JHS pedal he had been involved with¹⁰. The AT itself was born and released in 2016⁴, and Delicious Audio's Christopher Scapelliti reported the same release year when the pedal went into production⁶.

The AT+ followed as the second model, adding the independently switchable boost circuit¹⁰. On That Pedal Show, Dan and Mick called it "the third model andy timmons 280 plus" in the line's progression⁹. The AT+ remains in the JHS Pedals catalog, and its drive channel is identical to the original AT with no changes made to the circuit or controls⁴.

The AT Mini, announced in August 2026, is the compact third act. Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio described it as "a (more than) compact, but not quite mini, version of the company's renowned overdrive AT+ pedal," developed with Andy Timmons¹. Gearnews reported it available to order from Thomann and Sweetwater, with retailer pricing listed at $125.00 / £115.00 / 135.00€⁸. JHS put it in a new enclosure that the maker says "gives you back valuable board real estate"².

JHS announced the pedal in a demo video with Josh Scott and Andy Timmons, titled around its $129 price, walking through the V1 circuit and the fixed 100-watt voicing³².

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