JHS Colour Box V2 vs Vox Trike Fuzz
The JHS Colour Box V2 and the Vox Trike Fuzz are both pedals sharing octave, full, bright. The JHS Colour Box V2 leans fuzzy and transparent. Current prices: $401.23 vs $109.20.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.33% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- octave
- full
- bright
JHS Colour Box V2
JHS Pedals · pedal
Vox Trike Fuzz
Vox · pedal
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$401.23via Reverb
$109.20via Reverb
The JHS Colour Box V2 is a preamp, EQ, and fuzz pedal built around dual gain stages delivering over 39dB of total gain, with Master, Pre-Volume, and Step controls for precise gain staging, a powerful 3-band EQ with wide-ranging Shift knobs (Treble 2kHz-30kHz, Middle 150Hz-2.4kHz, Bass 20Hz-440Hz), and a Hi/Lo switch controlling clean headroom, from ultra-clean in Lo mode to readily distorting, fuzz-adjacent breakup in Hi mode. It also passes phantom power to condenser microphones, reflecting its studio-preamp origins alongside its guitar-pedal functionality.
The Vox Trike Fuzz is an octave fuzz pedal from Vox's Tone Garage series, not a treble booster, delivering vintage-character fuzz with switchable octave options covering one octave up, one octave down, or two octaves down, plus a setting combining all three simultaneously for a thick, layered vintage fuzz texture. A dedicated Tone control shapes the +1 octave voice while a separate Volume control governs the -2 octave signal. Following old-school design principles, it uses no op-amp ICs, keeping the circuit rooted in genuine vintage-style octave-fuzz character. True bypass keeps the tone pure when off. It suits players wanting a genuinely vintage-voiced octave fuzz with real up-and-down octave flexibility rather than a simple single-voice fuzz.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- alternative
- rock
- blues
- Classic Rock
- fuzzy
- transparent
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Silent Recording
- Studio
- Silent Stage